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HONGKONG' TELEGRAPH

April 10, 1940.

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Wednesday, April 10, 1940. Wyndham St, Hongkong

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Wishful Thinkers

"WISHFUL thinking" is one of the overworked phrases of the day, and a pronounced tendency of belligerents. Nowhere is it more marked than among Nazi airmen. Never is a raid carried out against British shipping but they give themselves the benefit of the doubt handsomely.

The raids on Scapa Flow are particularly notorious examples of this. Yesterday, for in-

"NEVER MIND WHAT WE'VE DONE TO YOU, JUST LOOK WHAT HE'S DONE TO ME! IN THE

NAME OF INTERNAL DECENCY, I PROTEST!”

DEATH for listeningen to Britain; TEN YEARS' jail for selling food without

accepting ration coupons;

THREE YEARS' jail for talking to a Pole; SIX MONTHS' jail for stealing a soap.

ration card

This is

justice

Nazi

R

Shanghai is threatened bv

the ballot box

WITH

the

the war in by a Municipal Council, which Ad- Europe, the attention ministers the area, and also

Shanghai Police. Over and above of the world has been diverted this body of police there are, how- ever, troops of America, Grent from happenings in China. Britain, and Italy, maintaining de-

the

So slight notice has been taken of fence sectors in the Settlement.

fact that ገ serious danger The Japanese forces have taken threatens the future of the Inter over an area on the verge of the mational Settlement in Shanghai, For Settlement.

in regard to the foreign Concessions

.

Under the Land Regulations pro-

in Shanghal it is not improbable that mulgated some 70-odd years

ago,

OSA BERGER, an as a kindly action, and so she the Japanese will obtain complete the number of seats on the Shanghai. attractive woman of was sentenced to only ten years' control of the International Settle- Municipal Council is limited to nine. 30, stood in the dock hard labour, although the courtment before the end of 1940, and that which may be held by foreigners of

was empowered to pass sentence of death for the offence.

of a Nazi court.

For two weeks she had been under arrest. Now she faced

the judges.

Her crime? She stole a ration

Next I read of the man who threw salt on the icy pavement outside his house because his

without striking a blow.

Transformation

any nationally who can poll a suff- cient number of votes among the

tepayers.

There has never been any arrange- FEW people are aware of the orga- ment made as to proportionate re- nination of this Settlement, allotted to presentation of the diferent nationa- foreigners as a place of residence ilties on the council, and for the past five

stance, the Nazis claimed-to-card-for-soap.She hadn't one son had slipped and hurt his almost a hundred years ago by the British, two-American, and two-

have made direct hits on a number of heavy British naval units yet the real story is that

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probably three machines, with- out effecting any damage them-

selves.

The number of British ships or trawlers they have sunk in imagination must now run into hundreds. Actually the enemy airmen do not often remain long enough in the vicinity to assure themselves of the results of their marksmanship. As soon as British fighter plane shows in the offing they make for the nearest cloud and turn their faces resolutely homeward,

successes.

few years there have been

Japanese councilors.

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to one vote la

ankle. He was accused of waste, Chinese Government of that time, of her own.

"But I haven't used the card,"

Three weeks in jail.

When it was' thus assigned it was With regard to clection, any she pleaded.

Recently I have counted a dreary mud-flat on the river's edge, foreigner possesses a vote if he pays The plea was ignored. She reports in the German Press of

To-day on the Yangise-poo, we see ales up to a certain amount to the was led away to serve six 32 convictions for

listening-in the magnificence of the Bund with Municipality on property owned or to British and French broad-ita sky-scraper banks, fats, and rented in the International Seltic- hotels, while at the back of this ment. The minimum payment for Brunno Heller is also 30. He custs.

Only one case was reported stretch for four miles street after property entitling

street of busy shops and comfortable approximately £4 per annum, so that... had no clothes-only rags. And

fully.

it is obvious that people with very it was very cold.

foreign residences.

small incomes are Tranchise-holders. So he stole a clothes ration Georg Kaiser, an inn-keeper

Probably from Mannheim, had not only

£50,000,000 would not cover, the foreign investments here, "I have no clothes except the listened to the British broad-held in the

main by Britlah rags I am standing in," he told casts, but allowed his guests to

join him in his crime. the court.

Twelve months' imprison.

Kaiser was sentenced to death. His wife, who had not informed These two cases, reported re. the authorities of her husband's

PLEASE Turn To Pago 7. cently in the German Press, reveal the harsh and brutal way justice is being administered by the Nazis.

card.

ment.

LET me go over a num- ber of court reports

I havo clipped from recent issues of German newspapers.

court.

Here, for instance, is the case But this does not prevent (of an unnamed woman who them from reporting to their appeared in court with her hair

hacked off in the crudest style. superiors the most extravagant The clerk explained to the Or are the successes judge that she had been caught in the company of a Polish invented by the superiors? It is

prisoner of war. She was at a point that cannot be decided, once arrested, and the case was The mendacity of the Nazi pro-reported to the local Gauleiter. Но himself punished tho paganda machine is well known. woman by cutting off her hair Nazi airmen are mostly im- before handing her over to the petuous youths, with a carefully

Three years' imprisonment cultivated hatred of everything, was the additional punishment. British, and it is not improbable

rationing that their general inclination,

offences occupy most of when a bomb misses its mark, the time of the courts. is to let imagination complete

There

Frau was

Krause, owner of a Berlin restaurant. the task. It must be highly Even after the introduction of encouraging to the spoon-fed the severe rationing system she German people-for a time. But sold meat and butter to her customers without receiving even they will wonder eventually ration coupons, how it comes about that, in spite of all this alleged destruction of our ships, we are still able to keep the seas.

food BUT

Frau Krause ploaded that she had made no profit from the sales. She just please her customers;

The court acknowledged this

wanted

to

Americans.

and

Refugee Influx

DEFORE the start of the present troubles there were Donw 15,000 This conglomerate population of foreigners in the Settlement, and British, American, Italian, German, approximately 20,000 Japanese. To Dutch, Belginn, Russian, and Japanese these numbers must be added some are under the jurisdiction of their 10,000 Jewish refugees-and these are own national Consuls, but the Inter- increasing week by week-while national Settlement is self controlled there has also been a certain influx of Russian refugees who have escaped from Manchuria or Tientsin and sought shelter in Shanghai. There unortunates inve at present no re- presentation at all.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

1

By Lichty

[“My wife just graduated from a course in interior decorating

but so far I'm her only client!”

The Register of Voters last month showed a few more than 2,000 foreign vuters as opposed to 1,000 Japanese. But although these figures seem out: of proportion to the numbers of residents as quoted above, one must: also take Into consideration the Rnancial Investments involved as. indicated by the municipal ratebooks.

The Japanese paid $1,600,000 OF: against $8,400,000 from British rate- payers, and $2,000,000 by other forel residents. The Chinese pro- perty-holders contributed $7,000,000.

When everything in considered, Il will be seen that representation on! the counell is allotted fairly at the present time.

But the danger lles in this week's elections, or if not then, in the next elections for every month sees large aumbers of Japanese shopkeepers and petty Industrialists arriving In · Shanghai,

Thus the number of Japanese volers is being augmented week by week, for as long as these newcomers pay their rates they are entitled to vote in the municipal elections.

What Might Happen

THERE is nothing to prevent any country from nominating full slate

tho

or candidates, and if, for example, the Japanese had a slight voting majority and voted en bloc for each of nine Japanese nominees, council would thereby be filled to the exclusion of any other nationals. PLEASE Turn To Page 7.