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GERMANY IN BELGIUM
PROPAGANDA'S NOTABLE SUCCESS: LITTLE SIGN SEEN OF PASSIVE
RESISTANCE -
BY A LONDON TIMES CORRESPONDENT London-The continual stream of refugees, from Belgium through Portugal has given an opportunity of forming a fairly accurate picture of what is taking place in that country under German occupation. The one fact upon which both Belgians and neutrals agree is the probability of a serious famine in Belgium,
this winter.
more
Gloomy famine forebodings are based upon ample facts. Already Belgium is short of food, chiefly fats, meat, and grain. The harvest is still another six weeks to two months off. In any case it is bad, and in normal times Belgium receives than 70 per cent. of her wheat from America. Her cattle indus try is also largely dependent upon foreign feeding stuffs. The shortage is due to econo-expected
BRITAIN'S WAR PRODUCTION
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STRANGE CONTRAST
Mr. Lakin then touched on the
other side of the picture and de
clared that Admiral Raeder's speech to
CABLE
THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1941. -PAGE. #7
C.M.S. HOLD GREEK PREMIER INVASION
ANNUAL
CONFERENCE
DEAD
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The late Gen. Metaxas became
OF BRITAIN
MORE MADRAS
GIFTS
Madras has cabled another 200,-
IN APRIL? 000 rupees for the purchase of The sunual conference of the Prime Minister in 1936. He play--In the opinion of some of the sent by Madras to 5,800,000 rupees. WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (Reuter} [aircraft. This brings the total Church Missionary Sollety (South Chins Mission) was held at St. toration of the monarchy result- here Germany will attempt to in- £5,000 for the purchase of à ed a prominent part, in the res-best-informed American circles The people of Orissa have sent the German workers Andrew's Church Hall yesterdaying in the return of King George vade Britain in April or May but fighter place to be known as "The showed a distinct difference to the morning, Bishop R. O. Hall presid- of Greece from exile in England.
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that Britain will beat off the attack Orissa.” With the King, Gen. Metaxas re- with American help and go on with Reports submitted to the meet-organised the Army and national the war. ing were from Major H. L. Wright defences.
When the war broke on leper work at Pakhol: a report out,
This opinion" is apparently based on Medical Relief work in Chung Greek neutrality which he did all from Europe,
Metaxas procialmed on the latest authoritative reports Shan district by the Rev. H A. in his power to keep until Musso- Wittenbach, a report on missionary lini violated that neutrality.
It is believed that Herr Hitler "I have never heard such an work in Calcutta's China Town by
will use an air force of 35.000 planes The successes of the Greeks in including new types not yet in use apologetic speech as that which e Rev. Chung Yan-yung, and the war against the Italians were and that he will largely depend on Admiral Raeder made yesterday report on Church conditions In coming from Nazi 1ps before," said Japan.
of acknowledged material value to torpedo-carrying aircraft" against the Allied cause.--(Special)
British naval units.
usual Nazi screams. It was in fact in strange contrast to a speech made by Herr Darre on the eve of the attack on France when he said that France would be crushed and then England would be easy to de- moush.
Mr. Lakin
Mr. Lakin next referred to deve-
THOSE PRESENT Those present were the Very.
Cen.
DISTRESSING NEWS LONDON, "Jan. 29 (Reuter)--The British Minister in Athens report-
to make an economy mic and geographical causes, and work which does not contain the lopments in France and mention-Rev. J. L. Wilson, Rey, and Mrs.
ed that M. de Brignon, who was a H A Wittenbach, not to wholesale Germany requist-seeds of success within it.
Rev. Chung A first check came. quickly. In great friend of Laval, was due in Yan-yuns. Rev. and Mrs. E. W. I ted the distressing news to London, tioning. In the main the German.
with the Belgian Vichy yesterday with Herr Hitler's Martin, Miss J. R. Taylor (Secre- where the following comment was army which came to Belgium was consultation
Was Central Bank of Issue, the Ger-reply to Marshal Petain's message.tary of the Refugee Social Wel-made: "It would be a great injus- ted from Germany; what taken and paid for in worthless man financial experts decided to Mr. Lakin said that the reply no fare Council), Miss M A. Jennings tice to the Greeks to imagine that paper märks especially printed for found a note issue upon the back-doubt contained new German Pro-Talpo Rural Orphanage), Miss At the death of this great patriot will the occasion was on a small and ing of 25 per cent of the value of posals and they could well imagine kins, Rev. F. R. Myhill, Mr. E. G. affect their will to victory," local scale. Temporary breakdowns all immovable property in the what these proposals would be.
