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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
June 7, 1941.
By Scrutineer
CURRENT COMMENT.
Syria, is dear, is no longer part under Professor Hanshofer who sun- striven during the last hundred of the French Empire. It is only med up their polley us follows in years."
Such leaders "Our aim is to labour for the ac- Morrison, Greenwood and Animon.
as Bevin, Attlee, quisition of the Near and Further understood quite clearly that the East of the means of existence Labour movement In Britain con once promised to us by the Baghdad only remain healthy, vigorous and Railway. To conquer the whole of progressive under a free constitution Easter World from the Danube and would very quickly perish in, u' to the Bay of Basrah would be to totalitarian state. break the chains by which Europe hina fettered our armis,”.
"inamínally so, since Admiral 'Darlan 1034.
and Marshal Pelain have placed its aerodromes at the disposal of the Germans. This la precisely what happened in Bulgaria, where as in Syria there was also the Infiltration of tourists and other political agents Vichy is determined to hinder the British and assist the Germans, for Darian and Petain are convinced that a German victory in in the best in- terests of France, or certainly of e present Vichy government.
They are bound to suffer maternity
by a continuation of the wor, like
It is this ambition and this policy everyone else, but they would suffer of expansion which has consolidated still more by an unsuccessful con- German opinion. Other nations have clusion of it. Again the Labour There is naturally a desire on our been content to hold what they have, Party has always been international part to refrain from action in Syrin, and to remain psychologically behind in its alms, and in its determination for thin might throw the whole a Maginot Line, but the vision of to carry on the struggle at all costs weight of the French Empire, with greater power is always a grenier they are fighting for the liberty of the parts and possibly the fleet and stimulant to action tann maintenance the workers of the world. pir force, into the hands of the of the status quo. Germans,
We seem too often to be fighting with our hands tied. There is, the caso of Eire, whose submarino bases 20 would prove to be of great value
If we possessed them. Egypt which we ure defending is not in the war, but is sheltering Italians and Ger mans who ought, to be Interned.
Vichy is now defnitely antagonis Be, but is ruling the country only
German threats of starvation.
TELEGRAPH
SATURDAY
FEATURE
THE LESSON OF
CRETE
In the days of Mines, the King of Crete, there lived in a labyrinth on .... the island a ferocious monster, half- human, half-beast, called the Ming- taur. To satisfy its appetite, a yearly offering, of Greek youth had to be made. In order to put an end to this fearful sacrifice
a warrior named Theseus undertook to enter the laby-
by the help of German bayonets and Germany was strong because, her rinth and slay this misshapen evil
frontiers were weok. No nation thing. He succeeded,
the
tion that it
ปี unified
It is probable that Patain as well could ever be safe with ax Darlan really want to have the German nation for it was obviously There is now let loose upon the French people dragooned. It is the very easy to overflow into the weak- island a more fearful monster which penance that must be paid, in their er. lands, once there was the convic- demands even greater sacrifice, and which will require even greater opinion, for the corruption and sel-
could
be done fishness that prevailed before
Might alone was the determining power before its earcer is terminated. It was Kipling who said that in the new order as conceived by Germany, tinent. Now both are too weak to any past afforded the check on the con-
Germans. which involves the subjection of the
Germany Crete now is overrun by them and French people. Petain has definitely oller any resistance, and turned his back on the principles w stands over the prostrate bodies the British troops have been with-
of her victims.
victims. Yet Germany itself drawn. The feeling about this latest of the French revolution, and luxu- In this war, in which she so far has retreat is not one of depression
and rinting in their defent, and striving made mudy conquests, has suffered defent; it is father one of anger that to bring others into the sume post within her borders for greater loss the lessen of France and Norway tion. Naturally this is also a method than in the past, for the RAF is have not been properly learned. The island has been in British hands for of ingratlating them.
ranging over her towns and infleting Isla
on such towns as Hamburg, seven months; its invasion by para- France would have or could have sunk so low. The nation that creat other places to an extent that Goer as soon as Athens was occupied. The Navy had kept the seas open and never dreamed of.
collapse. They really belleve in the factor. France and Russia in the world there are men, women and
No one could have belleved that me. Coloque and hundreds of chute was immediately a possibility
Mase
ed the Marseftfalse is now owed and is is the only way at present that the army was in possession, but the cringing before its conquerors. Only a few honourable Frenchmen are Germany can be made to realise that air force could not give adequate tree of this gulit. Many of these are war is not all profit and glory. The support, so the wire fallittet in the Middle East and are beckon- point, however, to remember is that army were exposed to the full attack ing to those of like mind who are Germany's continental policy has in of the Stulas which turned the still in Syria. It is here that Gen recen
recent years been based on this scales, no doubt af great cost, but cral Deniz, the High Commissioner geographical theory, by which the nevertheless successfully. The Cer- of Syrin, who had the distinction of limit of expansion is determined by man air arm has once more demon- surrendering Paris to the Germans, strength of the state, and its willing- strated in immense striking power.
