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July 26, 1940.

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THE, prafx special to the Telegraph" is used by the Hongkong Telegraphi"" to indicale new which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni- cations Didinance, 1936. Such news ar baari the indication is received in Hongkong on this date of publication by the United Prew Associations, who 16- servo all rights and forbid republication, ether wholly or in part without previous arrangement,

Evacuation

ly these views, so as to detain in tical purposes a man Ilice Her- England large bodies of troops bert Morrison is far better who are more urgently needed educated than an Etonian Tory in France...

front-bencher."

Wells On the other hand, I re-

is still implacably marked, to empty Britain of against Halifax & others who troops might be an invitation to thought Goering more "gentle- an invader: they must presum- manly" than a house-painter; in a still thinks the Russians could ably be. aprend out balanced way.

help us a lot only we must stop treating them like under- servants."

allegiance are still fighting their cause and are not hostage to thele:

HE doesn't think a negotiated

good conduct. An attempt to draw a peace possible now; but holds Baie between Royalty in Europe that detailed armistice terms ind "pure" Britons is not altogether

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happy one, what this analogy (such as complete air disarma- 10 show in that one ment) should be got ready at

jonce in some neutral country. of the community by their greater danger to presence can be the safety of the whole than by

WELLS is staying on in their absence. Once we admit the London, cherishing his fine Per- practical impossibility of evacuating sian carpets: to protect them all women and children from Hong- kong, as the practical impossibility from incendiary bombs he has with of such a step was admitted and nc-just equipped himself cepted by the peoples of Poland,

black glasses, shovel, asbestos Norway, Belgium, Holland

and

FUNNY SIDE UP

By Abner Doan

"Oh I fool grand, dear. .. I just finished tolling that instalment collector what I thought of him!"

How

the

NEW WORLD

was

won

France, we must admit discrimina gloves & apron (fluff from which June, 2010, to write the been. Nenrly, it was.

tion-the sort of discrimination that ruined his best suit). condemns some to possible subjugn-

For a diabetic of 73, he seems tion and ensures that the remainder cannot and will not become hostages in vigorous health; enjoyed

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be

N historian sat down, in British Empire. It might have

most vital chapter in the his- For while, filled with a simple tory of mankind.

faith, an island people_rose He inscribed at the top of from their slumbrous stupidness a sheet of virgin foolsenp the and nssembled their latent

to an enemy at our gate. We have every course of a lavish lunch got to realise that the threat to until the last, a strawberry words, "The Battle of Britain." might, a few disgruntled poli- longkong will not

military Government has yet to learn that threat In a strict sense of the word, confection,. which he tasted & and then looked back on a pile ticlans still plotted for power.

Our enemy may be expected to be put aside. saying "Unsuitable of finished manuscript. . . been student of psychology, and his for a president of the Diabetic It retailed how, because Sir folk who, fearful of their fortunes

recrimination which has directed against it has not been be-threat, if it comes, will be to the Association." cause the evacuation was carried people whom he can make hostages. out but because of the methods The potential defender of Hongkong

arc nel afraid of anything

There was a handful of timorous John Simon, a Foreign Minister and clinging on to their dead pri- IT was handed to, & consumed [ of Britain, cynically rejected, at vileges, would again have sought to

There

was also

of en- a gang employed in carrying it out. The enemy may visit upon him but he by, another guest, 1 chimpanzee the Disarmament Conference, placate the enemy of all mankind,

trenched bureaucrats who, despite Colony has been treated to a refresh- would not be a man were he not named George. This was the the claims of a democratic Ger- ing and consoling exemple of the fearful of what may be visited upon first time I had ever lunched many to equality, under the the peril, went on wasting time, re- fnet that, although demoerney does his women and children. This cle-with a chimpanzee and H. G League Covenant, in terms of writing formulns, making indents, disarmament or rearmament," altering phrases in orders still using. not prevail in this corner of Empire, mentary fact has been ex re-Wells.

even in emergency, the dilatory ways cognised in military circles. Remove the voice of the people has been the hostages to safety, as they were

the delegates returned to

of Peace. country

which, humiliated, heard to a degree that would not be removed in Norway and the Nether-

hurled them from office. folerated under Totalitarian regime; lands, and the threat is extinguished. can know no Mitary security car in the Arst instance, through the

He read, then, what he had limitation Correspondence columns of the Press Government

the atitania

believes that the and, secondly, through the welcome security of Empire depends Upon 195

no

Imperiul tha

New Ships

support afforded by the Unofficial the evacuation of a section of the For Britain

Members' of Legislative Council. women and children of Hongkong, then these women and children must Recrimination and the possible be evacuated and, however,

feeling that "government has got oble becomes to us as inte

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But, with a power that could con-- quer anything, the People cast them on one side, singing for the first Ume

"Confound their politics. "Frustrate their knavish tricks."

