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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
September 23, 1940.
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WHAT
WANT-
RED
General Smuts Believes Britain
Will
Win
"NAZIS WHO COULD NOT SUCCEED AT DUNKIRK CAN NEVER TAKE BRITAIN"
Fled To Guernsey- And Back to Prison
SUPREME CONFIDENCE IN GREAT BRITAIN'S ULTIMATE VICTORY WAS THE KEYNOTE OF A BROADCAST TALK BY GENERAL SMUTS, THE SOUTH AFRICAN PREMIER.
Many people, regarding the chances of Britain in the light of what had happened to France and other unfortunate countries, had reluctantly come to accept the German view and to look on the war as already lost, he said.
To the faint-hearted he would point out two considerations which should be
WHEN a warrant was issued for the arrest of 26-year-old carefully borne in mind in this connection.
Louls Cohen he fled from London to the Channel Islands,
He had to return when the islandia were invaded
At the Old Balley he was sentenend to two years' imprisonment for conse piracy jo evade military service
Cohen told the court, "I made no attempt to evade the army myself, and I have since then passed Al"
The affairs of outposts do no!
British people were united as his been struck at this heart of the never before under leadership of Allied defende. unrivalled brilliance and courage, and the competence of their let this main battlefront, military command was not queswar by any menna all they have tioned among those who knew.overcome the main Allied force, en- Here was the crux of the war trenched as it is in the island fortress
of Britain. situation,
"The Germans have not won the
"Nothing that has happened so far in the war Justifies the in- ference that the fate of Britain will follow that of the other countries! that have been overran. The cor- rect inference is just the opposite.
Lesson Of Dunkirk
Indo-China Situation Still Tense
Government Urged
To Resist
KEY MAN' FREED Jobs Of 90 People Saved
The Home Secretary (80 Jahn release Andersing hos ordered the from Internment of Mi Emilio de: Filippin. manager of a Colchester (Essex) silk business "I am satis- "Eritan is and remains the inuer ned that his release is in the national pore of the Allled cause the main Busiton of Alled defence the force interest," he said in Parliament
with which the Germans hove to deal before & real decision is reached. Until that force in disposed of it is futile to talk of defent," said General Smuts
"If the German Army and Air "There is no defeat till this main Force together could not succeed in furce is defented-tili a mortal blowu supreme effort in their attack at a Almost all able bodied men have single point like Dunkirk, how con
been mobilised in the Army rendy they fairly hope to succeed in on to move at a moment's notice to any uttack on such a huge area as Britain, Japanese landing point. The small where, moreover, every physical and but efficient air force has also been moral factor would be vastly 15 mobilised. lavour of the defence?
Nine other men who look part the conspiracy were also sentenced.
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In question to Sir John, Mr medical boards by a man who suffered from heart trouble and had already Oswald Lewis, Colchester MP, said -been exempted.
Mr. de Filippis had been in a key It was stated that Cohen was cot. Dosition for eight years, and bis con- nected with four cases of kaper som-Unsed internment would mean the tion, and made about £100.
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Hanoi, Sept. 21. French war veterans are urging the Indo-China Government to re- sist any Japanese attempt to enforce an ultimatum.
The French authorities said they are willing to carry out the terms
to
"Sea power and air bined are the real keys to the proof the recent ogreement between blem of Britain's defence, and Dun Vichy and Tokyo, but that they will İkirk was a test cone which showed
not yield
the new expanded how effective 'that defence is likely to
Japanese demands, and they will not be in the more favourable case ul
permit the original agreement-f Britain itself
the Japanese finally find it accept- able to deteriorate into a Japanese occupation of Indo-China,
"No. the cause of the Allies is far from being lost, and i will nat
Britain be lost 11
taken. 1
The majority of people in Indo- Dunkirk has any message for as China do not realise that the ultima Is the heartening one that Britain tum
will prove to be ДП
expires at Sunday midnight. impregnable
However, the departure of Major- fortress against which Germany's General Nishara and other men- might will be launched in vain. bers of the Mission has made 1 If that attack falls, ler is loat clear that anything may happen any and all Europe, дук, tho whole world, is saved,
minute.
It is believed here that such a "And if Hitler dues not venture to development will not after the situa attack Brilaiti hc is equally lost,
tion materially unless the Japanese Far the same combination of ԷՐՂ are willing to revise their demands power and air power which baulked and accept the terms of the original him at Dunkirk, and which would
agreement between Tokyo and
have saved Britain Irom Invasion, Vichy-United Press.
would then be turned into a victor-
offensive against Hitler--an Earlier United Press reports sald offensive which in the end would that Japanese military and naval throttle and strungle and bring down) authorities Werc prepared for n ruins his vast land empire Europe.
inforcible action. There was a con- centration of three Japanees divi- sions at Hotmun with busy depar ture of supply ships from Holhow to Welchow Island.
"For in war of endurance the Ume factor must prove falat to Hit- Jer's plans, Under an ever tighten- ing blockade his essential war sup-
Reuter on Saturday reported that plica musi rapidly dwindle (11 he Japanese civillans who left Honol can no longer hold down vast popula- on Friday spent the night at Hal- tions whom he has overrun and phong, but they had not boarded oppressed and starved and sought to the Japanese evacuation ship. enslave.
Liberation Of Europe
Dealing with the kind of peace wo envisage and hope to establish at the end of the struggle, General Smuts said:-
"Our vision still is the liberation of Europe from the deadly Nazi thrall and its organisation in a new creative freedom,
Dr
HELP FOR BRITAIN Willkie In Favour Of More Aid
"Hitler is in a strong position. He
San Franciso, Sept. 21. Is master of most of Europe, and will
"We must send and keep on send- probably succeed in putting the rest of it also in his power or in his ing aid to Britain, our first line of defence, and our only remaining pocket.
friend,' declared Mr. Wendell "Being master of Europe he can Willkie, in his campaign speech on offord to restore the semblance of foreign affairs to-day, “We must ald freedom to his victims and to her to the limit of prudence and establish a system of so-called free effectiveness as determined by im- States which will however, all be partial experts in this field." held together in bonds of Nazi order. "Real freedom, Dersonal
Mr. Wilkie proceeded to make a national, will have perisited. The charge that the present Administra name of a Monroe Doctrine for this tlon "contributed to the dawnfall, of Europe will be invoked, but it will Democracy and must bear the direct be a mere mockery and travesty of chare of the responsibility for the that Monroe Doctrine of America, present war." He said that to regard which hulwark of free national President Roosevelt as the defender self, development for the whole of Democracy was and will be ualen- continent
able. He added that America was “As against this spectra of
of Naxi- faced with a changed world beyond dominated Europe we oppose the her shores. It Britaly stopped Ger- vision of a truly free Europe. many there might be uprisings Freedom 'remains our sovereign aguinat Hitler which would den remedy for the illa from which moralise Europe. Germany won, human society is suffering. Weven the United States will be left alone virage tree Europe, free for in- to face a hosille Totalitarian world, dividual and for nation, free in the The loneliness of the United States sense of giving full scope for per- was the direct result of the foreign sonal and national self development polley of the last eight years.
! and self perfection each according to Britain falls we are utterly and his own Individual lines. In that savagoly along. No nation except fundamental sense we continue on Britain owes us anything but dissilli- the historic trail of human progress alonment and fitwill."Reuter.
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