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EVACUATION
FINANCES
VITAL. nurs in connection with Vir evacuation of the European fomiles (rum Hongkong to Australia
issues which hitherto have remain- ed slumbering beenuse other aspects of more immediate import have been occupying the official and lay mind --will shortly require attention and demand decision. These lasues--they are financial-were indicated in our Final Edition yesterday in which an offletal spokesman gave Government's reply to various rumours which have been widely related in the Colany during the past few days.
One was to the effect that either the Imperial Government #t the Hongkong authorities were investiga- ng a plan whereby a certalni sum of money would be paid monthly to Fall evacuees from Rangkong now in Austral On the face uf the suggestion lacked commonsense and Government's denial was untletpated. Nevertheless it is an established fact that many evacuated families are i straightened circumstances and when the Government spokesman declared "Naturally. the muntenance evarnees is the biggest problem the evacuatiem", he probably intended fo convey that the authorities have not just sight of the enforced plight of many families. Precisely
what method is
ICE be adopted for their alleviation is not yet Indicated; con- sultations with the Home Government on this problem are in progress.
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Obviously there must be sume polley of theernment which will eliminate the possibility of those who can afford to pиy. inking advantage of benerent Government. This involve a form of Meuns Test. The phrase, at least In England, has earned for Itself unhappy reactions.
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THE FICHER
GOVERNMENT
IS BELIDA THE PROPUSES
OF
OPPONENTS
"THEY ALL SAY IT. BENITO!"
Hitler's Army
didn't do it all
F. G. H. SALUSBURY, War Correspondent sums up his impressions and reveals the amazing weakness
of France's military masters.
tanks at Lord
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What Nazi Rule Would
Mean To
YOU
By George Lathan, M.P.
The handful of defeatists and Fifth Columnists who still lurk among us are saying that it wouldn't, make much difference.
to us if Hitler won. "Things would naturally be a little dif ferent", they say. "A few politicians and journalists would probably be shot, but the rest of us would be all right."
Well, next time you hear any-. one talking like this, ask a few questions. Study the facts in. this article and ask your defeat- ist friend to explain them away if he can
The Nazis have declared that "a lower race needs less living. space, less clothing, less food. and less culture than a higher race," and to the Nazis every man, woman, and child who is not a German belongs to this. "lower race,'
The Nazis have no hesitation in putting this belief into prac- tice. They are systematically starving the people in the coun- tries they have invaded,
In Holland, overy person is rationed to two and a half ounces of flour a week. In Nor-. way, bread, flour,, rice, peas, coffee and sugar have been. rationed. The margarine indus- try has closed down. A quar- ter of her cattle have been slaughtered and the meat sent to Germany.
you were in no position to retaliate
In Denmark 5,000,000 hone in kind--and you allowed him to
were killed and sent to Ger- make all preparations on his own side of the frantier down to the last many. In Poland, no Pole over gallon of petrol.
six years of age can buy milk. In the earliest stage of the war | Poles have a green ration card, the French had made a most gallant German's a red. And if you through the Forest of have a green card you are lucky Warndt. Then they were ordered to if you get any food. It is often announced that holders of green
advance " cavalry" Gort's disposal.
HE Prime Liinister has sald that the British Govern- light ment is grieved and amazed at the acceptance by the Bordeaux Government of the terms dictated by the Germans.
It remains to ensure against future grief and amazement for those people who still believe that freedom is worth the most com- plete and terrible sacrince.
This means a violent reversal of the psychology which, until re- cently, inspired the strategy of the Allied High Command, strategy of Inaction, incompetence and fatuous optimism.
Ila resulta have been appalling. Let us realise that our only hope is Immediately to catch a bus which will overtake the one that an Emi. nent Statesman declared Hitler had missed.
A
I would have liked to be assured that the disposition reflected milltary genius beyond ordinary human comprehension.
Mr. Stanley replied that armoured division was in England because it was thought bost to have It there for training purposes.
the
In other words, a sudden German
altack might catch a proportion of trained men in France and
the tanks in England.
FATAL DELAY
---
This is practically what happened, The armoured division was actually on its way over when the German invasion began.
The French General Staff, where the disease originated, had suffered Superiority Complex for
from
All through that long Winter and years. It was fatal to initiative, Spring the High Command did
fatal to imagination, fatal to the nothing 10 complicate Hitler's theory of attack. plans. He was allowed to move first, and was then followed weakly and Loo late
THEY KNEW !
Many weeks before the Invasion
The Maginot Line, which ceased where it would have bera of in- estimable value, was based on theory of retreat. Plant that in the minds Of your fighting soldiers before ever a shot has been fired, and
retreat.
The High Command had remem-
or
..
bered its manners. It decided to cards will not be allowed to buy sacrifice the tonie effect of an ad- | butter spiritless deity of strategical retreat. vance on their armies to the dull, week.
I remember a general in command of a French army telling me how
This policy of retiring resistance to an attack made at the enemy's sweet will had a disastrous effect. From September to May, among the fighting soldiers, respect declined
margarine for
Thousands of Paris workers and are being left to starve because. dimcult it was to explain the neces- they have refused to work for sity of retreat to the troops, and their German masters. Make how many of them had refused to no mistake, we, too, should find obey the first order to withdraw. ourselves on a starvation diet from the first day of. Nazi triumph. German troops would strip your
bare... cupboards Hunger follows the Swastika,
Hitler's "Friendship" For The Workers! Hitler is the "Friend of the workers"-so Goebbels saya! But his friendship is a great deal worse than most people's" hatred."
