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LONDON LETTER
Air Mail News From
The Empire Capital
THE prefix "Special to the Telegraph" LONDON. In their new and ad- brother, Mr. Elmar Borenius,
mirable campaign of "taking the former Finnish diplomat and a
scholar,
lives Ministers classical under the provisions of the Telecommuni public Into confidence"
is used by the Hongkong Telegraph to Indicate news which is strictly copyright
cations Ordinance, 1006, Buch news an hears the indication "Up" is received in Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who. To- serve all rights and forbid republication, either wholly or in part without previous Arrangement.
The War At Sea
convoys;
sinkings by a third, by two-thirds, by five-sixthe, till now we have them reduced to almost nothing.
of the newspapers.
I suggest that the Ministers shquid now address the same request to their own colleagues in charge of the three Services.
Swedish army.
now
I
Ano
in
have sought and obtained the advice Sweden, and has two sons in the
* Sailing Ships IJARDLY than a dozen of the The hold-up of news which would Home-typy calling ships are be stimulating to the people is severe. in commission to-day. None of them The hold-up of pictures is merely now belongs to Britain. senseless.
been published.
mine-infested seas.
опе But
has
Joseph Conrad was once chief officer
Hitler's Wireless Offensive
the more subile German
ACCORDING to experts exclaimed the French announcer.
in London, who devote propagandists do not usually expose themselves to a day-by-day themselves to the chance of such a
decisive refutation. analysis of world broad-
One of the most popular forms casting, Hitler himself adapted by them is to ransack re-
Commissions ports of ofleint directs German wireless investigation, letters to the Times" propaganda.
of the
people concerned.
of
the social,.
in
for admissions and criticisms which, when taken from thelo contexts, give The German Chancellor the required false impression. A long-forgotten disturbance and to Though the Navy must be 1
After Two Days
Not all of them are sailing the long ago recognised the im-evourite trick is to resurrect come silent Service, its actions are soon Yesterday the evening newspapers already gone down-the Olive Bank,portance of this form of link it in a broadcast with a. recent British statement (often officini) on declared by regulia. The war at reported the authoritative figures of a Swedish four-master, built in Bri-warfare and in his text toen mal-nutrition or poverty, so sea has been progressively more U-boot prisoners. Pictures of these tain, which struck u mine in the book, "Mein Kampf", while giving the impression of brutal sup- disastrous to German plans. In the men being brought ashore were actu- carly weeks of the war,
pression and exploitation. The most They In the last seven days, we learn only uneally available on Sunday.
last war a number of these criticising the type of pro- effective answer in such cases is not Jack Jackson's Orch. British ship, and that a small vessel
were not released until this morning ships were sunk,
I learn from a source that is un- I was looking to-day at a painting Peganda carried out by Ger- a laborious and long-winded analysis has been sunk by the U-boat attack.
composite falschood, but a Six Eight. BD6631-Till the Lights of London Shine Again. FT....Jackson's Orch. Our losses in the first week of the deniable that more than a thousand by Mr. Jock Spurling of the Colling-many during the last war as positive statement of what has netu
official war pictures have been taken wood, the wool clipper which was ..... Jack Hylton's Orch. month, when the German Admiralty in France by one photographer alone. sunk by the Germans in 1917. crude and inept, he dis-ally been achieved for
had all its available submarines A handful, from all sources, have The enemy crew had sunk acussed at some length, the economic and political welfare of the Jack Hylton's Orch. lurking, posted beforehand, for a
French ship just before, and her form which he considered deadly stroke against our Mercantile
store of wine had gone to their Jack-Hylton's Orch...Maring_on_its_normal, individua),
heads. So the crew of the Colling- such propaganda should
URING the past few weeks the unprotected voyages, were 65,000
Grand Duke {ll
wood were treated with & boisterous
take.
propaganda offensive against the Prompt .....Hal Kemp's Orch. tons.
counter-offensive,
THE Grand Duke Dmitri, nephew lack of ceremony, and were allowed
But Hitler's conscience in re-t is, broadly speaking, carried out to British Empire has been intensed. hunting the U-boats with destroyers of the late Tsar and a popular only ten minutes in which to leave Samy Kaye's Oreh. and aircraft and organising of figure in the clubs of London, is the ship.
gard to his later actions in inspire contempt for the Empire in Conrad Was On Officer diminished the weekly in a Swiss sanatorium.. He has been
Europe, in spite of his asser-neutral countries and to induce a Larry Clinton's Orch.
there for nearly three months. Another of Mr. Spurling's pictures tions to the contrary, is not sense of guilt among the people of Owing to the war he is cut off on view in a Park-lane gallery shows altogether clear and his propa-suspicion and discontent anywhere
Britain itself as well as to foment: Artie Shaw's Orch.
from his family and friends and the "highbrow" Torrens in which ganda, clever as some of it un- the Empire where the local situation: clamours for English news. .Tommy Dorsey's Orch.
