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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

GONE

ARE THE HORSE AND CARRIAGE

And Gone with them are the old-fashioned methods of want- ing the cariage.

Have you been using the same aulo wax for years ... simply through force of habit?

August 2, 1940.

Workers Of

Britain

And The Empire

WE ARE

BEHIND YOU

Don't use a horse and carriage AMERICAN Labour

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Sold Hero HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE Stubbs Itd.

Britain

supports the..cause

William Green

By William

of the Allies to the full- President of the American Federation of Labour,

ost extent.

We believe all the help the United States can give to the Allies should be extended.

which has membership of over 4,000,000. Af filiated unions number 1,563.

Our

ISLAND'S SAFETY

By Brigadier-General C. F. ASPINALL-OGLANDER

MR. CHURCHILL warned us of the grave possibility that, hog' now become a fact the possibility that we might have to continue the ivar alone.

A glance at the map shown the difficulties France has had to endure

In face of the auccess of Germany's hammer blows, The thrust to the Channel porta and the treachery of

King Leopold sobbed her of the help of the greater part of the British

condemns, without be crushed once and for she had to hold with her depleted

hesitation or reservation, all in this war.

We cannot

Expeditionary Force and two of her own armies. It gravely increased the length of the defensive front that

resources and entirely destroyed the value of the Maginot Line. contem-The situation for this country is the gravest in our history, but in

do our duty."

the policies and prac- ticos of Nazi Germany, plate even the possibili-Mr. Churchill's brave words, "We ty of free mon submit-hall yet weather the storm it we all This feeling is practic- Soviet Russia and Fasting to dictatorship. ally unanimous in this cist Italy. Our hope and country. The American prayer is that the forces Federation of Labour of Totalitarianism may

"Listens In"

The

We in the United States know to-day that

But we must first defeat our two gravest enemies-our smug self- satisfaction and our libitual and all but unconquerable self-complacency. Infinitely serious as the news of the surrender of the French Army

island is concerned.

there will be one comperisating even our country is advantage so far as the safely of this menaced. Therefore, our

So long as the French held out we Government has launch-in duty bound had to disseminate our strength by sending every man ed the greatest national and weapon we could spare to that tionist attitude, though defence programme in country and, with the Channel ports it hopes that it may be the nation's history.

We have served warn-

Hongkong Telegraph. favourable to the Allies

Friday, August 2, 1940. Wyndham St., Hongkong

Telephone: 20815

within the limits it has

more

Jost, the problem of transporting them assumed greater and dimcult. proportions every day,

Relieved of that responsibility, we

military and air force resources on

almost immediate future.

from the air and invasion by air-

the whole coast from Antweep to the

Among radio-speakers j who talk in English at regular intervals from abroad the best-known

set itself. He learnt to ling to the dictators of shall be able to concentrate our to British listeners are

take an interest in the Europe to keep their defeating any attempts at invasion Mr. Raymond Gram

Presidential campaign, lhands off the Western which are certain to be made in the [Swing, and a person sheer curiosity, and though to many Britons [Hemisphere. The area It is no longer a question of pro- known as Lord Haw partly because it is in the details of the elec-of our national defence tecting ourselves only against attack Haw whose words are formative to know the toral procedure were includes the Dominion borne troops, sent out from Hamburg very worst construction baffling. And there are of Canada, and we shall With the Germans in possession of and Bremen. Strange that can be put on one's Britons who believe that permit no foreign in-Atlantic, it can no longer be expref- that men so diametrical- own actions. If this is news of week-to-week vader to set foot on its ed that our Navy will be able to

in the ly opposite as these two what Germany says and happenings should be the favourites thinks-well, it is better United States is more in Britain. But per- to know.

welcome to them now haps "favourite" as The Briton switches than ever before be-

The working men and the Channel crossing at lightning applied to the second of off and turns to Mr. cause it brings before them is not the word. Swing. "America speak- them the life of a women of the United}

No one likes Lord Haw ing." The Briton has civilized nation that is States say to the workers assistance to hinder and harass such Haw, Britons do not little expectation that not, as they are, im- of Great Britain and motor fleets both on passage and at

in believe him, but they the United States will mersed war and France: "Keep up your there is also the growing need for a courageous fight, ourbe kept in readiness to proceed to "hearts are with you. We any threatened point,

will do everything that value in forwarding early informa-

listen.. Partly it is from depart from the isola- thoughts of war.

