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NO SIGN OF ANY IMMEDIATE AGGRAVATION IN THE FAR EAST

Barring an announcement by Thailand of a desperate death. glory resolve to defend against aggression, there Bas been no sign of any immediate aggravation in the Far Eastern situation, ac- cording to Reuter from Singapore.

Nevertheless, MK. A. DUFF-COOPER'S remark in New York. that the British Government is expeeling great developments in the Far East to come at a time when signs are again appearing after a fortnight's tull. was a proverbial one before the storm,

One usually unerring indication ed without American co-operation, of this is the reinflux of those 10 which the G.O.C replied "Mather Carey's chickens," foreign tactfully: correspondents, mostly American,

"That is rather a big question who migrated from Singapore but I would put it this way that some time ago, a number of which i think It Is of the utmost impor- has suddenly arrived and

lance at present that Britain and are expected.

America should be in step in any action they take in the Far East, pofitically and otherwise.

more

In a typical forthright manner, one American correspondent asked Lieut. General A. E. Percival.

"Undoubtedly 0.0.C. Malaya. In a general Press

the attitude America has tremendous interview. whether Gen Percival felt that Malaya could be defend-tance on Japan's polley"

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FAR EASTERN CRISIS IS FEATURED IN BROADCAST

WASHINGTON. Aug. 11 (Central)Two special nation-wide radio broadcasts yesterday featured the Far Eastern crisis and the United States' policy towards Japan. indicating increasing concern over the Thailand development.

The University of Chicago Round Table Discussion originating from New York's discussion entitled "Japan: the Setting Sun" fea- tared Mr. Tyler Dennet, former advisor to the State Department. Dr. H. F MacNair. Chicago Professor of Far Eastern History, Mr. Nathaniel Peffer. Professor of International Relations at Columbia University

The commentators unanimously southward penetration agreed that Britain and America

IF SHE CAN

CABLE

American Journalist Tells “Schickelgruber" That The British Is. Is Unassailable

LONDON, Aug. 11 (British Wireless)-QUENTIN REYNOLDS. American Journalist whose recent broadcast to Dr. Joseph Goebbels from London was widely quoted abroad. last night spoke to Herr Jitter in the same vein.

Reynolds throughout addressed Hitler as Schickelgruber the Fuehrer's original family name After saying that it might be wise

to change back to the name of Schickelgruber because no one can really be angry at anyone named Schickelgruber and so many are really angry at the name Hitler" Reynolds made a telling indict- ment of the "Mein Kampf."

He said: I find one paragraph in it very interesting It is your estimate of the value of pro- paganda Your actual words are ' by propaganda, with clever and permanent application. even hea- ven can be palmed off on the peo- ble as hell, and, the other way round the mast wretched life as paradise

now.

"I wonder if you believe that Let us consider the pro- paganda You send outside Germany. Honestly, it doesn't fool anyone now. It fooled Britain and my country for years. It fooled Belgium, Hol- land, Czechoslovakia and Nor-

It way.

didn't fool Russia though, did it?

"But did your agents notice that somehow most of the pic- tares in the shop windows happened to fall downwards? DIB Your agents tell

you proudly that every

DRDET in France published Darlan's pie- ture on page one? But did they add, Mr. Schickelgruber, that almost half of the papers printed the picture in the Fifth Column?”

Reynolds then dealt with the new German propaganda cam- paign which he said "starts today in America

He

said: "You

know, Mr. Schickelgruber, Britain has eyes and ears all over Europe, even in Germany, and here we know all PACT WITH RUSSIA

about your new peace offensive. "When you made that pact with It has died before it is born." Russia in 1939 you declared Reynolds finally told Hitler that Joyously to the Relehstag 'Russia his greatest mistake was to and Germany fought against one "awaken the dead" in England. another in the war. That shali! "When you bombed Plymouth. not and will not happen again. Francis Drake came out of hie Then in Der, 10, 1940, in a broad-legendary past to live once more east you paid high tribute to the in the city from which he so people of Russia and you declared: often sailed. And when slap- In a terrible struggle the Russian happy Hermann's Futile Fusillers people rose and freed themselves bombed from the clique of power-thirsty lightships do you think then that machine-gunned

magnates of finance, trade, raw Nelson slept? Once more Nelson materials and industry.

is roused and today his spirit rides "But the Russians remembered, the bridge of every ship that flies wha" you had said years before the British flag. It le dangerous on page 538 of Mein Kampf-the to awaken the dead, Mr. Schickel- present rulers (f Russia are bloodstained criminals. dregs of

BRITAIN UNASSAILABLE humanity. The Silent Man in the Kremlin said nothing but he re-

"Do you think then that Wei- Mr Hamilton Fish declared that membered and prepared. Meverick of the "Fight for Free- he hasn't love for Japan raiding 630 you satu.

