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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 5, 1940.

MAGAZINE PAGE

by SIR KINGSLEY WOOD

WE

So

E have much that gives us confidence and strength at this hour. Never in any great con- flict in our history has.

been this country united and so resolute. With every day that passes and as we wit- ness fresh acts of German barbarism and brutality- that unity and determina- tion grow stronger still.

It was the nation-not a Government or an individua! --that decided for us the grave issue of peace or war. It was the decision of a free people.

We need not regret the many and patient efforts we so constantly made to secure the peaco. We are all the more fortified by the en- deavours we then made. Our conscience is clear--our hands are clean. There is no doubt where the war guilt lles.

We are not engaged in this war for any nuatorial thing. We seek no territory-we have ao vindic- tive purpose. We nak no nation to surrender anything that should be enjoyed by any honourable and peace-loving people.

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WE, with out gallant allies France and Poland, are fight- ing things evil outrages" against the spirit and the soul of men and women which transcend all other things.

We are fighting for all those principles of International order and decency without which the world 'would be intolerable. We are fighting for the small peoples.

We are fighting for our own existence.

As has happened with others, we know our own turn would Burely come if we, for a mo- ment, abandoned our efforts.

We are fighting for a real peace, not a patched up pet which would leave Europe once again the subject of useault and violn- tion.

We and our Allies are de termined to secure the world against the possibility of a repetl- tion of the atrocities and in- humanities which have repelled and shocked mankind, and so that all people may dwell together in friendship and in peace.

We sincerely regret it, and wo are doing our heat to reduce it to n minimum.

But wo feel that we are justi- Лed in anking those who are affceled to remember that we are not only fighting for our existence as a nation but also for the exis- fence of all those principles with- out which life would not be worth Jlving.

We would urge them, when they feet the inconvenience that is necessarily imposed by

war on

Russia, hao swallowed up a third af Poland. She has established an undisputed mastery over the Bal- tte States, hitherto, regarded by Germany as an essential part of her living space:

No wonder doubts are spreading among the people of Germany doubts which were fostered and in- tensified by the arrival of the Ger- man exiles from Baltic States,

It is not only that, but she has seen the virtual dissolution of the anti- Comintern group which she had so Inboriously built up.

WE MUST WIN!

There have never been for us and the world much grave and vital issues at stake. We must and shall win this war, and wo hope all those who understand the nature of this life and death struggle will realise that we cannot omit from our armoury- any legitimate weapon.

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WE realise that the exercise of our sea power and the use of the economic’weapon entall inconvenience and even at times hardship for neutral States.

neutral States, to ponder also the alternative of the whole of Europe suffering the unspeakable horrors which are even now being pergie- trated

on the unhappy Polish

people.

There is, in fact, a gulf bc- (ween our own and Naz! concep- tions that cannot be bridged.

We believe-and we have in

and

the British Empire a great living example that all nations, big and small, should not only live

side peaceably by sfde but that they can and

gether for the

all work to-

Common Wellent of the

Our system of international rela- tions la based upon the respect of rights and sovereignty of other un- however small and however Hitler's conception, as we have seen, is that the rights of other nations are to be measured not by justice or their individual contributions to civilisation but by their armed strength alone.

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The whole world has indeed wit

excuse nessed how, without pause, Hiller Ims carefully planned and ruthlessly carried out his at- tucks on one small State after an- other, and then outraged ucd en- slaved them. They will rise again. ☆ ☆ THERE is no possible doubt that the conditions in German- occupied Poland are simply abominable. They are. far worse than in Russian-oc- cupied Poland.

The Vatican broadenst of Janu- ary 22 spoke of "the horror and incxeusable excesses committed on a helpless and homeless people" which has been "established by the unimpeachable testimony of eye-witnemes.

German methods In occupied Poland since September have passed through two phases. They tried first to terrorise the populu- tlon by shooting individuais picked at random from the towns. In Konin, for instance, they decided to shoot thirty-five people, und they collected thirty-four victims, and then, finding they were short of one, went into a' chemist's shop and seized the first person they -found.

They then realised that these methods would not avail them and lead nowhere, and they decided to decimate the natural leaders of the national movement-the Polish Government estimates the number ulready shot at 15,000.

There have. Indeed, been cases of actual torture. Conditions in the concentration camps are uppal- Jing. Religion is systematically persecuted. The crowning iniquity, in the words of the Vatican broad- cust, "lic in the cynical suppres- slon of all but the merest sugges- tion of religious worship in the lives of one of the most pious and devotional of the peoples of Europe,"

IT is no wonder there is un- easiness in Germany to-day.

Prolonged repression and In- dividual privations also do not make for confidence and goiety, Her deteriorating Anancial and economic position cannot provoke anything but serious

the German amongst many of people

concern

But there is another and more compelling cause of Germany's uneasy state of mind. It lies in Germany's connection with So viet Russia. The

The scale of thele understanding is unknown out- side the Kremlin and the Inner eireles of the Nazi party,

IL may be wide

or it may be narrow, but one thing is certain, that it will be broken And that

just as soon as it suits the books

of Germany to break it.

There is another matter. Nat even Ribbentrop would suggest that Germany has drawn any great advantage either politient or ma- terial from this uneasy partner- ship.

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What about the material skłė,, where Hitler and the Nazis cx- pected to recoup their political lossen? Here again there has been nothing but disappointment. Rus- in transport with the anxious dmculties many serious,

preoccupations of the Finnish war, must have greatly damaged, any hope that there may have been of Germany obtaining adequate, sup- plies or off and raw materials from

Rusk/a

It is clear whether it is wide or narrow in its scope-the agree- ment is an uncertain and doubtful bargain, based on nothing but what seemed to be a temporary politicnl advantage.

PHOTONEWS

GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty

"Friends of the bride will be seated on the right-friends of

the groom on the left-neutrals, in the roar!"

WATCH ON BRITAIN'S COAST

BECAUSE invasion of Bri-

tain from the sea is not regarded by the British man- in-the-street as a serious pos- sibility, little is known of Britain's coastal defence hat- teries.

But these batteries not only exist they are a con- stant challenge to an invader and they form a vital part of the country's defences.

During the last war only ong or two batteries on the east coast cape into action, but to-day the watch on the coast goes on day and night. Tho guns are manned by the Royal Artillery and the searchlights by the Royal En- gineers. All were, before the war, members of the Territorial Army and to-day the batteries they Barve are for the most part on the

counts of their own native coun- ties.

At all times there has been a stendy and suffelent flow of re- erults, many of whom are veteran gunners who did service on the various battle fronts In the last war and whose experience now serves them well. Their training. and rendíneas to serve releasca younger men for more active ser- vice.

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THOUGH many veterans of the last war are included in the ranks, the standard of physical as the fitnesa required is high men have to be on duty in all weathers and also have the heavy task of loading the guns.

The batteries are placed at strategic points along. Britain's Coastline.

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with close defence and counter bombardment guns. Their .com- bined strength had turned Britain into a fortress, safe from sea attack on Its shores.

Monotony la the coast watcher's greatest enemy, as the oppor- tunity to bring the guns into play may never occur, but the constal battorica are, nevertheless, n vital part of the home defences.

CAPTIONS: 1.-Observation and control.

2-Loading a gull.

post.

3-One of Ute Ling guns in action.

4-Watching results of shell

fire,

5.-1 picture typifying the constant watch that is being kept at each of these Coastal Bat-

terlen. They are equipped

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