CHURCHILL'S VIVID PICTURE
For
Japanese
tanks. We are in the presence of a FROM PAGE ONE
crime without a name.
Struggle In Asia sustained by the whole British Com-military factions, secking to anulate
Avo long years, monwealth of Nations.
the style of Hitler and Mussolini, Therefore, this meeting was bound taking all their posturing ns if it to be important because of the were a new enormous forces at present
European revelation, only have been invading and larrying the partially mobilised but steadily being five hundred million inhabitants of mobilised which are at the disposal China. of these two major groupings of the The Japanese arles have been. human family-the British Empire wandering about the vast land of and the United States who fortune the Chinese in n ately for the progress
futile excursion of mankind carrying with them carnage, ruin and happen to speak the same language corruption and culling it the "China and very largely think the same | Incident," thoughts, or anyhow think a lot of
Now the same thoughts.
they stretch o into the southern seas of Chinn; they Erasping hand snatch Indo-China from the wretched Vichy French; they menace by their The meeting is therefore symbolic.mov That is Its prime importance. Singapore the British link with Aus
movements Siam; they meriace ayinbollacs in a form and manner tralia, and they menace the Philip which everyone can understand in pine Islands under the protection of every land and every dime the deep the United States. underlying unities which stir and t a decisive moment rule the English- speaking peoples throughout the world,
Symbolic Meeting
It would not be presumptuous for me to say that it symbolises Evine- thing even moro nafcatie, namely the marshalling of the good forces of the world against evil forces, which
aro
now
formidable ntid triumphant, and have cast their cruel spell over the whole of Europe and a large part of Asia,
Menacing Must Stop It_la_certula_that this has got to stop. Every effort will be made to secure n peaceful settlement. The United States are labouring with in- finite patience to arrive at a amlenble settlement which will give Japan the utmost re-assurance for her
legitimate interests. We Carnest ly hope that these negotiations will succeed. But this 1 must
BAY; I
and
Guiding The Masses. This was a meeting which marks for ever in the pages of history the
And thus we come back to the taking up by the English-speaking where the misty sunshine plays or quiet by somewhere in the Atlantic nations, amid all this perit, turnult and confusion, of the guidance of the Great ships which carry the White fortunes of broad toiling masses lutein and the Stars and Strpes, all continents and our loyal effort, without any clog of selfsh
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interest
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War Aima
worthine
Monday,
MR MANUEL FOX
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
Library, Supreme Coc
August 25, 1941.
5
It will Rain!
IN HONGKONG
Mr K. P. Chen, Chairman of the Stabilisation Fund Committee, and Mr Manuel Fox, American member, of Je Committee, have arrived from Chungking.
Scen by a Telegraph reporter this morning, Me Chen said that he WAK not in a position to say anything at the moment, having just arrived, but ndded that he was going to have a Conference with Mr. Fox and Mr Pul Cho-yu and Mr Chik Tik-mow, the other members of the Committee.
again and resume its rightful place in the new organisation of Europe.
Gallant French
Lift up your heads gallant French- and Laval shall stand between you men, not all the infamies of Darlen and the restoration of your birthright,
Tough atout-hearted Dutch, Bel- glans and Luxembourgers; tormented, mishandled and shamefully castaway peoplea of
Yugo-Slavin, glorious Grecce now subjected to the crown- Ing insuit of rule by an Italian Jack- anapes, yield not an inch.
Keep your souls clear of all contact with the Nazi. Make them feel even
Charter
Moscow's Women Express
Brave Defiance
MOSCOW, Aug, 24 (Reuter)-The women of Moscow reply- ing to a recent message from the women of London said: "Thero ts no power in the world able to shake the Soviet women's will for victory,"
After thanking the women of London for their message the' reply continues, "The women of Moscow are selflessly' at work in factorles, hospitals, omees and in the field of culture and art: We are deeply stirred and moved by the pledge you took in these historie days. We wish you success in your Just struggio and we are fully confident that the close alliance of the democratio countries will once and for all do away with Fascism.”.
Among the signatories to the message was the mother of a Flight Captain Hero of the Soviet Union, who lost his life ramming a German plane with his own machine.
Realistic Tests In
Invasion
England
much of the equipment of modern war, including armoured LONDON, Aug. 24 (Reuter).-Dutch troops, aided by cars Bren gun-carriers and Whippet tanks, "captured" Birken- head and Carlisle this morning. This completed a three-day vaders and the Home Guard that of the defence forces. invasion exercise in which Dutch troops took the part of in-
WIZARD UNMASKED
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in their fleeting hour of brutish trumph that they are the mural out- casts of mankind.
