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"THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 8, 1941.

STIMSON SPEECH A TURNING POINT IN AMERICAN HISTORY

MR. STIMSON'S BROADCAST SPEECH IS GENERALLY HAILED BY THE UNITED STATES PRESS AS A TURNING POINT IN THE NATION'S HISTORY.

The "New York Herald-Tribune" describes it as an eloquent and incisive call for use of the U.S. Navy to police the seas against German piracy.

The next two or three

weeks, the paper declares. GERMAN

are likely to be the most

critical in the history of SEAMEN

the United States.

"Let us have

a showdown! stilli

with Hitler while It possible for นค to have it at our own tremendous advantage,"

ROUNDED

UP

The

"New York Times"i OVER 100 GERMAN SEAMEN. emphasises the United States STRANDED IN

YORK NEW OUTBREAK cannot afford to make the mistake SINCE THE

OF other Democracies have made over WAR. HAVE BEEN ROUNDED THE POLICE AND and over again mistake of too UP BY little and too late.

CHARGED WITH OVER-STAY- ING THEIR LEAVE IN THE UNITED STATES.

War Call

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It declares "The decision are called upon to make is one

It is expected they will be in- terned.

can ports.--Reuter.

Similar round-ups are believed of the greatest in our history, to be proceeding in other Ameri- The question we are confronted i with 15 not whether Dr not ! Americans want war. Er Britain is gefented we are going to get war whether we want it or not.'

BATAVIA RADIO, COM- MENTING ON THE SPEECH. SAYS "EVEN MR. CHURCHI COULD HARDLY HAVE DONE BETTER."

"In a manner worthy of ຄ public prosecutor Mr. Stimson Hung his accusations straight into the teeth of the man who is to blame for all the misery he has caused mankind.

**UC COSECH WAS AT ONCE A WARNING AND A DECLARA- TION OF WAR."

STRIKE IN BELGIAN COAL MINES

A strike has broken out in the Belgian coal mines, according to information from Brussels reaching the Free Belgian news agency in London yesterday.

The miners, who have refused to join the only union open to them, stopped work a week ago and two are being fined marks for each day they remain on strike. --Reuter.

"WE SHALL WIN THE WAR"

Mr. Menzies' Confidence

"WE SHALL WIN THE WAR. I do not say that in any easy optimism, but I say it with supreme confidence," declared Mr. R. G. Menzies, Australian Prime Minister, in a than ever to undertake the job speech at Ottawa yesterday.

"Readier Than Ever”

The US. Navy was "readier now

of assuring delivery of war sup- plies to Britain, "if and when such du'y was assigned to It." stated Col. Frank Knox. Secretary of

Nuvy, speaking at his press con- lerence yesterday.

Col. Knox also said the U.S. Navy was taking over the "sea- going activities" of the Coast- guards.

Commenting on Mr. Stimson's broadcast. Col. Knox said he thought it "a forthright. coura- geous and

very enlightening alk, animated by a high spirit of pa riotism." -Reuter.

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WAR OF THE SMALL PEOPLE

Mr. Menzies was addressing members of the Canadian Club at luncheon, shortly after his arrival from New York in a Canadian Royal Air Force bomber.

"We British," he said, "have.the The members greeted him with will, the men, and the spirit. All rousing applause. we need is for the world to give us the machines..

ad-.

Afterwards, Mr. Menzies attend- ed a meeting of the Canadian War "Our cause is the cause of the Cabinet. He is expected to United States and of all civilised dress the Canadian House of Com- peoples. It is the cause of the mons at a later date. Reuter

common man.

"The saddest thing he had ever seen was the peop e o. Baln being led from blazing strects: the sight of them hurrying to work again next morning was the hap- piest.

"These people are not going to ask for peace they are going to fight for it."

NAZIS AND DARDANELLES

A SEMI-OFFICIAL · STÁTE- MENT ISSUED' IN BERLIN YES- The Earl of Ath'one, Governor- TERDAY, SAYS THAT THE General, and Mr. Mackenzie King,QUESTION OF THE DAR- Canadian Prime Minister, attend- DANELLES 'HAS NOT SO FAR ed the luncheon.

war.

In The Commons

LED ΤΟ ANY COMPLICA-· TIONS, NOR HAS THERE BEEN

·ANY CHANGE RELATING TO THE MONTREUX CONVEN- TION.

Mr. Menzies afterwards attend- SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL",

ed a. meeting of the Canadian The statement added that. Tur- House. of Commmons and was given key had adhered rigidly, to its The

Pre- Australian

a seat on the floor of the House obligations and had not allowed mier, Mr. R. G. Menzies, the first time a non-member has warships through the Stral's or as naval base; -- who arrived in the U.S. by been so honoured since the last their use

Reuter. Clipper from Britain yesterday, urged the immediate commence. ment of American con- voys for British ships tak- ing war materials across the Atlantic

“England la "absolutely dopen-

dent on the United States, Mr.

Menzies declared.

This is a war of small people,

and the small people of England are looking for increased ald from small people over here,"

International News Service.

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