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PPEALS for food for people
in the countries overrun by Hitlor are being made. America is being told that these people are being starved to death by the British blockade.
An official statement issued in London confirmed that not only the people of Poland, Czecho- Slovakia, Norway, Denmark, Hol- land, Belgium and France are in danger of being starved, but that virtually the whole of Europe, with the exception of Britain,
faces a famine.
It is because. Hitler and Mus- solini know that, in a few months, they will be hungry, too. that they are in a hurry now. While the dictators puff them- selves out with victories, their people may collapse with empty stomachs.
Europe faces famine because Nature has helped Hitler and Mussolini to render the recog nised "feed boxes" impotent. Frosts and floods have ruined crops to such an extent that yields in the main grain-produc- ing areas are reported to be anything from 25 to 50 per cent.
Hongkong Telegraph below normal.
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Japan & Indo · China
Events of the past few days must have, to those who read between the liner, Hfted to some extent thei vell of soerery that has shrouded
Seven years ago Germany boasted that she got to 80 per: cent, self-sufficiency, but omit- ted to announce that she has lost the fertility of her land and had no means of restoring it. She did not say that in the five
One town where there
the evacuation of Hongkong. Weis
venlure to prophesy that there are many people in the Colony who, veherment it) Their opposition in evaruntion a fortnight age, would to-day be equally opposed to the repatriation of their families.
The situation us it is in the For
still
{peace
APE RIUVE is an ugly car-
East to-day does not appear 10 the Tagus is both wide and deep directly affect Hongkong, at least for here.
And the great four-
the-time-being:-and-it-is-on-French engined Boeing Atlantic Clippers Indo China that our attention is of Pan-American Airways have. centred. There
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IS BEGINNING
STARVE
By KENNETH PIPE
years before war broke out more tries, under arms instead than 400,000 farm workers countries under the plough.
years, she is still half a million tons short of normal require- ments,
Russia is the greatest wheat country in the world, but fews is seeping out of the worst famino since 1932-33. -.
is how some of Ger- This many's victims are faring. In Norway, flour is rationed to less of than a quarter of a pound for
each person per week.
were taken into arms factories. Jugo-Slavia, normally a rich In Denmark the pig industry
so short af food that starvation
EVERY day of gigantic mo- source of supply, is now the has been virtually quidated; dern warfare has reduced Ger- worst hit of all the Danublan livestock is being killed to pro- many's degree of self-sufficiency, countries,
vide food. and her food stocks, whatever
Rumania and Hungary tried Ravages of war have left the they may have been.
to make good their wheat losses This year Germany lost a by growing maize, but they people of Belgium and Holland quarter of her wheat aren took their labour from the fields is thought to be not more than through bad weather; her vege- when the armies were mobilised. two months distant. tables also were ruined by frost. So, too, with the other countries
Britain alone can escape the Colorado beetles have destroyed whose fields are bare and de- her potatoes.
serted while their soldiers are famine in Europe. Vast stocks garrisoned in idleness and fear. of wheat and flour in our ware- Poland might have been n
houses, and the certainty of valuable store-house, but the Spain, # pro-Axis non-belli- huge supplies from our Do- great food-yielding areas there, gerent, is the saddest spectacle minions and the Americas, en- ravaged by war during the sow- of all. Civil war ravaged the sure the adequate feeding of ing season, now hold only mil- countryside and destroyed every every Briton for a long time. lions of poorly fed Poles. Every thing that might have been
country Germany has invaded eaten. Spain has changed little We can say nothing of Bri- is faced with shortage of food since the alleged pence came to tain's own harvest, but plenty and animal feeding stuffs..
her.
about Britain's sources of supply
Canada has overseas.
record Outside Europe, Germany's MUSSOLINI can lend Hitler carryover of wheat, and 431,- food supplies are cut off, She men, but not food. Only 20 per 500,000 bushels are available must look to the Balkans, where cent. of Italy can be tilled; her for export to Britain. In addi- the majority of the fields re- colonial possessions can give her tion, Canada has planted an main unploughed. Fler non but little aid. With the best extra 1,500,000 acres of whent combatant neighbours are coun- crop of wheat forecast for three this year-reserved for Britain.
Who Wrote This?
E question whether or not a nation be desirable as an ally is not so much determined by the inert mass of arms which it has ut hand but by the obvious presence of a sturdy will to national self-preservation and a heroic courage which will fight through to the last breath.....
