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SEVERE EARTHQUAKE "WE HAVE GOT TO
IN RUMANIA: FIRST
SHOCK LASTED 5 MINUTES
LONDON, Nov. 10. (Reuter)-A severe earthquake occurred in Rumania this morning and in Bucharest the Arst shock was felt at 3.45 am. (local time), and lasted for five minutes..
Extensive damage was done to many parts of the city, includ- ing the Royal Palace, the American Embassy and the War Office.
The new Foreign Office building cracked from top to bottom. while, a new ten-storey building was' demolished, burying 400 occu- pants.
German soldiers are assisting the Iron Guards in clearing debris and rescue work.
JAPAN HAS SUFFERED MILLION CASUALTIES.
CHUNGKING, Nov. 10 (Reuter) Japan, in the three years of hos- tilities, has suffered one million
EMP. OF JAPAN BOMBED
NEW YORK, Nov, 10 (Reuter) The Canadian Pacific Biner, Em- press of Japan, of 28,000 tons, was bombed and disabled in the North
Atlantic, according to an uncon- frmed Léport from Japanese aources.
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SHOW INFLEXIBLE WILL
TO WIN". STIRRING SPEECH BY
NO DISCORD MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL
BETWEEN
THE AXIS Outside World Now Believes
PARTNERS
LONDON, Nov. 10 (Reuter) There is no discord between the Axis partners over the Italo-Greek | WRE.
Information received in London from a Balkan observer well ac- quainted with the internal situa- tion both in Italy and Germany states that it would be a great illn- sion to think there is at the pre- sent juncture. It is believed how ever that a serious friction wil eventually arise between them.
MUCH DISCONTENT Information reaching observera there is
casualties of which one quarter VICHY SUBMARINE from Berlin says that
were killed and the remainder wounded or sick, states General, Pat Chung-hat. Chief of General
SCUTTLED
ELIZABETHVILLE
much discontent in the German General Staff and the Chancellery
Britain Will Survive
PROMISE OF US. AID CORDIALLY WELCOMED
MEMORIAL: SERVICE FOR AIR HOSTESS
A memorial service for the Inte Miss Lu Mei-yin, air hostess of the CNA.C. airliner Chungking, which was shot down by Japanese aircraft at Chanyi, Yunnan, on Oct. 29," was held at the Christ Church, Kowloon Tong, on Saturday after- noon under the joint auspices, of the China. National Aviation Cor- portion, the Mandarin Service of
LONDON, Nov. 10. (Beuter)-MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL, BRITISH PREMIER, speaking at the Lord Mayor of London's luncheon, said none of their predecessors had ever met, in the most formidable of the struggles through which Britain hadthe Christ Church in Kowloon and passed, when the name of London or the qualities of its citizens were held in greater honour and respect wherever fortitude and freedom were cherished in any quarter of the globe.
Mr. Churchill thanked the previous speaker for his reference to the illness of Mr. Chamberlain, under whom so many of them served and whose Illness caused them all the greatest sorrow.
Recalling that it was now
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(BELGIAN over the initial failure of the Ita-sind partlament confided in DEATHS OF MR. NEVILLE mean the partners are in any-grave and heavy task, Mr CHAMBERLAIN AND SEN.
It is pointed out that this does him and his colleagues their
Staff of the Chinese Army, in re- CONGO), Nov. 10 Reuter) The Han Army in Greece. Viewing the Sino-Japanese military crew of the Vichy submarine Pon- situation.
or
Japan can mobilise 75 80 divisions of which 42 divisions, are being used in China and Manchuria, or two-thirds Japan's total. strength."
of
The cost of the campaign to Japan was 16,000 million yen or
celet scuttled the vessel near Port not
There was no fighting, and the crew was rescued.
Gentil (Gabon) on the arrival of thing but in accord over the res- Churchill said It is lucky Free French forces, according to pective roles they have agreed to
play in the Eastern Mediterranean we did not make any ex- news from Brazzaville.
for the domination of the Suez travagant and optimistic promises of predictions, be- Canal and Egypt.
cause a succession of melan- choly disa terrible as- saults and trials have fallen
It was announced that "police
They wish to succeed this aim
10 times the total of the Russo-operations" are being successfully & possible without involving them Japanese war budget
continue De French forces selves in tremendous sacrifices in the region of Labreville which which the sending of a large ex- is the only port in French Equa-peditionary force through Bulgaria, upon us. We have to face orial Atrica left in the hands of Turkey and Palestine would in- these great calamities We
volve. the Vichy Government.
