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ENEMY
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RICHARD CROMWELL HELEN VINSON ROBERT ARMSTRONG JACK LORUE
Wednesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
Our Premier Promises To Win War!
FROM PAGE ONE
was 75 per cent, and 75 per cent. of Regular Rest Needed
what?
Franco-Japanese Pact Terms
FROM PAGE ONE
ever, sincs yesterday lost effect owing to the dollar-payment clause.
French Fears
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
July 30, 1941.
S'pore Réaction To Freezing Orders
FROM PAGE ONE
enable Japan to hetes which will laugh at the freezing orders because in All It is unhappily true that
hefore I take the datum line of the three
to piace prosts tending ALGIERS July 20 (UP). The countries there are vested interests months after Dunkirk, which our people worked to the utmost limit of "Dernieres Nouvellen" declures that patriotism."
The defence chiefs apparently find theft powers-men fell exhausted at by the new pact with Japms, France their fathics and working men and may one day if she honours her nothing in the current situation war- women did not take off their clothes signature, be drawn into a fight with ranting additional authoritative com. for a week at a time. Are we work America. The paper units that the ment. The recent sparso issues of the odds would he ogning Japan f official communiques were confined at only 75 per cent, of that?
milltary is here are
Far Eastern war developed, stressing solely to descriptions of local few reasons why that the Japanese could contrive with and nuval accommodation, contorta, cannot maintain indefinitely the in- a great effort to build a maximum of am
amusements etcetera, while apart tensive personal effort of a year ago.
from Saturday's freezing notification, If we are to win this war and 1 feel 250 planes a month, while America slidly convinced that we shall, its already reached a monthly pro- the civil authorities have not issued
duction of 1,000.
any additional defence regulations. will be largely by staying power.
Malaya Confident For that purpose there must be one
The populace generally believen day in seven of rest pa a general
that Malaya will not be affected even rule and there must be one week's hollday a year We have relaxed to
though Japan persists in her expan slon programme because any poten-. that extent since Dunkirk: If we
Ticker would find Malayan bave not done su, we should have
adventure most expensive
sive on account and a serious crash.
of tile formidable defences, particu- the air force; however, it Was must can never be too strong and unceasingly be strengthened not only As to bomber-British production in Malaya itself but nho the outly a large alone without taking into necounting areas such as British Borneo and The British, furthermore, Sarawak. uut
Effects of Rations.
Authorised Garrison HANOI, July 20 (UP)-It is off- that 40,000 Japanese gially stated troops are authorised to be stationed in South. Indo-China.
Now that air battles are tively, developlag again in scale and inten- are at least as much ahead of the enemy as when we defeated him a year Dro.
Next, allowance must be made for sity, we can clun that our fighter agret everywhere that the defences
it,
of Thailand and the sovereignty Dutch East Indies which constitute a Malays strong front line defence in
Additional defence measures were announced to-day in Sarawak's offic- at "Gazette" including the declara- tion that Kuching and Miri are de- fence areas and also the formalion of special coast guard.
the very severe change in the diet of heavy inanual workers which is far 21 year ngo. less stimulating than Except for our fighting services, "we have been driven back to
from
10 carnivorous her-American-we have doubled extent
be satis- power of bomb discharge on fier-realise the value of maintaining the bivorous meals which
may
who many at 1,500 miles range. factory to dietetic scientists
Greatest Harvest would like to make us all live on
In the next three months, taking nuts, but it has produced a definite effect on the output of the heavy in American reinforcements, we shall workers. We want ment in the double it again and in the next six
Loundries and mines and
more months after that we shall redouble cheese,
Food From America
We have ploughed up land and by Why should that gratify Lord the grace of God we have been graal-
Defence Extensions Luest How-Haw ed the greatest harvest in living
Meanwhile, the Malaya defence “TALL, DARK and HANDSOME" | law-How? Will
also bear in mind the statement of memory, perhaps the greatest harvest
We lost much equip-chiefs openly talk about the exten
sian of defences from Burma to the beaches of Dunkirk, States to ment on with CESAR ROMERO - VIRginia gilmoRE A Harry Ilopkins the other day of ever known.
