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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
December 27, 1939.
Allies Touch of Genius'
B
Mr. Louis Fincher, the Ameri- can Journalist, now in Europe, na willien from Paris to tie Now York Nation (reports Time
and Tido) pa follesysteme
And that the
cott-
duct of the war thus far has had the touch of genius. Dilellantes expected France to attack violent- ly on the West, but the French General Staff exercised a re- ntralni unusual to the military mind.
"Anglo-French strategy consists
In
A
obtaining an tecnomic stranglehold on Germany by следия оf
blockade and 4 cauilous coming to grips with the telchswehr on German soll. "The longer, declive combai Is postponed, ifie betler prepared will be the Allies, whoso rearnia- ment started Intr; and the worse off Germany will be for want of vital imports.
"
The German air force has not allempted to interfere with French and British, mobilisation
or
thu
the Meticulously planned transport / of the first large Bettisti ohtlagents to France.
"The les are the stronger, financial and Industrially. They get ald from colpatei and Domlulons, and they hopem America, I do not think Anen and England want or require netive United States military partiolpation. The chief problem of the war is materials, not men. The Allies can con- tinue the war atone for years."
"Prison Hells Ruled
By The
"Churchill's Last
Quiet Days"
Stockholm,
The United States are now re- garded in Germany as “practically in the war," according to the Ber- In correspondent of the "Tidnin Ken."
Germany, therefore, he adds, dacy not mean to await the arrivai of the American planes ordered by the Alles before striking.
The German publie is bring *gladdened by the prusperi held out of the tritish Fleet as the sufferer. Well-informed circtes declare that Mr. Churchill is enjoying his "last quiet week-end."
"The public are assured that the air operations agahust Poland whi with bo Insignificant compared what is being prepared for Bri- fam."
The "Tidningen" also reperis from Berlin that 60,000 spring mattresses are to provide "winter comfort" for the German soldiers In the Siegfried Line.
Convicts
AMAZING STORIES OF CONVICTS WHO "RULE” BRITISH PRISONS, OF "HELLS ON EARTH" WHERE MEN IN GAOL HAVE SUCH MASTERY THAT THEY CAN DO WHAT THEY LIKE TO WARDERS, ARE REVEALED BY PRISON OFFICERS IN THEIR MAGAZINE.
Like a film of the American "big house," they tell a tale of men who say in effect: "If we don't do what we like we'll pull the place down."
This is the astonishing climax reached in the Prison Officers' Magazine:
"Prisoners decline to carry out orders, often in the knowledge that they have achieved a position of such mastery that no punish- ment will befall them for their disobedience. Officers find them- selves in an impossible position."
To put it qalie bluntly," says the magazine, "they have
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A campaign to raise four thou-halong
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STANHOPE BLAMED FOR SCAPA LOSS
THE sensational charge that the torpedoing of the hattle ship Royal Oak at Scapa Flow would not have happened had Lord Stanhope been removed carlier from the Admiralty was made by Mr. Herbert Morrison, one of the Socialist leaders, in Parliament,
Mr. Morrison was criticising the Prime Minister for the "furmy choice" of some of his Ministers,
Of the Earl of Stanhope, who was First Lord of the Admiralty
until
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put his FOR THE B.E.F.
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"If anybody on the Government side of the House were hand on his heart and nak himself whether Lord Stanhope wos ilkely to to make a drst-class First Lord, the answer must be No.
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can to exceed their aim of col- [lesting 1,000 garments, ench of which:
will cost $1 to make.
be made.
Yesterday aftemoon was given by the Committee to re When the required sum has been "In a certain establishment to-day presentatives of the Hongkong Press. raised, it is proposed to remit the prisoners are encouraged to belleve both foreign and Chinese, to explain money to Mme. Chiang Kai-shek in that the bigger the nuisance they the objecls and aims of the cam-Chungking, where the garments will make of themselves be more, con- sideration they will get.
Several pressmen spoke in support "The time la rapidly opproaching Mr. Fung Sze-min, Chairman, said of Mr., Fung. when, unless the prison commis- the work of raising funds to pur- The performance at the Po Hing discipline being reasserted, the ser-by means of subscriptions from the fron 12 roon to 4 p.m., and tickets sioners are prepared to insist upon chase the garments was proceeding Theatre on December 29 will be
vice will Itself have to consider what students, and by the sale of ticketsjure priced at $5, $3, $2, $1 and 50 courses are open to it to bring to a theatrical performance at the cents.
Po Hing Theatre on December 29, a rapidly approaching Intolerable situation to an end."
at which a number of the leadingi In another article a prison officer Chinese stage and screen artists will writes:
give their services,
..
