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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1941

NECESSARY

DECLARES MR. ROOSEVELT IN

INDEPENDENCE DAY BROADCAST

"We Need Speed, Efficiency

And An End To Sabotage"

HYDE PARK, NEW Y RK, JULY 4 (REUTER)—" WHEN

WE REPEAT THE

AUSTRALIA ENDS HER FISCAL

GREAT PLEDGE TO OUR COUNTRY AND OUR FLAG, IT MUST BE OUR DEEP CON YEAR WITH

VICTION THAT WE PLEDGE AS WELL OUR WORK, OUR WILL AND, IF IT BE NECESSARY, GUR LIVES," DECLARED PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT IN HIS INDEPEN- DENCE DAY BROADCAST TO THE NATION.

"It is indeed a fallacy, based on no logic, for any Americans to suggest that the rule of force can defeat human freedom in all other parts of the world and allow it to survive in the United States alone, but it has been that childlike fantasy that has mis- directed the faith which has led nation after nation to go about its peaceful tasks re- lying on the thought and even the promise, that it and its life and its government would be allowed to live when the juggernaut of force came that way.

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GERMANS CLAIM RIVER BERESINE

CROSSED AT VARIOUS POINTS IN CENTRE OF THE LINE OF ATTACK

Latvian-Soviet Frontier

Reported Reached

LONDON, July 4 (Reuter)—A High Command com- munique “from the Fuehrer's headquarters" says: "Despite the bad condition of the roads, the pursuit of Russian forces is proceeding without pause on the whole front.

"The retreating enemy is suffering heavy losses from the ruthless attacks of our Air Force over a considerable depth of the country.

PALMYRA CAPTURE NEAR END OF SYRIA CAMPAIGN

CAIRO. July 4 (Reuter) The The River Beresine has number of Soviet aerodromes in capture of Palmyra means that the Allies have achieved ዘን Ina- CANBERRA, July 4 Reuter) been crossed at various points our eastern frotier."

FIGHTING CONTINUED

portant step towards inishing the Australla ends her scal year with in the centre of the line of

MOSCOW, July 4 Reuter)-This campaign in Syria. a cash balance of £10,000,000, an-attack.

morning's communique of the So- The road to Homs is now open, nounced Mr. A. WI Fadden. Federal¦

states: the capture of which would cut Treasurer. In the House of Repre-

"In the North, the Latvian-viet Information Bureau

"During the night of July 3, fight- Vichy forces. into two, Moreover, Russian sentatives today.

frontier has been ng continued in the Dvinsk, despite opposition lasting 10 days The expenditure was, in 1941-42 reached.

Bobruisk and Tarnopol sectors. at Palmyra, there are increasing unlikely to be less than £250,000,-

"Reconnaissance operations and signs that the powers of resistance Among the booly inspected yes. 000, he said, which was £80,000,000 terday were

actions of local importance took maps of the Soviet above the previous year without General Statt which revealed the

place on other sectors. allowance for £60,000,000 be spent latest information v

"The Soviet Air Force continues! intense on forces overseas,

fighting against

This is partly due to the grow- enemy aggressive intentions.

mobile units. According to incom- mg influence of General Catronx's During the year just ended, re-

"These aggressive intentions are plete reports received during July recent proclamation of indepen- and study again, know full venue amounted to £150,000,000. now proved as WE have in our 3, the Soviet Air Force destroyed dence to Byria and Lebanon, and well that in these days we roughly £2,000,000 above

IT IS SIMPLE-I COULD SAY ALMOST SIMPLEMINDED FOR US AMERI- CANS TO WAVE THE FLAG TO REASSERT OUR BELIEF IN THE CAUSE OF FREE- DOM AND LET IT GO AT THAT

Nothing Could Have Been Clearer Than Stalin's Call To Russian People

- LONDON, July 4 (Reuter). THE TIMES, in an editori- al, says that nothing could have been clearer than M. Sta- in's call to the Russian people to fight to the finish for the freedom of the country.

admirable

The dispersal of Russian forces in the vast area wher ever operations are extended, and the endurance and re- silience of the Russian peasant provide an background for guerilla warfare behind the enemy lines.

"Yet all of us who he awake

at night and all who study

save

Jeannot

freedom with Budget estimate. pitchforks and muskets.

"WE KNOW, TOO. THAT WE CANNOT SAVE FREE- DOM IN OUR MIDST IF ALL AROUND US, OUR NEIGH- BOUR NATIONS, HAVE LOST THEIR FREEDOM.

That is why we are engaged in

a serious mighty unified action in the cause of the defence of the hemisphere and freedom o! the seas.

"We need not unity alone.

"We need speed, efficiency. toil and an end to back-biting and sabotage, which runs far deeper advancing

up than blowing munitions plants. "I teil the

American

of

the Soviet's

of Vichy forces are weakening throughout Syria.

the hands an accurate survey of the 24 enemy planes, Soviet losses be- partly to the growing realisation by

ivast increase by the Soviet in the ing one plane."

