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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MAY 15, 1939.

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Totalitarian Tirades

nation Britons AS A

are fairly thick-skinned. When foreigners abuse us heartily we not unduly troubled. If they raise their voices to a scream we still can bear it, for we have had a good deal of this sort of experience.

ary

Herr Hitler seems never to have learnt to distinguish be- tween invective, which is A branch of the art of rhetoric, and downright abuse,

Dr. Goebbels, on the other hand, now and then imports-a dash of sardonic wit into his tirades against England, as when he compared the Chamber- lain umbrella to the Sword of Damocles, or wrote: "Poland may breathe again-England is to send a public speaker,”

But he also, with his slavish satellites, all too soon falls back

THE

AVERAGE GERMAN IS JUST BAFFLED

Report from Paul Bretherton

BERLIN.

IF you shout in a man's car long enough you'll deafen him. And then he won't be able to hear anything you say.

I cannot pretend that this is an old Chinese proverb, but It is just about what has happened to millions of Germans during the past few weeks.

The ominous mutterings of a real crisis boyond the horizon are drowned in the terrific hullabaloo raised at home, a din which has already given most Germans the earache and has driven them to tune in to Gennan news from England every night, Just to hear someone talk reasonably.

The Quiet Voice of London

IN the morning the citizen's eyes are shocked with black headlines as thick as a man's thumb, shrieking: "A stab in the heart for the dastardly English war-mongers: Ruritalna spurns offers of British pro- tection," or something of the sort.

Later in the day the Nazi radio announcer, in lugubrious foncs, "Ruritania's praiseworthy stand shows that she, at any rate, has seen through the mask of the wicked, murderous democracies."

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At a quarter past eleven at night the citizen tunes in to London Regional, without much dificulty if he has a reasonably good set. A quiet voice, in superb German, says: "The Ruritanian Minister in London called at Dawning-street lo-day. It was afterwards announced that the Ruritanian Government have given certain assurances to Great Britain that in the event of certain circumstances arising," etc., etc. Rubbing his close-cropped head, our bewildered citizen of the Third Reich pours himself out a glass of schnapps and tells his comfortable wife that "you never know what to believe these days."

Alice never seemed to be really astounded in Wonderland, but even she would have been knocked off her balance in Germany at the present moment.

Brilliant, hot sunshine is flooding the country. In Berlin the beaming restaurant proprietors are putting tables and chairs out on to the We stroll through the pavements. Tiergarten to see the carpets of blue scillas that have just come out, or go and laugh at the giant panda in the Zoo. (Yes, we have a panda, too!) A group of Englishmen sit in a large, busy beerhouse, talking their language as loudly as they like. Nobody takes the slightest notice. except perhaps when one of the re gular, customers or the landlord him- selt comes over, sits down and says:, "Well, gentlemen, what's going on in the world to-day? Everything up- side down, eh?"

own

They're Still Polite AND yet every mornlak and

every afternoon the printing officos have their orders to let loose broadside after broadside against the EngUsh in language that sometimes only just stops short of being in- decent it mild little Allco arrived read a in Berlin and was able to newspaper. before doing anything else she would probably dive into the British Consulate for fear of being lynched.

But a walk around the town would assure her that John Bull's daughters are treated as politely here as they are in Oxford-street, althe

although John Bull himself is denounced as Beelze- bub and the arch-enemy of Guy many. Once again, Allco "Curiouser and curiouser.

say

The crisis hangs about Germany

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

Op. 1124 by United Putken kratosha, Tan.

"I want Gaston to look at you first-Gaston is our idea man!"

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QUESTIONNAIRE

To End All Questionnaires

ONE of the prime arts of life is the ability to manage ono's purse in a sage, sane, and practical manner. Do you think you're practical?

Here is a series of questions taken from typical psychology tests used in colleges. Answer them honestly, or you won't get a thing out of the test.

