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HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH.

June 23, 1941.

CHURCHILL'S RINGING WARNING OF WHAT NEW WAR PORTENDS

LONDON, June 22 (Reuter).—Mr Winston Churchill's radio broadcast to Britain and overseas was given to-night on the shortest notice since the late Mr Neville Chamberlain announced the declaration of war against Germany.

He said: "I have taken tho was wrung so hardly from the soil, which he has so long thrived and occasion to speak to you to-night but there are all primordial human prospered. because we shall reach one of the joys where maidens laugh and chil-

Final Conquest climateries of the war.

dren pray. In tho "I see advancing upon all thủs in "Then the scene will be cleared for Arst of these intense turning the hideous onsinught of the Nazi the flual act without which its pre- points a year ago, Franco fell war machine with its clanking heel-vous conquests would be invalid,

clicking

dandifted Prussian officers,

namely the prostrate under the Germanic

subjugation 04 thio hammer.and we had to face the its crafty expert agents, fresh from Western Hemisphere to his will and

the cowing and tying down of a mystein. storm alone. ..

dozen countries. "The second was when the "I see also the dull drilled, docile, our danger, and the danger of the "The Russian danger, therefore, a Royal Air Force beat the Hun brutal misses of the fun soldiery United States, just as the cause of on, like a swarm of crawlony Russian fighting for his hearth raiders out of the daylight 'air

plodding on, ing locusts. I and thus warded off Nazi and fighters in the sky still smarting and free people in every quarter of see German bombers and home is the cause of fave men Invasion of our island while we from many a British whipping, going the globe. were still ill-armed and ill-where they hope to find a safer and, prepared.

they believe, an easier prey.

The third turning point was when the President and Congress of the United States passed the Lease and Lend enactinent devoting nearly £2.000.000.000 of the wealth of the New World to help us defend our Itberties and their own.

"These were the three climaterles

4

Our Former Allies'

"Behind all this glare I see a small group of men who planned, organised and launched this cataract of horrors upon mankind. Then my mind goes back across the years to the days when the Russian armies were our

my

"Let us learn the lesson already laught by such experiences. Let us redouble our exertions and strike with the United States while life and power remain.

haa stirred

tion.

Americans' Reaction WASHINGTON, June 22 (Router).

Invasion of Russia

alles against the same clendly foe, Mr Churchill's broadenst message. the American fraagina- when

much fought with so They "The fourth is now upon us. A valour and helped to gain a victory, four o'clock this morning, Hitler from a share in which

In giving the British people.a tead. they were alas,

has helped much to attacked and invaded Russia. All hfs from

from no fault

of ours, utterly cut out. Mr Churchill usual formalities of perfidy were observed with scrupulous technique.you will pardon me if I express chill's refusal to allow British, mill- "I have lived through all this and make clear the American path in this A non-aggression,

Lever-spreading conflict. Mr Chur- treaty has been Rolemnly

feelings at this siir of old memories. ! ແd in force

force be- WOS

"But now I have to declare the ary attention to be diverted from its tween the two countries. No

Ho com-

all plaint had been made by Germany of decision of His Majesty's Government inflexible purpose is noted on Its non-fulfilment. Under Its cloak and I fee! sure it is a decision in sides and is warmly applauded. of false

which the confidence, the

the German

great Dominions will in armies grow

due course concur. up In Immense strength and the armoured divisions slowly and methodically took

up their atations. Then suddenly without a declaration of war, without even ar ultimatum, German bombxx were rafted down from the sly upon Russian

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without a day's delay. "I have to "But I must speak if now, at once, make a declaration but can doubt what our polley will be?

Will Help Russia.

Proclamation

Of Antonescu

Swedish

Cabinet Meeting

Soviets

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CORRESPONDENT) ^. MOSCOW, June 22 (Reuter). STOCKHOLM, June 22 (Reu-Germany's deliberate aggres- ter).—The Swedish Cabinetslon does not find the Soviet hold an emergency meeting this unprepared, While having tried morning.

by all possible diplomatic means Paincu from his country residence at war, Russin, under Stalin has The King arrived at the Royal to avoid being dragged into the 10.15 a.m. where he received the the Premier, Per Albin Hansson, 18 become the subject of aggres- Foreign Minister, M. Guenther, and not forgotten that she might minutes later,

alon.

