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Governor Broadcasts On Economic War Effort
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more fully and partly in order to have, somehow, to be woven into
CABLE
JAP. OUTPOSTS CABLE NEWS
IN FOOCHOW
ATTACKED
say publicly and frankly what was a consistent and positive builty by Quantities Of Arms
In my mind when 1 spoke in the (the Economic War Eilart Commis- Counci
Tuey May have Hi&ki
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Captured
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IN BRIEF
LONDON, June 27 Reuter - AC Privy Council meeting at Buck Ingham Palace yesterday morning
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Peter Fraser New Zealand Prime Minister, and Mr. Massey. Australian High Comm ssioner, I will put my mutt point is the some daylight for us, but it louks
were appointed members of the form of a question of two Do we (as though they will have to keep SHULKOW. June 26 (Central) Privy Counchy by His Majesty the here in Hongkong realize fully the their own lamps burning late into, Japanese outposts in the suburban King. gravity of the situation in which the night before they find all the areas of Foochow have been sub
jected w harassing attacks by CAIRO. June the British Empire finds itself to- right answers.
ZT (Reuter)-- Chinese noblle day? Is it really burne in upon The objects w
units during the Lrish troops on Wednesday made De served by
jew past
days. Among the points further substantial penetrations on us how imperative is that we denying murselves everything that
ralded were Nanyu, Hamel, Ling- a wide front to the salient held should now throw every ounce of its not necessary for the healthy toyin. Takisotow and Hungshan by the enemy in the outer defences our weight into the struggle which maintenance of body and soul are kia where more than 100 casualties of the perimeter at Lobruk, accord Great Britain
maintaining threefold.
were inflicted on the Japanese and ing to a Calro communque pester against the enslavement f the
quantilles of arın and supplies day. world?
vaptureti. In the engagement near Nanyu, four Japanese so dlers were! taken prisoner.
The time has gone by for complacency. The time has come to face facts: to acknow- ledge to ourselves that if the British Empire Is to survive this war we. together with all its other colonies, have got to fighten our belts and play our part in like manner with that in which the people of Great Britain are playing theirs, at any rutr so far as circum- stances will allow us to.
-Every ton of shipping apace saved is a ton given to our fighting men and the people who are bearing the reai brunt of this
war.
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VICHY. June 21 Reuter)-The Governor-General of Algeria. Ad A Japanese munitions depot 1 mira Abrial, left Algiers yesterday side Foochow city was set on fire by plane for Vichy acemmpanied Every hour 01 labour
by Chinese plain clothesmen ad by Clonel Lagande, Deputy Chief switched from the manufac-biown up, resulting in heavy leg +2 hus Military Cabinet Admiṛa¦ ¦ ture of non-essentials Lo
sess to the Japanese.
Abrial whose absence will be short. that of war supplies means Skirmishing has been going on is returning to Vichy to co: fer an earlier victory
frequently in the Invmediate with the Government and deal Every pound sterling not outskirts of the city. On June 22, with a certain number of matters spent on laxurles means the Chinese captured two points. concerning Algeria, better gold dollar exchange Foofah und Lægten. and repulsed for Great Britain--and that the Japanese attacking Lushan is perhaps the most vitally Important of the three. The gravest peri by far that
Tunnake Labour and Sterling threatens the British Empire today
These three are vital Jaetors in the Is not the German raider Je in
Economics of War and we must vader by land. Sea or alr 1 is not. the tank the bomb, or the torpedo strain every nerve to conserve them
that
ECONOMIC PERI.
