1939-10-31 — Page 6

THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 31, 1939

CATEGORICAL REBUTTAL

LABOUR TO DEFINE PEACE AIMS

London, To-day.

The leader of the Labour Op- position, Major C. R. Attlee, will define Labour's peace aims at a meeting of Labour members of the House of Commons, which will be held at Caxton Hall on November 8.-Reuter.

GERMANY'S

OIL PROBLEM

Amsterdam, To-day.

In a long war, Germany's oil supply will be one of her weakest points.

oll This is the opinion of Dutch

on the experts commenting

New York report of the correspondent of the "Talegraaf" that in the view of the majority of Navy, Army and Air Force experts, Germany has only sufficient high-grade petrol for two months' big-scale air attacks.

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The "Telegraaf" report Bug. gests that after such a period Germany would have to use syn- thatle spirit which is unsuitablo for modern warplanes.

American experts place the 1939 synthetic oil production at 25 million

· barrels and believe that Germany needs 50 millions in peacetime and 150 million annually in wartime. Reuter.

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FACTS ABOUT SINKING OF THE ATHENIA

London, To-day.

| THE MINISTRY of Information announce that the British Ambassador in Washington has convey- ed to the United States Government the follow- ing assurances regarding the sinking of the Athenia.

(1) The Athenia carried no bullion, securities, guns, munitions or explosives, either as cargo or stores;

by WHITE PAPER EXTRACTS

(2) She was not sunk either contact with a British mine or by a British submarine or by gunfire from

plosion, but in accordance with evid-

British destroyers or by internal ex- ence in the hands of the British Government, by a submarine.

armed (3) She was neither stiffened to receive armament of any kind;

nor

(4) It was not intended to use the raider, armed vessel as an armed

other merchant cruiser or in any offensive capacity at the end of the voyage on which she was sunk,

ANDERSON INVENTING

(5) The Chief Officer has sworn an affidavit that he never discussed with Gustav Anderson the question of whether or not there were guns aboard and that there were in point of fact, no guns, or other munitions carried as cargo.-Reuter.

WANG TO OPEN UP ON NOVEMBER 12

Shanghal, To-day.

It is reported here that No- vember 12 has now been fixed by Wang Ching-wel for the Inaugur- ation of the new "Central Gov- ernment."

The date coincides with the an- niversary of the birth of the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen.

It is learned that after esta- blishing tha new "puppet" re- gime, Wang will vist Japan and meet the Japanese Emperor for the first time. Our Own Cor-

respondent.

COLD-BLOODED

NAZI ACTION DURING

POGROMS

London, To-day. survived were kicked back into the

on

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WITHOUT PRETEXT Jews were sneeringly told by their guards that they were only experi- encing the same treatment as their forefathers in Egypt and that Pharoah had not gone half far enough. Men were kept standing at attention for many hours on end..

The Consul-General in Vienna re- shed." porting on November 11, 1938, anti-Jewish demonstrations on the occasion of Herr von Rath's murder, said that when a large number of Jewish shops and houses and Jewish prayer houses and synagogues were fired, the police had obviously ceived instructions not to interfere.

"Vierina presented an extraordin- A small business man arrested in all June, 1938, in a round-up in the ary spectacle, with fires raging over the city, and Jews being hustled | streets of Berlin, without cause along the streets, cursed at and as-pretext,"describing the floggings, said saulted by crowds of hooligans "whose the normal punishment was 25 strokes pride it is to belong to one of the on the seat carried out by two guards greatest and most civilised nations in standing on each side with riding the world."

whips, the prisoner lashed to a board. If he cried out, the strokes were in- creased to 35.

force,

of

COLOGNE POGROM The Consul-General in Cologne, that writing on November 14, says

The guards used all their. the anti-Jewish manifestations on sometimes springing into the air the 11th were very thorough and so as to bring the arm down with systematic.

increased momentum-British Wire-

GERMANY'S FLYING BRICKS

He reported: "There is nervousness less. amongst the middle class Germans who, in general, disapprove, but they dare not voice disapproval. One Ger- man woman who did so in a tram- car which runs past my door was arrested at the first stopping place. I have been more shocked by the cold-blooded manner in which action was taken than by anything else. Yet I am inclined to think the Fuehrer knows his Germans. Amongst the masses who have nothing at stake there is observed a certain amount of Schadenfreude."

IN FRANKFORT

Consul-General Smallbones at

Frankfort-on-Main. in a message

dated December 14, relates in detall what happened to a well-educated Jew who was in the trenches in the last war and had a good business in Frankfort, and says his statements correspond with others seized and humiliated during the pogrom. A typical passage of this recital of the indignities suffered before removal to Buchenwald reads: "SE' guards and police now had sport with their charges. They made them · krieel

down, cross their hands behind their backs, and lean forward, until they touched the ground with their fore heads. Those who could not perform this feat were assisted, by the funds who kicked them in the bạck of the nock. Others --- were made to run round the building. Some ware sick." Buchenwald, proceeds. Mr

66,", Honking: was ordered for ch, as not jumping

red because “he name on the Sab-

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Paris, To-day. Captured German airmen say that they do not like the much-vaunted Messersch- midt planes, which they po- pularly call "Flying Bricks."

In combat, they say, they are not satisfactory when it comes to man- oeuvring, and they are no match for the American Curtiss fighters used by the French.

Observers point out that 17, this is the case, this state of affairs will grow words as Germany suffere more and more from a shortage of aluminium.

Typical of the effectiveness of the blockade of this important metal is seen in the Royal Navy's seizure of 15,500 tona recently. In peace-time, Germany had to import nearly all her supplies of bauxite (the ore from which aluminium is obtained)♪ pro duting only, about 16,000 tons annual- lyharself

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INCREASING COAL