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THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 23, 1940.

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China Seeking 500 Fighter Planes From United States

LAVAL STILL NEGOTIATING

M. Pierre Laval, French Deputy-Pre- mier and Foreign Minister, arrived on a new visit to Paris, yes- terday accompanied by M. de Brinon, Vichy, envoy to Ger- man-occupied. France, stated the official German news agency.

-Reuter.

000000000

HIDE-AND SEEK IN EGYPT

WOULD GIVE CHINA'S ARMIES THE INITIATIVE

REGARDING. THE proposal that China secures 500 aircraft from the United States the Chinese military spokesman in Chung- king declared yesterday that the importance of such a possibility cannot be over-estimated.

He emphatically agreed with the sugges-

Dutch soldiers and gallore leaving the. London home of Queen Wilhelmina after being.decorated at an investiture.. (Copy: right, Fox).

tion that once China is able to secure 500 air- AUSTRALIA AND NEW

craft from the United States; the Chinese

army in the field would be able immediately to launch a general offensive against the Jap-

anese, since lack of aircraft was the main cause holding back the Chinese offensive.

Military experts estimate the Japanese have a total air strength of 3,000 'planes, and are using.

are at present only about 600 Ja-

of bombers which

Foreign Losses During the past 40

DEMOCRACY COMES INTO ITS OWN

j

ZEALAND TO BE VAST MUNITIONS SOURCE

MOVES TO TRANSFORM Australia and New Zealand into a vast munitions-making plant, now being pushed vigorously ahead' are designed not merely, to aid Britain but to provide war materials for home defence

This would tory, equipped" at: a" cost of

to nine-inch profectiles for navn!

Shells made here now run up

The coming phase of the operations in the Western Desert is a mat- ter for speculation, but Graziani's plans, what- ever they may be, are be- ing effectively hampered about 1,200 aircraft in China and by the damage which is 400 in Manchuria, but following being done to his supply numbers of aircraft from China the withdrawal recently of 'large,

This emerged most clearly in rounds of 303 cartridges yearly. depots and

the statement by Essington Lewis, Early completion of two other transport for the southward expansion move

Australian Director General of plants will hoist this output to parks by the relentless and home defence purposes there

Munitions, that Australia. could. 1,000,000 rounds a day. Every bombing and shelling of panese aircraft operating in China.

expect little or no help from Bri soldier in each country will be tain and must be prepared to help able to get his rifle from the Aus- the R.A.F. and the Navy,

Once China secures 500- fighters

it if necessary. It also was made trallan Lithgow works soun: The added to the harassing from the United States, supported

What was once charged as

clear by the visit of Daniel G. same plant is already supplying. fire of our artillery.

by the fleet

Sullivan New Zealand Minister of the expeditionury forces of both China already has but is unable, hotbed of Communism" has turned Supply, to Australia to discuss dominions with heavy Vickers

of a "citadel of sendings of partly finished war machine gung Already on the first day of the to use owing to lack of fighter es-out to be more Italian advance, enemy. transport corts, China will gain command Democracy." It's the University Australian plants.

material to this country from One rapidly-built Victorian Yo columns suffered heavy losses. of the air and therefore the ini As the trucks and lorries lum-tiative in land operations. Reu of Chicago. A few years ago the make New Zealand an extension 1,000,000, for plant alone is school was the subject of a le- of the Australian munitions setup-| maling, anti-aircraft guns, anti- bered down the zigzag ----road į ter.

But Now Zealand has been! tank guns, howitzers, and depth". which descends the escarpment

gislative investigation inspired by above Sollum, they presented a

the claims of a local drug store seeking more than this! It lack charge throwers. In place of the precision--tools for the finer jobs old three-inch anti-aircraft gun, it perfect target for the British ar- tillery.. The gunners, had the

chain owner that its teachers dis of making weapons, shells and was revealed recently, the plant is seminated "Red" propaganda. The equipment. With these four great now building 3.7-inch weapons, could see lorry after lorry bowl-months of Sino-Japanese investigation cleared the univer- programma can be started on this range of them to a yard, and

,new plants equipped,a: sizable. ed over by the shells as they hostilities, 986 Japanese sity.

side of the Tasman Sea.

guns: Others Include high: ex- faced turns in the road. These

plosive," anil-tank- anti-aircraft lorries, like the petrol dumps aircraft have been des Now Dr. Robert M. Hutchins,

Alternatively, New Zealand has and smoke shells and they are destroyed by the RAF, will need

been suggesting the "shipment of being made by the billion to be replaced before the advance troyed, including 308 shot President, announces a series of skilled workers from this country * New plants grow in all difees can he continued. This may well

lectures, entitled "Documents of to Australian plants where equip tions, New rolling mills are be the reason why the Italians down by Chinese 'planes, American Democracy" The pro- ment is not being used to capacity planned, and the famous “hadow - have not so far tried to push for 236 destroyed on the ject is part of the university's despite the urgency of the nood, factory" scheme, designed to be broad programme to contribute because trained workers are still Built up from war extensions of ground, 164 brought down to the nation's defence effort, and short.

existing plants is to be moved - Everything On Wheels by A.A. fire, 136 shot down while much of that programme

beyond the boundaries of the three has to do with training of Both On Export Basis original States. These were New This is very definitely a me- by ground forces and 97 air pilots and stresses such,

South Wales, Victoria, and South Already both countries are on Australia. any body of troops is no longer destroyed by aerial bomb-things as rifle shooting, and "fir-

this new ven-an export basis. Australia recently estimated by the number of men ings, it was officially ture goes right down to the roots received a total of 28,000,000 in Second Line Of Defence contained in it but by the num-claimed in Chungking of any defence scheme,

orders for war material, New ber of vehicles it represents.

