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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 12, 1940.
Spectre Of Failure Begins To Rear Head In Germany
HEROIC BRITISH RESISTANCE
Miss Dorothy Thomp- son, the famous American journalist, in a radio speech at Montreal which was rebroadcast by the B.B.C. expressed the opin- | ion that the whole force of German propaganda in the immediate future would he concentrated on "breaking down Britain by removing her leader- ship."
She drew the contrast between Mr. Churchill and Hitler—“These two men who are the very sym- bols of the struggle.
"On the one side is the furious, unhappy, frustrated, and fanatic
figure who has climbed to unpre- cedented power on the piled up bodies of millions of men; carried and pushed upward by revolu- tionary forces supported by vast hordes of youth crying destruc- tion to the whole past. of civilised
men.
"He who slood a-top this pyra- mid of steel-clothed men looked across at Britain and was satis- ried. Britain was ruled by busi- ness men and bureaucrats; they were cautious men. The business men thought, in terms of good bargains, the bureaucrats thought in terms of conferences and..ne- gotiations.
"They were decorous and they were old. They were very sure of Britain. Nobody has ever beaten Britain. — not for hundreds of years; Britain waz zafe,
There Was A Man "Really! Yes; but in Englund there was a man, Winston Church- ill was no longer young; he was in his sixties, yet there, was something perennially youthful about him. And there's always something youthful
nbout those
who have done what they've wanted to do, and have been happy. He'd had a good life-the best life any man can have a life of action, a life of intellect.
"Does not the heroism of this embattled and. impoverished. isle who impress you, Hitler-you, praise heroism? Would you have more respect for some lick-spittle or some cheap pocket imilation of yourself?
"And when you speak, Church- ill, brave men's hearts everywhere rush out to you. There are no neutral hearts except those that have stopped beating."
LORD BRACKLEY A PRISONER
News has been received that Viscount Brackley, who was re-
war.
Significant
Sentence In Nazi Newspaper
GANDHI TO RECOMMEND
THE WELL-KNOWN military writer "Strategi- cus," writing in this week's "Spectator," declares that one of the most significant sentences in a Ger- man newspaper for many years was that of a few days ago which said: "Even in the hypothetical case of the Axis being unable to end the war successfully,
SHANGHAI STRIKE MENACE
The Shanghai strike situation' again assumed an unpleasant as- pect with the pro-Wang Ching- wei labour organisation succeed- ing, through kidnapping and ter- rorisation, in 'calling" out all Chinese labour in the French Concession's public utility com- panies.
As a result, buses and trams are the water, electricity and gas once again off the streets while services are being run on a skele- ton basis, with temporary work
being done by Russians and Ger- man refugees.--Reuter.
"STRUGGLE"? Britain will on no account be able to annihilate INDIA'S NETWORK
What is considered
to be a momentous meeting of the Indian Congress Party's Working Committee began at Wardha yes- terday afternoon when Mr. Gandhi re- ported to the Commit- tee on his last inter- view with the Viceroy.
There are indica- tions Mr. Gandhi will recommend the Com- ..mittee to decide on
"struggle."
Some
members came. to Wardha with what they call their "prison kit.
"The Indian Con- gress Working Com- mittee is now engaged on the question as to what form and shape the struggle which is inevitable should take," declared. Mau- lana Azad, President of Congress, when the Working Committee adjourned until today after a five and a half hour meeting yester- day. Reuter.
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PHONES FOR DEFENCE
Germany and Italy."
For a German to raise the possibility of defeat at the present juncture seems to suggest the Ger- mans are now beginning to realise they have made a terrible mistake and that instead of attacking the French on the Somme on June 5 they should have struck immediately at Britain.
Four months have passed and the Germans find on their flank an enemy who is daily inflict- ing very heavy blows from the air and denying them the use of the seas on which their life de- pends.
"BLACK HOLE”
MONUMENT
OF GUARDS
India's air raid observation warning system. modelled on the lines of Britain's, is being streng- thened by the employment of
several thousand men from the Indian Observation Corps. They will man a network of posts in circles of considerable depth round all potentially vulnerable areas,
Recruitment for the first 100,000 - for the Army expansion scheme is The Bengal Government is to proceeding at the rate of 15,000 to take immediate stops to remove 20,000 a month. There are tens the "Black Hole of Calcutta" for thousands of applications week- Britain is daily visibly grow-monument from its present site, ing stronger so her blows ace merely a modest indication of what they will be.
For the Germans the necessary decisions are clearly as distant as ever and the position is he ginning to be realised every.. where, even in Germany.
Decisive. Mistake
Although the British troops showed at Dunkirk that morale is ultimately of greater import- ance than material, they were withdrawn without their equip- ment after a terrible ordeal and returned to a country which had, until then, scarcely taken the possibility of invasion seriously.
