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TUNNELS FOR SAFETY
It has becʊme an axiom that when officialdom is not Indulging in the antics of the proverbial oyster, it is emulating the ostrich, oblivious to the things which make for enter- prikag progress. In thia respect Hongkong probably suffers not very much more, or very much less, thaa other parts of the world where sacro- sanct bureaucracy holds sway. Within recent months we have suffered some disturbing experiences
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thus oyster-cum-ostrich policy, notably the evacuation of our women In the tackling too, of and children social problems Government has long, displayed an ineptness equalled only by its cynical disregard of construc- Live suggestions made either through the columns of the press or in docu- out by mented researches carried community-minded res.denia.
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SHOTGUN DIVORCE
DIVORCE
FROM
BRITAIN
The battle for
BRITAIN
the
AST Thursday in
House of Commons the Prime Minister, In moving and eloquent described the action speech, which was taken to prevent the French Float passing into the hands of our enemies.
It was a tragic necessity which
When LA.
all compelled persuasion had proved unavail- ing, to open fire on those who had so lately been our comrades- in-arms.
Every one of those who had to take this grievous decision felt the most intense reluctance, but every- unc realised where their duty lay. not only to our own people, but to the French also, and to all those who are now under the yoke of the Nazis
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If France is to rise again Britain must not fall. If Europe is to be free Nazism must be defeated. the one remaining citadel of liberty in Europe is to be preserved its defenders must not shrink trom taking those actions which the situation demands.
Steele. Complete Unity
All of which only goes Lu make more impressive the announcement that Wing-Commander A.HS, Steele. Perkins, our Director of A.R.P. re- fuses to behave like an oyster when it comes to providing, within Imita- tions which are obviously not his own, shelters for the Colony's population againal possible air raids of the future Wing-Commander Perkins has been to Chungking for the purpose of studying that city's successful A.R.P. He did not aneer of his Instruction; on the contrary, knowing his job well and, recognis ing that the Chungking authorities have evolved their A.R.P. from bitter experience and not from academic theory, vur Director has decided to apply similar principles of protection for Hongkong.
We welcome wholeheartedly his scheme for a tunnel-shelter in Blake
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Here, reprinted as article, is the full text of a speech made by Mr. C. R. Attlee, Lord Privy Seal, in a broadcast.
after the war, but it was not worth while thinking much of one's own part in it,
To-day it is not the fighting men
They
rule to be deceived by this. are well aware that the Nazis seek to impose on the world a new ruling class themselves, more brutal and more oppressive than any of which they have had experience.
They Are Traitors
Every one of us is a fighter against this Hitler weapon. There is a phrase used a great deal now *Firth Columnists" I don't like it. I prefer the old-fashioned word,
alone, but the whole nation which traitors.
la waiting for zero hour.
We are engaged in total warfare ugainst an enemy who will neglect no means of attaining his alm, an enemy who is utterly ruthless In his methods.
He will fix the zero hour to suit himself. I want us all to use the waiting time, be it long or short, to the best possible advantage to our
cause
1 stress the point that all of us have to play our part. It is not easy for us in this country, which has been so long immune from invasion, to realise that we are all in it.
It has not been easy to at every- body into the kind of service which they wish, although much has been done, but there are duties which can be performed by all, whatever
There was no doubt or healta- tion by any member of the Cabinet on this crucial decision. There was their occupation. no doubt or hesitation in the
response of the House of Commons His Other Weapon
WINDSORS MUST ECONOMISE
By Joan Younger United Press Staff Correspondent
Nassau, The Bahamas, Sept.. 29 (UP). The question of whe- ther the "personal touch" of the American-born . Duchess of Windsor can transform the old government house decorations without exceeding the official budget, has society excitedly wondering.
The Bahamian House of As- sembly recently authorised $8,000 for redecoration and It. was understood that the Duchess planned to work with her friend, Lady Mendl, in decorating the 140-year-old mansion.
At present the main living room furniture in the mansion is done in rose-the favourite colour of Queen Mother Mary-and a ten-foot tall picture of the Queen as a youthful bride dominates the spacious dining (Queen Mary has often been reported as one of the royal family who opposed the return of the Duchess of Windsor to Britain after her marriage to the former
room.
Kinz.)
