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COMPTON-RANK-On June 14,
1941, in England, Charles Ronald Edmund, Royal Navy, son of Mr and Mr A. H..Compton, Long- ridge, Hongkong, to Patricia, youngest daughter of the late Mr Rowland Rank and of Mrs Rank, Aldwlek, Sussex.
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"If the Governor read my lotter to the paper the other day. this thing could have been entirely avoided!"
German People Grow Apathetic
By Beverley Baxter, M.P.
Hitler is worried and ous would enter Germany and puzzled by the present at Iny the country waste is nega- titude of the German people, of the friendliness and good tived by the existing memories That is the consensus of humour of the British Army of opinion of four neutral ob- occupation after the last war. servers who have recently Goobbels has had to admit to left the Reich after a close the Fuehror that hatred is not. study of conditions there. what it was in the armoury of
Nazi weapons. They have correlated their. The signing of the Lease und reports and placed them at Lend Bill by Roosevelt has also the service of the authorities had a depressing effect. There lin London.
is no village in Germany that
Hitherto the leaders of Ger- has not some connection with many havo prepared their citizens of German origin in the. people for war by an intensive U.S.A. The Republic of America campaign of hatred against has always been a vision of in- their intended victim and then, dustrial power and vast wealth when the war begins, keeping to the Gorman people and the up the hatred pressure at an virtual declaration of war by ever increasing rate. Now, that mighty nation has added however, Hitler's propaganda materially to the deepening chiefe are finding that they are gloom. not ablo to sustain their early The British Air Force, ac- successes in emotional extra- cording to the neutral obser
vers, is the next factor which Oddly The attempt to put over is worrying Goebbels. "Butcher" Churchill as a baby enough it is not the inevitable killer has failed. The sugges- casualties among civilians that tion that the English if victori- worries the German people but the fact that the British pilots
vagance,
Mussolini's
White Elephant
ON May 9, 1936, to the
accompaniment of tu
Hongkong Telegraph. multuous vivas" from the
Tuesday, June 17, 1941. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20015
THE prefix "Special to the Telegraph"
What Italy has lost, in Money, Labour and Human Life, from Her Occupation of Abyssinia.
By PETER MATTHEWS
go through any barrage to reach their objective. The workers in the factories are showing a sharp fall in pro- ductive capacity.
The four observers agree that the people in the Third Reich are not defeatist and show no tendency to turn against the Fuchrer. They have simply reach a subnormal condition which nothing is able to change," One of the observers, a scientist, attributes this to the poor quality of the food over the last six years which is now having' its effect.
This is the unanimous opinion of the four men: "The German
end.
Roman populace, Mussolini called upon the Italian people to "salute, after 15 had fallen out of the world led the seas was bound to mean people as a whole scem to be- centuries, the reappearance market for platinum, and a the complete isolation of Italian!
lieve neither in.victory nor de- of the Empire upon the foreign company which had East Africa from imported sup- feat. They are tired and dis- faithful hills of Rome.” kept an agent in Addis Ababa plies except in so far as an oc pirited and would like the war is used by the Hongkong Telegraph” to
to purchase Abyssinian platin- ensional aeroplane might reach fndicate nows which is strictly copyright
He had begun his speech, de- um decided that there was no it from Libya, or a merchant brought to an
Hitler under the provisions of the Telecommani- eations Ordinanc! I received in
1930. Buch newslivered at the zenith of the reason for retaining him.
man might find a way through raves and complains about in- Hongkong on the date of publication by power and prestige of Fascism,
Meanwhile, the prospecting the blockade and gain: Moga- gratitude but the fine edge of propaganda has been blunted servo all rights and forbid republications, by declaring: "The fate of for minerals which had been dishu. either wholly or in part without previous Abyssinia la scaled to-day, the carried out under the Em-
by too much use. The depres Ninth of May in the year XIV. perar's orders by highly quali- war with Great Britain, stocks of Hitler's most serious pro- Against the eventuality of sion of Germany constitutes one of the Fascist Era."
