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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 18, 1940.

ANOTHER WARNING OF INVASION BY PREMIER Preparations Must Be Maintained In Vigilance

INCREASING JAPANESE

SPIRIT OF CONFIDENCE

PRAISE FOR SOVIET

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Conditions in Soviet Russia were described to THERE WERE CHANGES IN THE CHAM-Japanese press represen- BER WHEN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS MET tatives at Rashin, Korea, YESTERDAY AFTERNOON TO HEAR MR. by Mr. Miyagawa, Ja- WINSTON CHURCHILL ON THE WAR SITUA- panese Consul-General at TION; MOST OF THE VALUABLE STAINED Vladivostock, and Colonel Miwa, Japanese military GLASS ON BOTH SIDES HAD BEEN REMOV-attache to Moscow, on ED AND PLAIN GLASS SUBSTITUTED.

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their way to Japan.

Asserting that Japanese/Soviet relations "are quite smooth," Miyagawa declared that the Soviet authorities tire inculcating Russian children with a spirit of patriot-

ism...

As the House assembled, Mr. Churchill's “wailing banshees” heralded the approach of German raiders but an even more insistent note was made by strong patrols of British The country's oroductive powers!

are being expanded by making fighters overhead as these scurried through

one day in seven a holiday, in- the skies while the Commons proceeded with stead of one day in five, as in the

past.. the time-honoured Questions and Answers. Colonel Miwa declared that Mr. Neville Chamberlain entered just besin had been given prominence, tore Questions for the first time since his ill-were noted." ness and he was loudly cheered by members in all parts of the House.

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SPEED-UP

CENSORS IN AEROPLANE TIGHTEN UP

MANUFACTURE

(SPÈCIAL TO "CHINA, MAIL")

According to the

The well-known Chin- Dow Jones Agency 'in

ese newspaper "Chung Washington the U.S.

Mei Jeh Pao" appeared in War Department, ap-

Shanghai yesterd

day parently with the sup-morning with a huge port of the White white space on the first House, has sent Con- page, owing to censorship gress a request for

by the S.M.C. of the text $300,000,000 for the

of a proclamation by enlargement of aero-Chiang Kai-shek on the plane manufacturing occasion of the anniver- facilities and the sary of the Mukden inci speeding up of pro-dent and editorial com. duction: Reuter:

ment on it.

CROWN PRINCE IN A.R.P.

Almost the whole front page is white, with Chlàng Kal-shek's portrait conspicuously prominent.v

An important article over 1,500 characters long, on the second- since all the faults of Soviet Rus-

page was also censored.

Meanwhile, police authorities of "it is about time their good points (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") both the International Settlement Jand the French Concession took He added that the Soviet The Japanese Crown Prince drastic measures to avoid any dis Army is well equipped and well took part in air raid precautions turbances, with many barbed wire taken care of.

and widespread The number of, motor cars in drills at the Peer's School, it is barricades

frevealed.

searches of cars, ricshas and pe- Moscow has greatly increased. The "There are very good reasons annual automobile output at pre-19 a.m., during classes.

The air-rald signal sounded at destrians.

All win- Schools, clubs and similar insti-. for believing at the present time sent is believed to be about 240;-dows were closed and the Prince tutions were notified by the police that very grievous Inroads have|00Q. been made on the enemy's nüm-1 The streets of Moscow are dirty, and the other students filed down- to refrain from holding any mass stairs to the air-shelter, led by meetings, while public demonstra- proved that the name of the *erical superiority and we may but the underground railway is the supervising teacher of the tions.celebrating the ninth anni- awalt the decision of this pro-une of the longest in Europe and Crown Prince's class. The drill versary of the Mukden Incident longed air battle with a spirit of most beautifully built

lasted for half an hour. Havas.were also prohibited. Havas. Increasing confidence.

Further cheers were raised by Mr. A. V. Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty, when he an- nounced that the King had ap-

Icader of the First Flotilla of American destroyers transferred to Britain, should be Churchill.

Mr. Churchill blushed as this announcement was made and one member called out to the Primei Minister: "Hold your head

that

"German attacks on the civilian population have been concentrat up."d mainly on London in the hopes Mr. Alexander intimated

of terrorising citizens into submis- the names of the rest of the sion or throwing them into con- Flotilla would be towns and fusion and, of couse, with villages in the United States and silly idea that it will put pres- the United Kingdom.

sure on the Government to make.

Prior to attending Parliament,

Mr. Churchill had lunched with Peace. (Laughter). His Majesty at Buckingham: Palace and had had a long audi- ence with the King.

invasion,

No Preamble

Foul Foe

the

"The deliberate and repeated

The Interest of the Russian peo- ple in the European war is mount- ing, and it is not unusual, to see long queue waiting to buy news- papers at the stands." Havas..

CAPTAIN FINED

attacks upon Buckingham Palace The first European master of a and upon the persons of our be- ship to be summoned for anchor-

the Co-

oved King and Queen (cheers) ing in a minefleld in the are also intended, apart from lony's territorial waters appear-

Court this morning.

on

HUN DELUGE OF DESTRUCTION IN

LONDON DOCKLAND

MR. RONALD CROSS, Minister of Ship- ping, in a broadcast from London last night, referred to the enemy air attacks on the Lon- don docks.

