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“D. S. and Britaio Should Join Forces
For the next 100 Years ” Col. Knox
• ' ■*■■■ .........
“We Are Sweeping the
Pirates from the Atlantic”
■.. ♦
Preedom of the
Seas Essential
♦
New York, October lst.
HE Secretary of the U.S. Navy, Col. Frank Knox. today
declared that America should join forces with Britain for
at least 100 years to produce a peaceful system of internatiónal
iaw aft!er the war. He was addressing the Bar Association at
ludianopolis.
“Sometime, somewhere in-
ternational order may be es-
tablished, which will not rely
°h force,” he said, but mean-
^hile to save the world from
destruction the beneficent
íorces must intervene.
Í'REEDOM of the seas
The freedom of the sea must
maintaiued by Britain and
Amterica, and the two nations
join forces to prevent new
aSgressions at their beginning.
were regching this attitude
hy sheer force of logic.
If War was coming to Ame-
*fca it was far better to fight
lf at a distance than at home.
I'he defeat of totalitarian
fkiWers was now part of Ame-
rica’s policy. The U.S. would
^eiP to bring defeat to all the
^■xis powers. “We are sweep-
the pirates from the At-
^utic, and eventually we shall
lock Germany up in an iron
nug 0f sea-power in which she
WiH nerish.”
aRmy of four million
The 1922 class was called up
military service in the
United States today, along with
some other classes whose call-
ing-up had been deferred.
America aims at creating a
fully equipped and trained
army of four million men, and
it is hoped that by the end of
next year she will have
2,800,000 men under arms.
ICELAND FORCE
It was announced in London
that more troops had landed in
Iceland under the command of
General Bonesteel, whose ad-
dress to correspondents upon
landing was repeated.
Turks Refuse
Nazis Chrome
The Turkish Government is
refusing German attempts to
bring pressure to bear on
Turkey to export chrome to
Germany. Large shipments of
chrome, which is a vital
mineral in war production,
have been made to America.
He Pays Out
£ 13,000,000^
Per day
Chancellor of the Exchequer.
BRITAIN IS NOW SPEND-
ING SOME THIRTEEN
MILLION POUNDS A DAY
ON THE WAR
This was revealed in Parlia-
ment today by the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, Sir Kings-
ley Wood, who added that
in small war savings.
small war savings.
PUBLIC CONFIDENT
Sir Kingsley spoke of the
dangers of inflation and said
the Government was taking
every precaution to prevent it.
More saving and less spending
were still the keynotes of its
financial campaign. There was
no ground for optimism or
pessimism, and the public was
as confident in the financial
situation as it was in the mili-
tary future of- the war.
N.E. Town
! Ralded
And R.I.F. Plaster
Hambnrg and Stettin
The R.A.F. havte bombed
Stettin and Hamburg for a
second night in succession.
Many fires were started in both
towns. Dock works and ship-
ping at Cherbourg, St. Lazare.
Lorant and Nantes have been
bombed.
* A convoy off the Dutch coast
was attacked by Coastal Com-
mand aircraft, and two supply
ships were hit, one of which
was sunk and the other left
burning.
N.E. TOWN RAIDED
Enemy activity over Britain
was slight last night, but there
was a sharp attack on a town
in the North East. One enemy
plane was destroyed.
Sir Archibald Sinclair, the
Air Minister, said that German
attacks, though not so pro-
longed, might be expected to
become sharper during the
coming winter.
Japs Leave
Changsha
i 1 V. L A
London, Oct. 1.
The Japanese now state that
they have withdrawn from
Changsha, saying that their
object of the present campaign
has been completed.
The Chinese say that 50,000
Japanese troops have been sur-
rounded in the neighbourhood
of Changsha.