THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 30, 1941.
REPLY TO ARMS DRIVE CRITICS
Mr. Churchill's Survey In The Commons
After-Dunkirk Effort Surpassed
DEALING WITH THE situation in arma- ments filling factories, the Prime Minister, in his statement in the House of Commons yes- terday on war production, said; the position was not as it was in the last war, when there had to be an intense effort to feed, the guns from day to day.
We were piling up satisfactory reserves with no immediate outflow.
to
by
Coming to the more general intent of the United States charges of slackness and ineff- see that our people get food and ciency in factories, voiced in the to keep the sea lanes secure recent debate, Mr. Churchill | which food can be brought. quoted Sir J. S. Wardlaw-Milne, who said Britain was only work-| ing up to 75 per cent. of its pos- sible efficiency.
Great: Arrangements
"I know the great arrange- ments that have been made
to
that time of almost superhuman effort.
Cancelled Out
"It may be said that one-third more workers and one-third more But it has to output is quits. be remembered that all adverse factors have been cancelled out.
"We made in the last throt months more, than twice the made in field-guns that we the Dunkirk period, Muni. tions are half as much, again. "The combined programme of Merchant and Navy shipbuilding now in active progress is bigger than im any period of the last war although work, now is im- measureably more complex than then.
foplish to "In aircraft it is calculate by numbers of machines because of the difference of time
HITLER'S STAR ON
THE WANE
a
Speaking on nationwide hook-up, the National Broad- casting Corporation commentator, Kalten- "In born, declared: the past six weeks Hitler has done his best and has shown his. best, and from now on. he is a declining star.”
-Reuter.
war.
"We had many devastating stoppages and strikes in the last In the last two years of it nearly 12 million days were lost through labour disputes. "During the whole course of this
than two million days.
SOUTH AFRICANS WARNED
All avoidable public and private spending should be avoided and discourag- ed, Mr. J. H. Hofmeyer, Union Minister for Fin- ance, told South Africans in a speech at Johannes- burg yesterday.
Although there was nothing inflationary about the Union's in- creased note issue since the out- break of war, which went-natus- ally with increased business ac- tivity, there was more. mongy. available for spending than was required to finance the production and transfer of available goods, he said.
in man-hours needed to produce war-23 months we have lost less my especially in the purchase of;
them.
THIS SENTENCE, SAID MR. CHURCHILL, HAD BEEN send us food in variety and more] WRESTED FROM ITS CON- interesting qualities (cheers)
"But the increase, even above TEXT. IT WAS. SERIOUS WHEN I do not think I need be told the first period of a year ago, is est IT WAS BROADCAST APART I am helping Lord Haw-Haw. substantial. The increase FROM ITS CONTEXT.
"If he never gets any more this Government took
He had to think of its effect In Australia, whore party poll. tice were pursued with robust detachment,
consolation than he gets from me (laughter) his luck will be as hard as his deserts.
more
"Every effort is being made to supplement food, and I share the Brunt Of Fighting
hope of the Ministers of Food and Agriculture that our diet in Australian troops were bearing 1942 will be
stimulating with great
than distinction much of and energising
that of the brunt of the fighting in the 1941. Middle East and it must
"I wish it to be known all over, been very painful to Australia to the United States how encouraging be told that Britain
was only is their action."
have
making a three-quarters' effort to
enormous.
"I am anxious to have the lat-
intelligence. I received in since formation a few minutes before I office is began to speak that there was no stoppage of work of any kind "1 should be proud to tell arising from a trade dispute in any the House but i am not going part of Great Britain.
the to do so because
enemy does not tell un their figures, would like to have. which wo
Spurred On
Serious Warning
"When I look on the whole tum- ultous scene of this ever-widening war I think it my duty to give "You must be content with my serious warning to the House and to be on guard equally assurance that progress and ex-country pansion on great scale are against pessimism and against continuous and are remorselessly optimism. spurred on.
#
"This has been accomplished
put the proper weapons in their Dilution And Dispersal under the fire of the enemy and
hands.
Mr. Churchill also referred
are
or*
Mr. Hofmeyer appealed to in-... dividuals to exercise, rigic econo-
cheap imported goods, to seek substitutes for high priced arti cles and to abstain from the pur- chase of fixed property at inflat- ed prices.
He foreshadowed steps to con trol profiteering and the enforce- ment of price control.
Reuter.
AGGRESSIVE PATROLS
"There are no doubt tempta- AS LOCAL CONDITIONS- tions to optimism.
