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By Abne
UNITED STATES BELIEVES
BRITISH
NEWS
American opinion of all shades is becoming increasingly suspicious of war news from German sources. Newspapers now print the Nazi com- muniques with open scepticism.
Many oxamples are to bo British fighters... Two days la found in New York newspapers. ter the German "warnings" were London and Berlin accounts pitched on a shriller note. Mr. of recent raids over. Croydon Peters wrote: and elsewhere are printed side
"What has gone on hereto
by side; but the treatment fore, informed quarters in Ber. makes it clear that it is to the lin declared, has been but child's. British communiques that play, and real pressure is about Americans took for the truth, to be felt for the first time by
American correspondents in the British
Berlin also bring out, by simple "After six days of intensivė quotations from successive of air fighting, the Germans claim; ficial claims and statements, the they have won air superiority Nazis bitter disappointinent at over the British-with all that their mass raids failure to shake implies. . British anti-air- Britain's defences,
craft batteries, the Germans de-.
It is clear from the state- clare, were unable to hold up ments made to the correspon- the onslaughts of their bombers. dents that the Germans enter- German pursuit 'planes and des- tained the highest expectations troyers, it is sald here, have of results of the raids,
demonstrated their superiority aver Brtiish fighters, so that
reconnaissance
Headline Test German
"New York Times" gives on chines can now fly over the its front page almost equal scenes of the bombing and take space to the British and the pictures of the results achieved German versions of the previous without fear of interference.
"In the activities that will day's raids. But it is on the come in the next few days, the British official communique that
the headline across the whole Germans declare that it will be page is written: "1,000 Nazi not only the task of their air Planes Raid Britain; 144 Shot force to inflict as much ma- terial damage as possible upon Down."
British harbours and military The paper's London cable, defences, but also to increase
"Hoy,
BATT
kee alike, please pass the ketchup!!!), R.A.F. IS DECIDING WORLD'S FUTURE
M
By VIRGINIA COWLES
The air above the Channel kas
TTIE pronx "Special to the Telegram frem W. F. Leysmith, is a their superiority over the Royal become "no man's land." Here
staaightforward, eye-witness ac- Air Force."
is used by the flengkung Telegraph indiente nows which is virictly copyright
under the provisions of the Telecommuži.
cations Ordinance, 1114 Buch news beer this indication #UP is received in llongkong on the date of publication by serv wil rights and forbid repabilention,
arrangement.
The United Frere Associates the alther wholly or in part without previam
EVACUATION AND
REALITIES
|
count of what happened at Next day 144 Nazi raiders Croydon and elsewhere.
The Berlin message, by C. were brought down over Britain, Brooks Peters, shows that the with a R.A.F. loss of 16 ma correspondent accepta no
res-
what he reports. Almost every
about-their-raids on Britain:
#
chines.
* Rival- Rescuers Meet ; These serial battles take place · daily great battles are fought, on an average two or three more daring and spectacular times a day. Often German than any battles history has bombers which are "winged"
ever seen.
fought out over the ees. When rescue.
you lie on a cliff in the sunshine plancs, you have a strange feel and watch the twisting, turning
ing of unreality.
turn back in an attempt to reach. The south-east coast has be- their bases in Franco, and come- ponsibility for the accuracy of Contrast in Styles come England's first line of de- down in the sea.
fence; as the waves of German Observers with powerful tale- statement is qualified by The sober, factual accounts of bombers approach the shining scopes follow their movements, phrase such as, "It is declared." ralds sent by London correspon- cliffs they are met by a shat- and frequently when with the Here is a typical paragraph dents of American newspapera tering barrage of anti-aircraft naked eye you cannot see any IT is probable that more from the New York Times contrast with the fictitious stafire, and then by the swift, angry sign of a plane, you know that are tements and false claims from whine of the fighter squadrons. one is down because of the mo- verbal and written words have showing what the Nazis
Berlin. sources. Saturday's New
Many of these battles are tor-boat that dashes out to the been expended on the evacuation telling American correspondents York Herald Tribune printed on of British families from Hong-British anti-aircraft batter its front page nearly two kong than on any other subject les, the Germans declare, proved columns of London accounts of within recent years. Mostly the unable to cope with the German the previous day's raids, by comment has been highly air attacks. The whole task of Frank Kelley and Drew Middle- critical, and in some respects resisting the bombing attacks, ton.
