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JUST RECEIVED BY CLIPPER LATEST MOVIETONE WAR NEWS
· British and Italian warships bättle in the Mediterranean. French warships surrendered to British,
.
Nazi bombers attack convoys-planes down,
Naxi prisoners sent to Canada.
War in 'Egypt-Italian prisoners. Etc. Etc.
Tuesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
August 27, 1940.
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1938
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THE ITALIANS TAPPING
SECRETS
AS FIGHTERS OF THE
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1934
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1940
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1930
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$1000
scribed as the biggest
21819 2106 $1200 military defeat in history.
Six German divisions and six Austrian, with 300 bat- teries only, defeated 600,000 13900 Italians. It was not only a defeat, it was a rout, and 600,000. Ithlians ran in com- plete panic, only stopping
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Tuesday, August 27, 1940. Wyndham St., Hongkeng Telept one: 20015
THE prefix "special to the Telegraph" is used by the loagkong Telegraph" to
indicate news which arietty copyright
under the provisions of the Telecommunt- cation Ordinance, 1936. Each wyw bears the indication -UP": la recelerd in ifongkong on the date of pebilen ky Eh "Untied Perks Associations, who rủi
By
One Who Fought
when their line was 70 miles With Them
to the rear of where they started from.
WAS
eye-
con-
man
Fr WILS Kas poisoning, the
varying
stages of
☆
are all fights and forbid fegubilation majority being unable to speak. WHEN we got into the War
either wholly or la part without previens arrangement,
it was decided to sandwich the "Eye
MAILS
Ties" In between the British and ONE of my minor thrills early
French, since in no other way could'
in this war was to see wait-
they be kept in the line, and very ing on the hall table a letter often then we had machine-guns be-from overseas marked with a hind them. At zero hour we had to
T
cross the Plave (on mean, feat, the rubber stamp, "Passed by Cen- river being two miles wide and in Bor," In all belligerent countries places a swift current) by the various war conditions cause the mail bridge heads allotted to the different destined for or coming from I had to go over with the abroad to pass through a fine net Infantry Forward Observation
armics.
wade up to our neck.
It would be his Inst.
arrived འ་ Our counter
When
n
Any suspicion.
carlier
lead those
Ocer. The French and ourselves of inspection and control. col over alter a bad Ume, apart from Every type of epistle passes under anything else having at times to the eyes of the letter censors, who grow immune to the extremes in The Italians did not arrive and written evidence of love and hate, where they should have been were the Austrians, in the same front line lusty success and ruin, hope and fear. smiles and cheers: at the latter as the French on one side and the They are looking strictly for "busi-
Bettis on the other.
"24 ness" which means, broadly, treason- I have had it from
by sullen indifference.
Subsequently, I learnt that they able activities. witnesses (British 0-inch
The Italians were finished found their bridge head o bil hot and It may surprise many people to howitzer batteries were there with the war and as we marched had come elong to ours, which at know that even in peace-time letters at the time) who told that the through Italy we were hissed, the time was not being so heavily can be intercepted quite legally, and
shelled
come of the methods of control used Italians threw away their arms, our coming to stir things up
The British officer in charge of our In prace time are used in war-time equipment and anything else being highly unpopular.
bridge head dealt with the situation also. For the object, of the authori- which impeded their flight and We soon found out that the by producing his revolver, pointing ties is not always only to read what rushed pell-mell in utter
Italians were born thieves. They it at the Källan general's stomach a certain individual is writing or re- It may also be to concral wormed their way into the train, and informing him if he moved a step criving Stubbs Road fusion,
info our billets and even our dug. In the direction of our bridge bead from him that he is regarded win Foch and Sir Henry Wilson outs, pinching boots, clothes, After 24 most critical hours thr went at once to Italy and it was equipment and anything else Italians
Giving Him Rope decided to send immediate help, they could lay their hands on. battery work had by then silenced When
espionage or Oficial moreover it was considered i myself lost the whole of my many of the Austrian batteries shell- Secrets ease particularly the former
ing their bridge head.
