THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 16, 1941.
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NAZI ANTI-AMERICAN TACTICS
Naval Action Order Attributed To Roosevelt
Attempt
A.R.P. WARDENS
To Stir Up HELPING Isolationists TO COLLECT
THE QUESTION of whether the United
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SCRAP
States is going formally into the war now on Air raid wardens in Singapore || the side of Britain and Russia, has suddenly · become the centre of interest in Germany, according to the Berlin correspondent of the Zurich "National Zeitung.”
A sensation has been caused, he says, by the prominent publication there of a report from a pro-Axis Swedish paper suggesting that President Roosevelt intends to push his hostility to Germany to extremes and has therefore ordered the American fleet to fire without warning on Axis ships.
Authoritative sources in Berlin declared, continues the corres- pondent, that "after careful ex- amination of the circumstances, the report can be regarded perfectly accurate and authentic."
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The German newspapers at the game time publish attacks on the President for, as they allege, "preparing to stab Europe in the back" during its
INDIA'S GROWING OUTPUT
of wardens has
have offered their services as collectors of scrap, and one group formed a club which will concentrate on collec- tions of paper and other salvage within its area.
"We consider that no sacrifice on our part is too great for the cause of our King and Empire,” wrote the honorary secretary of Koh Chwee Keat, the post, Mr.
to the Controller of Salvage, Mr. W. T. Cherry. The wardens in- tend to give up their week-ends
They to salvage work.
have already begun a house-to-house distribution of pamphlets in their district and have displayed posters in prominent positions,
The first "Scrap Club" to be
PORTUGAL
REINFORCING
THE AZORES
More and more Portuguese troops are being sent at intervals to the Azores to rein- force the garrison there.
Before a contingent embarked in Lisbon yesterday morning it was drawn up in the largest square in the city, where colours were presented 'to one infantry batta- lion recently mention- ed in general orders. --Reuter.
new
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!formed in Singapore by three Bri-; NAZI PEACE
tish boys in Changi delivered its
| first load a few days ago. "It was
a very large load of useful
"WAR"
WARNING BY GENERAL MARSHALL
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Testimony on Iceland |by ̈ General George Mar- shall, Chief of the U.S. Army Staff, before the Senate Military Commit- tee, on July 9 was revealed in Washington yesterday.
Supporting the legislation per- mitting the retention of selectees and National Guardsmen for more than a year,
General Marshall said that specially trained Army units, instead of Marines, should have occupied Iceland but "were prevented because of the difficul- ties of the single year service rule.
General Marshall testified that "unless the one year limit is re- moved, our present trained forces will largely melt away." HE DENIED HE PLANNED AN "EXPEDITIONARY FORCE'' AND CALLED ATTENTION ΤΟ PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S DE- CLARATION OF THE NATION'S EMERGENCY, ADDING:
"I personally believe it urgent- | salvage," said Mr. Cherry.
ly necessary in the public inter- Meanwhile the committee which UNDER SECRETARY OF the existence
WELLES, U.S.est for the committee to declare INDIA'S WAR EFFORT HAS has made itself responsible for STATE, AT HIS PRESS
of the nation's NEVER BEEN CONFINED
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MR. SUMNER
struggle against the Bolshevika THE NEEDS OF THE TROOPS the collection of salvage in Singa-FERENCE
Political observers suggest that this latest propaganda outburst
has been launched.
Firstly, in order to stir up the American isolationists.
Secondly, in order to impres Japan, and.
Thirdly, in order to inspire the German public to fresh exertions in the face of American "inter- vention."-Reuter.
WE LEAD IN 'PLANE OUTPUT
The time when we shall
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OF HAVE
PETROL
PROMOTE PEACE PROPOSALS MONOPOLY
CON- emergency."-Reuter. YESTERDAY, ON HER SOIL, AND FOR MANY pore is preparing for the second PRAISED AND CORROBORAT- stage of their efforts the first
ED MAYOR LA GUARDIA'S MONTHS THE PRODUCTS
being Salvage Week. They are STATEMENTS INDUSTRY
THAT HITLER INDIA'S
discussing arrangements for GONE IN AN INCREASING
AGENTS WERE BEEKING TO possible house-to-house collection TO
OVERSEAS STREAM
of salvage. FORCES OF THE EMPIRE.
IN THE UNITED STATES. Sir This point was made by
The Australian Govern- Already large quantities
Mr. Welles said reports of the of Mohamed Zafrullah Khan, Minis-
paper have been received and proposals had been reaching him ment has decided to take in a broadcast ter of Supply,
negotiations are still proceeding occasionally but he emphasised from Simla yesterday.
with mills in Singapore and in they were not official proposals to full control, under the Referring to munitions pro- India regarding their disposal.
the United States Government. National Security Act, of duction he said India was in-
Mr. Stephen Early, President debted to the steel industry for
A collection of salvage is about Roosevelt's secretary, told his the importation, storage the supply of armour plate which
conference English and press to be made from
yesterday; and distribution of petrol, would progressively keep pace. vernacular schools, numbering There is no Hitler peace proposal with the demands of its armour- more than a hundred in Singapore ufficially before this Government." Supplanting
the petrol ed fighting vehicles and would increase its total output by 33- 1/3 per cent, very shortly.
India was now making five times as many guns as in peace time and intended to multiply the present production figure by eight.
