HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
CORRUPT GERMANY: MORBID QUEST FOR STRONG SENSATIONS
LONDON, Aug. 7-Germany is corrupt from top to bottom, accord- Ing to an article in the NEW YORK DAILY NEWS on Aug. by the French journalist, Miche Pobers, who, after working for a year in the PARIS JOUR ECHO under the Germans, has escaped to New York,
CABLE
WICKHAM STEED
Continued from Page 1
"There is also a threat by Japan planes and ships which the Ger-
BATTLE OF BRITAIN
to Russia. Here again the Japmans claim to have destroyed, anese may be prudent or impru dent according to the way in which the Russo-German war is likely to go. Of course, she may ahead in any event. She is com mitted in China and so
more deeply committed in Indo-China
"The Germans ane losing the steed, "ney may be employing Battle of Britain," declared Mr.
some sort of trick oven now but It is obvious that the military been stupendous. Just as our Air achievements of the Russians have
quest for pleasure, for strong, bol committed in Russia.**
the Battle of Britain sensations, à constant
broke down the German claim state of
Mr. Steed next dealt with what that their Air Force was irresistible worry, teeling of instability, fear what he termed the German de-so the Russians have broken up. ! of the Gestapo and what is hap signs in Southern Russta and the for the first time, a German land the home. and the Middle East and declared that offensive. The Russians have now
It extends from the Private to that she may have to go ahead the General, There is a morbid even if Hitler becomes deeply Force in
DAYS OF EASY PICKINGS FOR JAPANESE OVER pening in
В
future.
The corruption to the Army and the German-controlled civilian ad ministration in occupied zones last wibter reached gigantic propor
tions.
in his opinion the occupation of familiarised themselves with Ger- Syria had compelled Herr Hitler man strategy and have Showdown Over Thai,
foreseen ultimate aim which was the con- to seek another approach to his the Geras plans to encircle them. Believed Imminent
"This accounts for the violence LONDON, Ane
quest of mdai. He had tried to of the fight and the heavy losses (Central- That a showdown over Thailand 15
make out that the There are few things you cannot troops against Russia was only a
massing of involved. belleved to be fast approaching is get from the Nazis for a bribe-mask to cover an attempt against.. the view held by well-informed that there are few Nazis who will Turkey. That was why Russia was circles in Londun Whether or not refuse я bribe has become a by 11 would end in a shooting war word in the area.
caught unprepared and the Ger- seems to depend solely on Japan's i
mans were able to gain a great moves in the next few days,
advantage in the first few days of their campaign.
FERMITS TRADED
The article reveals the trading
costly dissipation of all with a The writer continues: The most growing number of followers is never been in such demand. dupe. Morphine and heroin have
Mr. Anthony Eden, British Secre of Auswies (permits) for crossing tary for Foreign Affairs, and M. the occupled and unoccupied fron Cordell Hull, United States Secre- tier. The money thus obtained is tary of State. have already given spent on pleasure. blunt warnings to the same effect. Mr. Sot Blom, S. Congress man, after interviewing Mr. Hull, sald that Britain and the United States would not tolerate any Jap anese move against inauand.
Mr. Paul McNult, Federal S curity Administrator. said Japan must be made to under- stand that she can move no fur-from their homes and in constant ther without fighting.
LAST STRAW
that
According to the Paris Police the number of drug addicts in post-war Germany had always been exceptionally high. Now, fai
uncertainty in regard to the future large numbers of young Naz! supermen sought solace in vice. It is this discovery in the Naz Superman, strictly Goebbels'
a creation, that has given France and the growing confidence for the future
The significance of Japanese oc cupation of Indo-Ching as affect ing China, Burma, Singapore. the Dutch East Indies, and the Philip pines has been fully grasped by the public in Britain United States. It is generally felt The French no longer bellere that a Japanese invaston would that the be the last straw,
vincible.
Public opinion is convinced that
German
Army is 10.
There was increasing evi- dence that Herr Hitler and his German General Staff had hoped to break through the Russian defences and capture Leningrad. Moscow and Kiev in a few weeks. If that had suc- cended the oilfields of Baku and the rich tablelands of Iran would have been open to him and not only Afghanistan, but Baluchistan and the North- West Frontier of India would have been threatened. The whole of the Middle Fast would have been imperiled and it, at the same time, the Japanese could operate against Thailand and Fast India, General Sir Archibald Wavell would have had his work cut out for him.
PLAN WENT ASTRAY
"Who can keep пр the volence of this fighting and stand the losses better? The answer does not seem to favour the Germans.
sors.
"They are fighting on long lues in a hostile country and the on- come should not favour the agres- It is this prospect that is beginning to spread vast for- bodings, if not dismay. through- out Germany. This war is a world- wide struggle for the future of the world. It is a struggle that is moral as well as military. Now is the moment for the forces of free- dom to hold the enemy and strike harder for victory." concluded Mr. Bleed.
