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WILLKIE CAMPAIGN TACTICS ASSAILED BY MR. ROOSEVELT

“IT IS FOR PEACE THAT, I SHALL LAB- OUR FOR ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE," DE- CLARED PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, O'PEN- ING HIS ELECTION CAMPAIGN IN PHILADEL- FHIA LAST NIGHT.

He accused the Republicans of importing the propaganda methods of the “dictator countries” to convince the public that he would lead the United States into war.

same

Broadcasting from the convention hall in which he was nominated in 1936 and Wendell Willkie in 1940, President Roose velt declared that since July hardly a day or night had passed "when some crisis or some possi- bility of a crisis in world affairs has not.. called for my personal conference' with the Secretary of State and other officials of Government."

Therefore, it was essential

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"over 12 hours' distant from cent. of London's popula- Washington," but the time had

come for him to answer falsification are obtaining more tions with facts.

PHILIPPINES

WILL BE DEFENDED

The Philippines will be defended against any attack which · might be launched "as long as they are. under our flag," de- clares. Colonel Knox, U.S. Secretary of the Navy--Reuter.

MR. ROOSEVELT'S CAMPAIGN

President Roosevelt who open- by the Republicans must be "delt-raids than they were aed his election campaign with

He said that many statements sleep to-day during air- berate falsifications," declaring month ago, says Reuter's speech in Philadelphia last night, that wilful misrepresentation ot the facts was not permissible dur- Lobby Correspondent.

ing a campaign or at any other time.

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is to follow it up by others at New York next Tuesday, at Washington next Wednesday and at Cleveland on November 2..

On November 4-election eve he will make a final plea for. re-election from White House. Reuter.

THE NAZIS IN LUXÉMBURG

"But it, is an entirely different thing for any party or any can- didate to state, for example, that

The Nazi Gauleiter of Luxem the President of the United States had telephoned Mussolini and

It has been established that burg has dissolved that little. Hitler to sell Czechoslovakia down there are no signs that the cour-state's Parliament. --- the river, or that the unemployed age of the people is declining, but of the nation are going to be put the opinion of neutral observers into concentration camps, or that is that it is steadily increasing stolen from a the present Government means Reuter. the end in America of democracy

within four years.

"You know that all these statements are false and untrue."

Verbal Blitzkrieg

President Roosevelt said that the American people would not be stampeded into a panic and would not be swept away by this "blitzkrieg of verbal incendiary bombs," and the continued "ver- bal bombshells" which the Repu blican leaders have unloaded on this people.-Reuter.

To Inspect Defences

Reuter.

Felt hats valued at $111 were shop at No. 214,

Shanghai Street; yesterday.

NAVY FITS ITSELF

IN FRENCH WARSHIPS

(From Reuter's Special Correspondent with

the British Naval Forces). OFFICERS AND MEN of the Royal Navy are now quite at home in the French warships taken over by Britain following the Vichy Gov- the series of pre-election political ernment's capitulation.

President Roosevelt 'arrived in) Philadelphia yesterday to open

speeches which will take him into Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey during the final fortnight of the election campaign.

The President has stated

that

B

he will combine his tour with further Inspection of defence es- tablishments.-Reuter."

DE VALERA OFFER

TO BRITAIN

It was Mr. de Valera who suggested to the British Government that mothers and children from the bombed areas should be given sanctuary in Eire, Reuter understands.

Intensive training has familiarised British gunners and engineers with the unfamiliar French guns and engine-rooms.

The officers have learned how to handle the ships and thus can play a full part in helping to win the war at sea.........

It has not been an easy task for. men brought up in British war ships, and who, after many years of service, have had suddenly to adapt themselves to features of a sh'p different, in many ways from their own, but they have taken on the works cheerfully, and made a thorough. Job of it..

-Buch were my conclusions after being allowed to visit on of the small French destroyers now added to the British Fleet This one was almost entirely British manned, but there were some Frenchmen on board.

French Chef

In one corner was a built-in desk of modern design.

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Ventilation, devices, ensured flow of cool, fresh air when the port-hole was closed.

Artistic Fittings Though barely half the size of its counterpart in a British des- troyer, the Wardroom was simi- Inrly supplied with expensive- looking woodwork and artistic fittings. -

The Chief Engineer, who has had 31 years experience in the British Navy, confessed, as, he showed me the two engine-rooms, that at first the great field of un- Dinner, indeed, was prepared familiar instruments was a little by a French chef, and though puzzling, but he and his assistants s'mple was unmistakably. French. soon had everything worked out. Typically French, too, was the The French designers, ap: luxury of the officers' quarters.parently worked on the princi

Tn,my cabin, I enjoyed one of the most comfortable nights 1. have over spent afloat. fun to It had hot and cold water laid When news came of this tra- on and there were as many elec gedy, Mr. de Valera put the sugetric lights as in the bedroom of gestion before his Ministers so a luxury hotel one for read that arrangements might be mado ing in bed, another over the built as soon as possible by the British in handbasin, and two more- in Government.--Router,"

the celling for general lighting, ~:

He was moved to do this by feelings of distress at the sinking of the liner "City of Benares, with 'n loss of 79 children on their way to Canada,

ple of making the ship as fool. proof as: póstible, and with this in mind. introduced devices to redude' reliance on the human. element to a minimumisaW All this was, at first, strange to our men, but the speed with which they accustomed themselves to the now conditions. Isovidence of the Navy's adaptability. — Reuter,