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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 17 1940.

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THIS is a war of poli tical military technique. -Germany's military suc- cesses have been made possible by her combina- tion of the political and 'the military weapon.

The political weapon is per- haps the more dangerous. It undermines the morale and de- fences of the selected victim. Only when it has done its foul work do the tank and the bomber come on the scene,

Russia understood this technique

a long time ago. She tried to tell

their delegates to Moscow and the

and the Baltle states come up, the Russians said in effect:

Since the

WHAT OF RUSSIA NOW?

THE new British Government has assumed a

us about it. When the Allien sent more friendly attitude towards Russia. And Rus- question of guaranteeing Poland Sia, disturbed by Nazi successes, is becoming loss That the Allies and Russia friendly to Berlin. should reach a better understanding of one an- other's case may prove a vital factor as the struggle intensifies.

Nazis attack a country not openly from without, but first of all from

within, we must guarantee coun-

direct aggression."

tries atalast Indirect as well as

On these conditions Russia offer-

ed us a Mutual Aid Pact. But we tees. We did not believe in the

were then opposed to such guaran-

Quistings and the Fifth Column.

We had to wait until Norway, Denmark. Holland and Belgium made it clear to us, Until the Meuse bridges were, left intact_for the enemy to cross over in their sensational drive towards the Channel Ports,

IN 1834 the Russians beld

milkary manoctivres at Kiev. British and French military missions saw the Red Army tie the taelies of the puratroops and In- Altration-the very tacties which have given the Germans their ex- traordinary military successes. Δ film was made of those manoeuvres. It was shown i London to audiences that included journalkas, diplomats, military officers and members of the Government.

don't know what the British military mission, reported to Lon- don about the Kley manoeuvres. But a famouя nilitury writer who went with the mission and who also say the flm in London sald to ine: "These parachute troops look very impressive, but in actual war conditions not one of them would reach the ground alive. You can count them out as an important element in modern warfare, "except perhaps for defence,"

Now, perhaps, that expert gives an occasional anxious look towards the sides and recalls that summer's the Ukraino when his

day in the sceptical eye saw a whole army descend from the blue. An army equipped for attack and invasion. Not just collapsible bleyeles-but small cars and light tanks strapped

to

the undercarriages of giant troop-carrying planes.

Stalin made his agreement with Miller because he saw danger in -the-Fifth-Columa-Russia had-her- Quislings. Perhaps I is in a new light that we now recall the purge of the Red Army and Air Force."

At the time-we-only-scoffed, and explained the Russian purges as being Stalin's oriental way of deal- ing with personal rivals. We were sceptical when we read of intrigue, treachery and sabotage in places. Wrecked trains, blighted crops, poisoned tinned foodstuffs, smuggięd assassins, industrial "wreckers. To us at the time

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they appeared fantastic. Do they appear quite so fantastle now? They never old to the Russian,

Stalin spared no mercy in deal- ing with Russla's FHili. Column. But he was still afraid of what the Fifth Column could do in the Allied countries. When the Franco-Soviet pact was still in existence, the oficial Soviet newspaper "Izvestia" warned France that she had 30,000 · Nazi agents on her soil.

SINCE

INCE then one of the most noled of French Conserva- tive journalists, Henri de Kerillis, has confirmed in his book, "The Causes of War," the fact that Ger- man money poured into France at the time of the Munich Aggrement and that newspapers and politicians were recelving fat subsidies from Berlin.

But stil France did nothing about her Fifth Column. Stalin believed, that this Fifth Column was working to wreck the Franco- Soviet part and to make an egrco- ment with Germany against the Soviet Union.

When, therefore, the Allies, re-

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In this article a frank apologist for Stalin inter- prets Russia's attitude to the war and the events that led up to it. It will help you to look at cur- rent history through another people's eyes.

jected the Soviet terms for a Mutual Air Pact, Stalin suspected the influence of the Fifth Column.

It seemed incredible to the Rus- sians that the Allies should have guaranteed Pulund's integrity with- out taking the elementary step of planning how their help could reach the Roles.

KNOWING that Poland

could not, be effectively helped from the West the Russians were stricken with fear lest they should be committed to helping Poland only to and that as soon as the Red Army was locked in com- bat with the German Army, the .Fifth Columın would see to it that England and France stayed out. The Russians smelt a trap and hurried to make a pact withi Ger- many,

They even believed, and pointed to certain sperches made in Paris and in London, that there was a plot to switch the war over into an anti-Bolshevike crusade.

Tothy the situation is changed. The Russians are again more dis- posed to see Germany as the real menace to their interests. At first the Tussions thought the wor would last a long time; and they sought their own security in the hope that both sides would be too weak to do anything against them at the conclusion.

