NEW FRANCE WILL BE VERY OLD, LIKE THE MARSHAL
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"THE FRANCE OF to-morrow will be at the same time very new and very old,” Mar- shal Petain told American newspapermen at Vichy yesterday.
He added: "France will again become an essentially agricultural nation, she will re- store her age-long handicraft traditions, her whole production will be imbued with the ele- gance and delicacy in which she was unrivall- ed.
"She will remain the land of fine arts, high and disinterested research. will revalorise the great
our
father-ciples of Christian morals which culture formed the solid basis of
She civilisation. prin-
PURGE OF FACTORIES IN JAPAN
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by
"She will firmly abide our high ideal which coincides with the ideal of the great American Democracy based on respect for human personality 'family worship, and love of
justice.
"She will endeavour to develop all sorts of relations with both Anglo-Saxon and Latin America.'
Marshal Petain expressed
France's unswerving friendship with the Americas and express-
THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 21, 1940
Picture taken the other day of
Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret in the Their greatest garden of the country residence where they are staying during the War. pleasure is the occasional visits of the King and Queen. In view of the need for saving petrol Their Royal Highnesses' pony cart has been brought into use. (Copyright, Fort).
CHUNGKING
SUFFERS
SEVERELY
The Japanese
Govern-ed profound gratitude for Ameri- French ment has decided to elim- can generosity towards
The Japanese lost four refugees and concluded by ex- inate 600 out of 1,006 pressing faith in France's rapid 'planes during the air raid]
nachine tool manufac-recovery-Havas.
over Chungking yester- day.
turing plants, the Tokyo "Asahi" reports.
State subsidies and other finan- cial aid are among measures plan-! ned by the Government for ma- chine-tool factories surviving the] purge.
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EVADING ECONOMIC CONTROL
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The "Asahi" recalls that after the outbreak of the China war, The Japanese police have machine-tool plants sprang up ilke led over 480,000 cases of nushrooms, mostly poorly tion or evasion of economic equipped that they were hardly trol measures taken two able to turn out precision Instru- ago by the Government, inents required by the army and the Tokyo press.
the cases involve
navy.
Three of them were brought down while bombing over the city while the fourth which was heavily damaged, crashed after wobbling its way to Liushuwan, in eastern Hupeh. Three Japanese airmen baled out by parachute and were taken prisoner. hand- Yesterday's raid was severe. No viola-fewer than 170 Japanese machines con- in five waves engaged in the at-
ΟΙ Majority
export of
years tack.
Tons of incendiary and de-' says molition explosives were trained indiscriminately over the residen- tial and business sections.
The new measures are expected materials to the continent where to effect radical improvements in control measures do not apply.— the whole industry. Havas, Havas.
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The downtown district wis virtually turned into an inferno. Blocks of houses were envelop ed in fire and smoke.
A Central News reporter who went out to make an inspection, after the "all clear" was given failed to pass through at many points because of the raging fires or tons of ruins blocking the way. Only after picking his way slow- ly and warily for three hours did
he complete a rough survey.
Pathetic Sights
Pathetic sights of refugees picking their way under the pall of fire and smoke were Eren on the streets. · Most of them had lost all their belong- Ings and some even their dear
onez...
No detailed. figures of loss of lives and property are yet avail- able, Casualties are estimated at several hundred and homeless re- fugees: at 10,000,
Foreign property damaged in- cluded the.. Y.M.C.A., Canadian Mission Hospital; and many missionary - buildings.
Shortly after the raid, Gen- eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek ac- companied by a small retinue visited the bombed areas. and comforted the refugees-He-or- dered an additional appropriation of. $1,000,000 to relieve the large number of homeless and destitute refugees as a result of the Japan- esd wanton air attacks on Chungking in the last few days.
The rescue corps, fire brigadesį and police and gendarmes work- ed frantically. As evening fell,
tongues of flames were still ris- Ing from various parts of the city. Central. News.
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