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NAZIS HIGHLY STRUNG

RIBBENTROP'S SPEECH

YOUR COURAGE

YOUR CHEERFULNESS

YOUR RESOLUTION

WILL BRING US VICTORY

YOUTHFUL LONDONER WITH GAS MASK-Posters through- aut the British capital recommend cheerfulness" and "re- solution as proper attitudes, and this young Briton seems to be thinking it over. The Capi.al has obeyed the instructions 'to such extents that now the Government finds occasion to

·warn" Londoners not to be too off guard.

WORK BEING RUSHED ON YUNNAN - BURMA LINE: OPENING IN LATE 1940

"Daily Press" Exclusive

KUNMING, Oct. 25 (By Air Mail) The construction of the Yunnan-Burma Railway is making rapid progress. The line is being built in two sections, the eastern, 410 kilometres in length, running from Kunming to Tsinghua tung, and the western, 470 kilometres, from Tsinghuatung to Shuta “

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IMPATIENT: MILITARY ANEW:

New British JAPANESE CRITICS SPECULATING

Fighter VERSION OF OFFENSIVE STILL FEASIBLE

Planes

SINSIANG

INCIDENT

"SHANGHAI Oct 25 (Reuter)— Dispute over property is the Jap-

FAR SUPERIOR TO

MESSERSCHMIDTS anese version of the incident in "Sinsiang in which the LONDON, Oct 25 (Renter) — French critics says that the Ger- Japanese are reported to have mans are convinced they can bat-confiscated ground belonging to ter the Maginot Line to pieces but American Cathole Mission Society

of the Divine Word. this belief appears to be sumciently answered by the example of the A Japanese Embassy spokesman much less strongly constructed dented that the anti-British or Fort Douaumont and Verdun, of anti-Christian movement was in-

volved. .... the last war.

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Charles Morice, writing in "Petiti

According to the spokesman, the Parisien." says that the British are Sirisiang authorities purenance engaging the

enemy with mar- of plans for improvement of the vellous new fighter planes far city, built a new road cutting part- y through the Mission property. superior to the Messerschmidts.

was offered The Royal Air Force carried out for the property which the mission

Reasonable payment

extensive reconnaissance fights during the past 4 hours and were artes are required to give up. over Berlin, Magdeburg and Ham- burg during the night, says the Ministry of Information.

彭

ALL SHE KNEW

ABOUT ATHENIA

NEW YORK, Oct, 25 (Reuter)—

The spokesman added that the matter could be settled, through negotiations, quite calmly.

Danzig Broadcast Has Revealed

Confusion Of German Leaders

&

LONDON, OCT. 25 (REUTER) THE NAZI FOREIGN MINISTER, HERR VON RIBBENTROP'S BROADCAST SPEECH IN DANZIG HAS SET MILITARY CRITICS SPECULATING ANEW REGARDING THE POSSIBILITY OF A GERMAN OFFENSIVE. DESPITE RAIN, WHICH APPEARS LIKELY TO CONTINUE, FLOODED RIVERS AND WATER-LOGGED GROUND, THE OFFENSIVE IS CONSIDERED TO BE STILL

FEASIBLE.

IT IS OBSERVED THAT THE NAZIS. ARE HIGHLY STRUNG AND IMPATIENT AND THE CONFIDENT GER- MAN PEOPLE ARE NOT ACCUSTOMED TO HESITANCY ON HITLER'S PART.

The critics are also of the opinion that the German Generals cannot keep vast masses of men, now gathered in the Siegfried Line, indefinitely concentrated in so small a place. They must fight or withdraw."

Impudent & Transparent Falsehood

LAUGHTER IN THE COMMONS

A semi-official Paris com- The press prints the speech mentary on Herr von Ribben-without comment. trop's speech says: "The need

AGAINST BRITAIN apparently is felt to galvanise COPENHAGEN, Öct, 25 (Reuter) German opinion by giving it-The "National Tidende" surmises. LONDON, Oct. 25. (Reuter)—Mr. a precise object of hate that Herr von Ribbentrop's speech Arthur Henderson (Kab.) in the shows that the attack which will House of Commons, asked the "Ribbentrop attributes to Britain follow shortly will be directed Frime Minister whether, in view of all the ambition and perjuries against Britain" and her Empire repeated official German allega which the world, doubtless. mis- only.

SEE ALSO PAGE 7

NORTH SEA Britain, reports Reuter.

ATTACK

Helen Macdonald, of Hartford REHEARSED Informed, attributes to Germany.

By, this Ribbentrop unintentionally passed a most magnificent, tributé to British power.

