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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 18, 1938.
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Hong Kong, Monday, July 18, 1938.
WAR ON CHINA'S RAILWAYS
Lawrence of Arabia set fashion in railway demolitions which is being followed, with equally specific purpose, if less efficiency, by both parties to the present Sino-Japanese conflict.
SOON gentlemen and ladies from every corner, nook and cranny of the civilised and uncivilised world are to move in. Camera shutters are to click on the hill above the lake, and by night a modern jazz orchestra will undoubtedly dis- pense the very latest in hot-cha dance swing. "Boy Fetch an asperin!" will resound through the old court-yards and the morning calm will be shattered by the antics of the earlier riser and the moans of the repentant imbibers of the night before. Above all will be the soothing rustle of foreign banknotes; indeed an inspiration to those prompting the cause and culture of Pan-Asia.
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Japanese damage to Chinese lines, notably those between ALONG THE SAME line of Hankow and Canton and between thought it is belatedly reported Canton and Kowloon, has been that England and France were inflicted by an instrument un deeply shocked by the fall of known (for that purpose) to Vienna. It seems that they had no Lawrence the aeroplane idea that Hitler would swallow which has been employed for Austria without a bit of prelimin- months, but which has proved ary chewing.
singularly ineffective in making any serious impression on either railway. For this failure, there appears to be two factors in ad-
THE JAPANESE press has re-
dition to the obvious difficulty of cently made another offer to citi bombing as narrow an object as zens of Peiping that "free" pass- a railway line from the air. The ports might be obtained if they are first is the efficiency and speed desirous of visiting Japan. Judg- in repair, comparing very faving from the results of the last ourably with that of the Japanese Canton bombings, (not to mention forces who have had plenty of one or two others), the Japanese occasion to repair damaged com- are quite generous when it comes munication lines; secondly, the to issuing out "free passports" reported excellent system of the especially passports to the anti-aircraft defence of such after"'! vital points as tunnels and long bridges.
here-
We have heard little of the Chinese anti-aircraft save as DAIREN Chamber of Commerce employed in the defence of large recently donated 10 Yen to the cities, notably Hankow and Can- "Rehabilitation Ministry of the ton, where it has been at least Peking Provisional~ Government,” able in some cases to keep the to be used for the relief of Chinese raiding planes at a respectful refugees. We're literally speech- altitude. The railway anti-airless from such fights into the craft has disclosed its pre realm of charitable high finance.
and effectiveness chiefly negative way. Had it not been in Fexistence, inevitably by now, low altitude, and carefully calculated
MANY A MAN'S reputation
bombing must have broken pends on what isn't found the railways in places where about him. serious interruption over long periods would have followed. But the railways have actually. creased in efficiency as the war has progressed, and the value of the Canton-Hankow line, in par-
in
de
out
THE THOUGHT just occurs th
the war in China -
done what Tokyo'gamently
regula
ticular, has been beyond calculators of traffic could never achieve put the cruising taxicab off the tion. Not only has it conveyed crowded streets.» tremendous quantities of essen- tial supplies up to Hankow, but there has been an increasing ten- dency to send down commercial exports by the returning trucks locomotives. When he engaged in Special honours, certainly go to demolition of track alone,” he the humble track repair gangs. picked curves where the rails Lawrence of Arabia had a would be hard to replaos; and he more calculated purpose and a did not neglect the bridges. No far more elaborate technique, for such skilled and intelligent de- his World War activities. Hemolition has been anywhere did not wish to stop the railway evidence during the China cam- from functioning altogether, but paign. rather to cripple it so that it did While much inconvenience and not function well. He placed ex- some expense has been caused, sives on the track and set the net lesson so far in China ing seems to be that a railway is an the extremely virile sort of a snake.
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