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THE BEST USE OF MAN-POWER THE PROPOSAL outlined by
SIGNIFICANCE TO GREECE
The unity of interest between the allies and the people of the freedom loving nations of the world is be- ginning to find expression. Great Britain and Greece al- ready stand side by side and the Greek soldiers are con- tinuing their advance, continually eating into the founda tions of the ugly system that Signor Mussolini thought" was Fascist Italy," said M. STAVREDI, B.B.C. commenta- tor, when he broadcast from London yesterday.
seemed
The
M. Stavredi was discussing and its fall was such a shock to the position in Albania and the Italian Commander that hel the significance of the meet- immediately resigned for reasons
of 111-health. ing of the Axis partners as
"The capture of Klisura...”. far as Greece was concerned.. said M. Stävredi, was a par- ticularly brilliant achievement. WEATHER CONDITIONS the British Minister of
The Greeks had to advance The speaker referred to present
along a valley and the success HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY Labour and National Service.
weather conditions in Albania and
of the operation has been a on Tuesday to obtain the described how the Balkan winter
devastating; if not fatal, blow Use of The Committee regret that, maximum
Britain's had now settled down on the Al-
to the position of Tepelini. Battlefeld like a dish
"The Italian retreat is not an owing to the abnormal conditions man-power by Government bania
An fey mist was now rising
easy one They must elther go now prevailing in the Colony, it control of labour and indus- cover.
the has been found impossible to try in the country, cannot from the marshes and was driven west with the Greeks on
along by freezing winds. The heights, or north towards Berat, arrange for a Flower Show this fail, as Mr. Bevin declared, mountains were covered with snow but a section of the road to Berat
to meet with a great res-and wrapt in clouds, and each is already under Greek Bre. ponse. The scheme, when it man
to be cut off and Itallan position is altogether un- becomes law, will immediate-isolated in a world of his own... healthy in spite of the arrival of The usual sound of an army on reinforcements from Italy, some of ly cause a tremendous speed-
the move took on a erle strange- whom glory in the name of 'The up of the country's war
In spite of these conditions Wolves of Tuscany.' Over 1,000 of ness. 46 efforts and will provide the the Greek army continued to move them have already been taken surest - answer to those who and long trains of mules climbed prisone: and the Greeks claim complain that Britain is, de-up and up through the blizzards, to that the total Italian casualties is pending over-much on help bring light guns into position and about 46,000." from outside. The proposal to furnish the troops with sup- is nothing less than a gua- rantee to the world that Bri- tain is ready to make the
and biggest sacrifices
en- deavours within her means to help herself and thus to en- sure that any assistance she secures from abroad will! serve
Dated 22nd January, 1941. George G. N. Tinson, Hön: Secretary,
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to. reinforce those
plies.
"Through all this the Greek soldier preserves the initia- tive," said the speaker. "They refuse to surrender to the weather.
their They stamp feet and beat their hands and talk and laugh to prevent the silence from invading their brains.
"Fortifed positions are falling efforts and to make the suc- to the point of the bayonet-a cessful accomplishment of gnawing here
nibbling
and
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ale of the British people, as
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a survey by the Government has shown, has risen to such
more positions fall."
CAPTURE OF KLISURA
The speaker went on to com-
a high standard that there ment on the capture of Klisura by the Greeks. The importance, of
road
can now be no limit to theif this capture was in the fact that
.an old willingness to throw every Klisura, protected ounce of their energy into junction to Berat and the port of field of war-time production.
THE ORGANISATION this man-power will, of
Valona. The town had been strongly fortified by General Boddu
of
threats
HELP FROM ABROAD
Mr. Cheung Tsek, a student of St. John's University, and his bride, formerly Miss Doris Lou, after their marriage at St. Paul's. Church (Mayfair Studio).
NEWSETTES
An alarm was sounded yesterday
when appliances were called to deal with a chimney fire in Chlu Leong Street, near the Wing On Company, about 7.30 p.m.
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1941.
