BRITAIN'S BLEAK WINTER
Another Secret Speech By Mr. Churchill
Mr. Churchill Arrives In Washington
WASHINGTON, FEB. 11. BUNDLED IN A HEAVY OVERCGAT AND PUPPING HIS LONG CIGAR. F2311 PRIME MINISTER WINSTON! CURCHILL ARRIVED HERE BY AIRPLANE SUNDAY AFTERNOON FOR A BRIEF
VISIT WITH PRESIDENT TRUMAN,
Mild Rebuke Of Pres. Roosevelt
LONDON, FEB. 11.
THE SHROUD WAS LIFTED FROM BRITAIN'S “BLEAK AND GRIM” WINTER OF 1940/41 BY THE FIRST PUBLICATION TO DAY OF ANOTHER SECRET SPEECH BY MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL, BRITAIN'S WARTIME PREMIER, TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS ON JUNE 25. 1941.
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London, Feb. 11.
A slim chance that Syria and Lebanon might withdraw their jat annoal to the United Nations Security Council for the evacun- tion of French and British troops from their terr
territory emerged to- day. was reliably repo
reported, an French and Levantine representa.
It
ENSA STAR THEATRE THE BRITISH (SYDNEY) CENTRE
PRESENTS
BY THE COURTESY OF ENSA
THE GREAT LEVANTE
IN
tives tried to Und a solution in "ABRACADABRA”
direct negotiations.
The Chief French delegate at the discussion which began on Friday Cunt Maurice Ostrorog, is reported to have told the chie delegate of Lebagon, Unmid Ber Frangle, that France intends to evneunte her troops
BOUN M punsible
Ostrorog vs said to have add- ed that France would only main- lain some 5,000 men in the Levant "to assure the afety of French schools and property". The small garrison would not threaten in- 1ernational peace and srcury."
Washington, Feb. 11, Various governmental and pri- yate American agencies are striv- Ing to bring heavily increased foreign trade when world cond tions permit. An official of thei international trade division of the Commerce Department said there MR. CHURCHILL WAS SPEAKING AT THE END OF
were plins for charling the way J YEIR IN WHIGH BRITAIN HAD LOST 4,600,000
for expanded exporiz
double pre-war figures. TONS OF SHIPPING IN THE BATTLE OF THE IT- The Chamber of Commerce of LINTIC AND, JEFRNING' AGAINST THE FUR. the United States aiding Ameri THER PUBLIGITION OF BRITAIN'S SHIPPING can trade grouper announced it Informe sources believe Mr.
LOSSES-WORTH $100,000 ₫ MONTH TO THE
was conducting a national foreign Churchill will discus the pro
survey. ENEMY INTELLIGENCE – HE MILDLY REBUKED jrated
loan. for $3,750,000,000
Government and private officinis Britain with the President
"OUR GREAT FRIEND PRESIDENT ROOSEVEL P. end the Pacific arena appear destined to play important parts may give Mr. Truman Arst-hand! Information on some of the war- The President had stated home! struggle of history have been won in the future. American business he
will-tower wresting men view China, the Philipines drawal of the Levant apucal to with the late figures about Britain's losses all by superior time conferences
The xin chance of the with- President Roosevelt and Marshal; sea. Mr. Churchill suld, "in the victory in the teeth of odds or Indonesia. Australin and
most tartling and alarming form" upon the narrowesst margin,” Mr. Far Eastern
other the Security Council appeared to Innds as possibly Mr. Churchill is expreted to Rod, this bad and a bad effect in Churchill called for a suurente ef- increasing markets for American be based on a possible compromise return to Miami to day to con.
"balancing countries in fort to keep Britain's lifeline in products while semling more of between the British, French and tinu i holiday relaxation. Spain, at Vichy, in Turkey and inļ tack.
their exports to the United States,
Levant States on the question of He brought hing to the House The Department of Commerce
British and French troops. The Japanese Ambassador hart the disastrous significance of Hit-aid it led to educate American inquired anxiously of Mr. Chur- Ave's mastery of the European business interests mere then ever chill about Roosevell statement const-"most of the high naval to "the importance of two-way "which he felt might be a factor and air experts would have said foreign commeres bouh for the in an atyrese decision by Japan, the problem of supplying Britala rued of the United States nad, which he hoped to aven."
would become insoluble and hope the world at large."Associated lesa" under these conditions, Press.
Stalin.
M, Churchill wo the siport by Beet Admirat Willam D, Leahy, reresenting President Truman, and by British Ambasador Lord Halifax and Lady Halifax.
