THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 9, 1941
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Litvinov Calls
Calls For United World Front Against Nazis
HITLER'S ONE-BY-ONE TECHNIQUE
M. MAXIM LITVINOV, former Soviet Foreign Commissar, broadcasting in English from Moscow last night, said over a dozen States had lost their independence, had seen their lands laid waste, as if swarms of locusts had passed over them, and their population reduced to slaves.
"Who can doubt the same fate awaits the future of those few countries who continue to preserve an independent existence under delusions of neutrality and pacts of non- aggression and friendship with Hitler?
"It has fallen to Great Bri-¦ himself a de facto truce in the tain, with the active support of west he decided to hold a blitz- the United States, to bear the krieg lightning war in the east in brunt of the struggle with Hitler order immediately afterwards to and his vast war machine.
fall with all his strength upon Britain and finish her off.
the
"We no less recognise the menace which a Hitler victory in the west would constitute for us.
"Now this struggle has fai len with special force to tot of the Soviet Union." REFERRING TO HITLER'S ATTEMPTS TO CONQUER GREAT BRITAIN, M. LITVINOV Shameful Phenomenon SAID THE FAILURE SHOWED
"HITLER HAS NOT YET THE "Both the Soviet Union and TRAINING OF A CHANNEL | Great Britain are fighting for the SWIMMER.
integrity und independence of
The twin-engined Bristol "Beaufighter" from the same stable as the famous Blenheim Is a high speed heavily armed fighter monoplane cultable for use as a day or night Interceptor. Photo shows a striking view of a Beaufighter in flight.
FOUGHT WAY TO TARGET
Though he decided to start a their States against the enslave- The raid on Northern blitzkrieg in the east it is already ment and extermination of their clear that Hitler is out of his peoples. reckoning as ไป the lightning character of the blitz blow.
One At A Time
"The destruction of Hitlerism will mean the most
elimination of the of our age and the elimination of the greatest obstacle to the develop-
civilisation that ment of
ever Reuter.
shameful phenomenon
"Germany's treacherous attack on the peaceful Soviet Union, in existed." the face of the part of non-aggres- sion between the two countries, confirmed by Hitler in repeated solemn declarations, has furnish- ed the world with fresh over- whelming evidence that no coun- try, whatever its politics, can feel secure as long as Nazism and Hitlerism exist,
"Hitler's chief aim Is to strike one adversary at a time, That is why we should strike) together simultaneously and❘ untiringly.
Now's The Time
WOMEN
AGITATORS SENTENCED
France at dawn yester- day, on which fighters in large numbers escorted a formation of heavy bomb- ers and destroyed seven Messerschmitts, is fur. ther described by the Air Ministry new service.
Several of the fighting pilots hit seeing the target reported squarely by large bombs.
Enemy fighters tried repeated- ly to get at the bombers but the escorting fighters drove then off again and again.
The one bomber that did not victim of A.A. 18PECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"]} return was the
gunners. THE CHINESE COURT IN Five of seven Messerschmitts SHANGHAI TOOK THE FIRST were accounted for by the fight- "Each blow struck now will be ACTION AGAINST SHANGHAI er formation which was engaged ten times as effective and will | WOMEN LABOUR AGITATORS by enemy aircraft almost as soon entail infinitely less expenditure WHEN FOUR FEMALE MEM- as it crossed the coast. and sacrifice than if delivered BERS OF A GANG OF DEMON- The formation had to fight a00 later."
STRATORS WERE SENTENCED way to the target area but lost; After paying tribute to the TO TEN DAYS' IMPRISON- none of i's aircraft.
A Polish state manlikę acumen revealed in MENT.
pilot and a Czech Mr. Churchill's announcement on
the other pilot destroyed enemy aircraft.
Later in the day British fight-
stitute for us."
M. Litvinov said: "No peace
two
the day of the German attack, Accused were charged with M. Litvinov zaid: "We no
less agitating against the owner of the recognise the menace A Hitler Foo Shing
Tobacco Co., where ers intercepted two ME'S 109F victory in the west would con- they were formerly employed. off the Isle of Wight. A sergeant plot destroyed one and damaged The women pleaded that the the other.-British Wireless. that could be made would be pro- "capitalistic owner" paid them tection against renewed attack; only 70 cents per day. They cou'd at any tipe,
not live on these wages, they said. -International News Service.
Hitler's Element
"Without war Hitler can see no point in living. Fields soaked in, blood, towns reduced into smoke and heaps of ashes, hunger, poverty, the tears of mothers, wives and sisters, all these com-4 pose an element in which Hitler feels happy and comfortable....
