1940-03-12 — Page 23

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

·

March 12, 1940.

BRITAIN AT WAR-New Exclusive Series of Articles

NGLAND and Churchill. They are

Germany's pet hates. The English- ̧ ́ man most hated in Germany is Winston Churchill, 65-year - old, cigar-smoking, baldish First Lord of the Admiralty whose "Nazi” on

the radio sounds like "nasty."

Churchill is back on the same job he had 25 years ago, and his navy is successfully hunting U-Boats, "not without relish," with able assis-

HITLER IS LICKED

ON EVERY OCEAN

tance from the Royal Air Force.

The British conservatively estimate at least 40 U-boats have been sunk, and possibly more. At the start of the war Germany supposedly had 65 submarines in commission and 28 building.

Churchill estimated in Parliament récently the

Allies were destroying two to four U-Boats a week.

He estimated Germany's capacity re-

placement at two a week, revealing confi-

dence the U-Boat would be placed un-

der control, particularly as the

output of British patrol craft

was accelerated.

England was

bored by a

lethargic war until electrified by the gallant attack of three cruisers against the heavier armed German pocket-battle- ship Graf Spee, which was chased into Uruguayan waters

and later scuttled by its in London to exclaim, “The Elbe

crew..

is a hell of a place to go.

If British claims are correct, Death of the Graf Spec con- trasted sharply in British important percentage

of

British factories are turning

M

190,000 tons of Bri.

tish warships: the "Nelson"

and "Rodney," fol-

lowed by "Malaya," "Va-

liant," "Queen Elizabeth" and "Barham." Take a practice spin.

By Reuel

Moore

Each of the major industries is 1 The government already-as in placed under control of a small Germany-has large powers to almost exclusively from the big

out hundreds of planes, and officials estimate the production capacity by next month will be eyes with end of the British Germany's heavier units has eight times what it was when board whose personnel is drawn punish any employer who entices armed merchantman Rawal been destroyel or damaged be- the air expansion programme

yond

In contrast, the began five years ago. use, pindi, which went down in an, British cite losses of their mer- unequal struggle with the chant ships amounting to less Graf Spec's sister-ship Deutschland rather than sur total tonnage.

of their than three per cent. render,

The R.A.F. daily patrols the Other naval incidents regard-Atlantic, North Sea and English ed by Britons as upholding their channel, watching enemy avia- naval traditions include the tion, hunting U-boats, assisting submarine Ursula's dive under distressed ship and seamen and six destroyers after braving guarding merchant convoys, German naval and aerial patrols minesweepers and fishing boats. at the mouth of the Elbe river At night, British planes patrol to sink a German cruiser of the the German North Sea coast Koln class.

watching for German mine- This exploit caused an admira!laying planies.

14

17

Crossword Puzzle

ACEUSS

-Luggest indirectip

Se conn

Enjoy in coramen

Licenciant of

Alohammed

A: Liberty

elin wine tastini

teceniir decessed

And ten

Is Point in esart

מdireeflp

20 Afan-caling momater

23 lurious tallas

Tany

24-rub Castle

ל

Pipe connection

2# Quee

2 Mohammedan Brines

Ja

Beipt Patt

Bet Unded

chise

35 Alero

37 Caf Hebraska

41-ilesting chamber

Wanting in ander

Andme

as One of Great Lakes 45-Jarc La pengirat 47-elä forsi panda

Binnen i Herning

69 Membrane

B

Size 177.)

31 Gound made by cat

66 embere of hom

rate

63 -Kind of bezigwar

A Celential body

41 Chile and färer

65-Type af bæLT

67 Noita periode

Minnied with 70-Beene of action Ti-Combining FOTER:

*2035

12

#

20

******** By LARS MORRIS ======

ANSWER TO PREVIOUS TUZZLE

-Chinese

1 Pertaining to

Brazilina evin

13-Blad of mer 21--Ply with metlonieka

the

23

The resembling

Antich

17 Cerioreze corrling.

TPAKET

20 Liver mast

10 Betonging to reader

"I

of salat ylem

Blow-moving ***

ctrolu

12 Juta aument for

women

13

Mitdie wielen

34

Old coil of

Normandy

Carbonated water

24 3251 DAY

17

Cenver Abritet

28 - Oneine westmal

existing government

to Measure

-Deurstment of HW

43

Prance

-Comblaine farm:

18

Pormes ein

(Preneha

-Pemale estive

KID T-Articles of clics

furniture

16--Borist news garner Sa-Well-known Horadab

DOWN

1-partan oondman

1104

V representa

-Pulaulum diteta

Boutre al wood

B New term

Tender feeling -Pince 10-Bergil

51 Bouthern canetel-

Jalion

33 Practient teke

5%-finner

za. Prench nḥsivaoghes

died 1852,

56 Farring

By Man's name p

NA World W pie

39

Ripued

GO Neri

61 Burts uned in

04

medicar terme.

