The Ace of ales... WHITBREAD'S
Tuesday..
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
February 25, 1941.
RACIAL POLICY
By BILLIKEN
GOOD USED CARS
Year Frico
1933 $ 650.00
1033 750,00
1038 4000.00
And you'll be the first to realise why, the moment you taste this uce of ales, keen with the favour of ripe Bellring hops, mellow with unique richness of Norfolk Barley Mali.
You'll And Whitbread's the best of the betler beers-a brew that is perfect down to the inst refreshing drop..
Ask for
APPOINTMENT
HEN THE KIND
WHITBREADS
Superb English ALES
Sole Agents:
WINE DEPT.
-A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.
CHATER KD. TEL. 20010
Make of Car
Studebaker Roadster Studebaker Sedon
1036 Buick Sedun
2200.00 Studebaker Sedon .... 1935 1200.00 Ponting Sedan
1938 1800.00
Morris 10 Saloon
.... 1934
850.00 Bitter 11 Saloon.... 1935 1400,00 Standard 12 Saloon.. 1937 2000,00 Vauxhall 14 Coupe 1936 1800,00 Vauxhall 14 Saloon 1934 1200,00
Studebaker 2 Door
Brougham
All cars serviced the samo as for new cars
- ADDITIONALLY-----
All unfis of $1,500 and over in value carry the Hongkong Hotel Garage guarantee for three months.
Inspection and trial invited
HONGKONG HOTEL
MOUTRIE
GARAGE
Stubbs Rd.
The
Phono 27778/9,
PIANOS Hongkong Telegraph.
THE NEW "MODERNE” MODEL
A FULL SIZE upright PIANO
MAGNIFICENT TONE
RESPONSIVE TOUCH
S. MOUTRIE
YORK BUILDING
Book
& CO., LTD.
CHATER ROAD
.
Book
This 7th. MARCH This Date
SUPPER DANCE
and
CABARET
arranged by members of the Auxiliary Nursing Service Peninsula Hotel
Date
7th. MARCH AT 9.30 P.M.
Proceeds in aid of the Bomber Fund and Chinese War Charities.
Single tickote $5, Double $9. Sold at the Peninsula and Hongkong Hotels and Helena May Institute. Book
Book This 7th. MARCH This Date
Date
HONGKONG AS
REVEALED BY
THE CAMERA
2ND EDITION
A selection of over 60 excellent views of the Colony. Very suitable for sending abroad.
Pictures comprise views of the latest buildings and hospitals, schools, churches, the harbour, The Peak district, Kowloon, Jubilee Reservoir, New Territories, Cheung Chau, Aberdeen, Repulse Bay, Deepwater Bay, besides street and wharf scones, etc., etc.,
PRICE $1.50
Obtainable from:-KELLY WALSH, LTD. HONGKONG TRAVEL BUREAU or the Publishers SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LTD. Wyndham Street.
Tuesday, February 25, 1941. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20615
TK prefix "special to the Telegraph" used by the Hongkong Telegraph" to Indicate news which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommual- cations Ordinance, 1936. Such news AS bears the indication "U" is received
Hongkong on the date se publication by
the United Press Associations, who re serve all rights and forbid republications,
artier wholly or in part without previous
arrangement
"BOTTLED" AURORAE
WITH increased emphasis
much
Tirikes
The Valkyrio: "Bertha... Bertha, come here at once... that dog is not an Aryan!"
DISTRUST VERSUS
DEFENCE
By Roscoe Drummond
The loan-lease bill pre- sents no new issue. It is pretty breath-taking only
because it presents an old issue so boldly and so blunt ly. It startles because it comes right to the point where we are called upon to
translate words into deeds.
The aid to Britain legislation, and the lag in defence production, analysed by a noted colum- Washington
nist whose views, as
regularly published in the "Christian Science Monitor," are widely respected arid dis- cussed.
.
It means that
LONDON'S WOMEN CARRY ON
*
By Phyllis M. Lovell
London.
