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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
April 5, 1940.
MAGAZINE PAGE I
by SIR KINGSLEY WOOD
E have much that
WE
gives us confidence and strength at this hour.
Never in any great con- flict in our history has
been this country
SO, 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 grave issue of peace or war. It was the decision of a free people,
Wo need not regret the many and patient efforts we so constantly made to secure the peace. 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 guilt lies.
We are not engaged in this war for any nuatorial thing. We acek no territory-we have no vindic. tive purpose. We ask no nation to Burrendor anything that should be enjoyed by any honourablo and peace-loving people.
WE, with out gallant allies Franco and "Poland, "are"fight ing things ovil-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 ba intolerable. We are fighting for the small peoples.
We are fighting for our own existence.
As has happened with others, we know our own turn would surely come if we, for a mo ment, ahnadoned our efforts.
We are fighting for a real peace, not a patched up pact which would leave Europe 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 atrocitics and in- humanities which have repelled and shocked mankind, and so that all people may dwell together in friendship and in peace.
There have never been for us and the world auch 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 struggio' will realise that wa cannot omit from our armoury any legitimate weapon,
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WE realise that the exercise of our dea power and the use of the economic weapon entail inconvenience and even at tímce hardship for neutral Statca.
We sincerely regret it, and we are doing our best to reduce it to a minimum.
But we feel that we are justl- fed in asking those who are affected to remember that we are not only fighting for our existence
a nation but also for the exis- tence of all those principles with- out which life would not be worth living.
We would urge them, when they fcel the inconvenience that necessarily imposed by wor on
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Russla bas nwallowed up a third of Poland. She has established an undisputed 'mastery over the Bal- Uc States, hitherio, regarded by Germany as an essential part of hier 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- man exiles from the Baltic States. It is not only that, but she lins seen the virtual dissolution of the anti- Comintern group which she had so laboriously bullt up.
WE MUST WIN!
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neutral States, to ponder also the alternative of the whole of Europe suffering the unspeakable horrors which are even now being perpe- trated on the unhappy Polish people.
There is, in fact, a gulf be. tween our own and Nazl concep- tions that cannot be bridged.
We belleve-and we have in the British Empire a great
and
big and small, should not only live
example that all nations,
peaceably side by side bui 'that they can and should all work to- gether for the advancement of the
common wel of International relit-
Our system
based upon the respect of
tions
rights and d sovereignty of other nit
tions, however small and however weak. Hitler's conception, as we have seen, is that the rights of 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- neased
how
without excuse or pause, ler has carefully planned und ruthlessly carried out his at- tacks on one small State after an- other, and then outraged and en- slaved them. They will rise agala.
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THERE is no possible doubt that the conditions in German- Occupied Poland are simply nbominable. 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
In occupied methods Poland Bince 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, for instance,, they decided to shoot thirty-five people, and uncy collected thirty-four victims,
then, finding they were short of one, went into a chemist's shop and seized the first person they
found.
They then realised that these methods would not avall them and lead nowhere, and they decided to decimate the natural lenders of the national movement-the Polish Government estimates the number already shot at 15,000.
There have, indeed, been cases of actual torture. Conditions in the concentration camps are appal- ling. Religion Is systematically persecuted. The crowning iniquity. in the words of the Vatican broad- cast, "lies in the cynical suppres- sion of all but the merest sugges- tion of religious worship in the lives of one of the most plous and devotional of the peoples of Europe."
IT is no wonder there is un- easiness in Germany to-day.
Prolonged repression and art dividuni privations also do not make for confidence and galety. Her deteriorating financial and economie position connot provoke anything but scrlouis concern amongst many of the German people
But there is another and more compelling cause of Germany's uneasy slate of mind. It lies in Germany's connection with Eo- viet Russia. The scale of their understanding is unknown out- side the Kremlin and the inner circles of
"Nazi party. the 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 sulls the books of Germany to break i IL
Not
There is another matter. even Ribbentrop would suggert that Germany has drawn any great advantage either political or ma- terial from this uneasy partner- ship.
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What about the material side, where Hitler and the Nazis ex- pected to recoup their political lossen? Here again there has been nothing but disappointment. Rus- sian transport dificulties
many serious, together with the anxious preoccupations of the Finnish war, must have greatly damaged uny hope that there may have been of Germany obtaining adequate sup- plies of oil and raw materials from Russin.
It is clear whether it is wide or narrow in its scope-the agree ment is an uncertain and doubtful bargain, based on nothing but what seemed to be a temporary political advantage,
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GRIN AND BEAR IT.
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Dinda rýhưa baiemal
"Friends of the bride will be seated on the right-friends of
the groom on the foft-neutrals, in the roar!"
WATCH ON BRITAIN'S COAST
BECAUSE Invasion of Bri
tain from the sea is not regarded by the British man- in-the-street ns-a serious pos- sibility, little is known of Britain's coastal defence bat- teries.
But these batteries not only exist they are a con- stant challenge to an invader and they form a vital part of the country's defences.
During the Inst war only ang. 'or two batteries on the east coust 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-dng the batteries they Barvo ate for the most part on the
coasts of their own native coun- ties.
At all times there has been a steady 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 releasca younger men for more active ner- vice.
THOUGH many veterana of the Inst war are included in the ranks, the standard of physical fitness required is high as the mon bave to be on duty in all weathers and also have the heavy. task of loading the guns.
The batteries are placed nt strategic points along Britain's coastline. They ara equipped
with close defence and counter bombardment guns.
Their com- bined strength had turned Britain into a fortress, safe from sea attack on its shores.
Monotony is the const watcher's greatest enemy, as the oppor tunity to bring the guns into play may never occur; but the coastal batteries are, nevertheless, a vital part of the home defences.
CAPTIONS: 1.—Observation and control
2.---Loading a gun.
post.
3One of the Linz .guns in action.
4--Watching results of shell
fire.
—A picture typifying the constant which that is belur kept at each of these Coastal Bat- teries.
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