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I found myself walking through the streets of Singapore, but there was a curious atmosphere about the place. It did not seem at all like the old Singapore I used to know. I had, a heavy, drugged feeling and for n moment I wonder ed whether the impression of not arise from strangeness did causes within me and not from changes without. But then I be- gan to notice things that were too unmistakable to be due to haliu- dindtion. "For Con
thing all the signs over shops and on office doors that used to be in English were in German now-words us long na snakes in thick, squat cursive-style lettering; for another there was a plague of swastikas over the city, on flags, on plaques, on armlets, which struck upon my eye with their sharp outlines. me incredulously.
I stured about
There were Chinese, Indians, and Malays as there had always been, but they seemed to have lost the carefree sir, that I remembered. They went about furtively, glancing often to left and right. They did not gather in groups to laugh and chat but walked in twos or threes and hurriedly as if they feared that they might be intercepted. Perhaps the police had something to do with it? There were many more police than I had ever seen but they were not the old Malny mata-matas and the Slichs. They had disappeared. In their place there were Euro- peans in brown uniforms and ail carrying automatic rifles with their Angers playing at the triggers. Their faces wore a frown.. From time to time other European and African soldiers In unfamiliar un!- forms marched pust in detachments carrying rifles. S. A, men, may bel One detachment had a band play- ing the "Horst Wessel Song” which broke weirdly across the muffled sounds of the city.
Impatient to learn the secret of the mystery I approached n middle- aged Chinese who looked like a businessman Intending to ask him to explain things to me, but when ho saw mo he edged away and I realized that he was anxious to avoid any contact with Europeans. Just then one-of- the European policemen in the strange uniform stepped up to me and speaking sharply in German asked me for my identity card. My German was rather rusty but I understood him and felt automatically in my pocket. To my surprise found card there with my photograph -on it and a mass of particulars concerning me and my movements and an inter- section of official
stamps. The policeman looked at it carefully and then handed it back to me with a curt nod. I saw him approach athers, Asiaties included, in the same way and then I realized that no one could be at lurge without an identity card.
world, homeless, and without the rights of citizens. In Great Britain alone there are more than 50,000 refugees from Ger- many or Austria, most of whom love their native country, yet desire its defeat in war. Their position has become even more difficult than before the outbreak of war, for they can neither return to their native land nor be certain that they will not be regarded-as-dangerous-enemy- ed-and-often-confused—but-there-
aliens in the country of their asylum.
To the authorities in Britain they presented a problem which demanded delicate handling, for it was obvious that many of these Germans might be useful to the Allied cause,, but among them were a few who might be agents of the enemy. A solution was found by the appointment of a larger number of tribunals which were instructed to deal as quietly as possible with the foreigners whose cases they examine, sending suspicious cases to internment camps, imposing mild restric- tions on others, and leaving the remainder free to do what they liked,
were
to
Of the 62,000 Germans or Austrians whose cases were reported on before January 15, only 120 were interned, 5,416 were placed in the second category, while 42,697 were released from all restrictions.
The last named are free to take up any occupation they like, and nearly 1,000 have actually joined the British fighting forces. It is one of the advantages possessed by the Allies that they have on their sido large numbers of well- informed and highly intelligent Germans who understand condi- tione".
In Germany and the paychology of the German people, and are now ready and anxious to put their knowledge at the disposal of Britain and France. In expelling Jews and making their country unsafe for other Germans who have dia- agreed with the regime, the Nazis have made a present to their opponents of some of Ger- many's beat intellects:
My experiences were disconnect-
were extremely clear and lucid in- tervals, more intense and disturb- ing then I can describe. I found myself at a book-stall looking for the
10
stery of what had happened Singapore. But I could find none of them. All the newspapers were in German and I picked up a "Singaporische Beobachter" paying
Mou
But
I it
Chinese, and Indian lawyers?"
He gazed at me in astonishment, I repeated by question and then he, seeing that I was genuinely ignorant and that we were alone, put his finger to his lips and said
whisper.
