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JOINS THE WAR CABINET

SUCCESSOR TO

CHAMBERLAIN

SIK KINGSLEY WOOD

SIR JOHN ANDERSON

SIR KINGSLEY WOOD AND

LABOUR MINISTER

TO JOIN WAR CABINET

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4,

4, 1940.

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MR. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN RESIGNS: SIX

CHANGES IN BRITISH MINISTRY: WAR CABINET INCREASED TO EIGHT MEMBERS

LONDON, OCT. 3 (BRITISH WIRELESS)—MR. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN, LORD PRES IDENT OF THE COUNCIL, having tendered his resignation, His Majesty the King has been gra- ciously pleased to accept it.

Mr. Chamberlain was Prime Minister from May, 1937, until May 11 this year when he re- signed and was succeeded by Mr. Winston Churchill.

The resignation was communicated to the Prime Minister in a letter, dated Oct. 1, in which Mr. Chamberlain wrote:

"My dear Winston: When I returned to London six weeks after my operation I| hoped to be able steadily to increase my capacity for work until I could answer any call you might wish to make upon me. "Unhappily this hope has not been realised and the minor difficulties that SO often supervene after an

LONDON, Oct. 3 (Reuter)-His Majesty the King has operation, together with the approved of the following appointments:-

Lord President of the Council-SIR JOHN ANDER- SON (was formerly Home Secretary and Minister of Home Security);

Minister of Home Security-MR. HERBERT MORRI- SON (was formerly Minister of Supply);

Secretary of State for the Dominions—VISCOUNT CRANBORNE (a former Under-Secretary in the Foreign Office; resigned with Mr. Eden);

and

Abe AP WMinister - Mp *

President of the Board of The Ministry of Works Trade CAPTAIN OLIVER Buildings is a new Ministry. LYTTETON (was controllerton Churchill, Has invited of non-ferrous metals);

Minister of Supply SIR ANDREW DUNCAN (was formerly President of the Board of Trade);

Minister of Transport-LIEUT.-

SIR KINGSLEY WOOD, Chan- cellor of the Exchequer, and MR. ERNEST BEVIN, Minister of Labour and National Ser- vice, to be members of the War Cabinet.

Sir John Ralth has been made

COL. J. T. C. MOORE-BRABAZON; a Baron of "the United Kingdom

Minister of Works and Bulldings and First Commissioner of Works -SIR JOHN REITH (was formerly Minister of Transport).

FARMHANDS

DISARM

while Viscount Cranborne, Capt. Lyttleton and Lieut.-Col. Moore! sworn in 25 Brabazon will be Members of the Privy Council.

WAS LORD CHIEF JUSTICE SINCE 1922 LORD HEWART OF BURY has resigned office as Lord Chief Jus- tice of England which post he has held since 1922 when he succeeded Lord Trevethin. Lord Hewart's

FOUR NAZI resignation is effective from Octo-

AIRMEN

unusual stress of war-time conditions, combined to cause progress in 1 backward, rather than a forward, direc-. tion,

"Since I have been back in the country my condition has

siderably improved, but it has be- come evident to me that it will still be a long time before I could hope to be able to perform the duties essential for a member of the War Cabinet.

ÎN NATIONAL ELEERESAN In these circumstances I feel bound in the national Interest to ask you to release me from my present responsibilities and, to sub- mit my resignation for His Ma- jesty's approval,

"I would like to add an er- pression of my warm appre- ciation of the kindness and consideration that you have consistently shown me since the formation of your Govern- ment and of my unshaken confidence in that, under your leadership, this country, with ber-allies and associates, will succeed in overcoming the forces of barbarism which have reduced the great part of Eu- rope to a condition litle bet- ter than slavery."

PREMIER'S REPLY Replying on Oct. 2, the Prime Minister wrote:

CONFIDENCE IN CHURCHILL

MR. CHAMBERLAINTM

KING BORIS PARDONS 3 THOUSAND PRISONERS.