WARNING
Continued from Page 1
Government is convinced that an Anglo American encirclement" movement is under way against Japan, an official spokesman told foreign correspondents in Tokyo.
He said that Japan has not given any cause for the military preparations undertaken by Britain
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GERMANS SUFFERING STAGGERING LOSSES
ON EASTERN FRONT
LONDON, Aug. 1-Bow the Germans on the Eastern Front are suffering staggering losses, for exceeding ali predictions, is indicated by the American columnists Lazataff and Root on Aug. 6, who give the facts from incontrovertible evidence as gleaned from important
losses until July 11.
the days of easy pickings by Tokyo REKLIN CLAIMS mind," said Mr. Steed, "and if his in Malaya and Burma and these official German doenments giving confidential details
are over, so are also the days of pusillanimous gestures by the De- mocracies in the Far East: em. pires cannot be built by bluff, any than aggression can be checked by words.
more
Turkey's Crops
RETRACTED
!
Here is the record: Within the first week of the war. Germany
"TRAVELLING HOSPITAL"
LONDON-A
£100,000 "travel).
ing hospital" of 100 beds is being shipped across the Atlantic, beam and bolt, to be set up in Britain. The hospital is built of 26 pre- fabricated wooden units, and can be put up or taken down in 48 hours Each bed is in separate
of German room.
It is a gift to Britain by the American Red Cross, which is also {makine મ grant of £80,000 to
finance the running with a yearly gift of £35,000.
the lost, killed, wounded and prisoners GERMAN NAVY'Start it. Harvard University will
This may have been in Hitler's reckoning had proved right and ed as serving British almas.
preparations could only be regard his forces had gone through Russla
Mr. Eden's reference to Thal- like a knife through butter it would
land Continued from Page 1
"speaks for have given him the most specta-spokesman continued.
itself,"
40,000 daily. In the same period, The city had no raid last nightcular of his triumphs. The task
"These remarks," he added, "are they lost 450 tanks and armoured Mostow has now replied to the of Britain and her Allies, notwith-
under the German special announcement of
scrutiny. of standing the aid from the United
the cars, and 550 planes, Japanese." Russian losses since the invasin States. would have been rendered The ABCD alignment against costly, began, but unitke the Germans, harder.
Japan is economie, military and the Russians give the casualties "The Russlans however, are well political, the spokesman asserted, on both sides.
aware that on Hitler's main thrust, but he was not including Russia against them the future of the world at present.
Turkey is dressing 200.000 tons follows:
of wheat sced with a British pre-
Killed, wounded or
prisoners:
paration which arrests a deadly Germans, 1,500,000; Russians, 600,
crap scourge.
There are 15,000,000 acres of wheat
000.
Tanks destroyed or in Turkey, as much as there are Germans, over 8,000:
in Australia, and attacks on it by 5,00U,
fungus have caused serious los-
ses
are
The second week was even more men lost were 360,000, tanks 700 to 800, and planes 850,
In the third week, men 350,000, tanks 700 and planes 800, MILLION KILLED
as the third.
were
The columnists conclude that.
"LIABILITY"
0.11
At present the hospital is at Boston, U.S.A., assembled, and la being testea for draughts. It has already been tested satisfactorily for speed in assembling.
Scharnhorst Back
APPROXIMATE CASUALTIES
At Brest
With the hospital will come an Approximate estimates are as depends. They do not say that they
Thus Germany's losses for three Daily Express Naval correspondent latest type of electric motors for LONDON, Aug. 8 (Reuter) The the fittings and equipment for can win this struggle by them
the laboratories, including the
that Britain and the United States selves. They want all the help
JAPANESE SEIZE
weeks of warfare amounted to writes: "Heavily shrouded with OIL CARGO
nearly 1.000.000 killed, wounded or camouflage netting the German power generation and the newest can give them and they
captured, 1,900 tanks and armour battle-cruiser Scharnhorst, Admiral and most elaborate medical equip- captured: anxious and eager to вее the SHANGHAI, Aug. 8 Reuter)-ed cars, and 2,200 planes.
Raeder's chronte invalid ship, is
fment. We understand that the fourth back at Brest after Russians, Germans hampered both in The Socony tanker Melyo, which
uncom-
HARVARD DOCTORS Western Europe and everywhere Was detained by the Japanese weck's losses were almost as great fortable time at La Pallice, 240 Guns: Germans,
PIRY 8,000; alse. over
American They realise the military Navy at a Yangtze River port, has
Red
CTOBS Russiatis. 7,000.
miles further south.
nurses and 20 Harvard 'doctors British research chemists have!
value of the R. A. F. raids and been turned over to the Customa Aircraft:
"Battered by the R.AF. at both will be crossing with the hospital. given the name Agrosan to aans, 4,000,
Germans, 6,000, Rus they do not forget the achievements, authorities after about 2,000 bar- discovery which, when applied to!
the British Navy in sinking or rels of oil found aboard, destined the seed, kills the fungus before it the Information Bureau, sugges.eant enemy, shipping in July."