The phenomenal German ad- vance hid, however, surprised and shaken diem. A Germany that won quickly would be a menace ten times greater to them. Never- theless, they still belleve that the Allies can win if given time to mobilise their resources.

“Al ̋the bojinning of the war Rus- sía ostentatiously put her vast re- sources at the disposal of Germany. It was more important as a gesture than a practical holp. But Stalln-

there probably felt that as long its was talk in England and France of Hitler being overthrown

fram within Germany by a more moder- wate and more anti-Soviet clique, then i was in his interest to main- tain the Hitler-Ribbentrop elique in power.

Now Russia must see that we are fighting in cornest and that we can have no thought but that of destroying Nazi Gerinany. Conse- quently she may be more disposed to shit the bins of her neutrality in our favour.

SHE could do this by helping us. instead of Germany

with supplies. There is, in fact, good reason to belleve that Russlan supplies to Germany have already begun to dry up.

The trade mission which Sir Stafford Cripps is to undertake to Moscow should be given every en- couragement.

Another job, too, could be tue- kled in Moscow. And that is to bring, about a real rapprochement Such between Turkey and Russia.

a rapprochement would make Italy think several times before making a move in the Mediterranean, With that possibility reduced and perhaps removed, our own Navy would be freer for operations where the danger la closer to our shores.

David' Raymond,

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no breakdown that could not be tackled mechanician'a wife and her

young son, ..

C'est la

Guerre

--in a French Villagoj

TO realise France's effort in this war,

one must visit 8 French village. I have just returned from one situated 09 miles south-west of Parls and connected to the nearest railway station (15 miles away) by coach. It took me and my luggage six hours to get to the capital.

"C'est la guerrel" the peasants exclalm with fatalistic resignation whenever new difficulties arise, but they manage to carry on despite regulations, restrictions, mobilisa- tion

and the like.

In my village, the doctor has been called to the colours. His locum- tenens must also attend his own patients in a distant town, so he shares his time between the two “Práfellets.” Thus sicknessTM has be~" come a luxury-and the villagers keep healthy!

The mechaniclan of the village is mobilised, so are also all the good cars, which were commandeered a week before the wor actually started. Only creaky veterans were allowed to remain. At first, the villagers were chary of taking those out, but as the weeks passed

"C'est by, they acquired confidence. la guerre they said, and the old crocks must have understood, for there has been, so far, no break- down that could not be tackled successfully by the mechanician's

wife and her young son aged 14, who carry on with the business,

The village plumber is gone, 100, and during the winter's severe frost there was not a house that escaped a burst pipe. So the inhabitants must fetch their water from the one pump which is still acting, the other two pumps being out of order. They cannot be repaired until the Ironmonger, the only man who understands them, comes home on leave,

The mayor is a farmer. He lives five miles out, and us he is short of hands, he, an old servant and his three womenfolk (wife and two daughters) must between them do the work of eight men. He has no time to waste at the Town Hall: an old pensioned-off official has been commissioned by the mayor to do bil the necessary work in his place and has been taught how to Imilate the mayor's signature for all omelal documents,

"C'est la guerrel"

M. M. D.

Farewell Party

Twin Wanted Brother's Punishment, Got It

The Senior 3 of Munsang College When a ten-year-old boy

of 1940, celebrated their graduation charged at Hastings, Juvenile Court and farewell party with speeches, The Hong Kong Anti-Tuberculoals Awith stealing 2, the magistrates “ctation gratefully acknowledges the follow-

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were told that his twin brother had music, cinema, etc., at the M. S. Hall been sent to an approved school and before an audience of 50, Including he was determined do something Mrs. M. Winn, Mrs. and Mr. Rufus to_get-the-sure punishment.

Huang, H. K. Yung, and Emile Law. The party was organised by ML S. Alumni Association. The talented daughter of Mr. and Mrs., Rufus Huang, helped to make the function a success by contributing·her', abla pianoforte and singing to the party, Mrs. M. Winti, spoke on the sub- Jeet of -"Loyalty."-- and - Mr. Rufus Huang-on "Company, Co-operation, Concentratibus.” Hawallan" Music

·Chl-fönst was provided by " Lam 21.08 Family's band

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Xols Fleming

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His wish was realised, for he was sent to an approved school.

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GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

WILLIAM SMYTH TORRID LOVE'.

"Well, well, I always wondered what had become of Willie!"

Mitchell...

Camm...

North...

They Gave Us

Our Best

Fighters

EXPLOITS of R.A.F. pilots have given a new significance to three common words- "Spitfire," "Hurricane" and "Defiant.". The words, now on everybody's lips, suggest the world's deadliest fighter -planes.

What of the men who-working patiently, modestly, quietly. In the background-designed them?

