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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 17, 1941.

"WHATEVER HAPPENS

WE SHALL ENDURE"

Premier's

BATTLE OF DEFEND THE

Message To

To MOON OVER FATHERLAND

America

"IN THESE BRITISH ISLES, that look so small upon the map, we stand the faithful guardians of the rights and dearest hopes of a dozen states and nations now gripped and tormented in a base and cruel servitude. Whatever happens we shall endure to the end."

GERMANY

Further details of R.A.F. night raids on the Ruhr Air are contained in an

Ministry bulletin which

states:

bombs

"Many high explosive were dropped on industrial tar- gets in the districts of Hanover, and Cologne and in the Ruhr,

glowing were seen many fres

There was through the clouds.

sky above the much cloud but

was almost clear and the moon was bright.

there

"Night fighters were patrolling these upper reaches and were several combats.

Thus said Mr. Winston Churchill, the Bri- tish Premier, in the course of a broadcast from his home at No. 10, Downing Street, to the University of 'Rochester, in New York State, whom he thanked for the honour con- ferred on him by the President of the Univer-machine-gun. sity, Professor Alan Valentine, in making him an LL.D. (Honoris causa),

"I am grateful to you, President Valentine, for the honour which you have conferred on me in'mak- ing me a Doctor of Laws of the University of Roches- ter in the State of New York. I am extremely com- plimented by the expressions of praise and com- mendation with which you have addressed me, not because I think I am worthy of it, but because they are an expression of American confidence and, may

affection.

I say,

noon.

"Over Hanover, an Me.109 dived out of the cloud to attack one of with cannon and our bombers

The rear-gunner was wounded in the forehead and left arm but he continued to return the fire was beaten off until the fighter

and dived away.

"The enemy's guns

damaged one bomber but it reached home

safely.

DEMONSTRATIONS

"We are prepar-

ed to defend our Fatherland," was the slogan of monster Youth Organisa- demonstra-

tion tions in Moscow and many other places in Soviet Russia yester- day, according to the Swiss Radio.-Reuter

PLAN TO RATION "PERMS"

Northern hairdressing saloons, preparing for the call-up of their staffs, in- tend to ration service and are encouraging clients to adopt simpler styles.

Difficulty in obtaining metal already Over Holland, another of

curlers and bleaches is

curls. bombers was intercepted by an

glamour-girl restricting Me. 109 and this time the enemy Experts think the call-up of assis-

shot tants will bring to have been

more decisive is believed

changes. -down."-British Wireless.

The supervisor of a staff of more than thirty told it reporter:

our

and

Blockade Dodgers Warned

The Ministry of Econo- mic Warfare gives notice that any vessel carrying on the transhipment of enemy goods arriving at South American ports from

be Europe will liable to be placed on the Ships Statutory List.

the

The Ministry states that significance of ships being placed on the "Statutory List" is that they are suspect as far as Britain is concerned.

They are refused all facilities, and applications for Navicerts are automatically declined.

It is understood that the United States Government is largely co- operating with Britain in enforc- of the Ships ing the operation

as it Statutory List in so far

a denial of facilities.

means Reuter.

ROOSEVELT CANCELS

TRIP

rationing President Roosevelt has well 85

辑

of organised and scheduled terror. feel that! inspiration to "But what touches me most is and

"For more than a year, we Bri-"Twenty of my girls are in their the tish have stood alone uplifted by teens or early twenties.

"Our plans include are joined across that sense of kinship which I our hands

shampoos and sets, as feel exists between us this after-ocean and that our pulses beat as your sympathy and respect,

sustained by our own unconquer-

in-perms, As I speak from Downing one.

and by the Street to

"We are encouraging clients with Rochester University

"Indeed I will make so bold as able will-power and through you to the people of to say that here, at least, in my creasing growth and hopes of your boyish-shaped heads to adopt neatly-cropped style, such as the United States, I almost feel mother's birth State at Rochester, massive aid.

shingle. that I have the right to do so I hold the latch-key to American because my mother, as you have hearts. started, was born in your State and my grand-father lived there for many years conducting newspaper that was titled, 'Plain Dealer.'

"Their strong emotions and their surges of passion sweep across the anation in their year of trial.

truly

The Jeromes

"The great Burke has said that people may not look forward to prosperity who never look back

their ancestors. I want to say that the Jeromes were for many years on American soll and

on

No Vision

"In those British Islands we stand faithful guardians of the

a

been persuaded by his

doctor to cancel his pro-

posed trip to Massachu- setts to-day (Tuesday) "Some are deciding to have Eton which included a visit to crops. Others go to the other ex- treme and are growing their hair. Harvard University to re- visits to the hairdresser."

