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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 10, 1940.

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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- stance, the Nazis claimed to

have made direct hits on A number of heavy British naval units yet the real story is that the invaders lost certainly two, probably three machines, with- out effecting any damage them-

selves.

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

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

ration card

This is

Nazi justice

R

of death for the offence,

Shanghai is threatened bv

the ballot box

war in by a Municipal Council, which Ad-

ministers the area, and also

the

WITH the

Europe, the attention Shanghai Police, Over and above

of the world has been diverted this body of pollee there are, how- ever, troops of America, Great from 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 national 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, the Japanese will obtain complete the number of seats on the Shanghai limited nine, control of the International Settle- Municipal Council

any nationality who can poll a suffi-. ment before the end of 1040, and that which may be held by foreigners of cient number of votes among the without striking a blow.

Tulepayers.

Transformation

There has never been any arrange- FEW people are aware of the orga- ment made as to proportionate re- nisation of this Settlement, allotted to presentation of the different nationa- foreigners as a place of residence ilties on the council, and for the past almost a hundred years ago by the few years there have been British, two American, and Chinese Government of that time.

Japanese councillors.

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 of a Nazi court.

was empowered to pass sentence For two weeks she had been

Next I read of the man who under arrest. Now she faced the judges.

throw salt on the icy pavement Her crime? She stole a ration outside his house because his card for soap. She hadn't one son had slipped and hurt his of her own.

ankle. He was accused of waste. "But I haven't used the card,"

Three weeks in jail. she pleaded.

have Recently I

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 Yangtze-poo, we see tutes up to a certain amount to the listening-in the magnificence of the Bund with Municipally on property owned or six 82 convictions for

and rented in the International Settle- to British and French broad- its sky-scraper banks, flats,

hotels, while at the back of this ment. The minimum payment for He casts.

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

street of busy thops and comfortable approximately £4 per annum, so that fully.

it is obvious that people with very foreign residences.

small incomes are franchise-holders.

The plea was ignored. was led away to serve months' imprisonment.

Brunno Heller is also 30. jhad no clothes--only rags.

it was very cold.

card.

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

Twelve

months' Imprison-

When it was thus assigned it was With regard to

Probably £50,000,000 would not

In the main by British

and

election,

Refugee Influx

Ave-

two

nny.

So he stole a clothes ration Georg Kaiser, an inn-keeper from Mannheim, had not only listened to the British broad-cover the foreign investments here,

'DEFORE the start of the present casts, but allowed his guests to Americans.

troubles there were GOMO join him in his crime.

15,000 This conglomerate population of foreigners in the Settlement, and Kaiser was sentenced to death. British, American, Italian, German, approximately 20,000 Japanese. To ment.

His wife, who had not informed Dutch, Belgian, Russian, and Japanese these numbers must be added some are under the jurisdiction of their 10,000 Jewish refugees-and these are These two cases, reported re. the authoritics of her husband's

own national Consuls, but the Inter- increasing week by week-while PLEASE Turn To Page 7. national Settlement is itself controlled there has also been a certain influx cently in the German Press,

of Russian ref gees who have escaped reveal the harsh and brutal way

from

Manchurin or Tientsin and

unortunates have at present no. re- presentation at all.

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

justice is being administered by

LET me go over a num

ber of court reports

I have clipped from recent issues of German newspapers.

Hore, for instance, la the case But this does not prevent fof an unnamed woman who them from reporting to their appeared in court with her hair

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

a point that cannot be decided. once arrested, and the case was The mendacity of the Naz! pro-reported to the local Gauleiter. the Ho himself punished 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

court.

that their general inclination, BUT food

rationing offences occupy most of

when a bomb misses its mark, the time of the courts."

There Was Frau Krause,

is to let imagination complete owner of a Berlin restaurant. the task. It must be highly Even after the introduction of encouraging to the spoon-fed the sovere rationing system she German people-for a time. But sold meat and butter, to her customers without receiving even they will wonder aventually 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.

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

to

The court acknowledged this

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichtyrt shelter in Shanghat. These

"My wife just graduated from a course in Interior decorating-

but so far I'm her only cllant!"

The Register of Voters last month showed a few more than 2,000 foreign voters as opposed to 1,000 Japanese. But although these figures seem out of proportion lo the numbers of residents as quoted above, one must. also toke into consideration the Anancial investments Involved O indleated by the municipal ratebooks.

The Japanese paid $1,000,000 ns against $8,400,000 from British rate- payers, and $2,000,000 by other. foreign residents. The Chinese pro- perty-bolders 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 iles in this week's elections, or if not then, in the next- elections for every month soes large numbers of Japanese shopkeepers and pelty industrialists arriving in Shanghal.

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

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