Help Is Coming these hopes should fall we shall farming on your behalf. Ilave faith: Help is coming mighty forces are course ringe ourselves unhesitatingly have at the side of the United States.
hope: deliverance l Bure. There is a signal which we have it is sent they will endure with flashed across the waters, and if I reaches the heart of those to whom fortitude and tenuelly their present misfortunes In the sure falls that they It was the largest and most to are still serving the common realistic test of its kind ever to lend them forward out of the the President and
We had an idea when we mel-be in vain.
cause and that their efforts will not attempted in this country and miseries into which they have plunged |
Ietil without back to the broad is grout of free-attempting to draw that and formal the President of the United States both from the training view- You will perhaps have noticed that has shown most valuable results dom and justice,
peace and war uns it was necessary and the British This the highest honour and the! to give all peoples and especially the what is aptly called the Atlantic point and from the tacticali
representatives in most glorious opportunity which "ppressed and canquered peop
peoples o could ever have come to any bronchengle, rough and ready
Gullible Widow in Case have jointly pledged their defence angle, of the human race. When onts bes Matement of the goal towards which tries to the hat destruction of This was G serious attempt at Inducing a superstitious woman to holds how many currents
Nazi tyranny. That is a sofemn and testing Britain's civilian une British Commonwealth and the eave undertaking. It must be made scheme, during which the ingenuity would "double" in few days' time, defence place $240 in a match box where 1 ordinary and terrible events have United States men make their way, flowed together to me
Hood. and the make a way for others. to
It will be made good: ant of of both sides was given free play und Li Sin-ying. 17, described this bar-
course many practical arrangements which lacked much of the lighter"wizard, was charged before mony, even the most sceptical person, match with them upon the road to fulfil that purpose have been and side common to this type of practice 1. C. Macnamara at Kowloon Magis- must have
which will certainly be painful and the feeling that have
are being organised and set in no warfare. and make deférences from the 1998, he lost.
There are however, two
tion.
tracy this morning with larceny by For two days the Dutch troops trick. Why Hitler Has Waited attitude adopted by the Allies during near is the United States
prepared the way for their invasion. The question has been asked: How They knew what to do, for they stated that on August 12, Complain
Det-Sergeant D. G. MnePherson sae latter port of the last war which There is certainly one
have experienced the real thing ant. war? | **** no one should overinok.
whose husband Is In the Awful and horrible things are hap-states und Great Britain do not now The United
knows the answer to that question. operating platies barbed and carried man named Wong Cho at No. 111,
man who their own Netherlands, Thele
United States, was approached by a hening these days. The whole of assure that there will never be any
If Hitler has not yet declared war
out heavy "blitz" methods, even Yu Chau Street. Wong told her that Europe has been wrecked and tram- more war again. pled down by mechanical weapons
upon the United States, it is surely trang Hirkenhead streets, Dutch he was able to get her a wizard to and the barbarous fury of the Nazis,
not out of his love for Americanfith columnists were active and The
institutions. It mustly deadly Instrument of wor
hed certainly is not be parachute troops were dropped be-Pray for her husband's health. cause could not fin
On August 20, Wong came with He has murdered half a dozen -selence--has been joined to
tehind the Home Guard lines,
Defendant to see Complainant. Wong extreme refinements of treachery
imediately redoubling the tremendous effective, being rounded tries for far less.
Parachutists Round Up coun-
requested the woman to place $240 and the most brutal exhibitions of by effectively disarming the guilty energies
The fear of f In- The parachute troops were nut in n match box saying that the ruthlessness and thus have formed
up every money would increase a combine of aggression the like of us while remaining suitably pro-against him is no doubt a restrador fifth columnists easily proved their putting the money in the box, De-
Dow beint employed time they were discharged but the more in a
to $500 few days time. After before which the rights, traditions, instead of trying to ruin
influence. But the real reason, is value, fighting The serenel diference is this: am sure, to be found in the method Dutch troops in addition to their on the woman, while Wong substitut. with the regular fendant was asked to put some charm characteristics and
ristics and structure of many trade by all kinds of additional trade and by which he has gained so much.
