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The

cible

resistance and

total conquest by the Nazi

power,

In the latter case our fate would be the appalling end of freedom, welfare and greatness together. The em- pire would be no more. Sea- power would cease. The air

we breathe would be the means of our subjection. Our own land would not be

our own.

July 29,

1940.

Nazi Hell's

Angels

Can't Scare

Britain

The harder we fight the more they will be kindled to speed their help. Meanwhile, at home in these islands, we have mightier forces by sex, alr Only by staking everything

and land than we ever postemed be- cun we save anything. Weak- tore. For the defence of Britain they neur wondd mean annihilation, are enhanced not diminished by the disasters in the Low Countries and Our emergency is one of stark France. This may well be grandeur. Our choice is no less remembered as a providen- tiul partelox when the his- dictated by reason than anim- tory of there times is told. ated by courage.

In one sense we are alone.

We are isolated. We have the

Hongkong Telegraph. another not so.

Monday, July 29, 1940.

Wyndham St., Hongliang Telephone: 20615

It,

As the crisis rises nr.

In Churchill's stature rises with

not such as no British statesmon before had to grapple with. sym-

Not It's #true with

The task on his bands is

pathics of the vast majority Napoleon was equal to it.

of the world. Sea-power brings It is a gigantie task. He

plant.

THE prefix "Special in the Telegraph" | the bulk of its resources. The brings to it the effect of a

longer we hold out the mightier

is used by the "longkong Telegraphed to indirate news which is strictly copyright

under the provisions of the Telecommuni- catlone Ordinance, 1934. Such news as bears the indication "UP* is received in Bongkong on the date of publication dy the United Press Astoelations, who rós setyo all rights and forbid republication, either wholly or in part without previous arrangement,

The Evacuation

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War

HISTORIANS will form an unflat- tering opinion of Hongkong's contri- bulion towards the war on Nazlism during the first twelve months of war, Since September we have recorded two controversies which have ex- ceeded in bitterness anything long- kong has witnessed in years. There was, firstly, opposition to the Taxation; secondly, opposition tn Evacuation. Both controversies have succeeded only in sowing discord. dissension and disloyalty, not to mention bad feeling, The centro- versy on War Taxation gave Goebbels an opportunity to issue a jibe to the world

through his propagande short- wave broadcasts. We in

Hongkong know that the jibe was unjustified and lacking in veracity but that impression may not have been form-' ed in other countries which heard it. -For-all-we-know-the... Evacuation- controversy has also provided the Nazi propaganda machine with fur- ther ammunition.

We do not desire at this stage to

comment on the methods employed

in carrying out the Inilal stages of the evacuation to Australia, other

ties have displayed lack of appre-

have the benefit of the doubt with respect to priority of call on labour and material. We must do this one thing a tany cost. Our whole fe and hope depend on it.

Unless our air-defence is crushed we cannot be benten during the cri tient months of endurance. By n taining winged mastery afterwards Britain would be bound to win.

-by-

J.L. GARVIN

Low Countries and France began

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While British sea-power remains have been more than covered by our impregnable the only kind of inva- own production. sion that could break us would be continuous onslaught with Increasing

+

Good. But the enemy's output and

have

to be similarly

success by overwhelming numbers of repairs,

the enemy's bombers. Were we ut reckoned. The battle of Britain terly mastered in the air we should crecies

↓

more pressing need for

ve fmushed to a certainty on the every plane we

ground. Enough to

say that the nure

fighters we have, the

fewer hostile bombers will get through.

can make or buy,

Canada and the United States have the Immense nd- vantage as yet of being beyond the rench of hostile bombing-power.

There will be no security for free civilisation any- where in the world unless America vs a non- belligerent but no neutral NOW throws her whole machine – potential Into the business and creates with rapidity an over- whelming supremacy in aircraft pro- duction. She will do it.

