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The
Nazi power.
In the latter ease our fate would be the appalling, end of freedom, welfare and greatness together. The em- pire would be no more. Sea- power would cease. The air we breathe would be the means of our subjection. Our own land would not be
our own.
July 29, 1940.
Nazi Hell's
Angels
Can't Scare
Britain
The harder we fight the more they wit be kindled to speed their help. Meanwhile, at home in these islands, we have arightler forces by sea, nir Only by staking everything and land than we ever possessed be- can. we save anything. Weak fore. For the defence of Britain they ness would mean annihilation, are enhanced not diminished by the disasters in the Low Countries and Our emergency is one of stark France. This may well be grandeurs. Our choice is no less remembered as a providen- til paradox when the his- dictated by reason than anim- tory of these times is told, ated by courage.
As the crisis rises Mr.
In one sense we are alone. In Churchill's stature rises with
Hongkong Telegraph.another not st.
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BACK
The Evacuation
HISTORIANS will form an unflat- tering opinion of Hongkong's contri- bution towards the war on Nazilstn during the Arst twelve months of war, Since September we have recorded two controversies which
have ex-
ceeded in bitterness anything HTC
kong has witnessed in years.
was.
firstly, opposition to the War
to
Taxation; secondly. opposition Evacuation. Both controversies have succeeded only in
ngalscord, sowing dissension and disloyally, not mention bad feeling.
contro- The versy on War Taxation gave Goebbels an opportunity to issue a jibe to the
work through his propaganda short- 1 wave bro
broadcasts.
.in
know that the jibe was unf
but
that
and locking in veracity impression may not have been form- ed in other countries which heard it. For all we know the Evacuation controversy has also provided the Nazl propaganda machine with fur- ther ammunition.
We do not desire at this stage to comment on the methods employed in carrying out the initial stages of Australia, other the evacuation to
than to agree that the local authori- Lies have displayed Inck of
elation of the dimculties diet has
been
shameful. Even to-day, we publish a message from Australia in which a Minister of the Common-
manner
wealth Government publicly com- plains of the inefficient which the Hongkong Government is bandling the evacuation. The entire situation in this respect is so unsatis- factory that there is every ground for demanding an inquiry,
History will, no doubt, record the fallings of the Hongkong administra- Lion in this respect. But we believe history will also record the failings of the community unless, at this late deeper stage, the people obtain a appreciation of the situation. We are of the opinion that the petition which will be presented to His Ex- cellency the Officer Administering the Government is ill-advised,
Muny people have signed the petition not because they desire to see evacuation cancelled but because they desire to
of carrying
record their displeasure
the out
it. The task on his hands is We are not such as no British statesman before had to grapple with. Not PILL'S struggle with
isolated. We have the sym- pathies of the vast majority Napoleon was equal to it. of the world. Sea-power brings It is gigantic task, He The is to it the effect of a the bulk of its resources. longer we hold out the mightier
To swing up the output
have the benefit of the doubt with respect to priority of ent on labour and material. We must do this one Our whole fo thing a tony cort. and hope depend on it.
Unless our air-defence is crushed we cannot be beaten during the cri- cal months of endurance: By nt. taining winged mastery afterwards Britain would be bound to win. ጉ
-by
J. L. GARVIN
Law Countries and France. began
While British sea-power remains have been more than covered by our Impregnable the only kind of inva- own production.
sinn that could break us would he continuous onslaught with increasing success by overwhelming numbers of repairs the enemy's bumbers,
battle Were we ut- recitoned, The terly mostered in the air we should crentes a more be mashed to a certainty on the every plane we
ground. Enough to say that the more fighters we have the
fewer hostile bombers will get through.
statements
the
Good. But the enemy's output and have to be similarly of Britain pressing need for can make or buy. Canada and United States have the immense ad- vantage as yet of being beyond the reach ol hostile bombing-power.
There will be no security for free civilisation Any- where in the world unless America as a non-
лow
belligerent but no neutral throws her whole machine potential. into the business. and creates with rapidity an over- whelming supremacy in aircraft pro- duction. She will do it.
Meanwhile we here have to bar· the pass. Until we achieve predo- minant quantity we have to hold our own by the surpassing quality of our men and machines. Under God our winged youth are our chief depen- dence in the crucin! months ahead. They know that they are fighting not only for Britain and the ocean-com- nonwealth but for the world's hope and the soul of man. As much as men have ever done they will do.
We do not underrate the enemy's Mr. Churchill's and Lord undoubted design of enveloping at- tack on Britain by every means. Es- Beaverbrook's
Fecially it
It is well known that the are encouraging. In fighters, German staff for years past has con- our relative strength is sidered how to get at Britain through greater than ever before Ireland no less than from the oppo- partly
owing to German slte coasts of the Low Countries, the losses. The enemy's supe- Straits, and the Chamel, where they riority in bombers is there, are now established up to the At- and we must not blink it. lantie headlands of Brittany.
But while sea-power holds they every means is our chief matter of
That is what we have to
bring their tanks or their us talte tem-
overhaul. Lord Beaverbrook cannet from the empire overseas and life and death. Let
Against military porary risks in other connections. announces that all our own losses of armoured columns. from the United States.