Second Night

Raid-Free

Russia Has Changed: Mr. Wickham Steed For Britain Defines Philosophy

Of Freedom

"The Russia of today is not the Russia of fifteen, or jeven ten years ago.. Anti-God propaganda may even stil! be going on but there have been changes," said MR. H. prople WICKHAM STEED, the eminent author-journalist, when

Like the Chinese resistance; wale w ultimately defeat the solemnly that the United States he broadcast from London yesterday in the series "World

EN resistance of Hitler's will never survive as a happy and Affairs." against Japan, this is a war welkht

prosperous oasis of liberty in the not only of the armies but of thrust at the heart of Russia

the whole people.

I deserves every kind of en-midst of a desert of dictatorship." |

and couragement

reinforcement j

DECENT RESPECT M. Stalin's appeal to workers and which the resources of Britain and

Recalling on the Day of Ameri- peasants ኪዳኔ basten production, the United States can arnish Aght to the utmost and, if com- The DAILY TELFORAPH points can Independence declared in 1776 pelled to yield ground. to destroy out was the arst time in five everything useful to the enemy, years the people of Russia and Eu shows the spirit and determination rope had heard Stalin

COCHRANE ST. TRAGEDY

After hearing a loud thud from

the direction of the courtyard,

fokie of the Wah Hon barber shop.

The man stated to be Chan in action. Chung, 38, cook, died before the! arrival of the ambulance.

Mr. Steed said that even in the schoolroom today the history of old Russia was being taught and it was now reported that 4,000 worshippers in Russian churches had beseeched the Almighty to grant Russia victory in her fight for freedom.

GREATER DANGER Earlier in his talk, Mr. Steed de

''

There were no reports of enemy air activity over Britain on Thurs. day night and thus the Home country had the second successive raid-free night

The only enemy alrcraft to fly over Britain in daylight on Thurs day crashed in Cornwall,

Vichy supporters that they are fighting against the real interests of France.

Continuous hammering by the R. A. F and Australian air squadrons played a considerable part in forcing the surrender of Palmyra.

DEBRA TABOR SURRENDERED

Я

LONDON, July 4 (Reuter) The agreement of the ftalan com- mander at Debra Tabor, Abyssinia, to surrender, is announced in The battering of the German British Middle East communique: war machine was continued by the "Abyssinia. The Italian com. R.AF. on Thursday night. The mander of the troops at Debra main targets were Essen, Bremen Tabor has agreed to surrender 011 and Eremerhaven.

the same terms 25 imposed by Large ares were started at Essen us at Amba Alagi. and elsewhere in the Ruhr.

"The prisoners number approxi- Seven of our aircraft are missinately 3,000 Italians and 1.200 ing.

African troops.

| SOVIET ENVOY INFORMED OF JAPAN'S ATTITUDE

TOKYO, July 4 (Reuter)—While declining today to elaborate on the Government statement on Wednesday announcing that the Im- perial conference had decided upon an"important national policy, MR. KOH ISHII, Deputy spokesman of the Information Board, re- vealed that MR. MATSUOKA has informed the SOVIET AMBASSA- DOR, M. Smetanin, of Japan's attitude, decided in pursvanes of the; decision of the Imperial conference,

"We must wait and see if the Queried on foreign Press mes- United States will send munitions pages of Manila and London re-i to the Soviet Union via Vladivos-porting that the Japanese Gov-: tock to ald the Jatter." Mr. ernment had recalled Japanese

Live representatives of several States in Congress asserted "a de- M. STALIN'S BROADCAST taken place is an official recogni- cent respect for the opinion of STRUCK THE SAME NOTE. tion by Russia of the fact that mankind required they should de-

nations. like men, cannot live by STERN CANDOUR

"If, and when, the Russian bread alone." clare reasons for their action," Jess Impressive than The Not

President Roosevelt said, "In this Government wins the war the spirit of his kadership was

In 1776 there will, of course, be noth- stern candour which set forth the crisis we have a like duty.

we waged war on behalf of the ing to prevent it from return-¡clared that Bolshevism was re- success of Hitler's armles

He showed that he and the Gov- great principle that the Govern- ernment and Command are work- ment should derive its just powers to its former anti-God carded at one time, as being of Hitlerism was is cut shrewd plans to defeat then the consent of the governed state and the sudden change greater danger to civilisation than

"In the century-and-a-half that in Russia is no more to be Hitler's Hitlerisra Nazi war methods. he proclaimed

then only a small cloud on the followed this cause of human free-trusted than Hitler's of No. 15. Cochrane Street, Cen- the war for freedom.

new horizon and Hitler's Germanism tral district, rushed out to see a His full response to Mr. Chur-dam has swept across the world order which he intends to set frightened nobody. man lying motionless in a big pool chill's words and to the United but now in our generation, in the

up in Europe.

Hitler's decision, therefore, to of blood on the stone ground at States Government's declaration of ast few years, a new resistance,

"It may be that the Russian at-attack Russia on the plea that he Ishii told Я foreign corres-vessels, Mr. Ishii replied he was 6.45 a.m. yesterday.

readiness to help, ranges the forces in the form of several new prac-

tlees of tyranny. has been making titude is designed to meet the was trying to save civilisation was

No doubt, pondent when asked whether the not in the position to comment be a little out of date. Stalin has the right to claim such headway that the funda argument of the hour.

