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THE prefix "Epecial to the Telegraph” i used by the longkang Telegraph to indicate news which is auteti copyright under the provistans of the Telecommuni- rations Ordinance, 1936. Such dows a | bears the indication "UP" It received in Blangkong on the date of publication by the United Press Amočistions, who servo all rights and forbid republication, either wholly or in part without previous arrangement
Air Raids and News
-
Newspapers throughout the British Empire feel that they are giving their readers a raw deal regarding the news of air raids in England.
The news about air raids is dull, and people no longer want to read it. Yet war in the air fa vivid. Like all war it is terrible; it is abominable. But it is dramatic.
It should be the greatest j Instrument of
Hitler's Dream for
South America
ST MARGARETT BETAALD Government Now York.
inquiry
has
WE
17E are directly and immodi- brought to light the existence ately concerned in what of a nation-wide Nazi organisa- is happening now in South tion assisted by the German America. Within the last few Legation, which embraced wooks-almost within the fow
4
days the outline of a grandiose Hitler Youth organisation, n plan conceived in Berlin has Storm-Troop body, a branch of falton into place.
the Gestapo, Nazi motor-cycle " --Hitler's dream spreads already and glider organisations, and beyond Europe. It envisages a particularly thorough the creation among the tremen- chinery for propaganda. dous, fertile, richly-stocked
Intensive propaganda is go. plains and mountains of South
MA-
America of a new Germany," ing on, backed by Germans of where food find raw materials to property and wealth, who head supply the Master Race of the local Nazi population, Europe will be gathered and ex- timated at 250,000. ported,
C#-
U. S. A
MEXICO GUATAMALA. HONDURAS
SALVADOR HICARAGUA
COSTA RICA PANAMA ***
By ROBERT WAITHMAN
But there is this difference At the beginning of the
now.
covery which as it dawns over
The groundwork is being laid In Paraguay and Bolivia the war America had still to make by the Nazis in South America extent of the Nazi organisation, an immenso discovery-n dis- now with a kind of boastful while it is known to be great, the country is changing the out- openness which Indicates that has not yet been uncovered. look for everybody. That dis- the plan has a short-range as
well as a long-range objective. In Brazil, where one estimate covery is that the Monroe Doc- trine may not be practicable For the present it in the short- puts the number of persons of and that hemisphere defence range objective that most close- Germun blood at 1,000,000 and may be an impossibility unless ly concerns us.
the number of persons of Ita- the British Fleet remains intact
the and effective. What the Nazis hope to do is lian descent at 3,000,000, to create sufficient confusion German Fifth Column, which is Now the United States has to make their threat look thoroughly well organised, is decide. To keep everything at sufficiently pressing to divert rumoured to have the sympathy hume, fight the Nazis in South United States aid from Britain. of certain of the army leaders, America, try to defend the he
and
for scaring
PERU
CUBA. JAMAICA HAITI „COLOMBIA ECUADOR VENEZUELA (BRITISH`GÜIAND QUICH ZUUIARA [FRENCH GUIANA
BRAZIL
BOLIVIA
PARAGUAY URUGUAY ARGENTINA
CHILE
Enough information has now well as of wealthy traders, misphere independently of what British control of the seas and come from South America to and the possibility of a rising happens to Britain and the to strike not at a branch of the make it reasonably certain that, to oust the Vagas Government British Fleet? Or to throw its Nazi tree, but at its root?
the country is weight into the sente in Europe If and when the United States and to Nazify
This may be the greatest de. and Increases its ald to Britain to being discussed.
give every help to the ciston America has bad to make a point where it is seriously im In Mexico the Nazi effort le British in order to insure the since it decided on the Declara- peding the German effort in obviously
Monroe Doctrine by insuring tion of independence. concentrated uri Europe, a Nazi revolution will creating a means break out in South America. It the United States into concen-) will be staged in the belief that trating military resources n the United States will thus be that direction and away from frightened into keeping every Europe. ́available aeroplane and gun at home in readiness for a Nazi attack on the United States it- rally it seems evident that in self.
