1940-06-22 — Page 8

ATSON

ARK

MINERAL WATERS

ARE DELI

S, WATE

SPECIALISTS IN HIGHTFEA

HAHOLESOME

CTD

ED WATERS

PIANOS of QUALITY

ON EASY TERMS

ADULTS WHO SEEK RELAXATION FROM THE WORRIES OF MODERN LIFE WILL FIND IT MOST EASILY ATTAINED IN MAKING A COMPANION OF A PIANO.

THE PIANO IS EASY TO LEARN AND BECOMES A LIFE LONG FRIEND.

१९.

MAKE YOUR CHOICE A

MOUTRIE

IT COSTS NO MORE

99

AND IS THE FINEST INSTRUMENT

IN THE FAR EAST

S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD.

YORK BUILDING

CHATER ROAD,

In aid of the B. W. O. F.

CONCERT

by The Hongkong Singers

Tuesday, June 25, at 9.30 p.m. in the CHINA FLEET CLUB

Itoms on the Programme will be:-

(a) Serenade to Music (Vaughan Williams)

(b) In Honour of the City (Dyson)

(c) Acis and Galatea (Handel) ... with orchestra.

The two former are accompanied on two plaños.

Soloista:

Anne Balfour, Jean Grieg, Helen Loekhari, Gaston D'Aquino and Harold Piercy.

Conductor: IR.M. Smith.

Accompanists: Rupert Baldwin, E. O'Nell! Shaw,

Booking: Tsang Fook Piano Co. Prices: $3.00, $2.00 & $1.00

HONGKONG AS

REVEALED

BY

THE CAMERA

2ND EDITION

A selection of over 60 excellent views of the Colony. Very suitable for sending abroad.

Pictures comprise views of the latest buildings and hospitals, schools, churches, the harbour, The Peak district, Kowtoon, Jubilee Reservoir, New Territories, Cheung Chau, Aberdeen, ' Repulse Bay, Deepwater Bay, besides street and wharf scenes, etc., etc.

PRICE $1.50

Obtainable from:-KELLY & WALSH; LTD. HONGKONG TRAVEL BUREAU or the Publishers .SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LTD. Wyndham Street,

Saturday,

HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH.

June 22, 1940.

GOOD USED CARS

5 Milles Prico

Chevrolet 2 Door Sedan

1935

14341 $1200.00

52410.800.00

Vauxhall Cadet Saloon

1033

Buick Sedan

1935

Studebaker President

1935 Studebaker Dictator

1034

38847 $2480,00

37150 $2100.00)

47142 $1200.00

Pontine Sedan

1037

33877 $1000.00

Morris 10 Saloon

1934

65503 $1000.00

Humber 12 Saloon

1034

Vauxhall 14-0 Saloon

1035

Singer 11 Saloon

1035

Chrysler Roadster.

1936.

Ford V8 Saloon

1934

Vauxhall, 10-4 Saloon

1033

32420 $1000,00

52410 $1800.00

31804 $1800.00

15352 $2000.00

31810 $1200.00

0000 $2200.00

Studebaker Champion Sedan

1940

1100 $4500.00

All cars serviced the same as

for new cars

ADDITIONALLY

All units of $1500 and over in vaine carry the Hongkong Hotel Garage guarantee for three months.

Inspection and trial invited

Hongkong Hotel Garage

Phones 27778-0

DEATH

Stubbs Rond.

DANBY-Killed at Dunkirk, William Alfred (Colonel R.A.) youngest son of the late Mr. and Mrs, W. Danby of Hongkong.

the

Hongkong Telegraph.

Saturday, June 22, 1940. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 26815

THE prefix "special to the Telegraph" In used by the longkong Telograph" ja indicato nows which is izietly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni- cations Ordinanet, 1838. Such new ka bears the indication "UP is received in Hongkong on the date of publication hy the United Prose Associations, who ro- serva All rights and forbid republication, elther wholly or in part without previotta arrangement.

The Japanese Army

The belligerent attitude adopted by the Japanese military command in Canton against France may or may not indicate that the Japanese Army, und Navy, no matter what the Tokyo Government decides, Intends to take matters in its own hands vis-a-vis French Indo-China.

The Japanese forces may limit their petion to a demonstration with the express purpose of not only closing the French Indo-China frontler en- tirely...to China. They may...be..cm- boldened to go further.

We In Hongkong must recognize that any pressure oppiled to France regarding the route from Indo-China to China may be extended to Britain regarding the route from Burma to

The German Plan

Hitler is staking all he has on a quick victory.

Now we'll know the real strength of his Air Farce.

GERMANY, by relent-

lessly smashing through France has cm- barked on the most am- bitious and infamous mili- tary adventure in history.

