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The Rev. A. P. Rose and his bride, formerly Miss B. Wancey,.. after their marriage yesterday. The group includes Bishop Hall, Bishop Mok Shaq-isang and Very Rev. J. L. Wilson: (King's Studiol

GEN. WU TE-CHEN

CABLE

Japan Developing The Encirclement Myth: Matsuoka Modelling His Oratory On That Of Hitler

LONDON, Jan. 30 (Reuter)-One concrete result of Japan's accession to the Axis has been the growing inclination of Mr. Matsuoka to model his oratory on Hitler's, says THE TIMES in an editorial on his speech at the opening of the Diet followed by a fur- ther utterance In reply to Mr. Cordell Hull which represents a departure from tradition i but no accretion in strength.

KONOYE AND TOTALITARIAN PRACTICES

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Mr. Matsuoka's ruling obsession--proclamation of the Western Pacific as the lebensraum of dominant and self-sufficient Japan-bears the authentic Nazi stamp..

The shrill tone in which the hands off notice is served to other Powers, especially the United States, is that of Hitler himself.

Japan, is developing thementing strife which they are now myth of encirclement, Large seeking to compose.. British and American inter- Violently expressed Japanese objections to the mediation of any fests in China and the long-other power, suggest Its chief am- standing friendship to China bition was to assert authority over are treated as evidence of the the two weaker countries by a dic- intention to encircle Japan, tated award comparable to those of Singapore and integrity of the

American concern in the defence imposed by the Axis in South-

Eastern Europe. Netherlands East Indies, would ap- his opposition to the appication Parently be regarded by Japan as of Italo-German tola itarian prac- a positive threat. tices in Japan.

DOKYU, Jan. 30 (Reuter) — Prince Fumimaro Konoye, the Jap

-ON RELATIONS BETWEEN anese Prime Minister, reiterated

CHINA AND BURMA

Interviewed by Press. representatives upon his arrival in Rangoon recently. GENERAL WU TE-CHEN, Chinese Minister of Overseas Affairs, and Goodwill Envoy to the South Seas, said: "During the past three months I have been on' a goodwill tour of the Philippines, the Netherlands East Indies and the greater part of Malaya, including the Straits Settlements, the Federated Malay States, and the Unfederated Malay States "of Johore and Kedah. I am glad to have the opportunity of visiting this country. In coming to Burma I am not only on a goodwill mission, but I also bring a message from Generalissimo Chiang Kal shek to my countrymen.

Fighting Spirit Of The Maltese

PART PLAYED IN PRESENT WAR

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"According to Chinese historical records. the relations between Burma and China may be traced back roughly two thousand years.

the

Questioned belore the Lower

TRUCULENT ATTITUDE Notwithstanding the truculent attitude of the Foreign Minister, UNLAWFUL OCCUPATION Japan has obvious moments of un- Japan is only a power in the easiness about the goal so which House Budgetary Committee, re- Pacific whose armed forces are in she is being led. garding passages extolling the ex- unlawful occupation of territory The mildness, bordering on tension of totalitarianism in the not her own and although every obsequiousness, of the recent atti- whole world, which is contained in kind of provocation has been prac- tude to the Soviet is a highly the Information Board's booklet on ticed against peaceful British and significant success of these trans- the new structure." the Premier American citizens, there has been parent tactics which are likely to declared:

no British of American action or be limited and shortlived. concentration of British and Ame- From the Soviet viewpoint, the rican forces in the Western Pacific, Japanese record in the last 20 It would be difficult to draw a years has been more consistently more unconvincing picture

plack than almost any menace and encirclement than Powers. that which appears to have taken

"I believe it to be wrong to at tempt to apply to Japan, without modifications, totalitarian tices."

.prac-

FUTURE OF FRANCE

of

shape in Mr. Matsuoka's excited

imagination.

course. of

to render to the Axis is clear

The future enough. Japan's policy is more obscure and possibly there may still be room therein for caution which her off- cial'spokesmen have thrown to the

winds.

CONSOLIDATE GAINS withdrawn and is seeking to con- In China, Japan has partially

other

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The WING ON

STORY OF COMPLETE DEFEAT OF

OF JAPANESE BLOCKADE OF CHINA

BEHIND THE JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER'S AD- MISSION THAT THERE IS NOT A GLIMMER OF HOPE While the Soviet does not desire FOR A SETTLEMENT OF JAPAN'S WAR IN CHINA, lies at present a collision with Japan the story: of the complete defeat of the Japanese blockade.

any serious Japanese embrollment i

miss.

