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THE preax "Special to the Telegraph is used by the Hongkong Telegraph" to indicate now which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommual- cartons Ordinance, 2838. · fuch nIWE AS bears the indication "UX** is received in Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who re- servo all rights and forbid republication, cilher wholly or in part without previons

On Mr. Dodwell

recent Issue of the South China

WINGS OVER THE DESERT

AMMAN.

HE Transjordan coun- try, of which this town

TH

is the capital, is not

technically at war with Ger-

By Philip Jordan

News Chronicle. Special Correspondent

In The Middle East

regularly belogodzill day by Arabs of every imaginable tribe "anxious to onlist in his force,

Its guerilla days, of course, are ovor: it is now a highly disciplined and well paid force,

was, Glubb

many, but, like Egypt, is in armoured cars, what is called "a state of some of which were used by feat no bigger than blackbeetles, mets are as famous throughout In these care, of black gonts, from five hundred whose silverspiked khaki hel- siege."

Lawrence in the last war (and scamper in flight as the shadow the country as Major Glubb This means that should its in- their Rolls-Royce engines, so of the plane blots out the sun himself. tegrity at any moment be threat- men say, are as good to-day as from worlds as impressive and As Lawrence ened by the enemies of Britain they were a quarter century as terriblo and as lovely as Pasha. is known from one end of and France it will go to war ago), you can still do a comfort- Lawrence wrote about.

the Arab world to the other and Three forces which in normal ablo 70 m.p.h. The R.A.F. patrol Rising from this primrose those who are best able to judge times have played their part in their sections of the desert and floor, hundreds of shining scarlet claim that his knowledge of this policing the country are now should aggression over break boulders each of more than 1,500 world and his fafluence in it, are ready to maintain, this integrity, upon this semi-autonomous feet high with their flanks, as greater than Lawrence man- Two of them-the RAF and country, they are so strategically smooth and perpendicular an aged to attain. Transjordan Frontier Force- placed that they could get to though they were once no more are the Imperial Forces sustain- almost any likely place in time solid than cheese cut through forces in this country is the Third but far from least of the ed for the most part by the to be of use.

with wire, towered ekyward far Transfordan Frontier Force, British taxpayer; the third- The south of the Ma'an coun- above our wings.

unit of the Imperial Army, the Arab Legionie Emir try would seem as fabulous and Abdullah's semi-military police unreal as the face of the moon in this arid place has been split Zerka nome 15 miles north of One of the solitary mountains whose headquarters are at force, whose commanding officers were it not dotted with ruins of apart and within its smooth this place across two rivers that are British.

Crusaders' castles and with neat walls there is a gardened village isolate it in wet weather. The TheR.A.F., whose head- modern forts where the Trans- profusely watered by cataracts T.J.F.F. in Britain's nearest ap- quarters is magnificently equip jordan Frontier Force maintains that dash from the rock and fall proach to the Foreign Legion. ped, and is stationed upon the constant watch.

more than 100 feet to irrigate à summit of an escarpment do- At Akaba, where the desert little patch of

Although by far the greater minating this ancient city, con- rushes down to the puro

fertile ground percentage of its ranks is drawn cool below.

from Arab tribes and from fair- cerns itself with internal policing waters of the Gulf of Sinai, there whenever called upon to do so is an R.A.F. rest camp, to which it seems than a doll's house, is the northern parts of this coun- Close to its entrance, no bigger haired Circassians who' inhabit and with frontier reconnais tired men are sent from Ma'an

are Germans, Poles sance, and should circumstance and Amman for ten days' fish- one of the frontier stations of try, there ever demand it will also perform ing, sailing, bathing and an occa- the Arab Legion.

and Czechs in its astrakhan- its normal war-time functions,

This body of men could fairly hatted ranks. slonal open-air cinema beneath be described ca the lineal des- It is the most difficult force in Under its ubiquitous wings the tremendous stars, cach one lies one of the most difficult of which seems as bright as the cendants of the Arab Force the world for an officer to enter countries in the world, as I was moon at home.

