HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
WORKING TOGETHER:
"WE HAVE A JOB TO DO & WE SHALL DO IT", SAYS
T. U. C. CHAIRMAN
We
What you have heard is the voice of free men. have not lost our freedom despite the restrictions and re- gulations of war-time discipline necessitated by the titanic struggle in which we are engaged," said MR. GEORGE GIBSON, Chairman of the TRADE UNION CONGRESS, when he summed up the series of talks entitled "Work- ing Together" in a broadcast from London yesterday.
After declaring that those
trade unionists we have who had spoken in this series given up for the duration of the We which was inaugurated by war many cherished rights.
have done so not under duress, but, by agreement and not under com- pulsion from arbitrary authority." COMPLICATED BUSINESS
BRITISH EMPIRE -
UNBEATABLE LONDON, April 21 (Reuter)---- "The British Empire, backed by United States aid, is simply un- beatable" declared the Nether- lands Minister in Washington,
· M, Alexander Loudon, in an in- torview with CLEVELAND NEWS yesterday.
"I am convinced that Herz Hitler is going to he defeated," he added.
"AS
CABLE
No Illusions Regarding
Possible Outcome
Of Situation In Greece
LONDON, Apr. 21 (Reuter)-That there are. no illusions re- garding the possible outcome of the situation in Greece, where Empire troops and the Greeks are fighting one of the world's great- est defensive battles, is stressed in today's London Press comment on the news of the week-end.
All newspapers pay very high it will not be for our present tributes to the dignity and reaction but for the unhappy and solution of the Greeks and to the ineffective past." "spirit of the Anzacs in their The DAILY MAIL openly dis resistance to the relentless pres-cussed the possibility af an
evacuation.
sure of the enemy.
Recalling the decision by Greece It says that from the moment to stand against the German it became Impossible to form a onslaught without British ald united front of Greece, Yugoslavia apart from the fact that British and Turkey, it was clear we could Mr. Gibson went on to say that support for Greece was already not prevail against the enormous war-time organisation was a diffi- pledged, "THE TIMES says "It is weight of the German army.
We are cult and complicated
Greece is our ally. business. idīs to suggest that Britain could The process of adjusting the take any other course than that bound to her in hancur. What it British industrial system and ma which was actually followed. comes to how is that we must now decide evacuate when the chinery had taken time. Many of
Greeks think the right moment the most Important industries de-
The newspaper adds, "Nor must has arrived. pended ΟΠ the export market which the war hád' closed to Brit be forgotten that when the tain and many others depended forces of the Empire first began to almost inevitable. upon, import of raw materials for disembark on Greek soll there dia which Britain could not affordjappear the possibility of forming such an alliance against aggres- cargo space.
sion as aouià alore afford any prospect of upholding the German
Mr. Gibson then referred to the Mr. Ernest Bevin, the Minis-move to concentrate labour and material in war industry by the ter of Labour, had tried to
restriction of the work done by less give their listeners some idea essential trades, such as boot and of their personal experiences shoe factories, lace and hoisery and how British workers were factorles, which would now have facing up to their duties dura restricted cutput.
onrush.
GERMAN ONRUSH
"For various reasons that com- bination was never formed. Ger.
to
Such a movement appears to be
AIR SUPERIORITY The Germans have an over- whelming local air superiority. and once again the air has been the Anal factor to tip the scales.
The newspapers, however, sound
83 an optimistic nato to the
gathering will finally overwhelm many was, in consequence, able to future, "when other forces now continue her old strategy of a
Hitler." piecemeal advance and piecemeal conquest, conquest by bluff when Qualified tabour was now repossible and by force when bluff quired to supply the needs of war-tailed. that perhaps these speakers time industry. Women and girls
"We may well have to bear had been able to convey were being registered and guided turther bad tidings." something of the strain, dan-to do useful war work and there gers and anxiety that they was now going on a steady sifting were enduring to keep the of the labour forces for the pur-
Ing this war, Mr. Gibson said
wheels of industry turning.
NO WEAKENING
All that went to show the deter- mination of the people to keep going..
son.
"We have a job to do and we shall do it," said Mr. Gib- "We shall go on with it until dictatorship 13 over- thrown and enslaved peoples are set free. The elemerit of risks is everywhere present in Britain today, but nobody is. weakening in their resolve to carry on.
"The decision we have taken is final and unalterable and we are going on with this job because out treedom is at stake, our democratic life and the British way of living are threatened and because we are determined to preserve them at all costs.
