1939-12-18 — Page 30

OR BREAKFAST

X FOR

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 18, 1939.

White

HONG KONG HOTEL GARAGE!

LUCAS C.A. V. ROTAX

LUCAS SERVICE

Genuine Lucas Spare Parts

Electrical Equipment for REPAIRS & REPLACEMENTS

ΤΟ

AUTO, ELECTRIC IGNITION SYSTEMS

Equipment for any nature

of service

APPLY

&

Hongkong Hotel

Garage

Stubbs Rd. Phone 27778/9.

zan ges © MADE IN UNNERS

CLUMSY ANTI-BRITISH

LIES

BUT

TIGER FOR

BEER BU

SOLE AGENTS:-

A.S. WATSON

WINE DEPARTMENT

the

Hongkong Telegraph.

Monday, December 18, 1939. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20615

THE prix "Special to the Telegraph" is used by the “stongkong Telegraphí to indicate news which is airletty copyright under the provisions of the Telecommal. Caltons Ordinance, 1930. Boch News ma bears the indientión "UP" is #gcolved in Blangkong on the date of publication by the United Press. Associations, who re- servo all rights and forħid republication, cither wholly or in part without previous krrangement

Battle Of Babel

& CO., LTD. WAR as significant as that

TEL. 20616

J

THE

MODERN

being fought on the Western

Front is being waged on the wire- lens. It is literally a war of VW | words, and in the end its effects may be even more profound than those of the battles fought on land, on sea, and in the air.

REPRESENTATIVE

of the

HOUSE_OF

MOUTRIE

THE MINIATURE UPRIGHT ILLUSTRATED ABOVE IS IDEAL FOR THE MODERN HOME WONDERFUI. TONE AND TOUCH FULL COMPASS 7% OCTAVES

S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD.

YORK BUILDING

For

From Britnin come the voices of is announcers, calm, cultured, much unemotional-perhaps too

so, saу ноmе critics-telling the unvarnished truth to the world. From German atations the world hears the impassioned, theatrical tones of the Nazi announcers, s0

anxious to make Germany took innocent before the condemning world court that they deny allega- tions even before they are made against them. And, perhaps most algnificant of all, the "German Freedom Station," calling upon the German people to overthrow the tyrants who are repressing them.

Every warring nation is mobilia~; ing itu wireless propaganda resources as rapidly as it is ita industrial assets to carry on the war. From Britain is broadcast the truth in many languages and with perfect accent. In this the Allies have many

CO., LTD.dvantages, far from France Ger

CHATER ROAD.

PRACTICAL And APPRECIATED GIFTS.

Remembered long after Christmas has passed.

SHOES,

HOSIERY, SLIPPERS

GORDON'S

Kayamally Building.

We will pack and

deliver when required.

ww

man Socialists, exiled Austrians, und Czochs who have been lucky enough to escape from the clutches of Hitler and the Gestapo are telling their people the truth about this war of aggression,

It has been suggested that Britain should employ more and more of these speakers, and get some of them to write messages for pro- paganda leaflets. Among these exiles are some of the most brilliant, scientific and literary men of post- war Germany.

Without a doubt the most re- markable station at present adding its quola to the war of the wireless is the "German Freedom Station," which so far has defled its enemics. Those who risk their lives to get over the truth to the German peoplo In this way are herdes of the first water. If caught, death would be their reward.

VON RIBBEN FLOP !

still bit

But I like a comfort

by Stuart Fletcher

SCANDALISED a policeman the other day.

It was in Oxford Circus. I was carrying a suitcase which, whatever any mathema- tician likes to say, weighed five tons. I asked the policeman for the nearest cloakroom.

At Paddington Station, he told me..

"Oh dear," I said, with com- mendable moderation. "What a nuisance this war is!

TR

The policeman stiffened vis- bly. "Sir." he reproved me, "there is a great many what is suffering worse than that."

How true, yet for every single person who is being bombed or

or enduring trench bayoneted fever and all the other idiotic atrocities of war, there must be thousands who are going round saying "Oh dear," or words to that effect, because their little private comforts are being interfered with.

evening enjoying the miraculu twilight which, in peace-time. London's street lights completely ruin, I was startled but not sur prised to read a neat little notice fixed into the ground near a cap- tive balloon.

It had been printed in bold Ink- strokes on a white oblong of card- board, and it read: "The public is requested not to feed the Bitmps,"

That made me happy for a whole evening, and I went back to my big empty house, where the silence and the darkness are far more oppres- sive than the most outragevus noises made in peace-time by my singularly lively daughters, feeling that the war (on the civilan front) had its compensations."

Someone else, a little previously perhaps, but prophesying quite accurately, had fixed a similar notice to one of the air-raid dug- outs in the Park,

I

This uno read: "House Full."

MISS my evacuated family a 10%

One of the joys of family life OU sec, life is made up of little comforts like reading is coming down late to breakfast. It lamps in trains, cloakrooms, is led up to by a whole chain of street lights, doors that are pieces anticipatory delights-the clatter of wood that you push open instead of other people getting up while of strange garment-like materials you bilssfully lie on in a half-doze that you fumble with; washing up the violent entry into your bed of

three-year-old that gets done by someone clo instead of getting left for yourself bumanity who pulls your hair and to do.

Yet, there's something about this

war.

I was talking a day or two ago with a Polish airman who was one of the very last people to escape from devastated, Warsaw,

He was in seventeen Warsaw air- ralds, and this is what struck him most.. Two types of gas-masks were lasued to the public-a bag- pipe-looking military type claimed to be very offletons, and a more old- fashioned Rind aoildly fashioned of

wood.

