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"DRESSING DOWN" FOR Death Penalty JAPANESE ATTEMPT TO

For Sabotage RECAPTURE TSAOYANG

CHARLES LINDBERGH

Senator Asks If He Spoke

For Hitler

Hitler Or Goering

NEW YORK, May 23 (Reuter)-The broadcast by Col. Charles Lindbergh last Sunday in which the airman attack- ed the Government's defence measures, has elicited a reply by Senator James Byrnes in a broadcast last night. This is considered to represent, officially, the reply of the Ad- ministration.

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Senator Byrnes declared that Col. Lindbergh was no more quali- filed to speak on the subject of America's foreign policy than any other trans-Atlanile flier and added that "Fifth Columns are already active in America."

Not qualified to speak on Foreign

Policy, says Senator. "

American Refugee Vessel

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GALWAY

AND BACK

TREACHERY - BILL READ SECOND TIME

LONDON, May 23 (Reuter)- the House of Commons yesterday. Sir John. Anderson moved the second reading of the Treachery Bill, whose main provision is the death penalty m certam, gravė cases of espionage ar sabotage, performed with intent to help the Lenemy.

Sir John explained that the Bili was designed to regulariae the legal position and fill some pos- loopholes in the existing emergenev legislation.

Those who consciously or un-sible consciously retard the exorts of this Government to provide for the defence of the American people are the Fifth Column's most effec- tive fellow travellers.

When Col. Lindbergh says nobody wishes to attack us' Is he authorised to speak for "Hitler or Goering? Can the American people. in the light of recent history, accept the assurance of this young gentle- man that if we do not ask for war it wont come to us?”

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Referring to Col. Lindbergh's allusion.to the "hysterical chatter about the calamity of invasion,". Senator Byrnes said "I thank God that America, at last has been aroused to the dangers that beset her in a world menaced by brute force and strident ambition, and is grimly determined to self-defence."...

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Ten Thousand Reinforcements

Arrive For New Push

CHUNGKING, May 23 (Central-With the arrival of mure than 10,000 reinforcements. Japanese forces recently defeated in" the Tsaoyang sector, north Hupeh: have renewed thele offensive on a 38-mile front north of Tsacyang. More than 200 tenks and, 50 planes were trought into action by the Japanese to support their infantry" thrust,

Fighting has been fercest at Taipingcher - Huyangchen: and Tsangtal north of Tsaoyang and

and' at Shangkouchen Changchiawan between Siangyang and Tsaoyang "where the Ja- panese are attempting to push toward Fancheng and Slangyang, ** objectives of their drive. Changchlawan is only a few miles » from Fancheng.

Several Japanego units have One important point was that it been held in check between the. was thought desitate to maxe.Tang and Fel Rivers, towing provision to enable enemy alleng across the Hupeh-Honan berder. [ to be tried, in sultable cases by

A strong Chinese force from the court martial. Any British Slangyang-Hwayuan highway and subject, or neutral allen, however,

areas in the outh is pressing

would retain the right to stand

trial by a jury

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BILL SUPPORTED

Mr. Garro Jones Interposed "with, a question about enemy aliens who may possibly arrive in uniform,

Control Of Labour

FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1940-PAGE 7

Germany Feeling Effects

Of Economic War

LONDON, May 23 (Reuter)—The polloy of economic warfare is having a marked effect in Germany, in some respects to ́à greater degree thun wâs thought possible. According to informat on resch- ing London, it is fairly certain that Hitler's 'immense gamble on the Western Front has been laun- ched because he, cannot see his way through another winter

The harvest prospects for Ger- many, Russia and the Balkans are bad as a result of the severe win- ter and fooding.

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...POOR CROP

Rumours Are Denied

Conditions Normal In France

The grain crop in Denmark is PARIS, May 3 (Reuter) pretty poor and it is expected that warning against tendentious cumm- nearly 20 per cent, of the Danish ours about the conditions cattle will have to be sued cwins France is given by an authorised to the shortage of feeding stocks..French source.

„Agricultural industry in Den. mark is facing wreckage

Foot and mouth disease is rife throughout German, and vaccines for its treatment are not obtain able

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northward behind the Japanese VERY WIDE POWERS mechanisation

walle another is advancing south- ward to the porder from south Honan, thus throwing the invaders between two fres. ·

TOO MANY STREAMS A Japanese unit is advancing toward Luyenchen on the Fan- chengsinyeh highway. Chinese for- ces have been rushed there to stear-their-further advances." Ow- ing to the numerous streams in the lower reaches of the Pe River

cannct operate effectively.

FOR GOVT. LONDON." May (Reuter)- Reuter's lobby correspondent ment control of industry are very learns that the plans for -Govern-

far-reaching.

