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EDITORIAL COMMENT
UNCERTAINTY ENDED · THE BATTLE to decide the issues between the forces of might and the claims and rights of humanity is on in deadly earnest. The period of uncertainty has ended and once again the battle-ground of twenty-five years ago will witness even a greater struggle to decide with whom victory shall lie. The murderous onslaught of the German hordes on Holland and Belgium is meeting a resistance which is unprecedented in history. The tactical surprise with which the Nazis hoped to confound the morale of the Allies and to undermine the resistance of the gallant Belgian and Dutch people has failed to achieve its purpose. The armies of liberty have once again loined hands to bring home to the brutal instigator of aggression the full penalty for his crimes.
THE WORLD awaits the result of the conflict with in- creasing confidence in the will of the Allied arms to prevail. The news already received shows that the methods which Herr Hitler used for his much-vaunted blitzkrieg are of no avail against the readiness with which the Allies and their staunch Belgian and Dutch comrades accepted his challenge. This will undoubtedly incense the Nazi maniac to further crimes of violence against the laws of civilisation. Much inocent blood will have to be shed to obtain the redress which the whole world desires and Sacrifices, how- ever terrible, will be cheerfully given with the determina- tion to bring the realisation of liberty and peace nearer to all those who so anxiously crave for these principles of existence. The battle is truly on and, with God on the side of right, the issue is no longer in doubt. MR. CHURCHILL, – PRIME MINISTER:
WITH CHARACTERISTIC dignity and calm the British public has made its decision on the important political question of who should lead the Empire in succession to Mr. Neville Chamberlain. In the midst of the graver issues involved in, the brutal invasion of the Low Countries by Nazi Germany, the political development in Britain gage the people the opportunity to express their opinion on the conduct of the war before the fighting was extended to the stage it has reached today of final operi conflict with Herr Hitler's minions.
AS ONE, the British public rallied and as one body they made their choice and Mr. Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty under Mr. Chamberlain, has taken over the reigns of Government. His ability as a war-time leader is recognised. The country looks on Mr. Churchill as the only man who can be compared with Mr. Lloyd George, the war-time Premier of twenty-five years ago, and, as such, he takes over his new office with the full confidence of the people. Mr. Chamberlain's services to his country will never be forgotten. He has the sympathy of every man and woman for his untiring efforts in the cause of peace and humanity. That he failed to achieve these was not "his fault His policy was not strong enough to counter Nazi brutality and he has given way to the need for more vigorous methods than those which he was prepared to. follow. And thus the heavy responsibility, of guiding the destinies of the nation has passed to new hands--and the peoples of Britain and her vast Empire are satisfied. ·
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT CONDEMNS INVASION Aggression Regarded As A Challenge To U.S.
PRIME
EDITORIAL
MINISTER
Japanese Reaction To Latest Nazi Move
TOKYO, May 11 (Beuter)-The reaction of the Japanese press
to the German invasion of the Low Countries may be generally summed up by quoting the Hochi Shimbun.
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The effects of the new German aggression, as far as 'Japan is concerned, says the paper, depend on the following points:
FIRSTLY. the atsitude which | anese Cabinet, Mr. Arita reported Britain, France and the United on, the European situation follow- States will take towards the Dutch Ing the Invasion of the Low East Indies"depending on the Countries and its possible effects attitude of the United States that on the Netherlands East Indies. there is danger of the war spread- ing to the Pacific"
SECONDLY, whether or not the United States will extend its hand to the Dutch East Indies: 50 the issue would become really serious;
THIRDLY, the possibility Brittain proposing joint control⠀
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of the Dutch East Indies by the Allies, the United States and (Japan: and
The Cabinet decided that the attention of the Powers concerned
HANDS IN HIS
» SUNDAY, MAY 12, 1940.
RESIGNATION
MR. CHURCHILL TO LEAD NEW GOVERNMENT Hitler Has Miscalculated Mind Of British People
LONDON, May 11 (Reuter)-An official" announcement trom No.: 10 Downing Street states that Mr. Neville Chamberlain has resigned office as Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury this even- ing and that Mr. Winston Churchill has accepted the King's invita- tion to fill the position.
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After Three Years 0}. Anxious Responsibility
The Prime Minister desires that all Ministers should remain at be drawn to Japan's deep concern their posts and discharge their functions with freedom and respon- over any development accompany-sibilities while the necessary arrangements for the formation of a ing the aggravatoth of the war new administration are made. in Europe which might affect the His Majesty the King received status quo of the Netherlands Mr. Neville Chamberlain in au- Churchill has expressed to me his "I should perhaps say that Mr. East Indies
dience at Buckingham Palace on strong desire that I should be a Friday shortly after 5 p.m. B.S.T. member of the War Cabinet and..
