1940-11-16 — Page 2

THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 16, 1940

TARANTO AND THE FAR EAST

China Predicts Repercussions In Tokyo

Expansion Policy Less Promising

THE BRITISH VICTORY AT TARANTO IS HAILED AS A VITAL BLOW TO THE AGGRES- SORS, AND PARTICULARLY JAPAN, BY THE INFLUENTIAL CHINESE DAILY IN CHUNG- KING “TA KUNG PAO" IN A LEADING ARTICLE.

"We Chinese," the newspaper declares, are naturally anxious to know what possible affects the British naval victory at Taranto will have on the Far Eastern situation. 100000000-

ROME CLAIM REFUTED

An Italian claim that a submarine tor- pedoed a British bat- tleship of the Ramil-

lies class is quite un- true, the Admiralty announced in London yesterday.Reuter.

W.V.S. SAVE HUN VICTIMS

Holding the third line. That is the job of the green and red uni- formed heroines of the Women's Voluntary Services, the Fairy Godmothers of the bombed and wrecked areas.

Their work has become in- creasingly valuable in the war against the civilian,

own

"Japan withheld her southward expansion awaiting three things.

"Firstly, the failure of Presi- dent Roosevelt in the American election;

"Secondly, the victory of Italy and Spain in the Mediterranean and possibly the occupation of Gibraltar and the Suez Canal; and

"Thirdly, an with the Soviet,

M. Raczkiewicz, President o' Poland has visited recently, a nval port where he inspected H.E. was accompanied by Polish High Of- come of the Polish ships now fighting for Britain. ficials, M. Raczkiewicz is hare seen aboard the Polish dest oyer "Blyskawica," (Lightning), (Copyright, Fox).

understanding COURAGE

Two Objectives Fail UNDER

"Once these three objects were realised Japan was expected to launch an immediate attack on Netherlands Singapore and the East Indies.

"But President Roosevelt has been re-elected while the Tar anto victory has destroyed all hopes of Italian success in the Mediterranean.

ORDEAL

Under the caption "How are the British bearing up? London papers York tell the story," the New

Herald-Tribune" recently pub-

"World developments largely lished a great variety of excerpts depend on railitary developments. from London newspapers.

"The successful Chinese re- Eietance, British realstance to

They are a mixture of grave

German air attacks on England, and gay, with not a hint in them the Etrong Greek resistance and

as the New York

now the Taranto victory, tell anywhere, the aggressors that their plana | “Herald-Tribune" said, of defeat- will not run a smooth course. "IL Italy denies the British claims it is time for the Italian fleet to leave Taranto Bay and, face the 'British fleet in the Mediterranean." Reuter.

members them.

To these:toddlers the familiar. The third line means the salvag- green and red uniform has come ing of human beings in the de- to mean a cafety sign in all the vastated areas.

horror of the Nazi war against It means that often-bombed from their

the Little Man in civil suburbia, offices in London and its suburbs Transported in the W.V.S own the W.V.S. are carrying on quietly private cars, they are taken to in the merciful task of providing some of the country houses pro- food and rest for air raid victims. vided by the American Red Cross Their mobile canteens are there, and cared for by Ministry of their own private cars to trans- Health experts. port the homeless,

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Children Cared For

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ism, On the contrary, there is the prediction, "repeated again and again in letters from the humble and in statements by notables,"" that Great Britain will triumph.

The news thus given, the New York "Herald-Tribune" says, is "an even more enlightening answer to the question: How are the people of the British metropolis 'standing up under ceaseless air bombard- ment?' than that given by foreign correspondents, for, where those correspondents

concerned

are

only with their picture, the news- papers reflect a hundred and one details of everyday life' that are

SUNER AGAIN JOURNEYING TO BERLIN

The Spanish Foreign Minister, Senor Ser- rano Suner, will short- ly leave for Germany for conversations with Ribbentrop, the Nazi Foreign Minister, it was announced in Ber- lin yesterday.-Reu-

ter.

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BURMA

ROAD IN FULL

not considered important enough OPERATION

A Picture For Pride

In areas which have been badly damaged that there are sel, to warrant cable space or tele- |<«jom" survivors, the W.V.S. are phone tolls.".

there to help the Government Perhaps the most merciful of all workers in an emergency.

