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THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 1, 1939.

TERRIBLE FACTS WHICH SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES: COMMENT ON WHITE PAPER

London, To-day.

THE BRITISH PRESS yesterday took up unanimous-

RIGOROUS

ly and vigorously, but in the main with dignified NAZI ACTION restraint, the revelations contained in the For- eign Office White Paper on the Nazi treatment IN PRAGUE

of minorities in Germany.

LONDON, TO-DAY. REPORTS FROM PRAGUE STATE THAT THE NAZIS ARE PUNISHING

#ED ON THE INDEPENDENCE DAY

A course which is generally adopted is to let the ter-

rible facts speak for themselves, and to express SEVERELY ALL CZECHS ARREST- the hope, as does the "Manchester Guardian," CELEBRATIONS. that however the war ends Germany may, in the name of humanity, rid itself of a government which inflicts such brutal indignities on its own killed in the disturbances and two people.

says that

The "News Chronicle" although atrocity stories are inci- dental to all wars, a feature of the White Paper is that it describes events which have not happened in war but in peace.

"That very fact," the newspaper declares, “clears the British Govern- ment of any charge that it is replying in kind to the German Propaganda Ministry."

The barbarities of Dachau and Buchenwald have long been known to the outside world, and there is not

much new in the White Paper (as "The Times" points out), but, says this journal, "the horrors are told in such detail and with so much cor- roboration between victims who had

No general punitive measures, how- ever, are to be taken.

It is now learned that one was

Germans and four Czechs seriously in- jured. Reuter.

GERMANY KEEPS UP THE POISON GAS

CANARD

London, To-day.

GESTAPO IN ARMS FACTORIES

Paris, To-day. Gorman workera `in war - fao- tories are being watched by spe- cial sections of the Gestapo who are seeking the reason for the considerable falling-off in output in recent weeks, according to "Paris 'Boir” reports.

The reports add that employ- ers complain of the difficulty of financing orders since the Reich- bank will no longer accept tax bonds and workers dislike the masa transplantations which are breaking morale.—Reuter.

TWO SHOT AT IN SHANGHAI

CHUNGKING, TO-DAY.

THE INTERNATIONAL SETTLE- MENT POLICE ARE INVESTIGAT- ING A SHOOTING INCIDENT IN- VOLVING TWO PUPPET OFFI- CIALS, WHICH OCCURRED YES- TERDAY, A SHANGHAI DESPATCH REPORTS.

The victims, King Wen-chang and

a

DESPITE CATEGORIAL British official denials, the Ger- Feng Kung-chan, were walking near man Government (says the War Office) continues to the intersection of Avenue Road and circulate in neutral countries repetitions and elabora-Tatung Road when four men in \tions of the baseless charge that Great Britain supplied at them.

motor car passing by fred, six shots

poison gas to Poland.

King was wounded in his abdomen Feng was wounded in the chest.

Both were connected with the Salt

and arms died on the spot.

no connection with each other that The War Office recalls that the Polish Government on they bear the authentic stamp of truth."

October 20 categorically denied the allegation and a Swiss doctor who examined German soldiers, alleged Administration of the puppet regime.

HUMAN. DIGNITY.

The "Daily Telegraph" says the outside world has only to read the report to realise that it is not merely Democracy or political liberty which is at stake in the present struggle but the very dignity of the human race, The first neutral comment comes from the Netherlands, which is stated to have been profoundly shocked by the revelations.

HITLER'S HATE

Hitherto the Netherlands new6- papers have been chary of publishing, such reports, but yesterday the Bri- tish White Paper was widely com- mented on.

The "Het Volk," of Amsterdam, devotes two full columns to the

details.

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to be the victims of gas in Poland, declared on October 23 that he "found no evidence indicating in what cir- cumstances the poisoning occurred.”

Dealing with the so-called "circum- stantial evidence" which the German Government says proves their charge, the War Office says that this consists of assertions that the polson gas alleg- ed to have been found in Poland. came from a dump near Gdynia and that this dump was filled from Bri- tish ships.

that

The War Office reply states the Board of Trade, through a sys-

tem of export licences for war ma- terials, maintain the strictest control and complete records of all exports of munitions.

A detailed examination of its re-

It is noted with special interest cords and every possible source of that Hitler's personal hatred of Pas-supply, shows that nothing of the ter Niemoeller has now been made kind was ever supplied to Poland.---- clear-by Sir Nevile Henderson. Reuter.

SIX YEARS AFTER

London, To-day.

following points in "The are also worth em-

The Times" leader phasis:-

The early terrors of the Nazi re- volution are well-known but the con- tinuance of the same brutality Ave and six years afterwards 'was not generally realised.

Reuter.

ELEVEN SURVIVORS OF BLAST

IT IS NOW LEARNED THAT The documents relate to this ELEVEN SURVIVORS HAVE BEEN period, in which the majority of poll- TRACED BY THE WATER POLICE Hical opponents of the regime are FOLLOWING THE BLOWING UP

·wither dead, expelled or silent, OF THE STEAM LAUNCH "KWONG ferice the sufferings described are HONG" AND TWO JUNKS IN THE mostly those di Jews.

of

FIRST TEST ON NEUTRALITY

BILL IN HOUSE

Washington, To-day. President Roosevelt won the first test of strangth in the House Representatives yesterday over the Neutrality Bill when the House decided that the Bill should be sent forthwith to a Joint Senate and House commit- tes to compose the differances in measures before the two bodies. ---Router.

of Chekiang.

A suspect has been arrested.---Cen-· tral News.

THANKSGIVING DAY IN AMERICA

Washington, To-day. President Roosevelt has proclaimed November 28 as "Thanksgiving Day" and asks that thanks be offered "for the hope that lives within us" of eventual world peace. Reuter.

DUKE OF WINDSOR IN FRONT LINES

Paris, To-day... The Duke of Windsor visited the French front lines yesterday.

He watched artillery In action and talked to troops returning from patrol in No Man's Land, Reuter.

FINLAND PLANS TO SUBMIT

OFFER TO SOVIET

Stockholm, To-day.

MINE FIELD OFF CHU LEI KOK WHEN THE FINNISH delegation headed by M.

The statements recorded will doubt- | ISLAND, NORTH OF LANTAU. less be officially denied: but by men. who make no distinction bet truth and untruth. Reuter.

SHOCKING HYPOCRISY

⠀⠀ London, To-day. The American newspapers yestër- day published prominently summaries of the British White Paper giving us thentic detail of the Nazi terror in Germany

In Paris, the "Paris Midi" says the White Paper unmasks with vigour the shocking hypocrisy of the Nazi regime.

At least 40 Chinese are believed to have been killed by the explosion or drowned after the boats were smash-

"Seven of the survivors are in hos-

pital.

The reason why, the coxswain of the launch changed course, running right into the minefeld

being warned by Police Launch Cheung Sha Wan, still remains a

understood that there will be inquiry at Harbour Office.

Paasikivi left for Moscow last night they took for submission to Stalin detailed counter-proposals.

According to the Helsinki correspondent of the Dág Bladet," the new proposals represent the unant- mous view of the Finnish Cabinet and Diet, in- cluding opposition parties.

hile the details of the proposals t it is known that they con-

Intimation

to go, though further discussion the details is not exclud

The Finns proposals "cannot--fall

the