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Clearing the Air
IF THE outward signs of interna-
tional tension in the Far East have not perceptibly increased, the tension itself has been heightened by rumour and by propaganda. The warnings of danger, which it is the desire of prudent men to keep to terms of restraint as long as possible, have therefore perforce become explicit.
In Legislative Council yesterday afternoon, two such warnings go down in history as the most momentous and striking mode that august cham- ber for over twenty years. Between the magnificently outspoken phrases of His Excellency the Governor and the words of tho General Officer Commanding the British Troops in China, definite enough to quell once and for all the Insidious rumours regarding the future of this Colony now ending its first hundred years of existence, there is disclosed a consis- tent but inercusing solemnity of uilerance.
Behind the firm and deliberate speeches of the Governor and the G.O.C., there stands the approval of the entire publie of Hongkong.
The Telegraph", and doubtless all Its contemporaries in this Colony, has long desired some such clear-cut official pronouncement from the leaders of the Colony-and-indeed, the suggestion that the fears of a great part of our citizens should be set to rest in such manner formed the basis of an Editorial in this newspaper only last month.
Rumour, insidious and ularming, has been rite in this Colony, and its flames have been unchecked in the past from official quarters. It is nole- worthy, in this respect, that these rumours regarding the future status of Hongkong have not emanated from newspapers, which, in fact, Imposed upon themselves a voluntary censor- ship in the absence of oficial denial -denial which, we previously at- tempted to oblain,
We loin with our morning contem- porary in taking issue with both His Excellency the Governor and the General Officer Commanding the British Troops regarding their belief that the apprehension that has un- doubtedly existed in this Colony was fostered by those Ill-disposed towards Great Britain,
The apprehensions were heightened by offlelal reticence und by a whisper- lng campaign in which even certain oficials may be suspected of having participated. Herein iles the answer to those few persons who would im- pose restrictions on the Press, The real danger from propaganda is not the printed word, which can be checked, but the whispered word which gains distortion as it spreads from mouth to mouth.
Happily, the campaign of ins [nuendoes regarding the future of Hongkong has been set to rest by the Vigorous statements Issued In Legis- Jativa Counell yesterday.
In congratulating Their Excel- Ieneles сп the Arm stand they Indopted, we would like to suggest that the public, through Its Press, in catlled to equally emphatic but less tardy suppression of propaganda when it arises in future, Having In- formed us that the Colony will be defended to the end, we would like Government to quelch the other series of rumours that are floating around Hongkong regarding the proc- ticability of such defence, with particular reference to food supplies.
Much good has been done in dis- pelling ignorance regarding the out- come of possible, air raids on the Colony, and the Government will (hravide"'n "service to itself and the public fit would now give the Press niceas to Information on other matters that are the subject of dis- cussion in clubs and hotels,
Amy MPLA
HELP! HE'S FAINTED
(It was reported early this week that Herr Hiller has suffered two complete nervous
breakdowns recently).
The might of Russia's resources
W
AR is not won by soldiers and weapons only. Modern war needs vast industrial resources, and the munition factories must be fed with mit- Mons of tons of steel and other materials. How does the Soviet Union stand from this point of view? How is the war economy of the Soviets likely to endure the strain of a great war?
It will be very different from Tsarist doys. Then Russian indus- try was weak and backward. To- day the volume of Industrial pro- duction of the Soviet Union is greater than that of any country except the USA.
In iron and steel production, basic factors in modern war, Ger- many ban still a alight lead over the Boviet Union. But in agricul- ture, patrol, the production of arti- ficial rubber,, and in some other industries, the Soviet Union wins.
WE can therefore say that, roughly, the in- dustries of the Soviet Union are on about the same level as those of Nazi Germany.
If this comparison is pressed farther (and war strengths can only be judged by such compari- sons) each of these two Powers
BY TOM WINTRINGHAM
who is widely experienced in modern warfare-he led the International Brigade in Spain-and whose military books have been highly praised and recommended for study by omcers.
shows advantages and disadvan-trial centres. In the Urals and tages.
Biberlo, cannot be reached by bombers.
Germany's main advantage is that sho produces industrially twice as much per head of popula- tion as the Soviet Union.