Mr. Churchill was received by I have told him that I will gladly tested already, and you and I the King five minutes after Mr.give him any assistance I can must rally behind our new leader. BASLE FOURTHLY, the necessity for BOMBS
Chamberlain left the Palace.
in that capacity.
and with united strength and an Allies to concentrate their į
"What had to be ascertained was BERNE May 11 Reuter)-A
"Now, as this is my last message unshakuble courage. fight and influence all the more in Europe number of bombs were dropped necessary to enable such a united Street, there are one or two things has sprung upon us out of his lair.
the conditions which would
be to you
from No. 10 Downing work, until this wild beast, thất Concerning the fourth point. near Delemont, which is some 20 Government to be formed, and to I should like to say to you! the Hochi Shimbun says that for miles south of Baale, during
be finally disarmed and OVET- this question I have devoted Thursday night. The Swiss
thrown." operation will become more dim-Federal Council's order" for gen-of my colleagues yesterday after- myself with the assistance of some cult and the "China Incident" eral mobilisation followed. will develop more advantageously
It is said that 17 boribs. were for Japan.
the
General Chiang Kai-shek the
the time has now
The Asahi Shimbun says that dropped on the rallway, damaging a section of the track Railway come when Japan should think more seriously communication, however, has not
been interrupted. about her non-nvolvement policy.
TOKYO, May 11 (Reuter)—At More "foreign planes" flew over an emergency session of the Jap-Basle yesterday morning.
noon,
.... RESIGNATION ACCEPTED
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HEAVY RESPONSIBILITIES "During the period, it is almost three years. that I have been By afternoon of today, it was Prime Minister. I have borne a ITALIAN PRESSTM apparent that the essential unity heavy load of aftery and re- could be secured under another sponsibility. As long as I belleved
COMMENTS Prime Minister, though not under there was a chance of preserving
ROME. May 11 (Reuter)-Lead- myself. In those circumstances my peace honourably, I strove equallying articles in the press develop. duty was plain."
hard, and waged with all my the argument that neutral coun- might.
tries were bound by force of "clr-. "Perhaps "I sought an audience of His that in my broadcast of Septem-feld.
you will remember cumstances to become the battle- Majesty the King this evening and ber 3, last. I told you we should Vatican organ, Osservatore R
In no paper outside the resignation which His Majesty has
be "fighting against evil things, mano, does one word of sympathy pleased to accept. His Majesty has to describe the vileness of those ers appear.
been. My words proved to be insufficient for the Belgians and Netherland- now entrusted to my friend and who have now staked everything colleague, Mr. Winston Churchill.
on the great battle which is just the task of forming 3
teginning. administration on a National basis, and in this task, no uquet. Tie, wil.
UNCERTAINTY ENDED be successful,
"Perhaps at least it will be some relief to know, that this battle, though it may last for days and even weeks. has ended a period of waiting” un- certainty.
CHINESE PRESS COMMENT ON tendered to him my THE EUROPEAN SITUATION
News" of, Germany's invasion of the Netherlands and Belgium Chinese were splashed with glaring headlines in practically all papers in Hongkong on Saturday, says Central News.
Most of the paper devoted their front pages to the startling news relegating Chinese news to places of secondary prominence, and played up in the local pages the communique Issued by the. Netherlands Consulate in Hongkong regarding Germany's invasion
of the Netherlands.
Editorials on Hitler's new move: in Europe were carried in the Tr Kung Pao, the Sing Tao Jih Pan, the Lh Pao, and several other papers.
invasion of the Low Coun- tries, the Netherlands Indies has been placed automatically in the same position as the British and French Colonies in the Far East' and their in- terests are indivisible. The paper believed that the United States will not remain In- the Far Eastern different to
view of the new-
The Ta Kung Pao said that the German invasion of the Nether- lands and Belgium has apparently two main objectives: to gain a the French Maginot Line and to situation :n passage for a flanking attack on snatch the Netherlands' and development in Europe. The US. Belgium air and naval bases for Government's order to its navy te an offensive against England. If remain indefinitely in the Pacific the German strategem should as a significant gesture.
teriallse, there is danger of "the contact between Aluea iurces-De- 'ng cut.
NOT TOO EASY
However, the paper observed.
AMERICA
WATCHED
The Sing Tao Jih Pao believed that as a result of the new de- velopment In Europe the Bri- tish "Cabinet crisis will be sestled
fear
presently.
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the invasion. of the Netherlands and Belgium will prove to be none that in view of the extension of
The paper expressed the
too easy for the Reich armed
the European
peace
long.
war
forces. Belgium has an army of southeast Europe may not last 600.000 strong and a quite, strong) navy and air force, she can, at; any moment. break any of her
the dams
*LS E strategic defensive move. The Netherlands has hinges less upon the Netherlands' standing army of
A strong but can
WASHINGTON, May 11 (Router)-President Roosevelt made a tremendous Impression on his audience last night with his refer- ence to the "shock and anger engendered by the invasion of the Low Countries.