They
saw a reference teo to the Koenig- Marshal Goering Ten Year Plan of Self-Sufficiency for Malusian India (Good God, I thought, had they got the Netherlands Indies too!) my dizzy head failed to piece it all together to make complete.
in a senne. Juoking
for the
there vernacular press. Perhaps
should And a clue. I I asked Malay where I could get "Wartu Malaya."lid looked at
me suspi- clously for, a moment and then said, "Luma suda berkunj! tunni" It had been suppressed. Of course it had. There could be no room for a paper advocating Malayan na- tionalism. I asked for the "Sin Chew Jit Poh," the "Unton Times," the "Sin Kuo Min Jit Pol,"
Oi*
by- VICTOR
PURCELL
They had all disappeared. All 1 could get was a single sheet written in very bad Chinese which spoke of the duty of the Chinese to serve the Greater Germany, There was not a word in this paper-the Tai
Tak Kwok Yat Po or the t
the
the
Chinese Gazetto it was about
Sino-Japanese
War which I had seen from a smail item in
"Singaporische Beobachter" was still going on. Chinese nationalism, though, was referred to in a leading article us dangerous heresy which was adhered to only among the criminal classes of the Chinese In Malaysian 'India.
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13
My recollection, as I have said, discontinuous and imperfect,
but I do remember that I began to feel a little more resigned to this monstrous world though more curious than ever to know what had happened to the land I had lived in. I managed to talk to n number of the people who seemed dreadfully afraid of the police and would speak only when they were sure that they were unobserved. But I was able to piece together the things they told me and gain a general Impression of the shape of things that had come to pass.
There were no longer any Malay States or Malay rulers. They had been abolished. The Germans did not recognize the principle of pro- tectorates. The whole of Malaya
and the Netherlands Indies had
become a single German colony under A Governor-General In Singapore. The Legislative, Feder- al, and State Councils had gone. All the powers of government were Eastern
ern Branch vested in the Nazi Party, itself responsible to
use t
the
of the
the Nazi Party of Germany. Arising in Kelantan had boon ruthlessly suppressed and over 30,000 Malays had been killed. Education had been standardized under Nazi programme.
All the Malay, Chin Free
esc, and Indian schools 'had Presslar "Straits Times,"
or "Tribune,"
taken over by seeking no
the government. ment. doubt, for the solution of the my-
German was taught in all the schools but only so much as would. enable pupils to understand the commands of their overseers or to the tools of their trade. There were few middle schools in which, a higher standard was taught but these were merely factories for producing clerks and the text- books were full of the glories of Nazilam and the glories of the Aryan Race and the highest func- tion of the graduates, they said, was to serve their German masters without question. One Indian told me how he had been flogged for
being in possession of pamphlet of the illegal Congress Party.
it with a nickel five plenalg piece I found in my pocket. I edged away into a corner to look at it,
My German, sa I say, was rusty but I could get the gist of the news and the articles. (How grotesque the heavy black type looked against the well-known background Battery Road-Berchtesgadenstrasse was the name I caught sight of on a wall). I was astonished at the tone of the paper so different from the catholic outlook and interest of the old press of Singapore. A new struggle was to come, this time with America, it seemed, and
the paper was striving to leah up hatred of that country and of its people. The Americans, it appeared were trying to encircle the Great German Em- pire and to deny it its Lebensraum in the wide prairies of the Middle West, and, to deprive it of access to the cotton fields of Georgia and Carolina so essential for Greater German clothes and Greater Ger- man bombs. The US.A. was an cffete democracy controlled by Jows, negroes, and Chicago gangs- lers etc. all the old stuff but even more violent and rabid. There was some Malayan newa but I rend
strangely. A demonstra tion of Hitler Youth was to be held in Penang, i conscript labour battalion was to be reviewed on the Goeringplatz in
"Three hundred Chinopore.
for
onc
an
Here
#1
my recollection becomes vague again. The dull chloroformed feeling returned to me. The veil lifted for a second or two at
timo and I seemed to be travelling in a train. The carriage was labelled "Aryans Only" and I saw Asiatica being herded into trucks in another part of the train, I heard the guttural shouts of a German major who was swelling at
at the neck and cursing and cursing Asiatic offelal of some sort. It took
me back to Germany when I was a prisoner-of-war. When my recollection cleared I
I found
myself in surroundings that were again familiar. I I recognized the streets and the building of Kuala Lumpur. But it was a changed-on un- natural Kuala Lumpur. It seemed a city of condemned souls, a limbo of hopelessness. Petaling Street which had been so full of anima- tlon was like a Chinese cemetery on All Soul's Day. There were shell holes and bullet marks on the bulldings which could not explain. Gongs of coolics passed through the streets marching under overseers.. The overacers carried whips. There was П curfew at. dunk and the old bright lights of my time shone no more...
