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Why Britain Must Have FASCIST DRIVE IN

A Pact With Russia

COMMON INTERESTS WILL OVERCOME

OBSTACLES TO PEACE ALLIANCE

By Winston Churchill in the "Daily Telegraph."

LONDON, June 8.—It is ‘astonishing how swiftly and de- cisively opinion in Great Britain and France has consolidated itself upon a Triple Alliance with Soviet Russia The well- known objections have simply ceased to count with

enormous numbers of people to whom abhorrence" of Communisı la ̋still a first principle"

SOUTH AMERICA

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U.S. DEFEAT-

AT LIMA

How far is South America com- mitted to a pro-Totalitarian policy. If another world war takes place? The question ia asked and answered, with fucts and figures. by Mr. Carleton Beals, the American publicist, in "The Com- ing Struggle for Latin America," (Cape. 10s 6d).

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FINANCE & GENERAL

£8,600,000 SHARES DROP TO £381,000

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE BANS DEALINGS IN EIGHT AUSTRALIAN GOLD MINES

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One of the biggest financial sensations for many years swept the City on July 12, when the London Stock Exchange Committee banned any further dealings. In the shares of eight Australian rold mine companies

The decision affects nearly 30,000 people all over the British Lyles. It means that their shares, valued in 1935 at £8.608.511, are now officially unsaleable.

All the companies are members! group. applied to the Stock EX- of a group of which Mr. Claude change for permission to deal in Albo de Bernales, six-foot million-Its shares, which were recently re- aire in the sixties, is chairman or duced from a nominal value of 5s. managing director.

to 28. 80.

He points out that trade connec- tions of Great Britain and the But it should not be supposed ; defence, is the must practical and United States with the South that this change arises out of say prudent policy "open to us in the American "States are steadily desperate stralt or panle fear. I pass to which European affairs | weakening before the onslaught of Is due to the realisation of the have now come,

German. Italian and Japanese very real harmony of interests In making these sombre appre-drives" during the pass few years which unites the foreign policy of clations it is necessary to repeat in his view, the Lima Conference, the three countries. Their com- again what the rulers of Germany conducted O 1... setting mon Interest is peace. Not one of know full well, that they them-

espionage, censorship and ter- them has anything to gain, and selves run no risks of being encir- rorism." was "little more than a "I am not concerned so much all have much, if not everything. cled for the purposes of attack. New World Munich."

for myself," said Mr. de Bernales, to lose, by war. The conviction is, The alliances and combinations

The United States's plan for "but for the shareholders, who widespread that around this Triple", which their neighbours have been presenting a united front against have shown their faith in Western Alliance there can be formed so forced to make are purely defen- aggression in Europe was defeated, Australian gold mines by Invest- large a bloc of armed and arming sive, and would break into frag- he declares, by a speech or Senoring in my companies." States as will make the Dictators ments if they were used for pur-Jose Maria Cantilo, the Argentine

Reduced To 2/6 ponder long and anxiously before poses of "aggression.

Foreign Minister. they attack them.

has

It is always open. to Germany to Matters have now 'gone so far seek whatever reassurances she that it is inconceivable that any of may require trom her neighbours the three Governments, Involved that they will not molest her in could take the responsibility of de-any way. Self-preservation priving the hundreds of millions of alone led them to combine, and working-people involved of this Germany by a fair and peaceful joint security for their life and way of living can easily in the progress. Agreement 15 driven passage of years remove the forward by irresistible forces over-alarms which have made so large riding and shearing away sericus a "confederation necessary. obstacles and valid prejudices, as [World copyright wholly reserved

by "The Daily Telegraph Morning Post" and Co-operation.]

If they were but straws.

