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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
April 29, 1940.
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By the Rt. Hon. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN GRIN AND BEAR IT "WE MUST RISK OUR BLOOD
AND OUR TREASURES"
ONCE again, as 25 years ago,
the historic buildings and the ancient streets of Britain are looking upon the faces of the King's subjects who have come hero from all parts of the world of their own free will, far away from their homes and their families, to take their part side by side. with us in the great struggle that is before us
has
Their presence here and the profound conviction of the necessity of putting an end to the German policy of constant aggression which alone could have induced them to under- take such sacrifices brought to the aid of the Allies not only a most wel come addition to their fighting strength, but what is perhaps even more valuable the moral support of their unanimous approval of our cause.
This year, which will probably be a inteful one in the history of the world, has opened quietly, but
it is the quiet of the calm before
the storm. We are at war.
It is only on the sea thint the war may be said to be in full operation, and is on the sea that we can discern most clearly the trend of hostilities in the first four months of war.
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IF we take a survey, 1 think we shall find that the result is not unsatisfactory.
The oceans of the world have been swept clear of German shipping. The German Fleet, which at the beginning of the war was less than a quarter of our own, has lost, by capture, by sinking. and above all by scuttling, 220,000 tons, and the rest of it is either bottled up in foreign ports or it is confined to the Ballie.
In this period, we have last two large warships, the Royal Oak and the Courageous, and a certain nuni- ber of smaller vessels.
What is much more serious, more painful, is that we have also lost a number of valuable lives in the Royal Navy, In the Mercantile
Navy.
in unarmed and defenceless commercial vessels; and yet, our comezand of the sea is unimpaired, and the defeat of the Graf Spee in one of the finest näval Dil
actions" all our history, followed by her
self-destruction, rather than face renewal of the fight, has not only cleared the South Atlantic of that raider, but has inflicted Irreparable damage upon German naval pres- tige throughout the world.
Meantime, inexorable pressure of sen power acting upon the enemy is producing-ever-increasing dikul- tles for her whole economy and for her ability to carry on the war,
Germany used, her brute force upon unhappy Poland, and to-day we can see how she is treating the Poles and the Czechs exploiting their resources, carrying off their
starving and shooting the ople, tearing and uprooting them from their homes to make way for Germans who, in their turni, have been forced to leave the lands where they and their families have been settled for generations!
NEARLY a year ago, speaking in warned the House of Commoris,
the country that it was the inter- tion of the Government, on the out- break of a ninjor war, that direct taxes, already so heavy as to con- stitute conscription of wealth, would be still further increased,
That
Prediction
was fulauled when my heavy-handed 'friend and colleague, last September placed bis little finger upon the shoulder of the income-tax payer,
Already, the wealthier classes have suffered a very heavy reduc, 1lon in their income, and we have left them mighty little prospect of being able to increase it again.
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I don't say that we have come to the end of our demands upon them. but I do say that their standards of living have necessarily already been notably reduced; and, any- how, it is not possible for them alone to solve the problem of how to reduce consumption of
two- because necessary articles, thirds of the consumption of the of this country is by, those people who only have small incomes: and, therefore, I say that it is necessary that they too, should make their sacrifice as ls' done, not only in totalitarian Germany, but also in the great democracy, of France.
I do not mean to imply by that that there must be no lucrense of wages, but I do say that it would.
be mistake to tie up wages to the cost of living, which in the end could benet no one, because it could only give a violent impetus to the viclous spiral of alternutoly rising prices and wages, and that is thing that all of us want to avoid.
WHAT are we to do to win and, if possible, to shorten this war? We must save, we must control im-. ports, we must do without com- inodities that are not necessary, we must, if required, ratlon them so that all may share and chare alike.
In these times of war I cannot guarantee--no one can guarantee- that the sacrifices of all are going to be equal.
It is becoming increasingly cleur that the German Government lias long planned the 'successive stages of a programme of conquest, and that its appeilte grows by what it feeds upon-
TO-DAY the members of that Government do not hesitate to say that they desire to achieve the ruin of the British Empire, and no doubt they would rejoice if they could treat us as they are treating the vletims already within their grip. We on our side have no such vindictive designs.
