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Monday, Sept. 22, 1941.- Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 26015
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September 22, 1941.
Germany's About
Through Lisbon, Europe's only remaining free exit, travellers pass from all over the Continent. The most interesting during recent. weeks have been those com- ing from Germany-neutral diplomats, business men, Americans.
Misgivings War
A Long
Observers From the Reich Speak
Of Growing Depression and Fear Of the R. A. F.
By MARTIN MOORE
Special Correspondent Of The "Daily Telegraph" In Lisbon
heavy bombs. Many observers
ness, was the beginning of a great and everdeepening crater in the moral fabric of the nation.
some
too numerous to be
The thunder-clap of the Hess affair burst upon the country. after this process of disülusion- ment had weli begun, and it greatly intensified the feeling of unrest. No one I have spoken to found any German who be Almost all of them have
lieved the Nazi version of Hess's the same story to tell about
many witnesses flight. That none knows what the country they have left: tell me that their dominant evidence of
110 doubt that the to believe as an alternative has there has been during the impression was of the lack leaves
dominant mood of the nation to powerfully increased the feeling past three or four months of enthusiasm.
day is one of listlessness and de- of apprehensiveness. The British Depression is the Government's sustained silence a perceptible change in the
In March, 1939, after he pression. spirit of the German people had followed his troops into result chielly of the conviction about Hess has had the effect of that America is alrendy virtual- speeding the wild and conflicting It is a change hard to ex- Prague, I watched Hitler ly in the war. It has other rumours which are coursing press in words. To call it a drive in triumph between causes besides. One-a factor through the Reich, doing far crumbling of morale would the banners and the joy of rising and spreading potency more permanent moral damage any plain statement of Unter Phono 27778-0 be to exaggerate and anti-lights down
den is the bombing by the R.A.E. than cipate. No responsible per-Linden. He had promised It was in April that the facts.
NAZI PARTY SPLIT son coming from Germany bloodless victory, and he R.A.F. began to use their new has yet given me grounds had attained it; but now say that the present decline of The most damaging of these for sharing the eager op- that his victories are hard- German morale began about the stories is of a split in the higher timism felt-especially by fought, bloody, far from same time.
ranks of the Nazl party. Un- some people in America-home, his people have no Again and again since the doubtedly there were
after Hess's Blight. over the belief that German enthusiasm for them. start of the war foreign ob- arrests
report multiplies morale will begin to crack
servers and especially Amerl, Whispered in a few months and may "We are fighting ourselves cans who have lived long in them and adds a tale of shoot- break before winter. dead to victory, as we did Germany and know the national ings, Rumour speaks of a black- in 1914." That is a. com- character thoroughly have, said list of "unsound" party mem- "HOPE," BUT NOT "BELIEF" ment frequently heard from to me, "The Germans couldn't bers,
stand up to. it like the British. arrested now but marked for "A year It would break their spirit." liquidation if the war begins to The best way of describ-Germans to-day." cations Ordinance, 1916, Buch bewing what is taking place ago we defeated France," Now it seems that these pro- go badly for Germany and the internal situation becomes tense. hongkong on the date of publication by now in Germany is to say they say..."What has that phets are being proved right.
All the information which Exaggerated and oven baseless serve all rights and forbid republications; that the Germans are begin- victory brought us? Only
ning to realise that they the chance to fight fresh comes from Germany points to rumours, perhaps but they are the same conclusion: that the doing their work of moral dis- battles farther and farther R.A.F. bombs are having a most integration. cannot take it.
on civilian What "it" may be most of away from home. We win devastating effect
This portrait of the German tham still but vaguely ap Where does it end?"
them, yes-but what then? morale.
mind in war-time gives Britain Goering had boasted that the and her Allies and friends firm prehend : more intensive recently on the continuance of bombing, the long absence
R.A.F. could never get as far as reasons for confidence-but it Berlin. Well, here they were: shows, too, that there must be the Emergency Powers Act
of sons and husbands fight-
the no weakening or relaxation of brought the controversy over ing in far corners of Europe defeatist mentality. That men- Brandenburg Gate, which the the Allied effort if the present
These sentiments express the that little crater outside Regulation 18B into the Time and Africa and Asia Minor, tality is certainly spreading Nazis photographed as scornful doubts of the German people are light. Of all the Emergency an endless war of attrition. though it is still far from being proof of the R.A.F.'s ineffectual- to be hardened into certainty.. Regulations operated under the They hope still that they universal. It could be checked Act 18B has caused most un- may not have to face all by the assurance of quick, final easiness. Under this regulation this, that the
victory; but even Hitler does miracle- the Home Secretary may order working Fuehrer will some- victory.
not now promise his people quick He promises them the detention-without trial and, how usher in the German "still better arms" next year. In fact, without the actual millennium with to- formulation of a charge of any morrow's dawn, and that sides Hitler's which assures the There is another voice be- person regarding whom, in his the menace of "it" will pass Germans that the war will not view, there is reasonable ground like a bad dream. They end quickly. It is the voice of for believing that he might act in a
hope, but they no longer America. Not all the skill of believe.
propaganda nor the censor's blue mental to the interests of the
pencil can hide from the Ger-
State.