RESOLUTIONS. SENT TO
BRITISH
WORKERS
A resolution on solidarity with British workers and another ex- pressing sympathy with nations "trampled by Axis aggression,”· were" -- transmitted to the British Trade Union Congress and the Interna- tional Federation of Trade Unions by the Chinese Assuciation of Labour which held its third annual conference in Chungking on Jan. 15,
Delegates representing 200 units of the Association from all parts. of China attended the meeting. The resolution on solidarity with British workers reads:
The Third Annual Conference of pase of sharing the spolls, and the Chinese Association of Labour. have, without justification what- held in Chungking, on Jan. 15, ever, invaded the peaceful nation 1941, the fifth, calendar year of of Greece; China's war of resistance to Jap
Whereas these attempts on the anese aggression, in the midst of part of the so-called Axis at dom- Japanese aerial bombardments Ination of other peoples violate the Considering the truth proven by peace of the world, endanger the time of the indivisibility of peace, security of the Democracies and of the conspiracy for merciless trample the right and interests of domination of other nations by the workers;
the so-called Axis Powers, namely, The Third Annual Conference of Japan, Germany and Italy, and the Chinese Association of Labour, Recognising the community of held in Chungking on Jan. 15, 1941, interest and the unity of purpose in the midst of "Japanese aerial on the part of the working class bombardments,
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of Great Britain and of China- Expresses on behalf of the work- the bulwarks against Axis aggran-ing masses of China wholehearted disements respectively in the West sympathy with the ordeal to which and in the East;
these peoples in general, apd the Declares on behalf of the work-workers in particular, have been ing masses of China the unalter-subjected through no fault of their able determination to carry on the own. war to victory with unremitting | Declares their utter abnorrance efforts in resistance to Japanese of brutal aggressions. their soll- attempts at domination of this darity with those peoples carrying part of the world so as to ensure on a heroic self defence and their peace and security for mankind. conviction that, with co-operation and
amongst the democratic nations Demands, in the name of the now Independent, right will prevail A Cabaret and Dance, organised
Chinese people and of the princi-over might and the labour move- M. Stavredi next referred to the
ples which have united and willments in these temporarily "van- help which the Greeks were "get- by the Ladies' Committee of the
British
continue to unite the workers of quished nations will survive in the ting from overseas, including Bri-
War Organisation Fund,
China and of Britain, an enhanced end-Central News). tain, the United States and Cana-will be held at the Peninsula Hotel
measure of mutual support, imoral da and India. Signor Mussolini on Friday, January 31,
and material, between our two who proudly boasted that he could
great defenders of world demo- without aid conquer the Greeks.
The speaker at European YM-cracy and, ip particular, intensified C.A. Discussion Group to be held on Sunday, January 26, at 9 p.m.. In the West Lounge will be Mr. Chen Han-seng, Secretary of the Chinese Industrial Co-operatives, and the subject will be "How to up lift the standard of living in Chiña." All are cordially invited.
had now to go to the Germans for assistance.
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"The meeting of "the_two 'dictators has already resulted in some dissolution of Signor Mussolini's independence," said the speaker. who then turned to the effect the Greek sue- cesses and the British victories were having on the smaller The European Y.M.C.A. AD.C. nations in increasing their re- presented "Twelfth Night" to an sistance to the Axis Powers. appreciative matinee' audience ycs- Libya, the true qualities of the school children. Miss Norah Wit- "Since the British victories" in terday which included many allied armies are beginning to be chell, whose sudden illness caused postponement of the show after The unity of interest between the first night, has completely re- the allies and the people of free-covered and yesterday gave dom loving nations in the world fe splendid portrayal as Olivia. The beginrïing
find to
expression. producer is Mr. W. H. E. Colledge. Great Britair and Greece already stand side by side and the Greek
appreciated." said M. Stavred
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Smith.
JARDINE MATHESON & course, be a stupendous task,
with intermingled but when the benefits that
The engagement is announced workers will obtain from this and sabre-rattling which has soldiers carry on their advance, between Harry, son
of Mr. and been going on in the west and continually eating further into the Mrs. Jackson, Preston, Lancs, and training are considered, there
the east. The propaganda foundations of the ugly system Hannah. daughter of the late is no reason to suppose that the training period will in which has been skilfully en-that Signor Mussolini thought was Mr. Smith and of Mrs.
Fascist Italy." any way hamper the war gineered round the latest effort Unskilled and semi-secret meeting between Herr skilled workers will soon be-Hitler and Signor Mussolini come proficient in the various is all aimed at predicting the trades into which they will most fearful horrors for those
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WENT HOME be mobilised and, apart from who have dared to oppose the
sent existing conditions."
dor.
jurors."
NEW ORDER The Government have just is sued a new order to coürts allow- ing the judge to exercise his dis..
this, it will relieve the strain Axis plans.
Herr Hitler must have
| Egremont, Cumberland.
The marriage took place on at their residence in Shanghai, before the Congul General for Denmark, of Marcelle Clements to Axel Jacobsen. »
Fine Benefit January 12, Performance At King's
The
The death occurred on January 12, at 140 Route des Boeurs, n Angelina Templo Sarraga, ·aged
34 years, wife of Mr B. B. Bar- raga, Funeral services were held on January 14, at the Lokawel Cemetery.
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The death occurred on January
Mass
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CHINESE PUSTMEN TO DONATE PLANE ' Donation of a plane to the Gov-
efforts on the part of British ernment by postmen throughout workers to check the ambition of Free China was decided upon at the Japanese militarists, by a more the fourth annual meeting of the . rigorous embargo on the export of National Postal Union concluded in war materials and on the import Chungking on Jan. 19. cf war materials for and on the
-A circular telegram to the post- men in the country has been des- patched, announcing that begin- ning from Feb. one per cent, of
import of products from the Jap anese Empire.
