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THE pred pedal to the Telegraph is used by the “Hongkong Telegraph” to inditate news which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni- cations Ordinance, 1835. Such news
Demes the indication UP is received in Hongkong on the date of publication by the Valed Press Associations, who 1- serve all rights and forbid republication. either wholly or in part without previons | arrangement,
Hon. Mr. Dodwell
and the Press
merely the bald statement that it is
the news
WINGS OVER THE DESERT
T
AMMAN,
By Philip Jordan
News Chronicle Special Correspondent
In The Middle East
regularly besieged all day by Arabs of every imaginable tribe anxious to enlist in his force. T
Its guerilla days, of course, are over: it is now a highly disciplined and well paid force,
HE Transjordan coun- try, of which this town is the capital, is not technically at war with Ger- many, but, like Egypt, is in
armoured cars. In these cars, of black goats, from Ava 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, ao of the plane blots out the sun himself. tegrity at any moment be threat- men say, are as good to-day as from worlds as impressive and As Lawrence was, Glubb 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 other and
"}
Three 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 RA.F. and country, they are so strategically smooth and perpendicular as aged to attain. Tranajordan Frontier Force- placed that they could get to though they were once no more 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.
with wire, towered skyward far Transjordan Frontier Foree, British taxpayer; the third- - The south of the Ma'an coun- above our wings.
unit of the Imperial Army, tho Arab Legion-is Emir try would seem as fabulous' and One of the solitary mountains whose headquarters aro at Abdullah'a semi-military police unreal as the face of the moon in this arid place has been split Zerka some 15 miles north of force, whose commanding ofllcers were it not dotted with ruins of apart and within its smooth this place across two rivers that are British.
Crusaders' castles and with neat walls there is a gardened village isolate it in wet weather. The The RAF, whose head- modern forts where the Trans profusely watered by cataracts T.J.F.F. is Britain's nearest ap- quarters is magnificently equip jordan Frontier Force maintains that dash from the rock and fall proach to the Foreign Legion. ped, and is stationed upon the constant watch,
more than 100 feet to irrigate a Although by far the greater summit of an escarpment do- At Akoba, 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, thero Close to its entrance, no bigger haired Circassians who inhabit whenever called upon to do so is an R.AF. rest camp, to which it seems than a doll's house, is the northern parts of this coun-
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 Germana, Poles
the Arab Legion.
and Czechs In its astrakhan- over 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 be described as the lineal des- It is the most difficult force In
Under its ubiquitous wings the tremendous stars, each one les one of the most difficult of which seems as bright as the cendants of the Arab Force the world for an officer to enter countries in the world, as I was moon at home.
which Lawrence managed to and until the war there was a
and
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
green sea.. plateau, whose rich fields and orchard-strewn valleys, nourish the whole country, le deserts more fantastic and savage than the whole of the rest of the earth can show.
now
RA
▸ANGE · upon serried range of huge moun- tains, upon whose lacerated "flanks there is, no life from one century to the next, stalk east-
neither
is
the British Army, from which they are seconded for four years. at least. They wear a starting: TO-DAY it is command- uniform calculated to increase ed by Major Glubb, their prestige in 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 Pago 9.
BRITAIN HAS ALWAYS FOUGHT
EUROPE'S AMBITIOUS DESPOTS
to
Unchanging Policy of Support for Weaker Powers
By H. C. BAILEY
came
D
State. Palmerton.
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} potrífied-with-age-until-they the Hon. Mr. Stanley Dodwell, calls tumble into a great fint 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 mothod 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 lle two of Mr. Dodwell as an example, but the strangest sights man can
was the place for it and that ther England would intervene. A young Inadvisable to headline-und-placard 8ce: "Rose red" Petra, the A stand for the defence of freedom in the manner adopted oldest city in the world and and the destruction of Hullerism and
all it implice. -GEN, SMUTS; more than 200 years later, British officer, fresh-from-India, Arthur
Wellesley. heard the
prophecy. by this newspaper (it might
arms restored Spain's Independence.ve Wadi Rumm, which Lawrence be
Years afterwards lie related in added, by the majority of reputable declared to be the most awesome
Victory Over Napoleon
►NEMIES of England from century
Paris, having seen it fulfiled, having newspapers in the world), his and impressive of all Nature's Et century have tried to persuade In the 17th century Spanish power led the Britian army which delivered letter to our morning contemporary. works. "When we came to that the world that there is no consistency no longer menaced aggression.