UNFAVOURABLE OUR It is a fact WERE that mighty Russia, so thor OFFENSIVE PATROLS FROM Hitler under air assault which to
oughly and treacherously as- TOBRUK CARRIED OUT ONLY was led to believe would shatter
saulted, has struck back with | LIMITED OPERATIONS DUR- to He proceeded: "It is estimated our industry and reduce us
Buch magnificent strength and ING THE
JULY NIGHT OF subjection. more people
SAYS YESTERDAY'S that one-third
courage and brought a prodi- 27/28, "It has been done working on war industries than u
In spite
gious and well-deserved slaugh- CAIRO COMMUNIQUE. year ago. Muny of them
of the difficulties of dispersion.
ter on the Nazi armies,
"In the frontier area, as a re- trainees and dilutees.
It has been done without the
"The United States, the great-sult of our aggressive activities, and sacrifice of quality
has. counter-patrolling est single power, is giving us aldenemy reia- gained both actually and
increased on a gigantic scale and is advanc- temporarily
both in tively.
ing in rising wrath to the very numbers and in the areas cover- "Now air battles are develop-
verge of war.
ed. ing again in
scale and intensity,
In one successful clash we can claim that our fighters are superiority has been broken, and Monday one of our patrols cap- at least as much ahead of the air attacks on this country for tured some German prisoners "Then there are the air raids, by enemy as when we defeated hiin the IMPORTANT
time being have. almost together with. two mechanical WAS WHETHER THIS STATE-smush our resisting power There
which the Germans expec 1 to a year ago.
transport vehicles and two motor- MENT WAS TRUE.
cycles. -- Reuter.
IN AMERICA SUCH A STATE- MENT WAS MEAT AND DRINK dilution. TO THE ISOLATIONISTS.
Americans were asked to pay higher taxes, to give up food, to alter their daily lives, to reduce their holidays and to go without pleasures of all kinds, in order to help Britain, and they were deep- ly disturbed when they were told on what seemed to them to be a high British authority that Bri- tain was only making a three-" quarters' effort to help herself.
WHAT WAS
of what?
Of What ?
Mr. Churchill
same
"It would not be wonderful if they failed to preserve the level of output per pair of human hands than that achieved by skill- ed craftsmen a year or 18 months ago.
J
were extraordinary blitzes at our ports and manufacturing centres, restrictions of the black-out, in-
Bombing Power
has
air "It is a fact that German
ceased.
Battle Of Atlantic.
"As to bombers--British pro- "It is a fact that the Battle, of terruption and delays of transpor-duction alone, without taking into the Atlantic, although far from
tation, which all played their de- account American-we have dou- being won, is, partly from Ameri- C.N.A.C.
laying and dislocating part.
bled our power of bomb discharge can intervention, moving progres-. "The remedy and counter-mea-on Germany at 1,500 miles range.sively in our favour. sures, proposed and carried "In the next three months, tak-
"It is a fact that the Nile Valley FARES
on
Two questions arose: whether it was 75 per cent, and 75 per cent.
proceeded: "I take a datum line of three months through when possible with such ing in American reinforcement, we is so much safer than two or three after Dunkirk, when our people worked to the utmost limit of their extreme vigour by the Supply De-shall double it again, and in the months ago. powers-men fell exhausted at partment, with Lord Beave brook, next six months after that we shall "It is a fact that the enemy has i The China National Aviation their lathes and working men and as Minister of Aircraft Froduc- redouble it. women did not take off their ion, in the van, took the form of clothes for a week at a time.
dispersal.
"ARE WE WORKING AT "This is a matter of life and ONLY 75 PER CENT, OF THAT? | death to the aircraft industry.
"There aro а fow, reasons why we cannot maintain inde. finitely the Inteṇalye personal
effort of a year ago.
45 Sub-Centres
"A great British firm was dis- "If we are to win this war, and persed into 45 sub-centres.
I can
ever, knowIL.
"We lost much equipment on the beaches of Dunkirk. Our food is rationed, our meat reduced. We have been bombed and blacked-
"BUT EVEN IN THIS
out.
lost his pretence of theme and Corporation and the Eurasia
THE WORST, 18, OVER.