-at inst comes to court and people. advisable to send the best troops equipment en route to Italy, the
During all this time my advanced learn that against one or several of France and England could spare rail waggon being deliberately signalling post had been shelled by the defendants a good case has exist at the time. Plumer and his disconnected and left behind, lalian guns and no effort on my ed for some time, they often wonder fine Second Army were chosen Later I again lost the majority sent back could stop them.
[rart ( still retain the messages why the authorities did not pounce for the British, and my battery of my equipment and even had the Italians arrived I lost most of umetent rope, a suspect may often
The reason
1- that, given withdrawn from Pas my revolver, glasses, compass my fighting kit as I have mentioned
watching him to his chendaele, where it had suffered etc. stolen by italian troops before-even in battle they can't principais or expose a mass of in-
keep their hands from stealing 75 per cent, casualties, and every when engaged in the Line
formation atherwise unobtainable. single
In the meantime he may be regular- ly forwarding reports, but, so long as HE French simply detrated the their nature is known, their value
Italians; it was a mixture of con- } can be nullified. area we found it infested tempt and loathing, and perpetual
"We British just The secret interception of letters in ☆
with spies and traitors and iden. fruds took place.
them ទេវ "Wopa," weak one of the methods by which such n lification cards had to be issued, treated
watched. In war-time specimena who should be shown con- suspect is WE had instructions to clean We also found that the Italians descending sympathy for their miser-everyone sending letters out of the
country ourselves of the mud dur- had an arrangement with the able condition.
or receiving letters from British Governments ing the train journey to Italy Austrians whereby either side Their nying people weren't bad, broad knows that they are inter- lettera may carry messageE which, for tamtestaken pol to discuss price terms and to arrive in spick and polish caused any superfluous trouble, but in those days they were in fairly cepted.
and a little mild non-dangerous mali numbers. before teaching complete ngreement | order.
the authorities, But, Their cavalry was superb, in the time, escape on the conditions necessary to ensure
demonstration of war was all Olympia Horse Show manner, but with the overseas mails watched, it them an effective to each of
and
It was 14 glorious journey that was required.
as they were never used they could i thought reasonable that people Josting guarantee of their security along the Riviera after the con-
We
turn out in immaculate
lety engaged may attempt to even discovered Italian afford to irt LIN
that the Iritish suppone
centrated hell of Passchendaele, aviators flying over to Austrian
transmit messages under cover of, valtorm and aplomb. Government, after a severe military
or books. but
welcome along our
The only time I personally found for instante, newspapers delent, had asked the French Gover-
the aerodromes having dinner, and the Italian dangerous was on Armis-To a large extent the traffic in those inent to release it from this under- French Rivlern was very differ flying back! The story went lice Day, when most British troops has been stopped, but it is likely that taking in order that might sue for
ent to that of the Italian Around that one RAF pilot was kept to their billets in view of the approved firms of good standing will effect ag primistice, that though the
the former we were greeted
peculiar antics of the "Wops," who for be allowed to carry on importing ¡given the D.S.0. for bringing the first time were hurling live bombs foreign newspapers, magazines, end of the British
with fruit, flowers, cigarettes, down several of these offenders, about the place. Fitish capitulation would be to enable the Gecinans to concentrute thrit whole strength against the
but at the same time profuse There was then no one to throw French, using for this purpose British
apologies were tendered for the anything back at them! Irritory British industrial resoUEVES,
"mistake."
A few days later those magnificent and British naval bases, the French
blue cloaks began to appear, mar- Government hack #gired
vellous riding breeches, boots, spuri extreme proporat en condition that
and all the rest of the paraphernalia. the British fleet was sent to Fiersh
Betish Government the *** had then concluded an
Remustice unde: agreement with Germany which the British Beet was put under German and Italian contro Would any Frenchman have held that France morally bound to low THES this effected?
