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GERMAN AGGRESSION. ON DENMARK AND NORWAY
ON TUESDAY LAST AT 6 P.M. THE LOCAL BROADCASTING STATION ZEK, BROADCAST. A PAPER IN CHINESE-BY-THE EMINENT CHINESE SCHOLAR DK, S. 1. HSIUNG, AUTHOR ""LADY PRECIOUS STREAM."
On
HITLER'S REASON"
OF
..
Dr. Hsiung is one of the best known modern Chinese writers and has translated quite a number of well-known works into Chinese.
He quoted Benjamin Franklin in | the world, would have an easy tar-
But his paper on "Hitler's "blitzkrieg" | get. as we have already seen.
Denmark and Norway." The we shall see how things develop. famous philosopher's
The invasion of Denmark was. autobio-
It "graphy was rendered into Chinese made without even an excuse,
by Dr. Hstang some 20 years ago is obvious that Germany has taken to form part of "The Complete Denmark 30 g to get at the food supplies. Denmark Library," published by the Com- Danish
has been
of mercial Press.
an exporter Kreat quantities of bacon, butter, eggs, Dr. Hsiung said, in part:-Herr cheese, condensed milk and other Hitler must thank his stars for tinned foods. By her trade pact. being a "reasonable creature." He with Britain, which was conclud- can always invent a reason for all ed recently, Denmark was going to the unreasonable things he does. limit her supply of food to Ger- Now, after Norway has been main-many to a very small quantity. It taining her neutrality-and under was understood that Denmark"can-
sented to this arrangement be great difficulties, too--for more than seven months, he has Invas- cause she needed feeding stuffs ed that country without any rea- from abroad for her live stock. If son. Oh, no.
excuse me, I was she refused to comply with the ret
quirements of the Allies, she could wrong!
Herr Hitler has invented a rea- never get all this feeding, stuff on, as ne always does. He said through the intensified blockade. that he did this because the Allies Germany has occupled Denmark nad fald mines in Norwegian all right; Germany has control of Waters. He sent his army to Ner Danish food all right. But how way to protect Norwegian terri-can she get the feeding stuff for
the live stock? torial integrity! *This 'reason' sounded
all
right, but unfer-
STRATEGIC ERROR tunately the Norwegians did not However, Herr Hitler's occupa- want his "protection." Neither tion of Denmark and some parts did the Poles nor the Czechs want his "protection." He is so gener- ous that he forces his favours on
othersl
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LONDON. May 15 (Reuter)—Ap- pealing for men to join the local defence volunteers, Mr. Anthony Eden, Secretary of War, in a broadcast referred to the German practice of dropping parachute troops behind the main defence lines in Holland and Belgium, and said the danger to Britain from this particular menace, although it no doubt existed, should not be exaggerated.
They were confident the Gov- measures would be effective but in order to leave nothing to chance, and to get supplement from sources hitherto
of Norway has proved to be far from a mortal blow to the British people. They share the opinion of Mr. Charchill, who considers that Herr Hitler has committed a grave THE REAL REASON The real reason for Germany's strategic error in extending the Invasion of Norway was probably war so far and forcing the 8can- that she wanted to. have direct dinavian people out of their at- access to the Swedish iron ore, titude of neutrality. Now the Bri-ernment's most of which had to pass through tish Navy can take whatever they Norway. Since the blockade start-want from the Norwegian const, ed, nearly half of German's sources which will increase enormously
untapped, means of defence have the efficiency of the blockade. of supply of ore had been cut
Because of the German occupa-already been arranged and they The remaining half came chiefly
Gow wanted large numbers of men from Sweden by way of Norway. tion of Denmark, which has ren- The determination of the Allies to dered the latter country powerless between the ages of 17 and 65 to tighten the blockade and parti- to control her properties., the Bri- offer their services in the new
the
force. cularly to prevent Swedish iron tish Navy has taken over are from reaching Germany by Faroe Islands which belong to Norwegian territorial
polnt waters Denmark-a strategic
of made Herr Hitler take this des- great importance for the dura- war. These islands perate step. And then there will tion of the
be the difficult problem of sending are, about 200 miles to the North regular supplies to the German West of the Shetland Islands, and troops in occupation. These would would serve as an excellent base the have to go by sea, and the British for the Navy far out into Navy, which is the strongest in North.
POWER POLITICS IN S.E.
EUROPE.
war
to the Balkans and the
The European peace pipe, whose French Ambassador Andre coal had been kept fitfully slow- Francois-Poncet hurried home to ing for a month while Mr. Sum- Paris to confer with his Govern- ner Welles made his reportorial ment. Still the balance of power rounds, had never been cooler than in Europe seemed to be held by
Mussolini it was during Easter.
