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November 25, 1940.
W. N. EWER explains why
Hitler can't find
his little Fuehrers
"THE Government - Gen- economie questions affecting the Instead of co-operation there eral of Poland is in- whole continent, these satellite is growing hatred, growing re-
the Paramount Power. corporated in the German States would accept the will of sistance, growing. sabotage.
Hitler must hold every one of Reich."
But in purely local affairs they these conquered countries by "That item of news records would be free, subject to general force and by terrorism. That is defeat and a rebuff for guidance, to rule themselves a continuous effort and a con-
own stant strain. Hitler. It means that his or to be ruled by their
Fuehrera. plan of setting up a "Quis-
All the news that filters That has been Hitler's plan through from all; these countries ling" Government in Central
for a new Europe. But it is a tells the same story. Resistance Poland has failed.
plan which is breaking down be- is increasing, terrorism is in-
creasing. No Pole of any importance fore it has begun to work.
It is breaking down for two will co-operate with the
Poles and Czechs in particu-I reasons. National sentiment is far have taken fresh heart from Germans. The whole people far stronger than Hitler be the news of the air fighting. is in sullen revolt against its lieved.
$1 The R.A.F. has become conquerors.
And the Germans are quite And this is true not only of Poland. incapable of carrying out any legend and an inspiration. Des- pite all Nazi efforts the true such scheme.
stories get round-and become even exaggerated as they go,
Hitler's whole plan for the "reorganisation" of Europe has been based on the "Quisling" idea.
Lost
Chance
If in each country they in-. In each conquered or intimi- vaded they had gone all out im- dated country a native Govern- mediately the fighting was over ment would be set up.
Fuehrer.
Cheering
Besides, there is not only the
But they have behaved as Do not misunderstand.
and
The Mere Man
Chinese
The inconsistencies "of the official cen- sorship over Chinese news- popers perlo-
Press Censorship and eco-
have been pointed out time and again in the Colony's English press, and the· ́` necessity for a thorough review has, I believe, been urged on matiy occa- sions in the Legislative Council, The
however, position,
remains ·un- changed. There seems to be little excuse why our rulers cannot spare some energy, to remove the anomalies that exit.
To an ordinary man, the objects of censorship would appear to be mot treasonable or grossly calumnious articles and, information prejudicial to defence is excised. The British press throughout the world has a cen- sorship of its own in such matters,
and it seems that the Government folls to appreciate that Chinese, newa- pipers in the Colony are also keen to uphold the best traditions of their profession. The Chinese press as a whole should not be penalised for the crimes of a few isolated offenders. It is not disputed that there are news- papers here, as anywhere in the to conciliate the people: if they evidence of report and rumour. had behaved as if they really There are visible facts. Into world, which would, it allowed, publish anything and everything. It would be chosen by the had come, as they professed, to Poland, into Bohemia and Mora- These are the papers to keep a vigi- At Christ Church, Kowloon Tong, on
"protect" them against British via there have come many thou-fant watch over, but the others, who 23rd November, 1940, Thomas W. Cheung to Morva, only child of It would rule by Nazi methods violence, and to support them sands of Germans, sent away
not deserve to be subjected to the 792 Nathan Rd S, Chung of and in accordance with Nazi against British greed (or, in the from the much-bombed Ruhrry on their work honourably, do
Road, (formerly of principles.
East, Russian violence and Rus- and Rhineland. Czechs
same treatment. Melbourne, Austrällä.)
It would in all its policy con- sian greed), then they might Poles know what that means,
and take new courage. sider the needs of the Reich be perhaps have had a chance. fore those of its own people.
But still it would be a bullies and as plunderers. They am not suggesting that there is "national" Government Polish, have been arrogant and over- as yet any likelihood of open
bearing.
revolt against the Nazis In Po- They have pillaged industry land, in Czechoslovakia, or any- and agriculture and brought where else. Nothing of the sort thriving people near to starva- is to be expected. tion.
