1941-03-28 — Page 19

AUSTRIA

THROUGH GERMAN EYES

DR. LEY ON

FLAG DAY BRITAIN AND HER LEADER

The Rotary Club of Hong Kong

is holding a flag day to-morrow when it hopes to raise a consider- able sum for the purchase of motor ambulances canteens.

and mobile

The sum raised will be divided

Rotary International in England,

DR. ROBERT LEY has discovered the explana- tion of the unforeseen toughness of British resist- equally, one half being sent to ance. It is due to the senile stupidity of those who and the other to Chinese head- are too old to change their ways! Writing in the quarters. One mobile canteen has "Angriff" under the headline "Churchill the already been bought and is now They often work inside the Hit-operating' in England. ler Jugend and the Bund Deuts-

obstinate dotard," he says:--- cher Mardels, disintegrating thern The following letter to Dr.

Austrian youth,

These five vowels have a special meaning to the Viennese. They stand for what was once the slo- gan of the Austrian Emperors, but what is to-day the creed of from within. They organise de- Arthur Woo shows how much this Everybody knows how easily and tragically ad- every true Austrian. Austria erit monstrations against the Nazi in eontribution in orbe ultima (Austria will live churches.

was appreciated. Avancing age, and the pessimism connected there- insert leaflets inside | later telegram states that the for ever}

Even those

Nazi newspapers as they are nark - ¦ vehicle has been delivered and with, degenerate into obstinacy. This holds good of Austrians who ated at the printing house, drop pro- bears the name of one time succumbed to the sophis-pagand; literature from out tops, Rotary:

Hong Kong England and Churchill. . It is not to be thought Tries of Nazism, bul who now to crowded streets. Maihi nut know they have been disappoint- Nazi slogans and

that England's present endurance under the un- put their own! ed and betrayed by the Germans,

Messrs. ceasing onslaughts of Germany is due merely to have returned to illegality, using their knowledge of underground)

for 300 the toughness of the Anglo-Saxon race. astonished and tactics to fight against their former

"contrades”

No Disunity

over them

Sons have

Dear Mr. President, Thomas Cook and One morning last autumn, the handed us a cheque Vienne were

from your elub for the provision delighted to see the entire front. of a Mobile Canteen

Rather is May 1 Sty

it an expression of by printing a sharp criticism of the senility, the same age of the Herzmansky stores on behalf of RIBA, how grateful

phenomenon dilatory proceedings al Riom, that leads the aged stubbornly to where 1: the Mariahilfer Strasses covered, we are to you for this gesture

the opening of the "war- with anti-Nazi slogans which it have ordered the canteen and am oppose youth and to exclude the guilt" trials has been repeatedly The "Borsen Zeitung" nk the stormtroopers two days placing it under the care of the young from the treasures of the postponed.

Churchill is the type of bluntly earth.

attributes the delay to But one of the

this senile stubbornness. He looks Pronsideration for best weapons

the guilty." Jo me like an obstinate old pea-"A full month," "it says, "elapsed against the oppressors is the bali- It will carry the name of your

would rather see his between the end of the prelimin- tical joke.

The figure of Count club up and down

the countrysartt who young and old workers, peasants | erat is used again and again to g the thoughts of friends at the/lo a younger man.

Bobby as a typical Austrian aristo- and will be a messenger conveyfarm go to ruin than hand it over ary investigations and the service

The battle is being waged on all fronts in the factories, in the army. In offices, in towns and in the countryside.

Austrians

united:

All

are

1 eras.

Y.M.C.A.

and intellectuals. Socialists, Com- munists, clericals

and monarch- | eule.

expose the Nazis to deadly ridi-other side of the world, to men ists. Their differences are forgiven and forgotten. There is only one alm Freedom.

The former illegal Nazi news- paper "Oesterreichischer Beo- bachter" has again made its ap- pearance, but this time as an anti- Nazi organ. It is nublished about once a week, and its circulation is estimated at 50,000,

To make the job of printing and distribution easier, the size of the paper is only 10in. by in and there are only four pages.

It is published simultaneously at several centres, so that if the Gestapo discover one of the secret plants, the paper still ap- pears from the others and is dis- tributed all over Austria,

Secret H.Q.

