1941-07-09 — Page 3

Litvinov Calls For United World Front Against

HITLER'S ONE-BY-ONE TECHNIQUE

M. MAXIM LITVINOV, former Soviet Foreign Commissar, broadcasting in English| from Moscow last night, said over a dozen States had lost their independence, had seen their lands laid waste, as if swarms of locusts had passed over them, and their population reduced to slaves.

"Who can doubt the same fate awaits the future of those few countries who continue to preserve an independent existence under delusions of neutrality and pacts of non- aggression and friendship with Hitler?

"It has fallen to Great Bri- himself a de facto truce in thei tain, with the active support of west he decided to hold a blitz- the United States, to bear the krieg lightning war in the east in brunt of the struggle with Hitler order immediately afterwards to and his vast war machine.

fall with all his strength upon Britain and finish her off.

the

"Now this struggle has fal len with special force to lot of the Soviet Union.'

REFERRING ΤΟ HITLER'S ATTEMPTS TO CONQUER GREAT BRITAIN, M. LITVINOV SAID THE FAILURE SHOWED HITLER HAS NOT YET THE TRAINING OF A CHANNEL SWIMMER.

"Though he decided to start D Elitzkrieg in the east it is already clear that Hitler is out of his reckoning as lo the lightning character of the blitz blow.

One At A Time

"Germany's treacherous attack on the peaceful Soviet Union, in the face of the pact of non-aggres- sion between the two countries, confirmed by Hitler in repeated solemn declarations, has furnish- ed the world with fresh whelming evidence that no coun- try, whatever its politics, feel secure as long as Nazism and Hitlerism exist.

over-

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alm East to

"Hitler's chief c'rike one adversary at a time, That is why we should strike together simultaneously and untiringly.

Now's The Time

"We no less recognise the menace which a Hitler victory in the west would constitute for us.)

Shameful Phenomenon

will mean the elimination of the

The twin-engined Bristol "Beaufighter" from the

Samo

Nazis

stable as the famous Blenheim is

a high speed heavily armed fighter monoplane suitable for use as a day or night interceptor.

shows a striking view of a Beaufighter in flight,

Photo

FOUGHT WAY TO TARGET

"Both the Soviet Union and Great Britain are fighting for the Integrity and independence of their States against the enslave- The raid on Northern ment and extermination of their

France at dawn yester- peoples.

The destruction of Hitlerism day, on which fighters in most shameful phenomenon large numbers escorted a our age and the elimination of the formation of heavy bomb- greatest obstacle to the develop- ment of civilisation that ever ers and destroyed seven

Reuter.

Messerschmitts, is fur. ther described by the Air Ministry new service.

existed."

WOMEN

AGITATORS SENTENCED

Several of the fighting pilots

hit! reported seeing the target squarely by large bombs.

Enemy fighters tried repeated- ly to get at the bombers but the escorting fighters drove them off again and again.

The one bomber that did not victim of A.A. [SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") return was the

gunners. THE CHINESE COURT IN

Messerschmitis Five of seven SHANGHAI TOOK THE FIRST were accounted for by the fight- "Each blow struck now will be ACTION AGAINST SHANGHAIer formation which was engaged ten times as effective and will WOMEN LABOUR AGITATORS by enemy aircraft almost as soon entail infinitely less expend'ture WHEN FOUR FEMALE MEM- as it crossed the coast. and sacrifice than if delivered BERS OF A GANG OF DEMON- The formation had to fight a later."

STRATORS WERE SENTENCED | way to the target area but lost "After paying tribute to the | TO TEN DAYS' IMPRISON- none of i's aircraft. statesmanlike acumen revealed in MENT. 'Mr. Churchill's announcement on

the day of the German attack, Accused

charged were M. Litvinov said: "We no less agitating against the owner of the recognise the menace а Hitler Foo Shing Tobacco Co., wherz victory in the west would con- they were formerly employed. stitute for us.'

with

M. Litvinov said: "No peace The women pleaded that the that could be made would be pro- "capitalistic owner" paid them tection against renewed attackenly 70 cents per day. They cou'd not live on these wages, they said. -International News Service.

at any tine.

Hitler's Element

"Without war Hitler can see no point in living. Fields soaked in: blood, towns reduced into smoke and heaps of ashes, hunger, poverty, the tears of mothers, wives and sisters, all these com- pose an element in which Hitler feels happy and comfortable.

Australia's Effort

A Polish pilot and a Czech to destroyed the other two enemy aircraft.

SHARP AIR CLASHES OVER FRANCE

R.A.F. heavy bom- bers attacked the naval base at Wil- helmshaven late yes- terday afternoon.

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Other R.A.F. heavy bombers, escorted by fighters, attacked

station and power chemical works at Lille in the afternoon. Nine enemy tighters were destroyed while seven British fighters are missing.

No aircraft are miss- ing from the Wilheim- shaven raid.-Reuter.

