1941-06-09 — Page 23

· THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 9, 1941.

CHINA MAIL

WINDSOR HOUSE

ARITHMETIC OF CONQUEST

Nobody reads statistics.

Every cub reporter

knows that rule.

"Tell the story in terms.

of John Smith

Smith's family

John

John

Кип

Rage 7

A sufficient quantity of MILK daily is

necessary for the maintenance

Wealth & energy

of

DAIRY

FARM

MILK

is mulk in its m

Smith's dog.

But to-day is an excep- tion. There are some

statistics dictated by a man named Hitler.

And to the John Smiths of five countries, and tol the families of John Smiths, the total forms

the most tragic burden in the world.

You can say it quickly..

It is four billion dollars.

It is Hitler's bill to Nor- way, to Denmark, to Bel- gium, to the Netherlands, and to France. It is pure- ly a business proposition. These countries lost their wars. They must pay the expenses of the armies of occupation- £840,000,000 a year.

Yester

CYPRUS

WHO IS THE MORE WATCHFUL?

MATSUOKA

Publicity Chief

Sir Gerald Campbell, the com-

Germany didn't make paratively new British Minister the figure public.

Per-

to the United States, who has just vigorously replied to Col. Charles haps the Nazis knew that A. Lindbergh's remarks about nobody reads statistics Britain's military record, and has

and thought that

to hundle

now been appointed the British publicity in the United Stales, was only recently discover-

world wouldn't be inter-ed by his countrymen. It was on ested.

But Britain was inter- ested. A parliamentary secretary recently put the figures together and ex- plained them to the House of Commons.

the completion of fourteen years

-By Corolyn Cox

Returning to England on leave In 1911, Sir Gerald persuaded Miss Margaret Juler, who was studying music at the Royal Academy in London, to marry him and go out to set up housekeeping in the Congo, at Elizabethville in the Katanga District. When the bride and groom arrived, the brick bun-

of continuous expanding success well-turned phrases. He acquired | galow being built for them by

the British Consular Service in in a privileged fashion his intim-local workmen had suffered from, the United States that his name ate knowledge of the Book with their neglecting to put a roof on" turned up in the New Year's which he now enriches his public till they had done the rest of thei Honours List, awarded a knight-speaking. hood by his king.

one of a family of four sons and two daughters of Mary Head and

At an early age Sir Gerald

house and the rains had come and. gone.

Sir Gerald was born In St. moved with his family to Weston- There being no one else to play Mary's, Hertfordshire, in 1877, Super-Mare, and there attended a the piano parts for his wife': small private school. But "boys violin sonatas, Sir Gerald picked are made the kind of men they them out himself. become in their homes," says Miss Florence Campbell, his sister, who lives with her brother.

tomed to beautiful English and Sir Gerald went on to Repton and Trinity College, Cambridge. but he did not want to be a clergy- man. Not knowing what he did

He couldn't get the the Rev. Colin Campbell, Clergy amounts for Poland, for

man Campbell put together most excellent sermons, and small Rumania, or for Bulgaria. Gerald's ears were early accus- But even without them the total compares quite favourably with all that Germany paid in

repara- tions for the War of 1914-18.

In Ethiopia

ne of Jeast resistance →→ taught In the middle of the first World

actual cost of maintain-want to be, he followed the usual ing the Reich's legions on school for a year at Haywards War Sir Gerald was transferred French soil, and the Ger-f Heath. School teaching settles from Venice to Ethiopia, and of meny an uncertain mind and it be trekked with his wife and two mans are using the differ-settled Gerald Campbell. He tutor- small daughters, to take up resid- And even a world which ence to "purchase" an the British Consular Service.

ed and took the examinations for ence in Addis Ababa ("Nev is not interested in interest in French indus- figures, and has forgotten try.

them, will remember the

If he is a

it

Flower") among the cucalyptus trees planted by Haile Selassie's predecessor, Menelik. The Camp- bell's third daughter, Jean, was}|| born in the Ethiopian capital.

-When Sir Gerald was sent out from Geylon--to-Philadelphia in 1920, he had no idea of the im portance to himself and to his country of the chapter he was

but to begin. TThe Armoritams

protest that Germany If John Smith is a Nor-i made over the "iniquities wegian, it will cost him of Versailles."

#African Saga It will re-£20 a year. member the conviction Netherlander, will bell's Arst past and then came the

Vice-Consul at Rio was' Camp with which German amount to about £5 African ga. Throughout sassman discovered one of the statesmen assailed the annually. Nor does the consular service, he has dauden best after-dinner speakers he, hutt "astronomical" demands burden stop there.

continually in independent posts. || For From 1908 to 1913 he was Vice heard in many moons. Sir Geral of the Dawes and Young hunger and want, also headquarters at Boma. But the Consul in the Belgian Congo with

was in demand.“ plans. It will remember imposed, have followed in district was so vast that young how convincingly the the footsteps of the Nazis. Campbell, sent out on long tours Reich's economists proved

was on his own for months at time, hardly ever saw the Consul that Germany could not There has been much under whom he worked. pay

argument over the cause of this privation. But the But Denmark, Norway, grim statistics to-day dis- Belgium, the Nether-close the cause and the lands, and France must intent. pay. Their economy has

San Francisco had the Camp- bells for nine years. A trophy or tits chase hangs on Sir Gerald': wan to day a vast scarlet British. dion having its tail, tweaked, with signatures all-over at of Sar Francisco's businessmen who pre- There was on one occasion: a sented it to Sir Garald; at fare

sporting bicycle trip he took from well luncheon." Mwanza to Elizabethavire, riding:

the trip as had any roads to ride. Campbell family, winding up in t on the bicycle on such parts of From coast to coast went the

upon, carrying the thing and his New York skyscraper apartment rifle, books, thermos bottle and so Sir Gerald was Cónsul General in forth on differskng nörflons Whery (Gotham from "E1 to 738; Lat67 H

been disrupted by war They show the uses of a roads were not. He thought on the went to Ottawa. their markets shut off. conquered people.

Their raw materials are restricted, and their sup- provide the

A conquered people plies requisitioned by

conqueror.

Yet Franc

which

means

conquero

for instance is charged carry on his conge more than twice the It is as simple as the

whole the bicycle was a handicap.

You can't be out on your ov in the African Jungle and "into" a "yes, Min":-15) Iyears you have proved yourself aubcess, and Sir Gérald difd wo** have learnedalo think

to let rathi drain dhe

What has happened to tradition al British red tape, when à Consul General in the space of two year

to rypan (grigracefully to nportante diplomație pesti are moments when the mar

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and be ready to take up the trek has not ritèrrupted the ill wind

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