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BROOK:-At the Queen Mary Hospl- tal yesterday, Joshua Brook, at the age of 56 years, the Cortege
will leave Anderson's Funeral Parlour at 5 p.m. to-day passing the Monument
at 5.15 p.m.
In spite of his family name there is nothing of the |patriarch about this sinewy,
handsome soldier.
He received his advanced training in the Ecole de Guerre, the French Staff College, which overlooks the "Field of Mars" in Paris. Here Foch lectured when the century, was young.
A cavalry captain in the Balkan wars, Papagos was pro- moted in 1914 to command a brigade. His age was twenty- eight.
The Greek warrior king Con- stantine made him his right- MAY-AL the Matilda
Hospital, hand man. They rode victori- Ilongkong, n1 7.15 p.m. on Thursday, 23rd January, Annie ously against the Turks in 1921, May, widow of the late George deep into Anatolia. Papagos Thomas Mny, in her G8th year, Funeral will pass the Monument called for a hall; the king cried "Forward!". Greece · suf- fered a devastating defcat.
ut 5 p.m. to-day.
WHITE-AL
BINTII
the War Memorial Nursing Home, on the 24th inst., to Margaret, wife of G. A. White, a son, Timothy Peter.
The
When Constantine was exiled Papagos kept his royalist faith burning high. In 1935 he went to London to ask, in the name
of the Greek Army. that Constantine's
Hongkong Telegraph.son, George II,
Friday, January 24, 1941.. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20015
THE. predz "Special to the Telegraph"
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of the Hellenes, should return to the throne of his fathers.
Like King George, Papa-
indicate news which is strictly copyright gos has always
bears the indication "UP" is received in
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January 24, 1941.
THERE'S ONLY ONE TOPIC...
REPRISALS?
PHILIP NOEL-BAKER, M.P.,
answers the question of the moment with an omphatic-
"Mr. Churchill came hisself to our street. And when he saw what they'd done to our homes, big tears rolled dom.: his checks, and he said: "They'll get the same; they'll get the same." But next day we read that our boys had been over Berlin, and they hadn't dropped no bombs. You don't know what to think, you don't really.”
HE was a mother from the East End, taking her little girl to safety by a Scotch Sho wanted the mothers and children of Berlin to be bombed, as she was bombed.
Because they had not been bombed, she proceeded to express dan- what in Japan are known as geraus thoughts thoughts 50
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weapon then, can we not now use the weapon of random, indiscriminate bonuing by which Hitler hopes to beat us down?
Of course, we can. And, if we did. no- one could say that we had been guilty of a legal wrong.
Hitler has smashed every last remnant of the Laws of War; our mantis are free to take whatever measures are required to bring his monstrous aggres- sións to an end.
But it we did resort to random bombing, I believe we should commit the gravest blunder of all this blundering war.
I bellevo re should do more to pro- long the war, perhaps to Imperii victory, than If we lost another great campaign.
The People's Part
We all know that, if we win, it will under the provisions of the Telecommuni- been an admirer of British in- dangerous that they moved a Can be when the war has become, ilke the Napoleonic struggle, a war of Euro- calions Ordinance, 1930. Buch newsatitutions, and he has his own dian sergeant in the other corner pean Revolution against conquest and
to a protest in which sturdy en- tyranny. couragement was mingled-with-In-that revolution the German people.
must play their part plain reproof.
At present the whips and machine-guns of the BB, men keep them helpless. But we know that even in 1933, after he had been six weeks in office, itler could not win a majority at the polls.
arrangement.
BRITAIN'S TRADE
Although Sir Arthur Salter, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Shipping, recently stated that it had been found necessary to sacrifice Britain's
serve all rights and forbid republications, In 1936 he vowed that Greece either wholly or in part without previous would do her duty against Italy if the Abyssinian campaign led to general war.
You must not sec in him a reckless, challenging adven- He learned in Paris to turer. regard war as a science; he up- the plied this knowledge to defensive, needs of Greece, re- organising the army, pushing on
there is evidence to show that no Metaxas Line.
When
"I Can't Forget
"
No-one who saw that little girl could fail to understand the mother's feelings No-one who has followed Hitler's crimi nat campaigns, both against his oppon. ents in Germany and his neighbours abroad, can fail to see that sadistic Terrorism against the defenceless and the weak is his favourite weapon.
He has proved it often to be weapon
of deadly power. Can we, eak those in favour of reprisals, now admit that he alone shall use it?
Must we be restrained by moral
scruples, by the old rules of interns
the
We know that there are milliona, tena of millions, of Germans who hate the cruelties of tier's prisons and the crimes of Hitler's wars.
The day will come when'our Pitth Column in Germany may comprise not
only all the German workers, but uba majority of the German nation as a
whole.
Nothing could so certainly retard that day as the random bombing of the
foreign trade to some extent, the defensive works they call the clonal law. from adopting methods women and children of Berlin,
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which he has used on us; methods by which, as many people think, we could quickly win the war?
Put like that, the question plainly pro- vokes the answer: "No." But... I
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Anti-Nazis
The German Army has won great vic- tories. They were won, in part, by the
bombers and their fanks.
They were won still more by u
human life, credible disregard of
Italy began the flow of exporta abroad, es- pecially to the United States treacherous attack Papagos was shall never forget a sunny day in April vast numerical superiority of their
ready. "We will write new and whose dollars are needed to help lorious pages in our history," Poperinghe to Ypres, when suddenly, dreamt-of treachery, and by an iş - pay for the equipment that he cried. "We will fight on to came running in twos and threes. They whether of friend or foe
keeps the British war effort the last breath." moving. The convoys that carry
The glorious pages have been acroplanes; atcel, guns and shells written to the confusion of to British ports do not return to Rome's would-be Caesar and to the American Continent in bal- the admiration of the world, last. On the contrary, they still which knew that Greece was continue to make their westward small and poor in war material, passage well laden with mer- but did not realise she was so chandise for the United States rich and great in spirit.
market and similar efforts are would not have appeared in New being made to keep the trade York assuring buyers of quick with South America flowing delivery of all orders. smoothly.