The Interview lasted till 11.20 a.m. Throughout the past month, there The Swedish radio sent out numer-has been constant preparation of the ous messages to ships at sea, instruct-armed forces and civilian auxillary ing them to return immediately to services based on the experience of Swedish ports in view of the Russo-war conditions and the lessons learnt

German war.

How 'Moscow Took News Of Treachery

as a neutral observer (and as a belli- gerent in Finland), of war conditions i during the past two years.

Recent Training

over-

Since last spring, the Soviet army has undergone considerable hauling and, strengthening, while Marshal Timoshenko's slogan has throughout been "training under war conditions,"

towns and

Hundreds of thousands of anti-

anct other alr parachutists

rnid MOSCOW, June 22 (Reuter). workers in every region of the Soviet -All day long loud-speakers out the spring period, warding off Union have been practicing through- have been transmitting broad-mock attacks on their cast crders and patriotic vilings. marches in all Moscow's public The measures taken under the squarey,

new labour laws introduced last year: Crowds thronged the streets, listen. for increasing production, particular- the factories working for ly in ing to the wireless,

national defence, have been inten-

A complete black-out and other

M. Molotov's announcement was the first Indication of the German cities: German froops

LONDON, June 22 (Renter). attack which the Russian people had, "We have but one aim and one violated the Russian frontiers and an single irrevocable purpose. We are "To-day the hour of the holy though the newn was known to hour later, the Gemmar Ambassador, resolved to destroy Hitler and every war has struck," says General foreigners early this morning. Tho who during the night before, was vestige of the Nazi regime. We shall Ion Antonescu, the Rumanian news was calmnly received. lavishing assurances of

never parley, we shall never negotiate Premier, in an Order of the Day friendship almost of un alliance-upon

Black-Out The wi

with Hitler or with any of is yang Bussians, called upon the Russian We shall fight him by land, we shall issued to the Rumanian troops air raid precautions have been order Foreign Minister to tell him that fight him by sea, we shall night him who are fighting side by side ed by Moscow Radio. The black-out state of war exlated between Ger- in the air until with God's help we with

many and Russia.

will rid the earth of all those who Dishonourable Word have shadowed it, and liberate the Thus was repeated, on a for larger people from his yoke, scale, the same kind of outrage "Any man or atate who fights against every form of signed contract against Nazlism will have our aid. and International faith which we any man or state who marches, with witnessed in Norway, Denmark, Hiller is our foc. This applies not Holland, and Belgium and which only to an organised state but to all 1utler's accomplice and jackal Musso-quislings who make themselves the finl so faithfully violated in the case tools and agents of the Nazi regime against their fellow countrymen and against the land of their birth.

have

of

the Germans against applies also to qil road and rail Russia, according to the German transport. official news agency.

Young Soviet patriots just from high school are appearing at local war commissariats in great numbers, asking to be accepted for milltary service, stated Moscow Radio to-day.

"The report aggression by German Fascism spread

of the predatory like wildfire all Union," said the announcer.

f command you to cross the Pruth and smash the enemy to the east and north and free your subjugated brothers from the Red yoke. You will be fighting shoulder to shoulder and heart to heart with the strongest and most glorious army in the world. They are fighting on Moldavian soil for our frontiers and for justice of the world.

this was no surprise to sne. In fact, I gave Stalin warning as I have given warning to othern before.

Offer Already Mado,

"Prove yourselves worthy of the "That is our policy and that is our honour of the mission allotted to you All we know at present in that the Russian people are defending their declaration. It follows, therefore, native soil and their lenders have that we shall give whatever help we by that unique leader, Adolf Hitler." called upon them to resist to the can to Ru

to Russia and to the Russian utmost

people. We shall appeal to all our a monster of wickedness,

and allies in every part of friends

plunder. Not content with having all and pursue it as we shall-faithfully Europe under his heel or else and steadfastly to the end. terrorised into virole forms of

abject "We have offered to the Govern- submission, he must now carry, his ment of Soviet Russia any technical work of butchery and desolation or economic assistance which is in O

ole in his lust for bload and the world to take the same course|

among the vast multitudes of Russia and Asia...