די
"We are not seeking to do- minate any other nation or race, but to prevent such domination by a race of bdors and builles. We
A REPROACH
"The batte of the East will not soon be over," says the DAILY. TELEGRAPH. "and the legions of Nazism will strike on dangerously where the sea does not constrict, them, but the power to conduct a vast battle with the unifled might
The newspaper adds: "But for Navy, Army and Air Force is pose of releasing the younger and they bring with them a reproach, burs, not Hitler's." at men for the fighting services.)
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FASCINATING PROCESS
"It is a fascinating process toj
watch this transformation “A FIGHTING RETREAT”
of
labour," said Mr. Gibson, "and it
has been my personal privilege to
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SPITFIRE FUNDS
BATAVIA, Apr. 21 (Reuter)—The Joint Prince Bernhard Spitfire Funds yesterday remitted £5,000 to London for the purchase “of, an- other Spitfire:
An appeal has been made to the population of the Netherlands East Tidies to contribute on May 10, the
REVIEWS
PROVINCIAL SITUATION
Nevertheless.
CHUNGKING EVACUATES CIVILIANS
Menaced from four different fronts, namely, the Canton Delta, · Hainan Island, the Swatow-Chaochow area and the Southern Route, plus the repeated enemy penetration of its coastline which is the longest among the provincës, Kwangtung has its trials; said General Li Bon-wan, Chairman of the Kwangtung Provia- cial Government, last Sunday at Chialing House where he gave a tea party to some 300 Kwangtung residents in Changing. General Li reported on the political, economic and military condi-.- see it going on. As a member of tionary force fighting side by side during attacks, on Greek sea ports whole day's salary to the war funds. tions in his own province in the past two years.
The total amount of these con- the Industrial Cabinet it has been with soldiers of a small nation al-
Financial difficulties and food tributions which will be entirely vo-shortage, he said, have been caused my duty to advise and assist the most unarmed by the standards of
SEVEN ALERTS ", Minister of Labour whose respon modern equipment, a small nation
Juntary, will be divided among the by the enemy occupation of com Athens had seven alerts and Prince Bernhard Fund in London-mercial and industrisi centers and sibility has been, and still is, to which has already been fighting German bombers machine-gunned a fund for reinforcing the Nether the naval blockade. direct the man-power of the coun- try to the job that has to be done." for a half-year against a better streets in the Athens area.
lands forces in Britain and the Kwangtung marches on. Last night's Greek High Com- Mr. Gibson spoke of the close armed and a more numerous" army co-operation which prevailed now of Herr Hitler's partner and beaten mand communique said that there NEI. la preparing a fund-for the
was lively action by enemy air strengthening of N.E.I defences penses were increased from 330,- between the Trade Unions" and then every encounter.
"Indeed, we sometimes forget force In Albania where the enemy and the R.A.F. cach getting one-000,000 in 1939 to $41,000,000 in
CHUNGKING, Apr. 21 (Central).... Employers Associations for
1940 in spite of the greatly reduced With the lifting of mist which sanising the country for war. Such the Italian army is still participat-land attacks were repulsed with third of the total proceeds.
The Governor-General has con- revenues. enemy
After balancing the heralds the bombing season, the organisation was not an arbitrary ing in the campaign, se contempt-many casualties and the
back beyond his original sented to this scheme which is budgets of these two years, Kwang-Chungking Garrison Headquarters, or compulsory system, but one of uously have the Greeks checked driven
likely to be a great success.
tung further increased its expendi-the Chungking Municipal Governi– co-operation, in which the work-Its efforts at intervention.
tare to $59,000,000 for the currentment and other organs concerned, as people and employers were
the instructions of the Kwangtung's food shortage, Gen-National Military Connell, have: eral Li said. could be expected, commenced evacuating civillans He pointed out that even before whose presence in the wartime the war, the province imported on capital is non-essential. It is ex-
of rice a year.
NO DEPRESSION
or-
In total war such as this the
"Yet its dishonoured presence in associated and the voice of the the field allows the Germans to British worker was clamouring to concentrate and add weight to the get on with the job.
numbers pressing upon the Allies." LINE NOT BROKEN LONDON, Apr. 21 (Reuter)-The do not seek national aggrandise- Trade Union continued to function Allied line in Greece is not broken. ment. Britain and the Dominichs and had greatly extended its ac- and the German thrust is proving "overseas are united in the supreme tivities. That was one of the main so costly to them, that they have resolve to assist other nations, reasons why, in spite of the mag- had to throw in still more rein-. Our alles in this struggle are nitude and burden of the task, the forcements in mechanised units, people to whom freedom is not an British people were not depressed infantry and aircraft, abstraction, but a living reality.
German
although they were carrying a load The R.A.F. continues its support That vital thing called freedom will not perish by fire or sword. other country has experienced."
supply We are limited, in the amount bases and columns and by fighting of food we eat, in the amount of off dive-bombing attacks on All money we spend and in the clothes ed troops.
