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CURRENT COMMENT.... By Scrutineer POCKET CARTOON
It la for the right to meet together and discuss our national affairs in a frank and critical manner. It Ja for who got a concession in 1902 to con- Xin chief Houtenant, Admirat Dar- the right to point out weaknesses struct this highway to the East, but lan, has been negotiating with the and defects in order that they may the vision of a journey from Berlin Germans, and there is no doubt that be removed; to get angry when there to Baghdad was not realised until he has made certain concessions, at is injustice and to demand redress, July 17, 1940, when the first train the expense of the British. Already and to get from the head of the gov- steamed out of Baghdad for Istan- German and Itation
supplies ernment from time to time an ac
The Baghdad Railway comes into What the verdict of history will be the picture now that Iraq the on his own government remains in Rcone of trouble, It was "Germany" no doubt.
bul. Basra where our troops have have passed througli French count- of his stewardship and to landod,
fa 353 miles from Baghdad coastal waters, and much mate- learn the truth, however unpalatable and the night train takes 14 hours to rial
รถร been Imported into i may be. complete the journey.
for Marsellies
the benent A nution that can turn the light Whether the railway will prove to of Germany. be a backdoor, a sort of Burma Road The betrayal of a former ally who on its national assembly like that is vigorous. Instead of to Turkey, or a front door for a Ger- stood by the side of France in 1814- healthy and
ninvasion, remains to be seen. It 1918 and offered the most generous pulling its critics into the concentra- full and <depends
on the attitude. Turkey terms ever made, before her collapse on camp. It gives them
free adopts.
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hearing. The opposition G
In June last year, is surely a greater ther
there for that purpose. The Prune
Germany naturally has her eye on crime thun any perpetrated by the rich all wells of Kirkuk and of Reynaud to his colleagues. Iran. Between them they produce sixteen to twenty million tons per annum. Their loss would be serious blow to our forces in Middle East, but the gain to Germany would not be very great unless she hind control of the Eastern Mediter-
ranean.
Whe
can. This oll cannot be conveyed overland by railway, for tank wagons are few and the Journey is
It goes by pipeline to T
in
Syrin, or to Haifa In Palestine, where
an
OIL AND IRAQ
It is Inhabited. by numerous tribes whose great pasalon is religion and whose day lives are marked by the greatest corruption, cruelty and vice. The following conversation Illustrates this point:
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聚麗
SATURDAY
FEATURE
To purchase ense and comfort in
war.
TANKS
said
Minister's specchi was a masterpiece
of direct statement without any
subtlety or any attempt to disguise the truth,
There were the trestal dashes of wit and biting Irony, and there was the feeling that he was treating the nation
of individuals on as made up whom he respected and not as sheep whom he despised. That is the sort at thing we are fighting to maintain, not only for ourselves but for the
world.
were
Some
is loaded into tankers, Iraq, or It i Mesopotamin as
It used to be called, France by treachery of this nature CHINA WAR RELIEF is not attractive country. A to Britain hardly fits in with the
It was feared by friends of China British sokiler in a letter home cles- pious pronouncements from Vichy.
of the that when war broke out between cribed it and his own feelings quite it is perfidy and hypocrisy
stupid policy, England and Germany, the British accurately when he said "it was miles worst kind. It is a nnnilen and miles of damn all." too, for a decent future for France Fund would automatically come to in nol conceivable without the an end, but gifts in kind and success of the British Empire in this money kept coming in to the Execu
Live Secretary and Treasurer, at the Westbourne Terrace, depot at 121 London, W.2.. and therefore
the Fund was continued. From the out- The Prime Minister in his brilliant break of the European War until the
in Parliament,
that end of Décember, 1940, . Sumy speech emphasis was now being laid on the
to £20,374 148.-3d. that more amceived, "Abd al Karim said: The Orst building of tanks, and
now in a of the great sins Is the glving of were being turned out
of the working parties in divine honours to a creature. Of month than in the course of a year the country have continued to meet,
when Mr More-Belisha was in course,' I replied, the enormity of
and a steady though smaller supply office.
of bandages, operation gowns and such a sin is beyond all doubt.
