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Elbrary, Supreme Court

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 29, 1940.

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MAGAZINE PAGE

By the Rt. Hon. NEVILLE

CHAMBERLAIN

WE MUST RISK OUR BLOOD

AND OUR TREASURES"

ONCE again, as 25 years ago,

the historic buildings and the ancient streets of Britain are looking upon the faces of the King's subjects who have come here 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- take such sacrifices has brought to the aid of the Allies not only a most wel- come addition to their fighting strength, 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 storm. We are at war.

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

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

The oceans of the world have been swept clear of German slipping. The German Fleet, which at the beginning of the war was less than a quarter of our own, Ju lost. by capture, by slaking, and above alf by scuttling, 225,000 tons, and the rest of it is either bottled up in forelan ports or it is confined to the Baltic.

In this period, we have lost two large worships, 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 lost a number of valuable lives in the Royal Navy, in the Mercantile Navy.

in unarmed and defenceless commercial vessels; and yet our command of the sear is unimpaired. und the defeat of the Graf

Spee in

her

one of the nest naval actiony In all our history, followed by self-destruction, rather than free renewal of the flight, has not only cleared the South Atlantic of thiết ralder, but has inßleted irreparable damage upon German naval pres- Lige throughout the world.

Meantime, inexorable pressure of seu power octing upon the enemy is producing ever-increasing dillisul- ties 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 Poly and the Czechs-exploiting. their resources, carrying off their food, starving and shooting the people, teuring and uprooting them from thele homes to make way for Germans who, in their turn, have been forced to leave the lands where they and their families have been settled for generations,

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

That prediction whs fulfilled when my heavy-handed friend and colleague, lust September placed his le Onger upon the shoulder of the income-tax payer.

Already, the wealthier classes have suffered a very heavy reduc- tion In their income, and we have left them mighty little prospect of being able to increase it again.

un-

I don't say that we have come to the end of our demands upon them. but I do say that their standards of living have necessarily already been notably reduced; and, any- how, it is not possible for them alone to solve the problem of how to reduce consumption of necessary articles, becaune two- thirds 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 totalitarian Germany, but also in the great democracy of France.

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I do not mean to, Imply by that that there must be no increase of wages, but I do say that it would

be a mistake to tle up wages to the cost of living, which in the end could beneft no

it one, because couki 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 avoid.

WHAT are we to do to win and, If possible, to shorten this war? We must save, we-must' control Im- ports, we must

without com- modities that are not neccssary, we mest, if required, rollon them, so that all may share and share alike.

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

It is becoming increasingly clear But the German Government has long planned the successive, stagis of a programme 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 rejoice if they could treat us as they are treating the victims already within their grip

We on our side have no such vindictive designs,

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

They must realise that the desire of the Allies for a social, human. Just Christian settlement cannot be Futised by asstranges which ex- perlence has proved to be wr.th- Jess.

The methods that are pursued by the Government of Hitler aro standing threat to the independence of every small Slate in Europe. They are a constant menace to the moral standards on which the whole of Western civilisation ja founded.

Nowhere have they aroused greater detestullon than throughout the continents of North and South America.

In his recent message to the Pope the President of the United States declared

that only by the friendly association of the seekers of light aud seekers of penée every- where can the forces of evil he

overcome. Jay aprec.

But I would

add that, if the forces of right are to prevalt, we must not hesitate to risk our blood and our treasure for

great an ent.

Against such a combination that, the powers of wickedness wil Aght in vain, and can await the future with unshaken confidence in the strength of our arms and in the righteousness of our cause.” ·

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GIGAN

BUSKIN ZZRIPT.

Cour. 1939 by Unlied Pexture Ryndicale, Fac,

"Where's Buskin?

Fun in

TSCHAIKOWSKY CENTENARY

GRAND CONCERT

By Lichty

TONOFF

GIVEN BY PELLEGATTI

assisted by

·THE RUSSIAN CHOIR

Directed by Mr. Diakoff

ORE.

ROSE ROOM PENINSULA HOTEL on Tuesday, 7th May at 9.15 p.m.

Admission: $3, $2 & $1.

(including tax)

Booking at Anderson's, or Tkachenko, 3 Hankow Road -

5-20

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

Strange Places

Tuisday night you shoulda see me. Toixday I was movvelous."

HAVE just spent a few May so. happy hours with Mr. 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 1'l introduce you. But just Ict me pass on what he told me after his Grand Tour of New York,

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THERE was. for instance, the conversation between two actors which he overheard in the Cafe

New Royal,

York's forum of Jewish art. They were obviously discussing, in their colourful way, a new production:

-"It stinks.****

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

"Short and avect--it stinks."

"You making me slek!"

It's

"All right, so it don't stink. only got a smell, you should pad- den me, il vould kill a hox."

"Ha, ha, ha, hul Pleeze, Veln- traub, Honist to Gott, you killink the me. So how did

you like performance?"

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

NEW GRAMOPHONE RECORDS

and

Schubert

Sibelius

THE recent recording of Sibelius's Fifth Symphony, made for H.M.V. by the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Serge Koussevitzky, takes one back In memory to 1915.

In that year the greit 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 mueli gayer work than had been usual

Sibelius. with

Men prophesied that it would even become popular. Now 25 years having passed, it remains admittedly the most in- stantly attractive of Sibelius's gym- phonies and one of the most direct in its appeal. Popular it wil never be. That word may be used for "Finlandia" and the Valse Triste, not for the Fifth.

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

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Whether the cause be the American style of recording or

Koussevitzky's interpretation, this record seems to me unduly square- cut. The playing Is efficient, but lacks vitality. There is a sense of earnest endeavour as though a duty were being performed, Behind the Interpretation there is understand- ing, but the head more than the heart is in control. American tullo conditions tend to harden the quality of the tone and that is probably responsible for

what seems the unsympathetic character of this performance.

of

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

By contrast with Sibelius's Fifth the Schubert work is the reverse of tragle. That descriptive label has 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 discriminal- ing steners. It is worth careful hearing, if only for the slow move- ment, a splendid plece of melodious writing, equal to the nest that even Schubert created.

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AND sullen, though colourful Herinam Teur, a lending Cafe Royal gure, who said to Ross suddenly:

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

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

ANOTHER me Mr. Ross found himself

the In

Fathers-to-be- Waiting Room of a maternity hea pital (how he must have got Ground). The stronge Ilterature, the figments of tortured imagina- ilon which he

in the found "fathers' Book," a thoughtfully pro- vided volume, in which these tor- mented souls are asked to write their thoughts while waiting 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 stiff white shirties,

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.

1 do my Or ne'er again will stuir!

THEN WHERE WILL YOU DE? I'm damn mad.

Jack P.

(I think you'll have to admit- commented Mr. Ross-that Jack had the docs and nurses

there, hands down.)

YEA, TEAN!

Baby! Baby! Do your stuff! 16 hours is enough!

Be you gigolo,

Be you vamp.

Get moving, you ittle 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 and Found

mothers go round แทย

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

INQUIRING MIND.

The round.

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→THEN, finally, we had the price- less letter sent by the famous Mr. Barney, "Napoleon of the Men's Clothing Trade," to 3 fumiture dealer who wanted a new coat for one he had bought a year before because moths had eaten 1;

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

Then, os an afterthought, he added:

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

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

How book. The Strangest Placer (Constable, 7.. Bd.). You'll find l'excellent com- pany for the black-

out, or (as was my luck) the sick bed,

J. V.

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that lines

wilt 089 through the nine dots without ft- Ing your pencil from the paper. No line must be travelled twice.

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. Which is the lightest in box- ing weights, bantam, fly-weight or feather?

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