A war-weariness, a vic-man--people that the United tory-weariness, is settling States is resolved to see this war
through. Whether or not theyNDER certain circumstances, it is Thus, since the problem was one The rebelieve that American soldiers over the land.
clear that the only way to full of quick "theft"-and not of estab conquest of Libya, the swift and sailors and airmen will one's contract is to "steal" a trick to be fatal) it is obvious that de- lishment (since a spade shift Sgured sweep over Jugoslavia, the actually fight against them, before the defenders can sound out clarer should have put in dummy's drive through Greece, the they know that the power of the cach other's holdings. Even in so king, and if it held (as it would Empire would fight for twenty capture of Crete -
these United States is behind Britain; deplorable a matter as theft, how-have) his worries would be over. if need be for a man to emerge victories lifted up their and that power looms infever, there-is-a-right-and-a-wrong from detention at the end of hearts for a moment, for fabulous vastness undefeatable technique. Note to-day's hand: that period without knowing the Germans are proud of The Germans believe they can precisely what the Home their army and air force. win only if they never have to Secretary had originally suspect But ed him to be capable of doing brief, so brief that it power is thrown fully into the that would be prejudicial to the scarcely found public ex- struggic. Some think they can
pression. People who were do so.
Whatever the Germans' hopes in Germany when these victories were announced or fears for the future, the
CONTROVERSIAL MEASURE
The debate in the Commons
manner
or
she
detri-
As the measure stands. it
would be possible if the war lasts for ten years and Lord Halifax told the United States the
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Such a possibility, so coni- pletely reverses the cardinal principle of British justice- that a man is presumed to be innocent until found guilty-and 1 so clearly at variance with the very principles we are fighting to preserve, that there is n growing body of opinion in favour of some amendment of this regulation, which, while not exposing the State to the dan- ger, would offer some greater measure of personal security to the individual than is available nt present.
CIVIL DEFENCE
Mr Herbert Morrison, speaking with the knowledge of his office, says that the Government, through the Civil Defence services, is paring
fer as that is humit
practicable for all the air-raid bilities that they can foresee. At the some time he warns the public that heavy raids may be expected and that It is not possible to have every- thing perfect. From every raid, as from every battle, it la possible for an organisation, or an army, to learn something which may be of value` in, strengthening Its resistance.
To be unremittingly on guard is the best advice that can be offered. 'That in itself ta' a' test of the morale of a force and particularly in those areas which have escaped the serious attentions of the enemy raiders. It is not casy to maintain enthusiasm, night after night when nothing hap
the monotony of
pens to do, however, the Civil:
routine. So
Defence Bervices have bore them- selves well, and the proposal which Is on foot to provide all ranks with uniform" should be valuable in fos- tering the caprit de corps of "a"vital organisation-Evening: Dispatch,
the exultation
AMERICA TO BEAT.
face that power, if they can' was achieve victory before that
GRIN AND BEAR IT.
tiva on
By Lichty
part of the Armythey teach them how ath, and then they, turn" am back to us!
CONTRACT How to Play
BRIDGE
South denter.
AND?
How to Win
-By JOSEPHINE CULBERTSON-
-Technique-of--Thievery-
Both sides vulnerable.
.
To-morrow'sTM Hand"
South dealer.
Both sides vulnerable.
AKQ
6542 OKJ 13 KJ4
A032 Q1005
43
AJ04 180878
N W E
K1072
Q10 88
J 10932
784
N
Q864
J 10 0 32
WE
K87
S
S
Ó A 48
4208
VAKJ
000 MAQI008
The bidding: South
I of
West North Tass 10
2NT Tass
Para Pass
Bost
Рдев
INZ Poss
South's two notrump jump rebid)
VAK?
091064 AKJ2
How should South play his six club contract? Opening lead, spade jack.
Reader's Hand
A reader submits the
following
was a shade light but not really to hand, which is a typical example of be condemned. North's raiso to runing, losers to establish the thir- three notrump was eminently cor- teenth card, and of using Dummy's rect, though his hand was far from trumps as re-entry cards. It may be. noted that it is vital to start estab- ishing the long. Diamond sult› fin- fa❘mediately after the first trick. --Tho
robust.
Wast opened the heart ten natural enough lead) and declarer contract is seven Clubs, both sides
captured East's queen. A quick count of clubs and hearts reve
aight the best place to
Beck the
diamonds.
| vulnerable.
Mrs Josephine' Culbertson,
Hongkong Telegraph.
Hongkong
that only eight tricks were in
ninth trick was in sound
Dear Madam: “Herewithin' hand- led a diamond to-! ward dummy, West ducked, and de-o seven-club contract, I don't know the bidding. This hand is ico cold, clarer.
considerable agonizing so far as I concern. The hand is as after
enought, a AS on that
South dealer. Both sides vulnerable.
put in dummy's jacic. East swooped followiniga down with the queen and, since he was out of hearts, had no problem- ho quickly shifted to the deuce' of spades. Thereupon. East-West col- lected four
tricks before the declarer could regain the lead. Result, down one.
'Declarar's "Iden about, lending: 415: J 9 SI diamond immediately in the attempt:
to "steal" the ninth trick was ad-D; K mirable but his execution was de-C 42. cidedly bad. Evidently, he felt was "Just a guoss" as to which dia- mond to play, but that, was not the caso. The crux here "was"to"win"a diamond quickly, not to estab..
With the ace and queen).
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BK 3 H; A J 0:8 ∙DIA 7.5·3,2.
N.
3: 10.70.2
II: 0.84.2
WED 980
SA
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I hope you will be interested in
at large, there was twice as much chance of winning with the king as this hund, and to receive your kind with the jack. The latter card reply at the carllest convenience, in would lose to the ace and queen, the Hongkong. Telegraph."
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