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WILLIAMS.-On 23rd October, 1937, at the French Hospital, Hong- kong, to Zoe, wife of H. G. Williams, a daughter.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

HAVE

VISITED A

LABOUR CAMP

AND A CONCENTRATION CAMP

IN

HITLER'S

gholt GERMANY By Oscar Hobson

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1937,

Caution And Common

Sense

B

EFORE

well enough, but there was clear News Chronicle .

evidence of strain in their eyes.

City Editor

describing boys are now obliged to attend The boys were intimidated by after leaving

the severe military discipline to the camps let me dis: for six months

school and before entering upon which they were being subject- Statesmen are being com-

pose of one point, military service.

cd.' The one wo saw was a small

intervals, notice boards painted mendably cautious in their Both before I went and

containing only about

with a warning which the most statements concerning the since I have come back, affair.

boys. The general ap- The commandant said that we illiterate could read-a skull! course to be followed at the con-friends have said to

me: 150 ference in Brussels. The British "Of course, they selected pearance of the place was not could ask the boys questions, and One hardly needed to ask if the We asked the commandant Prime Minister correctly holds their show camps for you to unpleasant, though the wooden himself barked out questions to fence was cleetrified.

huts seemed rather cramped for four or five boys to which they that, if anything is to be ac- see."

the number of boys they had to replied, as though reporting on whether any of the prisoners what im parade. His questions were in tried to escape. "Yes," he said, complished, they must approach I believe that there is very accommodate. But the delicate problem of media-little, if anything, in this. I was pressed me most was the com- each case the same: "How old all of them."

and "Have you 'put He went on to explain that the tion without threats. Japan, it with other delegates to the Con- plete and thoroughgoing mili- are you?"

on weight?"

attempts occurred when they of the International tarism of the place. is recognised, will listen only gress

You could see it before you

I talked to one boy who, as it were outalde the compound in reluctantly to any suggestion of Chamber of Commerce, and s 10 we had only a few hours

got inside the camp at all, for happened, was wearing the badge working parties. He was ask. intervention, if at all, and one ill-chosen word might prevent spare in Berlin we had to see at the entrance was a sentry of membership of the Nazl party. ed if any had succeeded. He re- a boy on guard Despite that, he was definitely plied that none had, though on evidently being one occasion a tunnel 80 yards her attendance at the joint dis- camps within a short distance box with

armed with a spade. They are frightened, cussions. As it is Tokyo may Nor did they hide things, for issued with special spades for afraid of being caught out in long had been excavated, and ex- not be officially represented, and the Nazis are (within the drilling with, and they are some way-though he thawed a plained with a twisted smile that exactly as little as the commandant moved if ever an escaping prisoner though-it-is-improbable that the narrow limits of vision which drilled with them

passed a certain boundary be Government will ignore the their blinkers impose) an off with riflös.

They "lope" spaces, "order" The impression of strain was shot down.

The camp contained 2,300 pri- meeting entirely, it may be that cient crowd and they are proud

of these camps.

spades and "present" spades, the unnatural fixity of the eyes, it will do no more than send

exactly in the same way as with which belled the evidence of soners. Of these, 1,000 were observers.

rilles; in fact, it was solemnly sun-tanned skins was natural. "habitual criminals" and 1,300 think that both types of explained to us that these evo- ly much greater in the Concen- were political criminals. The two classes parade in different eamps are appalling institutions lutions are rather more difficult tration Camp at Sachenhausen.

But if statesmen must guard their tongues in such

of the city.

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dway.

a crisis but not for reasons which to perform with a spade than This is a great new camp, squads, but are only distinguish- there is no good reason for them their authors would hide if they with a rifle, because of the ab- situated in the pinewoods north able from the fact that the poli- to shut their eyes to the possi- could or could if they would, sence of a proper grip from the of Berlin. It has only been in ticals wear a red, and the habi bility of failure and the con- Both camps were spick and former.

occupation since last September tuals a green, strip of cloth let. Time did not permit u Lo and was built by the prisoners into their white cotton uni- sequences of such. It must be span to the last degree: orderli

. Buildings and forms. concluded that definite methods ness and cleanliness. I am not ace much of the work which the themselves.

If you write off the whole of of dealing with the Far East able to judge of the adequacy boys do or to judge its value. equipment were unexceptionable,

of the feeding, but we

were Hours of actual labour are, we yet the place lacked all humanity, the rest of this description: as sentimental nonsense, the hard war, slowing up the slaughter shown the dictaries and samples are told, Imited to 35 a week;

fact remains that in this one- with a view to eventually stop of the food supplied.

the boys are paid a wage of 3d.

