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BRITISH LABOUR SUPPORT POLITICAL PARTY TRUCE
́ ́LONDON, June is Renter)-Support for continuation of the political party truce agreed to between the conservative, Liberal and Labour Parties in Britain when Mr. Winston Chur- chill became Premier was given yesterday at the annual confer- ence of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, whose membership of over 590,000 includes many of Britain's armament workers.
CAPTAIN JAMES ROOSEVELT IN
PORTUGAL
LISBON, June
WATER CONSERVANCY WORK
been Remarkable progress has achieved in water conservancy, forestation and animal husbandry in the Northwest, according to Mr. The Union's Frequent, Mr. Jer Shen Yi, General Manager of the Tanner, said: "I do not see any- Northwest Corporation for Water Forestation and one who can get a greater maj- Conservancy,
arrived ority of the people behind him Animal Husbandry, who than Mr. Churchill. He is & man in Hongkong a few days ago on an of outstanding character and can officina mission. get the unity of the whole people of this country.
FINANCE & GENERAL
Mahatma Gandhi's Article
On War Criticised
The following is an extract from Mahatma Gandhi's article on comunal riots:
"In Europe two forces, equally matched in destructive skill The goal before and bravery, ure ranged against one another. both is domination. As a man wedded to independence and non-violence, I must fight Nansm and Fascism equally with the enslaving British Imperfallsm.
who
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and the Motherland, Obviously. this is more relevant for to the war and the International, wanted his countrymen to be situation produced thereby than their land what other peoples were to the question of Hindu-Muslim in theirs, yet felt that "the whole can, in its Mr. Shen, who Was formerly riots which was the main subject of this aspiration Commissioner of Public Works in of the Mahatma's article, writes a essence and its reality, be realised
comment within is satisfied Shanghai, revealed that the co-prominent Indian în a which this poration was capitalised at $10 on this article. of which $7,009,000 under the 000,000, by having borne by the Bank of China and the remaining $3,000,000 by the one Kansu Provincial Government By 28 votes to 23,
Dr. T. V. Soong is Chairman of the neutral, the conference defeated a,
of Directors. among resolution calling for the imme-the Board Looking bronze and fit, he told diate repudiation of the political whom are Mr. Sung Han-charg. been responsible for his anti-war
(Reuter) - "The Labour Party Captain James Roosevelt, eldest that the only way in son of the United States President, war can be conducted arrived here yesterday
ten days present circumstances is behind his schedule on his way this truce"
Washington back to
tra- alter round velling 30,000 miles globe
Reuter: "I have got a pretty ac-trace and of suspension curate general picture of the war and national elections.
with
Was
ATTITUDE TO WAR The significance of the passage that incidentally lies in the fact
towards his attitude it explains
which has the war, the attitude
situation. Alr power is a tremen- The report of the Union's Exe- of the same bank and Mr. Hwoh as if the two were
dous if not a dominating factor In this war."
sald: "There is a great demand our part is mainly to use A ment of water
Jor
American
materials in
the
avaliable powers on the munitions the balance
We must con- animal husbandry.
east and although many problema production field. remain unsolved as yet, one can tinue the collaboration with the
satisfied be reasonably
with the
Government. to this end." help getting material
through. Nowhere is help more greatly ap
priciated than in China where I American & Canadian
was Impressed by the cheerful confidence of the people."
MR. R. G. MENZIES REVIEWS THE MILITARY POSITION
Community Of Ideal,
Bonorary Degree from Princeton University yesterday.
He is on a brief visit to the
United States.
He told the graduating class
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NOT THE SAME LEVEL
and
this empire." Mahatma Gandhi himself once paid a glow- ing tribute to the British Empire In the following words: ~~~
"As & passive resister....I dia- covered that the British Empire nad certain ideals with which I have fallen in love, and one of those Ideals is that every
Empire the British subject of
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Satyagraha Mr. Gandhi spesks of local General Manager of the Bank of
of Nazism and the British Empire China, Mr. Tsuyee Pel, Manager
equally great if the only choice cutive Committee.
which will be Yi-min, manager of the Northwest evils and as
before the lovers of freedom was later branch of the banλ. conference fald before the
to offer equal resistance to both. Of the capital, $7,000,000 Mas Captain Roosevelt, who was un
We have more than once stated this week, states: "Now is not the able to discuss military problems, time
that there is not for internecine conflicts. been earmarked for the develop-
our conviction and conservancy
and the least substance in this sort of
And if this was true of the Bri- for forestation
but we argument.
may. with tigh Empire in 1918. it is more apologies, examine t once more. true in 1941. For, in the mean- When misleading statements cat- time it has become a little less culated to do harm are repeated of an Empire and a little more
of eminence
Hitler is one by leaders
and of a commonwealth. fluence they call for repeated re- of the worst enemies that the pudiation.