It is not to be supposed that this The Grand Duke is 18 years old and John Galsworthy was a passen-doubtedly is, almost invariably appears to provide an opportunity.
Her from Adelaide to Capetown in betrays this mental weakness. The picture drawn is that of the ..Dorothy Lamour, immunity will be continuous. tier- and has one son.
many will assuredly do ber utmost understand that certain members the nineties.
It also retains an astonishing Empire in a state of decay and by the first show of Mr amount of that same crudeness the iden will be to 'uso a commer This is
continual suggestion It is hoped that Fats Waller's Orch. to renew the attack and we must of the Russian colony in France have
been Interned. Others, numbering Spurling's work. He himself died be prepared for further lost. But two thousand, are serving in the six years ago, after seven years at of 1914-1918 which he himself jeal term "sold" to the people con the losses which the German gub-
of such a French army.
sea, a period on the stage, and a deplored so strongly.
cerned. The acceptance murine servies has suffered will be│*
London Schomo
lifetime spent in painting
wide-spread: picture would have very hard to repair. It is
effect. It would allenate sympathy The Grand Duke Dmitri is unable favourite sailing ships." CHATER ROAD. authoritively estimated to-day that to interest himself in their welfare But
THIS makes the task before and in some cases might invite at-
the something like half the larger as he would have liked to do.
tack on
part of powerful. the British and French neutrals. U-boats which Germany had afloat Prince Vsevolod of Russia, and his Chief Big Game Hunter
annual dinner of the Boone transmitting stations somewhat In Britain itself it might have the sky, have launched a scheme in London to supply them with clothes in New York. But this year the of tackling German offensive confidence in their traditional place So far as is known, Germany then and other necessities.
president will be missing, for he is but the best one, it is
In the world, while in India and had about 70 submarines completed, The Princess is collecting bales of Major Kermit Roosevelt, now serving sidered, is to nail the lies, the Colonial dependencies,
con-among the indigenous inhabitants of every only about half the number were wool and distributing them each with the British Army. Iarge enough to be of service beyond week to members of the Russian
The club is exclusive. the narrow sean. It is obviously on colony and others, who lenit socks American equivalent of the British country, to
It is the emanating so freely from that group with n grievance would feel
the
three- counter by fold result, it is calculated, can be
encouraged to revolt. This these larger and more destructive busily for their compatriota.
big game hunters Shikar Club. And broadcasting a refutation. craft that the incidence of loss would
It was founded by President Teddy
achieved by putting-over the Idea of he heaviest, We know by the ressa-
Roosevelt, father of Major Itoosevelt,
This is being done daily from a populace in Britain, cheated and tion of attack on British vessels that i
American Aid
half a century ago.
gang of unscrupulous London and is indeed, the main misled by the surviving U-boats have for the
It is restricted to a hundred mem-objective of the British and politelans, financiers and Industrial time, led from our shipping lanes, HAD a talk to-day with London's
most distinguished Finn. Dr. bers, with a few associate members French broadcasting organisa- by the brutal exploitation of subject magnates, who malatain themselves They have many reasons. The hunt Tancred Borenius, the art expert. elected for distinguished achieve-tions. has been too hot.
Dr. Borenius has just returned ments.
English Members
An effective example of re-direct nor so definite as this, but from a journey to Paris on behalf of the Polish Relief Fuod. Now the
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at the beginning of the war have wife, Princess Rumanovský-Pavlov-and Crockett Club is to be held easier. There are several ways dicct of undermining the people's
been sunk.
