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November 22, 1939.

"Calendar of Conquests

that won't come

LEON TROTSKY, in an

article dealing with the situation between Germany and Russia, recently wrote of the exposure shortly after Munich by Dimitrov, secre- tary of the Comintern, of Hitler's calendar of his fu- ture conquests.

This was illustrated with maps in a leaflet published in Germany before the in- vasion of Czecho-Slovakia, under the heading "One People, One State, One Lea- der." The leaflet showed a succession of maps dating from 1938 to 1948, giving Stubbs Rd. Phones: 27778-9, the order of Hitler's con-

quests in Europe.

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The Wedding of Mr. G. 3. S. Thomson and Miss Katherine Seth will take place at the Union Church, Hongkong, on Friday,

24th November. No invitations

(1) Austria was scheduled for Spring 1938. Austria fell according to schedule.

(2) Czecho-Slovakia was marked down to Autumn 1938. This was only par- .

true

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have been issued, but all friends tially accomplished, owing (4) Poland was scheduled į Then in Spring 1941 will Europe (including Britain)

will be welcome at a reception to Munich, but was fulfilled to fall in Autumn 1939.

to be held at the fongkong Hotel at 3 p.m.

The

come (7) France, Switzer- and Asia Minor were to be in Spring 1939.

So far Hitler has been land, Holland, Belgium (with (under Nazi domination-- (3) Hungary was given three-quarters right. Luxembourg), Denmark. with a share for Germany's the date Spring 1939, but no (5) Jugo-Slavia is mark-And in the Autumn of 1941 then Axis partner, Italy.

lowing Czecho-Slovakia in- 1940. (6) Rumania and Bul- cumb.

be German and the white terfered with this.

garia for Autumn 1940.

Hongkong Telegraph. doubt the delay over swaled down for the Spring of (8) Soviet-Ukraine will suc-The shaded areas were to

Wednesday, November 22, 1939 Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 26615

THE prex "Special to the Telegraph" is used by the "Hongkong Telegraph' to inalcate haws which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni- can Grainance, 1916. Such news hears the indication "UP" is received in Hongkang on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who res serve all lights and forbid republication, either wholly or in part without previous Arrangement,

Murder Most Foul

HITLER BREAKS his word again. He breaks also the fast codes of civilised decency. He cannot cripple the might of Britain with his U-Bonts, so he commands his submarines to lay indiscrimin- ately in the paths of neutral and Allied ships alike those grim und deadly mines, which are respectors of neither man, woman nor child.

"I am not going to fight women and children," said Hitler when he ordered his legions to march into Poland. His words, of course, have as much meaning as the idle wind. By his black deeds is he condemned,

Still, by the only to Nazi diplomacy, his words can be proved literally true. Ho in not "ghting" the non-combatants. What he is doing is wholesale slaughter of the innocents,

chicanery known

I

And, finally, by 1948, all Italian.

Which Good Old Man

WAS talking to Blank yes-1 terday. Blank is a man I}

in the simply cannot stand ordinary way. But these times are not the ordinary way by any means. They make you want to talk to anybody. Even Blank.

Blank was drawing up a catalogue

Days?

By WILL SCOTT

of all the things we've lost-lost only used to grouse about the train every for the time being, we all hope-the night. "Three minutes late to-night." things that made life worth living in "Four minutes late to-night." the days that now seem, so far away."Draught in the carriage all the way

Trains seemed to be his first regret. down." "The beer was flot." Blank goes up to London daily now They could do crosswords in a good

as best he can). He's got a blue

And the things we used to say about Music Hall

Even the week-ends in my house..

Own

I used to fume about the din. Tell the youngsters that all the younger generation was good at was making an enormous row at somebody else's expense. The only thing they used the piano for was jazz. The only thing they used the radio for was jazz. The only records they ever bought were jazz records.

*

As for my hut on the beach.

the

Nazis

Fear

TP-in-the-Tatra mountains,

just south of the Polish

light in his carriage at night. He light then. But they were fed up well, they'd turned that into Д bear can't see the people he's travelling with crosswords. "They get sillier garden, and I'd no longer any in- border, lurks Karl Sidor, Slova- read a book. Heevery time you look at them." terest in it. Life was just noise; they kia's Robin Hood and sworn with. He can't can't do a crossword.

You could get all the petrol you lived at the top of their voices and enemy of Hitler.

Whole valleys are under the con- wanted in those days that "were the annoyed everybody within a mile. days." But do you remember how so

trol of his men. The approaches to many of us had decided that motoring The boys gone, the girls gone, these valleys are so Alled with was simply dashing at fifty miles on everything quiet. Blank sighs for the mantraps that the Nazis have not yet ur from some place where you train he used to curse, the car that had the courage to break into them didn't want to be to some place where used to bore him stiff, for everything From this base Sidor has for several

He was sighing for the days when the train was a club on wheels, when he knew half a hundred of the follows on it, when he spent half the journey going along the corridor from door to door, calling on his pals.

