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WONDER If you feel as sey your loved ones and your- frightened as I do. When self exposed to such danger. 1543 6417 $4,200 I have to go out at night during But you have a lot to lose. Have an air-raid the searchlights all you read of the way in which the standard of living of the seem to converge above my head countries Hitler has conquered Studebaker Sedan 79 $1,750 and the air throbs with the is being pushed lower and sounds of German acroplanes lower? They are slave States, whose pilots dislike me.
with the wages and rations of There are such unexpected their workers cut down to two- noises in this war and the bombs thirds or a half. of the small are so much bigger. I should wages and rations of their Ger feel so much safer with a tin man colleagues. Every worker's
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reason for these raids must bo the bellof that some large BOC-- tion of the public will be so de moralised by them that it will march down to Whitehall to de- mand peace..
There has boon justiflable anger over evacuation and shel- ter arrangements in the East. End, but do you find any desire. to surrender? I don't, and yot this is probably the most critical week of all in Hitler's war of nerves.,
We are, unexpectedly and temporarily, in greater danger than most men who have volun-- teored their services in the Bri- tish Army. We would not have it otherwise, for the whole na- tion, and not merely its younger men, must run riska to save the whole nation's heritage. And
frowsicat shelter. My walk, despite all the efforts of my will,
'You are rich? Then you may would remind watchers of the London to Brighton walking be tempted to ask yourself to grin and bear it as house we can console ourselves with race, if I were not alone, horri- whether his destruction cannot after house goes up in smoke the reflection that we have come down in rubble. But tho through this baptism of bom- bly alone, in a black and mys be stopped. But what have the or terious London.
Thyssens and the Hugenbergs question answers itself. What bardment with amazingly little
disorder
disorganisation. and the other industrialists or
way out can there be with a man When we have adapted our lives Press lords gained by compro-
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or
And, after all, we are living mise with Hitler? A little pro who has set out so deliberately and our homes so that we get the maximum of sleep with the Phone 27778/9. through an attempt at terrori- longation of their privileges, but to crush you? .
minimum of danger Hitler's sation on a scale which has a certainty of a worse collapse
hope of that march on White-- nothing to equal it in history, later on. Under the Weimar
The Nazis are raging because hall will be destroyed and the Madrid and Warsaw passed Republic they were more heavily
of our through hell and we can now taxed than ever (for they must our Air Force has begun seri- random destruction better understand their suffer- pay for the Nazi armaments) ously to bomb Berlin. But only homes may so obviously cease to ings and admire their courage, and they have temporary safety, after Buckingham Palace and have any military value that it But Hitler has now improved only, made uneasy by the cer acres of the East End, after may die down.
churches and cinemas, after his methods of destruction and tainty of upheavals to come.
And we can then face the fu- hospitals and homes of every ho has the world's largest tar- get. Small wonder that we or class citizen with no great am- man raiders.
You are an ordinary, middle- kind, had suffered from the Ger- ture with high hopes. For what chance would Hitler have What mercy or dinary individuals are fright-
bition beyond that of leaving understanding could one expect next year when our machines THE preix "Special to the Telegraphened when the bombs fall.
your wife and family a little from this ruthless and bitter will outnumber his and Ameri- is used by the "Hongkong Telegraph" to
can help will be fully effective? indicate news which is steletty copyright You are poor? Then you better off then they are now man?
You may, perhaps, not be as, under the provisions of this Telscommuni- rauotis Urdinance, 1016. Such newE RE may be tempted to ask yourself Then you may be tempted to ask
Unless Hitler actually enjoys frightened as I am, but you can- bears the indication “UP” je received in
whether, having so little of the yourself whether there is no Hongkong on the date of publication by
Friday, Nov. 15, 1940. Wyndham St, Hongkong
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the United Press Avelations, who re- world's wealth to lose, you need way out of this mess other than destroying life, the principal not, I think, be more confident,
serve all rights and forbid republications. alther wholly or in part without previous arrangement,
FAR EAST DEFENCE
"NO!" TO A New
PRINCE
THE War Office "decision to create a unified Far Eastern- Command is another welcome sign of Britain's changed policyTHERE is a story told of an in the Orient. It is a direct
it,
peace.
