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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1936.
COLONY'S DEFENCE
COSTS
Although the Government feels that no useful purpose can be served by reopening the Military Contribution controversy, being satisfied with the concessions made last year, something more than the somewhat terse reply accorded to Mr. M. K. Lo dur- ing the Budget debate seems called for. It is estimated that Hongkong will have to pay well
over five million dollars in con- tribution during the coming year. But that is not the whole story, since provision is made in the estimates for over two lakhs of dollars in respect of the Volun- teer Defence Corps and the Naval Volunteer Force. The total re- presents a heavy burden on the Colony; it certainly appears" ano- malous that Hongkong's contribu- tion should work out at 7s. Gd. per head, compared with 58. 7d.
by an Englishwoman
MALAGA UNDER THE TERROR.
"WILL the
REBELS
in the Spanish War Zone
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away.
I
INE weeks of Civil War. The enthusiasm, the ex- citement, the hope of an carly. victory have died
Cars no longer dash by filled with such eager youths, clasping the red flag to their hearts, brandishing their revolver's In friendly greeting, singing the Internationale.
There is still good hope, but not for an easy victory; and the en- thusiasm has changed into deter- mination to win at any cost.
There are few cars about. Cars are too much needed to convey troops and supplies to the front of and for the necessary business local administration to be used for happy joy-rides to attack imagin- ary enemies, as they were used Arst week by the during the "youth" of various organisations,
'Things bavo become much grimmer: serious fighting has been going on for a long time. We have failed to take Oranada, because
inexperience and lack of co-opera-
tion between the forces at the different provinces made the real attack come too late, after troops. from Morocco had reached Granada.
"Only 40 Miles"
I am afraid that there is no doubt that they could come if they wanted to come. But it is prob- able that they cannot spare suûl- clent troops to take Malaga, the most "Left city and province in Spain, and then to keep it subdued.
Their capture of Malaga, apart from its being a most serious losa to the Government, would be an appalling disaster.
"More's the Pity"
General Quelpo de Llano has often told us in his drunken broadcasts what he intends to de when he gets here. He will sit drinking his beer in a café in the Calle Larlos; and while he sips it the executioners will be busy with their machine-guns.
He has recently added threats of rape to his usual threats of mur- der. He is an almost incredible Agure, and would be comic in a penny dreadful style If he unfor tunately did not have the power of carrying out his amazing threats; if we did not know that more than two thousand people have been shot already in Beville, and it Cordoba had not recently been described by two French Journalists who returned from there as a charnel house, streets. and houses full of the dead.
The Rebels have recently in It is a pity that so few English counter attacks taken Antequera, people can understand Spanish, for Quelpo de Llano would cer- only forty miles from Malaga and Loja, an excessively important tatnly be the most superb of propa- paint strategically as it commands....gandists.against his.own.cause. the road into Granada, and its capture was almost equivalent to a relief of the city, which is no
longer effectively surrounded.
The question which we now
in the case of the self-governing | naturally ask ourselves in Malaga Dominion of Canada, the more sos, "Will the Rebels come here?"
when account is taken of the state of poverty in which the bulk of this Colony's population lives. Hongkong is by no means un- mindful or unappreciative of the protection and security ensured
The whole conduct of the Civil War in Spain has appalled foreign observers, On both sides inno- cent people are murdered and prisoners are shot.
Almost from the first hour of the uprising, Franco began shooting
COME?"
groups of men in cold blood, shooting thom down with machine-guns. · The insurgents state frankly that their polley is not to keep prisoners, but to shoot them, and that when villages resist troops wil "tako reprisals," which means rape, murder, looting, and house- burning.
for
Surely this policy generals of a Conservative Party: belonging to a sup- posedly civilised race is something un- heard-of in modern timeal On the other hand, it would be useless to deny that horrors are committed dally on the other side. In Malaga itself there has been a A fortnight ago reign of terror. probably thirty or more people a night were being dragged out or their houses without any authority and shot or hit on the head, and their bodies kicked and mutilated,
One of the Consuls here described to me a scene of this sort which took place actually under his oyes in the hotel where he was staying.
A poor old woman, a Marchesa, was brought out first and shot, and her body stripped and mutilated, then a bedridden old man of ninety was pulled out and his head was beaten in.