General Papagos is contaning In the German transport system country.
military operations. were the cause.
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Stewart. Miss E. M. Upsdeli, Mr. HITLER'S ANXIETY
3. A. Gaunt, Mr. A. E. Job. Miss The plan proved impracticable,
Herr Hitler was anxious to seK. Langford, Miss B. Pope. Miss N. and for the present the cast buy-cure a foothold in North Africa Dillon, Miss B. K. Saunders and ing power of the Belgians, except and Vichy had always claimed that
Miss S. L. Hollis. de. those who are so lucky as to earn
determined to keep the
Office-holders and the various
coming year.
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The
Unlike Holland, Belgium did not build up large reserves of food. Elockade has hindered
SEA
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livery of wheat from America, so a few marks by working for their French Navy and French Empire committees were re-elected for the the leader, who becaine a national-{
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that today there is practically masters, is derived from hoarded intact.. none left. In regard to fats, milk, money now coming to light. The German foothold in Tunis will rapidly dwindie.would have many advantages for eggs, and meat the need not at stock the moment so grave, but it is especially as so many commodities Harr Hitler and would enable him Ifkely in the near future to assume have to be paid for in marks pur-to control the Straits of Sicily, 'bati
very serious proportions, owing chasable at an expensive rate of there was more pressed thus caly
primarily to the Gerinan economic exchange. policy in Belgium. The Germans!
·have decided that the Belgians are
FRIENDS OR FOES?
While the economic side of the
was than a possibility that there would be a French re- volt against Axis blackmail,
DEATH OF MR. A.D. BRANKSTON
JAPAN BENT Continued from Page 1 plenary meeting of the Budget Committee of the House of Re- presentatives.
The Prime Minister, Mr. Chur- chill, bas cabled to the people of -« Java informing them that the Spitfire, which they had helped to purchase, was now ready for ser- vice.-(Special)
SUBHA BOSE ARRESTED
Mi, Subha Bundra Bose, Indian politician, who disappeared from his home in Calcutta, was found absence of yesterday after an three days and was reported to have been arrested, according to- a message from Delhi-(Special) a
Gen. Tojo concluded: "In this sense, nothing desirable has been left undone in strengthening de ROME, Jan. 29 (Reuter)-The fences in the north. Defences in Commandership of the Military the north, however, mean the per- Order of Savola, one of the high- fection of Japan's national defence est Italian military decorations, and, therefore, does not thwart has been good neighbourliness and amity."
SIGNIFICANCE OF AIMS
Mr. Matsuoka suggested that even somë Japanese are unable to understand the significance of Japanese "aims, admitting some as-
conferred upon the Crown Prince, the newspapers an- nounce.
This declaration
made a
Expert In Chinese tirely ignorant of the gravity of Japan is dreaming of a policy of lengthy presentation of Japanese
aims.
PLUNGED IN GRIEF ATHENS, Jan. 29 Reuter) Greece is plunged in grief, stunned at the almost incredible news that
|hero, is plucked from them at such
& vital hour.
The people move wordless about
was made by the streets swept by the cold wind sumed leadership in the construc- the Foreign Minister in replying to under a leader" sky.
tion of a Greater East Asian coa question during yesterday after- of the Lower The shock was greater by the prosperity sphere signified do-noon's session fact that the public, until theymination of East Asia by Japan in House's Budgetary Committee al awoke this morning. has been en- the role of conqueror "or that which Mr. Matsuoka. Referring to Signor Mussolini's too well fed and could do with a picture is not bright, the political predicament and the picture of
the illness which
conquest.". lot less food, certainly with much aspect is rapidly deteriorating. At the crumbling Italian Empire, Mr.
had kept the less butter. With this conviction the beginning the whole German Lakin said that Herr Hitler, pro-
whole Government up all night has gone a determination,
It is with regret that we have hearing latest reports of the phy- propaganda was directed towards bably realised today that he had to record the death of MR. A. D. sicians battle for the Premier's change the whole course of the making the" Belgians feel not too made a great blunder when he al- BRANKSTON which occurred at fc. country's rural economy.
dissatisfied with their lot. The lowed Signor Mussolini to enter the Queen Mary Hospital, yester- Pasture is to be cut down by 50 behaviour of the invading troops the war at all. The only thing day."
