1940-05-08 — Page 9

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

NANCY

OH, MRS. JOLLYBEAN- SOMETIME I'D LIKE YA TO MEET SOME OF MY FRIENDS /

ER--- THAT WOULD BE VERY NICE/

CAN I HAVE A FEW OF 'EM OVER FER

LUNCH SOMETIME?

ΟΗ, 1 SUPPOSE

SO!

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May 8, 1940.

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Insecurity: War's

War's biggest bogey

Six men leave jobs to help in China

SIX young university men, all bachelors, have given up their jobs in England and set out on a 10,000-mile journey to work for the relief of dis- tress in south-west China, They have answered an appeal from the Red Cross Relief Sta- tion at Kweiyang, in the pro- vince of Kweichow, one of the most stricken areas in the coun- try,

For the duration of the Sino- Japanese war, they will do the work

of misionaries among refugees and wounded.

The leaders are Evert Barger, a twenty-nine-year-old lecturer at Bristol

University, and Llewellyn Evans, an engineer, who in thirty-one. The youngest member of the ex-

Michael Sullivan, pedition is twenty three year old Londen schoolmaster, and the "veteran" is Llewellyn's brother. Owen Evans, who is also an engineer and in thirty- three.

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All the men-have given tip success- ful careers and none of them will Jeceive any sadury,

KING WILL SIGN DIVORCE SUIT ·

The petition by Countess Revent- low, formerly Miss Barbara Hutton. the Woolworth hetress, for a divorce from her husband, Count Haugwitz Iteventlow, has reached King Chris- tinn of Denmark, is learned in Copenhagen.

The King is expected to sign the petition in the near future.

HERE ARE to

middle classes

THE 69 per

FIGURES

HERE are the questions asked in the "Sunday Express"

war survey and how readers answered them.

1. Analyse your personal feelings towards the war and state frankly what feeling is uppermost in your mind.

Are you thrilled at the excitement of the war? Bewildered and not sure of what's happening? Not interested-nothing I can do to help win? Determined to win at all costs to yourself?

Incomplete entries 4%.

3.6

38.7%

7.7%

46%

2. Have you bought any Savings Certificates 35.5% Yes

yet?

3. Analyse carefully your feelings towards the Nazis and place in order of importance the facts that make you feel a war against them is justified.

Their crucity and brutality,

21.5%

Their desire for world domination.

.27%

Their internal politics.

2%

The seizure of Poland and Czecho-Slovakia,

14%

Their anti-religious activities.

5.5%

The danger to British interests.

19.3%

Incomplete entries 10.7%

4. Do you feel confident of an Allied victory?

69.4% Yes; 21.6% Noy 1.5% Stalemate.

Not stated 7.6%.

5. What elements in wartime life cause you most dis-

comfort?

The black-out.

15'

Separation from husband or son on service (if.

roman).

Separation from wife or hame (if man).

Separation from children (renenúted),

12% 1.7%

Rationing and ather shortuges.

.4%

6%

7.2%

49.5%

Fear of air bombardment in Britain.

Less money to spend.

Insecurity for the future.

Incomplete entries 4.6.

6. Is your family income more, less, or the same since the

war?

9% More; 45% Less; 46% Same.

The management of the Olympic Grand Circus have very great pleasure in informing circus lovers and the general public of Hongkong that after more than two months of almost insuperable difficultios, they have secured transport from Bangkok of thoir horses, elephants, lians, tigers and the other animals of the monagerio, which is expected to arrivo hero in a few days' time. The location of the circus, at least for a short season, will be at Mongkok (Kow- toon), opposite the Mongkok Fire Brigade.

Opening Postponed till May 11th at 9.00 p.m.

Menagerie Opens

To-morrow

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SEE the HERD of performing Elephants and one of the smallest Shotland Ponics alivo in

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Our clowns are the world's morricst festers, they will make you laugh till your sides ache.

To avoid disappointment Book your Seats carly at MOUTRIE & CO. Prices of admission: Full Box 4 Seate $7.00; Single Box scat $2300; First class $1.50; 2nd class $1,00; Carpot Gallery 50 cents; Ordinary gallory 30 cents. Children half price. All

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feel sure

victory

outright

But they

of

they want to know what's going on

RECENTLY THE LONDON “SUNDAY EX- PRESS" ASKED ITS READERS TO ANSWER SIX IMPORTANT QUESTIONS ON WHAT THEY THINK OF THE WAR.

