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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 1, 1940

BRITAIN'S HUGE ORGANISATION FOR WAR

London, To-day. CATALOGUING THE achievements of the Government in organising the nation for war, the Prime Minister said yesterday that at home since the war began the output of guns of all kinds had doubled and in some cases in- creased eightfold. Output of shells had also doubled since the war began and was now ten times as great as after the first five months of the last war.

· After referring to the expansion off are too small, too weak or too near to overseas trade and agriculture at defy them, and they continue to show which the Government was aiming, the most complete and most callous! the Premier commented on the im- indifference not merely to neutrals' pressive figures he had recited as fol- interests but to the ordinary dictates lows:

of common humanity."

"You will see from what I have said The Prime Minister was led by these that we are using the services of mil-considerations to examine the ques- lions of men and women, we are tak- tion of disturbance of neutral trade: ing steps to control tens of millions of and to reaffirm the British desire to tons of materials and we are spend-see after the war the restoration of a ing hundreds of millions in money. freer exchange of goods and services

between nations.

"In future we expect to make still greater efforts and yet there is not a single non-belligerent country which feels it is threatened by this enormous accumulation of power. There is not one that feels its independence is in danger at our hands. There is not one which suspects us of coveting a square inch of its territory."

The Allies' war aims, the Premier declared, were well-known, but "one thing I think is becoming clearer every but day, not from anything we say from the actions of the Germans them- sclves.

FIGHTING FOR ALL

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JAP-SOVIET TALKS BREAKDOWN

Shanghai, To-day.

"That is that we are fighting not only for ourselves but for every coun- try which is oppressed by the fear It is reported here that the Soviet- that some day they may find them-Japanese Border Commission talks on selves in the position which has been the question of demarcating the So- successively occupied by Czecho-Slova-viet-Manchukuoan border have been kin, Poland and now by Finland.” suddenly disrupted.

He went on to disclaim any inten- At the last meeting of the Commis- tion to interfere with the independentsion, the Russian and Japanese dele- judgment of neutrals, adding only this gates produced different maps setting provision:

out the boundaries which were hope- Our Own Cor- lessly at variance. respondent.

"We may and do ask them, whether they be small and weak or great and powerful, to consider that though in exercise of undisputed belligerent rights we have to take action which causes inconvenience or even loss, at any rate we have never sunk a net- tral ship, we have never wittingly sacrificed a single neutral life.

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"On the other hand-the enemy to cover China, Japan. and the neigh- threatens the existence of states which | bouring seas.

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