HONGKONG" DAILY PRESS
CHINA CONTINUES WAR FOR
THE COMMON CAUSE"
It was good to hear from the lips of President Roosevelt, In that broadcast which so thrilled an anxious world, in March, that China as well as Britain is to be a beneficiary of the Lease and Lend Act and the recipient of all the help that the U.S. can give her in her heroic struggle against Japan, writes Lord Lytton. We are up to forget that China has been at war al most continuously for ten years, and ali, through that time she has fought single-handed for the same cause which some seven years later we have been compelled to defend in arms. "She has seen her country invad- ed, her people killed and tortured. her cities bombed from the air without the means either to de- fend them or to retaliate in kind.
UNDIMINISHED COURAGE Think for a moment what our plight would be if the splendid young pilots of the R.A.F., who have proved, their quality in a thousand
COMMON FRONT People in this country today are. blaming the Balkah States for not uniting in
A common defence against the menace of German aggression and pointing out how effective their combination might have been. But in 1931-2 a com- mon front against the first enemy of the collective system was even
af battles, had had no machines in more needed and was far easier of which to meet the German Luft-attainment. waffe; it, too, we had had vir-
All the other Great Powers in
DIED IN DOORN
CABLE
Regrettable Commodity
"Incident" In Hankow
Racket In France
THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1941. -PAGE 7
Successful
Exhibition
By Schools
Boy Cadets
Donate Cots
To British
One
NEW YORK, June 4 (Reuter)- JAPANESE CONSUL Price scales of
Some 5,000 to 6000 schoolchild-
Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY. commodities in LODGES : PROTEST France have taken up
cen visited the Hongkong Schools' hundred and fifty "hadets of the So many Exhibition of Arts and Crafts at New York Military Academy here columns in the Journal Omeial the SHANGHAI June 4 Reuter that it has now been decided to yesterday. and
Northcote Training College will sleep on the ground during. The Japanese Consul-General at, issue a special publication called response plus the sight of long that 150 British boys and girls their annual encampment in order th: tremendous Hankow has protested to the Bri- the Bulletin Official Du Service lines of children waiting to get in may have cots in their air-raid tish Consul-General over a very, Des Prix, says the NEW YORK during the morning hours of the regrettable incident" involving
shelters. a. TIMES' Vichy correspondent. boy of the Hankow Club who is
exhibition may have resulted in a The
The cots, donated to Bundles for stated to be a member of Chung-when all prices have been calculat- tomorrow adding another day to piled
correspondent adds that decision being taken to continue it Britain, Inc., by the cadets, were king's Blueshirt organisation, re-ed, tabulated and co-ordinated, what was originally planned.
Army trucks at the vealed the Japanese Army spokes- more often than
academy today and transported to man at yesterday's press confer- modity affected simply vanishes strations conducted on the first 113 West Eighty-ninth Street, New
not the com-
Interest centred in the demon- that organisation's warehouse si from the market overnight.
went fifty
ence here.
THE EX-KAISER
wually no anti-aircraft guns with the League were then united, and U.S. AIRMEN,
which to defend ourselves from even the United States, though not the enemy raiders.
in the League, Was Co-operating MECHANICS.
CHINA'S FIGHTING SPIRIT
FOR CHINA
He said that the Chinese boy.
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floor, and Tse Hin-ho, of St. Paul's York. With them named Liu. 36, who had been in for vegetables. This morning there models of animals from discarded clothes, likewise donated by the A few days ago, prices were set College, who specialises in creating bundles of suits, shoes and under- the Club's service for 10 years, was were practically no vegetables on fishbone was surrounded by quite corps of cadets, found to be a member of the Blue-
sale. shirts.
