Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
February 10, 1941.
TEXT OF MR WINSTON CHURCHILL'S MAGNIFICENT BROADCAST
CAMPAIGNS IN GREECE AND AFRICA DEFEAT COLD-BLOODED
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deeply conscious of the love for us which has flowed from the Dominions of the Crown across the broad ocean spaces, There in the first of our war aims to b worthy of that love and to preserve it.
"All through these dark winter months the eneiny us had the power to drop three or four tons of bombs upon us for every ton that we could send to Germany in return. We are arranging so at presently this will be rather the other way around but meanwhlie London and our big cities have had to stand their pounding.
They remind me of the British quares at Waterlon. They are not squares of soldiers, they do not wear scarlet coats; they are just ordinary English, Scottish, and Welsh folk, men, women and children standing! steadfastly together; but their spirit
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glowing tribute to General Wavell and other military leaders and said flint he had received a telegram from } Wavell saying that the success at; Benghazi was due to the outstanding leadership and resolution of O'Con- nor and Creagh ably backed up by Wilson,
Royal Navy & R.A.F.
Referring to the part played by the Royal Air Forco and the Royal Navy in the battle of Libya, Mr Churchill declared that none of the British plans could have succeeded had not the pilota wrested control of the air from a far more numerous enemy.
Nor would tho campaign itself have -possible- -If the Britsis - Meditor- ranean Fleet had not chased
the Italy Navy into harbours and sus- talned every forward surge of the army with all the flexible resources of sea-power.
Bombardment of Genoa
Is right
How far-reaching these resources In the same as their glory is the are wa may see from what happened same, and in the end their victory at dawn this morning when our will be greater than famous Water-western Mediterranean fleet
under Admiral Somerville, entered the Gulf Honour To Civilians
of Genoa and bombarded in a shatter- All honour to the civli defence sering manner the naval base from
German vices of all kinds-emergency and which a
Nazl expedition who live helped our people through Algeria or Tunisia the Italian people regular, voluntary and professional, might call to attack Weygand in this formidable ordeat the like of should be made to feel the sorry which no elv
civilised community ins
plight into which they have been led ever been called
een called upon to underge. More than two-thirds of the win-by Mussolini. If the cannonade.of and ter has now gone and so far we have Genoa rolling along the count
reverberating in the mountains has hnd no serious epidemic; Indeed there has been no increase in illness de-reached the ears of our French spite improvised conditions in shel- comrades in their grief and misery, it fers. That is mostly due
due to the local may cheer them with the feeling that medical and sanitary authorities, to friends, active friends are near and
devoted nursing staff and to the that Britannia rules the waves. Ministry of Health, wheat head, Air Malcolm MacDonald is now going to Canada on other important dilies.
our
The events of Libya are only port of the story. They are only a part of the story of the decline and foll
We have bruken the back of win-f the Italian Empire that will ter, daylight grows, the Royal Air take a fulare Gibbon so long to write
Force grows and is already certainly master of the daylight air. Attack may be sharper but they will bel shorter,
as did the original work.
In
Abyssinia
central Mediterranean, Mr Churchill a sald, and he referred to the very army algnificant air action over Malta
Some 1,500 miles to the south strong British and Indian
DICTATOR
Danish Torpedo Boats Taken Over By Nazis
BAD DRIVING
Sanitary Inspector Fined
STOCKHOLM, Feb. 0 (Reuter)-Danish torpedo boats have been flying the German Bag and manned by Germans since Wednesday, states the Stockholm newspaper, “Dagens Nyheter.””
This follows a roport circulat- ing here during the past week that the Germans had taken over the Danish torpedo boats and submarines.
Tho
newspaper says that the lorpedo bouls are intended for opern- Lions in the Baltic and. for use in training, but adds that there is no question of taking over submarines.
This is the first serious breach of The original conditions Infd down at the time of the German occupation, comments the "Dagens Nyheter," The Germans, adds, are systema tically obtaining the removal
of Cabinet members with the object of eventually having a Ministry Copenhagen possessing the confidence of the King and the people but at the same time willing to yield to the Germon demands.
Lost And
Stolen
Thefts From. Motor Cars Mr C. N. Matthews of St John's Hall,, Hongkong University has re- ported the theft of a pocket book containing $138 in
in cash from his room yesterday afternoon.
Mr Wu Ying-kat of No. 43 Western clothing from his house, value $79. Street, has reported the theft of Money and Jewellery aggregating $746 in value were reported stolen
fan of No. 12, Princes Terrace, first floor, between 10 a.m. and yesterday,
Cricketer Victimised The following thefts from motor yesterday. cars were reported to the Police
belonging to Mr J. E. Richardson of A raincoat value $30 from a car
There will be more opportunities / beving driven the invaders out of the fortnight ngo. The Germans had from the residence of Mr Chan Wun-) for work and service of all kinds. Sudan, is marching steadily forward sent dive-bombers to Sicily which If our first victory was the repulse Through the Italian Colony of Eritrea seriously injured the alreraft carrier of the invader, our second was the thus secking to complete the isolation Illustrious and as this wounded ship frustration of his nets of terror and of all the Italian trops in Abyssinia, was sheltering in Malta Harbour they torture against nur people at home.
