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that of the depot troops"; can- any civilised nation what it under teens must be installed in the for. To-day there are 64 different countries with national Red Cross camps where prisoners can buy societies. food and other articles at local
Focul point of the work of all there markot prices; prisoners must societies is the International Com-
mitteo at Geneva, slaffed and ap be medically inspected at least pointed solely by the Swiss, since It once a month, and so on.
is supposed that, whatever wars devastate the world, Switzerland is How these conditions are the roost likely of all States to remain. observed and applied depend, of neutral.
When war is "declared" thla com- ment concerned-and the camp mittee immediately have the right. commandant.
and duty, by international convention, of appointing delegates to visit pri- NY day now you might Crors in Great Britain is està-
But I can assure relatives of soner-of-war camps, and to do every- prisoners in Germany to this thing possible to alleviate the lot of Chamberlain, at St. James's extent. I have read the most the prisoners in them. Palace, London, and wonderful recent reports of the Red Cross So the committee have appointed work it is doing for our men in delegate to Germany who has permanent delegates to Great Britain, Germany.
visited many camps and he finds France, and Germany. But not to
or Finland. Russi
That is no cause for serious complaint. cruelty due to Stalin; because Russia has not officially declared" war on Finland, only made it, and so the not international convention dock
ANY friend of yours has been captured as a prisoner of war or has been interned in Germany as those 300 men in the Altmark were to have been if the Navy hadn't step- ped in.
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As soon as the name of a prisoner Is received he is sent a Officers Are Paid parcel of warm clothing, boots,
PRISONERS of war may apply. shoes, etc., measurements being
not at present be sent
Delegate to Great Britain is tall. obtained from his relatives. money from home, but by the 50-years-old Rodolfe Haccius, on You will want to know how Special parcels of medical com- international convention officer engineer by profession, who speaks that friend of yours will be
forts are sent to all prisoners prisoners are paid by the Gor- good English and has had long ex- treated; how you can get in known to be ill or wounded. ernment which Imprisons them perience of this kind of work.
"the same pay as officers of cor- To France goes Edouard Frick, and touch with him; who is supreme-
And also how welcome this responding rank in the armed to Germany Marcel Junod, Doctor of Stubbs Road. ly responsible for his well-being.
The answer is: the International must be twice every week to forces of that Government, pro- Medicine, who, in a similar capacity,
Spain. every prisoner a 10lb. parcel con. vided that such pay does not gained experience in Abyssinia and Red Cross Committee.
A Useful Threat The committee, whose head-taining tinned foods such as exceed that to which they are beef, ham, brawn, margarine, entitled in the armed forces of
All these delegates may, and do, quarters are at Geneva, are res herrings, puddings, and bread, the country in whose service
visit any prison camp they like, talk. well soap and other they have been."
to any prisoners privately, and make The appropriate amounts are the most rigorous inquiries into con- the welfare of all prisoners of necessities is sent.
Incidentally, there is a curious now being regularly paid, appar- ditions.
They cannot enforce improvements, but they may ask for them. And they In each capital city the Red little sidelight on life in this, ently, both here and in Germany.
Other ranks of prisoners re- make reports on what they find, which English prisoners in Germany Cress Committee delegate sets find supplies of bread from home ceive no, pay in their prison are circulated promptly to all the indicate news which is strictly copyright up a central organisation for most welcome. And German camps, except for work done, Governments concerned. cations Ordinance, 1936, fuch nows supervision and relief work. To prisoners here particularly ask which should be at the rate of
brend from Germany, about one shilling a day.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.ponsible for the supervision of as
Thursday, April 18, 1940. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20015
THE Frenx "Bncial to the Telegraph
Is used by the "Hongkong Telegraph” to
under the provisions of the Telecommuni
bears the indicatða “UP” is received in
war.
Hongkong on the date of publication by this the names of all prisoners for
the "Unlied Press Associations, who re-
the lights and forbid republicadon, captured, or internees, must be Neither likes the bread of the arrangemency or in part without previous reported with the least possible other country.
