1940-05-17 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 17, 1940.

KEEP HEARTS GAY

Ebrary, Supreme Court

Page

AND SPIRITS HIGH QUEENS THEATRE

-MR. DUFF-COOPER

London, To-day.

MR. A. DUFF-COOPER, the new Minister of Information, in a broadcast speech last night said he felt it was the job of his Ministry to give people the maximum informa- tion in the minimum time. Accuracy and speed were to be their main objectives, with

accuracy coming first.

DUTCH REFUGEES ARRIVING

London, To-day. Members of the Dutch Par- liament, journalists, a burgo- master, several expectant mothers and a large number of very young children were among a party of Dutch re- fugees who arrived at a south coast port yesterday.

They were in a pitiable state of ex- haustion after two sleepless days and nights, almost without food and crammed in the holds of ships.

They all told stories of desperate escapes under the noses of the German soldiers.

A member of the Dutch Parlia- ment, who asked that his name should not be published, for the sake of his daughter who is still in Hol- land, described the Germans beasts.

Amazed By Order

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It was stated the Germans strewed the streets with poisoned chocolates and German residents used their houses as bases of attack on their neighbours.

After advising people not to allow to be added to the anxieties and hor- rors of war all the wealth of mischief that rumour can produce, Mr. Duff- Cooper said: "We are engaged now in a great battle which will be long and Gerce, and there are bound to be bad moments and bad news.

"We at home should be as pre- pared to receive bad news as those in the battle line are prepared to receive enemy bullets."

Mr. Duff-Cooper appealed to people not to go about with long faces, as though at a funeral, and concluded:

100 PER CENT. EFFORT. "Let each one of us throw 100 per

cent. of all our energies into whatever task we have to perform. Let us keep our hearts gay and our spirits high, and in our own ability to win through

confident in the justice of our cause

to victory, as in all our long and 'glori- ous history we have never failed to do."-Reuter.

Fantastic Rumours

Dealing with the dangers of rumour, Mr. Duff-Cooper said homer had des- cribed it as the most swiftly moving of all evils and that description was true to-day as when first said 4000 years ago.

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He continued: "What could be the more fantastic for instance than rumour with which the Germans are feeding their hungry people to-day. They are telling that wretched slaved nation who are as hungry for good tidings as for bread and butter that the King is packing up his trunks and leaving for Canada immediately.

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Such rumours make us laugh but other rumours only a little less absurd Several Dutch soldiers said they might make some faint-hearted people were amazed by the order to cease fire | tremble."-British Wireless, and decided to get to England. Reu-

ter.

More Expected

DUTCH ARMY

is officially London, OFFICERS IN

It is officially stated that a large number of refugees are expected to ar- rive in the London metropolitan, area to-day from Holland and Belgium and during the end of the week and the beginning of next week.

Substantial numbers arrive daily via France.

Refugees will be accommodated in the counties of London, Middlesex and Surrey, and it is hoped accommodation will be

found for them in private houses. Reuter.

OCCUPATION OF PART

ENGLAND

in

London, To-day. More Dutch refugees arrived yes- terday, including officers and men of the Dutch Army who escaped trawlers. The trawlers were bombed and machine-gunned by: German 'planes, which secured no hits and were driven off by two British war- ships.

A Dutch civilian reports that all petrol stocks were set on fire, as the Germans approached.-Reuter. :

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