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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

October 1940

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Statement of Receipts and Payments for the period

17th June, 1940, to 31st August, 1940. Subscriptions Received as per published lists $1,312,796.37 Remittances to H.M. Treasury through Hong

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poration, Balance on Current Account $7,193.99

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1,305,000.00

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THE WAR CHEST

GOVERNMENT, who usually pre-

to carry out their work abtrusively, on occasions also pander to the spectacular. They did so on Saturday when they announced a new gift to the imperial war chest; a sit of £200,000 a year for the dura tion of the war. The money is to come from the profits of the Ex- doubtless the change Fund, and public are as delighted, as they are amazed, to learn that the fund has proved such a gold mine.

PROBE

Editorial Page

BROBES

Wish us luck as you loape sa good-bye!

Gloomioh! Here we go on our way. We've been ordered to prod, proba and pry: Good enough, Mr.`Duf, that's okay. And when we snart

"Let me ace pour morale,"

Folks will dare not say tis nay. Wish us luck as you wave us good-byem

Alles oop! To the snoop! We obey.

Mr. Dull Cooper, Minister of Information, is to be asked in the House of Commons why he has engaged a band of investigators to make door-to-door Inquiries on the state of householders' morale.

THE ARMY

makes itself

AT HOME

By Reginald Foster

A

sat

the

On the English Coast,

YOUNG soldier astrids a chair, on promenade, close to the little pill-box camp which has become his seaside home.

A comrade was busy trimming his hair with a pair of scissors, watched with curiosity by an errand boy, unused to such side- Eghts on Army domestic life. The errand boy was asked to go away by the soldier-barber and the domestic interlude continued.

The British soldier is settling down

to domestic life in his front une,

A

"Take

Tommy To Tea'

Red Cross Island?

BY DUDLEY BARKER

HAVE often seen fine cere- monies 'at 8). James's Palace- in London, the official Court of England, where Ambassadors. walk decorously in one room, and. the Lord Chamberlain, removes indecorous lines from” plays, in: n.nother.

I have seen scarlet-and-gold- heralda crowded on the balcony, welcoming proclamations, with: the trumpet, while ceremonini troops waited in the 'courtyard below.

But yesterday I saw there a finer sight sill, though less picturesque.

Burrounded by pieces of cord and: cardboard boxes, crates of socks. and slabs of chocolate, I saw the people who have contrived to keep- Оло international organisation working between Britain and Ger» · many, while Europe crumbled into shaos.

I saw the department of the British. Red Crom that supplies British prisoners of war in Germany -with regular parcels of food, olgarettes and' clothing

ROUTES WRECKED

It is a story worth telling, partly be- cause it is a'story of wood will on both des Whatever else the Haris Days dona, all the evidence shows that they 2.890 scrupulously respected

inter national agreement on this question.

Before the German break-through, there were not many British priscYHETE in Germany, and each of them was being supplied throughout the winter with twa "food-and-cigarette parcela a week from the British Red Cross-threo every fortnight is the simmer alloy- knco,

Those parcels had to go througti m neutral country, and they were travel- ling woothly merom the, Channel to Belgium, and thence into Germany.

Ninety-seven per cent, of the receipt cards that nocompany each parval came

times would be alive with holiday. TAKE a Tommy home to back proper race int

makers a little shopping. The shoppers I saw were soldiers, detailed to buy vegetables for their unit.

Their shopping basket was a

lorry.

1 Acard someone who had been in

Spain liken lite here to that in Madrid, when Aghting reached the outskirts of the city.

tea."

London families are mak ing this their motto, while London is so full of Service men on leave, and are earn-

There is a front-Ene icecreaming the thanks of the War

surrounded with Office and the welfare or girl Her kloak barbed wire and weapons of war

have replaced bathing huts. Herganisations.

stock of spades and buckets and fishing nets is not in much demand. But her icecreams are.

Men who have come off sentry duty find her kiosk very welcome. Dozens of times this girl has hurriedly closed her ******* shutters and dashed-to-the-heller af. basement house opposite, sirena or gundre have been heard.

In the last few weeks I have scen a good deal of everyday life in the front line, the life shared by sor- vice men and the remaining civil-

lans.

One morning I walked down the which main streat,

normal

No one will quibble with the decision of the Government and the Exchange Fund Advisory Committee to make such a handsome donation, especially as there is an assurance that the stability of the fund will in Nevertheless, be lessened. no way one wished that Government had fait an inclination to take the publie inlo It is, after all, their confidence. publle money which the Government are so generously donating to the war chest, and the donation has been made without even consulting the com- munity. We have a right to feel that we have been cheated out of the satisfaction of being Identified with a

An Ancient Lay mogelficent gesture, an identification which, as chief subscribers to this ex-

Of Rome change fund, we are entitled to enjoy.

