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HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH June 23 – 1941.
Churchill's Ringing
Warning
FROM PAGE. ONE
PRESSURE ON DJIBUTI
Germans And
Rumanians Claim
FROM PAGE ONE
LONDON, June 22 (Reuter).] were able to press forward through
who during the night before, was lavishing assurances of friendship....... almost of alliance upon theIt is learned in London that Iussians, called upon the Russian Britain has for some time been Foreign Ministor to tell him that n state of war existed between Ger-lockading all areas in occupia- tion by the Viely Government which might be of any advant- age to the Germans.
many and Russia.
Dishonourable Word "Thus was repeated, on a far larger scale, the same kind of outrage against every form of signed contract and international falth which we have witnessed in Norway, Denmark, Holland, and Belgium and which Hitler's accomplice and Jackal Musso- so faithfully violated in the enge
lint so of Greece.
"All this was no surprise to ne. In fact, I gave Stalin warning as 1 have given warning to others before. All we know at present is that the
·Russian' people are defending their native soil and their lenders have called upon them to resist to the utimost.
от
"Hitler is u monster of wickedness, insatiable in his lust for blood and plunder. Not content with having all Europe under his heel terrorised into abject submission, he else must now carry his work of butchery and desolation among the vast multitudes of Russia and Asia.
Recently there was a protest on the part of the Governor of Djibuti against the blockade of French Sama- liland on the ground that, women and children were made to suffer unduly, particularly from the shortage of
milk.
The Governor asked that the blockade should be relaxed,
the Russian front.
Mobilisation
LONDON, June 22 (Reuter).
Moscow Radio announces that all men born between 1993 and 1918 are able to mobilisation, which beging 10-morrow in 11 military commands. Martial Law LONDON, June 22 (Reuter).--- Martial law is proclaimed through- out Western Russin, the far north and Crimes, states Moscow Radlo.
Probable Soviet Tactics TOKYO, June 22 (Reuter)--Mili- tary experis estimate that more than 100 divisions are engaged on both skies of the war between Germany and Russia. They suggest that the Soviets will avoid fighting near use border but will engage the Nazis in
H
interior,
German tactics, they over,
resources
Aro
The British reply was that unless and until the Governor dissociated himself from the pro-Nazi policy, there could be no relaxation of the blockade, but that if it was a ques- tion of saving women and children, the British authorities were willined at getting hold of European to evacuate them to some place where Russia's food and heavy industrial they could obtain proper food,
with the idea of paralysing Soviet resistance.
The odds are rather heavily in favour of
Shigemori Togo, former Am- Germany. bassador
to the U.S.S.R., said to-day: "Russia has a great army and it is impossible to predict the outcome of the war. Germany may be able to occupy Leningrad, Moscow and the Ukrainian areas, but that will not decide the war."
It is understood that no further steps have been taken by the Djibut
governor."
RANGOON, June 22 (Reuter)-A Terrible Machine
defence exercise designed to test The terrible military machine Burma's preparedness for war is to which we and the rest of the clviilsed
be held for four days during nest world so foolishly and
month. insensately allowed the Nazi gangster to build up year by year from almost nothing
this machine cannot stand idle. In "Any man or state who fights places it must be in continual motion, against Nazism will have our old, up human life and trampling Any man or slate who marches with The homes of hundreds of Hiller is our foe. This applies not millions of men.
only to an organised state but to all "Morcover it must be fed not onlyquilings who make themselves the with flesh but with oil. So now this tools and agents of the Nazi regime binodthirsty guttersnipe must launch against their fellow countrymen and his mechanised army along new against the land of their birth. felds of
slaughter, pillage, devasta- tion
The poor Russian peasants, work- mien and soldiers, he must steal from them their daily bread, he inust devour their harvest and he must rob them of the oil which drives their ploughs and thus produce
history.
Offer Already Made "That is our policy and that is our declaration. It follows, therefore, that we shall give whatever help we can to Russia and to the Russian people. We shall appent to all our
the world to take the same course. and pursue it as we shall-faithfully and steadfastly to the end.
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"We have offered to the Govern- ment of Soviet Russla ony technical or economle assistance which is in our power and which is likely to be of service to them.
Ordeal By Air
Soviets Ready To Resist
FROM PAGE ONE
throughout been "training under war
conditions.**
Ilundreds of thousands of anti- parachutists und other alr raid Workers in every region of the Soviet Union have been practicing through- out the spring period, warding off mock attacks on their
towns and villages.
The measures taken under the new labour laws introduced last year for increasing production, particular- Iy in the factories working for national defence, have been inter- sified,
Japan's Position
Weakened
Lives of World "Even the carnage and ruin which his victory, should he gain it-and he has not gained it yet-will bring upon the Russian people, will itself be only the stepping stone to an at- tempt to plunge the four hundred or five hundred millions who live in China and the three hundred and fifty millions who live in India Inlo
"We shall bomb Germany by day that bottomless pit for human
as well as by night in ever-increasing gradation over which the dink emblem of the swastika flaunts liselt. measure, casting upon them month
"It is not too much to say here this by month a heavier surcharge of said Mr W, M. Hughes, the Attorney-
bombs
the summer evening that the lives and
making
German happiness of thousand
people taste and gulp each month a million ad-
are now sharper dose of the miseries they human beings
now menaced with brutal Nazi
have showered on mankind. violence, That
Es enough to make us hold our
"It is noteworthy that only yester-
Mr Hughes considered that the day, R.A.F. fighters in a raid över breaths but presently I shall show
effect in the Pacific would be you something else that lies behind
France cut
with very small revolutionary. down
Japan's position and something that touches very
loss to themselves 20 enemy. would be considerably weaker and nearly the life of Britain and the machines in the air above the French the danger of an attack on Australia United States,
soil they have invaded, defled and was much less. professed to hold.
