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AMMAN.
HE Transjordan coun- try, of which this town
is the capital, is not
technically at war with Ger-
By Philip Jordan
News Chronicle Special Correspondent:
In The Middle East
regularly besieged 1 day by Arabs of every imaginablé tribe anxious to enlist in hie force,
Its gtiorilla daya, of course, aromover: it is now a highly disciplined and well paid force,
many, but, like Egypt, is in armoured cars. In these cars, of black goats, from five hundred whose silver-spiked khaki: hel- what is called "a state of some of which were used by feet no bigger than blackbeetles, mets are as famous throughout siege,"
Lawrence in the last war (and scamper in flight as the shadow the country, as Major Glubb This means that should its in- their Rolls-Royce engines, 80 of the plane blots out the sun himself.
As Lawrence was, Glubb -tegrity at any moment be-threat mon say, are as good to-day as from worlds as impressive and. ened by the enemies of Britain they were a quarter century as terrible and as lovely as Pasha is known from one end of and France it will go to war, ago), you can still do a comfort Lawrence, wrote about.
the Arab world to the othot and Threo forces which in normal able 70 m.p.h. The R.A.F. patrol Rising from this primrose those who are best able to judge times have played their part in their sections of the desert and floor, hundreds of shining scarlet claim that his knowledge of this policing the country are now should aggression over break boulders each of more than 1,500 world and his influence in it, are ready to maintain this integrity, upon this semi-autonomous feet high with their flanks as greater than Lawrence man- Two of them-the RAF and country, they are so strategically smooth and perpendicular as aged to attain. Tranejordan Frontier Force placed that they could get to though they were once no mora Third but far from least of the are the Imperial Forces sustain- almost any likely place in time solid than cheese cut through forces in this country is the ed for the most part by the to be of use.
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more than 100 feet to irrigate a Although by far the greater suromit of an escarpment do- At Akaba, where the desert little patch of fertile ground percentage of its ranks is drawn minating this ancient city, con- rushes down to the pure
cool below.
from Arab tribes and from fair- cerns itself with internal policing waters of the Gulf of Sinai, there Close to its entrance, no bigger haired Circassians who inhabit. whenever called upon to do so is an R.A.F. rest camp, to which it seems than a doll's house, is the northern parts of this coun and with frontier reconnais- tired men are sent from Ma'an sance, and should circumstance and Amman for ten days fish- one of the frontier stations of try, there are Germans, Poles
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astrakhan ever demand it will also perform ing, sailing, bathing and an occa- This body of men could fairly hatted ranks. its normal war-time functions.
sional open-air cinema beneath
It is the most difficult force in Under its ubiquitous wings the tremendous stars, each one be described as the lincal des- lies one of the most difficult of which seems as bright as the Cendants of the Arab Force the world for an officer to enter which Lawrence managed to and until the war there was a
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Hongkong Telegraph.
Tuesday, May 28, 1940.
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Telephone: 26015
THE prenx "Special to the Telegraph is used by the Hongkong Telegraph, to indicate news which is strictly copyright tinder the provisions of the TelecomAYITEN]=" cations Ordinance, 1978. Fuch sew as bears the indication “Use: in ressived in Hongkong on the fate of publication by the Valled Proce Associations, who_16- serve all rights and forbid republication, elther wholly or in part without previous arrangement
Hon. Mr. Dodwell
and the Press
countries in the world, as I was moon at home.
officers are
able to see from the tail seat of To approach Wadi Rumm forge into a disciplined guerilla waiting-list of applicants. All a bombing plane that flew me aeroplanes, flying between the army capable of inflicting con- senior T.J.F.F. from end to end and from side foothills of high and barren siderable material damage on British, and all but a few are to side of this incomparably his- ranges, wind up the ancient the enemy without much danger hand-picked from regiments of toric territory.
track that leads to it from the to itself. Beyond this now green sea. plateau, whose rich fields and orchard-strewn valleys, nourish the whole country, lie deserts moro fantastic and savage than the whole of the rest of the earth can show.