A stail of six servants has been maintained of the mansion, but there was a general belief that more would que hdded by the new governor.
Fantastic stories have sprung up here regarding treasures which the Duke and Duchess are bringing to bedeck the house. These stories have aroused some fear among friends of the couple that a tempest in a ten- pot would be created in event local society gets the impression that their Lostes were too extravagant. More than one governor at Nassau la, the past has seen his requests for change of residence or increased 117» ing credits flatly and holly rejected by the local legisinture.
The outgoing governor, Sir Charles Dundan, after completing the con- struction of new government houses on fashionable Prospect Heights tried to get the legislature to approve transfer of his official residence there but was refused, Any desire on the part of the Duke and Duchess to nove from the present mansion bullt in 1801 and containing seven bed- rooms, six bathrooms and 24 other rooms including the executive coun- cil chambers,
secretary's private office and grand ballroom, would pro- bobly meet similar objections.
Vyvyan Drury, one of the Duke's aide-de-camps who spent the winter in Nassau, has acquired two catales for the Duke, Four Winds and Tal- ping, at exclusivo Cable Beach, It was learned here. Whether the Duke and Duchess will choose to live in them, or merely want them to house members of their entourage, is a question of importance to Nassau society.
I do not think there are many active traitors in this country, There are a few British who have accepted the Nazi doctrine or the
It is clear from comment here that Nazi pay. There are, no doubt,
the social impression made in the few foreigners who are pro-Nazi, though the vast majority of those at weeks at Nassau may affect the tenure of the Duke's stay as gover- in
country are bere just
nor. Nassau was outspoken against because they have stood up against the former King's abdication and Nazi oppression.
marriage but the two newspapers of But there are people in this the island are urging the population country who unconsciously play to give the couple the greatest co- the game of the Firth Column-the operation.
The Nassau Daily Tribune in an game of the traitors.
talk editorial said:
this
the
Men and women who
"We refuse to be hypocritical. We defcatism, who sow distrust and disunity, people who believe that did not agree with the abdication whatever happens they will be all We do not agree with it now with Duke on the colony's doorstep. right and will be allowed to carry
And we do not hesitate to say that on their businesses, people who are
nothing can happen to make us disloyal to the principles of free- dom and democracy for which we change our view, are fighting.
Just as we have organised the Local Defence Volunteers to deal with attacks from parachutists and the like, so every individual in the community ought to see to it that he strengthens the fortrem of his We have recently witnessed the soul against the attack on morale, the Members
more overthrow
great nation- which is Hitter's great weapon. of A Thila speeches could France. eloquently than have done that the nation is united about only by force of arms. It was Back to Barbarism and resolute in the support of the Government in its action.
to the Prime Minister's speech. The demonstration of all spontaneous
showed
More than this, it is resolved, as the Prime Minister said, to prose- cute the war with the utmost vigour until the righteous purposes for which we have entered upon it have been fulfilled.
I am certain that the House of Commons truly reflected the spirit of the nation at this critical time. We know that the British Common- wealth and Empire is now standing alone and that we in the heart of it soon be facing the full shall onslaught of our enemies.
Gardens which will be constructed of hollow contrate blocks. Experience elsewhere in the world has proved that this type of shelter is highly effective. But, if the protection of the Colony's populace against raids is to be thorough, we must have many more tunnels of the same type. We still believe the Peak offers an ideal and natural A.R.P., shelter, and that a tunnel, strategically placed, would be capable of saving tens of thousands of lives in the event of air attacks.
There is no lack of initiative and enterprise with our A.R.F. Director, but so far he has had to struggle I am full of confidence in the men against suspicious ufficialdom on the of the Navy, the Army and the Air one hand, and an apathetic public on Force.. the other; if Hongkong Is to be ade quately protected against air raids he They Will Not Fall
I believe that we shall meet it with courage and defeat it in what ever form it may come.
was glad the other day to meet men from overseas who are fighting Alongside with us in our hour of
need.
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WÊN
not brought
caused very largely by the use of
There is one particular phase of Hitler's other weapon, the destruc- tion of the unity, conndence and Nazi propaganda which I must morale of the people, resulting in mention. It endeavours to repre-
"A fact that the Duke must face and this colony must face is that his administration can be only one of things a glorious success and a turning point in his career, or colossal failure."
