HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
CABLE
CRAVING FOR EXPANSION BY GERMANS TRACED BACK TO THREE GENERATIONS
Eloquent Broadcast By
Sir Robert Vansittart
"
THE BUTCHER BIRD OF EUROPE
"We believe that we have the good wishes of all that By the Grace is best in the world and we accept them.
of God and for the salvation of men, we shall rescue the earth from Germany and Germany from herself.”
With these inspiring words, Sir Robert Vansittart, Chief Diplomatic Adviser to His Majesty's Government, concluded an eloquent broadcast talk from Daventry last night on the occasion of the anniversary of Britain's en- try into the war.
In the course of his ad-time plans were going on for the dress, Sir Robert, who has fifth war and when they thought had a. wide experience in the time was ripe, they started to blame the whole thing on the foreign affairs, explained why
Treaty of Versalles as-AN-EXO050- the Nazis had been able to for continuing their cruelty. "grasp power and precipitate
another European war.
Sir Robert, at the outset, liken- ed Germany to the Butcher-Bird-
cf Europe and traced the craving for expansion by the Germans to
The truth was that German militarism had never given un looking first towards expansion -in-Europe-and-then-towards-
world domination.
SIR ROBERT VANSĒKLANT
ROY HOWARD INTERVIEW
ÚS. WILL NOT ENTER WAR
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1940. -PAGE 7
ATTACK ON Early Morning Warning LE TOUQUET But Londoners Go To AERODROME
Work Just The Same
LONDON, Sept, 4 (Reuter)---The severity of last, night's R.A.F, raids on the advanced German-striking bases in Fas de Calais area, is Continued from Page 1 shown in an Air Ministry news ser- Norway. He left shortly before vice announcement which states the arrival of the British owing that the operation opened with a
attack by several bombers on Le Touquet aerodrome.
A second warning in Londen was High explosives fell on the land-sounded at noon when two forces ing ground, Later the aircraft of enemy planes crossed the south-
DON AS THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE were leaving the London termini LONDON, SEPT. 4 (REUTER)—— SIRENS WERE SOUNDED IN LON- on their way to work, but the warning made no difference to them. Londoners had a quiet night, undisturbed by the German nuisance raid. Buses ran as usual and a few people went to the public shelter this morning.
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to the fact that lack of com- munications hindered his work as correspondent to the New York' Times He was later in England maintained the attack and a pilot east coast and attempted to raid and in Gibraltar. He considers that Hongkong is very similar to Gibraltar,
40 NAZI BOMBERS ROUTED
saw six separate Ares on the aero-the aerodromes in Kent and Essex. drome.
They were heavily engaged by DIRECT HITS
ground defences and British In Singapore the party were
but Another squadron bombed. Sam. | fighters
1 few machines shown the defences of the island tomer aerodrome and scored direct managed to get through. A num- fortress and they were all veryhits on the landing ground, follow-ber of bombs were reported to much impressed by the thoroughed by explosions. The Marck aero- have been dropped but no serious During this morning's raids, 40 ness of preparations. The press-drome, at Calais, was attacked damage was caused. men also spoke of the stimulus the war had given to local indus- 12.15 p.m. and at 1 am and an- tries in Malaya such as tin opdat Guines, south-east of Calais.
other ralder bombed the air-feld
coal mining, rubber etc.
NIGHT ATTACKS
LONDON, "Bept. 4 (Reuter
German bombers, with fighter es- corts, which attempted to enter the Thames Estuary, were routed
There were several terrific duels German
...
WIS
Enemy attacks on this country and, driven back.. Further Inland, two raiders were during the night which were not PRESENTED TO.G. 0. C.
bombing
Abbeville aerodrome, on an extensive scale were mainly over marshes where a From Kal Tak the newspaper~~-
Lighter was brought down Its when a battery of heavy anti-directd to the north-west and men were taken in cars to Ko-aircraft guns opened fire. The air north-east of the Eristol Channel.
pilot baled out and
taken loon Pier and thence by motorcraft dropped a salvo of high ex- says a communique Issued by the
prisoner. " boat to Queen's Pler. There more plosives on the guns which imme- Air Ministry and Ministry of Home
BADLY DAMAGED · cars were waiting to take them diately ceased firing.
Security.