Napoleon The Spain and destroyed, as Mr. Dodwell stated,
French himself admitted, the Napoleonie inter alta-place we could not oven talk,” he¦ in her policy.
threat
from the "While I agree that we do not want said.
Spain and the Kaiser, monarchy. Louis XIV's ambition domination. Philip of to bury our heads in the sand and
Some half-century later à Brisb have the bad news suppressed. I
Petra for so many centuries Napoleon and Bismarck complained was hardly checked from conquering
When he en-Government was working heartly consider it extremely inadvisable to hidden from the outside world and blustered, as Herr Hitler does the Low Countries.
now, that English statesmen would deavoured to secure all the posses with France and Napoleon's nephew headline and placard it in the way behind ils narrow entrance not be grateful to their real friends sions of the Spanish throne as an to free Italy from Austrian rule and IL It has been done in the past, more through high cliffs, is almost as but continually changed their course, appanage of his own dynasty he, in petty allen despots and establish particularly by The graphy" In completely disagreeing, Park is to London.
telongong Tele-familiar to the R.A.F. ag Hyde, making fresh alles and meddling his turn, claimed to be master off ns
with what was never expected to be Europe and its colonies.
saw Cavour and told him "that he we say without hesitation
tha that
Emperor [Napoleon Then the war of the Spanish Sue-might say to their concern. headlines ner posters have, nor could
that for Beyond Petra in the midde of
every step he might be None are so blind as those who do cession saw a European coalition. probably find us ready to lake
troops and Blects and
to take in Italian affairs ho have, exaggerated the gravity of the the plain lies. Ma'au, where the
to seo. not choose
It is the most with British news of the last few
weeks. Tho
British resources its strongest cle- Telegraph has yel to learn that it R.A.F. keep a small landing- obvious fact of the history of Europe Briti the wish of His Majesty the King, or ground and permanent patrol of through the last four hundred years ment, arrayed against the aggressor. one and a half." Italy had no cause that British power has in the great The genius of Marlborough brought to complain of the way in which the his Ministers, that the newspapers, at
the treaty settlement promise was kept. Palmerston re- or in any part of the Empire, for it to make any show lo establish been exerted to the utmost against made Europe safe from any dange Austria had any right to govern the- Home, or
crises of the destiny of civilisation Victory, and
nger solutely declined to recognise that should endeavour to minimise the its bona fides, even although un- the rulers of States with which we of Bourbon domination. seriousness of the present situation. warranted aspersions have beer cast had been, and sometimes time ago. III, and Marlborough then fought in the affair." So by
What our country under William Italian people or Prussia to "interfere the help of From other sources, we have received against it. The naked truth is that to be, in arm and cordial alliance.
France and Britain Italy WAK 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-
clent
than 30 years ago Acton more have been alarming or untrue. The especially to those with relatives at are examined, that in every one of
liberated. first referred to the heading "Channel Home, and in the countries now being shaese major conflicts we were fight-in words which
have very ring There followed the age of Bla- Our resolution to-day. They marek and the rise of that German Ports in Danger." and it was asserted ravaged. The news, however, cannot ing for the same cause and on the that this was calculated to create un- be modified to suit the temperamen- same side.
