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IN
CHANNEL ISLANDS
the past few years refugees from nearly every nation in Europe have fled to Britain for sanctuary.
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Monday, August 26, 1940. Wyndham St, Hongkong Telephone: 26013
Thousas of Channel Islanders have been brought across | to the mainland, many of them herded like cattle in cargo boats, potato' boats, and coal boats, and bringing with them no more of their possessions than they could carry in a suitcase,
tomatoes
Everything else-homes, nesses and setting up the ancient ry: "Haru' Hore! Haru! A Paide, mon farma, businesses, and the re mainder of this year's crops of
prines On
fnit tort" (Haro! Baro! Haro Help me, my prince. and potatoes has 1 um being wronged"), followed by aj fallen into the hands of the recital of the Land's Pinyer. enemy. The majority of these For from being an obsolete and unfortunate people are destitute meaningless rigmarole, this privilege) and dependent upon us for the has twice been exercised in recent necessities of life.
Do y Islanders who imagined: they had a grievance requiring Im-
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incastred mit Jn
Moreover, they are Britons, mediate redress our own people, who have sent thousands of volunteers to join the fighting forces and con- tributed relatively large
verger
vergeen
is equivalenst to ntrust Biha of an were), 1 still divkledi sums into fets under the trol of seige
of money to further the Allled neurs, who pay rent to the King, or
CAUSE.
It is true that French blood
Duke n the monarch
called in the islands
generally
There payments, however, Art
THE prex "Special to the Telegraph Hows in their veins, that they hellines purely nominal, as with |
used by the Hongkong Telegraph to indieate news which ja stitelly zwpyright ander the provisions of the Telecommuni-
1926. Auch new pr Can Ordinanes, bear the Indication - received in Itangkang an the date of pukilestion by 13 Ent=6 Prem Awartatsons, who re- serve all rights mud forkid republication either wholly or in part without pervinut wrangement.
Britain and France
The point was raised in Satur jday's report of the speech of the Foreign Minister of the Govern- ment of Vichy as to what the
altitude of Britain to the new
France is to be. The กายไ
thank who now! net ON
doing such a visi
Cupbearer
speak a queer Anglo-Norman the seigneur who is required to pre- tongue unintelligible beyond sent bis royal master with a pair of their own shores, and that Jer- golden spurs whenevery I happen ney, Guernsey, and Sark ench to land on island soil, and with an- has a Parliament of its own. But these are largely survivals
These obligatiorys were folthfully from a long and stirring history,
Corriest out when the Late King and the Channel Islander of to George V visited the islands in 1921 day in as much a countryman of The three-mille long island of Sork, the British Isles as the Welsh- "the hyphen between Jersey and more separate man or the Scot, and quite as Gurmmary," is even proud of it.
Ancient Rights
and traditional than the sister isles In that peaceful Bapetuary, out off from the work by ramparts of cliffs and wwiriling MOR, AIX hundrest
At the same time, while the rouls still regulate their lives accord-
people acknowledge an unswerving to be trial system, ing loyalty to the Crown they Motor-cars are forbidden and, u have always been fiercely an, conding to laws which have remained tagonistic to any attempt unchanged since the Brkt Seigneur of
interfere with
La
bitterness in M. Paul Baudoin's remarks found their root in the refusal of Britain to raise the blockade against France, thereby
Sark received the Island from Queen preventing foodstuffs from
the privileges Farabeth, nobody but the ruler may reaching a defeated country. vouchsafed them by royal chur- keep a pigeon or a female dog. The Minister found time also toters in bygone days.
Taxes are still paid in kind, and fattnek Mr. Churchill's speech on
They insist on governing Mrs. Sybl HaDuway. the present the French war effort and to cast themselves in their own way in. Dame de Sercq, who has decided t |part of the blame for that failure dependently of the statutes of thy with her people during the Ger- on inadequate support afforded Westminster, issue their man occupation, receives one 17460- by Britain
currency and exercise their tam
One of the enddest sequels to thin war to the death, as both sides are agreed that it must be,
true,
appear,
OWN
right to levy Custorus duties at нея low A
teenth of the crops of every land
rate that tobacco, Four "Peoples"
wines, spirits, and perfumes are
Ingo
existing
between
the
relationship
Lancashire
and
bome of the Chesarians, or of Alder- hey, whose inhabitants
arc known
only the
There'll always be an England.