•

Meanwhile we here have to bar the pass. Until we achieve predo- minant quantity we have to hold our own by the surpassing quality of our men and machines, Under God our winged youth are our chief depen- dence in the crucial months ahend. They know that they are fighting not only for Britain and the ocean-com- monwealth but for the world's hope and the soul of man. As much us men nove ever done they will do.

We do not underrate the enemy's

tack on Britain by every means.

Es-

Mr. Churchill's and Lord undoubted design of enveloping ut- Beaverbrook's statements peelully it is well known

otir

losses.

that the are encouraging. In fighters, Germun stuff for years past has con-

relative strength Is

how to gel at Britain through greater than ever before less than from the oppo- German sile consts of the Low Countries, the partly owing to

The enemy's supe Straits, and the Channel, where they riority [x bombers is there, are now established up to the At- and we must not blink it. lantic headlands of Brittany. That is what we have to But while sea-power holds they overhaul. Lord Beaverbrook cannci bring their tanks or their connections, announces that at our own losses of armoured columns, Against milliary Let the increase of our dying power machines since the battles In the Turn to Page 2. Second Column

To swing up the output will be the flow of practical aid and acquisition aircraft by

every means is cur elief matter of

from the empire overseas and life and death. Let us take tem-

porary risks in other from the United States.

A TOMMY

TELLS HIS

STORY

MY unit, a mechanised

Our mobility was so

cavalry regiment, great, that we saw many than to agree that the local author was one of the last units other regiments in action, to return from Dunkirk. done by them. Naturally and many deeds of gallantry And in the previous we also saw things we don't 21 days we had seen al- want to remember...That most continuous action. was bound to be when we were up against an enemy

clation of the difflculties that has bean shameful. Even to-day, we publish message from Australia in which a Minister of the Common- wealth Government publicly com-

plains of the inefficient manner In which the Hongkong Government Is handling the evacuation. The entire situation in this respect is so unsatis- factory that there is every ground for demanding an Inquiry.

a

inforced their border patrols, are we

is at

cause the Japanese have not re- whose organisation was ex- to believe that the menace which cellent, whose ingenuity and prompted the War Cabinet's evacua- espionage amazing, whose tion order four weeks ago an end? We draw our readers atten bravery almost fanatical whose callousness tion lo nu flem of news from Tokyo (and which appeared in a morning contem-and brutality to civilians porary:

**The Calmusho (Japanese Forelin and refugees were without that Sir Robert Craiglo, the British Am-parallel in any form of war. But I want to leave all that

Omee) has issued a sistement saying

bassador, called on the Japanese Farelom Minister to-day. During the meeting,

continue the statement. Bir Robert behind and tell you some inci-

drclared: 'Anglo-Japanese relations dur-

ing the past three years desplie all my dents which are worth remem- efforts to adjust them, have been matk-

ed by periods of unpleasantness, and the bering and which perhaps might

situation has been going from bad to

worse. In view of current rumours of not otherwise be recorded. Japan's inclination towards the so-called The first thing we noticed and the Axis powern, Sir Robert naked Mr.

Matsuoka ta let him know whether or Just thing we'll forget was the sight not the present situation would permit of Guards in action. Most people the British Government to contrive the bave read in the papers about the negotiations with Japan along the lines Guardsmen who remained behind in of the policy hitherto pursued. Mr. Matsuoka sald Japan's new foreign a pillbox badly wounded, and sl policy, together with other national,they wanted was more ammunition. policies, are being subjected in carpful deliberation, and he could not, much to like that; for instance, there was one There were many other incidents his regrat, int:mediately reply."

Docs that official Japanese state-place in Belgium where the Guards met indicate that the international were holding a canal. The Germans situation is such that the Wur Cabinet had got over at one point and were

WHAT WENT BEFORE DUNKIRK

History will, no doubt, record the fallings of the Hongkong administra- tion in this respect. But we believe history will also record the fallings of the community unless, at this late stuge, the people obtain deeper appreciation of the situation. We are of the opinion that the petition which will be presented to His Ex- cellency the Officer Administering the Government is ill-advised.