War Unpopular

German

of writs containing the charges upon the persons awaiting trial." serving here. Your generous gift Prophets Of Woe The paper reminds Vichy that the will furnish what is known as o

opening of the main proceedings Light Canteen. This is built on

was originally planned by the be- According to precedent, the re- coffee stall, manned by two ladies. is made the occasion in the Ger- that the former officia! the Ford Chassis and is really a cent meeting of the two dictators ginning, or at latest the middle. of January-evidently forgetting The war is unpopular in Aus-As you will know, all over the man Press tria. The alliance with

of lurid prognostica- Italy is country there are isolated posts tons of woe for all who presume position was that the proceedings detested, for the Austrians do pot like the "Katzelmacher." as craft work, and this type of vanquerable Axis.

of eight or ten men on anti-air-to stand in the path of the uncon- at Riom were a purely internal affair of France, in which thé the looters of the lost Austrian

The "Essener No- is found most suitable for getting tional Zeitung"

Reich was not interested. When province of South Tyrol

prophesies that are 10 these stations, the sites of some events will flow from it as momen-foreshadowed

asked about the Cabinet changes knOWN,

of which preclude anything big-tous for Europe in 1941 as were spokesman of the Wilhelmstrasse at Vichy, the After the war against Poland, | ger getting near them. These men the results of old Imperial Army helped to dis- of a officers who had served in the have a hard life and the chance in

previous meetings answered, "The Reich has taken 1939 and 1940. The war in tribute leaflets among the soldiers. team and the ability of purchas- land, that of 1940 the annihilation,

warm meal. a

up no official attitude on the sub- chat to the 1939 saw the annihilation of Po- ject. We are waiting to see what asking how many Austrians lost ing rigarettes ete, make this work of France; 1941 is destined to see have."

significance these changes will the crowning victory-the destruc- The evidence As soon as it is finished 1 will preparation was have it photographed and send death-blow of France; half a year! Affairs Committee of the House

of Representatives, in to preparing the death-blow of England. One Bill, is made the occasion of an and Lend" sidering the "Lease again, the E.N.Z. concludes. the world is about to witness historic attack on the policy of the State "Hamburger events of like magnitude to those Department by the which have

The official Ger- Within a fortnight local rotar-meetings

always succeeded Fremdenblatt between Hitler

man news agency quotes from this ians raised $6,500 and have added Mussolini ever since Italy's entry paper as follows:- considerably to that anjount since, into the war. The paper for-

their lives there in comparisona real Godsend. with Germans.

If you ask any Austrian how they imagine the future of their country. they invariably reply: -

"We will think about that later. First. let us get rid of the Prus-

The headquarters of the anti-sians." Nazis are similarly everywhere

and

Dowhere.

To-day the leaders may meet at a Heuriger at Grinzing, to- morrow at a small coffee house in the (say) Neubaugasse in the 7th District. Once it was the vacant town house of a noble- the Schwarzenbergplatz, man im the quarter of the former foreign Embassies and Legations; other time it

was a worker's humble flat at Florisdorf.

an-

They established one principle

at the very beginning: never to meet twice in the same place.

The men who meet are, for ex- without putting their lives in dan

representatives of Vienna workers

ed it themselves.

the

WORK OF THE S.P.C.

out a copy to you.

Half a year of needed for the

devoted

tion of Britain.

has been

(Sd.) T. D. YOUNG.

(President R.LB... Rotarian Effort

and

followed the last the successive de-

Mr. given by Cordell Hull before the Foreign

con-

Sharp Criticism

Secretary of

by other means. Thus a Rotary bears to point out that the historic Dinner, a Cabaret Dance, a fool-events which ball match have all yielded con- meeting were siderable sums for this good feats of the Italian Army in Al-State has now formally discarded

cause.

bania and Libya.

The American

that International law which he has hitherto alleged to be the basis

The club has secured the whole- Marshal Petain's fabjan policy of his policy. He wishes to see hearted cooperation of various or uses ever-increasing impatience the usual rights obtaining between

Every effort, the Colony in order to ensure the however, is made to conceal the and the binding obligations of the ganisations and of the ladies of among the Nazis.

nations, The Hague Convention, facts from the general public, see

At the monthly Meet- mittee of the Hong Kong ing of the Executive Com-be the final and it hopes the big that to reveal them would be doned. All this in view of the state

axe after weeks or months of un-tance. speakable torture.

gest Anancial success of all.