WINTER GARMENTS
Chungking, Dec. 10. "Prison ofeers cannot go on much
The Committee is also arranging Enthusiastic mioport is displayed longer under this unendurable strain.
cinema show in the Nathinn by the overseas Chinese in Cuba: for Nerves and physique; apart from per- Theatre, Kowloon, next month. the winter garment campaign:jalflat- sonal pride, will not stand up to it Eight of the leading American Amed by Madame Chiang Kai-shek, indefinitely, and something will distributing compaules in the Colony Contributions amounting to $93,000 had promised to lend films for the have been remilted to Madame "There can be no doubt that all function.
If possible, the students Cl.lang.-Central News.
And Fighting Positions crack.
danger that he should have been-of-the-busiest specialists of the prison officers are gravely-apprchen-
of war,"
B.E.F. is the Director of Ilir.ngssive.
in that ofce right up to the time He rents from the French all the "We are determined not to have, buildings, land for airlicias, land for for one thing, any more Dartmont base depois, dumps, hospitals, and su 1032 incidents, but something must forth, that are necard Lor more or less be done quickly to avoid them. permanent occupation as long as the
"Why was he left as First Lond right into days of war? I do not like to talk about persons; it is distasteful. But it is part of our duty.
"Lord Stanhope had been in other offices,
and
may, have good points. I do not know.
"When war came Mr. Churchill was brought in as First Lord, rather, considerations, of I believe, on force majeure than on the choice of the Prime Minister. I it was right, that he should be First Lord when the war broke out, surely it WOR
equally right that he should bazu First Lord before.
have
"My own belief is that the Seapa Flow disaster would never have happened Lord Stanhope had been removed from office earlier than he was,"
Of Sir John Gilmour, the Minister of Shipping, Mr. Morrison said:
זיי
British force is in France.
"If it were not for the unrelaxing effort of the uniformed staff to main- For the benefit of men about to, tuin some sort of order in a welter ro on leave, he is now inspecting of chaos, Dartmoor 'incidents' would and renting suitable houses at the, be a commonplace
ports where the men may, necessary, spend a night on their journey to England. They will not!
H-1 On Earth
occurrence."
Finally, another officer, in a letter
be asked to spend is uncomfortably referring to a recent meeting
be-
ACCOR
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fcol.
More recent
Removed Hat
from
De to the brart
'One who BRAZEN
Morally Dias DRINOTI
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Those who he vari
Chat Wer gener
In hulments, as so many of them tween representatives of the associa- tion and the prison commissioners, did last time. For training purposes he is hiring writes:
13 "As one who is serving in one of ranges, training grounds for guns and these 'hells-upon-earth, I cannot but tanks, areas for manoeuvres and the feel that it is just about time. Ilke.
Bi-Lingual Agreements
In this matter, as in so many others,
work invariably through French authorities.
We
The
day has come when prisoners talk to
all and sundry in nuthority in vile
and filthy language, and, for the most
part, treat prison officials with con- temot and abuse. The Secretary of State for War, in
When are
the authorities going to whose name the lease is drawn, has deal with this, Intolerable impertin-
have a varm regard for him. No member is more fully respected as a days' notice,
man
the right to terminute it at seven ence, when are they going to stamp
or immediately
must be allowed to do and act just
out for ever the idea that prisons But his choice Da Minister of through enemy action the property, are fast places where bli-shota Shipping when ships are beint sub- becomes useless to h.in. marined and blown up is just cle- He does not pay for any damage as they please?" mentory Idlory."
the property through what Of Lord Macmillan: "Is appoint-the agreement calls "faits de guerre. ment az Minister of Propaganda is He does not pay rent for land used another mistake."
for trenches or other fighting posi tions.
Mr. Morrison had n general charge to make against the whole Ministry: "In rationing, the Government go hither and thither according to the Intest blast from Fleet-street. They wobble all over the place according to the pressure that Lord Beaver brook or some one else brings against them."
done
Germans Fish In View Of French
Paris.
A vivid description of the complete Mr. Morrison was supporting the calm obtaining in Strasbourg is given Socialist amendment to the Address | by a villor who was there inst week. -It was the third day of the debate. Near the Rhino bridge at Kehl Ger- and the first division of the new man anglers are indulging peacefully. Dession followed just afterwards. In their favourite pursuit, The Socialist amendment was de- The Eridge itself has been closed to foated by 303 votes to 126,
traffle by n concrete barrier erected The amendment demanded the use just on the German nkle of the half- of all the nation's resources in pro-way mark. On this, facing the secuting the war, the maintenance of French shore, a plece of red cloth alandards of life, and the solution of has been stretched across the bridge. post-war problems on the basis of, It bears in huge letters the following Social Justice;
words, "We do not wish to make
In fact, the three days debate war against France." showed more unity than division, except that the Socialist Party strenS- ed the need to develop postwar almas now, while the Government said the thing to do was to win the war first.
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