SECRET EYES
OF
BRITAIN
"No government
ngent
of
VAST subterranean war of Vencitan Ambassador, Sagredor- nerve and brain is sweep wily old diplomat-reports home ta
exasperation: ing through the world, or earth discloses its own acts less, and ganised espionage on a scale knows those of others more precisely. unknown in the annals of man, than that of England"
And the system The day of the humble apy la
brought results. The
Puritan
in Jamaica re- Kone. In his place are ranged
ported the Impending departure of trained and picked specialists- the Spanish plate fleet tempting saboteurs prepared to blow up morsel. Admiral Blake, the same an arma factory or polson civili- gentleman who swept Van Tromp an water supply: propagandist and his broom from the Channel, experts, who can fake volces, we notined.
For atx months the English bull- pictures and news; agenta-pro- dogs were on the trail. At last they vocateurs, whose main job is pounced, oft Tenerifte, and a year's double crossing:
Inbour in the Spanish gold and silver intelligence miner of South America enriched agents, who must be highly England's coffers. skilled linguists, technicians,
The eighteenth century saw the military scientists, so that they foundallons of the British Empire enn swiftly grasp the signi frinly Inld. The Zamous Seven ficance of anything, from a com ca
Years Wor swept the tenacious plicated plan to a movement of French out of India, and Ameri
ca. The Elder Pili, whose adminis- troops; combatant co-operatora, trative
U to victory, genius led who nasist attacks by working 'boasted: "Not a gun shall be fred inside the enemy's territory; throughout the world but Britain and a miscellaneous crowd of shall know the reason why."
Hundreds of secret eyes made this extras, from cryptogram experts no empty boast. No fewer than 27 to fifth-column agitators.
volumes, headed "Intercepted Des- The Czechs, the Austrians, patches" lle to-day in the British the Poles, the Danes-were all Record Omer for the years 1750- hypnotised before
the viper
AT the outbreak of that world. struck.
wide war, the French drew up a What, may we ask, was our secret plan regarding their ail-im- own Secret Service doing? portant naval strategy. Full par The Secret Service is
ticulars of this soon reached Lon- secret don, via Sweden! Exactly how is service. But if the lesson of wat
1763
not completely certain.
it is sufficient to state that the
of a
trick.
you
the British Intelligence Service But the spite of the racial and his- is the realignment of a former on sale in the shops at prices torical bonds which unite the people. is any pointer of the present, French were angling for a Swedish you need have no qualms about lance. The Swedish representa- ally on the side of the enemy that incline visitors to the boken rivalry between the islands,
Paris tive In
ma called Was the matter.
Bunge, Bunge sent the information not voluntarily it is but lief that they have unwittingly what akin to
to Stockholm with suficient submission to stumbled on a modern Utopia. Yorkslure, is evident in their dealings
When LET us go back to the days master of Europe he shut the Con-
Napoleon
himself made make the act abject rathan than Victor Hugo, writing in the with each other
of Queen Elizabeth, not less tinental ports to British trade and compelled. As the Premier has middle of the last century from A Samlab, ur Guernsey-burn
clever and unscrupulous than by this land blockade hoped to rain pointed out this is no time for Hanteville House, perched high prison, rurely loses an opportunity
her famous father. Philip of "perfidious Albion" and her race of recrimination but rather for re- above the quaint hillside town of urging the superlor merits of his Spain had exhausted his p- British agents had to break the shopkeepers. Now, more than ever, tience. Elizabeth and her wily blockade with information Gold construction and, leaving the of St. Peter Port and command- naive island over those of Jersey,
advisers, Burleigh and Walsing- was distributed lavishly, and ably fate of the former French leaders ing a superb view of the Eng-
ham, had tricked him time and backed by brain and courage. to their successors, it behoves tish. Channel, described the locally us Ridunians.
again. It was high time that Many messages renched London. Pirate Drake and his buccaneer- Many were intercepted by Napo- Britain to maintain that stern islands as "bits broken off from
Conversely, the people of these
Iron's excellent com system.
espionage and unrelenting aspect towards France," and even to-day the islands tend to look down their noses
ing confederates swung from One message, found in the wallet, their own yard-arms. that country is at their neighbours, and
suspect, ran thus: "Wash the concessions, however humani- influence of
So Philip sent his agents to linen I am sending before you tarian they may
that strongly marked. The okler, Sarquese remain outside the arena
report on England's man power, stickiness."
use it, in order to get rid of the are fur. of friendly dispute. For them Sark naval strength and const de-
Search brought to light will give succour to the foe. In granite-built houses
a report transcribed in chemical ink fences, while his shipwrights on the hem Di a petticout. A hun- releasing supplies to Germany's nished in the Continental style by far the most beautiful-is sum. with outside shutters at their "ient, and what goes on in the great
began work on his Armada. dred years later, during the Great conquered territory, Britain is
world outside, they think, is none of windows.
