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COWBOYS, NEGROES, INDIANS MARCH TO REGISTRATION OFFICES IN AMERICA Military Plane Production Is 950 Monthly.

in

NEW YORK, Oct. 17 (Reuter)-Sixteen million' men re- gistered on Wednesday for military service under the new Conscription Act.

This gigantic task which is unparalleled in the history of the United States was carried out almost without a hitch and except for a negligible minority, everyone took registration in good part.

BURMA ROAD REOPENING

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Chinese Vice-Minister of Foreign

Affairs, who arrived in connexion with the reopening of the Burma Road.

Interviewed by Reuter, he em phasised China's need for artillery, "aeroplanes and anti-aircraft guns,

OFFICIAL STATEMENT

The rich and poor of all classes together with cow- boys, Indians and negroes marched to the registration offices all

over the United States.

of War. in a broadcast..

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M. Companys Executed

NEW YORK, Oct. 17 (Reuter)

Companys former President of Catalonia has been executed in prison in Spain, according to a Barcelona despatch, quoted by the German Wireless and published in the NEW YORK TIMES.

Hongkong will revert to the post-old soren, assistant Secretary CORRESPONDENCE tion which existed before the Burma Road Agreement was `sign- ed, as far as the movements of arms and other forms, of muni tions are concerned.

Apart from the Agreement, there are certain restrictions on such

"Mr. Johnson added: “If, and only if, Britain and her navy - fell to hostile hands, would we face a very dangerous situa- tion."

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EXEMPTIONS FROM EVACUATION

CABLE

FRIDAY OCTOBER 18, 1940. —PAGE

China's Secret Weapon ITALIAN INVASION ARMY An Indomitable Spirit

OCT. 10, 1940, MARKED THE TWENTY-NINTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA and found this peace-loving Chinese nation well in the fourth year of her military struggle with Japan, writes Morris L. Appehman, in the Manila Bulletin,"

And China fights on, with no sign of collapse, no intimation of surrender, with not even any substantial sign of weakening.

In the light of the numerous European nations who recently collapsed, or surrendered, or com- promised, after warring for only a few months, or even a few weeks, it becomes a matter of great moment to seek out the reasons for China's remarkabi. | record.

INTERESTING SEARCH

This search becomes especially Interesting when one recalls that? in the first days of Japan's attack upon China, there was a universal; feeling that Japan would make short shrift of China; that the war was only a matter of weeks.

Why hasn't Japan conquer ed yet? Is it because the Ja- panese militarists have hest- tated to use methods of blitz- krieg and schrecklichkeit?

worse

than

of

Compare the statements the heads "of the various go- vernments in relation' to their wars. Hitler and Mussolini speak and think in terms of winniar within months; Churchill recently. declared that England would resist, if necessary, for two or three years; but .Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek calmly an- nounced that China was pre- pared to fight for a few de-.. cades!

And that is how every Chinese

feels. He will fight on, and when he is "personally unable to con- -tinue, his sons will continue after | him." inheriting this task just as

they inherit their other cutles

LONG HISTORY

HARASSED BY R.A.F.

CAIRO, Oct. 17 (Beater). --- Further, harassing of the Italian Army threatening Egypt has been carried out by the R.A.F. & com- munique issued last night describes the continuation of attacks on Ben Ghaal yesterday when a further direct hit was made on the railway station, and the sidings 'were laced with incendiary bomba,

Observation of the damage, the communique admits, was dimcult.. Barracks and military concentrations at Bardia, Capuzzo and Sollum were bombed successfülly, And Derna and Tobruk were also raided

Objectives at · Bardia and Gura, Eritrea, were also hit. :)

British naval units bombarded the Italian port of Bavona, where

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(The RAF, suffered no losses in ❘ nit, these operations.

DIREDAWA BOMBED

Diredawa, in Italian East Africa, was raided and buildings and rall-e Navy munitions and airplane

works were damaged. way stations were borabed,'

A submarine sank an Italian An action between an RAF supply ship off Genoa and plane on patrol in the Red Sea other off the Vado Roads,

and three Italian bombers result- ed in two of the enemy aircraft

being damaged; one of then badly. CONCESSION

The British aircraft returned to its base safely.

RAF

planes operating from

Sudan bombed, naval and air force barracks on Abdekar Peninsula at Massana,

CARRIER PIGEONS

SUPPLY SHIP SUNK

DECREE NISI GRANTED

in

STRIKE

the:" Concession remains paralysed.

