1941-01-03 — Page 9

Firemen fighting fires off Chancery Lane, one of the centres

of the legal profession, during a recent raid.

PETAIN SCORNS

AND POLITICAL LIBERTY

EQUALITY ANOTHER

GOEBBELS' BLUNDER

MARSHAL PETAIN, in an article published by the Revue des Deux Mondes, one of the principal monthly reviews in France, now appearing in the non-occupied territory, contributes his own views on the political philosophy which he is trying to introduce.

It takes the form of an attempt to dispose of the Republican de- vice, "Liberty, equality, fratern- ity," for which the Marshal wish- ed to substitute the notions of authority and obedience towards the State.

Yet another German propaganda-blunder was revealed in London yes-

GREECE'S 1941 terday.

RESOLUTION

"We must teach our young peo- ple," he writes, "that liberty can "WE BEGIN 1941 WITH THE only be exercised when combined | RESOLVE TO FIGHT TO THE

LAST with recognition of a secular au-

BREATH UNTIL THE

In a recent communique, the Nazis claimed that during a raid on Britain a gas-holder exploded.

Unfortunately for the Nazi the type of gas-holder used in. Britain does not explode. The- worst that could happen is for the escaping gas to ignite, but the flames would not spread and-

no local residents need have fears. On the other hand, many of the the German gas-holders are of General Metaxas added: "Wewaterless type in which pressure begin 1941 in the knowledge that is maintained by a piston inside hard and that we our struggle will be long and the holder.

shall suffer, Damage to the casing or piston endure all in order to bring our lead to air mixing with the gas, but we are determined we will of a German gas-holder might

struggle to a conclusion worthy with the possibility of a real dis- of our Greece." --Reuter.

aster. Reuter.

MINATED," DECLARED GEN- ERAL METAXAS, THE GREEK PRIME MINISTER, IN HIS NEW YEAR MESSAGE TO THE GREEK PEOPLE.

Among premises destroyed by thority, which they must respect ENEMY HAS BEEN EXTER- fires started on Sunday night by and must obey." The word showers of incendiaries which fell "must" is printed twice in italics, on the City of London is the his-

He is scornful of political liber- toric room which saw the birth of ty, even if it confers the right the Young Men's Christian Asso- to drop a voting paper into an urn every four years." Nor is Named after the founder, the full liberty of labour to be ac- late Sir George Williams, who corded "for in this matter choice came to London in 1841 to become must be restricted by a drapery assistant, the room was possibilities and by the exigencies cconomic situated in a house in St. Paul's of national interests." Churchyard. Together with seven Working alongside them with other buildings it was burned to pick and shovel were 1,000 men | ashes.-British Wireless. of the Pioneer Corps, clearing up the roads.

In many cases, they used ropes but occasionally dynamite was

necessary.

The danger from falling buildings was so great In some areas that the polics were оп duty all day to ensure that only those with official permita en- tered those areas,

In a few days, except for empty sites where churches and famous old buildings once stood, the City will have regained much of its former uspect, Reuter.

MR. QUO TAI-CHI SEES MR. EDEN

DOG WITHOUT A

MUZZLE

Equality Modified

As for equality, "it is a fine thing at certain levels and in cer- tain circumstances. But, if men are equal before death and before God, only a civilised society can grant them liberty before the law and offer them equal opportuni- Equality must be ties in life. bound up with a rational scale of authority based on differences of function and of merit,

Pleading guilty by letter, Mr. Ian E. Heath, of No. 148, Bound- ary Street, was fined $5 by Mr. E. Himsworth this morning for allowing his dog to wander in the strcet without a muzzle on "Fraternity, too, is a magnificent November 24.

ideal, but in the condition into which we have now fallen, the only true fraternity is that of the natural groups-the family, the city, the Motherland. As E means for promoting universal progress, the class struggle is an absurd conception which leads to national downfall and death through civil or International

Mr. Gardner, of No. 32. College Road, was cautioned for keeping an unlicenced dog.

ADDING FINE TO INJURY

Wong Sam,

27,

war..

Mr. Quo Tai-chi, Chinese Am- bassador to Britain, called on Mr. Charged with alighting from a Anthony Eden, Secretary for For-moving bus,

"We must therefore. tell our eign Affairs, yesterday afternoon, spinster, was fined $1 by Mr. E. children that, though masters and for the first time since Mr. Eden's Himsworth at Kowloon this morn- men may sometimes have inter- resumption of office as Foreign ing. She alighted about 10 yards osts which clash, the general in- Secretary:

in front of the stop, falling and terest of their occupation is para- Apart from renewing personal suffering head injuries for which mount and it in its turn is sub- and official contacts, it is under she was treated at the Kowloon Ject to the interests of production stood that they discussed various | Hospital.

taken as a whole, which the State questions affecting the common

must direct, outside and above interests of China and Britain in

the 'corporations', concerned, the. Far East and the Pacific.

cording to the domestic and for Central News.

eign markets,"

WEATHER REPORT

BENGALI VESSEL

CAPSIZES

.ac-

All this, of course, postulates a strong and wise Government aris-. ing in some way from "the con- Eighteen lives were lost as the dition into which we have now result of the sinking of a court fallen." But the authority of Mar- The Royal Observatory reports fry craft in the channel between shal Petain is a precarious one. that pressure has increased rapid Chittagong and Sandwip Island, Even in the occupied zone hopes ly over Mongolia, and Manchuria says a message from Bengal." Bre now being placed elsewhere, following the development of a The boat, which was carrying and La France au Travail (Paris)

ל

fresh anticyclone, L.

21 22 ′′ passengers, was caught in a finds it necessary to threaten those

A depression is moving east-| gale and capsized in: mid-stream. | who refuse to believe that all is ward across Hokkaido,

-Reuter

lost.

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