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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
June 17, 1940.
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THIS is a war of poli- tical military technique. Germany's military suc cesses have been made possible by her combina- tion of the political and the military weapon.
The political weapon is per- haps the more dangerous.. It undermines the morale and de- fences of the selected victim. Only when it has done its foul work do the tank and the bomber come on the scene.
Russia understood this technique a long time ago. She tried to tell
us about it. When the Allies sent their delegates to Moscow and the question of guaranteeing Poland and the Battle states eume up, the Nazis attack a country not openly
Russians sald In effect: "Snce the
from without, but first of all from within, we must guarantee coun-
direct aggression."
teles against indirect as well as
On these conditions Russia offer-
ed us a Mutual Aid Paet. But we were then opposed to such guaran¬ LCCB.
We did not believe in the Quislings and the Firth Column.
We had to wait until Norway, Denmark, Holland and Belgiuin made it clear to 125. Until the Meuse bridges were left net for the enemy to cross over in their sensational drive towards the Channel Porta,
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inilitary manoeuvres Kiev. British and French military missions saw the Red Army use the tarties of the paratroops and in- Oltration-the very telles which have given the Germans thele, ex- traordinary military aircesses. flo was made of those numeuvres.. It was shown in London tu audiences that included Journalists, diplominis, military officers anch
enbers of the Governmert.
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I don't know what the British military mission reported to Lon- don about the Klev. munceuvres. But a famous military writer who went with the mission and who also saw the Ahm in London said to me: "These parachute troops look very impressive, but in actual conditions not one of them
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would reach the ground alive. You can count them out as an Important element in modern warfare, except perhaps for defence,"
Now, perhaps, that expert gives an occasional anxious look towards the skies and recalls that summer's duy in the Ukruine when his a whole army scepticul eye saw descend from the blue. An uriny equipped for attack and invasion. Not just collapsible bicycles--but small cars and light tanks strapped to the undercarriages of glant froop-currying planes.
Stalin mude his agreement with Iter because he saw danger in the Fifth Colsinn. Russia had her Quislings. Perhaps it is in a new light that we now recall the purge of the Red Army and Air Force.
At the time we only scoffed, and explained the Russian purges as being Stalin's oriental way of deal- ing with personal rivals. We were sceptical when we read of hirigue, treachery and sabotage in high places. Wrecked trains, blighted crops. poisoned tinned foodstuffs, umuggled assassins, industrial "wreckers." To us at Ur time they appeared fantastic. Do they appear quite so fantastic now? They never did to the Russion.
Stalin spared no mercy in deal- ing with Russia's Filtli Column. But he was still afraid of what the Fifth Column could do in the Ailled countries. When the France-Soviet part was still in existchee, the official Soviet newspaper "Evestia" warned France that she had 30,000 Nazl agents on hier soll,
INCE then one of the most noted of French Conserva- tive Journalists, Henri de Kerillis, has confirmed in his book, "The Causes of War," the fact that Ger- man money poured into France at the time of the Munich Aggrement and that newspapers and politicians were receiving fat subsidies from Berlin.
But at France dk nothing about her Fifth Column. Stalin belleved that this Fitth Column was working to wreck the Franco- Soviet pact and to make an ngrec- ment with Germany against the Soviet Union.
When, therefore, the Allies re-
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
WHAT OF RUSSIA NOW?
THE now British Government has assumed a more friendly attitude towards Russia. And Rus- Sia, disturbed by Nazi successos, is becoming less friendly to Berlin. That the Allies and Russia should reach a better understanding of one an- other's case may prove a vital factor as the struggle intensifies.
In this articlo a frank apologist for Stalin inter- prets Russia's attitude to the war and the events that led up to it. It will help you to look at cur- rent history through another people's eyes.
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jeeted the Soviet terms for Mutual Air Pact, Stalin suspected the Influence of the Fifth Column.
It seemed incredible to the Rus- slms that the Allies should have Auaranteed Poland's integrity with- out taking the elementary step of planning how their help could reach the Poles.
KNOWING that Poland
could not be effectively helped from the West the Russians were stricken with fent lest they should be committed to helping Polnud only to ind that as soon as the Red Army was locketf in com- bat with, the German Army, the Firth Columri would see to it that "England and France stayed out. The Russians smelt a trap and hurried to make a pact with Ger- many.
They even believed, and pointed to certain speeches made in Paris and in London, that there was a plot to switch the war over into an antl-Bolshevik crusade.
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To-day the situation is changed. The Russians are again more dis- posed to see Germany as the real menace to their interests. At first The Russians thought the would last long time; and they sought their own security in the hope that both sides would be too weak to do anything against them at the conclusion.
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The phenomenal German vonen had, however, surprised and shaken themn. Germany that won quietly would be a menace ten times greater to them. Never- theless, they still believe that the Allies can win II given time to mobilise thel: resources.
