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MR. STIMSON URGES
AMERICAN NAVY Strategic Moment
For Guaranteeing
Security Of Seas
Selassie Back In Triumph
Exactly five years after the occupation of Addis Ababa by Marshal Badoglio, Haile Selassie, Emperor of Abyssinia, made a triumphal return to his capital on Monday afternoon.
He was met by Lieutenant-Gen- eral A. G. Cunningham, General Officer Commanding East Africa, who was chiefly responsible for delivering his country from the Italian yoke in the brilliant British campaign now nearing its end.
His two BONS, the Crown Prince and the Duke of Harrar, were there to greet him,
Great excitement prevailed as the Emperor entered the city. Italians still in Addis Ababa discreetly indoors.-
remained Reuter.
NAZI ACTIVITY IN THE
GREEK
SUBMARINES AT ALEXANDRIA
Greece's submarines have sailed to Alexandria where they have joined the British Fleet, declares an official statement on the fate of the Greek Fleet issued in Canea (Crete) yesterday.
Of 10 destroyers, three were sunk. Two of 13 torpedo boats succeeded in reaching Alexandria.--Reuter.
German
Losses In Raids
Germany has lost 41 night bombers already
ANTARCTIC this month.
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
the
This total-nearly half of record April losses-was reached
firmed, were brought down
on
Further light on Nazi with announcement that two ad- activities in the Antarcticditional raiders, it is now con has been thrown by Ad-Sunday night by A.A. fire. miral Byrd himself follow- ing the return of his ex- pedition after 18 months in the south Polar
regions.
Admiral Byrd stated: "The Germans have started to take over Palmerland. The Nazis have be- gun encroachments on the west- ern hemisphere."
Thus this year the Luftwaffe's losses by night total 203, which compares with 130 for the whole 01 1940, of which 93 were brought down from June wards.
on.
Two more enemy aircraft were brought down in the Channel on formations crossed the Kent coast Tuesday in daylight when small and flew a short distance inland.
The Air Ministry says
bombs Dr. Paul Siple, quoting a “high Kent coast
were dropped on a town on the Chilean
and another on naval officer,"
the sald he
East Coast but little damage was was informed tha a German done and there were naval repair ship in
no serious Deception
casualties-Reuter,
Bay was blown up a few months
'ago.'
“You may draw your own con- TERRORIST
clusions as to who may have done'
this," he added.
News Service,cock
International
-NEW ZEALAND
FORCES IN CRETE
ARRESTED
IMMEDIATE USE OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY, “TO MAKE THE SEAS SECURE FOR THE DELIVERY OF MUNITIONS TO BRITAIN,” WAS URGED BY MR. HENRY L. STIMSON, U.S. SECRETARY OF WAR, IN A BROADCAST SPEECH TO THE NATION LAST NIGHT.
"The world is facing so great a crisis that all our efforts must be turned towards the defence of our nation's safety," he declared,
KOWLOON
At the outset, Mr. Stimson answered some BARRACK
critics who to-day were calling him war- monger and who opposed America's present efforts at national defence.
Freedom Dashed Aside
these
EXPLOSION
Three Chinese workers were killed
outright
*The fact is that for many years after the Great War, both as a private citizen and as Secretary of State, I laboured with my full
"We are So close to strength for the establishment of sudden happenings that we can yesterday when a dyna- the reign of law among nations, hardly yet realise the havoc which mite container suddenly under which their controversies has thus been wrought both within should be settled by judicial and without the national bound- exploded in Whitfield methods instead of by force. arles of that unhappy continent. Barracks.
"The growth of freedom has been so long and so steady that we had come to belleve it would
(Continued on Page 16.)
"There was a time when
Buch
# movement segmed full of hope. To-day that time has passed temporarily, we trust
- and our hopes of peace have been dashed by international .aggression.
"The world is facing so great
a crisis that all our efforts must be turned towards defence of our nation's safety.
"For that reason to-night I am speaking of that crisis and of our defence in meeting it.
Hitler's Ambition
"In 1933 a group of men under Hitler obtained possession of the Gov- the leadership of Adolf
threw the German Republic. ernment in Germany and over-
"Both within and without Cer- many they have set back the clock time more than five centuries. They have embarked on a scheme
intended to be worldwide. of conquest which is avowedly
"For that purpose they have built up in secret an immanisa mi itary machine based on the forced labour of Germany, Destroying Civilisation
"They have already attacked, conquered "or occupied "Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Norway, Denmark, Holland, Belgium,
(SPECIAL" TO "CHINA (MAILNY COOPERATION BETWEEN THE JAPANESE AUTHORITIES, Luxembourg, France, Rumania, The New Zealand-Minister for THE FOURTH U.8. MARINES Hungary, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia, Mr. Jones, touneet]||AND. THE MUNICIPAL POLICE and have reduced the people of
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One sentry was slightly.swounds ed in the finger,
n
iing
In the course of searches “, by The Prime Minister, Mr. Wins- the Japanese and the S.M. Churchill was received in a lone Chinese was seen lence by the King, and re-away. He was chased and mained to lunch with SST Majesties at Buckingham
and handed over to the |authorities Internationa
18 countries to serfdom
ery and “Nazi, despotism. have zattached: to their
sions dominated by the asma iose of military, conquest an of, unprovoked at: www Ethiopia," Albanizi recce, and, Japan, gulity Sofia almillar"; attack upon har
_neighbour,
and
"By this conquest⠀⠀⠀ they have des royed western civilisation, which had been slowly buliding ws Up In Europe ever since the Dark
Austin Road felt the blast the explosion,
The men, Wong Cheung, 32. Lau Fong, 28, and Chung Yung, 18, were working in the West Fort in Whitfield Barracks, Alling, containers with dynamite when of the accident occurred
They were the only persons-in employed as fitters on the British are available to supply a clue to The men were formerly the West Fort, and no witnesses section of the Kowloon-Canton the cause of the accident. seconded for service Railway but were recently The entire district, Canton Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
the
with
Road Road, Haiphong
and (Continued at--foot of preceding: Col.),
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