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Total Warfare
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Total Sacrifice
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 como 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 Covernment for the purchase of bombers-so urgently needed to avenge the innocents who have fallen, and to smash the Cerman war machine.
HONGKONG is doing well, but can do still botter. 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 quicken 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
THE recommendations of the Reconstituted
War Taxation Committee which seek to in crease the Colony's monetary contributions towards, local de- fence and the British war chest
will cause both pleasure and dejection. An effort has been made to distribute more equally the burden, but once again it is the lower salaried man who is likely to be most affected.
The Committee, however, must be given credit for carry-
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AST May the Prime
Linister appointed
Professor F. A. Lindemann as one of his principal assistants for statistical research work. But Professor Lindemann is
something more than a statis. tical expert. He has been called
The Churchill's mystery man. public knows very little about him.
Not many people know even that this distinguished physicist. is Mr Churchill's chief personal consultant in all scientific mat- ters relating to the war-parti- cularly, though by no means solely, in the field of aeronau- tics.
ON
CHURCHILL'S
MYSTERY MAN
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 greal- ly over-estimated the capacity of a single large contingent of raiders to Inflict human casualties; and, on the other hand, he was surprisingly optimistic about the possibility of finding means to defeat or prevent 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 gloomily pro- claimed, "will always get through" and that the only hope of site- guarding London and our other great centres of population lay in threatening potential enemies with
Character Sketch of Professor F. A. LINDEMANN, statistical expert, pls.
scientist, inventor of hush-hush devices for the Royal Navy and the R. A. F.
By A. J. CUMMINGS
ROFESSOR LINDE-
PROFES
Htion
on
"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."
on
Rather less comprehensible are the
assistance from the some source
TT is a natural assumption that Professor Lindemann has for many years been seeking a method to justify his belief and that his re- He is a born inventor; and he mentary candidate in an Oxford
E had fought the elec- searches have been intensifed since
chiefly
the present war began. has been credited doubtless with University by-election.
the the authorship of valuable de-
vague With the eager backing of his strength of his own specialised There have been many vices of war with which he may friend, Mr Churchill he stood as knowledge of the problems of semi-ofleinl hints that substantial progress is being made in the per- have had nothing or little to do, an Independent Conservative air defence, his purely political tecting of such defensive devices; 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 a scale large enough to intimidate the nocturnal raiding candidate, and Sir Arthur Sal- temptuous dismissal of the N the other hand, most ter, who stood as an Indepen- "emotional sentimentalities of enemy or seriously to reduce his
any strength in
night bombing important inventions dent without any party label. the Popular Front" and to a operation. regarded with official favour are In the result the split Conserva- mild preference for the preser- The probability is that Professor submitted to his judgment for tive vote let in Sir Arthur Sal- vation of the social and econo- Lindemann, and his fellow-workers 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
scrvative direction.
the daylight invasions and under- Sometimes he passes them for Crown.
estimated the power and precision of service, sometimes he adds his
At all events, if Parliament the right attacks. own improvements, occasionally
lost a promising recruit, the nu-
I have always understood that Mr he rejects them altogether; and
tion still had at its call the ser- Churchill first made the nequaint-. MANN, I am told, did vices of a scientist of the first unce of Professor Lindemann when if he turns them down they are 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- 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 sided with his own view as a politi- clan, Lindemann helped him a good fifties. He is a bachelor and a sions from all others. He was later directed the R.A.F. physi- his Parliamentary Interventions
an experimental pilot and deal in the preparation of some of vegetarian. But, though he ob- surprised and he was angry.
cal laboratory at Farnborough, this subject. jects to meat, there is nothing
Not only had he received the While engaged in these re- anaemic about this remarkable backing of nearly a hundred searches he discovered how air reports that Mr Churchill received personality.
Conservative members of Par- pilots could get out of a spin- the vetting of his speeches as Chan- 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 vigorous as that other notable stand how it might come about spin meant a certain crash. He Mr Churchill saw no good reason despiser of fleshly foods, Mr that the University of Oxford had worked out his theory to the why a brilliant physicist should not
reject one who Bernard Shaw. He still plays would
had last algebraic symbol.
also be a sound economist, Possibly Professor Lindemann is, in fact, a lawn tennis better than most brought it so much honour and
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- hot 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 naked to give a considered ophion. 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 immersed in the pro- should yield something nearer
conversationalist, with a sar- merely goes to show the urgency In the post-war years he con- funditics of cusmic radiation, grappl- donic wit and a roving know- of a political ambition..
