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Roosevelt

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 6, 1938

Re-Affirms

U.S. Faith In Democracy "Let Those Who Want Dictators Have Them"

Foreign Policy Directed To

Peace Guarantees

Chaper Hills (North Carolina), To-day.

President Roosevelt, in a broadcast address to the University of North Carolina yesterday, de- fended his democratic policy.

"There may be those in the world who believe that a regimented people, whose very thought and action are directed by one man, may give some people the type of security which-is-pleasing to them.

"But whatever convictions I have, none is stronger than my abiding belief that the security and well being of the American people can best be served by the democratic processes which made this country strong and great.

DUCE AND COUNT CIANO FOR LONDON

Rome, November 29... Signor Benito Mussolini and Count Galeazzo Ciano, Foreign Minister, are likely to pay a state visit to London after. Premier Neville Chamberlain visits Rome in January, 1939, it was asserted_ unwell-informed quarters here this evening.

Politicians declared that such a trip has already been "contem-. plated;

TRAGIC LOSSES IN SHIUHING BOMBING

Wuchow, To-day..

"The future rests not on chance alone, not on mere smugness nor mere fatalism, but on the affirma tive action which we take in America.

"What America does or fails to do in the next few years has a greater bearing and ; influence on' the history of the human race for centuries to come than most of us here to-day can ever conceive.

"We are not only the largest and most powerful democracy in the whole world, but many other demo- cracies look to us for leadership, that the world may survive.”

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SIDE OF PEACE President Roosevelt added that' the external policies of the United States would be exerted on the side of peace, and "they will be exerted more strongly than ever before to ward self-preservation of the human race through the assurance of peace." Reuter.

MALAYA'S NEW CHIEF JUSTICE

London, To-day.

CANINE A.R.P. Dog-lovers will be pleased to hear that experi ments with gas-masks for dogs are being carried out, at the Bradford and District Animals Clinic Kennels at Apperley Bridge, Bradford. Photo shows fitting a gas-mask on one of the dogs at the kennels.

FORGED NOTES FRANCO'S

CAMPAIGN

ACTIVITIES

UNDER QUESTION

London, To-day.

Chungking, To-day. Six hundred and seventy-three counterfeit $1 notes of the Central Bank of China were seized by Chin- ese Maritime Customs officers in

The seizure of ships by the Shanghai from a Chinese passenger naval forces of General Franco arriving from Tientsin on the 8.8. was again raised at Commons Chaksang on Sunday, a Shanghai de-question time. spatch reveals.

The man, after questioning, dis- The Under-Secretary for Foreign closed that the notes were entrusted Affairs was asked if General to him by a Chinese in Tientsin to Franco had given any explanation be forwarded to a doctor in the of the mistake he had admitted-re- French Concession for circulation. garding the arrest and detention of "It is alleged that counterfeit notes, two Greek ships under charter for chiefly of the Bank of China and transport, on behalf of the British

wheat purchased. Central Bank, have been manufac-Government, of tured in large quantities in Japan-in Rumania.

A heavy civilian toll and huge property losses were: caused in Shiuhing on the West River, and Liuchow, in central Kwangsi, yes- The Colonial Office announces terday, when Japanese bombers that the Senior Puisne Judge of subjected the two cities to severe Ceylon, Mr. Justice K. E. Poyser, attacks. Several other towns on has been selected for appointment the West River were also raided. as Chief Justice, Malay States, In

succession to Sir Roger Hall, who News. is retiring. Reuter.

Shiuhing was raided three times by 19 machines in several squadrons, which rained between 70 and. 80 high eBlosives Inside the city.

Residences, shops and schools were reduced to ruins, burying many people alive.

ALBERTA OIL FOR ADMIRALTY

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ese-occupied areas to undermine the Mr. R. A. Butler replied that full- Chinese financial structure.-Central

NO MORE "MISTAKES"

London, To-day

A list of ships under charter for transport. of Rumanian wheat, to Britain on behalf of the British

London, To-day. The air raid was' the severest The oil fields of the Turner val- which Shiuhing has ever experi-ley in Alberta, will henceforth sup- Government, which purchased the enced.

ply the British Admiralty, the Pre-wheat for storage under the pro- mier, Mr. Aberhart, announced yes-gramme of food defence, has been After this attack, the raiders terday, according to a dispatch from furnished to the Burgos authorities bombed. Samyeungchun, Lookpu Ottawa. The daily output of the oil in view of the "mistake" by which | and Yushing, above Shiuhing. fields is 12,500 barrels. Trans- two of these ships were recently

Ocean.

taken into Palma, and detained, un- til released on the 'demnad of the British Government.

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London, To-day.

Nine Japanese bombers raided Liuchow, where they dumped more than 100 high explosive and incen- The King returned to London last diary bombs. A large area of the night on conclusion of a short town now lies in ruins, Central shooting holiday at Sandringham: News,

British Wireless, t

information had not been received from the British Agent at Burgos,

Regarding other ships under de- tention, in the cargoes, of which British merchants hold interest, Mr. Butler assured the Opposition leader that these cases were being actively pursued and he sincere- ly hoped the Government would. receive satisfaction-British Wire- less.

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B.B.C. BROADCASTS

London, To-day.

The Postmaster-General told ; a Commons queationer that no propos- al to discontinue the foreign -news - General Franco has given assur- bulletins broadcast daily in Ger- ance that the passage of other man, French and Italian had been ships on the list will not be inter-considered by the B.B.C.-British rupted--British Wireless.

Wireless.