AXIS AGGRESSIONS
The resolution in sympathy with nations trampled by Axis aggres- sions reads:
their salary will be deducted for the purchase of the plane.
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It is expected that some $100,000 will be raised within one year. Whereas the peace-loving and
NEWSPAPERMEN ALSO democratic nations of Czechoslu-
been vakia, Norway, Denmark, the Ne- More than $16,000 has therlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, raised by newspaperinen here for and France have, in quick succes- the purchase of a place to be for sion been subjugated by Nazi brute christened. "Newspapermen" force,
the Government. The money, rais. Whereas the Italian Fascists ed through sales of newspapers, have thrown in their lot with their will be remitted to Chungking. German accomplices for the pur-soon-(Central News).
American's Tribute To British Colonial
Colonial Policy
Reminiscences of his last 25 years in Malaya "wonderful years, filled with an ever increasing regard for the British people as a whole, for scores of British subjects individually," to quote. his own words-were recalled by the Rev. P. L. Peach, principal of the Methodist Boys' School. Kuala Lumpur, when speaking on "Twenty-five years under the Union Jack" at the Rotary Club in Kuala Lumpur.
BUSES A SLUR ON PENANG
The war has created criminal under which Britain's present BEHIND the scenes of the law history. For the first time a labour army is functioning Axis drama, however, it is not murder trial jury at the Old Ralley and afford them a little more difficult to imagine that a DISTINGUISHED were allowed to separate instead relaxation from long hours far different atmosphere pre-
"I feel happy to have spent 25 AUDIENCE of being locked up night after night until they bring in a verdict. of duty. As far as industrial vails.
years under the Union Jack, which benefit performance 01
flag"I admire and respect, and am This departure has been made firms are concerned their conveyed exactly what he "Divertissements" was given be
ready to support second only to to facilitate Jurors under the "pre-co-operation in the new thought of his partner in fore a capacity audience at the
the Stars and Stripes," Rev Peach scheme is assured. Already crime when they met at his King's Theatre last evening. Un-
declared, when referring to "this Murder trial juries, usually con- the majority of them have lair in Berchtesgaden. Signor der the distinguished patronage of 14, at Shanghal of Michael Keane
terrific straggle in the midst of sisting of 10 men and two women devoted - their
His Excellency the Acting Gover- (Chinese Maritime Customs), plants to Mussolini must have felt like
That the buses in Renang are are nightly escorted to a hotel in
nor, the show was jointly sponsor-aged. 44 years, beloved husband which my country stands side by
side with Britain." the City by Jury ballifts. They are the national effort. They no an errant schoolboy when he ed by the Kunming Hospital Ap- of Annie Keano, Requiem
run, without regard to the comfort "accommodated in a special corri- longer think in terms of per-appeared''
Rev. Peach, whose first contact and convenience of the travelling before the Nazi peal Committee and the China was held at the Church of Christ
shores with Singapore the King, Rue Bourgeat, on Jan
was in public for whom they are intend- sonal profit, but in terms of war-lord to plead for forgive- Defence League.
Centre of attraction of the uary 17, and interment at
December. 1913, stated in a mosted; the services are uneconomic to Women jury baillifts are employ- the nation's interests. It is ness and for a few crumbs of
interesting address that in evening were the dances by Missbling Wall Cemetery..
the the operators and many vehicles ea to accompany the women under this reorganisation of assistance. Grudgingly, in Al-lien Tal, and bass solos render-
years he had learnt to admire the are a potential danger on the labour and industry that view of his aversion to being ed by Mr. V., K. Sze.
"marvellous efficiency of the Bri-roads, and that whilst the present The death occurred on January Britain will go forward and involved in a war on two "Guerilla March," "Ruth
tish Colonial policy and the 15
the to-conditions exist the public passen- at Melbourne, Australia, of
leration, justice. freedom andger bus services benefit nobody on to the end of the road to fronts at this stage of the Gleaner," "East River" and "Ching Montague Kirby Boyd, aged 68
charity extended to the alien races and must remain a reproach to victory.
hostilities, when his whole Hsing" ("Alarm") were performed years.
by Miss Tal
who live and prosper here," the Island, are some of the con- purpose has to be devoted to Mr. Sze thrilled the audience
clusions arrived at by Mr. "A. L "Oni breaking down British resis-with "Ombra Mai Fu" (Large) and
Stallworthy. Chairman 01 the WHILE this great step for-tance, Herr Hitler has flung a Serenade. He also sang two ope-
Transport Board, F.MS, in a re- ward in Britain's war effort few crumbs of help to his ratio selections with
port to the Penang Municipal Commissioners, upon traffic condi-- tions in Penang as he found them during an inspection on Nov, 5, 6. Rev
Peach then "recollected and 7, 1940. names of Britons in Malaya whom The report. Mr. Stallworthy he had always ́ admired, among says, should, not in any sense be them being the late Rev. G. F.regarded in the light of criticism Fykett, the late Rev. Horley, Miss of any persons responsible for the Pugh, Sir Laurence Guillemard, traffic conditions in Penang, but Sir Richard Windstedt and Dr rather as a survey of conditions as Smith.