Ovler natural

Filioniam nobleman

BS Radio dinferte s

ho 20

+5

16

18

23

29

zy

בון

31

33

05

136

37.

31

20

1447

43

цв

91

ug

50 151

FI

58 59

102

לדו

DO

161

名

LA

13

$S50

WJ

units. These big units now have labour from another employer. In of fact the emergency powers act is so full access to the trade secrets small independents-name of cus-brond it might fairly be described A gigantic empire training tomers, former volume of business, as a complete fascist apparatus for

scheme in which Brilish, amounts of raw materials on hand Australian, New Zealand and--and the latter dare not "aquawk" duration of the war, if the govern- Canadian fliers will complete rince they are at the mercy of content has courage to use it. their training in Canada has al- trol boards which allocate supplies ready begun. The first British and dictate prices. pilots are expected to reach Canada this month.

The first Australian fllers are already in England.

Thus in iron, steel, aluminiunt and non-ferrous metals, in wool, cotton, [jute, hamp and linen, in leather, paper, timber, cereals, coconut oils Britons believe Germany has and cocoa these independents and not yet attempted on air "biltz their satellite merchants already krieg" against England at least have some reason to wonder if the! partly because British defenceswar has landed them in a "corpora

tive state." with Oghting planes and anti- nircraft batteries have showed a formilable ability to retaliate.

2

Naturally, their ultimate fate is unpredictable. But it is

note- worthy the government for "the"first" time in history has already es

WAR alrently is making pro-tablished a special register of while

found changes in business and industrial life in Britain.

Ubrary Supreme Court,

Be prepared for

Rainy Weather

NEW SELECTION OF THE

LATEST IN RAINCOATS.

Jaybra"

Guaranteed Waterproofs

MAXIMUM PROTECTION

MINIMUM COST

INEXPENSIVE LINEN FINISH RAINCOATS

In Wine, Brown, and Bluc

$750 each

SATIN-FINISH RAINCOATS

BELTED MODELS WITH RAGLAN SLEEVES

In Wine, Fawn, Dark Saxe, Brown and Green,

$1650€

cach

SELECT YOURS EARLY

Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co., Ltd.

The government, through the fejjj|||||||||||| Chancellor of Exchequer, Sir John Simon, has already hinted that labour must make sacrifices.

Nobody, not even the fiscal purists, worries much about the National Debt. The prevailing theory is that this does not seriously matter if national In- come is kept at a high level so as to reduce the burden of its an- nual interest-myments,-~-

When war ends, the national in-

come will presumably stamp for the collared unemployed men largely time being-after the World War it drawn from small-sized firms and took the country five years to re- unable to function 100 per cent. in cover its 1913 national income. the war machine.

Unlike France, Britain has not yet

rnw

Few Englishmen any· longér re- pent II. G. Wells' gloomy prediction that another great war means the end of civilization. But lots of

tackled whole-heartedly the pro- THE Government will end the them, especially small business men,

blem of inflation. Something has war with enormous powers to are beginning to get the impression been done to peg prices, but nothing regulate

and supplics from the trade and financial presto peg wages.

materials, to control prices and that the war's end will see the end

wages and to en- of their easy-going money-making The Board of Trade has been rents and

working day and night to find the courage agriculture or any

on 'dustry. new cost of living index based They already see signs' Britain is becoming highly bureaucratized," several hundred-thousand family with big industrial concerns dictai-budgets. Some quarters believe ing policy and small concerns sign-when the new index appears the ing innumerable questionnaires on national government will announce

a wage policy.

ways.

the dotted Inc.

The war effort on Britain's gigantic scale requires big units, | and airendy the tendency is to make big companies bigger and small companies red-taped and dis- elplined as never before.

It is not generally realised that Britain, unlike the United States, thus far has been the stronghold of small and medium-sized com- panies, of which there are some 1,800,000 to place the Imprint "Made in Britain" upon goods shipped to every corner of the world.

For one Lancashire Cotton Cor- paration--the world's largest cotton spinning company-there are 400 small cotton spinners.

BANKS

THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA.

Incorporated by Royal Charter 185I Paid-up Capital ...... ......... £3,000,000 Reserve Liability of Proprietors 13,000,000 ... £3,000,000 Hezerve Fund .......

HEAD OFFICE! LONDON. 32 Bishopsgata. F.C.L. Bub-Agencies to Londont 117/122, Leadenhall Street, B.CA. West End Branch; 14/16, Cockapur Street, B.W.L Mancheiter Branch:

52, Mosley Street, Manchester,

· AGENCIES AND BRANCHES: ~

Tarbin Alor Star

-Rangoon Amritsar

Hongkong Balcon Ipoh Bangkok

Ilotto Karacht

Elatavia

In chemicals, alongside the lovin than 77,000,000-sterling Imperial Chemical Industries, there swim fearlessly a school of Independent Calcuti concerns some 300 strong.

