1940-04-18 — Page 6

Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 18, 1940.

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ADDITIONALLY ----

OF

PRISONER

WAR

What you can do for him

standa.

that of the depot troops"; can- any civilised nation what it teens must be installed in the for. To-day there are different countries with national Red Cross camps where prisoners can buy societies. food and other articles at local

Focal point of the work of all these market prices; prisoners must societies is the International Com- mitice at Geneva, staffed and op- be medically inspected at least pointed solely by the Swiss, since it once a month, and so on.

is supposed that, whatever wors devastate the world, Switzerland is How these conditions are the most likely of all States to reinnin observed and applied depend, of neutral.

When wat is "declared" this com- ment concerned and the camp mittec immediately have the right commandant.

and duty, by international convention. of appointing delegates to visit pri- But I can assure relatives of somer-of-war camps, and to do every-

how he lives; who protects him course, mainly on the Govern

ANY day now you might Cross in Great Britain is esta-

hear that a relative or blished in the office of the Lord prisoners in Germany to this thing possible to alleviate the lot of

James's extent. I have read the most the prisoners in them. All cars serviced the same as friend of yours has been Chamberlain, at St.

Palace, London, and wonderful recent reports of the Red Cross So the committee have appointedl captured as a prisoner of work it is doing for our men in delegate to Germany who has permanent delegates to Great Britain, war or has been interned in Germany. Germany as those 300 men As soon as the name of a in the Altmark were to have prisoner is received he is sent a been if the Navy hadn't step- parcel of warm clothing, boots, shoes, etc., measurements being ped in..

his relatives. obtained from

All units of $1500 and over in value carry the Hongkong Hotel Garage guarantee for three months.

Inspection and trial invited

Hongkong Hotel

You will want to know how

treated; how you can get in Garage

touch with him; who is supreme- Stubbs Road.ly responsible for his well-being. The answer is: the International Red Cross Committee.

Phones 27778-9

Uke

well as

Hongkong Telegraph postane or all prisoners of necessities is sent.

Thursday, April 18, 1940. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20610

war,

Russia or Finland. That is д

visited many camps and he finds France, and Germany. But not fo no cause for serious complaint. cruelty due to Stalln; because Russia has not officially. "declared" war on

Officers Are Paid Finland, only made it, and so the

PRISONERS of war may apply.

International convention does not

an

not at present be sent Delegate to Great Britain la tall, money from home, but by the 50-years-old Rodolfe Huccius, that friend of yours will be Special parcels of medical com- international convention officer engineer by profession, who speaks forts are sent to all prisoners prisoners are paid by the Gov. good English and has had long ex- known to be ill or wounded. ernment which imprisons them perience of this kind of work.

"the same pay as officers of cor To France goes Edouard Frick, tund And also how welcome this responding rank in the armed to Germany Marcci Junod, Doctor of must be twice every week to forces of that Government, pro. Medicine, who, in a similar capacity, every prisoner a 10lb. parcel con- vided that such pay does not gained experience in Abyssinia and

Spain. taining tinned foods such as exceed that to which they are

A Useful Throat The committee, whose head- beef, ham, brawn, margarine, entitled in the armed forces of

All these delegates may, and do, quarters are at Genova, are res herrings, puddings, and bread, the country in whose service

visit any prison camp they like, talk for the supervision of as

soap and other they have been."

to any prisoners privately, and make The appropriate amounts are the most rigorous inquiries into con- Incidentally, there is a curious now being regularly paid, appar dillons.

They cannot enforce improvements, but they may ask for them. And they In each capital city the Red little sidelight on life in this. ently, both here and in Germany.

English prisoners in Germany Other ranks of prisoners re- make reports on what they find, which Cross Committee delegate sets find supplies of bread from home ceive no pay in their prison are circulated promptly to all the up a central organisation for most welcome. And German camps, except for work done, Governments concerned. supervision and relief work. To prisoners here particularly asic which should be at the rate of

These reports are the ultimate safe- brend from Germany- about one stilling a day.

guards of the prisoners, for they em this the names of all prisoners for

body the threat of "as you do so captured, or internees, must be Neither likes the bread of the

Finally, what are the chances shaft you be dene by," and bad: reported with the least possible other country.

of repatriation?

treatment meted out by one belliger delay, with their place of im-

All these parcels go through

ent to its prisoners can be matched prisonment.

