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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 4, 1940

SPECULATION

NAVY WILL

IN WASHINGTON NEVER BE SUNK

OR SURRENDERED

Britain has assured the United States of its intention "never

THE FACT THAT Mr. Winston Churchill. had reiterated, through the British Ambassa- dor, that Britain would never surrender or sink the British Fleet, led reporters to specu- late at the daily press conference with Presto surrender or sink dent Roosevelt in Washington: yesterday, whether the bases transferred to the U.S. |might one day be used by British warships.

President Roosevelt refused to discuss

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would go wherever it was needed for defence

President Roosevelt dropped what appeared to be a hint that further history-making steps might be taken to provide addi- tional distant bases to protect the Western Hemisphere,

Asked if the agreement might| lead to the postulation

bass would be established - inl Greenland, President Roose={

valt replied he thought report... ́ ers should refrain from writing

that it was the forerunner of anything else.

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DUTCH

PREMIER RESIGNS

IT WAS STATED IN LONDON} The President said the destroy- YESTERDAY ON BEHALF OF.... ers would be transferred to Eng-|THE NETHERLANDS GOVERN~{ land reasonably soon,

Did Not Know

MENT THAT THE NETHER- ĮLANDS PRIME MINISTER ANDƐ FINANCE MINISTER, JONK- Asked whether some of them HEER D. J. DE GEER, HAS RE- were already en route he replied SIGNED FOR REASONS OF he wouldn't say that and he didn't HEALTH.-REUTER. know where they were at present. Queen Wilhelmina has accept-

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the British Fleet in the event of the waters surrounding the Bri- tish Isles becoming untenable for His Ma- jesty's ships, it was stated in Washington yesterday.

Secretary of State Cordell Hull wrote to Lord Lothian, the Bri- tish Ambassador, on August 29 asking if it was correct that Britain had announc- ed her intention not, to sink or surrender the Fleet, and Lord Lothian replied in the affirmative.-Reuter.

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He added the United States ed Jonkheer de Geer's resigna- 1918 ACE

could not, of course, deliver the tion, and Professor P. S. Ger- destroyers to England, a remark brandy, Minister of Justice, will

which was taken to imply that non preside over he Council of WINS BAR

British or Canadian crews would Ministers, man them.-Reuter.

AMBASSADOR

ARRIVES IN CHUNG KING

VERY

AMONG THE

FIRST THINGS WHICH SIR ARCHI- BALD CLARK KERR, BRITISH AMBASSADOR ΤΟ CHINA, ASKED THOSE WHO GREETED HIM ON HIS ARRIVAL IN CHUNGKING YESTERDAY WAS ABOUT THE RECENT BOMB- INGS.

Smiling broadly, as he shook

Jonkheer Van Boeyen, Minister TO D.S.O.

of Home Affairs, is entrusted ad interim with the Department of] General Affairs; the Colonial Min-

ister, I. J. M: Welter, is ad in- Wing Commander W. terim entrusted with the portfolio E. (Crack 'Em) Staton,

of Finance, and M. P. L. Steen-,

berghe, Minister of Trade, Indus-D.S.O., M.C., D.F.C., an try and Shipping, is given the air ace of the last war, has special task of preparing all

necessary measures as necessary done it again.

for

of the, economic recovery Netherlands territory in Europe.

Router.

700 AIRCRAFT

A MONTH

Dodging and misleading the heavy defences of.. Bremen for over an hour, he finally dived through glaring searchlights to 1,000ft, to blast an cli depot. His 'plane was hit by six shells, one doing considerable damage, but he reached his home base safely....

