1940-06-21 — Page 3

Dlbatry, Streaks. Coert

Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 21, 1940.

MAGAZINE PAGE

NOBODY knows who gave

the cry, where it camo from; nobody will ovor know. No newspaper gave it, no wireless announced it, but it was there

everywhere

throughout

Czechoslovakia.

In the big banks, in the hotels, in the factories.

Fight smiling. That was the cry!

A slogan, clear as if it were cut in marble. Words which will live in history like the words of Luther, Nelson, or Washington. Words which are stronger than tanks.

The Germans were there, the destroyers of the '

rights of man! They had settled

Jown

heart

Truest

' ir

of

the the

Kepublic

that ever was.

HITLER'S

Over the Wenceslas

Square,

Prague. thundered the Prussian battalions on the murch. The greedy hordes of Himmler stormed into the houses like panthers for booty. Rob, rob, rob!

TANK

Eight hundred machine guns, eight hundred of the world-famous Brenn guns, the best in the world, stolen from the factory in Bruenn, on their way to Germany.

SMILING

Every man, woman,

parade on Wenceslas every Square. The crew in charge of every chlid, the tanks are sitting like Tibetan Idols.

The crowd walks calmly around the tanks. The young fellows curlously inspect the engines, touch enter- the armoured plates, the pillars. Laughs and jokes.

The soldiers do not understand word; they are wet, tired, and bad-tempered. I reity girls are flirting with them to divert their attention while the lads fumble with the tanks.

one

Signal start. The motors

begin

to work. The tanks start,

stop. Silence.

The

crowd 13. laughing. The offleets are cursing. The column comes to a standstill. Engineers appear. Confusion.

The crowd double up with laughter. Inspection. Result: There was water, milk, sugar, and even raw eggs in the petrol tanks.

Ever since, the Prague people have called the tanks Hitler's omelettes.

Bohemia is hilarious. Who has done it? How? The Gestapo in- vestigates, cross-examines: hun- dreds are questioned. The same typical answer from smiling 11ps: Ne romani "I do not under- stand.'

Pilsen.

THE Skoda works in The famous weapon forge of the country, moreover, one of the big- gest machine factories of the world. A marvel of organisation and technical sk

When Hitler seized Skoda. I saw legionarles cry like boys. The Huns have Skoda, the sun is sciting for us!

But the watchword lifted their hearts. Fight smiling! Do not cry -fight, smile.

---It-started in the steel worksi-

There Where the knowledge, the

applied sabo-

tage. By day and night, with every thought,

every

feeling.

The train rolls northward in the Moravian Spring. Bohumil Alpamy Bohumil Alpamy gally smokes short pipe, shows the

hls

man of the

Black Guard the flourishing landscape, jokes.| and smiles,

ENEMY

And they all smile when they speak to the enemy.

Nobody commands, nobody leads, and the effect on the enemy is ter- rible. There are no leaders to be seized! And a million people can- not be arrested,

The smiling light continues along the whole line, it is the most spectacular conspiracy of an entire nation. a sight of stirring great- ness..

THE entire nation of the Czechs speak with devotion of Bohumil Alpamy. A national hero. was an engine driver,

He was superintending a train from Bruenn into the Rhineland. The train has a precious load. In each of the fifty wagons there is a German official of the Gestapo. And on the engine one of the Black Guard.

Two short whistles. The Areman in the

. tender lifts his

shovel.

With a split skull the Black Guard falls heavily.

"Jump off." shouts the engine- driver to the fireman. He puts the brakes on. The fireman jumps. falls, gets up, disappears in the wood, Full stenm ahead!

Д

The next curve. A cracking. splintering. Eight hundred Brenn guns torn away from the arch enemy.

Alpamy lies on his bier. He smiles in death like a victorious hero,

Innumerable Alpamys live in Czechoslovakia. In every

heart

a glowing love for the fatherland, in every soul a burning hatred against the enemy,

Hearts of steel, smiling lips. Woe to Hitler, when they open to uttar the battle cry,

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LOWLANDS AND GESTAPO RULE

JEWISH life

under the

Nazis in Holland and Bel- gium proceeds according to the well known pattern worked out in Poland Denmark and Norway.

From offcial reports of the Nazl- controlled radio In Amsterdam and Brussels, and from Information

METHODS OF BOMBING

What the Air Ministry's technical bombing terms mean

HIGH LEVEL

LOW LEVEL

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it

experience of the individual decide whether sicel turns out shoukl.

A year ago Switzerland had ordered 10 tanks from Skuda,

Neither light nor heavy machine- gun fire was able to damage these tanks. Even

fight artillery was powerless against Skoda steel.

