£34,000,000 DEFENCES Modernising The Forces In India
LONDON, Feb. 29 (Reuter). The British Government has "agreed to recommend to Parlin- ment that assistance amounting to £34,000,000 should be made to meet the capital cost of mo- dernising the defence forces of India over a five year stretch.
One quarter of this sum will be treated an a loan to India.
Sir Hugh O'Neill, Under Secretary for India, when announcing this In the House of Commons, said that the recommendation was devised to meet the cost of modernising the defence forces in India as recommended by a committee, under the Chairmanship had which Chatfield, Lord Investigated the Indian army condl- tions litst year.
of
Foundation Of
New Europe
Allied Accord Will Continuo After War
LONDON, Feb. 29 (Reuter). -The Swiss paper, "National,"
Friday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
TOMMIES ADOPT FINN CAMOUFLAGE
THIS PHOTOGRAPH may well have been taken in Finland. Actually, it was taken "somewhere in France" In the British sector and shows British Tommies camouflaged in white. This photograph offers striking evidence of the bitterly cald weather that has been experienced in France this winter,Domei.
says that it is noteworthy that Another Nazi
Mr. Chamberlain in Saturday's the speech emphasised that Franco-British bloc is not a mere temporary fusion of interests.
Warning
Rather, the Allies' intensive poll British Navicerts As
tical and economic collaboration is intended to endure after the war und
to become the foundation of a new Europe.
It indicates a break with the prin
Death Warrant
THE HAGUE, Feb. 29 (Reu-
NEW TAXES Blasphemy In
Japan
IN INDIA War-Time Budget
Shows Increase
shows
55 Men Sentenced To Long Terms
March 1, 1940.
CALL FOR .
SACRIFICE France's Economic Problem Tackled
PARIS, Feb. 29 (Reuter).—- Figures showing how Auccess- fully France's financial problems wore being met were given in a broadcast to-day by M. Paul Reynaud, the French Minister of Finance.
At the same Ume he added: "Our evil is economic. France is produc- ing ices and consuming the amount."
same
M. Reynaud emphasised the hard- ship nimost all classes would suffer by rising prices and the danger inflation that would result. It was to fight this evil that the
of
Govern
ment had passed to-day's decrees,
one of these was financial-
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France whi
convention with the
Bank
enabled France
abroad and at home.
是
to
mobilise her reserve for payments
Gold stock would be revalued but
the value of the frane would remain
unchanged.
All the other economic. Their
decrees were essential object
was ta Increase production restrict consumption.
and
M. Reynaud announced that in a lew days a start would be made in Laking a census for ration cards,
He added: "Privation is essential in war-time. Every act of sacrifice is a shot fred at the enemy,
Speaking of the Franco-British Anancial agreement, M. Reynaud said that this was the seed of the future organization of Europe and the field
of its application ought to be extend- | muu
ed.
In a stirring peroration, M, Rey- noud declared: "We shall not lose the peace of the common victory of Britain and France'as we did that of 1918."
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SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPHY NEW DELHI, Feb. 29 (Reu- KYOTO, Feb. 29 (Domel).- first war-time On charges of lese-majesto and ciple of balance of power and re-ter)-A warning to neutrals notter).--India's
presented to the violations of the Public Order jection of isolation from the continent. to accept British navicerts was budget,
an Regulations, Wanisaburo Degu- It in an infication of the healthy issued by the German Legation Assembly to-day, realistic, spirit of British policy and
to-day.
increase of £6,292,000 in India's chi, 69, founder, Sumi Deguchi, that already at the beginning of war,
Ishare of the defence expenditure 57, and 53 other adherents to the principle of federation is taking
on account of the war.
"Omotokyo," publicly denounced concrete shape and is being kept elear
The defence estimates for 1940-41 as a blasphemous religion, were of Utopianlin..
Isentenced to-day to heavy total £40,140,000.
penalties by Chief Judge Shoji at they Kyoto District Court.
They were arrested on December
The total revenue is estimated at C0.480,000 and expenditure: 442,000.
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For Blackouts
the
The statement runs as follows:
Through the system of navicerts. the Allies are trying to involve neu-
New Dutch Invention Mr. Chamberlain's recognition that rals in the war. Some neutrals seem
Now Under Test France and Britain must establish ato be toying with the idea that it! testing union before a united Europe may be advantageous to them to
LONDON, Feb. 29 (Reuter). can energe may prove of historic imcept the system and thereby keep their ships out of the danger zone.
The Finance Minister, Sir Jeremy portance, says the paper.
"But if they accept the system, the Raisman, introducing the Budget, 1937, throughout Western Japan-The strange properties of a
invention called German Government would find it announced a 50 per cent. Increase in and after they were formally pro- Dutch self faced with a new situation, in the excise duty sugar and a 20 secuted in August, 1938, have been which I would act with energy.
in the House of Commons to-day per cent. increase in the petrol tax. tried in camera by District Court au- "Bikker Light" were mentioned "A nentral country accepting It is estimated that there will pro-chorities for a year and a half. naviccris is recognising the British duce £2,475,000.
