1940-06-25 — Page 17

FRENCHMEN KEPT IN IGNORANCE

LONDON, June 24 (Reuter)~The French people have still not been told about Hitler's peace terms.

Most of them do not yet know that Germany will occupy over half the country and that France will be totally disarmed.

There is ample evidence that ot present the true voice of France is) outside the country.

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General de Gaulle has formed provisional French National Com- mmittee which wil net in Britain ost true

representative of the French|

nation.

Biggest Bomb

Proof Shelter.

It will continue war with the Allies Can House About

There has been a quick response to

his call to fight on..

Frenchmen In London, from all walks of life, have been calling at

vices.

11,000 People

LONDON, Juno 24 (Reuter).

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

Fierce Raids

War On Chungking Donations

Foreign Embassies

Demolished

June 25, 1940.

Fund Lord Woolton

Confident Adequate Stocks Of Food

British Legion

CHUNGKING, June 26 (Reu-Appeals For Support

LONDON, June 21 (Reuter).

tor).A 500-pound demolition

Donations to the "8. C. M.-Lord Woolton, Minister of bomb crashed through the Union Jack-painted roof of the British Post" Ltd. War Fund continued Food, gave assurances to-day that Britain has adequate stocks Consulate-General and destroyed to pour in yesterday, and by 4

the total: had reached of food. the building in yesterday. after-p.m.

Some of the most vital stocks were $1,106,627.70 plus £2,602. 148. greater than ever before in Britain's noon's air raid.

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The staffs of the British Diplomatie Mission and the Consulate-General reside in the building, which also houses the offices of the British Em bansy, the Air Attache and the As

sistant Military Attache

The blast blew in the doors and windows of the Consulate-General.

Diplomat's House Wrocked A bomb demollaked an Embassy

turning it upside down.

During the day a further cheque for $450,000 was forwarded to the Colonial Secretary for transmission to the British Government, bringing the total already despatched to $1,- 100,000.

Messrs. South China Morning Post, Ltd. wishes to thank Mrs. A. C. Jeffreys and Mrs. A. C. Ellis for the voluntary work they are doing with

following:

history.

thai German He knew, he said, propaganda would do its utmost to spread uneasiness by suggesting that all was not well.

The answer to those who doubt was simple. “Ask the village grocer what his stocks aro liks," he con- tinued.

He had been

usiced, he went on, if he would reveal the amount of stocks.

his office all day to offer their FC** _Within the next few weeks or | motor car wrecked a house newly the staff handling the Fund, and, the The answer was that food stocks

The first of them started to arrive even before the office furnishings were

in position.

Lage and the day, ben coming

All through the dny, telephone mes

int.

There has been an equal response! from overscas, not only from the Colonies but from all over the world.

N.Z. Disapproval One of the most recent was from French residents in New Zealand who lo-day recorded their disapproval of the Bordeaux Government imessage at their Consulate. They alaled that: they were determined to fight on for liberty and freedom.

Illuminating Facts LONDON, June 24′′ (Reuter).--An indication of how news was kept from the French peuple was given in a brondensi talk to-day by Miss Monien Stirling, who hus been work-

with the French radio. he has reached London by way of Bordeaux,

Since the begining of the war, she says she has been working in Paris with the French short-wave station. Last Sunday she found a message asking her to be at the station that night.

Thought Paris Safe

Many people were there, the guns were a little louder but everyone was cheerful, talking about how close! to Paris the Germans got in the last

war.

When the Director arriver he asked them to get ready to move s the Germans were near enough Paris make it necessary for another radio slation to be miile ready in case of nced.

They did not expect to be away for long. She was asked to take only one suit case.

It was then about 2 .. The exodus storted next morning.

The trains were packed with men, women, children und dogs.

Miss Stirling saw two Siamese cals,

n canary and squirrel.

She sat on her suitcase in the cor- ridor scribbling an article in o dirty

days, Britain will be gotting a taste of German frightfulness, said Captain E. Wallace, M.P., Senior Defence Commissioner

for London.

Ile said this when he spoke to-day at the opening of what will be the biggest bomb proof shelter in Britain.

The Germans, he said, will in- midate and terrify the civilian popu- lation which could beat back such attempts by remembering what to do when an air-raid came.

Courage Needed.

resolution depends the defeat of Hitler," he continued.

Another

leased by a diplomat but not yet oc- cupled.

An incendiary bomb landed ve yards from the window of the offler where the British Ambassador, Sir Archibald Kerr, worked during his recent stay at Chungking.

The bombs did not explode, It made a crater six feet in diameter.

Embassy Staff Escaped Members of the Consulate-General stuff, Messrs. Broadmead, K. Bumstead, Crafton and Warburton, were safe in a dug-out during the participated.