There is no is having dmeult time trying to ness to full its destiny..
lack of courage or overcome the opposition
Oghting spirit, there is no sense of In his pro- *vince, but is living up to his reputa-
inferiority, except in the depart- incnla of
tanks machines, planes. Until the balance is dressed there is no prospect of suc-
tion
as one who is willing to sur render all advantages to the Ger-
mans and to deny any kind of as- sistance to the Allles.
LABOUR SOLIDLY BEHIND WAR
ATTU
re-
The resolutions of the Labour vegs. America is now very busy The Arabs have always been Party which were passed by over-producing the weapons which will troublesome in Syria, because they whelming majorities at their con- soon be available for the supreme say that Iraq had attained indepen-ference are the answer to the task that lies ahead in the Near East. dence and membership of the League mun propaganda which has always of Nations in 1932 while they were sought to create dissension between still struggling for recognition under the working classes of Britain and rule. The generous terms According to the Berlin radio, the
the country. given to the Iruqi people since, the former are exploited by the wealthy capture of Baghdad now increases plutocrats, chiefly Jews. Their living that discontent.
conditions,
ons, Goebbels states, compare
French
the rest of the
samt
STOCK MARKET REPORT
Hongkong Stock Exchange Offletal
What is certain is that if British very unfavourably with those of the Summary, issued yesterday, says:
very classes bour forces now advance into Syria, they wit be assured of a large mensure ently, the of support.
IRAQ-COLLAPSE
In Germany. Appar- Labour people and their
A better demand is apparent for? elected leaders sce no evidence of the smaller priced Issues and queia- this,
realise that whatever dis- tions having found negotiable levels abilities they suffer from will be a moderate exchange of scrip has re- currected by their own efforts in the sulted. House of Commons.
What
certain is
is that no section
The collapse of the Iraq revolt and the fight of Rashid All to Teheran are the bright spots of the week's in Britain is more whole-heartedly in news. Iran, of course, is alrendy In E
destruction of Hitlerisin favour of the a state of tension, for the
German agents are most active there in the working men who form the majority
than the
the Labour Party. The English capital. They sent delegation
of the nallen give the impression the Shah recently to demand
They
see only -closing-of-the-oil-wells,-1
the
is their 1s, 160-tiles-that this by that the success of from Abadun on the Persian Gulf and threatened to bomb them if this was not done. It was not done and of further
Nazis would
ment.
end their hope,
Everyone
the wells were not. bombed, but this in Britain recognises the tremendous" have made was all meant to gero, but this strides the social services
in the last
70
It was. for for years. Rashid All's rising, for
Iran was instance,
common quite
fifty certainly next on the list for occupu-
years children to run barefooted, tion. The presence of Rashid All
winter time. even in
In the indus
for
In Teheran adds to the danger .in trial towns. Education was back-
that area.
This German movement towards ward, health was poor, housing con- ditions were bad. Photographs re- the Persian Gulf was the dream of cently
the London have shown the con-
the late Kaiser Wilhelm. It was he counted by
who inspired the Baghdad railway trast in the same district, in these scheme. in 1002. Hltlerin "Meni
Cili respects, between then and now. Kampf" made no secret of his theory
How could Germany show such that German lebensraum was to be
seeing results, locked for in a south-easterly direc- twenty years she has been devoting that for the post tion. The principle was developed by far the greater part of her revenue by a whole school of Geo-politicians not to social services but to building
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planes and tank.
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The position of the Nazi worker ANSWERS TO QUIZ even before this war was worse than that of the British worker 100 years ngo. He has no collective power for bargaining, he has no freedoma of 1. Spain. 2. Exodus and Deu contract, he cannot change his em teronomy. 3. Dictionary. 4. One of ployment. He is, in short, Dald the national food dishes of Spain. 5. stave and a badly paid one at that. Perseverance. 6. Sir Robert Walpole. A Nazi victory, would take away 7. Four. 8. Consanguineous. 0 liberty and trade unionism, and Lachrymoss 10. (p) Golf (b). Bad- would destroy all the protective minton (c) Boxing (d) Table tennis legislation for which the Labour (e) Skating (f) Sculling
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