Tuesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
December 24, 1940.
CHURCHILL TELLS
ITALIANS HOME
TRUTHS ABOUT LEADER MUSSOLINI Empire Air Scheme Is to disavow Musolini and to follow the House of Savoy was made by the Prime
Ahead Of Schedule
LONDON, Dec. 23 (Reuter).-The Empire Air Training Scheme in Canada is well ahead of schedule, it was revealed to- day by Colonel J. L. Ralston, Canadian Minister of Defence, who is visiting England for discussions with the Government and the military authorities.
Colonel Ralston said that the Air Training Scheme called for 104 schools and institutions of various sorts by next autumn, "I am in a position to say that these establishments will be com- pleted six months earlier than the programme,"
Canada would be spending on the selieme three Umes more than wns called for And the number of graduates from the air training es- tablishment would be doubled.
BOMBING IRELAND
Enemy Planes Do
No Damage
LONDON, Dec. 23 (Reuter).—A dramatic appeal to the Italian ́nation
Minister, Mr Winston Churchill, broadcasting from London to-night.
Mr Churchill also revealed for the first time that messages had passed between him and Il Duce just prior to Italy's entry Into the war-messages which disclosed that Italy only took up arms against Britain because of her treaty with Germany, .
"To-night," said Mr Churchill, I shall be forced to come to much "I speak to the Italian people and closer grips.
One Man Responsible
speak to you from London, the "How has all this come about and
heart of the British islands and of the British Commonwealth and Empire. I speak to you what diplomats call words of great truth and respect.
"We are at wor--that is a very
strange and terrible thought.
what is it all for?
"Italians, I will tell you the truth. It is all because of oue man. man and one man alone has ranged the Italian people in a deadly struggle against the British Empire and has deprived Italy of the sympathy and intimacy of the United States of
America.
ENEMY RAIDED
Mannheim's Seventh Visit From R.A.F.
LONDON, Dec. 23 (Reuter). Spreading wastes of flante- were seen by R.A.F. pilots after dropping their bombs in Sunday night's raid on Mannheim,
Always Been Friends
"That he is a great man I do not "Whoever would linngine until the last few melancholy years that the deny, but that after 18 years of led your British and Italian nations would be unbridled power he has trying to destray one another? We country to the horrid verge of ruin have always been friends. We were jean be denied by none, the champions of the Italian re- 911 la all
all one man who against the sorgimento. We were partisans of crown and the Royal family, against Garibaldi, Mazzini and Cavour. All the Pope and all the authority of the flow of nigmes from Canada in an official statement by the that great movement towards the Vatican and of the Roman Catholic heim since the beginning of Decem-
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wishes the nation which Chirch, against the hai na lust for
Plans for aerodrome development would be completed before December 31,
was most satisfactory.
"I have assured Me Churchill and members of the United Kingdom
LONDON, Dec. 23. (Reuter). The dropping of bombe in Northern Ireland, is announced
Public Security,
The statement
Most damage was done in the neighbourhood of the main rail- way station but there was also damage on the Ludwigsaven side of the Rhine.
The rald was the seventh on Mann-
Barges Hit
and was hailed by the British Parlia-this wor, has arrayed the inheritors sources other than reports of British of ancient Rome upon the side of pilots that great damage was done in ment and public. заув: "On
barbarians. There la
the earlier ralds which were by no means. "Our fathers and our grandfathers pagan Government that Canada united several occasions during the past longed to see itnly freed from the tragedy of Italian history and there the most severe. whole-heartedly-as Canada never week,
enemy aircraft have
Austrian yoke and to see all minor stands the criminal who has wrought
It. was before-In every activity that been identified operating over barriers in Italy swept away so that
Sanctions and Abyssinia wit help in connection with the war Northern Ireland. Bombs have the Italian people and their fair land effort," he added,
might take their honourert place as "What is the defence that ts put been dropped, all of which fell in at the lending Powers upon the forward for his action?
It is of open country. No damage was continent, and as a brilliant and gift course, the quarrel about sanctions caused and there were no
ed member of the family of Europe and Abyssinia. Let us look at that and of Christendom.
Together after the last war Italy casualties."
and Britain both signed the coven- ant of the League of Nations which "We have never been your foes forbade all parties to that covenant to until now. In the last war against make war on each other or upon the barbarous Huns we were your fellow members of the League ond comraden. For 15 years after that bound all signatories to come to the war we were your friends. Although ald, of any member who was attacked the institutions which you adopted,
pted by another.
Minesweepers Ordered
OTTAWA, Dec. 23 (Reuter).—- Britain has placed orders in Canada for another 12 minesweepers. This brings the total number of naval vessels to be built in Comadian shilp- yards up to 120,
Chinese Supplies Denial
No Vladivostok Route MOSCOW, Dec. 23 (Heuter). The official "Tass" agency has issued denial of 3 report published in American newspapers that the
Chinese quantities of war material, medicines
Army is receiving large
SHELTER HIT
MANCHESTER, Dec. 23 (UP)-A high explosive bomb hit a shelter last night in which 450 persons were housed. It in believed there were several casualties.
Last War Recalled
Rhine harbour was hit and burges were sunk, and it is revented that the traffic which helps to give Mannheim
position as the most Important industrial centre in south-west Ger- many was seriously impeded. junction and trale to France had to Mannheim is also a vital railway be diverted to another and less satis- factory line.
