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FLEET STALKS 'PIRATES'
Britain, France Will Patrol Mediterranean for 'Subs'
... Japs Advance as Chinese Start Tactical Retreat
their wake which have blown whole
Japanese units to bits, and continu
ing to throw a curtain of artillery
fire in front of the invaders, The
city of Shanghai is a mass of fires
and ruin such as no one has ever
seen there before.
'Keep Us Out of War1
RESIDENT ROOSEVELT, anx
over conditions in F
P ious
Europe
*
SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S WEEK
© Western Newspaper Union.
Showdown on 'Sub' Piracy
stake in China. The State depart
ment replied that there was a broad
distinction between getting out of
the line of fire and relinquishing
privileges established over the
years. Vice consuls in many Chi
nese ports were ordered to leave
their posts.
and the Far East, cut his vacation
short and returned to Washington to
discuss developments with his cabi
net. After discussing the situation
with Norman H. Davis, his Euro
pean ambassador-at-large, and Ber
nard M. Baruch, and getting re
ports from the State department,
he was said to be convinced that
there was a real possibility of im
plication of the United States in a
foreign war. Baruch called Europe
a tinder box, ready to explode at
any time.
In an address before an outdoor
meeting of Dutchess county <N. Y.)
citizens President Roosevelt had
said, “World conditions are pretty
serious. I am glad to say . . . that
we are going to do everything we
can in the United States—not only
the people of the United States but
the government of the United States
—to keep us out of war.” He added
that “it will take a lot of planning
to keep us out of war.”
Nazis Too Busy to Fight
HITLER, German dicta
A DOLF
tor, struck what might have
been a cheerful note, in conference
with foreign government represen
tatives at the Nazi rally in Nurem
berg, when he declared that Ger
many is too busy to become involved
in any war. He said that the plans
which he and other Nazi leaders
have for the country would take
from 20 to 40 years to complete, and
that war might be disastrous to
them.
The Reichsfuehrer reiterated his
belief that Germany’s colonies must
be returned to her, to furnish a mar
ket for her goods. He implied that
Great Britain need have no fear of
the Nazis maintaining naval bases
in colonies, for the expense of that
would offset the economic advantage
created by them.
(antl-communistic) agreement with
Japan serves the same fundamental
mission—to stand together in de
fense of world civilization.”
McGrady Quits Labor Post
dward f . mcgrady , assistant
secretary of labor, and chief
E
strike trouble shooter of Mme. Fran
ces Perkins’ department, resigned
to devote his talents to radio. He
left his $9,000-a-year job to take the
post of executive vice president in
charge of industrial relations with
the Radio Corporation of America,
at a salary variously estimated at
from $15.000 to $50,000.
In a letter to McGrady. President
Roosevelt expressed "deep regret,”
and added, "Your efforts to main
tain harmonious labor relations
have always been in the public in
terest and in fairness to workers
and management.”
McGrady had been one of the fed
eral mediators who failed to achieve
a settlement of the C. I. O. strike
against "Little Steel.” In his new
position, his services will be avail
able to the government upon call, it
was reported.
REAT BRITAIN and France
were massing the greatest de
stroyer fleet ever operated in the
Mediterranean sea, to police it and
safeguard neutral
shipping from at
tacks by "pirate”
submarines, as a re
sult of the agree
ment signed by nine
powers at Nyon,
near Geneva. The
powers signatory to
the pact also in
cluded Greece, Jugo
slavia, Turkey, Ru
mania, Bulgaria,
M. Litvinoff Egypt and Russia.
Story of Govett’s Leap
Italy and Germany had refused to
Headache for the League
attend the conference when Russia
A T GENEVA, the Chinese delega-
Explodes an Old Legend
publicly accused Italy of operating
** tion framed an appeal against
HANDS ACROSS EUROPE
the “pirate” submarines which sank
Japanese invasion, to be presented
Jointly refusing to attend the $300,000,000 in New Money to the League of Nations. The ap
Another gem of Australian legend
two Russian ships, and threatened
reprisals if Italy did not pay indem anti-“piracy” conference, Hitler SECRETARY OF THE TREAS peal, which urged peace-loving ary lore was exploded with the true
URY MORGENTHAU has members and non-members to join story of how Govett’s Leap received
(left) and Mussolini once more
nity.
