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Speeches Of Halifax And First Lord Applauded By The British Newspapers
LONDON, Jan. 22 (BWS)—The speeches of Lord Halifax and Mr. Winston Churchill, each resounding with determination and soiting forth the British case against Germany and factors which make faith in victory confident and assured, are, applauded by the press which emphasises that they are complementary of one another.
Lord Halifax, says 'the Daily Telegraph, "covered the whole ground while Mr. Churchill, with fiery vigour, reviewed the course and future of the war.
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SINO JAPANESE fighting, I would hundred times
"PEACE" CONFERENCE!
TOKYO, Jan, 20 (Havas)—–
A Sino-Japanese "peace con- ference" will be held in Nank. ing in April or May, according to the "Miyako Shimbun.”
Prince Konoye is reported to be going to China as the head of a mission of diplomats, financiers, politiciang and army officers in the near future and is expected to participate in the conference.
318 ORAZIO SURVIVORS
ROMB, Jan. 22 (Reuter)-It is oficially announced" that 318 Orazio survivors have teen picked up by the Conte Biancamano. 173 by the Italian ship Colombo and
48 by French vessels..
The Orazio remains afloat but the fire is still burning,
The first of the rescue ships arrived 11 hours after the 3. o. s. Squalls seriously interfered with the rescue operations which con- tinued throughout the night,
47 PASSENGERS.
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TRAIN COLLISION
IN FRANCE
PARIS, Jan 22 (Hava3)—–—– Seven were killed and forty Injured the majority, only ilightly, when trates return- ing from the front with troops on leave, collided near Troyes en Champagne.
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 23; 1940.
FOREIGN MAILS
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Small Packet Post to all countries is suspended.
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Into one stem sentence Lora Halifax compressed our reasons for
rather be dead than alive in a
Shanghai world under the heel of Nazi do moming, Prof. H. Ore the well-Java and Manila, minance. -That, comments the known planist. bad his waten | Stralts, Dally Telegraph, "is the authentic stolen.
Air Mail by "Air France · Direct Service" Parls voice of the British character."
Mrs. Phillips. an American date 17th January, "On the course of the struggle tourist residing at the Gloucester Amoy. Mr. Churchill had much to say of Hotel had her handbag shatched Saigon. justined good cheer.. Destruction while she Was Walking near our merchant shipping "has been D'Aguilar Street yesterday at 230 less than any careful estimate 7m. The value of the contents is tleipated. This is a record of triumph over submarine and mine and alrcraft such as no one with knowledge would have dared toi predict in five months."
The Times says. "Lord Halifax's address was imbued with the pro- found sense of the rightness of the cause for which France and Bri- tain, and Poland and Finland also. are standing in arms."
Pariicular attention is given by the newspapers to the passages in Churchill addressed which Mr. himself to the neutrals.
"TERRIBLE SITUATION The Manchester Guardian says,
"It is necessary tha: we should understand and feel with the small European countries in what is for them a terrible situation. We are
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spread over among the many pri- vate hospitals in Canon city,
JAPANESE AMBUSHED PINGKIANG, Jan. 22 (Central)- More than 100 Japanese officers and several truckloads of military supplies were ambushed in the vicinity of Naningchlao, & mules south-west of Tangshan, in South upeh, on the morning of Jan.
20.
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fighting their battle and they know 1 but, in itself, that does not help We have not used against them. them, and we never shall, weapons, barbarous and abominable which Germany
employers, to subdue bighway between Stenning and U. S. A., Honolulu, Japan and Manila (San Fran-
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More than two miles of the
them if our fight for existerice, Tungshan were destroyed by the Special to the H, K, Daily Press
and for thetrs, subjects them Chinese forces, isolating several MARSEILLES, Jan, 22 (Havas)—against our "desire to sericus in- small Japanese units, The French steamer Ville Ajaccio convenience." arrived with 47 passengers from the Italian steamer Orazio which caught fire off Toulon,
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To understand the feelings of neu. trals in western and northern Eu rope is only needful, says the Man- chester Guardian, to consider what has happened during the last two months and mention is made of the fact that twice there has been PARIS, Jan, Reuter-The reason to think that Holland or Belgium, or both, were about to be death announced of Count
invaded while in Scandinavia there Martel ex-Higa Commissioner of Is a strong fear lest development Syria and formerly Ambassador of the Finnish war should, bring in Tokyo.
Germany Into action..
DEAD
PRINCE CHRISTOPHER LONDON Jan 22 (Reater) The
Christopher of Greece,
the present King and the Duchess of Kent.
