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AUXILIARY ARMOURERS
Wemen of the A.T.S. are doing useful work in the armoury of a West Country regimental depot, Top: Examining revolvers to see. that the barrels have been properly cleaned. The other pleture shows an anti-tank gun receiving attention..
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IIITLERISM CAN BE DESTROYED ONLY IN ONE WAY-BY THE SWORD.
Sir Edward Grigg, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Information, made this statement at Al- trincham recently.
Speaking to his constituents, he said that the German nation was like a splendid ship under pirate control, driven forward by
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Soldiers' Family News By Radio
Germany has "lost" 10,000 people who were living in the Saur
All German wireless stations have been broadcasting long lists of names, with their former addresses, of people from that region whose whereabouts, are unknown.
The conclusins drawn, says Reuter, is that the cyacuation of the Snar was carried out in such a hurry that the authorities do not know where evacuees have gone.
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The reading of the names re- cently, as on previous days, was followed by an urgent appeal to re- port at once, as, many of those ul- ready enlledd have not yet put in an
appearance.
Bremen's Master Honoured
It is now announced that, 4s a reward for reaching Germany, the
owners of the ND.I's liner Breinen,
51,000 tons, have conferred the title of Commodore on the manter, Cupt. | Adolf Ahrens,
Births Announced by Radio
A broadenst concert for German troops was interrupted by a gramo- phone record of a child's cry. This prefaced the reading of a long list
at the front.
̈*'Do not doubt that hurd days and bitter times will come-Do-of-babies-born-to-the-wives-of-men not object to boredom when every week of it means that we are stronger by comparison with our enemy and better prepared.
“Drinyed action en our side TUCKER IN
does not mean we have fost one jot
of determination to end the terror overshadowing Europe for the
three or four years.
last
"The ruthless destruction of Poland
has not shaken this nation, but given it an even more burning faith in the justice of its cause-
SHANGHAI
Not Conscious Of Breaking Law In Japan
Shanghai, Dec. 21.
Rev. Luther Tucker was met by his "Hitlerism, which we have pledged ourselves to destroy, is something} wife and two daughters
upon his much stronger and more pervasive | arrival from Kobe this morning, than the mind and character of a
Father Tucker said: "It is clear single max
I was gully of violating the law.
the literature "There would be no Hitler to-dny was held because of if the German people were not sus- which I distributed, the nature ceptible to crude and brutal leader-which I am not free to discuss; but ship of the type he represents.
It was clearly disturbing the domes- "There would be no Hitler to-daye peace and order of Japan.
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of:
The announcement of the birth of a seventh son in one soldier's family was coupled with the statement that Hitler would stand godfather to the child.
Another soller, stationed in the Siegfried Line, was told by the radlo of a new arrival, bringing his family up to 12.
A Berlin firm promised free per- ambulatora for the first 25 babies announced in the Ust.
Glossing Over Bad Nows
Berlin radio reported that 20 per- sons were killed add more injured in a. railway, accident on the Berlin- Salzburg line.
This nows was mentioned as un-
abtrusively as possible, the announcer saving it till the end of his broad- cast.
Ludendorff's Cult
The fortnightly magazine, “At the Holy Fount of German Power," (which was founded by Gen. Laden- dorit and was published after his death by his widow, has ceased
if there had not been in every Ger- | "I was not conscious that I was man street and village a number of breaking the law. I actually violated men ready and willing to inflict on two laws, one against spreading false publication. It was devoted largely their ብዛ
compatrisin the awful cruelties and tyrannies which mark information and rumours and the
his regime.
Ond Remedy
"The evil things In Germany
other a special regulation against 'disturbing literature,' preventing any information from raising questions at in anyone's mind, because it is Ja- present dominate the good, and there pan's policy of sacrificing unstintingly is only one means by which that for the establishment of a new order. satanic mirit in GermMAY cun be destroyed the sword."
"During my entire detention I wan
to the cult of Germanic theology and Teutonie mysticism.
