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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
April 5, 1940.
MAGAZINE PAGE
by SIR KINGSLEY WOOD
WE
E have much that gives us confidence and strength at this hour.
Never in any great con fliet in our history has this country been S0 united and so resolute. With every day that passes and as we wit ness fresh acts of German barbarism and brutality- that unity and determina- tion grow stronger still.
It was the nation-not a Government or an individual -that decided for us the Krave issue of pence or war. It was the decision of a free people.
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We need not regret the many and patient efforts we so constantly made to secure the pence. We are all the more fortified by the en- deavours we then made. Our conscience is clear-our hands are clean. There is no doubt where the war gullt lles.
We are not engaged in this war for any materini thing. We seek no territory-we have no vindic- tive purpose. We ask no nation to surrender anything that should be enjoyed by any honourable and peace-loving people,
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WE, with out_gallant_allies France and Poland, are fight- ing things evil-outrages against the spirit and the soul of men and women which transcend all other things.
We are fighting for all those principles of International order and decency without which the world would be intolerabic. We are fighting for the small peoples.
We are fighting for our own existence.
Au has happened with others, we know our own turn would Burely come if we, for a mo- ment, abandoned our efforts.
We are fighting for a reai pence, not a pitched up pact which would leave Europa once again the subject of assault and viola- tion.
We and our Allies are de- termined to secure the world against the possibility of a repeti- tion of the atrocities and in- humanities which have repelled and shocked mankind, and so that all people may dwell together in friendship and in peace.
Thero have never been for us and the world such grave and vital issues at stake. We must and shall win this war, and we hope all those who understand the nature of this life and death struggle will realise that we cannot omit from our armoury any legitimate weapon.
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We sincerely regret it, and wa nre doing our best to reduce it to a minimum.
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But we feel that we are justi- fied in asking Lhose Who affected to remember that we are not only fighting for our existence as a nation but also for the exis- tence of all those principles with- out which He would not be worth Jiving.
We would urge them, when they fccl the inconvenience that necessarily
Imposed by war ON
Russia has swallowed up a third] of Poland. She has established an undisputed mastery over the Bal- tic States, hitherto regarded by Germany is an essential port of her living space. ||
No wonder doubts are spreading among the people of Germany doubts which were fostered and in- tensified by the arrival of the Ger- nun exiles from the Baltic States, It is not only that, but she has seen the virtual dissolution of the anti- Cumintern group which she had so laboriously bulit up.
WE MUST WIN!
WE realise that the exercise - of our sea power and the use of the economic weapon entail inconvenience and even. nt times hardship for neutral Statca.
neutral States, to ponder also the alternative of the whole of Europe suffering the unspeakable horrors which are even now being perpe- irated
the unhappy Polish: people.
There is, in fact, a gulf be- tween our own and Nazi concep- flons that cannot be bridged.
We believe-and we have in The British Empire a great and ilving example that all nations, and small, should not only live nkle but that peaceably side they can and should all work to- gether for the advancement of the common well-being.
Quit system tions is based upon the respect of · rights and d sovereignty of other na- tions, however small and however wenk. Hitler's conception, as we
is that the
of international rela-
-rights of
have seen other nations are to be measured not by justice or their individual contributions to civilisation but by Their armed strength alone.
The whole world has indeed wit- nessed how, without excuse ot pause, Hitler has carefully planned and ruthlessly carried out his ut- tacks on one small State after un- olher, and then outraged and en- slaved them. They will rise again.
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THERE is no possible doubt that the conditions in German- occupied Poland are simply abominable. They are far worse than in Russian-oc- cupied Poland,
The Vatican broadcast of Janu- ary 22 spoke of "the horror and inexcusable excesses committed on a helpless and homeless people" which has been "established by the unimpeachable testimony of eye-witnesses."
German methods in occupied Poland
since September have passed through two phases. They tried first to terrorise the popula- tion by shooting individuals picked at random from the towns. In Konin, fur instance, they decided shoot thirty-five people, and
to
they collected thirty-four victims, and then, finding they were short of one went into chemist's shop und seized the first person thuy found.
They
then realised that these methods would not oval them and lead nowhere, and they decided to decimate the natural leaders of the Polish national movement the Government estimates the number already shot at 15,000,
There have, indeed, been cases of actual torture. Conditions in the concentration camps are appal- ing. Religion is systematically persecuted. The crowning iniquity, In the words of the Vatican broad- cast, "lies in the cynical suppres- skan of all but the merest sugges- tion of religious worship in the lives of one of the most pious and devotional of
peuples Europe."
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IT is no wonder there is un- casiness in Germany to-day.
Prolonged repression ang in- dividual privations also do not moke for confidence and gaiety, Her deteriorating financial and economic position cannot provoką anything but scrluus concern amongst many ol the Germun people
But there is another and more compelling cause of Germany's uneasy state of mind. It lies in Germany's connection with 80- viet Russia. The scale of their underalanding is unknown out- alde the Kremlin and the Inner elretes of the Nazi party.
it may be wide or it may be narrow, but one thing is certain, and that is that it will be broken just as soon as it suits the books of Germany to break it.
matter. Not There is another
suggest Ribbentrop would that Germany has drawn any great advantage either political or ma- terial from this uneasy partner-
even
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What about the material side, where Hiller and the Nazis ex- pected
recoup their polical Insses? Here ugah there has been nothing but disappointment. Rus- sinn transport difficulties
many serious, together with the anxious preoccupations of the Finnish war, must have greatly damaged any hope that there may have been of Germany obtaining adequate sup- plies of oil and raw materials from Russia.
It is clear whether it is wide or narrow in its scope-the agree- ment is unterlula and doubtful bargain, based on nothing but what seemed to be a temporary political advantage.
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By Lichty
"Friends of the bride will be seated on the right-friends of
the groom on the left-neutrals, in the rear!"
WATCH ON BRITAIN'S COAST
BECAUSE invasion of Bri
tain from the sen is not regarded by the British man- in-the-street as a serious pos sibility, little is known of Britain's coastal defence bat- teries.
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But, these batterics only exist they are a con- stant chailenge to an invader and they form a vital part of the country's defences.
During the last war only one or two batteries on the east const came into action, but to-day the watch on the coast goes on day and night. The guns are manned by the Royal Artillery and the searchlights by the Royal En- gineers. All were, before the war, members of the Territorial Army and to-day the batteries they servo are for the most part on the
coasts of their own native coun- tics.
At all times there has been a stendy and sufficient flow of re- cruits, many of whom are veteran gunners who did service on the various battle fronts in the last war and whose experience now- serves them well. Their training and readiness to serve releases younger men for more active ser vice.
THOUGH many veterans of the last war are included in the ranke, the standard of physical fitness required is high as the men have to be on duly in all weathers and also have the heavy task of loading the guns.
The batteries are placed al strategic polnta along Britain'a coastline.. They are equipped
with close defence and counter bombardment guns. Their .com- bined strength had turned Britain Into a fortress, safe from sen attack on its shores,
Monotony is the coast watcher's greatest enemy, no the oppor- tunity to bring the guns into play' may never occur, but the coastal batteries arc, povertheless, a vital part of the home defences.
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CAPTIONS: *1.~~~Observation and control.
2.-Loading a gun,
post.
One of the Ling guns in action.
4.Watching resulta of shell
fire.
the 5- picture typifying constant watch that is being kept at each of these Coastal Bai- teries.
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