At the beginning of the war- Box-- sia ostentatiously put her vast re- sources at the disposal of Germany. It was more important as a gesture than as practical help. But Stalin probably felt that as long as there was talk in England and France of
being overthrown from
Hitler within Germany by a more moter- ale and more anti-Soviet clique. then it was in his interest to main- tain the Hitler-Ribbentrop clique in power.
..no breakdown that could not be tackled
by the
·mechanician's wife and her
young son.
C'est la
Guerre
-in a French Village
TO realise France's effort in this war, one
A French must visit village. I have just returned from one situated 60 miles south-west of Paris and conuected to the neurest railway station (15 miles away) by coach. It took me and my luggage six hours to get to the caplinl.
"C'est la guerre!" the peasants exclaim with fatalistic resignation whenever new difficulties arise, but they manage to carry on despite regulations, restrictions, mobilisa- tion and the like.
In my village, the doctor has been called
to the colours. fis locum- tenens must also attend his own patients in a distant town, so he shares his time between the two prnetices.—Thus-sickness--has-be come a luxury-and the villagers keep healthy!
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The micchonician of the village is mobilised, so are also all the good cars, which were commandeered a week before the
actually started. Only creaky veterans were allowed to remain.
At first, the villagers were chary of taking those out, but as the weeks
passed Now Russia must ate that we are
by, they
confidence. "C'est acquired fighting in earnest
in guerrel" they sald, and and that we
the crocks must have understood, for there has been, so far, no
no brenk- clown that could not be tackled ccessfully by the mechanician's wife and her young son aged who carry on 14,
van have no thought but that of destroying Nazi Germany. Conse- quently she may be more disposed to shift the bins of her neutrality in our favour.
CHE could do this by helping sinstead of Germany
with supplies. There is, in fact, good reason to believe that Russian suppiles to Germany have alrendy begun to dry up.
The trade ntission which Sir Stafford Cripps is to undertake to Moscow should be given every en- couragement.
Another job, too, could be fac- kled in Moscow. And, that is to bring about a real rapprochement between Turkey und Russia. Such a rapprochement would make Italy think several times before making a move in the Mediterraneon. With that possibility reduced_and perhaps removed, our own Navy would be freer for operations where the danger is closer to our shores.
David Raymond.
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The village plumber is gone, too, and during the winter's frost
severe there was not a house that escaped a burst pipe. So the Inhabitants must fetch their water from the one pump which is still acting, the other two pumps being out of order. They cannot be repaired until the ironmanger, the only man who understands them, comes home on leave.
The mayor is a farmer. He lives Ave milles out, and as he is short of hands, he, an old servant and his three womenfolk (wife and two daughters) must between them do the work of eight men. He has no inue to waste at the Town Hall: an old pensioned-oft official has been commissioned by the mayor to do all the necessary work in his place and has been taught how to imitate the mayor's signature for all official documents.
"C'est la perret"
M. M. B.
Farewell Party
The Senior 3 of Munsang College When a ten-year-old boy was of 1940, celebrated their graduation charged at Hastings Juvenile Court and farewell party with speeches, The Hong Kong Anti-Tuberculosis Ass-with stealing 25., clation gratefully acknowledges the follow-
the magiairates ing donations and subscriptions:
were told that his twin brother had music, cinema, etc., at the M. S. Hall been sent to art approved school and before, an audience of 59, including he was determined to do something Mrs. M. Winn, Mro. and Mr. Rufus to got the same punishment.
Huang, H. K. Yung, and Emile Law. His wish was realised, for he was The party was organised by M. S, Alumni Association. The intented daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Huang, helped to make the function a DULCESS, by contributing her able planoforte and singing to the party. Mra. M. Winn, spoke on the sub- Ject oh.
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WILLIAM SMYTH TORRID LOVE”
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"Well, well, I always wondered what had become of Willic!"
Mitchell...
Camm...
North....
They Gave Us
Our Best
Fighters
EXPLOITS of R.A.F. pilots have given a new significance to three common words- "Spitfire," "Hurricane" and "Defiant." The words, on everybody's lips, suggest the world's deadliest
fighter planes..
now
What of the men who-working patiently, modestly, quietly, in the background-designed them.?
to
One of the famous trio, Reginald Joseph Mitchell, did not live share the nation's pride in the child of his brain-the Vickers-Super- marine "Spitfire." He was a dy ing man-and knew it-when the plane went
into mass production for the day when it would emerge victorious from action against over- whelming odds,
Mitchell, son of a printer at Han- ley, Staffs, left school early to begin his apprenticeship to neighbouring frm of locomotive builders. At 21 he had poined the Vickers ▾
- Supermarine Aviation Company, near Southampton. At. 42 he was dead. By then he was a director of the
company
and its
chief designer,
Intimate friends maintain that Mitchell's death-a severe loss to neronautical science-was hastened by overwork.