But there is, quite certainly, They have forced men into growing resistance, growing labour gangs and carried them sabotage, more and more trouble off to toil as serfs in the Reich. for. the German authorities. They themselves claim to have The holding of the conquests nearly two million workers from is costing Germany a big effort the conquered countries labour and will cost her a bigger one They would prepare the way ing in Germany.
as time goes on. You cannot do that and then That is a quite important fact.larly barred from mentioning the fact, for a Europe of satellite States WAR fought under Queens-grouped around the great cen- hope for co-operation. German And that bit of news about the carried full reports.
brutality, German ruthlessness Government-General of Poland tral power of the Reich.
in milltary matters, in all re- and German greed have destroy- is quite significant and decided- lations with the outer world, in ed the Quisling plan.
ly cheering.
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or Czech or Norwegian or what And that might gradually re- concile the people to it.
It might settle down. Such Quisling Governments would spare Germany the bother and the odium of ruling the con- Mongkong on the date of publication byquered countries directly.
the United From Associations, who re servo all rights and forbid repúblications,
either wholly or in part without previous arrangement,
BESTIAL BRUTALITY
bury rules is ghastly enough,
but when it is governed by
Totalitarian regulations as im-
posed by Hitler, Mussolini and
their admirers, it becomes the
Plan Fails
In a speech delivered by the
last word in bestial brutality. German Minister of Propaganda, NAZIS
Hitler, when he ordered through Dr. Goebbels, on the occasion
Goering, the machine-gunning of the anniversary of the war,
of defenceless_women_and_chil-
he devoted particular attention
THE
dren, took away from his sol
to the Nazi "achievements" In
diers what little honour there
solving the Jewish problem in
was left to them. This mur-
derous form of warfare started
in France and Belgium and has been continued during air raids over England.
AND
JEWS
Germany. Unable to announce inaugurated his rule
in the
The latest instance to have come to my attention of the incongruity Iof the local censorship was a ban on
the publication of the news of the uppointment of Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham to direct a unilled Far Eastern Command. The
parades held in Warsaw, Cracow
and other Polish towns. Instead
of joining the Germans in Po. land in witnessing the parades
and cheering the troops, com-
plained the Nazi organs, tlie Jews and the Polish pro-Jews completely boycotted them.
The only explanation the
to the German people the fall of Austrian capital by scoring an Britain, he boasted instead of easy victory against the Jews. Nazis could offer for such Jewish the Nazi "Auccesses" in their One of the first orders issued "impudence" was the secret campaign against the Jewa. by him forbids all Jews to ap- hope cherished by the Jews that The municipalities of hundreds pear in the streets of Vienna Britain and General Sikorski of towns in Germany, he declared from 2 to 4 p.m., from 5 to 7 would ultimately free them from with pride, are now displaying p.m., and from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. German rule.
The Nazi Press has expressed This time, it must be stated, side by side with the swastika flag a white flag signifying that great dissatisfaction concerning the Nazis were completely right "Judenrein" the attitude of the Jews in Po in summing up the feelings of land towards Nazi military the Jews in Poland.
those towns are (Jewless).
He also dwelt on the Nazi success in destroying Jewish life in the invaded countrics, and on the intentions of the "Fuehrer", whom he styled the "genius of Germany", to eradicate the Jows in all coun- tries after his "victorious" con- clusion of the war.
The world has been forced to accept air raids as a necessary feature of modern war; civilians now recognise that they have about the same sporting chance of surviving as did the men in the last war who "went over the top"; at least they have from bombs. But Hitler doesn't bo- lieve in sporting chances, and he orders his aerial assassinators to dive down on peaceful, in- offensive country towns and villages to machine-gun the un- suspecting inhabitants; Bruno
In the same speech, however, Mussolini and his gangsters did Dr. Goebbels, betrayed the fact the same thing to the fleeing, that he was not so sure of the might of Germany as he pre- defenceless Abyssinians and de- scribed it as "great sport". This tended to be. When he dealt. last week a Hongkong resident with the "evil deeds" of the learnt that his mother, sister Jews, whom he accused of shar- and two-year-old niece were ing with Britain the respon- machine-gunned by one-of Hit-sibility for the rejection of ler's air murderers while they Hitler's peace offer, he com- were out walking; a nearby rail-plained bitterly about the danger way arch saved them. The same inhuman action is being of starvation that threatened the countries occupied by the performed daily over England."