And how transfer to br
have seriousl wrnald many Britons contended that it was the duty of the French to all back and watch this happen M. Baudouin, the Pelain Foreign Minister
apparently un- able to find anything discreditable in the French Government's desertion
Balance Of Power
This
pras
The
On March 20 French announced that they had mutually
of the
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of an ally and of its readiness to pul that ally, so far as it could, of the mercy
common enemy. To Justify this betrayal, he argues that the help we gave France was inade- quate, and that France had suffered from following too closely our lead in her foreign policy. In other wordzi The fact that France
pursued
A
her evil
foreign palkey that he condemns is sufficient excuse for betraying an ally, That ally he holds was genius. And the betrayal has, in his advantage, that it eyes, this great enables his Government to render a service to Germany and Italy of such sensational value to make them forget the occasions when France
was
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MANSION WILL BE PETS' WAR
HOSPITAL
THE Italian
a The Hallans had won the War!
Infantryman1
was micetable, specimen, dirty, weedy And despicable with complete absence of guts Their natural tend- ey to run was always to the fore
HAVE not mentioned the Navy,
books.
Even
Intercepted
Sweepstake Traffic
years
The
Ite
MRS HORACE BOOT, wealthy animal lover, has turned
and they were completely unashamed except that the ships ! her fortz-zoomed mansion, Clarefeld Court, at
about it. Pinkneys Green, Berks, into a war hospt- tal for stray animals.
There still remain several possible reasons for the secret Interception of Inland malls. The occasion is not al- ways a matter of espionage. Within the last few
perfectly legal interception by the Post Office has been aimed at the tropping of dealers
sweepstake 11
tickets. because I know little about Itcipients of the letters have not sus-
pected that
that they have been opened. the senders. But the filthy and generally beflagged with No have
authorities have acquired informs- in the Axtago district we had two washing. I believe it is true to say on relating to, say, the ordering of Italian
to sappers
the that
the Italians have never In battery
blasters (they
sweep tickets by a would-be trame- were modern times experienced any naval her. The making dug-outs in the rock)
molt directed One engagement. Whatever is said about address day we were badly shelled and after their numerical naval strength it is
from
the appropriate quarter
are found and confiscated, The interception of letters
She has planned the evacuñ- tion of pet cats from danger oreas, the protection of animals against gas attack, and first-aid for Ruimals injured in air raids, If bombs drop in the Malden- head district
will Boy Scouts search for raslined cats and dogs and take
them
ClareBeld Court, where their wounds wil} be treated and helpers will, if DECERSKEY, kit up with them throughout the night.
Even horses may be taken to the house to be treated, and afterwards turned out into the grounds to recuperate.
represented in all Its different elements by the men who capitulated, Marshal Petain slood for deleatism
ко mistaken as to disoblige them. and dread of popular uction; M.
We
the
big
have to recognise harif Baudouin for the selfish instincts and truth that the Petain Government interests of high fiance and has more friendship for the late business. In every country, on the enemies of France than for her late other hand, there are strong forces alles. It has thrown in its lot with
on the other side: the sentiment of the Axis Powers. This conversion of patriotism, the love of liberty, and France into a puppet Stute by rulers the hatred of Nazi oppression. In who have put most of her territory France this is an unknown quantity. Into German hands, into a dumb and
but nobody will doubt that it is wide- puppet State obedient to Germany spread and of irnmense potential und Italy, has, of course,
strength. striking addition to their previous preponderance of material strength.
1
made
on
In this complex of forces lies the The struggle between freedom and balance of hope and despair in
Everything depends slavery has become struggle Europe. between the British Commonwealth Britain. In the war with Napoleon aided by the powerful help and Britain held out during, twelve years sympathy of the United States, and while the chief States of the Con- the courage of small armies from the tinent moved from side to side as and fell. allies and ex-allies and an alliance Napoleon's fortunes rose
scerned Inevitable.
