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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 2, 1940.

CHANCE TO GET AT

NAZI GERMANY BY THE BACK DOOR WANG'S

WHY DID MUSSOLINI attack Greece, and what made him choose that particular moment for an adventure as ill-prepared as it

"FINAL

was criminal? asked Mr. Amery, Secretary for APPEAL

India, in a speech yesterday.

Could it be that things were not lovely and

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It is impossible yet to

rosy in the gangsters' garden as we have been ascertain whether the al- told?

Mr. Amery suggested that the

leged telegram from Wang Ching-wei address-

lesser gangster, impatient at being BOYS' OWN ed to General Chiang Kai-

kept waiting for his share of the

loot at the expense of France, DEFENCE

might have thought to double-

cross his fellow and pinch one AIR

valuable asset which might be kept or changed for a bigger voice

in the general carve-up of the Balkans,

CORPS

shek, "making a final ap- peal for peace before the signing of the treaty with Japan," was actually dis- | patched or, if dispatched, has reached Chungking.

In

Well-informed quarters Chungking believe that even if the telegram was actually dispatched Although working on munitions by Wang Ching-wei it is almost a Where was the miscalculation? for twelve hours a day, six days foregone conclusion that Chung- Mr. Amery did not believe that it a week, 125 boys between the ages king will ignore the message, since lay in the inferiority of the Ital- of fifteen and eighteen, employ-Chungking has always regarded jans as fighting men, but heed at one of the biggest munition the Nanking regime merely as a thought it lay in their unwilling factories in the Midlands, have Japanese puppet administration... ness to sacrifice their lives in a formed their own air defence cadet war they knew to be unnecessary corps.

and unjust and in which victory They meet for drill on Sunday could only result in Italy's per-afternoons the only time they get .manent subjection to Germany-off.

The Greeks, on the other hand, fought like heroes because they believed passionately in their cause and resented the outrage done to them and to their beauti- ful country.

Grecian Misadventure

Mr. Amery, thought that the Grecian misadventure might give Britain and her growing thes a chance to get at Ger- many by the back door,

a

We might eventually deal mortal thrust at the German Dragon, not against the scaly armour of the Siegfried Line but -against the soft under-side.--

The new possibilities of the situation have cheered our friends who and given pause to those might be tempted to side with our enemies-Reuter,

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"The firm supply the boys with their uniforms," the com- manding officer told, a reporter. "They leave off work at 1 p.m. on. Sundays, have their dinner, and are all back on parade on the recreation ground by three o'clock,

"They do two hours' drill. At ! night. after work. we have lec-

even find time to do homework.

Furthermore, the terms of the treaty between Japan and Nan king were not yet known in Chungking, while even Wang's only statement did not give a specific date and details of the alleged Japanese agreement to

from withdraw their troops Chinese territory,

It is therefore firmly believed in Chungking that the Chinese troops will continue resistance as usual. Reuter.

tures on aircraft, and the DO CONGRATULATIONS

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"We have formed No. Squadron of the Air, Defence Lea- gue, and have become so famous that last week a boy who had been temporarily rejected by an R.A.F. recruiting depot in the south was told to come here and get some preliminary training.

TO INDIAN ARMY

The War Minister in a message to General Sir Robert Cassels. Com- mander-in-Chief in India, asks that the congratulation of the War Cabinet be: conveyed to all units. Three big munitions factories in of the Indian Army which took the Midlands now have air de, part in the recapture of Gallabat. fence cadet corps of boys.

HALF A MILLION

IN TRAINING

The United States has 500,000

Mr. Eden says the conduct of the operations and the tenacity displayed by both officers and men are in keeping with the high reputation and traditional fighting qualities of the British and Indian Armies, British Wireless,

TOBACCO CROPS PROHIBITED

men undergoing intensive training in the field compared with 170,000 With a view to increasing food soldiers a year ago, it was an production, the Kwangsi Provin- nounced in Washington yesterday | cial Government has circularised by the Army Chief of Staff. various district administrations Simultaneously President Roose-instructing them to prohibit the velt announced that the construc-cultivation of tobacco by farmers

be speeded up. — Reuter,

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General Hsu Chung. Ching, State Councillor of the National Government; of China, and time Commander-in-Chier of the National Revolutionary. Almy, departed for, Chungking by air on Saturday.

This is General's Hsu's Orst trip to Chungking having arriv ed in the, Colony from Shanghal three years ago following the "occupation" of Shanghai by the Japanese.

General Hsu was accompanied by General'. Chan Chai-tong, former.. Governor-General. Kwangtung.

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