fied foreign experts had proved of petrol, of mechanised trans-blems." Five years later, as, the exceedingly discouraging." port and spares and of civil and" Italian people must be ponder
Undeterred by these dis military supplies of every kind
bears, the, Indieation
the United Pross Associations, who re-
#rangement
RUSSIA, THE ENIGMA RUSSIA, the enigma of world politics during the past three ing whether they may dare even quieting signs, the Italians dis had to be accumulated. For most of the important towns of Fears again comes startlingly to plan to celebrate a further closed, with no little publicity, the reception of these stores Italian East Africa.. to the forefront of the interna- birthday of the second Roman the departure in 1987 of an im- only one railway, that from Roads That Have Helped tional political canvas as reports Empire that may have finally posing mission of Italian and Jibuti to Addis Ababa, was
Ironically enough, the con- accumulate, firstly of an anti-foundered beforo the anniver- German scientists and prospec- available, and the payment of struction of these roads was to
explore Abyssinia's freight rates to the French com- cipated split with her strange sary date is reached, Mussolini's tors to
words remain
equally true, possibilities. The contrast be- pany which owned the line and prove one of the vital factors, though it is in a very different tween the flamboyant announce of the harbour dues at Jibuti, buting to the speed with which a mere five years later, contri- ment, and now mobilisation sense that "the fate of Abysment of the mission's departure in French Somaliland, meant an Abyssinia's liberation was to be
sinis is sealed."
on Italy's accomplished.
an
then partner, Germany, alleged new economic agree-
substantiated
and the modest references later unwelcomo strain the latter presumably with the
to its return suggested that its foreign exchange. intention of preparing to with- New El Dorado
One fact is very striking. stand a military assault by the
findings merely
A large part of tho material Graziani's Southern Army took Nazis.
lost the conclusions which the Em- imported went by road over the from Oct. 5, 1935, to April 80, In the background What has Mussolini standa Sir Stafford Cripps, through the crumbling of his peror's experts had previously 700 miles from Asmara to Ad- 1936, to advance from the fron British Ambassador to Moscow, short-lived East African Em- reached.
dis Ababa. The lorries had to tier of Italian Somaliland to
in
un-
·
2.
a matter of a few weeks only.
130,000 Italian non-combatants
whose hurried return to London, pire? I put this question to an Of late years Italian propa- return empty for fresh loads. Dagabur. This operation was his conversations with Mr Englishman who for years has Anthony Eden and the report had first-hand experience of gandists have talked less about The consumption of petrol must later to take our Imperial forces
the country's mineral wealth have been enormous. answer was that he will not return to Russia Abyssinia. His
and more about its vast agricul- "A
Natives Revenge By far the greater part of the because he feels that he has brief and to the point. white elephant,"
he tural potentialities. But, what- MARCONIPHONE, ALL WORLD RADIO "failed in his mission," all tend stolen
ever these might be, it was clear If Abyssinia was to be ex- said to be in the country were to heighten the drama which is called it.
To the masses of the Italian that they could be developed ploited economically, the first there labouring on road building now going on in castern Europe.
only when law and order had necessity was the establishment and other public undertakings But what all this portends is stili people, the Ethiopian empire been established and the formi- of order and of a sound and ef- from which Italy was destined
appeared as an unexploited Edable problem of communica- fective administration, Here to reap so few advantages. guesswork,
Dorado awaiting development.
the Italians were handicapped. The building of all these roads and One thing stands out
tions tackled. clearly; Germany is prepar- sent out under Fascist auspices
A German woman journalist, By May, 1936, the Italians by a lack of men with ex- the establishment of telegraph and represented a ing to attempt another coup to write up" the new posses had succeeded in driving back perience of colonial govern- telephone services
colossal investment of capital and What form it will take cansion, mentioned reports that the Emperor's forces to Addis ment. Eritrea, which
labour. But it has never yielded the declared hardly be
was Italians any dividend. On the con- would East Africa
provide Ababa and in compelling him to In equivocal terms at the moment, homes for. 5,000,000 white set- leave. But the area of Abys- colonised before the advent of trary, it weakened their chances of but there are indications that she is either dissatisfied with tlers by 1940, but she thought sinia under effective Italian oc- Fascism, they had achieved resistance when the British Imperial the help she is receiving from prudent to warn her readers cupation was still only a small some success as colonial ad- troops were making their many- that these assumptions must be fraction of the total area of a ministrators. But the teach-pronged advance that culminated in
the recapture of Addis Ababa, Russia and intends to secure treated with reserve..
country equal in size to France ings of Fascism, with the em-
phasis laid upon the govern- Strategic Liability more either by force or negotin- It was anticipated that. a and Germany combined. tion, or that Hitler, supremely
The country's primitive econ- ment of people by force rather What the extent of this ́ Italian confident of his military might, country with such a wide range has decided to rid himself of the of climate and altitudes would omy had been disorganised by than by consent, were the worst investment was it is impossible to few figures may give some Indication shackles which have bound him provide both European and the passage of mountain and possible preparation for the calculate with any exactness. But a tropical crops in abundance, forest lent themselves to gueril- rulers of subject native races.
