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Each and every one that grows in this Colony has been planted under a re-afforestation scheme that started early last century.

The woman who may have started the war

Was Chosen. By

Hitler As A General's Bride.

HITLER

CHOOSES A BRIDE

FIELD-MARSHAL ΤΟΝ BLOM- BERG, Hitler's for.

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War Minister

Saturday, JANUARY 20,

1940

bels, called in Illmmler and the frame-up began.

Briku Grulin, a typist in the German War Office, who was working for Blomberg, was the girl chosen to aid in this schemo, The Field-Marshal, 69-years- old widower, was attracted by her youth and charm.

Yet Erika was no glamour girl. She never made up, used rouge or lipstick, her features were heavy, her figure stalwart,

In a few weeks the Fuehrer brought matters to a dramatic climax. He sent for Blomberg. He was cold and uncompromis Ing.

"If one of your subordinates found himself In a similar

Tem millel position," he said to Blomberg. "you would expect him to marry the girl. You should set tho example yourself,”

VON BLOMBERGİ

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It was an ordered marriage. Hitler agreed to attend the cere

as a witness. Goering was also invited.

cens of high rank.

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and favourite Army

1938, brought about a major to Erika Grün, daughter of Chief, was trapped into a disaster, for it led Hitler to dls Hamburg workman, I am in marriage with 24-years-old miss Blomberg us War Minister, position to answer to-day. mony shorthand typist Erika together with about seventy offl-

For I was attached to the Ger- Gruhn,

Since the publication of Sir Consequently a large body of man Propaganda Ministry when Nevile Henderson's report on the moderate and independent ad the marriage took place and I A FEW days afterwards all diplomatic events which took visers was eliminated from Ilit was kept in touch through official place during his last weeks as ler's entourage, and from that contacts with the background of read in its newspapers that the Britain's Ambassador to the day he came exclusively under political events. Reich, it has been widely said the influence of the wild men of that a woman was largely respon- his party, especially Ribbentrop, sible for the outbreak of the Goebbels and Himmler. present war,

X According to Sir Nevile, Field- Marshal von Blomberg's mar- WHETHER it is right to attri bute so much responsibility riage to Erika Gruhn in January,

Our Trees!

Ühe

Hongkong Telegraph.

Saturday, January 20, 1940. Wyndum St., Hongkong Telephone: 20015

Before then Hongkong was a bar- ren, desolate centre treeless and unsheltered.

Now, vandals, emboldened by oclai inaction, are destroying the greatest gut God has given us.

To us trees are living things, nature's limbs, which take fifty or more years le grow.

To hundreds of unmolested vandals whe roam our hillsides they are inanimate objects, tragically slaughtered with the chop of an

axe.

Nothing can compensate for this whole- sale destruction that is taking place.

Nothing can bring life anew to those countless stumps that dot the sides of the Peak and other hilis" of the Colany.---

Hongkong is justly proud of the work of its Botanical and Forestry Department, which has made this Colony so noticeably different from adjoining territories.

The trees have given colour, composiiton and relief to an otherwise drab island: have covered the mainland in a profusion of greenery that abruptly censes at the border.

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TO realise the extent of the vandalism that is now prevalent-that is des- troying the work of years-one must visit the locales in which the vandals' axes ring throughout the day and night.

Beggars in sacks; filthy, insolent and noisesome scum whom even the lowest Hongkong-bred coolies despise, comprise this

Army.

EDDIE (BLITZKRIEG KELLY

They are not Hongkong people: they are the scum of the refugees who have found, in despoiling the Colony that has given them shelter, a lucrative pastime from which only prison or deportation will make them desist.

The trees are cut and openly brought down into the clly, where they are sold for firewood to dealers who pay hut a fraction of their real value.

Not-dozens, not scores, not hundreds, but thousands of trees are sentenced to death in this fashion.

A very conservative estimate of the loss to the Colony is $500,000 per annum.

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WE also invite an official of the Sanitary Department to proceed along the Deepwater Bay Road towards Shouson Hil and Lady Clement's Drive-among the most picturesque parts of the Colony.

They will trend where knowing residents fear to tread..

The degradation of this beautiful area -is-horrifying.-

Human filth is contaminating an aren that should be a source of pride.

Human filth of vandals who destroy the beauty that inspired a poet lo once write "Where e'er you sit, trees crowd into a shade."

