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POSITION OF N.E.I.

Interesting Comments By

Dr. S. De Bruine

LONDON, Jan, 10 (British Wireless)-Interesting comments upan the position of the Netherlands, East Indies were made in London by. DR. SLOTEMAKER DE BRUINE, of the Netherlands Coloriist Office.

As a result of the invasion of the Netherlands in May, the NEL as an integral part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, au- tomatically gave up her neutrality and entered the war against Ger-

many,

While the NEI. in common with other Powers in the Pacific stand for the maintenance of the status quo in that part of the world, in Europe they constitute a full ally of Britain and carry on the war ugainst a Common enemy under the direction of responsible Dutch authorities in London in close co- operation with the British Govern- ment.

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LIGHTER TYPE

GENERAL

U.S. Labour |BALKAN NEWSMAN SAYS

AXIS SPLIT WIDENING

Tie-Ups

CONGRESS ACTION

ADVOCATED

Mr. Graham Ringer. American journalist, who has spent the the last three years in and out of Belgrade, is in Singapore at present, with a fixed impression that war will not spread in that theatre of hostilitles, and that the Itallän adventure in Greece. was the most important single event in the present war. Mr. Ringer declared, in an interview with the Malaya Tribane, that he could see no result of the present war but defeat of the Axis

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 (Reuter› -The question of possible con gressional action to...-forbid strikes | which seriously prejudice the de fence programme

"The attempted discussed by members yesterday Naval Committee representatives.

The matter

on reports

WAS

of

arose

the

Invasion of Hitler had long considered the Britain is becoming more

and Balkans as his sphere of interest. more a myth. Hitler may try 1 Mussolini had 'similar ideas, and | ** but it would be an exceptionally when the Duce invaded Greece, It contains all sorts of naval that a strike may begin immedi risky thing-and think of the the real split began.

engineering enormous sacrifices that would be So far their collaboration had units from cruisers to submarines ately in the ranger

meant all fruits to Hitler and and small patrolling craft. New division of the Fairchild Engine exacted in the effort.

"He would have to land at least fall desert to Mussolini. at. Far

This, ships or a lighter type are being Aeroplane Corporation

a rallion troops Before he could naturally, did not make for real and this bullt locally and naval forces are mingdale. Long Island,

de anything to Britain' and that harmony between the two dicta- would delay the big Army order being continually increaser

would be an impossibility. He tors In the economic field, the war for aeroplane engines.

might succeed in securing a foot- Mr. Ringer declared that he was has naturally brought great Mr. Vinson, the Chairman of

Committee, declared

hold on one of the moors but he firmly convinced that Yugoslavia, nanges. The exchange control was the immediately introduced and to all strikes and other things must certainly would not be able to land which now had an army of over intents and purposes. N.ET. Is not stand aside and let the programme anything like a real expeditionary two mutions, compared with a peace time force or under 400,000 part of the sterling area.

The greatest danger to Hitler, would not join the Axis nor would Mr. Ringer declared, was in the it become involved in war, conquered territories, and to take Invasion of "Yugoslavia was a introduced for all Dutchmen be-ducers, new arrangements had to manufacturers and workmen have one million troops from them for very risky project indeed, es- the invasion attempt would be al- pecially as the Yugoslavs were most like cutting off his line of more averse to having anything to retreat.

do with the Axis than with the British

It

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go through.

that

Immediately after the NEI de clared themselves at war with

As a result of the closing of the Representative Mott (Oregon) Germany, steps were taken to in-

in 键 crease

defences. Conscription was European market to the NEI, pro-suggested Congress step

tween the ages of 18 and 46. Al be made for the disposal of their not enough patriotism to get to potentially dangerous German na- Taw material products. The Euro-gether,

Mr. Thomas, the President of tionals totalling approximately pear market accounted for 30 per

United 5.000 were interned."

cent. of peacetime exports and for the Autoworkers of the Expenditure

as much as 99 per cent of such States, stated he expected the on defence was greatly increased and

the exports as tobacco, while it took strike to begin last night. It in { budget for the year 1941, the total respectively 17 per cent, and 22 volves the question of wages. of £58,500,000 was allotted to de

per cent. of NEI. exports af ol and rubber: fence,

MECHANISE NEW ARMY

This stream of supplies has now been completely cut off to the de-

Strenuous efforts are being madetriment of Europe under ita Nazi

to mechanise a new army. There masters.

is a growing and popular demand

on the part of natives as well as

given

GREAT SERVICES.

41,

UNIFIED COMMAND FOR

The NEI. mercantile marine is CARIBBEAN

aAllied cause.

Dutchmen. In other ways too, the also rendering great services to the native population has striking proof of its solidarity in the present time of national dan

ger.

NEW U.S. DEFENCE

force,"

Mr. Ringer was firmly con vinced that the war in the Balkans 'would not spread.

