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Wednesday,

HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH

April 10, 1940.

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oût effecting any damage them-

selves.

DEATH for listening-in to Britain; TEN YEARS' jail for selling food without

accepting ration coupons ;

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

ration card

This is

Nazi justice

R

OSA BERGER, an as a kindly action, and so she attractive woman of was sentenced to only ten years' 30, stood in the dock hard labour, although the court was empowered to pass sentence of a Nazi court.

of death for the offence. For two weeks she had been under arrest. Now she faced the judges.

of her own.

"But I haven't used the card," she pleaded..

The plea was ignored. was led

to serve months' imprisonment.

Brunno Heller is also 30. had no clothes-only rags. And it was very cold.

Shanghai is threatened bv

the ballot box

war

the

WITH the

in by Municipal Counell, which Ad-

ministers the area, and also Europe, the attention Shanghai Police. Over and above

of the world has been diverted this body of police there are, how- ever, troops of America, Great 'rom happenings in China.

Britain, and Italy, maintaining, de-

So slight notice has been taken of fence sectors in the Settlement. the fact that a serious danger The Japanese forces have taken threatens the future of the Inter- over an area on the verge of the Įmatiunal Settlement in Shangbai. For Settlement.

in regard to the foreign Concessions

Under the Land Regulations pro-

in Shanghai it is not improbable that mulgated some 70-odd years ago, the Japanese will obtain complete the number of seats on the Shanghai control of the International Settle- Municipal Council is fimlied to nine,. ment before the end of 1940, and that which may be held by foreigners of any nationallty who can poll a suffi- without striking a blow.

cient number of voles among the ilepayers.

7

Transformation

There has never been any arrange-

10

election,

any

Next I read of the man who FEW people are aware of the orga- ment made as to proportionate re- threw salt on the icy pavementnisation of this Settlement, nilotted to presentation of the different nationa- Her crime? She stole a ration outside his house because his foreigners as a place of residence, ilties on the council, and for the past few years there have been. five 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 ankle. He was accused of waste. Chinese Government of that time.

Japanese councillorn. Three weeks in jail.

When it was thus assigned it was With regard Recently I have counted | a dreary mud-flat on the river's edge, foreigner possesses a vote if he pays She reports in the German Press of To-day on the Yungise-poo, we see rates up to a certain amount to the six 82 convictions for listening-in the magnificence of the Bund with Municipality on property owned or to British and French broad-its sky-scraper banks, flats, and reated in the International Settle- hotels, while at the back of this ment. The minimum payment for voto Is He costs.

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

street of busy shops and comfortable approximately £4 per annum, so that

is fully.

obvious that people with very foreign residences.

small Incomes are franchise-holders. Georg Kaiser, an inn-keeper from Mannheim, had not only cover the foreign investments here, listened to the British broad-held in the casts, but allowed his guests to Americans. join him in his crime.

nway

+

So he stole a clothes ration card.

"I have no clothes except the rags I-am standing in," he told the court.

Twelve months' imprison- ment.

These two cases, reported re- cently in the German Press, reveal the harsh and brutal way justice is being administered by athe Nazis.

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 British fighter plane shows in the offing they make for the nearest cloud and turn their faces resolutely homeward.'

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LET me go over a num- ber of court reports I have 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 hacked off in the crudest style.

appeared in court with her hair

superiors the most extravagant The clerk explained to the Buccesses. 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 bo decided. [onçe arrested, and the case was The mendacity of the Nazi pro-reported to the local Gauleiter. Ho 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.

There is to let imagination complete owner of a Berlin restaurant. Frau Krause, the task. It must be highly Even after the introduction of encouraging to the spoon-fed the sovero rationing system sho 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 sens.

food BUT

Wag

Frau Krause pleaded that sho had made no profit from the sales. Sho Just wanted please her customers,

to

The court acknowledged this

Kaiser was sentenced to death. His wife, who had not informed the authorities of her husband's PLEASE Turn To Pago 4.

Probably £50,000,000 would not

main by British and

Refugee Influx

BEFORE the start of the present troubles there were some 15,000 This conglomerate population of foreigners in the Settlement, and British, American, Italian, German, upproximately 20,000 Japanese. To Dutch, Belglan, Russian, and Japanese these numbers must be added sonic are under the jurisdiction of their 10,000 Jewish refugees and these are ewn national Consuls, but the Inter- increasing

week

week-while by national Settlement is itselt controlled there has also been a certain indux of Rusalan refugees who have escaped from Manchuria or Tientsin and sought. shelter in Shanghai. These unortunates have at present no re- presentation at all,

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

392

i-zi

"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 voters na opposed to 1,000 Japanese. Eut although these figures acein out of proportion to the numbers of residents as quoted above, one munt also take into consideration

the financial Investments involved as | Indieșted by the municipal ratebooks. The Japanese pald $1,600,000 as against $8,400,000 from British rate- payers, and $2,000,000 by other foreign residents, The Chinese pro- periy-holders contributed $7,000,000.

When everything is considered, it will be seen that representation on the council 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 numbers of Japanese shopkeepers and petty Industrialists arriving, in Shanghal.

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

What Might Happen

THERE is nothing to prevent any country from nominating a full slate et candidates, and if, for example, the Japanese had a slight voting majority and voled en bloc for each at nine Japoneso nominees, the council would thereby be filled to the exclusion of any other nationals.

PLEASE Turn To Pago 4.