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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH June 23, 1941.
Churchill's Ringing Daughter Of Home
and
Warning
➜> FROM· PAGE ONE
A non-aggression treaty has been Holemnly signed and was in force be tween the two countries. No com- plaint had been made by Germany of its non-fulfilment. Under, Ils cloak of false confider.ce, the Gorman armica
In immenso strength grew up and the armoured, divisions slowly their look up methodically stations. Then suddenly without a declaration of war, without even or. ultimatum, German, bomba rained down from
the
upen sky Russian cities; German troops violated the Russian frontiers and an hour later, the Gerniar Ambassador. who during the night before, was
of friendship lavishing assurances
the almost of un allance-upon Itussions, called upon the Russian Foreign Minister to tell him that u state of war existed between Ger-
any and Rusla.
were
Dishonourable Word "Thus was repeated, on a far larger scale, the same kind of outrage brainst every form of signed contract and international faith which we have witnessed in Norway, Denmark, Holland, and Belgium and which Hitler's accomplice and jackal Musso- Hol so faithfully violated in the case
nt Greece.
Secretary Wed
Germans And Rumanians Claim
·FROM PAGE ONE
Miss Mary Morridon, only daughter of Mr Jerbert Morrison, Home Sec- retary
Hurried at Hendon Iteglter Omee recently to Mr Horace Williams, son of Mr Tom Williams, were able to prese forward through Sociaitut M... for Don Valley and the Russian front, Parliamentury Secretary Bo the
Mobilisation Ministry of Agriculture.
LONDON,, June 22 (Reuter),— The bride in working on national Mosenw Radio announces that all service and
Mr Williams in an ; nien born between 1805 and 1910 are accountant in the Civil Service. Hable to mobilisation, which begins communda. The bride and bridegroot vree to-morre Martial Law carrying gas murka. These were re- moved for the ceremony, but as they LONDON, June 22 (Reuter), were leaving Mr Morrison Insisted on Martial law is procialmed through- their
their out Western Russlo, the far north alinging them over shoulders again.
and Crimea, states Moscow Radio,
Probable Soviet Tactics without a day's delay, "I have to
TOKYO, June 22 (Reuter)-M!!- make a declaration but can you
tary experts estimate that more than doubt what our policy will be?
100 divisions are engaged on both nides of the war between Germany and Rusala,. They suggest that the Soviets will avoid 8ghting near the border but will engage the Nazis in the interior.
Will Help Russia, **We have but one alm and one single Irrevocable purpose. We are resolved to destroy illiler and every vestige of the Nazi reme. We shall never parley, we shall never negotiate with litter or with any of his gang, We shall fight him by land, we shall fight him by sen, we shall fight him in the ate until with God's help we will rid the earth of all those who have shadowed 14, and liberate the people from his yoke..
Germinn tactics, they aver) are aimed at getting hold of European Russin's food and heavy Industrial resources with the Idea of paralysing Soviet resistance. The odds are rather heavily in favour of Germany.
Mr Shigenori Toro, former Am bassador to the U.S.S.R., said to-day: "Any man of state who fight "Russia has a great army and it is against Nozilsm wii huve our ald. impossible to predict the outcome of "All this was no surprise to me.litter la our foe. This applies not occupy Leningrad, Moscow and the Any man or state who marches, with the war, Germany may be able, to In fact, T gave Stalin warning as I have given
only to an organized slate but to all | Ukrainian, areas, but that will not warning to others before. All we know at prezent is that the quislings who make themselves the decide the wa Russian people are defending their tools and agents of the Nazi regime native soil and their leaders have
the
called upon them to resist to utmost..
"Hitler is a quonstar of wickedness, insatiable in his lust for blood and under. Not content withi having all beel Dr else Europe under his terrorized into virole forms of abject submission, he must now curry his work of butchery and desolation among the vast multitudes of Russia and Asia.
Terrible Machine "The terrible military machine which we and the rest of the civilised world so foolishly and so insensately allowed the Nazi gangster to build UP year by year from almost nothing this machine cannet stand late. In pieces It must be in continual motion, grinding up human life and trampling down the homes of hundreds of
men.
