THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 7, 1941.
Roosevelt Puts Peace Talk In Rightful Place
Propaganda From Berlin Responsible
"PEACE OFFENSIVE" TALK WAS PUT IN ITS RIGHTFUL PLACE BY PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AT HIS PRESS CONFERENCE IN WASHINGTON YESTERDAY. ·
The President stated that Mr. John G. Winant, U.S. Ambassador to Britain, had not brought from England “even a tenth cousin of a peace offer," 'and added that German propaganda was responsible.
Asked if he cared to say
Mr. Winant brought nu AIR FORCE
peace terms, the Pre- sident authorised the fol- lowing direct quotation- a very rare event:-
"Not even the tenth cousin of
a peace offer or anything like that or any discussions of peace.
"Absolutely nothing like it, provided you use this not as denial by the President but as an accusation by the President."
MASCOT ZOO
One of the
strangest zoos in the world exists in Kenya- famous for its big game. It is the mascot zoo of the South African Air Force.
During the months they have
Asked whom he was accusing, President Roosevelt said: "Per- | been in camp, members of the sons being duped by Germany." squadrons have collected
Orders From Goebbels
President Roosevelt volun- teered the Information that he had on his desk two orders which, he said, had been issued
by the official German pro- paganda agency
lo Berlin to
Nazis and Fascists in the United Statca,
lions,
2
cheetahs, gazelle, zebra, giraffe and baboons. There is even two-foot grass snake, which is usually found coiled up and act- ing as a paper weight C.O.'s desk. These are South Africa's official air muscots,
on the
"Bomber," a magnificent six- months-old lion cub, belongs to the Headquarters of a bomber squadron. "Shorty," the giraffe, belongs to a flight that has car- ried out several successful raids | The President declared the first order told them to stress the called "Thunderbolt." This youth- The young baboon is recently. idea that Germany had no thought
ful luck bringer has as wrinkled of ever doing anything against and weather-beaten a face As hemisphere (evidently in direct any old Askari
any country in the western
reply to the President's Areside chat).
soon
as
who has spent his life wandering over the north- ern Kenya deserts.
The second ordered Nazi and
AL the Army Cooperation Squadron which has adopted him, Fascist sympathisers, us
he should pat Mr. Winant arrived in the Unit- pilots insist that ed States. to spread the story that them on the head before they he had
As the pat is usually brought a "scare" head-take off. story" that Britain was about all rewarded by something to eat, is usually quite in and was talking peace. Reu- "Thunderbolt"
anxious to bestow his blessing.
In one way the airman's craze for mascots is part of his in- herent modesty.
the He gives credit for his successes to his mascot, and forgets about his own skill and gallantry. For example: a young pilot climbed out of his
ter.
BOOM TO WELSH RECRUITS
•
with
Here members of a Royal Australian Air Force contingent are seen on a transport as they Ball for Canada.-(Copyright, Fox.)
LOUIS CHEVROLET NORWAY PROTEST
DEAD
Louis Chevrolet, pioneer motor-car designer, after whom
the Chevrolet car is named, died in Detroit yesterday at the age of 62.
Born in Switzerland, Chevrolet was an out- standing racing motorist who had been retired nearly 10 years.-Reuter.
BRITAIN'S
MANPOWER
CHIEF
A big step towards cen-
new
TO
GERMANY
THE GROWING UNREST of all sections of the Norwegian people has been voiced by 43 of the most prominent national organisa- tions in Norway in a joint letter to the Ger- man Commissar, Terboven, says the Nor- wegian telegraph agency in London.
Stating that public indignation has increased markedly in recent weeks, the let- ter details a whole series of incidents result- ing from the illegal and terroristic activities of Quisling's Nasjonal Samling Party and his band of Storm Troopers.
FRENCHMAN'S ESCAPE---TO FIGHT
Protest is particularly made against brutalities committed by the hired (Quisling's Black Guards) in schools, colleges and public meetings, as well as
the kidnapping of Dr. Gjessing, Direc- tor of the Dikemark Mental Hos- pital near Oslo...
The signatories of the letter. point out that the decroes issued by Quieling Gommlesara of Jus, tice and Police are contrary to both Norwegian and interna- tional law.
The doctrine of “private retalia- tion." officially endorsed by the
cockpit the other day. The fuse-tralising the problem of A 24 year-old French- Attention is being paid to the lage was riddled
bullet distribution of Britain's man now doing good work of men into the Royal Air Force, he wiped oil from his face and manpower in wartime has with a Spitfire squadron Quisling public, prosecutor ex need for smoothing the passage holes, some close to his seat. As
SO that recruits may change told of his experiences, some-been announced.
is one from civilian to R.A.F. duties body said: "You put up a pretty
of many who poses Norwegian citizens to brutal 'assaults without the possibility of with the least loss of working good show." He replied light- A
Director-General of thought the French legal redress, it is pointed out. time.
heartedly: Hitherto
Manpower has been appointed by Government would con- The letter states, that civil ser- men from South "If "Thunderbolt' hadn't pulled
the Ministry of Labour and:
vants and municipal employees Wales and the West of England out a couple of hairs when he National Service, with effect from tinue the war from Africa have been threatened with dis .who voluntered for ground patted my head to-day, I shouldn't. Monday next. duties in the R.A.F. have been have got out of that scrap."
when his country was missal if they do not join the Nas- obliged to travel long distances
jonal Samling. Nevertheless, out Uf That, as far as he was
He is Mr. G. H. Ince and he will being overwhelmed by 4.000 public employees in the Ber- for interviews before enrolment.cerned, closed the matter.
take charge of the national ser This has now been changed. A
vice, labour supply and military the Nazis. He expected gen district, only 12, under pres centre has been opened at of State for Air, this centre is to recruiting departments of the his flying training school sure, joined the Samling. Reuter. Penarth, Glamorgan, to which deal with recruits other than Ministry. prospective recruits from South aircrew candidates and
A committee of three has also to be moved overseas, but Wales and the Bristol area are specialist tradesmen. It should been appointed to examine, da sent for interview and attesta-result in a great saving of time consultation with the three ser when he saw there was no tion. As was explained recently and a gain in convenience to men vice departments, the employ- hope of a continued stand in the House of Commons by from South Wales and the Westment or skilled men in the Forces. he decided to fight on Captain Balfour, Under Secretary who are anxious to enrol.
with Britain.
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REFUGEES IN
TURKEY
'Many refugees are arriving in Turkey from the Greek islands,--
The Turkish - Government “has: He joined up with a number adopted a humanitarian attitude of Czechs who had been ordered and has sent the refugees to the to escape and helped them to a interior, where they are redelving port. "At the port, he says, "the a small dai'y allowance which en Czechs were passed, but another ables them to live-Reuter, Frenchman and I were stopped.
Luckily, a Polish squadron leader one worry he is not allowed to ordered us under arrest, and we fly his Spitfire when hi
Offensive. were taken aboard ship with our pilots go on
Czech: "friends as descort. 1 Fra
ecaped two days before the for, the armistice. và It I had not been so gure that we should be ordered to fight on from Afrion E could Chaves down a French machineɔto/ ||England."ZALANE
Frenchman