On page ngton slumbers in his grave or 'Bolshevism is an that Allenby sleeps? dom Committee," and Mr

John due to ruthless warfare in China Infamous crime against humanity. never lle, Mr. Schickelgruber. Do

and that Japan has few friends in The Silent Man in the Kremlin you

should attack from the flank 11 Mr Vorys apined that Japan will Japan invaded Thaliand. All take the Philippines if she can. urged the United States to take drelaring "the Japanese Govern- immediate steps and to compel ment be slapped down." Japan to recede from the South Pacific, adding that the only way to establish peace in the Far East is by war.

The United States policy to- wards Japun was discussed 111

Washington by Mr. Paul McNutt, Mr. Hamilton Fish,

Mr. Maury

Vorys. Ohio Congressman

Urging that the United States should "smack Japan now," Mr. Vorys favoured out- right declaration of war. He believes that the United States is powerful enough to

stop Japan without fighting.

The speakers favoured strong the United States. He urged more said nothing but ordered and firm policy against Japan re- aid to China, emphasising that airplanes and more tanks. engnising, that the United States' China's fight has given the United vital physical and economic States opportunity to rearm and security is threatened by Japan's resist aggression.

PRESSURE ON

TURKEY

ruber.

and

Old soldiers

notice that thousands of more naval officers wear their capa at a jaunty angle half covering one eye? You know then that Ad- miral Beatty still lives! It is dan "No, your propaganda doesn't gerous to awaken the dead! fool people any more. Mr. They live again in the hearts Schickelgruber, Every trick your of men and they know that they'

UNAVAILING

PROPAGANDA

ENEMY PLANES OFF tle gabby man has tried to work died not in vain. They know this

EAST COAST LONDON, Aug #1 (BWS) official communique states:-

In France has falled. You will re- 1stand is as unassailable as truth. call that on June 15 last, in an An effort

"These gallant ghosts of the to popularise the once past know they will be joined soon respected but now "A small number of enemy air-

despised Ad-by thousands of their countrymen niral Darlan he ordered every and women who are alive tonight. craft last night flew off the East shop in France to display the Ad- But who in this island fears death coast of England and Scotland. miral's picture. He also ordered if he may then walk with Drake Only one penetrated any distance every newspaper in both occupied and Nelson and Beatty and the inland. ANKARA, Aug. 11 (Reuter-Five

Bombs which were dropped and unoccupied France to print other immortals? German commercial experts, who at a point in Scotland caused nel- the likeness of Darlan on the first

"It is dangerous to awaken the arrived at Istanbul recently, receiv. ther damage nor casualties"

page. The order was obeyed,

dead!"

Nazis Told Time Unpropitious

ed a telegram yesterday Instruct- ing them to go to Bucharest as the time was unpropitious for putting pressure on Turkey to conclude an agreement, and negotiations can be resumed when "the Russian situation was clearer," it la fedred by business circles in Istanbul

The experts arrived with the in- structions to negotiate for. firstly. a clearing agreement or 100,000.-

000 Turkish pounds each way,

Defence Production

Throughout America

Picking Up-Knudsen

LONDON. Aug. 9-Mr. W. 8. Knudsen, U.S. Director-General of secondly, the continuation of the Defence, said yesterday, during a trip to the Vie Wright Aeronauti

private barter trade between Ger- man and Turk'sh organisation, and thirdly, technical work such construction of bridges

METAL SHORTAGE

IN FRANCE ZURICH, Aug 11 (Renter) Franco-German Industrial laboration is hampered by shortage of metals in France.

as

cal Factory, Paterson, New Jersey. that the defence production throughout the nation was picking up and that 58 per cent, of the maximum schedule would probably be ready by Janitary when the rate of machine tool output would be $1,000,020,000 annually, as against $890,000,000 at present, $200,000,000 in 1939 and an average of $130,000,000 in the preceding three years.

He

ARREST OF MR. TITLEBAUM

SHANGHAI, Aug. 11 (Reuter) Breaking the official silence on the matter, Mr. Leighton Shields, the United States District Attorney, this morning issued a Press release on the detention of Mr. Sam Title baum, United States Deputy Mar- shal, who had been held in the Ward Road Jall since Saturday on "two counts of embezzling pro- perty of the United States of which he is custodian."

There is no indication when the

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NO MEAT IN SEVERAL SURVIVORS OF

Vitted the planes, and engines are perform- been unable to produce ball set by NORWEGIAN DISTRICTS TORPEDOED

He said that the Wright plant Meigs, Chief of the Aircraft Sec-trial will take place owing to the had increased its output from tion of the Office of Production absence of Judge Milton Helmick 875,000 horse-power per The last

month Management, gave an interview who is in the United States on October to 1,750,000 harbe-on his recent tour of Britain. col-power today

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said that American aero- Mr. Knudsen also

Meanwhile, Mr. Titlebaum has plant of the Brewster Aeronauti-Ing satisfactorily in England and the authorities at U.8.$5,000: The Swiss Telegraph Agency re- cal Corporation and watched. test the equipment is holding up well. ports that Vichy France has fights of the new Brewster' Ber-

In the release, Mr. Shields des- stocks of brass, copper, lead, tin, muda which carries

He heard no complaints about cribed the manner of Mr. Title- bronze and zinc to last a

B 1,000-lb. the durability, workmanship or baum's arrest few bomb entirely enclosed in its fuse-material.

but at the same weeks.

lage, is

LONDON, 'Ang.. 11 (BW8)-The worsening of the food situation time refused to reveal any other has ted The Vichy Government is about stop from New York to Los An- capable of flying non-

to riots in several Norwegian to organise a big-scale collection geles, and is said to be 100 m.p.h.

detalls regarding the investigations messages reaching Oslo and quoted in London. in the case because "I may flush at the geese who apparently took

In several districts, there has been no meat at all since list part in Mr. Titlebaum's various

of all indispensable objects of faster than the Btuka. these metals.