The necessity of maintaining Reports from New York and oversens trade is very thorough- other American cities show that ly recognised by the manufac though Britain's trade may not turers in Britain and though be as usual" it la nevertheless Hongkong or other parts of the continuing. Christmas shoppers Empire may seem short in cer- found that British textiles, toys, tain accustomed commodities, ewentors, gloves, shoes, etc. especially in non-essential goods, were plentiful amid an almost the United States and other total lack of goods from other countries able to carry on more European countries. Further- or less normal trading facilities, more, a circular, dealing with the will not be allowed to suffer any woollen trade, stated that British lack. The same determination tweeds for men and women aro that sends Londoners to their available and will continue to be daily occupation no matter what so. The British woollen Indua- havoc the air raid of the night try is now under Government before has wrought is dominat- control but evidently the rawing the unceasing effort to keep material is being fairly distri- up the flow of goods to the vital buted, otherwise the circular markots of the world.
I was driving up the road from around a bend, Prench Colonial troops had thrown away their arria, and they were flying in uncontrollable panic, from the line.
They had been passed; they were the
Brat victims of this Kaiser's violation of
the "Laws of War."
"We Can, Buf
We all remember the fearful shock
this illegal arm Yet within two years given to world opinion by his use of the Allies were beating the German Army in the use of poison gas.
If, in reprisnis, we could'uso that
But there is widespread witness that, when they are vigorously opposed, the morale of the German soldiers is not so good as the morale of the Kaiser's Army a quarter of a century aro
Many of them are anti-Nazi; among many of the rest there is no conviction that their cause is just, that they are fighting for the safety of their country, their families and their homes.
Nothing could so stiffen their morale as the random bombing of German towns.
Both at home and in the Army, t would be the highest trump 'that-
"ALL CLEAR"
By F. G. H. Salusbury THERE'S a red dawn rising whence the raiders fled,
And brick dust thick upon a shattered bed; There's a new world waking that the bombe have made, And one more morning for the Chars' Brigade.
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For the skies may thunder and the guns may roar, But brass wants cleaning on the office door:
There are floors want washing in a thousand rooms, And someone's goi to use the palls and brooms.
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Through the song 'streels, haunted stli by wlid-eyed enla Come staunch old bountis greeting staunch old hatet With What fuck, dearie?" and a "Can't complain," The Ma's of London take the Asið again.
Though the Han may threaten until all bells freest, It's only work will and Ma on her knees! And it goes like clockwork, after rald on raid, Dook the "All Clear" giren by the Chars' Brigade.
NO!
Goebbels has been able to play for inany day.
And random bombing is a form of wor in which we shoud gho Iller tvory possible advantage.
Working from Franco, will their short 'türn-round," and with their nd- vantage in numbers, his aircraft can. drop a far heavier weight of bombs in Brliain than we can send to Germany In reply.
At night, his pilots cannot And their milltary targets; our pilata can and do. By random bombing we should sacrifice that immense technical ad- vantage.
We know that, up to date, wo have done incomparably greater military damage in Germany than he has dona
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Wo. know that in London he has wasted-yes wasted-a vast proportion of his bombs.
Why should we imitate his example and do the same?
That argument is greatly strength ened by the fact that Hitler may soo be running short of oil.
Every expert is agreed that he has already begun to feel the pinch. I ta -bin greatest weakness, and it is a mortal..
weakness,
The Best Targets.
Without oil, not a single German air- craft can fly, not a submarine can put to sea, not a tank or a run can take the field.
Transport dimcullies make it im possible for Hitler to bring more than Emall proportion of his requirements from Rumania. The other countries Zeo has occupied produce no oi; we have. stopped their normal overseas supplies: they are an actual drain con his oil re Bources.
Already. Hugh Dalion tells us, we -have bombed 80 per cent, of his oil re- fineries arid 90 per cent. of bis plants for making oll from coal.
I wo multiply the bombs, these refineries and plants can be utterly dr- atroyed.
Already we have set åre to many of bis oil reservas; and we know that oll tanks, anca well alight, may burn for weeks. They are the easiest of all tas gets to find and bit
With auch targele në our mercy is would be utter madness to bomol women and children instead.
Goering must be on his knees every night and morning praying to Thor and Odin to strike us with this mad- neas.
An Abomination
Finally, whatever we ourselves may suffer, the bombing of women and chli- dren remains an abomination, which, if we werd guilty of it, all future geners- tions of our people would deplore.
Our plots ha.. dong does that have been the wonder of the world. They have been inspired, at least in part, by the cold anger which they, felt at the Atrocities committed by the Nazi airmen In Holland, in Belgium and in France. If we told them now to commit thesO same atrocitics, in Clermany, I belleya they would think it not only a waste. but a veritabis prostitution, of their courage, their training and their skill.. I should not like to be the man who gave the order. and I hope, and I be- lieve, that no such order wiit be given, either now or in the months to come
THE DANCING CENTENARIAN
Suffolk's oldest evacuee, Mr Wil- 11am Minter, of Ipswich, step-danced' round a cake with 100 candles at Leicester in celebration of his 100th birthday, an
The dancing centenarian writer verso and entertaina ́his friends, with selections from music-ball- favourites. Ife has four, great-grandsons in the Forces.