He arrived in sub-freezing weather, Associated
galamn
Remarking that "all the great
Chungking Truce Agreement
CHUNGKING, FEB. 11,
CONCRETE MEASURES FOR THE RESTORATION OF RAILROAD COMMUNICATIONS ARE RELIABLY REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN REACHED AT MEET- INGS OF THE TRUCE COMMITTER. ALL THREE SIDES - AMERICAN, CHINESE NA-
TIONAL GOVERNMENT AND COMMUNIST - HAVE APPARENTLY AGREED NOT TO DISCLOSE WHAT THESE ARE BUT THERE IS GOOD REA- SON TO BELIEVE THAT THE COMMUNISTS HAVE BEEN CONCEDED A SHARE IN OPERA- TION OF THE RAILROADS, PARTICULARLY IN SECTIONS RUNNING THROUGH COMMUNIST HELD TERRITORY.
Pacific Union Proposal
The rosteration of railroad and other communications W3 pro- vided for in the truce agreement signed in Chungking on Jan. 10. Nationalist
have BGU Fees
since then charged that the Communists have been obstructing the resump tion of rail trafic by refusing to admit Nationalist engines
nalist engineers to the Communist controlled region,
In the discussions of the truce Dr. Mustafa Mesbabzadeh,, law, professor at Teheran University cons
committee on the subject
General Chil-chung བས་ and editor of The Teheran "Kai
substituted ("World"). proposed in a General Chang Chun as Govern han"
nil ment representative, General
Teheran, Feb. 11.
Pacific
statement the organisation of cores C. Marshall presided and Asiatic counties in Union which would guarantee
the General- Chou Enlai represented Sovereignty and independence of the Communists. individual countries and work for independence of others.
The Pacific and even the Euro- Dean war might have been pre-
COMMUNIST DEMANDS would
vented had there been such a pre- WILT organisation. Mesbahzadeh
said.
A.
Such a uniun might now pleur
toward future
Asintic syurity and raise the standards
of living, The union would con- for regularly to discuss and settle problems,
Mesbahzadeh also recommended as a first step toward the union an international areas and radio organisation for spreading free dom of news.--Associated Press.
INDIA'S STATUS IN AMERICA
Washington, Feb. 11. Congress was yesterday urged by the National Committee for India's freedom to pass the immi- gration bill adming 100 Indians to the United States yearly and making resident Indiana in the United States eligible for citizen- ship.
The
impasse on the question of
to
Nothing in the last war, "noll- ine we imagined in the interval, however alarming it seemed nij
time, was compagable to the dangers
gers and difficulties which now beset us.
Then Mr. Churchill added: "The inconquerable, the inexhaustible adaptiveness and ingenuity of the British
mind, the iron unyielding. unwerving tenacity of the Brj tish character, by which we live. by which alone we can be saved ani by which we shall certainly be and save the, world-these
-
ft
fully realised by
prouches, the use of
our
con-1
ships and the plany!
"
Meanwhile, it was learned that Ostrozor hous numentet to Syria, and Lebanon not to make the cur- Ten' Franco-British netations in Beirut more difficult by pres
U.N.O. Associated Press.
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Siam To Give Up Territory?
PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA, FEB. 1). FRANCE HAS PROMISED THE KINGDOM OF CAM- BODIA A SOLUTION "VERY SOON" TO SOUTH- EAST ASIA'S MAJOR POSTWAR BOUNDARY DIS PUTE-DISPOSITION OF THE CAMBODIAN PRO. VINCE CEDED TO SIAM UNDER JAPANESE PRES- SURE IN 1941.
ITALIAN ENVOY TO MOLY SEE
Foes
abroad are sometimes over- looked by
our friends al home. Mr. Churchill gave the House THE PLEDGE IPAS MADE BY ADMIRAL THIERRY his "most secret" directive, on an D'ARGENLIEU, FRENCH HIGH COMMISSIONER
attack he had ordered to
FOR INDO-CHINA, DURING A THREE-DAY OF defeat the attempt to strangle Bri- tain's food supplies and her
FICIAL VISIT TO KING NORODOM SIANHOUK. nection with the United States.
included arming
"The integrity of the Cam- merchant bodian Kingdom will be complete- ships. the operation
of long-raDKE ly reestablished." D'Argenlieu told aircraft In the western Ap- the King. He also presented a good will message from President of dam Felix Guuln which congratulated need tonnage rather than the Cantbodia on "a realm restored in; building of new vessels,
While the Germans were talking its integrity within the freely ac
cented French union." of armies of four and five millions, Mr. Churchill revealed the British Battambang
The disputed province
"the army strength at about half that Indo-China,
rice bowl of which to face "the,
Cambodia most frightful in ceded intact to Siam except for vason the world has ever seen."- Associated Press,
the ancient ruins of Angkor and the city of Siem Reap. France alo pressing Sie for restity. tion of Bassac, a small area on the and Laos, borders of Cambodia and Pak Lai, which was taken from LRON
Puppet Regime In Mongolia
Vation City, Feb. 11. Rope Pius yesterday received the Marchese the credentials of Pascuale Diana, career diplomat, is as Italian Ambassador to the
Holy See.
