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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAȚII, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20,′′ 1936. "

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1980.

COLONY'S DEFENCE

COSTS

Although the Government feck that no useful purpose can be served by reopening the Military. Contribution controversy, being satisfied with the concessions made last year, something more than the somewhat terse reply necorded to Mr. M. K. Lo dur- ing the Budget debate seems called for. It is estimated that Hongkong will have to pay well over five million dollars in con- tribution during the coming year: But that is not the whole story, since provision is made in the estimates for over two lakhs of dollars in respect of the Volun- teer Defence Corps and the Naval

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MALAGA UNDER THE TERROR

"WILL the

REBELS

COME?"

in the Spanish War Zone

N

away.

INE weeks of Civil War. The enthusiasm, the ex- citement, the hope of an enrly victory have died.

Cars no longer dash by filed with such eager youths, clasping the red flag to their hearts, brandishing their revolvers in friendly greeting, singing the Internationale.

There is still good hope, but not for an easy victory; and the en- thusiasm has changed into deter- mination to win at any cost.

There are few cars about. Cara are too much needed to convey troops and supplies to the front and for the necessary business of local administration to be used for happy joy-rides to attack imagin- ary enemies, as they were used during the Orst week by the 'youth" of various organisations.

*Thlags have become much grimmer: serious fighting has been failed to take Granada, because going on for a long time. Wo have

inexperience and lack of co-opera- tion between the forces of the different provinces made the real attack come too late, after troops Morocco had reached from

Granada.

"Only 40 Miles"

The Rebels have recantly in counter attacks taken Antequera,

Loja, an excessively important" point strategically as it commands the road into Granada, and its a relief of the city, which is no capture was almost equivalent to

longer effectively surrounded.

The question which we now naturally ask ourselves in Malaga

is, "Will the Rebels come hero?"

L

I am afraid that there is no doubt that they could come 1 they wanted to come. But it is prob- able that they cannot spare sufil- cient troops to take Malaga, the most "Left" city and province in Spain, and

to keep it subdued.

then

Their capture at Mainga, apart from its being a most serious loss to the Government, would be an appalling disaster.

"More's the Pity"

General Quelpo de Llano has often told us in his drunken broadcasts what he intends to do when he gets here. He will sit drinking his beer in a café in the Calle Larios, and while he sips it the executioners will be busy with their machine-guna.

He has recently added threats of rape to his usual threats of mur- dor. He is an almost incredible figure, and would be comic in a penny dreadful style if he unfor- Lunately did not have the power of carrying out his amazing threats; if we did not know that more than two thousand people have been shot already in Seville, and if Cordoba had not recently been described by two French journalists who returned from there as a charnel house, streeta and houses full of the dead.

It is a pity that so few English

· people can undorstand Spanish, for Queipo de Llano would cer- tainly be the must superb of propa- gandists against his own cause.

The whole conduct of the Civil War in Spain has appalled foreign observers. On both sides inno- cent people are murdered and prisoners are shot.

Almost from the first hour of the uprising. Franco began shooting

groups of men in cold blood, shooting them down with machine-guns. The insurgenta state frankly that their polley is not to keep prisoners, but to shoot them, and that when villages resist troops will "take reprisals," which meang rape, murder, looting, and house- burning..

Surely this policy for generain of a Conservative Party belonging to a sup- posedly civilised race is something heard of in modern times]

un-

On

ON

the other hand, it would useless to deny that horrors are committed daily on the other side. In Malaga Itself there has been a reign of terror. A fortnight ago probably thirty or more prople a night were being dragged out of their houses without any authority and shot or hit on the head. and. their bodies kicked and mutilated.

One of the Consuls here described to me a scone of this sort which took place actually under his eyes in the hotel where he was staying.

A poor old woman, a Marchesa, was brought out first and ahot, and her body stripped and mutilated, then a bedridden old man of ninety was pulled out and his head was benten in.

"I rather like his looks-we'll save him," one murderer would say, and a man would be put aside. "I don't like his looks; bash his head in," and the poor victim's brains were dashed out.

There was no pretence that these people were guilty of anything at all. They were easy to get at, and murder, when it can be com- milled with impunity, seems to be a taste that grows with what it feeds on.