During a raid on a north-east to the Command Headquarters
In both these areas, the com-coast-town early this morning, a where they were presented to
munique adds, towns were attack-German bomber was badly dam- Major-Gen. Grasett,
ed by high explosive and incen-aged by heavy, gunfire and is bé- diary bombs Fires started were lieved to have crashed into the quickly dealt with but a number of sea. burning houses were damaged and Eye-witnesses of a short and some of them seriously.
sharp encounter between fighters. Bombs were also dropped in a and ralders over a south-east in residential district in a town on
land town Baw three. raiders crash. the north-east coast, wrecking two
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PAS DE CALAIS BOMBED
Continued from Page 1 In fact, so many people wanted -to-speak-tu Mr.Howard that :
was with the greatest difficulty that Press managed to get even a few words with the eminent man. The visiting pressmen were im- But Mr. Howard, was all ears the pressed with the strategic Import- LONDON, Sept. 4 (Reuter)-The wanted to know everything" but, ance of Hongkong and the essen-air Ministry "annmurices that a tial part it played in the defence force of RAF bonibers last night bad little to say.
of the Empire and were partattacked enemy aerodrome in Pas cularly interested and pleased to de Calais area." learn that American and British interests in the Colony were iden- tical.
This became so strong that the three generations. This expan-setback they had in 1914 was not slon, he said, had started with the enough to check it. This expan- Prussian War of 1864 and was car-slon gave them an opportunity for ried on into 1866 and again in 1370. [continuing their bestialities and to It had been the German system realise what those bestialities! If I had a story to give you" for years to build up a base for this were, the speaker advised his is he said, "T'd spill it right away. expansion on false teachings and tenere, to read the Polish Black But if you want to ask any ques- tions, shoot," and I'll do my best Book.
to answer you"
lles.
الله
ANOTHER INCIDENT Again in 1905 and 1911; the But cher Bird had planned another in cident and it was only in 1914 that It was able to bring this about
"And what had Adolf Hitler to
.
The Butcher Bird had been given every chance to mend his habits. but had not done so for the sim Dle reason that Herr Hitler could never keep his word. That was no- thing new in Herr Hitler and to
Our representative asked him about conditions in Indo-China.
***I've never been there,” said Mr Howard. "How can. I tell
JOU?"
"Mr. Howard,” said a reporter.
say about that?" asked Sir Robert, compare what, he had brought to you think that M. Baudoin,
The
newspapermen party "of were received by His Excellency the Officer Administering – the Government, Lieut-Gen & F
Norton, at 6.30 p.m.
"He says in his Mein Kampf T Nazi Germany with the Middle the French Foreign Minister, is AFTER 11
sank down on my knees and Ages would be an insult to the thanked God for the favour of Middle Ages. being permitted to live a second time."
And yet, continueu the speaker, from the time cf Frederick the Great Prussian Germany has been trying not only to annex the whole earth but the heavens and when she found that the heavens could
not be annexed, she discarded It
"for ever.
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Sir Robert went on to refer to the more against Chris- tianity In Nazi Germany and spoke in graphic terims of the concentration campy and of the blasphemies that were ut- lered in Germany in praking Herr Hitler.
D
ilkely to agree to handing over Indo China to the Axis Powers?"
Who is this Baudoin?" he re- plied.
until
"I did not know you told me that he was the For- elen Minister of France. And how am I to know what he would want to do?"
MONTHS'
BOMBING
Thus Germany had won three rich on piratical plunder and had cables about the reported ultima-damage Infinitely small."
"Most of the Nazi leaders, went on Sir Róbert, had started with out a cent. They had now grown bought valuable works of art and large houses, These leaders had, gained a holding power on the ¡People and had coerced them into acting Just as they were ordered to act.
tum from Japan,
MALAYA, EAST INDIES READY
Continued from Page 1 little relaxed even in cases where credentials presented claimed the person holding them as being in every way right and proper.
The Netherlanders, holding out in what was once an outpost of Empire and has now become the heart of it, are prepared to make up in determination for any lack of numbers.
HIDDEN DEFENCE POSTS
houses and damaging one. In the
The plot of one parachuted and
north-west and north-east, the une or the others was burnt out,
the crew being killed.
casualties were not numerous. In the Bristol Channel ares,” – some
of which were fatai,
casualties were caused a number: RUMANIAN
CABINET
SMALL DAMAGE
A few high explosive and many Incendiary bombs were also re- ported to have been dropped in other districts in England and principally in the country districts in the Home counties and in Scot- land, but no casualties were known to have been caused and the damage appears to have been ex-
tremely small.
RESIGNS
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to
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ROME, Sept. (Reuter)-The Romanian Cabinet, under Gigurtu, has resigned today, states official Itakan News Agency
Bucharest dispatch the
General Antonescu, former War Minister, was charged to form a new Ministry, and pledged to "restare order in the troubled country."