Semarang

Seremban

Bombay

Agencies:

Clive Street

Klang

Koho

Kuala

Fairle Place Lumpur

Stankow Canton

Celu Columbo Dein!

Kuching Madras

Shanghal Singapore Sitlowon Raurabaya Taiping Tienisin Tongkah

Manila

Medan

New York

Paping

(Peking)

Penang

Disputing the 10 major groups in iron and steel are still several hun- dred independents who never have Cawnpore inflated their expital, never went bankrupt and can still turn out steel cheaper than many of the big fellows.

Handling the small outputs of these countless independents are hundreds of thousands of mer chants--the colton industry alone has 1,700 firms as producers and 2,300 firms as merchants.

THE first impact of war has

Thuket) Txingto

Yokohama

opened

Haiphong Hamburg

FOREIGN EXCHANGE and General Banking Bustness transacted.

CURRENT ACCOUNTS

and FIXED DEPOSITS received for One Year or shorter periods in Local of Diher Cur rencies at rates which will be quoted on application.

SAVINGS ACCOUNTS, she opened in Local Currency and Sterling with interest allowed at ratër phialnable on applicalina The Bank's Head Office in London undertakes Executor & Trustee busines and claims recovery of British Income Tax overpaid, on terms which may be

Branches,

been to place both indepen-ascertained at any of its Agencies and dents and merchants "on the spot,"

A CAMINOK,

Manager.

POPULAR FAVOURITES

ON

HIS MASTER'S VOICE

18864 Together again

If you want to dance. 18805Keep It under your bat

The Empire depends on you. 18759-Black eyes..................

It was a lover and his ass. C2888-The riddle scene........................

The German Commissionaire.. C2801-Balalaika. Selection C3007-Dancing Years. Selection C2857-Maldens of Cadiz

Serenade. (Moszkowski). 12208-Blue Danube. Waliz

Cicely Courtneldge & Jack Halbert.

Vienna Blood. C2100-Saschinka. Russlan gipsy sunga DU3686-Hungarian Rhapsody. No, 2

.Couriceidge & Hulbert

.....Maxine Sullivan.

Leslie Henson & Fred Emney.

.

.....New Mayfair Orch. Drury Lane Theatre Orch. ... Miliza Korjus.

.De Groot & Orch.

Marek Weber & Orch. .Philadelphia Orch. under Leopold Stokowsky.

TSANG FOOK PIANO COMPANY

in-

MARINA HOUSE

No government willingly surren- ders power, especially when the parties opposing it lack punch and drive. Hence it is difficult to be- Hove this government will surrender any powers Bkely to be useful in checking a decline of national In- come or keeping labour costs low enough to permit post-war trade driven.

The English easy-going charac- ter is presumed not to have changed, but English problems will have vast- ly changed when this war ends.

Thus present indications are that something resembling a "cor. porative state" under big business control is far more probable at the end of this war than restoration of the easy-going, tolerant regime which followed the last great

war.

THOUSANDS FIND RELIEF

FROM RHEUMATIC PAINS! Thong lorturing.darting pains that drive one almost crazy are quickly relieve with Absorbine Jr.. say thousands who have written us. The casential oils in AbsorbineJr.penetrate deep down where Also pain is, bring new blood to the parts affected, and take out the aches and soreness, As you massage Absorbine Jr. Inta the musclos, there's an immediato soothing effeck, and the penetrating power of famous Absorbing Jr. bringi rollol.

Mild, gentle, refreshing, Absorbina Jr. is safe and reliable. Will not lister, sinin or muss. Economical, too, for a little goes far. Try a bottle today. Keep It always on hand. Sold in all good stores.

ABSORBINE JR.

Par yours ban raitavad sore muscles, muscos iar acima, brulas, cutą, šprains, abralose.

10,, QUEEN'S ROAD C.

PHONE 24048.

PRESIDENT LINER

Sailings

TRANS-PACific servicE

Fortnightly

To

SAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES via Shanghai, Japan & Honolulu

ROUND-WORLD SERVICE

To

NEW YORK-G BOSTON Vis

Manila, Singaporo, Penang, Colombo, Bombay, Suaz, Port Said. Aloxandria, Naples, Genos, and Marseilles.

★ ★ AMERICAN ★ ★

PRESIDENT LINES

"ROUND-WORLD BERVICE":

AGENTS FOR TIVA, AND UNITED AIR LINES

Telephone 20171,

12. Pedder Street