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MONDAY, MARCH 25,

1940.

日七十月二

FRANCE'S EX-PREMIER VISITS FRONT

A RECENT PHOTOGRA PH of M. Daladier, France's ex-Premier, taken whilst he visited the British sector of the Western Front. M. Reynaud last week succeeded M. Daladier as Prime MinisterFrench Oficial Photograph,

Mr. Arita Announces New Gesture To U.S.A.

JAPAN TO CUT DOWN MILITARY OPERATIONS

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

TOKYO, Mar. 24 (UP).The Emperor of Japan to-day issued a decree extending the session of the Diet until Tuesday. It is reported that this measure has been taken because of the inability of the House of Peers to finish cleaning up the Bills passed on from the House.

WANG'S SISTER RESCUED

N.Z. PREMIER

VERY ILL

WELLINGTON, March 24 (Router). The fatost. bul- totin on the Rt. Hon. Mr. J. Savage, Prime Minister of New Zealand, who has now boon ill for some time, reads: "Mr. Savage con tinues to loso strength and his condition is more criti- cal."

Meanwhile the Japanese Foreign Minister told the Diel

to improve

Japan by scaling down Japanese military operations in China,

that he hopween American I. L. P. AND

the

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RUSSIA

·Against Conflict-

The Japanese Premier also Warns British Workers declared: "Japan's true inten- “KIUKTANG, March~~25|tions areTM fur from ousting (Domel)-Mrs. Wang Ching- American interests in China.” nge, 79, elder alster of Mr. Wang He added that Japan is not Ching-wei, was rescued from the worried over the American naval hands of Chinese guerillas in-expansion. festing the mountain region about 25 miles east of Wuning on Wednesday.

.

End Of Provisional Govts. NANKING, Mar. 24 (UP). The Nanking and Peiping Provisional whereabouts of Mrs. Governments voted themselves out of Wang was revealed by Chen existence to-day,

Tho

Wen-pao, an officer in the guorilla battalion who surren-|

dered himself recently.

The

rescue was effected by Sub-Lieut.

"Slanguage"

Kichiro Shimada and Private Of The R.A.F.

Toshikazu

Yokoyama who

managed to sneak into the

guerilla camp and bring Mre. "Stationmaster" Is C.O., Wang back alive.

20on

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LONDON, Mar. 24 (Reuter). -The Independent Labour Party, a small group of the extreme Left Wing, has passed a resolution warning British workers of the dangers of a war with Russia.

At the same time, the IL.P. feels tits duly to socialism to dissociale Itself from the Stalinist regime in Russin,

Stalinism Condemned 11 condemns the "crimes of Stalinism, for it was a great crime to attack a small nation."

It is a tragedy, says the I.L.P., that Russin has thus lost the goodwill of the working classes of the world.

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SUNDAY RAIDS BY

NAZI WARPLANES

R.A.F. PENETRATES DEEP INTO NAZI

TERRITORY

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

PARIS, MARCH 24 (UP),—GERMAN AIR- CRAFT DID NOT PERMIT EASTER SUNDAY CARRYING OUT TO PASS WITHOUT RAIDS OVER THE THAMES ESTUARY, THE| SOUTHEAST CORNER OF ENGLAND AND THE EAST OF FRANCE.

Reports from the Western Front state that there

has been aerial activity all day.

French observers took photographs of the Sieg- fried Line, while German planes effected reconnaissance flights.

PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN

Easter Day was also marked by a fresh propa- ganda campaign from the Siegfried Line. Loudspeakers in perfect French blared pacifist speeches, while German planes dropped pacifist tracts and flowers on the French lines.

The French replied with machine-guns and artillery, and

destroyed several broadcasting stations.

It is also reported that heavy French artillery dis-

DEPARTS BY Initiative

CLIPPER

Needed

Intensification Of War

Domand

LONDON, Mar. 24 (Reuter). -The Liberal weekly "Specta- tor" discusses the question which is being exercised in the minds of many at the moment.... whether the Allies should take more intensive stops in the near future.

