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Japan Has Backed Wrong Horse, Says Ex-Envoy

Japan made the same mistake as Italy when she joined the Axis-she thought Britain and the Empire were "down and out,” Sir Robert Clive, former British ambas- sador to Japan, told Vancouver Board of Trade trans- portation bureau recently,

"Japan may now feel she has backed the wrong horse,” | the tall, grey-haired diplomat said. "It is significant she is now putting out 'feelers' with a view to stopping the war with China."

A large and enthusiastle audience of civle ometals and prominent busi ness men listened enthralled, and applauded frequently ng Sir Robert presented his views of Japanese ex- analon and Anglo-Japanese rela- itone, in an address given under auspices the Oversells Leaguo,

of

lie declared Japan joined the Axis because, while Britain stood in the way of her economie expansion more than any other country, Ger- many did not.

Germans

Shortage

Of Meat In Sweden

But Fish Is Still Plentiful

NEW YORK-Meat includ- ling pork has been placed on

Sweden's

Squeal Aten's rations list along with

Bayonets

Forty Germans routed by a Brijksh men during the patrol of seven enemy assault on our defence lines

butter, fats, conl, hides, copper and copper alloys, according to information recently published by the American Swedish News Exchange here.

The weekly allowance has been or a little set a half a kilogram,

"When Japanese trade began to develop after the Great War, she suddenly realized that Great Britain was in possession of places that were vital to her expansion needs.

Mit was not a case of individual "When it comes to hand fightingut is still

Developed Trade

at Tobruk squealed at sight of British, more than a pound, of ment for ench person weekly. Fish, it was pointed bayonets.

plentiful,

A further measure by the Govern→

1039.

Loan To Finland

10

dislike because, as it happens, the the Germans are about on a par withmont to control rising prices was also: was the comment of forecast by Government circles re- British people as individuals have the Italians," always got on well with the Japan-one of the small British party.

"In a scrap where its every man offlelai Fgures. have reached a point

cently. Retall prices, according Cse."

for himself they go all to pieces. At one time, Sir Robert said, thesh United Press

This is the story as told to a Brit-30 per cent, higher than in August,

correspondent by iden prevalled that Japan was ด

the patrol leader, an Australian, a millary and not a commercial race. Since then, by her vast development former ecmmercial traveller from of the cotton industry, Japan had Sydney.

"We repulsed the fifth attack on proved her capacity for developing trade on a big scale.

our post by 300 German Infantry- Japan was involved in the last warmen, supported by tanks, who gut to such a small extent that immed within 1,000 feet of our position," he about 10.30 p.m., we ately after hostilities ceased she was said. "Then, In a position to "forge ahead." got word that there were about forty

"After the war the Japanese goi Germans Inside the wire.

"I took six men sending

SO AR not to away to a flying stort by

We tore to weaken the post too much.

into them with our bayonets.

arms to Russia, and from 1920 1930 developed an enormous trade in cotton goods, particularly in the Far Encl, during the slump in Lanca

shire.

Push Out White Man

Sir Robert showed how Japan had followed a colonial policy of "push- ing out the white man's trade.

This is directly contrary to the British policy of encouraging

free

trade in all her colonies. Hongkong and Singapore are Alting examples of this policy.

"In 1034 the Japanese made u claim which practically amounted to suzerainty over China. This was tested when Sir Freilerick Leith Rasu, a high treasury oMcial, came out with the idea of, somehow stabi- lizing the Chinese dollar.

"Japanese businessmen were quite in favour of that, but the military opposed It. The views of business- men were practically identical, be- cause they always look at a problem from a practical economic point of view.

The Japanese, by encouraging Korean gangsters to smuggle goods Into North China under protection of the military, did their best to break

'I'm

At the same time Sweden has agreed to send 20,000 tons of brend grains as a loan to Finland., Wheat, flour, butter, eggs, pork, seed oats,

will be sent to and other products Finland under the terms of a new trade agreement between the two countries.

A gift of 400 tons of sugar will also be distributed in Finland and Norway.

Meanwhile a new industry has grown up in Sweden around the substitution of charcoal for gasoline. in motor vehicles.

