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HITLER MUST COME OVER AND TAKE US: APPEAL TO INDIA

HOPE THAT INDIAN leaders would join the Viceroy's Council and assist in India's

THE HONG KONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD. war effort was expressed by Mr. L. S. Amery, LATVIAN

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by the presence of Dominion armies to defend the common cause, Mr. Amery said: "We are engaged upon a more daring experiment in applying the same principles to India which is united to-day in destruction of Nazi tyranny.

LEADER'S DEATH

The Exchange Tele- graph reported from Goteburg that Karl Ulmanis, former pre- sident of Latvia, died at Riga of grave wounds he sustained July 21. The cir- cumstances of the wounds were not dis- closed. Associated

"If Dominion status could be that purpose is one which exalts finalised after the war there is cruelty and brutality which des- nothing to prevent preliminary pises mercy, tolerance, fair deal- discussion and negotiation during ing and justice. It denies all mor~| Avar."

al obligations as between nations. Mr. Amery said: "We In Bri-It denies all rights to the indivi-

com-dual as against a handful of gang- VICEROY'S OFFER

tain are left to face the

ing storm alone. We prepared, whatever form attack may take.

stand sters who claim to represent the

the omnipotent State.

It has often been said that the "If Hitler thought our spirit victory of Nazidom would mean could be broken by mass attacks the destruction of all the spiritual from the air, he is grievously and moral heritage of Western civilization. So far as Europe is "He has got to come over concerned that is true. and take us and break us. If

mistaken.

he does he will fall disastrous-

India's Civilization

ly and his failure will bring But ours is not the only civiliz-; the end of the war nearer than ation. It is my privilege to serve anything else could possibly in the British Government the in- terest of the Empire of India. The

do.

"He might send bombers jair-borne troops to stiffen half-hearted Italian allies in

attack on Egypt and upon whole position in the Middle and Africa.

Press.

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SLIM HOPE

OF CONGRESS

ACCEPTANCE

and 350 million people of India can There appears to be his claim a civilization more ancient slim prospect that the their even than ours. They belong to Congress Party in India

our religions which differ from ours East in many aspects but are at

with ours in their recognition of

one will respond to the

meet a warm climate and a warm dual soul, in their reverence for the manner which had "If he does this his men will the spiritual value of the indivi- Viceroy's statement in reception.

moral law which knows no boun-been hoped.

Terror Coming ?

"Nothing he can do in that quarter can protect the heart of

Germany from

growing strength in the air."

our

daries of race and applies alike to rulers and ruled,

One of the most moderate

of

Pre-

There is no common meeting the Congress leaders, Pandit ground between Nazism on the Jawaharlal Nehru, former one side and on the other Islam sident of the Party, in an inter- with its profoundly democratic view at Cawnpore, expressed the sense of equality, with its em view that there was a big gulf phasis on mercy and pity for between the Viceroy's offer and poor and weak, or Hinduism Congress demands. with its

In a statement Bombay, concentration spiritual side of life and its re-Maulana Avul Kalam Azad, the

the present President of

All- Jection of violence. over-

It is not only our civilization and India National Congress,

We could face with unshake- able confidence the terrors the -next few weeks might bring

and whatever sacrifices

may

be required to regain the lost ground in Europe and seas.

on the

in

told

·

"Sooner or later, at some un-regligion here in Europe but all Reuter:

} am not meeting the

expected moment, the German civilization, all true religion, that empire, built on hatred and con-is threatened by the barbaric tempt for all moral law, will forces of spiritual, even more than dissolve and we shall wake from material, destruction which the nightmare of war to find we embodied in Nazi Germany to- have once again saved ourselves) day."

by our exertions and the world by our example.”—Reuter,

are

Viceroy at present as I do not find any meeting ground or score for discussion."

He added that the Congress

Committee Working

which is meeting at Wardhu on August 18 to the Viceroy.

be

Heritage Of Freedom would give a formal reply Mr. Amery went on to speak of Lord Linlithgow had invited Blockade Stranglehold England's heritage of freedom and Mr. Azad for an interview

its: imperial heirs, and referred tween to-day and August 20, Mr. Amery said: "More and

hopefully to the Government's following his statement of Bri- more, week by week, as our re-latest efforts to find a solution to tish policy in India.-Reuter. sources in the air multiply we the difficulties in India, shall seek the enemy out in his own home and destroy one by one we have never thought of it as a life.

"This English freedom of ours, main elements in India's national

ed.

and

the factories upon which his, war monopoly to be secured for our- India is united to-day in her power is based, and the means of selves at the expense of others. detestation of Nazi tyranny transport by which his armies and we have sought to spread it Nazi aggression. She knows the the life of his people are sustain-wherever our adventurous people menace Nazi victory would mean have wandered afleld and not only to the fabric of the Bri- Meanwhile no Continental wherever British influence has tish Empire us a whole but to In- conquests of his can shake off extended.

dia's own existence, to her politi- the stranglehold of our blockade. "We have repeatedly declared cal aspirations, to her moral and He may extend his empire for our resolve that India shall attain spiritual ideals. the time being. But, more and to the same. freedom and to the more hor conquared and

I can only hope and trust that, op same full, and equal partnership realising this, her political lead- pressed peoples will look to us in the Commonwealth as the other ers will accept without prejudice to deliver them alike from po- Dominions or, for that mater, as and in the spirit it has been of- litical enslavement and from this country itself. There is no fered to them the opportunity of dira material need. Then, masters of the sea and of than that in the world to-day,

greater freedom, no higher status serving the immediate interest of the air, with our armies equipped