The preserving of timber in this Colony, as elsewhere, is a matter of greater import than the mere preservation of nesthetic- looking greenery in the hillsides.

In a place subject to long spells of dry weather, such as Hongkong is now experienc ing, conservation of growing trees and shrubs is a vital matter, particularly in catchment

areas.

It is in these arens that the greatest vandalism and pollution is occurring.

It must stop! · ·

BREAKS A LONG SILENCE HE WAS CACCED BY HIS FRIENDS) TO WRITE ABOUT-

-Well, You Tell Us What It's About!

TAVER SINCE Now

E' Fear's Eve we've

felt a wreck (Have you ever been wrecked, Uncle Eddie?) Yes, my love, many a time. We were a boat-swain —from "boat," mean- ing

and A bont, "swain," which is Oxford or Peak for "pig" on the A.8. Pinky-pinky, when we boarded by

were

pirates.

It is tot the first time we had been boarded by pirates. We stayed in a well-known boarding- house once and, anyway, the food was rolton and baggage. they kept our (Get on with the wreck, Unka).

Well, the red bleed of the skipper, was running down the scuppers." And the fight was going very hot and strong, so wo sword threw ' AWAY OUT and,

airing overboard,

wo swam through starving sharks about fifteen feet long.

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And if that's not poetry as good as that stuif you see in the sometimes "South Chinu Moring Post" we won't write on- other thing. When we landed

the strand there was not helping hand to grab us from the ocean's hungry

maw. But with feelings strictly moral,. we

grabbed plece of Coral" (you can't keep this poetry up}; she, was the lovellcat girl we over saw. Honour being satisfied wo will now, get on with this tale.

WU.

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We awoko „next hwmm- ing on the beach with the hot sun burning down on We immediately started to search for Flotsam and Jelsam, two. of the crew who might have escaped the reperal 'disorganisation occasioned by the piratical blitzkries. They were not to be found. There was only a plano, an axe," a pair of asparagus tongs, and a

life-size portrait of Mr. Hore-Belisha with a re- signed look on his face, Not a drop of toothpaste was washed up.

By the way, If any of our readers want to and to getting an easy way washed up on the imah's day off, get wrecked,

About this time we dis- covered the footprint. This convinced us that there was someone else on the island with a foot. So we staggered off into .the jungle.

A

By now

we have beard which makes, the Jungle look like the KB.G.C. Inwna. In the centre of the island, wal n spring. We were wind- Ing it up when a herd of natives towed up in their cataracts, or compass or saucepans or whatever, the hell you call. the Bings, and landed on the beach? Hostly pulling our beard around us, we WILE= led up and looked like a coconut tree,

We were discovered by one of the cannibal, who

wanted to be quite friend- ly. However, we escaped. that we It was then discovered the owner of the footprint. She was a called small girl, so we her Saturday-Saturday being a half-day.

and Bo

It was strange how we were rescued. Years and years went by, sign of a sail. We were standing one day on the beach with our thirty-five children when we sighted a ship on the horizon, We were rescued. Hurrah! But the worst was to come. Our rescue ship," wo discovered,, was com- Ing to Hongtong. We tried lo Jump overboard `again and return to our Saturday, but the Editor Insisted that il Was Wednesday and, borides, Chinese New Year, I only a week or so off, and what we're going to do' about next month's pay him got un puzzled-berides it's si o'clock, BO we reckon we've done a fair" dày'a work, which reminds us thatg

Germany was surprised to

50-years-old Field-Marshal had Here is the real story behind married his young typist at a this marriage. It is a story of register office. Hitler's duplicity towards his Blomberg's colleagues-the own friends.

Army chiefs-were scandalised, Himmler's agents got busy to The Field-Marshal did not fall add fuel to the flames. A re. in love with the typist, but actually fell into a trap which Erika Gruhn's former career in port purporting to den! with had been cunningly set for him Hamburg-it was far from com- by Himmler

and his Gestapo plimentary to the girl-was spics.

handed to General von Fritschi And behind the trap was the who took it to Hitler himself. Fuchrer himself. Not only did Hitler, livid with rage, there- Hitler advise Blomberg to marry upon accused Fritsch of insub- hinted Erika--advice which had to be ordinate practices and taken as a command-but he that the matter was not at an exploited the scandal which the end.

marriage aroused to get an ex- cuse to "sack" Blomberg and other Army generals.

