1940-01-18 — Page 4

Tell

Tale

Eyes

To put off middle-age” in the future or to recapture the youth you have lost, be careful NOW!

Eye-baths with Optrex will tone up the muscles to that eye-strain will not cause ugly wrinkles. They will wash away the germs that cause red- ness, awelling and Tack-lustre dull- Optrex will retain and restore for you the sparicle and freshness of youth,

ness.

Optrex is a relentle lotion for the eyes, recommended by Doctors & Opticians everywhere. It is perfectly tafe-even for the most sensitive eyes. Whether you wear glasses or not, you should have sour epea examined regular ly by a Qualised Practitioner.

Obtainable at all Chemists.

Optrex

BRAND

EYE LOTION

SOLE DISTRIBUTORS:

A. 5. WATSON & CO., LTD. HONG KONG.

PIANOS of QUALITY

ON EASY TERMS

ADULTS WHO SEEK RELAXATION FROM THE WORRIES OF MODERN LIFE WILL FIND IT MOST EASILY ATTAINED IN MAKING A COMPANION OF A PIANO.

*

THE PIANO IS EASY TO LEARN AND BECOMES A LIFE LONG FRIEND,

MAKE YOUR CHOICE A

"MOUTRIE"

IT COSTS NO MORE

AND IS THE FINEST INSTRUMENT IN THE FAR EAST

S. MOUTRIE & CO.,

YORK BUILDING

LTD.

CHATER ROAD.

HA"QUARTER-MILLION LETTERS DEMANDED HE BE STARRED! OFT-TIME WINNER IN SCREEN POPULARITY CONTESTS! NOW HE GETS HIS FIRST BIG OPPORTUNITY AS A STAR!

RICHARD GREENE

in a great performance ...in a great rolo...in a groot dramatic picturel

Here I am

a Stranger

RICHARD DIX BRENDA JOYCE

The sensoriond discovery of "The Rains Come ROLAND YOUNG GLADYS GEORGE "Kotharine Aldridge Russell Glemon · Ösorge Zucca » Edward Norria Henry Kolker by Ray Deliah, Asociate Bruchecar Harry las braun - Sarvan Play by Mitten Ipering and Ian Helmen i "The Shattant Song" by Mack Darden and Harry Revol

A 20th Centuryfex Hours - Darryl 7. Zanuck in Gauge at Products OT

TO-MORROW AT-

THE

KING'S

PHOTOGRAPHS of the children become Increasingly precious with the passing will years. They, too, in later

years, approdate the record of their childhood.

MAKE AN APPOINTMENT TO-DAY

MEE CHEUNG

PHOTOGRAPHERS 15, 23, Ice House Street. Tal, 26379.

Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

GOOD USED CARS

The Following Are Avaliable

And Ready To Drive Away-

ilman Minx Saloon-193D Model (0,614 miles) ..(Sold) $2,800 Hillmon Minx Saloon-1930 Matel

.(14,803 miles)

Chrysler Roadster-1030 Model

(14,823 miles)

$2,400

$2,000

Ford 10 Saloon-1039 Model

(4,800 miles) ..(Sold) $2,350

All The Above Cars Carry The. Hongkong Hotel Garage Guarantee &

Service

also.

Hillman Minx-1835 Model.. $1,200

(a good serviceable car).

Inspection and Trial Invited

HONGKONG HOTEL

GARAGE

Btubbs Road

The

'Phones 27778-0.

Hongkong Telegraph.

Thursday, January 18, 1940.

Wyndham St., Hongkong

Telephone: 20015

THE pre "Special to the Telegraph" is used by the "Itongkong Telegraph to indieate news which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuol callons Drainance, 1916. Buch news bears the Indication "UP" je received in flongkang on the date of publication by Usa United Preis Associations, who re- serva all rights and forbid republication. either wholly or in part without previous arrangement,

Neutrality Zones

January 18, 1940.

LOCKED!

British

Navy

U.S.A.

ARSENAL

Cash and Carry

ADOLF LOCKED OUTI

(With profound apologies to Mrs. Anna Lea Merritt's famous picture, "Love Locked Out," in the Tate Gallery.)

NAZI

RADIO

BLUNDERBUSS

The American Republics which on October 2 declared the exist-languages. The experience ence of a 300-mile security zone has been depressing rather round their coasts have protested than irritating. to Germany, Britain, and France -unsuccessfully in the case of the latter, 48 the British reply, published yesterday, discloses against the activities of their

warships in that area.