SHANGHAI, Oct. 17 (Reuter)— Declaring that he la dissatisfied Hollywood film stars sat on the

with dealing with intermediaries steps of the registration offices,

and getting nowhere" in the waiting for the opening of doors. Four Chinese boys headed the line

Italian agents are believed to be three-weeks-old French Tramway It is recalled that M. Companys, at the Philadelphia headquarters, who was one of the leading figures

com strike. M. J. Favret, Manager of pigeons to China's long, long history. using carrier while among those registering at

No. for the Japanese bombard-she has borne with plagues, and municate with the enemy, states French Concession Utility Com- Staten Island were 40 Hindus.

in Barcelona, ded to France and ment of the open cities of China foods, and pestilence, and re- an Egyptian military decree. The pany, revealed today that the was captured there after France's has been NOT UNPREPARED

anything bellions, and temporary domina-Exyptian people are, therefore, Company will hold direct negotia- Hitler has visited upon Foland or tion. Every Chinese capitulation. "We are not unprepared for ac-

babe sucks called on to hand over to the tions with the strikers in order to Norway or Holland or France. Is the knowledge of this in with his authorities any pigeons resembling bring an end to the dispute.

M. Favret stated that in ].. It was revealed in an official tlon and in rearming, we can do

It because the Japanese did not mother's milk; it is in his litera-carrier pigeons, statement published yesterday that in two years more than Germany

employ fifth column tacties? No. ture. in music, in his drama, in

probability the workers are not did in seven years." declared Mr.

for the Japanese have employed his language.

being kept informed of the nego- In raids at Ben Khazi the rail-tiations which had been held so propagandists and spies by the

And he has survived it all and way, wharves and shipping were far to settle the strike. thousands, they have bribed right his culture "and his people have.

Meanwhile, the tramway' service. and left, they have set up puppets survived it. Now comes another within China's borders. Indeed, in catastrophe: a miltary invasion matters of schrecklichkeit Hitler from a covetous neighbour. is an angel of mercy compared This troublesome neighbour has The Editor, H.K. Dally Press with the Japanese militarists, for already made annoyances before, Declaring that. United States exports but the only important aeroplanes were the world's best,

Sir,—I was present at the public Hitler has not used opium and but in the past contented himself restriction was that on BITNS. Mr. Johnson said that fully equip session of the Evacuation Advisory drugs, his soldiers have not plun with robbing a bit of land and These restrictions may or may ped military planes are now being Committee held on Tuesday morn-dered and raped and tortured, as treasure. Now he wants to take

A decree nisi was granted by the day was 80 and the Minimum 76. not be rescinded, the offical state-produced at the rate of 950 month-ing, the 15th of this month.

have the Nipponese soldiery.

Total rainfall since January, 1 k away China's very heritage: he Chief Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor, ment revealed.

ly and would reach 1,250 monthly At the same public session. I

BETTER PREPARED? wants to seize and desecrate the at the Supreme Court yesterday111.83 inches against an average of CHINESE PRESS COMMENT in January.

heard an applicant mention the Pernaps China was better pre- soil and tombs and graves of the to Mrs. Janet Elisabeth Margaret 80.84

The Royal Observatory report Reopening of the Burma Road The United States had gone names of the wife and child of the pared than France or Czecho- ancestors; he wants to trample Whitham in her petition for dis- is unanimously applauded by the further than any nation in the Director of Medical Services and slovakia or Foland? But we all China's culture and traditions solution of her marriage with Mr. states

James Percival Whitham,

The anticyclone is moving east- local Chinese press as a friendly attempt to withdraw from the area also heard the Chairman reply know that these latter countries and ceremonies in the dust,

The decree is to become absolute ward, and is now centred over and sagacious move on the part of conflict. The result was the that he believed their cases were had modern and large munition of Britain toward China.

destruction of American-owned

and aviation plants, and were in

after the prescribed period of three Central Japan. being omsidered.

months. a far better military position re-

Depressions are situated over The consensus of opinion as re- properties in the Fa? East and

It would seem from this reply lative to vealed by a survey of editorial German attempts. to * interfere

their opponent than

The petition was not defended. Mongolia and Indo-China, -arid a comments is that the British ac- with the peace of the United that there is some tribunal other China was relative to hers.

Mr. H. C. Macnamara was for the trough of low pressure extends the tion will not only have a very States and her sister American than

Advisory Committee Perhaps China received more

petitioner, instructed by Mr. D. B. from the Philippine to the Mariana which considers cases in private.

Islands. significant effect on the Far East- nations.".

