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THE HONGKONG Te LeGrapii, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1938.

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THE bungalow dweller seems to me to be a much maligned

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with aesthetic criticism of

REMARKABLE correspondence which has passed between Lord Rothermere and Mr. Wickham Steed, the publicist difficult housing situation. and journalist, "following the publication in the “Daily

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Mail” of an article ““ How. Long Shall the Czechs Imperil Peace?" is made public

In that article, which appeared on July 18, Lord Rothermere declared that:--

If the question of the Czech minorities were not settled to the complete satisfaction of Germany by the end of September, no astute observer of European affairs would consider Czech independence la be toorth three months' purchase. buliles of Central Europe long enough." "The Czechs have been the petty he added. "The Czech Government will have a rude awakening it ! Imagines that Great Britain will ever lift a finger to save Czechoslovakia."

"Position Clear"

On July 18, Mr. Wickham Steed sent the following letter to Lord Rothermiere:-

LORD ROTHL son of a barrister, was born 70 years

630.

When he was 31, he entered the publishing business of which Its brother Alfred, afterwards Lord Northclife, was head. In 1914 he bought the '" Datly

Mirrar" from his brother. After his brother's death in 1922 he took over for sonic cars the proprietorship of the Daily Matt," Weekly Dispatch" and "Eventup News,"

Of late some journalist with a vivid imagination has detected "suburban discase, new neurosis." We are invited to picture the suburbs as a sort of reservation for frustrated neurotics. Childless wives (it's much more fun to run a baby car, you know!), quickly get through their housework in their nice new easily run bungalows, and sit with folded' arms looking out on to miniature patch of rock garden in the deepest gloom. In the ********** Į evening they play endless rub-1

bers of bridge in a vain effort to keep boredom at bay.

There is also a prevalent idea that the bungalow dweller is

ut reem to know that today Great invariably a man of straw. A Why you should wish to weaken the Brital, instead of being largely invul. speaker at a luncheon recently defence of this country by encouraging nerable as she was in 1914, is, owing to Germany to attack and, if possible, to the development of aircraft, the most described him as being "up" to obliterate Czechoslovakia is a mystery te vulnerable country Europe. the neck in paying instalments

If you and your friends find your way "I can readily understand why Ger you might provoke a war infinitely more for his house, his ear, his

many should wish you to do this disastrous than the Great War of 1914, furniture, and his pram."

Czechoslovakia juts out into the heart of I suppose you do know, but I should frankly admit that Germany Her cxistence as n well-armede to impress it upon you..that the day Gtate, inhabited by determined und Great Britain goes to war in pursuit of borrowed money when I took emcient people impedes German dominusone atm or design in Central Europe over my house, and furnished it tion over Central and South-Eastern two or three of our most important Europe. This domination, in its turn. Dominions will declare their neutrality

Hongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1938.

WATER

It is undeserved il-luck that Hongkong should be visited by

HAVE rarely written us you, but I

must write after reading your article in this morning's "Dally Mall," for that article, based on misleading Information. may help to bring on a European wur nto which Great Brifa would willy-1 ninly be drawn

10.

HENRY WICKHAM STEED, 8on

of a Suffolk solicitor, was burn 67 years ago and toas educated at Sudbury Grammar School and at three Univer --allies-Jena, Berlin, and Paris, At the age of 25 he was made acting Bertin Correspondent of the "Times." Later he was "Times" man in Rome and Vienna and Foreign Editor of the

Times" from 1914-1919, Was Editor from 1919 to 1932 when the paper was sold to Major Astor,

Hitch-Hiking Through Britain

its worst drought in 43 years at an immediate HE and I were making for the ja time when its thirst for water/ We wanted to start of our German reckoning with the British Em-end to the British Empire..

married life in comfortable, pire, which forms the ultimate obstacle It would be dangerous for Germany to

is greater than at any other healthy, and dignified surround- to derman supremacy in the world. period in its century of history.ings, and we did not choose to attack either France or Great Britain as Excepting 1895, when only 16 risk the hazards of furnished long as the Czechoslovak Republle is rooms while we scraped together able, as it now is, to mobilise 200.000 well- this year will almost certainly of our own.

Linches of rain were recorded, | enough to buy a decent house to dispose of a powerful air force which may publish my letter to you 1 Aviemore." he said..

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Britain and upon the essentials of

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once said, but along the borders of

hostel at Edinburgh. "Come far?" I asked him, looking at the "No Answer"

big rucksack slung, between his calculated On August 6, Mir, Wickham Steed shoulders. Mentally I

15 miles. "I have come from sent this reply:- armed and well-trained-troops in a week;

will gladly publish your reply-which "One hundred and forty miles! could threaten Dresden and Leipzig, is no answer-to it.

