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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

September 30, 1940.

EIRE WILL STAY NEUTRAL

AN IRISHMAN STATES HIS COUNTRY'S CASE

By Ruel S. Moore

United Press Staff Correspondent

THE Irish government's policy of neutrality in the European war is briskly championed by Irish leaders whenever observers in Britain or America suggest in her own interests Eire should join forces with Britain in the war against Germany and Italy.

They insist that it is only want of knowledge of conditions in Ireland 'which prompts these suggestions.

"Ireland's neutrality is essen- tial for her · continued state existence," is the way one very well-informed Irishman put it.

His opinions are not official but his analysis of the situation constituted one of the clearest expositions by ME objective Irishman of” Ireland's point of view towards the war which encountered.

United States Drawn BOMB

Closer To Communists

ISTANBUL, Sept. 29 (Reuter).—The new pael between the Axis Powers and Japan is considered here as simply consecration To surrender Ireland's neutrality of the union already existing he tween the three partners. in favour of Great Britain, as it hann "Ikdum, expressing the general been suggested she should do," he Turkish view, anys that the pact is said, "would provoke civil war and indisputably direcked against America chros, a state of things which would, as well as the Soviet Union, and be no help to England.

isted

"The community of underesta between 10 Soviel Union and Ameries arising from this aggressive

Would Near Civil War "On the contrary, at this critical evalition now compels them to join anent, it might seriously interfere with Britain to organise

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with live prosecution of the war. 1tcoininon frunt agatrast the ambition wouki constitute danger

frum of the lotnitlanians Powers to sublure without, but nko from within,

ond dominate the whole world" be- cause an Irish civil wa: now would have a socialist content sufficient to

results felt among Its working classes in England,

"A civil war in Ireland might be

make

the

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Soviet Pres Interested

MOSCOW, Sept. 29 (Reuter) Condell Hull's statement that the mikir Japazzese-Axis alliance had

followed by a civil war in England "relationship which had long| where socialist and communist pro existed in effect" is given consider- pagandu has been allowed £1 freeable prommence in the Suvlet Perss

rein.

"Ireland's neutrality is the best protection for England as well as for

jshis morning

The Soviet Presa

RINO Curried J

lengthy despatch tim the New York Crosspitadent of the Tas ugeney referring to the ever-increasing out- put of the American armamenis industry

herself. Her soldiers are increasitra in number and strength every day. and their defence of their territory would be inspired by memories KIV-| th! thera

a tenacity and stamina

The new spopri

"Trud" publisher which no external troops fighting in

tale from Bazette LRATYNE, “ Ireland could possess. There is no stating that America has +1 navall comparison between Ireland's post- [superiority over Japan in the Parisle | tion and thai of the neutml countries

on the fringe of the continent, and our military problem is entirely dif ferent."

In Ireland, un

most countries,

there are partisans on one sitle and the other. The long antagonism be- tween the Irish and English

left some Irishmen einbittered, und kome would welcome a German vle- tory over their old enemies out of haired for the British.

Don't Want Us To Lose

But the frishman whose opinions objective no

aro quoted here said

Irishman desires 10 sce Britain

FRENCH AID IN DESERT

HONGKONG AIR MAIL SERVICES

P-M-G's Statement

The Post Omeo is uncertain when it can expect mall held up by the suspension PI the Bangkok-Hongkong air route.

"Bangkok has not advised us what it is doing with the

mali or even if there in

mall, Any nic the Postmaster General (Mr. RA.D. Forrest) this morn- ing.

"They will send the math on by host, I expect, as rapidly as they CRO

"The airline may have taken the mail back to Singapore when they found they could not Ket through.

"But until we get definite news we will not know just when the letters will be arriving."

LULL IN N. AFRICA

Desultory Raids Exchanged

CAIRO, Sept. 29 (Reuter) An R.A.F. communique states that enemy air activity in the western desert was slight.

2ND BOMB BURSTING

BURSTING ON SANDS

CHALK CLIFFS

The bombing of a German big gun emplacement eat in the chalk cliff of Calais,

The bomb following those seen exploding scored a direct hit.

JAPANESE TEAR AMERICAN

DOWN FLAG

FROM PAGE ONE

ders to hold fire which permitted the Japanese to surround the city.

complained that

They

traitors acted Харалеко.

guides

native for the

TOMMY GET M. M.

Admiral's Son

Langson was attacked by 20,000 First American serving with Japanese. The town was unable the British Army to be decurated to hold out against the terris ja Lance-Corporal Harold Arthur

aerial and artillery bombardmenta

which destroyed the French anti-Sims, of the Royal Inniskilling

Dragoon Guards.

tank emplacements,

Army Disarmed

His grandfather Admiral W. Soden Sims, commanded the US. Fleet in

He tus been awarded the Military Many Frenchmen and one Ameri- Medal for gallantry under fire at can-born Foreign Legionnuire Bre

Dunkirk, where he served as wireless among the prisoners taken by the

operator and gunner in a tank. Japanese at Langson where a large portion of Indo-China's army has been disarmed.

