THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 18, 1941.
CONFIDENCE IN PREMIER
Resolution At Liberal Nationalist Meeting Hore-Belisha
Captain
And Atlantic Lossius
Charter
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Captain J. Lossius is celebrating his 88th birth- day in Cheungchau to- day, our Cheungchau cor- respondent writes.
A RESOLUTION EXPRESSING COMPLETE CONFIDENCE IN THE PRESENT GOVERN- MENT, WELCOMING THE ATLANTIC CHAR- TER, RECORDING ADMIRATION FOR THE RUSSIAN DEFENCE AND APPROVING SPEEDY AID FOR THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE, WAS UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED AT THE ANsary of another kind, the NUAL CONFERENCE OF LIBERAL NATION- ALISTS HELD IN LONDON YESTERDAY.
It was nearly another anniver- fatal 18th day of September, 1908. when ja typhoon sprung up suddenly, of thousands caused the deaths and piled up the wrecks in the
the Captain's harbour,
among
them.
Cheungchau had a trying cx- perience in the long blow of Tues- day, residents being deprived of done to gardens and the island's
Two Cabinet Ministers, namely Lord Simon, Lord Chancellor, and Mr. Ernest Brown, Minister of Health, attended the con- ference together with two ex-Ministers, name-sleep while great damage ly, Mr. Leslie Hore-Belisha, former Minister of War, and Mr. Leslie Burgin, former Minis- ter for Transport.
Lord Teviot, moving the reso- lution, said: "Uppermost in our minds now is how we can best Minister, Mr. the Prime help Winston Churchill, and how we can best help those gallant men and women who have come from all parts of the Empire to tackle the frightful tragedy foisted upon the world by that super-Satan, Hitler."
the
The ex-War Minister Mr.
supporting Hore-Belisha, resolution, expressed, the hope that the Atlantic Charter sign- ed by Mr. Churchilt and Prosi- dent
be a Roosevelt. would
adoption
of
prelude to the common citizenships between Britain and America.
He added: "If we can replace the Declaration of Independence rby a Declaration of Infer-Inde-
pence we shall
trees.
Wats
Two mines exploded, but there are no reports of damage.
CONSIDERABLE
IN R.A.F.
DAMAGE
RAID ON BETHUNE
GERMAN .C.O. R.A.F. DIES OF PARIS SWOOP ON
BETHUNE
WOUNDS
A German N.C.O. who was grovely wounded by someone unknown on Tuesday night near the Paris Gare de l'Est died yes- terday morning, says the Vichy news agency quoted by Reuter.
Reprisal Raids
Demand
Two squadrons of Blen- heim bombers escorted by a strong formation of the fighters attacked power plant at Maxin- garbe, near Bethune, yes- terday afternoon.
IT WAS LEARNED IN LON- DON THAT BOMBS WERE SEEN
TO HIT THE TARGET
AND
FIRES WERE STARTED.
German fighters attempted prevent the attack but failed.
to
At least six German fighters are known to have been
des-
troyed.
and
One Blenheim bomber
seven British fighters were lost but one British
fighter
was later rescued
pilot from the
aca by the R.A.F. Sea Resque Service.
German aghters attempted
to
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THE FIRST AXIS AIR RAID} ON CAIRO, IN WHICH 39 CIVI LIANS WERE KILLED, HAS interfere with the rescue opera- RAISED THE QUESTION Oftion but were driven off by Bri- POSSIBLE BRITISH REPRISALS tish fighter patrols, one German AGAINST ROME, AS
BOTH, plane being shot down.
AB
the English Observers along CITIES ARE REGARDED
weather PRIZED RELICS OF ANTIQUITY. Channel state that the
with remarkably Britain, during the Greek war, was excellent warned of a possible reprisal clear visibility when the British French against Rome Athens were 'planes raced across to the French
coast. bombed.
if
The London newspapers yester- day demanded raids on Rome as reprisal for the attack on Cairo.
Sky Full Of 'Planes
Another big force swept across.
a
The London newspapers are shouting for retaliatory attacks the French coast last evening.
The sky was described as be- un Rome as the Egyptian Govern-
to Berlin anding full of Spitfires and Hurri- ment protested
great on canes, some flying at Rome
air raid against the
Other fighters, however, height. was Cairo.
One London paper demands: were only just above sea-level.
Shortly afterwards heavy ex- heard from the French coast.-Reuter.
VERY CONSIDERABLE damage caused when the R.A.F., as reported earlier, carried out a raid on the power plant at firmest foundation for permanent Mazingarbe, near Bethune, yesterday after-
peace in Reuter,
have laid the
the whole world."
