1941-06-16 — Page 41

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

The Vote In April

41

7

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

guard Undecided

50 9

SECONDS SAVED ANNE RENDEL

Split seconds saved the

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.

KILLED BY

A SIP OF RUM

Exhausted after fight-

life of pretty Anne Ren- ing fires all night during Interviewing in the latest study del, 20-year-old daughter a heavy air raid, an auxil- was completed during the week

of the British ex-Minister iary fireman drank some ending May 17.

rum, became ill and died.

Institule surveys have repeated- to Sofia. ly shown that the country 16

She was in the Pera Palace At the inquest at a north-east against going to war at this time

in Istanbul, when an coast town, it was stated that the by a substantial majority—a fact Hotel

time-bomb exploded, man, Ralph Cooper Thoburn, in which isolationists

can take assass'n's

Bre 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.

pital.

with her father for

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

second ships is additional was halfway up to the evidence of this willingness to floor of the hotel with Nora Stern and Mrs. Oxley, who both worked in the Sofa Information office, when the bomb exploded.

"I fell down on the

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 sec Britain lose. Of course it musi be remembered that if British fighting power declines, the actual facts or conditions at that would likely alter such sentiment one way or the other.

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constantly harassed by Hupunctual and charming a

An A.F.S. section leader said that while fighting the fires they were

Thoburn's condition was bombs. mainly due to exhaustion.

The coroner recorded a verdict that death was due to shock from

"while exposure

in a comatose condition and

toxemia due to alcohol acting on a system ex- hausted by many hours of civil Plaster and bits of debris crashed defence duties in face of enemy on top of me.

stairs.

Rushed To Father

"I saw a crater at the bottom of the stairs, from which men

two pulling

screaming were women.

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

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

The public is simply against "The fire brigade and ambu- going to war as of this date, be-lances arrived, and people were cause it feels that our entrance is

piled into the ambulances. Bodies not necessary at this time and

were lying in the street outside. that, in any case, the nation is not yet well enough prepared for a major war.

"When we tried to move to the Embassy the police stopped. US, I. was furious, but it is not true that I slapped a policeman,

"It was rather a bitter climax to our arrival in Istanbul. "We had planned a sort

of

The arguments put forward by the majority of persons in to- day's study are that there is no use making war materials for Britain unless the materials get triumphant entry. Stephen Runci- there, and that it is better to help England now than to fight it out Lord Runciman, and I had even alone with Germany later.

thought of buying mouth-organs for the occasion,

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

18, ACCUSED OF MURDERS

Two charges of murder,

man, Press Attache and son of

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

"I have, s'ready seen in an. other hotel a German who was a fifth columnist in' Sofia for months,"

HE WANTS SMALLER LONDON

two of attempted murder when redevelopment of London and further charges of was d'scussed at LC.C. meeting

maliciously causing

Captain John Dugdale said he

explosion, and theft of in hoped, we should allow for

machine-gun, 1,200

...

London considerably smaller,

"Моге dangerous than the speculators are the sentimentalists rounds of ammunition who want to rebuildLondon

exactly as

and hand grenades.

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

he said.

Wag before,

was

no

action. He said there evidence tha: Thoburn was under the influence of drink.

come The Twins at last, ever. Too late to offer them tea, of course, with the hands of the cabin at D uo- chronometer standing

And so compromising six-fifteen. the visit will develop once again into an informal cocktail party - as The Twins have quite possibly foreseen.

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Dale, who were killed by an ex- Detective-Sergeant Brighton -plosion:-in-a-shop in Whitworth stated that Bury told him: "I Road, Rochdale, on March 20, ‚know nothing. about an explo-

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Bury

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