Life for the London house- wife is made up at the present time of strenuous happenings. Upon her fall the responsibilities of keep- ing the home going, of shopping in haste between the shriek of warning sirens, of making skilled use of those foods which happen to be available when she sallies forth with her basket, of contriving to eliminate all kinds of waste and of saving
all
paper, bones and metals. She must see to the "safety of her family by day, and she must make sure-so far as she is able-that her family sleeps as well as may be by night.
Going about during the day, one comes constantly in touch with women who, un- aided by the excitement of - direct action, are carry- ing the responsibilities of British home life. They are calmly courageous.
☆
✩
any policy is a risk of war, this is a risk of war.
I overtook a group of three the United States is resolved to working girls as they entered accept the risk of niding Britain one of the parks. They were
vigorously and fully rather than hatless, but meticulously neat. run the risk of aiding Britain One of them was recounting the weakly and partially.
affairs of the previous night to
But there will be no vigorous the other two. I could catch only aid to Britain until supplies a part of the recital. begin to roll from the produc- tion lines faster than they are
now.
At least, not much. A bed and "So there's no furniture now.
two chairs, and them's rather Why does production still messed up, But one can't grievously lag at vital points, as grumble. Other folks-" The the President plainly said in his three passed out of carshot and message to Congress recently? I missed the rest. Why has not industry veritably
A leaped to the task which the
grandmother of my
now being placed on the possi- The loan-lease bill is an bility of airlane travel in the enabling act. In every pos- upper atmosphere, and with sible way the American peo- research work being ple have shown that they pointed in this direction, the are united in their intention to aid Britain and her Allies exact reproduction of the aurora borealis in the laboratory of to win the war. The pur recently, recognised the con- "terrible urgency" of the crisis acquaintance, sleeping in an Professor Joseph Kaplan and pose of this pending legisla- cern which many feel at con- demands? Why is the manu- underground shelter the other tion is to enable the United centrating such authority in below schedule and the manu- incendiary bomb upon the roof facture of aircraft 30 per cent night heard the sound of an Dr S. M. Ruben of the Univer-States to aid Britain and the hands of a Chief Execu- facture of actual combat planes of her building. Barefooted, and sity of California assumes much her Allies fully and speedily, tive already invested with even below that? more than mere academic im-
In all candour, this is not greater powers than any. portance.
an act of charity or altruism, predecessor. Mr Roosevelt
★
quite alone, she ran up the six atories to her front door, dis- covered the lighted bomb upon
Almost the only clues to con- It is an act of self-defence. made it as clear that he is organised industry and organis- lected it in her coal shovel, threw The frank answer is that both the floor of her sitting room, col- ditions between 20 and 100 miles It rests upon the proposition not eager for the powers ed labour are putting suspicion it out into the garden and then above the earth's surface are that Britain's defeat of the which flow to the White above co-operation and this sus- successfully put out the fire it given in these displays of home-Axis now with American aid House under the loan-lease picion affects their relations be- had started. made "northern lights." The is the best possible guar- bill. He said that to meet tween each other and with the
Administration. upper atmosphere acts like a antee that the United States effectively the threat of war giant neon tube whose gases will not have to fight the they must be exercised by Axis in the future with no someone and inevitably they (helium, nitrogen and oxygen,
aid whatsoever. according to Dr Kaplan and Dr Ruben) are excited and give off light whenever a prolonged flash
Strangely, the investigators found they had to go to high pressures in the laboratory to
low reproduce the
pressure
*
go to the President.
✩
Notwithstanding the presence By the same evening all was in the defence councils, industry even gone to the lengths of of respected industrialists high ship-shape once more.. She had as a whole remains deeply dis-repairing her ceiling.
When
Lawyers' Waste Paper
There is considerable trustful, of the Administration neighbours recognised the fact and is apprehensive that the that she had probably saved It is evident that the loan- room for modifications in President will be eager to use more than a dozen homea, she of "current" from a discharge lease bill has majority sup- the terms of the loan-lease the emergency as a
means of made light of it. "Any sensible of high voltage energy is sent port in the country and in law without limiting its acquiring vast peace-time con- person," she said, "would have
done the same." earthward from the sun. Such Congress. Its central object objectives. A time limit can trols over private enterprise.