Terrible Machine.

"The terrible military machine

tion.

our power and whith is likely to be of servico to them, ...

Ordeal By, Air

"We shall bomb Germany by day

the

of

over

the Soviet

sified.

House Of Commons

Statement

LONDON, June 22 (Reuter) —A

statement will be made on recent developments in foreign states of the next sliling of the House of

Commons.

Announcing this, a statement from No. 10 Downing Street sald: "Owing to the foreign situation, the debate on shipping which had been arranged for Die next sitting of the House of Commons will be postponed."

BULGARIA'S CONCERN

RANGOON, June 22 (Reuter).—A defence exercise designed to test Burma's preparedness for war is to Bulgarian Cabinet held an emer- 'LONDON, June 22 (Reuter).—The be held for four days during next gency

meeting to-day, states month.

despatch from SoДla.

How Hitler Will Drive Nazi, Finn

And Ruman Armies

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Mr H. G. Wells was once in danger of becoming: "corrupt- ingly rich", by patenting films. He might also have made money out of the invention of the tank.

LONDON, June 22-Hitler has again selected Sunday for another of his treacherous which we and the rest of the civilsed as well as by night in ever-increasing scoops at a neighbour with whom he has been at considerable pains to sign pacts of non- world so foolishly and so insensately measure, casting upon them month aggression and even of eternal friendship. un year by y el animes tooling bombs and malding the German divisions on the Russian front, the mobilisation of Finnish troops in the north and Rumanings allowed the Nazi gangster build by month a heavier surcharge

His preparations could not be entirely concealed. The concentration of from 120 to 160 this machine cannot stand-fulle,-in people taste and gulp each othey in the south must have given Russia as well as the rest of the world a fairly clear indication pieces It must be in continual motion, showered on mankind, grinding up human life and trampling have

of what was intended.

thence along the valley of the Dwina jalan prisoners, I am definitely of the down the homes of hundreds of

"It is noteworthy that only yester- There were those who thought on to Smolensk and Moscow. millions of men.

day: R.AF. fighters in a raid over

opinion that the Germans have no The Balticum

easy task before them." "Moreover It must be fed not only France cut down with very small these preparations were a pre- with flesh but with oil. So now this!

Lo themselves 28 enemy lude to an attack on Britain They will probably take steps to The Russians have learned much bloodthirsty guttersnipe must launch machines in the air above the French which he means to destroy if occupying Libau, Riga and Talinn on have not been slow to pront thereby. secure their immediate left Bank by from their war against Fisland and his mechanised army along new sell they have invaded, defiled and he can. But whatever scorn, the Baltic while the Finnish army The Russian air force's performances delds of slaughter, pllage, devasta- professed to hold.

obloquies and hatred can be still further north can Only A Beginning The poor Russian peasants, work-

considerably "But this is only a beginning; justly ascribed to Hitler and his Leningrad, Some indication of the has been

Improved men and soldiers, he must stent from now henceforward, the main followers, it cannot be said that outline of this plan can be gathered since. from them their daily bread, he expansion of our air force proceeds they

show themselves bad Kauses and Kieft were all bombed

Sebastopol, Bombers And Fighters must devour their harvest and he with gathering speed. In another gencrals.

Writing on "The man of science as aristocrat," In the cur must rob them of the oil which drives six months, the weight of the help of the name would launch his

No general worthy this morning.

