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September 6, 1940.

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Hitler's Dream for

South

America

New York. Government • inquiry has

★TE are directly and immedi- brought to light the existence Wately concerned in what of a nation-wide Nazi organisa is happening now in South tion assisted by the 'German

America. Within the last fow

U.S. A

MEXICO

A

GUATAMALA

HONDURAS

SALVADOR

mia-

wooks almost within the faw Legation, which embraced days-the outling of a grandiose Hitler Youth organisation, plan conceived in Barlin has Storm-Troop body, a branch of Fallen into place.

the Gestapo, Nazi motor-cycle Hitler's dream spreads already and glider organisations, and beyond Europe. It envisages a particularly thorough the creation among the tremen- chinery for propaganda. dous, fertile, richly-stocked

Intensive propaganda is go- plains and mountains of South America of a "new Germany," Ing on, backed by Germans of where food and raw materials to property and wealth, who hend supply the Master Race of the local Nazi population, Europe will be gathered and ex- timated at 250,000. ported.

CA-

NICARAGUA COSTA RICA PANAMA

By ROBERT WAITHMAN

PERU

CUSA JAMAICA: HAITI COLOMBIA ECUADOR SVENEZUELA -

BRITISH GUIANA „DUTCH GUIANA FRENCHGUIANA

BRAZIL

BOLIVIA PARAGUAY URUGUAY

ARGENTINA

CHILE'

But there is this difference now. At the beginning of the In Paraguay and Bolivia the war America had still to make The groundwork is being laid

an immense discovery- dis- by the Nazis in South America extent of the Nazi organisation, covery which as it dawns over now with a kind of boastful while it is known to be great, the country is changing the out- openness which indicates that has not yet been uncovered. look for everybody. That dis- the plan has a short-range as well as a long-range objective.

In Brazil, where one estimate covery is that the Monroe Doc- trinc may not be practicable For the present it is the short puts the number of persons of and that hemisphere defence range objective that most close- German blood at 1,000,000 and may be an impossibility unless ly concerns us.

the number of persons of Ita- the British Fleet remains intact

at 8,000,000, the and effective. What the Nazis hope to do is lan descent to create sufficient confusion German Fifth Column, which is Now the United States has to and make their threat look thoroughly well organised, is decide. To keep everything nt sufficiently pressing to divert rumoured to have the sympathy home, fight the Nazis in South United States aid from Britain. of certain of the army leaders, America, try to defend the he Enough information has

well as of wealthy traders, misphere Independently of what British control of the sera and from South America to and the possibility of a rising happens to Britain and the to strike not at a branch of the make it reasonably certain that, to pust the Vagas Government British Fleet? Or to throw its Nazi tree, but at its root? if and when the United States and to Nazify the country is weight into the scale in Europe This may be the greatest de- increases its aid to Britain to being distussed.

every help to the ciston America has had to make

come

Now 28

Hongkong Telegraph.Europe, a Nazi revolution will creating a

Friday, September 6, 1940. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 2001A

THE prefix "Special to the Telegraph" is used by the "Hongkong Telegraph" to Indicate new which by strictly copyright under the provhions of the Telecommuni- CALIONS Wedinanes, 1928. auch Bows beats the Indication "J" is received in Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Associatsona, who re- servo all rights and terbid republication, either wholly or in pars without previous Arrangement,

Air Raids and News

Newspapers throughout the British Empire feel that they are giving their readers a raw deal regarding the news of air raids in England.

The news about air raids is

means

on

and give

a point where it is seriously im- In Mexico the Nazi effort i, British in order to lusure the since it decided on the Declara peding the German effort in obviously

Monroe Doctrine by insuring tion of Independence. concentrated

for scaring, break out in South America. It the United States into concen-] will be staged in the belief that trating military resources in the United States will thus be that direction and away from frightened into keeping every Europe. available acroplane and gun al

home in readiness for a Nazi As to South Amerien gene- attack on the United States it- rally it seems evident that ini self.

all the republies the majority of people are pro-Ally. Buy Nazi organisations are not concerned

It

That in the German planı is in its early stages yet.