But on the other hand, the Ger- ian people must realise that the responsibility for the prolongation of this war, and all the suffering that it may bring in the coming yeur, is thet's, as well as that of the tyrants whe stand over them.
They must realise that the desire of the Allies for a social, huhan, just Christian settlement cannot be satisfied by assurances which ex- perience has proved to be with- less.
The methods that are puraued by the Government of Hitler standing rent, to the independence
are; a
of every sin11 State in Europe. They are a constant menace to the moral standards on which the whole of Western élyilisation is founded.
Nowhere have they aroused greater delestation than throughout the continents of North and South America,
In his recent message to the Pope the President of the United States. declared that only by the friendly association of the seekers of light and the seekers of peace every- where can the forces of evil be
overcome.
profoundly agree. But I would add that, if the forces of right are to prevall, we must not hesitate to risk our blood and our treasure for
great
on end. Against such a that, the powers of wickedness will fight in vain, and can await the future with unshaken confidence in the strength of our arms and In the righteousness of our cause."
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By Lichty
His office looks like it ain't been slept in for soma tima!"
Strange Places
HAVE just spent a few Mr. happy hours with Ross. Leonard Q. Ross-you may know him,
He is hot from New York full of the fun he has picked up there. It seems he has been doing the sights as if he were a stranger to the place.
Which he isn't. He knows it as well as you and I think we know Hongkong.
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If you don't know Mr. Ross I'll Introduce you. But just let pass on what he told me after his Grand Tour of New York.
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THERE was, for instance, the conversation between two actors which he overheard in the Cafe
York's forum Royal, New Jewish art. They were obviously discussing, in their colourful way, a new production:
It stinks."
"Why steenks, all of a sodden!" It's foist cluss directed no?" - "Short and sveet-it stinks."
"You making me sick!"
"All right, so it don't stink. It's only got in smell, you should pod- den me, it vould kill a hox."
"Ita, ha, ha, hul Pleeze, Veln- traub. Honist to Goll, you killink me. So how did
like the you performance?"
"You were movvetous!" "Vell, 1 wasn't exactly, mu- velous, though it's nice you should
NEW GRAMOPHONE RECORDS
Schubert and Sibelius
THE recent recording of
Sibelius's Fifth Symphony, mado for 1.M.V. by the Boston Symphony Orchestra Serge Koussovitzky, under takes one back in memory to 1915.
In that year the great Finnish composer's fiftieth anniversary was celebrated as a national event and it was then that the symphony was heard for the first time. At once, the report runs, it seemed a much gayer work than had been usual with Sibelius. Men prophesied that it would even become popular.
Now 25 years having passed, It remains admittedly, the most. In- stantly attractive of Sibellus's sym phonies and one of the most direct in its appeal. Popular it will never be. That word may be used for "Finlandia" and the Valec Triste, not for the Fifth.
For with all its apparent high spirite and the lightness of much of its texture there surrounds it'an atmosphere too keen for what mid- Europeans consider gaiety; while
who the southern races,
seldom take kindly to Sibelius's music, would call it ice-cold. Manifestly it iz determined and forceful music, There is nothing pretty about L
Whether the cause be the American style of recording or
Koussevitzky's Interpretation, this record seems to me unduly square- cul The playing is efficient, but Iacks vitality. There is a sense of: earnest endeavour as though a duty were being performed. Behind the interpretation there la understand- ing, but the head more than the heart is in control. American studio "conditions tend to hörden the quality of the tone and, that is, probably responsible for what: seems the unsympathetic character of this performance.
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Turning to the record Schubert's C minor Symphony called the "Tragle," made for the same firm' by the New York Phil- harmonic Orchestra under John Barbiroli, is like going from wh ter to spring.
manner.
By contrast with Sibellus's Fifth the Schubert work in the reverse of tragle. That"descriptive Inbel hug always been incomprehensible, but in this connection it becomes mean- Ingless. This record, expressively played and interpreted in which does justice to the 'work's fine proportions, is for discriminat- ing listeners. It is worth careful, hearing, if only for the slow move- ment, a splendid piece of melodious writing, equal to the finest that even Schubert created.
