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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1941.

STRIKING

DECLARATION BY THE

PREMIER IN HOUSE OF COMMONS:

WARNING OF INVASION SOUNDED

"It would be madness to suppose that Russia and the United States are go- ing to win the war for us," declared Mr. Churchill, the Premier. in the House of Commons yesterday, according to a Reuter message from London.

"The invasion season is at hand. All the armed forces are being warned to maintain the utmost vigilance in the meanwhile."

"We Are Working Ourselves Into A Total War Organisation"-A Strenuous Denial Of Any Chaos In The British War Production

"WE ARE NOT A TOTALITARIAN STATE BUT WE ARE WORKING OURSELVES INTO A TOTAL WAR ORGANISATION," MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL, PRIME MINIS- TER, VIGOROUSLY DECLARED IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS YESTERDAY WHEN OPENING THE DEBATE ON PRODUCTION, SAYS REUTER.

Mr. Churchill strenuously denied that there was any chaos in British war pro- duction and said: "A picture so luridly drawn of the chaotic and convulsive struggles of three supply departments, without guidance or design, is one which will, no doubt, be pleasing to our enemies but, happily, has no relation to facts."

Mr. Churchill told the House of Commons that in his capacity as Minister of De- fence, he had prepared for the War Cabinet, during the first three months of this year, a general scheme bringing together the whole of Britain's munition production and the whole of Britain's import programme, prescribing: just and reasonable targets at which to aim

POINTS FROM SPEECH

He said that he had dis- cussed these programmes with the Ministers and Ser- vice Chiefs and they were also examined by his statisticians.

own

THE GENERAL SCHEME RECEIVED FINAL AP- BY THE WAR

The following are points from PROVAL MR. CHURCHILL'S .spench tas CABINET ON MAR. 31.

cabled by Reuter):-

favour

in

A question arose however, Mr. The Battle of the Atlantic is Churchill proceeded, whether

their execution of the scheme, the moving slowly but steadily in our three supply departments had been

wanting in energy or through ex In the air battle we are main-cess of zeal bad quarrelled with taining. with our Aghters, our each other or trespassed on each superiority over the enemy as we other's domain. did a year ago. It is a fact that German air superiority has been of friction at the fringes of these! broken for the time being, and powerful organisations but I do not German air attacks on this coun try are not so serious.

"There was, no doubt, instances

belleve that they bear any pro- portion worth mentioning to their individual and concerted efforts.

·WASHINGTON, July 29 (Reuter)-PRESIDENT ROOSE- VELT returned to Washington today from Hyde Park to con- fer with Congress leaders and Service officials, after which steps are expected to be taken to forestall any further Jap- anese move in the Far East.

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CAMPAIGN BY

JAPANESE AGAINST THAILAND Fivefold Allegations Dismissed As Nonsense In Singapore: No Tokyo Demand To Join New Order

An ominous campaign, not dissimilar to that recently launched by the Japanese Press against Indo-China, has been started by Tokyo concerning THAILAND, says Reu- ter from Singapore.

During the past 24 hours, Tokyo alleged that

(1) BRITISH TROOPS are moving towards the Thai frontier; (2) BRITISH WARSHIPS are patrolling off the coast of Thailand; (3) STRONG ANGLO-SAXON pressure against Thailand is being exerted and supported by the "hostile " Chinese population residing in Thailand;

(4) BRITONS RESIDING in Thailand have begun to evacuate for Sin- gapore;

(5). THE FATE OF SYRIA" may be meted out to Thailand at any moment. These allegations were dismissed as complete nonsense in Singapore where at- tention was drawn to Britain's long record of friendship with Thailand.

The British attitude may be summed up as not wishing any rights and privileges for herself which are denied other Powers but also not wishing Thailand to grant

40 Thousand

Japanese Troops To

"A peace blitz will soon be hurled at us," said MB. EDEN, Foreign Secretary, In a broadcast in Lon- don yesterday, according to Ren- ter. "We are. however, not pre- Dared to negotiate with Hitler at any time, or in any circumstances. "His offer of a peace will be one of broken terms. There can be no peace with such a man. It would only be a truce to give him time to overhaul his war machino,

"It was only a desperate com- promise to compensate his people that Hitler embarked on his cam- paign against Russia. He seeks

HANOI, July 29 (Reater)-It; is two objectlyes, First, to smash Russia's military strength, and officially learned that the Japan- second, to offer a German peace ese are stationing 40,000 troops in to the world as the Sir Galahad Southern Indo-China. against Communism.

OUT OF JOINT

Be Stationed In Indo-China

DARLAN SIGNS VICHY, July 29 (Reuter)--Ad- miral Darlan today signed the protocol between France and Japan in relation to the joint defence of Indo-China.

any other Powers the rights and privileges denied Britain.

