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CURRENT COMMENT.... By Scrutineer

The arrival of Lord Halifax lini for not pursuing a similar in Chesapeake Bay on board the course. It is always dangerous latest battleship King George VI to allow policy to go beyond the was hailed by America na proof military power to enforce il. of the fact that Britain controll-

THE MIDDLE EAST SITUATION

A

ed the Atlantic. On the other hand, the Rome announcer re- garded the voyage as proof that complete transformation ahe did not. He made the state has come over the military situa- ment that the, Ambassador would tion in the Middle East, with the have gone in an Atlantic liner capture of Tobruk and Kassala. had the sen been open, and added It is reasonably certain that the astounding lie that no British and Abyssinia reoccupied by Benghazi will soon be captured ship had crossed the Atlantic Haile Selassie. In fact, only since November.

Tripoli will remain in the hands of the Italians by the end of The fact is that neither the winter. German nor Italian feet dares.

Hitler has done nothing or perhaps seck contact with the British has not been able to do anything to

help forces in the Atlantic. Raiders dictators. It may be because the his sadly oppressed fellow and submarines appear for their talons are not willing to pay the price and accept full German control. tip and run atincks, but not an That, however, is the only alternative | Italian or German warship, and still less does any merchant ship ply those waters without the British Navy's permission.

complete defent. It looks 7.5 though Musson would be willing to recept ค subordinate role under Hitler rather than surrender his power altogether.

One thing about the Churchill TELEGRAPH

administration is that it does

ngo.

SATURDAY

FEATURE

says, cast her very heavily in mun- nation in a crushing burden of debt. power and material, and Involved the instead of Germany being in the ascendant as undoubtedly she was in' June, it is clear that she has now passed the zenith of iter power, and cannot help her ally.

In comparison, therefore, with this fed in taking the risk he did. It is positiun, Mussolini was almost just-

extremely difficult to see how a far- envisage the prospect of a movement sighted Japanese statestiam can south with anything but grave fear. if he is really concerned with the future welfare of his country.

The military and naval outlook for such a venture is bad enough, but the conomic one must be terrifying. t help such as Germany may give to Is dificult to see how even belated

Italy, can be sent to Japan. The idea of a war with the United States always regarded in Japan as some present circumstances, it must he a thing to be avoided at all costs. In

nightmare. Matsuoka begs America

to keep out of the war but she has no intention whatever of going in, provided Japan keeps out of the Netherland East Indies. Germany's object, of

eneduraging course, in Japan at all costs to go, forward 19 to divert American supplies from Britain.

NEW FOURTH ARMY

uniess there is the utmost i

able to have its defects exposed and

not minimise the dangers nor does it conceal the truth about

The Generalissimo's explanation of - his action in dealing with the Com- the situation in Britain. Lord.

mmunist Fourth Route Army will help Halifax made it quite clear to

to remove suspicions, provided the sume disciplinary measures. Jure the people of the United States

adopted against those extremists who that their assistance was vitally

with to swing China too far over 10 It is a pltinble position for the necessary to the British effort. Halian people to be in. It is rather the right. In Chungking as in other places there is naturally u tug-of- patheile to hear them whining over There is no room for the compla- the wireless about the mighty British

war going on between extremisty of one sort or another. The middle cency of which the British them- Empire crushing the poor in solid block is not generally

peasant soldier settlers in Libya, but it is always in danger

active. of selves were guilty up to a year while the German wireless speaks of

the impending dorm of Great Britain, captured by one side or the other, These two countries do not seem to agree with each other in their The Government in

power is OPINION IN AMERICA estimate of the British Empire, and

yet there are signs they are beginning its faults magnified by those who are The following extract taken to do so. Admiral Raeder in his re-

anxious to replace it. War weariness from a letter just received in cent talk to the shipyard workers said or appeasement is competing with that the task of defeating Britain national pride, and the demand for Hath fulf Hongkong from an American would be a tough one. This "de-

and

unfettered freedom from by "plutocratic Japanese domination.

The party friend shows the position there. war-mongers," according to by the always command the support of the

cadent people"

"according to Lord Lord

islands by the latter policy will "There is too much acceptance law. are now

Admiral as a real tough nation. It grealer part of the Chinese people. of England as 'our front line of is obvious that the education of the The Generalissimo so far has left no defence'. However true it may Germans is pruceeding apace. The doubt in the mind of the Chinese on be from a military angle, it is allan schooling in that respect is which side he stands.

already completed. unfortunate that many soulless people seem content to hide. behind it.

+

"Actually, the public opinion of over 100 million people is slow to mould and there must be no room for serious opposition, that

*

NEW DISEASE !

The "Melbourne Herald" states thai the Australian doctors are investigat- ing the nature of a new disease which has made its appearance. Provision- ally they have called it itallan Lum- buro, since its chief symptoms are a sharp stab in the back and a shaking

at the knees,

could so easily be roused. Our JAPAN'S ANXIETY

to

Confucius

And Bible In Agreement

SPANISH SERENADE

TELEGRAPH“ SATURDAY FEATURE

BEHIND THE HEADLINES

By John Blunt

Hitler's latest ranting reminds an oppressor, It is the will of me of the man who, while as- the people themselves that is suming a threatening posture, is the only British dictator; and if looking around in the hope that there is any form of compulsion, it is the universal will which someone will hold him back. The compels our leaders to prosecute only difference is that Hitler will this war with all their strength be compelled to make a show of and Ingenuity. It is a thousand it, and in his utter desperation, pities that public opinion was not may be expected to resort to of the same calibre when Bald- every foul device of which he win was at the helm-but that

is a tragedy of the past. can think. His only hope-which is now a most forlorn one-is to

