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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAP!!, FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1939.

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Clearing the Air

IF THE outward signs of interna-

tional tension in the Far East have not perbeptibly increased, the tension itself has been heightened by rumour and by propaganda. The warnings of danger, which is the desire of prudent men to keep ta terms of retraint as long as possible, have therefore perforce become explicit.

In Legislative Council yesterday afternoon, two such warnings go down in history as the most momentous and striking made in that august cham- ber for over twenty years. Between The magnificently outspoken phrases of lfls Excellency the Governor and Omeer the General the words Commanding the British Troops in China, definite enough to quell once and for all the insidious rumours regarding the future of this Colony now ending its first hundred years of existence, there is disclosed a 'consis- af tent but increasing solemnity utlerance.

Behind the Orm and deliberate speeches of the Governor and the G.O.C., there stands the approval of the entire public of Hongkong.

The "Telegraph", and doubtless all its contemporaries in this Colony, has long desired some such clear-cut from the official pronouncement lenders of the Colony and, indeed, the suggestion that the fears of a great part of our citizens should be set to rest in such manner formed the basis of an Editorial in this newspaper only last month.

Rumour, insidious and alarming. has been rife in this Colony, and its flames have been unchecked in the past from official quarters. It is note- worthy, in this respect, that these rumours regarding the future status of flongkong have not emanated from newspapers, which, in fact, imposed upon themselves a voluntary censor- ship in the absence of official derinl -denial which, we previously at- tempted to obtain.

The

We join with our morning contem- porary in taking issue with both His Excellency the Governor and the

Commanding Generni Onicer British Troops regarding their belief that the apprehension that has un- doubtedly existed in this Colony was fostered by those ill-disposed towards Great Britain.

The apprehensions were heightened by official reticence and by a whisper- ing campaign in which even certain officials may be suspected of having participated. Herein lies the answer to those few persons who would im- posa restrictions on the Press. The real danger from propaganda is noi can be le printed word, which checked, but the whispered word which gains distortion as it spreads from mouth to mouth.

Happily, the campaign

nuendoes regarding the

In-

of future of Hongkong has been set to rest by the,: vigorous statements. issued in Legis- lative Counell yesterday.

In congratulating Their Excel- firm aland they lencies on the adopted, we would like to suggest that the public, through its Press, is entitled to equally emphatic but less tardy suppression of propaganda when it arises in future. Having in- formed us that the Coloný will be! defended to the end, we would Government to quelch the other series of rumours that are floating around Hongkong regarding the prac- tleability of such defence. with particular reference to food supplies. Much good has been done in dis- pelling ignorance regarding the out- coine of possible air raids on the Colony, and the Government will provide a service to itself and the publie if i would now give the Press access to Information

other matters that are the subject of dis- cussion in clubs and hotels..

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HELP! HE'S FAINTED

(It was reported early this week that Herr Hitler has suffered two complete nervous

breakdowns recently).

The might of Russia's resources

W

AR is not won by soldiers and weapons- only. Modern War needs vast industrial

resources, and the munition factories must be fed with mil- lions of tons of steel and other materials. How does the Soviet Union stand from this point of view? How is the war economy of the Soviets likely to endure the strain of a great war?:

It will be very different from Tsarist days, Then Russian indus- try was weak and backward. To- day the volume of industrial pro- duction of the Soviet Union is greater than that of any country except the U.S.A.

In Iron and steel production, basic factors in modern war, Ger- many has still a slight lend over the Soviet Union,"But in agricut- ture, petrol, the production of arti- ficial rubber, and in some other industries, the Soviet Union wins.

WE can therefore say that, roughly, the in- dustries of the Soviet Union are on about the same level as those of Nazi Germany.

If this comparison ta pressed farther (and war strengths can only be judged by such compari- tong) each of these two Powers

BY TOM WINTRINGHAM

who is widely experienced in modern warfare-he led the International Brigade in Spain-and whose military books have been higlily praised and recommended for study by ofcers.

shows advantages and disadvan- tages.

Germany's main advantage is that sho produces Industrially twice as much per head of popula- tion as the Soviet Union.

SHE has other advan tages: a web

ralways, many fine roads, a high. general level of culture that has soaked into her people through generations and has not yet been destroyed by Fascism. The Ger- mans are widely educated, good 22" thorouga. Germany a

resourcen graphically more centralised, and theretore more rapidly available to meet the changing needs of war.