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say so. Tolrday night you shoukia see me. Tolstoy I was norvelous.“
AND sullen,
Herman Tegr,
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though colourful a leading Cafe
Royal Agure, who said to Ross suddenly:
"Why no nsk how long I am?" "How long are you?" I asked. "Tvunty-nine years some place!! he cried.
That (sald Mr. Ross, with feel- ing) will give you a rough idea of what our conversation was like.
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ANOTHER time Mr. Ross found himself in
Fathers-to-be- the Waiting Room of a maternity hos- must have got, pital (how he
literature, The strange around). the figments of tortured Imagina tion which
found in he "fathers' Bonk," a thoughtfully pro- vided volume, in which these tor- mented souls are asked to write their thoughts while waiting Out of Mr. Ross's vast collection I particularly liked these:
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STAFF OF THIS JOINT One thing burna me up!" To be treated like a pup.
Listen, all you Docs and Nurses Prancing in your siift white
shirties,
You shouldn't have a thing to do If guys like me didn't break the path for you!
So don't treat me quite so, gruff, Or ne'er again will I do my stuff!
THEN WHERE WILL YOU BE? I'm damu mad,
Jack P.
(I think you'll have to admit commented Mr. Ross-ilat Jack had the docs and nurses there, hands down.).
YEA, TEAM!
Baby! Baby! Do your stuff!
16 hours is enough!
Be you gigolo,
Be you vamp.
Get moving, you little seamp! ROSALIE 'A. The music goes round and round. The doctors go round and round. The nurses go round and round. The bills go round and round, and round The husbands. Ko round.
round The mothers go
and round.
Does Baby go round and round? What is the meaning of it all?
'INQUILLING MIND.
THEN, finally, we had the price- Jess letter sent by the famous Mr. Baracy, "Napoleon of the Men's Clothing Trade," to a furniture: dealer, who wanted a new coat for one he had bought a year before. because, moths had eaten it:
Dear Mr. Furniture Mon,- When you can sell beds guaranteed to keep out bugs, I will sell coats guaranteed to keep out moths.. Respectfully, MR.
he ***Then, ndded:
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ARRE,
PS-Your complaint is actually a compliment... Moths have very delicate teeth. They eat only the Ariest, oftest woollens. That shows you the kind of coat you had.
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WELL, that's Mr. Ross. You enn meet him, too, if you like. Just get his new books. The Strangest Places (Constable, 7e. sd.). You'll find it excellent com- pany for the black- Tout, or (n) was my luck) the sick bed.
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Brain-teasers
1. See if you can draw 'four straight lines that will pass through the nine dola.without lift- ing your pencil from the paper. No line must be travelled over twice.
ANSWERS TO THE FOL- LOWING TEASERS WILL BE FOUND, UPSIDE DOWN DE- LOW.
2. Which is the larger of the following paper sizes, Foolscop or Small post?
3. There
three are Brothers, Grouche, Harpo
Marx and
Chico. Can you remember the name of the other one who used to be in this act?
4: Who married "Lorna Doone" 5. Here are five planets, Saturn, Uranus, Jupiter, Pluto and Mer- Can you name the remain- cury. ing four?
6. Which is the lightest in box- ing weights, bantam, fly-weight or feather?
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7. Which of the following are spirits:
(a) Kummel, (b) Vodka, (c) Rum, (d) Caracoa, (c) Sack,
8. Nome the M.P. who is advo- eating sex education for women in National Service?
9. Is it true to say that Venus was the Greek goddess of love?
10. Who wrote the classic Irish play "The Plough and the Stars"?
* Llani O'Flaherty, ''(b)` (a) Eugene
O'Nelli,
Sean (4) O'Casey; (d) W. B. Yeats, (e) Padrale Colum
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"And a woman is only a
but n good elgar
woman,
smoke." Who said this?
is it
12. Who played the lead in the original version of Noel Coward's "Bitter Sweet"?
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