"I rather like his looks-we'il save him," one murderer would say, and a man would be put aside. "I don't lice his 1boka; banh his head in," and the poor victim's brains were dashed out.
There was no pretence that these people were guilty of anything at all. They were easy to get at, and murder, when it can be com- mitted with impunity, seems to be a taste that grows with what it feeds on.
"Murder a Joke""
Many of the murders, parti- cularly, in villages, aro for revenge, and are due to private quarrels. Some story is: fabricated against a man by his enemies, Almost any lle will be belleved in times like these, and he is pointed out to the bands of "Youth" who go in for murdering.
Sometimes there is a financial reason, People to whom someone
THIS MORNING'S POSTBAG
"THE Welsh Wizard," reporting on
happy
CORRESPONDENTS
aro
requested, when for- warding letters for publica- tion, to arrange whenever possible to limit the text to not more than 100 words, Those columns are open to all roaders of the "Tele- graph" who desire to air their views on subjects of public interest.
Attention, S.P.C.A.
by the presence of the Garrison; Lloyd George but the defence of this Colony is primarily an Imperial matter; the
his recent visit to Germany," Colony's contribution should bear
states (“Telegraph", Oct, 19) he has some better relation to its finan. G. has the audacity to give an never seen such happy people. cial situation. There is the fur- opinion about a great country which ther consideration that the Gar- he has visited for a few days. No rison is stationed here, not merely his ideas about a people until he has ordinary man can venture to give
for the protection of Hongkong, lived amongst them for a few years; It is necessary to speak the language but for the general security of
of the country and to mix with all British interests in the Far East classca before one can form an opin- and in times of crisis some of its
ion as to the conditions and thoughts of the people. units may be transferred for duty elsewhere. Yet Hongkong, alone of the British communities in the East, contributes towards its cost. It would be of interest to learn precisely how this Colony's con- tribution compares with those of other Crown Colonies. In this connection, the Straits Settle÷| «T ments has been able to secure con- siderable relief from defence pay- ments by the creation of a series of Boards, dealing with harbour and municipal matters, the re- venues from which are not liable to assessment for the purposes of the Military Contribution. The principle seems a sound one, and
I think Lloyd George rendered his there seems no just reason why
countrymen the greatest possible dla- it should not be followed in Hong- service; with the great influence his Barracking Ballads kong. Be that as it may, the pre-name carries he is helping to sprend
games that come to mind, are forms of sport where uproar or personal remarks definitely upsets the players,
ALBO & Lover of SroRt.
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Bombs V. Babies
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Owes money are murdered to avole - payment.
What is most terrible is that these murders certainly are done with the sympathy of a great many of the people. At first there was a good deal of horror expressed, but gradually as news of atrocities on the other sido kept coming in that disappeared, and now among the villagers oxcept for a few women thero is hardly a dissen- tient voice, though that, I believe, la due not entirely to approval, but even more to that consenting cowardice which makes all the wrongs of the world possible.
I was driving into Malaga re- cently, sitting by the lorry driver who had kindly given mo ̧n lift.
"Bee that! ho said, with a happy grin. The dead body of an old man was lying by the road. The driver was kindly drawing my attention to it so that I shouldn't mias seeing it.
The poor old man lay like a huge doll, his shirt stained a dirty red. They had, as they sometimes do, ahot him in the stomach, so that his death, though certain, wouki be painful,
"We are Bombed"
Why, an English reader may well ask, used to English law and order, are these things allowed? ·
The answer is that practically nil the police and all the soldiers are at the front, that the Central Gov- ernment seems far away now with communications so slow and in- direct, and that Malaga is being run by committees; the various Socialist, Syndicalist, Communist and Republican parties are repre- sented, and there is the to-be-cx- pected lack of cohesion and pass- ing on of inconvenient responsi- bility.
Recently the Governor returned from a visit to Madrid with strict orders to put down the right mur- ders. The soldier, Civil Guards and Guardias de Asalto had-de- clared that they would no longer fight for the Government unless the murders were stopped.
Since then they have practically censed in the centre of Mningg, but still go on in the suburbs and villages.---
But it must always be remem- bered that these murders are not a polley of the Government, but aro denounced by it, and regarded as a disgrace to it by intelligent Spaniards of every Left. party. whereas the whole policy of the Military party is one of frightful- ness.