Notwithstanding the presence London's ordinary home wo- energy is attracted earthward that of rendering power- be placed upon the powers
are doing great things. ful and if possible decisive it bestows. The strategic of respected labour leaders high men to the magnetic poles, but there aid to the democracies-is experts of the Army and in the defence councils, labour They are handling matters in the as a whole remains fearful that present emergency in a way is suficient voltage spread not under strong attack. Navy could be required to the pressure of the emergency which goes near to surprising through the nonpolar atmos. Its central method--that of certify that the material will be used as a means of per- themselves and certainly almost phere to cause excitation of producing the armaments in could be spared, although manently breaking down the bewilders those who are privi- ionized atoms for a considerable American factories
at this is as much a matter of social legislation it has worked leged to look on. distance toward the equator.
of management. It is uncertain American expense and loan- high policy as it is military so hard to win. It is suspicious leasing them, mostly to policy. The bill doesn't need about the Administration itself. Britain, is widely accepted. to empower the President to
* give away or as the term is, What, then, is the real otherwise dispose of" the ting this is to say that the A perhaps simpler way of put- issue that has to be resolved armaments. Some restric- United States cannot disunite Records Problem auroral phenomena, and that the if America is to become the tion could also be placed itself behind a class struggle and
interesting situation has. higher the pressure the better arsenal for democracy-an upon the authority of the at the same time unite itself bearisen between the Ministry of arsenal capable of arming President to take sides in hind defence, Until this ques-
tion is resolved, the all-out effort Supply, which
waste the reproduction. In fact, every the men and the morale of any and every war which to produce, produce and produce Paper, the lawyers, who have so-called "forbidden" line or the free nations fighting to might appear to grow out of will not be made.
great deal of wasta paper, and band in the spectrum of the turn back the Axis assault the present conflict.
the British Records Association. aurora has now been produced in on all freedom?
To put defence first does not which wants to have waste paper the laboratory; all were found
mean that there are not grounds from lawyers' offices sorted by The truth of the matter is The question is not whe- for suspicion and need for alert-experts before it is pulped.
ness. There are. But the Not only will these studies aid and in large part it ex- ther this grant of power is urgent issue is this: Defence Cannot Be Persuaded + plains the grave lags in de- ideal. The question is whe- production will not rise at the physicists and meteorologists
fence production, itself ther there is any practical rate the crisis requires unicas into the danger that in any clear-out working on upper air problems, there is a genuine hesitancy alternative. Democracy must dustry and labour wholehearted- of their offices historical documents which can now be investigated in to trust the President with know when it must delegate ly join in, irrespective of immo- of Law Notes says that an autograph the laboratory, but the experl- the vast industrial, financial its power as well as when to pletons need not be erased, but has been found recently.
diate doubts and distrusts. Sus-letter of Warwick, the King-maker ments will also aid the study of and international powers harbour it.
they will have to be suspended
A woman member of the Records light from stars and the identi- necessary to make American
until the main goal is reached. The loan lease programme
Association complains that solicitors fication of characteristics which aid to Britain soon enough, means, in a word. all did no There will be no future free-an expert to decide
"cannot be persuaded" that, it needs fast enough and strong Britain
whether their old horetofore havo been cut out or
short of manpower, dom for either private enterprise papers are of historical value or not. enough. distorted by the earth's atmoa-
One sees her point of view. But That is the most significant or for labour within the United decision which Congress and the. States unless they both unite where, in war-time, with the Ministry phere-Christian Science Moni- President Roosevelt him- American people can make with now to preserve the greater free she expect to find the vast army of of Supply waiting on the mat, doci self, at a press conference respect, to the war. Because dom of the United States itself. experts that would be necessary?
in the auroral afterglow.
Stor.
☆
wants
The lawyers themselves aro alive
may be destroyed. The current issue