Nazis and he had no explanation This then is what Britain and to offer to the people on the in- the whole Empire has to fight; men whose hands are so stained ability of the, "mighty" Nazi with the blood of innocents that forces to frustrate the British civilisation will for ever shudder blockade.
at the rocollection. Knowledge of these Hun tactics cannot but brutalise our own fighters, but, thank God, they are incapable of such unspeakable actions. Britons will take vengeance for these Nazi crimes, but not by stooping to the lowest form of warfare that the wit of man has ever devised; we will destroy
The now Governor of Vienna, Baldur von Schirach, has also
the murderers and their evil lenders. It may take time, but! it will be done; and when it has been accomplished we must see to it that never again shall such barbarity be possible.
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wife is missing, but I'm willing to forget it if you are!!!:
news, cabled from London, appeared
*
in the English afternoon newspapers. on the same day, November 14. Yet word was allowed to be not published in the Chinese papers that day. Can this news be classed as treasonable or prejudicial to detence??
Several months ago, when Japanese bombs landed in the New Territories, the Chinese newspapers were simi-
while their English contemporaries
The Government should exercise its
censorship fairly and efficiently, and
It is surprising that the Chinese news- papers in Hongkong have not seri- qusly pressed the matter,
On the other hand, the Government permits the publication of a weekly newspaper in English, by nationals of a country which has practically allied itself with Britain's enemies in the present war, and which has dis- seminated news and propaganda that is, to say the least, neither flattering to Britain nor helpful to her cause.
The
long-awaited Charlie Charlie Chaplin satire
on Hitler and Musso- Chaplin ini, The Great Die-
tator" has been completed, and
Hongkong is looking forward cagerly Charlle appears as to its showing here. The inimitable as Hinkler, complete with the emblem of the "Double Cross", the ludicrous salute and ail the other trappings of a Nazi dicta- tor. Jack Oakle takes the part of Benzino Napolini, being a take-off of. the megalomanloé of Rome. ...
Letters from friends abroad tell me
that "The Great Dictator" is the best. long Alm that Chaplin has done.
Perhaps no news about Chaplin pleases more than that he is going to make several short, comedies. In. spite of many bright moments, the full-length Charlie Chaplin pictures possessed bald, weary patches.. And: short films imean that there is a chance of seeing him more often on the screen-- tonic in these days.
No doubt in a city as large as Hong- Ways DI making a ilving. must be many and varied. Only the other night I discovered people engaged on a rather curious job-or so it appeared to me. Whi
Queer Occupations Kong,
Whilst Enking
eity
a late night stroll through the saw two groups of 'men' working along the length of the tram lues removing rubbish and other accumulations from the rails. It had never dawned, on me until that time that the rubbish. must be removed somehow, and, of course, it is reasonable to have
people doing such work. Yet to me it was; a curious and interesting, discovery.
Engaging the men in conversation, I found that the two groups work. as soon as the last tram has "gone to
·bed.". One group begins from the Shauklwan terminus and another from Kennedy Town, each concen-- trating on the left-hand pair of Unes, The two groups encounter each other nantly zom
near Garden Road. One
will work to night from east to west, and make the return journey the next night. Thus they go alternately,
Speaking of queer, occupations, I am told that a wealthy Hongkong re- aldent who suffers from 'n digestive allment employs a man to count the number of times he chews each mor sel of food,șit înviaid that his doc- tor-devines, bird, to masticato proper- milk headrinks. A mouthfull of milk is wellfirmaktlented
understand, in 16 cher
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