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That questionnaire-and its result is reproduced on this page.

the

war.

was determined to win Ninely per cent, deeinred that they The result of this question- were confident that Britain would naire cannot, of course, reason-win. But more than half the unit ably be put forward as

aar bewildered and noi sure of what

Is happenint. complete account of the re- actions of the whole community, to the war, and the Sunday Express. does not claim it, to be such.

But it does represent an interest ing survey of the views of people

selected from a definite and good class of the community.

For although there were restrictions on who should reply to the questionnaire, It is a signi- ficant fact that fifty per cent, of the answers came from people earning from £4 to 210 and more a week. Most of the others came from people earning from £2 10s, to £4 a week. So this may be called a survey of the middle-class attitude "to" the war.

Did It As A Public Duty

No reward was offered for reply- ing to the questionnaire. Each per son who troubled to answer had to pay the expense of postage himself, So we may take it that those who replied took the matter seriously and In the nature of a public duty.

There was no preliminary adver- tising uf ic "Sunday Express

No announce- survey of the war.

ment of It appeared at all before pubikation.

average Tommy's reaction to the war"says this soldier in his letter, is that he is simply not in- terested.

"If and when something happens there will, of courar, be a different rate to tell, provided that this happy fat from boredom is not long de-

The most disturbing result of the questionnaire, from the Government's point of view, is that no less than 38- per ceul, of the people who replied say they are bewildered by the wor and do not know what is happening. How To Get Rid Of

Bewilderment

Thisbewilderineni,—rapilly......bc- coining more widesprend, could easily. be dispersed by the Government if they threw overboard the idea which now obsesses them that this is a pri- vate war to be conducted by, a small inner ring of politicians and sivit servants.

They should take the pubile more fully into their confidence. The

pubile should be educated and 'given a clear indication as to the manner in which the Government believe victory can be won. Then the bewilderment would begin to disappear.

The Jetters displayed no desire to increase amount of territory held The shortest entry of all

he

purpose of tils was to ensure that it should be a fair reflection of individual opinion, and to prevent a mass propaganda elfort by organisu- by Britain. tions like the Peace Pledge Union expresses more simply than any other the basis of the desires of 95 and the Fascists.

Their machinery, could not work per cent of the answers.

in the limited time, and we may Ris from a British woman whose assume that it did not exert any husband is in the Army. It sums up influence from the fact that most her war aim as "Just

tasting peace." Only ot the replies reached the Sunday

per cent, of the answers demand Express office within two days of make the "Bomb Berlin" publication. The survey shows some and urge more aggressive tactles, very interesting results.

Ten per cent. want to carve up Ger many after she is defeated. Eight Must Win The War

per rent. want her to have equal treatment in status, world trade and colonies,

At All Costs

The highest degree of unanimity (apart from 9 per cent, confulence in an Allled victory) is achieved in the reply to Question 5-"What ele- ments in wartime life cause yoù most discomfort?"

No fewer than 49.5 per cent, of the replies pul "Insecurity for the future" first on the list.

This answer is the heart-cry of tortured humanity. It epitomises the whole of civilised mankind's objec- tion to Hitlerism.

Few Want Peace

By Negotiation

Only 8 per cent. of the entries favour immediate peace by negotia- tion. This point of view is best ex- pressed by two letters..

One is from a man who served in the last war. He writes:

"Finish the war by negotiation. with all neutrals at a conference.

"I believe that several years of In answer to Question 1. "Andiyse warfare will present a problem at the your personal feelings towards the, cad beyond the wit of statesmen to tear and state frankly what is in your solve.

mind" forty-six per cent, of the re- "I believe the Allies telll win. plies ray that they are "determined to That is, they may have a couple of tein the war at all costs to them- bags of flour left when the Germans sctvea,"

have none. But the wreckage will This funulical resolve, to achieve} be fairly even.” victory is expressed in the scores The other letter comes froni of hundreds of letters sent to the woman who says her personal feel- Sunday Express.

inga towards war are "disgust and horror," and gives the following n "discomforts" of wartime life:

(1) LOSS OF HUSBAND IN THE 1914-18 WAR.

(2) LOSS OF SON, 1939. (3) ANOTHER

On the other hand, some of the serving soldiers who answered the questionnaire seemed disappointed at the slow progress of the war.

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One of the answers came from soldier serving in southern Eng- fand, who sent in a cross-section of epinions from the N.C.O.s, and men

in his unit. Their ages range from twenty-four to fitiy-two.

SON

ON ACTIVE SERVICE.

AWAY

(4) THIRD SON ABOUT TO BE CONSCRIPTED.

She says she woukl 'cede an equal

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