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The Evacuation

HISTORIANS will form an unflat- tering opinion of liongkong's contri- bution towards the war on Nazism during the first twelve months of war, Since September we have recorded two controversies which bave ex- serded in bitterness anything Hong- kong has witnessed in years. There was, firstly, opposition to the War Taxation; secondly, opposition Evacuation, Both controversies have succeeded only in sowing discord,

not dissension and disloyalty,

mention bad feeling. The contro- versy on War Taxation gave Goebbels un opportunity to issuo Jibe to the world through his propaganda short- wave broadcasts. We in know

that the Abe was unjusti and focking 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 Nozi

ther amm Sanda machine with fur-

We do not desire at this stage to comment on the methods employed in carrying out the initial stages of the evacuation to Australla, other than to agree that the locul authori- tics huve displayed a lack of appre-

cible resistanco

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 sea, air

Only by staking everything and land than we ever pussessed be- can we save anything. Weak- fore: For the defence of Britain they ness would mean annihilation, are enhanced not diminished by the disasters in the Low Countries and Our emergency is one of stark Fgance. This may well be grandeur. Our choice is no less remembered as a providen-

il paradox when the his dictated by reason than anim- tory of these times is told. ated by courage,

As the crisis rises Mr.

1.

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

-by

Unless our air-defence is crushed J. L. GARVIN

we cannot be beaten during the cri tical months of endurance. By at- taining winged mastery afterwards Britain would be bound to win.

Low Countries and France

began

While British sea-power remains have been more than covered by our impregnable the only kind of inva own production..

slon that could break us would be continuous onslaught with increasing success by overwhelming numbers of repairs the enemy's bombers. Were we ut reckoned. The

a more terly mastered in the air we should creates

on the every plane we be innshed to a certainty

our

Glood. But the enemy's output and have 10 be almiinrly battle of Britaln pressing need for can make or buy. Canada and the United States have the immense nd- vantage as yet of being beyond the reuch of hostile bombing-power.

Thera will be no security for free elvilisation any. where in the world unless America as a non- belligerent but no neutral now throws her whole machine potential into the business and creates with rapidity an over- whelming supremacy in alreraft pro- duction. She will do it.

Meanwhile we here have to bar the pass. Until we nchleve predo- minnnt 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 ahead, They know that they are fighting not only for Britain and the ocean-com- Enough to Bonwealth but for the world's hope and the soul of man. As much as fighters we have the men have ever done they will do.

ground.

say that the more

fewer hostile bombers

will get through.

in one sense we are alone. In Churchill's stature rises with The task on his hands is

We do not underrate the enemy's another not so, We are not such an nu British statesman

Mr. Churchill's and Lord undoubted design of enveloping ut- lack on Britain by every means. Es- isolated. We have the sym- before had to grapple wiih,

statements Beaverbrook's

that the Not Pitt's struggle will:

pecially it is well known pathies of the vast majority Napoleon was equal to IL.

are encouraging. In fighters, German staff for years past has con- relative strength is sidered how Het at Britain through of the world. Sen-power brings It is a gigantic task. He

greater than ever before Ireland no less than from the oppo- brings to it the effect of a the bulk of its resources,

The giant.

partly owing to German site consts of the Low Countries, the losses. The enemy's supe- Strails, and the Channel, where they longer we hold out the mightier To swing up the output

Purity in bombers is there, are now established up to the AL- and we must not blink it. Tantle headlands of Brittany.

But

holds they while sea-power That is what we have tu will be the flow of practical aid and equisition of aircraft by

every means is our chief matter of

overhaul. Lord Beaverbrook cannot bring their tanks or their from the empire overseas and life and death. Let

porary ristes in other connections, announces that all our own losses of armoured columns. Against military Let the increase of our flying power machines since the battles in the Turn to Page 2, Second Column

from the United States.

A TOMMY

us take ten-

TELLS HIS

STORY

MY unit, a mechanised

Our mobility was so

cavalry regiment, great, that we saw many

ciation of the dificulties that has was one of the last units other regiments in action,

shameful. Even to-day, WE publish a message from Australia in

In

which a Minister of the Common- wealth Government publicly com plains of the inefficient manner 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.

History will no doubt, record the fallings of the Hongkong administra

tlon in this respect. But we believe history will also record the fallings of the community unless, at this late stage, the people obtain # deeper

Pention of the situation.

record

We

the opinion that the petition which will be presented to His Ex- cellency the Oficer Administering the Government is ill-advised.

