CARRYING ON

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23758, 11 September 1940, Page 10

CARRYING ON

SPIRIT, OF BRITAIN COURAGE AND HUMOUR GOEBBELS' NONSENSE REFUTED LONDON, Sept. 7 One of many pictures of air raid damage published recently in the newspapers shows a small inn in a south-west suburb of London littered with debris, its walls cracked, and its windows smashed. The publican has hung out Union Jacks and put up a notice-board on which is written: "Fags and beer, We are all here!" That is typical of the spirit of Britain.. " Splendid Heroines " Other photographs depict victims with bandaged limbs laughing in front of their homes, which, on emerging from their shelters, they found smashed. These are what Dr. Goebbels calls "the fear-crazed English.'' There are 110 people in the world like them. They are showing a courage that probably has never been shown so widely anywhere. Splendid heroines are the mothers who, without dismay or panic, carry their babies in their arms to the shelters. To win the war, Hitler will have to do it over the dead bodies of tlie whole nation. Anyone can visit the towns and the countryside and judge of the morale of the British for himself; but it is not possible to give a complete picture of the material damage done. Dominions Informed This is war, and the nation does not tell the enemy the results of his actions. Nothing is published to convey whether damage is serious or slight, or what is its location. All that can be said is that the damage as a whole, whether to aerodromes and factories or to other places, will require to be much more extensive before the war effort is seriously affected. Complete records are despatched to the Governments of the Dominions, which can make their own assessment. They are also likewise informed of production figures and can relate actual losses of men and machines to these. INDO-CHINA FIRM DEMANDS NOT ACCEPTED JAPANESE ARMY ACCESS By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright British Wireless LONDON, Sept. 10 French Indo-China, according to reports reaching official quarters in London, has not accepted the Japanese demands for the passage of troops through its territory. There was a further violation by a tew Japanese troops, but this was solved without fighting. The Japanese military attache in London, who is on his way back to Tokio, stated in Ottawa, that Germany would have 110 success if she tried to invade Britain. Ho praised Britain's air defences. A message from Tokio says Lieut.General Yoshitsugu Tatekawa is the new Japanese Ambassador to Moscow. After his retirement from the army he headed the Kenkokukai National Patriotic Organisation. While upholding Japan's foreign policy, Genera] Tatekawa is reported to have stated that Japan is now at a Joss as tq which horse she should back, stated a 8.8.C. broadcast. It was impossible, he added, to back all the horses. REPUBLICANS LEADING ELECTIONS IN MAINE CHAIRMAN OPTIMISTIC (Received September 11, 1.15 a.m.) NEW YORK, Sept. 10

A message from Portland, Maine, says the Republicans are leading the Democrats by at least two to one in all the five major elcotion contests. In a statement at Washington, the Republican Party chairman said the Maine election returns definitely herald the end of the Roosevelt administration. He said they indicate the election of Mr. Wendell Willkie as President in November and a Republican majority in the House of Representatives.