"Those were the days." said Blank to me yesterday, "You could get a wanted. Look at things now."

drink on the train then-ten, if you

you didn't want to go?

"Get the old bus out? But there's

And now.

that's gone.

weeks been leading out his armed bands and harrying the German I open ari album of snaps of won- Army communications. Convoys are nowhere to go. We've been every-derful summier days gone by.

Those were the days.... where."

to-night. When we could how we

And how we used to grouse about

raided, equipment is stolen, bil garrisons are set upon and wiped out.

Sidor's influence spreads for and. wide among the peasants,

We can't go to the concert party

them when we had them, used to grumblo about it! "I can't)

They know him of old. It was he Shall we grouse again when they who with others refused in 2014 to I helped him draw up his cata-stand the comedian." "The baritone's

awful." "Concert parties Orc all come back?

serve in the Imperial Austrian Army alike, anyhow.""

I wonder.

so loyal was he to the cause of Slovak independence.

logue.

It isn't til things are taken from you that you realise how much they have led your life. We got quite

long list.

No petrol for the car; therefore no ear. No Musle Hall and no In Town To-Night on the radio.

We went on collecting items be-

(ween us...

Until the war broke out my own house was a riot of noise at week- ends, Alled with young people. My hul on the beach here was mine only

in name.

I could never get near it

What von Tirpitz did in 1917 Hitler is going to double in 1939. The cold-blooded sinking of the Simon Bolivar, carrying neutral passengers, has provided the world with yet another instance of the Nazi disregard of common human- ity and the pledged word. The Submarine Protocol of 1936, to for my daughters and their dozens which Hitler was a party, definitely of friends. Bathing costumer drying on the shingle, gramophone CO- forbida nubmarines from laying ing.... mines in areas which have not been nolifled as a mined nten. So the Simon Bolivar was mined, and her helpless passengers were left to drown; all, indeed, would have died but for the prompt aid of other neutral shipping and the British Navy,

That foul crime is on a par with the Nazi methods of terrorism used to suppress all opposition to the Nazi regime in Germany; it is akin to the rape of Austria, Czecho- Slovakia and the wanton aggression against Poland, Hitlerism knows no law but that of the jungle: its acts are based on the doctrine that Might is Right.

There is no hope for civilisation until this man has been crushed.

The week-ends are quiet now, Nobody in the house, the beach hut deserted and locked up. The boys have gone into the fighting services; tho girls into the Land Army and the Reel Cross.

We've got an album of snaps of wonderful summer days gone by; that's all that's left.

Those were the days.

"I wonder how long it will be be- fore they come back again," sold Blank to me yesterday. "My hatt how we'll cheer Life was worth Aving then."

When he'd left me I thought it over. "low we'll cheer!" And I wondered: shall we?

What did wo do with those wonder- ful days of peace when we had them? What did we do about them? Did we run round in large circles, shout- ing to the skies, These are wonderful days of peace): Isn't Ufe...grand? Cheer, boys, cheerl

No; I'm afraid we: didn't. Blank and his pals (if he had any),

GRIN AND BEAR IT

It was he who, after the war, be-- came second in command to Father Hlinka in building up the Slovak.

By Lichty People's Party.

LONG

HAUL

l'ste aur men are having words,

THE Hinku-men were no de- mocrats. They disliked the new Czecho-Slovak State and wanted home rule for Slovakia. Sidor founded the Blinka Cuard and be- came its supreme lender. It was a body of blackt-shirted storm-troopers on the Fascist model, who gave the Nazi salute.

Even in the Slovak districts the | Hlinka party never got more then a third of the votes. But after Munich they come into their own. Nazi money flowed Into party hendquarters, and "Sidor, cock-a-hoop, wont to Prague to become vice-Premier of Czecho-Slovalle.

When he got there his eyes began to be opened. He became more and' more loyal to the Czechв, more and more certain that Hitler meant Slovakia no good.

When Hitler was about to march on Prague last March, Sidor went back to Slovakia to become its Premier for a day.

After the Nazis came, he was de- posed, but was made Minister of the Interior,

He forcely criticised the Nazis. treatment of the Slovake. It was af this time that his popularity aprend" among the Slovak peasants. He alone among the Hlinka-men became. anti-Nazi, and he grew Into a national hero,

The Nazis were frightened, and he was hurried out of the country and made Slovak Minister at the Vatican.

A FEW weeks ago he crept back. People of all kinds rallled round, hlm.

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