French officers said the Japanese European waters during the last war, are distributing propaganda among George Sims, also served with the the natiyes of Indo-China inciting US Navy [them against white men. However,

in which his

father. Commander

Sima

they said that many of the stories of Although bora ka this country,

have been

11am never atrocities

exaggerated, Lance-Corporat

British eight French soldiers attempting to adopted

nationality escape capture, the reported to have mother, who lives at Mellis, Suffolk, been slowly bayonetted to death. said:

Stories by French officers who "Harold has not mentioned his escaped from Langson are numerous. Military Medal, but he is delighted It is reported that 140 Frenchmen with bis Lance-Corporal's stripe. He escaped through the Japanese lines. joined the Army as a trooper soun Two officers reached Hanol yesterday after he left school, and celebrated his *21st birthday In Belgium. IIA a 70-mile walk crossing and

younger brother is 10 and is training re-crossing the Japanese lines.

in the Royal Ah Force as Haiphong Latest

Bunner."

bomber's mode ր nigh! after attack on an enemy lorry concentra- tion 15 miles west of Bardia,

Fighting Italians| LONDON, Sept. 29 (Reuter) beaten or holds any hope it would ~Free French troops are fight-i Improve the country's lot

RAF ing side by side with British "The reign of Juryism and of the forces in the western desert, it upper class in England is drawing surdly to an end, he said. The is revealed in Calro to-day, mass of the people in England are "Reuters" correspondent with the; coming into their own, and govern- British Army says that these Fire ments of the future in the new Frenchmen escaped tron Germanie

A mechanical transport concentra- Britain will have no sympathy with controlled areas and are now occupy - tion south-west of Sidi Barrant wat the idea of the cluss which in the Ing a forward postion opposing the uttacked, all bombs falling in the past kept Ireland down and which is Unban advance

target areas. responsible for the division of

Ireland.

Their French

Eugene

romnamter. whoi "There are millions of Irish people fought at Verdun in the Great War. in England, and a very real friend-Chenped to Palestine from Syrin a

few the

hours after General ship was developing between two nations increasing in depth as Milleihauser luid down his arm. interference by England grew less

"This evolution was making steady progress in England before the war.. und the war, whatever quences otherwise, will speed up the process.

il conse-

Ireland's Problems

Spahia And Zouaves

About 80 per cent, are Frezehnten, the rext including Spubis and Zourves

Enemy positions at Fort Maddalenu were bombed.

Bombing of Kenya

CAIRO, Sept. 28 (Reuter) -- A communique issued by British G3LQ stutes that on September 27 enemy aircraft bombed Buna (Kenyo) caus- Ing no casualties.

Win

A petrol engagement wor Garks resulted in 12 of the enemy being killed.

There is nothing to report in Sudan Egyptand Palestine,

Italians Attack Malta

They displayed frateluss fighting) Jubility during the curly stages of the past, it Wila England's the Italian advance, An armourext policy to have a weak Ireland

on car unit manned by Free Frenchmen ner flank so as to secure England's attacked the head of a Italian domination of Europe. If Germany column which, despite its numerical LONDON, Sept, 20 (Reuter).A wins, relations with England may superiority, was forced to built Malta message to-day confirmed the become more difficult because a con- The skirmtals was fought at range Catro communique about Italian raids tinental power may want to acquire

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of 700 yards. The leading Italian on Malta on Saturday afternoon. privileges in Ireland for the purpose motor cyclists Dung themselves on the Malia communique says that two

keeping England down, which Ireland may not be able to refused and waited for the support of formations of Italian planes attacked

Brillery

machine guns before the port. In addition to the enemy which, in the post, had only replying to the fire of the French.

fighters shot down by Hurricanes, to fight on one political front, may

two Italian bombers were damaged Munitions Saved

and probably failed to return to their Wiren the French withdrew. abase.

of

Ireland,

be obliged to appease the claims of iwo European powers.

and

Damage to civilian property was

A number of bombs fell in fields,

"The war came at the wrong me-heavy gun lorry got stuck. Ila crew ment in the history of Anglo-Irish refused to abandon it although the relations. Had another twenty or Italians were attacking from only 400 remarkably slight thirty years passed, a united Ireland yards range. They pushed it clear might have made a pact with Eng-while the gunner returned the fire of causing slight damage to telephone Innd which would have made both the Italian. Both

lory wires. gun and countries stronger.

"But as things are, Ireland, while

were saved.

The valanble help they have given

preparing with all spoed to meet any to Bellish troops in the western desert WOMAN BELIEVED

Invader, is watching the future with is praised in a statement from British calm and trust. The country has Headquarters in Cairo to-day. met harder,days in the course of its This statement revealed that there history, and is not afraid to face its is a large French reserve force in new destiny whatever it may be." Egypt ready to take the field when)

its training is completed.