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We have most to lear
danger aquarzidanaby
greatest
lies on the ecmyynti e Side
If Hitler as rash though to an vade the British! Isies he will ru
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NANCHANG REVERSE CHUNGKING, Jun 28 Centra Some 900 casualties were recently pustained by the Japanese In nor
hern Klangs as the result of a severe engagement with the Chi ese in the vicinities of Nanchang Machin. CİLSİ
Nanchang averding 1: firia dispatch re jeetved byte
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On June 18. are thun 2.000 Jai
LONDON, June 27 Reuter- "Divine providence in human events" is the theme of a message which His Holiness the Pope will broadcast from Vatican City at 12.30 p.m. on Sunday, says the Sle fand news agency The occas.on is the feast of St. Peter and St Paul and the message will be addresse
the whole world
CANBERRA. June 27 (Reuter-
panese troops based in Nanchang Most of the Australians evacuales
semper of the Beratenie Wal Effort Chaunpifters labours is y..st. but ven so 1 dias not enter the the day on which hashes it wn while field. for thongh I would and unehed are more than ready for nuc The shut them out hom eunsideration German submarin and raider of its posetilitrs. I have not spert. have done us enormous harm at fically mentioned taxation in terms sea: nevertheless we are slowly and in reference
yarule attacks 10 Chuchu. murfheast of Noncang. Marbon east ....1 Nunchang
and Wok!, southeast of Nanchang
Intercepted by the Chinese, tha surely Wilh Qu help of Ki 1 1axstupa however. Lavern
attackers werd engaged in heavy friends, winning the ballke of the ment has a more flexible and mon
fighting for two days and ights
Atlante.
effective astrumcnt for enforcing? On Jun 26. they were routed by a Many streets and great buildings reotulny Wilton:
converted Chinese alark and led Na chang, abandon ng a
The evanumanity
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In the rities of England. Scotland than any other I do not propose large numbered war dead and cou
Arad Wales have been smashed but bought even to suggest how thatsderable war material
we are giving Germany's factories, listrament can be put into fur-
docks and arsrial today more the use but I wth quote a tew
ths she has given us, and as the words from the Chancellor of the
mat
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much pleasure in announcing
We
have
we have
been appointed
SOLE AGENTS
for
RESCH'S
SPECIAL EXPORT
PILSENER
Product of
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
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STOCKS ARE NOW AVAILABLE
CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO.
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from Crete and Greece are enjoy ing a rest fr Paletine Mr. Spes der Austral
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Mir ister. Was kely, but should the situa stated yesterday A cable from Brtion be relaxed that urgent step Thomas Homey, Australian Com permitting return of the evacuates
that thewould be taken without delay. ander in Chief, said
Ben were great heart and had been re organised and re-equipped durYDR 15o pause
MILITARY NECESSITY
To the question that if the evacuation was and still is a military necessity why Government sudden LONDON June 27 (Reuter--The ly stepped in and made it volun- Nether ands. Admiralty stated that tary for those who had remained Dutch submarine, in co-operation in the Colony and had evaded the with the British Navy has sunk Evacuation
Order the Governor
enemy tanker of about 7,000 replied that to state the reasons
by the spade of our at Exchequer's speech in the House by the public or which has been, tous and a supply ship of 500 tons. tack will rise higher ond higner at Commons on the las: Budget Voted by the Legislature has gone!
But all the s glerous teats will whet: go straight to the Funda-1 serve the highly useful purpose avall us but Httle unless the E-¦mental principir which I have in of helping Great Britalu to pay pire can find more and ever more mind.
ships, planes. arms and ammuni- "The primary object
these
her war b. nd His Majesty's Government has expressed a very
Lions for our Fighting Forres wher- proposals is not to obtain taxation sincere gratitude in that oremunt ever they may be, and food for the beleaguered people of Great Brl
tain.
ENORMOUS STRAIN
And the provision al all that great category of supplies depends prin- cipally on this. Can the British
Empire stand the enormous. hitherto undreamed of, stram
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for taxation's sake. ner to raise revenue for the sake of revenue, but to make a considerable cut in purchasing power during war."
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I trust that nothing that 1
barto say tonight will do those voluntary Funds which But the new are still open. tile
revenue which increased laxa. tion would bring in calls for Regarded different treatment.
BOUNDEN DUTY Given then, that it out boun- cen duty to take upon our should- ers a heavier burden of taxalon-
her resources which their turnist-jund that. I content, cannot be re- Ing enlaus? I can but only by futed there comes the question! one way. and that is for every of ability
that one end.
That
word meaning-saying
from
the strictly economic point of view the most imme- diately effective use to which
It could be put would be to pul it
in into production here Hongkong; in other words ta build ships war vessels ог freighters-and to produce equipment and munitions of war on the spot.
Russian Planes Dive-Bomb Constanza
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for thig step would at the pre- sent time. not be in the public (interest
The assertion that the military point of view was not justifiable, His Excellency added. he would not accept
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To the suggestion that the Government in their Evacua- tion scheme had rode rough- shod over
section of the community and had allowed those with sufficient influence to stay or on our preteså m another to return. His Excel- leney replied that the strictest inquiries would be made into the return to the Colony of all unauthorised persons.
