1939-01-04 — Page 6

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1939.

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CAMPBELL-On January 4, 1939,

to Elsie (Nee Austin), wife of D. Mel. Campbell, at the War Memorial Nursing Home, a son.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

Wyndham St., Hongkong 'Phone 26615 January 4, 1939

Dr. To War

WAR WITH CHINA is costing

Japan £1,000,000 a day over £11 for every tick of the clock, a mill-stone of half-a- erown to be added each morning to the necks of every man, wo- man and child residing on the) small island off the coast of Asia.

By the end of this year, the total cost of the "China In- cident" to Japan will be £600,-) 000,000--and that is war costs alone.

The American War of In- dependence cost Britain and the United States £160,000,000. The Franco-Prussian War of 1870 cost £348,000,000. The Crimean War cost £308,000,000,

"Like everything else, the cust of warfare has progressed with civilisation. A few centuries

ments

ago it was a comparatively | simple thing to order a Crusade or so, when the only replenish- needed were ' few arrows, which grow on trees. Bombs and shells don't grow on trees, and the explosion of even one small 1001b, bomb on a de- fenceless Chinese city represents the dissipation of what is a princely sum to a Japanese fac- tory worker.

To the Japanese, tax-payer, a bomb is a much more scrious matter than it would be to the tax-payers of nations where higher standards of living rule.} A 100lb, bomb or shell is the equivalent of the

wages D Japanese manual worker earn in two, three or even four years. It is only four or five months' wages for a Briton.

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AHTI-BRITISH PROPAGANDA

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FAVOURITES IN THE INTERNATIONAL DANCE TUNES COMPETITION

isers

Who will help

this tragic million?

"ILL the British

help us?"

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Go where you will among the small, nations and among the trembling minorities of Fascist ridden Europe and

you will have this question addressed to you by men and women for whom to-day spells fear and to-morrow may bring disaster.

One million men and women and children, the Jews of Germany and former Austria, facing destruction and death at the hands of Nazi Laskmasters, are at this moment stretching out their hands in mute and despairing appeal for rescue, towards the small community of

·350,000 Jews of Britain.

What this community has to say may be regarded as the voice of Jewry. I sought, therefore, the lay head of British Jowry, Mr. Noville

Laski, K.C., President of the Board of Deputies, representative body of the Jews of the British Empire, to express his views on the disaster now being inflicted on the Jews of Germany.

WHAT is your views of the German

Jewish position after the Prime Minister's statement to the House of Commons?

We cannot bul feel grateful to the Prime Minister and the Home Becre- Lary for what they have said and done for our filleted fellow Jews of Ger- many..

Wo will use every endeavour to study their suggestions and to co- operate to the limits of our power. financial and otherwise.

It is particularly gratifying that the

An interview with

NEVILLE J. LASKI, K.C.

(Who speaks as the elected head of British Jewry)

BY A. L. EASTERMAN......mmunć

place of refugee children in the schem of emigrationi in so sympathetically con- sidered. They are the life blood on which our future depends.

It is, however, in no sense of criticism that I say that what is envisaged only touches the fringe of the problem which has now assumed almost astro- nomieni proportions.

I ask the civillend world what is to be the fate of the Jews and non-Aryan Christians of Germany, numbering per- haps one and a half millions, for whom there is now no lo in "Greater" Germany 7

S the Nazi persecution a catastrophe for the German Jews alone or has it a broader importy

In my opinion it is not possible to Isolate the German Jews in relation to these events. Humanity, liberty, civilisation itself are at stake.

Judaism and Christianity, as badle creeds, aro facing in the Germany of to-day the threat of destruction. The spirit and soul of a people, as CX- pressed in its faith and observance of that faith; have no place in Nazi Ger- many.

The burning of synagogues, the im. prisonment of Nemoller, the threnta to Cardinals Faulhaber and Innitzer are in the same context of thought

and action. There is, in Nazi Ger- many, complete lack of the privacy and sanctity of life.

WHAT esce! has this had on the Jewish position, as a whole?

So far from Naziam being, as ita leaders continually and falicly pro- claim, an article for home consimp- tion only. It is the largest export at modern Germany.

It is computed that at lenat £23,000.000 is spent yearly by the Nazi Government at home and abroad on propaganda. Much of this is spent in this country.

Anti-Semitism is the smoke screen behind which Germany, in Central and

burden of their large communal societ commitment and the burden of the great and impoverished Eastern Euro- pran Jewries, the Jewida communitien of the world have contributed over £5,000,000 for the relief of German Jewry, of which the Jews of this coun- try have given million and a half.