Navy Now Has First

Fitting New Gas Mask Filters

Varying Systems

Woman Doctor

Mother of the children LONDON, Sept. 20 (UP)-Dr. Attracta Genevieve Rewcastle, the first woman doctor to be appointed to the Royal Navy, is the mother of three children, one of whom may the fitting of the new gas-mosk Alter, arrangements for which vary in dif shortly be joining the navy.

ferent areas. In some areas wardens Dr. Rewcastle's grant of the rela-visit each household and if the filter tive rank of surgeon-lieutenant, in others the public aro expected to

centre.

Confusion has been caused over

POLITICAL MURDER VICTIM

Was Amelia Maria Yankovic, 38 year-old Jugoslav domestic servant in the quiet Surrey village of East on associate of political

'Horsley.

terrorists?

And does such an association supply

the clue to her murder by strangling? Scotland Yard has been seeking the answer to these questions since her body was recovered from the Thames on June 18, two days after she had been murdered.

Two facts are established. The dead woman had a number of friends in London.

She told her village friends in East Horsley that she was going to London

he came to England.

The Japanese have distributed pamphlets among the natives explain- ing the New Order in East Asia and also warning them not to resist the Japanese.

#1

rent

British Children Now

Collect Herbs

Reports from Haiphong state that | the Japanese there are fraternising with the Indo-Chinese and at the LONDON, Sept. 20 (UP), ---The same ilme requiring Europeans to progress of the war has cut off the show Japanese passes without which supplies of muny medicinal plants on they are not permitted to walk in the‡which doctors and chemists rely for

many prescriptions.

streets.

R.A.F. REACH TARGETS

FROM PAGE ONE

School-children throughout Britain are being recruited to revive a cen- turies-old British Industry the collec- tion of herbs and plants used In medicines to remedy the shortage.

The co-operation of the school- children to being enlisted by the Aa- sociation of British Chemical Manu- facturers. They will be paid accord- ing to the amount they colicet. power stations and anti-vireraft gun)

They will receive as much as £20 Positions were bombed,

A hundredweight fur camomile Elsewhere in north Germany, tar-lowers down to eight shillings a Kels Included Important railway cen- hundredweight for oak bark. tres and aerodromes.

The naval base at Wilhelmstaven was strongly attacked and fires and explosions were caused.

Munition works at, Hanou, near Frankfurt, suffered severe damage.

Along the Channel.coast, Le Havre, Fecamp, Boulogne, Calala and Dun- kirk were all heavily bombed as well as a line of big gun emplacements] near Cap Gris Nez.

The enemy base ut Lorient was again attacked.

Two of our utrcraft are missing from these operations.

Pilot Tells Story Describing the attack on a muni- tions factory at Hanou, one of the pilots said: "A fire was. already burning in the factory when we got there. We made out two oblong bulldings, one of which was well ablaze,

The second one had not caught fire properly but it was too good a target to miss.

1.

"Smoke from the fres was curling: up a thousand feet above us when we pulled out of our dive. The

whole building seemed to go up in

flames.

"We came round again and bombed a. second ume in a level altack. When we left, the fires were still burning fercely.

"It looked to me.as if the whole factory blocks had gone up in flames, not one building alone, but all the surrounding blocka; It was justį roaring up in a mass of flames."

COLONY'S DELEGATE

Henry Robert Butlers has resumed. They are anxious to get into touch | duty, og Financial Secretary, with

RN.V.R., is not only the honour she call, at an ARF instance, a staff for her marriage, has received since the war. A few In Kensington, weeks ago she received the Cross of about a dozen has attended a But the police belleve she had al Pro Ecclesin et Pontifice from the stream of applicants at the Queen's much better position in life before It is noted that the Hon. : Mr. Pope in recognition of her services Gate contre, In Wandsworth the to the Roman Catholic community, task is done by house-to-house visits.

Throughout her medical career when other districts people sull awat with anyone who knew her and effect from September 20, 1940.

"riends may be able to clear up some · It is learned that Mr. Butters, who At the Ministry of Home Security of their problems.

I was appointed Hongkong's delegate it was stated that the

cholce of Any delnila of her contemplated to the Empire Defence conterence in method is left to the chief A.R.P.) marriage would materially help. } India, will not now be going, and that fleer In the locality, and that the Also. in 1995, she took a Con- another representative, is being ap ubile should apply to him for in-tinental holiday. The police want pointed. He therefore resumes formation:

to discover, 'exactly where she went. local duties,

"has: taken special interest in child --welfare matters. After qualifying in her native Dublin she was house @aurgeon at St. Vitan's hospital there and later become assistant school medical officer at Sheffield, England.

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