For civilian internees in Germany by the other. Belgium, are carried post free in

there, Is some hope. Latest. Red These names and details are, both directions, and are when Cross reports show that there are It is only natural that the Allies flashed on to Geneva, and from coming from the Red Cross about 100 British subjects so interned (about 2,000 being still at large, with, victory in there they are redistributed to inmune from Customs search.

-restricted liberty).

German their struggle against Nazi gres-relatives of the prisoners in

There is satisfactory evidence Government are sending small batch- sion. As is often emphasized, they

their own countries.

that they are at present being es of these internees home at inter- regularly received by prisoners have behind them the combined resources of the two greatest empires in the world and control of the seas. This assurance has found expres-

THE prenx wancial to the Telegraph indicate nows which is strictly copyright cations Ordinance, 1910, Such Hews as bears the Indicatión "UP” la received in Hongkook on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who ra ellier who and forbid republication,

in ured by the "Hongkong Telegraph" to

under the provisions of the Telecommual-

wholly or in part without previous

arrangemen

"Assurance Of Victory"

should feel assured

of

The

vals In exchange for German

For other prisoners the likelihood

of returning home before the end of

in Germany, the time taken in internees from this country. transit being about eight days.

Relatives in England of pri- the war is very remote. Provision and airmen is only made for those them parcels of food individually seriously ill or so wounded as to be (as you will see, it is not neces- quite unft ever for future armed sary), but once every three service. months the next of kin can, Their Casca

sion in a variety of ways, not all of gross delay in the disclosure of soners in Germany cannot send for repatriation of sullors, soldiers,

which have passed unquestioned in

Holding Up Names

one have HERE We

strong complaint against the Germans. There is names. They have been keeping the Allied countries themselves. In names back to dole them out on a typical France, for instance, there has been the wireless. Just some criticism ufa Government piece of Nazi brutality, against

are protesting.

by

Montague Smith

TRUTH MUST OUT

poster asking the public to subscribe which the Red Cross Committee through the Red Cross. send a medical commission in each country AS the old proverb tells us that

to war loans, which shows on a map

of the world he vast areas included

The Prisoners of War Depart-

in the French and British empiresment of the International Red contrasted-with-the-smull-space

oceupled by Germany, and accom- GALLUP SURVEY panied by the words: win, because we are stronger."

"We shall

In Britain, a pamphlet entitled "Assurance of Victory" issued by the

Ministry of Information'a short time ngo, has also been the object of wide- spread criticism in the English press. Its striking presentation of material intended to prove that Britain and France possess overwhelming super- iority in the military, naval, air, and economic fields, has aroused protests from those who feel that this sort of propaganda is more likely to lead to

HAW-HAW HAS A BIG

AUDIENCE

MANY new listeners in Eng- land have turned-in to foreign broadcasts during the past two months.

by a taken of

Gallup by the Public

a straw indicates the direction of the wind so small happenings

are considered "personal parcel" consisting of consisting of one member apponited such things as knitted goods, by the detaining Power and two

neutral members. chocolate, and tobacco.

If the verdict of this commission is in Germany show the difficulties There can also be sent at all favourable then once again the In-under which the German popula- times books and games direct ternational Red Cross Committee tion is living. from shops which hold a permit-perform their duty of mercy. TheyTo-get-the-real-story-of-life- to send printed matter abroad. bring them home. Relatives and friends can write

to prisoners as often as they like; all correspondence is post.

free.

British prisoners of war in

Why Switzerland ?

You wonder why this mont humane work is conducted from Switzerland?

in Germany to-day one has only to turn to the advertisements. in the German daily press.