Tas greatest actual and potential country of immigration for these refugees Palestine, which tras absorbed over 40,000 of them, to her great material advantage. Wa all hope, and, indeed, pray, that St may come within the con- text of round table agreement and the policy of the British Government that the admission of immigrants to Pales- tine may be maintained as high and accelerated a level as possible. But for the present needs Palestine is not enough.

Wo hope ferventy that the inter- Governmental Committee established as a result of Evian may not only and large places for large numbers of theso worthy, hardworking people, but may procure from Germany a release of their means to accompany them into exliç.

Eastern Europe, maves to pollucal and 18 it only a problem of charitable

economic conquest.

Wo are the first victimg over whos6 bodies others are conquered. Outside Germany. molitions of Jown have suffered from the spread of her teach. ings. If the Nazi doctrine captures the world, sink common ruin with civilisation and its great heritage as I understand t

S there anything the Jews can de

in their own defence?

All they can do is to give and give and give. In addition to the continued

TWO MEN, GRIN AND BEAR IT

SAME JOB, BOTH DIE

WITHIN a fortright, two successive managers of a Chatham (Kent) guttier's shop have been found dead, lu each case in a wood.

There seems some reason for asking, whether the Japanese

Mr. Henry Stanley-Laird Cox, ofį civilian is capable of bearing for Marcet-road, Dartford, who had been long those half-a-crown mill-in charge of the shop for many years,

was discovered in his car in

Wood stones cheerfully placed

at Frindsbury, near Chathum. around their individual necks each morning by their war leaders.

Seek Knowledge

A rubber tube ran from the CX- haust to the front seat.

1

It was stated at the inquest that he

and was depressed,

verdiet of Sulvide while the Balance of his Mind was Disturbed was recorded. PROMOTED

Frederick

LEARN something to-day, A

Later 42-years-old Mr. new day brings another Buit, promoted from the position of opportunity for knowledge. departmental manager of the Army's Nourish it.

Maldsone branch, left his home in Postley-road, Maidstone, to take Knowledge is needed more over the management of the Chut- than ever. There is a recession ham shop, made vacant by the death ļin knowledge for its own anke,jof Mr. Cox,

Propaganda muddies the streami

of truth.

In this Colony floods of dopej

He met a dozen members of the staff, and was seen no more by them after the day's work was over.

He did not reappear at the shop the

do not sweep us off our balance, next day, and the staff awaited his To-morrow morning our boys and return.

girls return to their class-rooms. He was found lying deed in " And their teachers give out wood at Bluebell Hill, near Mald lessons, not the dopestone.

A battle was by his side.

LITERIN CHART PLD

WEATHER BVREAU

LOW TRISSION}

By Lichty

"Keep your mind on your work, Wilton-this is the third day You've predicted a flurry in the market!”

· relief, or to this a more basic problem requiring a more permanent rolution?

Charity is useless except as a Lent- porary expedient. What we have from the first had in mind is constructive expenditure.

We train boys and girls for the land and handiwork and bändicraft, occupa- tion. We convert professional men into landworkers, mechanics and arti-

Бала

The ultimate aim is to rescue the children and youth of our people so that they, the next generation and their children may livo as free men and women amove free peoplen,

Is this a problem for the Jews alone

to solve?

This question the world in' the last week has answered for me. The plain man, bis church, his newspaper, his every means of expression have re- turned an emphatic negative.

In a tree world where government is of, for and by the people, Governments sense and follow the common opinion. In no still small voice but in echoing thunder the peoples of the world have asked,

nay demanded, that their chosen rafere shall do their bidding and to tho uttermost help these stricken German Jews to find a home of peace and security.

the IT is said that Jews have

material means of bringing preze to bear on Germany?

I wish In sense this were true. The degradation of the German Jew over the past nearly six years and the events which now horrify the worlḍ Indicate that we tɩąve no such effectivó

means.

I have said, and I repeat, that no | self-respecting Jews will utilise German services or bandle German goods. Cun wo in decency do less in face of our persecutors atid traducern?

WHAT is the answer to Nazi threats of further vengeance against the derman Jews?

There is a point at which even the cowerlig victim of terror will not gleid to blackmail. German Jewry is now. suffering a living death at the hands of the Nazis.

I know of nothing further which our Lellow Jown in Germany can suffer skvo mass murder, and that is not much more than the horrors that are being inflisted on them how.