One very important factor to Balkan peace was Turkey. Italy It was obvious that "Germany might have had designs, "together was going to let Italy sink. The with Germany, on Turkey, but split in the Axis, which began slice the Grecian debacle, such when Mussolini sought Balkan designs, of course, were almost im- felds to conquer with his Grecian possible of achievement. venture, was now widening.

Though It

fact Was, a

that Rumania had become a protecto rate of Germany, yet the Ruma- nian people themselves were Dot eager to become more closely bound to Germany.

CHIEF SCOUT LAID TO REST

NYERL Kenya, Jan. 10 (Reuter, Lord Baden Powell; Chief Scout,

Bulgaria was "playing ball" with Germany. There were some lean- ings towards Berlin, but at the moment, Mr. Ringer declared, there was the very strong proba- bility of a pact between Bulgaria and Turkey, in which event an in-

The internal economy of the NEL is such that there is no need

MEASURES for rationing of any sort. Seventy The authorities have already million population of the Archi. WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 (Reuter). provided several opportunities for pelago are almost completely self -Following Wednesday's intimie natives to play a part in the de-sufficient.

tion of naval re-organisation. Mr.: fence of the NEI. and "new om- The outbreak of the war had Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of cers' Training Schools have been not been allowed to interfere with War, announced yesterday that was buried yesterday afternoon vasion of Turkey would be cut of opened to natives. The same ap- the welfare and policy for the na- the United States Army Comin tias plies to naval colleges.

tive population which also finds mands at the Panama Canal and funeral was carried out with ful

cemetery here. The the question. In the Air Force, a number of expression in the multiplication of in the Caribbean Sea are

Moreover "Bulgaria, geographical- ta be military honours bet.tting natives are receiving training as health institutions and may

Lorally. did not lend herself to a he consolidated in order to pilots, gunners and observers. The found in the fact that the colon- then the defences of the Western General.

streng Baden Powell's rank as Lieutenam blitzkrieg by mechanised forces. most important part of the NEL isation from Celebes proceeds un Hemisphere. defence is the Navy. Even in peace, checked and the colonisation from the largest part of the Royal Dutch the over-populated island of Java Navy was always based in the to the islands of Sumatra and N.EI. and there it still remains. | Celebes proceeds unchecked

WHS

Mr. Ringer was certain that the not Italians would be driven out of

Albania,

she has been obliged

Lady Baden Powell Puerto Rican Departments and to go into the country to rest after

The existing Panama Canal and present as

the new Trinidad base, will be the strain of nursing her husband united under the command of during his des Lleut Generaj Dariel Van Voonhis

GREAT IMPORTANCE OF Chief of the Canal Zone.

HOPKINS' VISIT

LONDON Jan. 10 (British Wireless)-No special programme of meetings has been arranged in preparation for the visit to London. this week of President Roosevelt's special temporary envoy, MR. HARRY HOPKINS, but having regard to close his association with the President, whose views he is in a position to express with an- thority and understanding. great importance is attached to the visit.

THE TIMES calls special atten-

When he was in Italy short- ly before she joined the war in June, he gathered the impres- sion that the Italian people themselves had little stomach for wax.

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The British Government made an offer for burial in Westminster Mr. Stimson said that a unified Abbey, but the question of whether command for the entire Carib the offer will be accepted or whe- bean Sea would increase efficiency. ther the remains will be trans-into it by the Germans. There "He thought they were forced adding that centralisation of ferred to Oliwell (chief Scout was Httle love, however, for the control of air defences was par centre in Britain) will not be de Nazis, more especially now that ticularly desirable."

cided until after the war. Mr. Stimson declined to

state when the

Caribbean com." mand would begin operations, what reinforcements would sent to that area or what would

new

Norwegian

be

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HARRY HOPKINS Roosevelt's address to Congress in signed to the new bases In

IN LONDON

evening.

New-

WC are

Appointees

(Reuter) -

the Germans were leaving them in the lurch when they most needed

aid.

The collapse of the Grecian campaign and the downfali 01 Mussolini would bring complete. chaos in Italy.

The reports that German troops! were pouring through the Brenner Pass into Italy were not quite

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which he referred to "all possible foundland. ald to Britain irrespective of con- "What's the use of telling Hit sequences." Nothing, it says, more ler how many troops

LONDON, Jan. 10 LONDON: Jan. 10. Reuter) — clearly marks the increasingly sending to the Caribbean?" Mr. The Norwegian Government" bas correct, Mr. Ringer declared. Mr. Harry Hopkina. President total and worldwide character Stimson

JACOB'S The truth was probably that it asked, adding. Hitler issued a stateinant declaring nuli Roosevelt's personal representa- which the war has assumed

Was a precautionary measure may have the means

the appoinment made taken by the Nazis to station a of finding and void tive. arrived in London yesterday The Times ädds: "We will de out. but I am not going to help by authorities : German-occupied targe enough force in that area in

mand a common-economic and ajhim."

Norway without regard to estab-order to forestall any British move common economic policy. The

lished lab.

through Trieste in the event of It is authoritatively stated In Norwegian circles in London that Allied

Italy collapsing as a result of the successes in Albania, and the newly established posts in Libya. state of municipal government will be subject to review, when the legal government is re-established in, Norway.