NEW F

IN VICHY

The nature of service which Mr. elsewhere would provide her an of China, states an article in an Australian morning paper, Matsuoka's threats were designed Opportunity of advancing her in-which was quoted yesterday in a message from Sydney. The official German News Agency

terests and paying off old scores

The writer said that this most enthralling episode of A new era in Sino-Burmese rela-quoted an article appearing in a

which she would be unwilling to

China's struggle has never been told, and will never be told tions has now been ushered in by German-controlled newspaper in

But the greatest source of un- until the war is over. construction of the Burma Paris which states that the future

ersiness for the more prudent The writer also went on to Road and the opening of atr ser of France will be compromised if vices Enking Rangoon and Lashlo Vichy does not change its attitude,

Japanese statesmen is the steady

give a few facts about what deterioration of Japanese relations with Kunming and Chungking states a London message.

with Britain and the United he described as China's secret These communication facilities This paper adds that since M..

States. which have now brought Burma Laval retired from the political

can do little while her strength is

life-line of which very little and China so close to each other stage all co-operation

It is easy to calculate Britain was known. have made it easier for our two Vichy, Paris and Berlin had been solidate her gains though it is absorbed in Europe, but it is not was not through the Burma road saigon, it was announced in Vichy

This life-line, said the writer,

According to a message from countries to send goodwill missions broken off.

doubtful whether the Chinese so easy to be sure how long this or through Russla, but from a on Wednesday that a new consti- what diminished laurels. "The first goodwill m'ssion head-

Forces would leave her long ih ung limitation will last and there is point on the coast from which tutional decree is to be published. disputed enjoyment of her some already an uncomfortable percep goods were being regularly sent to shortly requiring.

tion in some Japanese minds of China's For the moment Japan's eyes are the changes which would wrought roving southward, The news that the Far Eastern situation by

Chungking. Thailand and Indo-China had ac-British victory. cepted arbitration .would have been welcome but for the suspect of the character of recent Japanese activities there.

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France

between

must

"There are 1,300 Maltese serving in the Royal Navy. There are led by U Ba Lwin paved the way striking, Vichy is acting against "Today, when" a decisive hour is 260,000 men, women and children for another goodwill mission com- the in the island and these people are posed of newspapermen.

fatherland. playing their part today in beating stand that another mission of a at stake."

I under-realise this for her fate is now off the attacks being made on commercial character left recently them by German dive-bombers. They are proving once again that

they are doughly fighters. The same spirit of centuries ago lives)

on,"

for our wartime capital.

"China

ONE LIFELINE

regards the Burm

Mr. Jinnah, well-known Muslim leader, has been recommended for the Presidency of the All-India sald LIEUT. COMMANDER Road as one of her lifelines, ana Muslim League for 1941, states a THOMAS WOODRUFFE, when he look upon the reopening of this message from Delhi broadcast from London yesterday road as another gesture of Sino- on the significance of Malta in British friendship I wish to point the present war in the Mediter- out that keeping the Burma Road

ranean.

IMPORTANT

POSITION

Comdr. Woodruffe gave a plc-

Luresque description of the Island

open will help to bring victory for

China and peace and stability to the. Far East.

"Because Burma and China are and traced its history from the next-door neighbours, the security time of the days of Carthage, and peace of Burms are important

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16

Thousand Italians

Captured

to

ä

war-time capital

of Chinese

all

ministers,

11

high officials and state dignitaries

to swear allegiance to Marshal Pétain.

MILLSTONE This route POTENTIAL ENEMY

was the millstone The same message added that' which was hanging round Japan's the Havas Agency, which has now The Japanese accession to the neck.

been taken under state control, Axis compelled the United States

Prince Konoye's admission was will co-operate with Marshal Pe- Japanese emissaries seem

and also Britain reluctantly to re-what Japanese public opinion had tala in his work and that the have played a sinister role in for- sard Japan a potential enemy and long ago realised.

agency's outside services will func- since then American opinion more

This secret life-line of China had tion as before with the вате and more ranked Japan among been built up by the untiring staffs. the powers whose policy designs efforts ere inimical to American ideals Goods were carried part of the

engineers. CHURCH AND STATE and way of life.

