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Friday, January 3, 1941,
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THE prefix "Spreial to the Telegraph” is used by the longkang Telegraph'f to Indicate news which is strictly copyright snder the provisions of the Telecommuni- cations Ordinance, 1936, fuch news 23 bears the Indication "UP" in received in Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Prass A11ocixtions, who re- serve all rights and forbid republications, either whatly or in part without previous arrangement,
NEW CALL TO ARMS
A DEEPER appreciation of the
ahocking and terrifying destruction which the Nazis Luftwaffe is causing to London and other cities in Britain is offered in the decision of the British Government to invoke
a plan for the general mobilisa- tion of fire watchers-in other
January 3, 1941.
"If ever there was a time when the words "United wè stand, divided we fall” had ̧ meaning, it has been the
period since the Axis came into being
物
United States
Stands or Falls
With
Britain
By
Dorothy Thompson
H HE German Italian THE Axls has functioned in Japanese pact ought to functioned in regard to Italy.
regard to Japan just as it make clear to Americans, if
Germany started the war in there are any who still need Poland with the clear under- convincing, that this is no standing that the move would European war, but a world involve Britain and France. weeks" "blizkrieg" after the pat- war aims really are le ingenious- revolution for the redistri. Italy entered at the precise mo- tern of France, then Japan prob. ly revealed by Dr Schacht, who bution of the entire planet. collapse of France. Germany ably would not have been in- is writing down a blueprint for
That's what it was intended could, it was reckoned, handle voked at this moment, to be in the beginning; that's with Britain she would need Empire in Axis hands, the Near France by herself; for the war what it is; and in the nature of Italy. things it is directed as much against the United States as Had the Battle of Britain suc- against anybody else.
ceeded in the autumn, by a few
ment agreed upon-with the
Down
Lambeth Way-To-day
by G. R. STRAUSS
(Labour MP, for Lambeth Northi
From New York to New Guinea, Lambeth Walk is known to-day as a typical corner of Cockney London.
Like most other parts of the Metropolis-like, in fact, most urban districts in Britain-it has been bombed savagely.
con-
In telling its story, then, Mr. Strauss, whose stituency contains The Walk, is telling the story of all the great centres of population. For they are all the same. The as cents may vary, but the talk of Lambeth Walk is the talk of the townsmen of Britain.
there's one thing, I always did hate cleaning my windows."
Business is bad, because many of those who used to make up the
"Walk" crowds have gune. The
With the citadel of the British
the new World Germanica, in book to be published at the right moment.
Eastern and Far Eastern poяscя-
Dr Schacht announces quite sions and Commonwealth mem- simply that the real objects of bers could have been cleaned up this war are the breaking of the between the three Axis partners. "plutocracies"--namely, Great Now, by the roundabout route Britain and the United States. of Japan, Germany and Italy E Japanese angle reveals
TH
manage to send what amounts to an ultimatum to the United States.
itself in the plan that after
this war the United States is to have no interests whatsoever,
If the U.S.A. moves in Europe commercial or otherwise, in the or joins the war on the side of Pacific. nny Axis enemy, all three
Powers regard her as an enemy. We are to be allowed to trade exclusively with Europe--which
If ever there was a time when needs some of our products- the words "United we stand, and with South America, where, divided we fall" had meaning, far from having a "Sphere of it has been the period since the Influence," we are to be appor- Axis came into being.
tioned "quotas."
HE Battle for Britain is not
The Battle for Briercrowded only, through
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scrap of geography.
We are to be allowed to trade a monopolistic Import-export syndicate, to be set up for the whole continent Battle for the Atlantic Ocean, of individual trading in this The Battle for Britain is the of Europe, necessitating the end
young men are in the Forces, most just as the Battle for France country and the establishment of the children are evacuated, and with Britain was the Battle for of a similar government mono- some of the mothers too.
the Mediterranean and the sea- poly here. Nevertheless, those who stily are still cheerful, although behind their ways to Africa, the Near East cheerfulness there is constant anxiety and Asin. and occasional tragedy.
