THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 14, 1941,
FREE FRANCE REMEMBERS Celebration Of French National Day
GERMAN Fight Still
OFFICIALS
FUNK IT
Going On
MESSAGES EXPRESSING DEVOTIÓN TO FRANCE, FAITH IN HER GREATNESS AND The German Consul- CERTAINTY OF HER LIBERATION, HAVE General at San Francisco, BEEN SENT TO THE INDEPENDENT FRENCH Fritz Wiedmann, and the NEWSPAPER “FRANCE" BY A NUMBER OF OF "German Consul-General DISTINGUISHED REPRESENTATIVES
in New York, Johannes THE ALLIED NATIONS ON THE OCCASION OF Borchers, missed their FRENCH NATIONAL DAY TO-DAY.
rather than risk being
boat to Japan yesterday Mr. Anthony Eden, the British Foreign seized at sea by the Bri- Secretary, wrote: "Our hearts are with the people of France in the cruel sufferings which they are enduring under the yoke of the brutal and barbarous invader.
tish.
They stood by the telephone un- til almost the last minute before
the Japanese steamer, Yawata Maru, smiled but the orders that they awaited did not come.
"It all depends upon our safe
French
once more echo with the mea
"We do not forget their have disappeared from passage as to when we leave," a sons, husbands or fathers oil, and the Champs Elysees will Consulate official said. "We who are still languishing sured tread of the gallant fight.
in German prisoner of independence and greatness." war camps.
derstand the State Department is negotiating with the British the matter."
Mr. Sumner Welles announced on Saturday that Britain had guaranteed safe conduct to Axis consular officials travelling from New York to Lisbon in the steam- er West Point but not to those go- ing home via Japan - Reuter
TENACIOUS RESISTANCE
(Continued from Page 11 Line with the break-through of the Weygand Line "which led to the collapse of France."
th
will SOON anniversary "An come when uniformis of the Ger. man army and the gestapo
will
tory repeat itself in the Eastern campaign?"
Too, Too Beautiful
Not every citizen quite realised the significance of the German that was why he and success, thought it useful to compare with last year's campaign.
it
The Stalin Line was, at points, 22 miles deep, it appeared. The commentator continued: The declsive turning point in "With the break through
the battle had been reached by the Weygand Line, the resistance of break through which made "vic- the French was completely try against Bolshevism a beauti- smashed and their collapse ful certainty." — International inevitable. Why should not his- News Service and Reuter.
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ing forces of France, restored to
A message from General de Gaulle stated: "To-day, as year ago, we recognise only one foc. We shall recognise him in We shall fight disguise. any.
him with every weapon.
Faith In The Future
"We shall only consider that task we have accomplished our when he has been finally beaten." General Sikorski, Polish Prime Minister and Commander-in- expressed Chief, in his message unshakeable faith in the French nation and its future.
Dr. Edouard Benes, on behalf of Free Czechoslovakia, express- after ed the hope that France, having found her soil agu'n and the common vie-
find a contributed to
place tory, would also worthy of her among the free nations.
Similar sentiments were ex- pressed by M. Plerlot, Belgian Prime Minister, Professor Ger. brandy, Netherlands Prime Minister, and M. Lie, Nor. weglan Foreign Minister.
Fight Still Goes On
A Singapore report says that the Free French in Malaya are celebrating July 14 with official receptions.
M. Charles Baron, General de Gaulle's Far Eastern representa- tive, interviewed by Reuter, said: "The fight still goes on. The French are not vanquished yet and feel that the dead should be avenged rather than mourned."
M. Baron disclosed that Singapore is the initial train- Ing ground for a large number of Free French volunteers who arrive there awaiting trans- portation to the Middle` `East. He added that there was a great increase in the number of De Gaulle followers in the Far East despite enemy efforts to hamper their activities.-Reuter.
MEDICAL
SUPPLIES
FOR CHINA
The American Red Cross announced in Washington yesterday that a $1,000,000 - ship- ment of medical supplies will be rushed to China to meet the critical needs reported by -representa- tives who have just car ried out a survey from the Burma Road to Chungking.
Mr. Norman Davis, Chairman of the American Red Cross organisa- tion, said that supplies would be shipped by the first freighter leav ing. Pacific coast ports,
So far more than $3,500,000 worth of supplies had been sent to China-Reuter.
STOP PRESS
EN. IN
A SOVIET COMMUNIQUE ANNOUNCES THAT DURING SUNDAY LARGE-SCALE COUNTERS TOOK PLACE THE DIRECTIONS OF PSKOV, VITEBSK AND VOLINSK.
In
a
NOVOGRAD-
north-western direction
large enemy mechanised
forces stubborn
tried to push eust but resistance by Soviet troops held
up the enemy.-Reuter,
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