In April Germans offered fur- ther tanks to Switzerland. They referred to the good results of the recently delivered--Skoda-tanics. mado concessiona and obtained on order.

In July the

new tanks were

taken by German dilleers to the

Swiss fortress of Thun.

A debacle. Even light machine- gun fire riddled them. Heavy run

fre

caused complete

A

collapse.

"We have enough cheese in the country, we need hot buy it from Germany," feered the Swiss officers. The expression "Cheese Tonks" spread.

Himmler, Hitler's bloodhound, carne raging to Plsen Hundreds were arrested, beaten, tortured.

Two thousand men were sent to the Rhineland, to the Krupp Inc- tory in Essen. There they spoilt everything that could be spollt, for they did not understand the orders given them. They smiled. Inno- cently when the Prussians cursed. Ne rostemin.

NIGHT In the suburb, German patrol. A young girl walks slowly through a narrow lane.

She smiles coqueitishly at the German sentry. Disappears into block of houses. After a little while another girl appears. then another.

DIVE.

GLIDE

COLONY CROWDED

PHANOI VETEAM Committee To Investigate Hongkong

Problem

An official communique, issued by the Government of Hongkong yester- day, states:

Anxiety has been felt for some time on account of the overcrowded condi- tion of the Colony, All available housing necommodation is occupied and large numbers of people Upstairs a dozen young fellows sleeping in the streets or occupying arc and girls are sitting with drawn insanitary hovels on curtains. Everyone has before him With the advent of hot weather the hillede. a manuscript which he copies about danger of serious epidemies in in- twenty times during the night. grensing. Morcover owing to the in-

the

all over the country by thousands importation of certain essential com-

of men and women. The number swells in geometrical proportion.

for

The Ten Commandment' be came famous, Instructions the smiling Öght against oppressor.

In the morning a hundred leaflets tetruption of communications due to are ready. Each leaflet is copled the present abnormal conditions the medittes such as Brewood, vegetables and fish has been greatly restricted.

In the circumstances it is felt that steps should be taken without delay) to reduce the excess population of the Colony and to control immigration. Ila Excellency. the Officer Admini- stering the Goverment has accord- ingly appointed a Committes under the chairmanship of the Attorney General to investigate the problem and the report of this Committee is expected shortly.

ile

A fow days elapsed and every priest in every church of the coun try said at the end of his sermon the following words; "In these dificult times follow the Tan Com- mandments.

HIGH-LEVEL BOMBING

The safest but most highly skill- ed and perhaps least accurate form of bombing employed by raiders. The aircraft approach the target at a great height, make rapid calcula- tions involving speed, wind, tem- perature, ele, before

aiming their bombs.

carefully

If they score a direct hit (and it is not easy) the tremendous pene- trative power of a heavy bomb' dropped from height makes it certain that the destruction will be great. On the other hand, the pilot has to drop his bombs 1 miles away when flying at, say, 10.000 ft. and at this helght a simple mis- calculation of wind strength is enough to deflect the bombs 70 or 80 feet.

----Under Ideal conditions the bumb almer would like a clear, straight run in of 5 or 6 miles across his target to ensure anything like accuracy. In practice, gunfire and fighters confuse his aim and make it as difficult as possible for him to sight is target,

LOW-LEVEL BOMBING

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Very dangerous for the aircraft because they are open to pom-porn, small arms and other fire from the ground as well as running a risk of. inceting obstructions such balloon barrages. Nevertheless, it, is on accurate method of bombing which can be very telling If the plots are determined and relain their nerve. Heaviest cailbre bombs are not usually suitable for such attacks owing to the danger aircraft of blast domaging the

above.

DIVE BOMBING

The most terrifying form of bombing, but not necessarily the most destructive. The bombers are open to the same and even greater risk than in low-level bombing, but awing to the fact that they dive and aim their aircraft at the target they can usually ensure greater accuracy. Moreover, the bombs full at an angle which may enable them 10 cause more superficial damage above ground. GLIDE BOMBING

height, then switch off their en- The bombers come, in at a great gines to avoid detection and glide towards the target. Easentially a form of high-level bombing except, losing height all the time. of course, that the. aircraft are

As between day and night. bombing it must be understood that there is a world of difference. Except on a bright night, under a full moon, where shadotes, are not. confusing, it fa never aozaimple to. pick out a target by night as by day. Cortalis objectives, such as bridges, harbours, glinting railway.

lines, roads, ships at sea, etc. (all of which are known to the R.A.F. as "self-illuminated" targets), show up even by starlight. Other night objectives usually have to be illu- minated by parachute flares before the bomb aimer can feel confident of hitting them.