DREADED FUTURE On" Easter Sunday in Rome Pope Plus XII not only spoke mourn- moment fully of "this critical. when sorrowful things appear to the eyes of all." but foresaw "even more dreadful things for the future."
Action was wanted in Franice, and so the Daladier Cabinet fell Action was wanted in Britain, and the press put increasing pressure on Prime Minister Chamberlain to form a Ave-man War Cabinet. Activist Winston Churchill with as lord of land, sea and air forces
The Allies were apparently coming the conclusion that
a war of "mited liability" had become a liability,
1:
the next move were up to
them: which way?
While Berlin waited for Molotov. to appear (and Moscow denied he was going), Germany's Dr. Karl Clodius was in Bucharest pressing
for
oil-and *more Rumania reinforcing his arguments, with showings of hair-raising motion pictures of the German conquest of Poland.
FUNDS FOR RELIEF WORK CHUNGKING, May 15 (Reuter) With the approval of the Execu- the National Relief tive Yuan Commission "has appropriated $1,000,000 each to Kwangtung and Kwangsi as a rehabilitation-relief fund. Each of the two provinces has already received $300,000 R3 emergency relief fund from the Commission..
Mr. Sun Ya-fu. Secretary- General of the. Central Relief Fund Committee. 1s leaving Chungking for Kwellin by plane today to confer with the Kwang- tung and Kwangsi provincial au- thorities on rehabilitation mes- sures,
an
ů,
After the negotiations in Kwel- Un. Mr. Sun' will proceed to Human, Kiangsi. 'Anhwei, and Che- klang to inspect relief, centres.
ITALIAN BANK PREPARES
CAIRO, May 15 (Reuter)The
In the face of this pressure and of the danger that his civil inhabitants of the trontier country might be partitioned towns in the, Western Desert are among Russia, Germany and being evacuated where necessary. Hungary if he refused to play The Military Governor has order- ball, King Carol showed guts. ed the reservists of the army and He expelled a British Reuters navy, now on the retired list, to correspondent, who filed a story hold themselves in readiness for that Germany had delivered an
instant, recall, The reading Italian altimatum to Rumania announc- Bank In Alexandria has paid its ed that a Rumanian trade delega- | employees two months salary in tion would go to London this advance. Reinforcement of the month. Air-raid drills were in all feet in Alexandria by British and parts of the country. But the King French warships continues. Herr Hitler as he proved in his Wis nervous." He made a speech seizures of Austria. - Czecho-saying that he was anxious to Slovakia and Poland, has a great keep the peace-especially with
his near neighbours. knack of doing his grabbing where | the western powers cannot get
ALLIED MEASURES Hold of him. The Axis still protects Meanwhile, the Allied hig..Boutherff frontier, Russia h's Eastern Army of 800,000 eastern - frontier: The Westwall standing, by London made it guards his western frontier and clear that any aggression in the the fall of Finland has made him Balkans would be met with forge. safe from attack in the north, His this time whether the aggresee vulnerable quarter ix the asked for help or not. southeast...
HITLER'S KNACK
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Hitler obviously would like to cover up the Balkan ingress, and a possible way for him to do so is by persuading Italy to join Germany and Russia in
protective formlok horseshoe-around the Balkans, guaranteeing them against perhaps divvying war-and them up at leisure,"
RUMOURS FLY"
IF
Near
Dwas
In Eoston. French Ambassador
to the US. Count. Rene Doynet de Saint-Quentin was even more specific.
Said, he: If any other country is attacked by Russia we will move against the Soviet at once. In Europe's state, of mind last week, the question was not.when Germany would act, but whether Germany would have a chance to act
NEW GOVERNORS CONGRATULATED "CHUNGKING, May 15 (Central)
the meeting at first. Following Brennero, rumours flew through Berlin that Russia's 'Molotov would soon go there for a meeting Hugary's with Italy's Ciano. Premier Count Paul Teleki. Tushed to Rome to make sure that Hungary's claims on Rumania -Congratulatory were considered in any plan to pouring change the Balkan status quo,
messagea
WEATHER REPORT
fiongkong Royal Observatory.
10 am. May 15, Barometer Kat sea level), 29.80 iņa. Temperature, 83 F Humidity, 70 per cent Wind Direction, WSW Wind Force (Beaufort),.3. Temperature; maximum yesterday.
¿87. F'. Temperature: minimum last night,
79 F.
Rainfall for 24 hrs. ending 10th
today, nil;··
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Total rainfall since January 1st
23.96 ina Against an average of, 1548 ins. Sunset tonight, 8.56 p.m. Bunrise tomorrow, 5.43 a.m.
4 p.m... May 15. Barometer (at sea-level), 29.73 Ins. Temperature. 83 F.
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