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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 16, 1989.

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America Will Have Its Voice In Ordering Of World Affairs

REMARKABLE

ROOSEVELT

STATEMENT

Washington, To-day.

"The tragic involvements of the old world” were referred to by President Roosevelt addressing the Board of the Pan-American Union yester- day.

INDIA GETTING NERVOUS

Bombay, To-day.. Insurance companies have qua- drupled war risk rates for goods shipped from India to Europe.- Reuter,

The Americas, he said, were protected. "from the NEWMARKET

tragic involvements which to-day are making

the old world a new cockpit of old struggles," RACING

owing to a new and powerful ideal that of the

community of nations which sprang up at RESULTS

the same time that the Americas became free and independent.

That was the Pan-American group of nations,

London, To-day. The Craven Stakes, run over a

'sulted as follows:

TSENGSHING BURNS: STREET BATTLE

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Yungyun, To-day. Tsengshing was turned into raging inferno yesterday when Chin- ese and Japanese troops engaging in heavy street fighting set rows of houses ablaze. Huge columas

of fire and smoke were seen for milea around. The outcome of the bloody engagement is yet unknown.

While attacking Tsengshing, the of Chinese prevented the arrival Japanese reinforcements, Troops the dispatched from Shektan, to relief of their comrades in Tseng- shing, were intercepted and driven back after several hours' fighting.

Japanese troops, counter-attacking

ton, were repulsed.-Central News, LANDING DENIAL

which worked in open conference and by open mile at Newmarket yesterday, re-at Sunkai, 17 miles north of Can-

agreement.

"We hold our conferences not as the result of wars but as the result of our will to peace."

He asserted that there was no

no choice but to turn our countries into barracks unless we are wassals of some conquering empire.

The truest defence of peace in our hemisphere must always lie in Men the hope that sister nations beyond break the bonds of the seas will ideas which constrain them to- wards perpetual warfare.

fatality which forced the old world

catastrophe. towards a new were not prisoners of fate but only prisoners of their own minds,

Only a few days ago the head of a great nation had referred to his country as the prisoner of the Me- diterranean.

A little later, another chief of State, on learning that a neighbour- ing country had agreed to defend the independence of another neigh- bour, characterised that agreement as a threat and encirclement!

CRIMINAL DREAMS

Yet there were no such things as encircling or threatening or impri- soning any peaceful nation by other peaceful nations.

The President condemned "dreams of conquest" as "ridiculous and criminal."

He proceeded: "The American peace which we celebrate to-day has no quality of weakness in it. We are prepared to maintain it and defend it to the fullest extent of our strength, matching force to force-if any attempt is made to subvert our institutions or impair

"We too have a stake in world affairs.

"Our will to peace can be as powerful as our will to mutual de- fence if we can command greater loyalty, devotion and discipline to that enlisted elsewhere for tem- or equally futile porary conquest glory.

LIVING MESSAGE "It will have its voice in deter- mining the order of world affairs. This is the living message which the new world sends to the old."

President Roosevelt said he was still confident that the Republics of the new world could help the old world to avert the catastrophe which impended.

"encirclement"

Referring to the protests of the totalitarian States, President Roosevelt recalled the as- surance he gave Canada last year that the United States would join in defending that Dominion against

an attack from overseas.

the independence of any of our

Then later, at Lima, the Ameri- group.

"Should the method of attack becan nations joined in a declaration that they would co-ordinate their economic pressure, I pledge that my country will also give economic sup-common efforts to defend the in- port, so that no American nation tegrity of their institutions need surrender any fraction of its any attack, direct or indirect. sovereign freedom to maintain its economic welfare."

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"Yet in no case did the American

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Signal Light (8 to 1) Fox Cub (9 to 4) Bold Devil (20 to 1)

Thirteen ran.

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2 3

Won by a head, with four lengths between second and third.

FREE HANDICAP

Macao, To-day.

Official Chinese messages re- ceived here last night deny the attempt at reported landing Heung Chau.

Increased military movements by the Japanese are taking place north and east of Canton.

The following was the result of

Thousands of Japanese soldiers the Free Handicap, run yester-are being assembled at Fatshan and day:-

Samshui.

been Tsengshing has occupied by the Chinese and sharp fighting is reported in the vicinity of Fa-Hsien.

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Solar Cloud (6 to Statute (7 to 1) Lapford (100 to 7) Twenty-nine ran. Won by half a length, head between second and third. Reuter.

The Japanese expect a major counter-offensive from the west and north of Canton.-Our Own Corres- pondent.

Crime Against Europe, Says Nazi Newspaper

Berlin, To-day.

WHAT the British policy had done to Poland and intends to do to Greece and Rumania is nothing less than a crime against Europe," declares the "Volkischer Beobachter" commenting on Mr. Chamberlain's House of Commons' statement.

"Who gives this nation," asks the pire. We do not envy them at all nations regard any of these under- National Socialist organ, “the right since we Germans are a homely folk President Roosevelt said the takings as making any one of them to play the role of the moral and and at present are fully engaged in

as prisoner or

encircling political arbitrator in five contin- Central Europe, American family of nations may a

"QUITE FED UP” as aents? also rightfully claim now to speak any American country or

But we and our Italian friends. threat of any sort or kind...,

There remain solely the fact that to the rest of the world.

"Measures of this kind taken in the English Insular people took adare quite fed up with having

· AMERICAN RIGHT "We have an interest wider than this hemisphere are taken as guar- vantage of the period when the face time and again this convulsive that of mere defence of our sea-antees not of war but of peace, for European continent was torn by in British claim to world domination ringed continent.

the simple reason that no nation internal dissension to gain by robbery which has caused in Europu nothing needless tension, haa boycotted "The economic functioning of this hemisphere has any will to an Empire which is as proûtable

brought the world becomes increasingly a aggression or any desire to estab-it. unit. No interruption of it any-lish dominance or mastery." where can fall in the future to disrupt the economic life every- where;

"The next generation will be concerned with the methods by which the new world can live gether with the old.

HUN METHODS

If that process could be successful here, he said, was it too m hope that a similar process,

elsewhere. be a success

"Do we really that the nations: can methods of real

"We have a right to say that there shall not be any organisation than those which

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