Although he had taken no part I politics he was exdled with the rest of the Royal Greek familly.
INHUMAN WARFARE · "These anxieties, and everyone-
DUKES 'ON LEAVE
LONDON, Jan. 22 (Reuter)- Major-General the Duke of Glou- cester has returned to London on shor: leave,
of
Major-General the Duke Windsor is also back in England and is at present staying with the Duchess in their country house.
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MAIN DEFENCE "Even the neutrality that they are endeavouring so hardily to death is. announced of Prince in this country will recognise that maintain today has, as its main uncle of they are reasonable, have been defence, the unbeatable forces of inhuman warfare which Germany treedom for which we are fighting ariven home by the illegal and Britain and France. Without the
has waged on these neutrals and neutrality itself becomes for them especially, as Mr. Churchill said, less than the shadow of a,name." against Norwegians on the sea
News-Chronicle says the We should treat neutrals with all term of Mr. Churchill's warning possible consideration and; in re-were "not a whit too strong. What BAGHDAD Jan, 22 (Reuter-turn, we may ask of them a bene- he said was particularly true of Seayid Rustau Haida. Mnister of volent neutrality."
the Balkan countries. Unless they Finance died as the result of a
-The Daily Mall, endorsing Mr. stand together against aggression Kullet wound received last week
Churchill's warning that German they are in grave danger of falling". aggression may very soon make separately."
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neutrality impossible for smaller The Dally Express says, "Noth- "nations makes a point that noting can save their independence a single soldier is under arms in but Allied victory. If Britain were any neutral country in Europe to beaten tomorrow the neutral coun- LONDON, Jan. 22 (Reuter)-The defend his land because of any tries of Europe would be in the Bive Funnel liner Protestlaus fear of Auled action. (10,000 tons), well-known on the
Far Eastern run, was surik either by a mine or torpedo in the North
Sek yesterday afternoon. "The crew of sixty, many of whom were Chinese, are reported to be safe.
There is no mention of pas- sengers being on board.
LOUD EXPLOSION The crew
the Norwegian of steamer Notos, which arrived in a northern port. reported that she was attacked by a U-Boat of St. Kilda.
A loud explosion and dense smoke came from the U-Boat, which disappeared. suggesting that she may have sunk.
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Nazi Attempts To Terrorize Neutral Neighbours: Threats, Atrocities And Denunciations
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LONDON, Jan. 22 (BWS) — Commenting edits fally on the German threat to Belgium and Holland, the Sunday Times. under the heading "War of Netves," says: "If at the present season Herr Hitler cannot unleash his -monster, samles at leänt by moving them about, he can try to terrorise the public of first this, and then that, neutral statē.”
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At one moment it is Holland and Belgium. At another Hungary and Rumania. At yet another it may be Denmark, Scandinavia or Jugoslavia or swirland.
"The Advantage of such man- (****
oeuves is that his possible victims cannot ignore them, They must
Two interesting games of Ten watch and walt in full, fores and Pins were seen at the Bowling expensive effort and nerve-wrack- Alleys last evening, in the first of ing tension. which J. E. Watts (plus 20) "de- feated Doc, Molthen (plus 9) by
885 to 842 pins in the semi-angl
LITTLE COST
"On the other hand, the cost to
of the Singles Handicap Comped- Germany is little or nothing the
tion.
In the third round of the same competition M. FL. Haynes (plus 25) defeated J. B. Landolt (plus 9) by 493 to 536 pina.
Experiments With Giant Bombers
AMSTERDAM, Jan. 22 (Havas)—
No country at present possesses planes adapted to modern war-
U.S. EXPERIMENTS
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to keep her reserve armies some- where and frontiers, e those of Belgium and Holland, where they are such is the opinion voiced In are immune from bombing German aeronautical circles, ac shellfire and handy for reinforcing cording to neutral observers Just if required on the war front, are back from Germany. MEXICO PURCHASES very well adapted for depots.
"The same may be said of the The observers state that the Japan Eastern Front."
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 22 (Reuter)
The Sunday Times continues Orlovins... openly declared to the -The purchase of a Norwegian point out that it is not only by press that the Reich is closely tanker of 10,000 tons, as the first troop movements that Germany watching American experments of a fleet of large sea-going attempts to terror se her neutral with giant bombers, as the present tankers of the Mexican Petroleum neighbours, Threats and denun-Furopean bombers are unable to Administration is announced by ciations in her press are also aim- effect long distance fights with- the Government oll agency. ed to keep them on tenterhooka, out protection..
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