New York, Sept. 2.
A review of the first year of the war is the subject of main editorials in the American press, and the general tone of comment views Britain's chances as favourable.
The New York "Herald-Tribune"
ihat "one year of war leaves Hitle trumps shak, while the New York "Times" si "Already the American people can see the flames licking at their comfortable, sheltered world. ~The epic resistance of Great Britain today may yet prove the falsify of Hitler's belief that he could conquer Europe and dominate the world."
The Berlin correspondent of the "New York Times" so; "After a harsh winter last year, it would be a bitter disappointment to Germany if the advent of this winter found Britain still unconquered. Events of the spring and summer had wiped out all their doubts about the war."
The "Daily News" devotes a full page of articles describing what it alleges is Herr Hitler's secret weapon—a small radio-controlled boat loaded with explosives with the destructive power of a dozen torpedoes.
The San Francisco "Chronicle" says that "under the impact of Herr Hitlers ferocious assaults on Britain, the British people have found the spirit to take punishment and to make sacrifices. They exult in this covery. Boys who a few years ago at Oxford were declaring that the: would not fight for King and count have fought with a fantastic daring that has given them lustre equal t any of England's great traditional on Fo-hai Flies To Peiping Peipi Peiping, Sept Mr. Chou Fo-hai, Finance Minister of the National Government of China, arrived here by plane yesterday afternoon for an inspection tou North China, Mr. Chou is panied by Colonel Nakao Y member of Gen. Nobuyuki Abe The Finance Minister of the Nanking Government was welcomed at the local airfield by Lt.-Gen. Hayao Ti commander-in-chief of the nese Expeditionary Force to North China, Mr. Wang I-tang. Chairman of the North China Political Affairs Commission, Major-General Susumu Morioka, Director of the North China Liaison Office of the Asia Development Board, and other Japanese and Chinese officials.—Domei
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