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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 1, 1939.

AMERICAN INTEREST IN ALLIED BATTLE FOR FREE THOUGHT AND CONSCIENCE

'London, To-day.

TO-DAY, THE AMERICAN desire to help the Allies as much as possible is even greater than it was in the last war, said Mr. Bertram Kruger, representative” of the Ameri- can society for looking after military and civilian ca- sualties in Britain, in a broadcast from Daventry yes- terday.

There is a growing feeling in America, he said, that the Bri-

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AFFAIRS DEBATE IN

tish Empire and France are fighting and making great COMMONS

sacrifices for those things that America holds most dear ---democratic government, freedom of thought and li- berty of conscience.

HOLLAND'S PROTESTS

The Hague, To-day.

The Netherlands Government has officially protested in Paris against the Allied blockade measures, ac- cording to an announcement by Dr. de Geer, the Prime Minister. It is also officially announced that the Government has energetically protest- ed in Britain. Reuter.

NAZI PLANE SHOT DOWN

London, To-day.

Another German plane was shot down in single combat with a Bri- tish fighter off the North-East Coast yesterday. The four mem- bers of the crew were picked, up sligthly injured, by a Norwe- gian steamer-Reuter.

GIRL OF 12 KILLED

A girl of 12 was killed at 2 a.m. to-day when eight robbers arm- ed with choppers invaded a hut in Shan Wat village, Tai-0.

London,, To-day..

In the House of Commons,

SIMPLE SUM IN ARITHMETIC

London, To-day.

Mr. William Simme, foreign editor of the Scripps-Howard newspapers, emphasising the ab- surdity of the boast made, in the Berlin newspapers that Germany was now master of the North Bea and the North Atlantic, points out that it would take the Reich more than 15 years' to sweep Allled and neutral shipping from

the seas at the present rate of des- truction, this figure not taking into account replacements.

He added: "Germany is aware of this, hence the present des- perate efforts. She will have to score many times her present average to turn the trick."-Reu- ter.

The American Red Cross is doing the Labour member Mr. AMERICANS

as much as it can and large sums of} money are being raised for its work. Hugh Dalton, initiating a de- In addition to Canada's special bate on foreign affairs, de- position as close friend and neighbour clared that before the House of the United States, many American forefathers

came from the British assembled the Labour Party Isles, and "we want to help Britain," had considered the Finnish-

TAKING MEDICAL

This desire to help has found ex-Soviet situation and reached SUPPLIES

pression in the formation of

American Committee in New York to the conclusion that an act of consolidate and centralise this feeling. aggression had been commit-

HOSPITAL SUPPLIES

No actual money will be sent out ted by a great Power against of the United States, this time, but a small democratic country. the fund will be devoted to hospital They particularly regretted that supplies for military, and civilian the Soviet had not accepted the Unit-

casualties.

ed States' offer of mediation,

The Under-Secretary of State for This work is of no political signi- ficance, but is "a spontaneous expres- Foreign Affairs, Mr. R. A. Butler, sion of the very sincere desire to dealing with the general situation, help."

The work will be expanded! reaffirmed the intention of sparing no matter how great the

demand neutrals as much as possible in the grows. The hospital supplies come interpretation of the Order-in-Coun- with the very good wishes of the cil. people of the United States. Reuter.

BRITISH PUBLIC

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London, To-day. The British public is most indig- nant at Soviet Russia's aggression against Finland, since it was hoped that Russia would finally accept the offers of mediation from President Roosevelt. Havas.

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Neutral representations recelving the close attention of Lord Halifax.

At the same time, we had ample evidence of the desire of neutrals to understand the reasons for the Bri- tish decision and appreciate the radical difference between the Bri- tish and the German policies.

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allied We were more closely France than ever before both in thought and action.

DESPAIRING EFFORT

as

The appointment of M. Monet the first chairman of the Inter-Allied Official Co-Ordinating Committee mocks at the despairing attempts of German propaganda when they try to draw a distinction between the aims and objects of the two nations.

Alluding to the Balkans, Mr. Butler said he was sure that any opportunity of improving trade with Greece would be taken and the matter was under active con- sideration.

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The Government was gratified learn the recent decision of Turkey and Bulgaria to reduce the number of troops on the frontier regions which it was hoped would lead to a renewal of confidence between two Governments,-Reuter.

PEACE PLAN

the

Mr. Dalton spoke of the importance of Anglo-French cooperation.

It was no exaggeration to say that the survival of civilisation in Europe depended on closed and continuous cooperation between these two coun- tries.

Chungkin, To-day. Equipped with two truckloads of

of

seven American missionaries of the Scan- dinavian Alliance Mission are leaving shortly for their stations in and near Sian, capital of Shensi. Johnson, from Illinois, Mr. and Mrs.

The party consists

G. R. Gustafson, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Nelson, from Minnesota, Miss Ruth Nelson, from Washington and Mr. O.. Beckon from Iowa.

medical supplies a party

of Miss Edith

They are proceeding from Chung- king to Sian in two Ford cars with trailers.

Medicine and supplies to the party were provided by the Chinese Red Cross Society of Hong Kong for relief work among the Chinese wounded soldiers at Sian and other mission centres in Shensi. Reuter.

RAWALPINDI VICTIMS

London, To-day. The Admiralty has issued a list of afficers and men missing from H.M.S. Rawalpindi.

The list comprises 265 names, in- cluding 39 officers.

It is understood that small num- ber of ratings named in the list are prisoners on board a German warship. Berlin claims they are 26 in number, but the Admiralty has no informa- tion as to their names-Reuter.

ton endorsed the Prime Minister's disavowal, in the debate on Tuesday, of vindictive terms.

They should make the German - people know that, after the war, Germany taking her place in a free they desired to see a free and civilised

and civilised Europe as a good neigh- bour and an equal,

There were stirrings, he averred, within Germany that might lead sooner than some expected to the liquidation of the Nazi scourge and the Gestapo. He advocated as part of the framework they should designing for the New Europe which the Premier had spoken some provision for modification of national sovereignty.

Foreign

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The Under-Secretary for Welcoming the closer economic co- | Affairs, replying, said, that during the operation recently achieved, he ex- last war, Lord Grey had defined the pressed the hope that it would only aims, of British diplomacy as, first, be the first step in a stifl wider the preservation of Allied solidarity, scheme in which other countries and, secondly, the maintenance of might participate.

relations with neutral countries. Urging early consideration in con-

In the present conflict, Britain and sultation with the French Govern- France had not only maintained Alli ment and the Dominions of the char-ed solidarity but had made Allied acter of the Allies peace plan, so unity. Britain had also maintained, that if the war is shorter than ex- with success, relations with neutrals. pected they should not be caught Her obligations in this war than in unprepared for the building of a the last because there i v peace which would endure, Mr. Dal- | neutrals-British_Wireless,

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