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by William Hickey

WELLS ON THE WAR

ATO' It was for him

England has had

ON the new all-power Defence show that I was lunching Act Wolls said: "Fine with H. G. Wells, we inevitably Socialism. talked war.

its revolution." Wells, agree with him or not Only Italy: "Italy stands ori (I often don't), has been an three legs, and can shift from active & influential thinker. I one to another. At present the asked his views on many things monarchy leg is in the air-but it might come down into, use again."

now on our minds.. !.

On the prospect of Nazi in- vasion of England, he took an On Labour leaders in the unusual line. "I think they're Government: "A ́much better, making too much fuss about it,” more experienced, type thari he said. "If I were a 5th- those who went into the Coall- columnist, I should spread exact- tion in the last war. For prac- ly these views, so as to detain in tical purposen a man like "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.""

On the other hand. I re- Wells 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; ably be spread out In a still thinks the Russians could balanced way,

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

still ighting their

allegiance are cause and are not hostage to their HE doesn't think a negotiated good conduct. An attempt to draw

parallel between Royalty in Europe peace possible now; but holds and "pure" Britons is not altogether that detailed armistice terms happy one, what this analogy (such as complete air disarma- cceks to sl:ow is that one ment) should be got ready at section of the community by their once in some neutral country. Presence can be a greater danger to ine safety of the whole than by their absence. Once we admit London, cherishing his fine Per- practical impossibility of evacuating slan carpets: to protect them

WELLS is staying on in

TRS pred "Special to the Telegraph" women and children from Hong from incendiary bombs he has

bears the Indiestión “UP” is received in 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 previoas

arrangement,

Evacuation

a strict

clc-

with

indicate news which is strictly copyright of such a step was admitted and ac-just equipped himself is used by the longkong Telegraph to kong as the practical impossibility under the provisions of the Telecommuni- cepted by the peoples of Poland,black glasses, shovel, asbestos Callons Ordinance, 40m Schected i Norway, Belgium, Holland

and gloves & apron (fluff from which France, we must admit discrimina tion--the sort of discrimination that ruined his best suit). condemns some to possible subjuga- tion and ensures that the remainder For a diabetic of 73, he seems vigorous health; enjoyed cannot and will not become hostages: in ས་

We have every course of a lavish lunch to an entry at our gate. got to realise that the threat 10 Hongkong

will not be a military until the last, a strawberry of the word. confection, which he tasted & Government has yet to learn that

threat in

sense be expected to be put aside, saying "Unsuitable which

Our recrimination:

1129 been

a student of psychology and his for a president of the Diabetic 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 employed in carrying it out. The ure not afraid of anything an Colony has been treated to a refresh- ing and consoling example of the fact that, although democracy does not prevail this corner of Empire, the voice of the people has been heard to a degree that would not be tolerated under Totalitarian regime; in the Grat instance, through the Correspondence columns of the Press and, secondly, through the welcome support afforded by the Unofficial Members of Legislative Council.

Recrimination and the possible feeling_that_"government.__lis._ got what it deserved" must not, how ever, blind us to the fact that there certain aspects of Evacuation which we must support, however Intolerable the conditions they im- pose upon us may seem. The War Cabinet may be expected to know what is best for our destinies. It is inconceivable that evacuation of a section of the community has been ordered of the whim of an official In Whitehall, especially in view of

arc

Government's revelation that the Im-

IT was handed to, & consumed enery may visit upon him but he by, another guest, a chimpanzee would not be a man were he not named George. This was the fearful of what may be visited upon first time I had ever lunched his women and children. This mentary fact has been long re-with a chimpanzee and H. G.

reWells. caglied in military circles. Remove the hostages to removed in Norway and the Nether- afety, as they wore lands, and the threat. Is extinguished. Military security can know no limit limitation and

the Imperial believes Government

that the security of Empire depends upon the evacuation of a section of the of Hongkong. women and chlidren then those women and children be evacuated and, however unpalat- able, it becomes-to us as individuals.

musi

New

For

Ships

FUNNY SIDE UP

By Abner Dean

ABNER DEAN

sar

"Oh I feel grand, doar

Instalment collector what I thought of him!"

I just finished telling that

How

NEW

was

the WORLD

won

June, 2040, to write the been. Nearly, it was

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

most vital chapter in the "his- tory of mankind.