Evans support from neighboring 'nations ern situation but is likely to in-

I shall be interested to learn by than those European states did? fluence the future course of events

too, we know that But there in the Pacific region.

powerful allies sprang to the ald of Poland, and Norway, and Hol- land and Belgium. **

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tic, and military fronts in an at-what tribunal the cases of the tempt to nullify the advantages wife and child of the Director of The reopening, marks a turning accruing to China from the re-Medical Services are being consi- point in Britain's Far Eastern po- opening of the Burma Road. For dered and whether its deliberations licy and will have far-reaching this reason, the paper cautioned, jare carried out in public or in pri- effects on the future developments China must be on guard bothvate... in the Pacific, commented the TA diplomatically and militarily. KUNG PAO,

While the reopening will "na-

turally have a favourable effect

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the normal

and the

.trade between

Dutside world,

China greater significance, however, the

paper said. lies in the removal of

HIGH-POWERED

TRUCKS READY

Sino-British ill-feeling caused by FOR REOPENING OF

ROAD

the closure of the Road and in the strengthening of Sino-British friendship and co-operation

the Far East.

POSITIVE STAND

In face of the current interna

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BURMA

RANGOON, Oct. 17 (Reuter)

At a previous public session of the Evacuation Advisory Commit- tee, at which I was present, I heard an applicant ask the Chair- man on what grounds the two in

In China's case; on the con- trary, the signatories of the Nine Power Pact; who had previously pledged themselves to preserve China's Integrity. falled to live up their promise. Worse, they helped Japan. America provided Japan with

rant sons of the Vice Chancellor huge quantities of war materials,

That is an insult and dis- grace

to the fathers and grandfathers of every Chinese, and their fathers and grand"" fathers for centuries back, That cannot be; that must not be. Herein-in this calm, Indomitable spirit lies China's strength-her unique, secret weapon.

INDO-CHINA AND THAI

COMMENT FROM BANGKOK

of the Hongkong University (aged Germany and Italy withdrew their The Bangkok Times, of Oct. 2, teen years) had been granted ex-and. recently, France closed her China respectively seventeen and four military instructors from China in reporting on the Thai-Indo- developments, reproduces emption. The Chairman's reply to Indo-China. border, and Britain the following as the translation of this question was that he did not her Burma, road, to supplies for an article in the Framuan wan, a know; at the later public session China.

,Thai newspaper:" Hundreds of high-powered. trucks held on Tuesday I heard another

MAN-POWER?

Misunderstanding on the part are waiting ready to start along member of the Advisory Commit- the Burma road when the ban on tee tell an applicant that the fact China's immense manpower? But to Thailand appears to be on the Perhaps, then, the secret lies in of the French officials in regard tional developments, the paper the transport of arms into Chin that she was- the mother pointed out, Britain has no choice is lifted today, according to

of a what good is manpower if you increase all the time, and now it re-minor precluded her from apply-haven't enough guns but to take a strong and positive ports received from Lashio, nearing for exemption at all

or equip transpires through an official re- stand vis-a-vis Japan in the Far the Burma-China border.

ment for them? Japan has more port that on Sept. 26, an Annam- East. And in order to preserve

As an ordinary member of the highly trained and equipped man-ese. policeman shot a Thai mer Transport workers are employed public I and it very difficult to re- power than China. Then maybe chant dead, and that the Thai day and night loading lorries. The concile the fact that two Infants it's China's enormous rains having abated, the road is have been exempted with the that accounts for her extraordin- for the offender receiving his just territory Government is now negotiating now in good condition and mon- statement made by the member of ary resistance? But space has not measure of punishment. At the light will help the trucks 10 the Advisory Committee. maintain a good speed along the

same time it is claiming damages 700-mlle highway to Tunnanfu. I also find it very difficult to Peiping in the north and Canton for his family.

* CHUNGKING VIEWS

¡understand what Government's.) policy is as regards evacuation and lexemption..

with China.

her Far Eastern Interests, Britain has to seek closer collaboration

China and Britain, the paper stressed, are destined to fight shoulder to shoulder against the so-called "New Order" in Asia and Europe, and reopening of the Burma Road heralds a new phase of co-operation between them.

NATIONAL TIMES sald The that the significance of the re- opening of the Road lies, more in cementing Sino-British friendship thian in facilitating the flow of trade...