Other British troopa are entering concentrated upon it their force so Abyssinia from the west while the as to beat it 'lo pieces.
Greeks Give Thrashing Meanwhile abroad, in October, a wonderful thing happened, One of the two dictators, a cold-blooded -block-hearted Italian who had sought
of which we may discern the power-defended fortresses in the world riny gathered in Kenya, in the van The enemy base is one of the best ful forces of South Africa organised against air attack, the Fleet Air Arm by Gental Smuts, is striking north- and the Royal Air Force, but in two
As a result of collision between a car and ricksha, in which the ricksha coolie, Tsol Wing, 34, sustained in- juries to his back, Inspector G. II. Sheriff of the Sankary Department was summoned before Mr E. His- nt Kowloon Magistracy this worth morning, for driving without due are and caution and failing to report an accident.
Trafie Sergeant D. Brown and that the ricksha coolic, Tsol, was pulling his rieksha along Nathan Rond and after turning into Laichikok Road; a private car driven by defendant
le from behind and collided with
ricksha.
Sgt Brown in evidence said that when he questioned · defendant, he was told that a report was made by Station. Inquiries were made but it' phone tu the Shamshulpo Police
was revealed that no report of the accident had been made at that Station.
Coolie's Evidence
The rieksha voolle said that he was
pulling his ricksha on the left side of the road when the car struck his ricksha on the left off side and then swerved to the right. Tsoi further paid that the driver of the ear pot aut and looked at him. He appeared to be rather drunk.
Mr.
Himsworth said he had no doubt that defendant had been care- Josa fu not seeing the ricksha.
rather dark and he did not notice the Sheri sald that the road was
to gain an unpire on the cheap by ward along the whole enormous from- or three days the enemy last out of ì No. 11 May Road, while the vehicle rickshn until he had struck it.
tier.
$1.34 for damage to the riskan coolic,
A fine of $30 was imposed on de- fendant who was also ordered to pay
brutish Greece only to be hurlegperor so recently exiled in Eng- condition was one of the imaged Road, Happy Valley, has reported the and $15 compensaflon to the ricksha
stabbing: fallen France in the back,}
Lastly, Ethiopian patriots whose Het into trouble.
Without the slightest provocation, independence was stolen five years spurred on by the lust of
and power Mussolini attacked and
bacit Ignominiously by the herole Creek army who have revived before our eyes the glories that from the classic, are led their native land.
invaded
reached thein.
In
power
in
feci some satisfaction.
sold that the brilliant decisive victory
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of which fifty were destroyed in the spence of No. 23 Broadwood 360 dive-bombers upwards of ninely was parked in Statue Square between
pun, yesterday. Mr air and forty on the ground. Although the Illustrious'
greatest theft of slides and clothing value $10 prizes of the air and anval war, the from his car while the vehicle was Germany accepted defeat and would parked in Chater Road yesterday not come any more. All necessary at Malts Harbour and she steamed repairs were made to the Illustrious safely to Alexandria under her own
have risen in arms and their ago,
is in their midst to fight for their freedom and his throne.
Here then we see the beginning of chastening of wrong doing which the
process of reparation and the reminds me that though the mills of God grind slowly, they grind execed-power at 23 knots.
small.
on the Black Sea.
and the
munt
which
the
Supplies For Victory
morning.
Macao Team!
On Visit
Eastern Extended By Royal Navy
(Continued from Page 6.)
The Macao football eleven, which
Navy Tried Hard is paslog a return visit at the After the resumption, Navy invitation of the Eastern Athlette had more of the play, but the Association, is expected to arrive
in Hongkong to-morrow morning. Chinese defence held out. Spora- They will stay at the Cecil Hotel; die raids were carried out by and will play their first match both sides, and the defences against Eastern at Carollon Hill to-were always on top. The hard morrow afternoon.