It with peoples' sentiments. They can be upset-upset and dẹ are working on the political and molished. But there are only military leaders on the

one

two nations now left to upset hand and on the other hand on it. One in Great Britain and the commercial interests. the other in the United States.

Military

Psychology

CERTAIN explanations armles

und

would perhaps have plucked victory from defeat.

are surely due to the I'stain "went by the book," and British reader in view of the whole riper military experience.

And it requires little perspica- [1 has been revealed this the recent debacle in of France supported him in so do- city to see that Britain and the week that the Germans are now

doubtable General de Gaulle, a mo- United States will have to work offering delivery of manufac. France. That they have with the exception of the re- together if they are to sucered, tured goods in several Latin- not been forthcoming is dernist, sceptical of the traditional.

American republies for The German effort in South September-ind, moreover, are

next another proof of the in-

Falso Hopes dull, and people no longer want America so far has been spread posting cash bonds which they defensibly insular nes That the aged Marshal hoped for to read it. Yet war in the airlover Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay, will forfeit to buyers if delivery cience of our writers, chivalrous consideration from

Bolivia asch Brazil, with J separate side-show running in

and our public, concern-Command is clear from the phrases The prices they are quoting ing the spirit of Con-mistice, especially those in which he Mexico, on the borders of the United States.

is vivid. Like all war it is terrible; it is abominable. But it is dramatic.

is not made by that time.

can-

the

men of his own caste in the German

he employed in his request for ar-

chivalry and courtesy in which he

that tinental institutions in aid stress upon that military

and with general

military himself had been trained. ideals in particular.

com-

for

in all cases are so low It should be the

greatest

United States exporters instrument of propagandn A mass of detail, cabled up not possibly compete Hitler has given England. from South America by United them. Remember how we were horri-States newspapermen who have

The last card he could play in the fied at the Japanese raids on

All these details, descending)

dreadful circumstances was an op- now ferreted out information

For the people of the greatest pent to vaste consideration, an appeal Shanghai, Canton, Hankow? which should have been avall now on the United States as the At the bombings of civilians in able months ago, contains these Government prepares to meet Empire the world ever knew, to "the soldier's coat," as the saying goes on the Continent, to Freema- Spain. At Mussolini's mur-high-lights

the Latin-American republics we are still dangerously ignoronry of the Sword. This soldierly - in Uruguay i derous air campaign ἐπ

this month at the Pan-Ameri-ant of the standards of that philosophy and

camaraderie, which we have no parallel in these Ethiopia? It was those vivid

can Conference in Havana, are Europe of which presumably we islanda, ix a ery living thing m stories that swayed public | newspapers and Daventry can- frankly alarming. For United are a geographical part. What Continental military circles, or was opinion throughout the world not give the lie direct to this States policy has been, and, as hos puzzled most people in these Petain thought himself justified, to until recently, and that Marshal against the aggressors.

sort of Nazi propaganda because Secretary Hull last week made] Why then does Britain make we are permitted to receive only plain, still is, founded on the islands is the quick change of some extent, in relying upon its de- front revealed whenever the |cencies, is not surprising to anyone the news of the horrible murder the official communiques from Monroe Doctrine, which

aware of its spirit and traditions. mits the United States to op- destinies of France were placed of civilians in England dull in London.

of her

To put it in a word, the Ofcers the news bulletins for the Press If the people responsible for pose any change of sovereignty in the hands

military

Corps in Europe is, or was, a definite and for the wireless.

