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PUBLIC ENEMIES ARE FIRST HITLER, THEN COMPLACENCY

MR. BRENDAN BRACKEN, BRITAIN'S DYNAMIC NEW MINISTER OF INFORMA- TION, SPEAKING IN LONDON : YESTERDAY, SAID BRITAIN IS ENTERING THE THIRD YEAR OF “THIS BRUTAL WAR TO-MOR-

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'JOHN' CARROLL HELEN CHRISTIAN

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Robert, Taylor, Maurean: O'Sullivan In

THE CROWD ROARS Frank Morgan

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Edward Arnold

FRIDAY: "TALL, DARK AND HANDSOME".

"HOW DO WE STAND?" PROCEEDED TO MAKE A BRIEF COMMENT IN ANSWERING

| THE QUESTION HIMSELF.

Britain's public enemies, he said, were, first Hitler and second complacency, “and we are a long way from the extinction of either of these foes," he declared.

Mr. Bracken was speaking to Battle of the Atlantic. That journalists and their guests at a boast was just as futile as Dr. luncheon of the Foreign Press Goebbels' promise that no bombs Association in London.

would fall Berlin,

have

Не said that the ferocious The Battle of the Atlantic is in hatred of journalists by the Britain's favour." added Mr. dictators was based on the fear Bracken. of despots who, knowing that if their ill-gotten gains, their lust for blood, their crazy dreams of world power, had been laid be- fore their people in full manner, the gangster reign over Europe would be very brief.

AIRCRAFT

REACHING SOVIET

SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

Strong. reinforce ments of 'planes for the Soviets have already arrived in,Rus- sia, according to the "News Chronicle" yes- terday Interna- tional News Service.

Premier

Takes

"Our shipping fossea dropped sharply compared with the early Spring of this year. At that time the Ger- mans probably had three times as many U-boats as they had at the beginning of the war" A FREE PRESS WAS THE Mr. Bracken said that more MOST WATCHFUL SENTRY OF and more escorts would be needed | {{ THE STATE, HE SAID, WHILE for British convoys but the ulti- A "YES" PRESS WAS FATAL mate test of the Navy would be TO GOOD GOVERNMENT.

Much Remains

its help in maintaining Britain's seaborne trade.

British imports were satisfac-

Britain was in a much heal mal.--Reuter. thier condition than it was two years ago, he said. Britain had made progress but much remain- ed to be done.

AND

THE ARMED FORCES BEEN GIVEN SOLVED, THREE WHICH APPEARED SIBLE.

HAD HAD TASKS IMPOS-

shall the your

To the question "What we do to win this war?" Minister said: "Look to factories, your mines, your ship-. yards and your farms.

V

Control

It was officially an-

tory and life in Britain was nor-nounced in Bangkok yes- terday that the Premier, Field Marshal Luang Pibul Songgram, who is also Commander-in-Chief of the Thai Army, has been appointed special of Commander-in-Chief

THAILAND

APPEAL

FOR PEACE the Thai Navy and Air

Force.

WITH THE EUROPEAN WAR Already there are separate ENTERING, ITS THIRD YEAR commanders-in-chief of the Navy "This latest German war 18 TO-DAY THE THAI GOVERN- really a smash and grab raid

and Air Force. MENT YESTERDAY ISSUED A on civilisation.”

The announcement is gener- Mr. Bracken said he had notic_2,000-WORD APPEAL TO BEL-

LIGERENT AS WELL AS NEU-ally considered another important ed some people in England were

TRAL COUNTRIES AND TO beginning to scold America, and RELIGIOUS, EDUCATION meet all eventualities in the pre- step in Thailand's preparedness to added: "These superior people

AL AND CHaritable. INSTI-sent critical. situation in the would be much better occupied

TUTIONS THROUGHOUT THE Far East. in understanding America's dif-

WORLD TO DO ALL. THEY CAN ficulties."

ΤΟ BRING ABOUT WORLD PEACE.

Storming Seas Turning to the war in the east and to the subject of invasion, the Minister said that if Ger- many lost 3.000,000 men in Rus- sia she would continue to fight.

Those who talked about the invasion scare being over might

1

1

It is pointed out the appeal is essentially Inspired by the reli gious outlook of Thais, who as Buddhists ardently desire the peace and happiness of the whole world.

it will be recalled that the Premier recently lightened his own burden of departmental duties by relinquishing three portfolios Defence, Foreign Affairs and Interior.

Meanwhile Bangkok is going [ahead with A.R.P. and air "rald ...shelters are under construction in "Therefore the smallness of our many open sites in the centre of get some nasty surprisco, he country's size," adds the appeal the city and parks on the city's

"does not deter us from urging the outskirts. Reuter. "WE SHALL BEAT HIM, great powers to work for the im- AFTER A LONG AND GRIM mediate restoration of peace."-- EFFORT. WE ARE STILL IN Reuter.

Bald.

IS

STORMY SEAS AND PORT FAR FROM SIGHT.”-

Concerning the position of re- construction, Mr. Bracken said: "We should not repair 'the ravages of

by the mad methods which were so popular during the last 20 years → burn- ing crops, cutting down produc-

war

tion, destroying shipyards,

TYPHOON SIGNAL LOWERED

"Science, allied to industry. THE NO. 1 TYPHOON SIGNAL could create limitless wealth and WAS LOWERED AT TAM TO: that is why the world will grow DAY. richer, not poorer.

Futile Boasts Only a month ago Herr Hitler had boasted that he had won the

USE THE FAMOUS..

"E.. HUDSON"

LATHES

Local observations indicate that the typhoon has entered the Gulf of Tongking, moving in a west- north-west direction;"

200,000 MEN GO BACK TO INDUSTRY

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The National Draft Headquar- ters in Washington yesterday ap- pealed to the nation's employers to furnish Jobs for over 200,000 draftees and reservists returning to civil life in the next four months.

Selective Service Director Hershey appealed to the patrio These observations, it is point-tism of employers in again hiring ed out by the Royal Observatory, draftees →→ International News, have, however, not yet been con- Armed

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A special court in Paris yes.

The condition of both Pierre terday sentenced nino men and Laval and Marcol Deat continues two women to terms ranging from

International News':

to show considerable improves two to 10 years for "Communist ment, stated the Vichy news | activities." agency last evening-Reuter," Service.