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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 16, 1941.

MANY WILLING TO TAKE THE RISK TO

HELP

PUBLIC SENTIMENT in favour of using the United States Navy to guard ships carrying war sup- plies to Britain shows an increase in the latest nation-wide public opinion survey by the American Institute.

Whereas the immediate use of naval protection in the Atlantic was approved by only about two- fifths of the voters in a survey last month, to-day it is favoured by a majority, although not a large majority.

The trend of sentiment follows: "Should the United States Navy be used to guard ships carrying war materials to Britain?"

The Vote To-day

Navy should be used to guard 52% Navy should not be used to

guard

Undecided

41

7

The Vote In April

Navy should be used to guard 41%, Navy should not be used to

guard Undecided

50

SECONDS

SWISS SENTENCE SPIES

To foreigners and six Swiss have been sentenced to terms of hard labour, ranging from two to five years, by a Swiss provincial Court, for spying.

SAVED ANNE KILLED BY

RENDEL

Split seconds saved the

A SIP OF RUM

Exhausted after fight-

9 life of pretty Anne Ren- ing fires all night during

was completed during the week ending May 17.

Interviewing in the latest study del, 20-year-old daughter a heavy air raid, an auxil- of the British ex-Minister|iary fireman drank some rum, became ill and died.

Institute surveys have repeated-to Sofia. ly shown that the country is

Pera She was in the

Palace against going to war at this time

At the Inquest at a north-east in Istanbul, when by a substantial majority-a fact Hotel

an coast town, it was stated that the time-bomb exploded, man, In which isolationists

Thoburn, Ralph Cooper can take assassin's

fire to thirty-four, lay in a lorry for two comfort. On the other hand, in-killed at least six and set

hours before being taken to hos- terventionists can take comfort in the building.

with

An A.F.S. section

the equally important fact that a Here is her own graphic story|pital. high percentage of the people who as she told it to a reporter, before father for vote against war to-day neverthe-leaving

her less state their readiness to take Ankara. steps at the risk of war, or just "I had just left Gertrude Ellis, short of war, in order to aid my father's private secretary, who Britain. The vote on guarding or was killed by the explosion, and second convoying ships is additional was halfway up to the evidence of this willingness to floor of the hotel with Nora Stern

take risks.

War Opposed Sentiment against going to war at this time naturally raises the question whether the American public has set its face against war no matter what happens across the Atlantic. Institute studies have shown that a majority of voters say, at this time, that they would rather go to war than see Britain lose. Of course it must

that be remembered

if British fighting power declines, the actual facts or conditions at that time would likely alter such sentiment one way or the other.

The public is simply against going to war as of this date, be- cause it feels that our entrance is

time at this

and that, in any case, the nation is not yet well enough prepared for u major war.

not necessary

and Mrs. Oxley, who both worked in the Sofla information office,

when the bomb exploded.

"I fell down

the stairs. Plaster and bits of debris crashed on top of me.

Rushed To Father

"I saw a crater at the bottom of the stairs, from which men were puiting two screaming women.

rushed upstairs to pet When we came down. father. stairs the fire was beginning to spread to the rafters and the debris.

"We all started throwing out the burning wood into the street.

"The fire brigade and ambu- lances arrived, and people were piled into the ambulances. Bodies were lying in the street outside.

"When we tried to move to the Embassy the police stopped Us. I was furious, but it is not true that slapped a policeman. "It was rather a bitter climax to our arrival in Istanbul. "We had planned. a sort get triumphant entry; Stephen Runci- helpman. Press Attache and son of England now than to fight it out Lord Runciman, and I had even

The arguments put forward by the majority of persons in toTM day's study are that there is no use making war materials for Britain unless the materials there, and that it is better to

alone with Germany later.

The argument put forward the other side. by voters who oppose convoys, is that convoying will lead to war,

of

thought of buying mouth-organs for the occasion.

"Our last fortnight in Sofia was pretty awful, We scarcely dared speak to our Bulgarian friends for fear they would be arrested.

"I have already seen, In; an- other hotel a German who was a fifth columnist In Sofia for months."

18. ACCUSED OF MURDERSH

HE WANTS SMALLER

LONDON

When redevelopment of London

Captain John. Dugdale said he

Two charges of murder, two of attempted murder and further charges of was d'scussed at L.C.C. meeting maliciously causing an hoped we should allow for a explosion, and theft of a London considerably smaller machine-gun, 1,200 speculators are the sentimentalists rounds of ammunition who want to rebuild London exactly as it was before," and hand grenades.

he said.

These were brought against Raymond Howarth Bury, eigh- teen, of Ventnor Street, Rochdale,

"More dangerous than the

Lancs, when he appeared on re- who was present at the time of

mand at Rochdale recentty.""

the explosion and the, you'h's