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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 24, 1940.

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GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

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MESCLE

"Don't contradict me, young man—I've been ailing for 20 years and ought to know what's wrong with my!"

3.000 Miles Of Frontier—

And

IN

No Guns

these days of Maginot and Sieg-

fried Lines It is refreshing to find a frontier over 3000 miles long where there is not a single fort or gun-emplacement. The border be- tween the U.S.A. and Chunda is a monument to the comenonsense of two great democracles.

Extending from New Brunswiel _in_the_cost.....to_Vancouver in the west, the frontier runs along part of the St. Lawrence #lver, through all the great lakes save Michigan, across the prities, over the Rockies and the Stern Nevas

da.

Lake

In many of the wilder sections not a strand of wire works the line where Conudian soil ends and American begins.

Although this great frontier Is guarded by no military means, it is constantly patrolled-torthe-num=" ber of men engaged-3000-can hardly be called excessive. Patrol is necessary to stop smuggling; and to prevent illegal entry. Neither the States or Canada wants "un- desirables" from the other side.

Like Scason Tickets So long as proper credentials are forthcoming and there are no sus- picious circumstances, people have no trouble in passing from the U.S.A. to Canada and vice versa. In places hundreds of men cross the border daily to and from their work. The authorities provide then with passes available for so days or weeks. The workers many merely show these, like season ticket holders at a rollway station. At Detroit thousands of Canadians who are engaged in the American automobile factories cross by means of the ferries.

to

At the time of the great depres- slon many people tried to pass 1- legally from one side of the frontier to the other. Both Canadians und Americana "the other side" looked more inviting than their own, and patrols adopted a special technique of questioning. which rarely falled to bowl out the illegal entrant.

A Canadian would calm to be an American, whereupon he would be baked some such questions as the name of the mayor of his no- five town. He might have fired at him the question, "Where did you buy that suit you'ro' wentlag?"" If he replied "New York," the patrol- man would throw back the collar

But surely, just a

and Inok for the maker's name on the tab. A Canadian manufac tirer's name would send the man packing.

were

Left On The Bridge One of the places where men used to try to cross the frontler was the famous Peace Bridge over the Niagara River. Casça occurred -where-tren-were-allowed-to-enter- the Canadian end of the bridge on their statement that they Americans returning to their ow country, having reached the American authorities at the offer end, were refused permission to enter. Then, of course, they would rial be allowed back into Canada and had to

to stay on the bridge. At one time men stayed on the bridge for several days, food being taken to them by friends,

but

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ON PATROL a Parable

IN A

DESTROYER

By a British Naval Eyewitness

AT SEA.

We slipped, from our buoy and steamed out to sen for our night's patrol in the grey bleakness of the winter after- noon. Other destroyers went with us.

The wind raised a confused jobble of leaping white horses outside the harbour entrance.

One felt the ship kick a little as she met the first of them.

For the next 18 hours, until we returned to harbour, she was never still.

Steaming at 20 knots, we passed a convoy of bluff-howed merchant ships making up for their anchorage before dark. On one of the ahuals to starboard lay two broken-backed wreeks with the spa breaking over them, victims of U-boat, mines or torpedoes,

The

first Heutenant, somewhere In the middle twenties, came climb- ing on to the bridge to report the ship darkened. Our depth charges were ready, our guns manned for Histant action.

Shall we have torpedo tubes trained out now, sir" the first Houtenant asked the commander,

"Yes, Number One."

The com- mander, a tall figure in a duffic coat and sea-boots, with the in- evitable glasses slung round his neck. added urbanely, "Piense do." That's a way they have in the Navy.

ONCE but from the land, the wind grew stronger.

and the seu more steep and confused, probably becuting strong tide and wind were running in opposite directions. Whits of spray came sweeping over the bows, and on the open bridge it was utterly cold,

The Night of a winking buoy showed away in the darkness to port. The navigator, bending down to Took along the compass, noted its

and bearing,

then dived down to Crouch under the canvas cover of the chart table.

"We're on the position now, sir," come his ruffled volce after an in- terval. "The new course is ab- eight-four."

"All right," the commander re- plied... "Bring-her-round-to-ob- eight-four, Mr. Carver."

The officer put his mouth to the voicepipe communicating with the wheelhouse below.

“Starboard Blteen," he ordered.

Storboard Afteen it is, sir," from the quartermaster at the wheel.

"Midships."

after

Interval. on oh-eight-

"Port Tour

ten-steady

Aut

"Steady at oh-eight-four," came the voice of the quartermaster.

THE

SEVEN

HITLERS By Walter

"WELL," I SAID, "It's thirsty Weatherl

what about another Inger, Adolf?"

Of course) admit that my little jape won in the worst of inate, sechig that the man I was yarning with was obvi- ously a German, and that he had

tiny moustache and a wisp of hair running down to the south-east of his forehead; but I had no mall- cious intention. He was a likeable chap, and I had no thought of in- sulting him; I was quite unprepared for the extraordinary effect of my poor little joke.

