1940-05-02 — Page 23

Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 2, 1940.

MAGAZINE MUSSOLINI POINTS TO A NEW HORIZON

by

EMRYS JONES

USSOLINI'S accent now is on the Adriatic, and what

Mon for the Mediterranean gocs, too, for the Adriatle,

he tells his Roman citizens and the world.

If there is any menace in this, whom does it concern?

First, Jugoslavia though some will perhaps read something else Into it, for it is hinted in many expitals that fitter, other Mariner

in the Axis, is also ambitious some day to bathe in the warm waters

of the Adriatle without stepping of German soll.

So that makes less possible the view that Hitler has told his part- ner to go ahead and try to snatch Dalinatia, from Jugoslavia.

In Belgrade the statesmen are getting intu huddle, and no doubt these next few days will see

a lot of contlng and going between the diplomats of Italy and Jugo- slavia,

Look at the map. Jugoslavia has everything to lose in her province of Dalmatis.

if that is threatened or lost, then Jugoslavia will lose with it any outlet to the sea, and that in to- day's power politics means that such economic pressure can be put on an inland State that it may have to succumb to the wishes of more powerful neighbours. Re- anember Hungary.

SWITZER

LAND

GERMANY

TRENTO

SARDINIA

ITALY

All the ports of Jugestavin look wut On to the Adriatic-Split, Susak, Dubrovnik, and Kotor.

For the Jugoslovs, any hint of trouble now in the Adriitle" would be disastrous, for internally the Serbs and Croats, two of the three races making up the Kingdom, pre each other's thronis mure bitter- ly than ever.

The Croats want a wide measure of miltonomy, and now they want it so badly that they have hinted that if they are not given it by Government at Bel- the Central grade, well, then, they are not averse to calling in a powerful neighbour to "protect them. Be- inember Czech-Slovakia.

Jealous Of Each Other IF you want to sum up Jug- slavia generally, you can say that bath Serbs and Croats are united in their hatred of Germany and In their fear of Italy, but their jealouss for each other is greater Thun either their hatreds or fears.

So, if somebody wants, to make trouble, there's plenty of dynamite lying loose in Jugoslavia. In that country, saved from Italian do-

HUNGARY

JUGOSLAVIA

RUMANIA

BULGARIA

GREECE

TURKEY

DID YOU EVER WONDER?

Why the Pacific Ocean Is More Calm

Than the Atlantic?

According to one historical ne- count, un November 25, 1520, Magellan "entered the Great South Sea, shedding tears of joy, as Pigafetta, an eyewitness, relates. when he recognised its limitable expanse.

Admiring its placld surface... he .. imposed upon it the nume it is forever to bear- the Pacific (Peaceful) Ocean."

The Pacific Coast of the United Slates does, seem, on the average, to be less frequently lushed with storms than our Atlantle seaboard. However, the consts of China and Japan do experience violent and destructive typhoons,

Whatever advantage of calm- ness the Pacifle may have over the Atlantic is due chiedy to its great size. The area of the Pacife is greater than that of the four con- tinents combined. The Atlantie is

the only about half

size of the

INANITY FARE

Winston

Once convinced an Unbeliovar

That he didn't suffer from

war-fever

PACIFIC OCEAN $1,434,000 SQUARE MILES

ATLANTIC OCEAN

41,321,000 132VÁRE MILEN.

TINGTAN OCEANI 29,340,000 SQUARE MILES_

In the array given above, the Arctic, Mediterranean, eta, are included in the Atlantic, and the Antarctic or Southern Ckaon has been divided between the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans.

Pacifle and less than a third as wide.

The winds, tides, and currents are less modified in the broad Poelfle than in narrower occans. The tidal wave, originating at the Equator, makes its way northward through the Pacifle almost without being obstructed, The average tide on the west coast of America is under 10 feet and the highest only 28 feet. In the Atlantle, how- ever, the tide in the Bay of Fundy reaches 60 feet or more, and the tide in the Bristol Channel rises 40 to 50 feet.

A potent cause of storms is the clash of great masses of warin air with other masses of cold air. The warm Gulf Stream, coming up the Atlantic Coast and crossing the ocean to Europe, heats the air above it. Storms arise when this warm air encounters cold masses of air from the Arctic.

The corresponding warm stream in the Pacific, the Japanese Cur- rent, travels northward past the coast of Japan and gives rise to storns of the count of Alaska which, having little economke im- portance, pass relatively unnoticed.