But if you are in any doubt as to
If
We shall be invited to stabilise our currencies together with the European Fascist Japan, Russia and pan-Fascist
how Lambeth people are standing Powers control the Atlantic from Europe, and merge the banking the strain, come along to the Rest Europe, and Japan controls the systems; but Germany will keep
| Centre-formerly n college where Pacific from Asia, the United the rubber mark for merchan-
those who go are turned out of their homes by an "Incident."
LISTEN
States will be penned in by the dise and tourist trade.
oceans and will be finished as a
Listen to the comment of a shop great Power.
We shall either The debts of all Germany's
girl, who, with her family, had been accept this dictum or not accept vassals will be recognised "in bombed out of her home in the mid-it. Not accepting it will mean principle, but will be paid, in die of the night. She was busy war, and war alone, by our goods. helping to prepare breakfast for the selves. others.
"1
I am."
have always wanted to go to "And now here
words, the enforced use of per-Do you remember the words fiz." he said.
haps 50 per cent, of the entire nation,
of the song:-
"Everything free and caru, "Do as you darn welt pleasy.
I don't want you to think the people of the "Walk" are indifferent to the discomforts and dangers of the ralds. For from it. They are suffering severely.
It is a vital step; unhappily
Of course the "Walk," as we in a very necessary one. The "fire
It is no fun sitting up all night Lambeth always call it, was in and every night with young children -raid of-Sunday-last-clearly-has-reality-never-a-bit-like-thel, and in a crowded shelter. And it's no it certainly isn't a bit easy, and a fun queueing up from early in the stirred the Government more
thousand regulations prevent you afternoon to reserve your place in than anything else in this war.
doing as you darn well pleasy." the basement of one of the big office The Huns have now revealed "Why don't you make your way buildings in the neighbourhood, or
there,
In an underground station, that they are prepared to at- "Go there, stay there....
Nevertheless, I have yet to hear tempt to destroy everything There's nothing to prevent you'
single
word which would suggest historical and beautiful they can
making your way there, and if you any weakening of their will to fight care to know what the "Walk" is on to victory. reach with their bombs; they like to-day, I invite you to do so in And it isn't all contentment and
my company. I doubt, are carrying total war to its
though, good hum
humour in Lambeth either. whether you will want to stay there. There is much resentment, angry ultimate stage.
Mr Herbert Morrison, when announcing the compulsory scheme, found it necessary to include a rebuke in his state- ment. "In more cities than one some of you have failed your country. This must, never hap pen again", he declared. These are stern words, and possibly convey more than Mr Morrison intended they should. Few, if any, in Hongkong have had first-hand experience of modern raids, carried out as they are by
THEN AND NOW
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resentment,
Against Hitler, course--for
of hatred of him is permanent and un-
For Latin America, which lives vealing who its enemies really tion, and we shall eventually have The Axis is ingenious in re- by exports, this system will mean economile strangulallon or collabora- are at just the right moment.
the Axis at our gates,
Also, the European end of the Axis may greatly hope that our attention will now be diverted to
The USA. needs Allics. It needs the Far East-our attention and them Inmediately and desperately. our defence effort. I hope we We ought to reverse_out limited. are not so easily diverted.
thinking.
It is not and never has been a question of whether the British Em- pire needs us; It is a question whe- The United States stands or ther we need the British Empire.
We do. falls in the Far East with Great Britain. We stand or fall in If Britain is defeated, we shall be both the Atlantic and the Pacific alone against the world. Invaded or with Great Britain.
not invaded, wo shall live on the terms of the conquerors and be back
The disposition of affairs in where we were in 1778. the Far East will depend upon Finally, America's defence pro- the outcome in Europe and in gramme Is utterly Inadequate. It
power,
"Walk" was like before the war.