He declined to make any state

ment at present Concerning the frontiers bave been swept away in

nature of his mission

Ap air raid alert was

Europe and a bridge built across

in force the Atlantic. These things must.

and guns were booming when Mr.not

be undone," The negative

"A

Hopkins arrived at the main linelines of approach have falled and railway station. The platform was will not serve. barricaded and guarded, and no members of the general publis saw him

accola.

Mr. Booking. who was panted from the port of disem barkation by Mr. Churchill's Par llamentary Private Secretary, Mr. Brendan Bracken, was greeted ab the station by Mr. Herschel John- son of the American Embassy. re. presentatives of the Foreign Omee, Admiralty and other Government departments

SCHEME TO RAISE

Bositive organisation based on an equal and balan. ced consideration for economic needs of all countries, is the only answer to Hitler's order based on domination and there is material on which the work can be begun now.

VAST FIELD

ITALO-GREEK HOSTILITIES

HEAVY WOP LOSSES IN MOSKOPOLIS

LONDON, Jan. 10 (Reuter)

Appointments due to political

motives or other improper reasons will be annulled and the posser. ~40% of such posts and those who. On Wednesday the Greeks reappointed them will be held to pulsed the vigorous Italian attack account for their actions.

At any rate, there were al- rendy thousands of German troops in Italy in the form of instructors, "tourists,” advisers, technicians and other guises. Those people were nothing more than just troops.

Mr. Ringer would not commit himself to saying how much

southwest of Moskopolis. some The Norwegian Government also longer the war would, ixst. It was twenty miles from the Yugoslav declared that the confiscation of certain that Hitler was becoming "The Colonial Administration, frontier, writes Reuter's Special private property in Norway is null very worried. He had overslint for instance, offers a vast field in correspondent on the Albanian and void and without proper legal the limits of his ambition, and it which cooperation, initiated fo frontier yesterday.

basis and that property thus was as difficult for him to main- time of war and for the purposes The Italians are reported to seized will have to be returned to tain his grip on, the conquered of war, should serve as a starting have suffered heavy losses."

point. Inter dependence is not the Fighting further north was fore of independence. It is only restricted to artillery duels and

the.

the proper owners.

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territories as it was for him to iaunch his invasion of Britain. One thing seemed certain; and

a condition on which smaller na-patrof skirmishes,, one of which MUSLIMS PRAY FOR that was that Spain, depending CONSCRIPTION AGE tions and some of the great Powers occurred near Urdurishe on ALLIED VICTORY for her bread and butter on Bri- OFFICIALLY DENIED too, can hope to retain that part shores of Lake Ochrida,

tain and the United States, would of their independence, which is

BOMBAY Jan. Heavy rain fell in the afternoon

(Reuter).- not willingly acquiesce in, an, at- LONDON, Jan. 10 (Reuter) --- precious to them and which is per but the gun-dre continued,

Special prayers for the annihila- tack on Gibraltar in order to close The widely forecast scheme to manently valuable."

tion of Fasciam and Nazism were the European: end of the Mediter- TTALIAN REINFORCEMENTS raise the conscription age to 45 la "That is the principal moral

offered by Muslims throughout ranean. officially denies.

VICHY, Jan. 10 (Reuter) - The India at the Feast of Id-ul-Znha Another was that Petain, for all The Minister of Labour an-cent developments on both sides Italians have sent numerous rein on. Wednesday

His faults, had probably been in- that no proposal is at of the Atlantic and the forcements by sea and air across Prayers also for the safety of structed by the United States. to present conteinplated for altern- useful pointer to the task of re-the Straits of Otranto to Albania, Muslim countries near and in the stand firm in his dealings with tion of the existing age limits. construction which should begin is according to the Le Temps cor- Middle East were also offered Filler.

Men over 30 years of age, due more and more

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SUNK IN ACTION

tler.

HEIGHTS OCCUPIED

ers of thanksgiving for the victory to have got the most out of the ot the British imperial forces in war. It there. had been any real ATHENS, Jan. 10 (Reuter) - the Western Desert, Egypt and designs in the minds of the Axis Important heights have been oc. Libya, were offered"

partners about an attack on her, cupied at bayonet point by Greek

those plans must now have sadly misfired.

the

This was announced by Mr. LONDON, Jan. 10 (Reuters troops during local engagements LONDON, Jan. 10 (Reuter) - Herbert Morrison Minister for The loss of the French submarine yesterday, states the the Greek Fourteen regional heads of the Whether America entered Home Security, who ated that Narval, sunk by enemy action High Command.

Fascist party have been removed war or not would not make much the vacancies' concerned are in during recent operations with ibe The communique adds that 200 from office, according to a Rome difererice, though he believed that the auxiliary fire services. First Allied forces, is announced by the prisoners have been captured as report, "quoted by the Swiss radio she would not come in. She was, Ald' parties and Police WET

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