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BIRTH
CAMPBELL-On January 4, 1939,
to Elsle (Nee Austin), wife of D Mcl. Campbell, at the War Memorial Nursing Home, a son.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
Wyndham St., Hongkong 'Phone 26615 January 4, 1939
Dr. To War
WAR WITH CHINA is costing
Japan £1,000,000 a day- over £11 for every tick of the clock, a mill-stone of half-a- crown to be added each morning to the necks of every man, wo- man and child residing on the small island off the coast of Asia.
By the end of this year, the total cost of the "China In- cident" to Japan will be £600,- |000,000—and that is war costs
alone.
The American War of In- dependence cost Britain and the United States £160,000,000. The Franco-Prussian War of 1870 cost £348,000,000. The Crimean War coat 2308,000,000.
ments
were 稿
Like everything else, the cost of warfare has progressed with civilisation. A few centuries ago it was a comparatively simple thing to order a Crusade or so, when the only replenish-
needed
few arrows, which grow on trees. Bombs and shells don't grow on trees, and the explosion of even one small 100lb. bomb on a de- fenceless Chinese city represents the dissipation of what is a princely sum to a Japanese fac- tory worker.
To the Japanese tax-payer, af bomb is a much more serious matter than it would be to the
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this tragic million?
ILI, the British help us?"
Go where you will among the small nations and among the trembling minorities of Fascist ridden Europe and you will have this question addressed to you by men and women for whom to-day spells fear and to-morrow may bring disaster.
One million men and women and
children, the Jews of Germany and former Austria, facing destruction and death at the hands of Nazl taskmasters, are ut this moment stretching out their hands in mute and despairing appeal for rescue, towards the small community of 350,000 Jews of Britain.
What this community has to say may be regarded as the volee of Jewry. I sought, therefore, the lay head of British Jewry. Mr. Neville Laski, K.C., President of the Board of Deputies, representative body of the Jews of the British Empire, to express his views on the disaster now being inflicted on the Jews of Germany.
WHAT is your view of the German Jewish position after the Prime Minister's statement to the House of Commons?
We cannot but feel grateful to the Prime Minister and the Home Secre tary for what they have said and done for our afflicted fellow Jews of Ger- many. We will use every endeavour to study their suggestions and to co- operate to the limits of our power.
nancial and otherwise.
It is particularly gratifying that the
TWO MEN,
tax-payers of nations where SAME JOB,
higher standards of living rule. A 100lb. bomb or shell is the equivalent of the wages # Japanese manual worker carn in two, three or even four years. It is only four or five montha wages for a Briton.
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WITHIN a fortnight, two successive manugers of a Chatham (Kent) outfitter's shop have been found dead, in each case in a wood.
There seems some reuson für asking, whether the Japanese Mr. Henry Stanley-Laird Cox, of civilian is capable of bearing for Marcel-road, Dartford, who had been long those half-a-crown millin charge of the shop for many years, stones
cheerfully placed was discovered in his car in a wood
at Frindsbury, near Chathum. around their individual necks
Arubber tube, ran from the CXm each morning by their war haust to the front seat. leaders.
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Seek Knowledge
It was stated at the inquest that he was depressed, and a verdict of Suicide while the Balance of his Mind was Disturbed was recorded.
PROMOTED Later 42-years-old Mr. Frederick new day brings another But, promoted from the position of opportunity for knowledge.departmental manager of the firm'a Nourish it.
Maidsone branch, left his home in Postley-road,
take Maidstone, to
LEARN something to-day. A
Knowledge is needed more over the management of the Chai- than ever. There is a recession ham shop, made vacant by the death in knowledge for its own sake. of Mr. Cox. Propaganda muddies the stream
of truth.
In this Colony floods of dope
He met a dozen members of
the staff, and was netu ne more
by them after the day's work was over,
He did not reappear at the shop the
do not sweep us off our balance, next day, and the staff awalled his
To-morrow morning our boys and return.
girls return to their class-rooms.
He was found lying dead In A
And thoir teachers give out! wood at Bluebell Hill, near Maid-
lessons, not the dope.
stone.
A bottle was by his side.
An interview with
NEVILLE J. LASKI, K.C. (Who speaks as the elected head of British Jewry)
BY A. L. EASTERMAN nu
place of refugee chaidren in the scheme of emigration is so sympathetically con Ridered. They are the life blood on which our future depends.