Australia's Effort
TRIBUTE TO DR. KOO
A GLOWING TRIBUTE IS PAID TO DR. WELLINGTON KOO.. CHINESE AMBASSADOR TO! BRITAIN, BY "THE TIMES" IN AN EDITORIAL. THE PAPER; SAYS:
SHARP AIR CLASHES OVER FRANCE
R.A.F. heavy bom- bers attacked the naval base at Wil- helmshaven late yes- terday afternoon.
Other R.A.F: heavy bombers, escorted by fighters, attacked a and power station
works at chemical Lille in the afternoon. Nine enemy fighters were destroyed while seven British fighters are missing.
No aircraft are miss- ing from the Wilhelm- shaven raid.-Reuter.
CHOLERA OUTBREAK
CHINESE DOLLAR TO BE RE-FIXED?
The
financially well-informed "Kuo-Min Kung Pao," Chungking, claims to have learned from re liable sources that the Economic Council of the Administrative Yuan has developed a plan to cope with the rising price of commedi tles and the upward trend of the foreign exchange in the free mar ket in Shanghai.
Although no details are disclos- ed, it is rumoured that a new ex- change rate will be fixed in the free market at fourpencaand::%. Then plan will be put into oper- Mr. alter the ation
return of Manuel Fox from Shanghai.---Our Own Correspondent.
CHOLERA EPIDEMIC IN SHANGHAI
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[SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"} Acting drastically, to deal with the cholera epidemic in the Japanese-occupied areas of Shang- hai, the Japanese military authori... ties have sentenced to death
faked Chinese caught selling cholera inoculation certificates and have commenced a vigorous free inoculation campaign in A CONSIDERABLE INCREASE Hongkew. International News IN CHOLERA CASES WAS RE- Service. GISTERED BY THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT LAST WEEK WHEN A TOTAL OF 62 CASES WITH 21 DEATHS WERE NOTIFIED.
Twenty-one of the total came from Kowloon, 19 from rural
from Hong Kong, 14
Victoria, six from the Harbour and two from the New Territories.
of-
U.S. HOLDING AIR OFFICER RESERVES
The US War, Department dis- closed..yesterday that all Air During the same period, there Corps reserve officers not already on active duty whose c'vilian oc- were also notified 208 cases "The Soviet Government was
Mr. F.. W. Leake... and Mr.
tuberculosis with 170 deaths, 34 cupations are not of primary Im- almost the first "to realise the
of dysentery with 28 deaths; 19 portance in the defence program- danger to the world of Nazi Alexander Rogers, members of the
active duty.NA "In Dr. Wellington, Koo, China of enteric fever with 14 deaths: me, are being ordered to extended aggressiveness appealing to all British Purchasing Commission,
Actual number of men con nations to curb and organise who have left. New York for has sent one of her most distin- five of meningitis with one death;
England, by. Clipper after, touring guished sons to represent her, in four of diphtheria with one cerned has not been made public. resistance to it. ---
that the centre of the democratic op death; and one of measles "This is not the moment to go India and Australia, stated into the question why these re- Australa's Industrial war effort position to totalitarian tyranny. On Monday, 10 fresh cores of but indications are that it runs
He has already represented cholera were notified, seven from into--several hundred. Reuter. peated appeals of the Soviet Gov-amazed them. ernment did not yield the desired They also declared that the China in London and Washing- Kowloon, two from Victoria and
production of manufactured ton and has been Foreign Minis- one from rural Hong Kong. result."-Reuter.
goods from the Empire exceeded all expectations-Reuter.
A Hitch Somewhere M Litvínov continued: "To struggle against the wage this common foe to the bitter end, is task the single, all-embracing confronting this country.
Hitler Intended first to deal with the western States, 00, 20 to be free afterwards to fall on the Boviet Union. There was a hlich somewhore..
Believing he had secured for
ter in Peiping and Nanking.
He has been his country's · de- legate to several important inter-
national conferences, particular- LIGHTNING STRIKES ly the Versailles Conference.
Ho, served China with great distinction in Geneva, though. his
A CINEMA
R.A.F. RECEPTION COMMITTEE:
An Air Ministry and Ministry of Home Security communique DENTZ CALLS UP
states: "At midday yesterday enemy aircraft approached ALL FRENCHMEN. recent sojourn as Ambassador to [SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"] two
Vichy must have been peculiarly The Mexican War Department the Isle of Wight. They were en- General Dentz has ordered the distasteful to a man of his calibre. yesterday announced that 04 wore gaged by our fighters. One of tho Apart mobilisation of all Frenchmen be- and sympathies. It furnished him killed, 150 injured and 15 driven enemy aircraft was destroyed tween the ages of 19 and 45 in with experience of great value to insane when lightning struck a and the other damaged. Syria and Lebanon, according to his own and other governments, cinema In Guadalajara-Interna- from this there is nothing to re-
tional News Service.
port."-British Wireless. -Central Nows, Paris radlo quoted by Reuter,