Moreover it must be fed not only with Besh but with oil. So now this bloodthirsty Buttersnipe must launch his mechanised army along new felds of slaughter, plilage, devasta-
tion.
"The poor Russian pensants, work- men and soldiers, he must steal from them their dully bread, he must devour their harvest and he must rob then of the oil which drives their ploughs, and thus produce a famine without example in human history.
gainst their fellow courier and REACTION IN U.S.
the land of birth,
Offer Already Made
- CAPITAL -
·FROM PAGE ONE
"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 Russlan propte. We shalt uppent to all our friends and allies in every port of the world to take the same course which helps to destroy Hitlerism is and pursue it as we shal-faithfully and steadfastly to the end,
"We have offered to the Govern- ment of Soviet Russia any technical or economic assistance which is in eur power and which is likely to be of service to them.
Ordeal By Air
•
jo
gourt..
Canadian Opinion OTTAWA, June 22 (Reuter) ---
ters as new
ru-
Germany's attack on Rustja is geded in offieint and motelal quer
proof of Germany's desire to conquer the whole world.
The aggression is considered a testimonial to the splendid defence of Britain, and an admission that ifitier urgently needs the material resources
of Russia.
The attack surprised those who be- leved that Germany and Russia were engaged in an elaborate scheme of diplomatic deception.
"We shall bomb Germany by day as well as by night in ever-increasing measure, casting upon them month by month a heavier surcharge bombs and making the German belle taste and gulp each month it sharper dose of the miseries they have showered on mankind,
Co-operation With Russia "It is noteworthy that
WASHINGTON. June 22 (Reuter). only yester- day, R.A.F, fighters in a raid over-Diplomatic quarters in Washington France cut down with very small envisage close economic co-operation Joss to themselves 28.
enemy between Britain, the United States machines in the air above the French und Soviet Russla as the result of the soil they have invaded, defiled and Invasion of the U.S.S.R. professed to hold,
Only A Beginning "But this is only a beginning; from now henecforward, 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 bembers, will begin to tell.
The invasion has caused intenso diplomatic activity in Washington. The United States Government has withi withheld
anly
formal
statement, but Lives of World
State Department sources described Germany's action as convincing pront "Even the carnage and run which
that Hiller wants to dominate the his victory, should he gain it-und
entire world and that non-aggresuloti te iras not gained it yet-will bring
pacts with Germany are simply meant upon the Russian people, will itself
08 opportunity to attack pact signa- be only the stepping stone to an ate
torics if
ries if and when desired. The State tempt to plunge the four hundred This is no clage wat. This is a
Department reaction has or five
millions who live in hundred
war in which the whole British Em-clearly branded Germany as an ag- China and the three hundred and pire and the Commonwealth of gressor and has raised the question fifty millions who live in India into
Nations Is engaged without distine- of United States aid, but officials have that bottomless plt for human do-
declined to indicate the course of tion of race, creed or party." gradation over which the diabolle
American "action pending further emblem of the awastika haunts itself,
"It is not too much to say here
study of the developments. summer evening that the lives and happiness of a thousand million ad ditional human beings are now menaced with brutal Nazi violence. That
enough to make us hold our breaths but presently I shall show something else that lies behind something that touches very nearly the life of Britain usl the United States.
this
Communism Compared "The Nazi regime is indistinguish- üble from the worst features ComTM ciple except appetite and racial munism. It is devoid of all prin domination.
It excels all forms of human, wickedness in the efficiency of its 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. I will unsay no word that I have spoken about it. But all this fades away before the spectacle that is now unfolding.
The follies
away,
pist with its crimes, its and 1ts tragedies flushes
1 see the Russian soklers
standing on the threshold of theft native land guarding the fields which their fathers had lilled. I see them guarding their homes where their mothers and wives prey, for there ore times when all pray for the safety of their loved ones, for the return of the bread-winner, of their protector.
Peace Destroyed
dren pray.
