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Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRGAPH

September 13, 1939.

THIS

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PURE

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Land of Sorrow

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But Warsaw, with its match- loss heroism, still interrupts Hitler's view, as the Nuzi dicta- tor this official News Agency tells us) soars 3,000 feet above the battlefields on an nerini tour.

From his plane, Hitler sees a land of sorrow. He sees the graves of thousands of young Poles,

the

of flower

their

country.

He sees husbandless women and fatherless children. He sees. the little graves of the boys and girls his other aeroplanes have killed. He sees desolate fields and ruined towns.

plant

Exhausts on surface of grounds

portition

Mylkple mashina gyntym

"Air compressors raising singspheric,

(precure within the fort as a des ¿fenre againd the entry of poison des

Comenłagré Lovemote ut ground leur!

Ennonce gallery

ading to

The gigantic scale of the underground city that constitutes a typical fort in the Maginot Line is shown in this drawing with the earth stripped off. All the key points are far below the surface, invulnerable to sholls and bombs. The soldiers'

barracks are usually close to the turrets.-From "Mustrated London News",

The British

SIX NATIONS have so

far declared war on Germany.

Their ties are the ties that bind democracies.

One of these nations is France.

The others are the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand. To-day, under the Statute of Westminster, no ties but the ties of a common Kingship bind these five latter nations together.

They are the five countries who have agreed to become a

And perhaps more terrible, he and fear and sees loathing hatred, which he and his country Commonwealth or League of Nations, each of equal footing und each bound to the other by their love for an English King

men have earned.

It is Hitler's monument. He began the killing. He opened the sluices of destruction. By his decision, and by his decision

Light weight cotton, interlock knitted-the secret alone, he brought this upon a

Half peaceful country.

of their airiness, elasticity and comfort. sleeves, short frant opening, attached collar-a tie is just a matter of taste.

Before Hitler's advancing troops, the hurrying refugees have been machine-gunned on

All good colours including Navy Blue, Saxe Blue, the laden roads. His victories Silver, Maroon and Ivory.

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Within their own boundaries they are supreme. Although the United Kingdom was at war, the other four nations were neutral-until each declared it self at War.

At

Commonwealth

War

by

NORMAN STOCKTON

afternoon's cricket.

He pronounces his name phone- tically.

New Zealand

Mr. Michael Joseph Savage has been the Prime Minister of a So- einlist Government in New Zealand for just over two years. He is 07 and unmarried. galaxy of countries who believe There is nothing to prevent

Before entering polities he work- that co-operation within framework of a democracy is an monwealth-even

the other nations joining this Comed in a country store, did irrigation

nations which work, and became ideal that must

miner. He be maintained, do not desire to render allegiance reached political eminence through. Unlike the League, the British to the King.

the trade union movement, and is a Commonwealth maintains that

strong advocate of co-partnership methods. Responsibility ideal, because each of its members

developed places its trust in the others and

each has signed its word to main- tain that bond.

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JERE are brief biographies of in him a high standard of Imperial

the Premiers of the member-

statesmanship.

Shortly after taking office as Pre- nations of the Commonwealth-mier of New Zealand he said: men who wield power equal to that

Tremarkable change in rela- wielded by Mr. Chamberlain :-

tionship between Great Bri- and the Dominions WUB tain brought about by the Statute of

Westminster.

Its acceleration was made possi- ble firstly, by the Great War, and

Canada

Mr. W. L. Mackenzle King, the

the

We are bound to the British people... by unbreakable ties of blood, to say nothing of trade. We can build in New Zealand, and we can lend a hand to the British Commonwealth at the same time. The first act of his new Govern-

more recently by new and quicker ctory at the Canadian polls in ricinot Ministers, under which his

Over

the New Zealand Parliament, which

members.

South Africa

Canadian Prime Minister, is head of the Canadian Liberal Party, and succeeded Mr. Bennett, the former inent was to make a gift of £100,000 Conservative leader, after a record for distribution at Christmas among unemployed. Subsequently he October 1935. He is

" salary sharing plan means of communication,

is 05, was born in orig Canada, and is unmarried,

nmong his To-day, Mr. Chamberlain picks

Ife is a short, dark, stocky man.

own salary was reduced to £800 up the telephone at No. 10 Down- who carries his head bent slightly your plus. £250 for extra cost of

entertainment. ing Street and is connected within forward, and looks

from oks steadily

Another innovation he introduced Such is the omnipotence of a matter of seconds with the beneath shaggy eyebrows. the Parliaments of each of these Prime Minister of any of the Do- there he is known as the politician was the broadcasting of reports of with the perfect "poker face" and is said to have find the effect of Democracies that one-South minions. They talk like friends as a master of political strategy. Africa-very nearly decided around the same table, and have One of his greatest glits is his greatly increasing the attendances of against war.

done so many times during the ability to Another-Canada

surround himself with competent, loyal, nud acceptable entered the war nine days past few weeks.

