THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 1, 1941
POST-MORTEM UNLIKELY
Next Week's Debate On War In Commons
SOVIET WARNED TO BE READY
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
Likely To Stress War Drive Speed-Up
(By Reuter's Parliamentary Correspondent)
THE TWO-DAY DEBATE IN THE HOUSE The official Moscow OF COMMONS ON THE WAR SITUATION IS radio yesterday warned LIKELY TO BE DEVOTED FAR MORE TO THE the Soviet Union it must URGENT QUESTION OF INCREASING THE be prepared for possible WAR EFFORT AT HOME THAN ANY POST attack, according to a broadcast picked up by MORTEM ON GOVERNMENT'S DECISION TO
the B.B.C.
The Moscow broadcast, as pe
layed by London, declared The Soviet people will remember Stalin's warning and will not stop at the point which has been reach
ed.
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"It is hecessary to be in a state of readiness, even to state of mobilisation. The whole nation must be kept in of readiness in the face of the danger of military attack,
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that neither chance nor tricks by our external enemies should take us by surprise,
Moscow radio Significantly. pointed to the difficulties facing Medi- Germany in the eastern terranean. -International News Service.
TAKEN TO NINGPO
MORE FAR?
HELP GREECE.
The Prime Minister's broadcast on Sun- day has had a good effect on public opinion and this has been reflected in the attitude of those who last week were critical of Govern-
ment's action.
Attention is being dir- ected to the home front and its defects.
to
they feel is not the best fitted to get the maximum war effort.
THEY SUGGEST A REORGAN. ISATION TO ENSURE EFFEC- TIVE COMPLIANCE WITH THE DECISIONS OF THE EXECU- TIVE.
The Minister of Supply yester- answer day Pave a satisfactory regarding the production of heavy tanks but this is only one item No Effort To Be Spared |
to
in many
required that are
fight against wage a successful the armoured might of the enemy.
an-
Mr. Bevin's Powers There is also the question of labour. Critics claim little hus been done with the compulsory the Minister of which powers Labour, Mr. Ernest Bevin, nounced some time ago. Some Members
more urge drastic
the action regarding mobilisation of industry and la.
war effort. bour for the
10 have been taken
Some responsible people are change in the Ningpo by the Japanese.---Interna- urging a radical
which Government machinery tional News Service.
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GREECE,
EXCEPT CRETE, TO BE BLOCKADED
Greece, except Crete, is to be regard- ed as enemy-occupied territory for the nur- pose of the Trading with the Enemy Act and of blockade, an- nounced the Board of Trade and the Minis- try of Economic War- fare in London yester- day, says Reuter
cable.
HITLER
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LIKELY TO
GO ALL OUT
AXIS IN TOUGH SPOT
on
The Axis troops Egyptian soil are still halted around Sollum, and are being continually har-^ assed by British armed patrols, while concentra- tions along the coast road are being shelled by the Navy.
The sun daily rises higher and the desert sands get hotter, while difficult 10 sandstorms make it
keep engines cool. In any case
the air is too hot to cool the radiators.
These factors aro creating difficulties for tho Germans, particularly as they are un. accustomed to desert warfare. In Abyssinia, the round up of
continues. Italians
Another isolated garrison has been captur ed at Socota, on the Asmara-Des- I sie road south of Amba 'Alagi,
The Rains Coming
The difficult country hereabouts rules out a rear attack on Amba Alagi.
Light rains are beginning to fall, particularly in south Abys- sinia, but the heavy rains are not due till mid-May. The present rain is already having some effect on roads and tracks in southern Abyssinia.
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") the war effort Members want extended in the greatest possible way and will spare no effort to Well-informed neutral achieve this, knowing they have the whole-hearted support of the quarters in London said country.
yesterday that Hitler is with lead- Closer cooperation
completing preparations Reuter. statesmen will cer- ing Empire
it is for major military "diver- though be urgent, tainly realised such direct cooperation
in London is not as easy as in the Sions" in Spain, Morocco, last war, owing to the more ex-Iran and Syria and is like acting call on their own Ministers ly to launch his all-out by all the Dominions.-Reuter.
Guerilla War
Next week's two-day Commons debate will range over the whole war situation. Particular interest will attach to discussion of the circumstances in which help was sent in response to the Greek Gov- ernment's appeal which will be fully explained.
Now that the campaign is nearing its end the results are being assessed in London and the tendency is to view the operations a gueri la war. fare in which, despite his im-
the mensely superior strength, enemy has been made to suffer severely.
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Extent of this cannot entirely be measured by the number of cas- ualties inflicted upon him although the German methods of attack against strongly held positions in- evitab'y resulted in immense slaughter, and reports reaching official
quarters in London in- dicate that Sofia has become in effect a vast hospital.
Great Dislocation
Apart, however, from the extent of enemy casualties, the operations are known to have caused great dislocation behind the enemy's lines, and throughout the Balkans the who'e machinery of occupation has been thrown out of gear.
DURING THEIR BRIEF PE- RIOD OF ACTIVE COOPERA- TION THE YUGOSLAVS CON- TRIBUTED TO THIS CONFU-| SION AND EVEN THE GERMAN WIRELESS DID NOT DISGUISE THE FACT THAT OWING TO THEIR BLOCKING OF THE DANUBE AT SEVERAL POINTS IT WILL BE SOME MONTHS BEFORE THIS IMPORTANT CHANNEL IS AGAIN OPEN.
On political and moral grounds the expediency of sending an ex- peditionary force to Greece is no longer seriously questioned and it is: increasingly felt it may be found to have Justified Itself also by the disturbance of “Gërman arrangements. British Wireless:
NEWSPAPERMAN
SHOT DEAD
(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL" Chu Tso tung, general manager of the daily Hwal Mel Wan Pao," was shot and killed by an assassin in Shanghal last night—Internas. tional News Service.iN
the
sides Suez. are regarded as principal sites for early action. Authoritative sources said it was
attempt to take Suez this not unlikely that British subjects would shortly be warned to leave week-end.
Spain. International News Ser-
Spain and French Morocco, be- vice..
STOP PRESS
The Tokyo nationalist "Koku- min Shimbun," referring to the "eminently
favourable" interna- tional position in which Japan to- day finds herself, declares in a front-page editorial that "it is ab- solutely necessary to stop aid to Chiang Kai-shek by Britain, the United States and other third powers in order to settle the China hosilities,"
The paper, claiming that victory for the Axis is practically assured, asserts: "Therefore the situation demands expansion of the drive against the old order elements in Japan and collaboration with Ger- the many and Italy to establish new order in East Asia."
now
is It continues: "Japan simply trying to effect a complete solution of the China hostilities and has no
taking intention of advantage of the security of north resulting from the Soviet- Japanese Neutrality Pact to drive southward by force.
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"If the United States, Britain or any other power continues to aid Chungking, unmindful of the situation, there will be no other course for Japan than to plunge Into a mand anal step to achieve our objectives.
"If there are any who would obstruct the carrying out of Ja- pan's immovable policy, we should strike a powerful blow regardless of domestic and foreign obstacles and proceed with the completion of our objectives."--Reuter. :-
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