"Assurance Of Victory"
should feel assured of
delay, with their place of im- prisonment.
These names and details are It is only natural that the Allies flashed on to Geneva, and from victory in there they are redistributed to their struggle against Nazi aggres-relatives of the prisoners in
As is often emphasized, they their own countries. have behind them the combined Holding Up Names
slon.
resources of the two greatest cupires
HER we have
These reports are the ultimate safe guards of the prisoners, for they em body the threat of "as you do so Finally, what are the chances shall you be done by," and bad! of repatriation?
treatment meted out by one belliger ent to its prisoners can be matched All these parcels go through
For civilian Internces in Germany by the other. Belgium, are carried post free in
there is some hope. Latest Red both directions, and are when Cross reports show that there are coming from the Red Cross about 100 British subjects so internee (about 2,000 being still at large, with, The German restricted liberty). immune from Customs search,
In
vals internees from this country.
There is satisfactory evidence Government are sending small batch- that they are at present being es of these internees home at inter- exchange for German regularly received by prisoners in Germany, the time taken in one transit being about eight days. strong complaint sion in a variety of ways, not all or "gainst the Germans. There is soners in Germany cannot send for repatriation of sailors, soldiers,
gross delay in the disclosure of which have passed unquestioned in names. They have been keeping the Allied countries themselves. In names back to dole them out on
in the world and control of the sc;13.
This assurance has found expres-
For other prisoners the likelihood of returning home before the end of Relatives in England of pri- the war is very remote. Provision and airmen is only made for those them parcels of food individually seriously ill or so wounded as to be (as you will see, it is not neces- quite unfit ever for future armed sary), but once every three service,
France, for instance, there has been the wireless. Just a typical months the next of kin can, Their cases аге considered by Government piece of Nazi brutality, against through the Red Cross, send a medical commission in each country,
some criticism of a
to war loans, which shows on u map
neutral members.
Montague Smith
TRUTH MUST OUT
a straw indicates the direction of the wind so smali happenings
poster asking the public to subscribe which the Red Cross Committee "personal parcel consisting of consisting of one member apponited As the old proverb tells us that
such things as knitted goods, by the detaining Power and two chocolate, and tobacco.
If the verdict of this commission is in Germany show the difficultler. There can also be sent at all favourable then once again the in-under which the German popula-- times books and games direct ternational Red Cross Committee tion is living. from shops which hold a permit perform their duty of mercy. They
of the world he vast areas included
are protesting.
The Prisoners of War Depart- in the French and British empiresment of the International Red contrasted with the small space occupied by Germany, and accom- GALLUP SURVEY panied by the words: "We win, because we are stronger."
shall
HAW-HAW HAS A BIG
AUDIENCE
MANY new listeners in Ent- land have. turned-in to foreign broadcasts during the past two months.
In Britain, pamphlet entitled "Assurance of Victory" issued by the Ministry of Information a short, lime ngo, has also been the object of wide- spread criticism in the English press. Its striking presentation of material intended to prove that Britain and France possess overwhelming super- iorily in the military, naval, air, and econonile Пelds, has aroused protesta from those who feel thai this sort of propoganda is more kely to lead to
2 57 per perilous complacency than to that cent. answered-"Yes" to the question
Gallup This is shown by a survey recently taken by the Institute of Pubile British
Opinion. Whereus on December
quietly watchful confidence which is "Do you
wartime.
ever happen to
The questions and the
are:
to send printed matter abroad. "bring them home --- Relatives and friends can write
to prisoners as often as they
like; all correspondence is post
free.
Why Switzerland ?
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YOU wonder why this most trumnne work is conducted from Switzerland?
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British prisoners of war in
In 1803 a conference was held in Germany are at present permit Geneva to establish the formation in ted to send per month: Officers every country of a body to be called and civilians: Three letters and "The Red Cross," the iden having
Swiss!. four postcards; other ranks: two originated in the mind of
philanthropist, Henri Dunant, who and four respectively.
was appalled by the condition of the Now what about the conditions wounded he saw at the battle of Solferino, between the Austrians and in which prisoners live? Inter- French and Italian troops, in 1859, national law says "the food
The emblem of the Red Cross is ration of prisoners shall be equi- the Swiss flag with the colours re- valent in quantity and quality to versed, and there is no need to tell
By
listen to
GRIN AND BEAR IT
162
had
answers
"Do you ever happen to listen to foreign stations?".
