“HERE WE FIGHT”

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21244, 15 October 1940, Page 6

“HERE WE FIGHT”

YUGOSLAV FIRMNESS WARNING BY PREMIER MENACE OF ITALIANS (United Press Asn.—tlec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, Oct. 14 The Italian press is advising Yugoslavia to end the activity of the British, who are alleged to be carrying on anti-Axis propaganda, says the Balkans correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. In a speech at Belgrade, the Yugoslav Prime Minister, M. Tsvetkovich, said: “We warn everybody that we founded Yugoslavia with blood, and only so can it be taken from us. South Serbia is ours. Here we fight, and no power on earth can take it from us.” According to the Belgrade correspondent of the Associated Press, the Axis Powers are reported to be demanding military concessions and the abandonment of Yugoslav neutrality. IN THE PACIFIC FORMATION OF LEAGUE URGED NEW ZEALAND INCLUDED OPPOSITION TO AGGRESSION (United Press ash. —Elec. Tel. Copyright: NEW YORK, October 14 The New York Herald-Tribune urges the formation of a non-totali-tarian league of Pacific Powers, to include Britain, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Holland and Portugal. The league would have two immediate objectives aimed against aggression. First, it would declare that its interest in the maintenance of the status quo would be backed by economic sanctions if Japan showed a disnosition to risk everything in exploiting her “golden opportunity.” Secondly, it would declare its intention to extend all possible support to China, short of war.

In pursuing these policies, says the paper, in an editorial article, there would be no risk of war that did not already exist. The United States had no Japanese goodwill to lose, and, from the Japanese viewpoint, war with the United States did not wait on causes, but on opportunity. Mr Roosevelt Criticised All the Japanese newspapers today gave prominence to President Roosevelt's speech with virtually identical headlines: “United States Will Oppose Three-Power Alliance.” The Yomiuri Shimbun says the address supports the charge that Mr Roosevelt is provoking war. The Nichi Nichi Shimbun says the United States is abandoning “alleviation.” Free French in Pacific “Close collaboration of my Administration with the British Dominions and His Majesty’s Government in no way affects the complete French sovereignty of the Pacific possessions,” said the Leader of the Free French Movement, General de Gaulle, in a radio broadcast. He added that he had received a communication from the Prime Minister of New Zealand deploring fantastic reports representing French Oceania as a British protectorate. General de Gaulle condemned as “cowardly desertion” the departure of Colonel Denis, formerly Commanding Officer of the French forces in New Caledonia, and 100 officials and soldiers, accompanied by their families. He called them Fifth Columnists. A contemptuously silent crowd witnessed the departure of what the Noumeans nicknamed “Caledonia’s First Contingent.”