Wanlsuburo Deguchi was sentenced when Sir William Brown asked to life imprisonment will hard blackade measures which are contrary to international law. "There exists for Germany no certainty that ships with navicerts will not unload their cargo at enemy poris,"
Nazis Admit
Sea Terror
Deliberate Attacks On Neutrals BERLIN, Feb. 29 (Reuter).— For the first time Germany has officially admitted her campaign of terror against neutral ship- ping.
In a broadcast from Berlin, the
that complained
announcer
Nazis Air Force
Anniversary
Four Ambassadors In Chungking
labor: Isao Deguchi, director of the whether the Home Secretary was "Shown Holy Society, was given 15 aware of this light.
s
penal servitude. Telshiro It was stated that this light made Deguchi, chief of the Kinki Branch oiit unnecessary to black out windows, Omotokyo, 5 years' penal servitude, it being possible to keep illumination Sumi Deguchi 10 years' penal ser- on la a factory and work to be con- vitude, Tetsuo Takagi. assistant tinued with the windows open. manager of Omotokyo, 12 years' penal Tervitude, and Kichisaburo Higashio. T.
*12 years' penal servitude.
CHUNGKING, Mar. 1 (Central). With the arrival of Mr. Nelson Johnson, the U. S. Ambassador 10 China in Chungking, four foreign ambassadors are now gathered in the war-time capital for the first time
ince the outbreak of war.
The other three ambassadors are Sir Archibald Clark Kerr (British).
BERLIN, Feb. 20 (Reuter)in a general order Issued on the occasion the of the anniversary of the foundaton British Azures for sen losses failed to of the German Air Force to-morrow. M. Henri Cosme (French) and M. Goering states that the German Air Alexandre Seminonovitch Pannouchl- include neutral losses,
This attempt to evade losses dis-Force will not swerve from Its course kine (Sovici). regards the sole aim of the German until a final victory has been won. naval warfare, namely to put out of "Our nation is satisfied that you are action all merchant shipping com the people who will act as a shield
munication with England," he went and rotection against any
on.
altack PARIS, Feb. 29 (UP).The Senate!
from the air but, at the same time, has expelled M. Marcel Chachin, 71 "This had been done, he continued, our Air Force is a weapon of des-years of age, Dean and ex-Chief of and was being done with every shiptruction sgninst all who
Dangers Of Inflation
All Must Be Ready For Sacrifices
LONDON, Feb. 29 (Reuter).
Sir William. Brown said that light was being used in Holland without being seen from the air.
the Home Sir John Anderson, Secretary, replied that his Depari- ment had known of the "Bikker Light" for months and were subject- ing it to a complete test.
Sir William Brown's question arose out of a question by Mr. Rhys Davies, who asked if Sir John Anderson was awura of complaints that some actory-owners in their black-out arrangements never admitted day- light through windows.
have the Communist Party and publisher-During the first six months of Cancer Cure
carrying contraband to England re-criminally shattered peace," he said. of "Humanite". gardless of nationality:
The announcer, however, failed to mention that the Nazi sen warfare had extended to peaceful ships plying between neutral ports and trading among themselves.
War Of Destruction
STOCKHOLM, Feb, 29 (Reuter}.— An article dealing with the contrast between German and British methods of sea warfare was given to-day in
Swedish
"Handels tho
paper, Tidning" of Gothenburg.
The paper says that it is clearly that the recognised by neutrals British methods of sea warfare from A humanitarian viewpoint are quite! different from those used by the Germans.
Nazi Gangsterdom Must Be Wiped Out - Eden
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
LIVERPOOL, Feb. 29 (UP). In a speech here to-night, Mr. Anthony Eden called for a fight to the finish. "Until Hitlerism and the international gangsterdom for which it stands, is utterly destroyed there is going to by Germany, says the paper, is a be neither security for the present nor hope for the
The submurine warfare as practised
war of destruction without regard for Hite.
The paper points out that German and Swedish trade ment provides for normal relations for Sweden with countries.
future," he declared.
truce He added that a the agree-would mean greater dangers for trade Britain a few months or a few
years hence.
other
The paper asks, "How can we ex- pect to observe this when Germany does not consider herself bound by 112
NEW COLD WAVE HITS SHANGHAI
the war, says the "Daily Tele- graph," apropos of Mr. Chamber- lain's warning on Wednesday of the dangers of inflationary rises in prices, no inflation has so far appeared.
But it would be a grave error to infer that we shall be able to main- lain the present standards of
con- sumption Indefinitely.
Nothing is more dimcult than to combat the vicious spiral of rising wages and cost and to prevent this every section of the community will have to bear a sacrifice.
Claimed
Japanese Professor's Experiments
NAGOYA, March 1 (Domei), The conundrum of the world's medical science for many years, a complete remedy for cancer, is claimed to have been dis- covered by Dr. Seizaburo Okada, A single exception, says the paper, Professor of Nagoya Medical might be the poorest who are afrendy College. at or below subsistence levels.
The greater proportion will have to
be borne by high income levels.
