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WSIT the: German

attitude to food rationing was very

much our own. It was approached

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Hitler has lost, in the Admiral Graf Spee, one of the most valuable warships in his fleet.

What of the remainder? Will they be as easy to trap as the Admiral Graf Spee? Has Hitler many such ships? These topical questions are answered below.

H

ITLER is trying to con- vince the world that Germany Is

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naval Power. His propa- gandists have claimed that Ger- many now commands the North Sen.

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unrest had appeared, and it became more stringent as the war went on. This time the German Government has started from the other end: Food

rationing was brought in from the start of the war and it has been extended since.

It is now on an At the extremely elaborate scale. same time there is an equally com- In plicated rationing of clothing. Britain the Government takes it as a virtue that English people do not have to put themselves to much in- convenience to meet the needs of the war and avoids rationing like the i plague. The Germans take the op-i posite standpoint. Their Govern- ment boasts that it puts the serew on hard at the beginning. Now, i claims with pride. It is possible toj relax a little. This no doubt is the! consequence of the unexpected course of the war; thu Germans counted no more than we did such a relatively inactive war, and it is characteristic that they should at-i tribute the relaxations (such as they are) to the superior courage of the Fuhrer's administrative measures rather than to the unpredicted way the war has developed.

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It is Important in estimating German strength and weakness to keep in mind the thoroughness of this organisation 011 the home front. Rationing is only one aspect of it. The Germon worker has been com- pelled to give up his eight-hour day. and is working a normal ten-hour day at the same time rates. But he is now to receive the concession that his extra earnings are not to be taken away from him by taxation and that if, exceptionally, he does) work an eleven or twelve-hour day he wit get his old overtime.. Koll- days were stopped, but are now toj be reintroduced. The ten-hour day! Is to be sweetened by the generali establishment of works canteens and,

four or five 35,000-ton battleships which were laid down in Hamburg. and 1938. They were scheduled to Kiel and Willielawhaven in 1037

be completed in 1941-42. They may

be

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RETREAT TO AND FROM MOSCOW

What is

Hitler's Navy?

by Willi FRISCHAUER

Graf Spee-was one of the last German warships to visit a British port. She attended the Coronation

re time being Germany's Naval Review in 1937. biggest battleship is the Scharn- horst, of 20,000 tons with nine 11. and twelve 5.9ln, guns, thirty AA. guns, four aircraft and two cata-

The Scharnhorst is certainly a formidable vessel. But so was her "sister ship, the Gnelsenau, which was certainly seriously damaged, and may have been sunk outright, in the British air raid on Wilhelms- haven.

There are, of course, better and more carefully built German war- ships. With the construction of these ships litter and his Nazis had little to do. They were planned

and laid down before he came to power. They are known as Ger- many's pocket battleships, the Deutschland, the Admiral Scheer, and the Admiral Graf Spec.

Only two of these remarkably efficient ships of 10,000 tons now remain. One the Deutschland,

The le known to be at sea. Admiral Graf Spee is destroyed. No out knows where the Ad- miral Scheer is at present.

Their captains and crew can hardly be proud of the tasks to which Hitler put them in the past, The Deutschland was sent to Spain during the Civil War. She had no business there and Hitler is the only one to blame because a Spanish plane bombed her by mis- tako, killing twenty of the crew and wounding seventy.

Hitler's revenga for this mishap was a typical example of frightful- ness. He sent the Admiral Scheer to bombard the defenceless Span- ish town Almeria.

Almeria was destroyed, innocent women and children were killed. The world was shocked.

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The Deutschland encountered British Navy, before this war began. During the crisis in May she made suspicious moves in the Mediterranean. The British battle- ship Huod nover left her until she reached German waters.

The third of the group-Admiral

The rest of Hitler's fleet cannot compare with the British Navy. The Nuernberg and the Leipzig. both of 6,000 tons, are his two out- standing cruisers.

With the Koenigsberg, model for another class of German war- ships, the visited Portsmouth a few years ago. The Koenigsberg, how- ever, does not always wait for an invitation. She gate-crashed the British naval and air manoeuvres off the East Coast in 1938.

A little smaller, but highly em- slent too, is the Emden, 6,400 tons with eight 5.0in. guns and four tor- pedo tubes, namesake of the Ger man raider which made her name during the Great War.

could tell you about many other Nazi ships: about the Koeln, which was on a world-cruise when Hitler came to power and was the Arst German ship to be greeted by

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the Fuehrer; about the Schleswig, which is only a training ship, bulit in 1900, but is put to sea as a war- ship like her sister-ship Schleswig Holstein.

Soon there may be a number of new German warships ready, big- ger than all those mentioned. The Bluecher and the Admiral Hipper were on the Nazis' 1938 programme. The Prinz Eugen was launched only recently.

There are also destroyers of a smaller size-the D. von Roeder class and the Man's class-tor- pedo boats, most of them built in 1926, depot-ships, mine-sweepers. "escort and patrol vessels and ten-

ders. Two aircra

Two aircraft-carriers, each for 40 aircraft, are being

built.

The most difficult craft in the Nazi Navy to assess are the sub- marines. There were 15 ocean going submarines when the war started. The total number of German sub- marines was roughly 60,

More than 20 of them were sunk by the British and French Navies within seven weeks. Twenty had to return to their home bases for re- pairs. The rest are silli at large,

But there will not be many Nazl submarines to bring Hitler any good news for Christmas,

...and who

are his soldiers?

OME Tories in this country- even perhaps some of those who rule us-would like to see the old " military masters" of Ger- many return to their full power.

Certainly, any mane man could well prefer the narrow and brutal, but honourable and dutiful, tradi- tions of the Prussian officer class.