British Ministry of Information (Far Eastern Bureau), Advertising & Publicity Bureau, Lid., for use of hoardings; Hongkong Broadcasting Commitice for broadcasts of the progress of the Fund; Mesara, Reuters Limited; United Press Associations; The Sunday Herald; Mr. Stan H for cartoon; and bthers for the many olfers of assistance received,

in

were only second in importance to stocks of munitions,

Will Not Tell Enemy the enemy what we have in the way "We would never dream of telling

..

of munitions nor will we tell him what we have in the way of food," he continued.

Introducing a somewhat lighter note, Lord Woolton sald that he had been asked if he were going to ration tea.

The Committee of the longkong Branch of the British Legion give

It had been pointed out to him that their full endorsement to the Fund.

when people came out of their shel- It has essued the following statement.

"The British Legion is an organiza-ters after an air raid they generally "On your courage, coolness and raid, in which 54 Japanese planesion of men who served in the last made themselves a cup of tea.

If that were true, he went on, the Mr. Broadmead said that they War and has remained in existence. rushed into the dug-out when they many parts of the world for the pur- consumption of tea was going up

heavily. naw the Japanese bombers coming pose of caring as far as possible for understood the need for a cup from the south bank of the river, Ex-Servicemen and their dependents

who have temporarily fallen on hard of tea al such time but he would ask- heading straight for the Embassy.

times. Ono of its implied objectives the people to go a little slower at is to support the British Empire in other times in order to make up for very possible way, particularly Init. times of crisis.

railway working built in 1092 and The new sheller is an old tube- never used.

ft hos two Jorge steel-lined tunnels between 60 and 60 feet below ground with concrete floors.

pro entire shelter will house 11,000 people.

There are Ja large number

of entrances.

Command Of The Air

any

Though bombs landed near the dug-out the occupants did not feel the unusual discomfort as "bato" just erected at the entrance

"The grists of the present moment took away the force of the explosion.

Six Chinese outside the French pire has faced in its long history and s possibly the most serious the Em- Consulate dug-out were killed.

The Union Jacks, freshly painted the local Committee of the British on the roofs, were plainly visible Legion appeal to all sections of the.. even from the south bank of the Hongkong community to support the South China Morning Post, Ltd. War Yangtse River. With exceptionally Bund to the fullest extent in their good visibility yesterday, it is dif-power." cult to believe that the Japanese alr-

The latest list of subscriptions is men missed seeing the Union Jacks.as followe

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British Superiority Is Prophesied LONDON, Jun· ́24 (Reuter). "The day will come, and not so far distantly, when air superiority will be in our con- To safeguard the staffs and arb. Agarurory mand," declared Mr. Harold chives, the British Diplomatic Mis-Mr. & Mrs. James imter and Consulate-General are Mr. & Mrs. W. Melrose ... Nicolson, Parliamentary Secre- slon

establishing

in the Navy Mr. & Mrs. D. S. Edward tary to the Ministry of Informa-Canteen on the south bank of the Local Staff Belios Public School

"Kitty Pool" tion, in a broadcast to-night.

The Embassy and Consulate pre- mises were littered with debris.

Immediately after the "All Cleur" "Seamen Gunners"... signat, the Vice-Foreign Minister, Dr.Mr&Mrs. D. Needham Hsu Mo, visited the Embassy and Mr. Wong Tak-kwong viewed the damage.

"Our resources are far greater than the Germans and our pilots are of a far better quality.

"That will be the day of victory.”

Hunger Lie, Warning

Mr. Nicolson warned the public

Yangtse.

offices

With the removal of the offices the British and French Embassies to the south bank, only the Soviet and German Embassies remain at Chung king proper.

"Consular Street" is a shambles.

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note-book to nil in the programme if/ that another Hitler ile was coming it was pitch dark and deserted just Bank Line. (China) Ltd.

there was a shortage of news.

No Rooms Available There were no rooms available in Bordeaux, but she and several others were given a heap of straw to sleep

on.

ja hunger blockade lie.

"Having seized Austria, Czecho- Slovakia, Poland, Denmark, Belgium, Holland and France, Hitler intended to rob the people of these countries of their daily bread,

"He will cut down their foot ration Next morning the full orchestra to, just above starvation level so as arrived and, taking no notice of the to feed his armies and munition men and women strewn about the workers and tell them their hunger place, burst loudly into "Carmen"--- is the fault of the British Govern

They were called to work at once ment. If only Britain would and they knew that Paris was in render, he will say, the war would danger, although they sill had no be over for everybody,

sur-

night..

The city was subjected to exten- sive attacks. Bombs were dropped

In nearly all sections.

Chinese Air Raids CHUNGKING, June 24 (Central). In spite of inclement weather, two squadrons of Chinese, planes ralded the Japanese in the outskirts of

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One sartayed and strafed Mode Elte the Japanese positions at Tungshanssu (East Hill Temple) and the other

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the Japanese "But we shall prove to Hitler in the mechanised units at Chenchingshun They were told nothing. The peo-end by the pressure of our Navy that and on the highway east of the city. L. W ple got very irritable and interrupted butter is more important than guns."Over ten fires were started on both

news,

to ask: "Is Paris taken or not?"