When you're in doubt about an answer, score it against yourself rather than give yourself the benefit of the doubt. Having made ticks against "Yes" or No," look on page 7 for the method of scoring.

1. Do you have electric lights burning in an unoccupied room?

Yea

"No....

U.S. FLEET IN PACIFIC

LOS ANGELES, May 1 ships and auxiliaries reached

Khity

The transit of the entire feet"

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

FAUS

SATURDAY

JAPAN

FIC

O–C/E IN

ALMANESE MOVAL

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT sends his Fleet hurrying to the

Pacific. Why?

Because if war should break out to-morrow Japan would have

2. Do you, or would you, habitual- ly invite people for 'supper to your home, even though it costs extra monej?

No.......

Yes

3. Do you budget your expenses?

Yes

No

4. Do you stick to your budget?

Yes

No

5. Do you regularly put aside something for a "raing day””? ·

No .....

6. Do you make it a rule to avoid buying those things which you know you can borrow?

No........

Yer

7. Do you systematically have your clothes mended immediately such: mending is needed, realising that a stitch in time saves cœrk? -

Yer

No

8. Have you trained yourself to forgo frequent purchasing of sweet- meats, sandwiches, cold, drinks, be cause you realise that mich habitual expenditure is an unnecessary waste? Yes........ 2. No mat

9. Do you re-check itemised retail bills to make sure that you haven't been charged for things you didn't got und to make certain of the addition, in any case?

No...

Yes

10. Do you make it a habit to buy your clothes at out-of-season sales, ra

· YCB

No.

11. Do you ever succumb to the

upon the conventional epithets uke a faint but persistent smell of a clear Command of the Pacific and that means in the air as well as to get the most for your money? for the Englishman-bloody, smoke, such as you experience on

autumn days in England. The Ger- 18 on the sen. base, brutal,

For years Japan has been secretly perfecting a chain of sea- ruthless, liar, mans are fairly used to tension by coward. covetous, hypocrite, now, and they can stand a good deal plane and submarine bases southwards from her island of

Formosa.

They

a

of strain.

"Bohemia and Moravia were taken

so swiftly and smartly that there

did 117

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temptation to "treat the crowd" when

in a mood of uncontrolled fellity?”

No

Yo

Yea

to retrieve it?

No.........

No

thief.

This is a sad falling-off from

start at Saipan, In the and Jopan made so strong as to be-

12. Do you ever spend more the level of the "Hymn of Hato" was very little apprehension about Ladrono Islands. A formidable one) come a direct menace to the Paclic money than you had decided to in

the results. "Oh, well, hud to is at Yap, in the western extremity} const of America itself.

sending cards or presents on birth- which Germana used to chant in coroe, and surely you English will of the Caroline Islands. The Felew

days, anniversaries, and such, ration- not start quarrelling with us about Islands are fortided. Innumerable TINTIL pre-Horst-Wessel days.

that now?" was what my friend islands in the Caroline and Marshall UN recent years the United alising the expenditure by senil-

States was content to keep mentailsing? The author of that charming Hans said..

groups are suspected of having naval Hawall-with its magnificent Pearl Усл Hemelland simply slid into its refuelling and air bas

bases. lyric, liko Heine, was non-

place without so much as a rattle or Japan spreads her tentacles south, Harbour-es its outpost to guard Aryan, and so it is banned from a squeak, and Hans said: "It's all and the United States, who, above against a surprise of its mainland 13. Do you, or toould you, lend Now, it Bings its forces people sizable sums of money with- the Nazi song-book.

over row; it didn't hurt very much, ell, desires to maintain the status quo farther into the island-dotted ocean. out security, merely because they äre

Now let us get together in the Pacific, dare not stand idly by When Signor Gayda tortures again."

friends? and allow island after island to be Guam-one of the prizes, with the the liquid syllables of the Italian. Made Him Jump a Bit fortiied against her. Her vast Paci Phillippines, of the Spanish-Ameri