strove, he wrote, "against wilful at-Empire which he built up with blood easiness, or even pante lo the pubilo tality of those who plead that it
tack and the reign of force. That and Iron till by the same means it mind. The fact was at the time, should be presented in s temperate
good cause defeated, the security of fell. The attack on Denmark, the that cables from authentic sources manner. It cannot be modified. To The guiding principle of British national rights and international overthrow of Austria, the defeat of indicated that German
mechanised maite any efforts to evade or minimise policy was the same when the conventions was at an end." The France In 1870 were watched without forces were pressing on to Abbeville the gravity of the position would be Spanish Armada was launched Prime Minister might have used the anxioly by most of our statesmen. 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 in the country at large some people may have been dis- such a course, the Telegraph does not dependence of Poland has to be weeks. turbed by such a glaring announce propose to take, no matter how high maintained. It was well defined a
Less than a hundred years after ment, it was nevertheless true, as Mr. Dodwell may raise his hands hundred years ago by one of the most Louis XIV. had tried and falled, Bismarck made it plain, by methods borne
events, 18 the House of Commons recently, characteristically English of all a came Napoleon's effort to make him with which we are only too familiar There was neither
now, a mobilisation of the German master of Europe. nor exaggeration, The poster WAS the toning-down of news as officially
"We ought," said he in 1844, "to
And the Rhineland and meant to attack -France again and trovertible
com serious loss/we have suffered is the
Piedmont, though our sea power re-crush her. plaint dealt with another
-heading
to the credit of our Press and that they will receive the support of mained triumphant, there followed Bismarck And The Kaiser
this country in their time of danger. which read "Il Duce Mover." As it the B.B.C." He was referring to the be taught a short uneary peace. What brought "Bismarck is really another old happened. was annotinced from rery reports which had appeared in towerful countries should be taught it to an end was not this or that
by Rame that Musolint and colithe Press concerning the Norwegian England in any unjust act either minor issue but the instructions of Bonaparte again and he must be Disraeli wrote, Queen meeting of his Supreme War ituation, rosy
the British Government to our Am-bridled," at the time, but utter towards ourselves or towards these bassador-that-our-Sovereign would Victoria, in spite of her good will to Germany and her family ties with Confers" might have been more shell announcing the evacuation of more the Britisiz Expeditionary Force from
In the affairs of the Continent on appropriate, even so, there was
that "every mind and told him nothing
These truths were discovered by any occasion in which the Intereats extreme
the Southern Norway. True, the issue be- About headline as stated. Despite what Mr. Wen
newspaper and Mr. the rulers of England as soon as of his own dominions or these of mens should be used to provent such a monstrous iniquity as a wor" others
MrDodwell is not that of direct mis modern Slates began to be, in the Europe in general may appear to She sent a vigorous letter to the may plead, representation, but the innuendo to 16th century. Philip II of Spain him to require it."
Dafest Of The` Armada
self
sympathy with Germany was strong. Anvulsion came in 1876 when
out by subscresentation,/ Sir Archibald Sinclair, in referring to statesmen, Palmerston. based upon an unpleasant, but incon- supplied to the Presa, said—"Another teach the weaker Powers to hope to France he had added Press and diplomatic throats, that he
fact.
it
a
blow
Roll in this case, "II Duce misleading-as-proved-by-the-bomb who are bound in tles of amity with unaver REFgo his zigt di Wierkernese YesKIL LONG was of the Jong
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this
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indirect misrepresentation, not only the whole of the Iberian ciple, the abomination si ambitiosum) Plainest spooking to her divad
and
once again.
the
Princess
and'
ly justified, and especially in
which we strongly object it that there then dominated Europe, ruling over Here is the guiding British prin-Emperor of Russia and some of the
Crown in that headlines or placards bave peninsula but most of Italy, a great autocrats from age to age, affirmed face of the entra Is neither advinble
of Russia nor helpful. been calculated to alarm, if not to province of what is now France
Britain, Bismarck and his master, the London papers to hand show no deceive. That is the only conclusion all the Low Countries, and support- Action upon it roused Napoleon to old Emperor William reluctance in employing heavy-type
I.. profcated 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. degree of gravity. They even publish lines have caused some people to
must give way to forty millions," he intended to march on Franco, Fer He did his best to keep England stormed. Such
Agures pletures showing people buying deplore the news it is not the fault subservient to him.
Population But England have a fascination despots. Behaps the Emperor spoke the truth, papers on the streets, and in the of the Telegraph. It would be better defied him, and the defeat of the fore his geulus and the vast resources
Forty years later the direction of pletures may be seen the placards of to err on the side of over-emphasis, Armada not only saved England, which he commanded tho "dynaats"
man polley had fallen to wesker·· lending London newspapers using a which, after all, might prove an in-made Holland free, it re-established of the Continent went down, though not distribute responsibilty for the mere violent hands. We need type, the xize of which would ap-centive to every man ha the Colony, France as one of the Great Powers, not their peoples. parently cause some Hongkong people British and. Allies alike, to leave no it made an end of Philip's claim to
war into which Europe was plunged, to swoon.. Mr. Dodwell has given no one unturned in working seriously world empire.
After Austerlitz, Pit, with
the between the Kaiser, and his counell cxample, of mterepresentation, die and energetically
shadow of death already on his brotors. It enough to recall that the tortion or exaggeration; "he merely comhaois. Cause
for the Great Yet the polley and the cause for predicted that Napoleon would meet cause for which they plunged into wor relies on genernilles. The Telegraph national peril.
trs" this hour of which Ellisbethan England fought with a check whenever he encoun- feels confident that: there is"no" "need"
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