1940-04-08 — Page 17

Press Commentary

ALLIES' FIGHTING

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

Nordic neutrals

SPIRIT fear worsening of

Keener Edge To Most their situation

Deadly Weapon

LONDON, Ápr. 7 (Router). Developments during the last

few days in the Allied economic

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH“ COPENHAGEN, Apr. 7 (UP)-Scandinavia,

policy have given an even keener warned by both Europe's war camps that any move in edge to their deadliest weapon. favour of one side will be considered a hostile act by the This is the consensus of Sunday's other, is clinging passively to her precarious neutrality British press comment which is chiefly confined to two things- perch, wondering whether the coming week will bring an the Lightening of blockade incident which will topple one of her component nations measures and the ever deepening co-operation of the British and into war. French.

The latter, la described an not only the Allies' main source of power but also destined to be a permanent basis for building a new Europe.

The press view is that ever since

The war of nerves, which has

raging at been

fever pitch throughout Scandinavia this week and which has caused very great appřehension in Oslo

the last meeting of the Supreme War and Stockholm, is now consider- Council, a new fighting spirit has

Diplomatic Offensive

been clearly evident in the punching it to be the least threatening of Important Development

Although official comment is incking

it is now reported that the British notes demands are less friendly in tone.

speeches of Mr. Chamberinin and Mr. all the Scandinavian war clouds. Winston Churchill, the Allied notes to Norway and Sweden, the Anglo- French laiks, the British drive in the Balkans and the hinstening to London of the Balkan envoys, These all form cae of the most valuable factors in the defeat of Hitlerlem

Main Problem

.

As the "Sunday Times" puts it, the relation of the neutrals to Germany is that of threatened

men.

In nurth-west Scandinavia and Holland they see their ships destroy- ed, their seamen murdered and their

neutral waters abused with impunity but they do not dare to retallaic.

Poitical circles maintain that the notes were more concerned with Russia than Germany, sinting that the Western Powers will feel themselves

to

Expected This Week

LONDON, Apr. 7 (Reuter)- The coming week is expected to provide an even greater Allied development than last week.

Talks have already begun between

countries,

on

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·April: 8, 1940.

CALLING UP MORE MEN

British Army Will Absorb 56,000

LONDON, Apr. 7 (Router) -- Men registering for the colours who, on being medically examined, were placed in Grade 3 are now to bê called up for Army service.

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DASTARDLY WARFARE

U-Boat Sinks Neutral Without Warning

without warning, 35 miles off the north coast of Scotland on Satur- day morning,

Three of the ship's officers and nine of the crew were killed,

The Finnish shilp Atlas rescued 14 of the crew, who declared that the submarine lingered in the vicinity for half an hour without attempting to resque any of the crew.

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" LONDON, Apr. 7 (UP).- The main problem lies in north-threatened if Russia necures control Lord Halifax and the British diplo-Nazi submarines resumed their west and south-cast Europe.

of ur possesses a port on the Atlantic.male representatives in the Balkans dastardly tactics during the

The Scandinavian capitals do not and the Danubian

A secret session of the House of Week-end, when a U-boat sank feel themselves to be in the same dilemma In this respect as they do Commons on

jeconomic blockaday will discuss the Norwegian steamer Navarra in the Europe war.

M. Paul Reynaud, the French Pre- In this connection M. Kolt's speech failed to arouse much Scandinavian mier, is now holding conversations comment. The stronger passages of with the French Ministers to the Bul- his speech were attributed the kan countries and a secret session of If Germany wins the war, not one rising pitch of national Indignation the French Senate will be held of them will survive; yet here they over Norway's losses of lives and Tuesday.

her

Three-Part Offensive me hardening the rod for their bucks ships and the disrespect for by supplying Germany with iron ore. neutrality rather than any stiffening

LONDON, Apr. 7 If the neutrals are unable to de-against either war camp.

(Reuter)-The diplomatic and

economic fend their interests, the "Sunday The speech indicated that there wilt Allies' Times" continues, our job is to study be no new departures in Norwegian offensive falls into three parts, says

Rowing For Nine Hours how

we can persuude them to do so. policy as a result of Lord Halifax's "Reuter's" diplomatic correspondent. in south-chst Europe the position note.

They are (1) the notes to Norway All of the survivors were crowded und Sweden, (2) conversations be-into one lifeboat, and were

rowing Monnel, Georges tween M

net Mr.

for nine hours before the arrival of Ronald Cross, the British Minister of Economic Warfare, and (3) talks secne by a British plane. between Viscount Halifax; the Bri-Six of the crew were killed by the torpedo, explosion caused by the while the captain and two male pus- sengers were drowned when a life- boot capsized.

