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EVACUATION

FINANCES

VITAL Issues În connection with the evacuation

the European of families from Hongkong to Australia -issues which hitherto have remain- ed slumbering because other aspecta of more immediate import have beên' occupying the official and lay mind w shortly require attention and | demand dreiston. These lasues--they are Anancial-were Indicated in our Final Edition yesterday in which an offlein) spokesmun gave Government's reply to various rumours which have been widely circulated in the Colony during the past few days.

One was to the effect that either the Imperial Government or the Hongkong authorities were investiga- ting a plan whereby a certain sum of money would be paid monthly to all evicures from Hongkong now in Australia On the face of it the suggestion lacked commonsense and Government's denial was anticipated. Nevertheless it is an established fact that many evacuated farmilles are in straightened circumstances and when the Government spokesman declared: "Naturally, the maintenance of evRcures is the biggest problem of the evacuation“, he probably intended to convey that the authorities have not lost sight of the enforced plight of many families, Precisely what method is to be adopted for their jalleviation is not yet Indiented; con- sultations with the Home Government on this problem are in progress. Obviously there must be some polley of docernment which will climinute the possibility of those who can afford pay, taking advantage of a

to

beneficent Government. This may involve a form of Means Test. The phrase, at ienst In England, has

earned for itself unhappy reactions, but the method, with tact, sympathy and fairness possesses redeeming fenturca.

In considering this question of financial support for evacuees, it is salutary to remember that not every husband or father has been leh im- poverished as a result of the evacua- tlon: examples are available to show that some men are, if anything financially better off; they send their wives and families. certain monthly remittances which, while fully adequate for needs in Australia, by no means represent the monthly out- lay necessary when their families were in the Colony.

Complaints of financial strain in many cases ignore the idea of the provider making any sort of sacrifice; ho. Insists upon making full use of hild club; he denies himself none of the comforts; if anything he spends very much more on himself than be- fore, pleading inability to adapt him- self to sulltult. This is not a general Andictment, but it is applicable to section of the affected, community and usually to those who complain the most The truth is we have got to grin and bear, this evacuation; the

"THEY ALL SAY IT. BENITO!**

Hitler's Army

didn't do it all

F. G. H. SALUSBURY, War Correspondent sume up his impressions and reveals the amazing weakness

T

of France's military masters.

tanks at Lord

HE Prime Minister has said

** cavalry " that the British Govern- light ment is grieved and amazed Oort's disposal.

I would have liked to be assured at the acceptance by the

that the disposition reflected Bordeaux Government of the

military genlus beyond ordinary terms dictated by the Germans.

human comprehension. It remains to ensure against future grief and amazement for those people who still believe that

freedom is worth the most com- plete and terrible sacrifice.

Mr. Stanley replied that the armoured division was in England because it was thought best to have

it there for training purposes.

you were in no position to retaliate in kind-and you allowed him to make all preparations on his own, side of the frontier down to the last gallon of petrol.

In the earliest stage of the war the French had made a most gallant advance

through the Forest of Warndt. Then they were ordered to retreat.

bered its manners,

The High Command had remem- It decided to sacrifice the tonie effect of an ad- nce on their armies to the dull,

vance

What Nazi Rule Would

Mean

Το

YOU

By George Lathan, M.P.

The handful of defeatists and Fifth Columnists who still lurk among us are saying that it wouldn't make much difference

to us, if Hitler won. Things. would naturally be a little dif forent, they say. "A few. politicians and journalists would' probably be shot, but the rest of us would be all right.",

Well, next time you hear any- one talking like this, ask a few questions. Study the facts in. this article and ask your defeat- ist friend to explain them away if he can!

The Nazis have declared that "a lower race needs less living space, less clothing, less food. and less culture than a higher race," and to the Nazis every man, woman, and child who is not a German belongs to this “lower.race."

The Nazis have no hesitation. in putting this belfef Into prac tice. They are, systematically starving the people in the coun- tries they have invaded.

In Holland, every person is rationed to two and a half ounces of flour a week. In Nor- way, bread, flour, rice, peas, coffee and sugar have been, rationed. The margarine indus- try has closed down. A quar- ter of her cattle have been- slaughtered and the meat Bent to Germany.

In Denmark 5,000,000 hens were killed and sent to Ger- many.

In Poland, no Pole over six years of age can buy milk. Poles have a green ration card, German's a red. And if you have a green card you are lucky if you get any food. It is often announced that holders of green cards will not be allowed to buy butter or margarine for a

week.

prices delty of strategical retreat. Thousands of Paris workers

I remember a a general in command

are being left to starve because of a French army telling me how

In other words, a sudden German' imcult it was to explain the neces- they have refused to work for

attack might catch à proportion of This means a violent reversal of trained men in France and the the psychology which, until re- tanks in England. cently, inspired the strategy of the Allied High Command, a strategy of Inaction, incompetence and fatuous optimista.

FATAL DELAY

This is practically what happened. Its results have been appalling. The armoured division was actually on its way over when the German invasion began.

Let us realise that our only hope is immediately to catch a bus which will overtake the one that an Emi- nent Statesman declared Hitler had missed.

All through thạt long Winter and Spring the High Command dia nothing to complicate Hitler's plans. He was allowed to move first, and was then followed weakly and too late.

THEY KNEW I

The French General Staff, where the disease originated, had suffered from years.

