REPLY TO GERMAN BLOCKADE CHARGES
The following message hus been received by H. E. the Governor from the Ministry of Information for com- munication to the Press:~
"Since the beginning of war no neutral life has been lost as a result of British action.
HOUSE BURGLED
Lai Shuet-fan, of No. 1, Kwai Wah Lane, has reported that some person entered his house, and stole a sult case, containing money, Jewellery and clothing to the value of $170, some time during the night.
THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 2, 1939.
GERMANS WHO THINK- AND WHISPER; SOFT VOICES IN NAZI-LAND
they cannot exercise legal contraband "TO-MORROW THEY SEND me away. They only tell me
control and there is increasing cvid- ence of their 'intention to substitute piracy for it.
one
Somewhere on the Siegfried Line.' While I am away who will look after my family? Hitler?”
The speaker, a crane-driver from a Hamburg shipyard, spoke in the low tones used by practically everyone in Nazi Germany.
SINKING OF NEUTRALS "Since the outbreak of war, ten neutral vessels-three Finnish, two Greek, one Danish, one Dutch, Belgian, and one Norwegian have
Indeed, to one used to the cheerful to the Party," he continued, address- "Though many neutral ships have been sunk by German action, that is
buzz of conversation, this subdued ing himself to me. "They say that it been examined in British Ports and by torpedo, bombing or explosives
conversation is one of the most strik- is a 'voluntary contribution in order by German sub- subsequently released none have been placed in them seized and no neutral property ex-marines, or by mines where no Bring things about modern Germany, that we may have extra pay, luxury, for it is such a direct contrast to the food, doctors, and medical comforts destined for thetish mines have been laid. cept contraband
"In addition to these ten, the Nor-hearty, noisy Germany of other days, when we are sick. But listen to this, enemy has been condemned.
states. a 13th interfere wegian "Ronda” was sunk on "British policy is not to
writer in the "New York I am an old man, and my boots, my requirements September off Terrskelling by
Evening Post." with neutrals' normal
only pair, they are not so good, eh?" There were seven of us round the and he lifted one foot that I might of goods for their own consumption { explosion, probably due to a German
mine. or legal non-contraband trade.
table of the little water-front-restau- inspect his patched, worn footwear. "The Germans also profess to ex- "The Germans may plend that rant,
A crane-driver, two stevedores, "Last winter was wet and cold, and ercise contraband control in accor-neutral ships which strike mines were a taxi-driver, a young man in Storm for two whole weeks I was in my bed dance with the laws
but In not deliberately sunk,
German Trooper's uniform, a foreman from with chills and Influenza. But the fact, because they have not command action in recent days against the a builder's yard, and myself. Out-doctor would not give me a certificate of the sea and except in the Baltic, "Martti Ragnar," "Walma," "Gertrud wardly just a sober little party of saying that I was III. and other rare instances, are not in Bratt," and "Fanefjeld" suggests a German workers entertaining a position to bring neutral shipping purposeful war against neutral ship- friend.
German for examination to
Ports, ping."
of
war.
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"For those waaka my wife and I lived on thirty marks that I had taken SUBDUED VOICES
over a year to save. To exist on thirty marks for two "weeke is not What if voices were subdued and the table set in an alcove. Did not "If what you have been telling me
easy in Germnay." the presence of the Storm Trooper is correct," I argued, "how is it that lend an air of Nazi respectability to Hitler is so popular with many mil- the company and raise it above sus-lions? Everywhere in Germany one pleion?
witnesses this adoration of the So I thought when my friend the Fuehrer." taxi-driver introduced me to his pals as a discreet commercial traveller, and I resolved to say little and indulge in no criticisms of the Nazi Party, of which I judged them to be firm ad- herents.
"MUCH GOOD"
Kari nodded,
"Yes, "And even we who have no love for that is so," he admitted.
him know that he has done, much
After the slight restraint caused by good for Germany. He lifted us from my arrival had worn off they plunged the depths and made us a great coun-- once more into their discussion and It was not long before I realised that
try again
a country with self- they were not the Arm followers of
respect. But why could he not stop then? Hitler that the presence of the Storm friendship and co-operation to
Why not hold out the hand of the Trooper had led me to believe.
"Yesterday I received the order
rest of the world?'. Why must we for ever arm? to report for duty to- telling me morrow," went on the crane-driver not wish to fight again. I do not be-
"I fought in the last war and I do sullenly, "and while I work on the love that the workers of Germany Rhine my pay is to be twenty-five will fight. Many young men are now marks a week
less Party fund deductions. The good God knows that with the price of things as they are in our happy Germany it is hard. to support my family on the forty-young Storm Trooper, "is one of many five marks I earn as a crane-driver. who is a Party member only because We thank our Fuehrer," he concluded he thinks it is prudent to be so.” sarcastically.
QUICK GLANCES
aware of the emptiness of golden Nazi promises and realise that wo. are Johann here," heading for disaster. and he indicated-the-sullen-faced
Johann looked at me.
"But what can I do?" he asked "Ya, that is so," nodded Karl the shamefacedly. "I have a wife and elderly, sickly-looking factory fore- young baby; and what would they do man, then glanced over his shoulder if I was in trouble? My two young before he spoke again. That quick, brothers are keen Party members and suspicious glance with which one soon must not appear less. keen. than becomes familiar and' which is
they. SO common. in this spy-ridden Nazi paradise.
"My pays sixty-five marks a week, and of that I pay twenty-five
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PEAK DOG BITES ·
A Chinese house boy, LI Kwok," of No. 151, The Peak, was treated at the Queen Mary Hospital, yesterday, after he had been bitten by a dog owned by Major R: D. Walker, of No. 160, The Peak.
LOCAL DOLLAR
The demand rate on the Hong Kong dollar to-day was 1/2-13/10.
The London on New York cross rate was quoted at £-US$4.02. The New York on London rate was £U.S.$4.02.
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