But you must first know what the shakablo-but also against the au- the Atlantic, Japan knows this will not be adequate until we re- A long, narrow, rather mean street, thorities.
why the new pact? -otherwise, why the Axia and Commise is state of emergency and
mobilise the entire man machine power, and money power of the country for defence, letting What the minimum German everything else take second place.
lined with shops and stalls, where the
to
for many
other
Particularly because of the shortage neighbouring housewives did of shelters, but their marketing beenuse the goods reasons too. were cheap and one was bound to People who plainly ought to be meel a friend or two with whom to out of London and were anxious to gossip,
go found that they did not fall within The "Walk" was a social and shop-any Government evacuation scheme.
Invalids for example. ping centre of a poor working-class |
I know of district. Only on Saturday nights a bed-ridden woman whose husband did it come near to the colourful and the
wanted to get her away as soon D5 the severe bombing started. glamorous place of the song.
Then there were bustling crowds, He found, after applying to various garishly it by the bright lights from authorities, that there was no pro- vision for her removal. So she had the shop windows and the Anres from ter the stalls, accordion musle and laugh stay in London, although she
bursting from the pubs.
could
not even get to a shelter at the Nazis with all their Insen- Nowadays on Saturday nights the night.
Then there are the old people, who, sate brutality und utter diare "Walk" is deserted. You cannot go
marketing in the blockout, And if they want to stay with relations gard for place or person; yet even in the daytime much of its in the country, lose their Supple- what little has been seen here colour has gone,
mentary Pension and are unable to For a bomb landed plumb in its pay the rent of their London homes. through the cinema has been centre, smashed the shop windows No wonder there is anger. And,
of sufficient to excite the imagina- almost the whole length, and rough belleve me, when the peop
the "Walk" are tion and to set one wondering that used to brighten the thorough-feelings in words that are outspoken wooden boards now hide the displays" are angry they express their how the people at Home have fare.
and vivid, as Herbert Morrison, him- been able to stand it as they
This catastrophe did not completely self a Lambeth man, well knows. have. Furthermore,
one shopkeeper. When is appointment was in the nick of the au- thenticated stories of heroism
he arrived the next morning and time. He has already done much to found his plate glass had disappeared, restore condence. by the various voluntary fire- he remarked to his neighbour: "Well,
CARRYING ON fighting and war services in
But in spite of all the upheavals England aro sufflelent to show
of the war and the folly of the au- expect ralds of a nature similar to thorities, Lambeth Walk carries on. that, by and large, there has the fire attack on London. It seems Pinned on the boards which tako been a wonderfully concerted fairly obvious that it was a test rall, the place of smashed shop windows, effort to thwart Hitler's at-likely to be repented, or at least at-are notices which any, “Business a tempts to destroy and terrorise. tempted, on a much larger scale in usual."
Mr Morrison's words must not be behoves the people of Britain to be Cockney wit. As
the future. Therefore. it clearly Nor have the people lost their taken" so much as an indictment as
Only by a scheme such as that out bob, the owner looked at the rubble, rendy to withstand such onslaughts, next to the one destroyed by the lined by Mr Morrison can this pre- piled feet high in the front of his paration be effectivated. The know- premises, and asked me as I passed, fedge is dark and harrowing, bet- "Can
an urgent appeal. It is possible that someone blundered lost Sunday when so many famous and historical build- ings were laid waste; but this cannot
dishearten
passed the shop
be laid at the door of the averago okoning days and nights of suffering Stravou lend me a Hoover. Mr
man and woman in England; their and anguish, but, the country has Drabber and rather battered, its efforts hitherto have
been too steeled itself for such a day, and, people lower and their lips a tito splendid to warrant such an indict- there is no doubt, is ready and will tighter, but their spirit unchanged ment. what it means is that from 1 Ing to answer the new call for com- that is what you would find now "If henceforth, Britain generally must pulsory service..
you go down Lambeth way.
FUNNY SIDE UP
By Abner Dean
t
"Can you wait?:
PEAN
I expect a phone call any minute!"
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