Housewives are indignant a few. admirers, as were most of Recently there was an all-out and talk of On the night of May 19, the racketeers who, because they have work, clay work, model making and the formation had been dismissed profiteers and the other boys engaged in rattan inspection at the academy. When police arrested Liu who confessed means. can patronise black marother hobbies. that arms were concealed within kets, and each day they tell their
the boys went to their barracks the compound of the Club. There husbands that it is impossible to
MOST INTRESTING
and-carrying out a plan that upon. the Japanese Gendarmerie
One of the most Interesting ex-school officers said way wholly conducted a search on May 28 in
live on present salaries.
hibits and one that came in late their own idea-toted their cots to the presence of the British Consul,
was that of the Un Long Govern- the parade ground, ment School. The schoolchildren at Un Long sent in a large collec- tion of miniature models of the agricultural implements in use by farmers in the New Territories, in- cluding models of the larger m chinery making quite a composite cadet guard. and escorted by de-
sal,
4
HAND-GRENADES
WASHINGTON, June 4 (Reuter) ---Reuter learns from reliable sources that a scheme whereby the Chairman and Japanese Con- American aviators and thechanics, will be allowed to proceed to China to assist her in the defence of her independence is now really well under way.
revolvers, five hand-grenades and The spokesman declared that two two bombs were found under the
floor behind the bar-counter, as well as revolver bullets, and re- vealed that the arms belonged to terroristle agents of Chungking.
AIR RAID DAMAGE
GIFTS BLESSED
The cots and, the other `gifts Captain John Francis Hagen, be- were blessed by the school chaplain,
trucks fcre they were loaded on the
this morning. With
2
HEALTH MINISTER
collection. GIVES DETAILS
tails of New York State and New Exhibits were also sent by OF REPAIR
several firms in the Colony inter-to the warehouse, where two off- Jersey police, the cots were taken ested in the exhibition, including cials of Bundles for Britain-Mrs. Interesting details of how the Arts and Har.dicraft. Limited, the Paul White and Miss An Emmet
According to the spokesman, Liu was acting as liaison oeer of the Hupeh Information Bureau which problem of air raid damage was Sincere Co. Ltd., Kwong Hing. be under Chung-being tackled all over the country Kelly and Walsh, the Challenge were given by MR. ERNEST Bookshop and Der A. Wing and Co. BROWN, Minister of Health, at the Ltd.
It is expected China's revived, air CONVOY ATTACK conclusion of a tour of the bombed
force will shortly be adequately protect supplies going
able to: over the Burma Road and make further,ralds on Chungking and the cities too expensive to be tinued.
con
IS RECALLED
greas
Mr. Brown said that 80 per cent of the repairable houses had al- ready been made wind and wafer- tight. Up to last week, 32,000 houses
R.A.F. Officer Wins had been repaired in this way in
London alone and 40,000 in the provinces.
18 Thousand Prisoners Taken
received them
Britain said that the cadets' gifts A spokesman for Burdles for
would be immediately sorted and packed for inclusion in the next shipment to England.
With the gifts will go 200 letters written by cadets to the British children-whose names are, 0% course. unknown, but who even- tually will receive the cots and clothes. The letters will be dig- tributed by Mrs. Edward R. Mur-
Yet that has been the fate or with 1t. The Commission Over China, and in spite of her poor which I had the honour to pre- equipment "she has kep; up the side included representatives of struggle year after year with un-France, Germany. Italy, and the diminished courage and
United States; and our report an 1s Flin nearer being conquered today than the Manchurian dispute was un she was at the beginning.
animous.
The tragic failure to make use LOST OPPORTUNITY.
