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Mrs. E. G. Pether. of Malden- IT IS DOUBTFUL whether the 'peace mission" to head. Berkshire, England. CHADDERTON-KELLY-On Feb- Europe undertaken by Mr. ruary 5. 1940, at the British Con- Sumner Welles, the American sulate, Shanghai. Jack, youngest Under-Secretary of State, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Chadder- with the blessing of President ton of Blackpool, England (for- Roosevelt will have any peace- to Norah ful result. For one, the mo- merly of Shanghai) Vermulen, youngest daughter of
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beloved daughter of Mrs. Carmen, THAT THE MISSION Will not bring peace does not mean, however, that it will necessarily fall in its real aims. It is obviously the present tendency of the United States to make its weight as a great Power felt not at the end of the conflict, as in the last war, but at its very outset.. Both in Europe and in the Far East the time-honoured policy of neutrality and non-entangle- ment which has become tradi- tional in Washington and was adhered to in the months and years that preceded Septem-. ber 1939. is rapidly being dis- placed by something very different-a shrewd use of America's great weight to shift the balance of power in the direction her rulers desire.
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1940.
ROOSEVELT'S ROOSEVELT'S PEACE MOVE
APPROVAL IN EUROPE:
ONLY EXCEPTION
Tight - Lipped Reserve Maintained In Berlin
LONDON, Feb. 12 (Reuter) President Roosevelt's peace moves have now been approved by Britain, France and Italy, as well as by neutrals. Only in Germany there has been no official comment.
In Amsterdam, the newspaper Hetvolk says that Britain and France cannot renounce their demands on Germany. If these demands were to be renounced," says the journal, we would surely have to fear for the future of civilisation, but there will be no pressure in this direction from the United States.
On the contrary, the dis- armament and economic stipulations which President Roosevelt suggested to neu- trals would have no point if it is expected that the great powers will cling to autarchy and the arms' race.
Several neutral papers com- ment on the fact that the United States Under-Secre- tary of State is not to visit Russia or Finland.
DIFFICULT PROBLEM
FOR THE NAZIS. AMSTERDAM, Fèb. 12 (Havas)— Mr. Sumner Welles impending voit to Berlin is placing before the Nazi chiefs the difficult problem of co-ordinating their external and internal policies..
Corres-
Dutch newspapers pondents in Berlin stress that, while in public speeches Ger- man leaders assert their deter- mination to fight as long as
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necessary, more discreet propaganda was carried out throughout » the country through the National Socialist Party giving the people the hope of an advantageous peace in the possible nearest future. Mr. Welles visit will compel the Nazis to recognise the falsity of one of the aspects of propaganda.
UNDER THE CIRCUM-
ITALIAN. VIEW. - STANCES, it may not be far
"ROME, Feb, 12 (Hatas)-Despite amiss to regard the Welles polite feelings expressed in offi- mission as a first step along cial quarters, the announcement the same road that President of Mr. Sumner Welles, trip to
"Signor Mussolini's friends consider the White House de- finitely anti-Fascist and Italy benefit cannot expect any from the more or less direct American participation In European affairs.
Wilson, travelled in 1914-17, Europe was greeted here not only the road leading to direct with scepticism, but also defiance. involvement in the European war on the side of the Allies, Whether it will be the same war that is now being waged, or a new one growing out of the hostilities in Finland, that is undoubtedly the tendency. The choice of Mr. Sumner
The same lack of sympathy Welles, arch-conservative and meets the American efforts, to durable international advocate of aggressive United create States domination over Latin economic structure, as Rome does not intend to abandon attempts as its chief America.
to autarcy and opposes the prin- ponent is significant because ciples of economic and financial his present trip, like his pre-berty. vious career in the Caribbean, is aimed at establishing his country as leader and arbiter over the affairs of other nations.
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BOTH MR. WELLES PRE-
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M. Tanner, Foreign Minister in Finland.
NAZI REACTIONS AMSTERDAM, Feb. 12 (Reuter,
--The German press has not yet
mentioned the impending visit of Mr. Sumner Welles. The only mention to it has been the briei
NAZIS
CONSTITUTIONALISM
EXPLAINED.
Main Goal Of The Central Party Hqrs. In China
CHUNGKING, Feb. 12 (Central) -The Central Party Headquarters has circularised all Kuomintang members on a number of questions concerning the National People's Congress scheduled for Nov, 12 this year and the enforce- ment of constitutionalism for the nation.
The circular points out that with the exception of those who as the enforcement of Con-have joined the bogus regimes, stitutional Government is the shall be duly recognized, main goal of the Party, all RIGHTS & POWERS: members as well as the entire nation should devote their effort faithfully and loyally to this end.