☆ achieve his oft-vaunted invasion It is impossible for us at this of the British Isles, and once distance, to assess the great again has he told his craven debt we owe our kinsmen people that the time is nearly at Home. Those who have re- at hand.

cently lived in the British Isles It appears to be fairly well what hardships are being endur- know what poignant sacrifices, established that an earlier at ed. Thousands of homes have tempt was male, but that it been destroyed, and, what is the proved to be a costly and hope- more terrible, thousands of lives ess business. The British Isles of women and children have been now present the largest and most formidable fortress ever fiendish German doctrino. The taken by this indescribably known in the world's history, and coming generations of Germans should an invasion be attempted, will carry a as it probably will be, the Ger- to their graves, for it will be curse with them man losses will be of such mag impossible to forget the misery

nitude that the first really big they created. Chinese have found that con-

step will have been taken in the

the

defent of Hitler and all that he stands for.

It may not be long now. I do not think it will be, for Germany It must not be presumed, since then our people have built failed a year or more ago, and however, that the task of de-

hand is already extended to China and England, and our The speech of Prince Konoye practical gestures will come in betrays his anxiety to get on with the version to Christianity need not ever-increasing size and number, China. The refusal of Germany to venerating their ancestors, it task of becoming reconciled to Free interfere with their practice of But we have been appallingly recognise Nanking means that she was pointed out by Wen Hsien slow to see and to prepare, ne set for the role of mediator, for she

is seeking-to preserve friendship with Wan Chen, who expects to re- Canada and England were, both. For the came reason that ceive a Doctor of Philosophy de- Slower no doubt.

Japan seeks pence, on fuce-saving terms, with China, Germany will

gree at the University of Northfending our shores will be a light UP, and still are building a might one. Hitler is too desperate to overthrow Hitler and his war and power which will ultimately "Labor (labour to you) is encourage the move since the Jatter's | Carolina by Christmas,

is to embroil

chance any half-hearted effort, Japan pouring into Detmit. The wheels plan

with Americu

Explaining his viewpoint, by encouraging her

machine. and there is no doubt that the of industry hum faster every south

80 Chinese student asserted that Con- and leave Chion alone. Gor-

onslaught, when it comes, will day. A stream of planes flies re- many is trying to perform the refuclus and the Bible are in agree- gularly across the Atlantic. Our markable feat of reconciling Japan children are taught not only to obey 1 ment on many points; that, in China, peace time draft went through to China and sise to Russia, although their parents, even as they are en- Matsuoka has sold that China must joined in the Ten Commandments to without a whimper. People who

accept position of dependency on love their little Italian frult Japan, for he definitely inys It

do, but that a strict adherence to this dealer on the corner cheer never that Japan is to be the sole master of principle engenders in them a veneration that is passed on from the-less every defent of Italian the Eastern Pacific, and not even the

United States must dispute

generation to generation. This, he arms, yea-Sidi Barrani."

claim, and still less China,

pointed out, has given rise to the veneration of ancestors, Italy does not seem to net ns a warning. Mussolini claimed that his

LORD HALIFAX

down

that

pas

Chinese like to dream of

Chinese Dream It is Lord Halifax's mission to record of success in four wars

Philosophic reverie, he went on, Libya, Abyssinia, Spain and Albania remalna stimulate this movement and justified him in launching out into the time.

a precious' Clilnere necelerate its speed, and no one more ambitious schieme of

gaining is better qualified for the task control of the Mediterranean. не "The than he is,

thought the moment was propitious: what they should be." be declared. France was prostrate and Britain was However, he likes the practical at- Like Lord Lothian ho was practically defenceless.

any titude of American civilisation, but Germany

seen the advantages found in the associated with the policy of was on the verge of the greatest

triumph in History. The terrible older civilisations, in that they aro appeasement, but that makes his disasters Mussolini has suffered on based more on terms of friendship advocacy of the war now in all fronts in the past months, (which

than achievement. There can be an placed en material U.S.A. all the stronger and more mean the inevitable collapse of his overemphasis

recently won Empire) show how things, he said. convincing.

grossly he over-estimated his strength and underestimated that of the British Empire,

.If Halifax is criticised for & policy of appeasement in the past, How much more must the people of Italy now be blaming Musso-

Although the student's family has been disrupted by the war, be says he bears no prejudice against tho Now let us look at Japan; she has Japanese, who, he believes, are do- an unfinished war

on her hands, | ceived by milliarists and are the vic- which has already as Prince Konnyel tims of bad government.

be tremendous. Every device Officers "Escaped”

will be used in the German do- or-die attack, and much destruc- tion will be caused, but the de- termination and quality of the people at Home will save us all from the fate which Hitler so feverishly desires.

Y

In A Plane

THREE French officers have reached Singapore after "escap- ing" from Saigon, French Indo- China, in a plane belonging to a flying club.

One a naval officer from the The remarkable success of our French flagship on the Indo troops in Libya, Eritrea, Abys China station said he took off sinia and Italian Somaliland from Saigon ostensibly for a must be as bitter a pill for the

cross-country flight. Germans as it is for the Italians,

A couple of years ago, fay- He picked up his companions, air ourite word of both Hitler and force officers, and a supply of petrol Jat a secret meeting place and then Mussolini-or their mouthpieces crossed the Gulf of Slam.

when referring to Great Bri- tain, was "decadent." If that word ever crosses their minds now, a particularly large ques- tion mark must serve as a vision accompanying the thought,

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They refuelled in mid-air, the air force officers climbing on the wings to pour extra peirot into the tanks.

The officers intend going to Lon- don to join the Free French Air Force. They stated that officers and men

many in Indo-China

The determination of the Bri-want to fight for Free France and tish peoples is not dictated by lareat Britain."

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