At

"Don't Kill Me" Cry "I got the shock of my life he cause only one showod fight. The

Wood For Engines fifth I tackled grabbed my rifle and, pulled me down on top of him.

present it is estimated that "I used my

rine

on several other 50,000 motor vehicles have been con- German heads until it broke. Then verted to the use of wood-burning I picked up a stone. The rest of the engines. At a recent Industrial ex- Jerries, probably thinking it was a hibition it was pointed out that pro- hand grenude gravelled, one shout-duction of 10,000 of these burner Ing

soldier of Germany. Would require drivers are kept busy 50,000 days of work. Don't kill me.'

10,00 "Another was shouting, Pesce, it as well as repair mechanics. In one one is peace, s'il vous plail.

year, Swedish Industrialists figure

gure, 10,000 vehicles consume about 3,000,- 000 bushels of chumb

of charcoal or finely cut wood which require 1,000,000 days of work for chopping and charring. Distribution requires at least 13,000,- 000 special paper bags, and this keeps several pulp and paper mills busy.

Eric Gill's

Widow Gets

A Pension

Mrs M. E. Gill, widow of Erie Gill, the sculptor, has been granted a C120 Civil List pension.

down the Chinese customs service. "I have no income of any sort since my husband died," she said. "This

Britons Handicapped

"My husband was

"Goods were poured into Tientsin, is a godsend. which paid no customs duties at all,

not a rich man. with the result that the English He lived and worked solely for his traders who paid their duties were art." completely handicapped."

At least

Britain's Powerful New Bomb

June 25, 1941.

By Ernie Bushmiller

TOOT

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POWER DIVE-Dramatic picture shows the P-38 intorcep- tor-pursuit ship. "Lockheed Lightning," in`a power dive carthward, at Burbank, Cal. Experts say it is the world's fastest acroplane. It is the first of thousands on order for U.S, and British air forces.

SOLDIERS NEED

ONLY MUSIC

They Have Words

WASHINGTON. - America's Holdiers are now getting the words; all they have to do now is supply the music.

Anti-Spy Campaign In Japan

Public Being Made More Conscious

Dorothy Thompson's 10

Points For

Democracy

Dorothy Thompson, the columnist, spoke up för an expand- ed form of democracy recently in a speech at a New York ban. quet honouring her "great services to democracy," The famous woman' commentator declared it was not sufficient to fight for the American way of life because that way, was not yet good. enough.

Before an audience that included Governor Lehman, Mayor LaGuardia and Wendell Willkie, Miss Thompson declared that democracy was the right form of government but that the people had no idea what it meant. Democracy falls to function, she said, because it "remains a concept and' it's not expressed."

"If one set of people are told. to fight for this way of life," she continued, "and another are told to conquer the world, the latter will win."

In her address Misa Thompson called for a revolution based upon "the individual person and based

American Film Banned

upon his desire to improve himself." BUENOS AIRES, Argentina.

To necelerate this pool, she named The United States movie "Argentine har ten

ten favourite points for self- Nighta", was banned by municipal development: Love, communal rights authorities after violent opening- equality.-- freedom, state ownership night demonstrations againts scenes wealth" work, co-operative setion, purporting to show Argentine types non-materialism, social and moral and customs. purpose, and the equalisation of Palice had to enter the theatre, one creative functions.

of the biggest in Buenos Aires, to

of

and

These Items, she said, were the quell the outburst. main, points of her own' "personal "As long as Hollywood insists on and social faith" summing

Up seeing Argenting as "eighteen years of gradual, alow, fridiculous tropical country," said "La an incredibly dawning experience, plus the torren- Nacion's" movie editor, "no Pan-

tial entarnet of the experience of the American understanding is possible, last two years."

Standing lonely on a dais in the veilers are sent here."

no matter how many 'goodwill" tra

crowded grand ballroom, Miss

Thompson elaborated her theories of

the better life.

Slaves to Machines

Mise Thompson said that men who Million Go To

are reduced to slavery by, the ma-

col.

Safer Homes

chine age can hardly hope to realise Just what democracy means. The baste essential of the new form of

The Minister of Health, Mr Ernest democracy must be that the personal Brown, told members of Ute National and social programme be Identi- Baby Welfare Council at their annual Miss Thompson distributed coples 000,000 people, mothers and children meating, in London recently that 1,- of her ten articles of faith and asiced had been moved from danger areas her hearers to sign and return them.

into homes in safer districis, She promised to send them back a

Some 70 per cent, of the children special ring made up of three rings under five in the County of London locked together with a fourth "sym-had been evacuated, and the Ministry bollsing the loyal hope thint this na-intended to do its utmost tion may be defended by the clasped months ahead to get away the other hands of millions of brothers." 20 per cent.