His face went suddenly as white as paper; for a moment he seemed to freeze with terror; then his eyes darted to all the points of the com- pass, in search of a possible eaves- dropper. Luckily we had the bar to ourselves, the landlord having Aune out into the yard to feed his fowls. At last the man found his voice. "Hundred thousand devils," he said huskily, how did you find Dat?" "How did I find out what?" "How did you know that I was

Adolf Hitler?"

It was now my turn to be ter- rifled, for the man was plainly o lunatie, with, for all I know, homi- cidat tendencies. I understand that in every asylum in the world there is at least one patient who helleres himself to be Adolf Hit- ter; but to meet such a person at large in Dead Dingo Swamp was a staggering surprise. But I re- membered that you should always agree with a lunatic, whatever his detuskans may be; so I merely said, sothlugly. "Oh, I've seen lots

of portraits of you in the papers."

Ile leaned toward me and said, almost in a whisper. "You may be right. Who can tell? Sumetimes I think I am Hitler, und sometimes I incline to think otherwise; I enn- not be certain. This statement nude me surer than ever, that I was dealing with a maniac. But he

enough

read

my "You think I am mad, thoughts. my friend.

Ach, but listen, und shall explains." And he proceeded to make the following amazing statement, which pass on to you for what it may be worth. I shall not set down the little bits of broken English or the queer Idioms origin. by which he betrayed his foreign.

Wis

sanc

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"YOU have, of course, heard of tier's double. All the world understands that there is some=" bady, very like Hitler, who takes the Leader's place ол Various pablle occasions-especially, on oc- casions when the police have given warning that an attempted assas- sinution is to be feared. But the public, as usual, knows only half

Murdoch

tion another lager?-you will now see why so many people say that Herr Hitler's churncter is an enig

of

a. Naturally, since you have to deal not with one Hitler, but with seven. For example, innocent per- sons wonder how any one human being can break so many promises us our Adolf has broken in the last

could, Iwo years. Nobody course; but Adolf Number One can make a promise which Adolf Num- ber Two can breaks. It was Num- ber Six, if I remember rightly, who swore that he would never, Inter- fere with Austria, belag quite un- aware that Number Two was

Roing to annex Austria on the follow- ing day. I myself had the honour of niceling your Herr Chamberlain at Munich inst

year. A amiable nid affable gentleman 1 found him; quite Aryan, and ul- most Nordle: 1 hnd not the heart to refuse to promise anything he asked for, and even to sign a solemn empel with him. How was I to fell that, at the moment when I was laying my hand on my heart and. swearing to respect the Indepen- dence of Czecho-Slovakin, Number Four was getting ready to march into that country? trust you will

very

see that. there was no breach of faith here. One Hitler did what another Hitler had promised not to do. That was all.

"The arrangement is, I admit, puzzling for outsiders, who are never sure which of the seven is speaking. Each of Es has his speelat job, Number One rumps and raves and screams for the bene- it of the mob, which adores that kind of oratory; when an intelli- gent audience has to be addressed. Number Two, with his quiet and rensonable style, is the man for their money. Number Three is our pacifist on holiday just at present who tells the world, quite honest- ly, that he desires peace at any price; while Number Four speciali German ses in persuading the people that peace degrades the soul of a mition and that in war lies the salvation of mankind. Herr Cham- berlain and Herr Halifax have de- elated that in future they cannot trust a word Herr Hitler says. This is very unjust, as you_now_ percolve. Which Herr Hitler do they mean?

THE arrangement has worked beantity on the whole, but there is une awkward feature of it. I was impressed upon us at the start that to act a part really well one must think oneself into that part: the great actor really believes, for the time, that he is the person he Is Imitating. The Fuchrer himself

Eventually the two authorities hitThe darkness had become "Inlease-of-the-truth-or-to-be-more-exact-lectured-us-about-this-on eur-very-

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on the idea of tossing a coin for men whose antecedents could not be ascertained, "Heads he's our; talls be's

the Canadians yours, would say, and the n's nation- ality was decided accordingly.

Visitors travelling by train or in cars have such unpleasant manoeuvres. The customs authorl- ties are odepi at examining cars speedily, and run them over mir- rors to see that no packages are lashed to the undercarriage. Such formalities as, there are take place smoothly on the traing, especially those travelling from New York to Chiengo by way of Niagara. In

fact, most such trains are hnited at a convenient spot so that tourists can view the Falls for Afteen minutes or so.

In the

West there are places where ranches straddle the border and ranch hands may cross and re- cross a dozen times a day. In the Rockles and Slerras deep canyons and Impenetrable gulches provide a natural barrier, and there are lonely border heights which have never been trod by any moun- taineer, much less a patrolman.

From time to time the sugges- tion arises that Canada should be united to the U.S.A. Two years ngo, for instance, a resolution to that effect was put forward in the United States House of Representa- tives. But bath countries get on so well together and there is so little friction that such suggestions arouse hardly a flicker of interest on either side.