all the republies the majority of people are pro-Ally. But Nazi organisations are not concerned
That is the German plant,
As to South America gene-
is in its early stages yet. It with peoples' sentiments. They can be upset-upset and de- are working on the political and But there are only military leaders on molished. two nations now left to upset hand and on the other hand on it. One is Great Britain and the commercial interests.
the one
the other is the United States, It hus been revealed
Military
Psychology
CERTAIN explanationsmc
have
and would perhaps plucked victory from defeat
Petain *went by the book," and
are surely due to the British reader in view of the whole riper military experience this the recent debacle in of France supported him in so do- city to see that Britain and the week that the Germans are now France. That they have with the exception
of the re- doubtable General de Gaulle, a mo-
And it requires little perspica-
Falto Hopes
men of his own euste la the German
ыгоня
for
United States will have to work offering delivery of manufac together if they are to succeed, tured goods in several Latin- not been forthcoming is [dernlat, sceptical of the traditional.
American republics for The German effort in South September-and, moreover, are
next another proof of the in- America so far has been spread posting cash bonds which they defensibly insular_nes- That the aged Marshal hoped for over Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay, will forfeit to buyers if delivery cience of our writers, chivalrous consideration from the Bolivin and Brazil, with " is not made by that time.
and our public, concern-Cotunand is clear from the phrases separate side-show running In Mexicu, on the borders of the
The prices they are quoting ing the spirit of Con- employed in his request for ar- United States.
mistice, especially those in which he all cases are so low that
tinental institutions in land
uponi that inilitary United States exporters can-
chivalry and courtesy in which he propaganda A mass of detail, cabled up not possibly compete
and with general
military himself had been trained. Hitler has given England. from South America by United them. Remember how we were horri-States newspapermen who have
ideals in particular.
The last card he could play in the dreadful clrcumstances fied at the Japanese raids on now ferreted out information All these details, descending
was an ap- For the people of the greatest peal to caste consideration, un appeal Shanghai. Canton, Hankow? which should have been avail- now on the United States as the
ever knew, to "the soldier's coat," as the saying At the bombings of civilians in able months ago, contains these Government prepares to meet Empire the world
goes on the Continent, to Freemo- Spain. At Mussolini's mur-high-lights
the Latin-American republics, we are still dangerously ignor-sonty of the Sword. This soldierly ill Uruginy A derous air campaign
philosophy and camaraderie, Ethiopia 7 It was those vivid
can Conference in Havana, are Europe of which presumably we islands, is a very stories that swayed public newspapers and Daventry can-frankly alarming. For United are a geographical part. What Continental military circles, or was opinion throughout the world not give the lie direct to this States policy has been, and, as has puzzled most people in these Petain thought himself justified, to until recently, and that Marshal sort of Nazi propaganda because Secretary Hull last week made. Why then does Britain make! we are permitted to receive only plain, still is, founded on the islands is the quick change of some extent, in relying upon its de- whenever the cenefes, is not surprising to anyone the news of the horrible murder the official communiques from Monroe Doctrine, which com- front revealed
aware of its spirit and traditions. mits the United States to op-destinies of France were placed London.
If the people responsible for pose any change of sovereignty in the hands of her military Corps in Europe is, or was, a defialte To put it in a word, the Officers British propaganda would only in any part of the American caste.
caste, the lost surviving fragment of realise the disservice they are hemisphere. Since the begin-
mediaeval knighthood, a "spiritual" war the United The assumption secus to have body, not national in its ideals and doing the British cause there'd ning of the be a lot of deadwood thrown out States Government has thought been that that caste is similar to our code so much as international, an ideal which all who wear "the a situation as confronted it in much cherish, and the requests of whose the same spirit. The truth is that, "brothers" must within reasonable strictly speaking, we have no "mill-bounds be regarded as fraternally tary caste," only the most sporadic (sacred.
against the aggressors.
of civilians in England dull in the news bulletins for the Press and for the wireless.