India in the world struggle and We have in these last few days thus pave the way most smoothly and trained for a task no longer of given, a further earnest of our in-and speedily towards realisation defence but of deliverance, we tentions by making it clear that, of the goal to which we and they shall-by what approach and with subject to due provision for those equally aspire." what allies no one can yet say special obligations and responsi

seek out the dragon in his lair bilities which our long connexion Mutual Security and put an end to this evil hor-with India has imposed upon us, Mr. Amery concluded by em- ror which to-day obsesses

world."

the

Mr. Amery proceeded to justify this description of Hitlerism.

jwe wish to see Indin, like the phasing that the British people's other Dominions, framing her desire for the spread of freedom own constitution in her own way was not confined to the Common- "We In harmony with her own politi-|wealth' and he declared: Cruel And Senseless

cal, social and economic concep-wish to see the peoples of Europe tlons..

united together after this war in "Behind this terrible. German

free co-operation for heir mutual engine

Gemma Political Co-operation security and welfare. It is be- of destruction, these armoured divisions and mil- "Nothing. could help that at-[cause that is our faith and the lions

of infantry, these serried 'mosphere of friendly agreement{mainspring' of our actions that all air squadrons and lurking sub- more than the acceptance by In-who love freedom in Europe will marines, whose efficiency we can-dian leaders of all political parties continue to look to us to break |not but"admire, there lies a pur-of their share in the work of Gov- asunder the bars of the prisons, in pose as cruel and brutal as it is ernment, making it in het in India, which they are now confined and |acneeless—~mere lust for power as a as we have made it here, a truly to bring them the succour and re- Imeans for yet further aggression: national government enjoying the lief of which they stand so sorely

The Nazi creed which inspired 'goodwill and confidence of all the in need.”—British Wireless,

THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 12, 1940.

TEACHER HAD PASS FROM GOEBBELS AND NOTE FROM UNITY

A PASS IN GERMAN, signed by Dr. Goebbels, a message from Hitler, addressed from his private office, and a document signed "Unity Mitford" were stated at Bath Police Court to have been found in the possession of Mrs. Olive Evelyn Baker.

Mrs. Baker is 40, and was a schoolmistress in

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HAND-GRENADES

IN S.M.P. CENTRAL

Germany until she left that country on September STATION

4.

the day after war broke out.

She was charged with distributing postcards re- lating to enemy wireless propaganda "with intent to assist the enemy and to the prejudice of public safe- ty and the efficient prosecution of the war."

She pleaded not guilty and said it never

entered her head that

she might be assisting the enemy.

Fuehrer's Thanks

many

months' imprisonment at Hud. dersfield for taking photographs of a military camp without permission.

Chief-Inspector Chadwick ask- Detective Inspector Coles said the Italian Army, keeping in close fed him: Are you not an officer in that 143 documents,

of touch with them, them relating to the Fascist member of the Fascist Party? movement, were found in her Wittine: I would not say "in

close touch."

possession.

and also

a

The one addressed to her from Would not the photographs now Hitler's office acknowledged re-before the court be of use to the ceipt of a communication ad-lenemy?

dressed to the Fuehrer and con-sidered tained the passage:

objective.

They cannot be con- photos of A military

are

"The Fuehrer conveys his best The thanks for the part

Stipendiary Magistrate you played (Mr. W. R. Biggs): What on the occasion of the criminal military objectives these days altempt on the ironclad Deutsch-hospital ships? land."

The one signed "Unity Mit- ford" contained the sentence:] "What a lot of English people. are pro-German." It was dated May 5, 1939.

Postcards which Mrs. Baker admitted having written were found in two people's letter- boxes, said the inspector. They asized. "Have you heard the new, British broadcasting 'station?" and gave the wave-lengths and times.

was one used

That station

Wittine did not reply.

HIS 'TABS'

Five hand-grenades were discovered in a dustbin in the com- pound of the Central Police Station in the International Settle- ment, Shanghai, at 6 a.m. yesterday.

One of the hand- grenades exploded and wounded a Chin- ese coolie.Our Own Correspondent.

BRITAIN'S

GROWING

BETRAYED SUPERIORITY CAPTAIN "Just as we retain our

AN

EXAMPLE WHICH

GERMAN FIFTH

by the enemy for broadcasting| METHODS IN BRITAIN WAS declared Mr.

propaganda.

A Swastika

BY

THE

REVEALED ARREST BY OF A MAN IN A BRITISH CAP. TAIN'S UNIFORM IN THE

command of the seas so SLIPPED UP BADLY OFİ we are rapidly assuming

COLUMN the command of the air," A. Duff- THE CLOSE

MILITARY Cooper, Minister of In- formation, in a speech to Police-Sergt. Skirton said that in Mrs. Baker's room were found HERTFORDSHIRE HOSPITAL a crowded audience at eight different photographs WHICH THE QUEEN VISITED.

of Hitler, four photographs of Ger- HE CAME WITH A BATCH OF South Woodford, Essex. man S.S. Troops (Black Guards), DUNKIRK CASUALTIES.

last night, when Mrs. and, in her jacket pocket, a wal-

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"He was taken aboard one of

let with a photograph of Hitler the ships evacuating the B.E.F. Churchill, wife of the on one side and a man in Germana reporter was told. "He spoke Prime Minister, who was

uniform on the other.

Between these photographs was]

a metal swastika.

I

Mrs. Baker, he said, made a voluntary statement in which shel said: "I did not write the cards with intent to help the enemy. didn't know there was a regula- tion against it. I didn't know it was a German station, and even if I had known it was I do not see what harm there was in writing the cards."

'Hail Mosley!'

even

Detective Acocks said when he took Mrs. Baker's mother to see her in the cells, the daugh- ter said, "I'm not ashamed of anything I've done. Get out. I don't wish to see you. If there's anything I can do when,

English with no accent."

-But he was

wearing "tabs" on

the

platform

was