Let the increase of our flying power machines since the wattles in the Turn to Pago 7, Second Column
glant.
will be the flow of practical aid and acquisition of aircraft by
A TOMMY
TELLS HIS
STORY
MY unit, a mechanised
to
+
Our mobility was so
cavalry regiment, great, that we saw many other regiments in action, was one of the last units and many deeds of gallantry return from Dunkirk done by them. Naturally And in the previous we also saw things we don't days we had seen al- want to remember...That most continuous action. was bound to be when we. were up against an enemy
21
cause
to believe that the menace which
the Japanese have not re- whose organisation was ex- inforced their border patrols, are we cellent, whose ingenuity and prompted the War Cabinet's evacua- espionage amazing, whose tion urder four weeks ago is at bravery almost fanatical tion to an item of news from Tokyo and whose
an end? We draw our readers alten-
porory:
callousness
which appeared in a morning contem- and brutality to civilians Galmusho (Japanese Foreign and refugees were without that Sir iobert Cragin, the British Am- parallel in any form of war.
But I want to leave all that
Office) has issued a statement saying |
bassador, called on the Japanese Foreign Minister to-day. During the meeting.
conthuns Une statement, Sir Robert behind and tell you some inci- declared: 'Anglo-Japanese relations dur-
ed by perlots of unpleasantness, arul the
Ing the past three years despite all my dents which are worth remem- efforts to adjust them, have been matka bering and which perhaps might situation Itas been going from bad to not otherwise be recorded. worse. In view of current rumours of Japan's inclination towards the so-called Axis powers, Sir Rabert naked Mr.
The first thing we noticed and the
Matsuoka to let him know whether or lost thing we'll forget was the sight not the present situation would permit of Guards in action. Most people the British Government to continue its have read in the papers about the negollations with Japan along the time Guardsmen whe remained behind in of the palley hitherto pursued.
Mir.
methods employed in evacuation. That is a wrong attitude. There are other channels through which this cari be done. The only purpose served by the petition is to record for posterity the opposition of British Colony to the war-time In- atructions of the Cabinet which has been chosen by the will of the people Does that omclal Japanese state-place in Belgium where the Guards to advise His Majesty the King,
inment indicate that the international were holding a canal. The Germans and whose advlee is unfalteringly situation is such that the War Cabinet had got over at one point and were accepted by the King but not by a
Matsuoka seld Janon's now foreign pillbox badly wounded, and all policy, together with other national they wanted was more ammunition. policies, are being subjected to careful There were many other incidents deliberation, and he could not, much to like that; for instance, there was one hix regret, immediately reply."
the
decided,
the
WHAT WENT BEFORE DUNKIRK
engagement. When the and, when they did have to retire.
they did so without any, trace of has been guilty of an error? People trying to make a bridgehead. Some serious section of the public in this part of in Hongkong fall to realise that the of the enemy had got into the houses bridge and to what might have been
and were sniping our troops.
a Germans had thought better of it ponic, marching straight back with- Empire. That Cabinet ida
as policy of Japan, if statements made
The Colonel of this battalion then and retired, so the situation was res out any rest to take up another post- or wrongly, rightly or
tion, hat before the formation of the new decided on a counter-attack. But tored.
is international
is "Totalitarian" Cabinet are true, situation
be wanted to When we got back into Franco we The 'cavalry was used continuously such that 11 certain section
of that the war in Europe provides the before this was done
Imake a complete reconnalsance of saw some of the Territorial regiments to cover such retirements and time the Hongkong community must be "golden
den opportunity."
the area. So lie naked the cavalry in action. The three battalions we and time again we saw. these ter has evacuated. Because no bomby have We agree with everything that fallen on Hongkong are we to say been said in Legislative Council and a tank troop, he himself going on saw had come out to dig and to ar- ritorials aighting their way back un- that the War Cabinet was
the leading tank. Almost at once range for petrol dumps etc., and they der are of all kinds, shelling, thortar, wrong? with much that has been said in the the tonks were fired on and the were not intended to be used pri machine guns and Anally bribing Have those who signed the petition Correspondence Columns of the Free Colonel told the driver to go faster. marily in the Ughting. When it from the ofr
Some of the many incidents of all. regarding the shortcomings of the He went right up to the bridge be- came to it, however, they had kinds which happened to the various deeper appreciation of the true #. situation than His Majesty's advisera?
Hongkong Government.
fought like tigers. All What would we in Hongkong have
accept the fact that the Way Cabinet fore he gave the order to return.
The plan of the counter-attack was were rifles and a few machine guns, cavalry regiments in France had an said it London parents had raised I Is conducting this war and that, how then decided upon and another turk Towards the end tiny had to march clement of humour even in the mid- similar outcry against the evacuation
was the ver unpalatable come of ity decisions of their children to the country. may be to us personally, we have got top was brought up. The Colonel long distances on quarter. rations die, of the battle. There
tank troop from one regiment which to afford it our unanimous support. once more decided to go in the lead- fighting hard, the whole time, There was every reason to believe
ing tank while the bomber officer
had to do a dawn patrok Against them the Germans used u (and events Justified the opinion) If opposition to the token vote of and six guardsmen climbed on the wickedly accurate trench mortar and cold, and in a half light they had Always an unpleasant job, very $10,000 19. continued merely censure of the loent Government backs of the tanks with grenades to also tanks. well and good. But Hongkong would deal with the Germans in the houses, these handienos
that neither London, Paris nor Berlin would be bombed (because of fear of retaliation); nor was evacuation cancelled when the bombs did not drop on London. Because no bombs have dropped on Hongkong, or be
But us
AS
be failing in its loyalty if it opposes the vote in Cobinet.
censure of the War
men
As if encouraged by
these regiments to push off about 4.30 am. They stuck it out and fought magnificent had got to the edge of a big wood Once more the party set off for the ly. It made, one very proud to see when the leading fank reported that bridge and what might have been a these men fighting against such odds Turn to Page 7, First Column
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