When Britain closed the road last July, the paper further re-

A message from Chungking states that while the Chinese authorities are attaching the greatest importance to the rê- opening of the Barms Road on Friday (today), nothing. spectacular, either in the form of official ceremonies or a mad dash of trucks over the highway, is expected on that

the

been an insuperable barrier to the Japanese, for haven't they taken

PLANE FIRED AT·· In the south, and Nanking ; and | Hankow, and aren't they dally Then on Monday night (Sept. bombarding even Chungking far 30) the local broadcast announced It seems that although the in the interior? </

that recently, the French authori-" General public can at last form.

ties used an anti-aircraft gun to somé optaton of the grounds on

fire at a plane of the Thai R.AF. which exemption will not be grant-

which was engaged in a patrol led the grounds and policy on

flight over That territory on the which Government has and will

frontier line. It was very for- grant exemption are still shroud-

tunate that the plane escaped. led in "secrecy.

being hit.

What, then, the key to the riddle? The key by China's secret weapon. It is secret:-in "the sense that ‘no military expert could have guessed at its power, or even its existence, in advance,

A HERITAGE S

The RA F. yesterday dea It is a weapon in the serise that patched fifty- planes" "Trøm - Don it enables China" to: ward off the Muang to the north-eastern pro-"

marked, it was a gesture with the reports that 2000 to 3,000

If Government's polley has object of winning Japan's "neu-

border on trality" in the European war. But trucks will cross

were granted then it would seem Japan's response to such a ges- Friday is probably imaginary since ture was the conclusion of a there is no need for the Chinese only proper that a public inves worst punishment which a heart inces to be attached there for less and rapacious enemy can patrol and observation work on militant pact with Britain's two to rush the transportation of tigation into these should take vital enemies, Germany and Italy, supplies into or out of Chins at place and their cases reviewed in inflict, and do so triumphantly, the frontier, line.

That secret weapon took thou- the light of Government's present It may well be said that reopen present, now that the road wih be

policy, ing of the Burma Road is Britain's logical reply to the conclusion of the tripartite pact between Ger. many, Italy and Japan.

reopened,

NO MAD DASH

FRENCH IN THAILAND sands of years to forge, and since

The majority of the French only China has had; that much The foregoing are some facts I time, It is likely that only China residents in Thailand have com- In fact, the Chinese authorities have gathered and views I have possesses it. That weapon is the buried in submitting an applica- will carefully avoid having any formed, by attendance at the Pub heritage of countless generations ton to HE the French Minister. RENEWED PEACE ATTEMPT large concentration of trucks at ile Sessions of the Advisory Com- of continuous living in one land, in which they concurred with the The BING TAD JIH PAO antiany point in order to escape bomb-mittee, on a subject which is at of father passing down to on request of the That Government cipated intense diplomatic acti-ing.

Get present much in the hearts of men the fruits of his toll, the achieve for a new demarcation of the vities among the nations Inter- The authorities are mainly in and women in Hongkong which ments of his culture, the heritage fronder, to be effected by the Thal ested in the Far East, following terested in having the trucks move after all is a part of England di- of a commonweal and woe in and Indochina authorities. ⠀⠀⠀ the reopening. of the

Burma steadily in and out of China not rectly under the jurisdiction of terms of the family, the town. They also uphold the Thal re-, Road, Anxious to enable Japan in trying to achieve this by one The Crown to whom I hope we are and the province, (Not, until requests in other directions as well, to advance south, Germany and mad dash as some reports appear all devoted subject

cently, in terms of the nation in before the ratification of the Italy may make a renewed at to indlöste

I shall be glad if you would give the modern sense, but now, Non-Aggression pact la brought der the tempt to patch up a peace be

publicity to this letter in the hope thanks to the Japanese, the Chin- about, that some of the questions whiche spirit la further fortified by deep channel of the

Jon, thus are troubling the minds of people this new national consciousness) be the line of demarc

This heritage of the sense of transferring islands on Tight in Hongkong may be answere

enclose my name and address endless continuity is the key to That control, to transfer Lalang

source of that remarkable kurdi Prabang and Pakke-on Yours, etc

ness that China exhibits today, bank to the vial, and to ENGLISHWOMAN. Do you doubt

the Laps province to the Th

tween China and Japan Buch Application was granted by the En attempt, if made, will be Chier Justice Bir Atholl MacGre doomed to fallure, ce este gor, at the Supreme Court yester

Meanwhile the paper added. day to the Shim Tet Thong Co. there is high possibility of Jap-Ltd for confirmation of reduc anese militarists launching ation of capital from $3500,000 to fresh ouensive on both diploma- $8.250,000.

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