He allowed himself lttle sleep or relaxation. He was happiest at hals drawing-board; coat off and shirt- sleeves roiled back; smoothing back the fair hair from his high fore- head; plotting and designing planes that would give their pilots the last ounce of striking power and manoeuvrability; the utmost degree of speed,
No German fighter can meet Mitchell's Spitore on level terms. It wa
was the outcome of the last of his famous series of four Schneider Trophy winners-the one in which Flight-Lieut. (now Wing-Comman- der). G. H. Stainforth, R.A.F., at- tained a speed of 407.5 m.p.h..
Awaiting Death
THAT WAS 1031. Four years carller Mitchell had been awarded the Royal Atronautical Society's. aliver medal na designer
of the Trophy winner In the Venice IB- ternational contest.
Two months before his death, and with the Spitfire already a proved success, Mitchell was persuaded to undergo treatment for a disease which he knew to be incurable. Accompanied by his wife and a nurse, he flow to a sanatorium in Vienna,
There his worst fears were conarmed.
In June, 1937, he returned to his home in Southampton to await the Inavitable. It came iri his sleep.
His son, Gordon, has joined the old Arm,
Sydney Comm, the man respon- sible for the Hurricane fighter, is "chtof· designer-and a director—-of--
Hawker Aircraft Ltd.-.
Tho ptress of wartime production
Reginald Joseph, Mitchell did
nos fiue to 'share the nation's pride in hie Spitfire.
has made him a strange, to the Sur- bilon Golf Club, His beautiful
home at Thames Dilton sees very little of him,
with
Born at Windsor 40 years ago, Camm showed an early interest in aviation
"I was mucking about model aeroplanes," he told "almost as far back as I can member."-In-1911-he was-socru
of the Windsor Model Aero- tary of plane Club.
Britain selected his 21st birthday to declare war on Germany; that was in August, 1914. He was then in the early stages of a 10 years association with the Martyde Aircraft Works.
North's Defiant
E played a big part in design- ing the Best British pinne to it-
It was
tempt to fly the Atlantle. piloted by Frederick Raynham.
Camm is tall, dark, clean-shaven, of medium build and cheery dis- position. Incidentally, he is
among the hart
hardest workers in the alrerufi industry.
Flis only
child is 17-year-old Phyllis, a promising student at the Kingston Art School.
The Defiant, two-seater Bghter,
John was designed by
Dudley North. Born at Sydenhamn 47 years ago, he hus boon designer-in-clilet since 1917 to Boulton Paul Aircraft, Ltd., "somewhere in the Midlands." He is also a director of the cam- pany,
North is an outstanding person- ality in more senses than one. I would not like to guess his weight, but he is well over six feet full. When at work-which is nearly always, for he cuts and often sleeps In the factory-he wears, heavy, shell-rimmed glasses. He is fair and clean-shaven.
"Our Work!”
THE company's managing direc tor, Herbert Strickland, told me the other day that ever since the Air Ministry announced the entry of the Defiant Into netion against German planes, the workers have chests. been pulling out their Every newspaper mention of the Deflont is cut out and pasted up un the walls of workshops and canteens. And beneath the clipp- ings they write exultantly "Our Work!"
"They're striving even harder than before-if possible," said their "I've never managing director. seen them so cheerful. They're not looking for applause from the out- aldo world; thele one aim is to gat on with the job and turn out two Dofants where only one was pro- duced before."
Strickland is as proud of him workers as they are in their work. "I'm only a newcomer to the alr craft Industry," lie told me, "and the lads are all trained on the pre- mises. Most of them have been drawn from the surrounding Black Country, where they had started ns workers in the hollow-ware trade.
E. J. II.
rary, Supreme Court
THE ZERO HOUR
A Call to Hongkong To Make Its Effort Now
Commenting editorially on Hongkong's War Effort, withi particular reference to the time factor, the South China Morning Post asked what Wongkong could provide most casily, quickly, use-
fully and plentifully and answered the question, "Money.""
There is doubiless much more that can be contributed, but money and at once will beat as- sist the Allies. Time passés: zero hour approaches. I tho Colony is to be of effectivo ser- vice to the Empire, it must act
now.
To provide a channel for Hongkong's effort, in response to numerous requests the Souths China Morning Post, Lt.. publishers of the South China Morning Post and Hongkong Telegraph, has decided to onen War Fund; in addition to and lainct from the British. Wor Organisation Fund.
The mancy collected will be remitted at once through the Hongkong Government to the Im- perial Government, for such une as I decides, but with the re- quest that it be expended upon acroplanes or armanicats..
other required
To start the fund, the South China Morning Poit, Ltd., con- tributes to sum of $5,000.
The Fund is open to-day. Subscriptions are invited and will be acknowledged dally In the South China Morning Post and Hongkong Telegraph. Cheques should be made payable. to "War Fund-Soul China Morning Post, Ltd.”
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