The circular points out. that the of the forthcoming function People's Congress will be the adop- tion of the nation's constitution Party members are forbidden to and the fixing of a date for its Issue any utterances opposing or enforceniens, but that the Congress. misconstructing the true ideals of shall wait for a future date for constitutionalism. POLITICAL PROGRESS:
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the exercising of the rights and powers given it by the constitution. The validity of the draft con- The point, that political tutelage sdtution, as promulgated by the by the Kuomintang and a Con- National Government, is uphela. stitutional Government may be the circular pointing out that it enforced at the same time, as was duly drafted by the nation's mentioned by Generalisslino Chlang legal experts under the direction Kai-shek in his address to the lot the Legislative Yuan, carefully People's Political Counell last Sep-studied by the C.E.C. and released tember, was reiterated. This is in for the "comments of the entire o der to meet the needs of the people. time and to hasten political pro- All members of the Party may, gress of the nation.
however, voice their opinions on Referring to the National People's the draft constitution within a Congress, the circular states that specified period through the Cen- all representatives elected in actral Party Headquarters, to be re- cordance with election regulations ferred to the National People's promulgated by the Government, Congress for discussion.
and colourless statement in the A SOLDIER'S PRAYER: 1940
official News Agency's foreign ser- vice.
The first reaction, "neutral correspondents reported from Berlin, was more favourable than might be expected, but this was quickly followed by a retreat into tight-lipped re- ..serve and it appeared as if the Nazis had been betrayed into welcoming the possible chance of peace more warmly than they cared to show.
SIGN OF WEAKNESS Neutral observers in Berlin have the impression that the Nazis are anxious to avoid showing prema- ture enthusiasm, lest it should be interpreted as a sign of weakness, and, judging from outward ap- pearance, Mr. Sumner Welles is likely to have a very polite, but by no means effusive, reception in
Germany.
BY
WILLIAM J. MITCHEL JR.
Foreword: The paper is the author's conception of a soldier's prayer
in a universal sense. It is not the prayer of an English, a German, a Polish, or a Chinese soldier in particular. Nor is it the prayer of a Catholic, a Jew, a Mohammedan, or a Protestant. It is the prayer of millions of human soldiers today.
O God, why this wär?
"Do You show Your wrath because we men are sin- ners? If this is why, God, remember that when You creat- ed us, You made us weak. Or is it because our leaders. have forsaken You? But leaders are men: they have as sumed Your power as their own and are too human to ad- mit their grave mistake. Do You let us kill each other be- God, I do not un- cause this war is of our own making? derstand.
man die.
He.
happiness. He cried to You in-
"I am not a soldier of my "Today I saw own will. My generals tell me too was a soldier and a sinner country, my home, and those prehensible transition approached, that I fight to protect my But when that moment of incom- You have given me in love. he thought not of material suc SOLE AIM OF TRIP
They assure me that in fight-cess, Hie's pleasures, or worldly Special to the H.K. Daily Press
ing for these things, I fight for stead, and You took him.. LONDON, Feb. 12 (Havas)-Most You.
"Cod, give me the patience to of the papers believe that the sole
"And yet does not my enemy await death. Give me the courage aim of Mr. Sumner Welles' trip to believe that he too flights for these to face it. And above all, give me AN EXPLANATION
Europe was to gather information
same things and You? Have I the the assurance that You will not WASHINGTON, Feb, 12 (Havas) since President Roosevelt must right to take his life; has he the take my life from me in vain- President Roosevelt gave a full certainly be aware of the unbridge-right to take mine? O God, why that
some small part of this explanation yesterday to the Amable gap between the Allies and do we kill each other if we are strange world will be better be- bassadors of the Allied Powers German war alms. "
both waging a battle for You? Is cause I die. regarding Mr. Welles' trip. point-
Stressing that no special pre-it right and just that we deprive "And when You call me, God, parations ondon for Mr. Welles' each other of the thing that is take me quickly--in the passing of made in London
Yours to create or destroy? God, a second, unheralded. Do not let trip, The Times diplomatic corres- I do not know,
me linger for minutes or hours or Tam bewildered. This world days. O God, I almost want You Political circles here are of the pondent writes that restoration of
President's the freedom of the Czechs and seems to be founded on uncer- to take me now! the
"Forgive my anguish. I am. Poles is the primary condition for tainty. I doubt all in this moment
save that You, God, are the only human. Forgive my incomprehen- any mediation,
Truth. Until this moment I have sibility. You" alone can give me never known true prayer. Until the faith which supplants know- now I have never felt this true ledge. I only seek justification in: sense of communion with One I my soul for this terrible conflict. sometimes doubted to exist..
the out that the Alles must not anxiety this entertain any
VIOUS RECORD and the fact that his journey will in all probability presage a drastic subject. worsening of relations be- tween America and the Soviet opinion that make his emergence at this decision to send Mr. Wellen to time a matter of some tm- Europe was mainly motivated by portance to the war in the a desire to get an exact view of Far East as well as the war political conditions in Berlin, as in Europe. China's enemy is the Allies view point is perfectly clear, while contradictory In- Japan, a country. whose co-
formation is reaching the U.8. operation the West is likely to about Germany. seek if the trend towards an anti-Soviet campaign is in- tensified.