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THE historian forgot his tears as, on page after page, he told the story of the resurrection of a Cummen- wealth, renaissance of a world-

written on scores of pages for years the forgotten words of thes how the Germans turned, in National Anthem: despair, to a braggart house- painter named Hitler, who had written in a book called "Mein During_the_next_few...months, Kampf-how-he-would-uvenge what it deserved must not, how we must whole-heartedly support the States an Admiralty announcement, the country of his adoption. ever, blind us to the fact that there Whitehall decision. This Empire is the Royal Navy will receive a fur- are certain aspects of Evacuation at war und the rights of individuals ther large increase in strength, com

must be subordinated to the welfare prising every category of warship which we must support, however of the whole,

from battleships to motor torpedo intolerable, the conditions they im- We quarrel, then, not with the fact boats, and a very large number of pose upon us may seem. The War that evacuation has been ordered for Cabinet may be expected to know a section of the community and that auxillary craft.

has

been necessarily what is best for our destinies. It is there

but at the methods by which evucun-

dis

The acceleration of work in the

YOU can guess the rest of

inconceivable that evacuation of crimination against another section shipyards is such that the output of Hogg, had grabbed one country

scattered people.

獭

He wrote how, when others might it:

only have despaired, Britain became How the world read the book a great arsenal, how the men tolled and the women slaved-to save their and laughed at it.

land from a ruthless for. How, one day; when the house-painter, having become section of the community has been tion has been ordered and carried new construction is progressively in and another was threatened, ordered at the whim of an officiat out. The Hongkong Government is creasing. Nearly 1,000,000 tons

timorous statesmen, flattering in Whitchail, especially in view of absolved from all responsibility in warships are building in British slip-is Cruelty and ruthlessness, Government's revelation that the Im-the ordering of evacuation but it has yards.

brought upon itself the odium of people for its ineptitude in carrying

perial Government is in possession ro

of the

of

signed a pact with him.

HE told how far-away Britishers who might have turned aside and leisured In the new countries they had won rushed to the aid of their kinsmen in the Motherland, how they pledged their all and did more than they had vowed,' The German Navy has suffered the

How, even when he broke of full knowledge of the disruption out those orders. From the very be- destruction of a high proportion of

Countless millions renewed their his plighted word and en- faith. They were inspired with an. of human life and serious distur-ginning there has been no attempt its effectives. bance to the economic well-being of to obtain the confidence of

slaved another country, these exaltation of which, before, they had the public: the people such evacuation has en- by taking the public into its con- The contrast between German

same frightened folk tried to never dreamed.

"Come life," they said, "come talled. We would like to express on idence. Orders have been issued and naval weakness and the great and placate him.

death, we will redeem Mankind." analogy which, although not exact,

De growing strength of the Allied navies may Indiente

How the house-painter then one

the reasons countermanded. Promises have been and broken. Frankness has

another land and They built. even In the minin prompting the evacuation. In Scan- been promised, secrecy has been has apparently alarmed the German invaded

Command. This dinavia no Norwegian has cavilled the

The Press, as Hoi-High the watchword.

anxiety a crushed it, while two proud streets of their great cities, sheller's

from the peril overhead. nt the fact thai

Haakon and

and son between public and Government, shown

allles could not help. Queen Maud

has been

They sent their children to safety snubbed. Allegations, in groundless claims of naval sinklage,

house - and their sick. the censure supplications have been ignored with

self enthroned Wilhelmina, Princess

incess lofty disregard for the feelings of a

painter, doing nearly all that Beatrice and the two little Dutch the people. Even yesterday's meet-British naval power. Princesses for deserting the Nether-

hering of the Legislative Council has Nine months of war experience

of

in the country

by the constant inste ol

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and are now directing the war from vectives, remonstrances, pleas and that German air power has achieved How then, in ten short weeks, in the distant countryside their aged

London. There

on Queen

is 110

spectacular ascendancy over

to its own

"We shall defend our island what- he had prophesied, grabbed yet ever the cost may be," they sald,

first Commoner,

io be struck another country and conquered speaking through their Premier, the

close four others, reducing them to aerodromes, slavery.

lands, the first to remain in London, not made wiser the men who allege the latter three to seek sanctuary in

that their wives were the victims of cables the balance Canada.