of the opportunity for setting the Poor China! If we had helped dispute afforded by that report her more in 1932 we might never was mainly due to the fact that have seen the rise of Hitlerism in our Governmerit did Germany
not realize or the spread of war the injury which Japan had done
The American airmen are said first into Africa and then into to us and to everything which in to have been proceeding to China Europe. We have learnt much since those days we valued most. They in small numbers at least for three then, and so have the people of the thought only in terms of injury to months and when the planes er United States, China has been very China, and it did not seem to route and other shipments reach patient. She has not complained, be in the interests of Britain to China, they will be the nucleus of She knew our weakness and had defend China against Japan. From a formidable air force to meet was stated to to be content with our sympathy.that serious miscalculation untold Japanese bombers attacking the king's Milltary Council, But now there is a promise that evil has followed. The League of Chungking-Burma Road. at long last material help will be Nations is dead; the whole of forthcoming, and she will face her Europe is given over to gangster powerful enemy with a new hope, rule and the British Empire, bark It is as well for us in Britain to ed by the goodwill and material remember that the war for tree help of the United States, is fight dom, for a world regulated by lawing almost single-handed for free rather than violence. In whith wedom and the democratic ideal. are now So desperately engaged, really began with the attack on
D.F.C. Award Manchuria by Japan in 1931 The
After ten years of almost con one gain from the vast sacrifice of inuous war China's spirit has not
LONDON, June 4 British Wire- less-An Officer of the R.A.Fin London was greater than the have been taken in the battle of the organisation. lives in the years 1914-18 was the been broken. Her sacrifices have establishment of a world organ-only tended to bind
Reserve who led
arest of the country-put together. sation designed to prevent the re-into
the lakes. In Abyssinia, states a formation of aircraft which at-
Throughout the country. 80.000 message from Nairobi. currence of unprovoked aggression. throughout her long history never That was the feline" of our civi-existed before. Just as Napoleon
Boulogne wins the D.F.C. in the
These include 5.872 Europeans Tisation, the new order" cement was the founder of European na-j
latest list of R.A.F. awards.
and more than 12,000 Africans ed with the blood of millions. "It tionalism, so Japan is the found-Rumania is shortly to become a DFC..
June' 4 (Reuter)-- The list includes one bar to the persuading people to leave badly 13 tanks, seven armoured cars and Referring to the dimquity of In addition, the British have taken was Japan, one
seven D.F.C.'s and two damaged houses, Mr. Brown quoted of the Greater of Chinese nationalism and "Totalitarian Powers who were the principal like Napoleon, will be destroyed by Parliament."
State without સૌ. DFM.S.
35 guns...! trustees of that "new order that her own creation. As the war in Bucharest despatch to the Italian fire from a convoy, obtained two He asked an old lady of 84 why launched counter-attacks.
according
an instance where a house was This officer, in spite of intense left with only one room habitable. ing very sharp and the enemy has been decided to entrust the
The fighting is described as be-
LONDON, June 4 (Reuter)-It the Far East, was the starting news agency.
direct hits on the largest vessel she had not moved to the billet ported by tanks. point of the war in which we are
sup-direction of the existing British General Antonescu, the agency engaged today, so" also there can adds, will recast his government, Others have followed her exam-be no settlement in Europe with a more normal form." replac-
it was later learnt was)
information services in the United offered her and her reply was that The general advance of the Bri-States to Sir Gerald Campbell, now A bar to the DF.C. is awarded she had lived in that house for tish forces is continuing, it is add-serving as British lowship of nations dedicated
62 years and did not intend to ed. Flight-Lieut. J. E. McFall; who.i to of the Far Eastern conflict. the cutlawry, of war has been for the time being destroyed.
The Japanese are a very astute January last with technicians and work in conveying vital informa- 'n May, 1941, "performed splendid rise again because the world needs of the situation in Europe and
people. They are close
studcats politicians. It, but if we are to build it more America and have carefully chosen wisely in the future we must not for all their aggressive acts in provide
He will then proclaim a new forges who Arst attacked it and
state organisation which will China times when the rest of the parliament and its substitution by who were its first defenders.
for the abolition of The menace of Hitler and his world has been pre-occupied with national representation founded on insatiate ambition for conquest economic or political crises which looms so large in our minds today Far East difficult.
made any intervention that we are apt to regard the two
struck the first biow at it.
EXAMPLE FOLLOWED
her people
Many planes en route to China are stated to be of the fast Curtis P40 type.
Volunteer
The damage to private houses! Eighteen
unity which Runiania To Become tacked a convoy "of shipping near men were at work in repair squads. national â
"Totalitarian".
