THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 2, 1940.
ALLIED TERMS FOR PEACE ESSENTIAL TO NEW MOVE
London, To-day.
AUTHORITATIVE QUARTERS in London are taking a keen interest in what they regard as the first substantial at- tempt to prepare the ground for the possibility of peace now being made by the Pope on one side and President Roosevelt on the other, declares the diplomatic corres- pondent of "The Observer."
Mr. Myron Taylor will reach the Vatican in a few weeks' time to confer with the Pope about the co-ordination of the two enterprises.
WRONG
AGAIN, GOEBBELS
London, To-day.
The German news agency claims that the British patrol
on De- ship Agathe was sunk cember 29 by a German submar- Ine.
on
On enquiry at the British Ad- miralty it was learned that no British naval ship was sunk that date, and that there is no ship named Agathe in the Royal Navy! Router.
1940 WILL BRING
Official quarters in London do not expect to be officially informed about the project.
They feel confident, however, from what both President Roosevelt and His Holiness have publicly disclosed, that their own clearly announced conditions of
peace are not only being respected but are themselves regarded as essential to the new pro- ject.
RESTITUTION CONDITION
It is taken for granted that no attempt will be made to confuse the issues by shifting the role of "public enemy number one" from Hitler to Stalin.
It is regarded as equally certain that the Rope's estimate of restitution as a precedent condition to peace and disarmament (point number one in his Christmas message to the College of Cardinals) will be endorsed by President Roosevelt, just as it consti- tutes virtual endorsement of the Allied peace terms as already clearly defined.
ROOSEVELT CAVEAT
Nor is there in London and Paris any disposition to fear that a peace plan publicly launched on such eminent authority can be made use of the enemy propaganda for
LIBERATION belligerent rather than pacifle ends.
Paris, To-day. Confidence that 1940 will bring liberation to the suf- fering peoples of Central Europe, was expressed by Dr. Edouard Benes, President of the Czecho-Slovak National -Committee,-in-a-New--Year
Message.
Dr. Benes adds: "The year will be decisive for the victory of the Allies. "The Nazl leaders see already that they have definitely lost unless they can secure a compromise.
The fact that President Roosevelt prefaced his enterprise with the caveat that an actual basis for peace is not available, and that the Pope has put restitution first in the order of procedure, has made а deep im- pression in Allied quarters, who therefore have no hesitation in wel- coming the dual initiative. yitosza-ffloCenixvn6lyn,zs
THE OLD
Reuter,
ARGUMENT AGAIN
"Therefore during the next month they will try desperately to save and most of their rape of Poland
LONDON, TO-DAY. AN AUTHORITATIVE STATE- Czecho-Slovakia by proposing differ-
MENT 188UED IN LONDON OB. ent, unacceptable and politically im-
ob- SERVES THAT HITLER'S NEW possible peace terms, with the
YEAR PROCLAMATION FOLLOWS ject of preserving their regime for the time being and to enable them THE WELL-WORN LINES OF GER- later to begin once more the immoral | MAN ARGUMENT, and barbarian policy aiming at the domination of Europe."
In the perpetual search for new hatred with which to infect the Ger- Dr. Benes further declares that man people, Hitler seems for the time the moral strength and the spirit of being to have returned to the British resistance of the Czecho-Slovak nation | Empire and the Jews.
the The old excuses for Germany's were greatly strengthened by recognition of the Czecho-Slovak | wantori aggression against her neigh- National Committee by Britain and bours must now be sounding a trifle France.--Reuter.
The
TERM EXTENDED
Wellington, To-day. Governor-General of New Zealand announces that his term of office will probably be extended owing to the war.
He was to have left early in the New Year. Reuter.
NAZIS ADMIT LOSS
London, To-day.
and
A German High
·munique broadcast from Berlin admits:
the loss of
Trelleborg, Sweden:
The commy que
members of
rescued.
thin, it is declared.
Such arguments have already been answered by the principal Allied statesmen.
FIGHT TO THE END. The statement adds it suffices to repeat that until the cause for which the British Empire and France have taken up arms has been they are determined to continue to nights
achieved
Recent events have borne imprés-" sive testimony to the preparations they are making for effective pro- secution of the war which was forced upon them. Reuter.
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