RANGE upon scrried
range of huge moun- tains, upon whose lacerated flanks there is no life from one century to the next, stalk east- The letter which appeared in a wards from the Dead Sea like recent issue of the South China dusty heaps of brown paper, Morning Post over the signature of petrified' with age until they the Hon-Mr-Stanley-Dodwell, calls tumble into a great-flint plain for reply on the part of The Hong-through which trundles the old kong Telegraph, inasmuch as It single-track Hejaz railway that attacked this newspaper for its Lawrence and his Arabs took method of presenting and placarding such delight in blowing up.
the
news. No specific headline, Somewhere within the jaws poster or news item was given by of these great ranges lie two of
an example, but
Mr. Dodwell
as
the British Army, from which they are seconded for four years at least. They wear a startling TO-DAY it is command- uniform calculated to increase ed by Major Glubb, their prestige in a country GRADUALLY the
desert fades away. whose office, adorned with the whose people are deeply im The valley, which is yellow-famous coloured print of Napo- pressed by a display of anything. like lichen, becomes wider, herds leon as the First Consul, is PLEASE Turn To Page 9,
BRITAIN HAS ALWAYS FOUGHT
EUROPE'S AMBITIOUS DESPOTS
Unchanging Policy of Support for
Weaker Powers
merely the bald statement that it is the strangest sights man can stand for the defence of freedom
ace: "Rose red" Petra, the inadvisable to headline and placard oldest city in the world, and and the destruction of Hitlerlam and
wo
first
referred
in the
Was
threat
By H. C. BAILEY
came
n
the
WAS
was the place for it and that ther England would Intervene. A young more than 200 years later, British omeer, fresh from India, Aribur
the the news
-GEN, SMUTS, all it implict.
heard adopted manner
prophecy. Wadi-Rumm, which Lawrence
arms restored Spain's independence. Wellesley,
Years afterwards horelated it... In. by this newspaper(might~~be added, by the majority of reputable declared to be the most awesome NEMIES of England from century Victory Over Napoleon Paris, having acen it fulfilled, having newspapers in the world). In his and impressive of all Nature's E to century have tried to persuade In the 17th century Spanish power led the Britian army which delivered The Spain and destroyed, as Napoleon letter to our morning contemporary. works. "When we came to that the world that there is no consistency no longer menaced aggression.
the French himself admilled, from
Napoleonic Mr. Dodwell stated, inter alia place we could not even talk," he in her policy.
Louis XIV's ambition domination, "While I agree that we do not want said.
Philip of Spain and the Kaiser, monarchy
Some half-century later a Britisk to bury our heads in the
in the sand and
When he en- Government was working heartily. have the bad news
Petra for so many centuries Napoleon and Bismarck complained was hardly checked from conquering suppressed. I
and blustered, as Herr Hitler does the Low Countries. consider it extremely inadvisable to hidden from the outside world now, that English statesmen would deavoured to secure all the posses- with France and Napoleon's nephew headline and
and placard it in the way behind its narrow entrance no1 be grateful to their real friends sions of the Spanish throne us an to free Italy from Austrian rule and
clained it has been done in the past, more through high cliffe, is almost as but continually changed their course, appanage of his own dynasty ho, in petty alien despots and establish it
to be master of ns nations St
State. Palmerston particularly by Th Hongkong
saw Cavour and told him that he graph." In completely disagreeing, familiar to the R.A.F. as Hyde, making fresh allies and meddling his fun,
with what was never expected to be Europe and its colonies.