Many peuple have signed the petition not because they desire to see evacuation cancelled but because they desire to their displeasure of the motheds employed in carrying out 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 King. 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 decided, rightly or wrongly, that the International situation nuch thal

and many deeds of gallantry to return from Dunkirk.

done by them. Naturally 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

cause the Japanese have not re- whose organisation was ex- inforced. their border patrols, are we

believe that the menuce which Cellent, whose ingenuity and prompted the War Cabinet's evacua espionage amazing, whose tion order four weeks ago is al bravery almost fanatical on end? We draw our readers atten tion to an item of news from Tokyo and whose callousness

which appeared in a moming contem-and brutality to civilians

porary;

"The Gaimuslio (Japanese Foreign and refugees were without

ORee) has issued a statement saying

thal Sir Robert Craigie, the British Am-parallel in any form of war.

basader, called on the Japanese Foreign

Minister to-day. During the meeting, continue the statement, Bir Robert

But I want to leave all that

declared: Anglo-Japanese relations dur. behind and tell you some inci- Ing the past three years despite all my dents which are worth remem- efforts to adjust them, have been mark

ed by periods of unpleasantness, and the bering and which perhaps might alluntion lias been going from bad to not otherwise bè recorded. worse. In view of current rumour. Japan's Inclination towards the so-called

The first thing we noticed and the Axis powers, Sir Robert asked Mast thing we'll forget was the sight Matsuoka to let him know whether or

not the present situation would permit of Guards in action. Most people the British Government to continue its have read in the papers about the negotiations with Japon nlong the Ines Guardsmen who remained behind in of the polley hitherto pursued. Mr. pillbox badly wounded, and all Matsuoka wald. Japas's new foreign poliep. together alth other national they wonted was more ammunition. palteles, are being subjected to careful There were many other incidents dellboration, and he could not, much to like that; for instance, there was one fila regret, immediately reply.”

WHAT WENT BEFORE DUNKIRK

Does that emelal Japanese state-place in Belgium where the Guards ment Indicate that the international were holding a canal. The Germana situation is such that the War Cabinet lind got over at one point and were has been guilty of an error? People trylag to make a bridgehead. Some serious is in Hongkong fail to realise that the of the enemy had got into the houses bridge and to what might liave been

a Germans had thought better of It' panic, marching straight back with- of polley of Japan. if statements made and were sniping our troops.

The Colonel of this battalion then and retired, so the situation was ree-out any rest to take up another posl- before the formation of the new

Lion.

· counter-attack. But tored. That Cubinet has decided, rightly rotalitarian" Cabinet are true, is decided on ù

the

section a certain

wrongly, that the internatioant situa- tion is such that a certain section of that the war in

the Hongkong community must be evacuated. Because no bombs have fallen on Hongkong are we to

say

"golden opportunope provides the before this was done he wanted to

make

engagement. When the end, when they did have to retire,

they did so without any trace of

When we got back into France we The cavalry was used continuously. a complete reconnaisunce of saw some of the Territorial regiments to cover such retirements and time We agree with overything that hne/the area. So he asked the cavalry in action. The three battalions we and time again we saw these ter-

a tank troop, he himself going

the leading tank. Almost al unce

that the War Cabinet was wrong? with much that has been sold in the the tanks were fired on and the range for petrol dumps etc., and they der fire of all kinds, shelling, mortar,

were not intended to be used pri-

machine guns and finally bombing Have those who signed the petition

to go faster. were the shortcomings of the He went right up to the bridge be- came to it, however they had kinds which happened to the various

marlly

in the fighting. When It

the air. from a deeper appreciation of the true

these men Some of the many incidents of all Government. But let us

fought like tigers. What would we in Hongkong have accept the fact that the War Cabinet fore he gave the order to return.

The plan of the counter-ntinek was were rilles and a few machine guns, cavalry regiments in Franco had an suld It London parents had raised u is conducting this war and that, how- similar outery against the evacuation ever unpalatable some of its decisions then decided upon and another tunk Towards the end they had to march element of humour even in the mid- of their children the country. may be to us perronally, we have got crop was brought up. The Colone long distances on quarter rationa dle of the battle. There was the

once more decided to go in the lead fighting hard the whole. thne.

tank troop, from one regiment which There was every renson to believe to afford it our unanimous support. (und events justled

"Against them the Germans used had to do'a dawn patral. the opinion) If opposition to the toiten vote ofing Lank while the bomber offlcer

and six guardsmen climbed on the wickedly accurate trench: mortar and Always an unpleasant job, very that neither London, Paris nor Berlin $10,000 is continued merely would be bombed (because of fear censure of the local Government, backs of the tanks with nodes to also tanks. As if encouraged by cold, and in a half light they had,

handleops these regiments to push off about 4.30am They of retaliation); nor was evacuation well and good. But Hongkong would deal with the Germans in the houses. these

stuck it out and fought magnificent- had got to the edge of a big wood. cancelled when the bombs did not he falling in Its loyalty fit opposes

Once more the party set off for the ly. It made one very proud to see when the leading tank reported that drop, on London. Because no bombs the vote in censure of the War

brlüge and what might have been a these men fighting nguinst such odds Turn to Pago 2, Third Column have dropped on Hongkong. or be Cabinet.

situation thon His Majesty's advisers?dence

Columns of the Press Colonel told the driver to

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