But not secretly. Two years War, a woman spy tried the same their business at all. merely supporting the illegiti
It was then held to be ori. before the Armada sailed, Wal- mate offspring of an unnatural
and unique. ginal_ The judicial system, too, has its
To-day the people of the four singham, chief of the English THE Great War proved the British union so that the parent may go origin in the days when the archipe islands are united in the face of an Secret Service, knew all about Intelligence Service second to none
the formed part of ahead and reproduce at leisure Duchy of Normandy, and a course at
ancient advarsity that hus swept down upon it. A certain Richard Gibbes, n the world. Information, carefully Their exquisite, sleepy civili pretending to be a Scotsman and ilities, enabled our Navy, to strike
gamered before the outbreak of hos and unhindered.
the University of Cuen, in Normandy, ation has been brought crumbling therefore sworn foe of all immediately. has always been regarded The French people, as well as
about their cars by sudden machine things English, did useful tour
We knew exactly how the Ger- integral part of the training for the inhabitants of
of the Spanish ports. Metho- man submarines and destroyers were gun fire, the crash of falling bombs, other con-
legal career he any of the Chunnel and by the echo of German Jackboots dically he counted some 160 distributed. We knew, and nipped quered lands, must and do realise Istes.
tramping their deserted streets. warships and "heard talk of 300 in the bud, the German scheme for
(trade routes.. that issue but and it is purely
'gallics," Never in all its history has "this froutine that
Many other things we knew. So their Ministers the main currents of European his noble Kittle people of the sea" been himself to be pumped" by Inquisi- much so that the German naval at-
Furthermore, he willingly allowed plead for concessions that they tory have led to the survival of in- called upon to face so overwhelming tive Dons No, he knew very tache once actually asserted, almost know must contribute eventually numerable customs of feudal origin. a catastrophe, but it has answered little about the "good barbours and publicly, that for sound Intelligence rivers on the West Coast of Scot- work one British man was worth iep to their own undoing. No one The most remarkable of these is the arrogance of brute force with but was quite sure that the Germans. Yet the Germans were
courage and an unswerving con- land, will quarrel with that desire on probably the Clameur de Haro, an adence that a day of restitution lies River Thames was a very ill river, spending six times as much money full of sands within and without on espionage as we were before the their part to obtain the best unwritten law which gives to every ahead.
sight
And our unknown. land, and not possible to Great War. Island-born person the right to sun-
Many thousands of island folk, bring ina navy."
brain-sloggers were often terms possible from friend and mary justice by going down on his defying the certainty of poverty and
cold- Time moves on 50 years, and Dic shouldered especially whon medals foc alike but sentimentality, one knees in the presence of two wit- the oppression of a ruthless enemy, tator Cromwell rules England with and rewards were to be had. of the most vulnerable spots in
have refused to leave their homes. the Bible and, the sword-plus the The Treaty of Versailles 1910, let Those who have reached our shorez finest esplosage, rystem in Europe, loose upon the world an 'argy of the armour of Britain, must be object. We must concentrate all are for the most part women, and Chief of Cromwell's secret service espionage such as the world had congealed over with the blood of
children and men of military age. was John Thurloe-inscrutable, ruth never known. During 1933-34, some
fanatical Puritan.
six hundred pies were captured in those Alles who have already our resources for the benefit of Alled with a desperate desire to do- less, fant
those contributing actively to stroy the barbarian hammering at
Europe alone, and many were shot dled for a great cause....
the gates. that carize rather than engage in
ACENTS were in every foreign-the first time spies had bear shot court, and £70,000 was spent an
in peace-time for 150 yearsA Let us welcome them within the
And for, all the novelists-may, Ruthlessness must be met by maudlin exchanges with the
nually on their up-keep. Jews and fortress, these unfortunate ones who Puritan divines alike were employed been caught during peace-time in
writen British ruthlessness; Britain must risk dubious representatives of supine once a thousand years ago fought Absolute
agent has never efficiency, secrecy. and Germany. No other country has a the anger of her former Allies Powers beneath the heel of with Duke William at Senlac but are
obedience were demanded.ne our brothers in arms in the war of to achieve her single-minded Hitlerism.
At least once a week, they had to record comparable with this. to-day.
communicate with London. The
1. Day"
as
Centuries of virtual isolation from
them.
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