Only Insignificant display on justified. But there has also therefore, the Germans say, has
fallen upon British pursuit an inside page was given to a been a considerable amount of
'planes. These 'planes, the far more exciting "story", from loose and unbalanced thinking,
Germans add, are inferior to Berlin. We have always felt that their own pursuit craft and des- good case could be made out in troyers. mitigation of Government's deci- sion, though we concede to none our criticism of the manner Inf which the evacuation was of-
Unfulfilled Threats
The same newspaper printed a lang cable from Edward An- gly which is one of many tri- butes by American correspon- dents in London to the calmness, with which the British popula tion is facing the attacks.
A week ago the Nazis were "Everybody in England." he fected. -To-day- there is cause fulminating threats of imminent wrote on Friday, "Is keeping his for the continued precautionary disaster to Britain. Mr. Peters, shirt on, except perhaps a few measures. The situation in the the New York Times correspon- people with fancy radio set who Far East is decidedly, more.do-dent, said:
we ask for a realistic appraisal of political conditions in the Orient to-day. Several points, however, have become esta- blished since the first of our evacuées left Hongkong, all con. tributing to completely changed situation in this part of the world."
It seems almost incredible that you are witnessing the combats on which civilisation depends; and that in spite of modern armies counted in terms of millions, the sea has im- to-day the issue is being decided mobilised their strength, and above your head by a relative handful of men.
A payal officer told me that once, when a German plane came down - directly in the middle of the Channel a Ger- man and an English rescue boat met each other at the spot.
They circled about for a few minutes not quite sure, what to do, when suddenly an air battle developed over their heads; and they were both forced to turn back and leavo. the pilot to his fate. Stole Trawlermen
Contrary to the German claim From the cliff you try to that there is "nothing left to be piece the drama together like & bombed on the south-east Jigsaw puzzle. In almost the coast," the towns that I went whole range of the sky there is through had been little dam
action.
To the right you can see &
aged. In fact, you had to
“OLD MEN OF VICHY"During one of these battles, 1 along the sea front, just as it doer
Scathing Words Of de Gaulle chored in the harbour below, sounds, "You see the shop
+
very old Marshal and of defeated
owners
it is England. Then, the faraway
have been listening in to short- licate than it was three months "Informed quarters here de- wave American broadcasts plane falling like a bullet into search to find a bomb hole. Al- ago, though it is not with the clare that the full weight of the about 1,000 or 2,000 or 8,000 the sea leaving a long black though most of these towns are intention of being alarmist that'/ German aerial attacks has not German 'planes being over Eng-line of smoke against the sky; to: not a sombre one..
half-deserted, the atmosphere fa yet been felt by the British. fand to-day. What has happened so far, they "The capital of the British the left one of the great silver Skating And Music say, has been preliminary acti- Empire is still doing business at above a fighter diving down on balloons in flames; directly
In spite of the long sweep of vity before the real push. When the old stand to-night. Most of one of the bombers and suddenly cades to keep the people off the
empty beaches, with wire barri that comes, they add, it will be its inhabitants don't know any-
a tiny fluttering parachute as streets are crowded with soldiers, more than British nerves that thing about the bombs which one of the pilots bales out, and sailors, balloon barrage and ARP will suffer."
plopped down this morning and all the time the cracking noise of workers It was on that day that the this afternoon on suburban the anti-aircraft gunfire and the ing the roller skating pavilion was In the town in which I was stay. Nazis lost 180 machines, to 34. spots.