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But these advantages are not unmixed. Industries Lightly packed together. as in Silesia or the Ruhr, con ta interrupted by bombing. Russia's newest indus-

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trial centres, in the Urals and Siberia, cannot be reached by Dombers.

And the Soviets' counterweight of advantages is heavy, In the first place Russia and Siberia provide almost all the raw material neces- sary for war.

Ex-

all, iron ore, manganese ore. bauxite (for aluminium). zinc, and many other materials are available in quantiles-sp-large. that they could not be hausted even in a long war. Germany, on the other hand, mitat rely on stocks, imports, or substi- tutes for a proportion of all these things.

Germany's splendid rallway sys- tem hampered the development of road transport before Hitler came to power. But in 1020, four years earlier, the Soviets began building huge factorica to produce lorries. They have therefore gained a start, equivalent to four years, over the Germans in the motorisation of their army,

Germany did not begin to bulld tanks until about 1935. Nor did the Soviet Union, on any large scale. But the Germans had to start from scratch, while the Russians. already possessed, and were work- ing, enormous plants devoted to making tractors for agriculture.

The samo plants (and the same. workmen) were easily diverted to making tanks when there were canaldered necessary.

THE Soviet civilian air- craft

factories wore much better adapted for use for war purposes than the German. German clyfilan planes were made to take passengers who destred comfort from one perfectly smooth aerodrome to another. Soviet planes were made to take Industrial experts or urgently re- quired tools and supplies to mining towns in Siberia or the wastes of the far North-even to land at the North

Pole. They needed little alteration, therefore. ordination of industry

The

CO-

песев-

sary for a large-scale programme

tion to make rearmament effec- Elve: it ная established. B. Ministry of Supply. But whether it will in fact eliminate waste. and muddle by this half-measure- is not

certain.)

In this matter of co-ordination of industry the Soviets also get a start of four or five years over the Nazis,

They began with the Five Year Plan: the Nazis could not be ain until 1933 to use their different methods methods to achieve similar ends.

In these ways Soviet rearma-

Ger- ment got so far ahead of the

man

that although the totals of industrial production are roughly equal the Soviet Union has an in- dustry better prepared for war.

It has one big advantage over all other Powers that are trying to make their industries produce goods of the quality and durability

needed in warfare.

In almost all manufacture of goods where the profit motive enters in (as it still does in Ger- enters

many.

though not to the same uncontrolled extent as in some countriesi, there is a natural ten-

dency to cheapening design and materials in such a way that the product does not last under heavy wear and strain.

IN many cases ordinary products are definitely mado to wear out after certain time; that makes it possible for the manufacturer to sell replacements.

But the productive system of the Boviet Union works the other way. There is no desire for a replace- ment market. Clothes or cars are made to last as long as they possibly can.

can. They are therefore, without change in material or technique

the

nique of production, useful for bard treatment of wartime. The Boviet Union has one other great economic advantage. It has to-day plenty of food,

Like some others, got my first real impression of the war strength of the Boviet Union not from see- ing its arms in Spain, but from seeing the food it sent there.

One of the first foodships to reach Barcelona included a certain amount of tinned army rations. We found their big bully beat tins. meal for four marked as one men," would feed six or eight.

And there were other tina. These, by their markings, were also ordin- ary rations for the Red Army. But when we opened them, we found they were tinned chicken.

An army that could give its pri- of armament manufacture. With-vates tinned chicken occasionally out it there is Waste and scomed to me, and still acems. muddle. (The British Government

pretty good. Not many things they has at last under great pressure can be short of, if they have got as admitted the need for co-ording- far as that.

Burned Boy Played With Sodium

PLAYING with some sodium he had found, 15-year-old Eddie Fillla, of Hedworth Street, Bow, was recently burned about the face and neck when the sodium lexploded.

With Fillla was Raymond Buddle, aged 13, of Rawsell Street, Bow.

DEGAN A MONTH AGO "We found the sodium under a railway arch, and after we had spat on ft it turned a mauve colour and sparks came away. We then poured a lot of water from a milk bottle on it and there was a blinding flash like

gtning," Eddie said.

"We ran away, but I went back to see what had happened, and red-hot pieces flew into my face!!