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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 16, 1941.
DIFFERENT CHINA AFTER THE WAR
SHIPPING
STAYING POWER
Justified Claim To Equality
The details of shipping losses issued by the Ad-
"WHAT SORT OF A CHINA are we to miralty allow the assump- tion that Hitler cannot expect at the end of the war?" asked Brig. but be disappointed with Gen. C. R. Woodroffe, Chairman of the China the results so far of his Association, at the annual meeting in London maximum effort against yesterday. shipping this year.
The total, which is the lowest since January, is 79 ships of 329.- 290 tons --
52 ships of British 228,284 tons, Allied 19 ships of 82:727 tons and neutral eight ships
of 18,284 tons.
British ships
The number of sunk is the lowest for any month since June, 1940, except last Jan-
uary.
Corrections to the previous
the Agures increase
total by 86,000 tons, making the total for the
British. Allied and neutral 1,738 ships, 7,118,122 tons.
Wir
British staying power should give encouragement- not only the wonderful staying power of mer- ehant seamen
"We all assume ours to be the winning side and few would deny that our side includes China. Hence China after the war will be a victorious China which will be able justifiably to claim she helped us as much as, if not more, than we helped her.
"Is it conceivable that such a China would either be offered or would accept any status other than of equality?”
Alluding to the many signa
that Japan
make a fresh
Intended
soon to
move, probably Wood-
southward, Brig. Gen.
roffe expressed the opinion she would have made it earlier but
for
China.
prolonged
resistance
by
more than col-
ECONOMIC
POOLING IN
N. AMERICA
If she did so Britain and China but the constant increase in escorting vessels which would become return to service and also of dam- aged tonnage and some improve-aggression, they would be ranged ment in the turn round of ships. together
The increasing enemy ship. ping losses are due to the fact he must use
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transport for
laborators in the fight against A group of Canadian
enemy.
against the
Changes
The British
common and
Government in
American
officials
and economists is to be- gin pooling ideas to-day
coa: tal traffic thus providing bygone times, he said, appeared regarding the joint econo- to take little account of Chinese mic programme for the feelings, but he drew attention to US and Canada suggest-
more largets for the Navy and R.A.F.
to
the statements in the Commons
The mere the R.A.F. interrupts by Mr. Churchill on June 18, ed in the "Hyde Park railway communications by bomb- 1940, and by Mr. Eden on June declaration" of Mr. Mac- ing the more he must resort 11 this year, pledging revision of
the Chinese treaties on a basis of kenzie King, Canadian reciprocity and equality.
Premier, and President Roosevelt.
the sea.
The enemy's losses of ships on passage beween Libya, Italy and elsewhere in the Mediterranean have been heavy and he must be beginning to feel anxious about
Brig-Gen. Woodroffe expressed confidence that British interests thoreby affected would be kept in
The Canadian section of the view but considered it not too joint economic committee arrived early for those interests to pre-in New York yesterday to open a
cur. Reuter.
American branch.
MIDDLE
EAST AIR ACTIVITY
Bomber aircraft of the R.A.F. in the Middle East! yesterday carried out an attack on the aerodrome >> at Zuara in Tripolitania, says an R.A.F. communi- que issued in Cairo.
Bombs were seen to hit the serodrome buildings and a num-
ber of enemy transport aircraft
on the ground-were damaged by machine-gun fire.
One Junkers 52 was set on are During the night of July 13-14, heavy bombers raided Bardia and Benghazi, causing a number of explosions and fires.
*MESSINA BOMBED BY RAF.
The Italian port of Messina was raided on Monday night, ac- cording to a Rome communique.
RAF raids Jon Benghazi, Derna, Bardia and the Gon- dar area of Abyssinia are also admitted.
The communique claims British attacks at Sollum and Tobruk were repulsed. Reuter.
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U.S. MISSION IN GİB.
THE SITUATION IN THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN WAS THE SUBJECT OF "CON- FERENCES BETWEEN GENER- AL LORD GORT, GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF GIBRALTAR, AND A U.S. MISSION TO *A Junkera 'B8' and a "Bavola GOVERNMENT 79 were shot down by our air- THE MIDDLE EAST AND THE craft in the Western Desert dur. MEDITERRANEAN. ing recent operations.
The mission has now proceeded
In Syria, our fighters attacked 'onwards to England after a three-
and severely damaged a Savola, days stay.
79 which approached the Syrian The mission flew to the Middle, coast yesterday. The enemy air-East and remained craft was seen out at sea, emit- weeks.
there
five
ting clouds of black smoke and It was headed by Mr. W. appeared unlikely to reach base.
G.
other Its Harriman and
All our aircraft returned safe- ly from these operations. Reu- A. ter.
members, Brigadier-General R. Boyce. of the U.S. army air force, and Col.
Green,
tank expert. | Reuter.
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NEW VERSION OF HITLER-GOERING CONFLICT
NEW LIGHT UPON the reported Hitler-
the shipping position this pare for changes which must oc- two-day initial session with the Goering rift over the invasion of the Soviet
theatre of war.
