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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

January 21,

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1941

ROOSEVELT SOUNDS A CLARION ESCORTED CALL TO DEFEND DEMOCRACY BY PLANES

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to the "Telegraph"

WASHINGTON, JAN. 20 (UP) .—PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, IN THE COURSE OF HIS INAUGURAL ADDRESS TO-DAY, WHEN HE BECAME THE FIRST MAN TO ASSUME THE U.S. PRESIDENCY FOR A THIRD TERM, URGED ALL AMERICANS TO PERPE- TUATE DEMOCRACY “IN THE FACE OF GREAT PERILS NEVER BEFORE ENCOUNTERED.”

He challenged the philosophy of men who believe that Democracy is

doomed and who believe that "tyranny and slavery will become a surging A

wave of the future.” .

"Democracy is not dying,” declared President Roosevelt. “We know We know it cannot die it, because we have seen it revive—and grow. because it is built on unhampered initiative of individual men and women joined together in a common enterprise-undertaken and carried through by free expression of a free majority.”

"OUR STRONG PURPOSE"

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In concluding his speech, President Roosevelt de clared: "In the face of great perils never before encountered, our strong purpose is to protect and per- petuate the integrity of Democracy. For this must muster the spirit of American faith in America. We do not retreat. We are not content to stand still. As Americans we go forward in the service of our country and by the will of God.”

President Roosevelt did not needs of its neighbours-all other make any specific reference to nations that live within the narrowing

spirit and the faith of America.

"The preservation of the spirit and falth of nations docs and will furnish the highest justification for every

Million People

Observe Ceremony

"(BY, "AEUTER'B” AIR CORRESPONDENT),

LONDON, Jan. 20, —— The R.A.F. Coastal Command li straining every nerve to askist the Navy to upset Axia plans for reducing the scale of American. nid to Britain and, at the crucial moment; launching any surprise | invasion.

The magnitude of the tack and pointers to success in its execuliop were outlined by a acnlor R.A.F.

omcer to-dht. Attacke

An aerial escort is being provided for many convoys through the north- western approaches to Belialo. U- |Boat commanders have adopted the technique of attacking Atlantic ship. ping in these approaches by night instead of day" because they dislike tho

protecting aircraft. Methods of locating and pouncing on submarines by night as well as day are being developed.

New long range fighters will be

perils never before encountered our

our Inauguration Described coming into service to tackle the

sacrince we may make in the cause of national defence. In the face of strong purpose is to proteef and to perpetuate

integrity of de- mocracy, For this we must muster the spirit of America, the faith of America,

the

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

WASHINGTON, Jan.

20

long-range bombers which harassing Allled shipping.

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So vigliant are the Coastal Com- mand reconnaissance aircraft all the from Norway to the south of

MACKINTOSH'S

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Thursday & Friday

January 23rd & 24th

(UP)-Président Roosevelt, be that it is calculated that these Alexandra Building-Des Voeux Road.

Forward By Will of God "We do not retreat; we are not fore going to the Capitol for his went to the content to stand still. As Americans inauguration,

played the national anthem.

Roosevelt looked

The

of the R.A.F. will give due of the last stage of preparation

From the outbreak of war to the

we go forward in the service of our historic St John's Episcopal for an invasion anywhere along the country by the will of God, to the church 10 ask for divine orcupled-European coastline. Invas end (Cheers).

Mighty cheers swelled up from the peace in the same

guidance, and lie prayed for on barges are still there and while

pew where

they are unlikely to sail In the pre- sent weather, a watch is being kept the conversion of American' in circle of the world; and a nation, like multitude in the Plaze beneath the President John Madison prayed for any sign of a move,

as the a person, has something deeper, some-Capitol's sun-flecked dome as dustry into an arsenal for Demo- thing more permanent, something President reached the concluding in 1810.

4,700 Escorts passage of his inaugural speech. Meanwhile, thousands of cracy as in his declarations of larger than the sum of all its parts.