LONDON,
to
which sunk,
FOR 62 YEARS
ple, with the result that the fel-out a fair and durable settlement ing, the generals who have been during the enemy advance in Libya move out now..
It will
struck me as far
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holding ministerial office
corporative ta the
the message.
sinte
tlon to various commanders."
FOR ROYAL NAVY N.Z. PERSONNEL
LONDON, June 4 (BWS)--A fur- principies. concludes ther draft of New Zealand per- sonnel for seamen and Fleet Air Arm branches of the Royal Navy
"It is quite obvious." said Mr. Brown." that the people regard it as a matter of honour and pride not to allow Hitler to drive them from their homes."
BRAINSTORM THEORY
thousand
prisoners, row, London representative oi
ARMY MEN TO STUDY COURT PROCEDURE
of
Director Of British Information Services
Minister in' Washington, in response to the in- creasing demand in the United States for füller and more com- plete information concerning Bri- tain's war effort and for improve- ment of the supply of news from British sources, it is announced in London.
Some 30 servicemen
the Middlesex Regiment were presenti at Kowloon Court yesterday when In New York, will relinquish his Sir Gerald, whose office will be they watched cases being tried by
the Magistrates. It is understood appointment as Minister in order the men were detailed to spend aal of the British Information Ser- to assume that of Director Gener-
dictators of Europe as the initia- take hitherto in their calculations ADMIRAL DARLAN'S has arrived in Britain from the
They have never made a mis- tors of that system of deception Yet even in 1832. when everything
Two days before making an at- part of the morning in the Courts, vices. and violence against which we are
tack on bis wife and seriously observing "court procedure. Aghting. Actually they are but was going well for them, they
HABSURD" POLICY Dominion and was welcomed at wounding her, a man
Sir Gerald was High Commis- visited his imitators. Japan was the real in-than the Chinese.
the port of arriva nehalf of solleitors and
stoner in Canada until Mr. Mål- more anxious LONDON, June 4 (Reuter) the New Zealand High Commis-favourable to her.
made a will more
WASHINGTON, June 4 (Reuter) colm MacDonald was appointed, to Itiator. She was the first of the that time the losery., The Chinese bassy in Ankara have resigned in staff.
who were at Two members of the Vichy Ersioner by a senior officer of his
-Ships flying the United States that position early this year. He Great Powers to violate her treaty are the most philosophical people protest against Admiral Darlan's
This, was revealed at Peter- dag will replace British ships on has had long experience of the borough Quarter Sessions, Another draft of reinforcements Sidney Frank Yeldham, 60, grocer, tralia and New Zealand.
when runs between North America,, Aus-United States and is very popular I have ever met.
Their civilisa policy of collaboration with Ger- for the New Zealand forestry unit. tion is much older than ours.
there. For many. They are Counsellor Jean Britain also arrived recently.
York-road, New England,
BANGKOK, June 4 (Reuter-It
peaceful
obligations, to attack a and defenceless neighbour; and to introduce the technique of off-them time seems to nave no im- Deslaine and the Second Secretary, clal lying and fabricated "inci- dents with which the world has
portance. Manchuria, they know, Jean Bergner. grown so familiar in recent years, they know, is unconquerable.
Is uralterably Chinese.
China,
Announcing this late last night is officially announced that the JAPAN'S ORIGINALITY
from Ankara radio, Martin Agron Premier, Plbul Songgram, yester Almost every action and every
FULL CONFIDENCE sky, correspondent of the N. B. C. day morning cordially received They are confident that in a sald French diplomats described, the British Minister, Sir Josiah
formula which today we associate hundred years or so they will have Admiral Darian's policy as "absurd Crosby, and conversed on foreign
of the
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affairs for an hour.
DEVELOPMENTS IN
SYRIA
Continued from Page 1
of
pleaded guilty, to wounding his wife. Mrs. Annie Mabel Yeldham. stated that on Feb. 25 last Feld- Mr. S. E. Fiborne, prosecuting ham dashed out of the house czy- ing "Arrest me, I have murdered
my wife."