M. Lozovsky Deputy Chief of putting out of action 459,000 tons for the guerilla area in the Yang- can develop.
tze Delta, were confiscated, re- that the German figure of 895,000 The scientific workers of Great! Russian prisoners had been reach-
vealed a Japanese spokesman at Mr. Steed then commented on this afternoon's Press conference. Britain have al succeeded in ed by including civilians who had what he called the astronomical stopping fungicidal attacks on the been conscripted behind the lines gares of Russian losses as given have been chartered by the Chi- The Melyo, which was stated to follage of Turkey's vines. For long A Russian communique issued at by the German High Command nese, is likely to be returned to Turkey imported copper sulphate noon yesterday states: to make Bordeaux mixture, a re-the night of August 7, our troops
"During and also the figures medy used by frut growers every. continued fighting in the direc- where. The results were often tons of Kexholm, Smolensk and disappointing when the lime was Belaya-Tserkov and in the E- not quite fresh and the propor- tonian sector of the front. tions not exactly right.
In other directions and sectors of the The new spray costa no more front no major operations took
of
Allied Socony.
this is a heavy price even for ports, the vessel is still just a liabl-and will serve as its staff.
But the pro- complete succes. gramme did not work out. The lity to the German Navy as she
It will be known as the Ameri- Germans have
terrific has been for the last four months can Red Cross-Harvard Hospital pald a price, but their object is unat-
"Apparently she is undergoing for Infectious Diseases, and is in- tained.
repairs and has sneaked back to tended to be Brest because the facilities there of Britain where
taken to any part
OCCURS.
CURRENT COST OF LIVING
an
ara much better than at Le Pal-
epidemic lice. The drydock there is not
The director, Dr. John & Gor- long enough to take here when don, Professor of Preventive Medi- she steamed there under the cover cine and Epidemiology at Harvard, of darkness 14 days ago when the arrived in London recently from Nazis calculated she would be safer Lisbon with a there than at Brest, which is only
small team of re- 120 miles from the English coast, search opidemiologists.
They expect to do some pre- HEAVILY ATTACKED
liminary Prices ruling in the market aur-
Investigations in the a wide range of leaf diseases in!
"Probably they hoped to refit large public shelters and else ing the current week were, gen-her to resume commerce raiding where. In case of an outbreak LONDON, Aug. 8 (British Wireless)-Instructions to Colonial erally, higher than those of last in the Atlantle, but as soon as she their special job will be to trace fruft bearing trees, and even as with land forces, continued
"Our air force, in co-operation Governments on the proper use of economic resources in wartime week with vegetables showing the tied up to the jetty at La Pallice, the source of the epidemic and seed dressing for cotton, another strike blows at enemy mechanised were published in London yesterday as a White Paper.
greatest increases. important Turkish crop.
than the old and it can be used for
place.
OLDEST HOUSE
WRECKED
No. 10.
London's oldest house, Nevill's-court. off Fetterlane, is another place which has been ruined as a result of recent raids.
Other damaged London, build- ings, it was revealed, are Royal Naval College.
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Government White Paper On
Colonial Standard Of Living
units at Infantry on battlefields
The Secretary of State for Colonies, in a despatob, recommends and at enemy aircraft on their reduced spending en non-essentials, accumulation of resources for aerodromes."
Improving the standards of poor populations and continuation of economic development.
COTTON
AIR-RAID SHELTERS
in brackets:-
The following are yesterday's the R.A.F. were after her. She was take measures to prevent it quotations with last week's given heavily attacked on her first and spreading. They will decide to second days at the safer port, what points the hospital wil Stirlings and Halifaxes MEAT
made travel. direct hits in brilliant daylight
At present there are fewer than, 74 cents per lb (74) raids
a dosen, American doctors in Bri- 72 cents per lb. "That she has been able to put tain. But the Ministry of Health to sea at all after that will sur has been informed that hundreds prise laymen, but heavily armour-ean be sent at a moment's notice. $2.40 per catty ($2.20) ed ships of her type can stand a fr necessary. 1:75 per câtty ($1,69) great deal of serious damage and
"The economic needs of war re-. Fifthly, great
3
propaganda Beef quire that efforts much more drive for investing in war saving Mutton. greatly commensurate with those schemes based on the paramount Pork now being made in this country be need of avoiding luxury expendi- made by all inhabitants of the ture. Colonial Empire who enjoy a com- paratively high standard Ilving
SECOND OBJECT
Chicken
Capon
Däck.