The clamour for a more intensive action, the paper says, is partly reasonable and partly unreasonable,

It is unreasonable if it is a clamour for immediate major military opera- tions, and is reasonable if it springs from a demand for more initiativo arid better and speedier organisation,

We Must Be Plessed— We must be pleased says the paper, that in the first six months of war Germany has not used to advantago her greater preparedness,

The British Government should not

SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS, the! be pressed to attack on a large scale British Labour leader, who left while we have still not schloved our Hongkong by Clipper on Saturday maximum strength on land and air. after an extended tour of the Far East. Although extensively quoted by newspapers elsewhere in the Orient, the Labour leader refused to grant Interviews to British newspapers in Hongkong.

persed German workers at Vosges and west of Vosges NAZI SHIP French lines.

where they are forlifying positions dominating the

R.A.F. FLIGHTS

SUNK

LATEST

CANADIAN IN COURT

British Submarine's LONDON, Mar. 24 (Reuter).-The Air Ministry

Coup Near Jutland announces that during Saturday night, the R.A.F. carried

Mar. . COPENHAGEN,

24

A 33-year-old Canadian, described out extensive reconnaissance flights over North-west (UP). The German collier as a religious worker, appeared before was sunk by a Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at the Cen- ** Hugo Stinnes Germany.

tral Ma

this Magistracy morning on a British submarine at midnight

of indecent assault against a |charge

One plane failed to re- BUTTER RATION

IS DOUBLED

turn.

A German High Command communique asknowledges that many planes flew over North and West Germany, and also between the Moselle and the Rhine.

A Vickers-Wellington bomber was brought down.

The first indication, the rest of the Was the world had of the fight closing down suddenly of the Iam- burg radio station.

Nazis'Admit Roid,

SHAW'S FUEHRER German Air Command communique

GAOLED

Mrs. Wang states: "All my be- longings and property plundered by the

THE Air Force vocabulary of slang they found

that evolved in the last war has gone into Woo Mr. Wang Ching-wel's history. A new one is rapidly being PLAYED IN "GENEVA” sister. It is really a miracle how I invented and codified,

Josef Wegrzyn, the Polish actor, managed to live. I ported from my brother about four years ago in

No longer does the enterprising air-who played Hitler in Mr. George Non-

wanted article; he Bernard Shaw's play "Geneva" before king. Since then we have not been in "win"

cach

the war, has been put in prison by other, organises." When supplies communicating with Both he and I are children of father's been arranged, those supplies have the German occupiers of Warsaw.

A Polish correspondent has If an airman is "fed

ap- second wife. My brother was liked been "inid on."

peated to Mr. Shaw to help to save by everybody in our village when he up" he is "browned off."

displeases" the actor as well as Arnold Szyfman, was a child. Only recently wns When yo

something

taken of view!! 1x

of it. Some the Warsaw theatre director, who in

to the Polish thing badly done is "a black." A troduced "Geneva" Job properly completed is "button-public. cd

the correct method up,"

"Aa Josef Wegrzyn may be of and doing anything is the right drill." demned to death," the correspondent A few of the expressions from Royal wrote, "I beg you to do all to deliver

told that he had left the Chiang Kal- shek Government. Now I have learned that he has organized the new Government. I am glad that he is doing a great thing for the Chinese people.

poor

con-

soon as possible wish to see him Flying Corps days survive and have this innocent and eminent Polish

"I Am Vory Glad"

grown dignified with years. "Ace" artist from that danger and to raise Y "stick,"

"hedge-hopping." stall," the world's opinion against 'that new "zoom," "ceiling” are no longer re- | proof of German culture and

humanity in Poland.” Nower Terms

Mr. Shaw made the following com- ments:

LONDON, Mar. 24 (Router),—A given by the German wireless re- ports local activity by artillery and reconnaissance troops in the West.

Despite very unfavourable weath- er, the German Air Force carried out reconnaissance flights over Eastern France.

During the night of March 23, many enemy planes flew over North- west Germany and the Moselle and

sector. the Rhine

One Vickers- long-distance maching Wellington was shot down by. German anti-alr craft artillery.

MORE FILMS IN BRITAIN

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH” LONDON, Mar. 24 (UP). -On Monday Britain's - butter ration will be doubled,

each person receiving half, Instead of a quarter of a pound.

However, dairymen do not expect consumers to take advantage of the increase because most people have by now acquired a taste for the less expensive margarine.

CABINET BAN £55,000 SHIP SALE

Bought For £16,000 8 Months Ago

last night to the northwest of European malesses out of an alleged

Jutland.

As in the case of the Heddernheim,

The charge arises incident at the Trocadero Hotel,

the British commander gave the Peking Rond, on March 22, German ertw

Defendant is Joseph Renee Alexan-

to fifteen minutes abandon ship and took the German der. Curcotte. captalh prisoner.

The remaindor of the crew jlanded at Thorsminde.

were

Two of them were injured when talting to the boats and have been sent to hospital at Holsterbo,

Captain Taken Prisoner COPENHAGEN, Mar. 24 (Reuter). -A British submarine has sunk an-' other German merchantman.

She is the 2,200 ton Edmond Huro Stinnes, registered at Hamburg. A! collier, she was reported to have been; sunk on Saturday night.