It was also announced that the way by Chinese, part of the way in first result of rapprochement be-. President FLoosevelt and the

sailing junks and part of the way tween the Catholic Church and the State Department have given. Mr. in trucks. Matsuoka no reason to suppose

French States is seen in the in- that they will be intimidated and motor vehicles had been taken into school programmes,

even troduction of religious education in impressed by menaces and dis

parts and carried piece by piece courtesy.

over the route by sweating coolles.in the same message, states that A report from Marseilles, quoted

the suppression of Communists in SUEZ CANAL RAID Southern France continues. Six

the Suez Canal

Communists were reported to have There was an enemy air raid on been arrested in Nice and six on Wednesday.others in Toulon, states a London message.

Marshal Petain is to have a Several bombs were dropped but guard-of-honour of 2,000 men who

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day.

The

i

writer added that

were no casualties.

gloves-(Special)

Malta, he said, lay on the Im-to China, while China's develop- portant Mediterranean route and ment means a great deal to Burma, Minister, announced in a message} During the four years of his the position of the island had and we have succeeded in estab to the armed forces that by order paternal bloodless dictatorship. he

Japan is launched on # dan- Flayed a great part in its history.lishing a strong economic base init 01 the King, he had assumed revived the spirit and self-con-

gerous path. Simultaneously to The speaker spoke of the several our Northwest and Southwest pra-direction of the Ministries of War,fidence of the Greek people. Those antagonise the United States and struggles in which the islanders vinces and we are developing the Marine and Al

who knew him believed it was hiable folly to more cautious Japan- Britain would seem an unthink- had been engaged in. This he said natural resources of that rich re-

The message continues: "Under intention, ultimately to restore de had developed their fighting spirit, glon.

Comdr. Woodruffe also referred Yunnan railway will soon be com- Virgin, under the iron command and disciplined to his country contemplate with equanimity to no damage was caused and there will wear blue urilform with white

I only hope that the Burma- the protection of God and the Holy mocracy, reorganised, strengthened it is a prospect few Japanese can ese leaders a few years ago and

to the founding of the famous pleted in order that the potential of the King and your leaders and where democratic Institutions had Knights of St. John on the island trade between China and Burma with the prayers of all Greeks, you their birth. and described the beautiful cathe-may be developed.

will break the cowardly enemy

ADMIRAL NOMURA dral which had been so artistically

He had the quality of choosing "I see great possibilities for this and you will triumph and show able lieutenants and there is every bulit.

According to a report from country in the future, and so it yourselves worthy of the grand reason to believe that" his succes Honolulu quoted in a message would be mutually advantageous tu visions cf the great national sor, M. Koryzis, will be equal to from Saigon yesterday, two Comdr. further enhance the cultural and Governor who has departed." the occasion.

American destroyers will meet the relations quered race. They have preserved China and Britain and Bruma."

between

The DAILY TELEGRAPH den vessel on which Admiral Nomura, Sir Frederick Stewart, Australian cribes Gen. Metaxas as a man of Japanese their language and customs. They

Ambassador to the were never conquered by the Bri-stay in Burma for about three that Australia mourns with Greece for freedom, that he can ill be America.

Gen. Wu added that he would Minister for External Affairs, sald such proved force of character United States, is travelling to tish, but asked to be taken underwesks and would visit a few of the the loss of

sald

NEVER CONQUERED "The Maltese." Woodruffe, "have never been a con-commercial

the protection of the British fag. larger towns.--(Central News)

The first Governor of the Island

was a British naval officer,

The Maltese were now showing

the same spirit that had made a

historian write of them during the

SEABORNE TRADE FAVOURABLE

war of 1555 that "It was wonder- Despite the Nazi claim to have

ful to see that even women and jetruck

without fear."

EIRE TO BUILD UP WAR ECONOMY

a death blow at Bri-

AUSTRALIA MOURNS

WARMEST SYMPATHY

tide.

"

U.S.

EXPORTS TO

RUSSIA

from America to Soviet Russia. Mr

Japan's Condition For Mediating

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of the Air Force, it includes the Under-Secretary for Foreign Af- fairs, says the communique.