Not long ago an opponent of the Nazi regime began, broadcasting

At first everyone tried to get the similar messages from a forest better kind, but after a few raids just over the Czecho-Slovakian bor- der. It was just previous to the it was the solid type of gas-mack time when Hitler's legions occupied which people were after. And do

country. Ono night three, fanatical young Nazis, together with could sit on them! They wanted

LTD.

the

1

CHRIST

COUNT THE "TELEGRAPH S

EVERYWHERE

CHEER

you know⋅ why?- Because they

of

·VERYBODY' likes a bit creature comfort. That's why

Wilke our barrage balloons. They look so happy, so prosperous,

a woman, daslied across the frontier a bit of comfort even at the death. In a powerful car, murdered the announcer, and managed to get back into Germany. No steps werd taken to arrest the criminals.

"Putian end to the senseless and criminal war into which we have been plunged by Hitler. Sold'er* do not flight at the front, but direct boing that amicts elderly gentle- your arms against the culprita," mon after a good lunch.

The voice is drowned by

As they reel a little helplessly in deliberate Interference, but it come the breeze they inspice the amo agnin: "Workers, every gun you sort of affectionate toleration that make in the factories will help pro we all feel for the amiable long the war Sabotage the orrunkard.

so distended with the kind of well-

duction of arms and you will help Walking in Hyde Park' the other our fight for Troedom, dignity; and peaco."

moraci of

of

informs you with manifest un truth that she caught a rabb. yesterday: then titivating odeur which creep upstairs like t Anthony's temptresses: then th Jingle of spoons and forks; the the final descent to a family which

has

long since given up belor scandalised and is actually gla that you are only as late as you are and no later.

But coming down late to a break- fast that you have got to cook your.lf is awful. I've given up breakfast.

Hitler's Long Knife

FI set out to choose a villain for a" penny dreadful". I would. pick on Dr. Frank, Naz, Reich. Minister of Justice, who, has just been appointed Governor-General for the Polish territories occupied by Germany. -

The man who will now administer Hitler's terror over the Poles is the Ideal combination of Prussian impu- dence and American Gangsterdóm, which make up. Nazism.

This fa, not a far-fetched comparison because Dr. Frank started out as criminal lawyer in Berlin's East End. Only when the Nari party in Its mosl riotous period provided most at the plain murderers, law-breakers, and theory that.

I've invented a breakfast,la on unnecessary meal that people cat too much, and that asting till lunch-time produces a sane mind in a sound body.

But I get awfully hungry about ten o'clock.

M

Y family with that pecu- llar lack of discrimination which you meet in yount children and old ladles misses m 100.

My eldest daughter who, at the age of nine, has started thinking things out a bit was puzzled thi other day because near her evacua- tion spot she saw some childre complete with father.

he:

mus

Why couldn't she have Daddy too, she wanted to know.. I was explained that this Dadd happened to earn bis ilving in th country while her own had to wir his (and her) bread in London.

know," she said, solving th problem instantly. Ho come and work down here. Th

notice in thei: Co-op.-I AW window-want, an errand-boy."

Bo if my name disappears from this

paper you'll know what's hap- pened. The pull of family comfort will have proved too strong for me and I shall have gone off to be an errand-boy.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

"I do miss Wilbur sinco wa braka our engagement-1 koop thinking of things to say to him that would burn him up!",

gangsters in pre-filter Germany did young Dr. Frank switch over to politics. He specialized in political murders

crimes and other

committed by.. members of the Nazi party.

Frank defended his Nazi clients very ably. He is a good emtor, and he has a certain personal appeal. Immacu Lately dressed. clean chaven....' with straight, dark hair brushed back, he looks almost a gentleman."--

When Hitler came into power Frank was first made Commissar for Justice in Bavaria, and later. Bavarian Minis- ter of Justice. Boon he gained for himself a reputation as the first Nazi leader to shock the world.

سلام

That was when the Reichstag, under Hiller, still contained Boctalizi M:P.. During a debate, Frank, preferring forco to argument, thrust. President Loebe, one of Germany's, must: viistin. guished Parliamentarians, from his seat and took his place. The scene created a sensation.

Then Frank, ventured out into the field of international polition. To the Austrian Nazis with whom the Austrian Government was then en- gaged in a deadly struggle, ho sent out messages of encouragement. Nexi he decided to go to Vienna himsLU.

to attend a jurisja gatherings.

The Austrian Government, through: its Ambassador, explained in Berlin that Frank's visit would not be ap- preciated, and politely asked whether the turbulent Nazi Minister could not atay at home.

But that did not stop Prank

I shall never forget the hour of his Arriva). The Austrian Nazis decided on a demonstration of welcome. Tha Austrian Government, on the other hand, had prepared a different recep- tion for Prant.

As soon as to stapped from his plane.. at the Vledna aerodromo, a hígti Aus-ˆ trian police official met him ond cx- pressed to him the Austrian Govern- ment's opinion that his visit WAN - - highly unwelcome and was regarded as very inopportuna."

Frank blushed; then all colour left. bis face. But he rallied, and with an angry gesture stepped to his car.

Since that day bo has been-used by kulkar as an agent provocateur. Ho sent out messages to illegal Nam

Ita threatened parties everywhere. Governments of weak States with Hitler-or destruction,

Ha coined the phrase of the "long knife," with which Jowa, and other; onemies of Nazism would be killed. Since then he has been known as the

"Long Knife of the Nazi Party.

It goes without saying that' 1936-30, the "Nazi Year of Action,” found him prominent in the International fold.. Again he attended Jurista" Congresses, * Orsi in Sudetenland, then? În ‘Danzig. On both occasions he was provocativo, rude. Everywhere he encouraged the Norl rebels.

Ito made ha last speech in Zappot, in Danzig territory: "Poland is lost,” he - said.

I am afraid it is white De: Prank la tIllier's Glovernor there.

WILLI PRIBOLLA UER

Page 30Page 31