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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 23, 1941

TURNING-POINTS OF WAR

Pledge Of British Aid To Soviet

Mr. Churchill's Broadcast Appeal

SPEAKING ON THE RADIO TO BRITAIN AND OVERSEAS LAST EVENING, IN THE SHORTEST NOTICE BROADCAST SINCE THE LATE MR. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN ANNOUNCED THE DECLARATION OF WAR AGAINST GERMANY, THE PRIME "I HAVE MINISTER, MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL, SAID: TAKEN THE OCCASION TO SPEAK TO YOU TO-NIGHT BE- CAUSE WE SHALL REACH ONE OF THE CLIMATERICS OF THE WAR.

"In the first of these intense turning points a year ago, France fell prostrate under the German banner and we had to face the storm alone. The second event came when the Royal Air Force beat the Hun raiders out of the daylight sky and that warded off the Nazi invasion of our land, whilst we were still ill-armed and ill-prepared to meet him.

"The turning point was when the Pre- sident and the Congress of the United States passed the Lease and Lend enactment devot- ing nearly £2,000,000,000 of the wealth of the New World to help us defend our liberties and their own.

"And now the fourth event has taken place.

Mr. Churchill said that all they knew at present was that the were defending Russian people their native soll and that their leaders had called upon them to resist to the utmost.

"At four o'clock this morning Herr Hitler attacked and invaded Russia with all the formalities of his unscrupulous technique."

Mr. Churchill recalled the "HERR HITLER IS A MON- Part of Non-Aggression which STER OF WICKEDNESS AND had solemnly signed IS INSATIABLE IN HIS LUST Germany with Russia and declared that FOR BLOOD AND PLUNDER," under its cloak the German Army SAID MR. CHURCHILL. had been massed slowly and methodically to take up their that the Nazi gangster was not stations for the destruction of Russia.

"No complaint had been made by Germany of the Treaty's non- fulfilment

a

Old Technique

Continuing. Mr. Churchill said

ALL HOPE ABANDONED FOR US. SUB.

The United States Navy has abandoned all efforts to reach the submarine, 0-9, as there is no possibil- ity that life exists in the submarine, states а Reuter message from Portsmouth,

New Hampshire.

"We shall bomb (Germany by day at rerollas-by-night-in-over- Increasing messure, ...Casting upon them -month by month a heavier surchargacof-bombs and making the German people taste and „gulp each month a tharper dose of the misaries they have showered on mankind.

"It is noteworthy that only yesterday R.A.F. fighters in a raid over France cut down, with very small loss to themselves, 28 of the enemy machines in the air above the French soil they have invaded, defiled and professed to hold.

Only The Beginning

beginning;

"But this only B from now hencelorward the main expansion of our Air Force pro- In ceeds with gathering speed. another six months the weight of the help we are receiving from the United States in war material of all kinds, especially in heavy bombers, will begin to tell.

This is "This is no class war. 21 war in which the whole Bri- tish Empire and Commonwealth without of Nations is engaged "The deeper motives behind |,0000000000000000◊◊ distinction of race, creed or party.

"But the past, with its crimes, Its fallies and its tragedies has flashed away."

was

Russia A Prelude

The submarine was carrying out deep- diving trials.

Woeful Error

"I see Russian soldiers standing mistaken.

Hitler's blood-lust which had lured him on to his latest venture lives and happiness of a thou- to destroy the power of sand million additional human be- Russia because he hoped that ifings are now menaced with brutal "It is not for me to speak of the he succeeded in that he would Nazi violence.

action of the United States but be able to bring back the whole "That is enough to make

us this I will say, if Hitler imagines strength of his army and air hold our breaths but presently that his attack on Soviet Russia force and hurl

them upon the shall show you something else that will cause the slightest division of British Isles.

lies behind and something that aim or slacking of the efforts of The invasion of Russia was, touches very nearly the life of the Democracies, who are resolv- therefore, no more than a prelude Britain and the United States.

ed on his doom, he is woefully to the invasion of Britain. Hitler hoped to accomplish this before on the threshold of their native winter comes and before the help land, guarding the fields their I see them from the United States to Great fathers had Ülled. Britain could intervene in his guarding

their homes where plans.

mothers and wives pray, for thefe "Russia's danger is our danger are times when all pray for the for and the danger of the United safety of their loved ones, States," declared the Prime the return of the breadwinner, Minister. "Let us learn the

of their protector. lesson taught by such cruel ex- perience. Let us redouble our exertion and strike with united strength while life and power romains."

Bloodthirsty Guttersnipe

Mr. Churchill said: "The terrible content but that he must grind down the lives and rights of hun-military machine which we dreds of millions of men,

Bottomless Pit

British Masses

means

from

be

"On the contrary, we shall be fortified and encouraged in our efforts to resous mankind his tyrannies and we shall strengthened and not weakened In our determination and in our

resources.

