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WHAT WILL U.S. DO, ASKS EAST ANN SHERIDAN

FAR

THE BIGGEST QUESTION IN THE FAR EAST TO-DAY IS THIS: WILL THE UNITED STATES FIGHT IF JAPAN ATTACKS BRITAIN'S ORIENTAL OUTPOST OR THE DUTCH EAST- INDIES OR BOTH?

It is the topic that dominates the thoughts of soldiers and civilians from Siberia to the Indian Ocean. There are indications that the grand strategy of half a dozen nations, including Ger- many, may eventually pivot on that question. Ob- servers to-day regard the Far East not as an isolated theatre but as an integral part of the world struggle.

un-

That Japan will Initiate some, chief marshal in the Far East, kind of aggressive action is taken hastened to Manila. He was pres- for Kranted in some informed ent at the ta.ks. quarters. Opinion is almost

People in the Indies wonder why he went all animous on that point. Observers the

way to Manila to see the regard it as an inevitab'e result ministers, when Batavia is only of the coinciding aims of Japan four hours from Singapore. and Germany-the expansion pro- gramme of Japan, and the desire of her ally that it be translated into action as soon as possible. "What will America do?"

That question agitates every treaty port, colony and settlement in the Orient. This is the way it looks to the people, officials and civilians, out here.

There opinion.

is clean cleavage of

Two Main Views

Some quarters believe that the world issue will be decided in the Atlantic; that the Pacific conflict involving the United States would be a proftless side-issue radically reducing the volume of American assistance to England, dividing their total resources; and that, therefore, British and Dutch pos- sessions in the Orient must be thrown to the wolves, "left to fend for themselves, to be recover- ed, perhaps, after the war has been won in Europe."

The other theory holds that the United States must fight. Proponents argue that it wou'd bc а disastrous, if not fatal

a blow for England to be cut off from the raw material In the Orient, losing men, munitions and aeroplanes from Australia, and the strategic value of her bases in Singapore and Kong.

Thus the two views.

Hong

Arrived at Batavia, the Nether- lands foreign minister, E. N. Van Kleffens, lightly skimmed the surface of that subject. He was not in a position to disclose de- tails. He could go no further, he said, than to say he had found American officials "keenly aware" of the situation in the Orient. Was a cooperative policy framed? Since the other governments were involved, he said he could hardly answer that point without their consent.

It is considered certain-al- though no responsible Dutch or British authority will confirm

that if war comes, the Indies, Malaya and Australia will act together. British and Dutch aero- planes and ships will use each other's bases. Australian troops probably will be rushed into the Indies,

But the United Stat the big question-mark south Pacific to-day Press.

NAPPIES

IN THE

'Oss the

ssociated

BACK TO WORK

FOR MERE £150

"Oomph" film star Ann Sheridan, who six months ago in Hollywood went on strike because she re- garded £150 a week poor pay, has decided to return to work.

Her strike failed miserably, cables John Walters from New York. She'll still re- ceive a mere £150 weekly from her em- ployers, Worner Brothers.

Twenty-four weeks' stril e cost Ann £3,600 of salary and taught her that "oomph" without cash isn't enough.

DR. LEY

VENTS HIS

SPLEEN

That's ROBERT LEY, HEAD OF THE GERMAN LABOUR FRONT, SARCASTICALLY ADVISED "POOR DADDY ROOSEVELT" THAT HE "MISSED THE BUS" IN REGARD TO EUROPE.

WAR PUSH

In three years, he said, the part of Europe

ruled by Germany would be working

the Reich.

full blast for

"Then," he said in an article in "Der Angriff," "300,000.000 Euro- peans" are to face 130,000,000 Americans and 40,000,000 Eng- listunen.

"Then we will see whether the Anglo-Saxons will overcome the lead of the Germans."--Associated

Meanwhile. Washington main- President Roosevelt has Press. tains a discreet silence. And the been telling his intimate

Netherlands Indies, Australia,

Malaya have not openly stated friends the sequel to the that they will stand together if any one of them is attacked.

Still, a floating straw may show when his son John asked the direction of the wind. The United States is in the Pacific,

now famous incident THE SHIP

him to arrange to have BUILDING

based at Hawaii. To protect Amer- 140 baby napkins deliver- ican territories from Japanese

2,000 "SNUFFS“ have become “WHIFFS" it, considering the enormous dis- where the President's tiny

attack? Naval strategists doubted at the White House, DRIVE

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tances, the absence of Japanese

bases, the interest of Japan in grandson was then stay- greener fields closer to home. ing.

Japanese Not Amused

are

Men with previous experience of marine engine building or re- The President suddenly realis. pairing or heavy engineering work ed he had forgotten to order of a similar kind are required to He was in his stud in register under the Registration for

Employment conference with General Air-

Order, 1941, the shall, Chief of Staff of the u.8.

the Ministry of Labour and Army.

Naional Service announces.

Men to register are those aged Marshall was in deep technical discussion on what arms could be 20 or over who are capable of spared for Britain

work and have worked 12 months when Roose- velt suddenly exclaimed: "Ex- or more since January 1, 1939 on cuse me, General, order 140 baby napkins right ing.-British Wireless.

marine engine building or repair-

these. Strong naval and airforce units collecting at Manila. The Japanese, who have never inked the Philippines into their blue- prints for a "Greater East Asia," are not amused by that.

American naval officers, rated as "observers," are sprinkled all over the Far East, in Hong Kong and in Singapore, the Dutch East, Indies, in Australia.

Was it a merė observation or a remark freighted with mean- ing, when a British officer, gaz- ing across the naval facilities at Singapore, sald to an American newspaperman; “Your American fleet would fit very nicely into this base?"

+

Has a defence agreement been secretly drawn?

away."

+

I

have to

Baffled, the General protest- od: "Mr. President, We know you try to run everything, in- cluding the Army, but what do you need with 140 napkine? hope they're not for the War Department." Roosevelt apologised, explaining they were a private affair,

EXILE RAISES £1,000

That's a hush-hush question, Responsible authorities look the other way, and hastily go for a nice, cool drink, when you bring it up.

A British war fund, has been A few weeks ago, two Dutch started in Lowell, Masachusetts, cabinet ministers flew to the Indies by Mrs. George Marshall, who from London, via the United left her Salford, Lancs, home for States. They met American America in 1906. officials in Washington and in Manila.

Officials Noncommunicative

Mrs Marshall has already raised nearly £1,000 for the old country, and has organised 150 women to knit and sew comforts for the forces...

"A £400 mobile kitchen which been shipped to Britain by Mrs. can serve 800 people at a time has

At that same time Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, the British air Marshall,

CIDER IS MORE POPULAR

A change in the drinking habits Sidney, Lamb at a meeting of the of people was mentioned by Mr. Kensington (London) Licensing Justices.

Since the war," he said, "num bers of people who used to order wine, now take to beer, and others to cider There is now a consi- derable demand for cider."

LONDON'S WAR WEAPONS - WEEK (SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL"

- London's War Weapons Week had reached a total of £70,000,000 from London-International News last night, according to a message Service