The large areas of other parts of the Pacific having water of rather even temperature, keeps the air temperature relatively constant

and reduces the number and vio- Ience of the storms In such glons.

nination by President Wilson- nore of that unon-there is a fine Army, especially of Infantrymen, but there is no political unity.

Anyway, ever since the war, Jugoslavia has been courted by two ambitions sultors, Italy and France,

For to France she is part of the Central European alltonces against Germany. For Italy she is an out- let for her goods.

These two suitors spent a lot of money on her, and she coquetted with both to the great satisfaction of neither.

It Mussolini hos more definite designs in the Adriatic, then this lady of 20 years will have to make up her mind.

Now for Italy. For that country Dalmatia hurts like an old wound - war wound.

Go back to 1915 when the no- tions were baiting for, ther existence. In Italy then a young man was expelled from the So- clalist Party for urging his coun- try to go to war against Austria. His name was Denito Mussolini.

in England, 100, the politicians were busy trying to detach Italy from her understanding with the Central Powers and to persunde her to Oght on the side of the 'Allies.

Outbid The Germans

NOW Lord Grey, British Foreign Minister, outbid the Germans and Austrians, pronised the Italions the Austrian Tyrol and the Dal- matian coast-excluding Fiume-It they would fight for the Allies. They agreed, and signed what is called the London Treaty of 1015.

Well, Italy came out on the win- ning side of the war, and on the losing side of the peace.

At the Paris Peace Conference her Orlando argued that because of the Italian victory (supported by British, American, and Czech divisions) at Vitorla Veneto, tie port of Fiume should be added to the spoils already promised.

Then President Wilson became stubborn, as he could when he wanted to be. No, suid he, Italy should have the Tyrol, the Tren- tino, and the Dalmatian coast only as far as Trieste,

Flume, he said, was a Slav port, and should go to Jugoslavia, the Kingdom created out of Slavs, Serbs, and Croats.

They

• could not agree, sa Orlando flounced out of the conference, packed his bags, and went back to Rome.

Hero Of Young Italy

THE result was that Italy got less out of the peace than she ex- pected, but there was one of her countrymen not prepared to sub- mit to the decisions of the politi clans either in Paris or Ronse.

He was a little, bald airman- poet. called Gabriele d'Annunzio, hero of young Italy, who had flown over Vienna during the war dropping manifestoes instead of bobs urging the Austrians to make peace.

com-

He determined to be strong where the politicians were weak. So in September, 1919, he mandeered every aeroplane he could find, and with a band of men flew to Fiume.

From the port he drove out the Allied army of occupation, de- clared Flume Italian. It wa dramatic, but il was also comic opera,

He put his men into cloaks, put doggers in their belts, and crested them with eagle feathers. He made speeches that reminded the world of old Rome, encouraged his nviators to bomb the Ministries in modern Rome with beetroot,

Ships deserted to him from the Kallan Navy, war heroes crowded around him. Nelther, threats from Rome nor from Paris could shift him from his curious kingdom.

It was an amusing episode, but it was, in a way, the Birth of Fns- cism.

Bombarded By Fleet

FOR three months d'Annunzio held out, until the Italian Govern- ment 011 Christmas Eve, when there were no newspapers to warn the public, sent the feet to bom- bard Flume, and drevo him out. When Italy heard, Italy mourned.

Ever since, the Italians have looked across the Adriatle to what might have been.

THE NEW ETENOH FAMEDT. THERAPION NË. I THERAPION NĚ.2 THERAPION NĚ.3

DR. LE GLERO'S PILLE FOR Ihre Livmp

PAGE

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

10

JOES SERVLE

JOES SERVICE! GAS,OIL HR

Coritiba, mebel Patien

Tu Jap. UPAL OF MAN The IN.

"The opposing force has outwitted us. Sir-they got here ahead of us and bought up all the gas!"

There's no beating the TRUTH

A WORD that is constantly on people's tongues in these days of war is the word "Propaganda." It isn't a happy word. In fact, it's one that most of us take to be a more modern or polite version of the old-fashioned word, "Lies."

STRICTLY SPEAKING, this isn't so. Propaganda--and every country at war has to use it can just us readily consist of truths as of untruths. An expert would tell you that any state- ment issued in order primarily to influence people's opinions is propaganda. Go, obviously, a statement of fact can be just as effective or even more so than a story that is simply the pro- duct of an unscrupulous imagination.

"OR EVEN MORE SO." Note those words. For it is here that we find one of the biggest differences between Nazi ideas and our own.

THE NAZIS quite openly boast of their willingness to use any kind of lie that will serve their immediate purpose. Hitler, himself is very frank. He is all for using lies as big as possible, for, in his own words, "The broad masses of the nation. more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie." And again, "The people can be made to see even Heaven as Hell or the most wretched life as Paradise."

