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Our Premier? Promises To Win War

FROM PAGE. ONE

was 75 per cent,' and 75 per cent, of whantr

Regular Rest Needed'

I take the datum line of the three months after Dunkirk when our people worked to the utmost limit of their powers-men fell exhausted at their inthes and working men and women did not take off their clothes for a week at

time. Are we work ing at only 75 per cent, of that?

No Promises To Japan-Welles

July 30, 1941.

German Regiment Wiped Out

FROM PAGE ONE

WASHINGTON, July 20 (Reuter). The Acting Secretary of State Mr Sumner Welles, sold at a press con- ference to-day that the United States had given no assurance to Japan and are trying to effect tactles! than licences would be

be issued to per-") successes within the general tur- mit continued trading.

moll" says the "National Zeltung." Explaining that clearance would "This does not correspond with be given to Jopanene ships leaving the expectation raised at the begin- United

Sintes ports under presenting of the war after the relatively conditions, he salt that individual y capture of the Russian frontier licences

atcas. ukl be required for every Would

"With their communications affet- transaction involving Japanese goes. This also affected the pur-ching over hundreds of kilometres, chase of food,

carmy guerilla action, Interrupted United States ports.

by Japanese ships in

at a dozen places and bombarded by Asked whether Japan had beenGermons' problem is to maintain a still active enemy air force, the given an Assurance that these coherence between their advanced

continues. posts and bases," (be newspaper

There are a few reasons why we goods required fuel and any other continually threatened by systematic

cannot maintain indefinitely the in- tensive personal effort of a year ago, If we are to win this war and I feel soildly convinced that we shall, it will be largely by staying power. For that purpose fliere must be one day in seven of rest as a general rule and there must be one weeke's Holiday a year We have relaxed to that extent since Dunkirk; If we have not done so, we should have

had a serious crash.

*

"go.

licences would be issued, Mr Welles emphatically declared that no such promise had been given.

ilvely. Now that air battles ure developlog again in scale and laten rily, we can claims that our fighters

are at least as much ahead of the enemy as when we defeated him a year ago.

A to bombers-British production alone without taking into account

doubled American --we have power of bomb discharge on Ger- many at 1,500 miles range.

Greatest Harvest

uur

..

In the next three months, taking American reinforcements, we shall double it again and in the next six months after that we shall redouble

Effects of Rations Next, allowance must be nude for the very severe change in the diet of heavy manual workers which is far Jess, stimulating than A your Except for our fighting services, we have been driven back to a large extent from carnivorous to her- which bivorous meals

be satin- factory to dietelle would like to make us all live on nuts, but it has produced a definite effect on the output of the heavy workers.

We want mest in the it. and mines

foundries

and inorc cheese.

Food From America Why should that grauify Lord

also bear in mind the statement of Mr Harry Hopkins the other day of the intention of the United States to see that our people get food and to

ed

ever

That means a great loss of time, Delny is of great advantage to Britain in putting the last touches to the island's defences and in carrying eut air attacks against the Gerinun armament Industry," it concludes.

The Berlin correspondent of the "Basler Nachrichten says that Ger- man experts are hoping that fighting on the castern front, like the Somune und Along battle of the last war, will end with a sudden enemy collapse, but, he adds, these

experts admit that the comparison is limited be- cause Soviet Russia, unlike France. "still disposes of enormously creat and intact reserves."

+

our

Russian Communique MOSCOW, July 29 (Reuter)-The fallowing communique was

issued this morning by the Soviet Informa- We love ploughed up land and by tion Bureau: "During July 29 the grace of God we have been grant troops were engaged in Novarzchev,

the

Nevel, Smolensk and Zhitomir diree- greatest harvest in memory, perimps the greatest harvations. There was particularly

on the benches of Dunkirke. where our units dislodged the enemy We lost. much equip-fighting ln the Smolensk direction known.

from his position with a succession of. Our food is rationed, our meat is re- duced. We been bombed and

have

counter-attacks.

The enemy blacked out. But even this seventh On the remainlug sectors of the my suffered heavy losses. keep the sea-lanes secure by which quarter of the war our total output front. there were scouting activity

of warilke stores has been nearly and engagements of

How? Will Lord

twice as great as our output in the

local character. "Our aircraft, in co-operation with surresponding seventh quarter of the lust war and has equalled our out-

the land forces, delivered blows at nut in the 14th or culminating neikeneiny units at various points.