Three men appeared in a car in front of the Royal Palace. One
NEW YORK, Sept. 4 (Reu-
European and native troops man ter)-The London correspon- the coast defences where ever OUT OF TOUCH In reply to another, question in dent of the New York Herald-watchful eyes look out to the horl-
TWO KIDNAPPINGS The Nazi conscience he said. relation to the international situa Tribune in special telephone zor, and to the skies for hostile was easily satisfied with the rea- tion, Mr. Howard good-naturedly dispatches says that the great northern Java coast, and in every-Lawlessness continued to reign craft. Along the length of the CHUNGKING, Sept. 4 (Central) Europe. said Sir Robert, had had, sons given it by 3
BUILDINGS ATTACKED government replied. Tve been in the air five wars in 75 years because the which had rejected everything that almost all the time since I left industrial Midlands today are approachable inlet Jurks the un- in Shanghai with two kidnappings
BUCHAREST, Sept. 4 (Reuter) Germans are incapable of think was gentle and kind and which America and I am terribly out of producing more war material pleasant prospect to the invader on Sept. 2...
The first occurred shortly after Several attacks on public build- ing in other terms than those of indulged in a form of gangster-touchy with world affairs. I would than ever, after 11 months of of a Dutch surprise. Hidden de-
like to ask you some questions bombing.
fence posts are "everywhere.
10a.m. when Chin Pen-jen, owner Ings were carried out by a grOUP war Like the Butcher Bird, it wasdom.
about what is happening."
The correspondent declares that Naval and coast patrol boats of the Jen Feng rice shop, on of dissatisfied members of the always waiting a chance to pounce on its peaceful neighbours.
"What is the situation in Indo-his tour of the district showed keep to the seas and follow with Brennan Road, was carried off by Iron Guards last night, but all China?" he inquired and was told that
"material damage was an unceasing vigilance the movements six abductors while walking along attempts failed. the news contained in last night's believably small
Edinburgh Road, in Shanghai's WORLD DOMINATION
and military of all small! craft-Indies tramp
steamers, Japanese fishing boats, "badlands.”
The second took place shortly. fired two shots into the air, and "In districts where the Nazis Chinese trading junks and Dyak claimed to have wrought havoc, I war boats.
after 2 p.m. Mr. Lu Yu-yuen, na the man was arrested but the car
had disappeared, ` tive of Haimen, was at his home | found factories running in full In Singapore and Malaya, where in Rue Albert when four gunmen
OPENED FIRE blast. There, is little damage to a more formidable British Far
Another group of young men at broke in. At the point of a pistol health and morale as well as to Eastern Fleet forms a first line they forced, Lu into a waiting tacked the Bucharest Radio sta- material"
of defence, preparedness is as evi-motorcar and drove off.
tion. The guard opened fire and |dent as In the Dutch possessions.
Passing a group of French de-repelled the attackers, but the
most modern type point into the an alarm. Thereupon the French Telephone corinections" abroad skies.
gave chase, firing at the abduc-were temporarily suspended. SEAS, MINED
tors car. Finally all four gunmen Rumanian troops are retiring Strategic son approaches are were captured, three of them be- from the ceded territory and..:
is considerably finance Haison officer of the Hong-mined and sandy beaches are de- lieved to be not of Chinese nation- the atmosphere
fended with barbed wire barri-"| allty. kong Government in connexion cades. Coast defence "guns point with the evacuation to Australia, out to the Straits of Malacca, to the point that there was no ready to meet any challenge by compulsion about it (the evacun hostile craft to the sea road to tion). The Government advised India,”": the women to go and they co- operated with us" was refuted by the Colonial Secretary.
-wars before England began to sus- pect what it was that she was real- ly after-world domination. The first three wars were a prelude and preparation and the fourth was a bld for the real thing. This
"Once again I say that Herr just for power had gone on for three generations and bad corrupted Hitler is not an accident." said Sir
With three Robert, "and in truth we German nature elements Envy. self-pity. and fighting against evil things-evil things which threaten more than cruelty.
four hundred million happinesses in Europe."
The fourth war had falled, but had only just falled, but from that
New National Organisation In Japan
are
CERTAIN OF VICTORY
Continued from Page 1 Meanwhile we will answer Hit- ler's, domination in Europe, with
Mr. Howard told the Chinese pressman that he had inter- viewed and spoken to General- Issime Chiang Kai-shek, Dr. H. H. Kung and Dr. C.T. Wang during his brief stay in Chung- king. Chinese pressman: "What. did! they talk to you about?"
Mr. Howard (with a wink in his eye): "Ah that would be telling."
And, before another word could be uttered, he was whisked away into a car by his army of waiting friends and driven off.