RUSSIA

WAR

ARMY TRAINING IN U.S.

Rear-Admiral Towers, who ac LONDON, AU A ius vate activities."

per

Continued from Page 1 which the Red Air Force appears to have large numbers.

Another titeresting feature of this raid is that the Russian news SPERRY BOMP-SIGHT service did not make large claims. LONDON, Aug. Picked crews Indeed, the first information came who are operating American for from Berlin itself. Moscow's re-tress bombers praise the machine's ticence, has in this

doubtedly proved its worth. ONLY ONE-TENTH'

says:

SINCE LAST AUTUMN

diatelets according to

FREIGHTER

Chinese Carpenter Among Sixteen

autumn.

Potatoes are lacking in some places and even in the coastal dis ROSARIO Argentina, Aug. 11 friets, fish cannot be bought,

(Reuter)Bixteen survivors of the Further reports reaching London as the Illegal "Free Norway British freighter BAINT ANSELM tion that Norway continues in- dinarily large numbers.

companted Mr. Knudsen, stated by the Lower House on the Bill that the newest Grumann fighter extending the perlod or any adopted as the ment by the American Navy could which was approved by the Senate.

rican Navy a training for 30 months in all WOUNDED IN HEAD how another side to the tribula- which is distributed in extraor-which was torpedoed and sunk by fre twiec as much lead

a German U-boat off the African on Aug. 7. is expected on Monday second into an enemy plane as the

A man, Wong Chung, was at-creasingly to suffer under Nazl "Gestapo attempts to stop it coast, 500 miles south of the British Spitfire.

or Tuesday.

tacked by an unknown person "protection." House leaders feel that the Bill when he was walking in Pitt

have been completely unsuccess. Gatary Islands, have arrived here The Germans, it is stated, "are | ful.

aboard the Spanish steamer TOM. is in graver danger than any Street on Sunday night, and was wegians whose sons are fighting STENCILLED EIDSVALL reveal of complete exhaustion on July 17 taking hostages among the Nor Another legal paper," "THE They were picked up in a state since the outbreak of war, major administrative measure seriously wounded in the head. He

was taken to hospital.

outside Norway, '

ed that decree establishing mararter 18 days in an open boat. Fishermen and farmers in the garine monopoly war promulgated Another boat with the freight- West whose sons have fled to join with the sole purpose of enrichingers British captain, five officers the Free Norwegians have been the margarine factories with Na- and 10 members of the native. In- taken to prisons or concentration tieng) and Boctallet shareholders en crew, le missing.

The Saint Anselm was hit by two torpedoen. –

from viccs.

Bomb-almers commend the ac

case un flying qualities and its freedom NO INCREASE IN QUOTA OF CHINESE LONDON, Aug. THE TIMES, curacy of the Sperry bomb-gight, IMMIGRANTS TO SINGAPORE ALLOWED writing on the German frontiers, Results, have already shown that SINGAPORE, Aug. 11" (Cenden1)There will be ne increase "ki" tie. bombing from 30,000 feet can be quota of immigrants from China to Mulaya, 'it la officially stated in At the end of the seventh week done with reasonable accuracy Singapore. of war, the territory occupied by under suitable conditions.

Recently, the Chinese, Chamber of Commerce here requested the the Germans is only one-tenth of There 18 keen competition Government to increage fourfold the existing quote of 500 each for Europe Russia and only one throughout the Bomber Command males and females In view of the demand for labour for war-time fortieth of Russia Proper, while go to join the Fortress Squadron, production for not one of the main objectivės |

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The Colonial Secretary replied that the request had been con LONDON, Aug. Mr. Merrillsidered by the Government but could not be approved.

has been occupied.

camps,

BONS LEAVE "HOME"

The survivors are First Officer

In many cases, the sons had FELL OVERBOARD left home without the knowledge A woman, Mak Chol, 42, travoll of their parents who know evening in a Mongkok-bound ferry MacCurdy, Henry Birkett, George septuagenarians are among the early yesterday morning, lost her Elott, Thomas Robson, Jack victims of this new form of in balance and fell overboard, Ahe Herri Valentine White, Altred timidation.oak

deal was rescued by a sailor of the Water Childs arpent Land No Norwegian paper, it is said, ferry and went to Kowloon Hb eight, alive Indians of the Cat- has ever had so wide circulationi pital