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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1938,

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1938.

Man Versus Insect

RS

are

REALISE the gravity

of the situation in

Palestine.

You see the news despatches: Araba Murdered. Bomb Kills Jews, British Soldiers Attack- ed. Another Big Battle Near the Sea of Galilee Last Night. You any, "There's plenty of troublo there."

You use the wrong word when It is an you say "trouble." understatement.

There is revolution in Pales- tine. An armed force of Arabs is trying to usurp the authority of the British Government, which has a mandate there under the League of Nations.

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Just like it!"

Last Letter

FROM HANKOW

COME

By A Special Correspondent

HANKOW, Sept. 20.

Government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use its best en-1

with me to a movie in Hankow! Let us ride in rick- shas to a semi-open-air-theatre where, seated among a It is not a particularly well-or- deavours to facilitate the ac-

couple of thousand Chinese in whom patriotic fervor is running hievement of this object. ganised force, and it does not

Yes, there was also the loop-high, I promise you we will get electric thrills in an atmosphere understand the complexities of hole clause: "...nothing shall be charged with intense national ardor and mass enthusiasm...that modern warfare, but it is killing done which may prejudice the is unless you are entirely phlegmatic.

ing non-Jewish communities in persons and plundering and destroying. civil and religious rights of exist

Palestine."

Its immediate aim, almost ac- hieved, is civil war: its ultimate aim is to drive the Jews from the Holy Land.

But

West.

wooden

this

In

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in

of

na

who

N- THE scientific field full IN

international collaboration is still possible. The entomologists

There we will meet such eminent Inese Government officials have come On Generalissimo Chlang in a party with diplomatic repre- France and the who are demonstrating the new

Kal-shek, Mr. Mickey Mouse and sentatives from glamorous Miss Marlene Dietrich. United States. At the other end of method of preventing Yellow

But all Jewry had read that there we will hear the music of the the room sits a missionury family- Fever from being brought to Asia from Africa, as reported in

phrase "national home" and Occident and of the Orient, and as they have just reached Hanitow necess of caterwauling a from an Interior misalon station, and visualised at once n heaven upon an

on 2 well-carned assalls their unaccusare going away "swing" band earth for Jaws. Qualifications tomed cars, we will rather shame-furlough. the Telegraph yesterday,

Where do we stand in all this did not matter.

facedly wonder whint the Chinese But the most noticeable thing is engaged in a war with mos-

patrons are thinking of this Intest the

paucity

foreign women What һан all the quitoes and other insects in turmoil?

Still More Troops monstrosity of the barbarian West.

patrons. The fact is that most of and which co-operation between na-bloodshed to do with us,

THERE 18 no pence in Like the movie theatres of the Hankow's foreign women have been

evacuated, Ix brilliantly evacu

far the majority of by Palestine; has not illuminated. Its name and the title those remaining being White Rus- tions is absolutely essential if what is all the fighting about?

unfortunate folk with Neon sians, First of all understand that been since the "national home" of the film being shown any measure of success is to be

signs in English and Chinese charac- "place to go," and little money. obtained,

we must shoulder some of the ideal was entered upon.

The Arabs feel bitterly and ters. Our first surprise, however, is And now the show starts!

the absurdly small admission price. "Long live the Kuo Min Tangl A great African administra-blame for the chaos that is Pales-

tine. It is the twice-Promised pungently that they have been the dearest scais, quite comfortable Long live the Republic of Chinal

reads a slide in characters that is cost only 50 cents, ones, tor once described the struggle Land so far as we are concerned. betrayed, and they fight.

The Jews feel that their "na- which at the present rate of ex- received by the Chinese with loud between man and insect, as to

Sudden Promise tional homo" will pass into change is equivalent to about 5d in acclaim.

Australia.