Fantastic Claims
The Admiralty stated it is not proposed to continue to publish shipping losses at regular intervals because valuable information is thus given the enemy. From time to time the Admiraity will, how- ever, consider the publication shipping losses as required.
of
It is pointed out authoritatively
in explanation of this decision
RABAT PLOT" ALLEGED
The joint .committee, the Union is thrown by a Buenos Aires mailed
spokesman of the Canadians ex-
marily to study, firstly ways in
which defence efforts can be more
plained, had been created pri- despatch to the New York "Daily News,'
which, according to that newspaper, was posted some four days before the Soviet radio broadcast the report.
effective through cooperation and Interchange of materials and, secondly, a long-range pro-
gramme that might tend to fore- stall, or at least lighten, Cana- dian-American post-war malad-
A Free French plot has justments. Reuter.
that the enemy has gone further been discovered at Rabat,
and further afield in the effort to
find new hunting grounds for the German radio an-
ships and continues to make just nounced yesterday quot- Petain's
as fantastic claims as ever in
hopes of finding out what really ing a message from
happened, as the reports of Tangier. U-boats and airmen necessarily are Inconclusive.
Hitherto the regular publication of figures had given him а monthly check and it is not in tended to do this in future. ~~ British Wireless.
GERMAN REICH
INDICTED'
More than 20,
an
Including official of the French Chamber of Commerce at Tangler, have been arrested, it was stated.
The police discovered a large amount of propaganda materjal which will form part of the evidence against those arrested, They will be charged in court
at with having connived desertion of Frenchmen to
join
Overseas Week
Marshal Petain
Goering is confined to his home and many generals have been moved because they share his opposition to the Nazi attack on the U.S.S.R., states the despatch:
The report, it added, comes from sources in close touch with three representatives of German heavy industries who recently arrived in Buenos
Aires.
++
These men, one of whom is re- erals Brauchitsch and Keitel came presenting. Goering's Steel Trust, to his defence while Generals List, ard reported to be emissaries of Stuclpnagel and Falkenhorst op- the Reichswehr generals who, it is posed.
stated, are aligning themselves As a result, the despatch | adds,. with heavy Industry in the same Hitler is proceeding cautiously in- fashion as Hitler did late in 1920, with a bloodless purge.
the augurated "France Over- General de Gaulle's army and seas" Week in -a short with having made arrangements broadcast relayed by for obtaining recruits for a for- eign army.-Reuter,
CALL TO IRAQ YOUTH
Lyons Radio last night.
They are reported to have said HE HAS CONFINED GOERING that when Hition told his gen
TO HIS HOME WITH A CHOICE erals that he had decided to atOF OPENLY AFFIRMING HIS
tack the Soviet Union, he was LOYALTY TO THE FUEHRER. shocked on learning that his IN A BROADCAST TO THE General Staff was unanimously GERMAN PEOPLE OR BEING Referring to compatriots of the
SENT TO A SANATORIUM. SY: opposed to such, a venture. Empire, "whose loyalty and work
In addition, the despatch says, Goering, adds the despatch, the generals opposing the invasion have enabled the wounded THE GERMAN REICH WAS
motherland to undertake her re- made a counter-proposal that de of the Soviet Union have been YESTERDAY-NAMED ABCO
covery and to the native popu-mands should be made in Moscow shifted so that they will take little CONSPIRATOR IN 'AN INDICT-
lations who have "preserved their for the delivery to Germany part in the campaign. Reuter. ¿MENT AGAINST 83 PERSONS
confidence in the great nation the economic direction of the ARRESTED IN JUNE IN, THE A CALL TO THE YOUTH OF which has always loved and pro Ukraine and the Caucasus, while BIGGEST SINGLE ROUND-UP IRAQ AND THE WHOLE ARAB tected them," Marshal Petain in- General Reichenau is sald to have ́ÓF' BPY. SUSPECT8 IN THE WORLD TO UNITE, WAS MADE sisted on the unity of the French expressed the opinion that such a
UNITED STATES SINCE THE BY EMIR ABDUL ILLAL. RE= | Empire.
campaign would become a war of: PASSAGE OF THE ESPIONAGE GENT OF IRAQ, BROADCAST- Hoshid. "In spite of the cruel attrition in which Germany and *ACT IN 1917. YING YESTERDAY.
disappointments, all have united the Soviet would eventually round the flag to defend the unity exhausted. of the Empire and the sacred tios that bind it to the mother coun- try"
The indictmént says: “Defen- The Iraqi Government, he said, 'dants conspired, with each other was vigilantly watching over the and the Government of the Ger- Independence and interests of the 'man Relch and others.” ⠀
country, and the efforts of foreign Defendants have been ordered powers to attain their wicked alms to "stand their trial in September, had been completely frustrated,
Router eng
Medan Router,
„SUICIDE FROM TSUN WAN FERRY
Travelling on a ferry launch from Tsun Wan to Hong Kong yesterday, a 30-year-old Chinese passenger jumped off the vessel and was drowned. The incident occurred off Tsing I Island at 9; Marshal Patain made no specific Hitler flew into a rote, accord- pm. The boat was stopped and a reference to : developments in ing to the German representatives, search was made but the body Syria-Reuter,
(quoted in the 'despatch; and Gon-could not be found.
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