"During July 27 and 28 our Air quarter of the last war.

Force brought 74 German planes. Our losses were 51 planes,

food can

ean he brought? know the grent arrangements that

have been made to send us food in variety and more interesting qualities (Cheers), so I do not think!

I need

told be that I am helping

Lord

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When our new factories become "During an air raid on Moscow on be gets from me (Laughter), his luck avorable, and when the Minister of will be as hard as his desserts.

the night of July 28, the Germans lost Labour has completed his task of 1 planes, and not nine as previously Every

effort is being made to sup-collecting workers from the unessen-reported." plement the food and 1 share the hope tial industries we must produce more, of the Ministers of Food and Agricul but to reach the level in two years

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I wish to be known all over the better than fouts and jeers (Cheera). United States how encouraging ix We are told how badly labour is their action.

behaving from a number of people who never did a day's work in their

Dilution And Raids.

Me Churchill also referred to dilu-lives (laughter and cheers). We tion. He proceeded: It is estimated had many devastating stoppages and

strikes in the lust war. that one-third more people

In the last are two years of it nearly working on war industries than n

12 million year ago. Many of them are trainees putes. During the whole of this war days were lost through labour dis- and dilutees. It would not be won-

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Then there are air raids by which the Germans expected to snush our resisting powers. There were extra- ordinary blitzes on our ports and manufacturing centres, restrictions of black-out, interruption and delays of transportation which all played their delaying and dislocating part.

I am anxious to have the latest intelligence. I received information few minutes before I began to speak that there was no stoppage of work of any kind arising from trade disputes in any part of Great Britain.

Cause For Optimism

When I look on the whole tumultu- ous scene of this ever-widening war,

think it is my duty to give serious warning to the House and the coun- try to be on guard equally against pessimism and against optimism.

rmies.

Dispersion of Factories Remedies and counter-measures, proposed and carried through when There are, no doubt, temptations possible with auch extreme vigour by to optimism. It is a fact that mighty the Supply Department with Lord Russia, so thoroughly and treache- Beaverbrook us Minister of Aircraft rously assaulted, has struck back Production in the vun, took the form with magalficent strength and cour- of dispersal.

age-and-has brought prodigious and This is a matter of life and death well-deserved slaughter on the Nazi to the aircraft Industry. A

armies. great British firm was dispersed Into 45 sub-centres, I can give Instances of dispersion to 20, 30 or 40 sub-centres, All this was achieved at the cost of production but it has placed us in a position, when we paid the cost, I ly a fact that German air where we are immune from mortal superiority is broken and air attacks damage to our aircraft production

on this country for the tline belug and in other branches of munitions have almost ccused. from enemy air raids.

Work Families Moved The work people may have to be moved from their homes, a plant may have to be shifted and, domestic affairs have somehow to be adjusted often al grent sacrifice or hardship. It is a marvel what has been done to Overcome these grievous and novel dificulties (Cheers).

The United States, the greatest single Power, Is giving us ald on a gigantic scale and is advancing in rising wrath to the very

war.

verze

of

It is a fact that the Battle of the Atiantle, although for from won, is, partly from American intervention, moving progressively in our favour.

Worst Not Over

It is a fact that the Nile Valley is

It is a fact that the enemy has

FROM PAGE ONE

stalement in the House of Commong that relations could be broken oft at any time.

tans

On the strength of fese condi- Finland decirled that The Finnish Legation in London should suspend is activities and would be held the same views in relation to grateful to know whether the British the British Legation's activities.in Helsinkl.

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Sydney, July 20. Using a pneumatic tool the Aus- to-day drove the first rivet into the tralian Prime Minister, Mr Menzies, keet of the first of the merchant ships to be laid down in Australla under the

shipbuilding programme.

many months have gone," he said, "we shall find other "keels laid throughout Australia-and-the foundation established for a first class merchant shipbuilding, effort”—Rou-

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FRI. Mr I. E. M. Morrison And SAT. *

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The wedding took place quietly yesterday of the Registry before Mr J. Reynolds, Registrar, of Mr Ian Ernest MacLeavy Morrison, head of the British Chinese Corporation in Chino, of Shanghai, and Miss Maria Therese Neubauer, of Shanghai, daughter of Mr Mathias Neubauer, Industrialist.