"We have ploughed up the doctrine and has sunk even deeper Aviation Corporation, it is learn- land and by the grace of God, in moral and intellectual degraded, have obtained permission, to we have been granted the great-ation and bankruptcy: that almost charge a 50 per cent, increase in eat harvest in jiving memory, all his conquests have proved fares on the Chungcing Hong perhaps the
harvest burdens and worse, greatest
Kong, Chungking-Kunming, "ALL THIS MASSIVE TOWER-Chungking-Lashio, Chungking - ING OF FACTS, ON WHICH Rangoon and Kunming-Rangoon WE ARE ENTITLED TO DWELL, runs, beginning from August 1.. MUST NOT. LEAD, US FOR A The Chungking-Kweilin and MOMENT TO SUPPOSE THAT the Chungking. Chengtu fares remain unchanged, and it is "All this was achieved at the SEVENTH QUARTER OF THE Germany, the vast destructive been made. regarding the
"The formidable power of Nazi learned that no decision has fares placed us in a position, when, WAR OUR TOTAL, OUTPUT OF munitions they have made, or for passengers coming to China we paid the cost, where we are WARLIKE STORES HAS BEEN captured, the skill and ruthless- from Hong Kong or Rangoon, immune from mortal damage to NEARLY TWICE AS GREAT AS ness of their, centralised
Central News, our alrcraft production and in THE OUTPUT IN THE CORRES direction, the prostrate conditions other branches of munitions PONDING SEVENTH QUARTER of so many peoples under their from enemy air raids.
of so many OF THE LAST WAR, AND HAS yoke, the resources "Workpeople may have to be EQUALLED OUR OUTPUT IN lands which will be made to moved from their homes, plant THE FOURTEENTH, OR CUL- some extent available to them máy have to be shifted, and MINATING PEAK QUARTER, all these, restrain rejoicing an domestic affairs have somehow to OF THE LAST WAR.
forbid the slightest relaxation.
Invasion: Season««
cost of production but it has
I feel solidly convinced that we give instances of dispersion to 20, shall, it will be largely by staying 30 or 40 sub-centres. power. For that purpose there must be one day in seven of rest. as a general rule, and there.must be one week's holiday yearly.
"We have relaxed to that ex- tent since Dunkirk: if we had not done so we should have, had; a serious crash.
be adjusted, often at great sacri- fice, or hardship.
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An Achievement:
"When our new factories become
war
ed effort of the whole, British Empire that that great combina tion of about three-quarters of the human race against Nazism will come into vehement and dynamic life,
Diet Problems, "Noxt, allowance must be made for the very severe change In diet of heavy manual work, ers, which is far less stimulat- "It is a maryel what has been ing than a year ago..
Utmost Endeavour done to overcome these grievous
"It would be madness to sup- "Except for our fighting ner- and novel difficulties. (Cheers). available and when the Minister of pose that Russia of the United vices we have been driven back
"For more than a year we have "DESPITE ALL TROUBLES Labour has completed his task of States are going to, win, this war;
been all alone; all alone, have had to a large extent from the "car- THE MINISTRY OF SUPPLY collecting workers from unessen- for us. nivorous to the herbivorous which OUTPUT IN THE LAST THREE tial industries, we must produce. "The Invaplon season is at to guard the treasure of mankind. may be satisfactory to dietic MONTHS HAS BEEN ONE- more; but to reach a level in two hand. All the armed forces Although there may be pro- scientists, who would like to THIRD GREATER THAN IN years which was only reached fu have been warned to be at con- found and encouraging changes in make us all live on nuts, but it THE THREE MONTHS OF THE the fourth year of the last war, is cert pitch at September and the situation, our own final and has produced a definite effect on DUNKIRK PERIOD.
an achievement which deserves to retain the utmost. Although our Army, Navy something better than flouts and meanwhile, TO RECKON only discharge, them by continuing
Vigilance commanding responsibilities the output of heavy workers.
main, undiminished, and we shall "We want meat in mines and and Air Force are larger, the jeers. (Cheers),
"WE HAVE foundries, and more cheese. Ministry · have one-third more "WE ARE TOLD HOW BADLY WITH A GAMBLER'S DES- to pour out in the common cause Why should that gratify, Lord people working in factories and LABOUR IS BEHAVING FROM PERATION YET WE STAND the utmost endeavours of our Haw-Haw?
despite the dislocation of black: A NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO HERE, STILL THE CHAMPION. strength and virtue' and, if need "Will Lord Haw-Haw also bear outs dispersion and so on, each NEVER DID A DAY'S WORK IN "If we fail, all fall and it wo be, to proffer the last drop of our
(Loud cheers In mind, the statement of Mrman is turning out on the whole THEIR LIVES. (LAUGHTER fall, all fall together. It is only heart's blood." Hopkins the other day of the each day as much as he did in AND CHEERS).
by a superb, intense and prolong-Į Router.