1940-02-24 — Page 18

Saturday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

The Telegraph" publishes below the first of

an

February 24, 1940,

exclusive series

of articles on the War from the gifted pen of a foremost author.

By

Do not believe that the

world yet realises how interise the French effort-is and with what determina- tion the whole country has applied its energies to the prosecution of the struggle.

Nor do I think people yet realise the spirit that has enabled, the French nation to accept with fortitude and resignation the sacrifices they have been called upon to make.

I have spent six weeks making a survey of the activities of France.

I have been to the Front, I have visited a naval base, I have seen the factories in which are manufactured all things necessary for modern war from great cannon to shirts for the troops; I have stayed in the districts to which refugees from Alsace and Lorraine have been evacuated; I have talked to hun- dreds of people, from generals in command of an army corps to the humble priests of country parishes:

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SOMERSET MAUGHAM

A scene in France in 1918

dislocated. Is it

Though twice the time I had France was at my disposal would have been needed to give me even a bird's surprising that they said it is eye view of all that strenuous too much? Is it surprising that endeavour I have at least learnt they said to one another: "This

a variety of things which time we must make an end of think it would be well for the ed: "It is too much." world to know,

Thrice Called To Arms EVE

VERYONE knows with what efficiency France completed her mobilisation.

But what many people are apt to forget is that the French nation has been mobilised, three

he

erals the army possesses; told me his mother was 86 and she hind seen

Germany at war with France three times.

All

Germany

"It is too much," he said. And when I was visiting the refugees ! talked with a fanny little old They set their teeth. I think woman with white hair. “I'm over there are few men in France who 80," she told me, "and this is the do not share the common feeling third time I've had to flee from my } that this time they are going to house in Lorraine." And she tulel- see it through. They are going to ed: "It is too much." fight now to the bitter end and

It wave me a curious little pang

In my heart to hear the poor old pensant woman use the selfsame words as the distinguished gen- eral had used.

The French want to be free for

IIs Her

Enemy

future had made people unwilling to burden themacives with large families and he expressed the opinion that the certainty of an enduring peace would cause a great change, in this respect.

o Of

!

The Code

Napoleon

Prosecution's Evidence

Magistrate Doubts Validity Of Cases Searched while leaving by Bampan a steamer which had arrived in the Colony on Thurs-

Horo-Bolisha Speake

URGES ALLIED AID FOR

FINNS

| day, Chu Mak, 40, compradore of

the steamer, was found to have That France and Britain should LONDON, Feb. 23 (Reuter). in his possession a number of throw all their weight by seo, letters and documents.

Chu was charged with a breach of air and land into the task of the Defence Regulations when he helping Finland was urged by appeared before Mr. Himsworth at Mr Leslie Horo-Belishin, the Kowloon Magistracy this morning, former Minister of War, address- and the case was adjourned for 48

No Easy Task

hours for further enquiries. Defending his constituents at Devon- ant was alldived ball of personal bond port to-day. of $50.

This was his first public The

charge is that Chu had in his speech since resigning the War posscasion documents recording in Ministry. formation for the purpose of convey- Ing them outside this Colony or Inte [N the country they told me the Colony otherwise than by Post.

the responsibility must be Chu, in answer to the charge, said attributed to the Code Napoleon from the Chief Oficer to take the enemy collapse, but defeat by an he was only carrying out instructions which obliged the peasant-documents ashore to the premises of external force.The continued re- farmer to divide his land equal-the Company.

sistance of Finland gives reason to Hy between his children and

believe that Russia's might rests on rather than break up his farm Captain, Leo master of the ship, Insecuro foundations,

in the Colony in hla presence, and he

Written In Colony.

The Allies have no easy tail before them, he said. To assuré a triumph they must rely not on an internal

The risk of helping Finland may

the limited his family to one son Bald some of the letters were writtene great but the risic of not helping

who could carry on, with, at did not think that the Regulations her may be greater. the most perhaps a second in would apply in that case, One of the

Does any body Imagine that

that if case the first one died.

Letters seized by the Police related Russia wins she will be satisfied with Others have told me that the to the supply of oil and coal to be sent Finland or that Germany will not cnuse was to be sought in the aboard the ship, and this could not receive from Russia equivalent ad- selfishness of parents who hesitatedbe written until after the arrival of vantages in Scandinavia?

The Alternative to sacrifice their comforts to the the ship in Port.

Innpector - Shepherd, who pro- Control of Finland, Norway and needs of numerous children.

necuted. sald that letters

and Sweden by Germany and Russin But, whatever the cause, the fact documents on all ships coming in would mean that our considerable stands that the French are a nation or going out of the Colony were purchases there could be stopped and of forty million people and they are conveyed from ship to shore in a bag that Germany would be able to or confronted by à nution twice as sented by the Censors who boarded konise additional markets for her- | large.

the ship on its arrival. The seated self. "How can we hope to go on hold-bags bad to be delivered to the A well-planned adequate and de- cisive. nction now could curtail the ing our own against that vant Censors Intact.

