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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

GONE

ARE THE HORSE `AND CARRIAGE:

And Gode with them are the old-fashioned methods of wa ing the carriage,

Have you been using the same aulo wax for years... simply through force of habi!? ..

August 2, 1940.

Workers Of

Of Britain

And The Empire

WE ARE

BEHIND YOU

Don't use a horse and carriage AMERICAN Labour

auto want.

It is no longer necessary to work all day, to wear yourself out... to RUB and RUB, in order in attala, a waterprool, weather resisting was finish for

your car.

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Whit

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supports the cause

By William

Green

of the Allies to the full- President of the American Federation of Labour,

ost extent.:)

We believe all the help the United. States can give to the Allies should be extended.

which has membership of over 4,000,000. Af filiated unions number 1,563.

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 alune. :

4

A glance at the map shows the dimeuities. France has had to endure in. face of the success of Germany's hammer blows. The thrust to the Channel ports and the treachery of

King Leopold sobbed her of the help of the greater part of the British Expeditionary Force and two, of her own armies. 1 gravely Increased the length of the defensive front that resources and entirely destroyed the value of the Maginot Line.

condemns, without be crushed once and for she had to hold with her depleted

hesitation or reservation, all in this war.

The situation for this country is Wo cannot contem- the policies and prac

the gravest in our history, but in tices of Nazi Germany, plate even the possibili- Mr. Churchill's brave words, "We ty of free men submit-Ball yet weather the storm if we oil

do our duty." This feeling is practic. Soviet Russia and Fasting to dictatorship. ally unanimous in this cist Italy. Our hope and country. The American prayer is that the forces Federation of Labour of Totalitarianism may

Britain "Listens In"

Among radio-speakers į who talk in English at!

The

We in the United States know to-day that

But we must first defeat our two gravest enemies-aur smug self- satisfaction and our habitual and all but unconquerable self-complacency, Infinitely serious as the news of the surrender of the French Army

there will be one compensating even our country is advantage so far as the safety of this

island is concerned, menaced. Therefore, our

So long as the French held 'out we Government has launch-in duty bound had to disseminate our strength by sending every man ed 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.

We have served warn-

regular intervals from Hongkong Telegraph. favourable to the Allies

Friday, August 2, 1940,

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within the limits it has

lost, the problem of transporting them assumed greater and more difficult proportions every day.

Relleved of that responsibility, we

military and air force resources on

almost immediate future.

It is no longer a question of pro-

abroad the best-known

set itself. He learnt to ling to the dictators of ball be able to concentrate our to British listeners are

take an interest in the Europe to keep their deleating any attempts at invasion Mr. Raymond Gram

Presidential campaign, hands 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 known as Lord Haw partly because it is in- the details of the elec-of our national defence lecting ourselves only against attack Haw whose words are formative to know the toral procedure were includes the Dominion from the air and Invasion by pir 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

permit no foreign in-Atlantic, it can no longer be expect that men so diametrical- own actions. If this is news of week-to-week vader to set foot on ly opposite as these two what Germany says and happenings

in the

:

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borne troops.

the whole const from Antweep to the

ed that our Navy will be able to

guarantee protection from the arrival of sea borne troops. Flects of fast molor-boats can be transported in hundreds by rall to the French Channel ports and they can complete

speed.

It is to the Air Force more than to the Navy that we must look for

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

Swing. "America speak- them the life of a women of the United them is not the word.

No one likes Lord Haw ing." The Briton has civilized nation that is States say to the workers ausistance to hinder and harass such "Haw. Britons do not little expectation-that-not, as they are, im- of Great Britain and motor flects 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.

My

Five

Tall happened in five astonish- ing weeks. They are weeks that seem like years.

Looking back there is but a muddle of impressions and memories all crowded one into the other. I have not yet been able to sort them out.

During those weeks I saw the rapid collapse of France. At the true time I did

the not renilse significance of the startling events which followed one on the other,

P

Weeks In

France

the Racing Club in the Bois de

By RONALD Boulogne,

WALKER

War Correspondent with the R.A.F. in France

their homes. Their patience herolc.

In the hot sun and among the lazy figures soaking it up, the war seemed very improbable. Two days later the people of Paris were stampeding out of the city as the Germans swept across the Selne.

I shall not forget those last hours in Parks, the courage of the people suddenly brought face to face with Before I managed to get a lift final disaster, the terrible scenes at home in an R.A.F. machine from the stations where thousands woited 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.

When we drove out of the

☆ *

Also, I shall never forget

Germany invaded Holland on May 10. That evening I left London to hurry back to R.A.F. H.Q. by boot. Next morning we were greeted at Le Havre by the walling strens which Champagne town, it was shak- were to become all too familiar. ing with the bursting of Ger- those endless streams of re That evening I got back to the town man bombs. from machines fugees who poured out endless- 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 bombing -our nerodromes. Two

ing Force led a thordughly gipsy life had missed 1,000lb. bombs

wandering across France, chateau which housed H.Q., but had upset the swarmi of staff officers who

the

Bouth, All towns in their path became babel and confusion. The din of that unending traffic still rings in my cars.

During those weeks I was twiceMy last journey in France was flew the aeroplanes from office desks, in Paris. It was Parls of the sum mode, in a horse-box-the famous

40 Chevaux D" kind. iner. The Champs Elysees was gay "Hommes

and There were nearly 300 of us, R.A.F.. with the coloured awnings

* * * That is the beginning of the umbrellas of the cafes. The capital officers and men. We spent two carried on, even though, the enemy days in that train to travel some story. The first real shock came was pounding at the dolentes away 150 miles. Wo got to our destina- tion tired and filthy on Saturday with the news that the Germans to the north-cast,

had broken through at Sedan.. One happening hit the people of morning. Bacon and eggs in a In six days the people of the town Perls hard during those early days. Salvation Army hut cheered us up. who had watched the streams of came out at nine o'clock one mom Again we got into a refugee-filled

Ing to learn of the capitulation of town, I slept in a garage. refugees from Belgium and the fron- liar areas were packing and joining Leopold. Paris did not smile that the proccasion.

day.

In the morning I got the unex- pected chance of a seat in an air craft. Flying over the English southern counties the previous Ave more In- French people who accepted the fate Only last Saturday week I was weeks seemed all the which war Imposed. They fled from swimming in the lovely pool of credible. All those journeys across

still marvel at the spirit of the

the moment--of-disembarkation;-and.

strong mobile force of land troops to jbe kept in readiness to proceed to

The L.D.V. will be of inestimable

courageous_fight, our hearts are with you. We any threatened point. will do everything that value in forwarding early informa- lies within our power to tion of enemy movements, but they help you."

FUNNY SIDE UP

are not yet sufficiently armed or trained to be of real fighting value."

By Abner Dean

""'It's a recipo she coaxed out of the concessionaira 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 so real. And it made me mad to [think of the Germans, xtumping curiously remote.

The Heinkels which came over about the Paris,which I had left less and Bordbell:When we were stopped than a week before. ··

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