But a book published to-day. The German Army, by Herbert Rosinski (Hogarth Press, 128. Od.), reveals; with terrible precision, the decay and death of that old trad!- tion, and the mergence of men in the leadership of the German army whose fute it is to be domin- ated and destroyed by the criminal tyranny they helped to fasten on their country.

Dr. Herbert Rosinuski was until re- tenlly an instructor in the theory of warfare at a German Staff College; ho is an admirer of tlle rent aristocratic that used to rule the

by the giving of extra food allow dangerous to assume that these mea- tradition unces through the factories, allow-sures of control on the home front German officer class. It is because ho unces which will be used in the are so stiff that the German workera refugee. main for the canteen meals. Extra,

holds to this tradition that bo`ls a

From the inside, ns the personal, meumialarice of generats, and a trusted oficiat of the War Ministry not only is now to be given again. Women ment to note them as examples of the before Hiller's success to power, but for are only exceptionally to work at

three years after it, he falls a story of energy with which Germany intriguo, reaction, selfishness and nights. Christmas-boxes are to re- throwing her organised strength into muting appear. Compulsion to work is only the war. And although her methods the Parliamentary system and their Pighting against each other, against to be applied "after the most careful may not be ours her energy and for German my tried to use Titler as a own'Governments, the leaders of the sight are something we should be: sooly foolish to despise.

WING ON CO., LTD. pay for night work was stopped out must be driven inevitably towards revolt. It would be a wiser judg-

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They had, long before, paid him to

be their agent in the petty politics of Munich beer-halia. Now they tried to make him, in Dr. Resinaki's words, "A political cover to camouflage both the rearmament and the military dictator- ship" that they desired.

These officers thought of themselves "real dictators behind the as the Nazi dictatorship. Whenover a clif pute arose between themselves and Ittler, they referred the question to old Von Hindenburg, the President.

A Look Through

The "Telegraph"

50 YEARS AGO

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Duc. 19, 1583. The prisoner who escaped from the ebnin-gang nt Kennedytown in June last year pleaded guilty. He was serv- ington

imprisonment, menting in 1883, at the time, and was ordered to complete his sentence and afterwards undergo two years further imprisonment.

years

25 -YEARS AGO

Dec. 19, 1914. Itisocially announced that, in vlaw. of the state of war arising from the action of Turkoy, Egypt will henceforth constitute a British Protectorate. The suzerainty of Turkey is thus terminated. The British Government will adopt all measures necessary for the defence of Egypt and the protection of the in- habitants.

Although it is not to be expected that motion pictures can be secured which show

acance of aeteal fighting In Europe, it is antinfactory to know that the kinematograph is placing on record incidents in the great crisis which wil not only prove of much intorcat in. of years to come but which havO, course, great attraction at the present time, Kinematography has reached n wonderful scientific pitch and its por sibilities appear to be unlimited. It is a form of entertainment which requires no ald to ensure its general apprecfa- tion, whether to intorest, instruct or ambie; animated photography in Over obliging.

10 YEARS AGO

Dec. 19, 1929. Baying that all who had given earnest conaldaration to British naval neede viewod the proposed reduction of, crulver tonnage with apprehension, Earl Bently, one of Britain's foremost naval. commanders in the Great War, Issued a warning-against precipitato naval dis nemament, in the House of Lords yeL- terday. He declared that Britain was approaching the London Naval Confer- ence with figures representing « dariger- Our minimum in cruisers. The advent of a German 10,000-ton warship, so fast and powerfully armed that a battle. cruiser was the only effective counter. was mentioned during the discussion.

February, 1930, will mos a complete change in the telephone exchange sys- tem of Hongkong. Then the automaties will supersade the present system.

There

many blocks Chinese houses being bullt on the now Prays reclamation, and also in other parts of the Colony, It is a dligrace to allow some of these houses to be built in the way they are.

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By that means, for example, they Rot Oeneral von Fritsch oppointed Chief of the Army Command against Hitler's wishes. Fritsch blocked Rochm's plans for amalgamating the army and the Storm Troops.

Then Hindenburg was known to be dying. Who would now arbitrate? They planned to get kier completely in their power by forcing him to murder his own friends, the so-called revolitionery wing of his party.

For weeks they haggled in secret over the lists of those to bo assaA- ninated, ter accepted their terms, He murdered Rochim, his personal friend; hnd thousands of others shot.

But Hitler, by taking old Von Hirten.could be discussed. burg's place, and by using the Gestapo and the B.8, to control the army, be- came the Generala" minster, not their tool.

The men who had haggled with him over names for death in 1034 were Von Momberg and Fritsch, then ali- powerful in the Army To-day Von Blomberg is in prison. Pritsch was kiled. In mysterious circumstances.

The other lenders of the German Army have step by step surrendered to Nasitom. They cannot now escapo,

7. W.

of now

In view of the widespread disappoint- ment felt that Hongkong did not thin year compete in, the Interport RIA» Shoot, Mr. C. I. Hammer, the late Bacretary of the Hongkong Hilfe League, and others' approached Mr. H. Wylie with a view to calling a meeting of those previously connected with the Languent which the question of xv. suscitating the Leagus and making ar- rangements for futura interport, events

5 YEARS AGO

Dec. 10, 1934.. In the provenen of the Emperor, Ike Japanese Privy Council plenary session to-day unanimously approved Japan'a decision to abrogate the Washington Treaty.

Further restrictions on the supply of water on the fuland are to come Into fored at from Friday. The revised hours of supply will besfrom 6.masa to 11 am, and from 4 pm. to 9 p.m.::Kow- Toon fa not affected by the curtallmänt..”