SHE has other advan- tages: a web of railways, many fine roads, a high general-level of culture that bas soaked into her people through generations and has not yet been destroyed by Fascism. The der- mans are widely educated, good "toolmen," thorough. Germany's industrial resources Staphically
more cate
centralised, and therefore more rapidly available to meet the changing needs of war,
But thesa advantages are not unmixed. Industries tightly packed together, as in Sliesla or, the Ruhr, can bo Interrupted by bombing. Russia's newest indus-
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And the Soviets' counterweight of advantages is heavy. In the first place Hussia and Biberia provide almost all the raw material neces- sary
for war.
Oll, Iron ore, manganese ore, bauxite (for aluminium), zinc, and many other materials-nre- available in quantities so largo that they could not bo OX- hausted even in a long war. เม Germany, on the other hand, must rely on stocks, imports, or substi tutes for a proportion of all those things.
Germany's splendid railway sya- tem hampered the development af road transport before Hitler came to power. But in 1029, four years earlier, the Boviets began buliding huge factories to produce lorries. They have therefore gained a start, equivalent to four years, over the Germans in the motorimation of their army.
Germany did not begin to build tanks until about 1935. Nor did the Soviet Union, on any large scale. But the Germans had to start from scratch, while the Russians. already possessed, and were work- Ing, enormous plants devoted to making tractors for agriculture.
The same plants (and the samo workmen were easily diverted to making tanka when, these were. considered necessary.
THE Soviet civilian air- craft factories were much better adapted for use for war purposes than the German. German civilian plange were made to take passengers who desired comfort from one perfectly amoothi
acrodromo to another Soviet planes were made to take Industrial experta or urgently re- quired tools and supplies to mining towns
In. Biboria: or the wastes of the far North even to land at the North Pole. They needed little alteration, therefora.
The co- ordination of industry is neces- sary for a large-scale programme of armament manufacture,
With- out It there is wasta and muddio. (The British Government has at last under great' pressure admitted the need for co-ordina-
tion to make rearmament effec- tive: it has established. ...Ministry of Supply. But whether it will in fact eliminata waste arid muddle by this half-measure
not certain.)
atter of co-ordination
In this matter
of industry, the Soviets also get a start of four or Ave years over the Nazis. They began with the Five Year Plan; the Nazis could not be gin until 1933 to use their different methods to achieve
Ways Savior and
In: these
ICBCMR- ment got so far ahead of the Ger- man that although the tatals of
industrial production are
are roughly
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equal the Soviet Union has an in- dustry better prepared for war.
It has one big advantage over all other Powers that are trying to
their Industries produce, make their 20 goods of the quality and durability. needed in warfare.
In almost all manufacture of goods where
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motive
enters in (as it still does in Ger- many, though not to the same uncontrolled extent as in some countries), there is a natural ten- dency to cheapening design and materials in such a way, that the product does not last under heavy wear and strain.
IN many cases ordinary products are definitely made to wear out after
a certain time; that makes it possible for the manufacturer to sell replacements."
But the productive system of the Soviet Union works the other way. There is no desire for a replace- Clothes, or carb ment market.
are made to last as long as they possibly can. They are therefore, without change in material or technique of production, useful for the hard treatment of wartime.
The Soviet Union has one other.' great economic advantage. It has to-day plenty of food.
Like some others, I got my first real impression of the war strength of the Boviet Union not from see-
ing its arma in Spain, but from seeing the food it sent there.
One of the first foodships to redch Barcelons included a certain
д amount of tinned army rations. We found their big bully beef time, marked as "one meal for four men," would feed six or eight.
And there were other tins. These, by their markings, were also ordin- ary rations for the Red Army, But wlien we opened them, we found they were tinned chickon.
An army that could give. Its pri- vates tinned chicken occasionally seemed to me, and still seems, pretty good. Not many things they. can be short of, if they have got an far as that.
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With Sodium
With Fillis was Raymond Buddle,
BEGAN A MONTH ACO "We found the sodium under a railway arch, and after we had spat PLAYING with some Bodlum parks came away. We then poured on it turned a mauve, colour,ând he had found, 15-year-old Eddien tot of water from a milk bottle on Fillis, of Hedworth Street, Bow, it and there was a blinding flash like was recently burned about the lightning, Eddie said..
"We ran away, but I went back to face and neck when the sodium see what had happened, and red-hot
pieces flew into my face."
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