Diana is the first to hold the post since Court Galeazzo Ciano fled from Rome in 1943-A360- cinted Press.
D'Argonlieu gave no indication whether Sinn airendy has agreed to give up the disputed territories. Chungking, Feb. 11. In the unst, Siam's attitude has The "World Daily News" yes- been that the communications and six demanda terday alleged that after Japan's Siamere
provinces were fdr centuries befora presented by General Chen Yi Aurrender a puppet regime called France took them over. The Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the the "Eastern Mongolian Republic" Samese have said they wore will- Communist new Fourth Army, was established in eastern Inner ing to accent any decision of the were believed
have been the Munozila. principal reason for a visit
United Nations or any other in- to This regime. Chungking of Brigadier-General financed by a
was stated to be ternational body but have express Henry Byronde, Chief-of-Staff of and headed by a Mongolian gm- bilaterally with France.
"certain country" ed extreme reluctance to deal the Sino-American Executive duate of the Soviet Military
TRUST IN FRENCH Headquarters at Pelning.
Academy. Byroade returned to Peiping
French handling of the negotia- On Jan. 16, the "World Daily tions for Cambodia is in accord yesterday after having particions News" continued, ค "National with the January agreement which ed a discussions of the truce Assembly" was held and proclaim gave Cambodia internal autonomy committee
and also engaged in ed marate discussions with Chou Mondependence of eastern Inner but which left Cambodian foreign En-lai-Associated Press,
affairn
French The national Bag of the "Ro- public," the paper said, "is simi- diplomacy regarding our ethnical. in French trust hands. lar in design to that of a certain political and iuridical right to the country with B hammer and territories in which our people live," the King told the Associated Press in an interview.--Associated Press.
Paris Leftists Demonstrate
Paris, Feb. 1r. Demonstrations were held
first
sickle."
The Republic, it concluded, had an army consisting of 25,000 men. -Associated Press.
throughout France yesterday to Fresh French
Troops Arrive
was a
comenemorate the country's big united Leftist-labour action of Feb. 12, 1934, when. there general stoppage and country- wale manifestation in reply to rightist action six days earlier.
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Tokyo, Feb. 11. Scattered Japanese flags hung tiredly in the capital's chill alr The measure was passed Inat In Paris trade unions and The French Foreign Legion's as Japanese almost apathetically year by the House of Representa Loftit organisations paraded for famous ""Regiment of the March," commemorated "Kigensetouan- lives and is now in the bands of three bours with Socjalist and which fought across France and niversary of the Empire's found-
Communist leaders and groups Austria in the European War, ing. mixed together conspicuously be has arrived to ronforge French Observance of this holiday nor hind a banner reading unity of forces ip trouided Indo-China.. mally was one of the year's three We beg to inform H.M. Forces and the general public of Hong Kong that we shall be able to Action."
A Frosch spokesman announced big occasions permitted by Allied supply our H.B. Beer in limited quantities through the following distributing centres: Other bannore attacked the that at least one more regiment Headquarters. The Japanese were Spanish Government of General of Foreign Legionnaries e ex- allowed to
the Senate Immigration Com
mittoe.
The Indian Committee pointed
out that the Indian Legislative Assembly has indicated that un- Ioss the bill is approved the As
sembly might not extend privi- Franco, and called for freezing pooted In Indo-Onin 'In the near anniversary. "It me their 2006th
leges
to Americans In India.
Associated Press.
COPENHAGEN
STRIKE OVER
Copenhagen Fob, 11,
Business houses which normally
operated on. Bundays opened as
prices as well as wages.
An Indo-Chinese workers group.
vigorously applauded |spectators—Associated Press,
CHUNGKING RADIO
NETWORK SCHEME
by
future.-Associated Press.
Hint Of Changes In Manchuria
Chungking. Feb, 11,
The usual government spon Bored nationalist ralites and other demonstrations were absent. Government offices and private businesses closed for the day. Associated Press,"
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The strike was called in pro- Powerful stations, it was stated. This, it said, was decided be Blahop Ten told Nowumon that
their new positions on Feb 18 order to ensure subsequent supplies. commutation of the would-be built at these cities caurs of the slow progress: a Catholicism had grown in China
general strike.
vesterday to be
officials in Manchuria..
to their respective suppliers in
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