Inside the fenced compound camp 1,300 Germans (mostly The two commandants, Prus ping it entirely, have been con-

a day and can get leave at week-

there grew not even a blade of youths and all non-Jews), whose aidered. Though they do not sinn incorruptibles of the ruth- ends.

grass. Apart from the ground only offence is that they have admit it, it is fairly obvious that less type, who showed us round

covered by the hutments, it was expressed political views dis-- certain powers most active in answered all questions put with the present campaign for inter-frankness-in one instance with The curriculum includes lec- one vast sandy parade ground. tasteful to the Nazi Party, re-- cession have not only made in-almost brutal frankness,

tures, mostly, I imagine, on mill- Over the main gate and at the cclve identically the same treat- dependent plans but have dia- The Labour Camp

is a new tary subjects. One was going angles were inspection towers ment as habitual criminals who cussed, joint preceedings of one institution, which all German on while we were there: it was in which were posted warders have served numerous earliér sort or another.

on parachute descents.

with scarchlights and machine- sentences. On the Opposition benches in

Entry into the lecture room guns-grim example of Jeremy

of Bentham's "panopticon." me the oportunity London there was no hesitation reference concerned Hongkong's gave

physical safety. There is always judging the appearance of the speaking of the con-

about sequences

He may

Theoretically men of both classes can secure liberation if they can convince the prison officials that they have been con- verted to good citizenship. We

were shown one model prisoner who was shortly due to be re- leased on that ground. He was an embezzler.

BULLS AND INNERS pary zacthods, such un-

다

The compound was surround- of failure of the the danger of economic warfare boys en masse. It gave me a ed by. wire fences and along Brussels conversations. The leading to an armed clash; and shock. Superficially they looked them, planted in the ground at Liberal leader in the House of there is no denying that this für Commons, Sir Archibald Sin-outpost, strongly defended a8:1t be both economically and clair, put the case bluntly. sal, in effect, that a boycott of politically, would suffer from Japan by her chief customers sanctions of even the mildest would make it impossible for her sort. Were these to be the stiff, to finance her war. Just like Baw-toothed variety, necessitat- that: There was no doubt in ing a virtual blockade, the posi-i the Liberal leader's mind. When ton of this Colony would be

even more apparently | he added that there were vulner come able places, like Hongkong, unpleasant. Nevertheless, there which would not care toare few persons hero who would participate in such a policy, Sir not applaud the adoption of a Archibald evidently. had strong policy by the Nine-Power

ሴ thought of the menace which

Treaty signatories if there wore pected to see: Batten Down and was a thoroughly Worthy affair, must lie behind any form of any prospect of the Ca tragedy Up Again. sanctions, if these are to. be being terminatell. effectively unforced. There is

Jean Ballen has nothing on use blinking the fact that

He travelled sanctions on the part of a group or at least the laying of the HE the 0.A.G.!

no

Hongkong will; hope for, an amicable settlement at Brussels; į

From the Office Butts

....

A newsuper heading we ex-

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of powers-for it is highly im- foundation of mediation, and "by Falmouth to Macao" in less probable that a boycott would be lasting peace in the Far East. than twenty-four hours. universal-would possibly lead But Hongkong Is British. strong

to reprisala on the part of the in British principles, and would country against which the mea-not have the British Govern-

A contemporary referred to sures were aimed. There is no ment shirk a vital issue even at

need to stretch the imagination the cost of loss of trade and "The High Cost of Loving."

What a waist! to believe that Sir Archibald's security in this Colony.

The Gloucester's opening night

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ย ☐ Shing-Mun Dam is exceed- ingly popular on nioonlight nights. The waterworks wonders.

At this season, when it's cool enough to work it's time to go to

D

bed.

I wondered by what ruthless

promising human material could- be induced to drill and march with the extraordinary precision they displayed when, at roll call,, the 2,300 of them marched for- ward across the parade. ground,

After they had been number; ad, off, an elderly “political". (to- judge by his face, an idealist with a touch of fanaticism about him) doubled forward and,. standing on a chair, began to conduct the convicts in com. munity singing.

The singing of those convicts ruado a deeper impression on me than anything I experienced in my stay in Germany. Every Unofficial posers are easily man joined in. The sound must.

(Continued on Page 5.)

Hansard!