“As for France, the theme de-

Connecticut, one of the witnesses. quoted by Dr. Joseph Goebbels,

COPENHAGEN, October 25 sad that all she knew about the

-Commenting on (Renter) sinking of the Athenis was told to her by a sailor in Glasgow, namely, the failure of the German air veloped is that used most often by "that the Athenia, subsequent to attack on the British convoy German propagands, the torpedoing by an unknown in the North Sea on October

sabmarine was shelled and bombed 21 the "Afterbladet" says: the sea as a menace to naziva-fleet rehearsed such an attack

by the British to remove her from "Before the war the German

tion."

BRITISH SHIP

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in the Baltic theoretica ly and completely destroyed the enemy. The actual attack showed the greatness of difference between theory and

SUNK GIBRALTAR, Oct. 25 (Reuter)-practice." A British steamer, the Taina, is

U-boat yesterday. reported to have been suck by a

All rumours to the effect that! According to the budget, the Reich Appointments

work on this new "International} building of the eastern section will life-line is being suspended are require

monthly outlay of

In Poland

without foundation. The build-CN54,000,000 and that of the BERLIN, Oct. 25 (Reuter)—The ing of the railway is being push-western front (narrow gauge) sec Reich Minister, Dr. Frank, has been ed at both ends, a total of 100,000 tion, NC$2,000,000. Actually, the appointed Governor-General, and men are engaged on it, and it is monthly allotments to the two sec- Herr Seyssinquart Deputy Governor expected that the end of 1940 will tions have never exceeded NCS2 of the occupied Polish territories. see it in operation. The freight,500,000 and $300,000 respectively. capacity will be 300 tons. The Though the eastern section has estimated NC$100,000,000 construc-been able to manage on this tion cost is partly covered by for-amount,

progress of the eign loans.

the

According to the Czechoslovak western has been retarded. One Press Agency the third contingent To speed up the completion of of the objects of narrowing the of Czechoslovaks drawn from Paris the work, Generalissimo Chiang gauge is, of course, to save labour suburbs has left for the training Kal-shek recently instructed and material. executives of the line to build the western section on a 0.80 metre gauge instead of 1 originally planned,

metre

JAPANESE RAID

DIFFICULT CONDITIONS Topographic and climatic" con-

as ditions in this region are very diicult. The route laid down for the line takes it through the foot- hills of the Nanling range and the

Himalayas. Transportation of ma- SZECHUEN CITIES sled labour is not locally avail-

terials ia a knotty problem and

able. Practically all work has, to CHUNGKING, Oct. 25 (Rentert be suspended during the rainy -After a fortnight, of quiet, Jap-season. Another scourge that must anese aircraft again resumed their be tought and conquered is malaria raiding of Szechuen cities last which has taken a heavy toll of night. "Japanese alreraft in two the workers.

the

groups' raided cities in East and The Director-General of West Brocksaen keeping the popu~ Yunnin-Burma Rallway is Mr. Tace of Chungking in dug-outs for Tseng Yang-fu, former mayor of almost six hours.

Canton and Vice-Minister of rail-)

Mr.

Tu Cheng-yuan le

The alarm was sounded here, at ways. 7.15 pm, when the first group of Director. Japanese planes was sighted head- ing up-river from Hankow.

Chengtu via Nanchang (Shun After crossing the Szechnen ching) and Bitung, Although border the riders divided into they approached Chengtu the

camp of the Czechoslovak Army in France, says Reuter.

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Mediterranean Strongly Held By The Allies

Neutrals Not Alarmed By German Blockade Threat

“Germany desires to separate France's cause from Britain's and Ribbentrop does not seem to have noticed that diploma- tle action, speeches and the military effort, of Britain and France, as well as the reac tion of public opinion of the two countries to methods and abjectives of Hitlerite Ger- many. are completely Idea- tical,"

Press comment on Herr von

Ribbentrop's speech. consider it|| was for internal consumption and says that it reveals the utter con- fusion of Nazi leaders.

CLUMSY EFFORT

tions that gas was supplied to the Polish Government by the British Government, he could make a statement

ment on the matter.

Mr. Chamberlain" reminded Mr.

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had already caused a most explicit denial to be made to "this most impudent and transparent" false-, hood" and added:

"I am glad of the oppor tunity for stating categorically once more that poison gas had never been supplied by thin.

country to Poland in any

form."

Mr. Henderson: Is it the Gov- ernment's view that these allega tions constitute -propaganda to Justify possible use of gas by the Germans themselves?

The Premier: We have known of similar instances in the past. (Laughter)..

Emphasis is tald on the clumsy CHINESE TIGHTEN GRIP ON

effort to separate France and

Britain and it is pointed out that Ribbentrop failed in advance. «

"Petit Parisien says: "Hitler's mouthpiece made an exasperated attempt to refute Mr. Chamber-

lain's accusation of perjury against Hitler but did not succeed in the least.

