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THE HONGKONG TE LEGRAPII, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1938.

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1938.

Man Versus Insect

IN

come.

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 Galileo Last Night. You say, "There's plenty of trouble thero."

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 Government, of the British which has

a mandate there under the League of Nations.

It is not a particularly well-or- ganised force, and it does not understand the complexities of modern warfare, but it is killing and plundering and destroying.

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Palestine is a little bigger than Wales. The picture above shows men of a Scot. tish regiment guarding a sandbag barricade in one of the storm centres.

Government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish

are

the ac-

Licht

"Whatelia mean I don't know values? I got Ave years for OIL

just like it?"

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FROM HANKOW

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HANKOW, Sept. 20. people, and will use its best en-COME with me to a movie in Hankow! Let us ride in rick- shas to a semi-open-air-theatre where, scated among a deavours to facilitate

couple of thousand Chinese in whom patriotic fervor is running hievement of this object.

Yes, there was also the loop- high, I promise you we will get electric thrills in an atmosphere IN THE scientific field full international collaboration is

hole clause: "...nothing shall be charged with intense national ardor and mass enthusiasm...that

There we will meet such eminent Inese Government officials have.come still possible. The entomologists

done which may prejudice the is unless you are entirely phlegmatic.

Generalissimo Chlong in a party with diplomatic repre- ing non-Jewish communities in persons who are demonstrating the new

civil and religious rights of exist-

Kai-shek, Mr. Mickey Mouse and sentatives from France and the Its immediate aim, almost a Palestine."

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 muste of the the roon sits a missionary family- Fever from being brought to hieved, is civil war: its ultimate

a from an Interior mission station, and in an access of caterwauling a

on A well-earned Asia from Africa, as reported in aim is to drive the Jews from phrase "national home" and Occident and of the Orient, and as they have just reached lankow

visualised at once a heaven upon swing" band assails their unaccus-jare going away earth for Jews. Qualifications tomed ears, we will rather shame- furlough. the Telegraph yesterday, are the Holy Land.

facedly wonder what the Chinese But the most noticeable thing is Where do we stand in all this did not matter.

of foreign pauelty engaged in a war with mos-

patrons are thinking of this latest the What has all the

patrons. The fact is that most of monstrosity of the barbarian West. Still More Troops quitoes and other insects in turmoil?

Like the movie theatres of the fankow's foreign women have been no peace in THERE is

West, this

is one

brilliantly evacuated, by far the majority of which co-operation between na- bloodshed to do with us, and

Palestine; has not!

unfortunate folk with Neon sians, tions is absolutely essential if what is all the fighting about?

of the film being shown in First of all understand that been since the "national home"luminated, its name and the title those remaining belag White Rus- any measure of success is to be

signs in English and Chinese charac-"place to go," and little money. we must shoulder some of the ideal was entered upon.

"Long live the Kuo Min Tang! obtained.

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

the absurdly small admission price. A great African administra-blame for the chaos that is Pales

tine. It is the twice-Promised pungently that they have been The dearest seats, quite comfortable Long live the Republic of China!" wooden pues, cost only 50 cents, reada a slide in characters that is 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

When the applause has died away, tional homo" will pass into change is equivalent to about 5d in acclaim. Sudden Promise

propaganda slides which should inherit the earth,

needed the limbo, and they fight back.

As we enter we find we are in advertising and

Being worded solely in WHEN we

We, as the referee, get blows wall-less auditorium. For coolness, follow. RS the unresolved battle of

help of the Arabs

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

against the Turks in 1915 Sir from both sides.

We send Commissions and we in movable sections, have been taken on us, but, as each successive one then High

and the hot air is agitated by is greeted more vociferously, more kong, happily, the menace of the Henry McMahon, mosquito has largely been over- Commissioner in Egypt, sent, a issue papers. Experts, trying to numbers of ceiling, fins, while the ardently, we begin to feel the first

goes over" from a letter to the Shereef of Mecca, please both Arab and Jews, an-Chinsee patrons busily manipulate tingles of that impalpable something

a mass of And we send the hand fans they always carry are vent. excited people, to the most

hot weather. And if these aids are man in all tagonise both. the most powerful

troops.

not enough, we can seek relief by indifferent, apathetic persons,

be in their midst. There

thousands

aisle may ice buying

creams from The menace of Yellow Fever Arabia.

by sucking nerated learn that the messages cast upon the being brought to Hongkong and

"We rejoice that your High- soldiers under the British flag venders, or

of the Cit

Chinese Government's policy the boltic. 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 Here, in addition to the Chinese, in carrying out its war of attrition aeroplane was once very real. opinion that Arab interests are ing "law and order." Last night

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

enthusiasm vocal

is cut off as it by the an

electric switch. The flag of electr grim tragedy that possibility message from Lord Kitchener R.A.F. are co-operating with foreign community to-day.