Mr. Himsworth: If the documents duration of the war while any half- number," they ask you, "unless this were, written inside the Colony, they hearted intervention would be abor- time at last we succeed in making cannot come into the Colony as they tive from the start. ourselves unassailable?"

are already in. It is up to the Pro- sccution to prove their case.

It is not territories they need, they have not the population to people them; it is security.

To get it they are prepared for any sacrifice; for any sacrifice of case and money and for the great sacrifice of life, and I think it is as well that the world at large should realise that they are deter. mined not to allow themselves again to be cheated of it.

The case was then adjourned for 48 hours, as, it is possible that it may be withdrawn by the Prosecution.

ADMISSION BY FINNS

FROM PAGE ONE

Seizure Of U.S. Mails

No Mention Of Armed Force At Bermuda

is clear, however, that while the WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (Reu-

The French do not believe that Soviets in some successes in outer).The State Department

early part of the week at enormous they can attain security merely by cost, the Finns still have their tails made a statement to-day regard. overthrowing Hitler and his gov-well up.

ing reports that armed British ernment. The French are not at The Finnish radio announcer at marines boarded an American war with a band of gangsters: they Lahti, commenting to-day on the

by Mr.

they will never accept a peace that will expose them ogain, perhaps in

aro at war with Germany. They Soviet celebration of the 22nd anni-air liner at Bermuda. a short time, to the affliction, loss

Jare convinced that if the Naziversary of the Red Army and Fleet, The statement says that a telegram leaders were overthrown Germany said that a great victory was put on from Mr. Trippe, President of Pan- and Inconvenience of another mubl- lisation. I have known the French|

American Airways, the day after the would in a short time spawn other programme in honour of the day.

Immense concentrations of troops alleged occurrence did not mention all my life; I have never known

lenders as ruthless and as danger- ous. They have not forgotten Big-and war materials were sent back to any such incident. them more calm, more resolute and ever from the danger presented 1:

"No mention was the Karelian Isthmus and Soviet;

made marck and William II. un aggressive and belligerent neigh- moro singleminded.

Itussia's best officers and crack troops Trippe or in the report from the But the census-offers the conclu- What ignorance of the French bour, they want to be sure that for sive argument against the

One brought an army to invade were sent to the front.

American Consul that force was used times in one year. In Septen-

pos: their land in 1870 and the other in A decisive defeat of the Finnish or threatened in connection with the ber 1938, in the following temper it showed when the Gor- at least a century they will be safe sibility of imperialism. There are 1914. They look upon Hitler as an Army was expected. On February 1, removal of mails from the plane. March, and then again last mans thought that in France they from invasion, they whorror of forty million people In France and embodiment of all the instincts of continued the Finnish announcer, the

"Both the captain of the plane and were fighting a house August, all the able-bodied men against itself!

Pan-American divided their children from the horror of the number is diminishing; unless jaggression and the desire of domi- offensive started, but the successes the"

representative war which they have had to endure urgent measures are taken after nation of the German people and were fur below expectations,

were in communication with the twice within twenty-five years, they the war to augment it, in another these his destruction will do nothing More And Bigger Lics

Consul and had every opportunity to want to be allowed to till their

af force by the British authorities." ineation any use of force or threat fleks and tend their vineyarda and generation the population will be to eradicate.

alarmingly smaller, devote themselves to the arts of

Nyo's Outburst pence.

of France between the ages of

twenty and Afty were taken Three Wars from their peaceful avocations

to put on their uniform and as- sist the country in its peril.

With the Huns

Three times in one year every WHEN I was on the front

activity in the pleasant land of met one of the ablest gen-

Jean Giraudoux, who is not only! n distinguished official at the Qual d'Orany, but also an author of great

They, Too, Blame talent, told me recently that he

Girls' and Boys' Corner Maps

Dear Kiddies,

Laat week's colouring competition; was very well done. I could see by) the entries that many of you had ment a lot of time on colouring the picture.

The prize-winners this week are:--- Mary Grace Aache (aged 13%), St. Stephen's College, Blanley.

Joan

-Thomson (aged 10), "Domum," Samsoon Road, Pokfulam. Sylvia Beld (414), 3 W. O. Quar- ters, Stanley.

Coupons have been sent to Mary Grace, Joan and Sylvia which I want them to bring to the "Hongkong Telegraph" offices in Wyndham Street. The coupons will then be

for money prizes..

