DONALD DUCK
GUESS WHO?
Tuesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
TOM?
FLOYD? TED
BOB? ALT
HANK?
JOHNNY?
EDDIE?
STANT
BILL? JOE? STEVE?
HUBEZ DICK?
GEORGE?
December 17, 1940.
By Walt Disney
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Dearest Mother
Dearest Mother,— THOUGH I fell no pre-
monition at all, events are removing rapidly, and I have instructed that this letter be forwarded to you should I fail to return from one
of the raids which we shall shortly be called upon to undertake.
You must hope on for a month, but at the end of that time you must accept the fact that I have handed my task over to the extremely capabic hands of my comrades of the Royal Air Force, as so many splendid fellows have already done.
First, it will comfort you to know that my role in this war has been of the greatest im- portance.
Our patrols far out over the North Sea have helped to keep the trade routes clear for our convoys and supply ships, and on one occasion our 'informa- tlon was instrumental in sav- ing the lives of the men in a crippled light-house relief ship. Though it will:be difficult for you, you will, disappoint me if you do not at least try to accept the facts dispas- sionately, for I shall have done my duty to the utmost of my ability.
No man can do more, and no one calling himself a man could do less.
I have always admired your amazing courage in the faco of continual setbacks; in the -way you have given meTMLE"
good, an education and back- ground as anyone in the coun- try; and always kept up ap-
pearances without ever losing faith in the future.
My death would not mean that your struggle has been in vain, Far from it. It
HITLER
TO
WHEN that naughty old
tyrant King Leopold II took over the Congo Free State on his own personal pro- party, few people, least of all himself even in his most- optimistic moments, visua'ised it n the nest-egg it bus since proved.
It was more luck than any-. thing else. almost by a pin. sticking method. that the Royal rone got hold of this bit of Africa.
Everybody else seemed to he taking large slices of Africa.
Almost avidly King Leopold read and re-read details of every.exploration, studied and re-studied every map. Living- stone, Speke, Burton, and Stanley were magical names: From south to north, east to west, his eye wandered..
Eventually, in 1876. on the pratext of suppressing slavery 'in' those parts, Leopold took charge of this big, central. apple-shaped part of Africa. now the Belgian Congo.
FOR the best part of his life.
up to 1908. he squeezed a largo income from this place of property, the greater part
The letter of
R.A.F.
means that your crifice is as great as mine.
with
HISTORY resounds illustrious names who have given all, yet their sacrifice has resulted in the British Empire, where there is a mea- sure of peace, justice and freedom for all, and where a higher standard of civilisation has evolved, and is still evol- ving, than anywhere else.
But this is not only con- cerning our own land.
To-day we are faced with the greatest organised chal- lenge to Christianity and civiliantion that the world has ever seen, and I count myself lucky and honoured to be the right age and fully trained to throw my full weight into the scale.
For this I have to thank you.
Yet there is more work for you to do.
The home front will stili have to stand united for years after the war is won. For all that can be said against it, I still maintain, that this war is a very good thing; avery in- dividual is having the chance
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This letter was found among the belongings of a young pilot after The had been reported "Missing believed killed."
hero
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to give and dare all for his principle like the martyrs of old.
However long that time may be, one thing can never be altered-I shall have lived and died an Englishman. Nothing else matters one jot, nor can anything over change. it.
You must not grieve for me, for if you really believe in religion and all that it entails that would be hypocrisy. I have no fear of death; only a queer clation.. .. I would have it no other way.
I FIRMLY and absolutely believe that evil things are sent into the world to try us; they are sent deliberately by.. our Creator to test our mettle because He knows what is good for us.
The Bible is full of cases where the easy way out has been discarded for moral prin- ciples.
I count myself fortunate in .that I have seen the whole
country and known men of every calling. But with the final test of war i consider my character fully developed.
Thus at my early age my earthly mission is already ful- hlied and I am prepared to aje.
with just one regret, and one only that I could not devote myself to making your declin- ing years more happy by being with you; but you will live in peace and freedom and I shall have directly contributed to that, so here again my life will not have been in vain.
Your loving Son
LOOKS SOUTH THE CONGO
of 900,000 square miles. Tho means by which this income was derived have since proved iniquitous (to put it mildly). and mainly because things were getting a little out of hand, and he was growing old and tired anyway, he handed it over to his country in 1908. The period before 1914, under King Albert, saw vast im- provements.
Before the war the Belgians planned to make it a grand tourists' paradise-a quick, cheap holiday for Europeans by 'plane.