It is that something which mat- After the speech, the President, be people were gathered around the middle of this month, air escort was December 19 and January 7;

ters most to its future, which calls fore re-entering his car to retum to

provided for 4.700 convoye. Sub- instend the keynote of his forth the most ancred guarding of its the White House, waited in the Capitol to hear the inaugural marines were sighted on 260 cc-

white-plitared

streets address was the defence of the present. It is a thing for which, we white,

were casions. Approximately 100 attacks. and it difficult, even impossible, to been specially con which had address.

in front of the crowded in the inaugural area were made on them. The number Democratic principle.

hit upon in a single simple word and Capliol for to-day's ceremonies and and it was estimated that 1,000,- of "kills" is not revealed.

In the last few months, approxi- yet we all understand what It Is the stood with the multitude na the band 1000 persons had come to observe

Observers noted that President the ceremony. The crowds out mately 50,000 tons of enemy shipping were destroyed by perial torpedo al- Human History

then usually side the church applauded the tack more "It is the product of centuries. De- serious before he took the oath. He presidential party. There was been made to estuaries in enemy-

alone. Scores of

of mine-laying fights have mocratic aspiration is not a mere re was also unusually strong in cm- cent happening in human history. Its is human history. It permeated the Phasis throughout his address, butį bright sunshine and the air was occupied territory, for which

afterwards he greeted friends gally cold. ancient life of early peoples, It and appeared to be in the best of Following the President's car were blazed anew, in the Middle Ages. it spirits.

60 motorcycle police with sirens was written in the Magna Carta.

Several members of Mr Roosevelt's roaring. They arrived at the rear of time in the midst of swift happen- the Americas, Its impact has family, including his mother, wit- the church where a special ramp had cupied France.

irresistible. Those who first nessed the historie inauguration from been built to accommodate the party. stock-to recall what our place in come here to carry out the longings of the pavillon, over which the Pre- The President's sons, their wivCB, and the millons who sident's own blue and gold flag children, his wife and mother pre- history has been, and to re-discover followed and the stock that sprang waved with the Stars and Stripes.

spirit what we are, and what we may be.

forward If we do not, wc

risk a real peril from them, all have moved

constantly and consistently towards tion.

lives of nations are deter-on ideal which in itself has gained in not by the count of years but stature and charity with each geners. by the lifetime of human spirit. The tion. life of man is three score years and ten, blittle more, a little less. The life of a nation in the fullness of the measure I will to live. There

ot are men who doubt this. There are men who believe that democracy, an

Tank of The People WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (Reuter). "On each Inauguration Day, the American people have renewed their United sense of dedication to the

declared President Roosevelt States," In his inaugural address to-day.

He said: "In this day the task of the people is to save that nation and its institutions from disruption from without. To us, there has come a ings to pause for a moment to take

of

their

"We know that we still have far: to go and that we must more greatly build security and opportunity, for the knowledge of every citizen. is in

n measure justifled by the resources and capacity of the land, but it is not

If The Spirit Died

a form of government and frume enough to achieve these purposes of life is limited or measured by aalone, for there is also the spirit, kind of mystical and artificial fate; that for some unexplained reason tyranny and slavery have become the surging wave of the future, and that dreedom is on ebbing tide.

well

Export Of Rice

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To Japan

Indo-China Agreement Is Reached BRÈCIAL TO THE "YKLEGRAPH" TOKYO, Jan. 21

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ceded him into the church where many high political celebrities and Cabinet members had assembled, The police and secret service officials had dimeulty in keeping the crowds behind the lines.

Leaves For Capitol

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markable successes are calmed.

