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Thursday

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

GONE

ARE THE HORSE

AND CARRIAGE

And Gone with them are the old- fushioned methods of waxing the carriage.

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Gone

August 21, 1941..

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NAZI-SOVIET WAR POSES A PROBLEM FOR THE FUTURE:

World Economy Is At Stake

Having by this time digested would destroy every vestige of individual

most of the comment of various ob-nationalism and elementary freedom in the servers of the new war, one is easily whole of Europe.

led into concluding that the whole Democracy, by the way, has found the TTY WHIZ LONDON COACH WAX business was practically, unexpected, way of successfully defending herself and that it surely took even the Rus- against revolutionary Communism; she has sians themselves by surprise. All of not discovered, so far, the way of properly which goes to prove that the German defending herself against Nazi militarism. Gestapo did a far better job in get-As a matter of fact, this is the kind of job ting information out of the U.S.S.R. democracy is engaged in, right now. than the Soviet secret police man- Next to the military and Ideological aged to secure from the Reich. sult: the Nazis knew ex-

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Thursday, Aug. 21, 1941,

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rations Oediuanre. 1916, Such news RA brary the indication " in preclved in Hongkong on the date of pubilestion by the United Press Associations, who rei either wholly or in part without previous arrangedient.

Prve all rights and forbid reputations

actly when and how and where to strike, while the slow-moving Rus-

He is head of Russia's armies

Termies who THE generalissimo of the Re-problem now created by the Russo-German directs the war against Germany war, there comes the issue as Defence Commissar is Mar- By

of economic world relation-shal Semyon Timoshenko, a soldier of 27 years' experience. ships, and they will un- His military training began as POLYZOIDES doubtedly be strongly private in the Czar's forces in influenced by the out- 1914 and reached lop, army ranking on May 8, 1940, when he replaced Marshal Klementi E. Varoshilov as Defence Com-

missar.

There is an Alger-like touch to the life of Timoshenko. Last year he

Furmanovica and was

of

hated as

his

of a poor

sians have given the impression of come of this conflict. With Nazi Germany being caught napping, when the having solved her economic problem by simply using her military force to securo storm came.

From the strictly racial, historic everything she wants in any part of red to his native village and psychological view, the Nazi ad- Europe, and with Russia only partly suc-ume town people everywhere might

Wearing the brilliant uniform of vance into the Baltic areas is cer- cessful in her experiment of state capital-welcome a local boy who made good. his ok boyhood friends and embraced

wore the tainly a masterpiece of up-to-date ism, what Anglo-American democracy has Soviet marshal, he kissed

to do now is to underwrite practically the brother, a labourer who rough homespun clothes strategy. All the way from East WORKERS AND THE WAP Prussia to Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia whole economic cost of Russia's war, owing to the fact that industrially and otherwise AGAINST HITLERISM and clear through to the gates of

the Soviets are hardly up to Germany in Leningrad, those areas constitute

the matter of efficiency and means. prominently during the pre-the hallowed ground of the earliest Whether under such terrific strain our] wn the Nazi leader's contempt Teuton advance to the east 700 years economic system will manage to weather labour as expressed through the ago when the Knights of the Cross the storm and survive at the end of even WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & Co., Ltd. trade unions. The liberalism of and the Knights of the Sword were a victorious war, it is as yet too early

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COUNT THE TELEGRAPHS EVERYWHERE

NOTHING Blood out

more

war days of Hitler's regime

for and suspicions of organised

the Trade Union movement was,

and still is, anathema to Ilitler in flower. who knows only too well that it stands for the abolition of precisely the system which he so vividly represents-diétator- ship.

*

to

say. One thing is certain, however, and that is that the last vestiges of American

After the close of the Finnish war early last year it was revealed that Marshal Timoshenko had led the Red troops in the northern campaign, ile also commonded troops who met the Germans at the close of the war In Poland in the fall of 1039.

'Ind

Timoshenko is known as a cavalry V. Stalin in the defence of Tsaritsyn

specialist. He fought, beside Josef (now Stalingrad) and here with the unsh into Poland in 1920.

the cavalry of Semyon in

The Red army purge of June, 1037,

brought the name of Timoshenko to

When the writer of these lines was in neutrality are fast going by the board be-tion of eight. Red military leaders, he

Koenigsberg, the capital of East Prussia, cause of the Russo-German war,

The unanimous front which in 1939, ten days before the war began on trade unionism hus taken.

the forefront. Following the execu- was named commander of the North Cauensus military corps area. This district at

et at the time was considered

the North

the

pssistant Lo

Prior to that he had been nesistant comman

district

one of the most important. It long had

ad been a

a battleground and some of the most important conflicts of the throughout the world, and September 3, nothing was more pathetic

It is to be regretted of course that civil war were fought in this area.

