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HITLER IS IN HURRY BECAUSE
EUROPE
APPEALS for food for people
in the countries overrun by Hitler 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- Slovakla, 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- mised "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. below normal.
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.
THE prenx "Special to the Telegraph Js used by the Hongkong Telegraph" to Indicate news which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni estions Ordinance, 1936. Buch news as bears the indication "U" is received in Hongkong on the date of publiexuon by She did not say that in the five the United Press Associations, who re- serve all rights and forbid repubBraton, elther wholly or in part without previous strangement.
Japan & Indo China
Events of the past few days must have, to those who rend between the liner, lifted to some extent the veil of seercey Und has shrouded
One town where there
the evacuation of Hongkong. We is still
venture to prophesy that there are many people in the Colony who, vehement In their opposition to evacuation fortnight ago, would to-day be equally opposed to the repatriation of their families.
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NAPE RIUVE is an ugly cor-
CAPE is in
in Lisbon to-day. Portugal is unc There is much coming and going of the few tranquil troubled Europe. It is Europe's main international ar centre.
corner of!
The situation as it is in the Far East to-day does not appear to the Tagus is both wide and deep directly affect Hongkong, nt least for here. And the great four- the-time-being, and it (5-on French engined Boeing Atlantic Clippers Indo China tat our attention is of l'an-American Airways have centred. There seems little doubt plenty of space to land and takej that there has been a considerable off on the New York-Azores-i movement of both troops and war- Lisbon run. ships towards the French calony, and there is no reason to disbelieve the reports that some 30,000 Japanese troops are now concentrated on the Kwongsi-Indo China border, which has been the scene of hostilities be- tween China and Japan for some months pust. Whether the Japanese 'concentrations on sen und land are for demonstration purposes only, or whether Japan's motive is to carry uut the policy enunciated in Tokyo of R "Greater Asia" which will sweep the European from east Asia rematis 10 be seen. The French authorities in Indo China cannot fail to be perturbed at the Islest developments. The Japanese have Lankly stated that the War la Europe is the "Golden Opportunity" and France, smashed by the Incom-
prehensible fullure of her leaders,
Celebrities fit through Lisbon liko shadows.
Early morning scenes when the Cipper's engines are running and le. seats must be taken are often pathe-
One morning a famous French named, M. le Comte de Chambrun, desperately waved a letter showing that he had an appointment for the day after to-morrow with President Roosevelt at the White House, M. le Comte de Chambrun stoyed in Lisbon to await his turn
fumillar 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
svas domains.
call here.
What happens In French Indo American
how the local ladies-who make enthusiastic learners-how a real ittierbug takes the floor In thet Arcadia Cabaret to the music of an orchestra led by an American negró,,
inrry Fleming.
In the Tagus le a small group of naval units, those which 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 salfors Colony would further isolate British rose whoopee at the Concho Bar or possessions cast of Singapore, would even bring Japan within striking distance of the great fortress liselt. The Japanese militarists need little encouragement, as past events have
And in Lisbon's enormous cafes, shown, to take the bit between their with two or three floors packed tight teeth and it 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 heart. "Now if any military operations against the the strategic key to the Somme or: "Now I had been Weygand French colony would be directed by ituation really was, the Japanese South Chinn Command, It's the same the whole world which has its hendquarters at Canover. toni, cannot reassure any third Power with territory as close to the scene
in that direction. Relations, too, as are Hongkong and Macao.
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 frontler has remained view between Hongkong and the perfectly normal since the Japanese Japanese to-day, is the dispute re- re-occupied the border zone last gording the Blunt-Okazaki Agree- month, and there have been no visi ment, which regulates truffle along ble signs of any 'Japanese activity the Pearl River.
ΤΟ
IS BEGINNING
STARVE
By KENNETH PIPE
of
years, sho la still half a million tons short of normal require- ments.
Russia is the greatest wheat, country in the world, but news is seeping out of the worst famine since 1932-33.
This is how some of Ger- many's victims are faring. In than a quarter of a pound for Norway, flour is rationed to less
ench person per week.
years before war broke out more tries under arms instead than 400,000 farm workers countries under the plough, were taken into arms factories, Jugo-Slavia, normally a rich
EVERY day of gigantic mo- source of supply, is now the has been virtually liquidated; In Denmark the pig industry dern warfare has reduced Ger- worst hit of all the Danubian livestock is being killed to pro- many's degree of self-sufficiency countries. and her food stocks, whatever
vide food, they may have been.
Rumania and Hungary tried
Ravages of war have left the to make good their wheat losses people of Belgium and Holland This year Germany lost a by growing maize, but they so short of food that starvation 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 countrics Colorado beetles have destroyed whose fields are bare and de- Britain alone can escape the her potatoes,
serted while their soldiers are famine in Europe. Vast stocka Poland might have been
garrisoned in idleness and fear, of, wheat and flour in our ware- valuable store-house, but the Spain, a pro-Axis non-belli- huge supplies from our Do- houses, and the certainty of 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. lious 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 peace enme to tain's own harvest, but plenty and animal feeding stuffs.
about Britain's sources of supply Outside Europe, Germany's
oversens. Canadá has a record 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. Her non- but little aid. With the best extra 1,500,000 acres of wheat combatant neighbours are coun- crop of wheat forecast for three this year-reserved for Britain.
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E question whether or not a nation be desirable as an ally is not so much determined by the inert mass of urms which it has at hand but by the obvious presence of a sturdy will to national self-preservation and a herole 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 milltary 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 be fcalled on when needed. Austra
lian farmers are ready to in- crease 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 har- vest are also available. Britain !can have as much as she needs.
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