THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 24, 1941
AMERICA'S WAR AID
"The Most Generous Gesture Ever Made”
Warm Tribute TO KEEP RELIEF
ITALIANS
HASTILY
DIGGING IN
Following the failure of their big offensive the Ita- lians are
By Member Of Cabinet
MR. OLIVER LYTTELTON, President of the Board of Trade, paid a warm tribute to now "digging the statesmanship of President Roosevelt and themselves in" frantically the farsightedness of the American people in on the Albanian front, ac.
legalising the Lease and Lend Bill when he cording to statements by prisoners quoted by opened Aldershot's war weapons week yes- Athens radio last night. terday.
Bewildered Nahan officers strive desperately to reorganis them scattered forces.
"I cannot help think this is the most gen- Earthworks are being hastily erous gesture that has ever been made," said
thrown up along positions in i
front of Tepelini, to which the Mr. Lyttelton. "No Englishman should ever |forget what the U.S.A. has done for us in the
Italians were thrown back by
the Greeks in disorder. Meanwhile fighting is THOW
a small scale though on both sides; year 1941.
artillery is active.
Reuter,
DECLARATION OF WAR IN ANY LANGUAGE
"This country is to-day at war against the Axis powers," declares the “Atlanta Constitution.”
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"In the deathly hush which While stressing the value American aid Mr. Lyteiten. we feel may be a prelude to ter
ble events
suddenly hean sisted at the same t me that Ban- the heart beat of America There | tam should not show she
here who should not exhausted all means think to humself every mornherself
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of his life of what has been
fone for US
the
ul
helping
Striking Figures
That this was not so he made as an active bet.clear by recounting to his Alder- shot audience striking sums "per noccesary
head" raised by towns and vit- lages throughout the realm. support of the war effort.
enter the war figerent. people will without question approve such a course."
Tri-
The little town of Heckmond-
wike, in Yorkshire, for instance,
£42.7.0 per head
in
The "Tampa (Florida) bune declares "Now that we are in the war, since the passage had saved the Lease and Lend Act, it is
its war weapons week Silsden, "WE ARE EMPHATICALLY urgent that everybody exert his also in Yorkshire, saved £30.2.4 FURNISHING ARMS TO Autmost effort to help win it.
while Edinburgh's contribution WARRIOR AND THEREBY ARE "The words of the President was the equivalent of over £25 AS MUCH A PART OF THE put the dictatorships on notice per citizen. WAR EFFORT AS
WORKERS, that we are going to do every-
IN ARMS FACTORIES IN BRI- thing we can to help beat them TAIN HERSELF.
and that's a declaration of war
any language."- Reuter.
"This nation isn't likely to
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Advocating a cutting down of luxuries by every citizen. Mr. Lyttelton said: "We are faced with a simple alternative. Either we must cut down the num- bers of the fighting forces or reduce the standard of their equipment, or we must reduce Our standard of living.
"think everyone would say we will suffer "MASCOT"
any privations necessary to gain victory." -Bm- fish Wireless.
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Mr. Tu Cheng-yuan, chief_en- gineer of the new Yunnan-Bur- ma railway, is already en route to the United States to negotiate with American railway interests jconcerning technical problems and
materials in connection with
the Chinese Government's decision to resume construction on the new railway.
It is understood that Mr. Kwong Ping-shun, representative of over- seas Chinese in the United States. who is at present in Chungking to attend the National People's Poli- tical Counell, is shortly, leaving for the United States to supervise the sale of gold bars to the value of US$10,000,000 for construction of the railway.-Reuter.
SAI YEUNG THỜI STREET ROBBERY
Before Major A, N. Macfadyen at Kowloon this morning, Chan, Nam, 27, Lau Cheong, 36, and Wong Shiu, 30, were charged with stealing a sewing machine, two raincoats, and other clothing, property of Miss Tam Kam-tin, No. 73, Sal Yeung Choi Street. “
· First and third accused sentenced to three months', hard labour and 'second · accused two months' imprisonment:
were
to
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GRANTS
The Board of Administrators of the British Fund for Relief 201 Distress in China, Hong Kong and South China Branch has recently approved the following grants A LAVISH ROUND OF EN- from this Fund, and cheques for TERTAINMENT HAS BEEN, the said amounts have been fore FORMULATED
AXIS DI Warded accordingly:-Hong Kong PLOMATS FOR MR.
MAT- Refugee and Social Welfare Coun- SUOKA, THE JAPANESE FOR- cil, towards maintenance of Food
BY
EIGN MINISTER, WHO ARRIV- ED IN MOSCOW YESTERDAY EN ROUTE TO BERLIN AND ROME,
Mr
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for period middle of May to end of December, 1941. $10,000; School for the Deaf, Kow-r loon City, towards the Building Fund of Matsuoka is scheduled to building $5,000.
proposed new school
be received by M. Molotov. the Soviet Foreign Commissar, but more significant is not easily dis- whether this meeting is a mere, cernable. International News diplomatic protocol or something' Service.
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STOP PRESS
The Magistrate this after- noon dismissed the charge of driving under the influence of liquor against Sergeant Guild, but found defendant guilty on the charge of dangerous driv ing. Defendant was fined $250,
The number of Cholera cases since the beginning of the year increased by 34 over the week-end-23 from Vic- toria,
10 from Kowloon and one from the New Territor- ies bringing the total to 477.
GENERAL
Negotiations are proceeding smoothly towards the settle- ment of the recent friction involving the Communists, stated an official in Chung- king this morning, and he predicted that the Issue İs' likely to be satisfactorily set- tled very soon. - Our Own Correspundent,
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