see that our people get
duced. We have been bombed and also coastal batteries and strongly Up feed em be bro
brought? I know the
power- great arrangements that have been quarter of the war our total output country reports indicate that made to send us food in variety and twice as great as our output in the over the entire peninsula and have of warlike stores has been nearly ful Imperial forces are spread out more interesting qualities (Cheers),
do not think I need be told that erresponding seventh quarter of the now become hardened and expert- enced jungle warriors-a Highland 1 helping! Lord How-law. If he last war and Ims equalled our out-enced never gets any more consolution then put in the 14th or culminating peak regiment recently completed a 100- mile march largely through jungle. he gets from ine (Laughter), his luck quarter of the last war,
country in eight days without casual- lies When our new inctories become
Malaya's formidable air power available, and when the Minister of Labour has completed his task of fractionafly demonstrated daily over collecting workers from the unussen- Singapore by squadrons of high- tial industries we must produce more, scect fighters and heavy bombers but to reach the level in two years zooming above the city. (A forma- which was only reaclice in the fourth year of the last war is an achieve ment which deserves better than flouts and Jeers
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keep the sen-lanes secure by which blacked out. But even in this seventh reinforced heavy calibre artillery.
will be as hard as his deserts.
Every effort is being made to sup- plement the food and I share the hope of the Ministers of Food and Agricul- ture that our diet in 1942 wit be more stimulating and energy-giving
than that of 1941.
I wish it to be known all over the United States how encouraging their action.
Dilution And Raids
Mr Churchill also referred to dilu-
that
working on war industries than
Labour's Support
13
on of 21 Drewster planes screamed at top speed over the business centre while this dispatch was being writ ten).
behaving from a number of people BRITISH & FINNS
had many devastating stoppages an MAY BE AT WAR
tion. He proceeded: It is estimated who never did a day's work in their
one-third
people are lives more
(laughter and cheers). We strikes in the last war,
In the last two years of it nearly 12 million days were lost through labour dis- putes. During the whole of this war
year ago. Many of them are teninees and dilutees. It would not be won derful if they failed to preserve the same level of gutput per pair of human hands than that achieved by skilled craftsmen a year or 10 months ago.
and
FROM PAGE ONE
23 months, we have lost less thantations could scarcely be maintained wo million days.
I am anxious to have the latest I received. Information intelligence. A few minutes before I began
Then there are air raids by which the Germans expected to smash our resisting powers. There were extra-speak that there was no stoppage of work of any kind arising from trade ordinary blitzes on our ports nunufacturing centres, restrictions of disputes in any part of Great Britain. black-out, interruption and delays of transportation which all played their delaying and dislocating part,
Dispersion of Factories Remedies and counter-measures, proposed and carried through when possible with such extreme vigour by the Supply Department with Lord Beaverbrook as Minister of Aircraft in the van, took the form
Cause For Optimism When I look on the whole tumultu- ous scene of this ever-widening war, I think it is my duty to give serious worning to the House and the coun- try to be on guard equally against Pessimism and against optimism.
There
doubt. are, no
temptations lo optimism. 11 is a fact that mighty Itusgla, so thoroughly and treache rously assaulted, has struck back
This
is a matter of life and death with magnificent strength and cour
and has brought prodigious and to the aircraft industry. A great well-deserved slaughter on the Nazl British firm was dispersed into sub-centres.
I can give instances of armies, dispersien to 20, 30 or 40 sub-centres, this was achieved at the cost of production but has placed us in a the cost, position, when
we paid where we are immune from mortal
of
45
The United States, the greatest single Power, la giving us alid on a gigantic scale and is advancing in riding-wrath to the very verge of war.