Zealand is reported to have ship- These new works are planned Everybody and everything is yesterday.

And it's not just a student mat-ped quantities of small arms am- as a "second line of defence" of the curried on wheels.. Nobody

ter. The public is to be, invited munition to Britain on the Cana-industrial setup, which presum- marches. This is so much These figures do not include to the series of 20 lecture-con- dian-Australian mall steamer ably means they are intended to "the case that the sight of a damaged acroplanes or machines ferences, which were to begin on Niagara which was mined off the carry on the work of arms bulld-

squad of men marching to draw which crashed behind the Chinese October 16,

coast in June. Liquidation of in- ing in the event of attack on these their rations in a desert on-lines.

vestments of New Zealanders, in shores. Small plants all over the campment.crems: an novel and

lecture-conferences will Australia is pondered to pay for country have been offering help, the "weapons this country secks and, while it will not be possible from.Its sister dominion."

to use them all, because of the The Declaration of Independ ence; The Articles of Contedera in the arms Industries of, Austra of the proffered assistance will be There are now 150,000 workers complex processes involved, much" tion; The Northwest Ordinance of 1787; The Constitution; The Fad-lia, and the new director general used a

of production has been given a Pressure of wartime. production.. eral Bill of Rights; The Virginia blank check by the Federal Gove how beginning to bear down on and Kentucky Resolutions; Presi-. dent Jefferson's First Inaugural; ernment to step up production as Home Industries and tome form of Marbury, vs. Madison, Dartmouth far as he is able. The cost of the restriction of raw materials is in- College vs. Woodward, McCulloch programme at present visualised dicated. A first example of this vs. Maryland, Cohens vs. Virginia; 18.at least £50,000,000, but it is has been the revelation“ that a The Monroe Doctrine; Selections expected the scheme will go be quota for copper for civil purposes from President Jackson's Messa-yond that..

ther.

chanised war. The importance of

Foreign property losses were: Britisir

$1,040,405 American

1,488,889 Italian

744,870 150,000 30,000

· 17,500.

*3,000*

German

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Swedish,

and,

ancing a war,"

The

is contemplatēdie Up until now there has been no anxiety, about!!

strange as that of an solophant British property suffered the include discussions on: In Piccadily.

heaviest losscs as a result of Ja- It is also a wer of hide-and-panese ale attacks since-the-be- seek. It is of in highest imper-ginning of the war, according to tance to baffy observation from Fofficial estimates... the air, and hence the dispersal of troops on the ground, is: a standing principle, and the art of camouflage is carried to a high pitch, It might be imagined that this would be difficult in the open desert with little, or 110-vo- getation, but advantage is taken of every patch of scrub" and fe camelthorn as protective baule.

ges; The State Constitutions of the In both countries; moves have ground and the shadows, cast by

Middle Period; Selections from been made to preserve machine the, quantities available. vehicles are reduced as much as The spokesman of the Chinese President Lincoln's Messages, The tools for wer purposes. Installa possible by the use of camouflage air force declared these figures do Emancipation Proclamation and tions and alterations of machinery netting. In these conditions it is not include property losses of for- Thirteenth Amendment;

now • governed by decreo: remarkable how a large encamo-eign governments and institutions Fourteenth Amendment; Imperi- Minesweepers, needed by New ment can escape notice and dis-but cover only personal losses of allsm and Democracy; Progressi-Zealand will be built in Austra appear entirely into the landscape: foreign residents in China. vism-Selections from the Mes lian yards..Industrial plants are The extent to which the troopa

anges of Presidents Theodore being altered and extended, are dispersed gives a new mean. He pointed out that the bomb-Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson: ing to military expressions suching of the US, gunboat Panay and Liberty, Democracy” and the us "transport pork," in which no the burning, of British ateamers World-Wor: Democracy and Pro- vehicle is nearer than 100 yards to during the Ichang, bombing, alone sperity the 1920's Democracy another, or troops concentra-would bring foreign property and Depression-the Early 1930 flon," which may sprond loosely losses to figures much higher than Democracy and Dopression the over 60 miles.

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NORWEGIAN CREW RESCUED

The Norwegian Government has Some Major Results thanked: the master, officersrand,

Feréw-of: a Canadian destunupničngs Major results achieved have the resouo of-the-men of n-Nor- boen summarised in some detall. wegian ship which was or wed Already the two countries are and sunk on the way from Bri- „producing/ more than 100,000;000′] tai tó Canuda, Reuter?"