HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
CABLES
"IF YOU WANT TO LIE AND BE BELIEVED"
B.B.C. Observer
Sums Up Nazi FRESH TRIAL
Efforts At Propaganda
LONDON, April 1 (Reuter) During March there has been an interesting thing about Nazi propaganda, says the B.B.C. observer, presenting the monthly review of Nazi propaganda.
Dr. Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry is now trying hard to make people believe in its truthfulness. There are signs that Dr. Goebbels is disturbed by reactions to the fantastic Nazi claims at the beginning of the war in connection, for instance, with the Graf Spee battle-which the Germans first claimed as a great victory-and the repeated sinking of the Ark Royal.
These false claims have left their "mark. The Germans are how trying to re-establish their reputation even to the extent of apparently frankly admitting their own losses. These admissions are not necessarily truthful but they have admitted the loss of one plane almost as soon Air Ministry has announced it in London.
False Claims Leave Their
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that the police officer's statement was absolutely prejudicial to the defendant in British law.
JURY DISCHARGED
His Lordship ordered that there be a new trial, Lam should Cheung-hing to be brought up at the April Criminal Sessions. His Lordship then discharged the jury, consisting of Messrs, T. J. M. Beattle (foreman), F. E SIVA, J. N. Wong, J. E. Rocha. P. L L Blau. Leung Shiu-ying and W. C. Ogley, and, after thanking therri for their attention to the case. granted them exemption from jury service for the next months.
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Outlining the case, in his open- that this news report had
ing address, Mr. Murphy said ac- based on Information from a Ger-cused and deceased were clansmen man eye-witness broadcasting
and at one time lived together at from a secret station in Germany. No. 8 Gilles Avenue, where ac- Herr Frischer denied that any cused had a bean sprouts and bear
transmitter Flow.
such secret
curd stall. They had been on very friendly terms.
The idea is to create ar im- For instance, the German broad- pression of frankness, but things cast to South America in Spanish slipped badly over the Nazi raid us 3 a.m. on Saturday, March 30. on Scapa Flow and the RAF rald alleged that the B.B.C. had stated Thursday that Wednesday and on Svit.
had been the most successful days Take the case. of Scapa London announced that one war.
for English aviation since six or ship was damaged, not seriously, seven German planes and. It was not a capital ship. There enemy patrol vessel had been were seven naval-casualties and destroyed. eight civilian casualties.
Like.
INEFFICIENT STAFFT
Dr.
operation.
was
in
The real point, however, is that the "Sunday Express" did not say anything of the kind. It had only one story about Sylt and that was about the British enterprise which had bullt a railway across the Hindenburg Dam.
On Friday, March 29, nearly every German broadcast gave
The murder arose out of what appeared to be a trivial quarrel over accused's stock-in-trade.
It was found that deceased had 14 stab wounds, including thice deep ones. Death was due to the wounds and haemorrhage.
Accused was arrested and when aformally charged, he made a long
The Germans claimed that they The German announcer сод- had seriously damaged three bat- tinued that by claiming this the tleships and one cruiser, and B.B.C. had refuted its own state- probably damaged more warships.ments about the raids on Sylt, You may believe that you Kiel and. Wilhelmshaven. He was
One or two American papers quite right except that the. B.B.C.story purporting to have appear-statement to the effect that de- did, but please remember the pre- never made the statement attritish pilots had been questioned by him and had struck him first with ed in the "Daily Mall" that Bri-ceased had hired assassins to kill cise claims-one Afth of the total buted to it by the German radio. capital ships of the Royal Navy.
The future will show how much reliability there 15 in" German news accounts.
"SLIDING LADDER" SCALE
Elther the Propaganda Ministry has an inefficient staff taking down the BB.C. broadcasts or else it invented the statement."
It will be noticed that the Ger-
Take the R.A.F. raid Sylt man broadcast did not say
on
a court-martial for making false a knife. reports of their success.
ALLSOPPS
TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1940. --PAGE
IT'S CLEAR ITS GOOD
ITS 100% BRITISH
SOLE AGENTS:
CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO., LTD.