For while, filled with in simple faith, an island people rose He inscribed at the top of from their slumbrous stupidness a sheet of virgin foolscap the and assembled their latent words, "The Battle of Britain," might, a few disgruntled poli- and then looked back on a pile ticians still plotted for power. of finished manuscript. ...

There was a handful of timorous

It retailed how, because Sir folk who, fearful of their fortunes John Simon, a Foreign Minister and clinging on to their dead pri- of Britain, cynically rejected, at vileges, would again have sought to the Disarmament Conference; placate the enemy of all manidind. the claims of a democratic Ger-

There was also a gang of en- many to equality, under the the peril, went on wasting time, re- trenched bureaucrats who, despite League Covenant, "in terms of writing formuing, waking indents,

disarmament or rearmament,” altering phrases in orders still using, the delegates returned to neven in emergency, the dilatory ways country which,

of Peace. humiliated, hurled them from office.

But, with a power that could con- Ho read, then, what he had on one side, singing for the first time quer anything, the People cast them

written on scores of pages- for years the forgotten words of their how the Germans turned, in National Anthem:

Britain despair, to a braggart house-

painter named Hitler, who had written in a book called "Mein

"Confound their polities, "Frustrate their knavish tricks."

THE historian forgot his tears us,

During the next few months,Kampf-how-he-would-avengo on page after page, he told the story the country of his adoption. of the resurrection, of a Common- wealth, of renaissance of a world- scattered people.

we must whole-heartedly support the states un Admiralty announcement, Whitehall decision. This Empire is the Royal Navy will receive a fur- at war and the rights of individuals ther large increase in strength, com- must be subordinated to the welfare:

prising every category of warship of the whole.

from battleships to motor torpedo boats, and a very large number of auxiliary craft.

?

The acceleration of work in the

it:

YOU can guess the rest of

How the world read the book and laughed at it.

How, one day, when the house-painter, having become

We quarrel, then, not with the fact that evacuation has been ordered for section of the community and that there has necessarily been dis crimination against another section, but at the methods by which evacua- shipyards is such that the output of Boss, had grabbed one country tion has been ordered and carried new construction is progressively in- out. The Hongkong Government is creasing. Nearly 1,000,000 tons of and another was threatened, absolved from all responsibility in warships are building in British ship-

In the ordering

It has of evacuation brought upon itself the odlum of the yards.

promicate one of the reasong unterraunted,

timorous statesmen, flattering his cruelty and ruthlessness, signed a pact with him.

He wrote how, when others night only have 'despaired, Britain became a great arsenal, how the men talled and the women slaved-to save their Iand from ruthless foe.

HE told how-far-away Britishera 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,

Countless millions renewed their

his plighted word and en- faith. They were inspired with an

How, even when he broke slaved another country, these exaltation of which, before, they had.

never dreamed. same frightened folk tried to placate him.

perial Government is in possession of full knowledge of the disruption out those orders. From the very be destruction of a high proportion of people for its ineptitude in carrying The German Navy has suffered the of human life and serious distur- ginning there has been no attempt bance to the economie well-being of to obtain the confidence of the public it effectives, the people such evacuation has en-

The by taking the public into its con

contrast We would like to express an

between issued and

German fidence. Orders have been OTY which, although not exact,

naval weakness and the great and Promises have been Inay

Frankness has growing strength of the Allied navicé the evacuation. In Sean-made and broken.

been promised, secrecy has been bas apparently alarmed the German dinavia no Norwegian has cavilled the watchword. The Press, as al-High Command This anxiety is ot the fact that King Haakon and son between public and Government, shown by the constant issue of allies could not help. Queen Maud evacuated the country and are now directing the war from vectives, remonstrances, pleas and groundless claims of naval sinkings, London.

There

censure supplications have been ignored with that German air power has achieved Wilhelmina, Queen

Princess

ascendancy lofty disregard for the feelings of a spectacular Beatrice, and the two little Dutch the people. Even yesterday's cacet- British navul power. Princesses for deserting the Nethering of the Legislative Council has Nine months of war

on

110 no

has been snubbed. Allegations, In-

own

over

experience

ihe

"Come life," they said, "come. death, we will redeem: Mankind.” How the house-painter then invaded another land and

They built, even in the "main" crushed it, while two proud streets of their great citles, shelters.

from the peril overhead. How then, in ten short weeks, in the distant countryside their aged They sent their children to safety

the

house and their alck. self enthroned painter, doing nearly all that "We shall defend our Island what- he had prophesied, grabbed yet over the cost may be they said, 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 enables the balance to be struck. another country and conquered penking through their Premier, the

Brat Commoner Canada. Lan

in close four others, reducing them to Every Briton would ex-discrimination in Manila, or made Concentrated air power,

"We shall fight on the benches.. press relief, in the knowledge that known to the remainder certain sa proximity to its aerodromes, slavery..

