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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 16, 1941.
LIFE'S LITTLE COMPLICATIONS FOR JAPAN MASS
"LIFE IS DIFFICULT FOR JAPAN, WHO WORKS SO HARD FOR PEACE," DECLARES THE "MANCHESTER GUARDIAN" IN A LEAD- ING ARTICLE ON THE FAR EAST.
"In order, as she said, to preserve peace in the Pacific, she made the Triple Pact of Berlin, which meant that if the United States came into the war both Japan and the Axis would attack her and, in spite of evasions, it meant the same for Russia.
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"This looked very much double-crossing Germany the Germans did not mind be. cause at the moment their one idea is that Japan should quar. ret as soon as possible with
HOLD THE
INITIATIVE
GERMAN EVACUATION
The fact that
R.A.F.
raids have compelled the large scale evacuation of children from north and west Germany to Czecho- slovakia, Poland and Aus- tria, is the subject of com- ment in the "Manchester Guardian."
"To judge from a report recently made by Baldur von Schirach, parents at first bung back from sending children away. Then there was a storm of evacuation, particularly from Hamburg, Bre- men, Berlin and the great towns of the west. (This was before the last series of heavy British raids). Considerable strain was put on the transport system.
from
"Some idea of the recent in- Britain and the United States. British troops retain the crease can be gathered
figures of the Polish warthegau. offensive in the Tobruk "But now word is reaching
"At the end of December there Japan that Germany and Russia and Sollum areas, it was were only 15,000 Berlin children may soon make a large agreement stated
there. By February 20 there were by which Russia will send supplies
authoritative | 100,000. and to Germany
Germany will Cairo circles last evening. refugees, both child
"Czech reports say that 150.000 give Russin a free hand in Asia.
and adult,
HAS JUST BOUND HERSELF
in
by
In Abyssinia, the Amba have arrived in Bohemia and. A FREE HAND WHEN RUSSIA Alagi ring is closing in, Moravia and 32 districts have
been compulsorily evacuated NOT TO INCOMMODE JAPAN! and the military spokes-order of the Protector to make man said the Italians are room for them. This figure has
probably been doubled by now. steadily losing a daily toll of positions and pri-
Mutual “Trust”
"The Japanese army never trusts Russia and its paper, the 'Kokumin,' is shocked at the re- port.
"It says that Japan could not sit 'with folded hands' if Russia thus reasserted her freedom of
action in the East,
"So Japan is wondering whether her two allies, old and new, are
soners.
The Italians have been putting up a gallant show during the last nine or 10 days but appear| to be ma most awkward posi- tion.
have
now double-crossing her Each Rain is beginning to fall of the three trusts the others as the permanent ruins far as she can see them and no yet begun, farther."
Reuter.
LOYALTY AND SACRIFICE
"I expect each one of you to uphold the glorious traditions bequeathed us and to lay down your lives, if need be, in de- fence of the British Em- pire, which is fighting for the preservation human liberty and civili-
sation."
Further
"General inference Is that German evacuation has been a hurried affair for which no adequate preparation had been made.
"It has now been extended on a huge scule and Germany and her tributary countries offer enormous trac's that can be counted us 'safe' areas.
"All the same it is a side of but the war that must have had its not effect on the confidence of ordin-
ary people." British Wireless.
Buccesses in the Jakes area south of Addis Ababa
arc
reported
in
yesterday's
Nairobi communique.
FEWER SWEETS
A Ministry of Food Order pro-
An Italian position was attack-hibits the manufacture of cocoa, ed yesterday and 500 prisoners chocolate and sugar confectionery
In addition two batteries without licence from June 16 next. of artillery, five light tanks and The Order dues not apply to an anti-tank gun were captured. Northern Ireland. British Wire-
taken.
Reuter
JS.
GERMANS NOW INSTALLED IN 4
SYRIAN BASES
THOUGH UNCONFIRMED, reports re: ofceived yesterday state that the German air force is installed in four Syrian bases, includ- ing the number one airport of Rayak.
With these words the Maharu- jah of Patiala yesterday bid fare-
transport company raised in
State on the eve of their depar-
Reporting this, an American radio com- well to officers and men of a motormentator speaking from Ankara last night, said that the Germans were said to have landed 20 bombers four days ago and that this number was said to have been swelled by the arrival of new squadrons.
ture for service with the British forces.
The Maharajah added that to a brave people a cull to duty such as the present one should prove a source of inspiration and jubila- as long as their ammunition is tion and he hoped his soldiers adequate and their leaders spare would at least live up to, if not .hem frum untenable situations.
improve upon, the high standard "The Luftwaffe is still superior of loyalty and sacrifice set up by quantitively to the R.A.F. but it their ancestors. is Inferior qualitively.
He assured the men that his "The R.A.F. gives evidence
Government would of
take every being able to take care of itself possible care of their families in provided it can get replacements their absence.---Reuter. on the prodigal scale required for|
Reuter,
HEROES OR MARTYRS?
Royce Brier, columnist effective aeronautical warfare."-- in the "San Francisco Chronicle," says: "Prov- ing they can take it, the British people are display- ing traits common to all good soldiers.
Students of soldiers' behaviour have always been struck by the fact that trained troops will endure well under greatly superior attack
47 RAIDS ON BREST
According to other reports the that a German-Italian Germans have succeeded in trans- mission has arrived at the Iraqi military porting by boat and are disem- capital and barking at Syrian ports, a certain are reported en route across Syria German technicians amount of war material, includ- to Iraq. ing tanks, but Germans in Ankara In deny this.
The German Embassy spokes. man said “There is only one German soldier in Syria and he is a member of the German- Italian armistice commission," Another Axis informant sald "London's decision to send: the R.A.F. into action was premature because no 'German troops have The docks at Brest have been reached Syria, although: prepara- "What shall it profit a man if' attacked on 47 occasions, on 24 tlons have been underway both in he braves a blitz like a hero and of which the German battle-Syrian air bases and ports." then is killed in a road accident?", cruisers Scharnhorst- and Gnel-. usks the Royal Society for the senau were among the objectives, Prevention of Accidents,
the Air Under-Secretary stated "The nation has too much need in the Commons yesterday, says of heroes for them to be martyrs," a British Wireless message.
Technicians ··
German Cairo,
'planes which previously were reported to be flying across Syria, are stated authoritatively to have used aerodromes in Syria while en 'route to Iraq. (
it
For Some Days .. They appear to be mostly bom- bers but there may be one or two troop-carriers among them.
Rayak and Aleppo are among aerodromes they are reported to have used..........
Some, machines are probably remaining in Syria. The opera- It is learned in Ankara, the tions have been going on for three American commentator added,'or four 'days." Reuter.
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