1941-05-07 — Page 21

Wednesday

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 71941.

FULL TEXT OF COLONEL STIMSON'S

BRILLIANT BROADCAST

WASHINGTON, May 6 (Reuter).—Immediate use of the United Statos Navy "to make the seas secure for the delivery of munitions to

SPEECH

Britain," was urged by Colonel Henry Stimson, Secretary for War, în a U.S. Defence Heads

broadcast speech to the nation to-night.

"The world is facing so great a crisis that all our efforts must be turned toward the defence of our nation's safety,” he declared.

At the outsel, Colonel Stimson easily have been prevented. Many "You may assume that he talked with

unwary sentinel answered some critics who to-day Inn

Of liberty the President about the speech." were calling him a war-monger and has been caught napping at

opposed

and as

who

America's present vital monentų, But as always has efforts at national defence. "The fact happened

before, the

progress mon is that for many years after the Great of

along the path of both

citizen a private

freedom will be taken up again ond War, Secretary of State, I laboured with carried forward with a new spirit ing full strength for the establishment and with fresh knowledge nequired of the reign of law among nations by the unhappy experiences of the

their under which

controversies should be settled by judicial methods Instead of by force.

Once Hopeful

There was a time when such

To- movement seemed full of hope.

day that time has passed-tem porarily, we trust and our hopes of

fence

past.

To, be frightened into belief that Hitler had created a new and per- nument world order would be as native as it would be cowardly."

Naval Assistance

Colonel Stimson describing his

Local Drive

For China

Defence

The China Defence League, of which Mudame Sun Yat-sen is chairman, will shortly launch ment in Hongkong to raise relief

Speed

Bomber

2 Will

Output

WASHINGTON, May 6 (Reuter).-President Roosevelt has called in the chief members of the Cabinet and the heads of the Army and Navy for discussion on the question of accelerating the production of bombers.

Kleffens'

The Conference was attended by Mr Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, Colonel Stimson, Secretary of War, Mr Morgenthau, Secre- tary of the Treasury, Colonel Knox, Secretary of the Navy, Mr Harry Hopkins, Supervisor of the Lend and Lease Act opera- tions, General George Marshall, Army Chief of Staff, Admiral Stark, Chief of Naval Opera- tions, and Major-General HN. E. I. Determination Arnold, Chief of the Army. Air Corps.

Fearless Speech

SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH BATAVIA, May 4 (UP).-The

van

peace have been darbed by interna suggestion of full American naval tional nggression. The world Assistance to Britain, sald: "For four-day "Bowl of Rice" Move facing so great a crisis that all our

One of the chief purposes of the efforts must be turned toward the de-ny years we have been building

and maintaining our Navy, On the funds.

conference will be to consider the Kieffens, made a broadcast speech to

Dutch Foreign Ministor, Mr of our nation's safety.

that the Navy should make day "For that reason to-night I um secure the seas for delivery of our

Measures for the campaign are now need of a fast output of heavy the people of the Netherlands East Speaking of that crisis and of our munitions to Great Britain, it will under discussion. It is understood bombers,

will that some 10,000 coupons each worth Mr Roosevelt is reported to hope Indies in which he issued the most defence in meeting it.

render as great a service to our own 2 and entitling to one or two bowls for an output of 500 a month.

abrupt statement yet officially made In 1933 a group of men under the country and to the preservation of of fried rice will be issued by various

According to White House officials, to aggression.

regarding the attitude of the N.E.I. leadership of Adolf Hitler obtained

| American freedom as it has rendered

restaurants. During the campaign, the conference will provide the op- possession of the

Referring to the Manila talks with many and overthrew the German

Madame Sun Yat-sen and other res-portunity for Major-General Arnold, Republic.

"Supplementing the Both within and without Germany, they have set back the British Navy, it can render secure

personally KO lo the various to make a complete report to what Chief Marshal Brooke-Popham, Mr clock more than five centuries. They all occurs north, south, west and east restaurants to make, inspections and some quarters call the "War Cabinet" Von Kleffens said, "Our position

which surround our continent. In have embarked on a scheme of con- that way it can help to hold in check

to give whatever assistance needed. Meantime, Mr Roosevelt has ap- should not be regarded apart from which is avowedly intended 10 the rush of the tide of Nazisin until Selwyn-Clarke, Hon. Secretary of the who is a member of the Executive { by the mere fact of our geographical quest

In res

n letter Mrs pointed Major-General Jurnes Burns, that of other territories with which, be worldwide. For that purpose they have built up in secret an the other defence forces of all de- League, the Chinese General Cham Committee of the Army and Navy

Immense military machine based on would eventually and permanently

mocracles are completed.

