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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 27, 1989.

PRIME MINISTER ON WORK OF MINISTRY OF ECONOMIC WARFARE: TRIBUTE TO POLES

London, To-day.

its own comparison between Britain's clearly-declared policy on one hand,,

LITTLE BY WAY of revelation was made by the and the thinly-veiled menaces of Ger- Prime Minister who made his fourth statement which in the past few days has been many towards: neutrals- a menace on the conduct of the war and the international translated into action by the sinking of situation yesterday.

three, neutral ships under, circumstances constituting a clear breach of inter-

Mr. Chamberlain said that the Ger-

man Government should be the last to make the accusation that Britain WBB conducting an illegal and inhuman blockade, as the German submarines were attacking all ship

Mr. Chamberlain dealt briefly with the Soviet-nattonal law.

German bargain on the partition of Poland, and said that in the circumstances, the Polish armies had been taken in the rear as well as the front, and had naturally been unable to hold their ground. He paid a tribute to the magnificent heroism of the

defenders of Warsaw and the Hela Peninsula.

Mr. Chamberlain recalled that on ! essential for functioning her war in- September 20 he referred to the pro-dustries, the result, would be to ef- blems confronting the Rumanian Gov. fectively cripple her power to prolong ernment by the passage of Polish

troops and etc. in Rumania.

"His Majesty's Government • were watching with sympathy the efforts of the Rumanian Government to meet these problems when they heard of the cowardly assassination of M. Calinescu and on September 21 His Majesty's Minister to Bucharest was ----immediately instructed to convey the Rumanian Government the pression of the horror of the British Government at this outrage and their sincere and heartfelt condolence at the great loss Rumania had thereby suffered,"

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ON WESTERN FRONT Mr. Chamberlain proceed to that on the Western Front, the French continued to make progress in certain localities and had succeeded, notwith-

·standing increasingly energetic Ger- man reaction in maintaining all their gains intact.

In the air, the normal work of Re- connaissance ́and anti-submarine pa- trol in co-operation with the Royal Navy had been continued.

hostilities.

NO QUICK RESULT

Mr. Chamberlain, however, uttered a word of warning against over- optimism. He stated that Germany was already possessed of stocks of varying size of the raw materials which she was required to import and quick results could not therefore be expected from, the Ministry of Eco- nomic Warfare.

ping coming to these islands - with › a complete and callous disregard of warfare to which they had solemnly agreed.

humanity and the rules of submarine

NO DIFFERENT FROM SIEGE Much play is made in German propaganda of the inclusion of food- stuffs in the category of conditional contraband, and it is represented that we are thereby conducting an illegal and unhumane blockade.

But, in this respect, a naval block- ade is in no way different from a land siege and no one has ever suggested that a besleging commander should allow free rations to the besieged

town.

WARSAW STILL

HOLDS OUT

London, To-day.

In spite of 11 days of indiscrim⚫ Inate shelling by the German. ar. tillery and endless air raids, Warsaw still holds out.

The centre of the city la in ruins, “ande incendiary · bombsTM have started over 100 large fires. The business quarter has been almost wiped out-Reuter.

saved

their normal conditions, had them from the difficulties of the last war and made a contribution for

which the whole country was grateful.

GENERAL ATTITUDE Mr. Chamberlain concluded with a

statement on Britain's general attitude doubt that in modern warfare it is towards war, declaring: "No-one can

on, the determination and courage and endurance of ordinary men and wo- men that victory ultimately depends.

"No-one familiar with the con- ditions in this country can have any doubts as to where we stand In these respecto.

"Never have our people been more united and' more determined.

"They are resolved-and that simple. rid themselves once and for all of fact cannot be too often pressed-to the perpetual threat of German ag-

Poland

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the

In any case, the German Govern-gression of which ment should be the last to make such latest instance. an accusation at a time when their

"We and France entered the war "Our command of the sea means that from the day war broke

submarines are attacking all shipping to rid ourselves and the world of that out

menace and our peoples are united Germany was cut off from many of coming to these islands. her sources of supply.

as they have never been united be- fore, In their resolve to achieve that purpose."--Reuter.

"German propaganda has meanwhile been active, alleging that the British contraband control would have no effect on Germany as the- was self- sufficient and would on the other hand completely strangle neutral trade.

"I don't know which of these state- ments is further from the truth.

NEUTRAL OPINION..

"The fact is we have made it clear since the beginning of the war that we were anxious to take account of bona fide trading needs of neutral

neutral

GOODWILL OF LABOUR The Prime Minister dealt with the change in the purpose of industry and on its concentration on war needs | under the Government, which was ready and anxious to take any steps that may be necessary to secure the goodwill of labour.

It was the Government's view that the support of both the employers' and workers' organisations was essen- tial if this country was to put forth a maximum effort.

They had been much encourag- ed in the Initiative shown by re- sponsible authorities ́ of the an gineering Industry in preparing for the extension of labour, sup- ply.

After referring to the R.A.F. flying- boat rescue of the crew of the Ken-countries and His Majesty's Govern- sington Court, Mr. Chamberlain said ment would gladly consider any sig-

gestions that

governments that many attacks had again

might put forward for this purpose." made on enemy submarines.

Mr. Chamberlain said that he was The trade unions which had agreed sure that neutral opinion would make l under proper safeguards to relax

IMPORTANT PART

been

The many developments in the en- durance, speed and reliability of air craft since the last war had enabled them to play a most important part in the work of defeating submarines,

The work of the Coastal Command patrols had proved of the utmost as- sistance to the Navy in combating the submarine menace.

"In

Mr. Chamberlain proceeded: the Dominions, the preparations of His Majesty's Government continue with gathering momentum.

"Dominion` naval vessels are CO- operating with our own.

"Dominion air strength is being made ready for use overseas.

raw

"As the result of close co-operation, supplies of finished munitions, materials and foodstuffs from the Do- minions were being made available in ever-increasing volume, for the com- mon cause."

CIVIL DEFENCE.

Dealing with civil defence, Mr. Chamberlain again emphasised that nothing must be done either by the way of relaxing, reftrictions or reduc- ing the scale of preparations which are likely to make Britain less capa- ble of meeting the air menace with which they were constantly threaten- ed.

* Speaking of the work of the. Ministry of Economio · Warfare;. "Mr." "Ohamberlain Vald that it would carry out function, broadly speaking, which were carried out by the Ministry of Blookade in the East<WBBE

General object of the ministry was ``to`kdlsorgimise Germany's economic structure to such an extent as to make It impossible for her to carry on the war,

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