M. Pertinax, in "L'Ordre."

'recalling that Germany always tried to split France and Bri- tain, says that Ribbentrop

takes the French for idiots.

"Petit Journal" refers to the

YOY ANG: SERIOUS BATTLE

IN PROGRESS IN SHANSI

MILO, HUNAN, Oct. 25 (Central) —Tightening their grip on Yoyang, the Chinese have occupied Yenchiata- shan, south-east of the city.

The Japanese column attempting to launch a flank- ing attack on the Chinese units at Tsaosheling has been repulsed.

Chinese vanguards operat-Hotein. It is now engaged by the fight to the finish' declarations ing on the Huran-Hupeh bor-¡Chinese at Shinkiehtsun. and says: "For once Ribbentrop der destroyed In Sunday The Japanese at Puhsien

FIGHTING

have

agrees with Britain and France three Japanese army lorries launched a series of attacks on but there is one little diffṛrence- on the highway between the Chinese positions north of the there is no bluffing, in our state- Yanglowsze and Wulipai, res-town without success. ment for we shall see it through." pectively 37 and 30 miles ?

BITTER. GREAT SHOCK

north-east of Yoyang, on the Bitter nghting has alsó been AMSTERDAM, Oct. 25 (Reuter) Canton-Hankow Railway, and raging in the vicinity of Wenst -Because they were assured by killed ten Japanese soldiers in south Shanst where over · 700- the Nazi leaders that peace was

A group of Japanese forcing nese positions south-east of Wenal, Japanese pushing towards the Chi positive on the conclusion of the Chinese to repair the highway at under the cover of heavy artillery Polish campaign, Herr von Ribben- Walipat was attacked and annihi-are and serial bombardments have trop's speech was a great shock to hated on the same day. the German people, state neutral observers here.

-“Information received here

sustained serious losses. SERIOUS ENGAGEMENTS

Chinese mobile units have been LOYANG, Oct. 25 (Central) extremely active in the outskirts

shows that the German pub-erious engagements between Chiot Taiyuan, capital of shanet now

nese and Japanese forces have under Japanese occupation. lic clang desperately to the hope that even in the last in west Shansi, during the last taun recently many Japanese were been in progress near Slangning ing a rald on Yacertow and Buyen- moment Hitler would avoid

two days. WAY.

led

con-

Continued on Back Page

LONDON, Oct. 25 (Reuter) Summing up prospects of a German military blockade of Britain the "Yorkshire Post's" military critic says: "Neutrals are not alarmed by the threats to treat their ships as enemies if they trade with Britain. They are well aware that our sea and air units are ceaselessly watching enemy craft.

"Neutrals easily see through "The Pact with Turkey operates

to on the sea against Germany and Natural two squadrons one bombing Wu- Japanese bombers apparently fall-the German attempts

fears of the

Japanese troops from 8inklang, shan, of the Yangtze Gorges fame, ed to locate their objective owing combine them in an inter- neither Russia, Japan, Turkey or sequences of war have been in-ptain

and Kucheng attempt while the other squadron bombed to bad weather.

national blockade...

Italy have listened to German creased by stories of the horrorsing to go to the rescue of their Fengta eh, to the west of Wusban.

ÉDINING BOMBED

A Germany does not pay in blandishments. The Mediterranean of modern warfare related by comrades east of Slangping have Five minutes after the all-clear After circling for some time in cash it will soon have bad budgets has never been so strongly held by hundreds of thousands of soldiers met with stiff Chinese resistance. NEW YORK, Oct. 25 (Renter) signal was founded the alarm was the vicinity of Chengta the besides being saddled with the the Allies while the Egyptian on their return from the Polish A Japanese force succeeded in The Police have doubled the guard

penetrating the Chinese cordon at the berths of the Queen again given when the second group raiders split into two squadrons status of a belligerent,

Army has been modernised, re battlefeids of Japanese bombers was sighted One squadron bombed Buining on "Germany's recent losses in

Developments, which are ex-west of Slangning and is pushing and Normandie following repo heading towards Chungking from the highway to the east of Chengtusubmarines and aircraft are not organised and supported by Briti pected to follow Ribbenti op's towards Tashihtow in an attempt that one of them is to bé sabota Hanken als the Yangtze River, while the other turned back via helpful to the policy of attacking and Indian troops beganies a new speech, are therefore awaited with to establish contact with the Jap in the next few days, stuces instrument in the Near East.” riders then headed for Chungking.

the deepest anxiety.

anese advancing northwards from "New York Times.

TES

Britain with" these arms.

GUARD DOUBLED