Hitler had made his decision to Japanese Governme snares the cause there was no Information. mentals of 1776 have been struck

Turning to the Trade Agreement are fighting |

"But all my experience shows

between the United States and and anti-Com-ing American aid to Russia.

Colonel with

a British correspondent Burma, Mr. Ishit said:- Charles Lindbergh, and others of referred to the alleged excitement "Legally, It Is a commercial deal his kind, singing seconds to the of the Japanese press over report-with which Japan has nothing to ed American shipments to Vid!-do, bat it is not a friendly move Mr. Steed went on on to define vostock, Mr. Ishti replied. "The towards Japan when 't is reraom- what he called the philosophy of Japanese Government is watching bered aid to Chungking will be freedom. The ideal of freedom, the situation with great concern." strengthened through Burma.". he eald, did not represent that' those who believe in it expected higher wages, bigger, business r cheaper automobiles. The value of democracy which was coupled with freedom lay precisely in the fact that it is a safeguard of ind! vidual freedom more securely than any other system of govern- ment.

Russians that the

fle had been out of employment; hercically for even Berlin admits down abroad and are threatened that this change has been real and attack Russia to the strain of the Japanese newspaper view regard-

and had been sick,

11.

Democracy Will Surmount

International Turmoil

TOKYO, July 4 (Reuter)-Speoking at the American Olah. Jun- cheon held on the occasion of "Independence Day, MR. JOSEPH G. GREW, U.S. AMBASSADOR, expressed his firm conviction that de- mocracy, divilisation and humanity would surmount the present in- ternational turmoil because "in the conduct of human affairs, con- alructive forces always and inevitably in the long run, whít triumph over the forces of destruction."

The function was attended by 160 United

at

here."

HAAKON'S MESSAGE

King Haakon of Norway has sent special greetings to President. Roosevelt in which he stated: "May our two peoples ever be closer asso- clated in the furtherance of the democratic principles."

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that the change which has now

anti-Bolshevist muniat

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Pages

The Emperor of Japan

has Page cabled a message of felicitations to President Roosevelt.

MEMORIAL UNVEILED

In St. Paul's Cathedral yesterday, Bir Archibald Sinclair, Secretary for Alr. unveiled a memorial tablet]; Asserting that civilisation and to Plot Officer Fiske, the first

wore Skates residents in humanity

stake, he American citizen to give his life for Tokyo, as well as the British Am-strongly urged that the American Britain in the air during this war. bassador, Sir Robert Craigle, the people should rekindle their faith Mr. John G. Winant, United | Australian Minister, Sir John La- In their country and present; a States Ambassador, was present, tham and all the diplomatic on-united front. voys of Latin-American, countries.

The Ambassador, moreover,

Democracy, Mr. Grew Rid, was voleed a firm support of President

now

salling

resolutely agal st

WASHINGTON, July 4 (Router)--- Roosevelt. "We have chosen by process of democracy and true to First Lieutenant James Wilkoh strong headwinds, but "I have no the test of domperney, iles in full-cheriectady, New York, has been lots of doubt these headwinds will,ness. sureness and unity of the appointed Assistant Military At

tache to Chungking. support we give him." in due course, turn fale.”

2-"" aquatic gala: Baseball programme; Happy Valley golf: Macao Jockey Club annual meeting. 3-Radio programmes; Com- ing events; Crossword duzzie, 4-British troops sccupy Pal-

myra; Eleven Gerhiall fighters shot down; Ru mala perturbed by masŁ of Nael troops, D.B.B. annual speech day: Uneatiod..for assault. -Londing article: Frank and

Firm.

-Catholle newe and nolas;

Church Bervices. 11-Volunteer Ordera.

same air.

DEEPER ASPECTS "While we are fighting the Bat- tle of the Atlantic with the help of the United States, while we are pushing forward in Syria and tak. ing steps to co-ordinate our do- fences in India, It seems to be rid lens important to think of these deeper aspects of the struggle,” sald Mr. Blood...!!

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Today's News Summary

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT broadcast to the nation on Indepen- dence Day yesterday. King Harkon sent a message of greetings from the Norwegian people. In London, the Secretary for Air un- Velled a memorisi to the first American citizen who gavo his 11e for Britain in the air in the Present wor Mr. Joseph Grow, American Ambassador, spoke on democracy in Tokyo at the Ameri- can Club

A GERMAN HIGH COMMAND communique claims that the Ger many have crossed the Beresine River at various points in the centre of the line of attack. Continued fighting is reported in the Minsk area and the Soviet Air Force, claim succeASON.

THE BATTERING OF THE GERMAN war machine by RAF bombora was continued on Thursday night while Britain was raid -free for the second night in successton.

STALIN'S SPEECH TO THE Russian people is welcomed in the British Press where. It is pointed out that nothing, eduld have bann aleater than his call to the Sovieta.

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