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HITLER IS

IS IN HURRY

EUROPE

PPEALS for food for people

Ar the countries overrun by

Hitler are being made.. America is being told that these people are being starved to death' by the British blockade.

An official statement issued in London confirmed that not only the people of Poland, Czecho- Slovakia, Norway, Denmark, Hol land, Belgium and France are in danger of being starved, but that virtually the whole of Europe. with the exception of Britain, faces a famine,

It is because Hitler and Mus- solini know that, in a few months, they will be hungry, too. that they are in a hurry now. While the dictators puft them- selves out with victories, their people may collapse with empty stomachs.

Europe faces famine because Nature has helped Hitler and Mussolini to render the recog- nised "feed boxes" impotent, Frosts and floods have ruined crops to such an extent that yields in the main grain-produc- ing areas are reported to be anything from 25 to 50 per cent.

Hongkong Telegraph. below normal.

Friday, August 9, 1940.

Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20015

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Japan & Indo China

Events of the past few days must have to those who rend· between- the lines, 1fted to some extent the veil of secrecy that has shrouded

Seven years ago Germany boasted that she got to 80 per- cent. self-sufficiency, but omit- ted to announce that she has lost the fertility of her land and had no means of restoring it. She did not say that in the five

¡One town

where there

the evacuation of Hongkong. We Bis still

vorture to prophesy that there are many people in the Colony who, vehement In their opposition to evocuniion a fortnight oro, would to-day be equally opposed to the repatriation of their fornities.

-The-situation-as-it-is-in-the-Far-

peace

CAPE RIUVE is an ugly cor-

Ce of lovely Lisbon. But

in Lisbon to-day. Portugal is one of the few tranquil corners of troubled Europe. It is Europe's main international air centre.

There is much coming and going

Celebrities it through Lisbon like shadows.

Enst to-day does not appear to the Tagus is both wide and deep directly affect Hongkong, at least for here. And the great four- the time being, and it is on French engined Boeing Atlantic Clippers Indo China that our atientiun is of Pan-American Airways have centred. There seems little doubt plenty of space to land and take that there has been, a considerable off on the New York-Azores- movement of both troops and war- Lisbon run.. ships towards the French colony, and there is no reason to disbelieve the reports that some 30,000 Japanese troops are now concentrated on the Kwangst-Indo Chion border, which has been the scene of hostilitles be- tween China and Japan for some months past. Whether the Japanese 'concentrations on sea and land are for demonstration purposes only. or whether Japan's motive is to carry out the polley enunciated in Tokyo One morning a famous French of, o "Greater Asia" which will named, M. le Comte de Chambrun, sweep the European from east Asin desperately waved a letter showing

that

he had an appointment for th remains (0 ве весп. The French day after to-morrow with President authorities in Indu China cannot Roosvelt at the White House. M. fail to be perturbed at the Infest le Comte de Chambrun stayed In developments. The Japanese have Lisbon to await his turt frankly stated that the WBY In Europe is the "Golden Opportunity" and France, smashed by the incom- prehensible failure of her lenders, is in no position to protect her over seas domains.

Early morning scenes when the arats must be taken are often pathe- Clipper's engines are running and

tie.

The port of Lisbon, too, stes un- famillar visitors. Liners and 'Greek ships going to the United States now call hern

in the Tagus lie a small group of) American anval units, those which were kept at Villefranche in the

And in

A

What happens in French Indo China cannot fall to have repercus- sions In Hongkong. A successful Mediterranean in pence days.

At night their great husky sailors Japanese invasion of the French Colony would further isolate British raise whoopee at the Cancha Bar or show the local ladies who make! possessions cast of Singapore, would enthusiastic leurners-how real' thoj even bring Japan within striking Jitterbug takes the noor distance of the great fortress itself. Arendia Cabaret to the music of an The Japanese militarists need little orchestru led encouragement, as past events have Harry Fon's enormous cates, Harry Flemit an Americari negro, shown, to take the bit between their with two or three floors packed tighti teeth and it is not inconceivable that with coffee-drinkers (yuu.com talk they would decide to "go the whole for three or four hours for a two- hog" once having started an adven-penny cup of coffee), above the roar ture in Indo China. The fact that of conversation you hear: "Now if I had been Weygand ." or "Now any military operations against the the strategic key to the Somme French colony would be directed by situation really was.. the Japanese South China Command, It's the same the whole world which has its headquarters at Can- over. ton, cannot reassure may third Power with territory as close to the scene' in that direction. Relations, too,

as arg Hongkong and Macao, '