hundred and eighty Indians, and seventy Mainys had been sent to the concentration camps at Sego- mat, Kajang, and Pulau Jerejak crimes against the German state. I noticed, too, that a depart ment called the State Tin and Rubber Control seemed to own all the mines and estates and there were Agures showing the exports to Germany which absorbed, near- ly all the output. There was also an offelal notice by the Stadtsamt stating that workers who did not produce their quota or, who falled to put la an average of twelve hours a day for six days a week would be punished by being "de- prived of the ration cards. All
***Where are the Asiatics?” I naked food was rationed, 'I gathered. I him in English, "Where are the
Now, I was treading the stair- case of the old Supreme Court. A trial was going on. A German wal charged with listening-in to the American wireless. He was zen- tenced to six years penal servitude. But I could. see no Astalics any- where except the court ushers und
Wuchted for wilnessco. I met an
corridor
looking Indian in the
have been
abolished:
સ
you know that? Whero have you come from? I was a law- yor once with a big practice-under the English of course. Now Inm an interpreter on forty marks month. It is either that or the concentration camp at Kajin. But haven't you. rend 'Mein Kamp('7 Don't you know the passage about nutive lawyers and semi-apes?"
He smiled bitterly,
Is that 7" I'exclaimed. "But where are the courts for Asiatics?” They havo another court. Where the Magistrate's Courts used to be. But there is no code of law, no lawyers to argue. Everything is decided by the German magle- frate. The punishment is heavy fines or flogging-sometimes worsC. Even for trivial offences. The pricons and the camps are full. Life Is ghastly, Rations you can't live on. There is nothing you could buy in the shops if you had the money. The Ten Year Plan comes first and inst. But," he added gritting his teeth and a savage light coming into his eyes. "Their time will come. The Americans will blockade Malaya and we shall rise."
A policeman was coming along the corrider. My Indian friend turned quickly on his heel. Shapes become indistinct again, I felt I wanted to cry out like a man who was being suffocated and then, thank God, I woke up!
to
I
What a marvellous relief it was find myself in my bed, bathed though I was in a cold sweet. went to the verandah of the house in
which
I was staying and
there was the Union Jack still flying over Government House. A mata-mata was on his beat down below at the corner. I could sco the British worships in the harbour. Once again, Thank God! It had been nothing but a ghastly nightmare!
བལ་ ་ 6*ས
Now a few of you who have read my nightmare may be inclined to think that it is a mere fantasy full
of
exaggerations and stretchings of possibility. Mere propaganda fact. Now listen to this.
In
The Right Honourable L. S. Amery, one-time Secretary
of
of State for the Colonies, tells us that no special criminal code for natives of German colonies was ever worked out. In 1912 the Ger- man Reichstag Deputy, Dr. Mueller, said:
ad-
"Our civil and military adminis- tration of justice is simply indefen- sible....With regard to native justice and administration there exists an incredible uncertainty concerning the powers of the ministrative authoritics. One fudge uses the German Penal Code -without- further ado, another does- not use the Penal Code at all... In short our criminal proceedings are in a condition which, leaves the nativo entirely without rights."
In 1906.
Storz, had her Deputy, Herr
"Nothing shows the difference in the position as to the rights of na-
tives in German and English
colonies so much as the administra- tion of Justice; the Engilsh solemn, carnest, entirely hedged in by guarantees of justice; of the Ger- man courts everything wit
without form, and even if the intention to deal out justice be there....every- thing surrounded with the appear- ance of force and arbitrariness.
Herr Storz
orz went on to point out that whereas English District Com- missioners could decide only minor matters, German oficials without Judical training could decide on the life and death of natives sub- ject only to the confirmation of the Governor who would invariably go by his subordinate report.
on
Sir Hugh Clifford, afterwards, Coveror of the Straits Sellic. ments, in his official report Togoland says that the public was excluded from all German courts, overy case being practically tried In camera. German magistrates bound by no criminal code, were for less by any code of criminal procedure, in cases where natives were co
The only criminal concerned, code in force in Togoland was ex- pressly applicable to Europeans ex- clusively. In practice this meant that any native, no matter how in- nocent of an Intention to give offence or how, unconsciaus "he might be of having done so was liable to be fogged or otherwise punished by almost any German ofcia! whom he had the mistor tune to displease.
The statements of Deputies like Judge Rocren, Herr Bebel, and others in the Reichstag debates confirmed this, as well as the terri- ble severity of the punishment in- dicted. Deaths caused by floggings were frequent. Not only men, but women and children were lable. to flogging. One of the revolts in the Cameroons was caused by Deputy-Governor Kleist ordering the Dogging of twenty women, wiver of native soldiers, for belag Tave
The native soldiery and police, indeed, were gener given a dangerously privileged Position in order to attach their to their rulers. On the other hand the native chiefs themselves were continually,flogged...
