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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 21, 1940.

MALTA'S EXAMPLE OF

ENDURANCE

STOIC

MALTA HAS SET an example of stoic endurance of which the whole Empire may well feel proud, says a London "Times” com- mentary yesterday on the King's message to the Acting Governor.

The "warm loyalty to the British cause shown not for the first time by this island peo- ple is itself a tribute to British methods of government and a complete answer to the vilifications of Goebbels and his Italian imita- tors.

It is a complete reply also to the long sustained efforts of Ita- lian propagandists to convince the world that Malta is really part of Italy and that the Maltese, a race with proud and ancient marked individuality, language

"ISLAND OF DOOMED MEN" and history of their own, are real-

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ly nothing more than a kind of inferior Italians.

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They have suffered from Italian air raids ever since Italy came

140 RAIDS

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More than 140 carefully|

ing presence of the Fleet, head-conceived hammer, blows quarters of which had been trans-

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"COMMUNISTS"

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Arms and a print- ing-press are stated to have been discovered in the homes of 11 persons arrested Lyons following the 'distribution of "Com-" munist" leaflets, says the Havas Agency:

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GUERILLA WAR IN MANCHURIA

OCTOBER 20.

THE WELL-KNOWN COM- -MUNIST CHIEF, WANG SEN WAS KILLED IN AN ENCOUN TER BETWEEN HIS GANG AND A UNIT OF THE MANCHUKUL

that is the ferred to the eastern Mediterran- at Germany -

total R.A.F. raids over Germany and occupied territory during the week ARMY NEAR THE CHIACCHIER RIVER, THE "MANCHURIA ended dawn on October B

NEWS" ASSERTER YESTERDAY.

Turn Out For Navy Neither the absence of their ac- customed protectors nor periodic *bombing from Italian aeroplanes

nor the long tale of enemy suc- 18. cesses has weakened their attach- Among outstanding objectives ment to the British Empire. or attacked' were the Danzigerstrasse their confidence in the ultimate gas words, Tempelhof aerodrome, triumph of the British cause."

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railway yards, power stations, other, targets and the Lehrter rail- way station-all in Berlin.

A synthetic oll works at Politz, near Stettin, was bombed and Kiel was ralded on four nights. Krupps works at Ecsen were twice raided.

What they think of the. Navy with which their island has been intimately and honourably asso- ciated for long generations was shown a few weeks ago when ships reinforcing the Mediterran- ean Fleet put in at Valetta. They arrived during particularly

Other objectives were the pow fierce air raid when the whole er station at Brest, the large syn- population had taken shelter but thetic oil plant at Leuna and an as soon as they heard the music of oil plant at Magdeburg. the flagship's band and saw the In all these raids, carried out familiar grey outlines of a British against important targets despite battleship the people, disregard-extremely unfavourable weather ing the bombers, poured out in on some nights, only 10 of our thousands to welcome her:

aircraft were lost-Reuter.

The streets were packed with. cheering crowds and the har- hour thronged with sailing boats dancing round the ship in exuit- ant enthusiasm. Her

presence confirmed the faith they hold so staunchly that British sea power will preserve them in their free membership of that Commonwealth of nations to which they are proud to belong." --British Wireless.

REWARDS

FOR TRAITORS

TRAITORS IN. HOLLAND WHO HELPED THE NAZIS HAVE BEEN REWARDED, IT IS MORE OR LESS OPENLY AD- MITTED IN NAZI CIRCLES.

A German official, while deny- ing that the Dutch Nazis will soon come into power, said that it was only natural that the Ger- man Nazis should sympathise with the Dutch Nezis, who had been friendly even before the invasion.

The German Commissioner: had shown this in recently appointing Dutch: Nazis to legal posts und giving another the appointment of Police Chief of The Hague. Reuter,

UNREST IN NORWAY

IN

MEBBAGES, RECEIVED. SWEDEN STATE THAT QUIS- LING; THE NORWEGIAN TRAI, ́TOR AND PUPPET, ALWAYS, GOEB ABOUT. WITH A-BODY- GUARD AND GERMAN TROOPS" HAD TO INTERVEND RECENT. LY IN A DEMONSTRATION IN WHICH SEVERAL NORWE GIANS WER6. KILLED, S PAnt"-Nazlı demonstrations... by. Norwegian students occur every night, amat

The people help the students, to disappear when the police arrive.

Reuter.

NEW BISHOP OF

EAST SZECHUEN

During the fight, the pape Ch claims, Wang's lieutenant, Fang, was captured together with documents, pertaining to Com munist activities in Manchukuo.

Manchukuo troops had been of Wang's tail since last August be fore they finally succeeded corner.ng him.-Havas.

CANADA'S P.M. TOURS COUNTRY

-Completing an exhaustive-in spection of Canada's army and a forces on active duty along the Atlantic sea border, Mr. Macken zie King, the Premier, in a state ment at Halifax (Nova Scotia yesterday declared himself "deep ly impressed with the vigour an strength of it all.”

At the Holy Trinity Cathedral Kenneth in Shanghai, the Rev. Graham Bevan, an

old 're- Referring to the transfer sident in China, was consecrat United States destroyers to th ed as Bishop of Eastern Szechuen: Royal Navy and the Royal Cana He came to China in 1925 and has dian Navy, the Premier said th been residing in Eastern Szechuen courtesy of the U.S. Governmen ever since he was attached to the in handing them over completel Eastern Szechuen Diocese and equipped and supplied. lived in Tahsien. Reuter.

"genuine hospitality."-Reuter:

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