British Empire has known, and yet it has extorted even his 20- The Mahatma begins by assert-miration. Said the Fuehrer some PRINCETON, June 18 (Reuter), "Between you and us is community
thu the parties equallyume before the outbreak of purpose. Ing
It war: Canada and the United States of thought, ideal and
that both Britain shall forever walk together as the Our common disdain of fleeting matched in destructive skill. best of good neighbours" said the things that will pass, our common is true
Prime Minister, Mr. love of eternal things that will Germany are great powers: but it
does not
should ean that one Canadian Mackenzie King in receiving the remain.
place them on the salie level There is the great difference that Germany is using its undoubted
bound up with the triumph of military prowess to estaplish do-
HOPE AND TRUST
Britain in the Me and death minacion Over the world or at
"Is it fair for a mausima way struggle in which she 18 engaged. least over as inuch of it as it can
to Britain deserves all the support. manage to subjugate. while Bri.more than for
Indians are capable in plying to
Do question, the Secretary for Air sald tain is fighting in the aclence of speak of the British Empire as it or which
Nazism the prosecution of the war. It stood on a part with International mora freedom and
the the progress of the Air Training and Fascism? We have our quar- they not believe equally in
dernocracy Corps continues to give cause for
satisfaction. $1816 The goal before both is domina-rel with it for the slow pace of our cause of freedom and #791
ton."
progress towards Swaraj. But can for which Britain is fighting with £761 £8
This statement i preposterous one deny that that movement is the support of America, the seat Greatest democracy that £23 in relation to the present
in that direction? Is it not India's of the war.
Over 1,000 candidates for com- The war started because Germany hope and trust that she will ac- the world has yet known?
on quire sooner than later a status speak as Mahatma Gandhi does missions have been accepted for made an unprovoked attack Poland and because Britain, along of full equality in the British Em. If there was nothing to choose service with the Corps and some with France had promised Poland pire? Nazism does not believe in between Britain and Germany and 740 units have been affliated to
strong democracy; it started its career we could be indifferent to the R.A.F. stations.
war is positively. thewith destroying what deшucracy fortunes of the feeling in a large part of $176 civilised world including India there existed in Germany before grossly unfair.
CANBERRA, June 18 (Reuter) Mr. R. G. Menzies, the Australian Prime Minister, in a nation-wide broadcast reviewing position, said: "As Germany creeps
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and the Empire south
east
Juez.
new
"In the face of these pertis, any limitation upon our
go."
efforts
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"I have never left room for any doubt of my bellef that the existence of this Empire is an inestimable factor of value for the whole of human cultural and economic life."
a mere man
and was it not shared by Uon-its advent. Nazism
gressmen,
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LONDON, June 18 (BWB)-Re- 보 House of Commons
The number of units formed is now 1,340 with a total strength of about 190,000 cadets.
the naval base at Ponta del Gada states a Lisbon despatch,
quantity of war materials,
A contingent of troops from VICHY, June 18 (Renter) A Lisbon has already arrived in
a despatch.. Our hopes for the fulfilment detachment of sailors has left Lis- Azores, according to
aspirations are bon for the Azores to reinforce from Angra do Herolamo, And d he not defend this ver- of our political dict in the following words:
that Britain should for freedom; instead of helping to Naval Reinforcement The sailors took with them s stand up the aggressor? Dia consolidate or expand it, it has not the Mahatma bimself say at before our eyes robbed ten roun the time that 'Herr Hitler is restries of their Independence. ponsible for the war'?
"I think I am right in saying that the whole world was al xious that Herr Hitler should allow his demand to be examine) ed by an impartial tribunal. if he succeeds in his design, his success will be no proof of the Justness of his claim. It will be proof that the law of the jungle is still a great force in human affairs
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