Do not imagine that it was mere ly underlings who committed there
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11
Was
brutalities. The very head of the administration could be guilty. In 1007, sa the result of Relchatng protests, Dr. Karl Peters, then Im- perial Commissioner In German East Afelen, was brought before disciplinary court in Germany on a variety of counts. Evidence given of terrorism, plunder, the Blogging and chuining of women and children, forced concubinage, and murder. The most atrocious of his crimes was the hanging of a native youth, ostensibly. for
stealing cigarettes, really for visiting Peters's native
concubines. One of them had fled for prolection to a neighbouring chief, and was also hanged after having been flogged day after day until her back ro- sembled chopped ment, Peters" was dismitted the service-not for the crimes he had committed, but for giving_falso reports to hls superiors. Subsequently he was granted his pension, and a statue in his honour was erected nt Dar-es-Salaam. Herr Hitler hos described him as a model. It stern, administrator. *A model, if
stern, administrator'i
Under the government of Herr
པ་ von Puttkamer in the Cameroons, the Akwa chicts petitioned to the Reichstag in, 1005 against the ex- cessive flogging and ill-treatment of their people, and were promptly arrested and sentenced to long terms of
imprisonment for their
nudnelly (Have you ever heard of that
happening to Persons In Malaya who dared. to petition the Secretary of State?). The matter was taken up in the Reichstag, the sentenees on the chiefs quashed, and the wholo administration of the Colony inquired
ired into, with the result that the Governor was found. of administrative laxity," guilty fined £80, and retired.
And there are many other cakes which I
have no time to mention. In my nightmare I imagined
the suppression by the Nazis of a rising in Kelantan. Is this fancy or éxaggeration too? Listen,
In German South-West Africa there was a tribe of natives
called the Hercres.
It was the settled polley of the Germans to compel
them to work as hired labourers. upon the lands they had hereto- fore owned. To begin with they
were allotted enttle reserves. "These cattle reserves," wrote Herr Karl Dove, "are on obstacle To the economic development of the
country, for it is.
is without doubt owing to this reason
that so few of the Hereros enter the service of Europeans," while the Deutsche Sudwest-afrikanische Zeltung, the German South West Africa Times, stated that "the country must be inhabited
White by.
colonists.. Therefore the natives must dis
appear, or rather put themselves at the disposal of the whites, or re- tire into the reserves set apart for them."
In the end the government de- cided that they must disappear, and with characteristic German thoroughness set about nursing them to disappear. In the Herero Trotha deliberately
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polley of extirpation, driving the whole tribe into the Kalahari Do- sert. At the end-of-the-s
-struggle- only 15,000 Hereros were left out of a population of 80,000,
In 1905 the Maji-Mall-rising in East Africa led to the killing off: by the rifle and by starvation of 120,000 xatives.
Before General Von Trotha" be- gan
his cam
campaign at massacre he insos nation
DI proclamation,
Hereros
country. II
The
must leave the
the people do it not. I will compel them with the big tube. Within the country every Herero, with or without a riffe,. with
without cattle, will be
NOW
or
I
ruth-
have not been raking through the records to find facts: discreditable to the German
ad- ministration. No faking was re- quired. The instances of lessness and cruelty stand out in any account of the German colonization. In Africa. "It was. impossible in Africa to get ; on without cruelty." sald Herr Dove. All this was before the last war.. In those days there was some dé-. Humane. mocracy in Germany.
could men could criticize: questions
be asked by Deputies in the
Reichstag:: Germany was sensitive. to world
Since opinion
then. Blood and Iron have come back. into their
The Nazis make- own It plolu beyond all doubt that the only business of colonies is to serve: the arbitrary, will of the ruling: race. The following words of Hit
- Jer have been quoted by His Ex--
the cellency
Governor. They cannot too often be brought to the notice of those who might forget the Nazi gospel and the intention of the Nazis if they were victori ous,
It. Is
a
"One hears from time to time,” says Herr Hitler in "Mein KampfTM- "that a negro has become a law-. yer, teacher, tenor or tho like, This is a sin against all reason.. in criminal Junacy to train born zeml-ape to become a lawyer. sin against the Eternal Creator to train Hottentots and Kafirs' to intellectunt professions."
And wo need not imagine that Herr Hiller, regards Asiaties in a much more favourable light than he does negroes. All who are not.
the Superior Race, are in- Aryans, ferior, and all who are not Euro- prans, even if not semi-apes, are no more than sub-men, We Hirer niced have no doubt as to what would happen to Malaya under Nazi tule. The Fuchrer's scholarship is-com- fined to the study of invective chicanery, and the use of trowel PLEASE Tum To Pago 4.