An aircraft factory had been went established which, if all well, would grow into an air- industry, and shipyards of
be dropping four bombs craft on Germany for every, were building large numbers
small craft from minesweepers to one dropped on Britain is lifeboats-Reuter. near, writes a Special
Correspondent.
Despite the coercion of labour
"DEAR
in occupied countries, Germany's COUSIN
output of 'planes has been over-
taken by Britain and the Empire alone,
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"With American 'planes com.
ing over in ever-increasing
WINSTON"
One of Mr. Churchill's Ameri-
alone.
-Reuter,
PRESIDENT SUPPORTING
cartel.
The Premier, Mr. Menzies, in a statement yesterday, said Gov- ernment was asking the British and American authorities more tankers and it would abate its efforts until stocks were assured.
for not
The recent decrease in the motorist's ration was helping to build up stocks but Government was not satisfied..merely to im- pose more sacrifices, on the peo- ple.--Reuter,
ARMY'S DEMAND COMPLIMENT
„A FORMAL WARNING that President
Roosevelt favoured retention in the Army of TO AUSTRALIA
National Guardsmen, Reserve Officers and THE APPOINTMENT OF MR. numbert, we are fast building
Which will can cousins, Mr. Eugene Donald draftees beyond the 12 months' period origin-TER TO AUSTRALIA TS RE-
up an Alr Force
Jerome, has sent the Premier a
Jerome's. grandfather.
*' overshadow Goering's Luft-
Swaffe. Bombers and still more bombers which Mr.
cancelled cheque for £584,136 ally prescribed, was given Congress in Wash- is now the slogan. We are build- signed in 1863. when he sold his ington yesterday by the Under-Secretary of ing up a bigger striking force partnership in a New York bank-War, Mr. Patterson.
quicker than at one time seemed ing house. possible.
"From what I see and hear," He said the President also desired the Plans are now in an advanced says Mr. Jerome in his accom-
panying letter to "dcar Cousin removal of the 900,000 limit on the number stage for the ferrying of lighter Winston," "America is with you of draftees who came in service at any one - American aircraft are exceed-100 per cent, and there can be
'planes-by. a. secret route.
ing British expectations.
The Lying fortress, for instance, has not only shown itself to be everything claimed for it by the American designers but something more besides.
One of these. machines has crossed the Atlantic In 8h. 45m:
but one outcome; that is the comtime: plete downfall of Hitlerism, and We are all working for that end.”
The Premier's father, Lord Randolph Churchill, married the daughter of Leonard Jerome, of New York.
The Air Minister, speaking in- 65 DIPLOMATIC
Lnodon said:-
As our air
"
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strength grows, and it is beginning to grow fast, we will repay the Germans."
Reports from Emden
POUCHES GONE
U.S. DEAL WITH MEXICO
In a letter to the Speaker, Mr. Rayburn, Mr. Patterson said, that legislation tôt accomplish these jobjects: had President Roosevelt's approval,
MO AS CHINESE MINIS-
GARDED IN CHINESE CIRCLES IN LONDON "AS A SPECIAL
Passing early into the Chinese diplomatic service, Mr. Hsu Md is regarded as one of the ablest men in the service. As he really is of ambassadorial rank, it is evi- dent that in sending him in an ad- ministerial post, China wished to show she was sending a man of the highest standing to Australia,
Reuter!
COMPLIMENT TO AUSTRALIA.
STOCK EXCHANGE IRREGULAR
on
The sequence of German con- quests which continued...without interruption from Austria to Rus- As part of Its. programme to sia have been based on the an- The London Stock Exchange build up vital defence supplies, ticipated failure of the countries, encountered some irregularity the United States has gudranteed concerned to be properly prepar- yesterday. Gilt-edged, oils and on the It was revealed the other night to buy from Mexico all its ex-ed against invasion, Mr. Patter-industrials receded slightly
profit-taking but there were affect of our new "beautiful" that 65 diplomatic pouches have portable surplus of strategic son wrote.
been lost by the United States materials which are not sold to hombs say:
The explosive used is fantastic. Embassy in London" since the private industries in the Western A bomb turned the whole of one outbreak of war through enemy Hemisphere during the next quarter,with the exception of the action.
keighteen months. Ten of them went, down in a Post Office, into a heap of ruins.
This has been announced by.
In view of known events of responded well to Cape and local Seventy houses were com-ship which was torpedoed recently. Mr. Jesse Jones, the Federal Loan pletely destroyed and twenty-five The vessel was also carrying two Administrator.
the past year, particularly of support, but diamonds met pro of these were just heaps of bricks. trucks for delivery to the Mili-| The Mexican Government has the last few months, Mr. Patternt taking Japanese bonds. ¿ro- Althougher 200 houses were tary Attache's office and £750 decreed that these commodities son added, demobilisation of the ecded but subsequently wero "court supported. Wall Street Was damaged, not including broken worth of office equipment for the may be exported only to points army now would be to windows.
within the Hemisphere. Reuter.disaster. Reuter.
irregular-Router.
Embassy.
"In each case they launched signs of renewed provincial sup- an overwhelming force apainot port of the last named, especially an unprepared army. We can breweries and textiles, at the not speculate with the security lower levels. Rubbers and tens of this nation.”mua,
were firmly held while. Kafirs