"English Planes"
The uviation fold five miles from Malaga is the usual objective. A few days ago there they dropped a bomb on a large tank of heavy oil, which made a most tremendous and spec- tacular fire, burning for 24 hours. and at night painting the whole eity and even the mountains be- hind it a vivid red.
Fifty people were killed in that
and bombardment,
150 were TOW often does one hear it sold wounded. They were mostly women. HOW
that Hongkong children
are and children, a number of bombo dying in thousands because of falling on the shore where chil improper housing and sanitation, dren were playing, and on a poor If our rich
Chinese friends would
donate those lukis of dollars towards quarter of the city. the purchase of model clinics, I sometimes wonder if the Eng- gardens, etc. for children instead of 1ish people who mention so calmly warplanes for Chiang Kai-shek they the sale of English acroplanes to would be fulfiling a much more the rebela (and also to the Govern- worthy objective.
ment by private enterprise aver Poon EUROPEAN, visualise the use to which these
planes will be put..
The Welsh Wizard's people are treading the road that WHILE yachting Sunday morning, leads to war, and those of its only Island, I, and the party with me, in the direction of Stonecullar. experienced the last one can only pray that Britain will be able to keep observed coolies and scumen abour Two out of it when it comes, Our people a small coaster, transferring big should Ignore opinions given by L. G. water buffalo from a junk to the
stuner. The method of handling: Vou or any other week-end trippers."
A. M.
this live cargo seemed to me, and those with me, Incredibly crude and *
unnecessarily cruci.
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Power came from a small winch "HOW can Lloyd George Recept
Hitler's professions of friend on the coaster's foredeck, and the Ship for Britain at their face value andmal being lifted we while he is openly expressing con-
one was suspended between the tempt for our democratic institutions. around its horns. Its entire weight junk and larger vessel. by a hitch while he is preparing a demand for
was therefore borne on its neck. some of our colonies, and while in I was always under the impression his dealings with the Church and his
that livestock should be holsted in glings specially made for the
S. B. J.
treatment of thousands in concentra-
tion camps he is outraging all our ideas of fair play?
purpose.
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"Gipsy Victims"
have recelved complaints I wish they could have scon a 1 from
two Kowloon residents', Httle gipay encampment near regarding the screen advertisements Malaga after the bombardment of in the local theatres.
The
Do they realise we pay a very which I am speaking,
The gipsles werd gathered to- small sum to sit through two minutes saw but of those advertisements, whereas Bether having their midday meal those concerned will them have to when a large bomb fell in the midst two minutes. pay many times more for just those of them, Out of several familles sitting there quietly eating only Business is not brisk these days one little girl was left alive. and everyone knows the value of others, ware blown to blackened advertising.
raga. "FED UP" zugɛests - advertisements They say that it is almost impos- should only adorn hoardings and sible to stop the private sale of newspapers, where one need not aeroplanes, but I believe that pub- look at them if not interested. Well, le opinion can do so if it will. And why not do likewise at the theatres? It should be aroused to realise the Take
# nap during those two
horror minutes.
of people anxious to For myself I enjoy the musle make money out of the death and
mento.
May I add 1 am in no way con- Nazis and which would, were it ever sportsmen are not likely to take nected with any business concerns to come to power in England, destroy offence at mob exeltement, which and merely go to the theatres for amusement and entertainment. I am democratic those very
liberties in any case, should be repressed in
and address could which were once so dear to Lloyd games where acute concentration la sure my name George,"
necessary on the part of the players, verify this.
E. M. L DEMOCRACY,
Tennis, ericket, and chess, three:
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sent system la by no means satis- an entirely false pleture of a happy "PARRACKING" at cricket mut- factory. Far batter would it boing grist to the mill of Fascists in thing more than "Lover of Sport ming the screening of the advertise- auffering of their fellow men..
to lovy a fixed amount, within the "measure of our capacity to pay, than to continue on a basis by which, when raising fresh re- venue, we have to add a consider- able sum beyond our actual needs.
ches In Australia is tome-i
English us belleve.
and contented Germany, thus bring-
Britain-a movement inspired by the woud have
-To-day's Thought-
IT is finer to command one's passions than an army, and more difficult.
-THTOPHILE GAUTIER..
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