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HITLER'S "OFFER"

THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 13, 1939.

REJECTED

"Acts not words must be forthcoming before we British and the peoples of France, our gallant and trusted ally, would be justified in ceasing to wage war to the utmost of our strength.

"We must take it that the proposals which the German Chancellor puts for- ward are to be based on the recognition of his conquests and his right to do what he pleases with the conquered.

"It would be impossible for Britain to accept any such a basis without for- feiting her honour and abandoning her claim that international disputes should be settled by discussion and not by force.”

"Surrender to wrong doing would spell the extinction of all hope and annihila- tion of all those values of life which have through centuries been at once the mark and inspiration of human progress.

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"We seek no material advantage for ourselves and desire nothing from the German people which offend their self-respect. We are not aiming at victory but rather looking beyond it to laying of a foundation of a better international sys- tem which will mean that war is not to be the inevitable lot of every succeeding generation." Mr. Chamberlain in the House of Commons yesterday.

MR. CHAMBERLAIN NOT MERELY FIRM, BUT PREMIER'S UNCOMPROMISING FIRMNESS

London, To-day.

STANDING STIFFLY UPRIGHT away from the dis-

APPLAUDED

London, To-day.

AXIS PARLEY UNLIKELY

Rome, To-day.

In Rome there is no belief of reports purporting to emanate from Berlin that Italy, Germany and Russia are to consult on "peace pro- posals."

It is pointed out that there is no treaty between Russia and Italy providing for con- sultation on the lines of the German-Italian or German-

Reuter. Russian treaties.

EUROPEANS LOSE NAME PLATES

OF

THE

WHOLESALE GATHERING BRASS NAME-PLATES FROM DOORS OF EUROPEAN RESI- DENCES IN ARGYLE STREET, IN- CLUDING THAT OF MR. H. C. MAC- NAMARA WELL-KNOWN LOCAL BARRISTER-AT-LAW, WAS CAR- RIED OUT BY THIEVES IN THE

patch-box in which his manuscript rested, his The House of Commons re- COURSE OF 60 MINUTES YESTER- face stern, his voice unusually raised, the Prime garded Mr. Chamberlain's DAY AFTERNOON. Minister yesterday delivered his weighty speech speech yesterday as the best The name-plates were removed dur- in the manner he reserves for occasions when he he has yet given to Parlia-ng 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. yesterday, the means to be not merely firm, but uncompromis-ment, writes Reuter's lobby ing.

When he referred to the bombing and slaughtering of the Poles, his tone was bitter and he was sharply sarcastic when he spoke of Hitler's broken undertakings.

The House gave its first PLEBISCITE FOR AUSTRIA

"Let him agree that the freedom of big cheer when he declared Poland and Czecho-Slovakia shall, be that Britain would accept no restored at once and that the people such basis for a peace.con-of Austria shall be allowed to decide ference Hitler had in their own destiny by a plebiscite with full guarantees for the expression of mind.

the Austrian peoples' will.

as

From thence onward the cheers were frequent, and increasingly noticeable in the passages in which he distin- guished between the German people and the present Government, and de- clared that we desired nothing from the German people that could offend their self-respect!

"Then only would it be possible for us to contemplate negotiating peace with Hitler."

Lord Stanhope, in the House of Lords, made a similar statement to Mr. Chamberlain's. - Reuter.

EXPLICITNESS URGED

correspondent.

Opinions in the lobbies among all

parties were unanimous in approving the uncompromising nature of the Premier's response to Hitler's pro- posals.

One Labour member who had bitterly criticised Mr. Chamber- lain in the past said he heartily welcomed yesterday's pronounce- ment.

} Similarly some former critics of the

Premier on the Government side were yesterday evening singing his praises.

--Reuter.

mier's statement would be endorsed by the British people and approved by the peoples of other countries.

LABOUR CALL

victims being.

Mr. Tinson, of No. 130 (ground floor) Argyle Street;

Mr. L. Goldman, of No. 132 (ground floor), Argyle Street;

Mr. H. Lawrence, of No. 130 (first floor), Argyle Street;

Mr. H. C. Macnamara, of No. 136 (ground floor), Argyle Street;

Mrs. T. E. Pogodin, of No. 136 (first floor), Argyle Street; and

Mr. C. de Saille-Robertson, of No. 144, Argyle Street.

The name-plates are valued at $2 each.