Cecommended for excellent

work

Aro

This la all my own work Name Address

Achilles Crew In New Zealand

Versailles

will tell you that France is not essentially an industrial nation, it is a nation above all of peasants and peasant-farm-

ега.

Its artificers are little interested in mass-production; they prefer to give their time and uttention to articles that require for their manu- facture, taste and the personal touch.

Frenchmen have a deep-seated feeling that what they have to give the world does not compete with the products of the industrial nations. Their most valuable exports are those spiritual valuca which enlarge the mind and add to the elegance, variety and beauty of life.

of

the

nscribed it to the wars that France had suffered from during the last century, for before 1870 the natality of the country continued to in of war and the uncertainty of the

..

on

con

To keep up the morale of the popu- No. France is at war, dogged-ation, successes, therefore, had to be ly, resignedly, heroically, not invented and it so happened that

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (Reuter). with Hitler and the Nazis only, sometimes the reports were

Iradictory

-Senator Gerald Nye, speaking at. but with Germany. She is ̈pre- "We enn only hope," chuckled the the annual banquet of Grand, Master pared to live at peace with fer- Finnish announcer, "that the Soviet Masons, declared that "arrogant many, but only with a Germany lenders will invent more and bigger Britain" would come to terms quickly powerless to fhreaten her lies to spare public disappointment over the censorship of United States

the

ny mails if American afr Hiners in future security.

anniversary of the Red Army.“ Despite reports, of victories, the avoided Bermuda. WORLD COPYRIGHT announcer concluded, the population "If German, Russian or Japanese

RESERVED.

of Leningrad is sceptleal about the authorities were to ride our malls as "successes." The strings of wounded the Britans are doing at Bermuda, returning from the front tell another how easy it might be to enrage the tule, for the hospitals are full and people to an anger that was bound- the wounded may die ewing to the less." kick of trained hospital staffs and good reason to disregard United Sennior Nye added that Britain had

States protests utterly, as they had meant nothing in the past,

Must Not Let Europe

Run Amok

Again

Commander Stephen King-Hall's Suggestions For Real Peace

PARIS, Feb. 23 (Reuter).—"When the war is over we must see that for a long period-at least for two generations—that no state in Europe has a possibility of running amok," said Com-

medicines.

Japan Replies To-

French Protest

Rhodesians Have Record Year

NAIROBI, Feb. 23 (Reuter)

PARIS, Feb. 23 (Reuter)-It is learned in authoritative circles that the Government has now received a reply from Japan to its protest at the Southern Rhodesia will have a De- bombing of the French-owned Yun-partment of State for Air, it is an-

nounced nan Railway,

The reply is said to be framed in a I will be under the Minister of conciliatory

spirit, expressing the Justice, Defence and Air.

11 is also announced that 1939 was tle the incident amicably,

a record year for mining in Southern Rhodesia."

mander Stephen King-Hall when lecturing to-day to a fashion-Japanese Government's desire to set- ablo French audience.

The responsibility therefore R. A. F. Meet rests with England and France,

There is a bitter feeling among the people of France that the pre- sent war has been thrust upon them pre the following:-

by the obstinacy of the Allics at he continued. - Seniors: Joon Gordon, Alice Lec,

the Peace Conference which pre Winifred Barman, Paul Wilson, Cyn-

vented them from obtaining the thia Silver, Ghazi Kian, Priscilin

eafeguards which they were con- Wheeler, Ho Man-chan, G. Brummer, Patricia Reid, Dicky Yip,

vinced were necessary in order to Horacio

A resumption Ozorio, AUCKLAND, N.Z., Feb. 23 (UP).revent Intermediates: Roberto Quan,

John Fleming. Betty-The crew of the cruiser Achilles struggle for existence. Davies,

Eleanor

Sanger, Fung King-made victory murch through choung, S. S. Bux, Alan Dobbs, Betty streets crowded with cheering prople Young, Roberto Vos.

to the civil reception and luncheon Juniors: "David" ́Asche, Gérald to-day. Marshall, David Knight, Bertie Phil The Mayor, Sir Ernest Davis, pre- lips, Alice

Joyce Guest, sided, and presented Captain Parry Philippo Hanscomb

Joan Brown, with Lord Nelson's first dirk. Peter Thompson, Greig Wright, Ani Daniel, Jonics Chan, Charlie Ozorio, Timothy Hanlon, Jacqueline Burton, Susan Wood.

This week, kiddies, I want you to study the pictures given above. The names of six different fruits are hid-

den in these pictures. Can you flad

them?

"Hongkong Telegraph," Wyndharn

а

French Convoys' Achievements

PARIS, Feb. 23 (Reuter), ---Ot

to our normal life."