The principal provisions of the show the complete accord of the agreed to issue $300,000,000 in cash in action against the "aggression,” its name, says a writer in the New
against an equal amount of the
agreement, which Germany and two Fascist governments.
invoked Article 17 of the League York Herald Tribune.
treasury’s "steril
Italy were invited to join, were:
William Romaine Govett was sup
covenant, which would invite Japan
1. Mediterranean shipping will be nese, heeding at last the advice ol ized” gold. The
to sit in on the council of reply. If posed to be a bushranger of the
move
was
believed
restricted to the regular ship lanes, German officers generally conced to have been made
the accused nation refuses the invi Sixties who roamed the hills and
which will be patrolled by French ed the “brains” of the central army, because of recent
tation sanctions may be applied valleys, murdered police and track
and British warships, in both the began a strategic retreat to the
against it. Japan has definitely in ers in the bush, plundered on the
weakness in the
eastern and western stretches. If “third area of defense” mapped out market
dicated she intends to reject any highways and robbed banks and tav
for govern
erns in the townships. His career
Italy agreed, she was to be al by these same officers after the ment bonds and a
such invitation.
lowed to patrol the Tyrrhenian sea. Shanghai conflict of 1932, which was 16 per cent decline
The Chinese statement charged supposedly ended when he was cor
that since mid-August Japan has nered near the falls by the police,
2. Patrolling navies will attack conducted under identical condi in the stock market
thrown
60,000 troops into the and, preferring death to surrender,
and attempt to destroy any sub tions.
over a period of
he jumped over the falls.
Woosung-Shanghai area.
marine which attacks merchant
Included in the Japanese drive to about four weeks,
But that is not the true story.
ships other than Spanish, without break the 20-mile Chinese line from
“
The
intention
of
Japan
.
.
.
can-
In addition, the
first giving passengers and crew op the Woosung forts to Liuho were open market com-
Secretary
not otherwise be interpreted than to Govett joined the surveying staff in
portunity to leave in lifeboats, as more bombings and shellings of the mittee of the federal Morenthau
dominate Shanghai . . . and to at New South Wales under the survey
outlined in the 1936 London naval heavily populated Chinese districts reserve board announced that it had tack Nanking, the capital,” the or general in 1827. He surveyed
of Nantao, Chapei and Lunghwa, authorized the twelve federal re statement said. It also declared that much of the wild terrain lying be
treaty.
3. Signatories expressly declare with women and children account serve banks to buy additional the Japanese blockade of the entire tween the Grose and the junction of
the Capertee and Colo rivers, and
that they do not concede belligerent ing for most of the enormous casu amounts of short term government Chinese coast was illegal.
from Springwood to Mount York.
alty list
rights to either party in Spain.
securities.
4. Patrol ships arriving on the
While he was attached to a work
The Japanese conquest of North
In some quarters, the treasury’s
scene of an attack too late to pre Hopei appeared to have been move was interpreted as an about Hitler: 'Stand by Japan*
ing party in the Blue mountains he
vent i| will be authorized to attack clinched with smashing victories at face by the administration, reversing A DOLF HITLER, in a manifesto jumped across one of the ravines or
any submarine in the vicinity, pro Machang and Tsinghsien. Tsingh- its year-old policy of trying to pre ** to the German nation, offered chasms. When he related his ex
vided they are satisfied it is the sien is 40 miles south of Tientsin vent an untimely inflation.
to stand by both Italy and Japan in perience to Sir Thomas Mitchell he
guilty one.
and only 16 miles from Tsangchow,
a “defensive fight against bolshe was complimented on his pluck and
vism.” He charged that the “two told that the spot would be called
5. These measures will be execut where the principal Chinese de
ed by the British and French fleets fenses of the area are located. From 16,098,000-Bale Cotton Crop major wars” now going on (the Govett’s Leap. After serving sev
anywhere in the Mediterranean with Tsangchow to Paotingfu there exists
HE fifth largest cotton crop yield Sino-Japanese and the Spanish civil eral years on the surveyor general’s
in the nation’s history was fore wars) were the result of "attempts staff Govett returned to England,
the exception of the Adriatic. East a strong, unbroken Chinese line
where he died in 1848.
ern powers will protect neutral which includes the finest Chinese cast by the Department of Agricul to spread communism.”