One of the famous trio, Reginald Joseph Mitchell, · did not live to share the nation's pride in the child of his brain the Vickers-Super- marine "Splifire." He was a dy ing man and knew it when the plane went into mass production for the day when it would emerge victorious from action against over- whelming odds.

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Mitchell, son of a printer at Han- Joy, Stoffs, left school early to begin his apprenticeship to neighbouring Arm of locomotive builders. At 21 he had puined the Vickers

- Supermarine Aviation Company, near Southampton. AL 42 he was dead. By then he was a director of the company and its chief dealgner,

Intimate friends maintain that Mitchell's death-a severe loss to aeronautical science--was hastened by overwork.

He allowed himself little sleep or relaxation. He was happlest at his drawing-board: coat off and shirt- alceves rolled back; smoothing back the fair, hair from his Migh fore- head; plofting and designing planes. that would give their pilals the last Ounce of atriking power and manoeuvrability; the uimest degree of speed,

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No German ·Aghter can meet Mitchell's Spitfire on level terms. "It was the outcome of the lust of his famous series of four Schneider Trophy winners-the one in which Flight-Lieut. (now Wing Comman- der).G. H, Stálnforth, R.A.F., at- tained a speed of 407.5 m.p.h.

Awaiting Death

THAT was in 1031. Four years carlier. Mitchell had been awarded the Royal Aeronautical Society's silver medal as designer of the Trophy winner in the Venice in- ternational contest.

Two months before his death, and with the Spitare already a proved success, Mitchell was persuaded to undergo treatment for a disease which he knew to be incurable. Accompanied by his wife and a nurse, he flow to a santorium in fears Vienaa. There his worst were confirmed,

In June, 1037, he returned to his home in Southampton toʻnwalt the Ihovitable. It came in his sleep.

His son, Gordon, har joined the old firm.

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Sydney Camm, the man respon sible for the Hurricane fighter chief, designer and a director of Hawker Aircraft Lid

The stress of wartime production

Reginald Joseph, Mitchell did

not live to share the nation's

pride in hie Spitfire.

bay made him a stranger to the Sur-

beautiful biton Golf Club. His home at Thames Ditton sees very little of him,

Born at Windsor 40 years ago, Camm showed an early interest in aviation. "I was mucking about with model acroplanes," he told me, "almost as far back as I can reremt,In 1911 he was secre lary of the Windsor Model Acro- plane Club.

Britain selected his 21st birthday _to_declare war on Germany; that was in August, 1014. He was then In the early stages of a 10 years' asscelation with the Martinsyde Aircraft Works.

North's Doliant

HE played a big part in design- ing the dest British plane to at- leipt to fly the Atlantic. It was piloted by Frederick Raynham.

Canun is tall, dark, clean-shaven, of medium build and cheery dis- position. Incidentally, he is among the hardest workers in the aircraft industry,

His only

child is 17-year-old Phylls, a promising student at the Kingston Art School,

The Defiant, two-seater fighter, was designed by John Dudley North Born at Sydenham 47 years ago, he has been designer-in-chief since 1917 to Boulton Paul Aircraft, Ltd., somewhere in the Midlands." He is also a director of the com- pany.

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North is an outstanding person- ality in more senses than one. would not like to guess his weight, but he is well over six feet tall. When at work-which is nearly always, for he cals and often sleeps in the factory-ho wears heavy, shell-rimmed glasses. He is fair and clean-shaven,

"Our Work!":

THE company's managing direc tor, Herbert Strickland, told me the other day that ever since the Air Mialairy announced the entry of the Defant into action against German planes, the workers have been puffing

chests. out their Every newspaper mention of the Defant is cut out and pasted up .on the walls

ond of workshops canteens. And beneath the clipp- ings Bidy write exultantly "Our Work!"

"They're striving even harder them before if possible," said their managing director. "I've nover 'soch them so cheerful. - They're not looking for applause from the out- side world; their one aim la to get on with the job and turn out two Delants where only one was pro- dured before."

Strickland is as proud of his workers as they are in their work. "I'm only a newcomer to the air craft Industry," he told me, and the lads are all trained on the

pre inilies. "Most of them have been drawn from the surrounding Black Country, wifare they had started"ar"- workers in the höllow-ware-trade.i

BJH,

Llgary, Supreme

THE ZERO HOUR

A Call to Hongkong To Make Its Effort Now

Commenting edltärially on Hongkong's War Effort; wiih particular reference to the time factor, the South Chind Morning Post asked what Hongkong could provide most easily, quickly, uise-

fully and plentifully -- and answered the question, “Money.”

There li doubtless much more that can bo, contributed, but money and at onco will best as- ́ sist the Allies. Time passes: zero hour approaches.

Colony is to be of effective. Neru“ vice to the Empire, it must act now.

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