When the applause has died away,

alides which should inherit the earth,

needed the limbo, and they fight back.

we enter we find we are in a advertising and propaganda the unresolved battle of

Being worded solely in WHEN We

We, as the referee, get blows wall-less auditorium. For

coolness, follow. help of the Arabs

the wall boards, which are attached Chinese, the latter are entirely lost tropical countries, In Hong-

against the Turks in 1916 Sir from both sides.

We send Commissions and we in movable sections, have been taken on us, but, as each successive on kong, happily, the menuce of the Henry McMahon, then High issue papers. Experts, trying to numbers of ceiling fans, while the ardently, we begin to feel the first and the hot air is agitated by is greeted more vociferously, more mosquito has largely been over- Commissioner in Egypt, sent a

manipulate lingies of that Impalpable. something

that "goes

over" from ¤ mans of

ans of fer- letter to the Shereef of Mecca, please both Arab and Jews, an-Chinsee patrons busily

we send the hand fans they always carry in come.

the most powerful

hot weather. And if these aids are vent, excited people, to the most. man in ali tagonise both. And

troops.

who The menace of Yellow Fever Arabia.

not enough, we can seck relief by indifferent, apathette persons, There

of buying are thousands

icq creams from

Later we alale may be in their midst. aerated learn that the sucking being brought to Hongkong and

messages cast upon the "We rejoice that your High- soldiers under the British flag vendors, or by other Far Eastern centres by ness and your men are of one in Palestine right now maintain-waters through straws direct from screen all bear on different aspects of the Chinese Government's polley once very real opinion that Arab interests are ing "law and order." Last night the bon nddition to the Chinese, in carrying out its war of attrition aeroplane was

3 typical

Suddenly, in a split second, that cross-section of Hankow's Arabs," he wrote referring to a on the way. Squadrons of the

There vocal enthusiasm is cut off as if by NO WONDER THEY ARE PLEASED Happily, science has ended the British, interests and British it was announced that more are is a selection of foreigners that forms against inn

The Bag of grim tragedy that possibility message from Lord Kitchener R.A.F. ure co-operating with foreign community to-day,

officers and men from The an electric switch. conjured.

China is on the screen, and the in which our desire for the inde- the Army. Other squadrons are are.

British, American, and French gun- pendence of the Arabs and the within easy distance,

There are bankers, people of China are on their feet! boats, in port.

motionless,

they the trouble

On Silent, reverent, worsens. merchants, and shipping men. Faith in France

Arab countries had been plainly

There are murders every day; a one hand we see members of the stand before that "while sun in blue stated.

bombing; a massacre; a raid British Consular staff; on the other, sky above red earth." Silent, re- the secretary of the Dutch Legation spectful, the foreigners stand, too, A little while later Sir Henry every week. The cemeteries is chatting with a foreign newspaper and honour the flag of the country in THOSE friends of France, and

which they have made their homes. of all she stands for just gave the Shereef the definite as- are full.

Then, still in silence, follow sildes surance that Britain "was pre- The Arabs, How tens of thou- now, will watch with some

moustached pared to recognise and support sands strong, are waging open Kuo-chang) and several high Chi-depicting the late founder of the

Republic, round-faced, anxiety the efforts

M. of

the independence of the Arabs warfare on Briton and Jew.

Dr. Sun Yat-sen; the chairman of the National Government,

ent, bearded. Daladier to meet the enormous...and assist them to establish Abdel Rahman huj Mohammad, Palestine. To-day there

arc bespectacled, kindly Mr. Lin

Sen: obligations entailed by super-what may appear to be the most Commander-in-Chief of the rebel approximately 900,000 Arabs and finally, the man

suitable form of government." forces, has issued a clarion call and 500,000 Jews not living at China's resolute leader, Chiang Kai- armaments. It already stands

The Arabs took this to embrace to the Arab race. He, and every all peaceably together.

shek, whose penetraling eyes, look- to the credit, good sense and Palestine.

dark-skinned warrior behind

What are we doing about It? tag out on to his people from under abroad, intellectual forehead, so stir patriotism of the French people That was that, and plain for him, denounces us as "barbarous Our Government favours par- them that, from various parts of the

and brutal."

tition at least officially. The theatre he is accorded fugitive claps, that they have not been insen-all to see.

overcomes enthusiasm At the other end of the scale partition scheme-brain-child of when sible to the Premier's appeal But in 1917, n few weeks be- the Jews insist that we are weak, the Royal Commission-advo-quiet propriety of the moment.