London is now the exchange for publle men as Ministers. the whole world in the matter of Canada with but one short inter- He held the Premiership of wireless telephone conversations.

to 1030, and ruption-from 1021 When Premier speaks to Premier acted វាន Vice-President of the most notable soldier-statesman of power and arms. For a parallel AS with Britain, the King must the other traffic of five continonte Assembly of the League of Nations all the Dominions,

A accept the advice of the is cleared to give them immediate at Geneve in 1928.

He was born near Cape Town and Ministers of each of his Do-

communication.

He attended the Imperial Con- after taking a double first in the minions,

ference in London in 1923 and 1920, Law Tripos at Cambridge, returned. If Mr. Chamberlain wishes to King George V's Jubilee and King to Transvaal and became State Al They maintain their own Navies, speak to the Prime Minister of George VI's Coronation. He la torney under Kruger. Then came Armies and Air Forces. They, Australia, or to the Premier of Freeman of the City of London since the Boer War, and as a guerilla and they alone, say what taxes New Zealand, on Intimate Imperial 1923. He is also they will raise and how they will affairs, it is done in secrecy over Shefeld, Manchester,

Freeman of leader he was second only to De And Edin Wet in the campaign against the spond them.

If they decided to become Re- the longest telephone circuits in burgh. publican, they have the constitu- tional power to do so.

are without grandeur or merit. They have been gained by over- whelming superiority of man-

you must go back twenty-five years to Belgium, which likewise was conquered by brute force.

It would be too much to expect that Poland can save herself from being overrun, unless she can obtain allies who will permit British and French reinforce- ments to reach her through the Black Sea.

But Poland overrun will be a Poland unconquered. German troops were in possession of Belgium for nearly four years in the last Great War. Belgium suffered terribly. But her name is firmly secure in history as a nation which yielded not to aggression. So with Poland.

There will be a day of reckon- ing for Hitler.

after Great Britain.

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tralia or New Zealand should not

the world.

Australia

South Africa's new War Premier is famous General Jan Smuts, the

British.

After the Union Government was. formed he became Botha's right Mr. R. G. Menzies, who succeeded hand man, and it was largely due There was no reason why Aus- CONVERSATIONS between the the late Mr. J. A. Lyons, as Austra- to his arm action that

tha ugly King and his Ministers origi- lia's Prime Minister, was born in labour troubles which had a climax. have declared. war on Germany nate In London because the King Victoria in 1895 of Australian pared without disaster.

in wholesale deportations terminat-- before Great Britain did. A ls in London. But when the King ents Dominion could declare war on an went to Canada just before the on the Australian Constitution, which War Smuts was a tower of strength He became a recognised authority At the outbreak of the 1914-18 other country while Britain re- war he became Klag of Canada, was formulated in 1901 when the to Botha

and the Empire. its mained neutral,

and the calls originated from six Australian States became a Com- vigour and military acumen There is no more limitation to Ottawa and other centree which monwealth within themselves. Be responsible for the quick capture of the power wielded by the Parlin- ke vislied on his tour.

fore entering Federal politics he was Germany's African colonies. ments and peoples of each of the Dominions than of the House of Commons in London.

were

In Australia or in South Africa, an active member of the State He was one of the leading pro- King George is not King George VI Nationalist Party in Victoria and for ponents of the League of Nations, a while was Acting Premier of Vic which he first suggested to President of England. He is King George toria, He entered Federal politics Wilson. He fought gallantly to up VI of Australia, or King George VI in 1934, and less than a year later hold the prestige of the League and of South Africa. It is almost cer- attained Cabinet rank as Attorney sought wider powers for it THESE are vital facts about the tain that Princess Elizabeth, when General.

Last week General Hertzog WR relationship that exists to-day she succeeds her father to the During three Governments he was Prime Minister of South Africa. He between Britain and Dominion and Throne will, in this age of modern and he was regarded as the biggest forced the question on to the floor

the right-hand man of Mr. Lyons declared

neutrality, Smuts. between Dominion and Dominion. swift travel, be crowned in sach man, mentally, In the Lyons of the Assembly, defeated his leader,

for

The British Commonwealth, in of the five capitals of the Empire Cabinets,

and South Africa went to War. Ottawa, fact, is what the League of Nations-London,

Canberra, He is known to every Test cricke

At 69 years of age, he is one of sought to beg loosely welded Wollington and Cape Town. ter, and loves nothing better than an tie world's most remarkable men.

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