THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 8, 1941.
BARDIA--A LOST CAUSE Germans Claiming "Moral" Victory For Italians! THE EVIL Giving Libyan AXIS LIES NUISANCE Army Time To TELL TALE
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THAT IS ADOLF
"ONE GREAT AND TERRIBLE EVIL ABOUT ADOLF HITLER IS THAT HE HAS LARGELY DESTROYED THE OLD WAR- HIOR VIRTUES AND HAS SUB- STITUTED A COMPLETE AND THOROUGH-GOING CODE OF FAITHLESSNESS AND RUTH- LESSNESS IN THEIR PLACE." | STATES THE PHILADELPHIA "ENQUIRER.“
The Charlotte "Observer" saya'
"All mankind in the world, rich Women ond children, alt races and creeds, all these
and poor.
with many things at variance bold one thing in common-they
dpise the common thief.
The German under Hitler
1 common thief. He raids the kem and field, stable and kitchen of the weak.
"He isn't even a robber, for he comes not boldly but with yaking and false story. He in- vades by stealth in the night.
"He comes through the back dor by
Deans ol his Firth lumnists with the aid of trai- to and spy." Reuter.
BURGLARY IN
KOWLOON
"A lost cause" is the phrase used by the Berlin “Boersen Zeitung” yesterday in commenting on the
fall of Bardia.
The newspaper, quoted by the official German news agency, says: "General Bergonzoli is a tired soldier from the Spanish war, and at Bardia his troops fought for a lost cause to hold off the British offensive as long as possible and give the Libyan army time to re-group- a task which they have per- formed against a vast superiority in men and material.
The defenders were only overvome by a massed tank at- tack after they had un ont of munitions.
This affords envincing proof that in spite of reverses sub autary theatre श war 11 North Africa the Bghting spirit of the Haban soldiers is the same as ever.
"While the British gain a military victory theirs is the moral victory.
"The only thing that is really important and decisive 15 the Sir PE. Young. of
isattle for Britain, which their phreys Building, has reported | and around Britain.
29, troops are losing day by day in the theft of property valued $4. from his residence between
I
No.
m. and 6 a m. yesterday.
FOKI ACCUSED
Axis A Unit
Moreover the despatch of Ger- man air formations to Italy shows that hopes of forcing a decision Tam Chu-fei, of No. 434. Na-Strength of the
by attacking Italy with the whole tn Road, has reported that one are illusory.
British Empire of his employees stole
property
valued at $927.50 from his shop ideals and above all in military "The Axis is a unit in politics,
Reuter.
y terday.
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A "secret" bomber now being
produced in large numbers will soon be dropping its deadly load each night on Germany's vital industrial centres.
of
OF FAILURE
RAIDERS
GERMAN "NUISANCE" RAIDERS WERE OVER LON- DON AND PARTS OF EAST COAST REGIONS AT INTER- VALS DURING YESTERDAY, TAKING ADVANTAGE OF LOW-LYING SNOW CLOUDS AND GENERAL WEATHER
ENTLY KEPT BUTH BRITISH AND GERMAN 'PLANES ON DURING THE
France a wise man said:--
During the Battle of CONDITIONS, WHICH APPAR-
NIGHT.
"I don't like the way this THE GROUND is going. Have you been A few bombs were reading the German re-here and there, some in streets, ports?
dropped
causing civilian casualties.
Londoners carried on uninter- rupted with the day's work de- "They are all temperate spite a series of short alerts. and credible, and where Reuter. you can check them they agree with our own. Ger-
mans only tell the truth RICE SHOPS
when they're doing so well that they don't need to lie. I'm afraid we shall have some bad news soon," writes corres- pondent.
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I find it very cheering to think of that conversation now, writes The new aircraft will take a correspondent. Applying the their place in the R.A.F. pro- same principle, you can see very. gramine of operations which is plearly from the enemy's reports planned to reach a climax
how badly he thinks he is doing destruction.
in the Battle of Britain. With the longer nights our Before me lles a collection of bombers have already shown extracts from German and Italian Berlin that they can attack in newspapers and broudcasts. Taken relays extending over three in sum, it presents a picture of London under the blitzkrieg in which the enemy's wish is not merely father to his thought, but its entire ancestry.
hours.