My

Five

Weeks In

IT

Fall happened in five natonish-

ing weeks. They are weeks that seem like years.

Looking back there is but a muddle of impressions and memories all crowded one into the other. I have not yet been able to sort them out.

saw the During those weeks 1 rapid collapse of France. At the true time I did not realise the significance of the startling events which followed one on the other.

By

Boulogne,

·

soil.

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France lies within our power

RONALD the Racing Club in the Bois de WALKER

War Correspondent with the R.A.F. in France

In the hot sun and among the lazy figures soaking it up, the war seemed very improbable. Two days later the people of Parks were stampeding ual of the city as the Germans swept across the Seine.

I shall not forget those last hours their homes. Their patience was

in Paris, the courage of the people heroic.

suddenly brought face to face with Before I managed to get a lift final disaster, the terrible scenes at home in an R.A.F. machine from a the stations where thousands waited port on the west coast of France our for hours and days for trains, the HQ hnd made three moves, dictated resignation of people who just sci by the rapidly advancing German and waited for the end. forces.

Germany invaded Holland on May 10. That evening I left London to hurry back to R.A.F. H.Q. by boat.

When we drove out of the Next morning we were greeted at Le Havre by the walling sirens which Champagne town, it was shak- were to become all too familiar. ing with the bursting of Ger- those endless streams of re-

bombs from That evening I got back to the town man

machines fugees who poured out endless-

Also, I shall never forget

ly along all roads leading to the

in the Champagne country which which flew about almost un south. All towns in their path

was our headquarters.

Already the Germans had begun nerodromes. Two bombing our

bombs 1,000lb.

had missed the chateau which housed H.Q., but had upset the swarm of staff officers who flew the aeroplanes from office desks.

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challenged.

After that the Advanced Air Strik-

became babel and confusion.

ing Force led a thoroughly gipsy life The din of that unending traffic

still rings in my ears.

wandering across France.

During those weeks. I was twice

My lost journey in France was

In Paris. It was Parle of the aum- made in a horse-box-the famous "Homnies 40 Chevaux " kind. mer, The Champs Elysees was gủy with the coloured awnings and There were nearly 300 of us, R.A.F. umbrellas of the cafes. The capital officers and men. We spent two corried on, even though the enemy days in that train to travel some was pounding at the defences away 150 miles. We got to our destina- tion tired and filthy on Saturday to the north-east,

That is the beginning of the story. The first real shock came with, the news that the Germans had broken through at Sedan. One happening hit the people of morning. Bacon and eggs in a In six days the people of the town Parks hard during those early days. Salvation Army hut cheered us up. I came out at nine o'clock one morn Again we got into a refugee-filled who had watched the streams of Ing to learn of the capitulation of town. I slept in a garage. refugees from Belgium and the fron- Leopold. Paris did not smile that In the morning I got the unex- tier areas were, packing and joining

pected chance of a seat in an air- the proccasion.

craft. Flying over the English I still marvel at the spirit of the

southern countles the previous five Only last Saturday week I was weeks seemed mil the

in- French people who accepted, the fate which war imposed. They fled from swimming in the lovely pool of credible. All those journeys across

day..

more

help you."

FUNNY SIDE UP

Dep. The by United Tralace Byudivaks, kas,

guarantee protection from the arrival of sea borne troops, Fleets of fast motor-boats can be transported in hundreds by rail to the French Chunnel ports and they can complete

speed.

It is to the Air Force more than to the Navy that we must look for

the moment_of_disembarkation; and

strang mobile force of land troops to

to tion

The LD.V. will be of inestimable

of enemy movements, but they are not yet sufficiently armed or trained to be of real fighting value.

By Abner Dean

"It's a 'recipe sho coaxed out of the concessionaire at the ball park!".

that lovely French country turned jin the station at Tours did not seem Into chaos by the spread of war were 50 real. And it made me mad to ··

think of the Germanis stumping curiously remote..

The Heinkels which came over about the Paris which I had left less and bombed when we were stopped than a week before..

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