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Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

MAGAZINE

April 29, 1940.

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By the Rt. Hon. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN GRIN AND BEAR IT "WE MUST RISK OUR BLOOD AND OUR TREASURES"

ONCE again, as 26 years ago,

the historic buildings and the ancient streets of Britain are looking upon the faces of the King's subjects who have come hero from all parts of the world of their own free will, far away from their homes and their families, to take their part side by side with us in the great struggle that is before us.

Their presence here and the profound conviction of the necessity of putting an end to the German policy of constant aggression which alone could have induced them to under- ancrifices has take such brought to the aid of the Allies not only a most wel- come addition to their fighting atrength, but what is perhaps even more valuable the moral support of their unanimous approval of our cause.

This year, which will probably be a fateful one in the history of the world, has opened quietly, but it is the quiet of the calm before the storin We are at wor

It is only on the sen that the war may be said to be in full operation, and is on the sea that we can discern most clearly the trend of hostilities in the first four months of war,

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IF we take a survey, I think we shall find that the result is not unsatisfactory.

The оседня of the world have been swept clear of German shipping, The German Firet, which at the beginning of the war was less than a quarter of our own. has lost, by capture, by sinking. and above all by scuttling, 228,000 lons, and the rest of it is either boltled up in foreign ports or it is confined to the Baltic.

In this period, we have lost twe large warships, the Royal Oak and the Courageous, and a certain num- ber of smaller vessels.

What is much more serious, more painful, is that we have also fost u number of valuable lives in the Royal Navy, in the Mercantile In unarmed and defenceless Navy, commercial vessels; and yet out command of the sea is unimpaired. und the defeat of the Graf Spee in one of the finest naval netions In

her all ou

our history, followed by self-destruction, rather than face renewal of the flight, has not only cleared the South Atlantle of that galder, but has inflicted Irreparable damage upon German naval pres- tige throughout the world.

Meantime, Inexorable pressure,of sea power acting upon the enemy is producing ever-inèrensing dimaul- tles for her whole economy and for her ability to carry on the war.

Germany used her brute force upon unhappy Poland, and to-day we can see how she is treating the Poles and the Czechs-exploiting their resources, carrying off their

starving an

and shooting the people, tearing and uprooting them

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from their homes to minke way for Germans who, in their turn, have been forced to leave the Innds where they and their families have been settled for generations.

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wealth,

NEARLY a year ago, speaking in the House of Commons, I warned the country that i was the inten- on of the Government, on the out- break of a major war, that direct taxes, already so heavy as to con- stitute conscription would be still further Increased,

That prediction

fulfilled when my heavy-handed friend und colleague, last September placed his little finger upon the shoulder of the income-tax payer,

was

clutses

Already, the wealthier have suffered a very heavy reduc- tion in their Income, and we have left them mighly Iltile prospect of being able to increase it again.

I don't say that we have come to the end of our demands upon then, but I do say that their standards of living have necessarily already been notably reduced; und, any- how, it is not possible for them alona to solve the problem of how 15 reduce consumption of un- necessary articles, because two- thirds of the consumption of the people of this country is by those who only have small incomes: and, therefore, I say that it is necessary that they too should make their. sacrifice as is done, not only in tolalitarian Germany, but also in the great democracy of France:

I do not mean to imply by that that there must be no increase of wager, but I do why that it would

be a mistake to tle up wages to the cost of living, which in the end could bencft no one, because it could only give a violent impetus to the vicious spiral of alternately rising prices and wages, and that is thing that all of us want to avuld.

WHAT are we to do to win and...... If possible, to shorten this war? We mntist save, we must control im- port, we must do without com- modities that are not necessary, we must, If required, ration them so that all may share and share alike.

In these times of war I cannot guarantee-no one can guarantee......... that the sacrifices of all are going to be equal,

It is becoming increasingly clear that the German Government lias long planned the successive stages of a progranine of conquest, and that its appetite grows by what it feeds upon.

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TO-DAY the members of that Government do not hesitate to say that they desire to achieve the ruin of the British Empire, and no doubt they would relolce if they could treat us.. as they are treating the, victims already within their grip. We on aur skle have no such vindictive designs.