OBJECT OF TREATY

This, in fact, was the object of last year's treaty of non-aggression between Britain and Thailand,

Japanese warsh ps. lying off Saigon, are reported to be waiting for the tide to sall, up the Mekong River, which is the boundary between Thailand and French Indo-China, states. Renter.

150 Nazi Planes

Attempt To Bomb Moscow

Fighting continued on Monday night in the Nevel and Smolensk "His time-table for the first ob-

sectors, says a Russian communi- jective is already out of joint. The

que, according to Router. Russians are puking up magnif-

which is similar to the treatles

There is nothing of importance: cent resistance and, at the same The Japanese Ambassador Áign-concluded by Thalland with other on the other sectors. time, the German calculations led on behalf of his Government. Powers, and it remains the basis Between 140 and 150 German have been upset..

NOW EFFECTIVE

of the British policy towards Thai-planes attempted to bomb Moscow last night. Only four or five reach- There 18 some speculation led the city.

Times On "If Burma Be Attacked".

Should

IMPORTANT FACTOR

"Any compromise Peace now TOKYO, July 29 (Reuter)-A land. would be a monument of modera-Government spokesman announced tion, sweet reasoning and hypo- at a Press conference today that Singapore whether the Japanese Blight damage was caused and crisy. The Stark truth is that any the protocol would become effec-motive in spreading these ground-there were a number of casualties. peace or trice with Hitler will last tive immediately.

less rumours is to pave the way- Nine German machines were Just as long as he chose."

The draft of the protocol was in accordance with well-known brought down. LONDON, July 29 (B.WS.)----The

approved yesterday, by the Privy Axis tactics for Japanese de King and Queen yesterday visited] LONDON, July 29 (BWS.-Mr. Council in the presence of the mands on Thailand.

British Wireless adds that a fac- the Royal Merchant Navy School Peter Fraser. Prime Minister of Emperor.

CATEGORICAL DENIAL tor which may prove of greatest where some 200 boys and 100 girls New Zealand, who is a native of The protocol, the spokesman

BANGKOK, July 29 (Reuter); Importance in deciding the result orphans of merchant seamen Scotland, yesterday vialted indus- said, dealt with generalities with Authoritative That quarters cate-of the war is the possibility, or are being educated,

trials areas in Clydeside.

out touching on details.

gorically deny the report that otherwise, of Russia being able to Japan has demanded Thailand to properly equip her vast reserves join the new order in return for from Central Russla far behind: Laos and Cambodia.

the present front which must by now be barely fully mobilised but TRI-COLOUR HOISTED BATTOMBANG, Thailand, July which has not yet participated in 29 (Reuter)-A large number of the Aghting.

"WE THIRST" picturesquely attired Cambodians witnessed the hoisting of the That ZURICH; July 20 tri-colour by the That Cabinet This war is the most thirsty of member, Major Lang Kovid all wars, We thirst for so much. Abhaiwongse, over what once was as one hour without the noise of the palatial home of his childhood batties for a strip o. summer road days and till last evening occupied which does not smell of burning

and death." by the French Resident Supertor,

This extract from uerman tual restoration of That sovereignty soldier's letter written from the over 84,000 square kilometres of eastern front is quoted by the Ber- due to British production alone. In the next three months we shall

"Probably half the factories are "A successful thrust would en-dernity of equipment, which they Command are reasonably hopeful Indo-China territory with a popu-lin correspondent or the news double it again and in the six

of making an invasion of Northern lation of 400,000 retroceded to paper BUND, months after that we shall re-concerned and certainly more than able, the invader to sever vital com- would have to fight.

"The numbers and equipment Burma a dangerous undertaking. Thalland under the Tokyo Treaty. "But all this is trifling beside the Thirty-four years ago, Kovid's thirst for water to drink and wasn' double it. This is taking into ac-three-quarters of the men employ- muilcations to the south and, by

a secondary advance to Hsipaw, to have been strengthened in recent And an invader who aims at cut-father, performed the melancholy in. This is the worst war Ger- Continued Page 5, Col. 4

control the road to Lasblo and months and airfields have been ting Chiese communications must duty of hauling down the Thal many has had to fight. It is a China."

constructed and the Tar Eastern attack the northern part of flag on the same spot and handing war to win or perish against sol-

It is a fact that the United are giving us help on a

States

"A very high proportion of our

gigantic scale which is advancing war production is carried out in in rising wrath and conviction to the factories, working solely for the very verge of war.

There is no doubt that Russia is)

fighting strength.

back with immense

one department.

SYSTEM WORKED OUT

"A system has been worked out for allocation of the capacity of

We have doubled our discharge private engineering firms either to

of bombs over Germany. This is

count American aid.

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a single department or to two or more departments.