Propaganda error The fund has always been shroud- ed in mystery, and only now can the

Among many "howlers" in Italian public begin to appreciate how ski-broadcasts in recent months none has fully and successfully has it been ad- been more glaring than the capitall- ministered. During the comparative-sation of an article alleged to have ly short time it has been in operation, been sent by "Lady Stanhope" from the fund has not only been able to Arabia, in which she says she feels secure a cover of more than 114 per ashamed to be an Englishwoman. cent, but is in a position to deny it self £200,000 (about $3,200,000 at the current rate of exchange) and still have its cover unaffected. It is a position which only goes further to demonstrate that Hongkong is the richest and most solvent colony in the British Empire. For this fact we have good reason to feel proud,

Whether the Colony Itself reaps all the benefits it should from such situation Is more than doubtful; nevertheless it is unlikely that any one will cavil at Government's decision to utilise its exchange fund profits in the manner proposed. It is im perative to Hongkong that Britain wins this war; wherefore every effort we can make, 'whether great or small to help the Mother Country in this enormous task, must be given its due credit. Which is why the individual should cachew the kea that, because Government is making such substan tial war gifts, there is no call for him to make his own effort. The old tog "Every little helps must be taken literally," The "voluntary sacrifice still remains the most potent and effective type of nature. Thousands will make enforced contributions be fore the year and through the war taxation, but there remains plenty of rooms for voluntary effort

The article quoted admittedly ex- presses unfavourable views on Eng- land, but unfortunately for Italian propagandists it was written more than 100 years ago by the Lady Hester Stanhope, who was notorious for her. eccentricities. To such ex- tremes have Italian propagandists been brought to and material favourable to ‘England..

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(Lady Hester Stanhope, a niece of the younger Pitt, died in 1830. Find- ing the restrictions

of ordinary society intolerable she left England In 1810 and finally settled in 1814. slopes of Mount Lebanon, where for among the half-savage tribes on the the remainder of her life she lived in the style of an Eastern potentate surrounded by slaves and exercising almost despotic power.}

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Hotel Adolf”

when

There is the farmyard which has Ducks still become a military position. waddle in the pond, the old farmer goes about his duties. And in the middle of the yard have seen men, stripped, round bucketa, having their morning wash and shave.

A one-time eduntry collage, at cross roads, has been retained "Hotel Adolf." A concrete pillbox is labelled "Picca- dilly Circus "the inbel is properly enamelled and stamped, and goodness knows where it came from

Up on the cliffs an inn has become the headquarters of a unit at a local dolence post. The back parlour, where the holiday maker used to yarn with the locals, is labelled "platoon bead- quarters," and the civilian who happens to go in for a drink is regarded as an intruder.

Peculiarty solid road barricades hayo booome the subject of soldiers' front- line humour, One I passed was chalked "Don't bend.” and another. "Hitler's toll gate "and the sentry with fixed bayonet acemed a pretty efficient toll- keeper.

Food From Fields Townspeople have been quick to adopt soldiers' humour. One shop has the legend, *Haircut finished if airen goes." and another proclaims. “We don't intend to run away. Here we are and here we stay,”

Sometimes the cliffs of France show -up, bright and clear. "The Fatherland looks well to-night." people say, and tha soldiers' laugh that follows would hardly bring smile to Hiler--not if he knew the British soldiers' laugh, gett Mushrooms play a part in the domes- tle life of the front-line soldier. Many of these tile front line-camps are set up in open country. Berral times I have seen" soldiers returning, to their tent or billet with mushrooma. The

best fields My NEA

a few mushrooms can be a great help to the cooking resources of these small unita of seven or eight men, scattered on the highways and byways of the front line de M

Much of the cooking is done by the men themselves: In other cases ratione: are brought by road in travelling, kit- chans, using a haybox system wirdL All over the country groups of men,

ally Insignificant; and there is the Bomber Fund created by the Hongmen have quickly learned which are the kong Telegraph" and the "South Chinn Morning Post. Their objects are Identical; to encourage a publie whose future walfare, freedom and prosperity depends entirely on the ability of the British Empire, to win this war and to achieve that objective in the shortest and most effective way possible. MONEY

we hope, ment's latest gesture will prove stimulus to the community to make further and greater efforts to swell Not only is more money needed, but the coffers of the various war ftands. we are glad to see are more subscribers! Hitherto donations have (enme from too smallestiam Junction happy at all of the community; there is room and Marition" la kin ik opportu for: many thousanda, Fintrinsing, who, date have made no contribu~

no matteri

hope, therefore, that Govern-

engaged in this new defence of Britain are settling down to a front-line life a distinctive in the way as trench lie in the Home Ed

Marly, lonely cottage or country Farmboine how has its reguar quota of must young men of the front line

ore

There is no organised move- ment, but people in every walk'

life of

spontaneously inviting troops to spend a few hours at home with them, and the troops all declare-it-is-the best part of their leave.

