1940-10-24 — Page 3

H. G. Wells Arouses The Ire

Of Lord Winterton Dangerous Man

BURMA

ROAD NOT

On A Lecture Tour AFFECTED

"I think it is dangerous to allow a man of this type to go to America," declared (Lord Winterton in the House of Commons yester- day when in a lengthy attack on Mr. H. ¿G. Wells, the questioned the propriety of Mr. Wells being granted an exit permit in order to carry on a lecture tour in the United States.

Lord Winterton referred to Mr. Wells's re- ference to Lord Halifax as the "quintessence of everything an Englishman should not be" and Mr. Wells's description of Lord Gort as "our praying general.'

He added "I happen to be an extensive reader of Åddison, Steel. and Pope. I can imagine one of them saying of this 'Sir, these are indecent nay, they are worse, they blackguardly","

attack. words,

are

Lord

been

Mr. Wells, continued Winterton, had for years attacking our religion and con- stitution. Here Lord Winterton

referred to an occasion when he (Lord Winterton) was present at a lunch in America. at a meet-

ing of an inter-governmental

committee.

"There were present the Gov- ernor of New York State. the Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Eastern States, the Mayor of New York-himself a devout

Catholic-representatives of the

Episcopolian Church, the Me-

thodist Church and the Jewish

religion. I was struck with the

fact that throughout very cloquent ing of unity of different faiths

specches there rang a strong feel-

and yet we allow Mr. Wells to go to the United States as re- presentative of Britain and Bri- tish literature--a man who' prides. himself as being an opponent-of

all religions and who says there

is no such thing."

Lord Winterton added: "There

Is another and more sinister ex- planation of Mr. Wells' conduct. France was not only betrayed by

the Right or Communists of the Left.

Sixth Columnists

JAPAN

KOBAYASHI

RECALLED

Mr. Kobayashi, Minister of Com- merce, and Japanese special envoy to the Batavia parleys, sail- ed from Sourabaya yesterday for Japan.

-Reuter.

Traffic on the Burma Road has not been affect- ed by Japanese air at- tacks, according to in- formation received in Chungking. "

Only minor damage has been caused to the, road.

The possibility of armed escort for the conyoys of lorries, on the road is being discussed.

With the interruption of the mail service between Yunnan and Indo-China, the Chinese Port Office is establishing a thorough mail service between China and Burma with head- quarters at Lashio, „Burma. All international mails to and from China will be taken by, the Burma Road in future-Reuter,

PEN PALS' FOR SOLDIERS PLAN

The British Legion is to set up on or ganisation to estab

ish.contacts between members of the pub

soldiers and

lic..

Those willing to cor- respond with soldiers should communicate with the Soldiers' Cor- respondence Dept;, Headquarters British Legion, Cardigan House, Richmond, Surrey.

RAILWAY

INCREASE

SURPRISED QUAKES IN RELIEF SURPRISED BY ANGLO-U.S. BALKANS

FIRMNESS

THAT THE JAPANESE Government, has been surprised by the firmness of British and American policy regarding the Burma Road, is the view expressed in London yesterday by the "Daily

y Telegraph" which says reaction's in Japan have been contradictory.

There was a retreat from the first position that the opening of the Road would cause war to semi-official announcements that the mat-

FROM. EASTERN EUROPË.

Worker ticket and sea-

MORE REPORTS OF EARTH son ticket holders are to QUAKES ARE COMING IN escape the six per cent. in- Crease of existing railway fares, which comes into force on December 1.

According to the Bucharest press, many persons were serious ly injured on Tuesday.

Other quakes are reported from Bessarabia, Klef, KKbarkof ; and other districts in the Ukraine.

Further, tremors are said to be

Colonel Moore-Brabazon, the Minister of Transport, announced this Government decision in the

shaking the Carpathians, and the House of Commons, yesterday.

| Caucasus region. Reuter.

JJAPANESE WIGILANCE

Vigilance in the Japanese con trolled areas in Shanghai has not yet been relaxed.

Hongkew, Nantao, Chapei ant the western district are barricad-

ter must not be treated as a vital issue and ments. Only narrow passages are

her Lavals and other traitors of that the Road was of little importance Japan had obtained. Vichy bases for munications in French Indo-China.

More danger signals have since "There was another class of reached Tokyo and Government sixth columnists who for years is making efforts to persuade the past had tried to shape the fate Japanese that they must not be of Frenchmen in all the spiritual alarmed by the recall of Ameri- and material institutions of can. citizens from the Far East. France. These people, like Mr. The British Embassy in Tokyo Wells, professed hatred of Nazism has now given similar advice and they abused and insulted British nationals. their fellow countrymen. Like Arrangements for the evacuă- Mr. Wells, they believed in no- tion of Americans ure thing and nobody."

way.