"If yes, which Was the one you heard?"
lost
a desirable part of public morale in foreign stations?" in a survey com- pleted early last month 65 per cent. There is, however, another alde of answered "Yes" to the same question, In the curller survey 62 per cent. the Ministry of Information's pam-
to Hamburg 011 phlet and the French Government's had last listened
In the other German stations. poster which is open to question. This is their failure to emphasize the second survey this percentage fact that for the great majority of risen to 77. people In France and Britain, and perhaps outside these countries os. well, assurance of victory for the Allies rests not alone on military and naval strength and economic re- sources, but at least equally on their faith in the rightness of their cause. No doubt it is true that many Ger- mans are deeply and sincerely per- suaded that in this conflict right is on their side. But between these two convictions there is a vital difference. The people of France and Britain are free to hear and to read both sides of the case. They may if they like listen to German propaganda broad- now casts such as those of the notorious "Lond Haw-Haw." In striking contrast to this Germans are strictly forbidden to listen to foreign radio programmes.
In France and Dritain, Government and people share a confidence in the righteousness of their cause so solld that there is little apprehension that any amount of Nazi propaganda could shako it. Furthermore, accompany- ing this conviction is n deep-seated faith that right is might and will pre- vail.
-
95% 35%
LISTENING sakl Bak STATIONS
Yes
No
Hamburg, Berlin, Zeesen,
etc. Paris Rome
77%
4%
4%
Moscow
20%
Schenectady
2%
Hilversum
25%
Athlone
250
Miscellaneous
7%
"Lord Haw-How" Is the chief broadcaster in English from the German stations,
of Public [The British Institute
Opinion is an entirely independent fact-finding organisation which samples the views of the public by personal interviews, with a care- fully balanced cross-section of the whole population, reprezentative of all shades of public opinion.]
To get the real story of life:
in Germany-to-day one has only ---- to turn to the advertisementa in the German daily press.
Dr. Goebbels has placed news- papers under strict control and all Items are rigorously suppressed which seem likely to give away any information of value to the Allies, or which present other than a rosy picture of the war for the consump- tion of the German publie.
But the German Propaganda. Minister has overlooked one point the tell-tole advertisements from the bigger stores. Goods are not being advertised for the simple ren- son that they are non-existent in so far as the public is concerned and what are there are rationed so strictly that advertising would be
useless expenditure of money. Their place now taken by an entirely new type of personal nd-
Lichty Sertisement,
Lichter
1/3
"But I don't want one with a good "trade-in' valua!”
papers
Not merely in little local news-
but
In the great national. dailles there appears new columt. the head arter
Ricans
of classified advertisements under
of "Tausch". which: Tausch began. as a small column, but it is rapidly becoming a page-and a dally page. at that.
no
for ther These advertisements most part, express a desire to ex- change goods for food and clothing.
-two vital needs that can longer be satisfied in the shops. Pictures and furniture alike are often offered for food und clothing.- but the only certain way to obtain. food is to offer versa. Sugar,
clothing and vice fats, sony will quick-
ly procure an outnt.
tain
1s
But, along with this desire to ob-
the something for
present, there
01: going
ai the struggle to obtain same time something for the future. Those who ha
have
пре
anxious which may, in
money
to turn it into goods, which
the future prove of value to thom. At the back of the German mind is the lurking fear of inflation. are afraid that the paper marke Hiller may go the way of the paper macks In 1010. If this should happen, money would be useless: but with an extra pair of boots, or a hundredweight of coat a mon might be able to barlar his way to some degree of comfort.
All this point not only to Ger man lack of confidence in victory, but to the extent to which the nu- thorities are draining the resources- of the country in order to manufac➡. ture guns: nnd ammunition generally: