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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

July 20, 1940.··

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Should

SOME time ago, a letter

was published in the Sarawak Gazette condemn- ing the wearing of shorts by women in the East.

"Now "Another Obser- ver," who obviously has studied the "shorts"

ques- tion from a close angle, adds his condemnation to these "atrocities."

These people, he says, who display their "charms" to the public seem quitè callous of what is thought about them and further, it shows little consideration for the others who do not wear these (one can't call them clothes because they clothe to little) things, and whe do not wish to be classed with them.

THAT is only one place, and what about their own servants; do they believe at their boys are devald of eyes and tongues, and what about the Club boys and boat boys, and what about crowd waiting outside a shop for one to come out-as happened not long ago?"

Is this the way we are to keep the res pect of the people of the country where European women are jeered at and put 'down as low class?

Bruce Lockhart in his book "Re- turn to Malaya" was perfectly right in what he wrote about European werden out here-they do little to re- Lain or enhance respect for white people.

The fact is suppose they think shorts are In the fashion. Heaven help us bare backs, bare legs and thighs,. slopping their shoes, 13 this fashion or nudio?

socks Hong-

Mr. F. F. de Vasconcellos Soares, neting Consul for Portugal, and his family, wish to express their sincere thanks to their Excel- lencies the Acting Governors of Hongkong and Macao, to kong and Macao Government officials, members of the Consular Bodies, the Doctors, the Nurses of the Canossa Hospital, mem- bers of the Catholic Mission, the

and all communities of

ong and Macao, for their

sympathy and condolences in their recent bereavement, and for their attendance at the funeral and floral tributes,

the

Hongkong Telegraph.

Saturday, July 20, 1940. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20015

THE preix "special to the Telegraph" is used by the "fongkong Telegraphy to indicate news which is strielly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni cations Ordinance, 1936. Sucks news as bears the indication "UP" in received th Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who re- serve all rights and forbid republication. either wholly or in part without previous Arrangement.

Sealed Lips.

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Hongkong's Hitte crisis-whether artificial or not-should valuable purpose to its inhabitants in revealing the shortcomings of the administration now attempting at one and the same time to placate an anxious population, evacuate certain classes without antagonising those left behind, and maintain a discreet silence 031 future plans while alleviating the natural distress of hundreds of separated families. In- quiries pursued by this journal have been made in the normal function of collecting news on the most interest- ing tople of the moment, accentuated by the fact that this organisation shares to the full the exigencies imposed on the rest of the Colony at this time. Those inquiries have not been successful Invariably the answer has been that the informa- tion can only be obtained at the fountain head and, overworked as that fountain head has been, it has been impossible to ret satisfaction there. Government had the initiative to appaint

cadet especially to

deal with evacuation questions; in typical f Civil Service style, they withheid the staff and, apparently, the authority, to make him a

a competent administrator of the department. Junior oficials tasks which have not synchronised with the main work. Instructions have been giver and cancelled. Contrary announcements have been made through offres which should be working in the clasest harmony. In the meantime the public is left bewildered by events which at no time have appeared to justify the rush and disorder that has accom- panied the evacuation. The turmolt of the

the last evacuation was somewhat eased by the emelency of the civilian committees which laboured through- out two nights and days to make order out of chaos. If Government is not in the Imperial Government's |confidence, at least there need be no unnecessary mystery about local movements. A civilian-even Government officer, given necessary authority, could co-ordinate the present disjointedness and answer intelligent and urgent questions.

have been given

a

Be

s

is known that literally hundreds of private inquiries have been pouring into the Government on different. aspects of the evacuation. Surely a public statement through the Press would satisfy inquiries, which, at the moment, are going unanswered. · It. Government cannot cut through own red tope 'at a' time. like this how can. It expect public opinion, sur- rounded by censorship and closed avenues of Information to attain that calmness and steadiness of outlook that should be a characteristic of the present time?

I shall be told, of course,

tlost

this is п bol climate and such wear

over

is very kullable. Surely n frock reaching half way down to the calf is just as cool and convenient? -

Three

Own

Women

Wear

Shorts in the

East?

Anyway

their

mothers and grand- mothers got on

very

well with much longer dresses.

But if it is so hot as all that, it seems a pity to stick at trifles and I would suggest bathing costume both for morning and evening wear, and If this again is too warm, there are the alternatives of the fg leaf erea- tion by Madame Eve of No. 1 Eden

London

Sylt

Place, or removal to a delectable climate like Northern Siberia where perhaps they will feel attle cooler.

WHAT is dilleult to understand is the attitude of the men in the matter. They seem absolutely callous as to their wives displaying their legs and thighs to a jeering

public,

Surely they must know the way natives look at these things. If not, they must be very ignorant and have no interest in the country they live in.