Settlement
Shooting
TOKYO, Sep 4 (Reuter)The power to draw on the resources of ultimate objective of the new all the other continents, which
SHANGHAI, Sept. 4 (Reuter)-- national political structure con- command the sea, guarantees us. sists of the establishment of and thus we enter the second The Intensive police precautions national: organisation within the year of the war confident that being taken in the French Con-: scope of the constitutional pro-though the tide has ebbed far. It cession and International Settle-
Enough,
are
against reprisals for yesterday's tical parties and associations will to victory, b
says shooting in the Settlement. The NEWS-CHRONICLE be requested to disband them- selves in order to join the new that the start of the second year Han-ha, a naturalised Jap- structure drive.
finds us united, certain of even anese of Formosan origin, who Fending the establishment of tual victory and already proving, was the victim of yesterday's slay
by spectacular deeds of courage ing is known to be pro-Wang. the national organisation, the and
The "police are reported to have our power' and resource plan envisages a national council of the new structure at which determination to destroy all as-received information that anti-
saults by our enemies.
Chungking elements might, Prince Konoye, the Prime Minis- Hitler's early successes were tempt to strike back today. ter, will preside as ex-officio chair easy because they were achieved man with headquarters in Tokyo against Bl-prepared or half-heart- SIRAGONE MARU
EVACUEES WILL Powerful anti-aircraft guns of fence troops, however, Lu raised service was interrupted.
NOT RETURN
Continued from Page 1
Mr. Smith emphasized that any such déclaration WLE without foundation and did not represent the true facts, “Mr. Maughan - made a mistake," Mr. Smith said:"
NOT TRUE
The party of American Journ- alists visited Timor, Ball, Dutch Borneo and Java on their tour of the Dutch Indies. Their: Malayani visit was not as extensive but al- lowed of a good look at the Straits defences. They Lew', from Singapore to Manila and to Hong- kong by way of Macão.
THE TOUR
The tour of the Dutch East In "It is not true that the evacua tion of women and children from dies included visits to Kopang in Hongkong was not compulsory Timor, Ball, the Sourabaya natal There was no universal register of base, the army and air base at women here, but those who had Bandong, Batavia, the Standard [registered were compelled to go.”:
|Off *refizieries at Pelambang in It had not been planned for the Sumatra, the Shell O station at last evacuee ship to pick up 1,000 Balik Papan in Dutch Borneo and at-people, as the Austra lan report the oil refinery at feraxan...
stated, but it was expected, that A visit to Indo-China had been the number would have been high included in the itinerary, but it was not possible to enter the On the statements attributed to French Colony because of the un- Hongkong evacuees in Sydney that certain conditions there.
er than the 58 that dia sail,
and regional chapters in pre-ed resistance. Now that, for the fectures and municipalities.
The Siragone Maru returned to first time, his forces find them- The Central Council wil have selves matched against a foe who Hongkong yesterday a membership of some 300 while are both resolute and strong, his at 5.30 p.m., the vessel not be-it was found at the time of sal
its headquarters will be divided rebuff is plain, for all to see. into tem departments-General, }
TWO ROCKS
Political, Organisation, Diet The DAILY HERALD says that Economy, Culture, Youth, Train for twelve months, a murky tidé, 1ng, Publicity and East Asia with cruelty, corruption and op- Affairs
afternoon
Jng that wives of officials who received on the afternoon of Fri- ing allowed to berth at Cantenere to have boarded had secured day July 28 A meeting of the owing to the cholera restrictions.
lobs and had been granted exempt Executive Council on the follow The Hachiu Mary similarly had to return to Macao.....
on, the Colonial Secretary salding morning approved the order that every individual case for ex-for evacuation. Compulsory eva- emption had been considered cuation for all women was enforc- pression rolled on, but unsubing, is beyond just a question,
separately by the Exemption Com-ed on July 6
Y MEDIUM FOR CONTACT
merged by its onrush, there stand The second rock is this island mittee. Beyond that he could not A number of women were sum The Central and Regional Coun- today two rocks more strongly a fortress in itself. It stands like say anything further on this sub-moned at Central Court yesterday cils will be the medium for con-embedded than before,
an outpost in the very jaws of Ject
before Mr H G, Sheldon EC., tact between the people and Gov- One is the unanimous convic- the world's enemy and knową. It-i
FINAL ORDER
|for having falled to register for ernment people and the Diet and tione of the whole world of free self to be faz, more securely de- The final order to févacuate evacuation. An account of the Prefectural and Municipal assemb-men," that the cause for which rended than in the anxious, mo-i women and chlidren of pure Euro Court proceedings will be found on Hex
Britain and her Allies are ghments of three months ago.
pean descent from Hongkong was Page 8.
calmer.
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