SOFIA, Oct 2 (Benter)-King Boris today ardoned more than 3,000 people who had been impri- soned for various offences.

Among the many political pri- soners set free-is Colonel Damian Veltcheff, one time, “strong man who was sentenced to death in 1936 for allegedly organising a plot Bo overthrow the Government and

force King Boris to abdicate. *-

NEW LORD CHIEF JUSTICE

HEADS SUPPLY MINISTRY

VISCOUNT CALDECO

SIR ANDREW DUNCAN

King Boris commuted the death NEW PRESIDENT OF THE

sentence to one of life imprison- ment

COLONEL KOLEFF

Also fréed

TRADE BOARD SAW

is Colonel Koler, SERVICE IN LAST WAR

have given me since you ceased to former Minister of Interior, sen- be my chief tided us through what tenced to death for conspiracy and may well prove to be the turning ister spared by the King's cle

mency. point of the war

WALL FOR VICTORY "You did all you could for victory. If you now tell me you must fall out of line, I cannot resist your claim. The loss of your services makes it necessary for us to reform our ranks and fill the gap as best we can.

"We have been associated, as

The occasion for these pardons

is the holiday in celebration of the anniversary of the King's acces-

LONDON, Oct. 3 (BWS)-The new President of the Board of Trade has hitherto taken no prominent part i political life.

After a distinguished career in the Grenadier Guard. in the last War, CAPT. OLIVER LYTTLETON entered bust sion and the anniversary of Bulness and is Managing Director of Ritieh Metal Corpora garia's declaration of inderpen- dence and the acquisition from Rumania

tion. He is 47 years old.

SIR JOHN REITH'S eleva-the fullest organisation of man tion to Peerage follows a very power are playing in Britain's w brief membership of the effort

Mr. Chamberlain's resignation House of Commons having caused no surprise to his friends been elected member for After his operation some month Southampton in February ago Mr. Chamberlain took a shor

a feeling of the Sir Archibald Clark Kerr called on A by-election

CLARK KERR SEES our fathers were before us, in the WANG CHUNG-HUI ber 12 and the King has signified

ups and downs of politics, now his Intention of conferring a Vis-

together and now apart, but I look SHANGHAI, Oct. 3 (Reuter) this year. countey of the United Kingdom My dear Neville: I have for back upon this stern year of com- The British Ambassador to China, upon him.

some time past feared you, would radeship" with LONDON, Oct. 3 (Reuter) VISCOUNT CALDECOTE (form- be forced to relinquish the strug deepest respect and regard for the Chinese Foreign Minister, Dr. Two farmbands disarmed and helderly Secretary of State for the Do-gle you have made to carry on in you. four German airmen, whose bomb-minions and who was Minister for spite of physical stresses under the "I trust that, having put down Wang Chung-hut, on Wednesday and conversed for two hours, a er was shot down near Hertford the Co-ordination of Defence in hard conditions of the times.

your pack, you will find your Chungking report to the Sinwan today.

the Chamberlain Cabinet has", and all your colleagues, have health and strength restored and

pao revealed. A Midland town had its first air been appointed to succeed Lord admired your unshaken nerve and that we shall rejoice together in raid of the war, when a factory Hewart.

persevering will The help you the better days that are to come,"

and a large elementary school were hit, but A. R; P. squads went, into action immediately and many children ard workers were rescued from the debria.

200 CHINESE AT

Loan To China:

Another American Loan To

$130 Million To Enable Purchase

DINNER FOR GEN. Of

WU TE CHEN

IN MANILA About 20 prominent Chinese attended a dinner given in honour of General Wu Te-chen, China's

Minister of Overseas Affairs, by Dr. C. Kuangson Young. Chinese

Consul-General, at the Orientali Club, Manila, on Sept. 25, states the Mantis Bulletin,

From

U.S.A.:

Military Supplies Burma Road

Britain Will Reopen

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SHANGĦAL, OCT. 3 (REUTER) —THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT HAS AGREED IN PRINCIPLE TO ANOTHER LOAN TO CHINA AMOUNTING TO US. $130,000,000 to enable her to obtain military supplies from the United States, it was learned from local well-informed Chinese circles yesterday, says the SINWANPAO,

The recent loan of U.S. $25,000,000, these same sources stated, is to be used as

a stabilisation fund and not for the purchase of war materials.