Nazi Guns

But Escape Safely

"Some Aviation

Activity"

The value of all minerals mined was over £8,000,000 of which gold accounts for £0,000,000,

These figures are the highest yet recorded and represent steady in-

PARIS, Feb. 23 (Reuter).—To-creases in the past seven years, day's communique states that there was some aviation activity an either side.

136 Die In New Turkish Quakes

ANKARA, Feb. 23 (Router).The

We must create in the minds of our two peoples · fidelity, loyalty, respect and real affection for the country which is neither. French nor British but Frarico-British, he

(Reuter), LONDON, Feb. 23 Bald.

Reuter's correspondent with the Royal The sacrifice would not end with Air Force says that German anti- Blany of them already foresaw the war, he said, and the danger was aircraft guns went into action without WASHINGTON, Feb. 23, (Reuter).; In 1920 that with Germany united that once peace was oblulned the success against the British planes-The House of Representatives re- ng it had never been before, It people would exclaim "Let's get back which flow over Austria and Bohemia. Jected by 101 to 144 votes the pro- earthquake which rocked tour the The guns, says the correspondent should be required for all future re-kish villages on Thursday has been

posal that approval of Congress That, he said, would sow the seeds

falled to score a hit as the planes ciprocal trade parts entered into by followed by six more shocks. that the Allies adopted was due to for a third war.

· Consultative Council their fear of French Imperialism.

No German fighter planes were the United States... We must not attempt to solve pro-seen.

The House of Representatives also The airmen, who have now But the French are not an im- blems within the national framework, returned to. France, revealed that sente af

the proposal that the perialistic nation. I am not now

Steps should be taken to establish Icaflets were dropped.

Senate alone should ratify pacts, giving my own opinions but merely new departments in Britain and repeating what I have heard from France, he said, and foreign ministers

Miss M. A. M. Mackay has been

working out ways and means of

was inevitable. They realise that the attitude

tha mouths of all manner of per- should be devoted to the task of total of 2.000 merchant ships, total-sons, persons in all walks of life.

It is very generally admitted that Anglo-French co-operation in peace- Hing 12,300 tons, conveyed by the

a consultative

"I would establisḥi

twisted and turned.

War-Time Control appointed to be Nursing Sister In

Of Wolfram

Government Service.

British Summer Time will come

morrow.

The death roll is now 136.

At the Ume of the major quake a few weeks ago, it was stated that minor shocks might be expected for several months to come.

Swedish Defence

LONDON, Feb. 23 (Reuter)-The

into force in England at 2 p.m. to Swedish Parliament has voted 84,500,– If you can, write them down in French Navy since the beginning of tho Napoleonie Imperialism was a time, neat numbered list. Fill in the the war only three have been sunk. disaster to France. The Colonial Council, 50 cent. French and 30

The difference in time be- 000 kronor for the purchase of LONDON, Feb. 23 (Reuter),tween Hongkong and Greenwich will material to strengthen the air force,, name, age and address coupon and The French Navy has escorted 116 Empire has been won almost by ac per cent. British. This would do for Arrangements between the Ministry then be seven hours Instead of eight, according to the Stockholm radio. send your entries to Uncle Eddle c/o convoys and co-operated with the cident and the sense of it has never Anglo-French co-operation what the of Supply and the Australian Govern-

British Novy in 33 other convoys.

entered into the consciousness of the Dominions Office does for relations ment for war-time.control of Austro- French as our own Empire has into between the Dominions and Britain," an woltram ore production will be

he continued

ratified in Melbourne. next week. that of this English.

The feeling is universal, 1 Asking why Europe. was amicted According to market circles, the think, that with a democracy like cach generation with a major war, ore is of good quality, the annua that of France Imperialism is out Commander King-Hail said that the production of which averaged 1,000 of the question: In the fierceness eapon was that there were two sorts tons.

of nations at different, stages of popula

Street. The competition will close on Wednesday at 2 p.m.

Three prizes will again be given Gen. Von Gronau

* Dies, Aged 90

one for the best entry In each age. section.

* Best of luck,

kiddies.

Uncle Ed

BERLÍN,” Feb, 21′ (Reuler),—The denili'ls announced of" General ven Gronau, aged 20, who fought in the Franco-Russian War and the Great;

Great

War.

of political animosities à govern political evolution. One group in-century; The other group, he said, ment that showed any tendencies cluded England, France, Holland, and comprised the Russians and German in that direction would stand no sweden, for example, who understood who were still in the 10th or 18th chance of subsisting, ・・

twentieth century.

that we were

BRITISH WARSHIPS STOP SOVIET, ITALIAN SHIPS

searched one Soviet and two Italian steamers near the Dardannolics ISTANBUL, Feb, 23: (Domel),-British warships stopped and allegedly in Turkish waters on Thursday, It was reported herd to-day.