WORLD OWES DEBT per cent, with a corresponding in-was in the main excellent. Every which Herr Hitler could do.now
Mr. Brankston was the son of from London yesterday, Mr. Cyril In the course of a broadcast crease in arable land A decree endeavour was made to gain Bel-was to occupy Italy and by doing Mr A. B has already put this plan into gian co-operation in all branches that he would saddle himself with Managing Director of the New Lakin referred to the death of
Brankston, formerly operation, Inevitably cattle have or public activity.
Engineering Co., of Shanghai. HeGeneral Metaxas and said that the was educated at Brighton College. Whole world owed him a debt for England, and
what he had done. "His inspiring at the Impérial College of Science and Technology example will stand high among the where he took the London Univerist of Greek patriots." said Mr. sity degree in Civil Engineering.
Lakin. "Even now we can say that
to
to be slaughtered, and, while meatį The Belgians were reminded will continue to be obtainable, continually that this invasion was milk and butter will become pro- very different from that of 1914,] gressively scarcer. At the same different in two ways. The Ger-
yet another packet of trouble.
PENSION FOR HERTZOG
time poultry are to be obliterated mans could be good friends or the Irom the land. Only 10 per cent. most fearful enemies, Ever since of pre-war poultry stocks can be the beginning of the invasion the General J. B. 'M. Hertzog, former maintained; this means the sur-Germans have taken care to show Prime Minister of South Africa, vival only of the barndoor fowl their powers of potential frightful- who recently resigned his seat »in who can tend for himself in the ness. Most Belgians saw the vast the South African Parliament, is steadings Thus the egg has swastika painted on the skies by to receive an annual pension of vanished.
German aeroplanes in the first-£2,000, states THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK days, and heard the terrifying sage-(Special) ̧· There are still plenty of vegeta-noises made by bombs and shells: bles and fruit, so that when the Now German bombers drone con-
ducing terror
cer-
London
mes-
with Lord Willingdon on the mis sion to countries of Latin America, had been drowned while bathing at Rio de Janeiro.
Art
He came to the Far East In 1933 he saved Greece by his efforts and and worked as a surveyor on the Europe by his example“. Shing Mun Dam in Hongkong.
His interest in Chinese art started from his student days
TRAVELLING FELLOWSHIP
art
China, arriving in Shanghai last August
He proceeded to Nanking on a came on" to mission, and then Hongkong, arriving in September.
A BRILLIANT MIND
when he used to spend all his given an appointment in the Bri.. spare time in the museums and tish Museum in the department of among the private collections, He Oriental Antiquties, where he con- was a personal friend of the late tinued to write papers which were tinually over the Belgian cities, has been received in London that Percival David.
LONDON, Jan. 29 (BWS)-News Mr. George Eumorfopolos and Sir accepted as authoritative by the worst comes to the worst the poor
connoisseurs in the subject. mad's soup can be distributed in peforming the dual service of in-Mr. Charles Richards, who was
When the Museum was closed, and training new decreasing quantities, Vegetables and fruit are, however, strictly pilots
that he should be asked, on his war, he
It was, therefore, only natural after the outbreak of the present German propaganda
was appointed to the rationed so that a good surplus
return to England in 1935, to Foreign Office. As, however. his can be had for preserving and tainly had a notable success. The of 1914-18 is
assist in cataloguing the
interests were primarily in China, tinning, a process which does not passive resistance
a transfer to the treasures for the Chinese Exhibi- he secured seem to be hampered by the nowhere in evidence. There is in fact a considerable amount of co-
Alleged to have attempted to tion. At the successful conclusion Ministry of Information in the Far most complete lack of sugar.
and commit suicide by Jumping from of the Exhibition. Mr. Brankston Eastern Department under Sir operation, willingly given Beer is. another commodity gratefully
John Pratt. So that he might some time in helping to Ministries the third floor of No. 35, Marble spent accepted. which is to be beheaded under the are functioning, deprived of their Road early yesterday morning. a catalogue Sir Percival's collection
better serve both the British axe of German necessity. Thirty chiefs, but still with an experien- Chinese, Nam Fook-on, aged 55 at the Dorchester.