British
of dictator States able to use ugainst At times Napoleon's complete con- us almost the whole body of Europe quest and to disam though not to overawe diplomacy and British strategy often
tenacity
of
the dictator kept
its spirit. The position is roughly blundered hadly, but her
the war alive-until the force at this. The sheer power States and their carefully advertised which Napoleon was at once the in- terrorism represent for every small stigator and the victim, the force of State the first and most formidable
sentiment, destroyed him. national fact in all its diplomatic
calculations. Our position to-day is something The plight of Rumania illustrates similar. The moral forces that are
this truth. A small
State
decided may
smothered, half imprisoned
to face the horrors of invasion rather under Nazi rule, are a latent power than submit without a struggle. that may become in time as important armies, Switzerland, for example, would in this struggle as regular undoubtedly make
Hitler, having destroyed States that such a choice.
equipment for But physically and materially Hitler were 'ill found in has the Continent in his grip. So far modern war, enjoys a power that has as sympathy and spirit are concerned, no relation to moral authority the position is different. In every even to moral prestige. He uses that country there are people and interests power to bring into his service the that would like to compound with muscles and the skill of conquered Hitler. In France this section was populations.
or
attached
Baw were
ותינו
Mckets
to his
har
it was over "Spaghetti" and "Risotto" the men who count in the end, and 's watched. Almost inevitably the were missing. week later they I have endeavoured to show that side turned up again, all smiles, saying of the question up, that they had run. On being asked
Times may have changed, but caught criminals, Browne and Ken "How far?" they
"Venice," replied
dely Mussolini or anyone else to put nedy, the murderers in an Essex Jane which was 50 or more miles behind! gets into a nation in 25 years, and wo
of Police-Constable Gutteridge, were I have myself seen them run on from what I have seen of the Italians brought to the scaffold when a letter several occasions and the very idea since, even their physical appearance, rem Browne to his wife was inter-
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зале
of holding a position which
was and stamina is unchanged: they only cepted and found to contain a mess- shelled had no appeal of any kind, beat the Abyssinians by using poison age in invisible Ink, written on the neither did their disappearing trick gas and in Spain it is known that, as inside of the envelope. The message bring them the slightest shame.
usual, they ran.
dealt with the subject of revolvers on the track. If the Aussies get at them they will and put the police run so fast and so far that, like the while neither guilty man seriously PERHAPS the worst experience I Gadarene swine they will go tumbling feared that he was suspected. An sulTered was during the final in thousands into their own Mare intercepted letter led to the arrest of Battle of the Plave. For this battle Nostrum!
Samuel Furnace, murderer of Д
man. young London
Furnace al- tempted to conceal the evidene of his
FUNNY SIDE UP
Cor. 1940 h
/
By. Abner Dean crime by firing the shed in which
"First you gotta tell me`who you're gonna vote for!”!
the body lay.
Sct Aside
The Post Office, though few people suspect it, plays a definite part in the that the machinery of detection police and the Secret Service control. Post Office action is legalised by a
Secretary warrant from the Home the
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Postmaster-General, directing that all letters marked with certain
addresses, shall be intercepted. This
lives,
is sent as soon as an in- dividual is suspected of espionage. It goes straight to the sorting office In the district where the suspect. and is fixed above the sorter's cye, Baldly, offering no explanations, it orders him to put aside the wanted letters. From the sorter's hands, when the case is one of espionage, the letters go to the appropriate branch of the Secret Service.
If you for the best of reasons, of course-wished to open a letter secretly, your mind might not travel beyond the obvious method of steaming loose the envelope fnp. But the Secret Service has at least two other, and superior, methods. Most often a strip of paper about one-tent of an inch wide is sliced off the bottom of the envelope. The letter is extracted, photographed Rnd replaced. Then this is the magical part quantity of special paper is placed over the suit, com- pressed, and dried by electrical means. As the Secret Service does the job, the naked eye can discover no sign of the operation.......... Every colour and texture of envelope can be matched exactly.
John A. Smith.