Wild Boar Takes A Night Out

In the

Mr Brown appealed for trained children's nurses for nursery schools and day nurseries, and for the right kind of women to undertako child- minding under the Ministry of Labour, scheines for employing married

A large and ferocious Indian wild women. boar was hunted in the heart of London recently,

It had escaped from its enclosun Everyone's Happy

in the Zao during the night,

When keepers arrived In

the

morning they discovered the pls

asleep in the middle of a big lawn.)

It awoke immediately, and a pig- stalking party of keepers and A.F.Sa chen was organised.

So Why Change?

GLENPOOL, Okla-Glenpool, with reputation for economy, hasn't had any election for 12 years, Many exciting moments followed.

"Everyone seems happy, so why One was when the boar began to should the offelals file for re-election charge a lorry but thought better of every year?" asks Mayor. Floyd it, and served at the last moment. Vowell. After an hour's run the boar was Не

says a Cily election would cost driven into a narrow one between $75 and unbalance the budget. An wire fences. Two biscuits were election hasn't been held since 1920, thrown into the entrance of his cage, when Vowell was elected. and in he walked.

The town has a population of 304 "The plz has been particularly and the City payroll fa. $10. The bud-tempered since his wife died City Treasurer is paid $10 and the four months before," said his keeper. town clerk $5. The Mayor, serves without pay, as do the Councilmen and Police Chief,

Madagascar Ports Mined By French

The words are printed in a com- pact little book of which more than even school

Bent upon making the public,

culidren, more spy 1,500,000 copies were ordered by the conscious, Japanese officials have en- War Department, so that every off-tered upon high-pressure observance and man, could have one to carry of an Empire-wide Spy Prevention is pocket-the alm being to pro-Week vide the makings for close harmony on all occasions.

"The people are urged to refrain

New York.-A Navy Department Thero-are-36-songs-in-the-book-from-comment-on-what-their-com-warning on May that France lind which starts off with

Star mon sense considers should not be mined the approaches and coastal Spangled Banner," jumps alpha- known by foreigners," said an official areas of three of the largest poris in betically backwards to "Alma of the Ministry of Justice. Mater" and then progresses through the ABC's down to Y-You're in the ters of many types were pasted upsion of the strategie Indian Ocean said Mr. L. C. Royle, the newly ap

To stimulate anti-spy thought pos- believe that France feared an inva-have no complaints against NAAFI, Army Now."

pointed chairman of the board of throughout the country, post offices leland, Same Songs

Madagascar led marine observers to

Matches, Beer And Razor Blades

Ninety out of every 100. soldiers

used special anti-espionage slogans Madagascar assumed added im- management. The other ten grumble The songs are the same as those on their cancellation stamps, the portance when closing of the Med-about the lack of matches.

He has spent six weeks listening which appear in the recently pub- Education Ministry began instructing terranean shifted trade routes around lished Army Song Book, but that in- students in schools on how to be-Africa and through the Indian Ocean. to complaints in the canicens, Ono cludes notes, as well as music and come spy conscious, and various American ships scheduled to carry of the chief problems, he said, was cannot be pocketed easily. It was radio programs warned the people of supplies along the

razor Llodes. They reopened recently

couldn't get distributed on the basis of one book the danger of sples.

Red-Sea route to Egypt must pass enough of thein. to 50 men,

through Mozambique Channel, sepa- About the complaint that" canteen The Government publication, the rating East Africa from Madagascar, beer was not up to standard, he said Weekly Graphito, will be devoted en-

Observers say British control of the that suppllen wire drawn from local tirely to the campaign with 100,000 Channel is necessary to protect these breweries. The chief diffculty was jextra coples being distributed.

storage

But for a soldier who can remem- ber a tune the new little book will supply the words anywhere, and every man is getting one.