I shall of course be told to mind my own business and that if the husbands do not object why on earth should the writer.

The point however is not what I think at all, but what the people of the country are saying and thinking and I can assure them that it is anything but complimentary or respectful.

Therefore, It seems it is about time something is done about it before the Illile respect, that is left' goes altogether.

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I have avoided the word "prestige" that has departed long ngo owing to the behaviour of so many Westernera, both men and women, who come out Enst und think they can do as they like.

I have always been led to understand that the place for bare backs, legs and thighs was the bed- room ar bathroom and not in a publle thoroughfare, but it seems I am quite wrong.

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What about the cinema I shall be asked? The answer is that it does nothing to enhance respect for European wonien but very much the reverse.

WHY it may be asked is it necessary for wo- men who swim or play tennis to have their photo- graphs taken in bathing dress or shorls as the case may be, and stuck in an illustrated paper.

I em sorry that some Chinese girls ure copying this detestable cruze, which may pass in the West, but is quite out of place in the East, Let them stick to their own customs and dress In what so many OL them lasic so well. There is nothing worth copying from the West in that line.

Children Railway

WHEN British planes swooped down out of the night sky the currency rate at about 12 marks and dropped their bombs on the German island of Sylt, they did against 20 marks in pre-Nazl not forget to attack the backbone upon which the whole Nazi air days) to the pound; force on the island depends-the railway. There is no road lead- ing along the cel-like island.

So this debt to the English 'would have meant to Goering, at his own rate, about £375,000. He prefered to pay. The rallway remained British.

This fact was carefully concealed

of the Labour Front, Dr. Ley, pro- claimed the railway company a "Nazi Model. Service."

The railway, and the railway known to the British Foreign Ofee. alune, enables you to move in com- of course. fort from the south of the island, Goering has tried hard to rid from the German public. The leader where Hornum stands, to List, in the himself of this foreign influence north.

right inside his fortress. Every scrap of material for fort- Before the war an impartial board of anti-aircraft batteries, fying the island, for installing nests was naked to fix an indemnity to be On May 1, 1937, he honoured the

and for paid by the Nazis building huge hangars for bombing owners of the rollway. A sum of their exemplary "community spirit."

to the British management and the employees for squadrons has to be transported by about 41⁄2 million marks was fixed an When war was declared Goering the rallway.

a fair price. That would be a small simply took over from the British small gauge railway

The astonishing thing about this sum to the Reich-in marks, But 'company, without having to pay a

is this: it is they would have to pay In pounds penny. British-owned. That fact is well sterling.-And-the-Nazis-have fixed-Turn to Page-2, Fourth ColumnTM

ANOTHER BRILLIANT STRUBE CARTOON:

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It would be better for the ad- vancement of the country and all

concerned If It could be said that at any rate here Europeans were res- pected and led, all the more so as the majority are administering it.

-The

Daddy of Dictators

Four centuries ago Nicholas Machiavelli, meditating in a Florentine villa, wrote "The Prince." In this book can be found the first description of the principles and methods of dicta- torship we see at work to-day. His surname gave rise to the ad- jective "Machiavellian."

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THE Ideas which the dictators of to-day have put into practice have been a long time agrowing. Mus- solini and Hitler, the authoritarians, can trace their spiritual ancestry back to the dfteenth century and, no doubt, publicly would do so if they did not feel that to admit they were not original would lower their 'prestige in the eyes of their followers.

Uterary

The man from whose labours in a fifteenth-century Floren- tine villa the dictators were born Was Nicholas Machiavelli. He has had to wait a long time for recogni- tion, and he, or his writings, have passed through many vicissitudes before they were tacitly endorsed over a large part of the present-day world.

The man himself was put to the rock and thumbscrew during his life; his books, were of the first to be placed on the Roman Catholic "in- dox"; and so cordially was he hated at one time that, in the opinions of many past writers, his Christian name it was that gave rise to that. term for the Devil, "Old Nick,"

Machiavelli was born in 1409; the doctrine he evolved was truly the result of experience, for he had spent forty-ve active years before he wrote a word. For fifteen he was. secretary of one of the departments In the government of Florence; and knew intimately most of the great people, of his time. He was a fami itar of Caesar Borgin, and was one of the first mon in history

to be. provided with a passport, which ho used to carry him on his diplomatie: missions.

Strangely, in the long struggle be tween freedom and tyranny in his native Flerence, which was an in- dependent sovereign state in his time, Machiavelli. belonged to the popular: party.

In 1812 his party fell, and the Medicis threw Machiavelli

aut.