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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1948.
AICULOTOW: "I DON'T THINK YOU FELLOWS ARE TRYING "
World Copyrions. Da ecrangement mich Evening Standard.
· DR. W. R. INGE speaks out on THE CAPTIVE GERMAN GENERALS
MEN
DISABLED
BUILD THEIR OWN FACTORY
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By PETER LOVEGROVE
ALF a dozen ex-servicemen disabled in World War I are putting the finishing touches by a new factory they have erected in Bristol in six months at one third of the expense that I would have cost to be pro- fensionally built.
These men, two of whom lost a leg and att green in the trade, have shown magnificent determination in refusing to allow their wartime injuries to get them down.
Erected in Brook Road, Monipeller, the new factory Is made of brick, with an asbestos roof, and has three bays with domed roofs and big sliding doors. An exten alon of the main Lord Roberts Memorial Workshop, which has been operating since July 1047, it will be used and will pro-
for the assembly of light metal servicemen who are
vide work for some 30 Jisabled not adaptable to other types of
Joh.
"The men have done
loné a fine "I was told by 42- year-old Leslie Hill, manager of the Bristol workshop, who designed the extension, helped to dig the fountin- tions and lay the bricks, Though not a professional architect or builder-he is a cabinet maker and high- class joiner by trade-Mr Hill under- took the job when he realised the difficulties and delays in getting the Job done independently,
Are We To Make Them
[The British Government has announced that Field- Marshals von Brauchitsch, von Rundstedt and Yon Manstein, and Colonel- General Strauss, are to be tried as war criminals.]
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Martyrs?
It is not usual to shoot a will think that they have been soldier for carrying out the very ungenerously used. URING the Nuremberg cruel orders of a superior
trial I wrote an article, officer. History shows that the It is not only a matter of which was not generally worst tyrants have never had justice, though this ought to be
first consideration. in finding tor our approved, suggesting that the any difficulty war criminals should be held turers and executioners. up to public detestation then amnestied.
and
could torture, mutilate and kill
SHOCKING
In
though the German ment did not wish They drove Russin position from which, ought to have known, could not retreat."
Govern
a
for war.
into as they Russia
But certain secret treaties published by the Bolsheviks proved that the Central Powers were not the only culprits.
•
The second war is now an old
SOUND POLICY
MEN TURNED AWAY "We could only get alleence for a small factory initially,"
he cx- plained, "anzi wo had to turn men away because there was no room for them. We appiled for bigger pre- mises, but all we were offered was an army hut. We took one look at it, and decided to go ahead and build, our own factory.
"We're all mucking Ini together and putting as much time in as we can. We have worked a five-day week from 0a.m. tu é p.m. cach day, but the men volunteered to do a full day on Saturdays as well."
wx-
of
U present Government will Gloucesters; and foreman-instructor nobody except murderers. They wellington's Regiment.
guarantee the lives of. K. Austin, who lost a log in Italy
while fighting with the Duka are charming humanitarians; so were Robespierre and his! friends; but is not a German a
were Arthur Wecke, one-time pri- Working on the site with him vate in the Somerset Light Infantry: 42-year-old Paddy Cosgrave, leading aircraftsman in the RAF Who
suffers from loss of memory; ex-Regular Bi
Bill Even making peace after a war, the story. The Germans, will be in the Palestino Tyler, who served)
campaign of 1936-38 a madman like Ivan the Terrible most important thing is not to ashamed of Hitler and his and in Burma in World War II and
-leave in the minds of the
whose left leg was amputated below gang. unless they are en- the knee; 31-year-old Alf Tyler, his subjects by the thousand, Josers a rankling sense of un-couraged to make martyrs of formerly of
of the Gloucester Regiment; It seemed to me that the and he died in his bed. Justice fair treatment. which will them.
ex-miner and sergeant in the Somer- victor nations were not the demands that only those who almost certainly lead to another
set Light Infantry Bill Gumbleton, proper people to act as judges, are really responsible should be war of revenge.
who suffers from heart trouble and has a 50 percent disability pension and (though I did not say so),punished, and that no prisoner
Aherne, once a privale in the 10th that one of
Lord Castlereagh, in a famous the nations should be kept an unduly long letter to Lord Livina, laid represented on the bench ought time in captivity before his down this principle, which we' certainly to have been in the trial.
happily observed in our dealings dock.
with France after. Waterloo:
£3,000 PRODUCED To execute the leaders of a
and we havo had peace with
Weeks, Cosgrave, and Bull Tyler conquered nation was considered THE treatment of four pro- France ever since.
("you should have seen him shinning proper in ancient Rome. The minent German
up and down ladders with his arti captive king or chief
Bismarck, against his better was has shocked almost everybody. judgment,
If you begin by assuming fieint leg," said the manager) did the yielded to carried to triumph through Three and a half
ordinary manual work and laid the years have demand to anNEX
the that human nature is innocent, bricks. Alt Tyler and Gumbleton the streets in Rome, and while passed since the end of the war. Lorraine.