1 understand that the Russians now

rent issue of "Nature," he says that years ago he took up the their ploughs and thus produce a we are receiving from the United

Hiller may gain all these "successes have several very' secret types of famine without example in human in war material of all kinds, attack on the British citadel but he will not by any means have bombers and fighters which they idea of Diplock's Pedrail and applied it to the problem of history.

especially in heavy bombers, will until he had captured its outworks, conquered Rusgin thereby What confidently believe are a match for trench warfare. Diplock was the original inventor.. Lives of World

begin to tell

tell.

cut off its suppiles and broken its ever early successes may crown his any in the world. These have been

"I described a tank and how moralised and wasted me com "Even the carnage and ruin which

This is no class war. This is a walls. Hitler hos falled to reduce latest act of treachery they will un- en bhly by Soviet technicians and fit could be used to break an en:pletely." his pictory, should he gain it and war in which the whole British Em- these islands to that state yet with doubtedly strain German resources state-approved Russian pilots,

out which it would not be ripe for in many directions, notably in man-RussThe strength of the Russian story called "The Land Iron- Russian pilots have a good reputa- trenched deadlock in 1903 in a he has not gained it yet—will bring pire and the Commonwealth upon the Russian people, will Itself Nations is engaged without distine-invasion.

power, for if the Germans attempt

FILM ON HESS. be only the stepping stone to an at-tion of race, creed or party."

to hold down the tremendous extent air force is a secret which has been clads," writes Mr. Wells, who Outposts of Europe tempt to plunge the four hundredi No Division of Aim

of Europe over which they may closely and successfully guarded."

adds that years afterwards ho to Scotland has been made part of Paratroops were first used and or five hundred millions who live in "It is not for me to speak of the the outposts if free European nations soldiers can retura to their firesides.

He has certainly taken many of march it will be years before their trained in Russia and the German learned that someone else had the script for Warner Bros. "Under-. China and the three hundred and action of the United States, but this

Importance of Syria.

pupil should prove no more expert benefited in the matter though ground," a movie based on a story of Atty millions who live in India Into I will say: If Hitler imagines that his can be so described, but has by no

In this branch of fighting than his "his imagination stopped' short undercover · anti-Nazi intrigue in that bottomless pit for human dan attack on Soviot Russia will cause means cut off its supplies or broken

Meanwhile it is more important Russian master. gradauon over wen the utabolic the slightest division of

its walls. He is now taking another

just where my story stopped Germany. Large Army-

short." einblem of the swastika flaunts slackening of the efforts of the do-step in preparation for hile Anal asthan over that the British press on in!

is not too much to say here

As to the Army, the Russians can mocracies who are resolved on his sault on Britain by attempting to Syria and establish a Free French

on destroy summer evening, Uliat the lives ent) doom, he is woefully mistaken. India and the cast. There are doubt The fall of: Damascus is a good call upon many more men than the

communications with government there without delay. On happiness of a thousand millions ad- the difonal human beings are

contrary, we shall be fortified Indi and encouraged in our efforts to re- less subsidiary motives, especially augury and it is particularly satis- Germans who further have now many could be used to break an entrench- factory that it fell to General commitments, having to keep large ed deadlock in 1903 In a story called menaced. with brutal Nazi le mankind from his tyrannies and control of the Causensus

forces in France, Norway and other The Land Ironclads, writes Mr That is enough to make us hold our we shall be strengthened and not without which he foresees ha ella troux's French troops.

Wells, who adds that years after- breaths but presently I shall show weakened in our determination and mass

It is to be hoped that General occupied countries in the west.

Nobody under-estimates the

wards he learned that someone else long war and keep his vast Wavell can be given or is collecting of the German mechanised divisions. had benefited in the matter though you something else that lies behind

mass, of mechanised vehicles on the and something that touches very

our resources.

his "This is no time to moralise on the ground and in the air working at full sufficient force to be able to ad- But the Rusalons too have

imagination stopped shart just very here my story stopped short. nearly the life of Britain and

vance on Aleppo from Iraq. Noth And mechanised corps, including the follies of countries and

ing could expedite the final result eight-ton tanks some of which I saw governments United States.

