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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
ROOSEVELT WARNS US.
FROM PAGE ONE
Another Severe Raid On London
-> FROM PAGE ONE
belleve, on the other hand, that we of enemy activity in other parts could rest easy if the Axis Powers Britain. werd our neighbour there?.
"It is no exaggeration to say that
*Several Casualties
December 30, 1940,
Japanese Planning A Coup D'Etat
FROM PAGE ONE
of agents from travelling to Thalland, However, the other Japanese Airways Ilno vin Vientone to Bangkok con- Unues unhampered.
the
all of us in the Americas would ba The Luftwaffe appeared to con- living at the point of the gun. To centrate on setting fire to C# many Attempt To Reach Borders survive in such a world we would buildings as possible.
Japanese tours of southern Indo- hpve to convert ourselves
per- A number of casualties were re- Chinn have increased atince the Thai- thanently into a militaristic Power ported from a wkle prea. AR.P. Indo-Chinu hostilities, with on the of a war economy. wardens were at work while the Japanese altempting to reach Cam-
"Frankly and
definitely bombs were dropping, and rescued bodia and Laos borders, which are there is danger ahead-danger debris.
somo of those who were trapped in now under military control.
General Sumita, In a recent trip against which we must prc. At 10 p.m. A lengthy lull indicated southwards, with a parly of nearly parc, but we well know
te that either the Germans were follow- 30, has been attempting to reach the 'cannot escape that danger or ing new tactics with a comparatively Cambodia borders."
the fear of it by crawling into brief raid or that British fighter planes Pror to General Summita's trip bed and pulling the covers were mining the upper hand. over our heads.
in this hemisphere.
the froniter zones.
The French military arrested the
der escort.
Japanese, uking them to Saigon un- Decoux For Saigon
Air Ministry Report
two carloads of Japanese, Including LONDON, Dec. 28 (Reuter).-Only eight high military officers, tried to "Any South American country Inight German activity over Britain crash through two French military Nazi hands, would always be con during to-night (Sunday) is reported? barricades in a vain attempt to reach stituting a Jumping-off place for a German attack on any other republle by the Air Ministry.
Bombs were dropped at a place in Dangerous Wishful Thinking number of people were killed and North-west England where a small "There are those who say that the others were injured. Axis will never have any desire to Bamba were also dropped at one HANOI, Dec. 20 (UP),——It is nu- attack the
that Admiral Western Hemisphere, Suffolk coast town and, at two Kent thoritatively stated This is the same dangerous form of coast towns, but though some houses Decoux will go to Salgon in January wishful thinking which has destroyed were damaged, no casualties were for a six weeks stay. the powers of resistance of so many reported. conquered peoples.
London had one of the earliest ateris to-night for some time and in the early stages the raid proved one of the most intensive yet experienced. In all areas; showers of incen- diaries were followed by high exple- sives.
R.A.F.--Nazi Comparison
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RAY MILLAND
ELLEN DREW
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"Let us no longer blind ourselves to the undeniable fact that the evil forces which have crushed, under- mined and corrupted so many others, are already within our gates.
Cannot Appease Nazis "The experience during the past two years has proved beyond doubt; LONDON, Dec. 29 (Router) for "urgent" expropriation and that no nation can appease the During the week ended midnight on acquisition of territory at Las Palmas NEXT CHANGE-GRAND NEW YEAR SHOW Nazis—that no man can tame a December 28, the Germans lost, in in the Canary Islands for the con- tiger into being a
a kliten by stroking raids on Britain, seven planes two struction of a large artillery base. It. There can be no appeasement on the night of December 21-22;
with ruthlessness, there can be no three on the night of December 22-
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reasoning with an incendiary bomb. 23; one during the day of December of December 26-27; and two on the
know now that nation can and one on the day of December night of December 27-28, have peace with the Nazis only at the price of total surrender,
"Thinking of it in terms of to-day and to-morrow, I make the direct statement to the American people that there is far less chance of the United States getting into the war if we do
Five British' bombers were lost in LONDON; Dec. 2D (UP).----The all- the course of widespread heavy clear, given shortly before midnight, enemy-ended one of the city's worst raids attacks, over enemy and occupied territory-one on the night of the war.
of December 22-23; one on the night| At 11 p.m. gunfire was heard after
all we can now to support the nations of December 23-24; one on the night a two-hour lull. who are defending themselves against
the Axis attack, than If we acquisce - In their defeat and submit timidly to on Axis victory and await our turn to be the object of attack in another war later,"
Opposes Peace Overtures
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they were im- pregnable to outside threats.
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|PACIFIC RAIDERS
FROM PAGE ONE attempt eventually to transfer raider activities to the Pacille, where British commerce is especially widespread and vulnerable, and where Britain has only small scapower concentra- tions with which to hunt down and destroy raiders,
They point out that the Pacific pro- vides an unlimited number of refugee hideaways for Nozi raiders and Nazi supply ships, all near British sca Janes ncross the Paclic.
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COPENHAGEN, Dec. 20 (Reuter). -The Nazi authorities have prohibit- ed the sale of soap in Denmark until
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They declared that Germany is FROM PAGE ONE
promising Japan'a major blockade of the Mediterranean and a military offensive as well as intensifed fifth dicates that Japan plans to out-flank column activities in the United States Singapore through Thailand.
and South America, which will be (This is, substantiated by the story timed to coincide with the Japanese appearing on this page by the "United advance, thereby diverting America Press" correspondent, Mr Jacoby, from the Pacific. who reveals that the Japanese are German circles in Japan have planning a coup d'elat in Bangkok.) assured Tokyo that, the Netherland
Authoritative circles reveal that East Indies will capitulate economi Germans In Tokyo are assuring Japan cally if Japan outflanks Singapore that the United States will not inter-¡ihrough Thailand, fere with a thrust through out that a large number of high. Japanese Informed quarters have reported
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