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Cement Lost
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The loss of 52 bags of cement value; While Mussollai was writhing and
contracter's hut in smarting under the Greek lash
Magazine Gap-Road was reported to Albania, Generals Wavell and Wilson
Mr Churchill said that he dwell on the Police yesterday by Lin Wang- Aid From America
this incident not because it disposed yan who were charged with the defence
of No. 30 Hennessy Road, put to it to stop the fast advances of HONG Referring to the mighty tide of of danger in the central Mediterra- Wanchal. of Egypt and the Suez Canal in ae- cordance with our treaty obligations sympathy, goodwill and effective ald near but in order to show that there Mr W. T. Johns of Taikon Docks, play was confined mostly to their the Chinese, för during this period, and whose task at one time seemed which has begun to flow across the us elsewhere we intended to give af hus reported the loss of two drums half, and only the splendid tackling dificult, had received powerful Atlantle, Mr Churchill said to his good account of ourselves; but after of paint and 25 fathoms of Manila of the backs and Hazard enabled reinforcements of men, cannon and hearers that it might be that Mr all the fate of this war would be hemp rope value $530, from equipment and above all tanks, which Wilikle and Mr Hopkins would tell settled by what happened on the anchored at buoy No. 310, yesterday.Leucht-4-long-period-
a ship them to keep their goal infact for we had sent from our island despite the truth about what they had seen oceans and in the aft and above all the Invasion threat,
here. More than that was not in this island.
However, with persistent attacks, number
and large. of troops from India,
Eastern were not to be denied, and Australia and New Zealand had also The rest we leave to the Judgment
after n run down the right wing in of
the President. Co
It now seemed certain that the
which Britt had allowed Fu Tsuk- Libyan Victories
people of the United
government and the people of the
ping to be unmarked, the latter ran There began that serles of victories Turning to what he described as
United States intended to supply us
through to centre, allowing V. K. Libya which have broken the more serious and darker and
with everything necessary for victory.
Hyul to tap the ball into the net from irretrievably the Italinrt military more dangerous aspects of the vart
Mr Churcill recalled that in the last
close quarters. the African continent. scene of war, Mr Churchill said, We war America sent two million men Here then in Libys is the third con- may be sure that the war is soon
across the Atlantic but this was not siderable event upon which we may going to enter the phase of greater immense shells at one another.
a war of immense urinies firing violence. Hitler's confederate Musso- After referring to the early stages lint has reeled back In Libya but the We don't need the gallant armies of the advance in Elbyn as "a most Germans, having
absorbed Hungary American Union; we don't need them are forming through the hazardous adventure," Mr Churchill and driven Rumania
into frightful internal convulsions, are now already as the eye can foresee any year, but this year or the next year nor as far at Sidi Barrant with its tens of thou sunda of prisoners proved that we Threat From Bulgaria
we do need most urgently an in-
The time of the kick-off has not yet tackling of the Navy defenders had quality, manoeuvring power and weapons superior to the enemy who air force is being built up in Rumania all kinds.
A considerable German army and mense and continuous supply of war been decided, but it is to be about 4.45 had a somewhat softening effect
material and teclinical apparatus of
p.m.
on the Chinese, but they kept up had boasted so much of his virility and ita forward tentacles have already
They have expressed a desire to meet both South Chinn and Sing Tao pressure. and military virtues,
Invasion Threat penetrated Bulgaria with, we
on the following days and return, to On the left, Hau Ching-tau was It was evident that all other
The Premier referred to the war-tacao by Saturday. No defnite, ar- put through on several occasions, but Italian forces in eastern Libya suppose, the acquiescence of the Bui-ing given him by General Sir John rangements have been made, but there his
On weak. were in great danger. They could gorion Government.
The airfields not easily retreat along the coastal
are being occupied by
DIB, Chief of the Imperial General every probability that South China rond without running the risk of be German gmund personnel numbering Staff, that Hitler may be forced to and Sing Tao will field elevens against extreme right, Fu was unable to get past the watchful eyes of O'Regan. thousands, tremendous swoops.
as to enable Ing caught in
and Invade the British Isics in be try
flowever, with They had exposed themselves to being German air force to come into action
The following is the Macao team: old Hoy confined to mid- future.
Carvalho: Americo Cordova, Chu Cheung Kam-hol, who
snapped up a pass from attacked piecemeal.
from Bulgaria.
Naturally, we are working night Sousa, Colaco, MagalhaesChou-kuan, Chinst-tau away. The latter's
sent Hau Many preparations have been made
and day,
and we are getting every- Afrosa, Guerreiro,
part- General Wavell, nay all our leaders into or through Bulgaria and perhaps August and September.
for the movement of German troops ever before-stronger than in last Pimenta, Leandro.
ready, thing
We are stronger than Cheng Chan-kong. Reserves.-Mendes, | ing shot was taken up by C. T. Teno, who bent Giff from close in. After of British, Australians and Indians in this forward movement has already
I have the the Imperial Army, saw
play transferred to their op begun. portunity..
greatest confidence in the Comman Scotland Wins By Held, and though the Navy went Balkan Unity
der-in-Chief at: horne, At that time I ventured to draw
ome, General Sir
nent on several occasions, the final Of course it all the Balkan peoples Alan Brooke, but most of all I put Odd Goal In Five played well, although Gift had more Wavell's attention to the gospel of St
touches were weak. Both keepers Matthew at the seventh verse where stood together and acted together faith in the simple resolve to and Turkey, and inspiring nearly 4,000,000 Britons conquer or. die which is onimating
London, Feb. 8. to do then his counterpart, and the aided by Britain
Scotland defeated England by three two goata German force could be assembled In
quarters. seek and yo shall find, knock and it m
Routh-east Europe and in
all match played to-day. shall be opened to you."