which-Lawrence-managed-to-and-until-the-war-there-was-a- able to see from the tail seat of To approach Wadi Rumm forge into a disciplined guerilla waiting-list of applicants. All

T.J.F.F. officers a bombing plane that flew me aeroplanes, flying between the army capable of inflicting con- senior from end to end and from side foothills of high

and barren siderable material damage on British, and all but a few are to side of this incomparably his ranges, wind up the ancient the enemy without much danger hand-picked from regiments of toric territory.

the British Army, from which track that leads to it from the to itself. Beyond this now: green sen, plateau, whose rich fields and orchard-strown valleys, nourish the whole country, lia deserts more fantastic and savage than the whole of the rest of the earth can show.

RANGE upon serried range of huge moun- tains, upon whose lacerated flanks there is no life from one The letter which appeared in awards from the Dead Sea like century to the next, stalk cast- Morning Post over the signature of dusty heaps of brown paper, petrified with age until they tumble into a great flint plain| through which trundles the old single-track Hejaz railway that Lawrence and his Arabs took such delight in blowing up.

coura

RADUALLY the

are

they are seconded for four years at least. They wear a startling TO-DAY it is command uniform calculated to increase ed by Major Glubb, their prestige in a country desert fades away. whose office, adorned with the whose people are deeply im- The valley, which is yellow famous coloured print of Napo- pressed by a display of anything. like lichen, becomes wider, herds Icon as the First Consul, is PLEASE Turn To Page 9.

BRITAIN HAS ALWAYS FOUGHT

EUROPE'S AMBITIOUS DESPOTS

Unchanging Policy of Support for Weaker Powers

By H, C, BAILEY

does the Low cock.

the Hon. Mr. Stanley Dodwell, calls. for reply on the part-of-The-Hong- Icong Telegraph, inasmuch as it attacked this newspaper for its method of presenting and placarding the news. No specie urine, poster or news item was given by

Somewhere within the jaws Mr. Dodwell as an example, but of these great ranges lie two of merely the bald staternent that it is the strangest sights man can

[was the place for it and that them- frindvisable to headline and placard see: "Rose red" Petra, the 4 stand for the defence of freedom

England would intervene. A young the news in the manner adopted oldest city in the world, and

and the destruction of Hitlerism and by this newspaper-(it might be Wadi Rumm, which Lawrence

all it implies. -GzN, SMUTS. more then 200 years later, British officer, fresh from India, Arthur

arms restored Spain's independence. Years afterwards he related it i

Wellesley, heard the prophecy. added, by the majority of reputable declared to be the most awesome NEMIES of England from century newspapers in the world),

Victory Over Napoleon In his and impressive of all Nature's to century have tried to persuade

Paris, having seen it fulfilled, having letter to our morning contemporary.works, "When we came to that the world that there is no consistency no longer menaced aggression.

In the 17th century Spanish power led the British army which delivered Mr. Dodwell stated, inter alia

The Spain and destroyed, as Napoleon threat came from the "While I agree that we do not want place we could not even talk," he in her policy.

himself admitted, the Napoleonle French to bury our heads in the sand and said.

Phillp of Spain and the Kaiser, monarchy, Louis XIV's ambition domination. have the bad news suppressed. I

from conquering Some half-century later a British Petra for so many centuries Napoleon and Bismarck complained was hardly

When he en- Government was working heartily consider t extremely inadvisable to hidden from the outside worlă) and blustered, as Herr Hitler headline and placard it in the way behind

now, that English statesmen would deavoured to secure all the posses- with France and Napoleon's nephew It has been done in the

its narrow entrance not be grateful to their real friends slons of the Spanish throne as an to free Italy from Austrian rule and past, more particularly

by The Hongkong Tele- through high cliffs, is almost as but continually changed their course, appanage of his own dynasty he, in petty allen despots and establish it A national State. "Palmerston graph

with completely disagreeing, familiar to the R.A.F. as Hyde, making fresh allies and meddling his turn, claimed to be master as we say without hesitation that neither Park is to London.

saw Cavour and told him that he with what was never expected to be Europe and its colonies. headlines nor posters have, nor

their concem..