LTC ofleers and men from

China is on the screen, and the in which our desire for the inde- the Army. Other aquadrons are British, American, and French conjured.

boats, in port. There are bankers, peuple of China are on their feet! pendence of the Arabs and the within casy distance.

On Silent, reverent, molionless, they But the trouble worsens. merchants, and shipping men. Arab countries had been plainly

There are murders every day; a one hand we see members of the stand before that "white 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, loo, A little while later Sir Henry every week. The cemeteries!

chatting with a foreign newspaper and honour the flag of the country in which they have made their homes. correspondent.

Then, still in silence, follow slides gave the Shereef the definite as- are full. surance that Britain "was pre- The Arabs, now tens of thou- The Mayor of Hankow (Mr. Wu

Republic, round-faced,

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

Dr. Sun Yat-sen; the

the chaleman of the independence of the Arabs warfare on Briton and Jew.l

the National Government, bearded. ...and assist them to establish Abdel Rahman haj Mohammad, Palestine. To-day

kindly Mr. Lin Sen;: bespectacled, 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 of the hour, suitable form of government." forces, has issued a clarion call and 600,000 Jews not living at China's resolute leader, Chiang Kai- shek, whose penetrating eyes, look- Armaments. It already stands

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

dark-skinned to the credit. good sense and Palestine.

warrior behind

What are we doing about it?ing out on to his people from under In broad, intellectual forehead, so stir Our Government favours par- them that, from various parts of the and brutal."

tition at least officially. The theatre he is accorded fugitive claps, overcomica the enthusiasm At the other end of the scale partition scheme-brain-child of when sible to the Premier's appeal But in 1917, a 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 Land into Jewish and Arab high-pitched, is heard singing in week. The labour leaders have ly into Jerusalem, Lord Balfour disorder.

We tried the policy of appease- States, with the Independent Chinese a soft, mellow tune. It is of China's national an- Intimated that an amendment came out with that sudden pro-

Arab State embracing more than them, but, unlike the practice in

recording of the ment 'lirat. mine which is the root of the law in its application to massneres and killings of to-day In recent years we have be two-thirds of Palestine; the two Westem countries when at war, or the industries working for na-and yesterday. "His Majesty's come sterner, imposing curfews, States spilt by a British manda-passing through periods of national stress, the audience does not take shooting rebels against walls. Lory corridor. tional defence can be accepted.

Yel the tougher we get the more Lots of people do not like it; up the strain, but maintains its com-

pirte silence. and that compromise on other if divided counsela prevail in embittered the Arabs become. consider the plan more explosive]

Strangely enough, it was not while the Chinese pairons were animated matters affecting the working these times of touchy inter- And they are well armed. I than a gunpowder plot.

Mr. R. A. Butler, Under- and vociferous with patriotic en- thusiasm, that we experienced our class is possible.

national nerves, the institutions have letters on my desk from

to their feelings. So much depends on the de-for which France and other de-English people in Palestine who Secretary of State for Foreign reaction

assert that foreign Powers, Affairs, said recently: "While we experience it now, while they cision of the French people atmocracies

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

plying them with

rifles and principle the best and most hope- the screen, and their country's on-

thern strikes in them chords this juncture that those abroad | would be jeopardised.

ammunition.

ful solution of this problem...vibrate with devotion to a mother- who are most concerned that

Those who have faith in the

fina! decision on future policy and in sore distress. Partition? French influence in international traditional intelligence and for-

must in its turn await the receipt with elcetric thrills.

Our spines and finger-tips tingle that seem to affairs should not be weakened titude of the French nation! THROUGH all the blood of the Woodhead report on eco-

the singer reaches the mounting may be pardoned for confessine

doubt but that M.

shed the Jews, now nomic and fiscal questions, come out of nothing, and by the time fighting back, have gone on [Sir John Woodhead was the cadences that mark the climax of their solicitude. Any political Daladier's appeal for further making homes out of swamp lender of a recent technical com this Oriental lyrie has been set, wo the near-Oceldental tune to which crisis in France at this moment sacrifices will be met without and desert, making trees grow mission to Palestine, sent there are tense with emotion, our fists are would be a grave disservice to

sacrifices will be met without the where before there were only to work out ways and means of clenched, our eyes burn as we atare

partition.].

fixedly at the portrait on, the screen. the world's tranquility, If not to

within our breasts there is on country into the chaos of politi-stones.

In 1918 there were 600,000 We have not made our minds.

ngitation... our hearts are beating: European peace. The cause of

eal upheavals that overwhelmed Arabs and 63,000 Jews living up yet.

faster! democracy itself is engaged, for

fairly peaceably together in it two or three years ago.

Faith in France

THOSE friends of France, and of all she stands for just

with will watch

some anxiety the efforts

M. of Daladier to meet the enormous

now,

patriotism of the French people That was that, and plain for him, denounces us as "barbarous

that they have not been insen-all to see.

cannot

are the

thero

Don Iddon.

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