He has already torn_800,000 Poles from their homes and transported then to Germany. During
this process the Gestapo deliberately separates husbands and wives.
steadily for the High Command.
France's magnificent élan was sapped by her leaders, who were consistent to the very end.
ON GUARD !
What did the official communiqué Bay when Italy declared war? That the French had taken up a strong defensive position: that the Italians had not attacked,
A
strong defensive position
of Norway, the war correspondents for you will have a lot to answer against the Italians? One would
The
like to have Napoleon's contment on
with the B.E.F. were told that con-
Line was generally well that. centrations of ships, troops and behind the frontier. It was pro- material had been observed at Ger- man ports on the Baltic.
We were told, under a pledge of secrecy, that this meant threat to Scandinavia, but the High Com- mand was content, apparently, to do nothing.
Not even a pamphlet ruid was organised on the German prepara- tions.
I was told personally by an officer
tected by troops whose function was to retreat until the enemy could be tempted on to a battle-field which you had selected.
Then the idea was that you would smush him.
But you ignored the possibility of his outflanking you by fast-moving armoured warfare-against which
of high rank that he had advised FUNNY SIDE UP
a bombing attack on a large Ger-
man petrol reserve, whose where- abouts he knew, at the outbreak of war. His advice was ignored.
or
Bome of us began to wonder if we were really fighting a war, but the method, with teet, sympathy merely giving a sporting exhibition and foirness possesses redeeming of a Tewt-which is the army jar- features.
Kon for Tactical Exercise Without Troops.
INCREDIBLE
Our daintiness went to incredible lengths. I remember once writing that, because of the behaviour of his machine, a German pilot had cbviously been killed before, be dived into the sea.
In considering this question financial support for evacuees, it is salutary to remember that not every husband or father has been left im- poverished as a result of the evacua- tlon; examples are available to show that some men
are, if anything, financially better off; they send their wives and families certain monthly The censor asked me if I would fully mind substituting "disabled" for "killed." His reason was that the Royal Air Force must not be made to
appear "too bloody-minded." Lest I should he accused of hypo- crisy, I have begun with these examples of the effect of the disease on ourselves, I will give one more before I
to I proceed the original source of infection-the French General Stam.
remittances .which, while adequate for needs in Australio, by no meats represent the monthly out- lay necessary when their families were in the Colony,'
When Mr. Oliver Stanley, the (too) late Becretary of Stafe for War, paid the B.EF, a courtesy visit, I asked him why there was no armoured division in France.
Complaints of financial strain in many cases ignore the idea of the provider making any sort of sacrifice he insists upon making full use of his club; he denies himself none of the comforts; if anything he spends very much more on himself than be- ford, pleading Insibility, to adapt him- self to solitude. This is not a general indletment, but it is applicable to a section of the affected community, and usually to those who complain the most. The truth is we have got to 'grin and bear this evacuation; the days when we could indulge our leve it wise to revert to the old emotions are over; the sober fact is order; until then, less complaining] that evacuation, with its attendant and more praelouts sherlices will pro» Inconveniences and difficiles, :: has vide happier and more convincing come to stay until the authorities be- gestures.
I did this because I knew the number of heavy tanks-apart from
We have been told that this is no Lime for recriminations. But I be- lieve that there is just time before we settle down to win this war,
ItsGat-
I believe that to put the past briefly in the pillory is the best way of securing a reverant of the De- fensive Psychology and tendant Incompetent Optimism, and of putting the public on its guard against further ineptness.
Every Pole in Germany has a dis- tinctive bodge sewn on his clothes to ensure that no German makes the mistake of saying a friendly word to him.
These Poles must stay indoors be- tween 0 p.m. and 5 a.m. They must not enter an inn or public house nor any place of entertainment. Nor can they travel by bus, tram or train.
Their wages are low, their food in- adequate, and their treatment brutal.. They are slaves. Norwegians, too, are compelled to undertake forced labour-even on aerodromes where they risc death and wounds from aerint attacks. Dutchmen are being
ly paid labourers.
By Abner Dean transported to the Reich as wretched-
"You can keep those love fatters. Í sent, you from, South
Our fate would surpass any thing that has befallen Hitler's earlier conquests. Before we were shipped like cattle to Ger- many, we should see our Trade Union, Labour and Co-operative Movements destroyed and their funds confiscated. It happened in Czechoslovakia the moment the Nazis marched in.
Even If the Füchrer allowed you to keep your wireless set, you would. hear nothing but blaring military bands and dreary vicious propaganda.. for if you were caught listening to any but German-controlled program- would be sent to a concen-
- tration camp.
mes you
The
press, the cinema, and the theatre would ba controlled. You could neliber hear, see, rend, nor say what you Uked. You still wouldn't be safe even if you worked like a slave, never complained about your food, read "Mein Kampf" every day, and tuned. In to Goebbels
Goebbels, every night."
you might forget to
For one day you
the Nazi solute-Just like poor Jouet Franz, Pawelka, a: Czech, once
forgot. He got seven months impri- sonment for his apza of memory.
So when anyone says.” Hitler" wouldn't really do us any harm, can be sure that he is either a foot or a traitor, Hitler has always de- lighted in enslaving free men and
We should be no exceptia Fortunately he won't get the chan But it is just as well to have abili sions about the fate be has planne out for usi
women