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SECOND ED
CHINA MAIL
FIRST NEWSPAPER IN THE FAR EAST. ESTABLISHED 1845.
No. 92,035
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1940
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INSIST ON
Daisy Brand
Australia's Choices
BUTTER
A HIGH CALL TO ACTION
Roosevelt Serves Notice On Tokyo-Axis Alliance
Fighter Leader's D.S.O.
A BAG OF AT LEAST EIGHTEEN ENEMY AIRCRAFT DESTROYED AND "OUTSTAND. ING LEADERSHIP. COURAGE AND SKILL" CONTRIBUTE TO 0.8.0. AWARDS ΤΟ ACTING SQUADRON LEADER R.R.S. TUCK, D.F.C.
A bar to the D.F.C. is also announced in the latest list of R.A.F. awards gained by Act- ing Flight Lieutenant J. C. Dun- das, who has destroyed at least 12 enemy aircraft and "on one occasion pursued an enemy air- craft from Winchester to Cher- bourg, finally destroying it."
Four D.F.C. awards include one to Squadron Leader M. V. Blake, a New Zealander. Br.lish Wire-
less.
BALTIC GENERALS IN RED ARMY
FRANKFURT TARGET BOMBED
One objective raid- ed by British bombers in Germany on Sun- day night was a mili- tary objective in the Frankfurt area, it was learned. in London last night, says Reu-
ter.
VICHY
Full Agreement With President's Central Thesis
"BY BLUNTLY ANNOUNCING THAT HE REGARDS THE GERMAN-ITALIAN- JAPANESE PACT AS DIRECTED SPECIFI- CALLY AGAINST THE UNITED STATES, PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT PUT ALL THREE COUNTRIES ON NOTICE THAT HE RE- GARDS THEM AS POTENTIAL IF NOT AC- TUAL ENEMIES.”
This sentence is contained in a “New
EDUCATION York Times" editorial on President Roose-
DECREE
Reform of school ad- ministration, aimed at eliminating "all political and local influences" from French State Schools, is introduced by a new de- cree in Vichy yesterday.
One of the main objects of the decree is to eliminate the in- FORMER
fluence of teachers who were COMMANDERS-IN- CHIEF OF THE LITHUANIAN, members of the formerly influen- ESTONIAN AND LATVIAN tial Teachers' Trade Union. ARMIES HAVE BEEN AP. In future teachers' representa- POINTED LIEUTENANT-GEN- İtives on departmental school coun- ERALS IN THE RED ARMY, IT Cils will be appointed by
the WAS ANNOUNCED IN MOSCOW Minister of Education.—Reuter, YESTERDAY.
are
These officers
Generals Vitkauskas, Jonson and Elavins, respectively.
Sixteen other officers of the armies of the former Baltic States have been appointed major-gen- ! erals in the Red Army.
Lithuania. Estonia and Latvia were incorporated in the Soviet Union last August. Reuter.
SOVIET AND
THE WAR
IN CHINA
"The fighting ability of
VICHY FOOD PROBLEM
THE VICHY GOVERNMENT IS ESTABLISHING A CENTRAL RESEARCH BUREAU TO DEAL WITH THE URGENT PROBLEM OF FOOD SUPPLIES, STATES THE HAVAS AGENCY.
It will be under the direction of the inspector-general of food supplies and will work in con- junction with the scientific com- mittee studying products to re- medy malnutrition-Reuter.
ISOLATED DAYLIGHT |
RAIDS
During daylight yesterday, it is
GERMAN
FIRE RAID
VERSION
"Streets and factories" were mentioned as mili- tary objectives by the Ger man radio yesterday, com- menting en Sunday night's air raid on London.
velt's talk in which it was also stated that the overwhelming majority of the country would agree whole-heartedly with the President's central thesis that a victory of the Axis pow- ers would mean a “new and terrible era.”. York Herald-j "Sheer Waste”
The announcer said that s "a high call to action" and says that America is menaced by the successes were obtained.
"President Roosevelt pretends | visibility was good important
The "New
Tribune" describes the address as
that the President's aim to see
facts as they are is the one guid-Axis," says "Giornale d'Italia" in ing aim of all those who have Rome, adding that the Axis pow- been urging the American people ers have been tolerant up to now to send aid to Britain.
but there is a limit to this toler- ance.
President Pleased. President Roosevelt was greatly pleased at the reaction to his speech.
The war, says the paper, is being fought to liberate Europe' from British. domination,
It asserts that Britain cannot
-Reuter:
Many huge fires were stated. to have been caused and uninterrupted series of explo- sións, said, the announcer, could be heard all over the city,
the He added that although. attack was only of short dura- by tion it was pressed home
The address brought a great.win the war and that American er response than any previous help would be "sheer waste and strong formations and "came as a Roosevelt talk, said his Secre not without some risk to herself." surprise so that the Luftwaffe
sustained no losses."--Reuter.- tary. Mr. Stephen Early, mak- ing this announcement at a Washington press conference yesterday, Messages, he added, were 100 to one in favour
policy of the enunciated in the talk.
LYONS
USES D.N.B.
VERSION
Lyons. radio last night treated President Roose- velt's speech with great
the Chinese army has in- aropped by single enemy aircraft
officially stated, bombs were Care,
Comment was that the speech
creased in the past year," at one point in East Anglia and was "as important as had heen ex- declared the Soviet paper in Kent. Damage done was slight pected" and that the intensity of and casualties were few. Brithe statement that nothing would "Red Star in Moscow yes- tish Wireless. terday.
The paper attributes this to the opening of the Burma, road, and the development of war industries
the south-west provinces. Pointing out that Japan's, destre 'id the so-called Sino-Japanese heffent has not been fulálled, the paper "foresees a continuar
the long war “exi
BIAS BAY REPORT
stop American aid to Britain ““göës. beyond the limits of official style and is certain to arouse passion- ate comment all over the world." ....... Extracts of the speech were quoted by Lyons radio but quo- Chinese press reports this tations were remarkable for the morning stated that an aircraft | fact that the many references to carrier and several destroyers or- rived in Bins Bay yesterday”
reporta, however, are not
the National Socialists and their policies were omitted; the sum- mary giveti was that issued by the German official news agency,→→→
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