Alsace and says Anatole France, you will made and Atted all the woodwork In the victorious general went to The alleged culprits had nothing France and
consequence, end by wanting to kill all who and windows. Aherne did the dis- offer thanks to the gods on the to do with concentration camps; belaboured each
Germany have do not agree with you. We have Austin supervised much of the work tempering and concreting, while Capitol, the prisoner was drag they were among the most dis pair of flagellant
other like a not yet studied sufficiently the and set the levels. ged off to a dungeon and there tinguished commanders of the cach time the floggee has had
monks, and psychology of men in the The main factory is German armies.
with strangled.
who
cubinet-making, subject to machinery, French polishing his revenge on the flogger. epidemics during which they sellulosing, and over £3,000 worth Liddell Hart, who visited After the first Great War we
behave like devils.
of its goods have been sold to the them, spoke of them with res most foolishly insisted on the
public since it opened. pect and liking. Of course the Germans signing the war-guilt the words, "Vengeance is mine; vis
Perhaps we should remember "The men come in for six months
under craftsmen prosecution may bring to light confession, which they resented I will repay, saith the Lord." which time they are pold the-rates- super- visors," explained Mr H. "during actions to their discredit. There deeply. I asked Lord Haldane As a nation, must be grounds for their harsh whether he thought this fair, memories; we have short btaining in Government training treatment. But they have not and he said: "The main guilt and forget. It is sound policy rates of pay as competent craftsmen. we like to forgive centres. At the end of the six yet been found guilty and many rests with Germany and Austria, as well as Christian principle.
months, they are paid trade union
NOT DONE IS not this one of the things,
that
are
"not
done?"
Blucher swore that he would shoot Napoleon if he caught him, but he would hardly have done so. The answer is that the Germans had violated every 'Jaw of humanity. It will be, remembered that in 1914-18 war Lord Bryce was chairman of a commission to report on the German atrocities in Bel- gium. I said to him, "Surely these stories cannot be true?" Ho replied gravely, "The Ger- mans are doing things that have not been done in civilised war- fare for centuries.”
In the late war they were ten times worse. No pity need
be wasted on the Jew-baiter
generals
man and a brother?
mass,
are
concerned wood-
and
(Continued on Pare 14)
AMERICA'S WAR PLANTS
GET 'PHANTOM ORDERS'
NEW YORK.
that Sunday afternoon in JHEN war came to America
| 1941, manufacturers of all man-
were ner of things that were going
and some others who hanged at Nuremberg, But I think
to be needed hurried home from
Keitel and Jodl should their golf clubs and took the have been spared.
next aeroplane to Washington.
WAITS. THERE!
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THE U.S.A. GEARS UP ITS INDUSTRIAL MACHINE IN A BID TO "SAVE A YEAR" IF THERE IS A WORLD WAR III.
From FREDERICK COOK
were to be paid for-between contract if the "war" telegram was £175,000,000 and £250,000,000, ever received. This is nearly half the annual output of the United States at the busiest period of World War II.
At this stage Washington is not proposing to put up any part of the large amount of money all theso detailed preparations will cost. No manufacturer neeil participato in the Following closely behind these scheme if he does not choose-It is quoted "orders" will come oniirely voluntary-but if he does others for a thousand additional no, he need not, complain if he is items. Heeded in war.
passed over some day.
Overnight. every hotel in town filled up; it was hard to factories all over the country. battle one's way through the They will enable the manufac The manufacturer receiving ante-rooms of any Government turers to see what may one day Phantum order will first be asked department among
the crowd be expected of them and to tion on his factory's capacity and
to come to Washington for consulta clamouring for a hearing.
make their preparations now. asked for suggestions on what he Often it took weeks before will transform the phantom
If war comes, a simple telegram thinks it can make best. the factory owner whose pro-orders into hard orders backed - ducts were vitally needed was by cash. told what he should make, how
he should finance it; where he The moment that telegram is was to get the extra manpower, delivered the manufacturer' will and where he should send the be expected to get started stuff when it was made.
Under a plan which is going into effect here within the month this will not be allowed
fast.
he will
and asked how
and that
Washington will proclaim a "national A If the emergency should come,
the telegrams will go out putting Preparedness Day,"
day the phantom orders into effect. The telegrams, to be followed by formal letters of intent, would themselves The phantom order, once received, servo us the basis on which the will tell him precisely what he will manufacturer could go to his banker have to innke when the go-ahead for the necessary cash to start work. signal comes. It will tell him how
will where he deliver and when, and just what payment he will get. Each of the 300 minchine tool firms has already ISTS of phantom orders which been circularised
will be placed within the next muiny machines of specific types it few months are now being drawn up could turn out within a year if working from strategic plans com
by the National Munitions
Board. inrt were made tonight. to happen again if there should RST step in the phantom
ploted by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. bo a World War.IIL
order programme which
The board are, forwarding their will
Those who receive h run into thousands of order will be exported to go ahead National Security Resources Board, phantom decisions on requirements to the millions of dollars within six, as if they were actually going to fill whose job it is to know just what months-will concern machine. it. They will be expected to work the country as a whole is capable of selves would need it their order limit and where the strategie raw hands they would need, where they could be found, where they would 300 -machine-tool go for the steel, how much of their going to be one. It does mean makers ranging from monster work, they would send in subcon that if it comes the American firms in Cincinnati, Cleveland, tractors. Industrial machine will start to Chicago and Pittsburg, down to roll from the first day.
small-town firms with only a Within a few days the first score or two of employees will of a long string of "phantom shortly recolve phantom orders orders", will Ko out from for at least 100,000 types of Washington to selected war machine tools costing if they
me in Today- THE fact that Washington is tools. This industry will serve out what new machinery they them doing industrially if stretched to the
proparing industrially for an example that will be re- were being filled; how many extra materials would come from. another war does not mean that peated in many others. America is convinced thero la Somo
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BOVE all, they will be exported But they still say the axistente they
to know to a day how long it of this plan does not moon
from its existing Job to the warume World War III.
would take to convert their factory take it for granted there will
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