THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 9, 1941.
Library, Siprene Conat
Berlin And Rome Cautious On New Stalin Move
WORLD COMMENT on the dramatic
change in the U.S.S.R., which has brought SYMBOL OF
Stalin for the first time into a public official capacity as Chairman of the Council of
People's Commissars, has been confused and BATTLING
uninformative, says Reuter's diplomatic cor- respondent.
Berlin and Rome in particular have hesitated to voice an opinion or indulge in speculation on the change, while Tokyo, on the other hand, has gone somewhat to the other extreme.
RAIDS ON THE SUEZ CANAL ZONE
For two hours dur ing Wednesday night, enemy aircraft raided the Suez Canal zone, states a communique issued by the Egyptian Ministry of Interior in Cairo.
Some damage was caused to State rail- ways, telegraphs and telephones but casualties were
fered.
Anti-aircraft
no
suf.
guns
were in action.
Reuter.
Germans
[
F
Japanese newspaperS
and
EMPIRE
Commenting that the British do not lose cour- age under reverses but fight just the Same whether experiencing| make me have vied with
menubaring the impor - ¦ success or setbacks, tatice of Stalin's appointment and the Stockholm newspaper
111 tip: how favourably they bebeve t bound to teard
"Handelstidning" says da Japanese Sovet relat
the
4111
winch Commons debate showed aternity were consolidated by the British are not lulled
The Neutrality Part
American reaction zmore objective
EMERGENCE
has been
AMERICAN
A NUMBER OF NEWSPAPERS HOLD THAT THE OF STALIN MARKS THE PRESENCE OF A GRAVE SITUATION CON- FRONTING THE SOVIET UNION, NECESSITATING MACHINERY
QUICK
FOR
PROBABLY TANCE.
DECISIONS OF MAJOR IMPOR-
Moscow itself merely broadcast the appointment without a word of commerit.
May Day Message
by assurances of Ameri- can help.
Most important thing is Britan failing to do Is what Britan herselt is doing on
but is a feeling that Britain ha
This does not imply defeatism
her own neglects to thank for what she must bear now. (01) - bined with a feeling that mistakes are repairable even if nearing the eleventh hour.
on
Mr.
The newspaper "Aftonbladet" remarks
Churchill's almost ruthless exposure of the war situation, and says he does not shirk responsibility for the reverses.
Personifying British power of resistance. Mr. Churchill
Reuter
has
It is worth recalling, however. | become an that on May Day the
indispensable symbol Soviet
of a battling Empire Com ander-in-Chief, Marshal Timoshenko, in an Order of the Day to the Red Army, declared | "The Red Army is ready to offer ambulauing rebulf to any encroachment on the part t1 imperialists upon the interests of the Soviet state and Soviet people.“
This emphasis on the interests of the state alld prople significant - Reuter.
Writhe In ATHENS Holland PUPPET
Soldiers ARRESTS
German
.י
very
GALLUP
POLL ON LINDBERGH
Sixty-three per cent. of Americans who are fami- | liar with Colonel Lind- bergh's views and these
are three in every five disagree with them, but so 60 per cent. of REPORTS OF THE ARREST OF these think that America MEMBERS OF THE FORMER should stay out of the
COMMENTING YESTERDAY ON
stationed in Holland are dispirited and disillusion- THE CRETAN NEWSPAPERS, ed, according to authentic information reaching the Free Dutch newspaper "Vrij Nederland."
Holland's weapon of ridicule and contempt and of faith in an Allied victory is having remark. able results
Germans writhe in the role of outcasts
and the
Instead of conquerors.
A number, when they feel they have the confidence of the Dutch,
Dutch farmers
even
GREEK GOVERNMENT, DE. CLARES THAT THIS FALSE War.
ACT BY THE PUPPET GOVERN- MENT OF ATHENS CONSTI- Of those who agree with Lind- TUTES NEW TOTAL ENSLAVEMENT TO THE Who know
PROOF OF ITS bergh 24
those per cent of his views
95 per GERMAN AND ITALIAN cent, say stay out. AGGRESSORS. "WITH WHOM Thirteen per cent. are undecid- IT IMPOSES TERRORISM ON|ed about Lindbergh, THE GREEK PEOPLE.“
Many Americans are of opinion that Lindbergh is pro-German.
These figures are
taken from
The arrests were ordered "in ot-
plead for civilian clothing to Bidder to divert the attention of the the latest Gallup public opinion them in deserting.
The message adds that skilled people, groaning under the foreign test poll. Reuter.
resent instruction: those who, after having betrayed yoke, from the responsibilities of from the Nazis and agricultural their country, are becoming the production has slumped.--Reuter first servants of the enemy,"
ROOSEVELT STILL
newspaper says.--Reuter.
one
INDO-CHINA
INDISPOSED IN YEN BLOC
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, WHO
were
DEFENCE OF SUEZ
FORESHADOWING THAT THE NEXT GERMAN - ITALIAN CRITICAL ATTACK WOULD BE AGAINST EGYPT, THE ACTING AUSTRALIAN PREMIER,
MR. FADDEN, YESTERDAY
ON WEDNESDAY WAS ORDER- Tokyo exchange banks ED TO STAY IN BED FOR TWO notified by the Ministry of Finance DECLARED THE DEFENCE OF DAYS, IS STILL SUFFERING yesterday that all exchange THE BRITISH 18LE8 AND FROM STOMACH TROUBLE transactions with French Indo- BUEZ WERE NOW OF PARA- WITH A SLIGHT TEMPERA- China henceforth are to be con- MOUNT IMPORTANCE.. TURE.
ducted on a basis of Japanese Since the evacuation of Greece.
He wanted to get up yesterday yen and any other transactions the Empire had been concentrat- but his doctor forbade him, must be made with official per-mg tried troops in Egypt, whose
mission.
.....defence must be backed to the. The Yokohama Specie Bank limit by Australla's productive announced an exchange rate of capacity: 100 plastres against 98% yen. The moment had come for ย Reuter..
supreme effort-Reuter.
The President is understood to be keeping in touch by 'phone to his bedside with developments in domestic and foreign, affairs. Reuter.
JJ