Hitler is staking his Front Line Air Force, his 'reserves of petrol, oil, and other materials of war, and millions of men, on one desperate attempt to win the war quickly.

Although Holland, Belgium and France are the sufferers from his lightning blow, it is aimed at us. By the time these words are in print, these islands may have felt the physical shock of war.

Now begins the fight to the death, the great decisive struggle. There, this sum- mer, the war is to be fought out.

There is no need now for me or any other commentator to talk of the need of courage and determination. The sud- den invasion of the Nether- lands and Belgium did more to call these qualities forth than any words could do.

England at last is awake. proud, defiant, and ready. If Hitler thinks that in choosing a moment of politicni difficulty" he has caught the British people off their guard, it is the greatest mistake of his life.

At once all recriminations were silenced, all differences set aside. We all found our- selves ready to put self aside and stand shoulder to shoul- der, and to put ourselves at the service of the State.

Of all classes and conditions, whatever our social, our finan- cial, positions, we are all in the same boat now, fghting not for our possessions but for our lives.

Hitlor Chooses

The Wrong Moment

China. Since Burma is far away RECENTLY I ventured to

and out of reach, such Japanese pres- sure, if it is forthcoming, may be directed to Hongkong.

We do not intend to suggest that the Japanese harbour any Intention of invading the soll of either French or British possessions in the Far East. It is possible that any de monstration they make against French Indo-China, and perhaps | later against British possessions, may be on the lines adopted in Tientsin, where the British and French con- cessions were blockaded.

In Hongkong, fortunately, the nụ-]- thorities have overlooked no contin- Veney that may arles, and the populace may rest assured that their interests are being safeguarded with all the resources that are at the com- mand of the Colony.

Since last August the Japanese have visited the Hongkong frontier! on several ocensions for foraging purposes. Unfortunately, a certain tension has arlsen amongst the people in the Colony, caused mainly by the wave of unwarranted grotesque rumours that have been spread by malicious and evilly- dispased men and women in our midst. Should the Japanese again. decide to come southwards: towards; the frontier, the calm with which

andi

previous excursions has been greeted

are

suggest that the first re- action to our first setback would be an angry demand for the more active prosecution of the war against Germany.

I doubt that anyone was prepared for the extraordin- ary burst of public feeling which did come. A wave of patriotism, such as this coun- try has not demonstrated for many years, has swept the country.

This is the moment Hitler has chosen for the launching of his long-delayed lightning And in another sense, too, he has chosen his wrong moment.

(war.

It is better for us that. he strikes how than eight months ago, when we, were ten times more vulnerable and much less able to strike. back.

Readers of these articles will not be surprised by the nature of the attack, by the tactics employed, or by the strength of the blow. They are precisely as foreshadowed here, week after week,

The only surprising thing about the whole tremendous adventure is that the enemy

may be absent. It is unhappily e fact that people purporting to be “in the know" can spread more olerm and uncasiness by cultivating an airi of mystery and dropping sly In nuendes than by plainly stating the grounds-that one residing in facts of relative unimportance which Hongkong has cause for rent feur or possession. It cannot be uneasiness. It is almost certain that In their emphasised too strongly that Govern-

the Japanese forces will again visiti ment officials and, be it said, Ser the frontier, if only for fornging vico officers, too-have: a- respon-

They purposes.

may como to-day sibility to the fact that the community, for the they may net come for another are employed in off-two or three months. When they do cial enpacities more or less implies come we should greet their advent that they have knowledge to which as, enimly as we have in the past. the ordinary person has no nećdzi. We have no quarrel with Japan: It also cannot be too strongly.cm-Jupaty has no quarrel with us. We phasised-and this emphasis should do our Empire's Cause a disservice be part of any official's beartig in by thinking, acting or saying other- clubs br other commop meeting wise,

05

of

so thoroughly advertised his intentions beforehand.

Holland and Belgium saw it' coming, and had time to pre- pare. Indeed, they have had as much time as we have had, for their danger was clear from the beginning.

And the nature of the at- tack niso Was well fore- shadowed. German military methods run true to form.

WHEN GERMAN MILI- TARY INVENT OR EVOLVE A TACTICAL PLAN OF ATTACK, AND USE IT SUCCESSFULLY, THEY MAY BE RELIED ON TO USE IT AGAIN AND AGAIN.

When we heard of the wonderful co-operation be- tween the German air force and the ground forces we realised that a novel method had been brought to the art of war. After the destruction of the Polish air bases, low- flying machines bombed and machine-gunned 'the Polish troops in the field.

While the troops were still demoralised, German tanks came among them, followed by the main body of infantry. The Poles were overwhelmed. The Lesson Norway

Taught. Us

THAT

we saw, was what must inevitably happen when the Germans attacked unfortified positions held by troops without adequate air That support of their own. was the method the Germans employed against our own troops in Norway.