Soviet Proposals Better Personally, not having changed my views about Communism or past history in any respect, I have from the beginning preferred the Soviet proposals to either the British or French alternatives. They are simple, they are logicalį

main and they conform to the groupings of common interest. The influence of Turkey is highly bene- ficial and credit is due to Mr. Chamberlain for having begun to pave the way a year ago to the Anglo-Turkish Alllance. Turkey

will be a strong and skilful inter- preter of the Western Powers to

and

12,000 Navy Men Are Called Up

LONDON, July 14 (By Air Mall)-Great importance is attached at Westminster to the decision to call up an extra 12.000 retired navy officers, re- servists and pensioners for special training.

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The sub-committee who deal' with such applications rejected the request, but allowed the company to appeal to the full committee.

This met on July 12. The direc- tors of the company submitted a Many of the South American The trouble first arose when long memorandum setting out Its. States extolled as democracies by Commonwealth Mining and Fin-history

various and its

sub- Fresident Roosevelt are actually, ance, a holding company in the sidiaries, and dealing with points

raised by the sub-committee. in Mr. Beals's view, authoritarian states

ruthless and ELS bloodthirsty as any that Europe can show. In particular, he cites STANDARD MOTORS the Peruvian regime of President 1940 PROGRAMME

Oscar Benavides, under which the very delegates to the conference at Lima were protected by a blackshirt secret police organised by the Italians.

(From Our Own Correspondent

No Reason Given

Not only was this appeal reject- ed, without any reason being given, but the committee also an- nounced that, in future dealings: will not be allowed in Anglo-Ans- Plans for the 1940 season have tralian Gold, Beryl-Gold Corpora~ |

Gold, North just been announced by the Stan- tion. Meekatharra "America's Mistake"

dard Motor Co. Ltd., of Coventry;

Kalgurh United Murchison" Gold. America's mistake, in Mr. Beals's view, has been in seeking the their policy is to continue existing Southern Cross and Great Boulder alliance of dictators and semi-models with price reductions of dictators, rather than fostering a genuine democratie spirit among the Latin-American peoples. He the United States of promoting belligerence among the South American republics to seir armaments to them.

accuses

Apart from the Ideological sympathies which many of the Latin-American States share with Hitler and Mussolini, the trade progress made by the Totalitarian nations in the past few years, and All who study the strategic as the Reserve Fleet. 130 or more, inpaganda by radio, according to the spate of Totalitarian pro- pect of the new Peace Bloc or Weymouth Bay on August 9." Grand Alliance must rejoice to acc After the review the ships withe author, have further jeopardis how far stronger our position has leave to work up" before the red the United States's hold on the become in the South-East

southern continent.

• Soviet Russia.

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Europe than it was in 1914.

The King will review vessels of

of combined Fleet and Air exercises which are to take place in August Nor should there be any serious and September. They will be the difficulty in guaranteeing the Bal-most extensive exercises to have tie States and Finland. The Rus-taken place in peace time. sian claim that these should be included in the triple guarantee

Report on July 31 Mr. Chamberlain explained in

to obtain fullest possible

on

In nearly every South America republic, German trade has advanced rapidly, usually barter principles. It exceeds that of Great Britain in Ecuador, Peru, Colombia and Venezuela, Chile, Brazil.

power politics, and that it has falled to achieve its objects.» The

Totalitarian Powers of Europe, he declares. are rapidly gaining strength in South America where

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war, serious menace to the democracies.

is well-founded. There is no sense the House of Commons yesterday in having a crack If the peace that

Mr. Carleton Beals concludes diving-bell.

advantage from combined Fleet that the "good neighbour" policy The Baltic States

and Air exercises and thereby of the United States is a cloak for People say. "What if they do not advance the degree of efficiency of wish to be guaranteed?" It is cer- the Fleet, arrangements ware "tain, however, that if Lithuania, being made under which ships new Latvia, and Estonia were invaded in reserve would take part in ex- by the Nazis or subxerted to the ercises for which vessels of the Nazi system by propaganda and Home Fleet had been detalled: they would constitute, in time of intrigue from,within, the whole of

"Retired officers, reservists and Europe would be dragged into war. pensioners will be called up under The Independence of the Baltic the Reserve and Auxillary Forces States is of the highest con- Act, 1939, and individual summons sequence to Poland The closest will be sent to each one affected. relations, political, and military. They will join their depots on July have been established between 31," he continued. them, severally and jointly, and Poland. I their independence or Integrity is compromised by Nazi- dom, Poland' must fight. Great Britain and France must fight. Russia must fight. Why not then concert in good time, publicly and courageously, the measures which may render such a ight unneces- sary?