Then
the war of the Spanish Suc- might
say to the Emperor (Napoleon their concern. say without hesitation that neither Park is to London. headlines nor posters have, nor could' Beyond Petra in the midde-of None are no blind as those who do cession any a
It is the most with Britishuropean coalition. III.] that for every step he might be troops and feels and ready to take in Italian maire he have, exaggerated the gravity of the the plain lies Ma'an, where the not choose to see.
its strongest would
ele
probably And us ready to take aly had no cause half Italy news of the last few weeks. The R.A.F. keep a amall landing obvious fact of the history of Europe British
against the aggressor, one and a Telegraph has yet to leam that it is the wish of His Majesty the King, or ground and permanent patrol of through the last four hundred years ment, arrayed age
that British
ish power has in the great The genius of Marlborough brought to complain of the way in which the the treaty settlement promise was kept. Palmerston re- his Ministers, that the newspaper, ut
crises the destiny of civilisation victory,
Austria had. Home, or in any part of the Empire, for it to make any show to establish been exerted to the utmost against made Europe safe from any danger solutely declined to recognise that any right to govern the of Bourbon domination. should endeavour to minimise the its bona fides, even although un- the rulers of States with which we
What our country under William Italian
affar." So by the help of seriousness of the present altuation: warranted aspersions have been cast had been, and sometimes came again
and Britain Italy From other sources, we have received | against it. The naked truth is that to be, in firm and cordial alliance, III, and Marlborough then fought in People or Prussia to "interfere only, two complaints that the placards the news has been alarming. But not less clear is it, if the reasons for was summed up by the omnis-France
liberated. have been alarming or untrue, The especially to those with relatives at are examined, that in every one of cient Acton more than 30 years ago
ring There followed the age of Bl- to the heading "Channel Home, and in the countries now being these major conficts we were fight in words which have the very marck and the rise of that GemGOT
of our resolution to-day. They Paris in Danger," and it was asserted ravaged. The news, however, cannot ing for the same cause and on the strove, he wrote, "against wilful at Empire which he built up with blood that this was calculated to create un- be modified to suit the temperamen-rame side.
tack and the reign of force. That and Iron till by the same means it easiness, or even panic in the public talily of those who plead that it
Defeat Of The Armada good cause defeated, the security of fell. The attack on Denmark, the mind. The fact was at the time, should be presented in u temperate
rights and international overthrow of Austria, the defeat of that cables from authentic sources manner. It cannot be modified. To The guiding principle of British national
end. The France in 1870 were watched without indicated that German mechanised make any efforts to evade ar minimise polley was the same when the conventions was at an
Armada
launched Prime Minister might have used the anxiety by most of our statesmen. forces were pressing on to Abbeville the gravity of the position would be Spanish
the country at large and, the Channel Coast. Although to misrepresent the actual facts, and against us as it is now when the in-same words in any speech of the last At Court and
sympathy with Germany was strong. to bej weeks. eme people may have been dis-such a course, the Telegraph does not dependence of Poland has
Less than a hundred years after A revulsion came in 1875 wher turbed by such a glaring announce propose to take, no matter how high maintained. It was well defined a mont,
It was nevertheless true, as Mr. Dodwell may raise his hands. hundred years ago by one of the most Louis XIV, bad tried and failed, Bismarck made it plain, by methods: borne
out by subsequent events. In the House of Commons recently, characteristically English of all our came Napoleon's effort to make him with which we are only too familiar now, a mobilisation of the German self master of Europe.
