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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 20, 1941

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AMERICA'S PART IN THE WAR

Neutrality Act

Act Repeal

Repeal Move

President May For More

Ask

INFORMED SOURCES IN WASHINGTON:

ARE REPORTED AS BELIEVING THAT PRE ANTITANK

SIDENT ROOSEVELT, IN HIS MESSAGE TO

CONGRESS NEXT WEEK, WILL GO MUCH

FURTHER THAN A REQUEST FOR REPEAL OF THE NEUTRALITY ACT

GUNS

SINKING OF

FIFTY NAZO SHIPS CLAIMED

The Soviet Fleet Air Arm has sunk 50 Ger- 'man' ships in the Baltic since the beginning of

POUR OUT the war, according to

AUSTRALIAN - MADE ANTI-

TANK GUNS ARE NOW ROLL-

OFF

ING

THE ASSEMBLY LINES AT A FASTER RATE

THAN YET ATTAINED IN THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD" VISIT TO A GREAT SOUTH

UNITED, · STATES, SAYS · A

AFTER A

SPECIAL WRITER

AUSTRALIAN ORDNANCE FAC-

TORY

The first Australian anti-tank

Moscow radio last night quoted by Reu- .ter.

LAUNDRY EMPLOYS NEW MEN

AUSTRALIA'S COLOSSAL WAR EFFORT

"AUSTRALIA TAKES THE WAR MOST SERIOUSLY - AND NO CHANGE IN‹ GOVERNMENT MAKES ANY DIFFERENCE IN THIS RESPECT," SAID:ŞIR FRE- DERIC EGGLESTON, FIRST

AUSTRALIAN MINISTER TO | CHINA; WHO IS NOW IN RAN- GOON EN ROUTE TO CHUNG-

KING.

Sir Frederic. made this... state- ment'h' an interview with Reuter yesterday.

He added Australia, was making la war effort which was colossaj

for a nation of seven millions.

He expressed Australia's great est adiniration for the splendid resistance by, China against ag- gression, and especially for the great leaders of the Chinese peo- plé.

the

It is understood, according to reports from the capital, that the final decision on how much further has not been reached, as the State Department's legal advisers are still engaged on a comprehensive study of the Act, which will provide the President and the Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, with the

Emphasising the unity of necessary information for-recommendations

diplomatic systém „of the ~ gun was produced in April. Now

Commonwealth, Sir Frederic sald to Congress.

manufacture has been speeded up

that while Australia was taking Senator Taft, the isola-

full responsibility for the protec- so rapidly. that the full scheduled "The American people ought output: has been reached,

THIRTY NEW WORKERS Hon of her interests in the Fach- tionist Republican, and to understand and most of them

WERD ENGAGED - probably do ¿ understand, that! This main factory, with 50 com- STEAM LAUNDRY COMPANY sibility could be discharged only BY THE Ale she recognisech that the respon→ son of the former Pre- when the President issued in ponent manufacturing shops, was YESTERDAY FOLLOWING THE under a system by which there sident, says repeal "would worldwide broadcast his famous rected in the moning the war- WALK-OUT OF ABOUT 15 PER was joint consultation arid

order to the Navy to shoot: one ordnance organisation bear-CENT OF THEIR ORIGINAL operation between British be equivalent to a declara sight any German or Italian sub-ing comparison with the most

STAFF OF LAUNDRYMEN sentatives, and he hope tion of war”-

marine, surface raider or aircraft efficient factories in Britain and

AND ASSISTANTS:

erate with the Brit he himself shot, the decrepit Neu- Germany

in Chungking, trality Act right through the Minyantlåtanik guns: have' al- vitals, and it has been; of course, ready been shipped to equip mem- as dead as the Dodo ever since" bers of the Australian Forces -Reutes..

Overseas Reuter,

Any change, in the act, he, des clared, should be coupled with the question of sending ships into com bat zones:

He added that Sonators oppos Ing the Administration's foreign policy will meet next week to decide on their strategy. Administration congressional leaders predict that the President will ask repeal or revision:of, the Neutrality Act within a fortnight and that Congress will approve, the request..

Resolution Introduced.

"Senator McKellar has introduced in the Senate a resolution to re- peal the Neutrality Act,

Declaring that the Act was "int direct conflict with our freedom of the seas policy." Senator McKojlar told the Senate: that the law ought, to be. repealed. outright..