Potatoes
95 cents per lb. (90) POULTRY
95 per catty (.00) still keep afloat."
1.25 per catty ($1.00) .90. each (85) VEGETABLES
CUNARD-WHITE STAR .......................... 12 per I. (12) LINER DAMAGED montre 198 per Ib. (07)
LONDON, Aug. B (Reuter)The 30 per lb. (18) Cunard-White Star Line announces .44 per lb. (28)
the The darkles down South In the
The second object of the White Geese Greenwich: cotton country may soon be pick-ever, to do all practically possible to raise the standard of living of
"It is an imperative duty, howPaper is stressed as "an obligation Pigeon the Royal College of Surgeons; ing cotton for American air raid to raise the standard of large all classes whose standard is below Bermondsey Town Hall, and St. shelters, if any thing finally comes Colonial populations whose stand the minimum that can be regard- Columba's Church, Pont-street, jof a proposal by a New York en- Chelsea.
gineer, Mr. E. C. Wallace,
ard of living is so low that this ed as adequate.
Onions Only the sagging walls of No.
Carrots Mr. Wallace told Congress that policy cannot and should not be 10, Nevill's-court are left standing, a seven-foot thickness of cotton applied to them even in wartime!"
Particular importance is attach-Tomatoes. ed to the training of rural Cabbage д FIVE RECOMMENDATIONS teachers, health workers and String-beatis bomb falling from
agricultural demonstrators, Java shipping,
on Spinach
It survived the Great Fire of Lon- would resist penetration by don; it was scorched by incen- 6,000-pound
In order
to
diary bombs and scarred by an 30,000 feet, whereas a 3,000-pound foreign exchange and productive Whom progress after the war may Cucumber
Con-
Lord
30 por 1b. (28) that the 28,000-ton Iiner Georgic 42 per Ib. (98) has been damaged by enemy ae
tion. 10 per ib. (10)
All but one of her crow are sats, No troops were being carried at the time.
(70)
ESCAPED FROM TUNG WAH
.18 per Ib.. (20) 48 per lb. (36). 13 per lb (10) 48 por lb. (25) FRUITS
70 por 16. .05 per 1b. (88) 18 per lb. (20) 38 each.
Lau Tung, 37, found lying alok 10 each.
at Jackson Road, was taken by a
2.40 per dos, (82.09)
36 per Ib. (30) Hospital in his own car,"
187 Earopean to the Queen Mary
H.E that destroyed neighbouring bomb falling 15.000 feet would capacity. property laat autumn,, yet it was penetrate
largely depend. six feet of reinforced mends:
Moyne recom-
Turnips. atili standing virtually intact in concreto
There should be no neglect of Melon the midst of blazing wreckage Hla idea has, atirred great in-y curtalled
Firstly Imports should be great-soll erosion work to protect the Lettuce after a recent night's bombing." terest among
fertility of land and forest con- members of 24-HOURS FIGHT
Secondly, dollars are not to bservation ineasures against crop Apples, green Firemen fought for 24 hours to producing states, and one Repro-sterling
gress from the several cotton paid for goods purchasable with diseases and Insect pests. prevent the flamies spreading from 'sentative, from Alabama, said he
Apples, red Work should also continue on Bananas surrounding fires, but in the end hoped soon to be able to arrange to be saved:
Thirdly, existing imported stocks development schemes designed not drape Fruits the seasoned timbers of "No, 10" demonstration of bombg being.
only to Improve the long term Lemon burst into flame, and its Wren dropped on a cotton shelter to noe much closer to the United King- commodities of wartime value, in Oranges
Fourthly, income tax be brought economic position but be produce Limes log-leg, staircase and oak beams how much there is to Mr. Wal-dom level where it exlate and cluding local production to replace Pineapples28 per lb. were soon burned. :
'kico's suggestion.
Introduced where it does not, and, | Imports,
Pumelo ***** 20 dach.,
GENERAL DENTZ INTERNED
DEIBUT, Aug. 8 (Renter)- General Dents, former Vichy High Commissioner in Syria, and 35 other Vichy, officers have been interned in view of the non-release of *- number of Allled' officers.
It was stated a tow days ago. that 75 British and Indian officer-prisoners ware UniLLE: unscrounted for, having been flown by Vigby bilete to an known dostlustions,
Cheang Wing, 12, whs yesterday admitted to the Queen Mary Hos pital; auftering from a shopper
It was discovered that the man wound on his head alleged to have
18) had escaped from the Tung Wah been inflated by a Chinend 256,
Hospital on Thursday,
known to him, at No. 50vmL ON