Communism Compared
"The Nazi regime is indistinguish- able from the worst features of Com-, muniam. It is devoid or all prin- ciple except appetite and racini domination. It excels all forms of human wickedness in the efficiency of ite cruelty and ferocious aggres- sions.
"No one has been a more consis- tent opponent of Communism than I have been for the last 25 years. 1 will unsay no word that I have spoken about it. But all this fades. away before the spectacle that is now unfolding.
"The pas! with its crimes, its follies-and-a-tingedies feshes I see the Russian soldiers away. standing on the threshold of their native land guarding the fields which their fathers had tilled. I see item guarding their homes where their mothers and wives pray, for there are times when all pray for the safely of their loved ones, for the return of the bread-winner, of their protector.
Peace Destroyed
"I see the thousand villages of Russia, where means of existence was wrung so hardly from the soil, but there are still primordial human joys where maidens laugli and chil- dren pray.
and
Only A Beginning "But this is only a beginning; from now henceforward, the main expansion of our air force proceeds with gathering speed. In another six months, the weight of the help we are receiving from the United
States in war material of all kinds, especially in heavy bombers, will begin
to tell.
"This is no class war. This Is war in which the whole British Em pire and the Commonwealth of Nations is engaged without distinc tion or race, creed or party,"
or
No Division of Aim "It is not for me to speak of the action of the United States, but this I will say: If Hitler Imagines that his attack on Soviet Russia will cause the slightest division
alm of slackening of the efforts of the de- mocracies who are resolved. on his doom, he is woefully mistaken. On the contrary, we shall be fortified and encouraged in our efforts to re- scue mankind from his tyrannies and weakened in our determination and we shall be strengthened and not in our resources.
"This is no time to moralise on the follies of countries and governments which have allowed themselves to be united action they could have easily struck down one by one when by saved themselves and saved the
"I see advancing upon all this in the hideous onslaught of the Nazi war machine with its clanking heel-world from this catastrophe. clicking dandifed Prussian officers, its crafty expert agents, fresh from the cowing dozen countries lying down of a
"I see also the dull drilled, docile, brutish
masses of the Hun soldiery plodding on,
on, like a swarm of crawl- ing locusts.
I see German bombers and fighters in the sky still smarting from many a British whipping, going where they hope to find a safer and, they believe, an easier prey.
Deeper Motive
"But when I snid a few minutes ago of Hitler's blood lust and hateful appetites, which have imperiled him on his adventures, I said that there was one deeper motive behind his outrages. He wishes to destroy the Russian power because he hopes that If he succeeds in this, he will be able to bring back the main strength of his army and air force from the east and hurl it upon this island which he knows he must conquer ur suffer the penalty of his crimes,
A Prelude To Invasion
Our Former Allies "Behind all this glare I see a small group of men who planned, organised and launched this cataract of horrors upon mankind. Then my mind goes "1is Invasion of Russia is no more back across the years to the days than the prelude to an attempted in- when the Russian armies were our vasion of the British Isles. He allies against the same deadly
when they fought with so
valour and helped to hopes, np daubt, that this may
from
from
no
મ have
be
accomplished before the winter comps and that he can overwhelm
share in which they were ains, Britain before the flects and air fault of ours, utterly cut out. forces of the United States may in-
lived
through all this and you will pardon me if I express my
tervene. He hopes that he may once feelings at this stir of old memories.than ever before the process of des- again repeat upon, a' greater scale "But now
prospered.
new development of Germany's at- SYDNEY, June 22 (Reuter).--Tho tack on Russla may prove to be a turning point in the Middle East. General and Minister of the Navy. fight on two fronts and maintain her Germany, he declared, must now
attack on Britain.
House Of Commons Statement
LONDON, June 22 (Reuter)-A statement will be made on recent developments in foreign affairs at the next, sitting of the House Commons.
of
Announcing this, a statement from to the foreign situation, the debate on No. 10 Downing Street sald: "Owing shipping which had been arranged for the next sitting of the House of Commons will be postponed."
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"Final Conquest dute course contur,
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"Then the scene will be cleared for I must speak it now, at once, the final act without which his pre- without a day's delay, "I have to vious conquests would be make a declaration but can
invalid, you namely the
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Will Help Russia
system. "We have but one alm and ope "The Russian danger, therefore, is single irrevocable purpose. We are our danger, and the danger of the resolved to destroy Hitler and every United States, just as the cause of vestige of the Nazi reine. We shall any Russian fighting for his hearth nover porley, we shall never. with Hitler or with any of hate and home is the cause of five men
his gang, and We shall fight him by land, we shall the globe,
free, people in every quarter of fight him by sen we shall fight him "Let us learn the lesson already in the air until with God's help we taught by such experiences. Let us will rid the earth of all those who redouble our have shadowed it, and liberate the with the United States while life and | exertions and atriko people from his yoke,
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