MORE ATTACKS ON COASTAL SHIPPING
LONDON, Apr, 21 (Reuter)-In daylight yesterday, the Coastal Command made further attacks On coastal shipping off Holland' and Norway.
+
A 3,000-ton supply ship, heavily laden, was hit and left in a sink- ing condition.
J.
The attack on the naval base at Brest was resumed, the docks" re- ceiving further damage, while the aerodrome at Caen was also visit- ed.
we wear," said Mr. Gibson, “and The latest R.A.F. communique with it all we have bombs and says that the British planes, with- black-outs and our towns and cut loss to themselves, destroyed cities, and remote villages are be- ten enemy aircraft during Friday ing attacked.
and Saturday and damaged many more. Yesterday another Ave German raiders were shot down
position.
HITLER SPENDS
A young New Zealand officer, who is in the fighting rourid. how on this front his men beat Mount Olympus, hr described
BIRTHDAY AT back a fierce German attack to
force a vital passage.
RUBBER BOATS
At dawn, he said, the Germans launched their attack across the
He said the administrative ex-
trader
HEADQUARTERS the average some 20,000,000 pteula pected that some 130,000 people
river using rubber boats and Orders Of The Day Issued
By Services Chiefs" covering fire from armoured cars.
parachutists and a barrage of
After two hours, the river Was
men got sick killing, .
driven Losses.
•
RENEWED ADVANCES
Great hardships will be withdrawn to places of were anticipated for the present comparative safety in the country- year.
CORN FIELDS
Inspection corps have been sent Kwangtung has converted 4.000.-out by the authorities to examine LONDON, Apr. 21 (Reuter) 000 mow of otherwise idie land the air raid shelters and other Hitler spent his birthday (52nd) into wheat, potato, bean and corn precautions throughout the city. yesterday at his headquarters. fields. The
government presumably somewhere in south- $1,000,000 for seeds and the pro-
vincial eastern Europe.
bank provided $10,000,000 mort- for rural loans. Unfortunately the
at i winter
crops turned out to be &
allotted
SOVIET TROOPS TRANSFER?
of taxation on a scale that no of the land army by the ceaseless teeming with sunken boats. His
hammering of
It was mass alaughter, he added. They mowed down the boata as fast as they came, each with eight After celebrations in the men in them. The parachutists, ing, he "resumed his work armed with tommy-gups were p.m.," according to the German complete tallure owing to rains in CHUNGKING, April 21 (Reuter)
back with tremendous wireless.
the past 53 days which ruinedThe Chinese Press" gave promin- Field Marshal Walter von Erant-every plant except rice, which ence to the report that the German. chitsch, C-in-C of the German cannot be harvested until 77 days Consul-General in Shanghai is not Army, in a Hitler birthday Order later. Meanwhile, efforts are being issuing passports for travelling over of the Day to the troops, declared: made to increase the rice ship the trans-Elberian Hallway between "Trusting in the Fuehrer and ships from Human Kwangsi and April 17 and May 3. conndent of victory, we shall beat Klangs
Some circles suggest that the ac-. the last enemy,”.....
Dr. John Far! Baker, in his caps-tion may indicate the transfer of This order was read over the city as director of China reller for Soviet troops in the Far East to In Greece, the Germans claim to be advancing in pursuit of the German radio,
the American National Red Cross, the Western borders in view of the Admiral Raeder, C-in-C of the called on General Id at hiukwan European developments. beaten enemy. from Larissa, whilst in Albania, the Italians have Nazi Navy; also, issued an order recently when it was arranged to reached the Greek frontier at expressing himself confident of send 2,000 tons of American wheat several points.
victory in the "Anal struggle to Kwangtung, the German and Italian bombera against a powerful enginy." Last night attacked Malta,
"In the course of a few months my duties carried me round most of the areas of Britain and I have seen the effects of the ravages of the enemy raids, "but never once have I heard a single voice protesting that we cannot go on, neither a single voice dis- agreeing with the decision to fight until victory is won."
MARCHING TOGETHER Mr. Gibson, in conclusion, said: į "We know that we do not tread
GIRLS WORKING. WITH A.A. GUNS
LONDON, April 21. (Reuter)— Girls are now working with British, anti-aircraft guns,
this hard road alone. We know They Bre the nimble-fingered No British planes are missing that our fellow-countrymen over-mathematicians from the Women's from these operations,
CHINA BRITISH SQUADRON
SHANGHAI, April 21 (Reuter)-
seas are with us heart and soul Auxilary Territorial Service, whose President Roosevelt's ringing and job is to handle predictors delicate robust declaration assuring us that instruments determining the height we shall have unstinted suppiles of ranges for gunners. war material from the United States was a magnificent tonic. Together we shall march forward
to a victorious end,
"The men and women fighting
The following release to the press i together and united as never be-
was issued by the British Press At-
tache's Office in Tokyo:
"In connexion with the announce.
fore in the history of the world to make ап end 01 the brutal, treacherous, bullying type
PACT REPORT UNFOUNDED
SYDNEY, April 21
(Reuter)—
of Commenting on the Tokyo report
LONDON, ADI. 21 (Reuter) A German communique today speaks of renewed enemy advances on Sollum and from Tobruk support ed by tanks.“
munique.