Everyone is hoping, therefore, that the great step towards peace- preservation will be taken during the coming week.

We often hear the clever-foolish question, "How can Britain and France succour the Baltic States; or indeed Poland and Rumania. To whom guarantees already have been given?" The answer

that

RETALIATORY ARREST

M.P.'s Proposal

In Commons

LONDON, July 13 (By Air Mall)-Retaliatory arrest of Japanese in Britain Was suggested in the House of, Commons on July 12 when questions were asked regard- tng the arrest by the Japanese of Lieut.-Colonel C. R. Spear, British Military Attache in China.

Reports from Tokyo yesterday that no detalls stated

were

if enough Nazi fores are held upon the Western Front, the States who áře attacked in the East may be able to maintain themselves trium available of the charges under phantly.

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which Colonel Spear is to be tried The whole possibility of esta-by a special Japanese court- bishing an effective Eastern Front martial: depends upon the military strength | The British

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Ambassador of France and Britain in the West, Tokyo was trying to find out and upon the cordial aid of a whether the report of the court- friendly Russia, in the East.

martial represented the official

It is this prospect of a major view of the Japanese Government, war on both fronts, and of chal-sald Mr. R. A Butler, Under- lenging to mortal combat so large Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in a proportion of the population of the House yesterday.

the world, including Its greatest The Ambassador was continuing States, that constitates the best his efforts to obtain Colonel deterrent against further aggres-pear's release.

WEATHER REPORT

HONGKONG ROYAL

OBSERVATORY.

10 a.m., July 30.

Barometer (at sea level) 29.46 ins Température, 82 F...

Humility, 82 per cent. Wind Direction, W.N.W. Wind Force (Beaufort), 3. Temperature; maximum yesterday

80 F.

Temperature; minimum last night.

71 F.

Rainfall for 24 hrs, epding 10th

to-day, 1.71 Ins.

Total rainfall since January 1st,

82.54 ins.

Against an average of, 52.31 ins. Sunset to-night. 7.05_pm. Sunrise to-morrow, 5,54 a.mi.

4 p.m. July 30, Barometer (at sea level), 23:45 123. Temperature, 83 F. Humidity, 84 per cent. Wind Direction, WSW, Wind Force (Beaufort), 4 Maximum temperature, 84 7. Minimum temperature. 71 F Rainfall, 0.21.

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Mining.

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sharehold The range of Flying Standard decision. Unfortunate cars includes the Eight, Nine, Ten, crs are left with stock which in Twelve, Fourteen and Twenty cate-1939 they could have sold out at gories, and cars delivered after July huge profits. 12 are known as 1940 types with the new prices effective. While there is no change in specification, price reductions take place on Ten and Twelve saloons, showing say- ings which will offset the creased tax operative in Britain from next January.

the motor trade has been beset in recent months, sales of Standard cars represent a considerable in- crease over those of the preceding year and are, in fact, at a new high record in the history of the com- pany. Although each model has participated in this increase the greatest contribution has been made by the B h.p. models, which were instantaneously successful on their introduction and have been selling in large volume.

Despite the difficulties by which

It is clear that the combination of economy of running and high performance, which was the basic idea behind the planning of the 1939 "Budget cars, has had a wide public appeal at a time when the question of expense has been a very decisive factor in the purchase of

a car,

MONDAY, JULY 31, 1939.

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