"Murder a Joke"

Many of the murders, parti- cularly in villages, are for revenge, and are due to private quarrels. Some story is fabricated against a man by his enemies. Almost any We will be believed in Umes like these, and he is pointed out to the bands of "Youth" who go in for murdering.

Sometimes there is a financial reason. People to whom someone

THIS MORNING'S POSTBAG

presents a heavy burden on the | Colony; it certainly appears ano-

malous that Hongkong's-contrib-only forty miles from Malaga and tion should work out at 7s. 6d. per head, compared with 58. 78. in the case of the self-governing Dominion of Canada, the more so when account is taken of the state of poverty in which the bulk of this Colony's population lives. Hongkong is by no means un- mindful or unappreciative of the protection and security ensured by the presence of the Garrison; but the defence of this Colony is primarily an Imperial matter; the Colony's contribution should bear some better relation to its finun- cial situation. There is the fur- ther consideration that the Gar- rison is stationed here, not merely for the protection of Hongkong, but for the general accurity of British Interests in the Far East. and in times of crisis some of its units may be transferred for duty elsewhere. Yet Hongkong, alone of the British communities in the East, contributes towards ila-cost.

Lloyd George'

"THE

THE Welsh Wizard," reporting on his recent visit to Germany, states ("Telegraph", Oct. 19) he has never seen such happy people. L. G.. as the nudaeity to give an he has visited for a few days. opinion about a great country, which ordinary man can venture to give his ideas about a people until he has Itved amongst them for a few years: it is necessary to speak the language of the country and to mix with at classes before one can form un opin- on as to the conditions and thuglels of the people.

The Welsh Wizard's

uppy

CORRESPONDENTS

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#aquasted, when for- warding letters for publica- tion to arrange whonover. possible to limit the text to not more than 100 words. These columns are open to all readers of the "Tele- graph" who desire to air their views on subjects of public interest.

Attention, S.P.C.A.

people are treading the road that WLE yachting Sunday morning.

games that come to mind, are forms of sport where uproar or personal remarks definitely upsets the pinyers,

ALBO A LOVER OF SPORT.

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Bombs V. Babies

owes money are murdered to avoli payment.

What is most terrible is that these murders certainly are done with the sympathy of a great many of the people. At Brat there was A good deal of horror expressed, but gradually as news of atrocities on the other side kept coming in that disappeared, and now among the villagers except for a women there is hardly a dissen- tient volce, though that, I bolleve. is due not entirely to approval, but even more to that consenting cowardice which makes all the wrongs of the world possible.

I was driving into Malaga re- cently, sitting by the lorry driver who had kindly given me a lift.

"See that " he anld, with a happy grin. The dead body of an

old man was lying by the road. The driver was kindly drawing my attention to it so that I shouldn't. miss seeing it.

· The poor old man lay`like a buge doll, his shirt stained a dirty red. They had, as they sometimes do. chot him in the stomach, so that his death, though certain, would bo painful.

"We are Bombed"

:

Why, an English reader may well nak, used to Engilah law and order, are these things allowed?

The answer is that practically all the police and all the soldiers are at the front, that the Central Gov- ernment seems far away now with communications so slow and in- direct, and that Mainga is being run by committers; the various Socialist, Syndicalist, Communist and Republican parties are repre- sented, and there is the to-be-ex- pected lack of cohesion and pass- ing on of inconvenient responsi- bility.

Recently the Governor returned from a visit to Madrid with strict orders to put down the night mur- ders. The soldiers, Civil Guards, and Guardias de. Asaito had de- clared that they would no longer fight for the Government unles the murders were stopped.

Since then they have practically ceased in the centre-of- Malaga. but still go on in the suburbs and ⚫ villages.

But it must always be renicm- bered that these murders are not a polley of the Government, but are denounced by it, and regarded as a disgrace to it by intelligent Spaniards of every Lett party. whereas the whole policy of the Military party is one of frightful- ness.

"English Planes"

The aviation field five miles from Malaga is the usual objective. A few days ago there they dropped a bomb on a large tank of heavy oll, which made a most tremendous and spec- tacular fire, burning for 24 hours. and at night painting the whole. city and even the mountains be- hind it a vivid red.