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When the Duke and Duchess stepped ashore from Prince George wharf they were greeted by Chief Justice O. B. Daly in his scarlet robes, the 11 other members of the Executive Council (who will compose his cabinet), a guard of 100 native troops, the crowds in the streets and the leaders of society.
The Duke was inducted into ofice by taking the cath to be "governor and commander-in-chief in and over the Bahamas, vice-admiral and ordin- ary of the same" and an oath of alle glance to his brother, King George VI.
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the paralysis of its will power at the sent Nazism as something new, critical time.
young and vigorous, standing for This has always been his most the future against the past.
is nothing of the kind. It is a effective weapon.
Nation after nation has been reversion to the past, a reversion to
becauso they were barbarism. overrun.
The Bahamas cover an area Europe has had to stand auch 4,440 square miles, comprising 20 beguiled into a refusal to face
The Battle of Islands, 601 suys and over 2,000 reels facts. They refused to understand attacks before.
miles of the the nature of the thing against Britain will take its place in history stretching from 60
with the Battle of Chalons, when Florida coast to within sight of Cube. which they were fighting.
Nassau papers have stated that if the Neutral States hoped that they the Huns were defeated. would
In this Battle of Britain we are Duke's mission is a success it is pos- be brought not
into the A short-sighted idea of aghting for our very existence, but sible that Nassau will become the preservation pravented the we are nighting for something more. capital of all British possessions in
It has been the endeavour of the the Western Hemisphere. mity of spirit of the civilised nations of Europe from Nazis to exalt and foster the lowest Instincts of human nature, cruelty, being translated into action.
That is why we now face the greed and intolerance. barbarians alone.
We are fighting the battle of But the
sapping of the unity of man's higher nature. We shall not the Western nations had its be unworthy of our causo. In the parallel various States.
Sectional interests were stimu- lated in order to destroy the power of resistance.
the
FIGHT TO LAST MAN, BEACH
disunity within the realm of the spirit we do not stand ARMY IS ORDERED
must be supported to the full by both
Yesterday I was visiting some of these sections of the community.
Skilful use was made of national our defences in a sector which is.. The public, not without a certain
held by the men of the regiment in differences by the Nazi propa- measure of justification, has felt that
which I served in the last war. I gandists, but not only of national hitherto they, have received little in
was greatly encouraged by seeing differences. return for the ever-increasing ex-
The Nazis were able to persuade the work which had been done and penditure on AR.P. But if, and by the bearing of our men. They some well-to-do people that they when, Government sanctions a full-will not fall
were the saviours of society against UB, sized ART, scheme on the lines of
Blake
Naturally, my thoughts turned to Red revolution. experimental
Gardens
the last war. I recalled how, when They now seek, without the tunnel the authorities need have ittle fear of the Colony protesting one was about to go into action, one slightest possibility of success, to about expense. No taxpayer minds had a certain calm of mind, a persuade the workers that they are Bnancing a vital necessity; all he asks dedication to the immediate task. the friends of the poor against the for is an adequate return for his In the waiting time before zero ruling classes.
S money, which, in this case, is safety hour one's thoughts might turn to for his life.
the kind of world one hoped to see
tho
British workers are far too well informed of actual facts of Nazi
alone.
Everywhere the hearts of all who
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SHOULD an invading German care for liberty are with us. We are now holding the bridgehead of force come out of the morning mist freedom. When we have defeated and, cutting through the protective
screen of the Navy and R.A.F. Buc this attack the rising foreca of freedom in all lands will bring ceed in landing in Britain it will face about the downfall of Hitler and regiments of an army ordered to fight
to the last maneci "There is no question of our retiring the Nazi'system.
to a second line defence," sald s major in a famous Scots unit which saw service in the Battle of France, For this reason these men have only on nendemic interest In what goos on beyond the beaches, What the rest of the 2,500,000-strong Army, and. Home: Gubrd are doing ' is not their concern. They are thero for one purpose to do or die.
We know that the fight will be hard and the sacrifices great.
When victory is won, it will be the duty of those who have to take up the task of reconstruction to be tree, and peaceful worthy of these merinces and to Europe... wherein, all may enjoy establish
those di
s which. Naziam every wilere destroyne
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