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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH AVAO: August 2, 1940.
GONE
ARE THE HORSE AND CARRIAGE
And Gome with them are the old-Sombloned methods of wax..
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By William Green
Our
ISLAND'S SAFETY
By Brigadier-General C. F. ASPINALL OGLANDER.
M
R. CHURCHILL warned us of the grave possibility that has now become a fact the possibility that we might have to continue the war alone.
A glance at the map shows the diMculties France has had to endure in face of the success of Germany's hommer blows. The thrust to the Chunnel ports and the treachery of
King Leopold Lobbed her of the help Af-of the greater part of the British
of the Allies to the full- President of the American Federation of Labour,
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Expeditionary Force and two of her own armies. It gravely increased the length of the defensive front that resources and entirely destroyed the
: value of the Maginot Line.
The situation for this country is the gravest in our history, but 'In
condemn's, without be crushed once and for she had to hold with her depleted hesitation or reservation, all in this war, the policies and prac- tices of Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia and Fas- cist Italy. Our hope and
This feeling is practic- ally unanimous in this country. The American prayer is that the forces Federation of Labour of Totalitarianism may
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"Listens In”
We cannot contem-) plate even the possibili-Mr. Churchill's brave words, "We ty of free men submit-shall yet weather the storm if we all ting to dictatorship.
We in the United
do our duty."
But we must first defeat our two gravest enemies-our shing self- satisfaction and our habitual and all but unconquerable self-complacency. Infinitely serious as the news of the surrender of the French Army is there will be one compensating
So long as the French held out we
our strength by sending every man
Statos know to-day that joven our country is advantage so for us the safely of this
Istand is concerned. menaced. Therefore, our Government has launch-in duty bound had to disseminate led the greatest national and weapon we could spare to that tionist attitude, though defence programme in country and, with the Channel ports it hopes that it may be the nation's history. Hongkong Telegraph. favourable to the Allies
We have served warn-{
The
Friday, August 2, 1940.
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Telephone: 20015
within the limits it has
losi, the problem of transporting them assured greater and more difficult proportions every day.
Relieved of that responsibility, we
military and air force resources' on
almost immediate future.
from the air and invasion by air-
the whole coast from Antweep, to the
itsed that our Navy will be able to
Among radio-speakers | who talk in English at regular intervals from abroad the best-known
set itself. He learnt to ling to the dictators of shall be able to concentrate our to British listeners are
take an interest in the Europe to keep their defeating any attempts at invasion Mr. Raymond Gram
Presidential campaign, lhands off the Western which are certain to be made in the Swing, and a person sheer curiosity, and though.to many Britons [Hemisphere. The area It is no longer a question of pro- known as Lord Haw partly because it is in- the details of the elec- of our national defence, tecting ourselves only against attack Haw whose words are formative to know the toral procedure were includes the Dominion borne troops. sent out from Hamburg very worst construction baffling. And there are of Canada, and we shall With the Germans in possession of and Bremen. Strange that can be put on one's Britons who believe that that men so diametrical- own actions. If this is news of week-to-week permit no foreign in-Atlantic, it can no longer be expect
in the vador to set foot on ly opposite as these two what Germany says and happenings should be the favourites thinks well, it is better United States is more in Britain. But per- to know.
welcome to them now haps "favourite" as The Briton switches than ever before be-
The working men and the Channel crossing at lightning applied to the second of off and turns to Mr. cause it brings before
the life of a women of the United It is to the Air Force more than them is not the word. Swing. "America speak- them
to the Navy that we must look for No one likes Lord Haw ing." The Briton has civilized nation that is States say to the workers assistance to hinder and harass such Haw. Britons-do-not-little-expectation-that not, as they are, imof_Great_Britain_a_n_d motor fleets both on passage and at in war and France: “Keep up your there is also the growing need for a believe him, but they the United States will mersed listen. Partly it is from depart from the isola- thoughts of war. courageous fight, o urbe kept in readiness to proceed to
hearts are with you. We any threatened point. will do everything that value in forwarding early informa lies within our power toon of enemy movements, but they help you."
My Five Weeks
I
TT all happened in five astonish- ing weeks. They are weeks that seem like years.
Lobking back there is. but a muddle of impressiona and memories all crowded one into the other. I have not yet been able to sort them out.
By RONALD WALKER
War Correspondent with the R.A.F. in France
their heroic.
WAS
In France
the Racing Club in the Bois de Boulogne,
In the hot sun and among the lazy Agures soaking it up, the war seemed very Improbable. Two days later, the people of Parts were stampeding out of the city as the Germans strept neross the Seing.
I shall not forget those last hours homes. Their patience
in Paris, the courage of the people suddenly brought face to face with Before I managed to get a lift Anal disaster, the terrible scenes at home in an RAF. machine from the stations where thousands waited port on the west coast of France our for hours and days for trains, the H.Q. had made three moves, dictated resignation of people who just set by the rapidly advancing German and waited for the end. forces.
During those weeks I saw the rapid collapse of France. At the realise the true time I did not significance of the startling events which followed one on the other..
Germany invaded Holland on May 10. That evening I left London to hurry back to R.A.F. H.Q. by boat. Next morning we were greeted at Le Havre by the wailing sirens which Champagne town, it was shak- were to become all too familiar. ing with the bursting of Ger- those endless streams of re- from machines fugees who poured out endless-
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When we drove out of the
That evening I got back to the town man
bombs
* *
Also, I shall never forget
in the Champagne country which which flew about almost un ly along all roads leading to the was our headquarters.
challenged.
Already the Germans had begun After that the Advanced Air Strik-
south, All towns'in their path became babel and confusion.
Ing Force led a thoroughly gipsy life The din of that unending traffle
still rings in my ears. had missed the wandering across France.
bombing our aerodromes, Two 1,00011. boinba chateau which housed H.Q., but had upset the swarm of staff officers who
During those weeks I was twice
My last journey in France was
flew the aeroplanes front office desks. in Paris. It was Paris of the sum- made in a horse-box-the famous
!
two
40 Chevaux 8" kind. met. The Champs Elysees was gay "Hommes 24
with the coloured awnings and There were nearly 300 of us, N.A,F.
men. We spent That is the beginning of the umbrellas of the cafes. The capital officers and
carried on, even though the enemy days in that train to travel song. story. The first real shock came was pounding at the defences away 150 miles. We got to our destina- tlon tired and filthy on Saturday with the news that the Germans to the north-cust.. had: broken through at Sedan. One happening hit the people of morning. Bacon and eggs
In six days the people of the town Paris hard during those carly days. Salvation Army hut cheered us up. who had watched the streams of I came out at nine o'clock one morn Again we got into a refugee-filled refugees from Belgium and the fron- ing to learn of the capitulation of town, I slept in a garage. tler areas were packing and joining Leopold. Paris did not smile that the procession.
day.
In
In the morning I got the unex- pected chance of a sent, In an air- craft.Flying over the English southern counties the previous five I still marvel at the spirit of the
all the Only last Saturday week I was weeks seemed
more French people who accepted the fato which war imposed. They fled from swimming in the lovely pool of credible. All those fourneys across
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By Abner Dean
BUER
"It's a recipe the coaxed, out of the concesionaire at the ball park!"
that lovely French-country turned in the station; at Tours did not seem into chaos by the spread of war were 80 real. And it made me, mad to Think of the Germana stumping curiously remote.
The Heinkels which came over about the Paris which had left lere and bombed when we were stopped than a week before.