But on the other hand, the Ger- man people must realise that the responsibility for the prolungation of this war, and all the suffering that it may bring in the coming year, Is theirs, as well as that of the tyrants who stand over them.

They must realise Uut the desire of the Allies for a social, human, Just Christian settlement canno; be Satisfed by assurances which ex- perience has proved to be wo.th- lesa.

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The methods that are pursued by the Government of Hitler are standing threat to the independence of every small State In Europe. They are a constant menues to the moral standards

which the whole of Western civilization 15 founded.

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Nowhere have they aroused greater detestation than throughout the conti, ents of North and South Amerler.

In als recent message to the Pope the President of the United States declared that only by the friendly association of the seekers of light and the seekers of pence every. where enn the forces of evil be overcome, A

I profoundly agree. But I would add that, if the forces of right are to prevail, we must not hesitate to

and end,

Otjz

risk blood SU grent

our treasure for

Against such a combination [ that, the powers of wickedness wil Oght In vain, and can.awalt the future with unshuken confidence in the strength of our arms and In the righteousness of our cause."

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Ces. 1938 47 Unlist Ÿrmiuro Kzadicati, tan,

"Where's Buskin?

Fun in

BUSKIN

By Lichty

5-20

His office looks like it ain't been slept in for some time!"

Strange Places

HAVE just spent a few Mr. happy hours with Ross. Leonard Q. Ross-you may know him.

He is hot from New York full of the fun he has picked up there. It seems he has been doing the sights as if he were a stranger to the place.

Which he isn't. He knows it as well as you and I think we know Hongkong.

If you don't know Mr. Ross Pl introduce you. But just let me juss on what he told me after his Grand Tour of New York.

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· THERE wos, for instance, the conversation between two actors which he overheard in the Cafe Royal, Neiv York's forum Jewish art. They were obviously discussing. In their colourful way,

new production:

"I stinks."

"Why 'steenks,' all of a sodden? It's foist class directed no?"

"Short and svect-it stinks."

"You making me sick!"

"All right, so it don't stink. It's only got a smell, you should pod- den me, I vould kill a hox."

"Ha, ha, ha, hat Pleeze, Veln- traub, Holst to Gott, you killink

like me. So how did you

the performance?"

"You were movvelous! "Vell. I wasn't exactly may- velous, though it's nice you should

NEW GRAMOPHONE RÈCORDS

Schubert and Sibelius

THE recent recording of Sibelius's Fifth Symphony, the made for II.M.V. by Boston Symphony Orchestra under Serge Koussevitzky, takes one back in memory to 1916.

In that year the great Finnish composer's fiftieth anniversary was celebrated as a national event and it was then that the symphony was heard for the first time. At once, the report runs, it seemed a much myer work than had been usual with

Men prophesied Sibellus.

that it would even" become popular. Now 25 years having passed, it remains admittedly the most in- stantly attractive of Sibellus's sym- phonics and one of the most direct will In its appeal. Populor it never be. That word may be used for "Finlandia" and the Valse Triste, not for the Fth.

For with all its apparent high spirits and the lightness of much of its texture there surrounds it an atmosphere too keen for what mid- Europeans consider gniety; while the southern races, who seldom take kindly to Sibelius's musle, would call it lee-cold. Manifestly it is determined and forceful music, There is nothing preity about it.

Whether the

the cause. be American style of recording, or

Koussevitzky's interpretation, this record seeins to me unduly square- eut. The playing in efficient, but Jacka vitality. There Is a sense of earnest endeavour as though a duly were being performed. Behind the interpretation there is understand- ing, but the head more than the heart is in control. American studio conditions tend to harden the quality of the tone and that is probably responsible for what seems the unsympathetic character of this performance.

Turning to the record of Schubert's C minor Symphony called the "Tragle," made for the same firm by the New York Phil- harmonic Orchestra under John Barbirolli, is like going from win- fer to spring.