tinued to apply his mind to pro- physical
Ing with
the so-far-unexplained its original estimate in con- ledge-bang up to date of men. He certainly made a good re- blems of the air; and he never
phenomenon known 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- supra-conductivity at temperatures minimum being cut from $100,- much-sought-after man at social wrote a somewhat patronising warfare would be vital cle- venting a burglar alarm by the
letter to the "Times,"_express- ment in any new major conflict, adroit use of an invisible light ray. 000 to $50,000; a much needed
ing the opinion that Professor Again and again he repeated concession is offered in the pro-
An acquaintance of his in the Lindemann could contribute the warning that the chief dan- 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 ment of the Salaries Tax; and ple of his academic wit. As he Commons.
did not properly appreciate the answer to the magnetle mine, he has invented a number of hush-hush da- if the revised personal and was watching the play in the
The professor replied with magnitude of the peril. Sporting Club at Monte Carlo justice: "If specialised know-
vices both for the Air Force and for family allowances appear to
"The aeroplane," he once said in the Navy. There are, indeed, few 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 "has created an entirely new sita subtle, ingenious and probing mind
tion. Our people, this is regrettable, but this game, sir?" "Young man," boycott to the scientist?
geographical position, has not been employed. formerly the best in Europe, has be- was the tart reply, "I lecture on If scientists are to be confined come the worst. still not impossible of further the laws of probability."
London is only 00 warm personal regard for this man, 270 from as well as a profound respect for revision for the purpose
their laboratories, surely miles from France and At Oxford, where he func- lawyers should be confined to Germany."
his quite exceptional abilities. The equity,'
A single aeroplane (he went on enemy. I do not doubt, shares this tions as Professor of Experi- the law courts, alienists to the
to say) can carry four tons of respect and looks upon Professor mental Philosophy, he is a res- mental wards and historians to
bombs and an enemy might easily Lindemann as a major military ob- send 250 machines. Judging by jective. pected and picturesque figure, their libraries." popular with young men, less popular among his senior col- leagues, some of whom dislike him as much as others are drawn to him.
ing out a complex task with con- siderable acumen. A new class
of
men
dinner tables.
Press reported not long ago the more to national defence in his ger to this country lay in the IN
TN the present war he has done
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- priety. That is one way of say- ing that intellectual supremacy in his own particular sphere of mental activity gives him an arrogant belief in his own judg- ment and robs him of confidence in the judgment of his equals.
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 revision in the case of the Salaries Tax is probable where and when it hits a man too hard is welcome, inas-
It may be remembered that in much as there are, undoubted-October, 1989, he strayed tem- ly, hundreds of European tax-porarily from the path of scien- payers to-day who are finding it tinc endeavour into the realm of hard to make both ends meet politics by becoming a Parlia- 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 Salaries portant than the means and will be treated as such so long as the’Govern- Tax to date has been wholly
mert on its part, recognizes that it satisfactory, demonstrating a bas vital obligations to those who are complete willingness on the part of
paying out; these include adequate the individual to make his contribu- protection should the time ever come tion cheerfully; this merlis special when the, community poeda it; fair consideration when the time arises apportionment of taxation; redross of for applying beneficial concessions. existing complatzis, and maximum Assuredly the new Impositions will ofetal action to ensure that ovaslon require further sacrifices on-the-part-of taxpaying is reduced to its absolute of a considerable section of the com- minimum.
to
much to improve and develop
Mr Churchill is known to have a
OPPOSITE NUMBERS 5-INVASION CHIEFS
Brauchitsch
ENERAL WALTHER. VON BRAUCHITSCH, head invasion general in the German Army-he is com- mander-in-chief with hoad- quarters in France-promised his troops not so long ago that they would have their chance- to "fight on British soil."
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- lugs and the march into Sude- tenland.
Brauchitsch, fifty-nine, Prusalan, a ladies' man (re- married three years ago to the pretty young daughter of a judge), is popular. In the German Army ranks. He is a good soldier and looks after his man:
Best saying: I organise beforð 1 fight.
Brooke
LENERAL SIR ALAN BROOKE, Commander-in- Chief of the British Home Forces, has met Brauchitsch'ь' forces before-in Flanders when he was Second Corps commander.
Brooko spent several days on Dunkirk bench with his men. He has studied modern German war methods, and when he took over Homé Com- mand set out to improve on. thom.
Foremost on land in do- fence of Britain are guns, and Brooko is the greatest artil- lery expert in the world.
Brooke believes in mobila. defences to repel Brauch-; itsch's hordes, and dally filles from one 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.
Best saying: Twice the Germáns" have thrown us into the sca. Now it is our-
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