CAR DAMAGED
BY FIRE
As S. M. Ismall was turning private car No. 2412 round from the road leading to Ngau Tau Kok
DID HITLER SPEAK IN
Village, near Kowloon, City. "at 5 MUNICH BEER CELLAR?
pm. on Saturday, the car went off the road and tell a depth of 10 feet onto the foreshore where it caught fire.
The Kowloon Fire Brigade "ex- tinguished the flames of the en- gine. The car was, however, bad-- ly damaged.
Both S. M. Ismail and S. C. Is mail received injuries, which were treated at the Kowloon Hospital, where the former is now detained.
'DRIVER INJURED
The driver of motor-cycle No. 3601 was admitted to the Queen Mary Hospital yesterday suffering from injuries received as the re- sult of a collision with bus No. 613 near Possession Street.
have come through the disas ters.
"We have surmounted the periis so far, but the fact remains at the, present time that what we have got to show is survival with increasing strength and inflexible will to win
BROADCAST POSTPONED "The outside world which a little
LONDON, Nov. 10 (Reuter)-In some quarters here it is questioned whether Herr Hitler ever made his speech in the beer cellar at Munich on Friday night, writes Beuter's Diplomatic correspondent.
The fact that the broadcast of the speech has been postponed three times at least suggests that there is such, interference by the attentions of British bombers while the record is being made that it has been found necessary either to make another recording or patch together the usable parts of the original with new material.
Although there were fleeting It will naturally be some time}
references to Italy and Japan. before the world really knows what
the versions of the speech happened. in the famous cellar
circulated
the GermAN by while Hitler was speaking, or about.
wireless makes no allusion to to speak, but people can form their
Moscow own impressions of the scenes that sudden must have attended the and entirely unexpected visit of
THANKSGIVING the British raiders,
A REHASH
Of the speech itself, the corres- pondent says that it was a rehaan of all the old arguments and re statements with which we have become sp familiar in Hitler's
DAY NOV. 21 President Roosevelt proclaimed that (Thursday, Nov. 21, shall be observed as Thanksgiving Day, two weeks earlier than the usual day. speeches.
Hitler seems to have dwelt n Mr. Roosevelt has ordered that the theme on the day shall be little more than usual on his con- thanks for American preservationfidence in his power but he was in these days of sorrow and tribu-less cocksure as to the immediate lation elsewhere in the world..
futura.
TODAY'S WAR SUMMARY
MR. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN, Prime Minister until May this year and who resigned from the office of Lord President of the Counell on Oct. 3, died on Saturday at the age of 72. In a tribute, Mr. Bevin, the Labour Minister, said that the world that Mr. Cham- berlain knew would never return. The death is also announced of Senator Key Pittman, a strong opponent of the dictators, at the age of 58. He was Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Com- mitteeŃ
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SPEAKING IN LONDON ON SATURDAY; the Prime Minister, Mr. Churchill, said that the fact remains that at the present time. what we have got to show is survival with Increasing strength and inflexible will to win.
GREEK MOBILISATION IS NOW COMPLETE A crack Italian Alpinist division which was encircled some days ago in the Pindus sector (central) of the front may now be considered to have been annidiated. Meanwhile, it is stated in London that there is no dis- cord-between the Axis partners over the Italo-Greek war.
THE
WAR HAS BEEN BROUGHT VERY NEAR to the Austra- Hans with the sinking of an American ship reported to have been. mined off the coast of Australia. If it is proved that Axis mines. have actually been sown off the Australian coast the question must be faced whether Australia must be declared a combat zone from Which United States vessels will be excluded under the Neutrality Lew
while ago took only a modest view of our prospecta, now believes that Britain will survive.”
'NOT, ONE JOT
Mr. Churchin said that in spite of all the blows we had endured, under all the pains we bore amid
so many deadly threats, "we have
MR. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN
Universal Regret
PITTMAN
SENATOR KEY PITTMAN.
Opponent Of Dictators
RENE, NEVADA, Nov.
