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—whose articles in the London "Daily Mail" on Nazi Germany below-the-surface are arous- ing exceptional interest throughout the United Kingdom-tells you to-day of the smouldering rivalries between the Nazi Party leaders and the hends of the German Army.

Nazi

leaders and

Army Generals seldom quite agree

IN peace time high Ger-

man

officers

News-by Order FOR purposes of internal

wireless

energetic

Ours to Reason Why!

HOW amusing it is now to re-

call the almost frenzied ecstasies of relief with which we acclaimed Armistice Day, 1918. The news seemed too good to be true. After nearly five years of desperate fighting, of rulnous expenditure, and tragic sinugh- ter, which meant the total eclipse of all normal happy peaceful life, the interminable horrors of the Great War were

over.

All huts were in the air then. Every face wore a smile of in- expressibly tranquil relief. Tho sun was no longer a goblin. Skies were blue ngain. A malevolent spell had been suddenly ifted from mankind, and the minatory mufter longer held men's hearts and hearths in daily and nightly thrall. The troubled world had known nothing like it since the dove brought back to Father Noah that olive branch which meant that God's wrath was appeased.

"Advantage!" he "exclaimed. “It's

thing we have the very

disapprove of spoken to me of defects in their most, These young fellows have been given such a big conceit of

propaganda the forces. It may. of themselves in the Parly formations is the principal instrument of the HONG KONG HOTEL armed

course, have been their aim to that they think they know every- German Government, Reichszender

leiter Hadamovsky, the GARAGE

allay the suspicions of a visit- thing."

Since the big Army parke in young man who is in charge, under

of cannon no Stubbs Rd. ing newspaper correspondent as February Inst year, when 15 generals Dr. Goebbels, of the German Broad- to the use that Germany might were dismissed, the Party has com casting system, has done his work ultimately make of them-but pletely penetrated the Army. All well, there are common-sense reasons troops have had to attend three Every large town in Germany his for believing that what they political lectures a week, and officers wireless loud speakers on the lamp- have been restricted to giving posts: every restaurant and beer- said was true.

- technical Instruction. The soldiers, house is almost compelled to keep "What we lack are efficient officers after completing their service, now Its set constantly turned on, and

and runk of Beld

experienced return automatically to the ranks of cheap home-receivers have been pro- N.CO.s," they told me "We have the Storm Troopers.

vided at a price within the scope of excellent generals who learnt their Not Enough Pilots

the poorest, so that the official news supplied by the Deutsches Nachrich- ten Buro is sure of instant transmis sion to the great majority of the nation.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Revenue Officer W. G. Humphreys wishes to extend thanks to all friends for their floral tributes, messages of condolence, and their attendance at the funeral; also the staff of the Kowloon Hospital In his recent bereavement.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

The cop-

business in the last war. totalns and subalterns are hardworking

and high-spirited.

TN the German Air Force the short space of time avail- "But there is serious shortage- able for building up esprit de corps which it will take years to make up is not so serious a handicap. Air Yet all Germany knows that of majors and lentenant-colonels fighting calls for more individual ini- nothing unfavourable to the Govern- and colonels, owing to the fact that tiative, and the German flylng men ment would be communicated. for the first 15 years after the war have been put through hard school. the Reichswehr was limited to 100,- Training casualties are enormous, 000 men, and the type of man who but no statistics of them have ap would normally have become an peared. officer and ricen to fell rank went Whereas originally the German that have been the subject of ex- Alr Force was staffed by officers tensive treatment by the German tyho volunteered for it, the system wireless stations. - of appointment by order has been subsituted.

Wyndham St., Hongkong into civillan life instead,"

'Phone 26615 October 26, 1939

Even under normal conditions, every foreigner who talks to Ger mans detects an uneasy eagerness to hear the facts about many matters

In wartime, the feeling that un- pleasant truths are being systematic- ally withheld may net like dry rot on the moral of the German nation. What About' the Future

It is not the ex-soldier's way to

Incidentally these sensations of infinite heavenly relief were shared not least in Germany. For in that country the full tide of disastrous war was swiftly avalanching back on Its own homesteads. To all Ger- mans It was starkly evident that the hour of dreadful retribution was at hand. The field grey legions, who had marched forth so proudly and confidently four and a half years curler, and had. held the miseries of warnt arm's length from the Fatherland, were in full retreat along the whole Western Front.