We shall fight on the landing- Nazi blitzkring may bring death and lient information regarding the future can indict losses on the less strongly

j grounds. We shall fght. In the felds destruction to his motherland, at of their wives and children which armoured naval units. It has sign-

"THOSE chapters crowd into and in the streets. We shall fight in the thought that the

the Princesses It is Government's duty to disclose, ally falied, however, to annul a few months," said the his- the hills. We will never surrender." Elizabeth and Margaret-Rose were The Hon. Mr. A. Shields has decisive advantages conferred by sea safe in one of the Dominions. These trenchantly put his finger on the power. A recent and striking exam- torian, "more tragedy, people are no more blood-related of Hongkong's grievances: We ple was the successful withdrawal despair, more horror, than were that. But there were other perils

No, it did not happën, quitè, like

us than are our wives and children

in of the Allled armies from the Bel- experienced by all the nations and they were all bravely faced. what he sald sesterday to Whitehall omotals. But in Legislative Council I would like to gian coast,

of the world in the previous ten "This was their finest hour," wrote Hongkong we accept the evacuation express my astonishment that fur- The balance of naval strength in centuries.

the historian as his final phrase. from their own countries of Norther reference has not been made

for "Never was wegian, and Netherlands Royalty, and to the question of expense, which our of the Allies is now

man so blind. In 1040, in the hour of test, it had Д Premier's proud boast. In bean Never would accept under similar circum-looms very largely with people whose greater than at the outbreak of war.

was man The pre-war strength of the British

so stupid. 2040 it was a phrase that was written stances the evacuation from our own wives and families have been sent Empire Navies, and the losses tur. Never did statesmen blunder down by the historius as words that Motherland of British Royalty, be-away. There are a

great many

HUDY |fered, are:

tjej deeds, had justifled, Te cause we realise that their presence people with very little between them. is of greater danger to our Cause Whatever

decision government's 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- the ships of Norway and the Netlier-kong. Rightly or wrongly, the In-

crux

庭

15 capital ships-I lost,

·7 aircraft carriers-1·lost.

·62. cruisers 2 lost.

80.

more

“I 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 darkness descended upon the and Brown and Joner and Thomson their common names of Smith earth?!

had been Inscribed on History''rolla with those of the Toumortals. T THEN, his eyes bedewed by 50 It was that the Old World was the thought of all the suffering saved, IS that millions had endured, the

historian took up his pen by their own achievement, men and again.

185 submarines--8 lost. 108 minesweepers.sloops, patrol vessels and gunboats-0 lost. Since the beginning of the war, lands would have foundered. One perial Government has decided that in addition to reinforcements. of

So it was that, fully entranchised has but to recall the strenuous efforts there must be partial evacuation from warships of all classes except battle made by the Nazis, to capture the Hongkong. We cannot question that ships, the Navy has been strength- Royal families of our two Allies to decision Hongkong is a tiny centre ened by more than fifty armed

women) won what can only be won become aware of the danger their of the Empire but in Imperial defence merchant cruisers, of which one has He read, once more, the title, by suffering, by endurance and by continued "présence. In their own or Imperial strategy it may loom been lost and more, than 1,500 minor

uld have agant, True, much larger than its size or popula-war vessels and auxiliary craft. of to writeof Britain, and be- self-dedication to come ofrene their people are in bondage but they tion warrants. What we can and do which Gfty-eight have been lost. The gan to write a knowledge that,”urlike-tha. Belgians;}-been-employed-in- currying ~ousmita | Uha--active co-operation of Poil the decline and fall of the peace' and amity: (the people) are sustained by the question ore the methods that have Allied Flect has been reinforced by

NO, it was not the story of shared 2, the earth's abun the rulers to whom they owe decialon.

Norwegian, and Dutch naval forces.

So It was that they became

of the

World Im whief thay

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