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MERE WORDS FAIL to emphasise the gravity of the great fight against brutality and oppression, in which we are so seriously engaged. The hordes of Hitler are desperate in their fiendish desire to obliterate the British Empire, and all that it stands for. It is total warfare. Total in the sense that not only are our gallant sailors, soldiers and airmen in- volved, but civilians as well.
ALREADY THE TOLL of lives amongst the civilian population of the British Isles, Is heavy. Already, innocent children are being maimed and blinded. The scene is poig- nantly grim, Our folk who are in the midst of the holocaust come up smiling after every onslaught-even though they have tears in their eyes and anguish in their hearts. They are Undaunted! Unconquerable!
THEY ARE ENCOURAGED by the great help they are receiving from their kindred nations overseas, In common with the rest of the Empire, Hongkong is helping. Nearly a year ago, the Bomber Fund was started, and thanks to the. generosity and the sacrifice of many, over two million dollars have now been subscribed and placed at the disposal of the British Government for the purchase of bombers-so urgently needed to avenge the innocents who have fallen, and to smash the German war machine.
HONGKONG is doing well, but can do still better. There have been magnificent contributions to the Bomber Fund, and there has been great sacrifice on the part of some who have given again and again, Let it be remembered however, that the two million dollars would not, have been recorded but for the humble gifts from those who could afford no more.
THIS COLONY enjoys the blessing of peace, but that blessing should serve to stimulate and quicker the desire to give to the greatest cause of all time. Our people at Home know what total warfare means. Let them know that the people of Hongkong understand what total giving means.
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NEW WAR TAXES
AST May the Prime Minister appointed Professor F, A. Lindemann ns one of his principal assistants for statistical research work. But Professor Lindemann is something more than a statis- tical expert. He has been called
CHURCHILL'S
MYSTERY MAN
Character Sketch of Professor F. A. Churchill's mystery man. The LINDEMANN, -statistical expert,
public knows very little about him.
Not many people know eyen that this distinguished physicist is Mr Churchill's chief personal consultant in all seientific mat- ters relating to the war-parti- cularly, though by no means solely in the field of aeronau- tics.
scientist, inventor of hush-hush devices for the Royal Navy and
the
R. A. F.
By A. J. CUMMINGS
.
the experience of the Great. War, a contingent could kill 10,000 people,
wound 30,000 and do £50,000,000 worth of damage.
Like most other prophets he great- ly over-estimated the capacity of a single large contingent of raiders to inflict human casualtica; and, on the other hand, he' was surprisingly optimistic about the possibility of finding means to defeat or prévent bombing invasions.
He often criticised the Air Minis- try for taking the line that such de- fence was out of the question—"the bombers," Mr Baldwin gloomilly pro- claimed, "will always get through"
and that the only hope, of safe- girarding London and our other great centres of population lay in threatening potential enemies with reprisals.
"The suggestion that we have no real defence," he said, "is a counsel of despair. It is a good bet that something can be found to defend our coast line by other means than mere reprisals."
is a natural assumption that Professor Lindemann has for
many years been sceklifk a method to justify his belief and that his re-
E had fought the elec. searches have been Intensifed since
the present war began. chiefly on the
Hation
of
intimidate
the
ON important inventions dent without any party label. the Popular Front" and to a operation.
the
He is a born inventor; and he mentary candidate in an Oxford has been credited doubtless with University by-election. the authorship of valuable de- With the eager backing of his strength of his own specialised There have been many Vogue vites of war with which he may friend, Mr Churchill he stood as knowledge of the problems of semi-official hints that substantial have had nothing or little to do, an Independent Conservative air defence, his purely political recuing of buen defensive the les
of such defensive devices; feeling against Sir E. Farquhar Buz- arguments being confined, if my but we have yet to see the practical zard, the official Conservative memory is not at fault, to a con- results on scale large enough to candidate, and Sir Arthur Sal- temptuous dismissal
nocturnal ralding the other hand, most ter, who stood as an Indepen- "emotional sentimentalitics of my or seriously to reduce his strength in any night bombing regarded with official favour are In the result the split Conserva- mild preference for the preser- submitted to his judgment for tive vote let in Sir Arthur Sal- vation of the social and econo- Lindemann and is fellow-workers The probability is that Professor THE recommendations of the an early or a final vetting. ter; now a junior Minister of the mic status quo under wise Con- were thinking originally in terms of Reconstituted War Taxation Sometimes he passes them for Crown.
servative direction.