V
A memorial service for the late Professor Hau Ti-shan, of Hong
local cultural organisations at the Confucian Hall on Sunday, at 3
p.m.
noon.
The Air Ministry news service says the Kong University. will be held by plant is an important one, having batteries of coke ovens and plant for the production of synthetic ammonia, synthetic petrol, alcohol, benzol, methanol and ether, together with a thermic power station. The attack was delivered in t two parts in quick succession to each other. The first wave of Blenhelms had hardly delivered! their bombs before the second wave was ready.
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Continuous explosions appear- ed to come from over the entire works -one explosion every few seconds.
One large fire was seen to take hold in the centre of the works,
where bombs exploded on a large
container.
NEW NAZI SPURT SLACKENS
"Smash the heart of Fascism. No
International plosions were sentimentality." News Service.
CHIANG KAI-SHEK ON RECOVERY OF MANCHURIA
STRESSING THAT recovery of the North- Eastern Provinces is one of the goals of China's war against Japan, Generalissmo Chiang Kai-shek re- affirmed the Government's determination to con- tinue the war, regardless of sacrifices, until the ter- ritorial integrity of the whole of China is restored, in a message commemorating the tenth anniversary of the Japanese invasion of Manchuria.
it should be known to all, said
Berlin reports that they
Not only China's independence, have pierced the outer defences of Leningrad are the Generalissimo, that the lives but also future stability in the All in Flames
reminiscent of the claim of Chinese inside the Great Wall Far East, said the Generalissimo, and the lives, of Chinese in the hinges on the settlement of the Describing this one pilot said: they made about Kiev two North-Eastern Provinces are one, Manchurian problem, because so and that territorial integrity for long as the North-East remains in Will "I saw what appeared to be gas months ago.
China Proper and territorial in Japanese hands so long
war continue, Cen- containers blow up. The top. What is really means, it is dit-tegrity for the North-East is in- China's
divisible, blew off and the sides, fell away. ficult to judge.
tral News. It was all in flames."
Leningrad's outer defences be "China," emphasised the Gener The efforts of German fighters gan at the Estonian frontier and alissimo, "shall permit no inch of to pierce
ierce the screen of British were penetrated long ago. There territory to be detached from her. fighters and stop the bombers fail- stretches from this point to Lenin-Survive, we survive, together; and ed, and the bombers observed grad, a dense and continuous de- die we die together." fires still spreading when they fence zone without any
The huge sacrifices China, has Reuter.
“lines” or “rings.”
undergone in the last ten years of The German claim, therefore, struggle, asserted the Generalis- may nican that no particular simo, have been made willingly changes have occurred in the because of one objective, namely Leningrad area.
the liberation and independence Several Indications
suggest of the Chinese nation and the that the new spurt of energy freedom of the people to live their which gained impetus last week own lives,
left,
LAMOTTE
PICQUET
RUMOUR
definite
MAMANTOFF
MURDER
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Tsang Sing-ou, arrested by the French police in Shanghaj, yester "go and was designed to capture Geographically and strategically, day, confessed he was a
last Leningrad "at all costs within added, the Generalissimo, the between" in the murder three or four days," has already North-East is an integral part of Sunday of Serge Momantoff, for- FORMALLY DENYING RE reached, its climax, and now shows China, He pointed out that the mer. Russian newsman,
Special North-East is the home of 30,000,- PORTS EMANATING FROM signs of " slackening CHUNGKING
INDO-Cable;
THE CHINA GOVERNMENT-GENER-
AL
ميس
Tsang told the police he
manto 000 fine Chinese people 240,000,000.ceived $300 to find a mow of farmland, ; 200,000,000 murder Mamantoff and was pro- mow of land that has not yet mised, an additional $2,000, if the YESTERDAY DECLARED
as facilities are been cultivated, G00,000,000 mow attempt was successful. THAT THE VDYAGE OF THE dry docking,
of forests, 8,000,000,000 tons of Meanwhile the police are hold- CRUISER LAMOTTE PICQUET lacking. in Indo-China,
ing numerous other Chinese Bus The Lamotto Picquet, major minerals...
connected TO JAPAN IS NOT CONNECT- ED. WITH THE FRANCO-French warship in, the Far East, In other words, these, Provinces peets belloyed, to be.
China's richest, storehouse, with the crime, as well as Eugenh JAPANESE AGREEMENT. played a decisive part in the are
tional News Service, The cruiser lett Saigon remain haval engagement of the indispensable to Chinh's Immense. Hovans, Russian actor Interna- cently for Osaka for repairs and Thai-Indo-China: war-Reuter," programme of reconstruction,