It Is อ fact that German air damage to our aircraft production superiority is broken and alr attacks and in other branches of munitions on this country for the time being from enemy air raids.
Work Families Moved
The work people may have to be moved from their homes, a plant may have to be shifted
and
domestic affairs have somehow to be adjusted often at great sacrifice or hardship. It is a marvel what has been done to overcome these grievous and novel difficulties (Cheers),
Forc
of the
Despite all troubles, the Ministry of Supply output in the last three months has been one-third greater than in the three months Dunkirk period.
Although our Army, Navy and Air aro large, the Ministry have more people working in factories and despite the dislocation of black-outs, dispersion and so on, vach man is turning out on the whole each day as much as he did in that time of almost superhuman effort,
The Achievement
have almost ceased.
It is a fact that the Battle of the Atlantic, although far from won, in. partly from American Intervention. moving progressively in our favour, Worst Not Quer
It is a fact that the Nile Valley is EO inuch safer than two or three months ago.
It is a fact that the enemy has lost his pretence of theme and doc- trine and has sunk even deeper in moral and intellectual degradation and bankruptcy: that almost all bla conquests, have proved burdens and worse.
r
The
All this massive towering to facts on which we are entitled to dwell must not lead us for a moment to suppose that the worst is over, formidable power of Nazl Germ the v
vast destructive munitions have made or captured, the skill and ruthlessness of their cen
centralised war direction, the prostrate conditions of
thel
yoke,
will be made, to some extent, avail- able to them-all these restrain e- 124
juicing and forbid the slightest re- laxation. I would be madness' to
t suppose that Russla or the United States are going to win this war for
SO
the resources of so
of so many lands which
11 may be said that one-third more workers and one-third more output is quits. But it has to be remen many peoples under bered that all adverse factors have been cancelled out. We made in the inst three months more than twice the field guns that we made in the Dunkirk period. Munitions are half as much again. The combined pro- gramme of merchant and raval ship- building now in active progress 13
Invasion Season Near bigger than in any period of the last
The invasion scazon is at hand. im- although work in now mensurably
more complex than then. All armed forces have been warned In aircraft it is foolish to calculate to be at concert pitch on September 1 and to retain the utmost (vigilanco by numbers of machines because of the difference of time in man-hours meanwhile. We have to reckon with needed to produce them. But the in- a gambler's desperation. Yet we .crease even above the first period of 2011, all fail; and if we
stand here still the champion. It we a year ago is substantial. The in- together. It is only by
war
we fall, all fall
the
superb,
crease since this Government took office is enormous. I should be proud intense and prolonged effort of the to tell the House, but I am going to whole British Empire that the great do so because the enemy does not combination of about three-quarters
tell us their figures which we would of the human race against Nazi-Ism
like to have.
Progress Under Fire
wili come into vehement and dynamie fifc.
For more than a year we have been You must be content with my all alone: all alone we have had to assurance that progress and expar guard the treasures of mankind. ston on a great scale are continuous Although there may be profound and and are remorselessly spurred on. This has been, accomplished under one raging changes in the situation. the fire of the enemy and under air our own final and commanding
les remain undiminished, assault which Hillier, was led to bo ponsibilities
discharge them by love would shatter our industry and and we shall only continuing to pour
to pour out in the common Zedure un to subjection.
It has been done in spite of difcause the utmost endeavours of our strengths and virlug and, if need be,
done without sacrifice of quailty and
flculties of dispersion. It has been to proffer the last drop of our heart's has gained bour a actuplly and relax blood (Loud Cheers
without complications.
Britain Agrecs
This opinion was evidently shared by Britain, judging from the recent statement in the House of CommIONA that relations could be broken off at any time.
On the strength of these condi- that the tions. Finland decided Finnish Legation in London should suspend its activities and would be grateful to know whether the British
held the same views in relation to the British Legation's activities in Helsinki.
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