. It could not have been em- ployed so successfully if we had been able to establish air bases in Norway. (We have learned that lesson now, and Wo know that the new technique calls for something more than ordinary co-opera-

FUNNY SIDE UP

ABNERE

Invasion

+

tion between the ground forces and the air forces.)

In a battle of this sort the air attack must be absolutely under the direction of the General in charge of the battle. The time has come for us to see what happens when two armies, each with co-operating bombers and fighters, meet in battle,

That will be the real test of strength and courage, such as the Pelish campaign and the Nor- .wegian adventure were nol.

And

And now, on the Western Front,

the rea we have faced

ròn! challenge. The attnek occurred in

in the manner we have been accustomed to expect --with a series of bombing raids on nir bases and other objectives, military and otherwise.

But bombing raids cannot win a war, Nothing but defeat of the upposing any and the capture of its strategical strongholds can do that.

The

same ground and air co- operation which worked success- fully in Norway and Poland is effective in countries with strongly fortified frontiers and well-trained

equipped armies.

and

But we shall soon see how the German bombers fare when they are faced by an air force superior in personnel and material, if not in numbers, to their own.

The enemy bases are now well within range of our fast fighters, which, in almost every combat, over the sea or on the Western Front, have proved more than a match for the German machines and their pilota.

Within the next few days we may expect to know the worst about the strength of the German Air Force. Field-Marshal Goering has called it the most destructive weapon the world ever saw. It must also be one of the most cost- ly in the dally wastage of war.

THAT Hitler has chosen to throw.

it wholesale into the fray t this time is proof that he sees the occasion as urgent. It is clear that he is compelled to rely on a quick victory, having seen that no other sort of victory is possible.

.

By his series of invasions of neutral countries he is staking even more than his air force and his armles. As neutrals, Denmark and Southern Norway were useful to

By Abner Dean

mackeral you ordered,

right?!!

lm, and his invasion brought him only temporary loot. His gains there are only a drop in the bucket of his needs, and they will be ex- hausted quickly.

If Hitler, as he hopes, could de- feat Britain this summer, he could srup his fingers at world opinion. If his attempt to bring us to our knees fails, world opinion can be no more strongly against him than it is to-day.

During all these months, while we obeyed the rules and the enemy broke them, our only reward was ridicule from the neutrals them- selves.

While we saw other countries re- duced to ashes by action from the air, we sat back and assumed that it was not necessary or advisable to bomb the enemy's munition fac- tories and military depots while he kindly refrained from bombalg our home front.

But now he is bombing open towns, Brussels has suffered again Itse agony of 1914. If there was ever - justification for our refrain- ing from bombing the enemy's military depots, surely there "Is none now.

OUR BOMBERS MUST ACT VIGOROUSLY AND QUICKLY, AND WE AT HOME MUST EXPECT TO BE ATTACKED.

They May Try

Invading Britain!

THERE may be other trials for us at home. Since the Germans have landed parachute troops in Holland, they may try it here.

They cannot be fought without weapons, but they can be looked for and detected, even if they dress themselves In British uni- forms.

The time has come now to get down to the business of fighting this war. And since the enemy does not let neutrals stand in his way, neither must we

From now on a veil of secrecy will be drawn over the battlefield. There will be long periods of silence. We must be patient, con- tent to be told little about milltary or naval movements, for to tell us more would be to help the enemy.

Colonel Not Guilty On Ten Charges

at

COURT - MARTIALLED Chelsea, Lieut-Colonel H. F. L. Williams, M.C., commanding a searchlight detachment of the Royal Artillery, was found "Not guilty" on ten charges.

the

The dadings of the Court on remaining charge, alleging conduct to the prejudice of good order and milliary discipline In that he per- mitte: a sergeant of his unit to share his room an silting-room. will be promulgated,

Colonel Willams had pleaded not guilty to 11 charges, 4 of them alter- native charges, under the Army Act, . and it had been alleged that he was. on terms of undue famillurity with Bergt, E. Nicholson, whom he per-- mitted to share his rooms as a sitting- room, whom he had allowed to dine [with him in multi, and, whom he had detached from his duty, The colonel is also alleged to have improperly used a car for private purpoE05.

Pre-War Friendship Colonel Williams declared that he was continuing a pre-war, friendship - with Nicholson, whom he was help. ing to bring up and educate. Nichol- bon was his adopted kon, whom he had brought into the regiment.

·Appearing for Colonel Williams Mr. Hartley Showerosi, KC, In hlá final (addreskę gold that all the prosecution witness had agreed that; ja the presence of the troops there was cont- plete propriety between the coloneli and the sergeant.