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U.S. INDUSTRIAL STRIKE SCENES

The camera records vivid scenes in the recent industrial strikes in the United States - in these plotures, which have. Just reached

Hongkong.

The top pletore shows a ling of strike pickets marching in front of the Bethlehem (Pennsylvania) sleek, plant. State troopers are on guard to ensuré fres passage for all 'men (who' wanted to work,

The middle picture shows a clash be-- tween CIO, strikers and workers at the

huge River Rouge plant of the Ford Com- pany, at Dearborn, Michigan: Workers rushing from the planit are met by the strikers, and in the ensuing clash, in which (knives, razors, iron bars and brickbats wore used, more than 100 persons' were injured and had to be sent to hospital,

In the lower ploture, pickets at the Ford plant are seen closing in on a lime-keeper who tried to go to work, The Ford Company lator secured a court order restraining plokets from Interference,

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

The New York correspondent of the "Sunday Dispatch" says

CHURCHILL should visit ROOSEVELT

SUGGEST Churchill mukes - His discussions with Prime

I Minister

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Serious Diesel Fuel Shortage in Thailand

BANGKOK, May 16 (UP).—Thailand will have completely exhausted her re- serves of diesel fuel by June unless her stocks can be replenished before that time, official circles revent here.

confer with Roosevelt.

sulted in the joint defence plan

for the United States and Over the White House desk Canada. closeted with Roosevelt he could achieve more in a few hours They met in a train, had din- than all Ambassadors, envoys, ner together, just the two of and special representatives them. They smoked and talked could achieve in a year.

and studied the situation. It took only a few hours, and when

It would be Aight and mis- they said good-bye it was all sion that would stir the entire worked out. democratic world; it would pro-

voke scenes of enthusiasm in There is, of course, the ques- America unmatched since the tion of safety and the considera- visit of the King and Queen. tion of whether Mr Churchill

By Don Iddon ·

The trip need take only two could be spared from England

or three days of Churchill's for even a day or two.

time. He could fly each way.

I put my suggestion forward

As regards the hazards of

after trying it out on United such a trip, it seems to me that

States political leaders.

At first they said it breathtaking,

Ilving in bombed London offers as much danger as flying the was Atlantic in war time.

impossible of fulfilment, completely out of the run of things.

The second consideration hardly stands up.

Later, when the thought had Churchill himself has stressed sunk in, they came back and the overwhelming importance of said if it could be done-why, and has made it plain that re- American support in this war

it would be tremendous,

Precedent Of Last Year

BEFORE France fell Chur-

'lations between Britain and the United States are a most abid- ing concern.

chill, and Chamberlain be- A three-day journey to fore him, used to slip over to America and back, hours of confer with Daladier and Rey- conversation with Roosevelt and naud and Gamelin. It was other American leaders, would vitally necessary that in per- clinch those relations for sonal conversation the men who generations to come. headed Britain should plan Al- lied strategy with the men who headed France,

No one thought there was anything sensationally unortho- dox in these visits,

Effect On The World

THE benefits from a meeting hardly need emphasis. The effect on already shaken Italy, on awakened France, on To-day the United States is Turkey, and on every nation Britain's Ally-fully fledged of everywhere, including a Ger- ficial 100 per cent., though as many that would be extremely tre- yet non-belligerent. The two apprehensive, would be countries are bound together mendous. It would chill Ja- against the forces of aggres- pan. sion, and their leaders have

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The President himself would much strategy to plan together, feel it a great landmark in his perhaps more than Britain and own career and that of Chur- France ever had. Roosevelt is chill; it would be a great thing an ardent believer in the efficacy for our Empire and the U.S. of personal conference.

and for all free men.

Private Life of a Private

WAR BY NIGHT

Being

a

further instalment o' the dark. For why? Be from the diary of a journalist cause you don't know what's un-

turned soldier. ·

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derneath it.

"There might be un' army round you; you might be all on Darby-and-Joan. your

bit nervous. you just don't know, so you're

SOON the night will swal-

low the world like a

pill. There is a dark threat **I've

Clouds

of dirty weather.

done sentry go in France by moonlight. It gets

are jostling and crowding in you jittery at first. You see like racecourse toughs about ruddy creeping men in every

shadow.

a bookie's stand.

"Corp-rerl," says the Man from Leicester. "Yow ever done any foighting at noight?"

"Yuh," says Corporal Bearsbreath.

"What's it. loike? Is it

noice?"

"Whaddaya mean, is

nice?

Whaddaya think it is tea-dance? It's all right."

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it

"YOU feel you can be seen miles away, but that every- thing else is hid.

"But when you get the 'ang of it, why, then you begin to see things for what they are.

"You get to know the dif- ference between what is real and what ain't real. And let me tell you something-once

you know that you're never afraid any more.

Diesel oil is highly important to Thailand. Her power niso said to have been up for re- plants, river tugs, buses and some of her factories run on diesel. consideration. Should drums be released, gasoline reserves, Exhaustion of her stocks would deal a heavy blow to Thai with rationing, can be made to economy. Rice exports would almost cease, inasmuch as most last until supplies can be ob

"You, Leicester, ave you ever of hor rice must be drawn by diesel burning tugs to Koh Sri tained from America, it is be-

been punched on the nose?" Chang, an island in the mouth of the Menem Chao Phya, 50 miles lieved,

The Man from Leicester THERE is something charm- laughs shortly, half-insulted. from Bangkok, where ahips with deep draft must anchor for load- Early in April the Thai

ingly naive about the Man "Yet the first time you saw ing. Entire towns would find themselves without light or power, pine tanker to load 6,000 tons

government chartered a Philip from Leicester. Life has pushed a punch coming, you shrunk a

him around a little, yet he bit I bet?" Important industries would be forced to shut down.

of diesel fuel at Richmond Vir seems to retain something of "So did yow, and so does giniu. Qcials reveal

the innocence of a child. "Do anybody." that Thailand uses approximately oil and gasoline to this coun- word has been received from it froighten yow?" he asks. There you are, then." 4,000 tons of diesel fuel per try.

Manila that the Philippine

"If you let it," says Bears- month. normally, - About the Officials were cheered recent Government had requisitioned breath. "But you just ain't got same amount of gasoline is ly by the announcement of the the vessel.

to let it."

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United States Government that In a last effort to obtain dicit fraighten yow?"

"How do you stop it letting BEARSBREATH turns to-

used. Most of this has come the export of steel, iron and sel fuel before supplies are ox-

wards us his sour, hard- from the United States in the other materials affected by the hausted, Nai Vilas Osathanon, breath. "A man might be a who has known fear, swallowed "Look 'ore," said Bears bitten face-the face of a man past. But the American licens- American licensing law, to Minister of Publicity and Pre born 'cro. Sco? E might 'ave fear, and who ing law suspended the shipment Thailand would be reconsidered sident of the Thal Maritime Na-

now fears of steel drume to Thailand, and on the basis of this country's vigation Company, has left for Louis.

nerve enough to go for. Joe nothing, not even fear. ateel drums, in the absence of normal consumption before the Java to negotiate for the pur-

"Ah-ab," says the Man from tankers, were used for carrying war. Steel drubs for oil were chase of Javanese oil.

"But for somo reason or Leicester, fondling his battered- othor, ovarybody's a bit afraid nose.

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