Every Briton would ex discrimination in Manila, or made Concentrated air power, in

proximity press relief, in the knowledge that known to the remainder certain sa can inflct losses on the less strongly Ruzi blitzkrieg may bring death and flent information regarding the future destruction to his

motherland, at of their wives and children which armoured naval units. It has sign- ally failed, however, to annul the the thought that the Princesses it is Government's duty, to disclose decisive advantages conferred by sea Elizabeth and Margaret-Rose were The Hon. Mr. A. L. Shields has safe in one of the Dominions. These trenchantly put his finger on the power. A recent and striking exam people are no more blood-related to crus of Hongkong's grievances: We pleas

the successful withdrawal us than are our wives and children quote what he said yesterday in of the Allied armies from the Bel-

gian coast, to Whitehall ofcinia. But in Legislative Council."I would like to Hongkong we accept the evacuation express my astonishment that fur- The balance of naval strength in from their own countries of Norther reference has not been made favour of the Allies is now far weglan and Netherlands Royalty, and to the question of expense, which greater than at the outbreak of war. would accept under similar circum-looms very largely with people whose The pre-war strength of the British stances the evacuation from our own wives and families have been sent Empire Navies, and the losses suf- Motherland of British Royalty, be away. There are a great many fered, are: cause we realise that their presence people with very little between thom

15 capital ships-I lost.

7 aircraft carriers-1 lost.

02 cruisers-2 lost.

185 submarines-8 lost. 108 minesweepers, aloops, patrol vessels and gunboats-0 lost...

of

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wrote:

"We shall fight on the beaches. We shull fight on the landing- grounds. We shall fight in the felds "THOSE chapters crowd into and in the streets. We shall fight in n few months," said the his- the hills. We will never surrender."

No, it did not happen quite We torian, "more tragedy, more despair, more horror, than were that. But there were other perils experienced by all the nutions and they were all bravely need. of the world in the previous ten. This was their finest hour,

the historian ne his final phrase. centuries.

In 1040, in the hour of test, it had "Never was man so blind. Never

80 stupid. been a Premier's proud boast. In 2040 it was a phrase that was written Never did statesmen blunder down by the historian as words that

deeds had Justified,, DI have written down the Cal- For the unknown people of a small vary of half Europe and how island had, for an Ideal, risked all-

and their common names of Smith darkness descended upon the and Brown and Jones and Thomson

50,

earth.

Was man

had been inscribed on History's rolls- with those of the Immortals.

So it was that the Old World was

THEN, his eyes bedewed by the thought of all the suffering saved. that millions had endured, the

So it was that, fully enfranchised up his pen by their own achievement, men and historian, took

is of greater danger to our Cause Whatever government's decision than their absence, Had the Royal about matters of evacuation may be, families of Norway and the Nether I think government should make lands remained at the helm, deter- clear statement of what they are go- mined as captains, to go down withing to do with the people who have the ship (we quote our eminent been evacuated." That is the only morning contemporary) then surely real question that can arise in Hong-

Since the beginning of the wan the ships of Norway and the Nether-kong. Rightly or wrongly, the Im- lands would have foundered. One perial Government has decided that in addition to reinforcements has but to recall the strenuous efforts there must be partial evacuation from warships of alt classes except battle made by the Nazis to capture the Hongkong. We cannot question that ships, the Navy has been strengli

than fifty armed

Ho read, once more, the title, by suffering, by endurance and by Royal families of our two Allies to decision, Hongkong is a tiny centre ened by more become aware of the danger their of the Empire but in Imperial defence merchant cruisers, of which one has

own or Imperial strategy it may loom been lost; and more than 1,500 minor "The Battle of Britain," and be self-dedication. continued presence in their countries would have meant. True, much larger than it size or populb-war vessels and auxiliary craft, of their people are in bondage but they on warrants. What we can and do which fifty-eight have been lost. The gun to write. (the people) ara sustained by the question are the methods that have Allied Fleet has been reinforced by of Pollah, knowledge that, unlike the Belgians, been employed in carrying out its the active co-operation

Norwegian and Dutch naval forces, the rulers to whom they owe decisi

again..

women won what can only be won

So

it

was that they became

citizens

of the New World, in which they

NO, it was not the story

of the decline and fall of the peace and omity.

shared, as equals, the earth's 'abun-

dance, comrades · ́and partners

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