By contrast with Sibellus's Fifth the Schubert work is the reverse of tragic. That descriptive label hus always been incomprehensible, but. In this connection It becomes mean- ingless. This record, expressively played and interpreted in a manner which does justice to the work's fine proportions, is for discriminat- ing listeners. It is worth careful hearing, if only for the slow move- ment, a splendid piece of melodious writing, equal to the finest that even Schubert' created.

say so.

Toisday night you should

sce me. Toisday I was movvejous."

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AND sullen, though colourful Hermun Tegr, 2 leading Cafe

Rogat gure, who said to Ross suddenly:

"Why no ask how long I ant?” "How long are you?" I asked. "Tvunty-nine years same place!" he cried.

That (said Mr. Ross, with feel- ing) will give you a rough iden of what our conversallon was like.

ANOTHER time Mr. Ross found

In himself

the Fathers-to-be- Waiting Room of a maternity hos- pital

(how he must have got around). The strange literature. the digiments of tortured imaging-

found Lion

in the which be "fathers' Book," thoughtfully pro- vided volume, in which these tor- mented souls are asked to write their thoughts while wailing Out of Mr. Ross's vast collection i particularly liked these:

TO THE STAFF OF THIS JOINT

One thing burns me up! To be treated like a pup. Listen, all you Docs and Nurses Prancing

in your at white shirtles,

You shouldn't have a thing to do If guys like me didn't break the path for you!

So don't treat me quite so gruff, Or ne'er again will I do my stuff

THEN WHERE WILL YOU BE? I'm damn mod.

Jack P.

(I think you'll have to admit- commented Mr. Ross-that Jack hind the does and nurses there, hands down,)

YEA. TEAM!

Baby Baby! Do your stuffi 16 hours is enough!

Be you gigolo,

Be you vamp.

Get moving, you little scamp? ROSALIE A. The music goes round and round. The doctors go round and round. The nurses go round and round. The bills go round and round. The husbands go round und

round.

The mothers

ала round round.

Does Baby go round and round? What is the meaning of it all?

INQUIRING MIND,

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THEN, Anally, we had the price- less letter sent by the famous Mr. Barney, "Napoleon of the Men's Clothing Trade." to a fumkure dealer who wanted a new coat for one he had bought a year

before because moths had eaten it:

Dear Mr. Furniture

Man, When you can sell beds guaranteed to keep out bugs. I will sell coats guaranteed to keep out moths- Respectfully, MR. BARNEY.

Then, us an afterthought, he added:

P.S.-Your complaint is actually a compliment. Moths Imve very delicato teeth. They eat only the finest, softest woollens. That shows you the kind of cont you had.

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You

WELL, that's Mr. Ross, can meet him, too, if you like. Just

get hl new book. The Strangest Places (Constable, 75. Od.). You'll find it excellent com- pany for the black- out or (as was my luck) the sick bed.

J. V.

Brain-teasers

1. See if you can draw four straight lines that will pass through the nine dots without lift- ing your pencil from the paper. No ing must be traveljed twice.

over

ANSWERS TO THE FOL-

LOWING TEASERS WILL BE FOUND UPSIDE DOWN BE- LOW.

2. Which is the larger of the following paper sizes, Foolscap or Small post?

3.

There

three are

Marx Brothers,

and Groucho, Harpo Chico. Can you remember the name of the other one who used to be in this act?

4. Who married "Lorna Doone"? 5. Here are Rve planets, Saturn, Uranus, Jupiter, Pluto and Mer cury. Can you name the remain- init four?

6. Which is the lightest in box- Ing weights, bantam, dy-weight or feather?

7. Which of the following are spirits:

(a) Kunch, (b) Vodka, (c) Runi, (u) Curacon, (e) Sack,

8. Nume the M.P. who is advo- entian sex education for women In National Service?

9. Is it true to say that Venus was the Greek goddess of love?

10. Who wrote the classic Iriali play "The Plough and the Stars"? και Liam O'Flaherty,

(V) Eugene O'Neill, (c) Scan O'Casey, (0) W. D. Yeats, (e) Padraic Colum

11. “And a woman is only £1 woman, but good cigar is smoke." Who said this?

12. Who played the lend in the original version of Noci Coward's "Bitter Sweet"?

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