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MR. CHURCHILL'S 'MUNICH' MESSAGE TO CZECHS

COTTON TO REPLACE POSTERS

Familiar posters printed on cot- giving peace-time brightness to

ton instead of paper may soon be

British streets.

"THE SOUL of freedom is deathless; it cannot and will not perish,” said Mr. Winston Churchill in a special message which was read in a broadcast last night to the Czechoslo-cess has come to the forefront vakian people.

"Although it is not new, the pro- since the paper shortage became acute," a reporter was told by Mr. Ernest Marks, head of a Man chester Arm which is sponsoring

The message recalled that the day was the the scheme. second anniversary of the Munich Agree- ment, "a date which the world will always re- member for the tragic sacrifice made by the Czechoslovak people in the interest of European peace.

PILOT'S UNIQUE FEAT

An amazing accident, unique in the annals of nir history, occurred on Sunday in Australia over -ne of the air training fields.

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Twe training machines me interlocked one above the other at a height of 1,000 feet.

The pilot and observer in the wer plane and the observer of he other machine baled out and landed safely by parachute.

The pilot in the upper-ma- ahine, however, elected to re- main in his 'plane and in some miraculour fashion managed to land both 'planes, stil! in- terlocked, cafely on the flying field.

The machines were only slight- ly damaged and both will be in he air again in a day or two! --Reuter.

DON'T PARK NEAR FH OR H

THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 1, 1940.

ITALIAN RATIONING

The Italian Minis- try of Corporations www.decreed

yesterday

that olive oil, butter, bacon and lard will be - rationed in Italy from

October 1, says Rome despatch to the official German news agency. Reuter:

CONGO'S

ON THE AIR

THE BELGIAN CONGO GOES ON THE AIR TO-DAY. WITH A NEW SHORT WAVE RADIO STATION OPERATING FROM LEOPOLDVILLE.

GANDHI

LEAVING

WITHOUT AGREEMENT

Mr. Gandhi's second in- terview with the Viceroy in Simla yesterday lasted two and three quarter hours, after which the Mahatma decided to leave in the evening for Ward- ha.

The Viceroy has written to Mr. | Gandhi stating it is impossible, ^

In the interests of India, to ac- quiesce in the interference with war efforts which would result from the freedom of speech asked for by Congress.

Mr. Gandhi has repiled 'that while Congress is anxious to refrain, from embarrassing the British Government in their war efforts, it cannot deny its creed at the present critical juncture of mankind's destiny."

Mr. Gandhi's Reply

"The cloth÷made. In Lan cashiro-has a special gloss sur.

Programmes will be broadcast face, which takes printing just as well as paper. We have al- from 10.55. a.m. to. noon G.M.T. ready had Inquiries from several (6.35 p.m. to 8 p.m. Hong Kong national advertisers, and we feel Time) and from 6.55 p.m. to 7.45 sure we can toon fill some of P.m. GMT: (02.55 a.m. to 03.45 a.m. HK.T.). The first trans- those empty hoardings.". The fabric is only slightly dear-mission will be on 14.87 metres, er than paper, and considerably the second on 20.64 metres.

The opening programme will be that: "The hopes which this agree-more durable. It can be used to

for other replace paper

uses. at 6.55 p.m., when the Governor- ment stirred in the heart of

Congo civilised mankind. has been frus-instance, have adopted it as note will inaugurate the service.

Liverpool Cotton Corporation, for General of the Belgian trated.

Within six months the solemn pledges given by the unscrupulous men who control the destiny of Germany were broken and the agreement destroyed with a ruth- lessness which unmasked the true nature of their reckless ambitions to the whole world.

"The protection which Hitler forced upon you has been a sham and a cloak for the in- corporation of flourishing country in the so- called Greater Reich.

your -once

"Instead of protection he has brought you nothing but moral and material devastation and to- day the followers of the great tolerant and humanitarian Presi- dent Masaryk are being perszċu-- cruelty culed with a deliberate which has few parallels in mo- dern history.

Instinctive Defiance

paper.

Reuter.

DEPARTURE OF

LONDON JAPANESE: THE EXPLANATION

CONTRADICTORY REPORTS were cur- rent yesterday about the departure of Japan- ese residents from Great Britain.

The Japan radio yesterday morning an- "In this hour of your martyr-nounced that 750 Japanese had been ordered to leave by the Japanese Embassy in London.

message.

dem I send you this The battle which we in Britain. are fighting to-day is not only our battle, it is also your battle and, indeed the battle of all na- tions who prefer, liberty to scul- less serfdcm.

"It is the etruggle of civilis- ed nations for the right to live their own life, in the manner of their own choosing. it re- presento man's instinctive de- fiance of tyranny and an im- personaty universe.

Throughout history no Euro- pean nation has shown a greater will to survive than yours and to-day again your people have given countless proofs of their courage in adversity.

The Embassy promptly denied the this, and it appears that truth is that the Japanese Con- zu-General: apked the Tokyo Foreign Office to send a Japan- ese ship to pick up some Japan- ese who wish to return to Japan.

Some of the Japanese firms and their staffs and they asked banks have decided to reduce the Consul-General to arrange for

their return to Japan.

sul-General

a

Reuter.

dent says that the Japanese Con- Reuter's diplomatic correspon- in London, Mr. Uchiyama, acting on the wish of Pride And Gratitude some Japanese residents in the British capital, requested the For- The Eastern Regional Office, of

"Here in Britain we have wer-cign Office in Tokyo to send the Ministry of Information in a comed with pride and gratitude Japanese ship to evacuate them. statement says that although mo your soldiers and airmen who orists are promptly obeying in-have come by daring escapes tu structions given by a policeman take part with ever-increasing or warden during an air raid, success in that battle for Britain here is one thing they have not Czechoslovakia and no less sin-

which is also the battle

for yet fully learnt.

cero is our admiration for those That.

is to make sure that Czechs and Slovaks who on the their vehiold. is not obstructing | home: front are risking.death or access to a fire hydrant,

worse than death, to foster re-

Since the beginning of the Battle of London, many Japan ese firms and banke had de- cided to reduce" their staffa to

raids

skeleton basis owing to the langer to life from air and a certain shrinkage of business..