G. E.

DID YO.U WONDER?

Why Flowers Are

Perfumed

Some nowers and certain Insects have a relationship that is mu- tually beneficial. From the asso- ciation _the_Insects obtain food, in the form of nectar' or pollen or both. In return (quite uninten- ilonally) they carry polien from flower to flower, assisting in cross- pollination.

It is thought that the earliest flowers offered only pollen as an inducement to insects to visit them. Later in their development, flowers added the sweet liquid known as nectar ns an added attraction.

About the same lime perfumes or

obtained from refugees it appears that the procedure of dealing with the Jews in the Low Countries is somewhat as follows:

Jews who had emigrated from Poland to Holland and Belgium are being sent back to Poland into the so-called Lublin Reservation. Jewish refugees from Germany are being arrested, detained in the local prisons for several days to ascer- lain the whereabouts of their for- tunes, and then sent back to Germany. The native Jewish populations of Holland and Bel-

klum are treated in very much the same way as the Danish and Nor- wegian Jews, that is, with greater severity than the rest of the popu- lation and with a murked tendency to introduce the anti-Jewish dis- criminatory regulations prevailing in the Reich.

At the same time; the process of stripping the Jews of all valuables, Inodstuffs and stocks of raw ma- terials is proceeding in a more ruthless manner even than in Po- land. All day long ene BCCs German military trucks in front of Jewish shops and private houses, whether the occupiers are there or not, removing everything that is of value, including furniture, kitchen utensils, linen, clothing and food- stuits for despatch to Germany.

Following the method introduced in Poland, the Nazi authorities of Belgium and Holland have ordered the Jewish communities to provide certain number of Jews for forced Inbour, to clear away the debris of the bombed elties. The Lender of the Nazi Labour Front, in a speech at Nuremberg, announced that 150,000 Jews from Poland, who -are--now... doing-forced - labour, in Germany will be sent on to Holland and Belgium to "make good the destruction which Jewish capitalists have wrought in Holland and in Belgium by bringing them into the war".

•

IN the occupied territories of Holland and Belgium, the Nazis have issued appeals to the popula- tion to co-operate with the Ger mans. Among the promises made in these appeals figures the phrase "Hitler will solve the Jewish pro- odors came into tisc by flowers as

blem in Europe after winning the aids in the important business of

war

The

appeal Indicates the juring Insects. As a final complet- manner in which this "solution" ing touch, showy colours and strik- will be effected, namely: Jews will Ing markings were used to attract be deported from Europe to the and guide Insects in their quest of various French and British Colonies pollen and nectar.

In Africa, "to make room for Aryans".

The scent

given off by some flowers serves the important pur- pose of attracting Dying insects to the blossoms. Experiments in- dicate that it the flower retains its perfume, insects will continue to visit it even after the petals and other showy parts that might ni- tract the sight have been removed.

Other experiments indicate that bees are not so much attracted by scent in flowers as are flies. butter- nics and moths. This is supported by the strong, aromatic perfume of flowers attractive to butterfiles, and the stronger scent in the eye- ning of flowers visited by night- fying moths. Moths released un- dreds of yards from and out of sight of a honeysuckle bush ny straight to the flowers.

In general, the amount and type of perfume given off by flowers varies directly with the type of insect which the flower wishes to attraet.

It is of interest to note that after cross-pollination. has been necom plished, the flower will cease to make nectar or give off pertume. The ahews petals, to will shrivel and fall. No longer needing to attract insects, the lower ceases to provide a lure for them.

The Jewish question is a world problem", one appeal continued, "but the big nations have hitherto done nothing to solve it; therefore the Fuehrer promises to undertake.. the job."

A graphic Illustration of the Jewish scene under the Nazis is supplied by the official Nazi Radio in Brussels which announced that the German Military Command had ordered the execution of fourteen Belgian Nazis and four Gernan soldiers for looting Jewish homes. The executions were announced in the streets of Brussels to stop the private looting of Jewish houses. It is for the Nazi State to loot the Jews, not private individuals.

In Brussels, the American Con- sulate has opened its doors for the registration of Jews wishing to. emigrate to America. The Consu- Inte is besieged by Jews whose only. hope Is In escape from Nazl tyranny. The staff Is obliged to work, seven days a week to keep pace with the applications.

FURTHER particulars of the fato of Jewish refugees who fled from Belgium to Franco show that up- the bombardment of Rotterdora; proximately 150 Jews were killed

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