Navy-Gift Roughley O'Regan; those
Results of other matches played Lahye. Hazard, Britt: Hall, Le Page, The Army of the Nila has asked months much might happen.
were: Auch will certainly happen and it was given. They sought and
It is not an easy military operation
Honeywill, London Cua.Aldershot 2, Queen's Park
Hendy, Barber. they have found. They knocked and and as our air power grows and as is waiting for the invader here. There Orient 2; leading 2, Millwall a; West Ham Hsu King-sing, Lo Wai-kuen; Fu American oid becomes more effective to invade Britain and to face what Face Chores. 3. Arsenal 13. Clapton cheung, S. Y. Yen; Qui Yeung-fok, Eastern--La Hin Hon; Ng Kee- Rangers 4; Brentford 7. Fulham 4; Crystal it has been opened to them.
In barely eight weeks of a came as our armies in the cast increase in must give. Hitler thought that 3, Southend ; Portsmouth 5, Southampton Hyul, C. T. Tsao, Hau Ching-tou.
we become well-armed nauons and is one word of caution though which 3, Toltenham 2... paign which should long bo studied
Football League (South)-Bournemouth Tauk-ping, Cheung Kom-hal, V, K. as a model of military art, an advance strength.
when France gave in we should give 2 Watford 2 Brighton of over 400 miles has been made. countries in south-eastern Europe think again. Any invasion now will Crewe douthport &; snemeld Wednes
"Nothing is more certain than if the in. We did not give in and had to stockport 4 Bolton & Bradford City
„Football League War Cup-Blackpool ✨, The whole Italian army in the ens allow themselves to be pulled to be supported by much more carefully day 2 York 1. an army reputed to exceed 150,000
pieces one by one they will share the prepared equipment of landing craft plackburn & Holllax 3; Burnley 4 Hury 3 men, has been captured or destroyed; fate the entire province of Cyrenaica Belgium and none can tell how long the winter. We must be prepared to Doncaster 3. Rotherham 2
of Denmark, Holland and which he must have planned during Hufts, Chesterfield 5: Liverpool 4, Everton nearly as big an England and Wales, it will be before, the hour of deliver meet gos attacks, parachute attacks has been conquered.
South Regionale-Cardin 7. Drfstol 4. and other plans which have been Lincoln It Strond round, Walsall 4, West
Midland Cup-Semi-final, Leicester, 4, ·SPECIAL TO' THE "TELEGRAPH" One of our difficulties is to con- made with practised skill. The unhappy Arab tribes who have vince these countries that we are
| Promich 3,
WASHINGTON Feb, 0 (UP) --The The British Empire and the whole suffered from brutal Italian rule going to
Lancashire Cup (Second round)---New | Army and Navy Journal to-day re- win. We think it have been freed, These Bedouin astonishing that they do not see it as Hitler's tracks, bearing with them the Swansea ILAY.XI L
is English-speaking world will be on Brighton 2. Chester: 0.
Other matchesBloke D, RAF x 1:ported that the United Stater is survivors have at last scon their clearly as ourselves
materially increasing" the strength sword of Justice, No sudden shock Scottish LeagueAirdrie . Falkirk 12: of the regular army forces and Philip oppressors in disorderly flight or led
The Quislings --
of battle will shake us and we will 11 Eleerte omilionu torton 4, con pine. Stouts on duty in the Philip- Celtia B. Partick 1: Dumbarton 4, Albion The Hallan war.
Quisling called finish the job... Mussolini and the French Quisling
01 Motherwell/9,/thermian 8; Hangers 1, plnés. Queen's Park 1: Third LanarkTM d. - H The Press sections off the : War] ! Egypt and the Suez Canal are safe called Lava! are both in their differ
Mirren 3-Reuter, and the port and base and the air ent ways trying to make their coun
Department declared that they had Rokis of Banghar! constitute a tries into vassals for Hitler and his
no knowledge of any plan to send strategic point of high consequence new order, hoping to be able to get recently as a Lord Justice of Appeal,
FILM: STAR'S, FATHER- additional troops to the Philippines the Eastern the Nazi Gestapo to enforce their has been granted an annulty of 23,-
from the United States, and that any to the whole war in Mediterranean.
Prof. J. Flynn, father of Errol increase in the regular army in the rule unen their fellow countrymen, 500 for life, it is announced in the Flynn, the film star, Is senior ARP., Philippines would be made by local
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