In the list order of the day issued other hospital requisites has
been But if this be the first, there must by the German High Command on maintained. Altogether, during the be a second; what is it? Drinking November 10,
1918-given in the years and anaesthetics the shameful (that is, smoking
175 bales have been sent out. Encyclopaedia Britannica under Drugs
have also tobacco), was the unhesitating
'Tanics' which Colonel Swinton been shipped to Chino, and it Is answer.
And murder, adultery, and false witness? I waggested. quotes, it says that the cause of the noteworthy that during the 'God is merelful and forgiving, re- German defeat was the British tank. tion of Dunkirk a ship (one of joined
That was the conviction of the convoy) passed down friend; that is, these are German generals, and since that day Channel
the English merely little sins,"
conveying, among other At the Conference of Versailles they have assumed that the next things, a number of cases of drugs was agreed that Mesopotamia should war could only be won by the nnd Instruments for China relief.
self-government. Three very development of the tank. inve
English prominent
politielans dis- cussed the question:
my
There were many in the French army and same in the British who did not share that view.
Even as late as March 1920 a cor- Brigadier Collins in the R. E. Journal threw cold water on the idea that mechanisation was the key to victory.
BERLIN RAID
ryncus-
The Genmans evidently felt the, full force of the blow which the R.A.F. struck at Berlin recently. This is the Nazi radte's account of the raid.
1 fear that the country may be badly governed," said, the first.
"The country
witi be badly " said the second. country ought to be badly governed," added the third.
"Numbers of high-explosive and Lord Haig said that "only by the incerllary bombs were dropped on is not a
I savoury place as far as politics go, and were it not for the rifle and bayonet of the infantryman the capital of the Relch. The results
can the decisive victory be won,"
of this attack provide further that w
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"Ok, the patient's all right, but I've completely, lost a
unique, appendix."
May 10, 1941.
Soldiers Reported Dead Found in Prison Camps
Dramatic, poignant, and humorous stories about the British wounded and miss- ing before and after the collapse of France, and the epic of Dunkirk, were told to a London reporter recently by the Dowager Lady Ampthill, whose department of the Red Cross and St John War Organisation deals with the wounded, the missing, and their relatives.
Some soldiers thought it unlucky to wear their identity discs. In one case a man reported killed was found in a prison camp. He must have given his disc to the man on whose body it was found.
Three women had claimed to be the flanceo of one soldier. The
this-in Navy doubled
one Instance six women claimed to bo the fiancee. of one sailor. It was discovered that he had a wife and two children.
had been heard since May was re- ported as a prisoner of war.
Visits by 2,000 Relatives The Red Cross had arranged visits by relatives to over 1,000 air-raid casualtics hospitals, and found ac- commodation for 2,000 relatives while making these visits,
Ten people with different names. said they were the relatives of one man whose photograph was sent from a prison camp. Two people, a man and a woman, experts in Jigsaw sunk by the enemy, puzzles, had the task of solving the over £1,000,000 a year. badly misspelt names of prisoners.
France's
President
Is Lonely
Pacing every day up and down the grounds of the chateau he refused to accept as a gift is "France's foncllest man"— Albert F.
Field Marshal Sir Philip Chetwode, referring to the dificulties of sending parcels to prisoners, said that three former President ships containing parcels had been Lebrun.....
The parcels cost He and his wife have been Geneva received 0,000 letters a day living since last July within a day), schools, hospitals and ancient They had traced every one of them from prisoners. There were 2,000,000 stone's throw of the chateau at 1,500,000 French, the home of his son-in-law and Polish prisoners, over 100,000 from the Low Countries grandchildren outside the village and 14,000 British.
of Vizille,
of hours; who have attacked every sort of dwelling in Britain, from Buckingham Palace to workmen's cottages in Wales, besides innumer able churches (more than 2,000 were Ilated by the Vatican Radio the other
loveller buildings infinitely more "venerable" than anything the gloomy capital of Hiller's ope-State could boast,
and
SITUATION IN FAR EAST
The situation in the Far East re- rains as it has been for some time.
It seems that the German agents in lave over-sinted the case, and Instead of their enthusiasm spurring the Japanese on to intervention, it has made the latter rather suspicious. Then again the internal condition of Japan is unsettled. The Japanese constitution cannot fit in with the, the Emperor is unassailable, and so systems of Europe. The position of
Mussolini is unthinkable.