The bridegroom is the son of the

Despite all troubles, the Ministry lost his preterice of theme and doc-respondent of The

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so much safer than two or three late Dr George Ernest Morrison, months ago.

doctor, explorer and distinguished who was appointed political adviser to the President of the Chi- nese Repubile on August 3, 1912,

of Supply, output in the last three trine and has sunk even deeper in months has been one-third greater moral and intellectual degradation than in the three months of the and bankruptcy: that almost all his Dunkirk period.

conquests have proved burdens and Air worse,

Although our Anny, Navy and Force are lurge, the Ministry have one-third more people working in factories and despite the dislocation of block-outs, dispersion and so or, cach man is turning out on the whole cach day as much as he did in that time of almost superhuman effort.

The Achievement

It may be said that one-third more. workers and one-third more output

All this massive towering to facts on which we are entitled to dwell must not lead us for a moment to suppose that the worst la over. The formidable power of Nazi Germany, the vast destructive munitions they have made

or captured, the skill and ruthlessness of their centralised war direction, the prostrate their yake, so many peoples under the resol

resources of so many lands

which

10-

Is quits. But it has to be rememe will be made, to some extent, avail- bered that all adverse faclors have

We made in the able to them-all these restrain been cancelled out. last three mon

than twice foicing and forbid the slightest re- months more the field guns that we made in the laxalion. It would be madness to Dunkirk period. Munitions are half suppose that Russla or the United na much again. The combined

gramme of merchant and raval shinStates are going to win this war for

building now in active progress is

bigger than in any period of the last war, although work is now

Im-

114,

Invasion Season Near

"The Invasion santon is at hand. measurably more complex than then. All armed forces have been warned In aircraft it is foolish to calculate to be at concort plich on September by numbers, of machines because of and to retain the utmost, vigilance the difference of time in man-hours meanwhile. We have to reckon with needed to produce them. But the in-a gambler's desperation. Yet we crease even above the first period of stand here still the champion; If we a year ago is substantial The In fall, all fall; and if we full, all fall crease since this Government took together. It is only by the superb, office la enormous. I should be proud Intense and prolonged effort of tho to tell the House, but I am going to whole British Empire that the great do so because the enemy does not combination of about three-quarters tell us their figures which we would of the human race against Nazi-ism will come into vehement and dynamic

like to hayo.

Progress Under-Fire

You must be content with my

life.

For more than a your we have been assurance that progress and expar- all alone; all alone we have had to sion on a great scale are contiguous guard the treasures of mankind. and are remorselessly spurred on. Although there may be profound and This has been accomplished under encouraging changes in the situation, the fire of the enemy and under air our own final and commanding Assault which Hitler was led to be-ponsibiltiles remain undiminished, lieve would shatter our industry and and we shall only discharge them by reduce us to subjection.

continuing to pour out in the common

Tes-

It has been done in spite of dif- cause the utmost endeavours of our ficulties of dispersion. It has been strength and virtue and, if need be, done without sacrifice of quality and to proffer the last drop of our heart's has gained both actually and, relas, blood (Loud Cheera),

The wedding ceremony was wit- nessed by Mesera C. G, M. Morrison (hridegroom's brother), and C. M. McDonald, the present Correspondent of The Times in China.

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BERLIN, July 29 (UP).- A new and sharp attack against the United States for its alleged attempts to carry out the ceonomic subjugation of South America" appeared in the late afternoon papers.

* America acting on behalf of the Axis The "Deutsche Allgemeine Powers. Zeitung" front-paged a lengthy This was announced to-day by Mr article distributed by the official Summer Welles, Acting Secretary of news agency. which describes State, who said that further deletions 'and Additions would be made from. the United States black lists, the time to time on the Rockefeller organisation, loans tinuous study,

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CHICAGO, July 20 (Iteuter)Mr Face of Politics in Washington. Wendell Willkle, In an interview Blackmall Methods. Scandalous In-here, expressed the opinion that t terference With Sovereign Rights of the Russians hold out until Septam Ibero-American States,"

ber, It would mark te beginning of Object of Black List ⠀ ⠀ the end of Hiller gereage 99 WASHINGTON, July 20 (Reuter). He believed that then Gemmy ---Forty-six námes have been roe defeat would be more rapid." Than. moved from the, United States black incat people expected, tasuming that. Het of firms and agents in : Latin, the Russinas stopped the Naxi diiyəs

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