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Astern could only just see the black shapes of two of the des- troyers following in our wake.

me

SEVERAL times during that long night I groped my way aft or for- ward along the darkened upper deck, pleking my way fool by foot through the many encumbrances which

threatened to throw headlong Out

the bleak, windswept deck, the men at the guns, torpedo tubes and depth charges relieved each other at regular intervals.

Down below in the engine room

stakeholds and

they were luckier,

on

were

We

at least tolerably warm. On deck we were chilled to the very mar- row. Was this adventure?

All through thot

night steamed to and fro on a patrol line whose exact locality cannot be dis- closed. We

Istening for enemy submarines with that un- gunay invention which has already been referred

Mr. Winston Churchill as "producing the dead- llest results," but we sighted, or located, no more than one neutral steamer showing her lights, and a buoy or two,

As the commander himself ab- served in the small hours of the morning, while sipping steaming Cocon in the charthouse, It was largely a matter of luck.

In any case, a goad many thou- sands of miles must be steamed by hunters for every U-boat

many

that is attacked or sunk. It's just hard, gruelling work, a job that has to be done and the Navy does it with calm efletency.-N.AN.A.

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one-sixth.

"It was in 1935 that Herr Hitler, kiter a very narrow escape from a bomb, Now the necessity of 11 double.

A public proclamation was made, to the effect that a glorious service could be rendered to the improved Fatherland by anyone su divinely favoured as to possess a face and figure closely resembling those of the Fuehrer. If such ä fortunale being existed, he was to present himself at a certain office in Munich at noon on the following Wednesday.

"Soon after dawn on the day appointed, the square outside the office was one compnet und seething mass of candidates, battling for a place near the office door. They all seemed to be intensely anxious to render a glorious service to the Le- lored Fatherland, a service to which, by the way, a handsome salary was attached. I tell you, it was an impressive sight, this large square full of Hitlers; a sight which might well have struck terror into the hearts of our country's chemies. For three days and three nights a committee of expert Hillerologists scrutinised applicants as if through a microscope, Boling the minutest shades of difference. One was re- jected because his eyelashes were

another too long,

becauso his thumbs were loo broad, another because he looked too intelligent; of small gestures, le tricks speech, everything was taken into account. In the end, to cut a long story brief as you English sny, six of us survived the ordeal; it was an- nounced that Herr Hiller's mother would be at a loss to distinguish uny of us six from her divinely- gifted offspring.

first day at Berchtesgaden. You

le told

us; you are no longer rich or Wilhelm or Hermann ur Johann; you are all Adolfs. Ench of you must faithfully drill him-- self into the belief that he is in very truth Adolf Hitler. Only so will you be able to play the part who convincingly, so that anyone throws a bomb at you will feel cer- lain that he is throwing a bomb at Me. This was an unpleasant way of putting it, but we did as he com- manded. We did it so thoroughly that soon none of us knew which of us was the

Adolf Hitler real and which of us were consummate actors. That is what I meant by saying that I am in doubt about my Am I the original own identity. Adolf Hitler or somebody else whose name I have forgotten? If the latter, is the original Adolf silli alive or was he assassinated some years ago? You see, several of have fallen victims to the intelli- gence of the German people; other doubles have had to be called in to fill the vacant places. It is all very confusing,

must drop your separate Hel

"BUT on the whole, as I any, the system works beautifully; and one result of it, which you may not have thought of, is that Hitler is immortal. You cannot kill him. When you kill one of the seven, another Instantly steps into his

hnd place. If you

that sech crowded Munich square you would understand that Germany inexhaustible supply of Hitlers not perhaps such perfect replicas no we ax were, but near enough.

"And now you ask why I am here. Well, I shall tell you. was I, Number Five, who co nar- bomb in the rowly escaped that beer hall at Munich the other day.

has an

#ow to choose between us was the difficulty, and when we were about to draw lots as the only posible solution of the problemi, ~{And-talking-about-beer-halls, an-

Adolf himselt had an inspiration. He said that since six perfect copies of himself had been miraculously Vouchsafed to Germany by the good German God, it would be u manifest implety not to take nd- vantage of the gift. And so, the whole six of us went off to Berch- tesgaden to receive our training. It is still our headquarters, to which we repair for rest and refreshment when duty does not call us else- whither. We are known to one another not by nune, but number. I am Number Five-wan, rather, till circumstances drove mé to seek, refuge in Australia.

~~#YOU-will-gow understand; dear air-did 1 hear

other ginns would do us no harm. yes?), It was too much for me. I lost my nerve. The Germans are a patient people, but they are also intelligent. There will be another bomb for me before long. I have weak heurt; this life is too dan- gerous for me. And so I blush to say, forsook the Fatherland and the other end of the exerted to world; I, Adolf Hitler-or not, as the ease may behave come to Australia as a refugee.

houn al- ways been glad there

were tries that were kind to refugees, Australl is such country. All the same, I trust you not to betray my secret; for it is useless to pre- "my--tend "that" ["should be poputarin

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