I am proud to be what you call n How did you do it?" Munich and Nuremberg in half an hour But in a world of which the case of German attnet, and to control Journalistle Bourbon" who has not

He jerked an expressive finger end as the driest since the Royal vital mainspring is credit, who the great armaments works of Skoda jorgoken the lessons of 1903-1910. For-

"Hitch-hiked." getittiness of experience is not wisdom, over his shoulder. Observatory began functioning.shall say that my plan was and Wittkowitz

In order to enish Czechoslovakia hor is Nazi German prepaganda the Something told me he was a stran- for it will need record rains in wrong?] I carefully adjusted swiftly infer would need at least 1.000 aureat guide to the truth, November and December-al-my liabilities to my income, and aeroplanes and three million men. These Your information about the Dominions er, and I asked him. "I'm a

my prospects are good. Mean- aeroplanes and these men would be is faulty, ns I, who am in constant touch Dane," he informed me.

Later he let me into his secret. available against Great Britain and with all the Dominions, can testify. Like most invariably the driest time I have given a fillip, France were Czechoslovakia overthrown me thele peoples would never upprove of months of the year-for the infinitesimal, I admit, to

Morcover, If Wittkowitz, Skoda and British war "in pursuit of some aim"This hitch-hiking is a great idea," he said. "For myself, I landed at total to approach anywhere near ployment, and I am secure in their various branches below ground or design in Central Europe,"

her facilities for the manufacture of approve of and support resistance to buildings there, from York down to even the next lowest recorded the present enjoyment of many here to fall into the hands of Germany. Like me--and unlike you they would Hull, went to York to see the comforts and not a few of the armaments would be double those of atinck upon the defences of Great Cambridge, where I wanted to see

Great Britain and France. fall of 57 inches of exactly luxuries of modern life.

It is comprehensible that Germany British freedom. Like me and unlike the University; then I retraced my forty years ago. The revela- Biased critics may dismiss my should wish to be rid of this Czecho-you-they would not, in the last resort. steps to Scotland, and I have been tion last week that the Colony's abode as a harled abortion, but slovak thorn in her fan it out fear to fight for the principles upon right through your country." He

spoke English perfectly. I have a deep and abiding prehensible that any British Journal, no which the British Commonwealthi

matter how inadvertently, should helpfused. reservoirs contain only sufficient affection for it."

her to get rid of it. Such a course is not And it happens, to-day, that the delen- "Do you always hitch-hike?" I . water for 31 further three For one thing, I visited the compatible with the loyalty to "King alve frontier of Great Britain is no

"Most often.. I intend to go professes months' supply at the present site often when it was being and Empire" which the "Dally Mall" longer on the Rhine, as Mr. Baldwin asked.

I need not remind you of the patriotic Czechoslovakia. Tomorrow it may be through France, Belgium, and Ger- built, and watched it rise from rate of consumption is, in view foundations to roof, my interest part played by the "Daily Mail" between elsewhere. And the surest way to save many on my way home. I have al

Czecho- of the approaching dry season, growing with it.

By dint of 1000 and 1814 in arousing this country ourselves from having to defend it in

to a sense of the German danger, nor of jarms anywhere is to have a firm and ready been in Sweden,

dare to slovakia, and many other European most disturbing. Per capita making myself a nuisance to its steadfast action throughout the War, strong purpose of peace and

In helping to withstand that danger. make it known. Two of your sons then gave their lives consumption of water. has in-the workmen I learned quite a

lot of interesting information.

in this cause. Would they approve of creased alarmingly in recent Apart from the bright new what you are now doing?

For this country and the Empire the years-in *1936 it Was 629 ness of my house, and its position is clear. Either we stand with the France and other friends against Ger gallons per month per capita hygienic, planned comfort,

beautiful surroundings are man domination of Europe, while there

is still time to avert that domination it appears, according to your letter, again." and in August this year 858

that Czechoslovakia is now the fron enough to convince me that I and while we still have friends, or we

atier of Great Britain. This will be news gallons per capita. Government could never live happily again shall presently be confronted with

choice between object surrender to to the people of this country and to the asked. apprehensions regarding was-in a noisy, crowded city street,

He pulled from his pocket a smali If you or anyone else are so foolish as Europe, and a desperate, friendless fight tage are not ill-founded and if and I never dreamt that garden-Germany mistress of the greater part of people of the Dominions,

ing could be such an absorbing for existence in which the odds would be to believe that Great Britain and her red pennant with a white cross. Dominions will fight for the Moscow-"This is the Danish flag. If lifts heavily against us. Hongkong is not

and soothing pastime.

So I urge you to bethink yourself, to owned Prague Government, you are are not forthcoming I tie it round enacted the almost catastrophic In the evenings when I sit in learn the truth and to proclaim it. This labouring under some strange delusion.my neck. It makes people stop. shortage of 1929, when the the cheerful living room with as your duty as a newspaper owner and Why should the people of London and and, when they find I am a stran

ĮManchester be bombed to perpetuate the

yranny of the Czechst

ger to the country, they are most Colony was on the point of im-book, I am pleasantly aware of British peer.