shipping in their territorial waters. war equipment and the country’s ture, which estimated a 1937 crop of
The
Reichsfuehrer
’
s
speech
was
Popular imagination readily takes
16,098 000 bales. The cotton crop read to the Nazi party congress in in a tale so full of spirit and adven
6. Signatories agree not to let any heaviest artillery.
Apparently
the
Chinese
plan
of
re
September
1
was
75
per
cent
of
nor
of their own submarines put to sea
Nuremberg while he sat on the plat ture as that woven around Govett’s
in the Mediterranean unless accom treat was to withdraw defending mal, indicating an average yield form. It could not have been better Leap, and so the bushranger epic
troops
from
the
range
of
Japanese
per acre of 228.5 pounds.
panied by a surface vessel, except
timed in view of the current friction was evolved. A visitor to the falls
naval guns in the Whangpoo and
in certain "exercise” zones.
between Italy and Soviet Russia is struck by the wild beauty of the
Yangtse
rivers.
The
Chinese
were
7. Signatories will not permit for
over submarine piracy in the Medi place. Situated near Blackheath on
Yanks in Far East 'Kick*
eign submarines in their waters un reluctant to leave positions which
terranean.
the saddle of the Kanimba and
they
claimed
had
been
held
against
A MERICANS in Shanghai, con-
less in urgent distress or on the
Germany and Italy’s “community Grose valleys, the falls are in rough
the
Japanese
invasion,
but
the
Ger
** stantly in danger of their lives,
surface and accompanied.
man advisers finally won them over cabled Washington, demanding the of interests” have emerged in re and barren country surrounded by
It was plain that delegates knew to the theory that these positions protection of United States ships. cent months, he said, “more and a rugged tangle of gorges, ridges
that explosions might occur in half had been held at a cost far out of The American Chamber of Com more an element in the defense of and unfathomable chasms, with pre
Europe against chaotic imbecility.” cipitous and craggy sides in every
a dozen European capitals if their proportion to their importance.
merce in the war-torn city asked
His manifesto continued: "Our direction.
pact did not get into operation be
Japan has depended largely upon Secretary of State Hull for immedi
fore there were any further attacks the naval guns for most of her ar ate clarification of the State de
on shipping. They were embar tillery shelling and, attacking far partment’s stand. Some of them
rassed in conference by the Russian ther back from the river, will lose
foreign commissar, Maxim Litvinoff, that advantage. The presence of were bitter toward President Roose
who insisted on naming Italy as the Japanese warships was an impor velt, who. from his yacht, had told
"pirate.” Russia at first refused tant factor in the heavy Chinese newspaper men that Americans in
to sign, on the grounds that the sec casualty list, which totaled 20,000 the war zone would remain there at
No deadline for
ond provision was no protection at killed and 30,000 wounded. The in their own risk.
all. merely requiring submarine vaders lost 10,000 men killed and evacuation had yet been set, and
when rumors spread that the United
commanders to be "gentlemanly” an unestimated number wounded.
States flagship Augusta was making
before sinking ships, and that it im
The first strategic stage of the
plied recognition of both Spanish Chinese fighting in Shanghai—as ready to leave Yangtze waters, pan
parties as belligerents. Britain’s planned by the German officers— ic spread among the Yanks in
Anthony Eden was reported to have was to slow down and harass the Shanghai.
Many business men, with lifetime
convinced the signatory powers that landing of Japanese reinforcements;
it would be impossible for a sub the second, to divide the Japanese savings invested there vigorously
marine to sink a ship under those lines, and the third. to deprive the urged the President to adopt “a
foreign policy with a strong front
conditions.
Japanese of the use of their naval and keep the American flag wav
guns.
ing.” One veteran Yank resident
China's German Strategy
Realizing what is going on, the circulated a petition demanding that
APAN'S long-awaited "big push” Japanese command has ordered the President “get off his yacht,
in China was believed definitely rapid advance no matter what the get on his feet and get some guts
"on” as the Japanese assumed vir cost, in an effort to change an or above them.”
tual control of North Hopei, and derly retreat into a complete rout.
American missionaries and busi
made important thrusts into the Chi As a result, the Japanese for the ness men protested that the United
nese lines at Shanghai, after the time being are the heavy losers in States' position in the Far East was
most terrible fighting of a month ol men, rather than the Chinese. The largely the result of their life's
latter have been covering their ma work, and insisted on a more stead-
undeclared warfare.
Back from yachting trip, the President, shown with son James,
At about the same time, the Chi- neuver well, leaving land mines in fast attitude to keep the American I seems cheerful enough despite troubles of Yanks in Far East.
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