THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 5, 1940
ATHENIA INCIDENT CANARDS
London, To-day.
Vigorous attempts are be- ing made by the German propaganda machine to con- fuse opinion by anticipating the finding of the Commis- sion now sitting in Washing- the ton
into enquiring Athenia incident.
Misleading excerpts from United States press statements, which pur- port to represent intelligent forecasts of the Commission's report, and which are made to appear favourable to th well-known Ge man thesis, are given publicity in the obvious hope they will be taken as the actual and Anal conclusions of the Commission.
of much of the The implications German propaganda on this question is that the Commission's verdict has already been published.
AN EXAMPLE
THE HOPKINS MANUSCRIPT CHINESE ART
(Continued from Pagê 18) collected as a result of the storm and flood. I was poking about in this de- pressing rubbish when I was startled by a faint rustling sound,
Then something white` upon the ground attracted 'me; a snow-white feather — fresh, unmudded—and dry!
in a flash I was beside the tangled branches, frantically pulling them apart; there was an alarmed Butter, a cackle of fear, and there was Broodie!
my beloved prize-winning Broodie! -the finest hen that ever stepped in
Hampshire!
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Never shall I know the epic story of Broodie's survival. I can only assume nouses had that when my chicken alown away Broodie was caught in this Jarrier of branches and saved from destruction.
I carried her in triumph to the nouse and held her up to the astonish- thaid eyes of Pat and Robin.
An example of this propaganda is a passage in the Berlin Boerzenzei- tung, cited in the Trans-Ocean wire- less news yesterday: "Nothing throws more light on England's position in the Athenia case than the fact that faced with the results of the Ameri- unable to can investigation it is find the smallest argument in its own favour,"
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In similar vein is a clumsy deavour to throw doubt on the in- tegrity of the Reuter agency, “Signi- ficant is the attempt of Reuters weaken the Washington verdict," sentence which again implies the report has been issued,
Official quarters in London content themselves with observing that im- In the partiality In
investigation Washington will remain unaffected by German misrepresentation, adding that the public elsewhere Germany, where truth in subject Import restrictions, will be wise awalt the actual and official conclu. sions of the Commission.-British Wireless.
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THE PUDDING
Mrs. C. I. Shand, of No. 7, York Road, was this morning cautioned by Mr. E. Himsworth for allowing her dog in the street without a muzzle.
Inspector Rogers said the summons was issued after a Chinese girl had been bitten by the dog.
Mrs. Shand stated that the dog was muzzled but agreed that it bit the girl.
Mr. Himsworth: "According to the law, if a dog is able to bite it is not considered to be muzzled.”
"Look!" I exclaimed.
"A chicken!” cried Robin. "Chicken for dinner to-morrow! Good for you, uncle}"
For answer I walked to the cup- board of my library, threw open the door, and pointed to the unique col- lection within-to Broodie's fifty first prizes to her ribbons, medals,
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and
Broodle's
challenge cups.
"Those," I said, prizes."
"Oh!-she's yours! D'you mean she won all those prizes!-she must be a wonderful hen! she is a wonderful hen" and Pat was stroking Broodte. head.
It was growing dark and Broodie was very tired. She pecked listlessly a a few crumbs of biscult and yawned. I fixed her up for the night in the tool- shed; I laid a broomstick across the shelves as a temporary perch and de- cided to make a run for her next day. In the new world that had dawned prove the that sterling hen was to basis of our trade and living, had we only known ft.
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As the spring days passed into full summer came the "Epoch of Re- covery," a wonderful period which lasted for well-nigh two years, until the autumn of 1948.
For two months the world had lain stunned, but then people began grop- ing back towards life in small com- munities-even in-twos-and-threes, like Pat and Robin and me. Tiny sparks of life, determined, if need be, to re- build the world with our own unaided hands.
Men in other places were gathering the threads of government. Roads were cleared of wreckage, machinery re- paired, communications re-established between town and town, and, when radio sprang fully to life, between na- tion and nation.
It would need volumes to describe in detail that "Epoch of Recovery.” 1 can only reveal its progress as it came to Beadle in sudden, surprising ways. One day a motor-cyclist came bump- ing down the village street.
"Beadle, isn't it?” he said—and then consulting a small typewritten paper: "Three of you, is that right?"
"Quite right,” I said, with a sudden respect for the organisation. “Three of and an excellent fowl named Broodie."
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"Then one of these will be enough,' he replied, drawing a folded paper from a haversack.
It was like a very roughly printed newspaper, headed: "Government Bul- letin No. 1."
We read that priceless little docu- ment from beginning to end a dozen times.
ter and exchange of goods was ised pending the issue of a new rency by the Government-and exam- ples were given for the guidance of or- |ganised communities 4 potatoer 4 eggs = 1 rabbit
It`dwelt very little upon the dread- ful destruction and toll of life, for that was over and beyond all remedy. It concentrated entirely upon an 'inspir=”” ing call for reconstruction.
The British Government we knew
had
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4 rabbits = 1 chicken, etc. It was announced that radio grammes would begin once more upon September 1, and the keynote of the bulletin was "Work!-work!-work!"
TO-MORROW : "A Trip To The Moon"
EXHIBITION
On January 10th from 1 pm to 7 pm. there will be an exhibition of Ancient Chinese paintings at the Tong Ping Shin Library of the University of Hong Kong, under the joint sus- pices of the Association for the Ad- pro-vancement of Chinese Culture, the Chinese American Institute of Cul- tural Relations and the Sino-British Cultural" Association. There will be some 25 carefully chosen pictures, all masterpieces of the Ming and the Early Tsing Dynasty, and they form part of the valuable collection of Mr. Wong Tze-ching, a well-known Can- tonese art collector and connoisseur,
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