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MARY MARTIN
THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 27, 1941.
LAVAL TALKS THE NEW LANGUAGE OF VICHY FRANCE
MAKING HIS FIRST SPEECH SINCE HIS DISMISSAL BY MARSHAL PETAIN LAST DECEMBER, PIERRE LAVAL, IN A BROAD- CAST YESTERDAY, SAID: “WE OWE OUR FAILURE TO DEMOCRACY. WE DON'T WANT TO FIGHT FOR IT.
"France cannot go back. She must fulfil two tasks with the great powers of Europe, get peace first and then overcome unemployment and poverty,
Those are assurances which my personal experience can give America. Is America trying to paralyse us on the way to nation- al resurrection?
but
"We need some of your riches as you need some of ours, remember that France con only the ful this exchange between New World and the new Europe if she can collaborate totally with Germany.
"I know that may astonish
you but it is indispensable France."
France Blames U.S.
to
According to the German radio version of the Laval speech, he said that since the United States the did not help France during
war.
she was partially to be blamed for the collapse of France. Laval plctured the United States An entertaining plans against the unity of the French Empire.
He warned
States the United against sharing the same fate as France by blindly going into the
war.
The German radio credits Laval with the statement that not for a single moment and not by any gesture had the Germans taken up 111 attitude that might have wounded French pride.
Hitler's Bloody Hand
VANISHING HALF- DOZEN
The chief of a fire- watching group in Bognor Regis sent out two girls to watch a certain road, tell- ing them to report back after two hours.
girls didn't two back to report. Somewhat annoyed, he sent out another two girls after the others
The couple of girls who went after the first couple of girla didn't come back either. Somewhat worried, the Are watch chief sent out two men.
The
come
The two mten who followed
the girls who followed the first couple of girls also didn't come back.
Terribly worried, the fire-watch chief told the police.
NO UNREST OR DISUNITY, SAYS BERGERET
Air
The Vichy Minister, General Ber- geret, who has just returned from a visit to Syria, stated in broodcast yesterday that there was "no unrest or disunity in Colonial France."
He denounced the celebrated Colonel Collet the almost legendary leader of the Circassian regi- ments
as
an
"
officer formerly re- nowned and hence- forth а traitor,' though without nam- ing him.-Reuter.
BRITONS
DETAINED
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FOUR BRITONS AND A RUS. SIAN WERE DETAINED 24 HOURS BY THE JAPANESE AUTHORITIES IN THE HUNG- JAO AREA OF SHANGHAI FOR So the police followed the USING A RADIO SET IN CHIN- men who followed the girls who | AN UNIVERSITY, LOCATED followed the first couple of OFF
THE SHANGHAI-HANG- girls. And the police couldn't CHOW RAILWAY TRACKS. find any one of them.
For France, it was simply ac- | giris. cepting the hund of the Fuehrer
So they asked the military if The party were plenicking in they had seen two men and four the University compound when a Japanese patrol heard the radio "Sure," said the military. and took the party to Japanese in an unique gesture or she would "We've been holding them all be-military headquarters. suffer the fate of being divided nu. Irause not one is carrying an iden- The party
inter was released Laval, who was speaking on the fity card." So the identity cards and the radio returned.--Interna- Paris radio, added: "The United | were produced.
tional News Service. States have been willing for France to be annihilated or torn to pieces by enjoining her to re- fuse the band that Chancellor Hitler held out to her in a geз- ture that is without precedent ́in history,
"This war-perhaps on the other cide of the ocean you do not fully realise its not a war like other wars.
"It is a revolution out of which we will r'se rejuvenated, rcor- ganised and prosperous?"-Reuter,
RECRUITING
CAMPAIGN IN N'F'LAND
URBAN COUNCIL INSPECTOR'S
ILLEGAL SEIZURE
FOR WRONGFULLY seizing the goods of two hawkers, Sanitary Inspector E. A. Chater, Urban Council, was ordered by Mr. H. G. Sheldon, K.C., this morning to pay $21 compensation.
The Magistrate said the Sanitary Inspector had no legal right whatsoever to seize the goods.
The case resulted from an ap- was in good condition. The fruit plication by two licenced fruit was not found to be unwholesome, hawkers, Chi Yim and Yip Pui, for the return of their fruit or its
catties of fruit, or $21, and second,
Newfoundland, which value, first appellant claiming 129
RHYTHM ON THE RIVER' begins a recruiting cam-190, mangoes, or $12.50,
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Respondent disputed the amouní
did
Inspector Chater said he not think the two hawkers were added owners of the fruit, but that he could not dispute the claim that they were the owners. paign on Monday next. has received the following claimed saying it had been con-
The situation was this, con- cluded Mr. Sheldon, that the fruit message from Mr. Wing-siderably exaggerated.
was wrongfully seized, without ton. Churchill:
Detective-Sergeant Dewar pre- any legal right whatsoever. The "people of Newfoundland, sented the application on behalf Therefore, respondent must pay with their long history of hard-of the hawkers. After reviewing compensation of $10.50 to, each. ships surmounted-and-their proud the evidence, Mr Sheldon sald attachment to the island on which that the goods were seized by their ancestors founded the oldest Inspector Chater but no charge
British oversea territories, have was brought against the hawkers A.R.P. TURNED DOWN already made a magnificent con The day following the seizure tribution in the war.
the hawkers applied to Mr. G. T
OBJECTOR
The task of overcoming oppres-Lowry for return of the fruit and
sion and the deadly threat to our following inquiries, Mr Lowry When Wilfred Gibbons, carpen- civilisation calls for the utmost ruled that, under the Publir ter, of Chatfield Road Croydon, endeavour from us all and I am Health and Food Ordinance, an made his third appearance at the glad to learn that still greater application for the return of the London Objectors Tribunal he efforts are being made in New goods would have to be made sold he had applied for AR.P.
I wish them everv, Court. foundland.
success.
"With this spirit we shall not
fail to achieve the final victory of "THE EXTERNAL TRIANGLE"
Frank Admission
work with Croydon Corporation and was told they did not employ conscientious objectors. He ap plied for land work, and was told. that objectors were being dismiss.
right and freedom on which our Inspector. Chater frankly
frankly ad hearts are set."? --- British Wire-mitted that he seized the fruited. The case was again adjourn- less.
and did not dispute that the frult, ed.