2. CHATER ROAD.
"Daily NO RETURN TO NANKING
HITLER'S CREED On Saturday, March 30. "Daily Mall promptly came out with this notice: "This notice places on record the following facts:
The Germans frst announced that what time the B.B.C. was supposed No such story had ever appeared a British plane was shot down to have made the statement or This, according to London was the what language was used."
true figure. But old habits got the better of Dr. Goebbels' pro- paganda boys and they raised the figure to three, eventually step ping it up to six
NO SECRET, STATIONS With regard to the British Press. Hans Frischer, who broadcasts to the German people in order to keep up their faith in the Pro-
In connection with this escala-paganda Ministry, last Tuesday tor principle, it should be rela-said that the British paper. "Sun tive. The Nazis will have won day Express," had admitted in une half of the night if they can big type that it had now become
German persuade the world that the Allied known that 32
planes had been destroyed on the ground news is not reliable.
by British bombers on the raid on Sylt,
In the Daily Mail. Nothing re- motely resembling it had ever ap- peared in the 'Daily Mail. The Daily Mail' has learned on the highest authority that no court- martial of this description has ever been held."
on the
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UNTIL WAR IS WON
CHUNGKING, April 1 (Central)~"The time for the Govern- ` ment to return to Nanking will be when all Japanese invaders are driven from the country and when final victory is ours." and no sooner." declared a spokesman of the National Government in an interview yesterday, referring to Wang Ching-Wel's puppet regime and his "Return to Nanking" claim.
The spokesman pointed out that the removal of China's capital from Nanking to Chungking was adopted to carry out the national policy of long-term resistance and was
There can be no question here of the Germans being badly mis informed. They simply made the story up and planted it "Daily Mail."
These aspects of the campaign people on November 20, 1937. make the world believe the Nazi account of the war rather
than
There has been another in- teresting phase In the accusation of the B.B.C. and the British press Herr Frischer went on to ela- the Allied version. It is worth re- borate. He told his audience membering Hitler's creed: "If you which, of course, is not allowed want to lie and be believed, you to read the "Sunday Express," must make it a big one."
u saying something they did not Bay and then proving that it is false.
SKAGER RAK IS JUST AS GOOD AS GERMAN BASE
LONDON, April 1 (Kenter)-Discussing recent events at Skager Rak, the strip of water separating the north tip at Ben- mark and south Norway-events which included the sinking of
and
Edmund the German freighters, Hedde rnheim
Hugo Stinnes, by British submarines-the Naval Observer of the BBC. said yesterday that one of the most interesting features of this activity was that Skager Rak might justifially be con- sidered the home base for the Germans....
Discussing the routes of German 60-miles dash across Skager Rak. iron-ore carrying ships. he said Protecting ships can be held ready that the first part of the trip is to guard them. easy, being in Norwegian terri- torial waters, where the enemy is not allowed to operate.
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Churchill Praised
SPEECH MEETS
announced to the entire
Egoistic Claims
As the nation's Sovereignty MOLOTOV'S SPEECH
the
COMMENT
stands above all, and as the Gov-
organ for ernment is the
of administrative ROME. April 1 (Havas)—The exercising powers, it would be absolutely speech of M. Molotov to the preposterous to say that this could Supreme Soviet Council reflects be possible in a Japanese-occupied (with absolute precision what area under enemy coercion.
Soviet policy has been since last September 10 the opinion of "La Stampa,"
FARCICAL CLAIM
Mr. Lin Sen, Chairman of the National Government, is very in-
tr
Bases. Desired
The paper paints out that the dignant over Wang Ching-wel's Commissar's speech abounded in farcical cialm, the spokesman real meaning of which is prudently stated, but it is seen as merely richly-sounding sentences. the real another measure of Japanese meaning of which is prudently aggression that is fore-doomed to ambiguous.* APPROVAL fallure
As to the Japanese puppets. "Russia is doing her best to LONDON, Apr. 1 (Reuter)-Mr. they have been proscribed by the take the opportunity of the pre- Winston Churchill's speech.
on Government and their crime will Saturday meets the entire approval be punished by 'the nation's law. of newspapers of all shades 01 opinion. They interpret it to mean that Britain now intends to enforce the blockade with greater
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Wholesale Denunciation
Of Wang Ching-wei
CHUNGKING, April 1 (Central)—Following a 48-hour vig!- lance by the police authorities, Shanghai heaved a sign of relief to see that the inauguration of Wang Ching-wei's puppet re- gime in Nanking, has brought no serious incidents to both the International Settlement and the French Concession during the weekend.
with the exception of one case, CHUNGKING, April 1 (Central) which Wang Ching-wel's sup--The broadcast speech delivered were by Mr. Lin Sen, Chairman of the sent situation claims, but on the porters in two motor, cars
Government, on the wider issues she maintains an arrested by the French police for National
handbills, Shanghai occasion of the Martyrs' Day on attitude of realistic and oppor- scattering
passed last night quietly. The ar- March 29, has been recorded in tunistic neutrality.