First News of 72 Men The first news of many prisoners who were in Belgian hospitals come when 72 letters arrived. A wife was
tokd: "I have a letter from your hus- Even Jurymen Can't M. Lebrun seldom leaves the im
band, which has just arrived from Belgium." This was the first news she had had of him.
The news
About
the
British
Dodge The Issue..
Although completely at liberty,
mediate neighbourhood of his home. Occasionally he strolls into the, vil- lage, but only rarely is he seen in the nearby town of Grenoble.
Only Homage
The mystery of why two jurors! wounded was that they were ex- were busily writing during a trial in
treated. Unfortun- Lancaster, Pennsylvania, has been house lift their hats and murmur res- Villagers who pass him near his
well tremely ately they were not allowed to cleared up. welle letters.
The Jurymen, Lesile. S. Hubbard pectfully: "Good day, Monsieur le Two days before Christmas
and George W. Banzhoi, were putting President." But this is the only
homoge
he receives from his com- who had been receiving the "Onishing touches" in their in- woman
patriots. pension since June for her husband, come tax reports.
Otherwise, the Third Republic's reported killed, was informed that They asked the judges permission only President to be re-elected after. he was in a prison camp. A father-and got it-to have a deputy clerk serving a full term, receives no at- and mother inquiring about their son take nidavits on their reports 50tention outside occasional attacks In heard that he also
they could nie them before the dead-the extremist press because he did not In another case a memorial
dissolve Parliament. was held for a, son, now known be a prisoner and regularly writing letters home, An obituary notice appeared in a London newspaper of a man reported killed. He, too, was in a prison camp.
WDS
prisone line.
to
On the other hand, there is no evidence even now that the Chine war has produced either an economic breakdown, or a political upheaval. The Japanese for centuries have been disciplined under feudalism to endure
Lady Ampthill explained that in misfortune. The greater the strain
the last war the wounded in the buse the war imposes, the greater the hospitals in France were able to sacrifice they will make to see give valuable information concerning through. A
major military or val missing and wounded men, and it defeat
lend might
something was thought they would be able to do merent, but that is only a con-
the same thing again. teror tingency of the future. The war in China is not popular, it never has been since it become evident that it would be a long drawn out affair, and could not bring either great glory or great pront.
to
Qual
oil it might have been left to its own It is always the case, of course,
On the balance, whatever gains evil manner of life. What used to
we start of the new war with example of the inhuman metods Japan may have made in China.
the R.A.F. Everything of German be a prosperous cotuitry has been re- duced to penury by the quarrels, on the weapons and tactics of the old culture and artistic light was bombed whether military, political, or econo-
Germans, The one.
however, adopt-
countered have Indiscriminately.
been The the pression and
venerable mic, they corruption of pression
ed the ideas of the British Inventor various fribat leaders.
State Opera House in Unter den Lin- by the dimculties she has created Rashid All, who was put in gool by and put all their money in it and on
den, the State Library, museums and vis-a-vis America and Great Britain. This disapproval of the China the British two years ago, is a fair it, at least what was left over after
other historic buildings were campaign by the United States and damaged. One hospital received a sample of the men who are thrown building the planes which
did not invent. they
by Britain has been explained to the direct hit which destroyed its re- up from time to time. The posses-
search department sion of Basro, and the air force we
and
several Japanese people as hostility and op- maintain in Iraq, however, ought to
laboratories
Direct hits on
position to the legitimate claims of dwellings caused casualties
Japan. Only by exploiting the iden ensure our mastery in Baghdad.
to the
of encirclement by these powers has civilian population."
she been able to whip up the flag- ging spirits of the nation.
-many again
I then, the machines are more important at the moment than vast nemies, the United States as the workshop and arsenal assumes vers great, and even decisive importance in this war:
PETAIN'S FRANCE Marshal Pelain, in a proclamation cpiling upon all Frenchmen to forgal
COMMONS DEBATE their past with its liberty, equality and brotherhood and to embrace the
We are continually being asked to new doctrine of the family, hard declare our war aims. It is hardly work and piety, refers contempluous- necessary to do more than to point
This shriek of outraged virtue
comes from people who machine- gunned terrified women and children on the roads of Poland, Belgium, lolland and France, just as they are machine-gunning them in the Bal- kans in-day; who last summer lold
ly to the corrupt and self-seeking to the discussion in the House of waste the greater part of the fair city politians who caused the downfall-of-Commong which took place on of Rotterdam, murdering between-
France.
