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SOLDIER'S REPLY TO PETAIN

GENERAL DE GAULLE, replying to Marshal Petain in a broadcast on the B.B.C. said:-

M. le Marechal,

..

:

Through the ether from across the sea a French soldier is speaking to you. Yesterday I heard your voice, which I know well, and not without emotion I listened to what you said to the French in order to justify what you have done.

First of all you depicted the of asking the enemy for an Armis-

has tice. military inferiority which

You were led to believe, M. le caused our defeat. Then you said

that this Armistice, that in face of a situation consid-Marechal, ered desperate, you took power sought from soldiers by a great in order to obtain an honourable soldier such as yourself, would be of our You honourable. Two-thirds armistice from the enemies. went on to declare that in face territory handed over to the oc- of the conditions laid down by cupation of the enemy-and what the enemy there was no alterna-an enemy!—our whole Army com- tive but to accept them and stay pletely demobilised, our at Bordeaux, or refuse them and and soldiers, who are now pri-

in

officers

selection, withdraw into the Empire to con- soners, kept captivity. Our

YEE SANG FAT

tinue the war, and that you be-Navy, our aircraft, our tanks, our lieved if your duty to stay at armies are to be handed over in- Bordeaux. In fact you recognis-tact, so that the enemy may use ed that the fate of the French them against our own Allies. Our the Government, you people would be a very cruel one, country, but you urged this people to rise yourself reduced to servitude. Ahi again in spite of everything thr-in order to obtain and to accept such an act of enslavement there ough work and discipline.

for you, M. le

Dolores del Rio and John Howard who appear with Wallace Beery in "The Man' from Dakota," showing for the last time at the Queen's to- and Alhambra Theatres day.

REPRISALS SEEN IN HOLLAND

courts

Dr. Arthur Seysz-In- M. le Merechal, in these hours was no need

Marechal, there was no need for quart, German governor of shame and anger for la patrie, the victor of Verdun-anyone of the Netherlands, has one voice must answer you. This would have done. evening that voice will be mine.

established Nazi you But you considered that True, our military inferiority has been revealed to be terrible. But could, that you must, give your for trying Dutch citizens what was the cause of this in-assent to it. You held that

any accused of transgressing feriority? It was brought_about|prolongation of resistance in

German interests. be absurd. *B*=*=*=*=*=*=•Ã•#•□●□◊◊☐☐÷☐♦☐☐☐ by a bad military system. France Army would

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has been struck down, not by the thought that the effort which is The courts also will try Ger- number of German effective, not now being made and which will mans, former German citizens by their superior courage, but be made by our Ally, the British and Dutch colonial officials who solely by the enemy's mechanised Empire, was negligible. You were arrested-at-the-Hague-in-rе-- force with all its offensive power renounced in advance the resour-prisal for the alleged ill-treatment and manoeuvrability. All the ces offered by immense America. of Germans interned in the Neth- combatants realised that.

You played a losing game, threw erlands Indies. down your cards, emptied our

(The Netherlands legation at pockets, as if we had no trumps Washington said in an official statement that the German nation- als interned in the Indies are receiving the same treatment as Europeans serving in the Indies1 armed forces.)

WHOSE FAULT?

If France had not got this mechanised force, if she had been given a defensive army, an army

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FRANCE WILL RISE AGAIN

of position, whose fault was it, This was the result of a sort

M. le Marechal? You who pre-of profound discouragement, of a sided over our military orgànisa-morbid scepticism, which may A German spokesman in Ams- in the terdam said that Nazi authorities obliged to

tion after the war of 1914 to 1918, have counted for much

ed mistreatment of Germans in

you who were generalissimo up dissolution of the final and sup-"regret they will be to 1932, you who were Minister reme resistance of our metropoli- act" in connection with the alleg of War in 1935, you who. were tan forces. of our country; have you never le Marechal, that you asked the ponsible. They do not the highest military personality And it is in the same tone, M. the Indies. He added "East and West Indies, authorities are res- under- supported, demanded, insisted on France which has been delivered stand how Europeans in colonies the indispensable reform of this up to the enemy, the France must be treated and do rotten system? Yet, relying on which has been pledged, the preciate the good treatment of the glorious services which you France which has been enslaved, Dutch war prisoners by Germany." rendered during the last war, you to take up its work again, to have claimed the responsibility recreate itself, to rise again. But

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not-ap-.

He indicated Germany In- tended to inflict reprisals in Holland against persons" well"; known in the colonies If the treatment in question continued. Meanwhile Rost van Tonninger,-

in what sort of atmosphere, by what sort of means, in what name do you expect her to rise again beneath the German jackboot and] the Italian dancing pumps?

Yes, France will rise again. She a Dutch Nazi, was appointed to will rise again in liberty. She will control political parties which rise again in victory. In the Em-have been charged by Seysz-In- pire, in the world,

here, quart, with agitating against the French forces are forming and are Germans.-Associated Press," jorganizing themselves. The day!

even

will come when our arms, forged again far away but well-temper-

ed, will join with those which our CIVILIZATION MAKES Allies are forging, and perhaps MAN WEAK, JAPAN

others as well, and will return

in triumph to our people's soil Yes, we shall recreate France;

FINN FASCIST PARTY

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FINDS

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") Health tests carried out by men between the ages of 15 and 25. throughout the Japanese Empire revealed that only 28 per cent. met the apparently rather rigid standard set by the Welfare Min- istry..