The Navarra is the 55th Norwegian vessel to be sunk since the outbreak of the war,

No comment

on the forthcoming from Berlin.

is different. We must help the Diplomatic eireles characterise the neutrals to face up to Germany by speech as a relteration of Norwegian two methods. We must buy their

since 1014.

the

goods and we must give them firmy, which has not been changed French Minister of Blockade, and the Atlas, which was guided to the

guarantees against military destruc tion.

Emco," the new British Balkan Trading Company, is a pointer to the

first method.

General Weygand with his Allied Army in the middle East is a pointer; to the second,

Whole-Hearted Blockade The "Economist" says that while the Allies have every sympathy for the predicament which the neutrals are in, and do not intend to deprive them of their rights, it is only plnin commonsense to say that the only effective blockade is a whole-hearted one.

English Ministers to the Balkans. Lish Foreign Secretary, and the

Meanwhile, however, German and British broadcasts-which Intrigue the Scandinavian people have been battling fiercely over Scandinavia all

It is learned that the notes to Nor- this week end,

The

Copentingen

English "National way and Sweden reserve Tidende's" correspondent in Ber-rights in dealing with the German tin reports that Germany considers use of Scandinavian waters to evade

a the blockade. that Scandinavia may become battle-field in a matter of days or

under hours-and,

pressure mounting beligerent warnings and rumours, Seandinavia is ready to

belleve it..

The conference with the Ministers of to the Balkans faces the prospect former that Dr. Hjalmar Schacht. Fresident of the Reichsbank, may be brought back to try and head off the Allies

Intentions, but it is Sweden's Attitude

realised that the Allles possess the money and machinery and no finan- SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" elal wizard can resist this pressure The "Sunday Express" says the

LONDON, Apr. (UP)—M. [with a blocked currency and barter wisest polley is that of a cat-to

the Guenther,

Swedish Foreign as the only weapons. watch every exil, for the rat cannot Minister, is quoted in a special state- The Ministers from the Balkans, live without water and must come ment to the "Sunday Chronicle"

exceeding to

05

incident is

Interporter Married

Hundreds Attend Mr.

The "Economist" says that if the saying that Sweden is "determined to un enterprimeves co-operating in B. T. Gosano's Wedding

out.

"For

Hundreds of friends, including prominent local sportsmen, attended the wedding yesterday Mr. Bellarmino Thomas

of

The Broken Goaano, well-known and popular

German hold fast to our neutrality to the bounds of diplomacy us formerly not is really tightened,

necessary understood. military forces must be used to break utmost and to defend it if

Sweden The position of Commander Stephen King-Hali, in neutrality-is-not-only-a-question-of his weekly news letter, suggests that principle but the only practicable Indepen- if the Allies can reach the first an-polley of preservation of her niversary of the war in a state of dence in protecting her vital interests. "Whether we look at it from 11 deadlock they will have passed their logical or a moral point of view, we Arat phase,

The job will then be to develop can find no firmer base for our

that that their resources to the full behind neutrally and it is on their defences so as to live as full have taken our stand from the be- and as elvilised life as possible, ginning-normal exchange with the belligerents of our own products and This is the second phase.

imports. where necessary, for our national life, and otherwise a strict

Imperative Objectives

we

We must remember, he says, that confirmation of the acknowledged during the greater part of our re-rules of international law."

rorded history man hos llved and worked with his weapons at his side. Thic

state of affairs may last threa years or more. During this time, the main task will be the develop ments of Anglo-French co-operation with the objective of providing im- pregnable defence and liberty and; freedom in modern Europe,

At the same time they will have to show the

the world that behind the bar- rlers Britain and France have crcat- ed a new world of steadily increasing economic and military strength and that, subject to the fulfilment of the war alms, the German people can co-operate in that new world,

If this happens, Commander King Hall suggests that possibly a third phase of the military struggle may never be needed.

The Catholic organ "Tablet" looks to the future from a basis of Anglo- French unity.

This unity is much more than that of alifes ngainst a common foo. It

is unily from which, with the help

of other nations, we hope that, unity

in Europe will be born again.

NAZIS TEN-YEAR PLAN TO CONQUER WHOLE OF EUROPE

·FROM PAGE ONE:

dis-

Slovakto, who worked up obedience campaigns against the local governments.

"This exposure of the Nazi war alms can leave no possible doubt

as to what the British and French emplier are Öghting against",

the Ministry's statement.