The career and the end of the Admiral Graf Spee are the main

cause. The

elcar protest ส

✩ ☆

cnough, but it makes ho" ctcarer" "FROM-the babel of broadcasts the means for enforcing the oi-Dutch and other languages three in German, English, French,

servance of the security zone or, indeed, the legal basis of its existence.

There is the breath of a possible sanction in the proposal; as yet undecided, to prevent ships which have committed warlike acis in the "from supplying themselves and repairing damages in Ameri- can ports."

arca

But what

Thus the. German version of any action has achloved a world- wide circulation several hours before British and French com- muniques provide a corrective.

quently vague.

Doubtless there are sound

be

"Has Britain over produced a great general? No; she gets foreignora to do her fighting. But, you may say, there are two great soldiers on whom she prides herself Mark borough and Wellington: The truth strips them of their glamour. Marlborough's bat- tles were won for him by the German. Prince Eugen, Wol lington's by the Prussian Bluecher. Britain loves war, but she does not breed war- riors. Her politicians are great only in making wars and selzing the booty.". This example is milder than -nost,-but-it-is-typical-of-their-

casts. They

her alliance with Britain. ary friends across the Rhine.' doubted. The listener is fre- Nazis wished to disprove the

Then

the

INCE the outbreak of WHEN the scene shifts from have been shot down. This com- from Berlin. Suddenly, between the world stage to Britain: munique is usually twice repeat- two movements of a symphony, war I have almost daily

unheralded voice begins to itself, all is ruin and despair. ed by the announcer at slow an spent several hours lis- Mr. Churchill heads a clique of dictation speed, so that foreign denounce Britain or to warn tening to Nazi radio pro- Jewish financiers who are lead- newspapers and radio stations France. A challenging question paganda programmes in ing the nation to its doom. Busi which may not have received the is the usual introduction: both German and foreign ness life, crippled (already) by bulletin through the news agen next year's taxes, is collapsing. cies may take down and re grip of fear. Crime stalks the The whole population is in the produce it. blacked-out streets.

German public opinion, insu- 'Propaganda, essentially a wea- pon to be used with finesse, lated for six years from free becomes in German hands a contact with the outside world, blunderbuss. The report is loud, may be fortified in its patriotism Moreover, the latter are fre the charge diffused, the effect by such a picture. incalculable, but certainly not conviction can it carry with. lethal. Indeed, the ineptitude of anyone who has followed recent reasons for this lack of informa- Nazi propaganda must in, many events or who knows England 7 tiveness on the Allied aide. The quarters recoil to the advantage Its very exaggeration must sure German High Command must of the Allies.

ly insinuate doubt into the mind be as disappointed as are news. of the most confirmed Anglo- paper readers and radio listen- phobe.

ers, One cannot put aside the Still more perfidious does

man claims made in.

ms made in such preciso directed to France. The solemn terms are deliberate attempts to style and method. There is no. Albion appear in the broadcastspicion that some of the Gar-

Nazi aims emerge:

Berlin voice which daily delivers sting the Allies, by way of escaping these thumbnail broad- dart suddenly "warnings" and "advice" to the denial, into disclosing vital in- (1) To magnify Germany's

French still gives the impression formation. "Where is the Ark out of the ether, and have de military and diplomatic that they are not yet involved Royal?" asks the Beriin radio livered their message almost before an unwilling listener can achievements;

in the war. But in the back and still waits for an answer switch off his set. (2) To blacken Britain's name. ground lurks a wicked English- Nevertheless, the effectiveness

Some of the feature broad- in the eyes of the world; man; prodding them on wien his of the German method in many casts are staged with claborate (B) To shake France out of umbrella to attack their heredit- neutral quarters cannot

striving for effect. When the numerous broadcasts quently confronted with

boimbing of the monastery What effect is this daily and

nim at arousing neutral opinion choice between a prompt and at Czestochowa, "the Polish nightly outpouring likely to This would come near to ignor-tries? In estimating the degree form of daily reports declaring the accuracy of either, which is and assembled the monastery have, especially in neutral coun- against the Allies-or, rather, precise bulletin and a vague and Lourdes," they brought the against Britain. These take the belated one. Unable to check abbot himself to the microphone, ing international law for the sake of success with which Germany that the contraband control is he more likely to believe?

choir to provide a melodious new declaration which has is pursuing her aims over the strangling the economic life of The remainder of the Nazi background to his translated not been internationally accepted. ether I make a clear distinction Holland, Belgium and the Scan- news bulletins must be the more denials that his community had