A review of the two months operations on the frontier reveals that Thai forces occupied two bits of territory on the right bank of

In a reference to Mr. Hugn Daiton's statement in the House Gi Communs recently, regarding the volume of export of goods the Mekong River, cession of which Cordell Hull stated yesterday that would probably have avoided the he wished to point out that the fighting, which started with the

French bombing of Nakonpanom. to Russia should not be misunder

rting of the embargo on exports

THAI CASUALTIES stood, according to a Salgon mes forces penetrated Into Cambodia Besides these territories Thai In a 25 miles stretch from Surin

HOW BRITAIN IS MEETING AIR ATTACKS ·

The latest mail to Australia from Britain has brought many stories and pictures of the way in which being made on her, states a mes Britain is meeting the air attacks

sage from Sydney.

a great leader in spared. His years of power will General Metaxas, states a London stand conspicuous in Hellenic his- message...

tory with one of its proudest pages. Sir Frederick added that they hoped another leader will rise to

WORLD ESTEEM consolidate the foundations laid by strong again

He was able to see Greece reborn, in self-confidence the late Premier.

and high in world esteem. HIS task will unflinchingly be carried children laid aside every fear. tain's seaborne" trade, the figures LONDON, Jan, 30 (Reuter-The on by M. Koryzis and the cam They repaired walls, carried away for last year are considered fa- death of General Metaxas was

paign will unflinchingly he par- the dead and helped the wounded ourable, states a London message. made prominent in this morning's sued under the military genius of

which express Imports are higher and exports newspapers.

the s little lower...

General Papagos... warmest sympathy for the Greeks

The DAILY EXPRESS saya that Imports in 1840 were £1,100,000,- and eulogise the late Premier as a loco against £855,000,000 in 1939. great leader who restored

the General Metaxas has turned the Exports were £$13.000,000 against Greek spirit and self-confidence.

He won the first of the sage. £439,000,000. In 1930.

THE TIMES says that General Allies' land successes. He showed Metaxas will bear the honour of the virtue of a small nation just

These stories indicate that the having first destroyed the legend when the Axis was saying that the BRITAIN'S WAR of the invincibility of the armies day of small nations was done.

Only 100 were killed and 300ed the possibility of a-German British people have not disregard- of the Axis. **

newsnapers state, that Cen. Meta-wounded on the Thai side since the invasion and that they have beer EXPENDITURE

The effect of the surprising The DAILY HERALD mys that zas was first indisposed on Jan, outbreak of the frontier fighting, LONDON, Jan. 30 (Reuter) The over estimated, and this effect is great leader and Britain loses a an operation for septic tonsils. He this

Greek victories can hardly be Gen. Metaxas, Greece, loses a 17 at the Cabinet and underwent says the communique, asserting preparing for some time to meet it.

is Insignificant compared ing all difficultles. I don't say we House of Commons will shortly be not only confined to neutrals staunch companion. 2 shall succeed, but with mutual co-presented with a request for heavy

later improved but suddenly the with the French total which, how- It is not too much to say, that Gen. Metaxas was a soldier, not tonsillar affection ha a reperçus-jever, is not indicated. operation, our standard of living vote or credit for financing the war even the Army of the Nile was a demagogue, and his rule was clon, the old Intestinal ulcer caus-

PARLEY IN TOKYO will at least be reasonable." expenditure, says Reuter's diploma-cheered to learn that the Italian nearer that of Kemal Ataturk ing internal haemorrhage and.

RETURN BANGKOK, Jan 30 (Reuted) --- t'c-correspondent..

armies which they were preparing than Hitler or Mussolini: Greece despite three blood transfusion, he That delegates to the armistice A message from Balgon yester It is expected that it will be for to encounter were less formidable will miss his Indomitable leader sank into a coma,

conference with French Indo- day stated that another contingent £1,000,000,000 and is regarded as than suggested by their arma ship, but all Greece fights this All members of the family and China, to be held in Tokyo, are lot French soldiers who were, in- Road yesterday. he was taken to an indication of the strength of menta, "numbers and the false war and Greece will go forward members of the Government were leaving for Tokyo by air on Feb. 2, terned in Switzerland have arrived the Queen Mary Hospital,

the British war effort.

glitter of the Totalitarian state. atil,

present at the death.

it was announced here.

in Touraine.

Mr. de Valera in a statement re- ported in a message from Saigon, sald that Eire would continue to build up her defence forces

"We also have to build up a war

economy," said Mr. de Valera, "and

this must be capable of withstand-

A 19-year-old girl, Lai Shiu-chu,

suddenly collapsed at Des Voeux

A STAUNCH COMPANION

ATHENS, Jan. 30 (Reuter) ----The

right down to the Gulf of fihal- land.

FRENCH SOLDIER'S