1940-02-29 — Page 6

THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 29, 1940.

Dr. ("Burble") Goebbels Rants And Threatens

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SIGNIFICANT PRELUDE TO VISIT OF MR. WELLES

Berlin, To-day. ADDRESSING A MEETING at Muenster yesterday, the Propaganda Minister, Dr. Joseph Goebbels, declared the German nation was now united for the first time in history.

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"The very existence of a united German nation has been regarded as a challenge by the plutocratic powers of the West," Dr. Goebbels declared.

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SUMNER WELLES IN ZURICH

Zurich, To-day.

Mr. Sumner Welles, U.8. Un der-Secretary of State, arrived hore yesterday afternoon.

He was cheered 'In the station by a crowd of about 1,000 people and drove straight to a hotel.

He will have no official" con- tact with members of the Swiss Government during his stay

here, and is expected to leave for· Berlin this afternoon.-Router.

"The German nation is well aware that the pre- GERMAN ARMS

sent war is a war of life or death.

“Escapes are not possible yet. We know our own means very

well but we also know our opponents' means

we don't care if our opponents base their judgment of

AGREEMENT

Germany on the opinion of Jewish refugees nor if they WITH SWEDEN

make mad war aims with a view to the utter destruc- tion of the German nation.

SHANGHAI POLICING PROBLEM

LONDON, TO-DAY:.

MR. R. A. BUTLER, UNDER- SECRETARY FOR FOREIGN AF-

BETTER LONG

WAR THAN MEAN GET-OUT

LONDON, TO-DAY.

SPEAKING AT A DORCHESTER HOTEL LUNCHEON YESTERDAY. MR. LLOYD GEORGE EMPHASISED THE NEED FOR A STRONGER AIR FORCE AND DECLARED. *'IF IT IS NECESSARY, MAKE IT CLEAR THAT IF THERE ARE ANY AT-

OUR TACKS ON

CITIZENS AT HOME IT WILL NOT END IN BRI- TAIN. I AM FOR THAT, ONCE WE ARE COMMITTED TO WAR.

"The nation has agreed that our cause is just. We are fighting for in- ternational right. We are also agreed that we will have to go through with it until we reach an honourable, equit able and enduring peace. That Is what matters in war.

"BETTER A LONG WAR-" "There is one thing I want to say as an old war Prime Minister better a long war than a mean get out."!

New York, To-day.

Appealing to his hearers to re- member that during the war we had All Swedish types as

of armaments to feed not merely armed forces but captured by Germany in Poland will 46,000,000 people, Mr. Lloyd George be sold to Sweden by Germany, ac-said: "Germany forgot it last time. cording to reports in diplomatic She depended on her great armies. circles, says the "New York Times" She was starved to surrender. In a Washington despatch.

learned a lesson. Have we?"-Reuter,

"Their efforts to swerve Germany by propaganda will be as futile their efforts to swerve it by block ade. Germany .has rendered the blockade for the greater part ineffec- tual."

Dr. Goebbels said the German military organisation was the best. that ever existed. It was determin- ed and able, at the Fuehrer's command, to bring the war to a victorious end.

Every German was determined to FAIRS, ANNOUNCED IN THE stake everything to bring the strug- HOUSE OF COMMONS YESTERDAY glè to a successful conclusion. THAT FOLLOWING THE SIGNING OF

A MODUS VIVENDI FOR POLICING THE OUTSIDE. ROADS

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END OF "TYRANNY”

"We are well aware what would IN SHANGHAI, THE JAPANESE happen to us if it should be possible CONSUL-GENERAL HAD. ISSUED A❘ to defeat us. This time the German COMMUNIQUE DECLARING THE nation will make a final end of plut- JAPANESE AUTHORITIES WERE ocratic world tyranny." READY TO RESUME NEGOTIA- Dr. Goebbels extolled the part TIONS AS REGARDS THE POLIC- played by Nazi party officials in the ING OF HONGKEW AND OTHER war. AREAS CREEK.

NORTH OF SOOCHOW

Ninety-five per cent, of all Hit- ler Youths were in the army; 400, of them were killed in the Po- Heh operations. "We are waging war under the favourable conditions," Dr. Goebbels asserted.

... Mr... Butler continued:Conversa- tions are, in fact, to be: resumed be- tween the two parties and it is hoped these negotiations will lead to

a most settlement of the other questions at issue.concerning the Council's juris- diction in these areas..