the daylight invasions and under- service, sometimes he adds his Committee which seek to in-own improvements, occasionally
At all events, if Parliament the right attacks.
estimated the power and precision of crease the Colony's monetary he rejects them altogether; and
lost a promising recruit, the na- PROFESSOR LIND & tion still had at its call the ser. Churchill Aret me dan
I have always understood that Mr contributions towards tocal de-
if he turns them down they are
MANN, I am told, did vices of a scientist of the first ace of Professor Lindemann when fence and the British war chest
not likely to get much further.
not accept the result with that order who had long ago proved he found that the latter's view as a indifferent urbanity which is his special worth in time of war. scientist about the air menace coin- will cause both pleasure and Lindemann is now in the late distinguish the academic profes- as
Born at Sidmouth, Professor supposed quite mistakenly to In the last world war he served elded with his own view as a politi dejection. An effort has been fifties. He is a bachelor and a sions from all others. He was later directed the R.A.F. physi- his Parliamentary Interventions cn an experimental pilot and deal in the preparation of sorne of cian, Lindemann helped him a good made to distribute more equally vegetarian. But, though he ob- surprised and he was angry. the burden, but once again it isjects to meat, there is nothing Not only had he received the While engaged in these re-
cal laboratory at Farnborough, this subject. the lower salaried man who is anaemic about this remarkable backing of nearly
Rather less comprehensible are the personality. likely to be most affected.
Conservative members of Par- pilots could get out of a
hundred searches he discovered how air reports that Mr Churchill received assistance from the same source In In mind and body he is as liament, but he could not under- ning nose-dive at a time when a cellor of the Exchequer. Possibly spin- the vetting. of his speeches as Chon- The Committee, however, vigorous as that other notable stand how it might come about spin meant a certain crash. He Mr Churchill an no good reason must be given credit for carry- despiser of fleshly foods,. Mr that the University of Oxford had worked out his theory to the why a brilliant physicist should not ing out a complex task with con-
Dernard Shaw. He still plays would reject
who had last algebraic symbol,
also be a sound economist. Possibly lawn tennis better than most brought it so much honour and
Professor Lindemann is, in fact, a siderable acumen. A new class men
When the authorities revealed sound economist. twenty years his junior, was admittedly primus inter- their scepticism about what I am sure of this, that he would of taxable income is to be tapped He is a tireless worker and a Pares.
they called "these paper--aero-not-long-be-at-a-loss-in-any field-of- with the introduction of the good companionship and lively true of the rejected suitor, it is well, I'll prove it myself in the own wide field he is equally at home. man of the world. He loves So they say of him. If it is dynamics," he replied: "Very research in which he might be asked to give a considered opinion. In his Interest Tax; the Profits Tax talk. He himself is a brilliant nothing to his discredit but air"-and promptly did so. when he is should yield something nearer conversationalist, with a sar merely goes to show the urgency
Immersed in the pro- In the post-war years he con- fundities of cosmle radiation, grappl its original estimate in con-ledge-bang up to date-of men
donic wit and a roving know- of a political ambition.
tinued to apply his mind to pro- ing with the so-far-unexplained sequence of the higher level and affairs that makes him a tort to Sir John Mariott, who concealed his belief that air approaching the absolute zero, or in-
He certainly made a good re- blems of the air: and he never physical
phenomenon known ле supra-conductivity at temperatures minimum being cut from $100,- much-sought-after man at social wrote a somewhat patronising warfare would be a vital cle- venting a 000 to $50,000; a much needed
dinner tables.
letter to the "Times," express- ment in any new major conflict, adroit use of an invisible light ray.
burglar alarm by the concession is offered in the pro-
An acquaintance of his in the Lindemann
ing the opinion that Professor Again and again he repeated.
could Press reported not long ago the more to national defence in his ger to this country lay in the posed instalment system for pay- following characteristic exam- laboratory than in the House of fact that the nation as a whole the balloon barrage, he found the
contribute the warning that the chief dan-
IN the present war he has dono ment of the Salaries Tax; and ple of his academic wit. As he Commons.
much to improve and develop if the revised personal and was watching the play in the
did not properly appreciate the answer to the magnetic mine, he has Sporting Club at Monte Carlo justice: "If specialised know.