"Enemy aircraft attacked a town in the south-east. There were one or two casualties."
this month at the Pan-Ameri-ant of the standards of thatch we have no pale in these
thing
After you have read the same of the departments which are and spoken in terms of hemis-own, and that it would react to suchidier's coai" must respect and
old statement a dozen times, making such a mess of it all.
and heard the Daventry announcer repeat it, you get bored. Which is Hitler's aim. He wants you to get tired and bored; get fed up with the raids and the whole war.
When we are forced to repeat in our columns that the R.A.F. is bombing Germany thoroughly, and that the Germans are losing a lot of planes to inflict "some casualties" on England, some of us add doubt to our boredom. There is no valid reason to doubt the authenticity of the official bulletins. They are accurate. The only thing that makes them appear inaccurate is the way. Router's and other agencies have to put them out.
In Hongkong we get lots of bright air raid stories, with Berlin date-lines. If we were to give them the prominence they deserve from a news point of viow the British stories of the air raids would receive even leas attentio
Chatterbugs in Hongkong who know someone aboard a ship just out from England tell about the thousand of casualties" at auch-and-such in place, about Buch-and-such a seaport being wrecked. That, they are be- loved by some people is due solely to the fact that the
FUNNY SIDE UP
J.G. BUMPLE
PRESIDENT
PRIVATE.
PEAN
"The boss'
phere defence.
By Abnor Dean
them time off to get
| vestiges of such a body being visible That Marshal Pelain's plea would
in certain crack corps and service receive some sentimental considera- clubs,
No "Last Ditch"
tion from the more traditionally minded among the German Command is, by no means Improbable, though, in the circumstances, they would have little opportunity or heart to
But if we judge the Continental soldier by our own, we are not only unfair to both, but make no allow support it, in view of the savage and Tariarly" attitude of their trium- ances for the former's training and phant Fuhrer, for Herr Hitler can prejudices. From the Continental scarcely be credited with the softer point of view, one might as well inspirations of chivalry.
blame Marshal Petain and General Weygand for what we belleve to be deplorable lapse of patriotism, as
All "Fascists”.
I do not seek' to 'excuse Marslini expect, a distinguished exponent of
Petain's 'action, I feel that he was chess, when he found himself beaten, utterly and wretchedly mistaken in to throw down the table and engage the course be adopted, but I can un his opponent in Asticuffs.
derstand the absurd” prejudices and
In the grim and narrow lexicon of antique inspirations which made him the Continental art of warfare thore take it.
is no idiom comparable with our
It is being said in many circles in "fighting to the last ditch.". Such a this country that he is a Fascist.” process would be regarded as not The statement strikes mo as peculi only unscientific but even absurd. Iarly provincial.. All Continental mill- am not hero concerned with the tary oflcers without, exception, ethics of
continuing a losing struggle to the end, a principle which, like should say, to whatever Army they are "Fascists" to, the may belong, most Britons I naturally adhere to marrow of their bones, and the but strictly with the Continental sooner we realise the fact the better view of strategy, A
for ourselves. By "Fascist," here, I Marshal Petsin, according to his mean a man who believes, that by own code, though not to ours, realised be organised Into the semblance of Firon discipline blone dati humanity n still more: disastrous condition of affairs.Faced by forces of hitherto order and who, by training and incredible destructiveness/momen tradition, has a leaning to Hitler's and mobiilly elements not tanical system. A urially associated in warfareedad. And it is furt - backtans wo, as für by:::something, indeed, resembling ca beople, hate and dread:anything" in general chaos,” he glanced at a hmd | the nature'l at fironyellicipline””, that destitute of "honours", and nutans, we : rightly determined to struggle tically threw it in, in circumstances against it to the end-upart from all
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