Experience of the last war makes it certain that the endurance and mordic of U-boat crews cannot be trusted in such conditions; The German Admiralty, frustrated in its onslaught on us, has directed its sub-
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problem of relief to his own people
arises.
races overвous,
The picture drawn is neither no
marines and other commerce des Finns can hold out for a considerable Christmas Day and has Been a world man planes in Franco. It necused areas other than to, which it relates.
Dr.
America and British East Africa.
✯ * Double Minister
For
of
There are three English associate turning the lie direct was pro- every news item, every broadenst or members, Lord Lonsdale, Major Rad- vided by a French broadcasting newspaper article is twisted to form clyffe Dugmore and Mr. Martin station recently.. Tho French a piece of the general
mosaic. He tells me that the Americans are Stephens,
The embedded lie is partly con- announcer was dealing with a leaf- planning a big effort in this direction.
Dr. Borenius believes that the game photographer, will be 50 on
Major Dugmore, the doyen of big let which had been dropped by Ger- cealed by transmitting a story to
pic, garbled versions exumpic. troyers afloat and in the air to use time. Ile has the greatest respect wanderer since boyhood, when he Britain of exploiting the French t all the resources of frightfulness on for their marksmanship.
compulsory labour régulations went adventuring with his father insight her wars (one of the Gorman Africa are broadcast to North Amerl-- undefended prey, the shipping of
Introducing Finland
a small schooner.
favourite forms of attack) and ca and accounts of "stricken" Malays neutrals:
Borenlus, a member of the He studied painting in Italy nad showed on a background of war two being driven to desillution to pay for There is no doubt about the law Finnish Political Servies, acted as a ornithology in America, and his Tommies lying dead under the in-the Singapore naval base are pur- and tradition of the sen on the rights kind of chaperon to the new Finland Journeys have taken him through scription, "Four hundred and veyed to Latin America. of neutral ships against a belliger in 1018, "introducing" her to the Southern Europe, Asia Minor, Central eighty-thousand Englishmen fell in This more subtle form of propa- ent. Nothing except the safety of a various foreign Powers.
1914-1918", and opposite, French sanda is less easy to counteract and belligerent vessel can justify it int He has a sister in Finland and a sinking a neutral, The Germen war number of other relatives, of whom
bodles piled high with the asser-complaints have been heard that the and paucity of newe on neutrals is being conducted, ace; he has not yet received news. Hig
tion: one million, four hundred terseness cording to the commander of ono
IN pence time Mr. Ernest Brown, and twenty-five thousand French-roadcast by the French and British transmitting stations do not eff-set U-boat, under orders that neutral of 1917. Then as now she believed
these untruths as effectively an they shipping may
the new Minister for War, thought men died 1914-1918". bo
"on the that her brutality could frighten the week-end ill-spent if he did not destroyed
The French announcer's comment might.
Great Britain and France have, ground of destination. But apart neutral shipping from the seas and deliver at least one termon. He is on thin was as follows: "There is from capture neutral vessels have terrify neutral countries into sacrl- the only Cabinet
about this however, definitely ndopted the Who something horrible been torpedoed when they vere ficing their trade for her beneft. preaches reguinely.
counting up of cornuos, this num-policy of giving the truth only with- going from one neutral port to an- The lesson of the fast war has to be But additional war responsibilities bering of victims, We are not out all the embellishments which go other with a neutral cargo. They taught her again. From the neutral placed on the Minister of Was left responsible for it, but since we are to make a good story", be it general have been sunk though they made no Governments comes no sign of sub-less leisure for the minister of the obliged to bring to life again all the propaganda or in relation to come attempt to resist the U-boat or es- mission, but stern protest and plans Gospel, and Mr. Brown has been in suffering and sorrow of the last war, particular event. cape. Thus for the Scandinavian of self-protection. 'Germany
the will pulpit only twice since the war it may be recalled that the actual, It is firmly believed that the final countries have been the victims ruf- find that the seamen of the world began. tering most, but Germany ham
are as determined to defy her now He is to make his third appearance contestable, and uncontested figure result will be more effective than
of British loases during the Great the less accurate and misleading, but : destroyed ships of other nations and as they were then, and the capacity on Sunday at Bloomsbury Baptist War is one million and eighty-nine doubtless more dramatic, hordlines/ blured threats all over the world. of Brush sea power to defend them Church. He is deputieing for Dr. F. thousand, nine hundred and nineteen of the German wireless and press. She is raving again in the madness greater than ever,
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