As we stand before the Generalis- regarding the 40-hour working|fore Allenby marched victorious not firm enough in putting down cates the division of the Holy simo's likeness, a man's voice, rather week. The labour leaders have ly into Jerusalem, Lord, Balfour disorder.

Land into Jewish and Arab high-pitched, is heard singing in intimated that an amendment came out with that sudden pro- We tried the policy of appease- States, with the independent Chinese a soft, mellow tune. It is Arab State embracing more than recording of China's national on- of the law in its application te massacres and killings of to-day

them, but, unlike the practice In recent years we have bo- two-thirds of Palestino; the two Western countries when at war, or the Industries working for na- and yesterday. "His Majesty's come sterner, imposing curfews, States split by a British manda-passing through periods of national tress, the audience does not take tional defence can be accepted,

shooting rebels against walls. tory corridor. and that compromise on other if divided counsels prevail in embittered the Arabs become.

Yet the tougher we get the more

Lots of people do not like it:up Die strain, but maintains its cam-

rlete silence. matters affecting the working these times of touchy inter-

consider the plan more explosive Strangely enough, it was not while And they are well armed. 1 than a gunpowder plot.

the Chinese patrons were animated

en class is possible.

nintional nerves, the institutions have letters on my desk from

Mr. R. A. Butler, Under-and vociferous with patriotie

thusiasm. that we experienced our So much depends on the de-for which France and other de- nasert

English people in Palestine who Secretary of State for Foreign keenest reaction to their fee

feelings.

cision of the French people at mocracies

foreign Powers, Affairs, anid recently: "While we experience it now, while they are the

bulwark antagonistic to Britain, are sup- we favour partition as being in stand before their leader's image on

the screen, this juncture that those abroad would be jeopardised.

plying them with rifles and principle the best and most hope them strikes in them chords that who are most concerned that

ammunition.

vibrate with devoilon to a mother- ful solution of this problem... Those who have faith in the French influence in International | traditional intelligence and for-

Partition?

final decision on future policy and in core distress.

Our spines and finger-tips tingle affairs should not be weakened titude of the French nation

must in its turn await the receipt. with electric thrills, that seem to THROUGH all the blood- of the Woodhead report on eco-

of

and come out

by the lime· may be pardoned for confessing cannot doubt but that

shed the Jews, now.nomic and fiscal questions..."

tho singer reaches the mounting their solicitude. Any political Daladier's appeal for further making homes out of awamp leader of a recent technical com-the near-Occidental, tune to which

mark fighting back, have gone on (Sir John Woodhead was the cadences that

climax.vi crisis in France at this moment sacrifices will be met without and desert, making trees grow mission to Palentine, sent there are tense with emotion, our Bets are this Orientai lyrle has been set, we' would be a grave disservice to ancrifices will be met without the where before there were only to work out ways and means of clenched, our eyes burn on we staro the world's tranquility, if not to country into the chaos of pollti-stones.

partition.]

fixedly at the portrait on the screen

within our breasts there is a European peace. The cause of

We have not made our mindstation... our hearts are beating: democracy itself in engaged, for

it two or three years ago. fairly peaceably together in

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mise which is the root of the ment first.

M.

that

In 1018 there were 600,000

correspondent.

The Mayor of Hankow (Mr. W.u

cal upheavals that overwhelmed Araba and 63,000 Jews living up yet.

the hour.

the

In

and their country's an-

noth

the

faster!

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