If Germany had followed up
her successes on the Continent the British coast, it seems al not have made a landing and
with an Immediate dash· for
most impossible that they should
SEVERAL HINTS
OF LONG WAR IN NAZI PRESS
THERE HAVE BEEN several indications in the German press lately that hopes of an early complete victory have practically reach- ed vanishing point and that the German pub- lic is being weaned to the idea of further and the prolonged sacrifices, writes Reuter's diploma-
tic.correspondent.
inflicted a most damaging, if not decisive blow...
For Germany it was a mistake of the decisive character of Marne-Reuter.
PARTY FOR HITLER
If any Nazis had turned up at a ten-party in the Over-Seas League Club in St. James's they would nave been greatly puzzled to see two ornate chairs labelled "Hitler" and "Mussolini." The party was given to celebrate. Hitler's non- arrival in London on the date his propaganda department had an- nounced. The Marquess" and
ported missing, is a prisoner of One of the biggest and most complicated tasks involved in the No news had been received of defence of Britain, the construc- him since the Dunkirk evacuation tion of a network of military tele- at the end of May. He was ser- phone and telegraph communica- Marchioness of Willingdon acted ving in France with the Lothian flons, has now been completed. and Border Harce.
To make the prospect more palatable they are being told of allegedly much worse con- ditions in Britain, where starvation and misery are stated to be the lot of survivors of German bombing raids.
Side by side with this cam- paign of misrepresentation there are reports and indications in the German-controlled pressin neighbouring countries.
From Stockholm, Vichy, and Madrid come hints that peace feelers are in the air. naturally attributed to British initiativo.
One" such report colourfully
MOSLEM WARNING
A warning to the Axis as host and hostess, and among presented alleged that the Bri Powers to beware of inter- Only son and h.ir of the fourth Just before relinquishing his the guests were many members of tish Ambassador, in Madrid hand-ference with the sover- En 'l and Countess of Filers he Home Defence command, Field the overseas forces. During tea a ed. Schor Suner, Spanish Minis eignty of Moslem coun- was married In May last your in Marshal Sir Edmund Ironside con-messenger boy from the "Spitfireter of Interfor, an envelope bear
handed two ing no less than five big seals tries like Egypt, Turkey, Wedminster Abbey to Lady Diana veyed to the Postmaster-General, Cable Company"
of the two Mr. W. S. Morrison, through Air cablegrams to Lord Willingdon and containing a comprehensive Syria and Palestine, is Percy, the younger sisters of the Duke of Northum- Chief Marshal Sir Cyril Newall, The first, headed "Summer House, peace plan!
regretted, the
implied in a statement berland, who was killed in action his gratituds to the Post Office for Berchtesgaden,"
with Fuchror's inability to be present, Col. Bratt's Inspiration | issued by Mr. Jinnah, Fre- in France:
the speed and efficiency
and added: "Set off according, to which the work was done.
plan, but blown back by a Hürri- The Swedish military writer, sident of the All-India cune. The second, from Musso- Col. Bratt, has been inspired to BRITISH PILGRIMAGE Describing the task, an executive
Allstate Britain cannot possibly de- Moslem League, in Bom- official of the Post Office said that link, read: "Slight hitch. special measures had to be taken Italian sailings cancelled owing feat Germany and even if Ger- bay yesterday. against the possibility of sabotage secret manoeuvres in port. Hell the many may not be able to defeat The statement calls on all Mos
One hundred and ten British pilgrims, with clergy from an English seminary, and Irish Doby parachutists or enemy agents,
The demands on the staff had minican, accompanied by Par-been heavy, recently they had tuguese friends," made the first Bratisla grimage to Fatima, Poren working night and day.
fugal's Lourdes, the ceremon les lasting all night, according to tradition.
-SIR SAM, HOARE
*VISITING “GIB?"
Euchrer-If present."
OFFERED BRIBE TO JUROR
Britain, civilisation would virtu-
ally perish in the universal chans lems in India to observe Novem- that would result from prolonga-ber. 1 as a day on which to "de- tion of unrestricted air warfare, monstrate the deep feeling of sym These indications are in-pathy of Moslem India with Mos terpreted in London as algni. - lem countries against possible de- ...ficant of a trend af mind which signs or aggression against the Is encouraging from the Allied sovereignty or independence of
those countries."! standpoint,
For offering a £50 bribe to a Juror Samuel Fresco Lipman, 40, A message of goodwill was re-
àsalesman, was sentenced at the In the free and uncensored Bri- ceived from the British Ambas Fodor Sire Walford Selby. The
Old Bailey to 12 months impri-tish press of all parties there pilgrims returned thanks by wire. Su Samuel Hoarc, British Am-somment, and Thomas James Mad-has been a constant unvarying Legeing the Ambassador to "con-bassador to Spain, is expected to digan, 30, a salesman, to slxunanimity upon determination to
Two other men were fight the war to final victory. vey their loyal restings to King arrive in Gibraltar this week-end months.
Reuter. Lacquitted. George?".
Afor a short-stay.--Router,"
The statement declares that l the event of attack on the Moslem countries, Mosleni India will be forced to stand by them and give -them-ull the-support it can.-Reu ́ter.