When he rose to address Commons the Prime Minister did heir general barbarity, to have ed before Commander G. F. Hole, not keep the House waiting with an unsettling effect upon public Harbour Master, in the Marine a preamble.

opinion. Almost immediately he an-

Captain H. T. McCaw, master nounced the advance of the Italian "They have, of course, the of the s.s. City of Was aned $100 army in Libya and to the expec-opposite effect. ((Loud cheers). pleaded guilty and was tations of an attempted German They unite the King and Queen for anchoring his ship

to their people by new and sacr-

Tathong Channel Minefield The Prime Minister intimated cd bonds of common danger and April 29, 1940.

Mr. Cross said: "After days and nights of He did not feel it necessary to they steel all hearts to the stern arst time he had

Defendant stated it

was the make an extensive statement as and unrelenting prosecution

entered the horror and bambs and flames, thanks to the of practically all facts mot of a secret the war against so fould foe."

port of Hong Kong and he was nature had been made public.

unfamiliar with the conditions Wonderful air raid shelter organisation of the The advance of the Italian After giving casualty

figures, here, army in Libya was in progress, he Mr. Churchill proceeded: "Marry

A Chinese junk steersman was Port of London Authority, there had only been said, and two British. platoons hospitals, churches and public fined $50 or six weeks' imprison- one man killed by enemy action within the which had been holding Sollum monuments have been damaged. ment for entering the North Lan- Had been withdrawn. The enemy Injury to our war-making capac-tau Channel minefield yesterday. limits of the docks and he, poor fellow, was in a tiny cabin which by sheer bad luck got a "We are only beginning to is being effectively and success-direct hit." The Invasion

get an increased flow of produc-fully discharged. tion from the great programmes Deployment by the Germans started after the war. It is very of barges and ships in prepara-agreeable to see the increases tlon for the invasion of Britain maintained over so wide a fleld and Ireland continued; and we in spite of the enemy's fire, must expect

Will make an attempt at whất hó judges to be the best opportun- Ity.

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was still at some distance from the ity has been surprisingly small, British positions of resistance..

that Hitler

"All our preparations must therefore be maintained in n state of vigilance. (Cheers).

Services.

More Intense Air Fighting

ENVOY AT PALACE

THE

Cutside the docks the story was very different and a strange. sight was the miles of frèmen's hoses running the length of street after street.

The Huns' Shame

"The whole system of our life!

London's 'docks were surround- see how indiscriminate and Inbour is being rapidly

ed by densely crowded areas. and wanton is the enemy's at-adapted to conditions hitherto un-

There were many miles of small tack, there were 10,000 civilian known to modern society.

BELGIAN DA AMBAS- streets where hundreds of casualties from air attack but "Intensification of air attacks BADOR, AS THE DOYEN OF London's poorest people lived in less than 250 in all the fighting has made it difficult to draw pre- THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS, HAS tiny houses, mostly weakly built.

cise conclusions as to new rules CALLED AT BUCKINGHAM about our air raid 'warnings but|PALACE TO EXPRESS ON BE- broadly speaking the siren must HALF OF HIS COLLEAGUES be an alert and not an alarm. THEIR DEEP SYMPATHY "AND "We must expect that very ALBO INDIGNATION AT THE much more intense examples of RECENT DELIBERATE -BOMB. ́ ́ale fighting will be expérienced ING ATTACKS ON THE KING

in the future."..

AND QUEEN'S LONDON HOME. Those Icaving the, district were not "done for." They were, so Telegrams from the colonies to speak, the wounded going out continue to reflect the horror of of battle,

"The process of waiting keyed up to concert pitch day after day. "The Air Raids. Precautions or is apt after a while to lose Its ganisation has proved its efficienty charm of novelty. There is no and the greatest discipline and để doubt it imposes a heavy strain votion to duty has been shown by on all concerned but we must not all, under-rate the damage inflicted

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Secret Session

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their everlasting shame

the Huns have poured a delugë

of destruction on these un Tucky folk!

on the enemy by the very heavy "The task of preserving the nightly bombardment of his con-health and well-being of an en- centration of ships and on all focalļormous" community exceeding points.

eight million souls in the Thames Concluding his speech Mr. people throughout the Empire at The great bulk of the people. In Valley, of supplying them

with Churchill intimated that there the attacks on Buckingham Pathose bombed parts of London all necessities and making provi- were some matters connected lace, coupled with heartfelt relief were remaining. They refused" sion for those whose homes have with arrangements under air ut at the providential · escape of to move for Hitler. Reuter. "Undoubtedly serious injury has been destroyed or those who have tack which he preferred to dis-Their Majesties. ·· been done to his ships but mean- had to be evacuated, has proved a cusa in provate,

Spirit Of Confidence

while our strength, I am able to strain on the machinery, 60 vgoya Acting on his suggestion, the Malta, Mauritius, the Supreme

assure the Houso, develops stead-ernment, which calls for exertion House went into secret session and Moslem Council of Palestine, the und viher dependencies are among ily at sea on land and above all by all the authorities concerned. JaHourned, shöftly afterwards Flaifa, Jewish community, South- the senders of such messages. →→→

This heavy and intricate task Router.

tra Rhodesia, In the air.(Cheers).

resälätid; Uganda Reuter,