A 'sound rested persons include seven men gramophone records. and one woman, who will be picture of Mr. Lin, during his arraigned before the court for broadcast, has been made by the. hearing.
China Motion Picture Studio.
"The Soviet seized the Baltic States and Poland and wants to obtain bases on the Bul- rarian and Turkish, coasts. "The Finnish affair was a mere Ching-interlude which Stalin stopped as order to as he could, in
LOYALTY PLEDGEN CHUNGKING, April 1- (Central) China's diplomatic representa- aves abroad have sent a joint On the other side of the picture,armness,
telegram the Hoyal Navy has the disadvan-
to Chairman Lin Sen The "Dally Telegraph" says: and Generalissimo Chiang Kai- Lage of being in someone else's There is no lack of consideration shek denouncing. Wane When the ships reach Skager garden, Mines and anti-submarine in this country for the dificulties wel. Rak, however, different circum devices abound and have to "be stances' prevail. Two routes. ile before the ships. The quickest" is down the west coast of Denmark to Hamburg, a good port for un- loading iron-ore cargoes. It means a dush across Skager Rak with the enemy lurking in the North Sea.
The other route is down the east coast of Denmark This is 'almost as good as home waters. The whole journey could be made.
dangers.
CARGOES URGENTLY NEEDED
Knowing that the cargoes are
discovered or else,
TIME-LIMITED
Then too, the naval units have to operate some 500 miles from their home base and as they have to travel the same distance home again, the operating time is limited. They have also to try to give no warning of their approach. But German ships have been
8000
"TRAITOR DENOUNCED Feeling against Wang is still
ab
The speech, which bitterly at- tacked Wang Ching-wel, is consi- dered of great historical signifi-
cance.
"
all
Concession and the
:
of neutral countries. We know The telegram reiterates the na-resume his settled policy of wait-mounting, and thousands of hand- they are under duress, but they won's faith in final victory and ing for the moment when the bills denouncing the traitor were have the means of defence in declares that Wang's abject sur-strain imposed upon the bellige-scattered
practically their hands. I anall states Tender and sell-out, couched in rents will give him an opportunity thoroughfares in the Settlement. "WANG'S TREASON": stood together and refused sup the name of "peace," are bitterly for satisfying Old Russia's Im- the French resented by all the diplomatic re-perialistic claims and for, even native city. presentatives abroad who pledge tually, Installing Bolshevism united support to the entire na- throughout Europe and Asia. tion's denunciation of the puppet Tegim
plies by which alone Nazism can maintain its strength in arms, they could make themselves secure. MORAL PARALYSIS
"The first objective of the new Nazi,, offensive against them is moral paralysis. Weakness will be no defence, If neutral countries unequal to safeguarding the prove
are
FAR EASTERN HEALTH
به
PARIS, April 1 (Reuter)--Tele-, grams scathing "Wang Ching- wel's Treason" were dispatched to Chungking by the Kuomintang Bureau for Europe and the numerous Chinese communities in
As the rumours were circulated strict precautionary measures were DARE NOT FACE
taken by the police to curb un- THE ALLIES
toward incidents. All streets, ex- STOCKHOLM, April 1 (Reuter) cept the important thoroughfares, France.
Russia could strangle Poland were blocked since Friday, and when that country had already search parties stationed at strate-Chinese residing abroad fully sup
The telegrams declare that the in neutral and Germán territoriai sunk. Here again, things
been defeated by Germany. "Russia gic points waters, but the latter part of the ļauticult for the Navy, for
port Generalissimo Chiang Kal- The following is the health' bul-could impose her will upon Estonia, themselves against the ruin of
British, American and Italian shek in his struggle until the in- journey is more dangerous owing submarine has to be on the sur-submission to Nazism, the Allies letin of Eastern ports for the week Latvia and Lithuanis and obtain forces and White Russian volun- vader desists from aggression to rocks and other navigational face to warn the ship and give must ensure that their territory is ending March 23:
a few concessions from Finland teers asalsted the police to main- the crew 15 minutes to abandon no longer a means of evasion of Allahabad 1 death, Akyab 1 case. "But we are sure that the Soviet
Plague Bassein 1 case; Cholera:after three months of bloody wartan order in the International
ROME REACTION ship. What an age that 15 the blockade of the Reich."