The captain was taken prisoner by the submarine and the rest of the. crew have now reached Denmark. Two of them were injured while launching a life-bont.

As in the case of the Heddernheim, the crew were given 15 minutes warning, to get clear of the ship be fore it was 'subk.

Mr. J. M. D'Almada Remedios ap- pented for defendant., who was re- manded for a week on bail of $500,

Defendant pleaded not guilty.

Soo Back Page For Further Lato Now's

INSOLENT ACTIVITY OF EVIL FORCES

Vigorous Denunciation By The Archbishop of Canterbury

TILE Government have banned the sale of twenty-three-year-old i 8.461-1ods steamer, Nalises River by the Nalises Shipping Company, Cap- diff, To Manchester Liners Ltd. A In receipt of the news, Mr. Wang garded as slang.

Two more big American companies Ching-wei declared: ' "I am very glad

The ship was bought fast May for are to resume film production in

LONDON, Mar. 24 (Reuter)The Archbishop of Canter- that my old alster has been saved. I

Britain.

£10,000. The proposed sale price bury, preaching at Canterbury, said that at no time within the can find no words in which to express Some newer ones are "fan" for alr- If Herr Hitler is responsible for

Mr. Ben Goetz, head of Metro-was £65,000.

last 1,700 years had the powers of evil been more active and my appreciation for the kindness of crew, formerly "the prop":"station- this I am shocked at his ingratitude, the Japanese soldiers who brought master" for the Commanding Officer; I have handed him down to history Goldwyn-Mayer's British studios, left This is one more example, of the more insolent. “

thus cleared a new and better order her back. I am sure that my sister and "spun-in" for a bad mistake. To in my play with gifts of cloquence, America for Britain by air recently enormous profits being made by

"It is truly a spectacle of in human life. is most grateful too. She had been "pancake" an alreraft is now to "crack debaling power, and readiness in

He was accompanied by Robert

The Archibishop warned listeners. living in Klangs province but this down on the deck." This calls for parice which no mortal Fuehrer ever Montgemary, who was to play Lord shipowners which escape taxation al- humanity suffering on a bitter, however, that they could not be

a the Brat I have heard of her being "tearing off a strip," otherwise a possessed or ever will possess; and Peter Wimsey in "Busman's Honey-together:

cross. We do not believe that it content with destroying the powers molested by guerilins."

reprimand.

this is how he requites me.

Being an increase in capital prontis God's will that this reign of of evil in the shape of titler and his "If he had an atom of common. sense he would decorate the great Mr. Victor Saville is also returning and not a revenue profit no tax la brute force el.ould continue We gang: they might merely be creat= Polish actor and order a thousand He would produce "Busmen's Holl- Imposed, as Sir John Simon pointed cannot doubt that it is in accord-ing a desert and calling it peace.

Popo's Sombra ·Picturo- day" and "I Wan a Comrade" for out in the House of Commous ance with God's will that Britain performances."

VATICAN CITY, Mar. 24 (Reuler). Paramount is also planning" recently when his attention was and hor Allies should do the In a Latin homily at High Muse at Nazi Order: Smoke Loss largo productions as can be called by Mr. David Kirkwood to the utmost, regardless of the cost, to St. Peter's 10-day, the Pope painted

enat," according to a cablegram from proposed sale of this ship.

end this ovil."

a sombre picture of the errors, and COPENHAGEN, Mar. 24 (UP),- LONDON, Mar. 24 (UP)~Radla

No British ship ean, of course, be After the overthrow of the powers the pecully in war, now

afflicting Moscow to-day announced that the The Danish Foreign Office denies the ZURICH, Stricter rationing of tor Hollywood from Mr. David Rose,

News bacco, particularly of cigars and managing director of the corporation's old at the moment without the con- of evil, embodied in Germany's German

His Holiness called on all men to first regular frain from Leningrad, DNB, - (Offcial carrying 000 employees of state de- Agency) report that six Danish ships cigarettes, has been imposed in Ger- British companies,

RICO's decision to resume produc-sent of the Government. But those present rulers, and the winning back partments and institutions, arrived at sunk by U-Boats and planes were many, says "the Basie National Zel-

PLEASE Turn To Pago 7. colossal profits to the owners.

would be vital to build on the ground wartorn Viborg to-day where troops travelling in a convoy when they tung to cut the number of men em- tion in Britain was announced re- that are sold are changing hands at of the lands they have ravaged, it conform with the Christian virtues

cently. ployed in the industry. are clearing away the debris

were attacked.

Russians Reopen

Viborg Railway

A "blonde job," surprisingly, is a young woman with fair hair.

DANISH DENIAL

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