THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 24, 1941.
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REPEAL OF NEUTRALITY ACT
Crippling, Asserts Col.
Col. Knox
Battleship For
Atlantic Sweep
AFTER WATCHING THE HUGE "NEW “MASSACĦU- 35,000-TON BATTLESHIP SETTS” LAUNCHED BEFORE A THOUSAND CHEERING PEOPLE YESTERDAY MORNING, THE U.S. SECRETARY OF NAVY, COL. FRANK KNOX,-DECLARED THE NEUTRALITY ACT IS "CRIPPLING" THE EFFORTS COUNTRY AND SAID IT SHOULD (DE IMME- DIATELY REPEALED.
OF THE
"There should be no handicap on those trying to keep the war away from these "We must waste no shores," Col. Knox said.
time in repealing the Neutrality Act.
The
Massachusetts" was laun-
even
the
ched without incident and before her bow touched the water the keel for a new cruiser. U.S.S. Flint, was laid on the spot she had just vacated,
Sea Power
for
Declaring that if American security was to be maintained the United States must "rely years to come on the dominance of sea power," Col. Knox added
"It is essential that aid should be sent when and where it is need-
ed.
"Our task is to keep the fight.
Let us ing away from America. free the hands of our Com mander-in- Chief," (President
Roosevelt).
ARMING U.S. MERCHANT SHIPPING
President Roosevelt announced yesterday that the Administra- tion is studying the question of arming American merchant ships, says Reuter from Washington.
FINNS MEET WITH SHARP REVERSE
AT MAKESYACH
(By Reuter's Resident Correspondent in Moscow)
FOUR BATTALIONS of Finns have been forced out of fortified positions in the neigh -bourhood of Makesyach and a large number events on the Russian front "made killed, according to the Soviet army organ the prospects of Russian victoryRed Star" yesterday.
Col. Knox asserted that recent
dim."
He need not elaborate on
ualties in Russia were greater than in any other conflict in his¬
this The Finns had established themselves in statement except to say that cas- trenches and machine gun nests, put down field mines and made full use of the terrain, tory, and that the fighting in Rus-which is broken country with woods and marshes and stretches of poor soil, with large granite boulders.
sia "has a direct bearing on our own situation."
For Atlantic “Duty
Col. Knox said it was possible the battleship just launched might have to "participate in another fight for human liberty."
between America and Britain Dard kept free;"
LITTLE OLD
WOMAN- AGED 13
After lengthy scouting of the enemy positions the Soviet troops madea feint attack in front. while the main force attacked from the flank and ejected the Finns from a series of positions.
THIRD OF GERMAN ARMY CLAIMED HORS-DE-COMBAT
SPEAKING IN LONDON yesterday »the Soviet Ambassador, M. "Ivan -Maisky, "said that at a moderate estimate German losses in ́the east were some 3,000,000 killed, wound- ed and missing, and in three months the num- ber of planes destroyed was something like 8,500. About one-third of the entire German ormy was now hors-de-comböt.
Russia was not fighting for herself alone but for the security and freedom of other, nations, declared M. Maisky, adding "The fate of humanity for many generations to come is being decided ground Leningrad and in the Ukraine.”
There was no doubt that t ler's original plan had been up4 set and the blitzkrieg had failed niserably. German losses were colossal and the figures issued, by the German Command a few days t ago could be considered utterly ridiculous.
M. Maisky gave the Russion'
POLES PAY OFF OLD SCORES
“Wszystkie Pojazdy estimate of German losses but Wlewo. All vehicles turn added nevertheless hard facts to the left." This notice proved the German war machine stands beside a traffic was still strong and Russia was roundabout at the en- facing immensely difficult trance to an R.A.F. Bomb- situation.
er Station. The first three Too much reliance should not words are not a night- be placed on such uncertainties mare anagram; they are -08 "General-Winter” and “Gen. Polish.
an
eral Mud."
Polish
their
For twelve months the With the modern technique of pilots at this station have been war these factors-had, been con-repaying the Germans, in siderably minimised and by now own coin for what they did to perhaps "General Winter" had Poland. been reduced to Colonel and fearless.
General Mud" to Major or Lieu- tenant.
