1940-12-31 — Page 16

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 31, 1940

"CLOSER TO WAR" Japanese Comment On The Roosevelt Speech

More Guarded CHINA'S STOP PRESS

RAIDS ON LIBYAN AERODROMES

The enemy's Wes- Desert landing

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grounds ot

Tmimi,

Derna and Gazala were raided by the R.A.F. on Sunday.

Fires were started at Tmimi and dispersed aircraft were attack- ed, according to an R.A.F. communique in Cairo. Reuter.

GOOD UNDERTONE IN STOCK MARKET

Tone By Officials

AN ASSERTION THAT PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S POLICY IS DRIVING

THE

UNITED STATES CLOSER TO WAR WAS MADE YESTERDAY BY THE JAPANESE NEWSPAPER "YOMIURI SHIMBUN," COM- MENTING ON PRESIDENT. ROOSEVELT'S SPEECH.

President Roosevelt's statement that he believed the Axis powers were not going to win the war was dismissed by the newspaper as "utterly irresponsible.”

CIGARS FOR THE PREMIER

The paper adds: "Whatever the situation may be in the coming must be the responsibili'y your burne partly by the United States.

Japan's Policy, According To Itoh

A BOX OF

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vare BIRTHDAY PRESENT FOR MR. CHURCHILL.

Although business on the Lot- don Stock Exchange yesterday was only of a spasmund e character the undertone WALN satisfactory Further mave President Rongeveld, ELANDS speech and the terms of the ne 2% per cent War Bonds and three per cent Savings Bond-, md ca- ing Government's intention to ad- here to a cheap TECHTUN polies, created a gand impression, Gilt- edged were rather irregular but several industra's mate headway. Wall Street was firm Reuter

ADMIRAL LEAHY ARRIVES IN LISBON

The bus is presented by the len des

of the four nobeal parties the People's Commeil.

The insertion on the box pays tribute to Mr. Churchill's energy, doggedness Renter.

and leadership.

Croment, arrived at Lisbon on the United States cruiser Tuscaloosa States yesterday, stales the Havas Ambassador to the Petain Gov-agency-Reuter.

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今日同□□

Japan does not intend to aggra- the present situation in the Pacific, provided her own ex- istence is not gravely threatened, said Dr. Itoh, the Japanese Minis- ler of information, to the corres- pondent of the Swedish news-

Demokraten" paper "Social Stockholm yesterday.

in

Dr. Itoh added that Japanese

based policy was

on alliance with the Axis directed against no nation; it merely defined the minimum demands песовзага for Japan's existence.

Hope To Persuade

Dr. Itoh declared that Japan hoped to persuade the United States and Britain to sympath se with her view that each nation should play an unhindered role in her own part of the world.

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WAR ON OPIUM

In a message to the na- tion, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has an- nounced the termination of the Six-Year Opium! Suppression Programme and warned that the

death penalty may be im- posed on any opium pro- ducer, addict or trafficker arrested hereafter.

The Generalissimo stated that, according to reports submitted by different provincial and municipal governments, the eplum suppres- sion work provided in the pro- grumme had been brought to a conclusion, and all licenced opium supplying organs have been closed down,

Year's

from New "Beginning Day," the Generalissimo enjoined, "all Chinese should march on the read of glory and rejuvenation and spiritually and physically, should redouble their efforts for the elimination of the last trace of the opium evil.”

Despite the termination of the six-year programme, suppressive measures will continue #t all times and in all places.

the

- "Chinese in enemy-occupied areas should fight against Japanese policy of narcotisation in the same courageous spirit as in the battlefield," Generalissimo Chiang instructed.

iz-

The National Government have ats issued a mandate announcing

of the completion

Opium Sup- pression Programme and structing provincial and muni- cipal governments to ensure the total elimina.ion of op.um, ge-

In Eastern Asia, Japan's an was reconstruction on a basis of international justice which would also promote world peace-Reu-claring that in this campaign lies the foundation of national re- juvenation.-Central News.

ter.

CHINA AND ROOSEVELT TALK

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S "FIRESIDE" TALK IN WHICH HE BITTERLY DENOUNCED THE AXIS POWERS AND AP- PEALED TO THE AMERICAN NATION TO CONVERT ITSELF INTO A "GREAT ARSENAL OF DEMOCRACY" IS INTERPRET- ED BY THE "TA KUNG PAO" TO-DAY AS A CLEAR INDICA- TION OF THE TREND OF UNIT- ED STATESLEOREIGN POLICY IN 1041. WHICH EMBRACES FURTHER POSITIVE AID. TO BRITAIN AND CHINA..

Of particular significance in the President's speech, the paper gays, was his declaration that the Tripartite Alliance between Ger-- many, Italy and Japan menaced the United States. This amounted to refutation of the recent utter- ances of Mr. Yosuke Matsuoka and Admiral: K. Nomura.

MR. SOONG RETURNING?

Chinese

It was rumoured in financial circles this morning that! Mr. T. V. Soong, China's financial expert, will shortly return from America to report in detail to the Chungking Government,

It is added that he will not pro- ceed to England, as previously predicted,

POLICE IN PISTOL BATTLE

junk

Guided by a victimised master, the Police yesterday pro- ceeded to Shatau in the New Ter- ritories and arrested five alleged robbers after an exchange of Bre.

One man was wounded and has been admitted to the Kowloon Hospital. - Seven others escaped.

The preflic *apecial? to telegrame, in used by the "Bonday. Harald"" and “China. Mal!!! : ta indisals' news which It is Japan, and not Germany, in strictly copyright"under the provi. which finds the speech most pains, sions of the Telecommunications. Or, tul, because Germany does not) ainahoe, 1938, and may not be reprint. hope for a rapprochement with the jod under any circumstances, "either United States but the former does wholly or in part, without prior ar

Fangament.. The "National Timely terms President Roosevalta, echas representative of the voice of the American nation.

It will be warmly received, not only by the British people, but by Hell nations Buffering from aggres-

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