Dr. Goebbels has placed news- papers under strict control and all items arc rigorously suppressed which seem likely to give nway any In 1863 a conference was held in information of value to the Allies,

Germany are at present permit Geneva to establish the formation in or which present other than a rusy

tion of the German 1 public.

ted to send per month: Officers every country of a body to be called pleture of the war for the consump and civilians: Three letters and "The Red Cross," the idea having four postcards; other ranks; two originated in the mind of a Swiss philanthropist, Henri Dunant, who and four respectively.

was appalled by the condition of the Now what about the conditions wounded he saw at the battle of Solferino, between the Austrians and in which prisoners live? Inter- French and Italian troops, in 1850. national law says "the food

The emblem of the Red Cross Is ration of prisoners shall be equi- the Swiss Bag with the colours re-

This is shown survey recently British Institute Opinion.

2 57 per valent in quantity and quality to versed, and there is no need to tell Whereas on December perilous complacency than to that cent, answered "Yes" to the question

quietly watchful confidence which is "Do you

ever happen to

listen to

a desirable part of public morate in foreign stations?" in a survey com- pleted early last month 65 per cent.

wartime.

There is, however, another side of answered "Yes" to the same question. In the earlier survey 02 per cent, the Ministry of Information's pam-!

to Humburg phlet and the French Government's hed fast listened

other German stations.

Arc:

GRIN AND BEAR IT

ILZ

on

In the

answers

was the

"Do you ever happen to listen to foreign stations?"

fast "If yes, which une you heard?"

LISTENING

as *35%

poster which is open to question. This is their failure to emphasize the second survey this percentage had fact that for the great majority of risen to 77. people in France and Britain, and

The questions, and the perhaps outside these countries as well, assurance of victory for the Allios rests not alone on military and naval strength and economic rc- sources, but at least equally on their fait in the rightness of their cause. No doubt it is true that many Ger- mons are deeply and sincerely per- sunded that in this confilet right is on their side. But between these two convictions there is a vital difference. The people of France and Britain are free to hear and to read both sides of the

Itko case. They may if they listen to German propaganda broad-

such coats

as. those of the now notorious "Lori Haw-How." In striking contrast to this Germans are strictly forbidden to listen to foreign radlo programunes,

sald

Yes

said

No

STATIONS

Hamburg. Berlin, Zeesen,

77%

4%

4%

24%

256.

20%

25%

7%

clc. Parls Rome Moscow . Schenectady Hilversuni Athlone

Miscellaneous

"Lord Haw-Haw" is the chief broadcaster in English from the

In France and Britain, Government | German stations.

of Pubile Opinion is an entirely independent which fact-finding organisation samples the views of the public by personal interviews, with a' care- Jully balanced cross-section of the whole population, representative of all shades of public opinion.]

and people share a confidence in the [The British Insitute righteousness of their cause so solld that there is little apprehension that any amount of Nazi propaganda could shake it. Furthermore, accompany- | ing this conviction is a deep-seated faith that right is might and will pre-1

Lichte

But the German Propaganda Minister has overlooked one poin

the tell-tale advertisements, from the bigger stores, Goods are not being advertised for the simple rea- son that they are non-existent in so is concerned and the for ea

public is what are there are rationed so strictly that advertising would be a useless expenditure of money.. Their place is now taken by an entirely new type of personal ad-

By Lichty vertisement.

"But I don't want one with a good 'trade-in" valüol"

Not merely in little local news-

in the great national. there appears a new columit. of classified advertisements under the heading of "Tausch", which. means "Barter", "Tausch" began. RS U a small colunin, but it is rapidly becoming a page—and a dally puge at that.

These advertisements for the: inost part, express a desire to ex- change goods for food and clothing. --two vital needs that cast по longer be satisfied in the shops, Pletures and furniture alike are often offered for food and clothing,. but the only certain way to obtain food in to offer clothing and vlee versa, Sugar, fats, soup will quick-. ly procure an outfit.

But, along with this desire to ob- ain something for the present, there Is

the. going on

are

same time a struggle to obtain something for the future. Those- who have money

anxlous to turn it into goods, which may, in the future prove of value to them.. Al the back of the German mind is the fucking fear of inflation. They are afraid that the paper marks of may go the way of the

paper ka in 1010. this should happen, money would be useless: but with an extra, pair of boots, or a hundredweight of cont a man might be able to barter his way to some degree of comfort.

All this points not only to Ger- mon lack of confidence in victory, but to the extent to which the au thorities are draining the resources of the country in order to manufac~ ture Kun and ammunition. Henerally,