Command for heavier raids.
of machines will
On Sept. 17, for example, the
wireless described
in
And as the bad weather comes along and the possibility of in-
be at the disposal of the Bomber German vasion becomes
remote, more large numbers
still longer and French how nobody, not even a foreign journalist, was allowed to At the same time the whole leave London-though a visa to of our experimental services do so might be obtainable in very are trying to find further means exceptional cases—and in Flemish of combating Nazi night raiders. how Londoners were tumbling The nation which first finds an effective defence against night bombers will go far towards final victory, and there is reason to
believe that our brains and our initiative will succeed in this direction.
More Deadly
over each other
to escape from the doomed city. How a bilingual Belgian who listened to both these broadcasts could be expected to believe both of them at once does not seem to have occurred to their authors.
one
FINED
The masters of five rice shops in the Yaumati District, and of in Shamshuipo were sum- moned before Major A. N. Mac- fadyen at Kowloon this morning for selling rice in excess of the prices fixed by the Controller of Food on December 9.
The masters of three shops in Yaumati were fined
$50 each, while two others were fined $75 each. The master of the shop in Shamshuipo was fined $25.
WEATHER REPORT
The Royal Observatory reports that a moderate anticyclone has developed over North China, pres- sure being highest to the north- west of Shantung. 300 miles south-west of Tokyo, The depression is situated about moving north-eastward.
and breaking through the police cordons,"
In all the collection I can find
only one example of the truth
being used for the purpose of legi- timate propaganda. On Sept. 18 Lord Woolton said that the dam- age to our food supply was not more than could be made up it the population said they would go without one meal. Next day the German wireless made the most of this remark by saying that according to the Food Minis- ter the population would have to go without 40,000,000 meals.
All Self-Control Lost During recent nights it has been On Sept. 18 the German-con- noticeable that raiders making trolled Ràdio Paris reached a high for London have dropped their plane of imaginative fiction with bombs in little country towns this: and villages within 30 miles of "The 7,000,000 Londoners the metropolitan area.
have entirely lost their self- control. They run almlessly This, however, was not colour- about in the streets and are the ful enough for the Italians, Ac- victims of bombe and bursting cording to their broadcast, what shells. Complete demoralisation | Lord Woolton had said was that prevails among the fleeing "the British henceforth will have population, screaming, shouting' to renounce one of their meals."
This suggests that the barrage Is having its effect on the rai- ders, who are finding the A.A. guns more deadly each night. It is known that the air dis- turbances caused by the intense barrage give the Germans anxi- ous moments, and that they are often violently ill as a result.
AIR ATTACK
PEER DISASSOCIATES
IN CHANNEL HIMSELF FROM THIS
BEATEN OFF
IT WAS BITTERLY COLD IN
THE CHANNEL OFF DOVER
YESTERDAY, WITH A NORTH-
OVER THE SEA.
bers were reported during the
"SNOBBISHNESS"
THE MARQUIS of Queensberry, in a letter to
EAST WIND AND DENSE MIST the Editor of the “Daily Mirror," dis- German planes in small num- sociates himself from the "snobbishness" of Lady Cecil Douglas, his sister-in-law. Lady Cecil Douglas, who is an evacuee with her baby daughter in and Canada, sneered at "Mrs. Smith of Suburbia.”
day and some bombs were drop- Three fell in East Anglia, but
ped.
only one did any damage, there, were no casualties.
German bombers made four attacks on two trawlers off the south-east coast.
They were greeted with fierce machine-gun fire and made off when a British fighter came up -Reuter,
Bombs In London Area An Air Ministry and Ministry of Home Security communique states: "Bombs have been drop- ped at a number of places-in this country to-day. Damage was done to houses at several points in the London area; in a town in the Midlands, and in a few other places. A small number of people were killed and others injured,”...... Britikh: Wirele
She complained that Canadians failed to re- Cognise British social distinctions.
Lady Cecil Douglas in her in- terview with your representa- tive."
that Lady, Cecil Douglas "would In his letter the Marquis says
be well advised to practise her-
Lady Cecil Douglas was former- self the breeding to which she appears to attach such ridiculously Mrs. R. St. B. Kirkley, second importance."
daughter of Mr. and Mrs, de Vere Fenn.. She married Lord Cecil Douglas in 1927.
Own. Children There
The Marquis of Queensberry, "Since my own children are who is forty-five, is well-known at present enjoying "the hospit, | for: his activities in the boxing ally of generous Canadianu," the world. His wife is - Cathleen Marquis adds, “I would like to Mann, the artist. She now has dissociate myself from the vül. little time for painting, as she is parity and anobbishness, which, an active member of the Mes
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