Then the war of the Spanish Suc- might say to the Emperor [Napoleon cession saw Beyond Feira in the middle of None ora so blind as those who do with British troops and fleets and ready to

that for have, oxaggerated-the-gravity of the

a European coalition,

every step he might be tako in 1 Italian affairs he news of the last few weeks.

The the plain lies Ma'an, where the not choose to see. It is the most British resources its strongest cle- would probably find us ready to take Telegraph has yet to learn that it is RAF, keep a small landing obvious fact of the history of Europe he wish of His Majesty the King, or ground and permanent patrol of through the last four hundred years ment; arrayed against the aggressor, one and a half." Italy had no cause his Ministers, that the newspapers, ut

that British power has in the great The genius of Marlborough brought to complain of the way in which

was kept. Palmerston re- Home, or ini any part of the Empire,

crises of the destiny of civilisation victory, and the treaty settlement promise should endeavour to minimise the for it to make any show to establish|been exerted to the utmost against mado Europe safe from any dangu Austria had any right to govern the solutely declined to recognise that seriousness of the present situation. Its bona fides, even although un-the rulers of States with which we of Bourbon domination. From other sources, we have received warranted aspersions have been cast had been, and sometimes came again

under William Italian people or Prussia to "interfere affair." So by the help of only two complaints that the placards against it. The naked truth is that to be, in firm and cordial alliance. III, and Marlborough then fought in the have been alarming or untrue. The the

and Dritairi by up

Italy the omni- France alarming, But not less clear is it, if the reasons for was summed first referred to the heading "Channel especially those with relatives at are examined, that in every one of clent Acton more than 30 years ago liberated. Ports In

In Danger."

There followed the ago of Bir- ger." and it was neserted Home, and in the countries now belog these major conflicts we were fight in words which have the very ring

Our resolution to-day. They marck and the rise of that German that this was calculated to create un ravaged. The news, however, cannot ing for the same cause and on the of casiness, or even panic in the public tality of those who plead that it

bill be modified to suit the temperamen-same side.

strove, he wrote, "against wilful at Empire which he built up with blood tack mind. The

and the

reign of force. That and iron till by the same means it that cables from authentic sources mariner. It cannot be modifed To

was at the fact

should be presented in a temperate

good cause defented, the security of fell. The attack on Denmark, the Indicated that. German mechanised

The guiding principle of British national rights and International overthrow of Austria, the defeat of

the same when the conventions was at forces were pressing on to Abbeville make any efforts to evade or minimise policy was

end." The France in 1070 were watched without and the Channel Coast. Although the gravity of the position would be Spanish Armada

launched Prime Minister might have used the anxiety by me of our statesmen. some people may

have been to misrepresent the actual facts, and against us as it is now when the in-same words in any speech of the last At Court and in the country at large turbed by such a glaring announce-

course, the Telegraph, does not dependence of Poland has to be. Wecks

sympathy with ment,

take; propose to

matter how high no

Less than a hundred years after It was well defined a maintained. it was nevertheless frue, asr. Dodwell may raise his hands. | hundred years ago by one of the most Louis XIV, had tried and failed; [Bismarck mode it plain, by methods borne out by subsequent events. In the House of Commons recently, characteristically Englah of all or came Napoleon's effort to make him with which we are only too familiar There was neither misrepresentation, Sir Archibald 'Sinclair, in referring to statesmen, Falmerston

self master of Europe.

mobilisation of the German nor exaggeration. The poster was the toning-down of news

When to France he had added Press and diplomalle threats, that he upon an unpleasant, but incon- supplied to the Press, said Another teach the weaker Powers to hope pledmont, though our sen power recrush her.

officially "Wo ought,

and meant to attack Franco again and vertible fact. The second

Belgium and the Rhineland com- serious loss/we have suffered is the plaint dealt with another sub-heading blow to the credit of our Fress und that they will receive the support of mained triumphant, there followed which road wh

read "Il Duce Moves. As if the B.B.C." He was referring to the Fowerful countries should be taught

this country in their time of danger. a short uneasy peace. What brought Bismarck And The Kalsor happened, it was announced from rosy reports which had appeared in 1 Rome