Labour is not only to be com- pulsorily transferred to war fac- tories but to the land and coal mines.

Sir John replied " I tra country was invaded and the ordinary processes of the law ceased to function in areas of active military operations, there should be available power for deal-" ing effectively with cases of trea. there, Japanese mechanised unit tend to implements, crops will be

chery covered by the present Bill. The present measure, was designed to meet such a situat?05.

Mr. J. R.. Clynes Labour) and Mr. G. Le M Mander (Liberal) supported the Bui.

SECOND READING

The Second reading of the "rea. chery "Bill was adopted without

Senator Byrnes warned Americans of the possibility, li the British navy, were forced to surrender. of being confronted by Hitler with a navy superior to that of the United States. He referred to the Japanese-division. German alliance and asked, with German and Japanese sea power combined, would it be possible to Irely an "Col. Lindbergh's assurance that war will not come to the United States.

WASHINGTON, May 23 (Reu-

Senator Byrnes, replying to Col terd-The Government has decided Lindbergh's suggestion that the to send the liner ss. President United States lacked a clear-cut Roosevelt to Eire to bring Ameri-defence policy, said that President cans 'home from Europe. The ship Roosevelt had repeatedly stated. will sail from New York today for during the last two years, his po- Galway.

Mr. Cordell Hull has telegrapher defence.

licy in the Western hemisphere the United States envoys 'n London,

The Senator added: "It is a de- Paris. Berlin, Brussels, The Hagusanite policy of defence already' and Oslo. Instructing them to in- formulated." form the Governments to which they are accredited, that the Unit- ed States Government Maxpects this vessel to make its eastward and westward voyages without In- terruption or molestation by the air, naval or military forces of any of the belligerents."

Mr. Cordell Hall" also told to envoys to say that the vessel would carry no cargo and on its west- ward trip would take only Ameri-

can citizens and their families.

The ship will not be armed and will not be convoyed. It will dis- play the Stars and Stripes pro- minently and will proceed fully lighted at night

Forced Into Attack

UNTIL SUPPLIES

RUN OUT CHICAGO, May 23 Reuter)—An article by David Maxwell in the

Chicago Journal of Commerce says it might logically be held that the Allies have forced the Reich into attacking while her supplies hold out.

SENATE PASSES.

ARMY BILL WASHINGTON, May 23 (Reuter The Senate passed the $1,823,- 000.000 Army Appropriation Bill which includes most of the money asked by President Roosevelt for the Emergency Defence B. It how returns to the House of Re- presentatives for action amendments.

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The Bill, 13 passed by

the Senate, provides for 2,566 military planes, many anti-aircraft wen- pons, tanks and anti-tank guns as well as funds to raise the Army peace-time personnel from present Agure of 227,000 280,000

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BIGGER U.S. NAVY

WASHINGTON, May 23 (Reuter) -T'ne Senate Naval Appropria tions Sub-Committee has approved of the addition of $478,000,000 to the Navy Supply Bill to provide for the increase of 25,000 men in the

During the debate the Attorney- General showed how parachutists were affected by the measure. I

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descended in enemy clothes, unarmed, and not as part of an attack, but hoping to com- mit espionage, he would be subject to the Provisioris Bill, but people descending in plain clothes. as part of an attacking force would be dealt with in the same way as uniformed attackers. but with

he added disadvantage of not having the privileges of attacking, in International Law, granted to uniformed soldiers.

SITUATION GRAVE

Continued from Paƒe 1. points of the front especially in the regions of Attigny, Longuyon and to the north of Nied.

Military observers believe that the Japanese new drive will meet the same fate as their recent of- tensive, The present theatre of war, which is northwest of bie. Tahung Mountain, west of the

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Control over agriculture will ex-

grown, requisitioned and distri- buted

The Government will meet the cost of transferring labour from one district to another.

Existing Trade- Union agree- ments will be preserved but there Tungpeh 'Mountain and betweer will be a general relaxation of the rivers Tang and Pel, is over overtime regulations and a wide- 135 miles west of the Peiping-spread degree of dilution by agree- Hankow Railway and about 100 miles north of the Chungstang- Kingshan highway

The Japanese are far away from their bases of operations and they have entered a Chinese "pocket" with their fate already sealed.

REPLY

SOVIET

STUDIED LONDON, May 23

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ment with the Unions.

GOVERNMENT CONTROL Wages and profits will be under Government control,

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The plans for control of the banks are almost complete,

There will be "erference with private property of a purely personal character at the moment but the Government if necessary. will requisition at short notice per- (Reuter)sonal effects such

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Reuter's diplomatic correspondent and houses, including furniture learns that the Soviet's reply to and stocks and shares. the British Note, regarding Anglo Among the plans proposed are Soviet trade negotiations, was powers for the compulsory evacua- handed to the Foreign Office lasttion of the civilian population night and is now receiving cons from artain areas should the deration by the Government. necessity arise.