British propaganda would only in any part of the American caste.

caste, the last surviving fragment of realise the disservice they are hemisphere. Since the begin-

mediaeval knighthood, a "spiritual" of the war the United The assumption Accips to have body, not national in its ideals and doing the British cause there'd ning be a lot of deadwood thrown out States Government has thought been that that caule is similar to our code so much as International, an

ideal which

all who wear "the of the departments which are and spoken in terms of hemis-own, and that it would react to such

coat" soldier's a situation as confronted it in much cherish, and the requests of whose must respect and making such a mess of it all.

the same spirit. The truth is that, brothers" must within reasonable strictly spooking, we have no "mill-bounds be regarded as fraternally tary chate," only the most sporadic sacred.' vestiges of such a body being visible That Marshal Petain's plea would In certain crack corps and service receive some sentimental considerp- clubs.

from the more traditionally minded among the German Command is by no means improbable, though, But if we judge the Continental in the circumstances, they would soldier by our own, we are not only have little opportunity or heart to unfair to both, but make no allow support It, in view of the Savage and Tartarly" attitude of their trium, ances for the former's training and phant Fuhrer, for Herr Hitler can prejudices. From the Continental scarcely be credited with the softer point of view, one might as well inspirations of chivalry, blame Marshal, Pétain "and General Weygand" for what we believe to be

"Enemy aircraft attacked a town in the south-cast. There were one or two casualties."

After you have read the same old statement a dozen times, and heard the Daventry aunouncer repeat it, you get bored. Which is Hitler'a aim. He wants you to get tired and bored: get fed up with the raids and the whole war.

When we are forced to repeat in our columns that the R.A.F. is bombing Germany thoroughly, and that the Germans are losing a lot of planes to inflict "some casualties" on England, some of us add doubt to our boredom. There is no valid reason to doubt the authenticity, of the official bulletins. They are accurate. The only thing that makes them appear inaccurate is the way Reuter's and other agencies have: to put them out.

In Hongkong we get lots of bright air raid stories with Berlin date-lines. If we were to give them the prominence they deserve from a news point of view the British stories of the air raids would receive even leas attentio

Chatterbugs in Hongkong who know someone aboard a ship Just out from England tell about the thousand of casualties" at such-and-such a place, about such-and-such a seaport being wrecked... That they are "be- lieved by some people is due solely to the fact that the

FUNNY SIDE UP

JO.COMPE PRECIRENT

PRIVATE.

BER DEAN

phere defence.

By Abner Dean

"The boss wouldn't give them time off to get married!''.

No "Last Ditch"

La déplorable lapse of "patriotism, as

expect a distinguished" exponent of

lon

All “Fascists”

I do not seek to excuse Marábal

chess, when he found himself beaten, Pelain's action. I feel that be wai utterly and wretchedly mistaken li to throw down the table and engage the course he adopted, but I can un- his opponent in flaticuffs.

derstand the absurd prejudices, and

In the grim and narrow lexicon of antique Inspirations which made him. the. Continental, art of warfare there lake It.

is noIdiom' compatable with our -It is being said in many circlës in "fighting to the last ditch." Such a this country that he is a Fascist, process would be regarded as not The statement strikes me as peculi "only unscientifle but even absurd.. I

am not here concerned with the arly provincial. All Continental mill- tary officers without exception, I ethics of continuing a losing struggle

to the end, principle which, like should say, to whatever Army they may belong, are "Phuclat” tỏ thể most Britans, I naturally adhere to, but strictly with the Continental sooner we realise the fact the better marrow of their bones, and the view of strategy.

for ourselves. By Fascist," here, I Marshal Petald, according to his mean a man who belleves that by own code, though not to gums, realised from discipline alone can humanity a still more disastrous condition of be organised, into the semblance of affairs. Faced by forces of hitherto tradition, has a leaning to Hitler's order, and who, by training and incredible destructiveness, momen- tyrannical system. 'tum and mobility-elements.. not

usually associated in warfare--and - "And it is just because we, as 'à by something, indeed, resembling, a people, hate, and dread anything in general chagy, he glanced at a hand the nature of "iron discipline”- that destitute of "honours" and automa- we rightly determined to struggle tically throw it in, in circumstances against it to the end, apart from all