•
Proclamation
A neutrality proclamation by Prest- dent
Roosevelt, recognising tire existence of a state of war between
in
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 sightest division of pim or stackening of the efforts of the de- Germany and the Soviet, is expected mocracles who are resolved on his soon but no changes are expected
the On
present European combat zones doom, he is woefully mistaken. the contrary, we shall be fortified banned to United States shipping.
These already include Russian and encouraged in our efforts to re-
as well as other areas not scue mankind from his tyrannies and Arctic
affected. we shall be strengthened-and-notthe major problem for American
in our determination and weakened in
polley-makers is the alt!lude of In our resources,
which "This is no time to monilise on the Japan
la being carefully
which have allowed themselves to be folties of countries and governments watched by United States officials. struck down one by one when by Japanese Reaction united action they could have easily saved themselves and saved the To New Phase world from this catastrophe,
Deeper Motive
"But when I said a few minutes ago of Hitler's blood lust and hateful appetites, which have imperilled him on his adventures, I sald that there was one deeper motive behind his outragen. He wishes to destroy the because he hopes that Russian If he succeeds in this, he will be able to of his army and air force from the bring back the main strength cast and hurl it upon this island which he knows he inust conquer or suffer the penalty of his crimes.
A Prelude To Invasion "His invasion of Hussin is no more than the prelude to an attempted in
lic vasion of the British Isles. hopes, no doubt, that this may be nccomplished
FROM PAGE. ONE
Government and the High Com-. mand for Monday morning,
Irrespective of whatever treaty commitments are involved, the inter- national situation confronting Japan result of the Soviet-Nazi war, is assuming a graver turn as the saya the influential "Asahi Shimbun."
The paper adds that the newest development represents another Indication that the European war is gradually shifting from blitzkrieg to a war of long duration.
The "Asabi" declares that there is
possibility of truth in London re- .ports that a complete understanding His already renched between Russia
before the winter
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"I see the thousand villages of comes and that he can overwhelm Russin, where means of existence Britain before the fleets and air and Britnin was wrung so hardly from the suit, forces of the United States may in- but there are still primordial, human tervene. He hopes that he may once Joys where maldens laugh and chil-again repeat upon a greater scale:
than ever before, the process, of des- advancing upon all this in troying his enemies one by one an hiticous onslaught of the
Nazi
which he has so long thrived and machine with its clanking heel- clicking dandified Prusalan officers, opered, its crafty expert, agents, fresh from the bowing and tying down of a dozen countries.
war
ste
Final Conquest
"Then the scene will be cleared for the final act without which his pre- "I see also the dull drilled, docile, vious conquests would he invalid, brutish maces of the Hun sokllery namely the subjugation of tho plodding on, like a swarm of crawl Western Hemisphere to his will and ing locusts. I see German bombers | "ystem. and fighters in the sky still smarting The Russian danger, therefore, is from many a British whipping, going our danger, and the danger of the where they hope to find a safer and,
United States, just as the cause of they believe, an easler prey.
any Russian fighting for his hearth and home is the cause of twee men and free people in every quarter of
"Let us learn the lesson already taught by such experiences. Let us redouble our exertions and strike with the United States while life and
Our Former Allies "Behind all this glare I see a smalt group of men who planned, organised the globe. and launched this cataract of horrors upon mankind. Then my mind goes back across the years to the days when the Russian armies were our allies against the same dendly foc, when they fought with so much valour and helped to gain a victory,
power remain,
'Americans' Reaction WASHINGTON,.June 22 (Iteuter). trom
a share in whic
which they were alas.
Mr Churchill's broadenst inescage from no fault of ours, utterly cut out. has stirred the American imaging-
"I have lived through all this and tion. feelings, pardon me if I express my In giving the British people a lend,
at this, stir of old meinories.
Churchill has helped
mucis "But now I have to declare the make clear the American path in this decision of His Majesty's Government ever-spreading condict. Mr Chur- and I feel sure it is a decision in chill's refusal to allow British mi- which the grent Dominions will in 1 tagy attention to be diverted from its die "course 'concur.
Pinflexible purpose të, noted on alt “But I must speak it now, at once, Jaldes and is warmly applauded; i
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