CHOLERA OUTBREAK

CHINESE DOLLAR TO BE RE-FIXED?

The financially well-informed. "Kuo-Min Kung Pao," Chungking, claims to have learned from re- liable sources that the Economic Council of the Administrative Yuan has developed a plan to cope. with the rising price of commodi ties and the upward trend of the foreign exchange in the free mar- ket in Shanghai.

Although no details are disclos- ed, it is rumoured that a new ex- change rate will be fixed in the free market at fourpence and . Then plan will be put into oper- ation

Mr. return of after the Manuel Fox from Shanghai.--Our Own Correspondent.

CHOLERA EPIDEMIC IN SHANGHAI

[SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"] Acting drastically-to deal with the the cholera epidemic in Japanese-occupied areas of Shang- hai, the Japanese military authori- ties have sentenced to death a Chinese

caught selling faked - certificates Later in the day British fight- A CONSIDERABLE INCREASE cholera inoculation ers intercepted two ME'S 109F IN A WED

WAS RE- and have commenced a vigorous Inoculation campaign in off the Isle of Wight. A sergeant | GLSTERED BY THE HEALTH free

News pilot destroyed one and damaged DEPARTMENT

Hongkew.International the other. British Wireless.

TRIBUTE TO DR. KOO

.1

LAST WEEK

Service. WHEN A TOTAL OF 62 CASES WITH 21 DEATHS WEKE NOTIFIED.

rural

Twenty-one of the total came

from from Kowloon, 19 Hong Kong, 14 from Victória; six from the Harbour and two from the New Territories.

During the same period, there were also notified 208 cases: of

U.S. HOLDING AIR OFFICER RESERVES

A GLOWING TRIBUTE IS PAID tuberculosis with 170 deaths; 341 The US. War Department dis- TO DR. WELLINGTON KOO, of dysentery with 28 deaths; 19 closed yesterday that bill Air CHINESE AMBASSADOR TO of enteric fever with 14 deaths Corps reserve officers not already BRITAIN, BY THE TIMES" IN nve of meningitis with one death; on active duty whose civilian oc- "The Soviet: Government was

Mr. AN EDITORIAL, THE PAPER four of diphtheria with one cupations are not of primary:|im- almost the first to realise the Mr. F. W. Leake and

portance in the defence program- death; and one of measles. SAYS: danger to the world of Nazi Alexander Rogers, members of the Commission, aggressiveness, appealing to all British Purchasing.

"In Dr. Wellington Koo, China On Monday, 10 fresh cases of the are being ordered to extended York for has sont one of her most distin- cholera were notified, seven from active duty, "nations to curb and organise who have left New

Actual number of men....con-l.. realatanca to it.

England-by Clipper after touring guished sons to represent her in Kowloon, two from Victoria and

cerned has not been made public "This is not the moment to go India and Australia, stated that the centre of the democratic op- one from rural Hong Kong.

Six fresh cases of cholera, three but indications are that it runs into the question why these re- Australia's Industrial war effort position to totalitarian, tyranny..

He has already represented from Kowloon, and one each from into several hundred--Reuter, peated appeals of the Soviet Gov-amazed them. Ne ertiment did not viold the desired They also declared that the China in London and Washing- Victoria, Shaukiwanand New- result."Router.

production of manufactured ton and has been Foreign Minis- Territories, six each of dysentery and enteric féver, and '55. of goods from the Empire exceeded ter in Peiping and Nanking. all expectations-Reuter.

He has been his country's de- tuberculosis were notified yester- Toate to Beveral important inter- | day", national conferences, particular- ly the Versailles Conference, He served “China” with distinction in Geneva, though his Orders for over a million yards states: recent sojourn as Ambassador to of Indian textiles for Australia two enemy aircraft approached WHitler Intended firet to deal

Vichy must have been peculiarly were received by the Supply De-the Isle of Wight. They were on- with the western States so ho

distasteful to a man of his callbre partment in Simla during the gaged by our fighters. One of the to be free afterwards to fall mobilisation of all Frenchmen be- and sympathies. It furnished him week end May 24. The articles or-chemy aircraft was destroyed on the Boviet Union. Thoro tween the ages of 10 and 15 in with experience of great value to dered comprised ground sheeting, and the other damaged. Apart was a hitch, somewhora.

Syria and Lebanon, according to his own and other governments.webbing and bed ticking, Reut from this there is nothing to re-t

-Central News,

tor. "Believing he had secured for Parts radio quoted by Reuter,

Fort," British Wireless,

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A Hitch Somewhere -M. ** Litvinöv ̈ ̈continued: wage this struggle against the common foe to the bitter end, is the. single, all-embracing task confronting this country,

DENTZ CALLS UP ALL FRENCHMEN General Dentz has ordered the

great

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R.A.F. RECEPTION. COMMITTEE

An Air Ministry and Ministry,

Home Security communiquo'

"At | midday yesterday