ROME GREETINGS
Toushan,
Governor re- Chaoyang. However, the valiant vealed. So far some 350 tons bas Chinese partisans have been hold- arrived. He added that the Chi- ing back the invadera. At no point in Macedonia and
Rome Radio, broadcasting birth-nese residents in Hongkong are He also paid high tribute to the Thessaly have the Germans pene-day greetings to Hitler yesterday, contributing food for rellet, How- partisani in southwest Kwangtung “ trated the Allled lines, declares the declared: "Hitler is no doubt one ever, the transportation thereof who drove off the enemy from latest "Greek High Command com- of the greatest men in history, has been rendered more and more Toshan, Tanghuthow, Changsha,
but fate has decided that he dimeult by the Japanese blockade. Buncheung, Tikhol, ENORMOUS LOSSES
should only reveal, bimself after
The overseas Chinese, General Kwanghol, Pakhoi, Shuitung, Tin- intense rearguard actions are in Mussolint has been acknowledged L4 stated, have been deeply con-pak, and other towns within the progress, it adds, while the Greek everywhere as the greatest statercerned over Hwangtung's accute second week of last month. At main force continues. Its with man in the world."
food problem, contributing $2,000,- Tanshuthow, almost an entire cam- drawal. to a shorter front. Ger-
000 toward relief. In addition, pany including the commander man losses are stated to be enor mous, but they are bringing up
they pledged a sinking fund of paid the supreme sacrifice. $5,000,000 for reclamation projects General Li said the Sun Yat-sen ever more reinforcements of me.. chanised units, infantry and air-
for the refugees. According to University lias moved back to in- General L, the overseas Chinese terior Kwangtung, receiving $300,- craft
remitted $70,000,000 last year 000 from the government to defray Meanwhile German troops are in
through the Kwangtung Provincial transportation expenses. The Agri-⠀
COLLECTION
OF PAPER
LONDON; April 21 (BWS)
ment which was made on Jan. 30 into this war. The spirit of re-alleged to have been signed by Brith the pining of Thessaly, east of aved Britain 60 shiploads of paper toward the relief of the economie lifty has resulted work in the north;
criminals who have, plunged us that a naval and military pact Pursuit of the Anglo-Greek fortes Household salvage has already Bank alone, contributing greatly cálture College of Lingnari Univer – į.
that as a result of the contribution of over £100,000 from the British communities in China a squadron of the R.A.F. has been named 'Bri- tish China Squadron,' advice has now been received from - London that His Majesty's Government. have preferred the title (China Bri- tish Squadron by which name the aquadron will be known.”
of the province. Kwangtung'a !
the Pindus mountains. This would tributive justice will teach the tain, United States, China, Austra indicate a complete break-through and enough metal to build 30,000 crisis in the province. German people this time a lesson lla, India and the Dutch East In-
tanks. of the mountain lines held by the
MILITARY SITUATION educational budget has registered which they will remember longer dies, Sir Frederick Stewart, Com Allled forces,
The Joint Parliamentary Secre Regarding the military situation, steady increase from $2,000,000 than the lessons of the last, war. monwealth Minister for External The Germans also claim that atary of the Ministry of supply re- General La disclosed that the Jay in 1989 to $3,000,000 in 1940, and
Affairs characterised the report as large number of Greek prisoners vealed these Agures at the opening janese attempted to enlarge their over $8,000,000 in 1941. being entirely without foundation: have been taken and the German of the readmgs of the "paper drive" garrison area in southeast Kwang- General Li's report drew favour. He added that it was a deliberate air force, after participating In-one of many planned by the Mintung. The move was started on able comments from two former piece of propaganda designed to the capture of Larisa, attacked ustry Salvage Department to stimu March 23 when eneway units land- Kwangtung governors, General ma create resentment in Japan sgainst the retreating, enemy troops with late the collection of paper, metaled at Swabua and the subsequent Te-chen and General Chen Ming- alleged encirclement-
bombs and machine-guna,
and bones.
attacks on Hoffung, Lakfang and shu-~(Central Newx),
"This time victory will be final, and we shall establish a system of international justice that will remove the possibility
of another conflict of this nature."