The tank "might have decided the Chances of Success which have allowed themselves to be

more than the capture of Aleppo. In Finland...

war in 1918, but the British High struck down one by one when by What are his chances of immediate

Western Desert

In armaments generally the Command "inado an utter mess of The Nazi regime is indistinguish-united netion they could have easily success against Russia or his ultimate The repulse from Sollum was cor- Russians are very strong and even the job de Gaulle was quite unable able from the worst features of Com-saved themselves and saved the success? It is believed that the

**Later tainly disappointing but if and when it the man behind the guns is not munism. It is devoid of all prin-world from this catastrophe.

equipment of the Russian army and the attack is renewed and it is posa expert as the German, the quad-

to teach the elderly French Generals clple except appetite and Faciai;

Deeper Motive.

air force, though numerically large, domination. It excels all forms of

"But when I said a few minutes Is much out of date and cannot comible to bring sufficient forces to illy and quality of the Russian the principles of mechanised war- of wickedness in the eficiency ago of Hitler's blood lust and hateful part in efficiency with the German carry through an attack and sustala material may well prevail

Its pressure after the first preminary On the other

Communism Compared

scue

aim or

pregnira.

its

oll

cannot

of its cruelty and ferocious aggres- | appetites, which have Imperilled him/armies or Lud Russia has three success, then the British can hopo it

sions.

on adventures, I said that there

WAB

power

realised and

"f described a tank and how it

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The Dust with its crimes.. its which he knows he must conquer orlov gave expression in his broadenet doubtedly adds Immeasurably to the crack Moscow troops were, sent to book about

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“A Hold-Up" "No one has been a more consis- was one deeper motive behind his advantages; firstly, the vast numbers North Africa.

front ill-equipped troops. They made

Expressing his doubt if many lent opponent of Communism than outrages. He wishes to destroy the she can place in every theatre of a

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unsay no word that I have if he succeeds in this, he will be depth of

burden as she is the principal walk-over and tried to win the war patents country over which her

during the coldest winter on record original inventors, Mr Wells says,

BUREAU spoken about it. But all this fades able to bring back the main strength troops can fall

German etlack, back

still and And

Every day's delay by America in with inexperienced troops. As soon here, also, I have had some alight, but edifying, experience, I wrote a hway before the spectacle that is of his army and air force from the sources and bases; and thirdly, a taking part in the struggle un- as the mistake

a fin

Time

traveller, and now unfolding.

enst and hurl it upon this island bitter spirit of hatred to which Moto-

Inatan- Finland together with much of the about that time the new length of the war. and ItM imgedies. flashes suffer the penalty of his crimes,

best Russian material, the capitulataneous photography' appeared." Previous Experience

He and another man took out al away. I see the Russian coldlers

Hon of the Finns was obtained A Prelude To Invasion

("REUTER'S" FORMER standing on the threshold of their "Ils invasion of Russia is no more

patent "that would havo rapidly,

provisional native land guarding the fields which than the prelude to an attempted in-

CORTICEPONDENT IN FIILAND) “Under similar conditions, the Ger-made us practically the ground land-

the mare "would have done no better lords of the entire Alm their fathers had filled.

LONDON, June 22,--With

frklustry We them SC0

vasion of, the British · Isies. He

Russo-Finnish conflict in mind, there against the tough Finns than the nearly patented nims.we did guarding their homes where their hopes, no doubt, that this may

be It is possible that, supported by is a fairly widespread opinion that Russians had at first.

go on with the pato

patent-happily mothers and wives pray, for there accomplished

It is true that the Russians were Otherwise we should have found our- fana, poor fighters though they be, through Russia like nonite through poorly led, but this was the result solves corruptingly rich and a heavy return of the coved ones, for the Britain before the fleets and air will capture Odessa and press on to butter and bat, the Luftwaffe win of many purges and the power hold Incubus on the development of the MODELS

the bread-winner, of their forces of the United States may, in the Crimen The Germans may have no dimculty in smashing up the by po fus, has re-organised his nuken lucky anticipation of un-

Polliical Commissurs. protectorce Destroyed

Stalin, cinema. It would have been à mere tervene. He hopes that he may once strike two main lows one on the Russian air force, again repeat upon a treater sente left of the Rumanian vid Lemberg After what I saw of the Russian army, diamissed the pollitcal come suspected possiblities--a hold-up. I see the thousand villages of over before ON VIEW Russia, where Incans of existence troying his enemies one by one another on Kaunas and evilma; and land when I interviewed many Rus-more strictly military fooling-gollen gain would have da-

before the

Her spirit will maintain Russion's determination to realst to the bitter end. That and may be a long way

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