The passage was loudly cheered as was also his assertion that aggression elsewhere presented a definite challenge to American civilisation.
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The Lin Pao said the future of Netherlands East Indies
involvement in the European war as upon the attitude of the Unit- ed States, It believed that Japan will not dare to make any dra- matic move in the Pacific before
KUNI 86.000 be increased to 600,000 at war time, and has a strong defence line. Moreover, the Allies are reported to have con-i sented to send troops to aid thet a careful study of the U.8. at-
invaded
countries, where the entry of their troops, will involve no such difficulty as was encour tered in Norway.
In fact, Germany's invasion of the Netherlands and Belgium
affords a good opportunity for the
The speech Is regarded as his ence or by compulsion, a wholly Allies w recover their lost prestige most challenging utterance since different principle of life? his Quarantine Speech. made in Chicago, in 1937. It is likely to ne regarded as a challenge by the ex-blem before us in the cold light remarked. treme isolationists.
of day, and especially to act with humanity and singleness of pur- pose..
in the Norwegian stage of the war Surely, he added. It is time for and regain the confidence of the pur Republies to spread that pro- small neutrals in them, the paper
SHOCKED AND ANGERED" WASHINGTON, May 11 (Reuter) -President Roosevelt, addressing the Pan-American Scientific Con- gress, said he was proud that the Americas were both "shocked and angered" by the news of the latest Invasion of neutrals.
UNITED
Turning to the Far Eastern situation, the paper said that as a result of the German
STATES
titude.
A Bomb For
L
A BombTM
PARIS, May 11 (Havas)-The Foreign Minister announces that the French Government, in the answer given to President Roose- velt on September 1, 1939, 25+ sured him the French air force. had been ordered to refrain from bombing civil populations and to Kimit bombings to military ob- jectives.
SPEEDS wishca publicly to proclaim
The French Governmen; now that
UP DEFENCE PLANS
Declaring "I am a pacifist and WASHINGTON, May 11 (Beater)-The latest war developments you, my fellow citizens of twenty-have produced strong indications that a quick acceleration of United one American Republics are pact States defence is likely. fists." President Roosevelt said the
With many Congressmen in the inforcement of United States de Americas had become the guardian mood to disregard expense, Con- fences as a result of the develop of western culture and the progress heard that President Roose- ment abroad. tector of Christian civilisation, velt is contamplating asking for
He added: "Those who seck,
immediate expansion of both the
to dominate hundreds of mil-Army and the Navy, and reviving
the War Department's commenda- tion for a reserve of arms and supplies.costing altogether $500,- 000,000 or more.
PARACHUTISTS DROPPED
LONDON May 11 (Reuter)
they reserve the right to resort to any action they consider ap- Propriate in the case of civilian populations being bombed by the Germans either in France or Bd tain or in countries assisted by France.
AND BRITAIN, TOO LONDON, May 11 (Reuter) The British Government Broclaims shey reserve, to themselves the lions of people in vast contin- ental areas are those who, If
right to take any action they' think appropriate in the event successful, in that aim, will, we must now admit, enlarge their
of bombing by the enemy of civil- The Dutch radio announced thatian populations, whether in the wild dream to encompass every. human being and every mily
German planes began dropping United Kingdom or France or in Added to the appropriations al parachute troops on ready made, or pending: this would province of Zeeland, on the west Kingdom.
the island countries assisted by the United of the earth's surface." ~ That seemed to him the most raise the total defence outlay ur coast on Friday night. Later an immediate issue that the Americas the fiscal year beginning July 1, Air Force Station bulletin an- in similar terms to the French
to nearly $2.267,000,000.
faced. Could they continue their
peaceful reconstrucun if all other continents embraced, by prefer-
new
"For this purpose my other colleagues in the Government bave intimated to me that thes will place their resignations in Mr. Churchill's hands. but they will of course retain their pre- sent offices, pending the, ap- pointment of a new Govern- ment,
"SCARES" ARE DEPRECATED
MELBOURNE May 11 (Reuter? -Mr. R. G. Menzies stated 'that he deprecated the scares about the East Indies in relation to Aus-· tralia" adding that "all relative "For the hour has come when powers: indicate they propose to we are able to be put to the test, preserve the status quo, and there as the innocent people of Rolland, was no weightly reasons why we Belgium and France are being should accept their statement.
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There was a chorus of demands the House for an immediate re
A communique to this effect.;
nounced that parachutists were statement Issued earlier in the being dropped 1 southern afternoon, was issued by the For- Holland, near the Belgian fron; eign Office last evening.
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