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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
Churchill's
December 24, 1940.
Dramatic Appeal Clashes In Artillery Harasses
➡➡">FROM PAGE ONE
Church, against the wishes of the Italian people who had no lust for this war, has arrayed the Inheritors of arlert Rome upon iho, side pagna) barbarians. There a tho tragedy of Italian history and there stands the criminal who has wrought
of
Thailand
Singapore, Dec, 23.
The most severe 'clashes be- tween French and. That troops since hostUlties began occurred on Sunday of two points on the Mekong River.
Italians
FROM. PAGE ONE
from Sidi. Baruni, . At Sidi Borani the Italians had erected us elaborate. defences they could in the two months they were there, Bardla on the other hand, has been defended ever since tile Italians arrived Įri The Bangkok High Command re- Libya. There are permanent fort!- parts a violent battle when artillery fcations running round it for some for 40 minutes across the river be direction. and machine guns maintained a duel seven
ot eight miles in overy There are also a large
“Sanctions and Abyssinia "What is the defence that is put forward for his action? course, the quarrel about sanctions and Abyssinia. Let us look at that but there were no
"Together after the last war Italy damage. and Britain both signed the coven-
It is of tween Thakek and Nakompanoin, number of constal defence guns. The Over 100 shells landed in Thailand Importance of Dardia is shown in casualties or a recent Rome broadcast which said, "The defence of Bardia is not only Fascism."" the defence of Libya, but also of
Minor Port
ant of the League of Nations which Another machine gun duel occur forbade all parties to that covenant to red between the French at Vien- make war on each other or upon chandra and the Thalianders at fellow members of the League and Nongkal The French used five
Borda's port is only of whtor bound all signatories to come to the launches full to capacity with soldiers ald of any member who was attacked to make feint landing. The only importance. Two ships can go in at by another.
casualty on the Thal aldo was a one me but there is only
small "Presently Abyssinia came knock-private who injured a finger, Two Pler with about ten feet of water. All embarkation and disembarkation ing at the door asking to be a mem-French soldiers were seen to fall. ber. We British advised against it.
has to be by lighters and boats and A High Command communique bad weather easily interferes with We doubted whether they had reach-says that Thai forces repulsed the such operations. There is actually no ed a staro in their development which French troops which, for the first port of any size between Alexandria warranted their inclusion, but it was time, entered. That territory on De- and Tobruk. The Sidi Borant an Mussolini who insisted that Abyssinia should become
member of the Len-cember 20 at Klonglouk near Nakon-chorage is entirely exposed and que and who therefore, bound him- panom.
there is only a small pler at which boats can land. zeit and
and bound youoro
you and us to respect The communique said that the Abyssinia's cov
covenanted rights.
French shelled Bonnaponi in the To embark the Italian prisoners "I declare and my words will go same sector on December 21, and the navy had a very difficult job re- far-that nothing that happened in that there was a machine-gun duel quiring special organisation. At that Abyssinian quarrel can account on December 20 at Bundan, where Mersa Matrush ships of any for or justify the deadly war which number of Moroccan troops were have to stay out at sea. There are has now broken out between us.
Italy's Needless Acts
killed, but there were no casualties two jetties with about 12 feet of on the Thalland side. "Then the great war between the British and French democracies and The French version says Thai
u
water.
size
Prussian militarists or Nazi dictator-artillery sent 60 shells on Vientiane 9 Feared Dead In
vhip began again.
Where was the during a three-hour bombardment need for Italy to intervene? Where and 10 shells on Thakek. The French was the need to strike at prostrate replied with 150 shells. France? Where was the need to de- clare war on Britain? Where was
Lunng Cheepensook, Thai Consul
Tokyo Blaze
SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH” TOKYO, Dec. 24 (Domel)-Nine
and
need to invade Egypt which at Saigon, has been given a permit under British
o go to Bangkok by tea, indicating persons were believed to have been "We are
protection!
that Hanol has established communi- burnt to death and eight received in- content with Italian neutrality, During the first eight Bangkok,
Jacations with the French Minister at Jurles early this morning, when a fire months of war we paid great defer-Hanoi oficials deny they have made Ward destroyed two houses
M. Garreau, although which started from a cafe in Shiba ence to Italian Interests. But this contact.
Last week the French partially damaged another. was all put down to fear.
threatened to keep Cheepensook at "Now that I have taken up my Saigon unt!! they heard from M.
The fire was exilngulshed at 2 a.m. offee as Prime Minister of Defence, Garrenu who, it was alleged, was missing after the fire had been put Nine persons were found to be I look back to our and feel a desire
desire to speak words being held in Bangkok-United Press. out.
of goodwill to you as Chief of the Italian nation across what seems to be n swiftly widened gulf. Is it too late to stop the rives of blood from flowing between the British and Italian peoples?
We Shall Go On
It is
"We can no doubt infilet grievous Injuries upon one another, and moul each other cruelly and durken the Alediterranean with our strife. Idle to predict the course of the great battles now raging in Europe but I am sure that whatever may hoppen on the on the
continent, England.
will
go on to the end even quite ulone
we have dor
done before and I be-
lieve, with seme assurance, that we, shall be aided in increasing mensure by the United States and indeed by: all the Amerlios.
Letter To Duce
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a. "There. Is one man and one man
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"I leave this unfolding until the day comes-au come will-when the Italian nation will once more toke The shoping of Ha Own fortunes,
Vichy Minister's Appeal
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