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HOW effectively Britannia rules the waves is well demonstrated
by the experience of the official Trade Mission which, under my leadership, has just completed a tour of South America,
by
Travelling in British merchant ships, without escort or convoy except for the company of a similar vessel on the outward voyage and of a couple of ex-American destroyers on the last two days before reaching Liver- pool-we covered more than 20,000 miles, proceeding by an indirect route to Buenos Aires and returning from the Valparaiso through Panama Canal.
the Marquis of WILLINGDON
Hongkong Telegraph enemy
Thursday, July 24, 1941. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20015
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the provisions of the_Telecommuni-
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serve all rights and forbid republications,
THE BLACK-OUT
WAR, being what it is to-day, makes black-outs a necessary
WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & Co., Ltd. part of defence, and black-out
NEW
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P.C., G.C.S.I., G.C.M.G., G.C.I.E., G.B.E.
former Governor-General of Canada, Viceroy of Ic- dia, who headed the official British Trade Mission to South America. Now, on his return, he tells of his experiences, of the attitude of the Latin-American nations to Britain and the war.
Britain's Strangest G.H.Q.
By Walton Adamson-Cole
I am at a British G.H.Q. where nt this moment a relent- less offensive against the enemy is being directed but no daily communique records the pro- ·· gress of this campaign.
Around mo
not field- generals marshals and
but economists, business men and shipping experts who control Britain's fourth arm-shipping and blockade.
are
An atmosphere of confidence prevails: The Battle of Britain's ocean supply, linca is raging and graphs tell its progress, but anxiety over torpedoed tonnage is allayed by conviction that wa shall
submarino master the menace and implement Mr Churchill's forecast that tho Battle of the Atlantic may be won in a few months.
Ships-big, small, motor or oll burning seem to be the very breath of these men's lives. Perhaps it in their that because they know stewardship of these ships is the in- surance on the existence of the lives of free Britons for, without ships,
In all those vast stretches of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans we saw no sign of submarine, acro- plane, or surface-raider, nor, so far as I know, were During our visit to that coun- they gave us a pair of gold cuff. ever menaced by mine, try, the women of Peru publicly links and a gold brooch, ench torpedo, or gun.
presented to Lady Willingdon made in the form of a Spitfire, Such German and Italian three lorry-londs of woollen gar- to bring home to Mr and Mrs for the British Red Winston Churchill, as a mark ships as sighted were craft Cross. My wife cabled an an- of their admiration for the that for many months have nouncement of this gift to her Prime Minister. been lying in South Ameri- Majesty the Queen in London, can ports, fearing capture and received a gracious acknow- by the Royal Navy if they ledgment which delighted the ventured to put to sea.
most ardent wishes for British scribing generously to the vari-Hitler's blockade triumplis.
ous war funds. In Argentina victory.
As a
ments
generous donors.
LET THEM KNOW
was
*
LONG AIR TRIP
I HAVE had long experi- ence of official missions All these South American in all parts of the world, but One German warship did States are intensely enger to indeed come within
our ning of the heavy air raids last never of one so arduous and yet so congenial as this. We tra- manifestly the Graf Spee, scuttled in them a thrill. view. She was the wreck of September.
gave velled by air from Buenos Aires
the River Plate.
to Santiago across the mighty Andes, from one seaboard of the of the British
continent to the other. We had souvenir exercises the inescapable res victory which brought her
IN every country there the trying experience of cruis- ponsibility of both the authori- to that ignominious end, I
a great desire to ing about in dense cloud at a ties and the public. That being was given a switchboard et hold of first-hand informa- height of 14,000ft. in the at- tion from responsible Erglish- tempt, unsuccessful on the first conceded, it is still questionable from her fire-control station, men as to what the real position occasion, to reach Quito, the whether these exercises should which I had the honour of was throughout the Empire, capital of Ecuador.
The concrete results of my be made into endurance tests; presenting to his Majesty There had been a great deal of
extremely active German and mission on behalf of the British debatable too whether the sun- the King.
Italian propaganda. South Government will, I hope, appear Under arduous conditions Americans had set to sunrise black-outs ac-
some in due course, and I have col- complish the purpose of making
of travel, and amid the try- rather lurid pictures of the of- lected much information to lay before the Foreign Secretary Mr the public more efficient in ob-ing heat of the South Ameri- fects of the "blitzkrieg.""
I feel that still greater energy Anthony Eden, when he returns Harry Roy & His Band. serving the regulations.
can summer, I can very truly (,, )
that all the members of must be shown by all our na- to this country. say
tional institutions concerned- Everywhere I found Harry Roy & His Band. point gains greater emphasis my Mission worked tremen- the Embassies and Legations in greatest keenness to buy what-
Victor Silvester Orch. when the all-night tests
are dously hard, and we hope South America, the Ministry of ever goods we can produce for -held-in-midsummer-and-there-that-what-we-have-done will Information, and the British export, and to send in return མནཾཡཡདྡ,ཏཡ
66 PARLOPHONE " RECORDINGS
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There'll, Come Another Day. F.T.
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Telling Reports
Into this vast operation control headquarters flow reports telling of the progress of the battle of ship- ping and blockade.
Who better than a man who, since the day war broke out has been sifting this information and taking swift action on the data acquired from it could tell the story of the
campaign?
Here it is as he spoke to me at his desk littered with coded cablegrama and charts:
"We are getting supplies through. The enemy is being repulsed at a considerable but not perturbing cost. To get a true perspective of the post- tion assess the progress of this battle by taking our losses in one week, say at 80,000 tons, and put them against the weekly loss of vital raw material and supplies of 400,000 tons that the enemy suffers through bloc kade. The successes are not all his.
