AUSTRALIA
THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 5, 1941.
PREPARED
STOP PRESS
Japan Encroachment And Infiltration
Sydney Speech By Minister Of War
HEAVY RAID
ON SUEZ
CANAL ZONE
"Air
were
An official com- munique issued in Cairo states: roid alarms sounded last (Sun- day) evening by the Governorates ond several provinces of Egypt. Bombs were dropped in the Suez Canal area, causing the death of seventeen people and injuring 58. Slight damage was done to property." -British Wireless.
UNSUBTLE PIECE OF PROPAGANDA
MR. P. C. SPENDER, Australian Minister for War, in a speech in Sydney yesterday, said that Australia was looking at the rising ten- sion in the Far East with calm but determined
eyes.
"Our most earnest endeavour is to pre- serve peace in the Pacific, but we are not pre- pared to give up, at the gunpoint, the inter- ests and imperial possessions which is our joint responsibility to guard, nor see them whittled away by stealthy encroachment and infiltration.
"Indo-China, Malaya and Thai- and are as close neighbours to Australia as to Japan,
"We look with misgiving on the arrival of Japanese forces in Indo-China.
even
"indications are not lacking that Japan intends going further. The talk by Japan of protection is only a cynical oretext for unblushing aggres-
sion.
"Australia, if necessary, will
Asserting that the evacuation give ringing proof that she means
cow, has begun, the "Frankfurter abroad will be substantially Zeitung" says that the Russians creased. have profited from the
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CORDELL HULL BACK AT WORK
"WITH UNITY OF PURPOSE AND A MAXIMUM EFFORT. THE REMAINING FREE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD WIEL WIN AND THE FORCES OF EVIL WILL BE LIBERATED,” SAID THE SECRETARY OF STATE, MR, CORDELL HULL. ADDRESSING HIS FIRST PRESS CONFERENCE YESTERDAY AFTER AN ABSENCE FROM DUTY- OF NEARLY TWO MONTHS.
Mr. Hull called for ever-increas- ing military preparations for de- fence "whenever and wherever such defence can be most effec- tive."
He added that in full effort and a mountain of production "suc-. cessful resistance to the present. world movement of invasion and destruction can be made and, in my judgment, will be made."-- Reuter,
COURTESY CALL
Lord Gort, Governor and Com- mander-in-Chief of Gibraltar, yesterday paid a courtesy visit to General Barron at Algeciras, who was recently appointed to com mand in the aron continguous to Gibraltar. Reuter.
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