One is their general scheme of adop-

W.V.S. worker recently tion of homeless and orphaned | climbed into a deep crater amnid - wreckage when children, mostly under five years smouldering for someone who knows or re- where women's help was needed. of age, wandering about looking A.R:P. workers came upon a case

The pilot of a Messerschmidt 109 who was thrown clear when his machind was shot"down Into the sqa off. Folkestone, was rescued by 2nd Lieut. M. E. Jacobs, who plunged into the seat. The Gorman airman is seen hoing carried away affor the rescue. Lieut. Jacobs Is in the background, bare-headed, with Cor poral's greatcoat,"

Fox). [Copyright,

Despite frequent Ja

AMERICA

HEARS RAID WARNING

What the New York "Sun" calls "unquestionably the greatest bat- tle in history" is the major theme of all American newspapers and broadcasters. It was brought home in dramatic fashion to American listeners one morning when air raid signals were plainly heard on the radio.

"We believe," declares the "Her- ald Tribune," "that as Goering's roaring hosts assault Great Britain- in ever greater masses resolute and vigorous action by the Presi dent, by Congress, and by every responsible authority, will evoke only a deeper response from the public."

The Washington columnists, Drew Pearson and Robert Allen, report to-day that United States military, experts in England have been "puzzled because a handful of British planes have been able to chase away ten times as many Nazi bombers." They add:

"American Air Attaches have sent glowing reports of the Bri- tish: zucc955, telling how some- times.one R.A.F. pursuit plane would put to fight a-Nazi equadron. Now the mystory. ..of German tactics has been solved. Enough German 'planes have boon .phot down to es- tablich that most of hom are

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This latest picture of British panese. bombings, includ-not equipped with navigation

Instruments." courage is one no Briton could

yesterday Newspaper readers are

able to study dozens of eye-witness cans without overwhelming won morning, the Burma road reports of actual fighting sent by see without pride, and lew Ameri-ing another

numerable photographs published is functioning to “fullest is a story by the United Press re- American correspondents. Typical

der and admiration. Through in-

in American newspapers

and

capacity.

Between

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presentative at a North-East coast magazines of the savagery per

town,...who writes: "I saw Ger- petrated on. London by German bombers, and now through the

. October

and man planes fall from the sky first moving pictures of the ralds, October 31, 198 lorries.left: Lashio above this fortified coastal town people in this country have had procceding east and all Thurs-to-day like, pigeons-shot on the shown them with terrible vivid-day night large cenvoys roared wing," ness something of the ordeal Lon-through the streets of Yunnanfu. doners are undergoing. They have been sickened and angered by the barbarity of these attacks and by the hypocrisy which pretends that they are directed only at legitimate. targets.

At the same time their wish to ald in every way possible has been greatly intensified. Sympathy was never wanting here, nor money to relieve suffering in Britain, but what was only a steady stream before is beginning -now to look like a flood. Denied for a time by national policy from giving ald in all the ways. they would wish, Americans are finding much less than a perfect satisfaction in in- creasingly giving their services and money for works of mercy. But that they are doing wholes heartedly and without stint

The streets were thronged with Indian drivers gaping at ..the unfamiliar Chinese scenes.

The same agency's London: cor- respondent says: "Nowhere in London when the sirens screamed was there any sign of panic. Those who went to the shelters walked; they did not run. One of the A number of light Japanese vividest:accounts of the raid came - bombers appeared over Kun from a group of bus: passengers ming at 8 o'clock yesterday who did indeed rush to the exits, morning. They ciraled over the but only so that, they could olimb environs of the city for half on the top for a grandstand view." an hour, bombing and niachina-Writing in the New York Times," -bunning: the roada, despite In W. Leysmith says: "Thero-

tence anti-aircraft-fire,

Many bombs were dropped but no reports of damage are avail: able. The all clear sounded after Avo houro-at 1 pm,

Heavy rain thoroughly croaked Yunnanfu (Kunming), residents inking refuge in the surrounding countryside--Reuter.

markable achievements of the RAF convince some observers that the British have evolved something new in the technique of One theory of the air fighting." British success, he remarks, is that while the, German, pilots are as compatent as ever, there has been a marked deterioration in

crews, parti the accompanying cularly gunners.