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December 27, 1939..
Allies' "Touch of Genius'
Mr. Leuls Fischer, the Ameri- can Journalist, now in Europe, has written from Paris to the New York Nalion (reports Timo and Tide) as follows:
In
obtaining an economie stranglehold on Germany. by zucans of a blockade and a cautions coming to grips with the Reichswehr on German soll.
"The longer decisives combat in postponed, the better prepared will be the Allies, whose rearma- ment started late, and the worse off Germany will be for want of vital Imports, .. re-
"I and that the Allies' ent duct of the war thus far has kad the touch of genius. Dilettantes expected France to attack violent- ly on the West, but the French General Staff exercised a straint unusual to the military mind.
"Anglo-Freach strategy consists
The German air force has nat attempted to Interfero Wita French and British mobilisation
Or
the meticulously planned transport of the first Large British contingents to France.
The Allies are the sironger, financially and Industrially. They will get mid from tho nolonies and Dominions, and ther hape from America. I do not think França and England want or requke active United States military participation. The chief problem of the wae Is materials, not men, The Allies can con tinue the war alone for years."
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The United States are now re- garded in Germany as “practically In the war." according to the Ber- In correspondent of the ""Tidnin gen."
achin Germany, therefore, he does not mean to wait the arrival of the American planes ordered by the Alles before striking,
The
being German public is gladdened by the prospect held out of the Brith Firet as the sufferer. Well-informed circles declare that Mr. Churchill is enjoying liis "last quiet week-end."
"The public are assured that the air operations against Poland will with Le Insignificant compared what is being prepared for Brl. fain."
The Tidningen" also reperis from Berim that 60,000 spring maitresses are to provide "winter comfort" for the German soldiers
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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 Glm of the Americnu "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 n natory that no punish- ment will befall them for their disobedience. Officers find them- selves in au impossible position."
"To put it quite bluntly," says the magazine, "they have
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"As one officer recently remarked: Nothing seems to matter now, so long as we keep them inside.'
"In one southern prison recently the probability of serious disorder was so great that representationr were made to the governor on the subject. He apparently was indisposed to take any special precautions,
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A campaign to raise four thou- sand winter garments truops on the China front has been started by the students of the Can- ton University, now continuing their studles in Hongkong
"Accorilingly, the staffs themselves decided that the men off duty would hold themselves in readiness immediately to go to Students' Committee for the Solicitu the aid of their colleagues if trouble arose.
STANHOPE BLAMED FOR SCAPA LOSS
THE sensational charge that the torpedoing of the battle- ship Royal Oak at Scapa Flow would not have happened had Lord Stanhope been removed earlier from the Admiralty was made by Mr. Herbert Morrison, one of the Socialist lenders, in Parliament,
Mr. Morrison was criticising the] Prime Minister for the "funny choice": of some of his Ministers,
Of the Earl of Stanhope, who was First Lord of the Admiralty until
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"If zinybody on the Government side of the House were to hand on his heart and nsle whether Lord Stanhope was likely to to make a first-class First Lord, the answer must be No.
The fact that trouble did not arise was in all probability due to this wise precaution, of which the trouble-makers in the prison were
aware.
"Encouraged"
"In a certain establishment to-day, prisoners are encouraged to believe that the bigger the nubsance they make of themselves the more con- sideration they will get.
"The Ume is rapidly approaching when, unters
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prison commis- sioners are prepared to insist upon discipline belag reasserted, the ser- {vice 'will itself have to consider what courses are open to it to bring ja rapidly approaching Intolerable
situation to an end."
In another article a prison officer writes:
The students have organised them- selves into the Canton University
tion of Soldiers' Winter Garments. The members have been called from dennruments of the University. which has ever 1,000 undergraduates of both sexes.
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mean to exceed their alm of col- lesting 4,000 garments, each of which will cost $1 to make,
Yesterday afternoon at tea party was given by the Committee to re- When the required it has been presentatives of the Hongkong Press, raised, it is proposed to remit the both foreign and Chinese, to explain money to Marc. Chiang Kai-shek fa the objects and alms of the cam-Chungking, where the garments will paign.
be made.
Several pressmen spoke in support
Mr. Fung Sze-min, Chairman, guld [of Mr. Fung. the work of raising funds to pur- The performance at the Po Hing chase the garments was proceeding Theatre on December 20 will be by means of subscriptions from the trom 12 noon to 4 p.m., and tickets students, and by the sale of tickets are priced nt $5, $3,$2, $1 and 50 to a theatrical performance at the cents. Po Hing Theatre on December 29, at which a number of the leading Chinese stage and sercen artists will give their services.