When to France he had added Press and diplomatic threats, that he nor exaggeration. The poster was the toning-down of news as clically
ought,"
and the Rhineland and meant to attack- France again and based upon an unpleasant, but incon-supplied to, the Press, said Another teach the weaker Powers to hope Piedmont, though our sea power re-crush her. trovertible fact. The second .com-serious loss/we have suffered is the
Bismarck And The Kalsor plalat dealt with another sub-heading blow to the credit of our Press and that they will receive the support
"Bismarck is really another olde which read "Il Duce Moves. As it the BBC. He was referring to the this country in their time of danger, mained triumphant, there followvert
lo must. be- happened, it was announced from rosy reports which had appeared in Powerful countries should be taught a short uneasy peace. What brought Rome that Mussolin! had called the Press concerning the Norwegian to fear that they will be resisted by it to an end was not this or that Bonaparte again and
her minor issue but the instructions bridled, Diamoll wrote. Queen Special meeting of his Supreme War situation, rosy at the time, but ulteri England in any unjust act either the British Government to our Am-
In this case, "Il Duce misleading as proved by the bomb who are bound in tics of amity with bassador that our Sovereign would Victoria, in spite of her good will to "never fargo. his right of interfering its Imperial Court, was of the same Germany and her family ties with. Confers might have been more shell announcing the evacuation of appropriate, but even so, there was Southern Norway. True, the issue be- was the Billah Expeditionary Force from
"him" that "every These truths were discovered by any occasion in which the interest mind and told h nothing
about the
tween This newspaper and Mr. the rulers of England as soon as of his own dominions or those of means should be used to prevent headline as sinted. Despite what Mr. Dodwell is not that of direct mis modern States began to be, in the Europe in general may appear to such a monstrous iniquity as a war
She sent Dodwell
A vigorous letter to the others. may
18th century, Philip II of Spain him to req
to require rough representation, but the innuendo to
Here is the guiding British prin- plainest. speaking, to her daughter, Emperor of Russia and some of the ly justified, and especially in
only the whole of tio Iberian
rian ciple, the abomination of ambitious the German Crown Princess. nus quibble about headlines las been Indirect misrepresentative peninsula but most of Italy, a great autocrate from age to age, formed face kong
In that headlines or, placards have
of the energy of Russia and neither advisable nor helpful. been calentated to alarm, If not to province of what is now Franed and once again.
Britain, Bismarck and hats master, the London papers to hand show deceive. That is the only conclusion all the Low Countries, and support Action upon it roused Napoleon to old Emperor Willum protested reluctance in employing heavy-type we can, draw, and we indignantly ing his arms by the newly-discovered fury "Fifteen millions of people that they had never for a moment: headlines in order to emphasise the challenge and resent it. If the head-wealth of Mexico and Peru.
must give way to forty millions," he intended to march on France. Per- degree of gravity. They even publish lines have caused some people to He did his best to keep England stormed. Such population figures haps the Emperor spoke the truth.. pictures showing people papers on the streets, and in the the Talcaraph. It would be better deled him, and the defeat of the fore liis genius and the vast resources Forty, ye had fallen, to weaker-.
But England have a fascination for despots. Be- buying deplore the news it is not the fault subservient to him.
later the direction pictures may be soon the placards of to err on the site of over-emphasis, Armada not only saved England, which be commanded the "dynasts" German polley had ending London newspapers using a which, after all, might prove an in-made Holland free, it re-established type, the size, of which would, ap-i cenilva to every man thi the Cruns. France as one of the Great Powers of the Continent want: down, thousand more violent · hands. We need not distribute responsibility for the not their peoples.
war into which Europe parently cause some Hongkong people British, and Allies alike, to legte no It made an end of Phlip's claim to After Austerll, Pitt, with the
a wai.plunged, to swoon. Mr. Dodwell,hus gives no stone unturned in working, seriously world empire.
shadow of denin already on his bro between the Kaler, and file council. example of misrepresentation, die and mergetically for
the 'Great! Yet the policy and the cause for predicted that Napoleon would meet lors It is enough to recall that the tortions or spention; be merely | Common Cause in this ~ hour, of which Elizabethan England. fought with a check whenever he encoun-
cause for which they plunged into war- relies on generalities. The Telegraph Hational perii:" feels confident, that there is no need
PLEASE Tum Ta Pare:9, ***I were precisely the same as when, tered a national resistance, that Spain
Palmerston.
There was neither misrepresentation. Sir Archibald Sinclair, in referring to statesmen, uld he-133-18440 Belgium
Council.
or
extreme
plead,
of
towards ourselves or towards those
emphasis, in these days is thom which we strongly object is that there then dominated Europe, ruling over
of
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