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HONGKONG INDUSTRIES
HONGKONG has had a war on her doorstep for nearly four years and is now participating, financially and industrially, in another conflict thousands of miles away, upon the result of which depends the future of the Colony; yet, far from Hongkong displaying the "jitters", there is ample evidence to show that confidence in its future is greater than ever.
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WHAT A QUESTION · · TO ASK
DOUGLAS REED says
I
Hitler's diplomacy has failed;
LEES
is
The R.A.F. is just getting into its swing; the Navy master of the seas; the Army is improving daily; In Albania we have the chance of seizing a big success ---quickly.
KNOW
Why I We Will
AM convinced we
can
Win
If the Italians can be driven had to read the story of "The win this war, and know out of Albania into the sea, if Battle for Britain" written by their Dunkirk can be turned an American newspaperman a dozen good reasons why into a disaster-that is a deci who spent ten days here!
sive success in this war.
Smash The Italians
we cannot lose it.
B
doctor,
In Germany, Hitler is creating a New Order for Europe, and Goering is creating a new order for Gocring.
new
It is fantastic to think that historians of the future will find so little about this stupendous
ENGLISH IN SONG
Educating the
Foreigner
A
In the far-off days when there was a country called Austria and in it a city called Salzburg where artists congregated for. music and drama and the mú- tual refreshment of talk in the cafes, there was a Viennese singer whose ambition it was to sing English songs perfectly. "But," she said, "they tell me I can never master the English language unless I talk with pipe in my mouth." Her new- found. English acquaintance gallantly rubbed the stem of his pipo on his sleeve and offered it to her, but she was not quite ready to begin practice. Actually she spoke and sang English very well, but there was that roundness of the vowels, that crispness of the consonants, that difficulty in swallowing the weak final syll- ables in words like "straighten" and "able" which betokens the foreigner. Perhaps the pipe would have helped.
To-day there are thousands of foreigners in the Empire, allies and friendly aliens who are burning to learn to talk English. We understand that the proper authorities are setting up the proper machinery. They are to be taught by word of mouth and by gramophone records. Soon they may all be speaking like B.B.C. announcers, but will they be talking as English people talk with or without pipes in their mouths? Probably not, and possibly the proper authori- ties would think it very im- proper if they did.
But let us leave pipes and come to singing. Their alm is the opposite of the Viennese lady's. She wanted command of the language chiefly that she
English might sing
songs.
Surely singing English songs could help them to get some command of the language for their own purposes.
Consider how much the songs
But if I were examining a superlatively heal
I do not know, as a layman, if incident in our island story in of Schubert, Brahms and others thy man, I should know a dozen there are insuperable objections our island press, that they may have done for the knowledge of good reasons why he should not to the landing of British troops. have to look up foreign news. the German language in British die, and that still would not help The danger of a swift German papers to find the name of cities countries. No doubt there have if he walked in front of a motor- descent on them from the north, that were bombed, that the been English sitigers whose lorry
of another Dunkirk, is obvious," heroism of bomb disposal singing of Lieder has been ad- on squads, firemen, policemen, bus-mired-but-who-when-they got and the Italian attack Greece may have been meant to drivers, and all that unknown to Germany, found some dif- legion, will be practically un-ficulty in choosing the right kind tempt us to such a landing.
But I do know that if we can, known to them.
of sausages or in explaining to from the air and from the sea, Our greatest setback in this railway porter exactly what. Goering's order is a
German airmen, give the Greeks now just that
Handgepack. medal for
Battle of Bloomsbury. It is a
A knowledge of lyrical poetry will named after Roscheim, his own extra ounce of punch they need war, to dato, has been in the they wanted done with their birthplace. He is its first re- to push the Italians into the sea dreary story.
not give conversational case in daily that is a major victory. The. alive with
emergencles, but if the poetry is No Cause For Gloom cipient.
Italian morale, already heavily Chinese factories, turning out in
burdened by the memory of the We have a good story to tell, and joined to a tune written to at it, it will at least give some perception of impressive quantity rubber foot-
the shape sceent
and sece
the language. of headlong retreat at Caporetto in should tell it through the lips of our
own people.
Through singing, pronunciation be- wear, torchlights and batteries,
He reminds me very much of the last war, would suffer a
But, even in spite of that, when comes instinctive, and such
know hardware, minerals and ores,
Bruce Lockhart's diplomat, of mortal blow.
I stand back from the pleture of the ledge as
as the singer gains piece goods and tobacco, to men-
whom it was said that if he got For the first time one of the war and look at it, and look at the y literary. He learns the language tion but a few. The result has another decoration he would two dictators would have been common people of this country, in phrases not in words, and the been a considerable increase in only have one place to put it and driven from territory cheaply should say that the gloom prophets musical phrases of a well-written export values during the past he would then be unable to sit taken in some spectacular Satur. are very wrong when they say we wong express the character of the verbal phrases. Take Purcell's line: are "virtually defented." day-afternoon swoop!
"No, never, no, never intending to twelve months, the release of down.
