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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 7, 1941.

CHINA MAIL

WINDSOR HOUSE

NAZI BOMBAST

1

"Bombast, said Frederick the Great in 1775, "is the German's chief failing." It is a fail- ing no less conspicuous among the Germans of 1941 than among their forefathers of 1775. Recently, the "Berliner Boersenzeitung," one of the relatively sober in- struments of Goebbels's. propaganda, carried an article entitled "The Con- quered Empire of the Air." The article claim- ed for the Luftwaffe "full command or at any rate an indisputable superior- ity"

over

an area

bounded by Iceland, the Suez Canal, and the mouth of the Danube. This is no isolated instance of a single news- paper making itself ridi- culous in an effort to flatter its masters; it is the daily pabulum fed to the German people in the name of Enlightenment. Let us make a modest examination of the facts.

have

THE GREATER WALL

UNITA

SIA

Bater

CHINA

FORTIOR!

STILL UP AGAINST IT.

"Even Our Children Defy The Nazis'

"Among

for Norway.

the

ย

During the six weeks preceding September 27 last the Luftwaffe con- ducted against the Bri- tish Isles an almost un-

travel without German permission. 3,000,000

Nor- when the right time comes. interrupted series of day-

Within the last few days a new wegians there are not 20,000 As evidence of this, Mr. Trygve light raids which cost it

been added to those who do not hate the Germans Lie told me what joy was caused danger has 2,000 machines.

by the that overhang this gallant nation. Since with all their hearts," said Mr. throughout his country

The ancient laws of Norway have, September 27 nine Trygve Lie, the Foreign Minister Lofoten ruid.

"It was a tonic to every man, been abolished and the German imposed on the months

at the As I looked elapsed

massive woman, and child in Norway," he military code

"and the German reprisals whole country, Private citizens) shoulders and muscular wrists of said,

may now, for the least offence, be brought before court-martial, savagely ready to impose the

th penalty. Even so, the Nazis cannot keep the spirit of the people down. The children themselves make anti-German demonstrations.. When the Norwegian schools were forced to send detachments to the Hitler Youth Exhibition in Oslo,, the boys and girls sang the Nation- al Anthem outside the empty royal palace, and shouted "Down with

Live Quisling! Long

the King!"

Though Quisling's men Invade the schools, stripping and beating boys who have jeered at this traitor-organisation, the patriotic zeal of Norwegian youth continues

without a single attempt the 45-years-old barrister who to repeat, in daylight, holds that post, it seemed that to attacks on a scale in any must be a perilous situation.

be hated by 2,980,000 Norwegians way comparable with the A country whose Cabinet Min- isters are built like heavyweight: onslaughts of those six boxers may be expected to give weeks. That omission is forcible expression to its hostility as complete a testimony

Nazi

says

NORWAY'S

FOREIGN MINISTER,

Mr. Trygve Lie,

in an interview with G. Ward Price

was inade have not diminished the

encouragement it brought.

uniform are often set upon.

as could be desired of the 'sweeps far exceeding in utter defeat of the Luft-scale and result anything waffe in August and attempted by Hitler over September. Yet well in Great Britain since last October the Nazi Press September. Over Malta was still claiming "un- the

dive-bombers disputed supremacy" over from Sicily, who had the skies of Great Bri- come to show the feckless upon the unprotected inhabitants ardent. In reprisal, Quislingites tain. If this was really Italians what Nazi effi- of the place where the landing who venture upon the streets in the fact, instead of empty ciency could do, have met boast, why has this with disastrous repulse. "undisputed supremacy" As for Libya and Egypt, been so tamely abandon- which represent the East ed in the long succeeding ern extremity of the

At this very moment, by de- interval? The answer is alleged Nazi "Empire of vious ways and mysterious that the

sports-unions, practically. supremacy the Air," the R.A.F. reigns devices, considerable numbers of young Norwegians are on the way never at any time existed as supreme as ever the to join their fellow-countrymen the Shipowners' Association-have except in the vivid ima- Luftwaffe briefly reigned in Britain.

How do these 3,000,000 Nor gination-of Goering and in Poland. Goebbels.

"The main difficulty of our Gov- ernment," the Foreign Minister added, "is to restrain our people from taking steps for which the

time is not yet ripe."

vation.

Norway was better organised than Poland to resist oppression. The country is a model of the

strength of democratic institutions.

All of these--the Supreme Court, the Church, the Medical Associa-. tion, the overwhelming majority

...the.

of the teachers, 95 per cent, of the whole of the peasant organisation,

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Never has the merit of monarchy Much as before, except for the as the culminating element in s What of the much tung" we will make no ever-present peril of the Gestapo democratic State been more .con- vincingly demonstrated than in more grandiloquent claim to more than is our and the steady approach of star-

Norway. The King and the Crown claim to command all the due. We do not yet In terms of paper money many Prince, though on British soil skies from Iceland to the claim supremacy over the Norwegians might think them have an even firmer hold, if thu

selves better off than in peace were possible, upon the loyalty Suez Canal? Many hun- Luftwaffe over its own time, for Germany is "buying" and love of the Norwegian nation dreds o of miles east of Continental skies in day-immense quantities of goods from than in the most prosperous days Iceland lie the Lofoter light. What it may claim that country. She pays, however of peace.

in Norwegian bank-notes requist-

It would be a great error to "Islands, where British to retain, however, from tioned from the Bank of Norway.

Norwegians realise; therefore, assume that Norway, is doing no ships and British troops now onwards will under- that the Germans are, in fact, more than await her deliverance spent many daylight go a steady but inexor- getting the goods for nothing, and in patience. Many thousands of hours recently in creat-able decline, already pre- that the paper money they give in her sailors are servlug the Allied

exchange has only the value of cause.

The Norwegian Navy, Army, ing havoc without saged by the sweeps over an enforced currency

Fortunately the £35,000,000, and Air Force already on active encountering more than Northern France, till the

gald reserves of the Norwegian service or in training in this coun a single German aircraft, day when, backed by the banks were brought out of the try and Canada grow steadily In which hastily made off at irresistible resources of country under the nose of the strength.

Germans directly the invasion. In merchant ships Norway's con- the smell of our naval the United States, we began. This treasure is now. safely tribution, is out of all proportion guns. Over Normandy shall command the Con. In Britain or the United States. to her size. It amounts to 1,000 and the Netherlands coast tinent as effectively as we Now Order Laws the RAF has recently now command the skies been making daylight of Britain.

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