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BRITISH LABOUR SUPPORT POLITICAL PARTY TRUCE

́ ́LONDON, June is Renter)-Support for continuation of the political party truce agreed to between the conservative, Liberal and Labour Parties in Britain when Mr. Winston Chur- chill became Premier was given yesterday at the annual confer- ence of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, whose membership of over 590,000 includes many of Britain's armament workers.

CAPTAIN JAMES ROOSEVELT IN

PORTUGAL

LISBON, June

WATER CONSERVANCY WORK

been Remarkable progress has achieved in water conservancy, forestation and animal husbandry in the Northwest, according to Mr. The Union's Frequent, Mr. Jer Shen Yi, General Manager of the Tanner, said: "I do not see any- Northwest Corporation for Water Forestation and one who can get a greater maj- Conservancy,

arrived ority of the people behind him Animal Husbandry, who than Mr. Churchill. He is & man in Hongkong a few days ago on an of outstanding character and can officina mission. get the unity of the whole people of this country.

FINANCE & GENERAL

Mahatma Gandhi's Article

On War Criticised

The following is an extract from Mahatma Gandhi's article on comunal riots:

"In Europe two forces, equally matched in destructive skill The goal before and bravery, ure ranged against one another. both is domination. As a man wedded to independence and non-violence, I must fight Nansm and Fascism equally with the enslaving British Imperfallsm.

who

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and the Motherland, Obviously. this is more relevant for to the war and the International, wanted his countrymen to be situation produced thereby than their land what other peoples were to the question of Hindu-Muslim in theirs, yet felt that "the whole can, in its Mr. Shen, who Was formerly riots which was the main subject of this aspiration Commissioner of Public Works in of the Mahatma's article, writes a essence and its reality, be realised

comment within is satisfied Shanghai, revealed that the co-prominent Indian în a which this poration was capitalised at $10 on this article. of which $7,009,000 under the 000,000, by having borne by the Bank of China and the remaining $3,000,000 by the one Kansu Provincial Government By 28 votes to 23,

Dr. T. V. Soong is Chairman of the neutral, the conference defeated a,

of Directors. among resolution calling for the imme-the Board Looking bronze and fit, he told diate repudiation of the political whom are Mr. Sung Han-charg. been responsible for his anti-war

(Reuter) - "The Labour Party Captain James Roosevelt, eldest that the only way in son of the United States President, war can be conducted arrived here yesterday

ten days present circumstances is behind his schedule on his way this truce"

Washington back to

tra- alter round velling 30,000 miles globe

Reuter: "I have got a pretty ac-trace and of suspension curate general picture of the war and national elections.

with

Was

ATTITUDE TO WAR The significance of the passage that incidentally lies in the fact

towards his attitude it explains

which has the war, the attitude

situation. Alr power is a tremen- The report of the Union's Exe- of the same bank and Mr. Hwoh as if the two were

dous if not a dominating factor In this war."

sald: "There is a great demand our part is mainly to use A ment of water

Jor

American

materials in

the

avaliable powers on the munitions the balance

We must con- animal husbandry.

east and although many problema production field. remain unsolved as yet, one can tinue the collaboration with the

satisfied be reasonably

with the

Government. to this end." help getting material

through. Nowhere is help more greatly ap

priciated than in China where I American & Canadian

was Impressed by the cheerful confidence of the people."

MR. R. G. MENZIES REVIEWS THE MILITARY POSITION

Community Of Ideal,

Bonorary Degree from Princeton University yesterday.

He is on a brief visit to the

United States.

He told the graduating class

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NOT THE SAME LEVEL

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this empire." Mahatma Gandhi himself once paid a glow- ing tribute to the British Empire In the following words: ~~~

"As & passive resister....I dia- covered that the British Empire nad certain ideals with which I have fallen in love, and one of those Ideals is that every

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Satyagraha Mr. Gandhi spesks of local General Manager of the Bank of

of Nazism and the British Empire China, Mr. Tsuyee Pel, Manager

equally great if the only choice cutive Committee.

which will be Yi-min, manager of the Northwest evils and as

before the lovers of freedom was later branch of the banλ. conference fald before the

to offer equal resistance to both. Of the capital, $7,000,000 Mas Captain Roosevelt, who was un

We have more than once stated this week, states: "Now is not the able to discuss military problems, time

that there is not for internecine conflicts. been earmarked for the develop-

our conviction and conservancy

and the least substance in this sort of

And if this was true of the Bri- for forestation

but we argument.

may. with tigh Empire in 1918. it is more apologies, examine t once more. true in 1941. For, in the mean- When misleading statements cat- time it has become a little less culated to do harm are repeated of an Empire and a little more

of eminence

Hitler is one by leaders

and of a commonwealth. fluence they call for repeated re- of the worst enemies that the pudiation.

British Empire has known, and yet it has extorted even his 20- The Mahatma begins by assert-miration. Said the Fuehrer some PRINCETON, June 18 (Reuter), "Between you and us is community

thu the parties equallyume before the outbreak of purpose. Ing

It war: Canada and the United States of thought, ideal and

that both Britain shall forever walk together as the Our common disdain of fleeting matched in destructive skill. best of good neighbours" said the things that will pass, our common is true

Prime Minister, Mr. love of eternal things that will Germany are great powers: but it

does not

should ean that one Canadian Mackenzie King in receiving the remain.

place them on the salie level There is the great difference that Germany is using its undoubted

bound up with the triumph of military prowess to estaplish do-

HOPE AND TRUST

Britain in the Me and death minacion Over the world or at

"Is it fair for a mausima way struggle in which she 18 engaged. least over as inuch of it as it can

to Britain deserves all the support. manage to subjugate. while Bri.more than for

Indians are capable in plying to

Do question, the Secretary for Air sald tain is fighting in the aclence of speak of the British Empire as it or which

Nazism the prosecution of the war. It stood on a part with International mora freedom and

the the progress of the Air Training and Fascism? We have our quar- they not believe equally in

dernocracy Corps continues to give cause for

satisfaction. $1816 The goal before both is domina-rel with it for the slow pace of our cause of freedom and #791

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progress towards Swaraj. But can for which Britain is fighting with £761 £8

This statement i preposterous one deny that that movement is the support of America, the seat Greatest democracy that £23 in relation to the present

in that direction? Is it not India's of the war.

Over 1,000 candidates for com- The war started because Germany hope and trust that she will ac- the world has yet known?

on quire sooner than later a status speak as Mahatma Gandhi does missions have been accepted for made an unprovoked attack Poland and because Britain, along of full equality in the British Em. If there was nothing to choose service with the Corps and some with France had promised Poland pire? Nazism does not believe in between Britain and Germany and 740 units have been affliated to

strong democracy; it started its career we could be indifferent to the R.A.F. stations.

war is positively. thewith destroying what deшucracy fortunes of the feeling in a large part of $176 civilised world including India there existed in Germany before grossly unfair.

CANBERRA, June 18 (Reuter) Mr. R. G. Menzies, the Australian Prime Minister, in a nation-wide broadcast reviewing position, said: "As Germany creeps

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"I have never left room for any doubt of my bellef that the existence of this Empire is an inestimable factor of value for the whole of human cultural and economic life."

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