WINTER GARMENTS
Chungking, Dec. 10. The Commitice is also. peranging Enthusiastic supports displayed D cinema show in. the Nathan by the overacas Chinese in Cuba för Theatre, Kowloon, next month. the winter garment campaign initiat- Eight of the leading American dlmed by Medame Chiang Kai-shek. distributing companies in the Colony Contributions amounting to SD3,000, had promised to lend films for the have bern remiffed, to
If possible, the students. Cl.lang.-Central News,
"Prison oflcers cannot go on much longer under this unendurable strain. Nerves and physique, apart from per- Except The Trenches sonal pride, will not stand up to it indefinitely, and something will And Fighting Positions crack.
"There can be no doubt that all function. NE at the busiest specialists of the prison officers are grovely-apprehen-- dage that he should have been E.EF. Is the Director of Hir.ngs, given in that office right up to the time of war."
that a.public.
Why was he left as First Lord 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.
on
"When war came Mr. Churchill was brought in as First Lord, rather,
belleve,
considerations of force majeure than on the choice of the Prime Minister. If it was right that he should be First Lord when the war broke out, surely It wa equally right that he should ben First Lord before.
have
"My own belief is that the Scapa Flow disaster would never live| happened if Lord Stanhape had been removed from office earlier than he was."
man
He rents from the French all the "We ate determined not to have, buildings, land for airficiais, land tor for one thing, any more Dartmont base depots, dumps, hospitals, and so 1932 incidents, but something nust forth, that are neata for more or les. be done quickly to avoid them. permanent occupation as long as the "If it were not for the unrelaxing British force is in France.
effort of the uniformed staff to main- For the benefit of men about to tala gome sort of order in a welter ge on leave, he is now inspecting of chaos, Dartmoor incidents' would and renting suitable houses at the
be a commonplace occurrence." parts where the men may, if necessary, spend a night on their Journey to England. They will not! be asked to spend it, uncomfortably in buiments, as so many of them did last ilme.
For train.ng purposes he is hiring ranges, training grounds for guns at tanks, areas for manoeuvres and the like.
Bi-Lingual Agreements
In this matter, as in so many others, we work invariably through the French authorities, The Secretary
through
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Finally, another offleer, in a letter referring to a recent meeting be- tween representatives of the assocla- tion and the prison commissioners, writes:
"As one who is serving in one of these 'heits-upon-earth, I cannot but feel that it is just about ilme. The day has come when pelsoners talk to all
and sundry in authority in vile and althy language, and, for the most part, treat prison ofleints with con- tempt and abuse.
Of Sir John Gilmour, the Minister of Shipping, Mr. Murrison said: "I whose name the lense is drawn, has deal with this intolerable impertin- have a warm regard for him. No, the right to terminate it member is more fully respected as a daya'
notice, or But his cholec in Minister of the Shipping when ships are being sub-brcomes useless to 1.m. marined and blown up is just cle-
must be allowed to do and act just He does not pay for any damage as they please?" mentary idiory."
done to the property through what: the agreement calls "faits de guerre. fe does not pay rent for land used
When are the authorities going to
at seven ence, when are they going to stamp immediately f******
out for ever the idea tint prisons action the property, are just places where blg-nhots'
Of Lord Macmillan: "His appoint ment as Minister of Propaganda la another mistake."
Mr. Morrison had a general charge to make against the whole Ministry: "In rationing, the Government go hither and thither according to the latest blasi from Fleet-street. They wobble all over the place according to the pressure that Lord Beaver- brook or some one else brings
aguinst them."
for trenches or other fighting posi~ tons.
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 visitor who was there last week. -It was the third day of the debate. Near the Rhine bridge at Kehl Ger- and the first divsion of the new man anglors are indulging peacefully session followed just afterwards, in their favourite pursuit. The Socialist umrudiment was de- The bridge itself has been closed to feated by 303 votes to 120.
traffic by n concrete barrier erected The amendinent demanded the use 'Just on the German side 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 piece of red cloth standards of life, and the solution of has been stretched across the bridge. post-war prchleins 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, exerpt that the Socialist Party, stress- ed the need to develop postwar nima now, while the Government and the thing to do was to win the war first.
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