14. If you dropped a penny in a tongue to serve up horrid per- ASSURED him that I did not fie trade would be ruined overnight can War, has become a naval and

air bazo as well as a stoge on sewer, toould you reach inlo, the believe that it was all over,

America's Trànspselfie air line. It! versions of British history, we

but he was unshakably cheerful,

lles midway between Japan's Salpen me and filth up to your bare elbow regret his behaviour but do not And then the matterings started in-the-streat would like to have a and Yap

No find that it hurts us.

beyond the horizon, and the word much clearer idea of what really is Congress, too, has voted £100,000 Poland seemed to

to swing

into the going on outaldo his country. If he for making Wake Island—1,300 miles 15. Do you pile up bills by par There was a time when gentle forefront of daily conversation with bas to Buht, it would be nice to east of Gimma strategie point. chasing things you can't afford?

peculiar

swiftness. Hans refused to know what he is fighting for, and Midway Island, 1,500 miles west of men were too proud to be any-

what led up to be perturbed, insisted that this was

£1,100,000 spent 16. Do you chatter endlessly on one nothing

If he really thought that Meawall, is to have to fight about, no thing but courteous to

matter Chamberlain was

was acting out to uron it; Johnson Island, 1,000 miles the telephone at home and give no what the papers said. another, and the language of

be thought to the idea that such 'talk: Albania vanished, and this made round the German Reich and then south-west of Hawall; is to diplomacy was noted for its re- Hans jamp: bit. Then the broad-smush it to pieces, he would start strengthened to the extent of £250,- costs money?

000, while a lonely Island just north-

Yes finement, even when the art of sides of Englood began in earnest, cleaning his rifle straight away.

and

17. Do you habitually get your He has been told that this is Mr.West of Hawail is to have naval and prophecies for the

air bases costing nearly £2,500,000. paid bills receipted? caricature was at its coarsest.

Chamberlain's plon: but the samo

Japan's threat becomes clearer

No. mother Hans nor millions of his people told him the other day that All this humourless hato-stuff

18. Have you euch matilloned to In the German and Italian Pressthren "like the look of things" King Zog of Albania had been plan- every time there is a European crisis,

the moment. But they and it ning to start a war in the Balkans, Pratas shoals of Horisoned the friends that your home is not a pros In overdone.

hard to imagine themselves at war, which would end in the collapse night go itongkong. 'A' fort-vision shop and ffias duésia 'ara dot to real and terrible war, with Great his huge neighbours. That was very

was the Spratley betake themselves to the larder and Britain, von

hard to swallow.

-a network of clint After all, the warm weather is And so

none, more than eight feat eat at will?

It is too consciously false to what Germans and Italians know

Hans

Neither

guvo UD

coralj

TCB...

No

No

starting and, it is just the time to hope they always remains the sea level right in the middle. Do you öfter överiin meraliz

Next time I see Hans he

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London Regional will tell of England both as friend and take the paddleboat out of winter tim what really did happen in Al- of the South China Sea. They are because it gives you a good sealingr

1,000 miles from Hongkong And 640 foc.

storage and get it ready for week- banta and why

from Singapore.. denburg Is it true, be the paper det

derper and deeper Into the East In-

20. Do you conplatently defy stylo, And the faleotto is so clumsily ends on the gleaming Mer

lakes.

says, that England has only the anus dian archipelago. She has a knack on the principle, that stylish clother rendered that it ta scarcely koly He's Been Told So Much aircraft gun on the Island 6 Mallat" of making her trabs when the cost mord and that out-of-siple to carry even te immediate course, if you have to go and ander shall takivet: wall) Flat world' attention ellverted as clothes audience very far.

No

fight, well, you just fight as what do you think?" And Hons will That is why, the 160 ships of the function: they cover the body? b, well na you cits. But one thing la fub Hils Head and Way," "IPs hard to American Navy have hurried back Yer

strikingly Joleer, that! the Gefan- know what to think, lane 117′′* Kajol to) the Pacific.

(Answers, Paga

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