Germanto
to which he has so faithfully adhered other various activities. ancient and honoured states and barriers and bindrances as in 1917 What Is that method? peoples have been laid prostrate and we have definitely adopted the view simple meth
One clever fifth column trick was matelt box.
led the money, container with another now ground down under the heel that it is not in the interests of the
It is a very to invite the public by means of a Thinking that the contents had terror of a monster.
method.
loudspeaker to an "One by one," That is his plan: meeting on the city's world and of our two countries that
air been doubled, Complainant opened Austrians, Czechs, Poles,
outskirts, the box a few days later only to find that is his
A report was
Defendant, schnitting that he had reveived $30 as his share, was sen- tenced to six weeks hard labour.
do our duty in same great design a chance to play our part and the end of which no foresce.
mrtni
Europe Trampled
which has never been known
and
the
and!
Ample Precautions
latinet
On the contrary we intend to take renewal in any period we can foresee ample precautions 10 prevent its
tected varrives.
to
a pretext.
car
open
or
wegians, Danes, Belgians, Dutch, perous or shut out from means of large a portione han enslaved, so increased traffe on the roads would made to the Police and Defendant
Nor-ny large natina should be unpros-trick by widing rule: that is the was planned that the large crowd and newspaper inside.
Treachery of Germany
subjugated
At Carliste the Home Guard and. Civil defence workers held the city against the repeated attacks of their better equipped "enemy,"
The Dutelt called dive-bombers to
was arrested.
Fighters Raid N. France
LONDON, Aug. 24 (Reuter).
A French government deserted their faithful ally and brake the plighted their ald and Anally, after forceR.A.F. fighters carried out n word in that ally's hour of
Byen the fortunate arrival of re-number of offensive patrols over hip Inforcements was not
Guard. Fight-:
Here then Is the vast pit into some time been adjuring, bullying, be-Russia was cujoled and deceived into
need. Gghting, reached their objective. печа
of partnership
walch-all-the most famouà-states-andiseeching-the-populations whom they white the French Army was anni- the city for the enough to hold Northern France to-day, states
to
Adolf Hitler. He made a treaty ofjol some mitigations und indulgences van countries, joining with
nine.
In good
which war in far from new as some In the course of operations, han- of the
Home Guard's strongests, barracks, troops and gun post- stands were made in the shadow oftlens were attacked, Course Maci the ancient Emperor Hadrian's wall, Little fighter opposition was
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Greeks, Groats and Serbs and above making a decent living for itself and and a half years ago I appealed to troops who would be landed in the of the world. Three cover the movements of parachute all the great French nation, have its people by its industry and enter- my fellow countrymen lo take the vicinity of the meeting place. been stunned and pinioned. Italy, prise Hungary, Rumunia and Bulgaria
lead in weaving together have bought a slumeful respite by principle upon which all countries of the League of
rin These are far-reaching changes of defensive union within the principles occupants of the car after discover-
I strong
Alert police, however, arrested the becoming the Jackals of the tiger should ponder. Above all, But their true situation is very intle necessary to give hope and assurance ever-growing danger but none would
it is countries who felt themselves in headquarters next to the City Hall,
Nations of all mg and ralding the fifth columnists* different and presently will be of final victory to those many scores listen. All stood idle while Germany distinguishable from that of his vic-of millions of men and women who re-armed.
City Held tims.
are battling for life and freedom or Sweden, Spain and Turkey stand who already are bent down inder
Divide And Kill appalled, wondering which will be
the Nazi yoke.
Czecho-Slovakia was struck down next.
New Order Hitler and his confederates have for
a kind of neutrality ruces in Europe have been Aung, bave wronged and injured to bow from which unnided they can never their fate and restion themselves hilated. The Low Countries and the ing took place upon this ground to the Air Ministry, climb. But all this did not satiate their servitude and for the sake
and Great Britain non-aggression, with Soviet Russia collaborate-that is the word-in time even after the war was begun just as he made one which Turkey-what is called the New Order in might have altered its in order to keep them quiet till he was
Europs
would have had at any rate fighting ready to attack them; and then
What is this New Order which they | Balkan states had only to stand weeks ago to-day, without vestige of if possible, for their ambitions are together to save themselves from the heck to fasten irst upon Europe and, provocation, he hurled millions soldiers with
of houndless-upon all the continents of tuin in which they are now engulfed alt ang old hymns which are our all their
apratus, the globe 11 is the rule of herren-lat one by one they were undermin- upon a neighbour he had' friend with the avowed abject of an
called volk, the master race, who are to put ed and overwhelmed. Never was a
conmun inheritance and which we tearted as children in our hones. destroying Russia and tearing her to end to democracy, parliaments, career of crime made more smooth. fundamental freedoms and decencies
We sang a hymn founded on the pieces.