Bettlement
ROME, April 1 (Reuter)----The · minutes must, bel w
Calcutta 65, Rangoon 4; Small-will not have the daring to face,
evident authorities Press announces, with The "News Chronicle" days that Pox: Allahabad 1 death, Cawnpore adversaries such as 'Britain anda? The French police The submarine has to le on the
conducted searches in the leading satisfaction, the inauguration of urgently needed, the ships decide surface knowing well that it is a the tone and substance of Mr. 6 cases, Delhi 6, Jodhpur 3 deaths. France."
Churchill's broadcast were admir Okha 1 case, Veraval 3. Bombay 38. to run the risk of making the target for planes. that the Germanable. What Britain wants now is Calcutta 55, Cochin 17, Madras 3."Social Demokraten" in an editorial/able elements indulge in subver that Italy will be granting the This is the tone adopted by the hotels to ensure that no undestthe Wang "Government," hinting ship must have sent out an 8.08. to see the noose of the blockade Rangoon 42, Saigon 1, Macao 24. comment on Molotov's speech.
Sive activities. It is learned that puppets early recognition, message and that rescue craft are pulled as tight as it will go. Hongkong 8; Shanghai 1.
Several papers publish Wang's Other Scandinavian papers draw a few arrests were made, speeding to the scene.
appeal to Rome for co-operation” ( attention to the passage referring
ONE DAY STRIKE FRENCH COUNCIL
in the "long and difficult task of to the Finnish situation, and most
CHUNGKING, April 1 (Central) reconstruction" with which he is 1'; Allied declaration and the
of them point out that an in--A manifesto denouncing Wang confronted. At last the crew gets away. Churchill broadcast, and now they
OF MINISTERS
minent danger exists for the The submarine dives, fires its want to see those pronouncements torpedo and gildes into the murky carried into practical effect. The sent meeting of the Supreme War formally allied or not, must co
PARIS, Apr. 1 (Reuter) The re- Nordic countries which "whether Ching-wei has been issued by the | Shanghai Vocational Youth's Anti- depths as rescue craft arrive.
Wang Ching-wet League. "Herald" suggests that in
Council, In London was one of the operate against the common dan-
Forty-seven cases · of tubercu- T: seems incredible that they Cabinet reconstruction the public subjects dealt with at this morn- | Eer."
The manifesto declares that the
losis, six cases of small-pox, seven should be able to operate at all, wants men to be chosen for their ing's meeting of French Council
Chinese people will never capitu-cases of chicken-pox (one
im- even more so that they should ability alone, and "most of all of Ministers."
late to the Japanese and will con-ported), four cases of enteric give the German crews time" to the country wants to see Britain's
tinue their life-and-death struggle fever, xlx cases of enteric
RESTRICTIONS ON
SHIPPING
STOCKHOLM, April 1 (Reuter)
-A new law which comes into
force tomorrow Terbids all Swedish shipy over 350 tons to leave Dor: in future without the permission of the Maritime Commiss:or.
"CAN DO ITS PART
...
The "Daily Herald" says that the British people have applauded the
'
This was disclosed in an official The "communique added:
A similar restriction is placed ret into their boats. But they do seu power used ruthlessly to pre-communique lasted after the meet-Regard also informed the Coun-against them and their puppets. fever, 11 cases of cerebro-spiria! on Swedish freighters between 100 manage it. The fact that the vent Hitler buying the sinews of ing stating that the Premier, Mcil of Ministers of the first mea- The manifesto calls for a fever, and six cases of dysentery.
ferman Admiralty has cancelled war."
Paul Reynaud, gave an account of súres put into force and those general strike in the city for one were notified to the Health De the results of the London meeting under consideration for repression day as an indication to Wang partment as having occurred in of the Supreme War Counell on of communist and Hitlerian ac Ching-wel that the people in the Colony during the 48 hours March 28,
tivities within France"
ended at midnight on March 31
and ·350 tons · sailing between Sweden and foreign countries as merchant sailings suggests that "The "Dally Mail" says that the well as freighters below 350 tons the German share the view that speech was a remarkable warning salling between foreign ports. the Royal Navy can do so in "to ourselves and to neutrals.".
Shanghai will not be submissive,
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