Senator McKellár is Democrat} Senator from Tennessee and

SHIP BLOWS UP UNDER DIRECT HIT BY RAF.

YESTERDAY'S R.A.F: Middie Eost cam-

crat munique stated that Benghazi was again suc-

been a consistent supporter of the cessfully, raided by R.A.F. heavy bombers:

Administration's foreign policy but

there is no immediate indication during the night of September 23.24.

whether he introduced, the 1csolu-

tion with the knowledge of Senate

leaders.

At Tripoli many bombs. were dropped on:

Senator McKellar said he shipping in the harbour and fires broke out. thought that when the law was on Benghazi harbour and shipping were attack-

the Statute Books, the Government; was "virtually paying no attention

to it" and for that reason it ought

to be repealed.

Empty Shell

In the House of Representatives,

ed....

GERMAN

Roy Woodrull (Michigan) declar- LOSSES IN

ed: "The President is going to give Congress an opportunity to agree with the President that the Act) should be repealed."

One vessel mooredzat the outer mole way hit and exploded, de- bris being thrown a considerable distance...

Other bomba, burst on the

moted and straddledaj . abic !

| anchorage.

ad

Fleet Air Arm aircraft bombed

POLISH WAR buildings, near Bardia on the game

night. A large fire followed the

He added: "The Neutrality, POLISH MILITARY HEAD-attack. Act le the merest shell of a QUARTERS IN LONDON YES-a, Ing-daylight on Wednesday, empty, statute which the GOVTERDAY STATED THAT GER- traffle on the Benghazi road bas ernment does not intend to en-MAN LOSSES IN THE POLISH tween Miaurats and Sinter was force.....

GERMAN CAMPAIGN IN SEP- bombed and: machine gunned.e “Every informed member of TEMBER, 1939 WERE 90,000 A petrol tank vehicle received Congress and every informed ob- KILLED AND 200,000 WOUND-a direct hit and burnt out while server in Washington knows, that ED WITH :400 TANKS AND 500 many other vehicles were dom- President Roosevelt has not left planes destroyed.

aged. Some collided and another one vestigo, of the Neutraity. Act unviolated in spirit; if not in let The first incomplete list of ran off the road

Polish casualties contains: the "Judging by President Rogan names of more than 1,000-Polish velt's past performance it would officers and non-commissioned of

· matter little to him whether (Códi-|}

ficers killed-Renter. 'gress did or did not modify or re- - peal, the ragged remnants of, the Act; because the President, him-| self-inveffect repeals, modifies|| and amends statutes to suit him, Į self then he feelsonthe-ocensioni requires it,

ter.

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"Dead As Dodo!!

SUPPLY OF MICA BY INDIA

South African bombers raided large dump, near Bardia Our fighters were active in the frontier area, and off the North African coast.on Wednesday... Enemy Intercepted.

In the course of these opern tions a number of enemy aircraft were intercepted and damaged.

Inalle: Ionion Bug - Cant-506- peaplane was Intercopted (by our alroraft and shof down. Two of the crow were soon to take to a dinghy??y?LAS Reconnaissance in the central

It is understood in Sila that "It im a mistake for the Ameri- certain arrangements regarding the can people to be misled into be supply, of mica were, renched be- lieving the issua confronts Con-wean Mr Henry Grady spacial greta in the sense that the Nour US bronomie investigator in the Mediterranean valiows that the trality Act, annemic as it in, has For Loot; and the Indian interests large merchant ship attacked by prevented, the President and his concerned during. Mr. Grady's R.A.F. and Fleet Air Arm aireraft administrators from proceeding visit to Calcutta,

during the night of 5 September

as they pleased in the conduct of India is the world's leading | 22/23 has sunk, -national-preparedness, the Ada | producer of abestimien one of the From all these operations.Live of -ministration Lense-Lori Act, and möstayitaki köy materials required our aircraft are missing Two of so-called defence of the Western in modern war... production. the RAF pilots are safe-ROR Hemisph

The Company is now carrying. on with this skeleton staff but it is- likely that more workers will be engaged during the day.

TERME The strikers failed to turn up

term of for their wages and it was stated Wakehurst as Gờ this morning that these salaries South Wales has bee will be handed over to the Labour for a period of 12) Oficer, Mr. B. C. K. Hawkins, to- April 8, 1942, says day

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