Tiller is frightful business is now historie rights of nations, and given Russia and the aid which
striking at of ordiary men and women, to thell his might, well-knowing the dift-sang when they bore his body to the General
Russia with palm whleb John Humpden's soldiers BUCHAREST, Aug. 24′′ (Reuter).- folding day by day before uur eyes. them in exchange the fron role
culties
Antonescu, of geography which
newly- stand grave and in which the brief precar-appointed Marshal of Russia by a de- Here is a devil who in a mere spam Prussia, the univers 1 goure-step mad the western democracies are trying with one to whom a thousand ages been created a Kright of the Order af. his pride and lust for deminution
ious span of human life is contrasted cree of Prince Michael, has also cun condcenn two or three millions, upon the working classes by the poll-
strict efficient discipline enforced to bring. We shall strive our utmost perhaps it may be many more.
are but as yesterday, it is past as of Michael the Brave, the highest human beings to speedy and violent camps and firing parties now so busy ofteal police by German concentration
uvercome all dificulties to bring watch in the night. this aid.
military distinction In Rumank. death.
Conference Arranged
Singing of Hymna
An official announcement says that Russia Surprises
in a dozen lands, always handy in
the honour has been conferred We sang the sailor's hymn "For cognition of General
In the background.
We have arranged a conference in Moscow between the United States, in peril on the sea." We sang "On-Ramanian and German armies and Those and there are very inany-"exceptional merits in commant ef Antonescu's Napoleon Had A Theme British and fursian authorities toward Christian Soldiers", und, indeed his Napoleon in his glory and genius naist stond in the way.
settle the whole plan. No barrier felt that this was no vain presump among the troops in the front lave." courage, spirit and Encrifice ate his Empire far and wide. There
a time when only the shores of and indiciing and suffering himself which the trumpet has sounded from But why is Hitler striking at Russia that we were serving a cause for
tion but that we had the right to
feci Russia and the white cliffs of Dover this frightful slaughter? It is with
ly packed congregation of fighting
language,
to
"Let Russin be blotted out-let Russia be destroyed-order the armies to advance." Such were his decrees, Accordingly, from the Arctic Ocean to the Black Sea, six or seven million
The
soldiers are locked in mortal strug- will their guarding fleets, stood be be declared object of turning his Aigh. We looked upon the denne
and
ali World.
inedinevat
the
same
DICTATOR DECORATED
Ion
SIDELIGHTS OF CHUNGKING
"Sidelights of Chungking" will be
Mr. Fitch was in Nanking when the
give scientific oven-heat control - make every dish a.succoss
- cook a whole meal without attention ➡ make meal-times more punctual
-reduce the cost of cooking
gle. Ah, but this time It was not tween him and the domination of the whole force upon the British Islands. men of the same. easy this time it was not all onc way. The Russian armles the peoples of the Russian Republic theme: they carried with them surges the life and strength out of us--which ideals and now to a large extent the the subject for a talk by Mr George
Napoleon's armies had a. And if he could succeed in beating faith, same fundamental laws, same have rallied to the delence of their of the French revolution; "Liberty, hearths and homes,
For the first Equality and Fraternity" was their when he will then is the moment same interests and certainly in differ- A. Flich at the "Ladies' Night" of the time, Nazi blood hug flowed in a fear-
he will settle his account-and ful flood.
It is already a long one-with
ent degrees facing the same dangers, Hongkong Y's Men's Club to be held There was a sweeping away of people of the United States and cure It swept across me that here was not at the St Francis Hotel on Thursday, Perhaps a million and a half, per outwtic privilege: the land for the haps two millions, of Nazl carinon
systems and tainly with the Western Hemisphere only hope but also a sure hope of at 7.30 p.m. fodder have bit the dust on the end-people, and a now cotte of laws.
"One by one." There is the pro-degradation. And so we came back saving the world from measureless less plains of Russia.