Our inagnificent Air Force is just
more," new capital in the Colony, the
Not only Mussolini's standing getting into its swing; our Navy, hard visit them mor
would
It has been translated into German but also Hitler's employment of thousands of ad-
be pressed, la still master of the seru; ditional skilled and semi-skilled
nie wiederselt, wiederzeit hier dlesen So far he has collected three seriously shaken, and all round our Army has vastly improved to fit the music as "Auch wenn hir workers, the demand for more
of translations, lles all across the property, and a consequent im- very small tags to the tail of his the Mediterranean men would through long training; we need
musical phrase, but the foreigner German-Italian-Japanese kite begin again to look up and look be able to where soon, and should Strandt." The German, as is the fate The War on our cities is certainly who has sung Purcell in English will press upon the current pro-Rumania (where his troops are), towards us.
very serious, but nobody in sperity of the place.
country thinks that it can hent us that he does not intend to do some
at leas, know how to say emphatically Hungary (which hopes by this
More serious are the writings of thing. Moreover, he will not fin sycophancy, to keep them out) and Slovakia, which has been in
It is a significant and en- couraging sign; true, a good
'New Order' Flops
What of Hitler's New Order in Europe?
Relief For Franco In Bulgaria King- Boris's hand
success somewhere
one.
+
not mere
deal of this industrial develop | Hitler's possession for eighteen would be strengthened in his American newspaper correspondents, future tend to pronounce the words
months, nyway.
to his some of them known personally
ment was the outcome of cir
lonely struggle to keep
me as staunch and 'stalwart friends as "nevere" and "veesect." of this country. cumstances and not any con-
But the really big or useful country out of the war.
And in Syria? There French scious effort on the part of the
They have been writing that our
But teaching the language by song Colony; Hongkong's purpose recrults, the ones Hitler wants- soldiers are already talking of censorship is ominously reminiscent must be to scize this golden Russia, Spain, Bulgaria, Turkey de Gaulle's successes in Central of that which oppressed France be- can only be done through good songs. fore the French guddenly found the There are too many songs written to opportunity and to consolidate-still stand aloof."
Africa, are already listening
enemy marching under the Are de English words where the tune is ga
contradictory of 'the flow of And that brings
that his Triomphe." to eagerly to the news me it. Everything possible should
Albania, a word which at this emissary, General Catroux, has And the Anoricans, at that, suffer words ns is the Purcell tune of the be done to stimulate the new
more so. But good songs are not trend. With an eye essentially moment should be written on all arrived in the Middle East, far less from the censorship than de German words imposed on it, perhaps Catroux, who as a prisoner of the British people, who never had so necessarily "classical songs. Think for the future, industrial plan- our leaders' hearts. ning should become a policy. At Not only the people of this war in Germany in 1916 was little information before they acqul of Chevallier's "If you dia ar ald Hot yourself to the present factories are being country, who are very staunch in kept in a dark cell for three one of the most expensive minis-maid you've only
formation.
fuller of good specimens than the bullt with little or no attention adversity, but, far more, those months, is a patriot in the grand form of a time, the Ministry of In-blame. The music-ball, when it was
tradition, known
Our Other. 'Army'' English concert platform. paid to the sites; they are suita- other wavering and threatened French
necd # British throughout the French Empire...
English song from the sixteenth One day, I hope, and I hope soon, century to the twentieth, not forgot ble for immediato needs, but in | countries,
These are the things we might many cases offer little scope for success.
we shall begin to organise that .In Albania the gods-the achlove, if we are daring and Army of Pre-Occupation of sabonge ageless folk-song, is a rich
heritage
of the English language ot Important development in the
Greek gods have sent us the alert.
teurs and disintegrators: inside. Hnaturally to music which our concert future.
The war on our shipping is ler's conquered countries and Inside platform singers have neglected res The New Territories boast chance of one.
certainly very serious, as serious mickly and easily inter prehensibly. Never mind the concert- many open spaces served by
an and easily to conquer ball repertory. Go anywhere, where read and rall; here might be its preparation. Hongkong as it was in April, 101nt than Norway and Holland and other coun-ordinary English people sing their established a centralised indus- exporting its manufac we were nearer to defeat than
songs in the way they speak their trial area; around the factorieatured commodities moro and evor before; but we overcame it This is the army which can win own language. Pick out a handful of could be built workers houses. more; it is not impossible to then, and we should be able to us this war, and which our fighting them, put them on gramophone re-
services, our secret service and a real cords: if necessary, but above all get- Hongkong could have its Indus- envisage the time when the overcome it now.
Ministry of Information should now the foreigners to sing them as o trial centre, thriving and self- Colony's export trade in home. In recent days I have had to be combining to form.
dinary English people sing them, not, contained. The idea is partly made goods vies with its entre- watch an American film about bur chances of
teacher teaches them, and it will bo The use we make of those chances odd if the singing foreigners do not visionary, but indications sug-pot business. Enterprise and the RAF., and an American gest the desirability of such a Intelligent planning at this stage film boasting that only Ameri
with the language a great chance offers unexpectedly in quicker than those who learn from plan in the future, and the pro- may do much to bring this can newspapers how tell their well, it is up to our leaders, and get on terms
Textbooks.. sent appears to be opportune for about.
readers the truth, and I havo Albania:
..
own
are good, not bad, ning this war as the international-minded singing