"one

For this gallant exploit night in May," Wing-Commander Staton has been awarded a bar hands with old friends, Sir Archi- The United States

to the D.S.O. he got last February, bald arrived by 'plane from Hong Commission

Crack 'Em Staton, who is now and purchasing Kong at 7.30 o'clock in the morn-agencies of the U.S. Army and forty-one, brought down twenty- HMHED: (ing for an indefinite stay, during Navy have worked

five machines in the last war, and

ACT NOW

In response to numerous requests The South China Morning Post, Limited, invites sub- scription to

Defence

out with

which he will resume contact Įmanufacturers an arrangement was awarded the M.C. and D.F.C.

with the Chinese Government.

by which Britain will receive an Among those who greeted His average of 700 American fighting Excellency were Dr. Hollington planes a month over the next Tong, Mr. Hang Li-wu, Executive 20 months, reported the Washing- Secretary of the Sino-British ton correspondent of the. New Boxer Indemnity Fund

Board: York "Sun" yesterday..

He was then nineteen.

His Enthusiasm

him His enthusiasm · made lead the destructive R.A.F. raid on Sylt last March, although his rank should have kept him on the ground...... He is a native of Tutbury,

Mr. Ling Chi-han, secretary of the Waichiaopu, and Mr. Broad- This means that counting 'planes mead, Counseller of the British already under construction, the British Government could buy a Embassy.-Central News.

total of 14,000 'planes by April Staffs. His wife is living at 1942, if it desired.-Reuter, Ripon, Yorks.

BUNA GIVEN UP

It is confirmed authori- tatively in London that

ASSIST A FUND TO BRITAIN'S WAR EFFORT British troops have retir-

The whole of the money subscribed will be handed to The Government of Hong Kong for transmission to

THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT For the Purchase of Aeroplanes or such other Armaments as the British Government may decide.

Donations will be received by The South China Morning Post. Cheques should be made payable to “War Fund-South China Morning Post, Limited.”

MOTHERS GO TO SHELTERS EVERY NIGHT

ed from Buna, 50 miles EVERY DAY AT dusk little knots of women, south of Moyale, which is most of them elderly, some with small children and on the Kenya-Abyssinia babies, may be seen going along the front of a south- border.

east coast town carrying blankets and hot-water The Italians claimed two days bottles. ago to have occupied Buna,

It is pointed out in London that

Buna was held only by light: They are modern cave dwellers just before dusk for the shelter. forces and that, the. position was driven to seek shelter, in

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the

not a good one to defend as it heart of the earth for fear of alr was open to attack from the raids, north-east and the north-west- Reuter:

Hot Water Bottles ·

About gaventy women, a-fow. They sleep 75ft, down undermen, children and babies, wrap- the cliffs, in the labyrinth of ped in blankets, were sleeping tunnels: which-- stretches for In beds made of two deck-chairs miles. The tunnels, were con・ Joined together. verted into air-raid shelters at Babies were fast asleep in the commencement of the war perambulators or in their mothers There these people cannot hear arms. Most of them had hot the scream of air-raid sirens, water bottles around them for the com- which had in the past few weeks cold early morning condensation

SNACK-BAR FOOD CENTRES?

A plan to establish

munal feeding centres in South roused them from their beds, The causes dampness. Wales and Monmouthshire in an sound of gunfire, which had been "I come here every night," one emergency, has been drawn up disturbing their sleep, is deaden- old woman said, "because I live by Sir T. G. Jones, Divisional ed. p

a long way from the shelter. I Food Officer.

The tunnels are brilliantly lit should find it difficult to get here Directors of education have electrically. Deck-chairs which if the sirens went. been asked to place school cook-in happier times filled the beach A mother of two small children All donations will be acknowledged in the ery equipment at the disposal of at summer time are now used as said:

the authorities, & Food could bé bedɛ. “

husband is at sea I columns of The S. C. M. Post.

cooked, there, and distributed be reporter visited theso cave am alone in the house. It is good a snack-bar scale to churches dwellers, who emerge as dawn to think that my kiddies are per and other buildings where re-breaks to return to their homes fectly safe in the event of an air- fugees or evacuees might collect land their breakfasts, leaving again raid. It is them I think about.'

THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 4, 1940

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TWELVE MONTHS OF WAR FIND THE BRITISH EMPIRE, DE- SPITE A NUMBER OF STRATEGIC SETBACKS, STRONG, UNITED AND CERTAIN OF EVENTUAL VICTORY, THIS WAS THE THEME OF THE LONDON PRESS YESTERDAY MORNING, THE FIRST AN- should do in, the most NIVERSARY OF THE DECLARATION OF WAR.

Summing up the year, "The Times" says

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we can see that where the defence is ade-126 'PLANES

quately equipped the destructive possibilities

of aerial bombardment have been exaggerat- IN SZECHUEN

ed.

In general the loss of life in this war has been

much less than anyone would have dared to forecast RAID

a year ago. The manpower of the nation, therefore, is not seriously depleted by casualties of the first year, and our material resources are substantially of Chungking, intact.

On the other hand wel AMERICAN

have suffered а worse series of strategic dis- asters than the most pes-

HOSPITAL UNIT

semistic imaginationIN BRITAIN

could have contemplated

a year ago.

The first American hos-

We now know for certain that pital unit to serve under when our rising aircraft produc- the Ministry of Health has tion has given us numerical par- ity, as it will do within a known arrived in Britain. Man- time, our attacking forces

bombers, already doing heavy

oned by volunteers, it is damage, will become irresistible. staffed by eight doctors Meanwhile we answer Hitler's all professors of surgery- domination of Europe with the three fully-trained nurses,

power to draw on the resources

three

Invading Szechuen in waves, 120 Japanese bombers yes- terday raided two towns north Nanchung, 145] kilometres to the north-west, and. Kwangan, 65 kilometres east of Nanchung, yesterday.

Meagre reports said the raiders dropped many bombs but the extent of the casualties and ma- terial damage is not yet known.

Air raid sirens were sounded in Chungking, but the raiders did not approach the wartime capital.-Central News.

RAIL NAMES MAY GO

A special, committee, including members from the Services, is investigating whether the names moved in an effort

on railway stations should be re- to muddle parachute raiders.

The Air Ministry, it is under- stood, is pressing for the remov-

of all the other continents which and two additional work-al of the larger names on rail- command of the sea guarantees ers. u's.

Turning Of Tide

Dr. Wilson, head of the unit, said, that they would work. in Britain if necessary or would Thus we enter the second year!

willingly go abroad if required. of war confident that though the he arrived to see so much ship- . Dr. Wilson was amazed when tide has ebbed far, it has turned and is already following to vic-ping carrying on normal business.

tory.

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He was also very impressed by the morale of the British _people, especially during-air--|

raids.

The "News Chronicle" says the start-of-the-second-year of war finds us united, certain of even“. tual victory and already proving worry them is the time wasted in "The only thing that seems to by spectacular deeds of courage the shelters!" he commented. and resource our power and de-Reuter.

termination to destroy all the as-

saults of our enemies. :

Hitler's early successes were easy because they were achiev- ed against ill-prepared or half- hearted resistance. Nów that for the first time his forces find: themselves matched against a foe who is both resolute and strong, his rebuff is plain for all the world to see.

REVOLT

AGAINST VICHY

The French Pacific is- The "Daily Herald" says that for lands of Tahiti, Moorea 12 months the murky tide

of.

cruelty, corruption and oppression and Paumotus, by 5,564 has rolled on but has not submerg- votes to 18, declared for stand to-day more strongly em- General de Gaulle at a bedded than before.

ed by its onrush two rocks which

Island Fortress

One is the unanimous convic- tion of the whole world of free men that the cause for which Bri- tain and her allies are fighting is beyond question, just...

plebiscite held to decide the islands' attitude.

The -Governor of French Oceania has been arrested and the administration of the 18- lands assumed by a provisional government pending **the nomination of a new.Governor by General de Gaulle, The news was announced ·- in'i

The second rock is in this island fortress. itself. It stands like an outpost in the very jaws of the Wellington yesterday by the New world's enemy and knows itself Zealand Premier, i Mr. Peter

to be far more securely defended Fraser, who said he had received than in the anxious moments of the information from Papeete three months ago. Reuter,

capital of Tahiti. Reuter,

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