BRITISH SPIRIT

New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24136, 1 December 1941, Page 7

BRITISH SPIRIT

TAKE WAR TO ENEMY AMERICANS IMPRESSED CONGRESS GROUP'S TOUR (Herd. 8.15 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 30 "The men and women of England not only want to win the war, but want the war carried aggressively into Germany. It is something America does not know. Nobody has attempted to tell her. America thinks all Britain is trying to do is to stave off invasion." This has been stated by Mr. Melvin Mans, a member' of the Naval Affairs Committee of the United States House of Representatives and n group-captain in the United States Naval Air Service. He is a member of a mixed party of American congressmen who have completed a fortnight's study of Britain at war. Mr. Maas added: "When we left America we shared the view of the rest of our countrymen that Britain was pursuing an isolationist policy. Britain has done a bad propaganda job in America. You have misrepresented yourselves and us. We sliall be able to tell the Americans something different." In a joint statement the members of the party said: "We were given complete freedom to go where we wanted, and to talk with whom we wanted. We believe our visit will result in a better understanding of the common problems of the two nations." TWO GERMANS KILLED BOMB THROWN IN PARIS CURFEW IMPOSED BY NAZIS (Reed. 7.80 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 80 A bomb, which was thrown on Friday night in a Montmartre restaurant requisitioned by. the Germans, killed two German Boldiers and one Frenchwoman and also injured other soldiers, says a message from Vichy. Von Schulenburg, the German Governor, has imposed a 5.30 p.m. curfew in the Montmartre district. The underground stations were immediately closed and traffic banned in the area. A warning has been issued that the German patrols will shoot anyone who is out of doors after 6 p.m., also anyone keeping windows open after the curfew hour. The Stefani Italian pews agency says the bombing was done by British and de Gaullist agents who were trying to disturb Franco-German relations on the eve of the meeting of Goering and Petain. FINLAND'S AGGRESSION ANGLO-AMERICAN MOVE OPINION IN WASHINGTON (Reed. 7.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 Authoritative sources in Washington state that the United States and Britain will probably act jointly within a few days to class Finland as an Axis Power unless she gives evidence that she is about to abandon the war against the Soviet. Britain will declare war and the United States will cancel loans already authorised and class Finland as an aggressor nation. The Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, in a statement to-day, said that recent acts of the Finnish Government confirm United States apprehension that Finland is fully co-operating with the Hitler forces in the war against the Soviet. Referring to Finland's recent Note explaining why she had not stopped hostilities, Mr. Hull said that after full study it bad not thrown any light upon the question uppermost in the Government's mind —how far and to what extent the Finnish military policy is one of combined operation!! by the Germans and Finns vitally to injure Britain and her associates and to threaten the northern supply lines over which Russia is now receiving supplies and assistance from Britain and the United States. Mr. Hull criticised Finland's signing of the anti-Comintern Pact, which is being used by Hitler solely as an instrument to wage a war of conquest and domination of free peoples. Therefore, he said, Finland's action is highly significant and cannot be camouflaged or explained away by propaganda attacks. A message from Helsinki says a session of the Finnish Parliament passed a vote of confidence in the Government's military and foreign policy, after a detailed statement by the Premier. Italy and Finland have signed a trade agreement. SUCCESSES IN ARCTIC BRITISH SUBMARINES ONE SINKS FIVE VESSELS (Herd. 6.80 p.m.) LOXDON, Nov. 29 British submarines have sunk eight enemy supply and troop transport ships in Arctic waters and damaged six others seriously. This was announced in an Admiralty communique, which states: "His Majesty's submarines operating in Arctic waters have been inflicting heavy losses on German troop transports and supply ships carrying reinforcements of men and material to the German armies on the Murmansk front. The submarine Trident has sunk five enemy ships and seriously damaged a sixth by a torpedo."