Nevertheless
cess. There is the simple plan which across the ocean waves, uplifted city fell into Japanese hands, and A tremendous battle rages along vanished like a dream. But Hitler- but one final successful application
Napoleon's Empire has served Hitler so well.. It needs spirit and fortified in resolve. after the talk, there will be a cinema nearly 2,000 miles of front. The Hitler has no theme, nnught but Russians fight with magnificent dehus, however, weapons and machins
Some American destroyers which show of the "Fall of Nanking." mania, appetite and exploitation. He
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to be going the same way too, so wo elletency of their military organisa-the product, sadly perverted product, that the President saw in their true tlon and the excellence of their of modern, selence.
A Noble Sight
equipmenrightful Cruelties
Hope For Conquered
The
to make him muster of the world.
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nurse,
Soviet Envoy dangers by which the American peo-mid-paduge one afternoon, a noble Entertains R.A.F. The aggressor is surprised, startled; queret deals, therefore, of the con- now besef a the British people are | sight broice on the view. We over- } LONDON, Aug. 24"(Router) The LADY and staggered. For the first time, must give them hope. We must give that he began eight years ago that new world to sustain the champions when he and Madame Maisky at- peoples will be hard. Wo It was indeed by the mercy of God ried munitions and supplies of the paid a tribute to the R... to-day took one of the convays which car-Soviet Ambassador, M Ivan Maliky. his experience of mass murder has them conviction that their. sufferings revival of the strength of the Ameri-
Anderson with (a) breaking into beronte unprofitable. He retaliates and their resistance will not be in
115 The Peak and stealing from the by the most frightful crucities. As vain. The tunnel may be dark and world of to-day would have to take
of freedom in the old. The whole tended a tea party of officers at o
premises one hand-bag containing can Navy without which the now is armies advance, whole districts long but at the end there is light. lis orders from the European dicta-
horizon seemed to be filled with London hotel.
$11.85, one purse, two pairs of sun re being exterminated. Scores of
ships. Seventy or eighty ships of alt
glasses, опо silver rosary and one housands-terally scores of thou-nessage of the Atlantic meeting.
That is symbolism and that the tore but with which the United States
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kinds and arrayed in 14 lines, each the hartiest battle of her history, M.
говагу, the property of Miss G Lady Blackburn, wife of the Coun-Ybarra, children Mands-of
of which could have been cold blood
drawn still retains the power to marshal with a ruler, hardly a wisp of smoke, press in this should like to ex-sellor to the British Embassy in breaking into No. 114 The Peak and Do not despair brave Norwegians; her gigantle strengtis and, in saving not a straggler but all bristling with its spendid work in bombing milit-giary at No. 114 The Peak, in the spectacles, one rosary bead bracelet, are being cutions: In
and (b) perpetrated
by the German your land shall be cleansed not only herself, lo render an incomparable cannon and other precautions on ary and industrial targets in Ger- carly hours of August 24, * police-troops upon Russian patriots of the invader but of the filthy Qui service to mankled.
press my thanks to the RA.F. for Chungking, was the victim of a bur-stealing from the place two pairs of who defend their native soil.
Since
the Mongol invasions of
lings who are his tools,
which I will not dwell, surrounded many. It has done great work and
one gold cross, two bangles, one gold. Be
Service Europe In the sixteenth century, independence shall be restored.
sure of yourselves Czechs; your
Warship by their British escorting vessels I hope that with the advance of the
Lady Blackburn is at present atay-necklace, ona imitation pearl neck- finger ring, one allver expanding there has never been methodical and
while overhead, far-ranging Catalina Atlantle bay. The, President come nir Poles, the heroism of your people onto the quarter-deck of the Prince engles in the sky merciless butchery on such a scale in standing up to the cruel oppressors of Wales, where there were mingled And then I felt that hard, terrible including Alled officers, welcomed Chungking.
the help given
ven us by
la in hospital recovering from Inlat $104, the property of Lady Black- And this is but the beginning, and the courage
Some, 100 officers and their ladies, juries received during an air raid in, burn Fanine and pestilence have got to sallors and airinen shall not be fornhd British sailors, and marines: The may be, we shall not be derlied the Polish and Russian officers chatted of your soldiers, together many hundreds of American and long drawn-out as this struggle the Maiskys and ut the top table Zollow. In the bloody rula of Hitler's golion. Your country shall live sun shone bright and warm while we
atrength to do our duty to the end, animatedly together,
.
We had service on Sunday.in our bonts soared-vigilan be still more effecting in the Colony while her husband Jaco and one carved fade clip, valued"
tral Magistracy this morning when Willerton the case was adjourned The burglary had a sequel in Cen- On the application of Del. Set W. Yang Changlang, 24, unemployed, for 48 hours.