Recently Coastal Command. bom-. Bers have concentrated on German and Italian submarine bases in Oc-

Mrs Mueller Prosecuted

Changed Address Without Permission

Mrs Lilian Mueller, 30, steno- grapher, residing at 10, Fort Street, second floor, Bay View, was charged before Mr H, G. Sheldon, K.C., at the Central Magistracy this morning with

At 11.30 am. President Roosevelt left the White House enroute to the Capitol where a colourful group of diplomats had met in the Capitol building, resplendent in their gold (Domel)-An braid and sliver scabbards in re committing a breach of the Defence Regulations. It was alleged that she

"If the spirit of America

were agreement of views on the problem ness to parade through the rotunda was on January 20 at Bay View,

on would take the oath of office, 25 feet her movements are confined. killed even though the nation's body of the export of French Indo-China to the platform where the President which is outside the area to which

rice to Japan, was reached and mind, constricted in an alien)

the Japanese above the heads of the spectators. Dr

Inspector F.

F. T. J. Portallion said the world, lived on, the American we know January 20 between

German

Charge that Mrs Mueller was served with a Democracy le Not Dying would have perished. That spirit, and French Indo-China delegations, Themmi,

communique issued d'Affaires, dressed in a morni sult, Restriction of Movements Order on know

that that faith, speaks to us in our daily according to a

arrived early with his wife. "But we Americana

That order of

last year. Novembed to her and she signed yesterday evening by the Board un- information. are often

Cheared By 100,000 such is not true. Democracy is not lives in ways that dying. We know it because we have noticed. It speaks to us from other

The communique read: "Continu- At midday, 100,000 spectators in it. At that time, she was living in seen it revive and grow, We know nations of this hemisphere and from

ing

economic Capitol plazs cheered the arrival of Kowloon, and she reported every their discussions of that it cannot die because it is built those across the sea, enslaved as

questions regarding French Indo- the President's automobile and the Monday to the Water Police Statidh. on the unimpered initiative-of-in-as-free-

China, the Japanese and French-de-United States Marine Band-played On December 20, she spoke to

•Dot. dividual men and women Jained to- "Sometimes we fall to hear heed legations headed by Ambassador Mr Hall the Chief." Four army

conmen enterprise on these voices because to us the pri- Hajime Matsumiyn, and M. Rene scout cars equipped with machine Branch, and asked his permission

scraf F. Russell, of the Special] 'gether in a

to enterprise undertaken and carried vilege of our freedom is such an old. Robin respectively, to-day reached guns surrounded the President's through by a

expression of old story."

an agreement of views on the pro- The President waved a allk handker: move to Boy View. Sergt Russell instructed her to write to the Special thought,

Recalling President. Washington's blem of export of French Indo-China chief to the crowds. A squadron of Branch for permission. She did so "We sense that it is still spreading Arst inaugural address in 1780 when rice to Japan. Discussions on other

mator cycle units preceded the

on December 30, and permission was on every continent--for it is the most he spoke of the "preservation of the matters are being continued."

in 0

shape formation. Mrs

refused her on January 3. humane, the most advanced and in sacred fire of liberty and the destiny

Roosevelt rode directly behind the

In spite

of that, continued Inspector of the republican model of govern- BOMBAY, Jan. 20 (Reuter)-The President's car followed by a cor Portallion, she persisted in removing ment" Mr Roosevelt declared, "If we Governor, Sir Roger Lumley, re-bearing the retiring Vice-President,

to a place outside the restricted ares lose that sacred fire, if we let it beceived and inspected a unit of 20 Mr John Garner and then another She had been living at Bay View smothered with doubt or fear, then ambulances subscribed for by private jear bearing the Vice-President elect,

since

January 1. we shall reject the destiny that donors within a few weeks of the Mr Henry Wallace, Washington strove so valiantly and Governor's appeal on behalf of the so triumphantly to establish.

St. John's Association.

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the end the most unconquerable of all forms of human society. Mind of A Nation

"A nation, like person, has a mind-a mind that must be kept in- formed and alert, that must know itself, thust understands the hopes and

"Kung Hay Fat Choy"

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Mr Wallace took the oath of office a minute before the President took his oath. Chief Justice Charles Hughes administered the Pre- Evana sidential path and the retiring Vice- President, Mr John Garner, swore lis Vice-President Wallace.