"THIS IS NO TIME TO MOR- ALISE ON THE FOLLIES OF COUNTRIES AND GOVERN- MENTS WHICH HAVÉ ALLOW- ED THEMSELVES TO BE "I see the thousands of villages STRUCK DOWN ONE BY ONE of Russ.a where

BY UNITED of WHEN

ACTION HAVE EASILY existence was wrung so hardly THEY COULD

THEMSELVES from the soil but where there are SAVED

AND WORLD FROM still primordial human joys, where SAVED THE maidens laugh and children play. THIS CATASTROPHE

"ace advancing · upon

"But when I spoke a few, min- this, in hideous onslaught, the utes ago of Hitler's blood lust and Nazi war machine with its hateful appetites, which have im-' clanking, heel-clicking, dandi- perilled him on his adventures. I flod Prussian officers, its crafty said there was one deeper motive

from expert agents fresh

the behind his outrages. cowing and tying down of dozen countries.

all

а

drilled,

Mere Prelude

and the rest of the civilised world so foolishly and insensately allowed the Nazi gangster to bui d up year by year from almost nothing--this "So now this blood-thirsty cut-machine cannot stand idle. threat must launch his mechan- "It must be in continual motion, "And then, suddenly, without ised armies upon new fields," grinding up human life and tram-

"I see also the dull, the homes of hun- pling down

"He wishes to destroy the Rus- declaration of war, without said Mr. Churchill.

docile, brutish masses of Hun sol- even an ultimatum German "He must rob from the Russian dreds of millions of men. bomba rained down

diery plodding on like a swarm sian power because he hopes, if and from the people

workmen

IT MUST their "MOREOVER

he succeeded in this, he will be harvest and their oil and even if FED NOT ONLY WITH FLESH of crawling locusts.

the main skits upon Russian cities, Ger-

bring back and able man troops violated the Rus- he gains a victory he will not stop BUT WITH OIL, SO NOW THIS

until he seeks to plunge 450,000,- BLOODTHIRSTY GUTTERSNIPE fighters in the sky, still smarting strength of his army and air force

from the East and hurl it upon - whipping, MUST LAUNCH HIS MECHAN-from: many a British

And this island, which he knows ISED ARMY ALONG NEW going. where they hope to

believe, a safer and, they

must conquer or suffer the pen- FIELDS OF SLAUGHTER, PIL.

alty of his crimes, easter, prey. LAGE AND DEVASTATION.

"The poor Russian peasants, must soldiers, he

slan frontier and an hour later the German Ambassador had called upon the Russian Foreign Minister to say that a state of war existed between the two countries."

The Prime Minister said that this was the sume sort of tech- nique which the world had wit- -nessed in Norway, Denmark, Hol- land and Belgium and which Herr Hitler accomplished and jackal Signor Mussolini had imitated the case of Greece.

in

"All this was no surprise to me. In fact, I gave Stálin warn. ing, as I have given warning

to others before."

000 of those living in China and India into 350,000,000 living in that bottomless pit of human de- gradation over which the diabol!- cal Swastika floats."

munism. It

BE

The Premier declared that the workmen and Nazi regime was indistinguishable steal from them their daily bread. from the worst teachers of Com-He must devour their harvest and was devoid of all he must rob them of the oil which theme and principle except racial drives their ploughs and thus pro- domination.

duce a famize without example "No one has been a stronger in human history. opponent than I have been for

the last 25 years." said the Prime Minister, "and I will not unsay a word of what I said about it then.

Menaced By Violence

"It is not too much to say here, the evening, that

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"I see German bombers

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"Behind all this glare I see that small group of men who planned, organised and launched this catar- act of borrors.

Old Memories

to

he

"His Invasibri"'of Russia la no more than the prelude to an at- tempted invasion of the British Isles. He hopes no doubt that this may be accomplished before the winter comes and that

ho can overwhelm Britain before the fleets and air forces of the "My mind goes back across the

United States may. Intervene. years to the days when the Rus-

"He hopes that he may once sian armies were our alliés against the same deadly foe; when they again repeat upon a greater scale

of

fought with so much valour and than ever before, the process helped to gain a victory, from destroying his enemies one by one, share in which, alas, they were, by which he has so long thrived through no fault of ours, utterly and prospered. cut out.

"I have lived through this and you will pardon me if I express of old my feelings at this stir memories.

Final Act

"And then the scene will be cleared for the final act, without previous conquests

"Any man or State who fights which his against Nazism' wil have our would be invalid, namely the sub- old. Any man or State who Jugation of the western hemis- marches with Hitler is our fool phere to his will and to his "This applies not only to an or- system. ganised State but to all Quisling's "The Russlan danger who make themselves the tools and agents of the Nazi regime against their fellow countrymen and against the land of their birth.

“That le our polley: and that

·lo our Adeclaration. It follows therefore that we shall give -whatever hep we can to Rus sia and to the Russian people, m

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{Offer To Soviet

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therefore aur dangor and the danger of the United States, just as the cause of any Russlan *fighting for his hearth and home

lanthe oause of free men sand) from people in every; quarter of the globe.

Let us learn the lesson already taught by such experiences, Let us redouble hour -exertions and strike with the United States while life..and power remain.”. Reuter.

UNUSUAL CALIBR

"We shall appeal to all friends and allies in every part of the world to take the wAME: COUTAO and pursue it as we shall--alth Lord Halifax, the British "Am- fully and steadfastly to the end.bassador, made an unusual Sun- "We have offered "to the Goy day, call, conferring with Mr. crament of Soviet Russia any Sumner Welles, the United States technical or economic : assistance Under-Secretary of State, for two which is in our power and which hours in Washington yesterday, } is Ukoly to be of service to them, says Reuter.