1940-07-27 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 27, 1940

GERMANY PUTTING THE SCREWS ON RUMANIA

LEAFLETS

IN THE LAST WAR

Many people think that leaflet- dropping is an innovation of this

THE GERMAN RADIO announces that the Rumanian Premier and Foreign Minister have been received by Hitler at Berchtes-

war, but in fact it was a well gaden.

tried propaganda method of the

last.

PRESIDENT DID NOT HEAR

President Roosevelt told newspapermen in Washington yester-

day he had: not heard of an appeal from the committee in the Ne- he therlands: that should urge Britain and Germany to nego- tiate peace, nor had he any idea when the plan to send 3,000 planes. a month to England would be put into operation.-Reu-

In the opinion of diplomatic circles in

ter. Europe, Germany is to lay down the lines for attached to a Fighter Command the development of the greatest supply of

An R. F. C. veteran, now an R.A.F. Volunteer Reserve Officer,

Station in the North of England,

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has a copy of a pamphlet which things she wants, notably, Rumanian oil and was dropped on German troops wheat. She also wants the Rumanian army as early as May, 1916.

It is an interesting four-page demobilised and put back to work.

document. Its heading "Kriegs-

"War News" is sur- Imperial the old

blatter" mounted by German Eagle.

Germany may attempt to dis- pose of Hungarian and Bulgarian

Pacific Policy

claims on Rumania somehow, "Rumania is following a pro- The purpose of the "Kriegsblat-anyhow, but no one supposes that foundly pacific policy and is con- the German Government will be fident her good relations with her ter" was to give the Ger- mans the

they did not motivated by any desire for jus-neighbours and the great powers

tice or the rights of small na-will improve. get. It quoted certain news- papers, which had reported the tions, but simply for Germany's

own interests. Reuter.

news

Suuggles of women outside gro- cers' shops. One extract from "Vorwarts" of May lead as uliows:-

171, 1916,

Berlin Statement

Theraיי

is

throughout the country a firm determination not to allow national interests to be assalled-a firm deter- mination to defend these in-] teresta, if need be, even with arma

It was officially announced in "Four women of the working Berlin yesterday that the conver- Hitler and the class, whose husbands are at the sations between

lasted two

"The Rumanian Government is front, were waiting in the Dres-Rumanian Ministers

and "the tone fulfilling its pacific task with the den Market to get a small por-and a half hours, tion of potatoes, it having been reflected the friendly relations be-support of the United public and notifled that these were available, tween Germany and Rumania." One of the women had six chil- 'dren to fced.

The Rumanian Ministers afterwards left with Ribben- trop, the Nazi Foreign Minister, "There was a good deal of jos- for Salzburg, whence they will tling and excitement, and the travel to Italy. Ribbentrop was Supervisor gave one woman 2 to see them off at the station, box on the car. Many of the In Budapest yesterday it was wemen who had been waiting taken for granted that the outcome for hours had to return home of the Salzburg talks will be that without getting any potatoes. Ribbentrop will force the Ruman- ians to yield a strip of western

"About 80 of the women went Transylvania to Hungary, and i to the Town Hall to protest. Four only remains to be decided how of the leaders were arrested after wide the strip shall be.

a scuffle with the police; they

all received sentences varying Two Instalments from two to seven weeks' im-

prisonment. They appealed, but The view expressed in semi- their appeal was rejected with official and inspired Hungarian the comment that the sentences circles was that Hungary will not were very mild."

be content with a half solution and that Kolosvar (Cluj), the Transyl- On the back page of the vanian capital, must in any case Kriegsblatter" is reproduced abe handed over. cartoon of a pre-war German newspaper. This is headed "Consolation for Hunger." It shows two men sitting at a table on which there is a pound of bread and, before one of the The attitude of Moscow con- men, a beer tankard. On the tinues to arouse the closest inter- wall behind them are 22 photo-est in Budapest. graphs of crowned heads,

Some observers think Hun- gary will receive her share in two instalments-the first in August, the second in Septem- ber.

Hungarian friendship for Ger-

One of the men is saying to the many is now being given full ex-

other.-

the

pression. The police are busy searching for the originators of: anti-German leaflet propaganda have instituted measures against an organisation which is believed to have been responsible

"Yes, it is true, we are richest people in the world. We and support 22 Princes."

This pamphlet also quotes for the material distributed.-Reu- from letters received by prison-¡ter.

One

ers of war in France from their relatives in Germany. woman writing to her husband said:--

The Communique

A Berlin communique yesterday: stated: "In the presence of von "People with money are rela- Ribbentrop, the Fuehrer this after- tively well off here, but nobody noon received M. Gigurtu and M. troubles about us: I waited half Manolescu.

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Ba mutside the town hall. "M. Romano, Rumanian Minis- When it was nearly my turn, ter in Berlin, and Fabricius, Ger- came ill with exhaustion and man Minister in Bucharest, were] had to give up."

present at the conversation which proceeded in a spirit reflecting the friendly relations between Ger Reuter. many, and Rumania:"

The pamphlet also records what happened to opponents. of the war in Germany in 1914- 1918. It tells of Dr. Liebknecht, the Socialist member of the

Reichstag, who was sent to pri- son for ten years for making an anti-war speech.

V.C.'S OF THE AIR

5 'GROUP CAPTAIN G.S.M. INSALL

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Bucharest Not Ready To Surrender Territory

A semi-official statement issued Bucharest yesterday stated: "The visit to Germany and Italy of the Rumanian Ministers de- monstrates the desire of Rumanis to contribute effectively to the A deed of great courage and joommon life of ahe Balkan and Danubian States and the main- tenacity won the Victoria Cross!

tenance of peace an south-anst for Group Captain Gilbert Stuart

Europe. Martin Insall.

Born in Paris in 1004, Insall was the son of a University pro fessor. He was educitted at the Anglo-Saxon School, Paris, and the Paris University,

In March, -1015, he went into training at Brooklands, having,

The Rumanlan "statesman' will make their contribution: to' "the creation of the necessary

Mihia arrangements In

senso without renbunding 'in any way the @natlond? 'patrimony.

"All suggestions giving the tim pression that Rumania is ready for renunciations are unfounded.

jarmy.-Reuter,

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HOLLAND'S FUTURE

ACCORDING TO THE HILT VERSUM RÁDIO YESTERDAY, HERR SEISS-INQUART, NAZI GAULEITER OF HOLLAND, SPEAKING AT THE HAGUE LAST NIGHT, SAID DUTCHMEN WOULD. BE ABLE TO MAIN- TAIN THE FREEDOM OF THEIR COUNTRY. AND. THAT POLI- TICS IN HOLLAND WERE THE AFFAIR OF DUTCHMEN.

He added that when great ną- tions are engaged, in struggle, neu- trality might become only a form ality, that could not be taken into account by Germany when a country was a refuge of emigres- and might even become the in strument of a plot against the life of the Fuehrer.

Seiss-Inquart ended, by warn

of ing people who might think fishing in troubled waters and told his hearers Holland must co- of operate in the reconstruction Europe.-Reuter.

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