This

ber

Munitions Board, as assistant to Mr its meeting the forced labour of Germany, confine the force of despotism until yesterday decided to support the Harry Hopkins to handle the detailed tide of freedom has begun to rise Tseh-wha, Lum Pul-sung, Lau Tse- the virus hus run its course and the movement. A special committee of work under the Aid for Britain pro-

11, including Mr P. Cockchin, Ng Cramene. again.

tsing and Wong Mow-lam, was Importance of Present

elected to take charge of the matter,

overnment of Ger- in all its glorious efforts of the nonsible members of the League will who has just returned from Britain. the British C.-in-C., Far East, Air

response

of Commerce

at

from

Enslaved Countries "They have already attacked, con- quered and occupied Austria, Czecho- Slovakia, Poland, Norway, Denmark, Holland,

Belgium Luxembourg,

"On the other hand, if our Navy's France, Rumania, Hungary, Bulgaria

A reception will shortly be given Yugo-Sinvia and have reduced assistance should be withheld until by the Chinese Defence League to And the people of those 13 countries to the power of the British Fleet and the Press and leaglers of various cir- serfdom and semi-slavery 10 Nazl nation is broken, its own power of cles to explain the significance of the despotism,

execution would at once shrink to coming movement. They have attached to their Axis but on impotent fraction of what it as vassals two other nations do-could do at the present moment. If

by the same minated

purpose of we should allow the military

conquest Italy, guilty of un-moment to pass until the power Mr M. K. Lo are expected to attend. provoked attacks upon Ethiopia, the British Navy is gone, our navy

of

His Excellency Sir Geoffry North- cole, the Governor, Madame Sun and

Albanin and Greece, and Japan, would become merely a secondary MEXICO IS

guilty of a similar attack upon her power instead of neighbour.

By this conquest they have de- stroyed western elvillaation which has been slowly building up in Europe ever since the dark nges.

no

.

sucir thing as individual. rights of liberty within their territory or Inter-

national rights of independence with-

out their territory.

Both domestle and International

decisive winning

power in the world contest.

be

Is it conceivable that the Ameri- SOLIDLY

hop

WITH U. S.

Anti-Totalitarian

Toll of Night Raiders Mounts

Grandee's Death Presumed

LONDON, May @ (Reuter)-Leave to presume the death on or since November 8, 1936, of Carlos Fernando Stuart y Falco, Duke of Penaranda, was granted in the Probate Couri to-day, the application being made by the Duke's brother, the Duke of Alba, the Spanish Ambassador to London.

An affidavit by the Duke of Alba

stated that the Duke of Penaranda

Novem

Greek Units Join Fleet

to

Of ten destroyers, three were sunk, Two of 13 torpedo boats have suc- reeded in reaching Alexandria.

position, the N.E.I. is closely linked.

"A few days ago the British Com- mander-in-Chief whom I recently had the pleasure of meeting in Manila, pointed out in a press conference that politically and militarily the line run. ning from Singapore across the Indies to Australia must be considered as a unit and attack from outside. at any point t along this line must be regarded and treated as an attack on the whole. "This sensible view is to be taken to heart. Far be it from me to use challenging language. That not the Dutch habit, but it also would not be our habit to leave any doubt, with regard to our firm resolve to fight against aggression."

British War Communiqué

LONDON, May 6 (Reuter). -"In the Habbaniyah area, British aircraft were again active yesterday," states a communique from

tho British G.H.Q. in Cairo.

"Hostile shelling was intermittent and Inaccurate.

"In the Busra area, the situation remains quiet.

"Libya Tobruk: No change in the of our ground and air forces were "In the Sollum area, the activities severely hampered by a heavy sund storm.

altuation.

"Abyssinia.-Further progress was made by our forces northward from Dessie on the rear of the . Italian position about Amba Alagi..

"Advancing from Neghall our troops elected and inflicted heavy holding a position covering Adola. casualties on a strong memy force

"In other sectors our advance is

continuing."

