THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 20, 1941
WAR EFFORT REDUCED TO SIMPLE TERMS
ON SOME SMALL, palm-studded island in the south seas to-day, there is a young Englishman speaking in earnest Malay to a group of wondering natives. He is telling them about the war in Europe. To them it is a strange new story. They can't read and they have never heard of a radio set. They know only the ocean and the beach, the green jungle and the volcanoes. Listening now, they frown and purse their lips, in the hard labour of concentration, trying to picture a white man's war in an unimaginable world.
The foreign Tuan (master) There is a chart of "tu illah.
reduces it to basic, primitive tu illah." It i an expression pattern. He speaks of food and of surprise, wonderment. Ashing grounds. Those things, "But, Tuan, the goenceng api they understand. His own kills women. and children, as island, he says, is very small. well as fighting mem It is so with but the people nearby across the big rocks?" the sea want it. And so there is war. A native asks:
"If your island is small, Tuan, can you not take your people to another? There аге many is- lands."
nan
"Face Of A Chief"
POLISH
CABINET MEETING
Yesterday, the
first
anniversary of General Sikorski's memorable flight to London, a Polish Cabinet met in London under his presidency and the General gave his col- leagues an outline of the present international They situation, particularly trown and murmur again. The with reference to the posi- Tuan's enemy is very cruel, They ask about his "clef." and he pro-
tion between Germany duces a large, coloned poster of and Soviet Russia. Winston Churchill At ist. the bowler hat make them laugh, and then they see the stubborn | jaw-line, deflant lipps grey, thoughtful eyes. the face of a chiel
G. E. P.
He tells them it is NO
Collins
The Polish Prime Minister had had an interview with Sir Stafford Cripps, British Ambas- and the
sador to Moscow. "He has
A year ago ย British bomber was sent to Bordeaux been aircraft has
Sikorski brough: General the Nether- and
visit to London
"Our hearts are there," the white man, replies. "We
were children there, and so were our fathers. Besides, we are proud, We do not flee from our enemies."
That, too, they can understand, and the reasons why the white
must defend
"rice romancing around his flelds." How does the war pro- lands Indies in his own "prahu" for a 24-hour gress?
The Englishman-his for a number of years. When Next day the General conferred name is G. E. P. Collins-descri- the war started, he went into the bes a blockade, many "prahus" (canoes) surrounding the enemy Misland.' Thus, he explains the enemy cannot come out to "fish." and the land will not feed all the people.
cause
A Poser
in Batavia, to his experience ... was sent explain British
Mr. Winston Churchill, with
other members of the British Cabinet and Service chiefs.
These talks laid the foundation for the evacuation of the Polish armed forces from France to Bri-
British consulate. assist. Because with the islander among them to war aims
Even to these primitive people, tain and the future collaboration remote from the possibility of of the Polish and British Gov- helping, Britain's
ernments in pursuing the war effort is extended.
a victorious end.
That night "It's better to have them with
the Polish armed us," says Collins,
started the even if the forces
evacuation war never comes
tar as the from the long coastal sector of Pacific. If it do they will be France to Britain. valuable."
"But have they no prahus to send against yours, Tuan?”
That's a poser. Should he try to describe a German submarine? They know about aeroplanes. be-
they have
Dutch seen commercial liners, and naval patrol boats, soaring over- head. But તે submarine--a "prabu" that sails under water? he decides that that's ગ little beyond the a-b-c. to which he must confine himself.
"They have too few prahus." they are not
be says. "And
skilijul fighters on the sea."
WAL
LINK WITH
VICHY
THERE ARE THE BEST
OF
to
June 19, therefore, remains
for Poland. an historic date British Wireless.
BUSINESS AS USUAL IN MALTA
well maintained.
The Institute has
nu colleges
Notwithstanding repeated enemy REASONS FOR CONTINUING attacks upon Malta, the British The islanders
ΤΟ nod in .com.
RECOGNISE THE VICHY Institute there is still functioning REPRESENTATIVE prehension. But then, they want
IN OTTA satisfactorily and membership is to know, how is there any
WA. SAID MR MACKENZIE fighting? He reminds
KING, them of
CANADIAN PRIME the aeroplanes they have seen,
MINISTER, ON HIS RETURN attached to it but St. Edward's and goes to work on the des.
FROM THE UNITED STATES College and Flores College, which the British are supported by cription of a bomb.
Council, are also carrying 011 their work as usual.
YESTERDAY,
He noted that South Africa still retained its Vichy relation
"It is like a big rock. But when it strikes the ground, it bursts and spreads fire. The pieces kill ship. people. Each of these big rocks, Mr. Mackenzie King said Pre- when it bursts, is like a small sident Roosevelt hoped to visit *goenoeng apl' (an erupting Canada in July or later in the volcano.)"
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This statement was made the Colonial Under-Secretary reply to a Commons question.-- British Wireless.
RESTORATION OF THE COMMONS
xe-
Replying to a Commons ques- tion relating to the future building of the debating chamber and other parts of the Palace of Westminster damaged by enemy action, the Prime Minister said amidst cheers:
**T cannot conceive
anyone. would wish to make the slightest structural alteration in the House of Commons other than perhaps. some improvement in the system of ventilation or some minor readjustments in accommodation in the galleries not affecting the size, shape and character of the building." British Wireless.
KING AND QUEEN AT MIDDLESBROUGH
The King and Queen yesterday saw further evidence of the tre- mendous war effort which north-, east Britain is making when they toured shipyards and armament factories in Durham.
At a shipyard their 'Majestles saw several cargo ships on the stocks in various stages of com pletion and went aboard · two other ships which were only re- cently launched.
Later in the day they visited. Middlesbrough, where they ins- pected a big A.R.F." parade;" British Wireless.
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