BLACK-OUT SUMMONSES

Before Mr. R.A.D. Forrest this norning, several European and Chin- Labour, he sold, adhered to the ese motorists were summoned for hav- party's declared policy of disarmament |ing lights on their vehicles which did The subsequent debate in the Com-and collective security. "We must get not conform to the required conditions mons-and in the Lords-showed not

a new world. We must get a new during the "black out" of September PRIMARY CONDITION

only a close approximation in the Europe. I was glad to hear the Prime 22. Only when world confidence is res- attitude of the Party leaders, but Minister say we should do it in con- tored, said the Premier, will it be signs to quite an unusual degree of sultation with the German people. We possible to find as we would wish do, the divergence in views of individual believe we can build up a new world with the aid of all who show good-speakers.

but it must be a new world based on | the principles of Democracy, which demands of peoples that they should regard the rights of other as well as their own rights.

will, solutions to the questions which In so far as qualification appeared disturb the world, stand in the way of in the approval given to the Pre- disarmament, retard the restoration of mier's statement, it took the form trade and prevent the improvement of of urging a more explicit and detailed the well being of peoples.

enunciation of the principles for which There is thus a primary condition the Allies are fighting and of to be satisfied. Only

herself would the German contribution Britain Government can fulfil it. If they will be willing to make in common with not, there can as yet be no new or bet-other nations for their realisation.

all nations yearn."

the

world."

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We must pursue the struggle with resolution because a patched-up peace would only lead to another war and leave an uneasy world staggering un- burden of armaments. ter world order of the kind for which This point of view was most strong-der the huge

We must see we come out of this ly expressed by Sir Stafford Cripps Major Attlee and Sir Archibald and It was answered by Mr. Amery struggle with nothing less than a new Sinclair similarly evoked apprecia- and others, and similar observations

THE LIBERALS tion in their backing up of the Prime in the Lords were taken up by Lord Minister's views.-Reuter.

Halifax, who suggested that most of Sir Archibald Sinclair, the Liberal points mentioned were covered by leader, said: "We have a right and a the statement, either explicitly. or duty to condemn manifestations of implicity.

barbarlem, but it not for us to chastise another people for its form of govern- ment. The German people must have the means of setting their own house in order, but they must cease to im- pose their tyranny on thoir neign- bours.

BRITAIN NOT TO FALTER The Liberal leader, Sir Archibald Sinclair agreed wholeheartedly with Mr. Chamberlain's response to Hitler's speech.

"Once more, wherever wrong has been done in recent years, the name of Britain la being heard with hope and fear. "Let us resolve not to weaken or falter in our task but to ensure that those hopes so deeply cherished of Britain's action, will be fulfilled."

Hitler had to give proof of the sincerity of his peace proposals.'

"Let him march his troops out' of all countries he has acquired by violence.In the last two years. -

SENSE OF GRAVITY

He added: "I would ask you to take it from me that those not cover- ed are all, without exception, in the mind of His Majesty's Government.

When preparing that statement, they were considered with the utmost

are.

Mr. C. G. Scicluna, of No. 7, Shou- son Hill, was fined $10.

Mr. V. E.. Ferrier, of Gilman and Company, was fined $3.

Cheng Tse-man, of the United Pub- city and Advertising Company, and · Mr. C. H. T. Suen, of the China As- surance Corporation, were fined $10.

Mr. H. B. Joseph, of Exchange Building, was fined $5 for parking overtime in Chater Road.

F. A. Paterson, of No. 13, Dragon Terrace, was fined $5 for failing to drive on the left side of the road, in Queen's Road Central on September

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ANOTHER

TYPHOON

Warm dry weather continues, with the temperature reaching 88 degrees in the shade at mid-day, with humid- ity at or below. 60 per cent.

The Royal Observatory report states that a weak antleyclone covers Korea and the adjacent seas.

The northern depression has moved

The Premier to-day proclaimed that we are fighting for the liberation of It was with a dominating sense of Europe from Nazi. tyranny. I would gravity and responsibility that those like him to add also liberation from who had to determine the form of the burden and danger of national into the Pacific to the South-East of the statement decided that the points armaments and for the rebuilding of a | Japan. which were omitted should not be In- | European order based on law and The Pacific depression is situated , justice and good faith-British Wire- about 700 miles to the east of Manila, Mr. Attlee declared that.. the Pre- less.

moving N.W....

cluded.