It is, however, in na sense of criticism that I say that what is envisaged only touches the fringe of the problem which has now assumed almost astro- nomien proportiona
I nak the civilised world-whint is to be the fate of the Jews and non-Aryan Christians of Germany, numbering per haps one and a half millions, for whom there is now no life in Greater" Germane
S the Nazi persecution a catastrophe for the German Jews alone or has it a broader import?.
In my opinion it is not possible to Isolate the German Jows in relation to these events. Humanity, ilberty, civilization itself are at stake.
Judaism and Christianity, as basic creeds, are facing in the Germany of to-day the threat of destruction. The spirit and soul of a people, ns ex- pressed in its faith and observance of that faith, have no place in Naal Oer- many.
The burning of synagogues, the un- prisonment of Niemoller, the threats to Cardinals Faulhaber and Innitzer are in the same context of thought
and action. There is, in Nazi Ger many, a complete lack of the privacy and Banctity of life
WHAT effect has this had on the Jewish position, as a whole? So far from Nazism being, an ita lenders continually and falsely pro- claim, an article for home consump ulon only. It is the largest export of modern Germany.
It a computed that at least £23,000,000 is spent yearly by the Nazi Government at home and abroad on propaganda. Much of this is spent in this country.
Anti-Semitism in the smoke screen behind which Germany, in Central and Eastern Europe, moves to political and economala conquest.
We are the first victims over whose bodies others are conquered. Outaldo Germany, millions of Jews have suffered from the spread of her teach- ings. If the Nazi doctrine captures the world, wo sink in common ruin with civilisation and its great heritago as I understand it.
15 there anything the Jews can do
In their oion defence?
All they can do is to give and give and give, in addition to the continued
GRIN AND BEAR IT
WEATHER BVREAU
LOW PRISSIAN
By Lichty
"Keep your mind on your work, Wilton-this is the third day you've prédicted a flurry in the market!!”
burden of their large communiat social- commitments and the burden of the great and Impoverished Eastern Euro- pean Jewrica, the Jewish communities of the world have contributed over £5,000,000 for the relief of German Jewry, of which the Jews of this coun- try have given a million and a half.
The greatest actual and potential country of immigration for these
which refugees in Palestine.
has absorbed over 40,000 of them, *to her great material advantage. Wo all hope. and, indeed, pray,
the may comN within text of round table agreement and the policy of the British Government that the admission of immigrants to Pales- tine may be maintained at as high and accelerated a level as possible. But for the present needs Palestino is not enough.
It
that
con-
We hope forvently that the inter- Governmental Committee established as a result of Evian may not only and Jargo places for large numbers of thena worthy, hardworking people. but may procura from Germany a release of their means to accompany them into exile.
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Is it only a problem of charitable relief; or this more basto problem requiring a more permanent jolution?
Charity is useless except as a tem porary expedient. What we have from the first had in mind is constructive expenditure.
We train boys and girls for the land and handiwork and handicraft occupa- Mons Wo convert professional men into landworkers, mechanics and arti MRE
The ultimate aim is to rescue the children and youth of our people so that they, the next generation and their children may live as free- men and women among free peoplen,
this a problem for the Jews alone to solve?
Thla qucation the world in the last week has answered for mo. The plain man, his church, his newspaper, his every means of expression have ro- turned an emphatio negative.
In a free world where government is of, for and by the people. Governmenta sense and follow the common opinion. In no still small voice but in echoing thunder the peoples of the world have their naked, nay demanded, that chosen rulers shall do their bidding and to the uttermost help these stricken German Jews to find a home of peace and security,
the
JT is said that Jews have
material means of bringing pressure to bear on Germany?
I wish in a senso this were true. The degradation of the German Jaw over the past nearly six years and the events which now horrify the world indicate that we have no such effective meana
I have said, and I repeat, that no self-respecting Jews will utilize German services or handle German goods, Can wo in decency do less in face of our | persecutors and traducers?
WHAT is the answer to Nazi threats of further vengeance against. the German Jews?
There is a point at whlels even the cowering victim of terror will not yield to blackmail, German Jowry in "now stuffering a living death at the hards of the Nazis.
I know of nothing further which our fellow Jows in Clermany can suffer save mass murder, and that is not much more than the horrors that are being inflated on them now.'