The Finnish government

"This the Tokyo "Chugni". withdrawn its objections against commented, "shows that civilisa the Fatherland (Fascist) Party, tion is making young men weak.". permitting it-to resume activities The tests were submitted to by which were curtailed last year: 2,700,000 men of all classes. The prosecutor who announced Youths on farms made a much the lifting of the restrictions ex-better showing than men in the plained that the leaders of the cities, particularly in running the party fought for Finland during 2,000 metres and in carrying the the late war with Russia. As-80 pound weight,Havas,

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BOMB TRAGEDY: CHINESE GENDARMES Nineteen of the crew of the LEAVE TIENTSIN Loth steamer Giralda perished.

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"") before the eyes of people who had gathered to give them aid.' The detachment of Chinese gen- The Giralda was the victim of darmes that was stationed in Tien- enemy bombers. Before she sank isin during the year-long block-. the crew manned the boat and set ade of the foreign concessions, has

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Strength For Any Trial: Tempered Optimism

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MR. ANTHONY EDEN, Secretary of State for War, in a broadcast address said that the time is ap- proaching when the enemy, having overrun all the out-lying forts of liberty, will launch his assault on the main citadel-our own land: He had already delivered bombing attacks at night, and these at- tacks will be continued, and possibly other forms of attack will be attempted also.

TIME FOR OFFENSIVE

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Facts- which are....indicative of the chaotic economic state Europe as a result of the war were

of

disclosed in an official statement in London yesterday by one who lived in Germany for some months before the start of hostilities.

He described how Germany, be- fore the War, deliberately adopted

many. areas

"They will be repulsed," said Mr. Eden, "and we shall subject the enemy in his own country to constant and heavy counter-attack from the air. We are confident that the enemy will be beaten off:”

economic policy of guns Underlining the official advice vader will become increasingly un-the

rather than butter. This policy. to "stay where you are" in case enviable." of invasion, he said that "refugees"

was leading Germany to the verge hamstring We were now a fortress-until of starvation when war broke out. on roads or railways

The invasion of Poland aggra- the efforts of those on whom you the time came to sally to the at-

outward tack, Mr. Eden went on. It was vated the food position in Ger- aepend. They are the

sufficient merely to defeat] and visible signs that the enemy not

The destruction of large of the county, has succeeded in creating the con- the attack on these islands. "Never!

counts

had for before have we ditions on which he

greater followed by the deportation of The mass of re- number of soldiers in this island, thousands of Poles to Germany, military success. fugees helped to lose the battle We are confident that we could and followed again by the trans-

against of France. They will not lose the throw a sufficient force

planting of many thousands who any enemy who attempts to land had to make room for the Ger- battle of Britain."

and mans A brave and disciplined civilian on our shores, attack him,

moved from

Baltic population is the essential foun- defeat him. If he is able to run States, created a further area of dation of home defence. But the the gauntlet of the Fleet and the chaos.

DETERIORATION SPEEDED enemy would soon learn that Air Force, or descend upon our

UP is not the nature of our people land from the air, we should

The bombed attacking the enemy on our own be to sit placidly and

remaining countries soil, for our own homes, with all Europe, in fear of German ag- without retort.

our forces under our own com-gression, were compelled to mo- mand, unhampered by the neces-bilise and so in turn decrease their "We have an exceedingly pow-sity of sending supplies and rein-productive capacity. Thus we had erful Air Force," said Mr. Eden, forcements oversea.

a further gradual deterioration in "which will give the enemy a very "I can speak to you to-night in the economic life of Europe. This bad time. Already, though operat-a spirit of tempered optimism. I ing at great disadvantage, it has know that we have to face hard ed by the invasion of Denmark inflicted severe losses upon him. and anxious times, but I also and Norway.

LESSON OF DUNKIRK

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It has never yet met the enemy know that our strength and our The Germans made no attempt without the numerical odds be-spirit are sufficient for any trial to develop Denmark as a food re- ing in the enemy's favour. But No battle can be won by stand-serve, but looted and plundered remember what happened on-theling on the defensive, or even by that country on a short-term only occasion when it was operat- successful counter-attack alone. basis. Denmark and Norway join- ing from its own bases, and when When the time comes, as assur-led the devastated areas of the numerical odds were not utedly it will, to carry the

war, Europe. terly fantastic.

against the enemy, wherever he

A month later that policy was "During the evacuation

may be found, you can be certain extended, to Holland, Belgium, Dunkirk the R.A.F. are known to that we shall do so with all our Luxenburg, and subsequently ta have destroyed as many as 70 might. Already, in. other parts of France. Wherever they went the German aircraft in one day. Our the world, we are achieving suc- German army spread misery and airmen can hope to do even bet-cess in offensive operations. It is destruction. ter than this when fighting in this offensive spirit which SO their own skies.

clearly animates our forces in "If some enemy aeroplanes get the Middle East. through, as they will, or if the for the future." sky above your head contains no British aircraft, do not ask an- grily what the R.A.F. are doing. They will be bringing down enemy aeroplanes 100 miles away, pre- venting damage to those things by which and through which we and our defence will live-docks, fac- tories, ships,, or aerodromes

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It is confidently predicted that very soon Dr. Goebbels-will-be seeking to prove that the economic disasters provoked by Germany and In broadcasts to neutral coun-were due to the blockade tries the Germans continue to Great Britain's stupid determina- boost their Me.109 fighter as "the tion to pursue the war. world's fastest," and "a German The aim of German propaganda]

In fact it is well is to distort the facts in such a masterpiece,"

that outclassed in speed, armament,(way as to make it appear and power of manoeuvre by com-Great Britain has wrought chaos parable standard single-soat fight- on the Continent, and that the ers of the Allies which have been hope of Europe rests on the suc- in service for some time.

[cess of the very forces which have ravished the countries they have invaded.

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