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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER, 16, 1941..
Library, Supreme Court
"TO CAPTURE OR TO DESTROY"
American Orders To
Answer To ARRIVES
Hitler
BEGINNING FROM TO-MORROW, THE UNITED STATES NAVY WILL PROTECT ALL LEASE AND LEND CARGOES TRAVERSING THE SEA "BETWEEN THE AMERICAN CON- TINENT AND THE WATER ADJACENT TO ICELAND," SAID THE UNITED STATES NAVY SECRETARY, COLONEL FRANK KNOX, ADDRESSING THE AMERICAN LEGION CON- (WISCONSIN) VENTION AT MILWAUKEE YESTERDAY.
Colonel Knox described the Atlantic Fleet orders in unequivocal language "to capture or destroy" every Axis surface or sub-surface raider that is encountered.
"This is our answer to every Hitler's declaration that
world."
civilised nation
in the
Colonel Knox avoided using the
he will try to sink every word "convoy" saging that begin- ship encountcred on the ning from to-morrow the Ameri- routes leading from the,can Navy "will provide protection as adequate as we can make it for United States to British ships of every flag carrying Lease
Colonel Knox and Lend aid supplies."--Reuter. ports," added.
Colonel Knox's announcement came near the end of his ud- dress, in which he declared that since the United States' occupa-
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WHITEHALL
tion of Iceland on July 7, "filter MAY LOSE
and the Nazis have been palpably losing the Battle of the Atlantic" and were therefore forced to at- tempt to break down the bridge of ships carrying supplies to Bri- tain,
ARCHIVES
U.S. Navy
HARRIMAN EVERY TANK FOR IN LONDON A WEEK TO GO
WHEN MR, AVERELL HARRI- MAN, HEAD OF THE UNITED STATES MISSION TO MOSCOW, ARRIVED IN LONDON BY AIR LAST NIGHT, HE WAS GREET- ED AT THE AERODROME BY THE FOREIGN SECRETARY, MR. ANTHONY EDEN.
TO RUSSIA
EVERY TANK AND tank part made in
The Minister of Supply. Lord Britain in the next week is to be sent straight
Braverbrook, the Under-Secretary
from Air, Captain S. F. Balfour, to the front lines defending Leningrad, Kiev
The American Ambassador, Mr. J.
G. Winant, the Russian Ambassa- and Odessa.
dor. M. Maisky, and the Russian
| Ambassador to Washington, M.] This token of Britain's all-out aid for the
Qumunsky, together with many
ther prominent persons, were also Soviet Union is announced by Lord Beaver- brook, Minister of Supply, in a telegram to all Mr. Harriman was accompanied tank factory workers.
present.
by three members of the United States Mission, Admial W. H. Standley. Major-General James His message runs: "The call is of for the utmost. From now on Burns, and Mr. William Ball, the United States Office of Pro-tank factories in duction Management.--Reuter.
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STRIKE TIES UP SHIPPING
this country ›
must supply not only the armies of Britain but the needs of Rus- slu, whose soldiers to-day fight in the same shining cause.
"FROM SEPTEMBER
MONDAY NEXT, 22, THEREFORE,
AND FOR A SPACE OF SEL VEN DAYS
ODESSA.
THE WORK OF
SAVED HIS FLOCK
Medal Awarded?
To Shepherd:
YOUR HANDS WILL BE SENT A shepherd's devotion · TO THE FRONT LINES DEFEND- to his flock is recognised ING LENINGRAD, KIEV AND in the award, announced!
in the London Gazette, of "There will be no delay. There the Briish Empire Medal NINE SHIPS ARE NOW TIED
will be more to come. But the UP IN NEW YORK AS A RE.
tanks you build the next weeks to Fred Mitchell, North SULT OF A STRIKE CALLED BY will go forthwith into action
to 1
Somerset. THE SEAFARERS INTERNA-play their part in the battle now. TIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA, WHICH BEGAN ON SATURDAY,
Efforts are being made to en-
Government courage
Depart- of the some
"If Hitler and the Nazis did ments to disgorge
In an interview on Monday. Mr. | not take swiftly successful mea- masses of papers which have John Hawk, National Secretary of sures to break down that bridge," accumulated in the cupboards of the Union. said that the strike said Colonel Knox, "the defeal Whitehall, The Paper Salvage would spread to many other ships of England and the primary pur- department of the Ministry of now at sea when they reached pose of war, would have become Supply has its eye on this poten-port. impossible. if they did muke tial pulp. such an all-out effort they would add the United States Navy their numerous foes.
Grim, Choice
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"It was a grim choice but the Nazi action in the past few days has left little room for doubt as
It is reckoned that tons of the urchives are of no value to any one but the Paper Controller. |Nevertheless, before they can be swept into his receptive hands a great deal of departmental tape has to be cut.
red
to what they will do. A Ger- First, the department concern-
an
mar submarine accosted
ed has to have extended to it, the American destroyer, carrying mail Rules for the Disposal of Value-
Order The less Documents. An to our outpost in Iceland. encounter came in broad daylight Council is necessary for this. and the American destroyer car- direction to this effect, for ried identification marks.
The strike been called to en- force the Union's demands for an| adequate war bonus" for its
members.
The demands affect all ships bound tor Axis or Allied ports, said Mr. Hawk in an interview on Saturday-Reuter.
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the
AIRSHIPS TO GUARD BOSTON
:
Ministry of Aircraft Production, was announced yesterday.