'white bursta of smoke against going full swing between the war- the sky.
ings, and the music blared out gally.
in peace time. Firstly, Britain has plainly
looked through a pair of fleld In this town a red dag flutters glasses at a small trawler an- on top of a cliff when the warning indicated that the day of ap peasement is over; thus it is fair to suggest that the very factor
The crew had evidently accepted bolting their doors, the housewives "France still possessed power was necessary because all was lost. the fierce encounters above them hurrying to take cover, and the air which people argued had en ful incans of fighting when They had been enabled to spread as part of their daily routine, along the streets the same scene raid wardens taking their positions dered the evacuation of Hong- tricked into capitulation by the the illusion that the presence of a fer no one was paying much at that many of us have seen so often, kong unnecessary. Britain's men of Vichy, said General de old generals, defented by their own tention. One of the men was slightly incredible. this time because surrender to Japan's demands Gaulle, leader of the Army of fault, would suffice to neutralize the lying on the deck fast asleep; noise of engines. Increasing until the over the Burma Road is likely All Free Frenchmen, in a world hatred and the covetousness of our another was doing his washing, drone is a mighty roar like the thun to become one issue making broadcast. He indicated also conqueror. They had gone so far and a third was reading a pa- der of a waterfall, and the battle is as to talk of the reconstruction of evacuation absolutely essential. that had France continued to France beneath the yoke
A few hours later the little
www.nough" Fighters an Britain a new attitude to the fight she would to-day have querors. Burma Road problem may found the British Empire at the But events happen swiftly in this trawler hoisted up its flag, got come down the gunners on the cliffs. prompt Japan to measures in height of its naval, aerial, and wave clspeed, since the weeks that up steam, and went paddling cheer. No one has more respect for volving this Colony, if auch be military efforts and America mistices have uncede detestable nonchalantly down the Channel the RA-F lighter pilots than they the case the more women and ready, and able to help the Allies the whole extent of the crime that It had an arrogant air about it One of them said to me proudly
"You have to see them (to- billeve children we liave out of Hong with vast armament manufac has been committed. Now one can as though it were thinking how tough they are, gularis gett
see the matter very clearly.
the Germans say what theyAnd that reminded me of a story kong, the better dig et ture.
The enemy's trickery and the lies
Forces Still Intact p Sympathy for the avid desire of his accomplices led our country
wish, the Channel still belongs for only last week visited one of We see, first of all, that, contrary to the English. PREP the fighter stations which is now of Hongkong's, women to be into signing detestable armistices to the statement of the old men of
operating daily on these attacks L allowed to remain here is not The enemy and his accomplices Vichy, France still possessed power-
looking boys in their early twen- hard to engender; but realitles were able to create such a pernici- ful means of-fighting at the Were they have plunged us? Maving akin to many of the pilots, good- cannot concede first place to ous atmosphere that they anaesthe our arms were given up. We see chained themselves to the conquerors en lled with high spirits all 1. sentiment. One such reality” sedFrancene and that we allit had an infact. Flost the saddle-bag; thay, have no further Fightly bored because it was a riade
They had been enabled to make that the State Department in many people think that capitulation, and a vast/Empire, solnia a France has nothing DFC with records of eight tem
second in Europe, a large, Air Force, earthly use than to receive humbly day ARTISTRY
the deles of Hitler's Horse and Mis Many of them were wearing the Washington has instructed itsason
We see that the British Empire isto hope either from the enemy who consulates in the Far East to see in such a state of flux that it is at the height of its naval, serial ter her or from the men who have and twelve planes to their credit.. fand:(military?lefforts. Wa¬see: that that American nationals, especi- capable of a metamorphosis over America has undertaken to help the betrayed her," But, in spite of mkt was dificult to understand how ally women and children, are night. Ho
gkong would indeed Allies with vast armament manu terrible trial, I say that: France can man who faced death so often could-
be so carefree-how every time they and must hope. Let Germany he went into the air it was a sight to As for
the Anish," alther they went down with our op Italy be crushed one day in their Fturn" and hope is re-born. But on
the enemy, that Ponents, we see of what it consists,
It is now evident that the Germans one condition only, which is that an only with to crush Trance/mater the victory shall also be the victory ainst ally and
had
Lévacuated as soon sa possible bo-fortunate if it escaped any facturé. 1972
from all parts of the Japanese, new embroglio, and with this in Empire, China,
of our women
and Hongkong. Thè merican
Government is not.
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