The difficulties were increased of cargo unloaded at Italy's East of. Its magnitude. The total weight to his arch enemy Communism. Gold and platinum were alrendy la activities; and the task of The alternatives are, in fact, being produced. In some small keeping open hundreds of miles by the Government's policy of African porta in 1038 was 1,053,000 ab- copying its Libyan model and metric tons, or more than treble the complementary, the accomplish-
measure there, and it was be of vital communications ment of which appears to be a lieved that prospectors would sorbed forces which might settling Italian immigrants on total of 313,000 tons exported from natural corollary to Hitler's con- discover other valuable mineral otherwise have been used to ex- the most fertile land available, Italian East Afri quest of eastern and south-
even tend the area of the Italian from which the natives had A comparison between the value of resources. There
been expelled. The dispossessed imports and exports is even more striking. Exports from, Italian East eastern Europe.
hints that there might be oil in occupation. 'Germany's liaison with Russia considerable quantities.
But the Italians were beset Abyssinians withdrew to the Africa for 1938 were valued by the with other problems than the mountains and forests, and re. Fasciat authorities at 103,000,000 Lire; was never more than a dramatic
fire, was more display of opportunismi,; representing
than 12 times as great. a personal, if shallow triumph for
plies Into the country, exports from Ribbentrop' and a loss of face on the part
of Britain and her then ally France.
Russin, however gain thux exports. In 1934 two foreign tance. They had to face the country with a modern road
bably means endorsed by independent and points of strategic impor- The task of providing the it were practically negligible.
And the exploitation of Abyssinia mado more out of the bargain
witness first her
Poland and her companies had been tempted by necessity of carrying out a vast system was taken in hand as was rendered more dimeult by the bloody as
the high price of gold to begin programme of road building and soon as the conquest of 1935 Provisions whereby merchants were
allowed to
to send goods to Italy, only subsequent control of the States at comparatively small cost. operations in the country, but other public, works. The great began. Early in March, 1986, they could obtain foreign exchange
contro
these proved so unprofitable obstacle to the exploitation of when, that campaign had been by exporting to non-Italian countries; with the lesser part ofa bargain that they were soon abandoned such resources as were avail- in progress for only vo Events have shown that Mussolini' white elephant was a strategie la- especially if it is obtained at higher after £60,000 had been ex- able was the almost entire lack months, there were said to be bility of the first order-and, cost, and tho fact that Russia pended to no purpose..
of modern communications and 30,000 Italians engaged on road sull, the unthankful beast proved to southeastern possesses vital parts of
In 1985, again, the bottom the vast distances which goods building in Southern Abyssinia be blessed with a Gargantuan Europe which Hitler desires-which
we had to be transported before alone. One estimate puts the petite,
they reached the ports on the length of roads so far completedIt is doubtful whether Italy would, of 12,600 milles, have derived any benefit from her it is not inconceivable Intriguing possibilities. Attempts Red Sea and the Italian Ocean as in excess paper. Thus,
new Empire even if the Dyce had not are being made to separate the for trans-shipment to Italy.
about one-fifth of which are committed the felly of inking an that Germany and Russia will go to economic and political issues between
Burfaced with tarmacadam, enemy of a Power in control of the war, for Russia cannot afford :ic Germany and Russia, has concede too much to Germany, and shown: How but he Sea Power
The road not spread out like 'n sens. But oma. thing is certata. certainly not to give up the Ukraine, Russia concedes her economie, ad- To these two formidable tasks spider's web from the high Italy's gigantic Investment in Abys her control of the Black Sea, her vantages she has, to all intents and Italian foreign policy in its plateau on which Addis Ababa sina in the form of capital, labour strategie hold on Poland and her ill-purposes, sold her political Bout; if blindness added a third. War stands, linking the capital with geldita haver even began to gotler gains in the Baltle,
she is inwilling to do this, war is the against a Power which control- Asmara, with Jibuti, and with of it doing so has passed. The situation is fraught with most likely, result
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Hitler is not a man to be
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were:
Disappointed Pioneers purely military problem of venged themselves by frequent the value of Imports, at 2,477,000,000- But the optimistic estimateg maintaining these communica- raids upon these now Italian Thus, whilst Italy was pouring sup-. fostered in Italy were, by rio tions and, of garrisoning towns villages.
dividend, and now the chance
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