The police arrived to find him. comforting his wife, who was lying In bed with a serious head injury, having been hit with a bottle,
IDEALLY IN LOVE
Witnesses
spoke about the change in the will, and "sald the couple, had been married 40 years. and were "Ideally in love with each other." Yeldman was a much respected business man.
ments and the making of spurious by his browbeating methods in is not thought their numbers can now held Crete thus covering the storm.
alliances with them-the "detalls 1932-3, to meet the men who have
sin:"
with the two gangsters of Europe absorbed the Japanese, as they and dishonourable.” W23 In fact first employed by have absorbed all their former Japan, the gangster of Asia. The conquerors. What matter if for at waging of war without previous time their territory 13 occupied by declaration and calling it peace those who cannot remain there?. the profession of friendship to That was the attitude cover hostile preparations, the en-Chinese statesmen whom I met. gineering Of disturbances in a The Japanese, on the other hand, neighbouring State to provide an were already anxious about the excuse for armed Intervention unday after tomorrow. That day is der the guise of restoring order. already nearer, and their anxiety the disclaiming of territorial am- bition whilst occupying the ter
is not likely to have diminished.in London of the arrival of Ger- spreading false reports.
Though there is no conflimation perience of Nazi technique in An explanation for the offence. ritory of another country. the esperience for Mr.
It will be an interesting.ex-
advanced by Mr. S. E Pocock, tablishment of puppet
mang in Syria, this does not mean Matsuoka, who, G-rem-
The Germans now had the tree defending, was that Yeldham, aj startled the delegates at Geneva
there are none there although it use of the Dardanelles and they highly-strung man, had a brain- of the sinning and denial of the far surpassed him in the same
be very large.
south and south-west ccast Of When air-raid sirens went he The British authorities in the Anatolia.
became upset, and suid to people. Japan may claim to be the in- techinque. He must know, as his Near East can be relied upon to
From Vichy also came a report "I wonder what my poor wife is colleagues in Tokyo must know, have full knowledge of all that the that Vichy had decided to defend doing now?" experienced the activities of Fifth has been won in Europe the day of curity reasons they are not likely
that when the battle for freedom Germans are doing, but for se-alone and unaided Syria and Tunt-
Perhaps the war depressed him, Columnists before the Spanish reckoning wil dawn In Asta. The to spread abroad just what in-
stated Mr. Pocock, but at any rate Civil War had coined the expres- wrong done to Abyssinia is already
Admiral Darian had made it he had great protective instinct slon, She had her Quislings be being redressed. The day of res-
clear in his recent speech that he for his wife, fore Norway was invaded and that titution in China is not far dis
Intended to play more and more ALL EYES ON SYRIA
Judge Woodcock: KC., announc- gentleman had provided the world
into the hands of Germany and ing that Yeldham would be bound All eyes were now focussed on was already taking steps to do over, said he would remain in cus- with a new international word for p
tant.
Syria, stated MAJOR "traitor." These things were 'all
ALLEN this. An agreement had been tody until such time as MURRAY in a news commentary reached with the Reich for the stitution could be found to which an fn- happening before our eyes. yet LONDON, June 4 (Reuter)-broadcast from London last night use of French ports, how few people realized in the. A column of enemy troops and an adding that there now came a re
he would go for a period of treat- years 1931-8 what terrible con- armed trawler were attacked by port that Vichy had to'd
LANDING REPORT sequences were, to follow from the PA F. fighters operating over Germans to clear out of Syria.
the JERUSALEM, June 4 (Reuter)- passive acquiescence of the rest of Northern France and the Channel
There is no confirmation here of Hungarian Prime Minister arrived. It could be assumed the report the Ankara report that: Germans in Rome today and was met by the world in this new form of yesterday. Our aircraft returned was of German origin atd. we have landed at Latakia. on aggression.
safely, states the Air Ministry.
the Signor have had plenty of previous ex-Syrian coast.
Mussolini and Count Ciano, Italian Foreign Minister,
vector of them all. China had
formation they possess.
sta
.
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