German Advance Picture

Disorder

Of Great

LONDON, May 23 (Reuter)—An Reuter adds that as far as can Air Ministry bulletin describing be ascertained, from information Tuesday's attacks on the spear- received in London. It would ap-head of the German thrust, says

pear that the gap between the Allied armies still exists.

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It would still seem OKY com- munications must be endangered.

The British, however, are fighting magnificently.

that from the air the head of the German advance presented at times a picture of utter chaos,

NOT EFFECTIVE ··

OCCUPATION

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The Labour shortage And

of industry ansing trouble to German agr culture.

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It states that contrary to reports of seditious movements and ris- ings, and the alleged abandonment of Paris by the Government, the normal public services are in operation.

. Trapartial observers in Parts and the provinces bear testimony to the sangfrold and patriotic resolu- tion with which the nation has « received the infus of refugees from the North,

| IMPORTANT - BATTLE

PARIS, May 23

(Reuter) K

"EATING UP" PETROL

consuming petrol at twice the rate The Germans are nought to vo

or supply and are drawing on their

They are

tank withdrawing wagon's from Rumania for use: on

that important the Western Front and are thus 1s announced reducing the capacity to import fighting occurred yesterday after-

noon between Cambra/ from the Balkans.

Valenciennes. It is not known 'The blockade of all German oc- cupied countries has been increas-here how large the German far; ed and the Germans are obtaining ces engaged were, but the opera no petrol from Belgium as a result tons were described as the most or the invasion. and practically important in the day's operations Movements of Allied troops are Arrsis reported in the region of but they do not appear to have provoked any German reaction. Between Arras and the Somme the situation remains confused.

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Nazis And The D.E.I.

REPLY TO JAPAN

LONDON, May 23 (Renter)—The Tokyo correspondent of the Lon- don Times says that Dr. Otto, the German Ambasador, yesterday Informed Mr. Arita. Minister for Foreign Affairs, that the German Government “are not interested in the Dutch East Indies problem,"

The statement was made in reply to the Japanese declaration of May 11.

The newspaper, Korumin, in- terprets the reply as being a "blank power of attorney."

On its face the German de- claration conveys, firstly, that Germany waives all claims to the Dutch East Indies which might. arise from the German conquest of Holland and, secondly, that she agrees to any action Japan may take.

The "Implications of this de- claration goes much farther than a straightforward reply that the statement by Japan, called for.

PARIS, May 23 (Reuter) -A French War Omice spokesman

BAIT HELD OUT Often bombing was made im-

The German reply pointedly possible because of the difficulty sald on Wednesday that enemy of identifying the enemy columns detachments on the Amiens sec

motorcycle and mechanised ignores the question of status quo STRETCH REOCCUPIED

and disclaims any interest in the among the stream of refugees.

'fate of the colonies of a country From Paris, Reuter reports that overtaken by the enemy's rapid for were shuttling back and forth after a battle of extreme violence advance.

between, the fighting zone and which, ostensibly, L under Ger- Cambral fought between

and

man protection. On one enemy road, 40 to so the coast, Tals did not mean that they were in exective oc- Valenciennes, Allied troops German lorries were seen to be

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cupation. becupled a stretch of territory, up hopelessly Intermingled with to the outskirts of Cambrai, ac pedestrians, ambulances.

British and French troops civilian cording to spokesman,

French military cars, tradesmen's vans and bicy-heavily engaging the enemy in the Cambral sector. The French are entrenched on the south bank

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The battle, which is stili Minita early stages, ebbed and flowed all

the neighbourhood day, in Navy's' enlisted strength,

Cambral when, in the afternoon, The Sub-Committee acted with the territory lost during. the the telephoned approval of Pre-morning, was recaptured, sident Roosevelt.

The total funds being made It is perhaps a mistake to com- available to the Navy under the pare the day by day advance of expanded Defence Programme are the Germans with the campaign now $1.484,000,000 compared with In 1914, for in 1914 they were able $1,323,000,000 for the amy. to support trench warfare for four

bren halted.

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In well-informed French military circles it is stated that the situation is develop- ing satisfactorily.

The spokesman said that Picardy, German motorised

co-

cles

BLENHEIMS ACTIVE.

are

A convoy "of armoured lorries of the river Alsne. The Germans three miles long was bombed by have not renewed their attacks two lowflying Blenheims and fires on the Rethel sector, were seen to break out among the South-east of the Cambrai and vehicles..