New Zealand Command

can people would allow this to pen after the carefully determined course which we have pursued until, "We are so close to these sudden this moment, after the clear staic- happenings that we can hardly yet ments and appeals made by our Pre- realise the havoc which has thus been sident in respect of the danger which wrought both within and without the confronts us, after the overwhelm- NEW YORK, May 6 (Reuter). was interned in the model prison in national boundaries of that unhappy ing response to his appeals which hasMexico's opposition to totali-Madrid in the summer of 1836 with continent. The growth of freedom been made by Congress, after we

other sympathisers had been so long and so steady that have taken our place deanitely be tarian expansion was unequivo-movement.

the National we had come to believe that it would hind the warring democracies and cally expressed by the Mexican son on or about the following

Removed from the pri soon be the recognised system of the against aggressor nations in the de- Foreign Minister, Senor Padilla,ber, he is believed to have been as whole world.

fence of freedom, after providing for writing in the Carnegie Founda- and child and brother had not seen sassinated. Since then his widow Dashed Aside

billions of dollars worth of munitions "All at once it has been dashed to carry on that defence and while tion's publication, "International or heard from the Duke of Penaranda, aside, trampled on by these Nuzi we hold in our hands instruments Conciliation."

who left an estate of about £30,000 rulers who are proposing to establish ready and able to make all these

Senor Padilla declared: "Mexico) in Britain, world order in which they shall be steps effective? Shall we now flinch is prepared to take a stand with other musters and the people of all other and permit these munitions to be Western Hemisphere démocracles in nations their slaves. They have left sunk in the Atlantic Ocean?

opposing totalitarian expansion and No Precedent

atin

column

activity. America's America's cedent to make such a supposition Padilla writes: "The Mexican people,

"Our entire history shows no pre-

destiny is to take part in the fray.” Later in the same article, Senor creditable. Neither the Government with full consciousness of the cause CANEA, Crete, May 6 (Reuter) Taw have gone down under their or the people-of-the-United States they are embracing, are fully resolved Greek submarines have sailed blows. For the rule of inw, they have ever given occasion to make to share that destiny. We must, Alexandria where they have joined

the anyone believe that such an act of therefore, prepare. have substituted the rule of

We must reso- the British Fleet, states Gestapo, the secret police under, irresponsibility and indecision would lutely co-operate with one another statement on the fate of the Greek an official whose malign terrorism no vestige of

e possible.

for the defence of this hemisphere,"

Fleet. personal freedom is sule.

unrestricted submarine war- fare Germany is carrying on in the Tentacles in Americas'

North Atlantic, sinking ships without "This is the so-called New Order warning and without the possibility we face to-day it has openly an- of saving the lives of their crews, is

WELLINGTON, May 6 (Reuter).- nounced its hostility to us and to our not legal blockade under the rules

The Minister of Defence announced order. It has been steadily encircling of marine warfare.

that Brigadier Edward Puttlek hos It hus

never Bur western world. Its advance been recognised as lawful by the

been appointed to be in temporary already bus agents are

busy

United States. America's spokesmen

command of the New Zealand forecs republles Bouth of US,

at International Conferences have

LONDON, May 6 (Reuter).—

in Crete in place of Major-General C, nir lincs through vital

CHUNGKING, May 6 (UP)-In B. Freyberg, VIC, who has been ap- In that

and again and again condemned it as a Germany has lost 41 night continent

form of piracy. up towards our Panamo

bombers already this month. connection with Mr Nelson Johnson's pointed by the Greek Government to Allied forces in Canal. Its armed forces are threa-

This total-nearly half of the departure from Chungking which is command all the

Crete, "It was expressly the violation of record April losses-was reached stood that Mr Clarence Gauss, the

scheduled for May 14, it is tening West Afrien and looking to-

under- wards a jumping-off place within law and humanity involved in un- with the announcement that two new Ambassador is due in Hengkong Koo As Ambassador susy teach of the Brazilian const. restricted submarine warfare which additional raiders, it is now cou en May 17, after which he is expected Its propagandists are already in 1817 caused the President and Con-

BPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH!" vigorously active in our own popul-gress to take up arms in defence of firmed, were brought down on to come to Chungking before the en

freedom of the

of the month.

CHUNGKING, May 6 (UP)-The ilon.

scas. To-day Ger- Sunday night by anti-aircraft It is understood that Mr Richard Executive Yuan to-day formally ap- Iltier and his military associates many by these same illegal means,

is are.