Wednesday.
30,000 and 40,000 civilians in a couple
on
June 17,
1940,
the
Bomber Fund was commenced
the first week produced
produced over
$1,000,000
will you help
to double that
that figure before
June 17, 1941?.
$119,000 is
all that is required.
Donations to Date: $1,881,018.30
Romitted to London: £116,889.19.6d
TELEGRAPH
QUIZ
Genoa is in the news.
What famous navigator was born there in the fifteenth century?
2
Who was the originator of the Nobel Peace Prize? What did
he do and when did he die?
4
3
What do these words mean
(a) alimony (b) antimony (c) agrimony (d) parsimony (c) simony?
4
How many members of the present House of Commons are sons for daughters) of Prime Ministers ?
5
Pekoe is (a) an edging for a drass (b) a blend of tea (c) a porcelain figure (d) a town in China.
6
An airscape is (al an emer- gency exit (b) an escape of air (c) an air photograph (d) part of a ventilation system.
7
When was the first book printed in English, and by whom?
-8
The first non-stop flight over the Atlantic was made by (a) Lindbergh (b) Amy Johnson (c) James Mollison (d) Wiley Post (o), Alcock and Brown (f) Sir Alan Cobham. -
9
How old is Gandhi?
10
Which race of people wor shipped the Juggernaut ?
(Answers on Page 14).
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been thought, and many families
of war.
Woman's Hysteria From Seeing Motor Accident
A woman who claimed to have been in a state of colapse since she saw an accident was awarded £450 general damages and £250 special damages at Norfolk Assizes recently. She was Mrs Esther Primrose Englestown, of Tacolneston, near Norwich, who sued for damages the Rev. Geoffrey Ewart Shead, of Norwich, and Frederick Hebert Hardy, of Old Buckenham, Norfolk, hau- lage contractor.
dropped outside her bedroom win- dow. It might eure her. It might Just as well be a cure as AN GERTE-- vation.
Anxious Relatives The Red Cross was inundated with inquiries from the anxious re- latives. There were 2,000 letters in
day. But ono cheerful fact Mra Englestown's case was emerged. The number of killed that in February, 1937, she was was very ranch smaller than had walking on a footpath when Mr meurned the loss of their Shead drove his car negligently had who
One doctor said that Mrs Engles- soldier sons and husbands learned from a side road causing a colli- eventually that they were prisoners sion with a motor-lorry driven town was afraid of cars and that her condition was worse than it was two by Mr Hardy. She was not hit years ago, and another that when he Information about missing men by either vehicle.
saw her last month aho shrieked at came from various countries, includ
Sir Charles Doughty, K.C., for the mention of a motor-car. Ing Russia, Sweden, Norway, Belgi-
For the defence, Dr W J. Connell, um, Rumania, Greece, Spain and Mrs Englestown, described her ner- Portugal. Finally it was upon the vous condition at the present time medical superintendent of St An International Red Cross at Geneva as deplorable and said she had had drews Hospital, Thorpe, Norfolk, sald to be examined on commission. She they had to depend for information, was suffering from hysteria and had that when he saw Mrs Englestown in
Impossible to give
to worse. names by post, but thanks to the been going from worse Initiative of Field Marshal Sir Philip She refused to go into an institution that it was a simple case of hysteria.
prospect of re- Chetwode, chairman of the Executive and there was no Committee of the Red Cross, the covery unless there was Institutional names were sent by cable. The cables treatment. were paid for by the Red Cross.
Only that morning, said. Lady
the
At Geneva li
Was
Ampthil,-a-private-of-whom nothing
Bomb Cure
Mr Justice Atkinson-T wonder what would happen if a bomb
June, 1939, he formed the opinion
The judge said that he was satis- fled that Mr Shead was to blame for the accident. He awarded the plain- tiff the whole of the 'damages against this defendant, whom he also ordered to pay the second defendant's costs.
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