Japan's Present Position

It is pointed out that since the conclusion of the Cer- man-Italian-Japanese Pact of military and economic assia-

change in the foreign policfes of Britain and the United

Introduced by Consul Young, General Wu made a brief speech saving he was gratifled over the progress the Chinese are making. Various apeakers gave the visiting official a first-hand account of problems affecting the Chinese community. General Wu is on a goodwill visit to the Philippines, The paper adds, "It must now satisfaction is China whose far-

The same evening at 6 o'clock, be regretfully admitted that cau- seeing rulers believe that Japan, by States fur favour of mor the Cons-General gave a cock-tion. a characteristic of Japanese deliberately courting hostility of tive assistance

the British Empire and the. Uni tail party in honour of General foreign policy in the past, has been Sta has mortgaged her future

Japan's present position is described by The Times as the catance, there has been a mination of a slide down the slippery path of aggression, according to a British Wireless message.

Wu at the Wack Wack Golf and

Country Club Prominent mem bergs of the cosmopolitan com munity of Manila were present.

abandoned!)

The "country" where the Pact sequ was received with most unreserved

; ;,

avolved herself

ture to

of Germany's coming suit & the Za

It is believed that the meeting was more important than the pre- vious discussions, the paper adds,

-On Other- Pages

PAGE 2-Race meeting notes; "Interport swimming trials;

· Chínése R. C.. Win “AT DIT- sion Tennis League Lawn bowl EMMA PAGE 3-Radioprogrammes:

Coming events, PAGE 4-Herote London defen- ders; No further evacuation of children, Kunming takes precautions.

PAGE 6-Ya Men's Club tuin; HK. University Engineering Society ofdcers; New con- ditions for medical students PAGE 6-Leading article:- Nazi Quest for more Help; Univer atty Arts Association meeting. Newsettes: American Youth of Today

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AVERAGE AGE REDUCED

The inclusion of Sir Kings expected for the past few weeks ley Wood and Mr. Ernest Be vin in the War Cabinet brings its strength up to eight, says Reuter.

One feature of the new ap pointments, stated a News Bulleti

The addition of the Chancellor from Daventry last night, is the of the Exchequer and the Minister it reduces the average age of th of Labour and National Service new Cabinet affords still further recognition of No one in the Cabinet now the vital part which finance and over 60.

TODAY'S WAR SUMMARY

THE RESIGNATION OF MR. CHAMBERLAIN, former Prim Minister, was followed by the announcement from No, 10 Downin Street of si: changes in the British Ministry an interesting featur of which is the increase of the War Cabinet to eight members th two newcomers being the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Minis ter of Labour, Mr. Ernest Bevin Azew Ministry or

an Buildings has been created and will be beaded, by Sir John Reitz Mr. Chamberlain's resignation came as no surprise to his friend as he had been in ill-health for some time

FROM SHANGHAI COMES NEWS of a further loan of US. 000,000 to China by the United States to enable to purchase of mil tary supplies and Chinese circles looked with confidence to the opening by Britain of the Burma Road.

JAPANESE TROOPS which landed at Haiphong have advan to Dangson and are expected to go to Hanol when negotiations: concluded w

ON THE OCCASION of the anniversary of his

Boris has pardoned three thousand political prisoners: am being the one-time strong man" of Bulgaria who had been impr somed for plotting agairist the Kingi

POOR VISIBILITY HAMPERED RAF night operations tacks were continued on military objectives in Cera dccupied ritory it Newspapers New York carry spl the