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THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 21, 1940.

NAZIS DEFIED BY STUBBORN HOLLAND WIDLER'S

INFORMATION RECEIVED in authoritative

REQUEST.

Dutch circles in London from the occupied area of REJECTED

the Netherlands shows that the Dutch public is still stubbornly resisting Nazi-pressure. The attitude of the Socialists, mostly working-class people, who form a large minority of the population, remains so uncompromising towards Nazism, that the Ger- mans are obviously worried.

written request by Elly" Widler to the Swiss Consul-General in Shang- hai to drop a warrant for his arrest in connection

This conclusion can be drawn from the con-with the alleged robbery centrated German propaganda, directed at the of $2,000,000 worth of cop- working class in the Netherlands, which paints an per has been flatly reject- idealistic picture of the blessings brought about byed by Mr. E. Fontanel, the socialist reforms in Germany, and which plaintively Swiss Consul-General, it wonders why the Dutch working men are so scep-

was learned, says the "North China tical about the promises of a better future once the

Daily News." Nazi system has been established in the occupied

area.

The Dutch socialists have not fallen for these German blandish- ments, and try very hard to keep their ranks closed, in spite of all German efforts to break their soli- darity, for instance, by the dis- missal of socialist leaders, who are replaced by Dutch Nazis,

PRO-WANG

CHINESE

Effort To Infect Youth TROOPS

In particular, the socialist youth movement is being maintained in the old organisation, to prevent the Nazis from getting a hold on the soul of the younger generation.

MUTINY

Chinese soldiers in the The Germans have, for instance, vicinity of Soochow, des-

sent thousands of Dutch children

-mostly orphans from Rotterdam cribed by the Chinese -to Austria "for a holiday" and press as "hired" soldiers, "to reciprocate the hospitality giv- en to Austrian children by the mutinied recently and led Dutch during the last war.” The a large band of guerillas real intention is, of course, to in-

orders fect these children with the Nazi taking spirit.

Catholic Church is, like the so-

Chungking . to

from attack

A's. In Germany, the Roman their own comrades, with clalists, fighting for the preser the result that a large vation of the Bout of youth number of the new re- tion of the Netherlands is of the gime's soldiers was de- Catholic faith. The eccleslasti-feated and disarmed. cal authorities encourage the re-

About one-third of the popula-

The missive contained nothing of importance or relative to the case. Mr. Fontanel stated. ・・・ All that concerned the Swiss consular authorities here was a trial of the case to determine whether Widler is guilty or not, it was pointed

out.

Mr. Fontanel also stated that he was not aware of any communi- cation of the local Japanese' mili- tary authorities that since the cop- per missing from the godown was confiscated by them, being in their conter on the property of the Chungking Government, no blame could be attached to Widler:

Widler, declared that the police had. attempted to cast aspersions on his character and had dug into his past as far back. was twenty years ago ta

the Swiss consular authorities to issue the warrant: för - his arrest. His past record for the period under review he de- clared was praiseworthy and commendable.

Assets Of Great Men"

"Firing squads and prisons are the assets of all great men" the missive stated. The story of every antecedent about myself, ̧sistance of the faithful against This was done during the

I have no shame for; they are the "Nazi"pressure" by" "refusing the absence of Japanese garrison for- records of a man fighting against sacraments to Dutchmen who ces along the Shanghai-Nanking odds; they are the sequence of Railway who have been sent to chivalrous deeds, of generosity, Also, as happened in Germany, the front to launch what the integrity and courage." The latter the Germans in the occupied area Japanese term the "autumn of went on to point out that his of, the Netherlands are very wary. fensive."

turn Nazi.

mother was the recipient of a gold

of tightening the screws on. the Quoting recent arrivals from medal by Queen Victoria, in 1882, Catholics. They satisiy them Soochow, the "Shun Pao" and in a presentation made in Lon- selves for the time being by re-other Chinese dailies in Shanghai don.

peating that the German Catho- report that when Japanese soldi- Widler's penchant for politics iles also started by putting up aers left their positions along the was evidenced in a big way by resistance against the Nazification railway to launch their "autumn his insertion of a full page ad- of the Catholic masses, but that offensive" they allowed the "hired vertisement in the "Shanghai they have been brought to heel. soldiers" to take up their positions Evening Post, and Mercury" ap- and ordered the latter to start pealing to members of all na- their "mopping up action." Many tignalities who were born and groups of soldiers of the new have lived in Shanghai to support Chinese regime, therefore, were his movement for what he calls recently sent to Soochow

"A Free Shanghai."

Fight Against Churches

While planning a Utopia for Shanghailanders and going to considerable expense to proclaim his ambitious plans to the world Widler continues to keep to his

The battle of the Nazis against churches of all denominations in the Netherlands, however, con- tinues relentlessly. A new, decree Secret Negotiations has forbidden church-gatherings of more than twenty people. All The new Chinese soldiers are Freemasons' Lodges in the Nether said to have been greatly moved lands have been banned. In the by the way the areas under pent-house in the Broadway Man- Netherlands there is a Roman guerillas are controlled and astons and does not venture into Catholic, and a Protestant Broad-company of them secretly ne- the Settlement where the authori- casting Corporation, both of which gotiated with the guerilla com-ties concerned are waiting to serve are still allowed to transmit their mander in the Soochow area, the Swiss Consular warrant, for programmes, but it goes without, Colonel Hu Chao-han, and went his arrest: saying that these are heavily cen- | over the next evening. They sur- sored.

rendered, bringing with them six The Dutch clokay reply to machine-guns and more than 100. this German spiritual oppres- | Italian-made rifles, the reports slön by carefully selecting quo-state. Other new Chinese soldiers tations from the Bible and basi fled but were chased and they ing their sermons on those, i suffered many casualties, The congregations of course un- The next day, the "repented" derstand the meaning of this bat- new. Chinese soldiers led the tle of wits very well, and find guerillas to attack their own much relish and consolation in comrades. A large group of new these daring sermons, which canTM | soldiers was defeated in the en- not be forbidden by the, Germans counter, during which much war as they seem completely Innocent, material was seized by guerillas, IT WAS LEARNED IN SHANG- on the surface.

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NOMURA

AS ENVOY TO U.S.A.?

The newly arrived soldiers of the HAI THẬT JAPAN HAS SUB- new regime are now said to have MITTED TO WASHINGTON FOR fed into the city.

OFFICIAL AGREEMENT THE Withdrawal of Japanese soldiers NAME OF KENSUKE HORIN-, from the rallway zone is said to OUCHI'S SUCCESSOR AS JA- have also been reported, by ar- PANESE AMBASSADOR TO THE One of Britain's most famous rivals from Changchow. Many UNITED STATES.. locomotives, named in honour of truckloads of Japanese soldiers The identity of the new envoy the Coronation of King George were seen moving eastward and was not disclosed, but it was V. and Queen Mary, twenty-ninethe "arrivala interviewed thought thought possible that Admiral years ago, has just been with that they were Japanese soldiers Kichisaburo Nomura, former for- drawn as obsolete by the L.M.S. withdrawn from the railway zone, eign minister, has been chosen. It Railway, and, after all its re- There are only a few Japanese was learned definitely that Ad- usable parts have bech removed, soldiers in Changchow and cach miral Sleso Kobayashi, member of will be broken up to yield over only one Japanese soldier, it is the supreme war counell, has liot'. fifty tons of metal to the war ef- city gate there is guarded by been named to the ambassador. fort,

stated...

shipAssociated Press.