THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 2, 1941.
QUEEN WILHELMINA'S BROADCAST TO PEOPLE "Stronger, More Unconquerable Than Ever" Europe Will Shake Off Shackles
"AFTER MORE THAN a year of oppres- sion, the Netherlands are and feel stronger, and are more unconquerable than ever be- for," declared Her Majesty Queen Wilhel- mina over Radio Orange last night, broad- casting to Dutch people throughout the world in commemoration · of her 61st birthday which was celebrated on Sunday.
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She declared that the Netherlands would play its part in the new world order as en- visaged by Mr. Winston Churchill and Pre- sident Roosevelt.
resistance back is
The arch-enemy of, humanity, | now venting his lust for murder Hitler. wanted to destroy the and robbery against the courage- Netherlands. He had
people, over- ous Russian powered them, robbed them of manifests itself as his liberty and his hordes had looted, turned and the united peoples are leaving the Dutch to starve. He preparing at present to toll the for him and his sought to crush their soul but had death-knell
detestable order. failed.
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Both M. Laval and M. Deat passed а good night statés bulletin issued yester- day morning in Vichy. The bulletin adds "M. Laval's condition satisfactory, M.
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Deat's condition gives more and more ground for satisfaction." Reuter.
French
Admiral
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Admiral Leluc has re-1 She praised the courage, daring and tough un- DEATH-KNELL breakable resistance" of the WHICH WILL RING JOY BE signed command of the Dutch and paid tribute to the CAUSE IT WILL HERALD THE
OF PEOPLES." French Naval Forces and laurels won by the Dutch armed LIBERATION
his post as head of the forces and merchant seamen, cnlire realm that the adding would fight until victory was sage to her compatriots throughout Navy Secretariat which the world, Queen Wilhelmina made was entrusted to him by achieved.
known her warm appreciation of the national present of a destroy- Admiral Darlan, says the er to take the place of the Jan Van Vichy News Agency.
In her broadcast birthday mes-
Lust For Murder The Queen paid homage to all those people who had met with Ga'en which met a glorious end in the same fate as the Netherlands the engagement with large forces and were resisting Nazi tyranny. of enemy bombers near Rotterdam "While our mutual assallant is last May-British Wireless.
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He is replaced in both posts by Admiral Auphan, who is the youngest officer holding an Ad- miral's rank in the French Navy.
Admiral Auphan was entrusted with the reorganisation of the French mercantile marine.
Admiral Leluc was one of the French plenipotentiaries who signed the Armistice with Ger- many. He was regarded in French naval circles as a very competent sailor for whom a brilliant career, was predicted. Reuter.
GOLD BAR DISPUTE
(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL")
THE SHANGHAI GOLD BAR EXCHANGE DISPUTE, BE- TWEEN THE LONGS" AND "SHORTS" WAS SETTLED "THIS MORNING WHEN EXCHANGE RATES FOR THE AUGUST | SETTLEMENT WERE FIXED AT A COMPROMISE- FIGURE.
Previously, the shorts argued that the rate should be based on the Chinese Currency Stabilise- tion Fund figure of 5, 5/16 and the "longs maintained that the figure should be on the basis of the black market.
The compromise settlement was of reached at a medium price $6,705 per 10-ounce bar, thus en- abling the gold bar market to re- sume business, after several days' suspension ternational News Service,
Warning To Afghanistan
STOP PRESS
RUSSO-FINNISH PEACE RUMOURS
(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL") Bousch Mit Klan (SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL"); ATT WAS DISCLOSED IN Reports of impending peace. LONDON LAST NIGHT THAT A negotiations which would halt the BRITISH WARNING, COUCHED Russo-Finnish hostilities at the INFRIENDLY TERMS, HAS old Finnish fronter persist, in BEEN SENT TO AFGHANIS-1 London, but nothing concrete has TAN, DRAWING, ATTENTION been disclosed, TO THE DANGERS OE GER, Moscow and Helsinki -remaiï MAN INFILTRATION.
silent. International News Ser
In authoritative quarters it was vice. stated that Afghanistan is now! fully alive to the menace."
The warning was similar to that despatched to Iran. - Interna tional News Service,
The No. 1 Typhoon Signal was holsted in the Colony at 2.10 p.m. to-day.
The Royal Observatory re- ceived reports this morning that the position of the typhoon at & a.m. to-day was Lat. 17, Long. 115, moving in a westerly direc- tion.
Local observations, how- ever, indicate that the typhoon has recurved and moving in a north-westerly direction,
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