Today's News Summary

BRITAINS WORKING FOR. A total war organisation. Mr. Churchill, the rime Minister, in the House of Commons, declared yesterday that would be madness to suppose that Russia and the United States were going to win the war for us. In the air we were maintaining our superiority over the enemy as we did a year ago. It was a fact that America was giving help on a gigantic scale. The discharge of bombs on Germany would be doubled in the next three months and redoubled in the six months after that.

SIMILAR TO THE CAMPAIGN WHICH preceded the move into French Indo-China, the Japanese Press has thrust allegations con- cerning Thailand asserting that British warships were patrolling the waters off Thailand and that Britons had already evacuated Thal The rumours are dismissed as nonsense in Bingapore.

TT IS OFFICIALLY STATED THAT 40,000 Japanese troops will be stationed in Southern Indo-China, Japanese warships are waiting for the tide to sail up the Mekong River. by

THE DUKE OF KENT HAS ARRIVED in Ottawa where he was received, among others by the Ouvernor-General of Canada, the Earl of Athlone.

M: HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL" RAIDS ON BICILY by the RAF are re- ported. Thirty-four anony plates were accounted for,

LONDON. July 29 (Reuter)-Under the heading "If Burnos Should be Aftacked" THE TIMES publishes an article from its Special Correspondent in Burma in which he states that JAPAN HAS LONG BEEN STUDYING THE POSSIBILITIES OF AN ATTACK ON BURMA FROM BASES IN SOUTH- WEST ASIA, which she would have littl, difficulty in establishing.

"The most probable objective of such an attack would be the BURMA ROAD for while China resists Japanese forces are fargely tied down.

The attack might come through the southern Shari States along the main roads leading west to Konglung, Lofler and Taunggyi.

Declaring that the enemy would encounter strong resia- tande by foroes well-trained to operate in a country which must be seen to be belleved, the correspondent continues: "An invasion from the east would be faced with formidable obstacles."

He instanced rains which begin in May and last for six months. flooding rivers and mountain- streams; mountain ranges and in- tervening gorges varying from 800" to 8,000 Toet' above sea level which run at right angles to any road or rait ayatem that can be devised; there

roads near the frontler, but those that exist cari usually be used throughout thà yeur..

Aro few

The correspondent declaron: "The Japanese military authözlkļos are fully aware of the geographical problem they would have to face, but they do not know the weight of the military forces and the moi

-On Other- Pages

Page

2 Charity gala; Recreio rinks; ...League tennis,

3. Chinese Medical Association meeting: Round the. Polico Courts.

4 Leading article: Checked

on all Fronts,

6 Radio programmes: Coming events Police Rosorve -ordera: Urban Council meet-

• Ing.

7 Advance of Nast hordes stemmed; Indian war casu- aitina in Africa); Pinos break off rotations with Bri- tain

Finance and commerce... Dearonse in Colony's Import and export trade,

Burma.".

AMPLE NOTICE The correspondent considers...a

The function signalised the ac-

(Reuter)

over Battombang to the French. dlers who fight with desperate oh-

stinacy even in Hopeless situa“- tions.""

hostile attack overland from the. OIL PACT

north unlikely and adds that;

Burma would have ample notice:

of it.

"But the gravest risk would be;

SUSPENDED

MOBILISATION OF RUSSIANS

attack through the Shan States TOKYO, July 29 (Reuter) The NEAR COMPLETION

combined with R

Broadcasting from London 708- concentrated Dutch Government has suspended bombing of Bhamo, Lashio and an the Oll Pact concluded last year terday. MAJOR ALLEN MURRAY Russian friend had air-borne invasion. Such an at between Japan and the Nether; said that tack would be bau enough for funds East Indies, states a mossage told him that Rusalan mobilization Burma but might well be dauz from Batavia.

was just about being completed troua for China if it destroyed the Observers here expressed doubt now. They had allowed for five great quantities of supplies, which whether the step was merely tem- weeks if everything went t as it are always accumulating in these porary to cope with the unstable should.

caused by the This Russian lend had also two centres, or wrecked the rat exchange rate

freening of -- Japanese musets or stated that, even ir mobiltaation communicatione,

whether the Netherlands East I had been seriously delayed it could dies plans for total suspensión of not be prevented. It was equally oll contracts in order to "Intensity | bv-nus, that the Germans had hostility against Japan" - failed to make the necessary These quarters, however, believed broach in the. Ruslan lines of that the Netherlands East Indies. communications to, upret the mo- carried out the move in concert bilisation." The Russians still hela. with Britain and America,

Beningrad, "Makaow and Kiev, 14

The correspondent concludes by saying that the Kuthorities of Britain, have done much to strengthen three vital points miainst attack but more is res qúired and great lassen" da pend on the maintenance" of China's Ulfelines. *