Wat Mussolini had called a

In this caSO,

such

news

hae been

10

Defeat Of The Armada

What our

益

was

A revulsion Germany was strong.

said he in 1844, "to

now.

came in 1875 when

"Bismarck is really another old bo bridled," Dirall wroto. Queen

trendit meeting of his Supreme War | situation, rosy at the time, but utterly towards qurselves or towards thoed the British Government to our AmVictoria, in spite of her good will to

the Press concerning the Norwegian - 10ur that they will be resisted by it to an end was not this or that Bonaparte agals and ho must

* might have been more shell announcing the evacuation of

extremo about

England in any unjust act either minor issue but the instructions of bassador that our Sovereign would "nover targo his "right of interfering)

means

alicovered by any occasion in which the interests mind and Extret Was at the samo emphasis, in these days is thorough wall is not that of direct mis- modern States began to be, in the Europa in general may appear to such a monstrous laiquity as a war."

nothingne, raven so there was the British Expeditionary Force from

In the affairs of the.. Continent on its Imperial

him that "every These truths were headline as stated. Despite what Mr.

the Southern Norway. True, the issue be-

tween

Mr. the rulers of England as soon This newspaper and

Dof his own dominions or those of

should be used to Dodwell or others may plead,

prevent She sent a vigorous letter to the by justiled, and especially in liong which we strongly object is that there then dominated Europe, ruling over

representation, but the innuerido to 16th century. Philip II of Spain him to require it.""

Here is the gulding British prin- plainest speaking to her daughter, Emperor of Rusia and some of the keng To quibble about headlines has been indirect misrepresentation, not only the mode of le 1erian ciple, the abomination of ambillow the German is neither advisable nor helpful. In that headlines. or placards have peninsula but most of Italy, a great nutocrats from age to age, armed the

Crown Princess. In London papera' to, hand show no been calculated to alarm, if not to province of what is now France and once again.

of the energy of Russland reluctance in employing.

Action upon it roused Napoleon to old Emperor Willam

Britain, Blamarck and his master, the headlines in order to emphasise the we eat, draw, and we indignantly ing his arms by the newly discovered fury. "Fifteen millions of people that they had never for a moment

ype deceive. That is the only conclusion all the Low Countries, and support- heavy-type

I. protested degree of gravity. They even pub | pictures showing' people Publish fines häva ́, caused some people tol

challenge and resent it. If the head-wealth of Mexico and Peru.

must give way to forty millions, he Intended to march on France. Per-.. He did his best to keep England stormed, Such population papers on the streets, and in the deplore the news it is not the fault subservient to him.

But England have a fasciantion for despots. Be Forty years

figures hops the Emperer spoke the truth. - pletures may be seen the placards of of the Telegraph. It would be better defed him, and the defeat of the fore his genitis and the vast resources German polley had fallen to weaker. leading London newspapers ung a

Bater the direction of to err on the side of over-emphasis, Armada not only saved England, which he commanded the "dynasts" parently cause some Hongkong people rentive to every man th the Colony, France as one of the Great Powers, not their peoples,

pe, the size of which would ap which, after all, might prove an in-made Holland free, it re-established of the Continent went down, though and more violent hands. We need not distribute responsibility for the to swoon. Mr. Dodwell has given no British and Allies alike, to leave no it made an end of Philip's claim to After Austerlitz, Pitt, with war into which Europe was plunged,

xample of misrepresentation, disentone unturned in working seriously world empire.

whadow of death already on his brow, lors. It is enough to recall that the between the Kaler and his council- tortion or (exaggeration, he merely and energetically for the Great Yat the policy and the

cause for predicted that Napóleon would racet relies on generalities The Telegraph Common Cause in this hour of which Elizabethan England fought with a check whenever he encoun-cause for which they plunged into war. feels confident that there is no need national peril.

were precisely the same as when, tored a national resistance, that Spain PLEASE Turn To Page 9.

the