They like to Your letter confirms the view held by pleased to lift me, porting water from Canton and the rich obbligato of my bung-

Lord Northcliffe in the last days of his hear what I think of their country. alow the whistling of the wind Macao, more stringent measures in the roof, the creak of the

asociation with you, that you are a man and are also most interested in with a confused and distorted judgment. will have to be taken.

stairs, and the soft shut of

Please publish the whole of your cor- Danish customs..

"In Czechoslovakia, however, At the same time. Govern doors as my wife moves about YOUR letter flatters me.

Czecha "found it difficult. The ment cannot escape criticism for overhead, making sure that the the "Daily Mail" 18 exerting a great the recurrence of Hongkong's children are safely in bed (yes,

On August 12, Mr. Wickham wouldn't pick me up. So I went perennial water difficulties. The believe it or not, we actually I sincerely hope this is so, because

Steed sont this letter to Lord into a shop and bought a Union Rothermera:——

Jack. I was lifted right away. position has, of course, been have children), the drip of the the more the truth about this monstrosity

kitchen tap, and the asthmatic chance there is that the British point article, or in your letters, shows a from and I said London,

[OTHING Ins aggravated by

your "Daily Mall" The man asked me where I came year's

He only. whirring of the grandfather will allow their Government to associate drought, coupled with the ab-clock in the hall (a family itself directly or indirectly in its affairs, mare" confused and distorted judgment" know a few words of English, for normal and unexpected increase heirloom this.)

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"Monstrosity"

On August 3, Lord Rothermere wrote to Mr. Wickham Steed:-

It suggests that an article by me in)

the affairs of Czecho- Influence on

slovakia.

of a country becomes known the less)

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Lord Rothermere sent the follow- ing letter to Mr. Wickham Steed on August 10:

respondence with me.

countries. In Germany' the prae- tice is forbidden, and the police stop you if they sev you hailing cars. That happened to me, so I took a train to another village a few miles away, and began all over

"What's the secret of it?" I

I

"Those Last Days" thought I was a German and they

From the day Ozechoslovakia camejthan your mention of a view which you into existence, it has oppressed the Ger- allcge your brether, the late Lord North which I was thankful for at that man, Hungarian, Slovak and Polish cliffe, to have held in the last days time my command of your Language minorities. It has done so without proof his association-with mo; for in those was extremely slight. test, because the League of Nations untu last days, and for some months earlier, lately was entirely controlled by France as you may on reflection remember, the

"I got over it, however, and used with her ailles, including Czechoslovakia. character of his fatal faces, unfortu- the Union Jack all the time. Your 1 am afraid you are one of those nately made it impossible for him to tag 16 grently respected on the Journalistle Bourtons of whom there are hold any ocherent view at all, even about Continent, especially in France. J. H: C...] many. You seem to have forgotten you.

nothing and learned nothing. You seem I shall arrange for the publication of where they would never refuso a to think that 1938 ia atili 2014. You:da'mv ́rorres”ondence with you.

British person a lift.

in population, but as long ago It is my belief that all houses, as April last year-six months have a distinctive personality before the outbreak of hostilities subtly interwoven with the life in China Government was that has run through them, and warned in no uncertain terms in I find mine entirely satisfactory. a Report on the Water Supply prepared by Mr. W. Woodward

now loan under-

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that the provision of further ment's indecision in embarking

"It's great fun, but you must supplies would have to be put upon any

have a good constitution to be able in hand as early as possible if taking of such magnitute,

of hostilities in China, will de-general tendency of the Chinese to stand the strain of so much con- restrictions were to be avoided. Finvolving as it would the ex-cline very sharply below its to use more water as a result of tinuous travelling. One thing, In adopting Mr. Woodward's penditure of at least $10,000,-present level, and the natural their increasing knowledge of though; It gives you a much better insight into the manners and qua- proposals for the expenditure 000, is understandable from the annual gains in population will Western standards of public toms of the people, and you get to know more about them than you of $3,185,000 for urgent im-point of view of financial stabl- more than offset any post-war health and Gyglene. provements and additional sup-lity, but the time has come exodus within two

A close perusal by competent would by travelling in the ordinary ply mains, Government avoided when further procrastination years. To endeavour to tackle Government officials of the ro the major requirement for may well menace the existence the problem by reducing the par commendations of the WoodAnd where are you bound (for ending the perennial shortages of this Colony Government capita consumption is both ward Report, In addition to "London," he said

cannot afford to nourish the hope unhygienic and dangerous; those already authorised, ist off to make

ulation of Hour Government, in fact, should be vitally necessary in the light of the journey.

In a position to encourage the the present post

construction, of anothe reservoir in the fol

Chung Valley area. Gavert-

or three

mander.?

How?"

and

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