10

under

Captain O. Peake, Under-Sc- Such, says the "Daily Tele- confused back- cretary at the Home Office, de- graph" is the clared that the grant of an exit ground to the bombing of permit did not give any sort of Road. official standing or status.-Reu- ter.

the

- Japanese Zig-Zags :

Two inferences may fairly be -drawn:

ed with barbed-wire. entangle-

left for pedestrians and vehicles

Barricades were erected yester- Avenue Haig adjoining Avenue Joffre in the French Con- cession.-Central News.

since to pass. com- day in

JAPAN TO SEEK TERMS WITH CHUNGKING

THE JAPANESE ARE APPARENTLY AGAIN ∙MAKING A STRONG BID TO PERSUADE GEN- A Fatal Idea

The Japanese Govern-ERAL CHIANG KAI-SHEK TO COME TO ment has been surprised by the TERMS WITH THEM, SAYS THE PEJPING Replying to the criticisms the firmness of British and American Under-Secretary at the Home Of-policy and its own has made zig- CORRESPONDENT OF THE USUALLY -WELL- fice said he thought it would be zags under pressure of different

INFORMED SHANGHAI NEWSPAPER tional.

“NORTH-CHINA DAILY NEWS”

fatal if the idea got about in the influences-militaristic and ha-

United States that the British Government were only going to | The decisive factor may well permit to proceed to that country be the enormous resources < of those whose views were favour- ́man power, with the capacity able to the Government. in oflice for unceasing toil which the

Chinese Government com "in Britain.

mands.

Japan undertook to conquer

He said:

There, will also be ma, increase son the Landon Passenger Trans- port, Board system,, except the conch service.

The burden of the higher charges will fall on the casual travellers. It is recalled that the charges were increased by ten per sent. last January-Reuter.

DEFENCE OF US.A.

"THE DEFENCE OF THE UNIT- D STATES, INVOLVES THE LABILITY TO REPEL ATTACK- JAGAINST OR AN ATTEMPTED INVASION OF ANY PART OF THE NEW WORLD," DECLARED MR. SUMNER WELLES, ASSIS- TANT SECRETARY OF STATE, IN AN ADDRESS AT : BALTI- MORE YESTERDAY,

#Recent years," he went on, "have made it more clear than ever that the Panama Canal can- not be rendered secure› nor our own territory regarded as safe from Invasion by air unless, the territory of our neighbours to the south is equally secure, and that cannot be achieved without the

can Powers.

Joyal friendship of other Ameri

"There never was such when hemisphere solidarity was such a reality.”—Reuter.

SHANGHAI NEWSPAPER BERLIN'S

This "is said to be entirely due to the ease

a time

SEVACUATION

trains: to toka';chil-

He had no doubt Mr. Wells was.

-which the Japanese have been able to - Arrangements have been made a perfectly patriotic Englishman and they must leave it to the China by aircraft and mechanisa-seize Indo-China, which surprized Tokyo it-dren from Berlin (order, the Ger- good sense of the American pub- tion against a huge disparity in lic to accept for themselves the pugulation. value of the views of Mr. Wells vapolit cal and other questions.

-British Wireless.

MINESWEEPER SUNK BY A MINE

announcement An Admiralty issued last night states that the minesweeper "Dundalk"

under

The

Chinese are self.

unbowed in unity and by that As a result, the prestige of, sheer human strength may swad the Navy party was enormously king are dold to include,

The terms offered to Chung low Japanese invasion as they enhanced, as this party has always have many others in their im- asserted that Japan's Place in the

[["Firstly; the Yangtze area to be memorial past-Reuter.

Sun' was in Southern As'a and demilitarizod; tooked very jealously on the China adventure.

¿MILITARY:TRAINING

FOR COMMUNISTS. Moscow radio announce that the command of Lieut. Comman-members of the Communist Party der F. A. Kirkpatrick, has been in the Scylet Union will receive sunk by an enemy mins. The next military training in special units of kin have been informed.-Reu-being formed by local party or

ganisations. -Reuter.

tér.

Bacondly, the five provinces of North, Ching to-form an autonom.

man Government's volumtäry evacuation scheme, states the Ber- line correspondent of the Stock- holm newspaper, “Afton Bladei." Berlin is the city, according to General Goering, immuneTM from hostile air attack.-Reuter.

STALIN AT THE

THEATRE-

"It brought round many polifi-

ous stato »under? Chiness suzer- cal leaders in Japan to the view pinty, but Japan to have tom- that the Navy's southwards policy

plete and sole economic control; is, after all," the better one, and,

pkilful "Thirdly, recognition of the In- with the help of some diplomacy, a safer propósition dependence of Manchukuo; and yesterday since last August when than the Army's continued stor le, "Fourthly, Japanese concessions with M, Molotov and other off- costly attempts to overthrow to be östablished in all ports."——| olols, he attended a "theatre-festi- Chiang Kai-shelt.·

val performance. — Reuter.'

Router.

Stalin made his first appearance.