NAZI OFFER Influential German Political circles recently attempted to in- duce President Roosevelt to offer mediation and confidential en-
before the war, were nearly all retired officers, I have uttle doubt thas nearly all of them could have
Suviet Russia, 'of scryed not perhaps for nothing but at a salary sufficient to cover all the friendly Powers has helped China the most, while expenses and a little over"
Peers laughed uncomfortably, American pressure on her foe Voya while he went on:
also works more and more in Washington. her fayour. If Washington and Moscow were working, in
"Where I was employed there was a staff of 19, and I could have managed comfortably with eight, the Far East, on a common was supposed to be the sentor, but understanding with the single common object of halting Japan and assisting China to maintain hër nationhood,
nobody ever asked me how many I wanted or if the number I had was excessive.
"It would not have mattered so
much if the staff had been doing then the defeat of the Tokyo
came from
Berlin
*Although not complying with this suggestion, the Pre- sident wants a more accurate report from responsible Nazi
quarters.
The Washington" sorrespon- dent of the same paper is of the opinion that neither Frs- sident Roosevelt nor Mr. Cor- dell Hull bellere that the time i ripe for peace,
FRENCH PRESS VIEWS" Special to the HE. Daily Press PARIS, Feb. 12 (Havas)-Mr. Welles should not confine his trip to visiting the four main capitals of Europe but continue his journey to, to Vienna, Prague and Warsaw,
says the French press. p.
work of national importance. The militarists would be certain tion here so as to assure at
to put a stamp Not to be published' | Pacific assured. If the United this part of the world. Prac-
in a world-wide anti-Soviet would involve appeasement:
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"Perhaps it is the nearness of death that brings You so close to me. In a sense You are death..
STALIN DISPLEASED MOSCOW, Feb. 12 (Reuter)-M. Stalin is reported to be highly dis- The belief is also expressed that pleased by the United States "Peace the Welles mission is likely to Moves." The Kremlin is reported to weaken the isolationist tendencies] fear that if the "peace move" · is
"Why this war, O God?"
Plight Of Occupied Territory
of the United States through in-successful, it will enable the west- "A rise of 85 per cent in com- ern powers to concentrate in op-parison with 1938 average in index: position to Rusala..
creasing American interest in European affairs,
sort of thing we were doing was and true equilibrium in the least, temporary stability in Over 100,000 Tons Of Cargo on such pletures as Lady Astor States assumes the leadership tically, such an attempt Held Up In Saigon Owing
crusade, China's situation will of Japan: China's growing To Yunnan Rly.
playing with children."
Bombing
Hongkong estate valued at $12, become enormously com- hope of victory lies only in 600 was left by the late Mr. John plicated and her path of prolonged resistance and un- SHANGHAI, Feb 12 (Reuter) Oer 100,000 tons of cafro have Douglas Smart, who died at struggle longer.
remitting pursuit of the single been held up at Balgon since the destruction of the Yunnan Railway Ingleside, Crowborough, Surrey.
ANOTHER POSSIBILITY is alm of clearing her territory by Japanese aerial bombardment, according to a Chinese report, England, on August 23 last year. that the Powers will not let of the invaders. Her attitude In view of the interruption of railway traffe, shipments of ear An application by G. W. N Tin- the The Portake care of towards developments in the go from Shanghal to the South-West Provinces have been tempor
Ban, solicitor and lawful attorney,
for sealing certined copy of pro- itself while they fight to international arena is con- bate of the will and codich of reshape Europe but will at ditioned by this fact and this the deceased has been granted. tempt to regulate the situa- fact alone:
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arily suspended by local exporters
The Ministry of Communications has been appealed to by Chinese exporters to repair the line sa speedily as possible, the report adds,
of whosesale prices in Tientsin for the fourth week of December. was reported by the "Pelping" Chronicle."
The average index remained at: 326.45 for this period, which is an increase of 18.91 over the preced- ing month and 7.84 over the third week.
As the tendency to rise further speculators have been extremely, active, lately, expecially view of the fast approaching Lunar New Year. It is generally- anticipated that a sharp soaring- of commodity prices will be wit nessed in the next few weeks in consequence of these speculative activities on the part of profiteers: and, hoarders.