Many people have signed the petition nat because they desire to see evacuation cancelled bat because they desire to record their displeasure of the methods employed in carrying aut evacuation. That is a wrong attitude, There are other channels through which this 'can be done. The only purpose served by the petition is to record for posterity the opposition of a British Colony to the war-time in- structions of the Cabinet which has |been chosen by the will of the people to advise His Majesty the ing. and whose advice is unfalteringly accepted by the King but not by a section of the public in this part of the Empire. That Cabinet has rightly or wrongly, that international situation that n

certain section of that the war in the Hongkong community must evacuated. Because no bombs have We

with fullen on Hongkong.ore we to Ray been said in Legislative Council and for a tank troop, he himself going on that the War Cabinet was wrong?

the leading tank. Almost at once saw had come out to dig and to ar- ritorials Aghting their way back un- with much that has been sold in the the tanis were fired on and the range for petrol dumps etc. and they der fire of all kinds, shelling, morter, deeper in veel on the petition Correspondence Columns of the Press Colonel told the driver to #9 faster. were not intended to be used pri- machine guns and finally bombing a appreciation of situation to His Majesty's advisera egarding the shortcomings of the He went right up to the bridge be- marily In the fighting. When It': from the air.

Hongkong Government. But let us

came to, however, these men Some of the many incidents of all What would we in Hongkong have necept the fact that the War Cabinet fore he gave the order to return. said if London parents had raised ais conducting this war and that, how then decided upon and another tank Towards the end they had to march element of humour even in the mid- The plan of the counter-attack was were rifles and a few machine guns, cavalry regimenta in France had an fought like tigers. All they had Rinds which happened to the various similar outery against the evacuation ever unpolatable some of its decisions troop was brought up. The Colonel

country.may be to us personally, wo have go once more decided to go in the lead long distancès on quarter rations die of the battle. There There was every reason to belleve to afford it our unanimous supporting tank while

tank troop from one 1 fighting hard the whole time,

which regiment (and events Justified the opinion)

the bomber · officer If opposition to the token vote of and six guardsmen climbed on the

Against them the Germans used u, had to do a dawn patrol. that neither London, Puris nor Berlin $10,000 Is continued merely

Always an unpleasant job, very would be bombed (because of fear

censure of the local Government, packs of the tanks with grenades to wickedly accurate trench mortar and of retaliation); nor was evacuation well and good. But Hongkong would deal with the Germans in the houses, also tanks. As if entouraged by cold, and in a half light they had

these handicaps these

regiments to push off about 4.30 nm. They cancelled when the bombs did not he falling in its loyalty if it appores drop on London. Because no bombs the vote in

stuck it out and fought magnificent had got to the edge of a big wood censure of the Wor Once more the party set off for the ly. It made one very proud to see when the leading tank reported that. hove dropped on Ilongkong, or be Cabinet.

bridge and what might have been a these men fighting against such odds Turn to Pago 2, Third Column

decided,

the

guch

of their children 10 the

be

the und, when they did have to retire,

has been guilty of an error? People trying to make a bridgehead. Some serious engagement.. When in Hongkong full to realise that the of the enemy had got into the houses bridge and to what might have been they did so without any trace of poles of Japan, if statements made and were sniping our troops.

a Germans had thought betler of it panic, marching straight back with before the formation of the new decided on

The Colonel of this battalion then and retired, so the situation was res out any rest to take up unother post- "Totalitarian" Cabinet are true, is

a counter-attack. But tored. provides the before this was done he wanted to

When we got buck Into France we The cavalry was used continuously Imake a complete reconnaisance of saw some of the Territorial regiments to cover such retirements and time

ilon.

"golden oppor wing that has the

area. So he asked the cavalry in action. The three battalions we and me again, wo saw these tec

we agree

wax the