Disense statistics have fal- len rapidly during the last ten years, On an average, there are only a dozen cases yearly of plague, tho tsotse fly inen- ace has decreased similarly, dysentery deaths are fow and far between, and malaria is well under control.
Railways, docks, river transport, roads, mines, agri- culture were all taken in hand, There are now 3,000 miles of railway, 27,000 miles of road. thousands of miles of naviga. Tall this. Western civilization.
ble. river.
Soon the export of rubber- once the Congo's main export -was eclipsed by gold, copper, palm oil, cotton, coffee, din' monds, copal.
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HERE are still pigmies, despito
and cannibals are common.
Some of the Congo cannibals be- lleve that they eat the boilles of the dead their spirits will thus prevented from troubling the community.
be
The pigmics are partial to dend elephant. When one was reproach- ed for eating meat from on cle- plant, one that had long been dead, he said: "I cat the ment, not the smell,"
By 1934 the value of the gold was 200 timos bigger. than that of the rubber crop. Additionally, cocoa, maize, livestock, radium, coal, sugar,.- fruit, wood, rice, tin are all produced in this part of Cen- FOR years now the Belgians and tral Africa.
Altogether, more than 6,000 Industrial establishments were operating up till recently, though Belgium could count. only 15 whites for every 10. 000 natives.
Germans have ernwled over the "Congo bane," the Belgians"reiterat=" ing annually that never would they give up their colonies, the Germans emphasising equally emphatically. that they didn't want them anyway. Time will soon show whether not this Won Just another German bcd-time story, ideal
or
Cope, 1300 br Vellad Fysikri
"Those scats wore fine last night, but to-night we came to see the picture!"
DEATH for listening-in to Britain;
TEN YEARS' jail for selling food without
accepting ration coupons;
THREE YEARS' jail for talking to a Pole; SIX MONTHS' jail for stealing a soap
ration card.
This is Nazi Justice
OSA BERGER, an attrac-
of 30,
in the dock of a Nazi court.
For two weeks she lind been
under arrest. Now she faced the judges.
Her crime? She stole a ration card for soap. She hadn't one of her own.
"But I haven't used the card," she pleaded,
The plea was Ignored. She was. led away to serve six months' im- prisonment.
Brunno Helter le also 30. Ho hud no clothes-only raga. And it was very cold.
So he stole a clothes ratfen card. "I have no clothes except the 1 am standing in," he told the court.
Twelve months' imprisonment. These two cases, reported re- cently in the German Press, reveal the harsh and brutal way Justice Is being administered by the Nazis.
LA
ET inn en over a number of court reports I have clipped from recent issues, of Ger man newspapers,
Here, for instance, is the case of an unnamed woman who appeared · In court with her. hair hacked off in the crudest style.
The clerk explained to the judge that she had been caught in thio company, of a Polish prisoner of wor. She was at once ofrested, and the case was reported to the local
·Goufelter,
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He himself punished, the woman by cutting off hor hair before hand- ing her over to the court.
Taree years Imprisonment was the additional punishment.
Birr food rationing offences
occupy mest of the time of
the emirts.
There was Frau Krause, owner of.a.Berlin restaurant. Even after
the introduction of the severe rationing system she sold ment and butter to her customers with- -out receiving ralion coupons.
Frau Krause pleaded that she had made no profit from the sales. She just wanted to please customers.
ber
The court acknowledged this as undly action, and so she was sentenced to only ten years' hard. labour, although the court was em- powered to pass sentence of death for the offence.
Next I read of the man who .threw spit on the icy pavement ouns.de fe house because his con had slipped and hurt his ankle. He was accused of waste.
Three weeks in jail. Recently I have counted reports in the German Press of 82 convic- hons for listening-in to British and French breadcasts.
Only one case was reported fully. Georg Kaiser, an inn-keeper from Mannheim, had not only listened to the British broadenats, but allowed his guests to join himi In his crime.
Kauer was senienced to death, His wife, who had not informed the authorities of her husband'e "trenchery, was sentenced to eight
years' imprisonment.
IN the
conquered Polish territories, special Nazl courts + deal with hundreds of women dully, Here is a typical case reported frem Bromberg.
Sophie Lonkowska, the indict- ment said, put on the uniform of a Polish chicer and took part in the fighting alongside her cour
countrymen. She helped carry
off Polish Germons who were to be executed... Her participation in the Polish-- atrocities" was "proved" by reliable witnessed. Without hearing her defence, the court sentenced Sophie to death,
Will Frischauer
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