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SHORTLY afterwards Fritsch

was placed in what is called THE story begins in 1933 when a state of arrest by the Gestapo and deprived of his office as Hitler first came into power Commander-in-Chief. and appointed his friend Blom Later recalled, he was in the berg as War Minister. In 1937 fighting line before Warsaw Blomberg was sent to London as when he was shot in the back leader to the German delegation by an officer in Himmler's Black at the Coronation.

Guards.

On his return home, he ad- And what of Field-Marshal vised against the continuance of von Blomberg? German military intervention in Five days after the marriage Spain, and in this view he was his ninety-year-old mother sud- supported by General von denly died as a result of the Fritsch, Commander-in-Chief. shock which the news had given

From that moment Blomberg her.

vas

suspect. The malicious Soon after, Blomberg and the Goebbels told Hiller that Blom- young bride who had caused a berg had been "got at" while in military unheaval in Germany England, Hitler, believing Goeb- left for Italy.

OF COURSE YOU KNOW-

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YOUR 1.Q. (Intelligence Quotient) should have trouble in coping with this week's 25. They're nicely general, with not too much of this and just enough of that. Also, let me state,

8-If you wanted to observe the habits of Sinhalese in their native surroundings you would have to rơ 10:-

Senegal; Malaya; Ceuton: Mexico; Sinhal; Senegamba; St. Helena.

Purely is a figure of speech.

there's not by any means a mare's next refers to:— too much of the

other.

Just as you will see, a happy ..set of mediums which should

be no trouble at all.

For the guidance of new comers, the top score is 50. You take two points for each correct answer. Average score 30-40, above average. 40-50.

1-llcre is a quotation from the Scriptures. Fill in the blank spaces to make it read correctly:-

"Are not

A, Chinese delicacy; a fancied .discovery; a hast of enemics; a

Rubjcet raised to distract atten-, tion, a tark beyond, one's strength, 10 The ship in which Captain Ilobert Falcon Beolt made hist voyage to the Anfarcile was named The

Novd Discovery; Enterprise;

·Terra; Eucounter: Wyatt Earp; Polar Star.

11.

Study your nilas carefully and you will flad that the Morea is 10-

Greece; Turkey: Hungary: Yugoslavia, Bulgaria; Rurnania. 12.- Queth Murgatroyd: If there la one thing I like more than another it is a dish of piping-hot moluccas usually for breakfast" Sald I: "You're

and. rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel?"

2-Safety malelies arc

manufactured from two of these being ridiculous again. Molucena.

woods. Pick the two-

Cedar; willow; teak: ebony asper; pine; cal; ash. 3.--Lord's, where the Empire's cricket tycoons' get together

on accasions, is in London, of course, but being more explicit, it is In

Kensington; Chelsea; St. John's Wood: Fulham; Wembley; Shep- herd's Bush; Putno 4.Doadlees, Queen of the Iceni, gave the Ronians a few headacher until they liquidated her. The stamping-ground of Beadleca and her Xceni tribe was?— .

Kent; East Anglia; Wessex; Wales; Northumbria; Devon; Cornwall,

are:

Shell-flah; #all 'pearticles;" teeth; East Indian islands; treacle from sugar-cane,

13.—As Hiffer said about the Allied blockado: "It's enough to make an Iron cross Wilch brings us to the story this week of the Soviet sicamer Senegal, which was brought into Hongkong with a cargo of wolfram, Wolfram, of course, bi aboard. valuable because il

Is used to manufacture ̈ex- a wolf's howl; plosives; emits producci qus for airships; con taina tungsten; is useful for harting at cals; cures diphtheria, 14Leader of the Labour Oppo

After the Romans suppressed sition in the House of Commons li her warriors, Boadicen met an un one Clemens Robert Aities, who fimely earl, by:

the

Burning the usord; drown ing: taking poison; crucifixion 0-Aane Is the least-known; three Bronte atlers, but she could write books, too. Ifer beet work it-- Wuthering Heipsta; Jane Eyre; ·' Agnew Grey; Shirley: Villette. Wizard of the North label which his admirers, generally

tag on

Thomas Carluté; Robert Burna; Sir Walter Scott Robert, Loule Stevenson: Sir Harry ·Lauder;.

fought in the war of 1914–1918 and attained the rank of

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