Hitherto, the only possible treat- ment of cancer been made through
The paper points out that those the medium of Rontegen roys and -are Ineffective the average £5 a week class are respon- radium but they Anthony Eden, Secretary for now Dominions yesterday described the sible for two-thirds of the consump-against cancerous growths deep in
the body. tlon. ** an Empire air training scheme
A man must be sure that his in- Dr. Okada claims that he has suc- unparalleled effort both in enn..!
came is below this before he can con- ceeded in destroying cancer complete- ception and execution.
He stressed the value
similar sider himself entitled to abstain from ly by injecting the essence of concer successfully into the vein. He has schemes in Southern Rhodesia and a share in the common sacrifice.
experimented on white rato. South Africa, which were over and
The new method of treatment will above the Canadian scheme.
not incur the weaknesses attributed to the Rontgen treatment. Dr Okada says that the prospect of applying his method to the human body is highly encouraging.
Az a result of the Empire scheme
No Compromiso LONDON, Feb. 29 (Reuter).Mr. Anthony Eden, Secretary for the Dominions, speaking at Liverpool! to-day, said that the respite this a stream of pilots, observers and gua autumn and winter had been most crews would be pouring out. They valuable to us for our preparations would be numbered, he said, not in
thousands but in tens of thousands,
The breathing space they had had
and added:
"There is no cause for complacency
but even danger, if we forget the in this war, he continued, had been
vital lesson that in war, victory in of the utmost value. the last phase means the defeat of the enemy.
These months had helped to forge weapons. When those weapons are SHANGHAI, Feb. 29 (Reuter)- Following a period of springitke wen-
These months have helped us to forged, he said, they will have to be when used until Jitlerism and Internation- ther, the city was hit by a cold wave forge outr weapons, and to-day and there were heavy falls of
are entirely destroyed. snow in the afternoon which is most weapons are forged, they will have al gangsterdam for which it
of the year. to be used. unusual for this time
"Until Hitlerism, and the interna-
Swedes Appeal]
To America
Aid Sought For Fight Against Reds
STOCKHOLM, Feb. 29 (Reuter). atoolPrinco Onear of Sweden lends a group of prominent representatives of Swedish culture who have appealed No Compromiso.
to the intellectunt fenders in the There must be no compromise for United States to "come to the assist most stands, is utterly and finally destroy that would only mean great dangers ance of Finland soon by every means
possible." ed, there is going to security for the present nor hope for in a few years or even months. the future.
The snowfall added to the difficulties tional gangsterdom for which it
of transport which is already trying owing to the strike.
STALIN CHANGES HIS PILOTS
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" LONDON, Feb. 29 (UP)-Itadio Moscow announced to-day that M. Potemkin has been relieved from his Commissar for
offico, as Assistant Foreign Affairs.
He has been appointed as Peoples' Commissar for the Education of the Russian Republic.
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SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH” OSLO, Feb. 29 (UP),—Mir. Koht, Minister, infarmed three
Foreign
Mr. C. H. Windsor, of Windsor Mr. Eden went on to speak about The appeal says that there is great his discusalons as Foreign Secretary danger in delay and that speedy help Brothers, jewellers, of No. 56 Nathan Road, reports that at Forella imperative. "Any truce, any patchwork com-
present Nazl
(Reuter)-AS- Other signatories Include the Arch-
to-day
PARIS, Feb. 29 WES promise which you may try to come Minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop, stark who to now, if it ignored those
was then German Ambassador to bishop of Uppsala, the Premoto of 4.30a.m.
vast German military and political (tho dangers, would only confront us with London.
Sweden, the novelists, Selma Lagerlof awakened by the sound of cording to a message from Ljubilona,
spy ring, organised in Jugo-Slavia Parliament to-day that the |greater dangers in a few months or Ribbentrop, he said, often told him and Carl Heldenstam, the scientists, broken glass,
Karl Siegbann and He went to the shop-Iront and saw since the outbreak of war, has been. Scandinavian countries, are preparing a few years hence, and then it might of the dangers of Bolshevism and and Professora
uniform, but separate applications discovered there.
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asktig for the termination of mine that if it were not for the Nazi St.Theodor, Svedberg (all Nobel Prize a Chinese running into Mody Road. be too late.
Cassel, the "Compromise with those whose George, the Red Dragon would have winners) and
A check of the articles in one of
The organisation is stated to have pying because it violates Interna his shop-windows revealed that a only faith is brute force, whose only swamped Britain
world-famous Tic
14-carat gold watch valued at $120, been directed by Reich Cormons but tlona) Law. methods are in themselves a denial
That fable had been related in
live caused the Slovene authorities of civilisation--that' way we plunge, many different forms by the Germans. ZURICH, Feb. 20 (Reuter).-Mr. and a chromium-plated watch valued the work was done by Germans in
Windsor Jugo-Slavia,
Twenty-eight arrests have been to dissolve the German Kulturband But what has happened now, asked Sumner Welles, President Roosevelt's at $17 were missing. Mr.
observer in back into the dark ages."
Empire Air Schomo
Mr. Eden. The red dragon has taken personal
Europeen assessed the value of the broken glass
made. The revelations of the leaders in their, area. window at $80, capitals, has left for Berlin. the Nazi St. George for a ride.
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LONDON, Feb. 20 (Reuter)Mr.
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