The position of a hydrant is sistance against a cruel and heart-n the Tokyo report that the Ja-. There is no truthì whatsoever marked by a square of yellow or less oppressor.

panese Embassy in London or-

...

white paint, and in addition there"It is because we both are dered Japanese residents to leave will be found nearby und general-

fighting for the fundamental. the country. ly opposite on a wall or post a inotal plate bearing the letters TH HY or H.-

TRAINING FUTURE. FARMING KEY MEN

A scheme to train boys for Farming is being organised in Essex. from which 'It is hoped to obtain future key men for Britain's ngricultural industry.

decencies of human, life that

In the course of his reply to the Viceroy, Mr. Gandhi stated

it "If Congress. has to die, should do so in the act of pro- claiming its faith."

It is unfortunate that we have bcen unable to arrive at an agree- ment on the single issue of free- dom of speech. But I shall hug the hope that it will be possible for the Government to work out their policy in the spirit of the position of Congress.'

Gandhi's Argument

Full text of the correspondence shows that the Viceroy, writing to | Mr. Gàndhi, says: "It has emerg- ed from our conversation that while you would not yourself preach to workers engaged in war work at actual works, in an en- deavour to dissuade them from working on war you

should regard it as essential the non-Congress members alike to

it should be open to Congress and

deliver addresses, and in other ways,, to call upon people through-

assisting India's war effort in any

out the country to refrain from way which would invoke India's

participation in Reuter,

bloodshed."____

LEFT £166,000-WIFE

IS WORRIED

With her last shilling-all that she had left of the week's housekeeping money, a mother of seven sent a wire to her soldier husband to tell him that he had inherited £166,000.

"If it had been about £100,” she told a reporter, "we should have been satisfied, but this has come as such a shock that I don't know what I am doing and I am worried out of my life."

Her husband, Private Frederick so

Hills, fifty-six, of the East Surrey

ginen, got twenty-four hours special leave and went home, to King Street Maidstone, Kent, to see his family.

"

"But I'm not going to be any ..different,” he said: “I'm not going to let money go to my head. Anyway, I have a job in the Army to finish off at the moment.

man, has just inherited the money Private Hills, a former road-

much.

"It will be a godsend, We have never, been what. you would call well off. The most my husband earned as a 'road- man was £2 18s a week to keep our family of seven kid- dies on.

The youngest of Mrs. Hills's children is fourthe eldest twenty-six."

"Now I shall be able to get them some nice clothes," she said.

Out of some 700 Japanese only former police-constable of Mad TENTH HAIFA RAID

we are determined that neither about 70 will leave England. If our struggle nor your struggle and when the Japanese ship.

shall be in vain.

"It is for this reason that we have, refused to recognise any of the brutal conquests of Ger- many in Central Europe or else- where: that we have welcomed a Czechoslovakt Provisional crnment in this country: and that we have made the restoration of Czechoslovak liberties one of our principal war aims.

arrives.

Heard Nothing

from his John Hills,

stone, who died at his home in Dearborn, U.S.A., in May,

The rest of the fortune is to be divided between Mr. John Hill's ather: five children:

She Fainted-

HUNDREDS - GATHERED ON. MOUNT CARMEL ON SUNDAY TO WATCH THE ITALIANS AT- TEMPT THEIR TENTH-RAID ON HAIFA. THE RAIDERS TWISTED A leading official of the Yoko-

AND DIVED TO AVOID. THE haina Specic Bank told · Reuter

FIRE OF SHÖRE BATTERIES. Gov- yesterday: "We have no inten- "I was cooking the lunch for They then climbed to a grent tion of evacuating and we have my family when the letter-it height and released their bombs heard nothing even faintly te was from the British Consul in over wasteland and into the sea. sembling this report. If there Michigan-was brought by the Ten people were slightly · in- had been any such order we postman his wife, Mrs. Allee jud but there was no material should certainly have heard from Hills, forty-six, sald at her home. damage. Reuter. A our head office in Tokyo.

"I collapsed when I rend it. When I came to, I counted my “BRITISH PILOT· "game Japaners have tainly left London, "but they coppers to wire Fred. I found I

INTERNED IN EIRE have gone of their own spcord had only just enough money in measure, these

The Elre Department of **“De- because business has been bad," my purse, to send the wire,

British. Reuter understands the steamer Fred was granted twenty-four fence announces that a come. Fushimi Maru is due In Lisbon Hours' leave to come home and plurie made, a furced landing death-about October 20 and may arrive sort things out. I knew that his nour, Enniscorthy on Sunday.

·uninjured, not at an English portcarly infamily in America had some The pilot, who was

November.—Router

money but I never dreamt It was was Interned. Reuter.

Be Of Good Cheer With firmness and resolution,

Scholarships valued at £175 a two qualities which our nations' .::ear have been granted at the share in equal

Henry Ford Agricultural En-alms will be achieved. gineering Institute at Boreham, "Be of good cheer. The hour

of your deliverance will The boys will also receive The soul of freedom. ig technical training in all kinds of less it cannat and wil Tarming over 4,000 acres of land. I perish."Router

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