Superiority Complex for

It was fatal to initiative, -to Imagination, fatal to the theory of attack.

fatai

The Maginot Line, which ceased where it would have been of in- estimable value, was based on a theory of retreat. Plant that in the minds of your fighting soldiers before ever a shot has been fred. and you will have a lot to answer

Many weeks before the Invasion of Norway, the war correspondents for, with the B.E.F. were told that con- centrations of ships, troops and material had been observed at Ger- man ports on the Baltic.

We were told, under a pledge of secrecy, that this meant a threat to Scandinavia, but the High Com- mand was content, apparently, to do nothing.

Not even a pamphlet rald was organised on the German prepara- tions.

I was told personally by an officer

sity of retreat to the troops, and their German masters. Make how many of them had refused to no mistake, we, too, should find ourselves on a starvation diet obey the first order to withdraw.

from the first day of Nazi triumph. German troops would strip your Hunger follows the Swastika.

Hitler's "Friendship" For The Workers!

This polley of retiring resistance to an attack made at the enemy's sweat will had a disastrous effect. From September to May, among the ghting soldiers, respect declined steadily for the High Command.

France's magnificent élan was sapped by her leaders, who were consistent to the very end.

ON GUARD!

What did the official communiqué say when Italy declared war? That the French had taken up a strong defensive position: that the Italian had not attacked.

A strang defensive position One would against the Italians! like to have Napoleon's comment on

We have been told that this is no time for recriminations. But I be- lleve that there is just time before we settle down to win this war.

The Line Was generally well that. behind the frontier. It was pro- tucted by troops whose function was to retreat unill the enemy could be templed on to a battle-field which you had selected.

Then the idea was that you would smash him.

But you ignored the possibility of ale outflanking you by fast-moving armoured warfare-against which

of high rank that he had advised FUNNY SIDE UP

a bombing attack on a large Ger-

man petrol reserve, whose where- abouts he knew, at the outbreak of war. His advice was ignored.

Some of us began to wander if we were really fighting a war, or merely giving a sporting exhibition of a Tewt-which is the army jar- gon for Tactical Exercise Without Troops.

INCREDIBLE

Our daintiness went to 'incredible lengths. I remember once writing that, because of the behaviour of his machine, a German pilot had obviously been killed before he dived into the sea.

The censor asked me if I would mind substituting "disabled" for killed." His reason was that the Royal Air Force must not be made.

"too bloody-minded." to appear

Lest I should be accused of hypo- crisy, I have begun with these examples of the effect of the disease on ourselves. I will give one more before I proceed to the original source of infection the French General Bran

When Mr. Oliver Stanl

Stanley, the (too) late-Secretary of State for I asked him why there was no War, paid the BEF. a courtesy visit, armoured division in France.

I ald this because I knew number of heavy tanks-apart froni

days when we could indulge our love it wise to revert to the old emotions are over, the sober fact is order; until then, less complaining that evacuation with its attendant and more gracious sacrifices will pro Inconveniences and dificulier, has vide happier and "more "convincing (come to stay until the authorities be-

restures,

I believe that to put the past briefly in the pillory is the best way of securing a reversal of the De fenalve Psychology and its@nt- tendant Incompetent Optimism. and of putting the public on its guard against further ineptness.

cupboards bare.

Hitler is the "Friend of the workers"—s Goebbels says! But his friendship is a great deal worse. than most people's-haired-

He has already torn 800,000 Poles and transported from their homes

10111, them

this Germany. During process the Gestapo deliberately separates husbands and wives.

to

Every Pale in Germany has a dis- tinctive badge, sewn on his clothes to ensure that no German makes the mistake of saying a friendly word to him,

These Poles must stay indoors be tween 9 p.m. and 5 nm. They must not enter un inn or pubile house nor. any place cl entertainment. Nor can they travel by bus, tram or train,

Their wages are low, their food in- adequate, and their treatment brutal. They are slaves. Norwegians, are compellect to undertake to labour-even on aerodromes

mes where they risk death and wounds from aerial attacks. Dutchmen are being

By Abner Dean transported to the Reich as wretched-

from South

ly paid labourera.

Our fate, would surpass any- thing that has befallen Hitler's earlier conquests. Before we were shipped ke cattle to Ger- many, we should see tur Trade- Union, Labour and Co-operative. Movements destroyed and their funds confiscated: It happened in Czechoslovakia the moment the Nazis marched in. ^;

Even if the Fuehrer allowed you to keep your wireless set, you would. hear nothing but blaring milltary Barids and dreary vicious propaganda, for it you were caught listening to any but Gerrom-controlled program- mes you would be sent to a concen- tration camp/TER

The

press,

theatre

...and the would be controlled. You could neither hear, see, read, nor say what you liked You still wouldn't be sufe even if you worked like a slave, never complained about your food: read "Mein Kampf every day." and tuned in to Goebbels, every nightlos qNA

For one day, you might forget to give the Nazi saluto-just like poor Josef Franz Pawelka, a Czech," once- forgot. He got sever months impri- Bonment for his

lapse of

So when anyone says wouldn't really do ja' any harm, you can be sure that he eitheria foor or a traitor. Hitler has always" lighted in enslaving, free men women. We should be no except Fortunately he won't get But:(E M:Just as woll:L slongťaba the

out for