The right of warships to enter between the news bulleting and

reassuring to the German public been touched by the war. the frankly propagandist broad- neutral porta through strass of

Americans-but, never Ameri- and convincing to at least a large casts. For the news bulletins weather or damage has long been still preserve an apparent ob- a come in for attacks which body of neutral opinion because. admitted, and it was confirmed in jectivity. In particular, the daily are the more bitter because they they contain little German news

have noticed the extent to the Hague Convention of 1907.-

communique of the High Com-re personal. The most violent and are often devoted exclusively mand is presented in the form attack I have heard the Nazis to extracts from the, foreign which foreign residents are lend- Internmont has been ordered of unvarnished statements not make on any individual since Press. Only the fact that ob- ing themselves to the purposes of small of Nazi propaganda. It was on only when warships sought to reft susceptible to immediate dis- the war began was launched scure. newspapers

against Mr. H. R. Knickerbocker, countries, contribute so largely American journalist who intor themselves not for sailing but for proof.

the American newspaper cor. to these daily surveys insinuates viewed at the microphone a man fighting. This wan the only

Unless experience teaches lis- respondent, following his revel in well-informed minds a sus said to be the commander of the reason for the fate which overtook teners not to place reliance on ations about the Nazi party picion that the whole truth is submarins which sank the Royal the Russian cruisers taking refuge official German news, these bul- leaders fortunes abroad. The not being reflected.

Sceptre,, posing with assumed In Shanghai and Saigon, in Fronch letins will continue to exert an epithets applied to him made Germany receive the impres--innocence leading questions effect far more powerful than Mr. Churchill appear by com- sion that they are encircled by which enabled the interviewer Indo-China, after their crippling in that of any other form of Nazi parlaon a model of unstained applauding neighbours. Critical to say everything which the the encounter with the Japanese propaganda. They have so far Integrity. Yet Mr. Knicker- neutrals must often be made to Nazis wished to "put over." It in 1904.

been concerned almost entirely backer was not attacked as an believe that they are obstinately was another American who de with trumpeting Germany's American, but as a hireling of standing aside from the main livered an attack on the ver

intentions.

Such is the substance of the unanimously pro-Nazi.

A foreigner, who if not Ainerl-" The Nazl's other two objec- German broadcasts. Their me- Seldom have I heard quoted can is certainly a non-German tives of blackguarding Britain thod is worth closer analysis; in these surveys any of the great who learnt his English in the and shaking the Anglo-French for amusement at the clumsy organs of European opinion, United States, daily broadcasts `vituperative ⠀änti- Alliance are pursued with the excesses of much Nazi propa- never yet, an American news. the most noisy exaggerations and the ganda should not blind Britain paper,

British propaganda to the ."ladies and gentlemen of the worst, mis-statements of pure to the real skill with which some

Far East" During the past few propaganda. The effect is too of it is "put over.":" ludicrous to be dangerous, Bri-

TEIS spurious objectivity of daya a Danish woman, a Dutch tain holds the world stage in a

the news bulletins is in woman and a Hungarian journ 24-hours non-stop melodrama TAKE again the news broad direct contrast with the blatancy alist have come to the micro- entitled "The Villain,” Britnin casts. The effectiveness of of the propaganda talks and phono to assure listeners that forced the unwilling Poles to the High Command's daily com-rother broadcast features. The they get plenty to eat, and that resist Junt German demands munique is enhanced because it Nazis have adopted a clever the murale of the German civil which they were clamouring to is lasued early in the day, and means of forcing listeners to population is splendid." concede. Britain is dragging because it gives precise details hear these. At frequent inter- Such Intervention must fur France to equally certain dis- of the fighting, the numbers of vals two-minute propaganda ther fortify Germans in the de aster in the West. The war is enemy casualties and places talks are interjected into the lusion that the whole neutral Britain's sole responsibility, where aircraft are claimed to excellent musical programmes world is on the side of the Nazis.

of n

dinavian countries, a

ANY listeners to Berlin must

Nothing in law provonla belli-"guccesscs" and her peaceful the British "Ministry of Lies." current of world opinion, almost acity of the "New York Times."

gorants engaging each ollior more than three miles from American consta and, if afterwards they entered an American port in damaged state, the law would be set aside if they were immediately internod.

A large part of American opinion realises this and regrets the Panama decision. Britain and Franco woll understand the American wish to keep the war, which we deplore as much as thay, far from their shores. The safety of the seas anywhore is in our Intercat, but only when it is anäured can wo ho at eass,