Small newspapers carried speeches by various people but no news of any armistice.

In her programme, Misy Stirling read extracts from Eve Curle's Me of her mother. She is now in Lon- don, Miss Stirling was glad to be able to say.

News A Day Old

NAZI CANARDS

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CAIRO, June 24 (Reuter).—The. British Government bas

"never

sides of the highway.

All Chinese planes returned to their base safely.

Anglo-Nazi

asked, either orally or in writing" Dictionaries

that Egypt should declare

This

war on

Next morning, Mias Stirling got an Italyis statement was reported by the urgent message from the Consulate advising her to leave for Englanit on Egyption papers to-day to have been a boat which was going in two hours. made by All Maher Pasha, the Prime She tried to object saying: "I Minister, at a meeting of Egyptian

elder statesmen held on Saturday. can't as I've got to do this first."

The meeting was held under the

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Two U.S. Envoys In London

WASHINGTON, June 24 (Reuter). The United States Ambassador to who Intely, had been resume duties with the Polish Gov- been ordered to cranient.

DECORATED Poland, Mt. Anthony Biddle,

in Bordeaux, nag

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She was not being brave or any- thing like that. She just could not auspices of King Farouk. visualise a state in which England The newspapers interpret the state- LONDON, June 24 (Reuter)-The and France were even partly sement as putting an end for once and Germans are planning the invasion parated.

for all to "manoeuvres palpably de- of Britain with typical thoroughness, LONDON, June 24 (Reuter) When she got to the boat, she was signed to indispose Egyptians." one example of which' is to be seen asked if she had heard of Mr. All Maher Pasha resigned yester-in the English-German phrase books-Thirteen nirmen who between Churchill's offer to France. She read day but he is carrying on with his which are being distributed to the them destroyed 67 enemy planes the news and sighed with relief un- duties pending the appointment of troops, some of which have fallen in air combat figure to-night in as Ambassador to France. ill she found that the newa was a day (his successor.

into the hands of the British military a new list of. R.A.F. men to be London Picased

One of the most striking things awarded the D.F.C. or the D.F.M.

old.

That sort of thing had been' going on in the last fortnight in France, she said in conclusion.

Wellington Star Crew Landed

LONDON, June 24 (Reuter).

British Government

authorities.

Mr. William C. Bulllit is remaining

Windsors Going To England

oficial circles in London have noted about the books is that the German, Among them is a former clerk, with satisfaction the declaration by when facing the British civilan, Sergeant Alfred Whitby, of Liver- the Egyptian Prime Minister that the suddenly becomes a stickler for the pool, who shot down five during five

MADRID, June 24 (Reuter)-It is asked, truth. All through the book he is days only in France, and since his never

understood that the Duke and either orally or in writing, that Egypt told to say: "If you do not tell me the return to England has destroyed an-Duchess of Windsor are returning to should declare war against Italy. truth you will be shot,"

other. He gels the DF.M. It is to be hoped that this official

For All Eventualities

Another exploit was that of Pilot England shortly. and categorical declaration, which Some of the questions seem to be Offlcer Lewis, of South Africa, who confirms the statement already mode intended for use when cross-examin- won the DF.C. for shooting down LONDON, June 24 (Reuter) All to the Press in London, will put an ing civil authorities such as: You, five planes single-handed." the crew of the Wellington Star, end to a manoeuvre which is palp. Mayor, open all cupboards where which was torpedoed near Capelably designed to mislead the Egyptian there is cash." Finisterre to-day, have been "landed public.

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It is alsó interesting to note that LONDON, June 24 (Reuler)The personal standards of cleanliness are Board of Trade lins made an Export to be maintained. People are order- Control Order, taking effect to-day, ed to wash two shirts, a pair of pants under which, export of all classes of and three pocket-handkerchiefs. goods to French territories in Europe,

including Carslen, is prohibited.

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LONDON, Juno 24 (Reuter). The same timp. Stock Exchange was quietly easier.

to-day owing to the disappointment Churchill To Speak

at the Petain Government's accup-

Argentina's Big Arms Programme

BUENOS AIRES, June 24 (Reu- ter)-Anaval armaments program Įmo providing for the expenditure, of | £27,000,000 was submitted to. Con-'

The construction of a

tance of the German armisilco terms. ́LONDON, June 24. (Reuter)>=Mr.gress tośclay.

Prices mostly eased but gült-edged Winston Churchill is expected

SYDNEY, June 24 (Reuter).—Even if the British Empire is left to fight alone we shall still fight, anys Mr. R. G. Menzies, the Australian Prime Minister.

The full effect of the German de- manda cannot be judged until the fate of the French Celonial Empire is known, he points out.

He does not think that this means the end of French resistanco every- where.

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