Arras sectors fighting is going on Fast moving columns of light first one way and then another. armoured fighting vehicles, escort-In Northern Belgium Allied ed by motor cycle combinations, German troops are fighting hard Were intercepted on the main road] on the scheldt sector, north of Abbevule and successfully. attacked

Another column of armoured

and

The full committee later approv-lumns continue to make raida,

FRONTS HELD enths after the first rush haded the action of the sub-commit- The line of the Somme was solidly vehicles partially hidden in a wood

EVERYWHERE held by the Allies. Elsewhere near Abbeville was heavily bombed there has only been more or less by a formation of 11 Blenheims.

LONDON, May 23 (Renter)~-It violent artillery fire and there More than 150 bombs were drop- was learned here last night that have been no attacks by German

ped on this target and salvóes were the BEF front has been held seen to fall close on each side of everywhere and the column,

BLOCKÄDE EFFECTIVE Ever since last September the "blockade has been working and the Narvik iron ore route has been closed, while the Baltic sea route is open only five months in the year with limited dock, facilities and will not be enough

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The Navy Department spokes- man told "Reuter" that the Navy's enlisted strength would be raised from 145,000 to 170.000

NAZIS JETTISON THEIR BOMBS Moreover, the Germans are cun-1) LONDON, MAY 23 (Reuter) suming materials at a tremendous The Air Ministry and the Minister rate and even if the entire of Home Security announce that Rumanian oil production should German planes jeurisoned their 'fall without a hitch into German bombs in two places on the south hands, it may be doubted if this east coast on Tuesday night. Some production would sutee for more of the boinba fell on land and than a short period in this vigor- others into the sea. There were no

The Germans can no longer walt One cluster of bombs tell on a for Russian supplies to be organis-village and did slight damage to ed and thus they must win quickly,

a poultry farm, for if the war of movement is re- placed by a form of trench war. the blockade will be all the more deadly,

advance seems and may be irresis- Thus the Italians, may well tible, this is the type of war the healtate, for they know that Allies have not, only expected but although England may be "bom- the war for which they felt them- barded, and although the German selves prepared.

ous war,

· casualties,

_tanks...

Later, it was stated in well- informed French military eircles in Paris, that the fighting between Valenciennes and Cambrai was developing "extremely favourably for the French

DECISIVE BATTLE · LONDON, May 23 (Reuter)- More German broadcasting sta- tions this morning warned the German public that the decisive battle had yet to be fought.

On announcer said: "The grim struggle on the west is continuing and the enemy is putting up desperate resistance. The decisive battle is approaching.

"It is only natural that details

that casualties

were not heavy. The British coun- ter-attacked between Arras and Doual but the results are not yet

SUPPLIES IMPEDED Main roads and railway bridges at strategic points were also bom-known, bed with the object of Impeding The Belgians launched counter- supplies and reinforcements to the attacks against the German troops enemy's advanced positions.. who had crossed the Scheldt in Throughout the day opposition two places and, both counter-at- was encountered from anti-tacks were successful aircraft batteries and pom-pom guns operating from mobile plat- forms, and also concentrated rifle fire.

WELLINGTON" PREPARES

WELLINGTON, May 23

GEN. WEYGAND SATISFIED

By giving Japan more than she has asked for, Joachim von Ribbentrop is displaying to her the advantages of abandoning His action will rein- neutrality. force the group which at the start of the way demanded that Japan should ally herself with Germany, Their efforts failed decisively at the time and as long as the pre- sent Cabinet remains in power it. is unlikely that the national po- Hey of non-involvement will be changed, but the Allies must ex- pect greater pressure to induce, them to conform with Japan's po-, licy in China.

German Barbarity

LONDON, May 23 (Reuter)— Horror at the barbarity and in- humanity" of the Germans was expressed by Colonel James Sparkes, Commander of the United States Ambulance Corps in France. in a microphone interview on the Paris radio,

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Col. Sparkes said the Germans' deliberately attacked his ambulan- ces although they were plainly marked with, the Red Cross, and although his people had, made, it a practice, of attending to German wounded when they encountered

He had seen German planes flying low over these people, bombing, and machine-gunning them wrelessly.

PARIS, May 23 (Reuter)-Gen-any. eral Weygand, back from a tour of inspection of the war zone in (Reu- Eelgium and Northern France, ex-| taken pressed satisfaction last ́night with defen-the morale and material equip

of the aghting cannot be given ter-Measures are being while the operations are going on. here to strengthen home It must be remembered that itces. Recruiting is rapid..

ment of the troops whose fighting, takes, some time until the full » Industrial and political leaders spirit he found unimpaired by the significance of such great events are calling "for a greater war hard struggle of the past two can reach the public.""

effort.

weeks.

"Whatever we Americans can do a mark of our indignation against these barbarians and, tơ help these people, we should do,” said Col. Sparkes.

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