Foch Calls Their Bluff

How great and genuine was the relief of Armistice Day to Germany only those quile understand who saw the German pence envoys as they walled on Foch in his corridor train in the wood. They were no longer the arrogant swashbuckling Junkers of gay August, 1014. They

were

Secret Contempt

ERMANY'S armed forces

date from 1915. The men I was told in Germany last spring, have done two years' service with that the production of aeroplanes the Colours, and those who were too was actually being slowed down be- old to be conscripted have been re- cause the Air Force was not able to Morale In War

peatedly called up for, spells of produce enough pilots to fly modern training of six-weeks or two months. high-speed machines,

cry over spilt milk. What has hap-pale-faced, haugard with fear, and This experience is not as much as One wonders, too, how the pened is accomplished history. But THERE is nothing to be more the German General Steff would lite "core-like obedience theary will wint of the future? If the whole scrupulously avoided in war for men who have to face soldiers work in war. The first principle of wretched business has to be done with the unbroken military tradi the Nazl creed being that "The over, ngain, will the sequel still be than a depreciation of the power tions of the French.

Fuehrer is always right," it has been the same? We do not hear so much al spirit of an opponent.

Moreover, during those four years assumed that the minor Fuehrers now, in the light of present events, the Army has not been a happy each in his degree_ere also infalli- from those dear souts who told us it

Germany's stupendous military facts that count.

family. The officers have had to put ble. Splendidly

German was all rubbish about Germany be- machine was jangling to ruins about up with many slights from Party organisation works on normal deca- ing responsible for the Great War.

their cars. The pickelhaube was on is never at its best in an buntes, for whom those of the old sons,

And what about the parrot-cry, the lethal brink of a frightful snuve German Army, at any rate, feel a emergency.

that it is impossible to keep a great qui peut Even then the Prussian secret contempt.

A Weakness

nation down? If there is going to be inentality remained constant to its a next War and Germany happensjackboot HERE is a new weapon in with better luck this time to win it,

Tradition. Though they This war whose

were biting their nails with sus- muzzle the Nazi bludgeoners will show us

The all about that piffe..

pense, they bluffed.

It is

►

When the last World War broke out there was no doubt of the ca- thusiasm of the German people. They were told and they firmly be lleved that they had been called upon to defend the life and freedom of the Fatherland; and they fought with a devotion which all the world acknowledged.

Cross

them.

old

oli the

black.

though

I shall never forget the Nuremberg Party Congress of 1035. A special meeting of the Reichstag was sum moned there; and all the senior reaches into all our homes. generals and admirals attended it wireless broadsides of the German Make no error on that score. If They sat to one side on the ground-ganda-Ministry can be heard we had lost the last war we should floor.

I was in a gallery overlook on the ether every evening, and so have been giving the Nazi salute far no anti-gas precautions have to-day" to our Prussian overlords, ing

Goering, as President of the Reich-heen found necessary to deal with and jumping to it. We should not

them in this country. announced that

have been allowed or encouraged stag It is doubtful if the whole Ger-standards of the armed forces were the German character-which

For if there Is one weakness in to rearm ourselves, and our grand- has SOOR would still be sweating, a man people are fired now by equal to be changed. The

white, and red flag with the Iron many admirable qualitiest la con- generation or two hence, to pay off ardour.

Indemnity which was lo be repinced by the genital ignorance of the psychology a swingeing war

of other nations.

the Germans would have collected Day after day, of late, reports Nazi Swastika.

On Tuesday night I heard roars punctillously, and, if necessary, ot The Fuehrer has pulled the old of laughter coming from the Dally the bayonet's point. There have come through various chan-flag out of the mud into which It Mail wireless room.

Would have been no societies started in nals of discontent and disorder: had fallen," said Goering with dan-

They were repented so often that Germany to cultivate friendly rela- gerous eloquence. "It is how to be went to inquire what the joke was, tions with conquered Britons, and "Berlin is a city of and faces. There replaced by the Swastika, which is found four or five people listening doubt whether any of the German Ad- is no wish for war, only a dull fear the symbol of the fighting spirit that to the English broadcast from Berlin, tirais would have

will rebuild Germany,"

assured thoir which was followed by an Ameri- countrymen that Great Britain that it may come, and the fervent

The words shocked even me. 1 can expressing his profound admira offered to defend the German Empire! lave Ived in a Prussian military tion of the fact that it was still hope that it will not."

What German was it who said, family and know what their flag possible to get a drink in Germany. You will always be fools and we meant to them the flag that dow To a German the British character shall never bo gentlemen"? It is victoriously at Königgratz, and was and the way to make an impression bone in upon me that he many have carried triumphantly to Paris in on it will always remain a mystery. been' right. 1870.