One of the old quartet specialties is missing from the Army's collection. It is "Sweet Adeline" but the S-songs include: "She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain," "sium and Gravy," "Smiles," "Song of the Signal

"Steln Song.

and

British accounts of the bomb. Another woman to receive a £120 ing of the battleships Scharn- When France collapsed in 1910, pension is Mira Matilda Helen Davies, horst and Gneisenau have dis- Sir Robert continued, Japan saw widow of W. II. Davies, the "Tramp closed the use of a new "armour marvellous opportunity for expansion | Poet" in Indo-China by signing a pact with "Although my husband's books piercing weapon, first successful the Axis. After that she hoped to continue to sell as well as can be penetration bomb of the war. In the book are "Dixle," "Casey guln economic control in the Dutch expected in war-time," she said, Military experts belleve, how-Jones," "Battle Hymn of the Re- East Indies,

"they do not bring in quite as much ever, that the British have public," "Old Joe Clark" and "The This was all part of the so-called "New Order," Sir Robert sald, as they might."

devised a heavier-bodied bomb Old Gray Mare," and there are any A third beneficiary is Dr Charles

variety of "Let Me Call You

"In Japan during 1936 and 1937 Chamberlain Hurst, the scientist which is capable of penetrating/ number of sentimental ditties of the

they were always seizing on incl who in 1033 raised a storm of critle- at least five inches of armour Sweetheart." dents to make trouble between theism by proposing that the State pinte. It is understood to u60 B ferent parts of the Empire. They also sent a goodwill mission to Aus- should produce a race of super- now steel alloy, and the British tralia, and later tried to force Aus- Intellectuals by breeding only from themselves have reported it as trails to lower wool prices by bay specially selected men and women using a new and more intensive

boycotting India goods.

"This was partly a political move

one of his technical works he

claimed that man could produce new explosive.

1

The bomb is designed to reach ta

still

Canine Volunteers Sought In Britain

cotting sales and threatening to buy her wool from South Africa,

"Again in an effort to make a com- races of animals and plants, much mercial treaty with India favourable more quickly thon Nature, by the use maximum velocity after a drop of volunteers, for a new Canine Corps to themselves, the Japanese began of X-rays,

2,000 feet which permits dive bomb-went out ing from comparatively accurate Omec to-day, heights, Added details aro awalted, however, in view of the British reports of successes with the new bomb against the German battleships at Brest, which are pro- tected with a deck armour of six inches.

parts of the Empire.

almed at causing friction in different LordKimberley Killed In Raid

"The unanimity of Empire; coun- tries in the present war effort shows that her policy in this respect has folled," Sir Robert declared.

100 Miles To Pay 2s 6d

behalf

On London Visit The Earl of Kimberley, whờ ng

Wodehouse

an

Lord

was

LONDON, May 5—A call for dog]

War from the British

Owners were told that enlistment must be for the duration. Alredates, Collies, Labradors; and Golden Re- trievers are the breeds most sought. Selections will be made on the basis of intelligence and natural abili- ty. They will be trained at the War} Dog School at Aldershot,

A Hongkong Attitude New Record “Thin’

| England polo player of exceptional; brilliance, was killed durmng" a re-] cent raid on London. He was 57,

To Japanese

He was chairman of the Dath Club, "Neliher the British nor the Chin- which was badly damaged by fire a ese in Hongkong are as anti-Japanese

In Thin Plate Glass

An Army officer who

BUTLER, PɔDevelopment of Kave his few weeks ago, and had travelled to as in pre-war days," according to the what is described as the thinnest tome ns. Lt. Harrington travelled London from Norfolk to attend a Japanese Consul-General in Hong-plate glass in existence is reported: more than 100 miles from the South meeting of the directors to discttre kong interviewed by the "Asahl by the Franklin Glass Corporation of England to Kettering recently to the future of the club.

Shimbun his arrival in Tokyo,

on

nt Kenfrew, Pa. repay a loan of 29. (k. On a Sinen. he succeed and not been] changɑ of attitude to the strict con- sald the

to the title in. He attributed this remarkable A. S. Pasquier, General Manager, a dead soldier.

1932 Lord Kimberley

new product was three The boldier, a member of a

bomb much in the public eye. He was trol of the Br National Defence about half the thickness of the thin- sixty-fourths of an inch thick, or disposal

1squad, lost his life as a reformerly a member of Mr Buck- sult of his duty. Itis dying wish was master's famous polo team of Old Act of Britain has been thoroughly nest plate glass previously produced. that the money, be kiven to a mem-Cantaba and played for England driven home to the people of Hong- ber of the Kettering branch of Toc against the United States From kong, adding "It is admirable how H, from whom he borrowed it a year 1000-1910 he was Liberal M.P. for Britain can drive home regulations

ago to get to Northampton.

the old Mid-Norfolk División.

to the corners of its colonies.""

He said that the

authorities.

The new material, already in production experimentally, will be used in sunglasses, civilian gas masks, and airplane windows.

ships.

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