Government and the Museum, Mr. to 40 per cent. only of the pre-ced body of permanent Civil ser-years, had been admitted to Queen The late Mr. Brankston was Brankston came out again to war consumption will be brewed. vants. Most of the big bankers and Mary Hospital in a critical con-granted a travelling fellowship by The malt which it is hoped to industrialists who are still in Bel-ition.
the Universities' China Committee have as surplus after this economygium are continually consulted" by
which took him to India and China will be sent to Germany to be the Germanis. turned into coffee,
for a further study of art and Almost the only major change pensation in the north of France is an actuality, with suitable com-
archeologs. There is another side to this from the old dispensation is the for the coastal strip which it is in-
While in Peiping in 1936, he inclusion of Belgium within an substitution of "German military
carried forward his studies, ex He was never physically strong overriding Reich economy.
In officials for the provincial govern. tended to form into a German pro- tended his knowledge of the Chi- but he had a brilliant mind, an consultation with Belgian indus- nors. Nothing has been left un-
tye, a discriminating trialists and bunkers, vital-de- | done "to blacken the British. In
So far the trump card has re-nese language, and made a host unerring
of friends among Chinese art taste in Chinese art, and a sound cisions are being taken involving Belgian eyes; the same applies in fused to be played, and as long as critics. A year later he came back judgment. He impressed all whom the fate of the country's principal a less degree to the French. This plans for Belgium are doomed to to Hongkong and completed his he came in contact as a young man industries. The production of has not been difficult since the failure. No amount of propagan-manuscript on "Early Ming Wares with a splendid future, modest and cement and bricks is encouraged, King still holds the affections of da and no amount of apparent of Ching te-Chen"-a work based quiet yet efficient. while the motor-car tyre industry the people, and the attitude of the willingness to listen to Belgian on studies made in the British Unfortunately he contracted - a Allles and especially of the Pieriot troubles will turn aside the stark Museum, at the Louvre in Paris, the serious illness which, in spite This appears to be within the Government to the royal capitula-facts of economic disaster. National Palace Museum Pelping, of a gallant fight,"proved fatal. compass of the German Intention ton profoundly shocked many Belgium is likely to become a among private collections and He made many friends, especially to try to make Holland and Bel-Belgians. It has formed a happy grave Hability if the war cannot, dealers' stocks in Europe, London among those who shared his in gium, and possibly Denmark, com.text to German propaganda ever be finished in the shortest possible and China, published by Fetch of terest and his knowledge, and his plementary units within 'one
time. Tempers on both sides are Peiping, and which finally estab-death at the age of 31 years, is economy whose direction will be
liable to become worn under the lished Mr. Erankston as an expert a serious loss to both England and from Berlin and whose policy will The triumphs of German pro-rub of economic necessity. If that in that branch of Chinese art. China. depend upon the exigencies of the paganda are becoming less marked does happen the old spirit of de- Third Reich. So far as possible as the occupation lengthens. It fance is certain to reassert itself. they must be independent of was in the first place rather over- any support from Germany and done. Then the Germans have yet capable of maintaining them-as yet had no success in capturing selves at a level above the starva- the allegiance of the King to the tion line.
new order of things. He is the
is to be closed down.
а
since.
THE ACE OF TRUMPS.
The implications of such a ace of trumps in the political pack policy, if it comes to anything are of cards. Unlike Queen Wilhel» not yet appreciated, by the ordin- mina and the Grand Duchess of ary Belgian. He is given glowing | Luxembourg, who
simply have accounts of the prospects of the been Ignored by the Germans, prospects of the future by his King Leopold is the key to the Getman master. Nazi and mill-Belgian situation. If he could not tary quarters ridicule the idea of be persuaded to accept respon- food shortage in the coming sibility and form a Government winter.
under German dictalion the way As propaganda it may be good, in the future would be ample. yet the forebodings of well- The Belgian Government in Informed Belgians and Teutrals France had little following. The are shared by the German bankers King is the only possible alterna- who have followed into Belgium tive. But the King has consistent- on the heels of the army. These ly refused to co-operate in any gentry have few lualons about way with, the Germans. All kinds the real state of affairs and in of persorial ́and political pressure. suitable company have no modesty have been brought to bear upon
deed, they have a risky job, being Belgium; when the Hitler victorý
vince
he continues to refuse German
M. I.. APPOINTMENT
The funeral will pass the Monu- Returning to England, he was ment at 6.15 p.m. today.
in expressing their doubts. Inhim; promises of a future free ENGLAND AWAKE-at = sleepy country village, a road is barricźded: preca
possibility of parachute invaders.
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