That message, which comes from Brussels, might be said of any nution confronted with the dire prospect of another world war, but it may be of more significance among people who have been fed for years upon the glories of war and been taught to look forward to it with joyful anticipation,

The food question is perhaps one of the chief causes of this reported depression. The Inst war was well

I looked at the hard, weather- benten faces of those German Army commanders. It over 1 saw lips tightens and eyes flash with indigna- Lion they were theirs, Gripping their sword-lits, they sat staring straight front of them as they

declare that the flag which embodied their honour as soldiers had “fallen into the mud."

heard the second man in the Reich

What private protests the generals may have made, I do not know, but It is significant that when the new!

two standards appeared on its way before food shortage Service

months later the old Iron Cross de- began to make itself felt in Ger-sign was combined with and not re-

pinced by the Swastiko,

In the early days of national ser-

many.

On this occasion shortage began vice German officers openly taught even when war seemed to be on the their recruits that the Army was n distant horizon.

much older institution, with Aner traditions, than the Party.. Nazi

In a remarkable book, “Germany'a influences were strictly kept outside

the barrack gates. Young Party War Chances," written a few weeks bosses drafted for milltary service ogo by a Hungarian Professor of found themselves singled out for Constitutional Law, and banned tutiques and snukas. After ita contents had become;

Nozi

Refused to Sing

two

public property, this passage

HOW aften have I watched occurs: "Long before the begin-

the group of geherals at big Party functions always stand- ning of the struggle restrictions on ing together-a anelooking, impres all sorts of foodstuffs have already ive, reserved group, avoiding all but been introduced. Although the the most formal of contact with the

the ofclbts. When masses of the German people are national anthems were sung at the not starving yet in the strict sens end of the ceremony you would see of the word, it is none the loss true them join in Deutschland über A les, that there can be no talk of their but their lips stayed firmly shut for the `· Horst" Wornel Lied, "the Party being sufficiently fed.”

song that followed.

- "It must, be a great advantage for Such reports, and all other you." I said once to a regimental ports of a like nature, should be officer, that all your recruits have read with the utmost caution and previously served in the Storm Troopers or the 8.5." They will, at with a liberal discount. But they any rate, have learnt barrack-square need not be ignored altogether. 'discipline."

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stamped their feet with Impatience as the Allied Generalissimo" quietly prepared to receive them, Their illustrious War Lord, Ludendorff himself, had bidden them lose, not one instant of precious time.

not

When Foch demanded what they _core_for, their_reply_was_that_they_ came to discuss peace terms. But Foch, it soldier and no politician, was

in any

mood for bluf. Hia. plan. blunt reply, was that he had Then, no peace terms to propose. and then only, the German enis- surles ceased their bluff. They incekly told the Generalíssimo that they came to sue for peace.

The Gangsters Again

That was twenty-one years ago next November. Less than a genera- tion ngo. Judging by the astound- ing circumstances of to-day it might well have been a century. For what a contrast presents itself to Europe's pallid face at this moment. 'Ger- many, doubly rearmed and with the old arrogant, domineering spirit of "Deutschland Uber Alles" tuned to a yet more strident and enddiah" note, is no longer humbly suing for peace. but menacing the whole Continent with another ruinous holocaust of battle and bloodshed. The old wicked Prussian policy of ransom is once more being addressed to Ger- many's neighbours on the approved Chicago gangster methods. Because the whole philosophy of Hitler's, "Mein Kampf" and Goebbels" gufter baekchat boils down simply to "Stick 'em up!"

This is a netumorphosla storting and Incredible enough surely to make angels weep tears of blood. It look us nearly five years to draw the dragon teeth of Germany. But it was woll and truly done. In 1918 we had Germany down and out. It. cost us twice a thousand million pounds and. over

million British dead, not to mention the urden of that long, squalid, ver- minous struggle In the mud and blood,"

To-day we awake to the realisu- tion that all that appalling sacrifice. hus been made in vain. There are still with us some millions of those- ex-Servicemen who did their manful bit in the Great War to end war. I 'might be a healthy experience for

some politicians if they could hear“. what those men are saying about. this great betrnynt now. Hitler has fooled us to the top of our bent. Ho has buffed us out of the dealiright. of all those limitable soldier reine- terics of ours.

It would be egregiously presump tive for anyone to pretend to speak for all ox-Servicemen. But there is not much doubt what the average man thinks and feels now who earried a pack and shouldered a rise In the last. war. His sentiment is one of sheer amazement that any politicians outsido a lunatic asylum should have made (audis an utter and calamitous muddle of the oppor tunity presented to them in 1916.