Buterisk, former Acting Consul, et pointed. Dr Wellington Koo as Am- have seized their opportunities with not only seeking to frighten our com-

Thus, this year's Luftwaffe loss Shanghai is coming to Chungking to bassador to London. Dr Wei Tao- uncommon skill. They have used inerce and our vessels from the At by night total 203, which compares act us Counsellor to the Embassy, ming was appointed Ambassador to their power to inculcate into the lantic but she has extended even into with 130 for the whole of 1040, of probably with Ambassador "Gauss. France. Dr Wel is now Secretary of plastic minds of the regeneration of the Western Hemipshere,

zone which 03 were brought down from The Military Attache, Colonel Wil- the General Executive Yuan. youth the abhorrent reactionary which she has also forbidden to us.

15 Junie onwards,

liam Mayer, left for Hongkong a day "Hitler has not only torn up the doctrines of Nazism and hatred of

Two more enemy aircraft were or two age. rules of International Law but he is brought down in the Channel on other men.

expanding his lawless activities into

in daylight when small our hemisphere. Our Government is

Gew short distance Inland, limits should be put to lawless ag were dropped on one lown on the The Air Ministry says that bombs cedented power, They have usedgression on the ocean.

Kent coast and on another on the The President has said that every method of duplicity and pro-

wei eust const, but litle damage was done paganda to surprise their victim must not allow the steps which we ard there were no serious casualties. have already taken to become in nations with sudden' attack.

"They

now arrogantly confront the effective.

No Gloom Or Despondency world, including ourselves, with the alternative of abject

surrender or "I do not minimise the danger uncompromising, forceful resistance which confronts us. This is an oc-

in

the building

Secret Army Built "They have taken advantage of

Violation of Humanity

modern science to develop in secret. Beting with care and prudence. But crossed the Kent coast and;

while other nations slept,

mechanised striking force of unpre

our policy now,

Historical Reaction

our own self defence requires that

U.S. Diplomats Movements

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

Swedish Minister

In Helsinki

end

HELSINKI, May 6 (Reuter).The Swedish Foreign Minister, M.

Christian Guenther, has arrived here He was greeted at the aerodrome

on an unofficial visit.

IRAQ BOMBING by the Finnish Foreign Minister.

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" CAIRO, May 8 (UP)-The RAF. "I cannot recall that the United casion, for grave seriousness but not bombed the Iraqi military position States, throughout its history-even for gloom or despondence. I havent Diwaniya to-day. Many direct when it was small and weak-har-studied the milltary policy of the hits were scored on the barracks and ylelded to such a demand. Let us see Axis Powers and I do not

under-

administrative buildings, according whether there is any need to change estimate the courage of their, men in to an RAF communique,

battle. But I also know well the The IAF communique stated that initiative, aptitude and courage of motor transport and personnel in the "In the first place, this so-called the men of this country. I have be- Iraqi positions cutside of Habbanlynh New Order of Hitler's is not new; and come familiar with plans which are were bombed and several direct hits it does not and never will create being made by our military and naval were res constantly patrolled the registered on gun positions.

of brutal lawlessness is merely one "Provided that all act with prompt. Iraqi positions and the "results of of those temporary reactions which ness and are united in spirit, I have their shelling on the RAF station have occurred at intervals during all full faith in the outcome. But I am and of the little machine-gun fire was man's long history of progress not one of those who think that the negligible. ལ་

order in this world. Hitler's regime leaders for our defence.

ward. Since his origin millions of priceless freedom of our country.can Motor transport at Falluja was also years ago ambitious men have many be saved without sacrifice. It enn-bombed and hit, times attempted worldwide conquest not. That has not been the way

over the liberties of their fellow men whereby during

But they have never permanently humanity has plowly and painfully

aucceeded and they never will

Advantage of Lull

a better and more

tolled upwards to human civilisation.""

SPECIAL

"Hitler has taken advantage of the PresidAL AND LION

discontent o

tho troubled postwar

period to impose bie rule, ubou `cal WASHINGTON,

doelle-minded nation which has more That Colonel Sumson's radio,

than once temporarily yielded alla cant last night had Pruzident

love of liberty to the efficimoy of the velt's thelt

Red by many, accidents which might Secretar ntowany

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Training School

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