Indian Prince; the Mahara-
0
Tenants
With the exception of the
on
Isles
of Romance
captives were set to work rename, Xayamca in corrupt form has
persisted. pairing their ships.
.
For long Jamaica had the un- M A *
enviable reputation of being the world's greatest slave mart. That Antigua, smallest of the in-was because the Royal African Com- lands concerned in the deal, was pony formed there in 1872 had a discovered by Columbus, who is inonopoly of the slave trade.
Already there were 70 sugar tac- said to have named it after a church in Seville, Santa Maria or on indigo works and 60 cacno
orks on the island. la Antigua.
Since then bananas have taken For nearly a century and a pride of place as principal export, half it remained uninhabited. but sugar and the famous Jamaica
rum come close second. Even now its population is only A large share, of the spices and 30,000. The whole island covers flavourings that go into your food this lovely island- less in area than the County of comes from London.
pamentos, ginger, and a dozen other At one time there was a Bri-luxuriant hills.
aromatic-spices are grown on its tish naval depot at English
Many times in its history Jamolca and hurricanes, and on the last Harbour, a fine deep inlet in the has been scourged by earthquakes high rocky coast.
Sugar and molasses are the serious visitation of this kind-the of 1907-help Was principal exports--mostly
to earthquake
by the United States war- England and Canada and sweet ships.
Because of a regrettable mis- potatoes, yams and maize are
understanding over the landing of grown for local consumption.
United States marines the ships were withdrawn, causing an international: * lacicient of considerable magnitude.
UR new tenants-for that is precisely what the United States be- come under the naval warning to any Power not to jah Gackwar, which gives me bases for destroyers agreement allow itself to imagine that one- great pleasure whenever I recall-will be established in some of
the oldest parts of the Empire, sided appeasement continues to
In fact, Newfoundland, dia- be the vulnerable spot' in our
This Maharajah ordered that one covered in 1497 by John Cabot, political and diplomatic armour. of his parks in Baroda should be Britain to-day means business, closed one day in each week to all is the oldest of all the English and overt threats, cunning en except the women of the city. Then, colonies. croachments and diplomatic on one such day, the Maharajah for- got his own rule and drove towards manoeuvring will no longer find the park with a view to enjoying its Bermudas all the other bases us hastily retreating and ner-
are in that sickle-shaped string vously on the defensive; we are
The gatekeeper was in a dilemma. of islands-the West Indies prepared to face up to anything. If he admitted his royal master he which guard the entrance to the
That the new Commander-in-would disobey instructions, whereas Panama Canal Chief of the Far Eastern Com-if he denied him admittance, who
Most of these islands have mand should be Air Chief knows what wrath he might not bel Marshal Sir Robert Brooke Pop Inviting upon his own humble head. been in British hands since the ham is not without significance; He determined to stand by his seventeenth century, and the clearly, special attention is to duty. Bowing low in respect, he names of many of them-St. be paid to the Empire's air de- declared that he could not open the Kitt's, St. Lucia, Port Royal in
gates.
Jamaica-recall the thrilling fences in the East; just as ob-
**Dismiss that man!" said the days when Captain Morgan and vious is it that emphasis is to
other famous pirates had their be placed on the preservation of Maharajah, deeply offended.
But when the gates were opened, lairs in the deep harbours of the the integrity of Malaya, Burma
disclosing the fluiter of women's Caribbean Sea. and India. Hongkong is in-
shawls within, the Prince realised
Some of the harbours soon to cluded in the scheme, and al-
his own mistaite and drew back.