Fifty people were killed in that bombardment, and 150 were

How often does one hear it safe wounded. They were mostly women

and children, a number of bombs falling on the shore where chil- dren were playing, and on a poor

the Eng-

that Hongkong children are dying in

because of thousands Improper housing and sanitation. If our rich Chinese friends would donate those lakhs of dollars towards quarter of the city, the purchase of model clinics,

1 sometimes wonder gardens, etc. for children instead of | lish people wiso mention so calmly warplanes for Chiang Kai-shek they | the sale of English aerop'ançà to would be fulling a much more the rebels (and also to the Govern- worthy objective.

ment) by private enterprise over visualise the use to which these planes will be put.

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Poor EUROPEAN.

leads to war, and those of us who in the direction of Stonecutters experienced the Inst one can only Island, 1, und the party with me, pray that Britain will be able to keep burved counter and semen aber Two Minutes should ignore opinions given by L. G. water buffalo from a junk to the out of it when it comes. Our people a small coaster, transferring big

have or any other week-end trippers."

The method of handling VOU

received complaints. from This live cargo seemed to me, and

two, Kowloon residents those with me, incredibly crude and regarding the screen advertisements unnecessarily cruel.

in the local theatres. Power came from a small winch' Do they realişe we pay a very

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A. M.

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atcamer.

"How can Lloyd George accept on the coaster's foredeck, and the small sum to sit through two minutes ship for Britain at their face value one-was suspended between

11 Hitler's professions of friend- animal belog lifted—we saw but of those advertisements, whereas the those concerned with them have to while he is openly expressing con- junk and larger vessel by a hitch pay. many times more for just those while he is preparing a demand for was therefore borne on its neck. tempt for our democratic Incitations. bround Its horns. Its entire weight two minutes.

Business is not brisk these days some of our colonies, and while in I was always under the impression and everyone knows the value of his dealings with the Church and his that livestock should be hoisted in advertising. treatment of thousands In concentra- slings specially made for the tion camps he is outraging all our purpose. ideas of fair play?

"Gipsy Victims”

I wish they could have seon a littla gipsy encanipinent near Malaga after the bombardment of which I am speaking.

It would be of interest to learn precisely how this Colony's con- tribution compares with those of other Crown Colonies. In this connection, the Straits Settle- ments has been able to secure con- siderable relief from defence pay- ments by the creation of a series of Boards, dealing with harbour and municipal matters, the re- venues from which are not liable to assessment for the purposes of the Military Contribution. The principle seems a sound one, and there seems no just reason why it should not be followed in Hong- kong. Be that as it may, the pre- sont system is by no means satis factory. For better would it be an entirely false picture of a honny 66]

"BARRACKING" at cricket mat- to levy a fixed amount, within the

Australia is some ing grist to the mill of Fascists in thing more than "Lover of Sport"

May I ndd I am in no way-con- measure of our "capacity to pay, Britain-a movement inspired by the woud have us belleve. English nected with any business concerns, p-To-day's Thought-

arc not likely to take and merely go to the theatres for than to continue on a basis by Nazia and which would, were ever snortimen

to come to power in England, destroy effence at mob excitement, which

very democratic Uberties in any case, should be repressed in amusement and entertainment.

and addrças could venue, we have to add a consider. which were, once so dear to Lloyd games where scule concentration is ste my name

George,"

necessary on the part of the players. Verify this. able sum beyond our actual needs.

DEMOCRACY,

E. M. L Tennis, cricket, and chess, three

I think Lloyd George rendered his countrymen the greatest possible dis-

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S. B. J.

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service; with the great influence his Barracking Ballads

name carries he la helping to spread

and contented Germany, thus bring-

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The gipsies were gathered to- gether having their midday meal when a large bomb tell in the midst of them. Out of several families sitting there. quietly eating only The one little girl was left alive. others were blown to blackened raga. "Up" curgeats advertisements They say that it is almost impos- should only adorn. hoardings and sible to stop the private sale of newspapers, where one need not acroplanes, but I believe that pub- look at thein If not interested. Well,

Ifc opinion can đó so if it will. And why not do likewise at the theatres?

it should be aroused to realise the Take

nep during those two. minules.

horror of people anxious, to For myself I enjoy the music make money out of the death and during the screening of the advertise-suffering of their fellow men. menu.

I am

IT is finer to command one's passions than an army, and more diflcult.

-THEOPHILE GAUTIES.