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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 14, 1940.

Black-Out Road To Bankruptcy

were wrong about monster battleships.

The black-out for the purpose of preventing navigation. In the air and It is only recently that the supreme the blotting out of military targets is value of the export trade has been one thing. The black-out and evacua- admitted. Unless we all change, our tion of London is quite another, and minds about many things-Hitler is causing ruin and loss of efficiency. offensives, for instance-we are Sir John Anderson has admitted the doomed to lose the war. For now con- former object, and no one will be pre- | sider the other side. pared to argue that matter. At the What does the universal black-out same time he has admitted that the ¦ and evacuation mean if persisted in? prevention of prospective clvillan | First, universal discouragement, the casualties is a secondary consideration. | killing of the determination of this It was not so when the war started, people; second, the hampering of the but now we know where we are.

Before the war started, terrifying estimates were made of the casual- ties that would occur in a German raid on London-200,000 is the rumoured figure, and it has not been denied in debate. It was an estimate made by the Air Ministry, based on excessive respect for air power, particularly German air power. There was nothing approaching such casualties in the month's bombing of Poland. The

bombing of Finland and the rare casualties there make the estimated figure ridiculous.

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Faced with these figures from "ex- perts" the Government evacuated London and almost evacuated them- selves. Now, when we see on the

cinema screen the exhortation, “Don't panic; be British," audiences burst into laughter.

-By- The Rt. Hon. Josiah Wedgwood,

D.8.0., M.P.

export trade on which alone we can live; third, the ruin of great masses of people, particularly in London.

I will not stress the discouragement;. every M.P. returning from his con- stituency will vouch for it. Nor need one tell of the effect of black-out on transport and production.

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What every responsible statesman should consider is the undeserved I shall win the bet I made that not ruin in London. It is not only the a bomb would be dropped on London caterers of the West End who face in the first six months of the war, but bankruptcy with hopelessness. In the that is no consolation. The damage to East End, too, furniture workers, car- London and to our reputation for pet-makers, clerks, shop assistants, all common sense has been done ---- worse, the unskilled trades are thrown out those who have done it still decide of work by the killing of London. what is to be done, and must justify Government orders and new fac- themselves. So we shall go ontories go far away to where it is sup- evacuating and blacking out to the endposed to be safer. We are the best- of the three years' war.

defended city in the Empire, and There is no harm in announcing the therefore safest; and still banks, of- estimated figure of casualties-none at | fices, Government departments, and all, except that it makes fools of the the timid rich fly away to a "safety"

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likely to raid and so disillusion us. All await a word from the Govern- Fear is his best weapon, and costs him | ment of a brave people. When will that nothing in petrol or machines.

word come? Mr. Churchill cannot win the war alone.

It becomes progressively more cer- tain that there will be no danger of civilian casualties here till after we have bombed Germans; nor is it likely even then, owing to the four-fold dis- tance that their machines must fly, and to the temper of the British peo- ple-more easily angered than ter- rorised.

Those who remember the shelling of Hartlepool and Scarborough in 1914 can' testify to the hardening effect of civilian murder on this people.

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TEN AIR RAID ALARMS IN AMSTERDAM

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") Amsterdam, To-day.

alarms

No less than 10 air raid were sounded here yesterday. aircraft batteries went into every time, preventing the from dropping bombs.-Havas.

Anti-

action

raiders

What, then, is our chief difficulty in SPECTACLES SNATCHED

bringing to an end the black-out and evacuation of London? It is just this, that the governors or some of them -are afraid to admit a change of mind.

FROM FACE

Mr. William Pope, residing at Em- press Lodge, while walking in Chat- No man worth following should ham Road yesterday, had his specta- care, least of all in war, about justify-cles snatched from his face. ing himself. It is the stamp of little minds. Churchill and Baldwin have Fatally injured after falling from admitted frequently that they were his bed, a Chinese, Chan Fai-yau, wrong-Chamberlain and Halifax that residing at Taipo, died in the Kowloon they were wrong about Hitler. Even Hospital yesterday shortly after be- the Admiralty can admit that they ing admitted. He broke his neck.

Bringing Up Father

WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A STROLL

ABOUT THE CAPITOL AND THE GROUNDS-

LTHINK I'LL GO

HOME-

YOU'LL DO NOTHIN' OF THE SORT-YOU'RE GONG RIGHT IN THE SENATE CHAMBER AND GET ACQUAINTED WITH SOME OF OUR GREAT. MEN OF GOVERNMENT AND LEARN,

ABOUT OUR COUNTRY-

BY GOLLY- THERE'S A GROUP OF SENATORS OVER THERE-THEY MUST BE IN QUITE A SERIOUS DEBATE-

LEARN WHAT 7

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YOU HEAR THE STORY ABOUT

THE TWO TRAVELING SALESMEN?

By George McManus

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THE BEST MOVIE I'VE SEEN THIS WEEK-

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