he found them together with sug- "Rotary," he said, "has mean: gestions" which, he hoped, might a great deal to me in the last ten contribute towards the adjustment years to fix permanently the eter of the problem of competing pubile nal values of friendship in a cos-passenger services. mopolitan land like Malaya."
cretion in the release of juries.
Mr. Justice Tucker, allowing the jury to return to their homes yes- terday, told them:
"You are the first jury in the history of this country, dealing with a murder trial,
SABRE-RATTLING
a Chinese
HAMMOND ORGAN
is being organised, and while Italian confederate and has choir of 50 voices: similar steps to reinforce it turned angrily on his Far
Dr. W. W. Yen, Chairman of the
Mme, R. E. Jobez and her four children left Shanghai recently en route for London, where she will rejoin her husband, Captain. Jobez, who was formerly with the Concession Police 111
French
Total rainfall since Jan, 1 1s,3.24
of the extension of these elements of progress to the people has risen a citizen - .ship of Malaya that will for
ever be a credit to British 'his-.- tory," he stated.
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are even now being discussed Eastern partner and demand- Mr. J. R. M. Smith, who accom-Shanghai and is now in London to be allowed to go back to your own homes every night.”
and planned in Britain's ed some move to distract Bri-panied Miss Tal, also played two as a supporter of the de Gaulle
solos on the Hammond, organ.movement. He told them that under presister democracy across the tish and American attention
Choral Society. vailing circumstances it would be Atlantic, from where
The Chinese re-from the western front and composed of 50 picked voices, sang unwise for them to be locked up affirmations of determination also to enable him to plan his remarkably under the directorship in the City of London, and asked and resolve to support Britain campaign in south-east Eu-of Mr. Fung Fin-tsung, leader of
THE WEATHER them to keep their own counsel continue to make hundréd rope. Hence Mr. Matsuoka's the Hop Yat Church Choir. about the case, even among their
Maximum temperature yesterday own households. "
per cent. assistance for re-belligerent tone and the Axis Appeal Committee and Mme. Sun Was 77 and the minimum 69 com- Two men and one woman bailiff sistance against aggression sponsored reports of coming Yat-sen, Chairman of the China pared with 02 and 59 on Tuesday. usually accompany a jury to a ho- now a certainty, the Axis events in the Balkans and Defence League, were both pre- tel-a party of 15 in all.."
It has been found impossible to verses and alarmed by poten-to his dreams Great Britain. guests among whom were Lady
Powers, disconcerted by re- against the greatest obstacle sent to receive the distinguished inches against an average of 0.56. The Royal Observatory report Clark Kerr, wife of the British stater:
WELLINGTON, Jan. 22 (Reuter) such a number just outside Lon-tial developments which are Britain and her allies, and Ambassador to China, Bishop Hall, The anticyclone has moved away "I am glad that my years of don, even though they were to be gathering in strength and the ever increasing circle of Hon. Mr. N. L. Smith, Hon. Bir to the east of the monina, RUJÚ. service here are ending in the About 600 naval ratings will be taken there by special coach, effect and which are threa-friends she now has, remain houson Chow, Bir Robert Ho there are indications of another atmosphere of Rotary: I could trained annually at a special es
The Old Bailey trial concerned tering
not ask for a more profitable metablishment, the creation of which to frustrate their unperturbed. The response Timg, Hon. M. E. Lo and others. forming over Mongolia. A Mrs. Florence Ransom, of Pild unbridled passion for pow-to Britain's ciarlor call to the estimated at between $4,444 and across 8. Korea, and a trough ofznow that Rotarians here, in ratings, required for ships of the It is learned that the proceeds, A depression is moving eastward mury in the years ahead than to was announced today. Except for er, are again indulging free. peoples of the world is $5,000, will go to the Kunming low pressure extends from it across nerves. rising above the tramp of the Hospital and the International the Eastern Sex and S. China to
Peace Hospita
another depression over Tongking.
And sufficient accommodation for
dington, "near Bicester, Oxford- shire, charged with the murder on July 9 of Mrs. Dorothy Fisher; of Tonbridge, Kent
their "war of
Diplomatic offensives are Nazi boot..
Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh and Penang, (New Zealand naval forces, all men. and all over this country are my will be available to the Admiralty for drafting to ships wherever they friends"
are required.