Gen. Ludendorff was Field-Marshal von Hindenburg's Chief of Staff - In- the last war. Spy Beheaded
A spy, whose name is given a Hermann Krieger, was excuted, by (the use, according to a German broadenst.
·
Sir Edward said that Britain did never under the slightest duress, not seek a dictated peace, but a peace pressure or hardship. As Secretary He had been found guilty of work- by agreement in which all peoples, jof the World's Student Christian (ing against Germany .in favour of Including Germany, would play their Federation I helped interpret the part,
jobligallons of the Japanese to ench break in
"We seek a peace guaranteed by other, aiming to avert o general acceptance-not pence Christian fellowship. In Japan, this which is guaranteed by the strength meant helping the Christians under- of two or three dominant Powers, stand the nature of while other peoples remain wenk and tragic consequences of the war." disarmed," he added:
Forco Nocossary
some of
the
It will be recalled that Father Tucker was convicted of the charges in a Japanese Court at Kyoto several "There must be force behind all days ago-United Press. law: but the wider the consent on which the law is based, the less the
foreign Powers.
THEOSOPHISTS MEET
The Re-bath of Nations was the subject of d lecture given by Mr. Percy Chen to the Theosophical So ciety yozlerday, which he chose as ja fruitful subject to discuss with the death of nations occurring all around. The spenker dealt with the periods of decadence through which nations danger that force will have to be treatles was their blindness to the referred to the case.
pass before they cease to exist and of Abyssinia; economic needs of the various new | Albania, Austria and Czecho-Slova "We shall strive also for the States soi up.
kin. economie wolfàre, not merely of the victorious countries, but of Europe as
whole.
used.
**Europe will, I hope, come to realise that without co-operation on ja scale unknown in the past they The greatest weakness the cannot have to be either safe.or Treaty of Versailles and the sister prosperous."
of
Mr. Chen dealt at length with Young Chim, which still lives, and outlined the principles guiding it in task of rogeneration of the nation.
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DEVELOPMENT PLAN Manchuria Mother Company, Expands Rapidly
Hsinking, Dec, 21. The Manchurin Heavy Industry genisation of an oversean Chinese mission to Caina comprising 00 mem-¡ Corpany, the holding company un- dertaking the development of heavy hers in under way with a view to industries in Manchukuo, with n visiting the Chinese fighters at the capital of yen 450,000,000, during the various fronts and refugees at the current year has paid a total of you 361,610,000 on the stocks of its sub- sidiary companies,
rear.
Large quantities of medical sup- plies and gifts will be carried by the! mission.
The capitalisation by the Company. during the current year show, three and a half times as much as thos Mr. Tun has telegraphed the Chin- in the past year. Accounting for the ese lenders in Malaya, Dulch East vast capitalisation are o inaugura=" clics. Philippines, Thailand, Burma ton of new subsidiary companies and and Indo-Chinn asking thern to des- the increases in the capital of existing patch delegates to Singapore ku join companies. the mission to go to Chiņa.
Among the larger capitalisations The mission will be sub-divided that have been made by the Com- into six sections which will cover pany during this year are yen 106,- North, Central and South China. 000,000 for the Manchuria Coal Min-.
The mission is expected to spending Company, yen 50,000,000 for the Shown Steel Works; yen 43,000,000 six months in China and will leave for the Manchuria Mining Company, Singapore about March-Roller..
yen 40,000,000 for the Eastern Border Development Company, and the tale ing over the stock of the Penkalehbu
yen 40,000,000.
GOVERNOR · AT PANTOron and Coal Company, valued at By way of disposing of the His Excellency the Governor, Sir Geoffry Northcote, accompanied by capitalisations, the Company has Lady Norlicate and a party from issued yon 130,000,000 of debentures
Its banking. Government House were among the with the support of nany who laughed heartily at last yndicate, while it an donned Wetzste night'a presentation at the European 200,000,000 from the Manchuria In
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