When Columbus was stranded for though, as the official military Amending his instructions, he direct-shelter U.S. warships are the spokesman pointed out, no in-ed that the gatekeeper should be very places where the pirates 12 months on Its northern shores he shared their loot in drunken found the natives called it Xaymac Isle of Springa" and although crease in our air force is en-promoted.
carousal while their miserable the Spaniards tried to change its visaged or likely, the fact that So mural courage met with its fit- the Naval Commander-in-Chief ting reward.
By Abner Dean
is to consult and co-operate with That it does not always do so, few the Air Chief Marshal, and that men in either East or West will re- the Colony's General Officer quire to be told. Liteness, dressed. Commanding is directly respon-
up in the trappings of authority, cares nothing about duty faithfully sible to him, is satisfying evidence that Hongkong is not to be left performed, but only about seeming
affronts to its own importance. Isolated and ignored in any general plan for the defence of Britain's For It is always instructive to observe the conduct of people in the presence East possessions.
influentin beings-those The comprehensiveness of the War of more Office plan is impressive, providing with the granting or withholding of for defensive co-operation between favours at their disposal. India, Burma, Malaya, the East In-
This really is an excellent test of dies, and Hongkong in collaboration character, since it is human and with Australia and New Zealand.natural for people to desire to stand This, in effect, is Britalin expressing well with powerful. Individuals. herself prepared to safeguard the Far
East and the southern Pacific against Do they on that account relax aggression, a mission which doubtlesa their standards and turn the backs would receive the moral and practical upon, their duty? Or do they stand fast to their principles? If so, it is assistance of the United States.
The latest announcement is also a possible that their, steadfastness may rominder that gone are the days be punished, by neglect or active ill- when it was possible to believe, that will on the part of offended authority, because Britain was so occupied in Most of us have been in the post- Europe, she could not afford to give |tion" of the Maharajah's gatekeeper, due attention to her. East and Pacific and perhaps even more unfortunately interests; with her war industry placed in that our own Maharajaḥ, rapidly reaching peak output, the was not always a just-man. Mother Country is attaining a post- tion when she can wage a world- wide war if necessary, and what is more, wage It successfully. No bet
Which course did we pursue? The course of moral cowardice?
Or the course of moral courage, whose real rewards are set for be-
ter corrective to false ideas possibly | yond the sphere, of promotion - or
entertained by certain Powers about dismissal?
Britain's (overtžas policy could have
boek" given than by,the, announce-
ment of this: naw defence plani
Robert Power.
FUNNY SIDE UP
Most, historical and largest of the islands concerned is Jamaica, with sixteen good harbours and a popula- tion of nearly a million.
need a volunteer for my next trick
one who came' in on a
THE GREA MARVO
bly some
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The wealth of Trinidad depends on mother form of production. In the menan-the famous Pitch Lake, of volcanic hills is a remarkable pheno- Immense and apparently inexhaus- tible value.
Circular in form, covering an area of over 100 acres, this lake is the source of the Trinidad asphalt, which wells up in low, bulging.. masses In the vast elrele. In the centre of the lake a patch of liquid pitch bubbles constantly.
Trinidad hus, too, valuable oil
deposits.
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Southernmost of the new United. States bases will be that in British Gulang, Britain's only possession on the South American mainlands.
Much of the country is jungle land, but
extensive deposita of gold, diamonds, manganese, etc.
British Gulona, was in the news recently: It was the country in which, so it was proposed, Jewish refugees from Germany should be settled.
:
Bernard Moore
MOROCCO PILOTS Surrender To British
Members of the French Moroccan air force continue to fly to Gibraltar.
and surrender to the British authori ties. Another two French warplanes carrying five pilots passed over to the British side when they landed at Gibraltar recently, says an omela! from: Spanish news, ogency message Algeciras.
The Berlin correspondent of the Spanish Tangler, organ, espana, points out that the Anglo-German struggle cannot be decided by a lights ning attack as was the case with: other countries. England - wash, un Istard Fand in German : expéditionary force! dould: buvo: to tacs'^«many: obstacles in the way of maintaining hipplles