"The world is witnessing the rights and dearest hopes of a doz. Both these styles cut out frequentceive a degree.

birth throes of a supreme

re-

Ogo KONOYE'S

en States and nations now gripped sult. I can confess to you that and tormented in base and cruel Whatever happens we 1 have no doubt of what that servitude. result will

have shall endure to the end. bc. But we learned that we have spirit and are not animals and that some. thing is going on in space and and time and beyond space time, which whether we like it or not, spells duty.

one

"It was but a few years

by united gesture since peoples great and small, who are mankind now broken in the dust,

off from have warded the fearful ordeal it has had

in the dust, would WAR

from within by subtle intrigue,

to

"A wonderful way is unfolding. undergo. But there was no unity fought in Washington's Army for before our eves. How it will end!

or vision. One by one the nations the United States.

we are not allowed to know but on let themselves be caught and fell- "I expect I was on both sides both sides of the Atlantic we alled by brutal violence or poisoned then and I must say that I feel feel that we are a part of it and on both sides of the Atlantic now. that the future of many genera-

"At intervals during the last 40 tions is at stake. years I have addressed scores of great American audiences in al- most every part of the Union. I have learned to admire the "cour-

WARNING

Prince

Yesterday, however, he return- ed to full working schedule, Mr.

Stephen Early revealed.

The resident would have met Princess Juliana and Prince Bern- hard at Philadelphia, to take them fc, an overnight visit to hig Hyde Park residence. Now they will stay overnight at the White

Reuter. House. -

ESPIONAGE

[SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"] Konoye, the Japanese Premier, gave a solemn warning that "the entire world may at any moment be plunged into war," when inaugurating a meeting of the National Service Association.

Admiral Suetsugu, who addressed the that Japan would enter the war GAGING MORE PEOPLE IN THE

IN U.S.

SUBVER- ACTIVITIES ARE EN

ESPIONAGE AND also meeting, declared SIVE

Not So Easily

Mr. 'Might Be Proud

"And

declared now," Churchill in conclusion, "the old Stating that we need not bewaillion, with her lion cubs at her teples of those audiences, their the fact that we have been called side, wands alone against hunters love of free speech, their sense

on the Axis side if the United UNITED STATES THAN IN THE LAST WAR, ACCORDING TO A of fair play, their sense of humour upon to face such solemn respon- who are armed with deadly wea- sibilities but might be proud and desire to and their courageous

"the "The .situation surrounding REPORT BY THE STATE DE and destructive rage. 'Is

OF get to the root of the matter and even rejoice amid our tribulations pons and impelled by desperate States became involved.

THE once Japan," he said "is growing more tPARTMENT TO THE JUDIC- that we have been born, at this

COMMITTEE repeat itself tragedy to to be well and truly informed

cardinal time, Mr. Churchill

more? Ah no! This is not the tense and Japan will be the de- IARY of all world affairs,

¡said: "Wickedness, enormous, end of the tale.

The stars in their cisive factor in the world war. SENATE.

This was revealed when the panoplied, embalmed, and seem-courses proclaim the deliverance Japan will go to war to seek a ingly_triumphant, casts it shadow of mankind. Not so easily shall final decision in connection with Committee was considering the ap- the onward progress of the pepples the new World Order?Inter-proval of legislation empowering the President to govern the entry "And now, in this time of the over Europe and Asia.

and exit of aliens in the United "Laws and customs have been be barred. Not so easy shall the national News Service. world's supreme trial, when I

States. Reuter. have been called upon by King broken up, justice..08st from her lights of freedom die. But time that short, Every month and Parliament and by the good-seat, the rights of the weak tram- is

of passes adds to the length and to will of the people to bear the pled down, grand "freedoms, chief responsibility in Great Bri- which President Roosevelt spoke the perils of the journey that will tain, and when I have the so movingly, spurned and chain- have to be made.

"United we stand. Divided wc supreme honour of speaking fored, the whole stature of man, his the British nation in its most genius, his Initiative and his fall. Divided the dark age re-

United we can save and: perilous time and' in its finest nobility ground down under sys-turns. hour, it has given me comfort tems of mechanical barbarism and guide the world." Reuter.

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JAPANESE POLICE "OFFICER KILLED

Mr. Akagl, head of the Japan- International ese Section of the Settlement Police, Shanghai, was shot dead in the ""Badlands" by four. Chinese gunmen,

.one

DECREE NISI GRANTED

In the divorce Court this

of whom was arrested Akagi morning, the Chief Justice, Sir was appointed by the Consular Atholl MacGregor granted Body In 1988. Reuter..

JOHN ROOSEVELT

IN THE NAVY

Mrs. Violet Amy Smith, in her peti- tion for dissolution of her mar riage with Dr. Dean Abbott Smith on the ground of respondent's adultery with an unknown woman. Gloucester Hotel-

decree nisi, with costs, to

The Hon. Mr. Led

instructed by Mr.

It la disclosed in message" October. from Boston that the President youngest son, John Roosevelt, now an active service us aign in the United States

Reuter

was not defendedi