-"

between the Japanese army and the Reassurance, however, is gained British military authorities appear to from the fact that the altuation on be calm and the only, divergence of the Hongkong frontier has remained slow between Hongkong and the perfectly normal since the Japanese Japanese, to-day is the dispute re- re-occupied the border zone last gerding the Blunt Okazaki Agree- month, and there have been no vialment, which regulates traffic along, 34 bleaigns bi-aur: Japanese activity.the-Pearl-Riv

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HURRY BECAUSE

IS BEGINNING

STARVE

By KENNETH PIPE

wheat

years, she is still half a million tons short of normal require- ments.

Russia is the greatest wheat country in the world, but news is seeping out of the worst famine since 1932-33..

This is how some of Ger- many's victims aro faring. In Norway, flour is rationed to less of than a quarter of a pound for

each person per week.

years before war broke out more tries under arms instead workers.countries under the plough. than 400,000 farm were taken into arms factories.

Jugo-Slavia, normally a rich

In Denmark the pig industry EVERY day of gigantic mo- source of supply, is now the has been virtually liquidated; dern warfare hus reduced Ger- worst hit of all the Danubian livestock is being killed to pro- many's degree of self-sufficiency countries.

vide food. and her food atocks, whatever

Rumania and Hungary tried Ravages of war have left the they may have been.

to make good their wheat losses people of Belgiam and Holland This year Germany lost a by growing maize, but they so short of food that starvation quarter of her

area took their labour from the fields is thought to be not more than through bad weather; her vege- when the armies were mobilised. two months distant. tables also were ruined by frost. So, too, with the other countries

Britain alone can escape the Colorado, beetles have destroyed whose fields are bare and de- her potatoes.

serted while their soldiers are famine in Europe. Vast stocks garrisoned in idleness and fear. of wheat and flour in our ware- Poland might have been a

houses, and, the certainty of valuable store-house, but the Spain, a pro-Axis non-belli- huge supplies from our” Do- great food-yielding areas there, gerent, is the saddest spectacle minions and the Americas, en- ravaged by war during the sow of all. Civil war ravaged the sure the adequate feeding of ing scason; now hold only mil- countryside and destroyed every every Briton for a long time. lions of poorly fed Poles. Every thing that might have been country Germany has invaded eaten. Spain has changed little

We can say nothing of Bri- is faced with shortage of food since the alleged peace enme to tain's own harvest, but plenty and animal feeding stuffs.

her.

about Britain's sources of supply overseas. Canadu has a record Outside Europe, Germany's MUSSOLINI can lend Hitler

carryover of wheat, and 431,- food supplies are cut off. She men, but not food. Only 20 per 500,000 bushels are available must look to the Balkans, where cent. of Italy can be tilled; her for export to Britain. In addi- the majority of the fields re- colonial possessions can give her tion, Canada has planted an main unploughed. Her non- but little aid. With the best extra 1,500,000 acres of wheat combatant neighbours are coun- crop of wheat forecast for three this year-reserved for Britain.

Who Wrote This?

66 THE question whether or not a nation be desirable as an ally is not so much determined by the inert mass of arms which it has at hand but by the obvious presence of a sturdy will to national self-preservation and a heroic courage which will fight through to the last breath..

"The British nation will therefore be considered as the most valuable ally in the world as long as it can be counted an to show that brutality and tennelty in its government, ns well as in the spirit of the broad masses, which enables it to carry through to victory any struggle that it once enters upon, no matter how long such a struggle may last or how- ever great the sacrifice that may be necessary or whatever the means that have to be employed; and all this even though the actual military equipment at hand may be utterly in adequate when compared with that of other nations.”

ADOLF HITLER: “MEIN_KAMPF"

Britain's own stock of wheat and flour is believed to be enough to provide a year's supply of bread; in addition, de- livery is expected of an extra. 60,000,000 bushels bought from Canada a few weeks ago. That is nearly four months normal supply.

Australia has had a record crop and is selling .92,000,000 bushels to us and reserving an- other 66,000,000 bushels to be called on when needed. Austra- lian farmers are ready to in- crease the production.

America has a grand harvest, too. Her crop this year is enti mated at 723,000,000 bushels. At least 90,000,000 bushels will A be available for export. large proportion of 270,000,000 bushels left over from last har- vest are also available. Britain can have as much as she needs.

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