According To Rule
Once a department is on offi-
"Come then in the foundries Incendiary bombs had dropped and the forges of Britain, In on the farm and the lambing the engine works and the as- pens caught fire. Mitchell, who sembly lines to the task. and was alone, did all he could to duty of helping Russia repel extinguish; the outbreak, but it the savage Invaders who bring was too fierce for him. torture to, mankind."-Router.
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GOSSIP AFTER RAIDS
Bench Rebukes:
Barristers:
Although fires were spreading rapidly and high explosives were still falling in the vicinity, he entered the pens, snatched up the lambs one by one and carried them through the flames into the open fields. The ewes followed them and all the animals saved.
were
The George. Medal is awardedi to both Sister Elsie L Stevens, assistant matronat Bristol Mat ernity Hospital, and her collen- gue, Sister Violet E. A Framp➜ ton, who during a raid went thr Qugh a very dangerous area to Mr. E G. Hemmerde,scue seven people, including an expectant mother, who were K.C., the Recorder, de-trapped in a house. livered a stern rebuke to For driving amid high explo- "At short range, the submarine discharged three torpedoes aimed
gossipers, including mem-sives and incendiaries to evacuate at the American destroyer. The 'Greer' evaded them and prompt-
tage. Philip Davey, Miss B. Lever- Airships will guard Boston Har-bers of the Bar, at Liver- homeless people, Mr. M. A. Armi- ton, Miss R. G. Sandford, Joseph ly attacked the submarine with cial record as being subject to bour against submarines, Cap-pool Quarter Sessions.
Slipmas" and G. F. Wy Tindall, depth charges," Colonel Knox the rules, someone has to separ- tain Charles Rosendahl,. naval continued.
"The amount of foolish gossip members of the London Auxiliary the obviously unimportant dirigible expert, disclosed yester
been documents from those whose day in Boston (Massachusetts). I found on returning to Liver Anibulance Service have
British Empire Too Broad
ļutility ន doubtful. Then the
pool after the seven or eight days' awarded the.. doubtful papers have to be exam- Six "blimps" will be stationed blitz," he said, "has been so re- Medal.
the new dirigible base at markable that I feel it my duty The latest awards total, nine. Pointing out that the Navy Ined by the inspectorate officers at
to guard the to draw attention to it.
George Medals; one O.B.E., and Department immediately publish- appointed by the Master of the south Weymouth
approaches to the Harbour.
36 Medals of the British Empire.. ed all information about this in-Rolls.
"Several of us in Manchester eldent while the German Governe
Interviewed, Captain Rosendahl were horrifled at the description ment countered by saying that
said that 48 non-rigid blimps of what, had been happening in the "Greer fired the first shot,
have been authorised and that Liverpool. One member of the Colonel Knox said: "The, whole issue is far too broad to make
priated. Reuter
the town hall a mass of rubble. I the question who fired the first shot of great importance," but,
found that: to be completely false. he added, he wanted to refer to;|
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it because · "it offered chance to that curious ganisation, "The America. First Committee' to tell
the
ate
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HE SEWS
money for 27 had been appro- Bar told me he himself had seen DR: GRADY
IN INDIA
Dr. Henry Grady, Pre- American public that in its judge sident Roosevelt's special
ment it was more likely that the economic investigator in German U-Boat, Commander was telling the truth, than the Ame can naval officer who comma the
Important, Fact
"This is an important fact for
the Far East, is expected
INDIAN LABOUR RESOLUTION
The Executive Committee of
But A Lie!!
"Nothing B
"Then when I returned to the Temple, in London, another mem- ber of the Bar told me that the
FOR BUSY WIVES
town-had been for some time un- Rumplestilzkin Up-to-Date in man. He goes der martial law and things were a middle-aged desperate. That was nothing but round Leeds from door to door
lie,
asking if the housewise has any- to arrive in Simla to-day the All-India Trades. "Union -
thing which needs repairing, For It is understood that one of the Council, claiming to represent "I have made my own inquir a copper or two he will mend main objects of his visit will be lo over 150,000 workers, passed a ics, and have found the univer tears and rips, put in patches and. discuss with the Indian Govern resolution in Bombay yesterday sal, opinion that the people of this even "run up a simple frock or ment the possibility of increasing welcoming the move of the Bri- town, under the most terrible overall, the American public to digest that supplies of certain Indian minerals tish Trades Union Congress to conditions, have bobaved most. But, like the fairy tale Rum
pelstilzkin, he will not tell any- up a joint Anglo-Soviet admirably. we have in our midst an organisa-to China.
one who he is, or whore he lives.. tion of American citizens who on Dr. Grady has already visited Trades Union Council to inten- the question of verücity had de Singapore, the Philippines and sify the anti-Fascist struggle and "I believe that to be beyond "He is a very quiet and kind- clored publicly that they prefer the Dutch East Indies, to study safeguard the interests of the dispute, and I think it is intoler ly sort of man, well dressed and red to accept the word of a pira- possible co-ordination of produc-workers and condemning the at-able that people, whom Mr. As polite," a housewife told the re-
All-India Trade quith described as the old wo-porter.. tical murderer of women and chil- tion and supplies of raw mator- titude of the dren on the bigh seas engaged in ials, by the democratle powers of Union Congress in the matter mon of both sexes, should go "He did some really beautiful
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about chattering in this way. [work for mo, the type of warfare denounced by the Far East-Reuter,
set
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