The professor replied with magnitude of the peril.
invented a number of hush-hush de- family allowances appear to
"The aeroplane," he once said in the Navy. There are, indeed, few vices both for the Air Force and for someone asked him, pointing to ledge is to be banished from the the course of a lecture in London, scientifle war problems in which his benefit one particular class of the roulette wheel: "Do you play floor of the House, why limit the is created an entirely new situ subtle, ingenious and probing mind people, this is regrettable, but this game, sir?" "Young man," boycott to the scientist? tion. I still not impossible of further was the tart reply, "I lecture on If scientists are to be confined come the worst, London is only 90 warn personal regard for this man,
geographical position, has not been employed. formerly the best in Europe, has be Mr Churchill is known to have a revision for the purpose of
the laws of probability."
to their laboratories, surely miles from France and 270 from as well as a profound respect for equity,
one
At Oxford, where he func- lawyers should be confined to tions us Professor of Experi. the law courts, alienists to the mental Philosophy, he is a res- mental wards and historians to pected and picturesque figure, their libraries." popular among his senior col- popular with young men, less
lengues, some of whom dislike drawn to him. him as much as others
are
Those who dislike him com- plain that, for a professor of philosophy, his political and social views are rigid and nar- row and that his temperament is! too cocksure for academic pro- pricty. That is one way of say- ing that intellectual supremacy in his own particular sphere of mental activity gives him an arrogant bellef in his own judg- ment and robs him of confidence in the judgment of his equals.
Our
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his quite exceptional abilities. The A single aeroplane the went on enemy. I do not doubt, shares this. to say) can carry jour tons of respect and looks upon Professor bomba and an enemy right easily Lindemann as a major military ob- send 250 machines, Judging by jective.
OPPOSITE NUMBERS 5-INVASION CHIEFS
ENERAL WALTHER U VON BRAUCHITSCH, head invasion general in the German Army-he is com- mander-in-chief with head- quarters in France-promised his troops not so long ago that they would have their chanco to "fight on British soil."
The decision of His Excellency the Governor and the Executive Council to request increases in the basic rates up to 7 and 14 per cent. respectively as com pared with the Committee's recommended 6 and 12 per cent. appears to be largely influenced by the continual reiteration on the part of the public that the Colony's war effort still falls short of its potential. The public is asked to drink the medicine which it has prescribed for it self. Nevertheless, His Excel- lency's assurance that rovision | in the case of the Salaries Tax is probable where and when it hits a man too hard is welcome, inas- much as there are, undoubted- ly, hundreds of European tax- payers to-day who are finding it hard to make both ends meet owing to family commitments and the vastly increased cost. of living in Hongkong. Further-munity; but the ends are more im- more the yield from the Balaries portant than the means and will be Tax to date has been wholly
treated as such so long as the Govern ment on a part, recognises that it satisfactory, demonstrating a
has vital obligations to those who are complete. willingness on the part of
paying out; these include adequate the individual to make lils contribu-
Brauchitsch married three years ago to the tian cheerfully this merits special when the community needs it; tair consideration when the time arises apportionment of taxation; redress of pretty young daughter of a judge), is popular for applying beneficial concessions. existing complaints, and maximum In the German Army ranks. He is a good
Assuredly the new. Impositions will omela) action to ensure that evasion] "require further sacrifices on the part"|"of taxpaying to redifeed to its absoluta -soldier-and-looks-after-his-mon;
of a considerable section of the com-
It may be remembered that in October, 1939, he strayed tem- porarily from the path of scien- tific endeavour into the realm of politics by becoming a Parlia-
protection should the time ever come
minimum.
But Brauchitsch, a studi- ous, ultra-cautious man, muf« fed his chance last summer. He is a fervent believer In perfect preparation before starting an operation. For that reason he advised Hitler: against the Austrian Ansch- luas and the march Into Sude-. tenland..
Brauchitsch, fifty-nine, Prussian, a ladies' man (re-
Brooke
GENERAL SIR ALAN BROOKE, Commander-in- Chief of the British Home Forces, has met Brauchitsch's. forces before-in Flanders when he was Second Corps: commander.
men.
Brooke spent several days on Dunkirk beach with his He has studied modern German war methods, and; when he took over Homo Com- mand set out to Improve on them.
Foremost on land in de fence of Britain are guns, and Brooke is the greatest artil. lery expert in the world.
Brooke belleves in mobile defences to repel Brauch- itsch's hordes, and daily flies from ond end of the country:
to the other to see that they are mobile. He is married, with four children, the eldest an artilleryman like himself.type de d
Boat saying Twice the Germans have. Best saying: organise before I flight. thrown us into the sea. Now it is our own,
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