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"Our food supply is fully secur- ed, our economic system is consoli- dated and is in a position to supply the country with all the necessary raw material and products.

"Latest reports indicate that the crime situation is still very bad in the western extra-Settlement district, but the Japanese authorities have ex- pressed the intention of doing awaying at the highest pressure." with a number of gambling-houses and dens of vice, to which the dis-

"The armament industry is work-

THREAT TO NEUTRALS.

Germany has also agreed to de- liver anti-aircraft guns manufac- tured in Poland under Swedish patents.

ITALIAN

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ANTI-JEWISH DECREE...--

Rome, To-day. cluded from most of the professions, From March 1 Jews will be ex-

Owing to the delicate diplomatic. situation in Scandinavia, it is thought that diplomatic denials will be made, but the reports are believed to be derived from detailed information. such as journalists, doctors, chemists,

The paper adds that it is thought lawyers, accountants, and engineers. diplomatic quarters in Germany may their services solely to members of Some are exempted and may offer be anxious to prevent the Soviet from advancing further

their own race.-Reuter. west. It is also pointed out that the deal may be for purely economic reasons if Germany is hard pressed for cash, or Sweden may have been able to wring conces- sions from Germany for refusal to yleld to Allied pressure to drop her neutral position.-Reuter.

HOME FOOTBALL

London, To-day.

In a South "A" match yesterday, Crystal Palace and the Spurs shared two goals on the former's ground............. Reuter,

UNITED STATES CAMPAIGN AGAINST

AUTARKY

Washington, To-day.

orderly conditions in this district-are Dealing with the neutrals, Dr. Goeb- THE Secretary of StaTE, Mr. Cordell Hull,

chiefly due."

APPRECIATION, EXPRESSED,

bels said that unlike Mr. · Churchill, Sir J. S. Wardlaw Milne (Cons. tive assistance in the war but Get- Germany did not demand their ac- Kidderminster) asked: "Will Mr. Butler express the appreciation of this of neutrality which referred to mili- many would not tolerate a definition country to the Japanese for the detary but not political neutrality. finite action contemplated and press them, if possible, to get on with the

work?"

Mr. Butler: "I will see that an ex- pression of appreciation is passed for- ward and the work pressed on as he desirès."— Reuter.

TURKISH SHIP ORDER

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Istanbul, To-day.

No reason has yet been given for

difference between the neutrality of

· “Germany cannot allow an obvious

a State and the neutrality of its pub- lle opinion. The right of freedom of opinion must not be misused in neu~ tral countries."-Reuter,

JAPANESE RUN INTO AMBUSH

Nanyang, Honan, To-day.

A, Japanese drive toward Loshan, an order by the Turkish Government in south Honan, has resulted in dis- forbidding Turkish ships to call at aster: foreign ports or to sail in non-Turkish The Chinese ambushed the territorial waters.

It is understood, however, that cer- tain vessels may be granted permission, to enter foreign waters from time to time in "extraordinary circu -Havas.

ese na Loshan and damaged the Sinyantoshan highway, thus cutting retreat. The Japanese were put to rout, abandoning some 700 bodies, and a quantity of" munitions on the field.

Central News,,

stated yesterday that conversations were under way between -American diplomats and foreign governments all over the world, in the interest of preventing the forces of autarchy, regimenta- tion and economic totalitarianism from gaining control after the end of the war.

Mr. Hull revealed that copies of his forces were not organised prepará- recent statement concerning contacts tory to the transition and reconstruc- with neutrals, with a view to estab-tion period after the war, the forces lishing a better world order after the of autarchy, regimentation and tota- war, had been sent to all American litarianism would probably have the representatives abroad, so that they same tendency they had after the could bring them to the attention of Great War. the governments to which they were accredited.

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Mr.. Hull sald the action

Laken with a view to making- preparations for post-war ad- Juatimente; do

scónomic and military, and emphasised-that-the-conver sations had nothing to do with conditions during the war.

He said that if the forces of peace and stability. pecially economic

DISASTROUS BASIS

This tendency was to spread their practices on an ever narrowing and more disastrous basis through the interested areas in the world with...... much worse destructive effects than followed the similar polley, after 10 years of the post-War period. Reüter."