IL Was

further revealed

added

that

coloured posters with a reproduction

of the map are to be distributed next

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Hongkong Stock Exchange Offcial Summary issued Saturday says:

Market ruled very quiet, Bank East Asta $73

II.K. Fire Ina, 171

Docks Cu 11th $2155

11. S. Hotels $5.03

1 K Landa 1304

H. K. Itealies $4.40

H. K. Tramway $17 Ropes 13.40

Dairy Farms $213% Wm. Powell $1 Entertainment $0.80

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Sales Union $400 Electrics $6312

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Word

Nazi Assurances To Neutrals Violated

LONDON, Apr. 7

(British Wire-

less) From February 21 to April 6 in any year is not a long time, but long enough, it seems, for Nazi admirals to break their word.

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Interport footballer and all-round sportsman, and Miss Palmyra Maria Yvanovich, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, P. A. Yvanovich of Soares Avenue, Homuntin.

The service was conducted by the Rev. Fr. Granelli In St. Teresa's Church, where the bride was given away by her father, and attended by four bridesmaids, the Misses Alzira, Lolita and Therese Yvanovich and Ave Gosano.

The bride looked delightful in ̧ a bridal dress of white lace designed

lilles.

The bridesmaids wore pretty frocks of pink tulle and carried heart-shaped bouquets of pink caruntions.

"Norwegian vessels on voyage from on the princess model, with a full Britain with coal or other similar train. She carried a sheaf of Arum cargo will not be allacked by German naval forces unless in convoy, but may be examined." This was promise made by Vice-Admiral Schmlewindt to Mr. M. T. Halvorsen, who visited Germany on behalf of the Norwegian Shipowners Association on February 21 this year and who was nuthorised by the Admiral to ac- quaint the Norwegian Minister in Berlin with the promise.

Sunk Without Warning

In the early hours of April 0, the Norwegian steamer, Navarra, carry- Ing coal from Swansea to Oslo, salling alone and on the ordinary course, was torpedoed without warning by a German submarine.

She sank in two minutes. All officers and nine of the crew were killed.

The U-boat stood by watching the men from one life-boat struggling in the water after the boat had capsized In the launching but made no effort to render any assistance,

was left

The remaining life-boal many miles from land, and the oc- cupants were rescued by a Finnish jateamer which was guided to the life- bout by a British patrolling aircrafi which had fortunately sighted the distressed Norwegluns,

Mr. A. V. Gosano and Mr. J. M. Noronha were best man and grooms-

man.

well-wishers gathered at the Club de After the ceremony, hundreds of

Recreio toast the health of the Bride and groom. The toast was pro- posed by Mr. A. V. Gesano, in a neat speech, and afterwards dancing was enjoyed to music played by Mickey's

Band.

WARFARE LIVENS AS BIG GUNS ROAR

➜FROM PAGE ONE

ture prisoners and to obtain informa- tion.

Encounters are more severe

and their objectives more daring.

German Communique

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH”

BERLIN, Apr. 7 (UP)—A German High Command communique traved to-day declarea:

"No particular events to report in the West. The German air force carried out reconnaissance flights over north

orth and central France.

"A. German Dornier machine was nitacked by four Curtiss planes. Our reconnaissance plans defended itself

back owing to Inck of gasoline. It Innded safely at the home field.

INDIA'S FUTURE this neutral vessel in the face of this until the enemy was forced to turn

IN BALANCE

Orders Are Ordars

Apart from the barbarity of sinking

promise, the conduct of the officers and crew of the U-boat must be re- gorded with horrified amazement by |the sea-faring men of all countries.

One can only hope for the sake of the,tradition of future German wallors This is to serve as a counter to the victory for the Nazis would mean the that the reason for the U-boat's ofcer's conduct is to be explained in German propaganda regarding M. end of democratie principles. Reynaud's alleged

The whole future of India will de- the words of the German Captain of now European map, which the Nazis claimed was pond on the result of the war. It is the Columbus, who sold of the drawn up by M. Reynaud and Mr. not possible to conceive of a free scuttling of his fine vessel, "Dut Sumner Welles.

Torders are orders." India apart from Britain.

week to shipping offices, upon ap- NEW DELHI, Apr. 7 (Router) — plication to the Ministry of Informa-The Leader of the Opposition in the

Madras Legislative Assembly said

tion.

"Late in the afternoon of April 6 several enemy planes flew over Luxembourg territory.""

CRIMINAL SESSIONS

The next Criminal' Sensions will commence at the Supreme Court on Saturday, April 20, at 10 am,

According to the Ministry of Labour, the men affected are those who, but for defects of eye-sight, would have been placed in Grade 1 or

men

werd

2A Approximately 50,000 placed in Grade 3 since the outbreak of war until February 10, und "they

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