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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 3, 1940

BRITAIN ENTERS ON SECOND YEAR

AT 11 O'CLOCK this morning Britain en- ters upon the second year of a war in which as a united nation she took up arms to defend those principles of international conduct upon which the peace, prosperity and happi- ness of all peoples depend and to which the whole ideology of Nazism stands opposed.

The first year of war has brought many disappointments from the military point of view but far from being disheartened or dis- mayed the British people start the second year of hostilities with their confidence con- firmed and their determination even more set than twelve months ago.

Within a week of the outbreak of hostilities the War Cabinet made its famous decision to "base their policy on the assumption | that the war will last for three That declaration years or more". has been justifled again and again

Knowledge by events.

that was, based on a fundamentally and essentially true appraisal of factors underlying the strength; of the British Commonwealth and] the weakness of Nazi Germany, won for it the approval of the

every crisis.

it

EGYPTIAN

CABINET

REFORMED

whole people and the thought of It was understood in it has brought renewed faith at

Cairo yesterday that the Depressing The Springs Egyptian Cabinet crisis It found its last echo a fort has been satisfactorily eight ago in the speech of the Prime Minister to the adjourning settled.

THOUGHT

QUAKE SHOCK WAS BOMBS

A slight earthquake shock was felt in Bir- mingham just before midnight.

Mr. J. J. Shaw, the West Bromwich seis- mologist, stated that the disturbance was local, although it was impossible to tell whe- ther Birmingham was on the edge or in the centre of. 'it.. The shock

felt all over the city.

was

Some people left their homes under the impression that an air raid was in pro- gress.

satisfactorily KOBAYASHI

MISSION

. last

Commons that "our offensive The rearranged Cabinet was springs are being slowly compress-expected to be announced ed and we must resolutely and night with Hassan Sabry Pashe methodically prepare

ourselves in the triple role of Premier, Declaring his mission for the campaigns of 1941 and Foreign Minister and Minister for was "to bring prosperity 1942" campaigns which, as he Home Affairs. later remarked, would be by no

means exclusively defensive..

The confidence of the British

at the start of another year is not the result merely of obstin ate complacency but arises from

,who are stated to be well satis.

The Minister of Finance will to the nation," Mr. Koba- be chosen from the Saadlete yashi, special Japanese fied with this arrangement.. envoy to the Netherlands The Waafdist Party is excluded. East Indies and Minister

by Reuter was informed

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the reasoned conviction that high official that the new Cabinet of Commerce, sailed from Hitler's blitzkreig technique was has been planned with a view to Tokyo to-day for Batavia. always one confined to war on attaining "maximum results land and in the air and that the present difficult war condi- established British sea-power tions."-Reuter.

and potential British air-power Minor Reshuffle

confronted him with difficulties which could not be overcome by lightning strokes,

The unchallenged supremacy

Later.

in

In an interview, Mr. Kobayashi said the only course he could follow was to carry on negotia- tions "rapidly and resolutely in accordance with the national po-

It is confirmed that the Cabinet licies." crisis has ended with a minor re- He intended, he said, to "bring to realisation the task imposed Hassan Sabry Pasha's taking upon Japan which is to assume the over of the portfolio of Home the leadership in China of Affairs in addition to the Pre- mutual prosperity of East Asia." miership and Foreign Ministry-Reuter. released Nokrashy Pasha, the

of the Royal Navy and the quali-shuffle of ministerial posts. tative superiority of the R.A.F.. which is now being demonstrated hourly by day over Britain and each night as far afield as Berlin, Munich, Milan and Turin, while British industrial power carries it each week nearer to quantitive equality, give to every British man and woman assurance of final victory.

Advantage Exhausted

The Nazis have exhausted the advantage which careful concen- trated preparation for aggression gave to the German military forces. They are now. faced with the irresistably growing strength which Britain has summoned for! their overthrow and behind which stands not only the faith of the British nations but the hopes of oppressed peoples and the good- will of the freedom loving coun-- tries of the New World. British Wireless.

Saadist leader, for the Financej

Ministry, while Ubdul Hamid Cabinet thus remains unchanged, Sollman, who hitherto had held with six Independents, four Saa- the post of Finance Minister, dists, four Liberals, one Ittihad- becomes Minister without Port-list and one Nationalist. The Waf- folio.

dists remain in opposition Reu- Party

the ter.

representation in

MILITARY CROSS

FOR THE HEROES OF

MOYALE

CAPT. J. D. HENDERSON, son of Lady Hender- son of Nairobi and nephew of Sir Nevile Henderson,

BAD WEATHER IN last British Ambassador to Germany, and Lt. S. E.

YELLOW SEA

Dutoit, both serving with the King's African Rifles, have both been awarded the M.C. for their share in the heroic defence of Moyale in mid-July, says Reu- The U.S.S. Marblehead, sche-ter's special correspondent somewhere in Kenya. duled, to arrive in Shanghai yes-

(SPECIAL: TOUCHINA) MAIL")

terday from Tsingtao, has been

coast.

also been approved.

delayed by bad weather along the „A number of other awards have Rain Of Shells

Return of the Marblehead will! Capt. Henderson was comman The official reports says the mark the probable return of Am-ider of a company of the King's garrison lived days and nights in erican warships from North African Rifles 160 strong who trenches under a rain of shells China. The Augusta, flagship of hald out against: Italian farces and bullets, repelling attack after the U.S. Asiatic Fleet, is probably ten times. stronger. arriving in Shanghai In mid- September. Havaв.

BOROTRA AT WORK

attack and hurling back enemy storm troops repeatedly from the Lt. Dutoit led out the garbarbed wire of the outer defencos. rison of Moyale after five days! siege during which over 1,000)

The garrison was prepared to thells were pumped into the defend Moyale to the last man fort which is barely 600 by 300 but the Higher Command con- (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

sidored it was not of sufficient yards. Jean Borotra, former Wimble-

strategic value to justify such a dom champton and now Commis- The epic defence of Moyale was sacrifice, and so ordered the with- sloner for Sports in the Viche described by General Dickenson drawal of the garrison who slip- Government, yesterday Inaugurat-as "one of the finest things in the ped through the enemy lines in cd his first course of training forthistory of the King's African darkness and joined the relief sportsmasters. Havas.

Tutles"

force. -Reuter,