Не

HE has certainly put his philosophy into practice. He told the German people that Britain caused the war of 1914. maintained that the German army was actually winning in 1918. Ile evolved the idea of a super "Aryan" race. He re- He presented Germany as the sworn enemy of Soviet Russia. denied that he wanted Austria. Denied that he wanted any but the Germans of Czechoslavia. Denied in September, 1938, that he had any more territorial claims in Europe. Told Ger- many consistently that Britain was decadent and would never fight. That the Dominions would desert her the moment she attempted to do so.

NOW he and his lieutenant Goebbels are having a lot of explaining to do-because all this was lics. Lies told in a big way, usually with mam- moth parades, blaring bands and gigantic banners, so that the German people were stunned and deafened into ac- cepting them as truth or into keeping their doubts to them- selves.

FOR THE TROUBLE about telling lies is to keep them told. So the "good German" has a radio set that' can't "get" a non-German station. He goes to prison for a long time or may even be behended if he listens to an English broadenst and tells his friends what he hears. Free speech has been unknown since the Nazia came to power.

WELL, that is a kind of propaganda for which this country has no use. Our Bri.. tish way is different. We rely upon the truth. We do so not only on moral grounds but be. cause facts nre stubborn things and, in the ultimate, the truth cannot be defeated.

WE want here no nation of hoodwinked dupes living in a fool's "paradise" and heading for a terrible awakening. For a thousand years the flag of freedom--free speech, "free opinion, free discussion-has flown from Britain's mast- head. One of our greatest strengths is the independence that Britons enjoy and the strength of character that it breeds. We are not foolish enough to change our well- proved policy now that the struggle between Truth and Lies is joined,

WE are fighting to-day so that this tyranny of lies, this blindness of ignorance and this crushing of the individual under the jackboot of Nazi oppression shall censo to menace us and all the world.

HAVE utter confidence in British offelal nows. Be on your guard cenaelessly against Nazi propaganda, Have not the slightest fear in heart or mind. THE TRUTH WILL WIN.

Library, Supecon Courh

3

ANKLE SOCKS

FOR TENNIS, BEACH AND SUMMER WEAR

LARGE, COMPREHENSIVE RANGE.

JUST RECEIVED FROM AMERICA.

ELASTIC GRIP TENNIS SOCKS

In Powder Blue, Roso, Lemon, Turquoise, Tomato & Peach.

Children's sizes 7-10.

$1.10 pr.

LISLE TURN-OVER

TOPS SOCKS

All cols. $1.50 pr.

LADIES' ANKLE SOCKS (Elastic Grip)

In Greengage, Turquoise, Copper, Clover, Mauve and Shock-in-Pink.

$1.10 per Pair.

PIQUE TENNIS SHADES

In Pink, Powder Blue, Green and Lemon.

$1.50 each

Peter Pan Suits

FOR WATER, BEACH & GYM. Figure Fitted Sports Suits by Libertyland.

$1050 each

In Lagoon, Goldfish & Sea Blue.

Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co., Ltd.

A HUMOUROUS PROGRAMME

BY

LONDON'S FAVOURITE COMEDIANS

MAX MILLER BD815 to At the Holborn Empire BD 17

BD046 to Second House, Holborn Empire BD548

BD770 to At Finsbury Park Empire

Winnie the. Whistler..

Doh-re-me

BD772

-BD333.

BD710

BD505

KD765

BD706

BD758

B3D757.

BD730

The worm. Kniting

BD65C

Chirrup

MARINA HOUSE, -

10 QUEEN'S ROAD C.`.

No, no, no. Maria fell for me

She said she wouldn't

I'm the only bit of comfort

ARTHUR

ASKEY with Jack Hylton's Boys Ain't It grand to be in the Navy The hole in the wall

Crash, Bang

Willow, it willow

Adolf. Washing on the Siegfried line

Kiss me goodnight Bgt-major

How ashamed I was

All to specification. The cuckos

BD552 The bee song.

TSANG FOOK PIANO COMPANÝ

PRESIDENT LINER SAILINGS

PHONE 24648.

HONGKONG to SINGAPORE direct

First wook in May

HONGKONG to SAN FRANCISCO direct

Middle of May

✰✰ AMERICAN * * PRESIDENT LINES

"ROUND-WORLD SERVICE“

AGENTS FOR T.W.A. AND UNITED AIR LINKS

12, Pedder Street

Telephone 28171.,