NEW WITHDRAWAL

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 119, 22 May 1941, Page 9

NEW WITHDRAWAL

Japanese Troops in China

TOKIO, May 21

The Domei news agency says that Japanese forces have evacuated the Waichow sector In the Kwantung Province. The Chinese 160 th Division and 9th Independent Brigade are claimed to have been crushed. — U.P.A.

THE BRITISH WAY

FREEDOM FOR PEOPLE

COMMONS A MONUMENT

RUGBY, May 20,

Mr. H. B. Lees-Smith, the well-known Labour member of Parliament, said in a broadcast speech:

"On the day Hess flew to this country Hitler destroyed the House of Commons—the bone and heart of the unity of Britain. He understands us so little that he thinks by destroying the building he can destroy the spirit it contains. He has always derided what he has described as our decadent parliamentary system, but now Parliament can give him its reply. The Nazi system has lasted for about eight years, and when, like the British Parliament, it has weathered the storms of about 800 years we can begin to discuss which of the two will in the end show the greater staying power.

"Thank God for Parliament and the free discussion for which .it stands. It will be the main factor in winning the war. Take an example: Why is the United States drawing nearer and nearer every day to our side? Not merely on account of careful calculation about her own eventual safety, but because they have come to see that our system of government in open parliament represents the way of life of all free men, and they cannot continue to stand by without lifting a finger and watch us, alone in the world, protecting for them their liberty as well as our own." —8.0. W.