ANKARA. June 22 (Reuter)- Russian planes ralding CONSTAN- ZA late on Sunday afternoon New low over the city and dive-bomb- ed, in spite of intense anti-aircraft where the
His Excellency further said that Colonial Secretariat
fire received from the Rumanian had met requests from the Com- Black Sea port.
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mittee with a rebuff, these were not intended and replies had often to be evasive.
to pay. That, of unil of the Empire, larg. and equise. Is a most intricate matter small, rich and poor, to do its ut and I can only deal with it very most and
give
generally tonight.
I would begin by "utmost Its fullest
that aut increase must
Twenty-one raiders. flying be either in direct taxation-as for
waves of three, bonibed the busi example through the War Revenue
By so dung not only would we ness quarter and ducks hitting a taxes, unless those are replaced by but but we would also secure de-
help to pay Great Britain's war destroyer. an Income Tax-ur. if it is in in-livery of the goods at the same
The very first bomb dropped hit direct taxation, must concern itself
a petrol dump. solely with luxury and semi-luxury
Every ship yard and factory)
MANY TANKS goods.
home is Lusy 'to capacity' NEW YORK. June 27 (Reuter) obtain whereas here we have ample la-The Russians have two-thirds the which were created hour at our doors The manufac-number of German planes but overnight. File Excellency re- tures which ur taxas. if spent twice as many tanks in action it plled querying here, would bring into being would ta rellaby reported in WASHING
In the old phrase, it is for British today a case of "Hoot! Hug, or die." That may sound despairing to some ears; but I am at the other end of the scale from despair, knowing as I do from my own sixty years' experience, as well as from his- tory, that once the British hog realizes that he has got to root, he does-and he sar- vives!
Well! the time has come for that; process How are we going to set about it? In the first place there is the Economic War Effort Com- mittee. You may have tasted its first-fruits with your early morn Ing tea, but Its task is not going to be such easy going as that for the most part.
A more technical
The vast majority-at least 95 per cent of the people who live bere certainly can bear nu heavier burden then is their today indeed their relief is one of our major problems. And there is, secondly, a large class of wage-earners who are fully taxed already: many of them, who are compelled by the hard necessity of war to keep up two homes, can clearly stand no further taxation, direct or indirect.
where above them in the social
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go immediately to swell the stocks
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To the suggestion that there had been present in the granting of exemptions to certain women certain discrimination, many wo- mnen being fortunate enough to for themselves positions for them
crimination". quiries he
"dis- the word adding that en- instituted inte the They are credited with 48 tank matter revealed that exemptions of war stores and equipment which brigades, compared with 12 Ger- had almost entirely emanated from His Majesty's Government needs man panzer divisions. for our sailors, soldiers and air-
the Government Medical Services. Russian forces are disposed as the A. R. P. Administration and other Government and Military
meri Lastly, the employment s follows: given would help to keep the Twenty-three divistons east of [Colony going: and that is one of Finland, 42 south and 12 south-
our prime imperial duties.
MINOR CONSIDERATIONS!
I suppose that not a few of my hearers will think this a very dis-
east of Finland, 24 in the centre on the Polish front and 48 south
establishments.
Was it not nearer the truth to
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ENTIRELY DISAGREE Mr. J. Shepherd said that he on the Ukraine frontier with 16 would disagree almost entirely with the answers submitted to the Com- or more, in reserve.
German strength is made up of mittee's questions by His Excel- 130 German divisions, 20 Rumanian lency the Governor. Well! War is a very disagree and 10 Finnish. able thing at any time; but we
heavy suppose that someone in Hongkong Germany 19 conceded a are getting near to the end of the advantage in naval strength in the had blundered?
His Excellency had queried the second year of this one and we Baltic bat Russia has it by an
minor considerations! so I will end Bea. where I began.
bit of work which they have put through is to draft a scheme for scale a taxable margin begins agreeable talk, to say the least of the sale of loeul War Savings Cer- appear la a question for close and
expert Laquiry; but. tificates which will. I hope, meet
unquestion-! with the approval of the Homeably, at the upper end there are Authorities. But the main pro-
some—relatively few it may be.