"The British nation will therefore be considered as the most valuable ally in the world as long as it can be counted on to show that brutality and tenacity in its government, as well as in the spirit of the broad masses, which enables it to carry through to victory any struggle that it once enters upon, no matter how long such a struggle may last or how. ever great the sacrifice that may be necessary' or whatever the means that have to be employed: and all this even though the actual military equipment at hand may be utterly in adequate when compared with that of other nations."
ADOLF HITLER: "MEIN KAMPF"
Britain's own stock of wheat and flour is believed to be enough to provide a year's supply of bread; in addition, de- livery is expected of an extra 50,000,000 bushels bought from Canada a few weeks ago. That is nearly four months normal supply.
Australia has had a record crop and is selling 92,000,000 bushels to us and reserving an- other 66,000,000 bushels to ba called on when needed. Austra- lian farmers are ready to in- crense the production.
America has a grand harvest, too. Her crop this year is esti- mated at 723,000,000 bushels. At least 90,000,000 bushels will be available for export. A large proportion of 270,000,000 bushels left over from last hur- vest are also available. Britain can have as much as she needs.
seems little, doubt plenty of space to land and take ANOTHER BRILLIANT STRUBE CARTOON
that there has been a considerable off on the New York-Azores-
movement of both troops and war- ships towards the French colony, and there is no reason to disbelieve the reports that some 30,000 Japanese troops are now concentrated on the Kwangsi-Indo China border, which has been the scene of hostilities be- tween China and Japan for some months past. Whether the Japanese) concentrations on seu und land are
for demonstration purposes only, or whether Japan's motive is to carry
Lisbon run.
There is much coming and going)
of the few in Lisbon to-day. Portugal is one tranquil corners of troubled Europe. It is Europe's matri international air centre.
Celebrities fit through Lisbon ko shindows.
Early morning, scenes when the Clipper's engines are running and seats must be taken are often patho- tic.
out the policy enunciated in Tokyo: One morning a famous French
of a "Greater Asia" which will named, M. le Comte de Chambrun, sweep the European from cast Asiu desperately waved a letter showing remains 10 be seen, The French that he had an appointment for the day after to-morrow with President authorities in Indo China cannot Roosevelt at the White House. M. fail to be perturbed at the latest le Comte de Chambeun stayed in developments. The Japanese huve Lisbon to uwait his turn
Frankly sinted that the war in:
Europe is the "Golden' Opportunity"
and France, smashed by the Incom-
prehensible failure of her leaders, famillar visitors. Liners and Greek The port of Lisbon, too, sees un- is in no position to protect her over-ships going to the United States now
call here,
sens domains.
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What happens in French Indo American naval units, those which In the Tagus lie a small group of China cannot fail to have repercus- were kept at Villefranche in the sions In Hongkong. A Successful Mediterranean in peace days. Japanese Invasion of the French At night their great husky sailors Colony would further isolate British raise whoopce at the Concha Bar or ahow the local ladies who make possessions east of Singapore, would busing
enthusiastic tearners-how 1 real even bring Japan within striking] jitterbug takes the floor in the distance of the great fortress itself. Arcadia Cabaret to the music of an The Japanese militarists need little orchestra led by an American negre, encouragement, as pust 'events have Harry Fleming
And in Lisbon's enormous cafes, shown, to take the bit between their with two or three floors packed Ught teeth and fi is not inconceivable that with coffee-drinkers (you can talk they would decide to "go the whole for three or four hours for a two- hog" once having started an adven- penny cup of coffee), above the roar ture in Indo China. The fact that of conversation you hear: "Now if
I had been Weygand
or: "Now any military operations against the the strategic key to the Somme French colony would be directed by zituation really was.
over.
J
the Japanese South China Commnnnd, It's the same the whole world! which has is headquarters at Can- ton, cannot reassure any third Power with territory us close to the scene as are Hongkong and Macno.
ไป that direction. Relations; too, between the Japanese army and the Reassurance, however, is gained British military authorities appear to from the fact that the situation on be calm and the only divergence of the Hongkong frontier has remained view between Hongkong and the perfectly normal since the Japanese Japanese to-day is the dispute re- re-occupied the border zone Jastgurding: the Blunt-Okazaki: Agree- month; and there have been no visi-ment, which regulates "traffle along ble signs of any Japanese activity. the Pearl River, i
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