The need in Britain and

in

result that thousands

of

shadow

of

a

ample (I cannot be more explicit

tacit admission of Hitler's ger), civil servants. clerks, trusted Society for the Protection chine for these motor vehicles is

failure, after seven months' cease-of emergency and the threat to

the security of the less effort, to

American find any sort of hemisphere, which he

considers common basis for winning the -Red Vienna, as the Nazis used of Children, the Case Re-obvious.

will arise as the result of a Ger- Cities are being bombed France in making a' practical real-man victory, though he is unable

whole-hearted collaboration to call it with hatred and as the port showed that 260 new daily in both countries with the ity of the "new order." Such an evidence of any acts or designs.

a to produce even Socialists, proud of the title, call-cases, involving 378 chil-are killed and wounded or

of people admission would involve a devas-

ren- It would not do to give away dren, had attended the dered homeless.

tating criticism of the whole Nu-on the part of the German Gov- the secrets of this underground Society's Centres. During

ernment against America. tional-Socialist regime at a mo- 'In conclusion the paper claims and dangerous fight against

Motor ambulances therefore are ment when great masses in the that Mr. Hull's conception of in- the Nazis. 110г to heln the the

month, 6,427 visits in urgent demand in both coun-Reich expect Hitler's promised ternational law, instead of secur Gestapo by mentioning all

tries, Mobile canteens serve those "master stroke" to be in the forming peace for the American hemi- weapons used. To be caught at the were made to the Centres who have been bombed out of action in the

of

Mediterranean,sphere. work means certain death by the by persons needing assis- their homes as well as soldiers the French in Tunis cooperating Contributes towards barring

keeping watch in lonely posts. In cutting British seaborne com-

European markets to the Latin- The appeal. Rotarians feel sure,munication in the region of Sicily,

American countries and turning The Finance Report showed ex- Shows Wrecked

the Pan-American sens into will commend itself to the general These great masses have not fail- penditure of $3,168 in February,

public whose generous support is ed to notice how für Hitler still;

base for the British universal But one can mention some of being due to the higher price of

the continued increase in expenses now invited in order to ensure is from his goal, as was shown thern: Bollers (a

the success of this rotarian effort when a recent official announce- cross between milk and other necessities.

on behalf of Britain and of China. Went from the "Deutsche Nachris genuine prosperity are conceptions Justice, peace, morality, and a firework squib and a light

It was stated that an unwanted

chten Bureau" of the reconstruc-that are difficult to reconcile with bomb), stink-bombs, secret news- baby girl of two months had been Justice) will broadcast an appeal ton of the French cabinet producthis view of world affairs held by papers and leaflets, brush and paint.

placed in the B. C. M. S. at Fanling at 7.40 p.m.

on behalf of this fund this even-ed a prompt dontol from Vichy. Althe American Secretary of State. Not so long ago, when

ing. Two orphan boys, áged nine. the Nazi film about Poland,

and seven, had been accommodat- tiam of Fire," was being shown other of twelve years, sent to the Mr. A. el

"Baped at King's Park Camp, and an- to the Hitler Jugend, the meeting Kwong Wah Hospital for medical Brazier, Miss N. E. Elliott, Rev. of Laval, which is so urgently de-

Arculli, was dispersed in a very simple treatment prior to being placed in Father Guarona, Mr. A, McKellar, sited in Germany. German plans way. Sneezing, and Itching the Bethel Mission. powders were put into the vent!-

Mr. Kwok Chan, Mrs. Graham for setting up in Parts a puppet: lation flues and blown in with the tal in arranging for three boys Lee Ha Liong, Hon. Mr. Li Tse failed, since Marshal Petain is the The Society was also instrumen- Cumming, Mrs. G. I, Angus, Dr. Government under Doriot have all "fresh" air!

This happened at the UFA pic-to be admitted to the St. Louis Fong, Miss Shin Tak Hing, Mr. only man in France who ture house in the 2nd District of Industrial School where, in due L. D. Skinner and Dr. Graham mands enough prestige to be the

Sir Atholl MacGregor

(Chief

though the conference between Petain and Laval recently was reported to have removed áll "mis- understandings," no word has yet Major D. been said about the rehabilitation

Vienna.

course, they will be taught Cumming, Stink bombs and "Bollers" are

trade.

Apologies for absence were re- equally effective in scattering a

Mr. C. G. Sollis, Chairman, ex-ceived from Sir Atholl MacGregor, Nazi audience.

tended a welcome to Dr. Graham Hon. Sir Shouson - Chów. Hon. Cumming who bus accepted an Sir Robert Kotowall, Mrs. Pearson invitation to serve on the Com-Grant, Mr. 3. V. Boxer, Mrs. J. T. mittée.

Smilley, Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo, Mr. most dangerous part of Those present at the meeting J. M. Noronha Mr. W. A. Jones the agitation is carried on by the | Wang Mr. C. C. Sollis (Chaitman); and MF. F. Franklin,

Paint Slogans

The

com-

head of any stable Government.

A Word To Mr. Hull

'Hitherto not a word, about thess; misgivings has appeared in the German Press, but now at last the "Borsen Zeitung" has expressed the impatience of the Government

war.

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