'Bow can the importa- far from inconsiderable-who are tion Into Hongkong of non-essen- a long way from being taxed fully.
"SUCCESSFUL” OPERATIONS OF
LONDON, June 27 (Reuter) The ADML. SCHEER
blems which the Committee has to but from the Treasury view-uulatare, or ought to be heyond such overwhelming margin in the Black word discrimination, Quite rigaV" | Maaraba, a few miles to the north jbss returned to a German Base
solve' sure:
con-
tial goods
Whatever their Be reduced to the
number or their minimum?* 'How can
nationality may be, if they are tbe aumption In Hongkong of neces-
living here and have prospered sary commodities be administered here. safe under the British g with the maximum of economy? and sheltered by Great Britain's And lastly, How can these restric-might, and if they can afford to tions be brought about without two pay more in taxes, their ability very dangerous reactions being en- and obligation are plain: in this talled? that le to say without killing time of crials they must share to the mainspring of the Colony's the full the Burden now being: prosperity,
horne by the people of Great Bri- ! entrepot trade: our and secondly, without crippling in, who are, as the saying is, al- our growing ability to supply the ready 'paying till it hurts.' Navy, Army, and Air Force and the PROCEEDS OF TAXATION Merchant Service with what they One last word on the bast use to need to fight and to win this war?' which we could put the proceeds
*FOSITIVE POLICY
of increased taxation. The money Thore sarming irreconcilables which has been subscribed bere
Let me state that motive in Mr. Churchill's stirring words:
"We have but one alm and one
HARBOUR RESCUE
of DamascUS.
British forces in Syria are gradual-
LONDON, June 27 (Router)— ty closing in on the strongly forti
fed that no credence was attach- fled town of Palmyra.
munique claims that the German The Free French bave occupied pocket battleship Admiral Scheer,
after "long and successful opera- In the Mer) Ayoun area, cavalry tions in patrols are in touch with Vichy Atlantic." forces. In Libya, the recant suc-
The communique says that as cessful operation by the British forges at Tobruk was over a front previously announced the "Scheer Mr of about 2,000 yards, having the has sunk altogether 152,000 tons,
complete convoy effect of shortening the British including a
ly, for the word was out of place. The word to cover correctly the evacuation muddle was "nepotism."
His Excellency should dis- miss instantly thom who had brought about the chaos,
single irrevocable purpose. Chin Hel, 05. attempted to com- We are resolved to destroy mit sufelde at 4 pm, yesterday "I suggest we deal directly with
Home Hitler and every vestige of when he jumped off, in mid-har-the
Government," the Nazi regime. We shall bour, from
vehicular &
ferry 'Shepherd concluded.
NO CONFIDENCE Mr. Taylor began by saying that
Committee. "We are divided. We
fight him by land, we shall launch which had left the Jordan ( fight him by sea, we shall Road Wharf. He was rescued by! nght him in the air: until: Ballors and sent to Queen Mary he had no confidence at all in the with, God's help wo will rld Hospital.
the earth of all those who have shadowed it and wil}
liberate the enslaved peoples AGED WOMAN FALLS from his yoke....That is our A woman, Lam Chol, 72, fell policy and that our declara- from the third floor of No, 127 tion: that course we shall Jervois Street. yesterday at 5.30 pursue-faithfully and to the nm. She later succumbed in the
Queen Mary Hospital
end."
line.
AMBULANCE IN MISHAP
80,000 tons
the North and South
of
The loss of the German wuxi- itary cruiser Pinguin. In the In- dian Ocean in a fight with the British cruiser Cornwall is ad mittod.
| must make a stand serious," ̈de-
termined, sincere and unfted-to An ambulance of the Fire Bri-
Authoritative London comment show Government how we feel. I rade, while carrying a patient from venture that we show this by a the New Territories to the Kowloon on the German High Command regarding the Adiniral demonstratoin, quiet, orderly, but Hospital, was involved in an acclaime
cident with a private car at the foheer was: “As the result of re- with a purpose,"
Other speakers included Messrs. 14-Male Stone, near Talpo, ester connaissance, it is known that the 8. Jarvis, Cafm, W. P. day at 11 am
Seven Schaer tide been 't Harbour since Cenlow and J. Spradberry,
Both vehicles suffered damage. the middle of April,”
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