Freezingly Cold WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (Reuter). --Thousands of visitors from all over the country, Including a large.con- tingent from Canado, left crowded hotels and homes early to-day to at- tend the inaugural ceremonies, many of them wrapped in rugs and furs because the weather was freezingly cold though the sun was shining brightly.

After the Church service, Fre sident Roosevelt and family returned

Mr Sheldon, after listening to the facts, asked Mrs Mueller if she ad mitted them.

She replied, "No, I don't."

Inspector Portalllon asked for a remand until Saturday, and mention- ed that defendant was on bail of $100.

The case was adjourned to Satur day at 11 am..

Magnificent Morale

Of Malta

LONDON, Jan. 20 (Reuter).

to the White House in an open car-The firmness of the people of and were enthusiastically cheered by Malta in the face of repeated the crowds lining the route. The attacks is shown by a tolegram President later left the White House sont by the Governor (Lieut- and drove up the broad beflagged Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capito General W. G. S.. Dobbie) to the amid more cheering throngs.

Colonial Secretary (Lord Lloyd),

A New Meaning The various ceremonies had all the colour of past inaugurations but there was a new meaning owing to events abroad.

Washington was so crowded that

who some visitors

came by cor brought trailers in which to live, and Trallway companies temporarily housed passengers in "Pullman cities" in railway yards..

Thousands of people stamped and shouted as Mr Roosevelt waved his slik hat to the crowd along the route

the Capitol The estimated at 75,000.

[to

It reads: "Malia has taken a very heavy toll-of the enemy In the recent allacks. The spirit of the people of Malta is as strong as ever."

Day of Reat

MALTA, Jan. 20 (Reuter)~A total of 17 enemy aircraft were destroyed at Malta on Sunday, It i now offlelally announced.

This made the total enemy losses

in three days 37 destroyed for certain Ave probably destroyed and damaged.

nine

the oath to President Roosevelt, who crowd was was standing barcheaded

Sensational Incident, MMA An escort of Police and "Secret

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (Reuter), Servicemen guarded President Roo sevelt as he drove to the Capitol sensational theldent marked the accompanied by Mir, Sam, Rayburn, closing stages of the presidential in- Speaker of the House of Representa- tives, and Senator Barkley, Democra="

augudeiled in

An

man,

carrying a

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PILSNER

The New Lighter Brew.

THE BAND

of the 2nd Battn., The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment)

(by kind permission of Lt. Col. D. J. McDougall, M.C., and Officers)..:

A

present

CONCERT

Under the direction of H. B. Jordan, A.R.C.M.

at the

Kowloon Cricket Club

on Saturday, 8th February, 1941, at 9.15

p.m.

In aid of the S. C. M. Post

BOMBER FUND

Table seats can be reserved at the Club (Tel, 57018) Ladies at $1.50. and Gentlemen $2,00

The talented Chinese dancer Miss Al-lien Tai is shown above in a graceful pose from her pastoral dance "Roth” which is one of the numbers she will present at the China Hospitals' Benefit show at the King's Theatre to-morrow at

9.30 p.m.

R.N.R. Officer's Appeal Ends

Court upon Vincent Oswald Peters, 46; Lieutenant, of the Briifsh, Noval Reserve; upon conviction of violation was concluded yesterday afternoon. In- the Osnku District Appelate. Court

The judgment will be pronounced. on February. 3.

tic Leader of the Senate. Mrs. Rog loaded revolver, was arrested by

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPHI sevelt, occupied the second car, Mr accret service men in the square

OSAKA, Jan. 21 (Domel) The John Gamer the former Vice Pre-fronting the White House just before sident, the third car and Mr and Mrs the President, returned from the six-day appeal hearing against the Henry Wallace followed,

Capitol. The man was taken to hos-8-year hard labour sentence tmposed Chief Justice, Hughes administered pital for examination:

on January 20 by the Robe District camera,

The appeal hearing was heard in:

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