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The death was announced in not abandoned one lot of any of London yesterday of MR. NEVIL- our obligations of undertakings towards captive or enslaved com-LE CHAMBERLAIN, late Frimeter) SENATOR KEY PITTMAN, He Chairman of the Senate Foreign tries in Europe or towards any of Minister, at the age of 72. those countries who still act with died peacefully at his home in the Relations Committee died here early today of a heart attack, at us. On the contrary since we have country on Saturday night,
Mr. Cyril Lakin. political com- the age of 68. His death occurred been alone in this world to struggle, In this Hitler follows the two we have raffirmed or defined more mentator, referring to Mr. Cham- only a day or two after he had
Cont'd Page 7, Col 4 Cont'd Page 7, Col." 5 Russian speakers, M. Kuhlinin and precisely all the cause of all the Marshal Timoshenko who, in countries with whom or for whom portant speeches this week. made we drew the sword. no reference to Germany.
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2 Week-end soccer, softball, cricket, hockey and rugby results; Volunteer bowls tourney.
3 Radio programmes; Com- ing events; Crossword puzzle.
4 Britain's new aircraft;
hostilities Graeco-Italo Moscow's part in the war; Japan short of troops; Withdrawal of Weihaiwel: Border dispute aggravated,
5 Remembrance service at St. John's Cathedral; Board of Education meeting: Control of Industry; Cabaret dance; Funeral
6 Leading article: The Eva-
cuation Muddle.
8 St Paul's Girls' College speech day; Pearl River opened; Protected places; Round the Police Courts
9 China's financial position analysed; US, war supply for Britain.:
10 Passengers; Successful ten
derers notified; Anti-sabo- tage measure
"Apstria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Norway. Holland and Belgium, the greatest of all, France, and the latest of all, Greece for all those, we will toll and strive and our Iberation victory will supply the
of them all” SOM
Mr. Church said that we were deeply touched by the promise of material aid made by Mr. Wendell Wilkie on behalf of the Repub- lean Party. He offered the con- gratulations of Britain to Mr Roosevelt-the illustrious American satesman, who had never failed to give us a helping hand.
MUNITION PRODUCTION The help we have been promised by the United States took the form
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BIG JAPANESE DRIVE TO SOUTH CONTEMPLATED
ATTACK WILL ATTACK
BE ON BRITISH INTERESTS FIRST
"UNDER GERMAN PRESSURE, THE JAPANESE MAY BELIEVE THAT THE TIME HAS COME FOR DOING SOMETHING OUT OF THE ORDINARY. So far their campaigh in China has not shown any variety of method or style and since the num ber, of Japanese troops available for any such plan is by no means sufficient, it is possible that those in Kiangsi are being withdrawn for the purpose of starting some thing spectacular-some new adventure that they are contemplating in a big, drive to the south, with the Dutch East Indies, the Philippines and British possessions in the East as their objective.
"The attack on British in-den last night on the subject of "It is something more at present of the most abundant,terests, you may be sure, will the withdrawal of Japanese troops that. Perhaps, we can get
The Axis appears to be carry ment that Count Clano, the Ital sharing with us of the fruits of come first and on Dutch and from a number of points in China: hint of the object from the gigantic munition production American Interests later. It ing out some usual sort of plan," Foreign Minister, is also which is now being set on foot is, of course, in the interest he said, and it looks as if they to attend the talks, throughout matchless workshops,
Japan are hoping to get something from why Count Clane furnaces and foundries of the of Germany that
should drag America into the Japan at last. The withdrawal of to Berlin, Italy has made a
Japanese troops is being treated miscalculation in the invasion United States
The reason we did not take the war and it will then be in the Ads circles as presaging some Greece Signor Mussolint Initiative against the enemy was Pacific that America will sensational development in Japan's on an early collapse that our production in munitionsave to defend herself, thus policy
and enormous factories and plant
as otherwise he would started his campaign
was now only id, its second year leaving Germany a freer hand Commenting on the events of the Molotov. 13 going to Bern. I
"But he has been disappointed. which were laid down on or shortly in the west. Will Japan be past week, Mr. Lakin said: "M, the weather was going to break before the outbreak of the war, quite so foolish to take this wonder why? It cannot be for the
As Germany attack on Poland were only now beginning to come step? I have my doubts sake of Herr von Ribbentrop's bite was a races with the weather, so It
about that into production
eyes and it cannot be for the was with Italy and the wime the This is what MB. (YEIL LAKIN, purpose of deepening the friendly weather seems to have won. The
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The Clerman have long passed
the
iminating point of mini- Cont'd Page 7 Cob
commentator on political events, relations between the two countries had to say when he moke in Lanas Berlin puts it,