"No one appreciates more than Hitler that the cargoes sunk by his U-boat or surface raiders are in- significant against the tonnage that rets through. With the gathering momentum of help from the Amer icas still more will arrive despite his threats.
"Our blockade has now put the 'pcrew' on the Nazis in a supply sense. By their food blockade pro- paganda and devices to embroll us with the French fleet
they
confers the blockada is bludgeoning their plans.
Cleverly they blame the blockade for the world's sufferings In a bid to beat it. France and the Low Countries are told they go hungry because of the blockade.
Evil Bait
"South America is assured that she is not ceiling her goods purely because of it. But South America is alive to the dangers of Nazi economic remembers those German promises infiltration and penetration and still to fulfil orders Inst October after the victory over us.
Council to satisfy the demand the valuable products in which of that continent for fuller in- South America abounds. WHEN FRANCE FELL formation about the achieve- Of course, the war, which has ments and resources of the produced shipping difficulties as THE Latin-American na-
well as difficulties of exchange, British Empire. tions are ardently de-
The spirit of the British re- is the main obstacle in the way voted to the ideals of indepen-sidents in South America is ex- of fuller trade for the mutual dence and political freedom.
There was great ea- advantage of South America The moral support given by this cellent.
among the younger and Britain. As these difficul- country to their struggle for gerness liberation at the beginning of members of these communities ties are progressively overcome, the nineteenth century is not to come home and fight for their it is my sincere, hope that we forgotten by them. They realise country. We brought back from may prove to have done some-
"These stories of blockade evils that to-day we are fighting in Valparaiso not only British and thing towards strengthening the
recruits, but South bonds of friendship and good are a bait to distract the attention of defence of South American li. French
American volunteers as well. will that have existed between the world from the Nazl efforts to berties as well as of our own. The citizens of the various us and those nations for so organise Europe as an arsenal,
Everywhere we found the most sincere desire to show countries we visited are doing a many years, and towards in- great deal to support our cause, creasing economic intercourse friendship and sympathy for The British colonics there are between this country and the Britain.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
It was evident that the fall helping in every way, and sub- Latin-American nations. of France had been expected; to bring about the defeat of Britain. The relief and ad- miration produced by this coun- try's steady determination to fight on were increased, during our stay in South America, by the splendid exploits of the Greek Army, and by General Wavell's triumphant advance in Africa.
the claim that the public, as a whole, responded nobly to the demands which called for great- er fortification both physical and mental than any of the pre- ceding black-outs. After this has been said, it still remains to be demonstrated what pre- cisely of value to the authorities was gained by the continuation of the black-out after midnight. On Monday night the actual "raid" Insted from 10 o'clock to 10.30; on Tuesday from 10.15 to 10.25. That gave the or- ganisers with their various units of fire-fighters, rescue squads, decontamination squads, First If I were to refer to special! Aid and so forth, a full hour incidents that impressed me on and a half to carry out their my tour, I should recall the din- experiments, and the Incon-ner at Lima, to which 400 Peru- venlence (a word used by the vian sympathisers with Britain Director of A.R.P., but not hear more about the British war exactly fully expressing the effort. They follow our for- conditions under which the tunes with anxious interest. Colony was suffering) to the The arrival of our party of public could have reasonably mainly middle-aged and elderly been brought to an end. As it Englishmen, who had left Lon- was, half of the Colony apont don six weeks after the begin two sleepless and wholly un-invited the members of my Mis- comfortable nights. For many sion. Every speech delivered of those who faithfully carried on this occasion conveyed the out the requirements of darken- ing their rooms, it meant also and a consequent loss of con- the blacking-out" of fresh air.fidence.
Wing-Commander Steele-Perkins The necessity of black-out exer- could have obtained all the re- cises in summer time is not denied, suits ho needed up to midnight but let them be effected without subjecting the Colony to futile dis- and then by lifting the black comforts. If the requirements of a out, have given the sweltering the public in the space of three black-out exercise, cannot be met by populace a few hours of roll hours, the solution is not to trans At the best of times a black-. out doos nothing to aid morale: the regulations into the sweltering
lours which
the dawn; this precedo under Monday's and Tuesday's serves no purpose. The answer is conditions the Colony's morale either (a) have more exercises, but became practically non-existent. of shorter duration, or (b). penailso - those areas which fail to comform to. It is bad policy to whip a will-the regulations by giving them extra ing horse; it breeds resentmont black-outs.
Sickley
"This is the time of the year when Ed takes out the straw hat he packed away so neatly and carofully last autumn and decides to buy a new one!"-
"The Nazis ransacked countries indiscriminately because they thought the war would soon be over. Now they are finding great difculty in organising things. It is not the food that is worrying them but shortage-- and in some cases complete absence -of vilal raw materials..
"They are worried and their every net illustrates their dire need to get in touch with the world,
"We have access to all the markets -the cotton, of and rubber they vent
The world is being provided with example, not only by us, of how the Nazis ignore the rules of inter- national trade--and defy the neigh- bourliness and understanding which makes world trado' possible—to `CX- ploit other people for the sake of their war machine and gratification of lust for possession."
Movable Towns For Workers
Munition workers whose factories are in districts where local accom- modation is over-taxed, will bo housed in movable hut towns which can be built in a few weeks.
Plana for setting up these produced towns are complete, and one will be ready in a few weeks): Designed and planned by Mr Howard: Robertson, the townia pro constructed In sectionalised units.
· The huts are compléta in a factorý, then dismantled and the various parts taken to the
ite:
Electricity and water will be laid on. Cinemas, restaurants and row création rooms Included in the
aro town planning, ・・
Where new munition, factorios are being built the workers' homes xyl) De erected at the same Ume.