Their steady bombing has been consistently deadly and Most Polish airmen are pretty fluent in English by now but the chan- Polish..notices lessen the ces of mistakes, besides making the Poles, feel more at home. It is only the visitor who gets a momentary feeling that he
Very from Britain.: The war on the eastern *front strayed would not be at a standstill 'soon, as he goes about: the Station, either in the autumn or winter he realises that to those who live and the Soviet people did not and work there, this is a bit of
No Standstill
has
"The "Red:Star” also' dediøres that two regiments of the 102nd German Infantry Division have been defeated, two battalions being completely smashed, in fighting near a place described base their views on such a doubt-Poland. He sees in the far cor-
by the initial "," on the north-
He declared that the "Massa- chusetts" and other ships re- cently launched or building would carry the heaviest guns
Clasping her hands in afloat and would participate in
western sector of the front. the job handed over to the Navy front of her, 13-year-old
had' seized. which the enemy. Hot seeing that the sealanes Betty stood in Swansea The Soviet troops, says the Juvenile Court and list-newspaper, advanced under artil-
lery
cover and engaged the ened to the justices dis-enemy with bayonets. The en- Repeal of the Neutrality Act was also advocated yesterday by Cuss a future in which gagement developed into a larger battle, resulting in the throwing Mr. John Green, President of the she is to have a new home back of two German regiments. Industrial Union of Marine Ship building Workers of America. and "parents" who will give her love and chap- piness.
No Turning Back
She was charged with stealing
1
ful
calculation.p
ner of a hangar a knot of fitters
air-: and riggers busy about an Russia too had suffered heavy craft. Only when he hears them losses. The enemy had occu-talking does he discover they are piedt important industrial dis not as British as their blue over- triots and the Russians had falls. They are part of the Polish been obliged to evacuate a ground-staff, which forms a large number of factories and plants part of the personnel. and some time must elapse beTheGroup Captain command- fore they could start again, on ing the Station is British; his air- new gitea.
crews and maintenance crews) are Bentirely Polish. That made it more difficult for Russia to replace losses in The Poles are first-rate crafts- when he cannot get the food and material and it was at this junc-men. "Not long ago a certain part ture that the other freedom loving was required for an aircraft. To tobacco he needs.
nations must step into the breach obtain the part from the factory
Reuter.
Speaking at the Union's Na-ja £1 note from a neighbour's "I cannot a
tional Convention at Atlantic City.
he said: We support! President-home. Roosevelt's foreign policy,
much food for half a grown, but I make a list tp show him how the money is Right To Expect Betty had told a big policeman, spent."
I have been **Fortwo months "We agree with "hls - pro-keeping house for my father, bro-Betty, who was described by nouncements. We agree with the ther and two sisters. One of them the justices clerk as n "little old eight=point "programme Preat is "paralysed. dent Roosevelt and Mr. Chur-10 chill gave the world, and we agree. With his autions to "Im- plement these pronouncements, and we say there is no turning Tback.
If the Neutrality Act Is In the way lot it be wiped of the Statute Books," Reuter,
2s. 6d. For Food
"I got up at 5:30.every@morn- ing to get my father food, "He gives me half a crown now and again during the week to get food for the family and complains
would entail delay. On the other hand, the part.could only be made with a special tool; and there was no such tool on the Station. The Poles have something of the The Soviet people," he declar-impatience of the amateur carpen- ed, "have the right to expect that ter with shop bought woodwork woman of 13," said her father cooperation, as they are fighting and they were determined that
men, women and no time should be lost, So, hav threw her out into the road one heroically night and she was given a bed by even children not only for ing gained oficial approval, they themselves but for the freedom made the tool first and then they neighbours,
und security of other countries.made the partie
Polish bomber crews have but Betty was accompanied in court those other countries can- one idea-to drop bombs on
"All by two women neighbours, who kissed her when the justices ad- not but realise that in sending Germany, Rollshaground-staff aeroplanes and tanks to the Soviet have one idea to see that the air-, fourned the case for a week.
ald to themselvcs" Reuter, the crews. arranged for her to go to a shot Union they are in fact rendering craft are fit and tor for girls,
-to-carry