Before

being sent to notably in Britain and her than to see how distressed those East Empire, against Hitler's belliger- Prussian Germans were over the prospect Stalin, who is credited with being a shrewd Caucasus, Timoshenko served in the ent programme to dominate firstly Europe, and later on, the that the Baltic republics were about to be and clever man, had not foreseen in August, Kev district as chief uss world, is therefore hardly sur-handed over to Russia under the secret 1939, the blind alley into which he was be-kadera executed in 1937. prising, although to the Nazi terms of the treaty of that year between ing led by the Nazis who offered him their der of the White Russian Fuehrer-it-must-be-infuriating. assuming as it does a solid front Moscow and Berlin. Eventually the deal dubious_temporary alliance. But that is under Gen. Jeremy Uborevich, who of the democracies workers, was sealed and finally consummated. Every an old story now. Hitler, having isolated pledged to destroy the pernicious German from those republics was moved and attacked one by one all of his op- The Red army generalissimo wears

back to the Reich, abandoning forever his ponents during the last 20 months, is the highest decorations. homestead of many centuries and many heavily counting on knocking out Russia of the Soviet Union and holds the

Order of

of Lenin, Both these honours before that country gets any substantial were bestowed for his leadership in

the Finnish and Polish campaigns. generations before him.

Timoshenko has been a Conununist Trade Unions sent the following the new arrangement was to be lasting, potential enemy for the Nazis to tackle,

Everybody thought at the time that help from the British and Americans.

Following which, there will be only one

German system.

Australia's workers are among the latest to voice their deter- mination to this end, and recent ly the Australasian Council of

cable to the High Commissioner

of Australia in London, making except, of course, Hitler, who was set upon clear their position in this reclaiming those lands as soon as practic- and that enemy will be the United States,

Western Hemisphere. struggle against brutal dictator-able. His legions are now marching back with or without the other republics of the

ship: "This Congress recalls and into the old Teuton-domains. re-affirms the declaration of the

Fascism. We record our un-

New South Wales and Victorian While he is thus encouraging the branches of the A.C.T.U., and Lithuanians, Latvians and Estonians to other. Bections of the Trade expel the Bolsheviks from those lands, Union Congress of 1940 support Hitler is helping the Finns to make good ing the war against Hitler and their losses of 1940 while at the same time compromising determination to he has given Rumania the "go" sign to continue the struggle against march into Bessarabia and Bukovina and the aggressor Powers endeavour-reclaim the provinces Russia took away ing to destroy personal liberty, from her less than a year ago. Thus in industrial and political freedom, East Europe Hitler now appears as the bargaining and associationship, strange champion of the self-determination and therefore pledge the Trade of peoples-his policies in Czechoslovakia, Union Movement to work for Poland, and Yugoslavia notwithstanding. the swift and complete victory The Bolsheviks have few friends over that for the cause of Democracy part of the world. against aggression and op. pression. We affirm that to prevent the possibility of in-

and the right of collective

dividual profiteoring by the war

the immediate nationalisation 'of'

These truths are not very pleasant,

there should be brought about and not very encouraging; but the time has the arms industries and the come to face things as they are, and not as utilisation of the nation's credit. we wished them to be.

dinte

improvement in the

We demand a substantial imme- There are in Eastern Europe two huge standard of life and freedom of armies fighting for the mastery of those speech and assembly. Congress areas; but more than that there are two expresses its horror and systems and two philosophies of life locked condemnation at the barbaric in mortal combat. Neither of them is and ruthless method by which popular with us; we are opposed to both. the forces of Nazism and Fascism are endeavouring to And yet we have to help one of them rain world control and domina-. against the other, and there is plenty of tion."

evidence to show that we are going to back Here is a document which the Russian horse to the limit, irrespective reveals the

uncompromising of consequences. attitude of labour to Hitlerism.

This is the voice of the peoples We are not doing so because we favour of democracy speaking even Communism; but rather because we feel more forcibly than through the that Russia, if victorious, will be satisfied mouth of any statesman or

politician. It is a "fight to the with her survival and the continuation of finish" declaration which is the task of her national and popular re being echoed over the world. demption; while should Hitler win, he

18

also was executed,

He is a Hero

on the Russia and the Ukraine. Party member since 1910 and served

Bessarabia, the son

Party's central committer In

He was born 18 years

ngo in

of a peasant.

His younger brother, Efm, is

worker,

CAN WE COUNT ON MUSSOLINI'S AID TO HITLER

TO ARRIVE IN TIME?

HOPE IN RUSSIA

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