TWO KILLED IN PLANE CRASH
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
after the war were not akin to ours į "Presently Abyssinła cáme knock- Manchester Casualties and diverged, as we think, from the ing at the door asking to be a mem- LONDON, Dec. 23 (Reuter).The sovereign impulses which had com-ber. We British adviced against 11. "HAVANA, Dec. 23 (UP)-A number of fatal casualties in the raidmanded the unity of Italy, we could We doubted whether they land reach- United States Marine Corps bomber Jon Manchester on Sunday night was silit walk together in peace and good-ed a state in their development which of the SBD-1 type, one of a squadron
will. comparatively small in view of the
warranted their inclusion, but it was bound for Guantaname, crashed to- reverity of the attack, it is stated to- "Many thousands of our people Mussolini who insisted that Abyssinia day in a torrential rain on a farm at night.
dwelt with you in Italy. We liked should become a member of the Lea- San Luis, Santiago province, Cuba, nch other, we got on well together. gue and who therefore, bound him- killing two members of the crew.
to respect There were reciprocal services; there self and bound you, and was amity; there wan esteem. And Abyssinia's covenanted rights.
"I declare and my words will go now we are at war: now we are condemned to work each other's rum. far-that nothing that happened in Our aviators are tearing and will tear that Abyssinian quarrel can account your African Empire to shreds and for or justify the deadly war which tatters.
has now broken out between us.
COURT MARTIAL and other supplies via Vladivostok Lieut J. Jackson, Royal Naval Re- serve was tried by cours martial at and Ust on American military officer the Hongkons Naval Yard yesterday will shortly go to Vindivostok to
on a charge of being absent without speed up transportation of war leave. material to China.
Defendant who pleaded nulity, was The agency says: "This report is dismissed his ship and severely re fabricated from begining, to end." primanded
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Emperor Receives Latham
TOKYO, Dec. 24 (Router).—Sir】 *** Italy's Needless Acts
John Latham, the first Australian British and French democracies and credentials when he was received in "Then the great war between the Minister to Japan, presented his
Prussian militarists or Nazi dictator-audience by the Emperor this morn- ship began again. Where was the ing.
need for Italy to intervene? Where Sir John was also granted NA was the need to strike at prostrate audience by the Empress. France? Where was the need to de-
clare war on Britain? Where was
the need to invade Egypt which is Christendom, should have a word to i under British protection?
say upon these awe-inspiring issues?
"We are content with Italian: "Surely the Itallon Army, which neutrality. During the Brst echt has fought so bravely on many occa months of war we pold great defer-sions in the past but now evidently ence to Itallun interests. But this has no heart for the job, should take was all put down to fear.
some core of the life and future of "Now that I have taken up mylitoly?
uffee as Prime Minister of Defence, "I can only tell you that I, Church- 1-look back to our inteting in Rome ill have done my best to prevent and feel a desire to speak words of this war between Italy and goodwill to you สย Chief of the British Empire"
Italian nation across what seems to be swiftly widened gulf. Is it too lite to stop the river of blood from flowing between the British and Italian peoples?
Italian Listeners
the
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" ROME. Dec. 23 (UP)-Mr Winston Churchill's radio broadcast was only heard by a maximum of a few We Shall Go On
thousand people throughout Italy, "We can no doubt infilet grievous mainly by foreign diplomats, fourn injuries upon one another and a mental military service, and Fascist alists and the Italians in the Govern- cach other cruelly and darken the Mediterranean with our strife. It is Party workers whose job it is to cheek
on foreign radios. idle to predlet the course of the Some circles predicted that the rent batties now raging la Europe speech would be published in the but I am sure that whatever may Italian press with editorfal com- happen on the continent, England
ments. will go on to the end even quite alone as we have done before and I be- lieve, with some assurance, that we shall be aitled in increasing measure by the United States and. Indeed by all the Americas,
Letter To Duce
"This is the gist of a letter which I sent to Signor Mussolini when I became Prime Minister. I make no comment upon the Duce's answer. 1 speaks for itself. Anyone can see who it
it was that wanted peace and who it was that meant to have war. One man and only one man was resolved to plunge Italy after all these years of strain and effort into the whirlpool of war.
"What is the position of Italy-to- day? Where is it that the Duce has led a distrusting people after 18 years of dictatorial power? What hard choice is open now. It is to stand up to the battery of the whole British Empire on sea, In the air and in Africa, and the vigorous counter- attuck of Greece.
There is one mon and one only who has led you there."
man
"I leave this unfolding until the day comes-03 came i will-when the Hallan nation will once more inke the shoping of Ho own fortunes.
Army And People "British Wireless" adds that the Prémler brushed aside as an inade- quate and Invalid reason for ranging Italy behind Nazi aggression the es- trangement which arose over Musso- lini's violation of the League Cove-. nant in Abyssinia,
Where in this was the need to strike at prosirate France, to declare war on Britain, to invade Egypt, toj attack and invade Greece? "The people of Italy were never consult- ed, the Army of Italy was never con- sulted. No-one was consulted. One man and one man alone ordered Italian soldiers to ravage their neigh- bour's vineyard..
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.come
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