The secretary of St. Stephens House, the Too H centre opposite the Houses of Parlament, told me "There have been many cases of with people getting acquainted men on leave and either inviting them home or giving them a day or evening out,

"When the men teturn here they are delighted with the hospitality, no matter how humble, it was.

*Many of them find amusements for themselves, seeing the sights of London and going to a show, but that palls after a time when they' are alous and nothing seems quite .80 welcome to the man who can't gut to his own home ask - low hours in someone else's home."

"The High Spot"

I talked to an infantryman who was one of a party of four-made up by a Kent businessman and his wifo on Saturday afternoon, taken to tea, to a theatre and on to a supper dance at night,

"It was a wonderful day's out- ing." Private Harris told me. "It made the high spot of my leave.

"But in a way it embarrassed all of us. It must have cost a lot of money, and we could not pay our share. vid....

"People should not imagine that it is necessary to spend a lot on entertaining us.

I have found from talking to many of the other men on leave.. who have been aimilarly, anter». tained that they would have beets quite as happy taken home to ten.. ent home-made cakes, listen to the radio and made to feel they were: enjoying civilian home life for a few hours

Combats Boredom →→ The War Once, I learn, is still... very anxious to combat boredom simong men on leave who are out or touch with their friends.

Take a Tommy home toʻtèn,” would be a magnificent slogan för ·, the public to adopt.," one important Army pmcer ipid me. It would prevent many men going off the rails for want of something to do, Adenong leave want a little *«feminine” society, bub not neces sarily of the glamour girl kind.

the motherly man who pro vides some good home-made cakes and a cup of tea, and makes a chap feel at home for Zenk hours dow something for the welfare of thei men that hot mil klis organisations

put together can achieve

po are welcomed, furas monit is the Home Furden. In par.

in some places road-houses have be

• Domes millary; headquarters sod÷rose' Werdeka "Bononi izmir-raidinheiteres and other thingREZ MAW DIU with the legend,

lotlar, who good this sort For entertainment because for them hithere is not the regular grösenimana

Then war broke into Belgium. The rosite was expidly switched scross France and swilæerland tó Germany.

That was all right for a few weeks, till France fell. When the dividing line

drawn between occupied and und

occupied Prance, that zonie became im-

possible.

It seemed that supplier would' have, to slop There was only ona route. through Pelsamo in Finland, - but it was diancult.

The supplies were not stopped. Tas

British Red Cross got into touch with

the International Red Cross at Cleneva, and they sent 60 tons of food, worth £5.000 direct from Ewitzerland into Germany, to the British prisoners.

TWO-THIRDS COMPLETE

Last week now route opened. through Lisbon, (across "Spain," - and ~Lbende “10”Switzerland.-

The problem was how much food to send. There were many more prisoners of war in Germany, than before-bat bow many?

Nobody knows exactly, not even the War Office, not even the Germans thems- selves, who, a fortnight ago, 'makeď Dr. Marcel Junod, of the International Red Cross, to go from Switzerland to pocu- pied France to help them sort it out.

The normal procedure is for the Nat of prisoners to be sent to the British Prisoners of War Bureau in Berlín, which bands it on to the American Am bassador. and the International Red Grosa in Geneva. (we hand our lista to a similar bureau in London, and to the Swiss Ambassador).

The American Ambassador in Berlini and the Red Cross in Oshara both pass the list on to London, and relatives aro informed. The whole process normally takes about three weeks.

This time the chaos in Europe de layed things, and it is only now that zilo ists are starting to pour through They are coming night and day-10 fast that the Red Cross in Geneva has ́incressed, the ́number; of, girls in

index department from 500 to 1,400. Ĉ

All the names are being telegraphed to London an quickly as possible, and Mr. R. A. Butler was able to announce on Tuesday that. the names. pf two- thirds of all the British prisoners of war. had reached Geneva.

Acting on that information, and the amount the postal authorities: could handle, the people in St. James's Palace made up their minds how much to send, 12,000 PARCELS A WEEK

- Thay, have large quantities avaliable. Last week they 'sent: 12,000 parcela, and this week they are sending the game.

In the same way, of course, the Cler man Red Cross, hins been getting mu

· plies of extra food and comforts to Cleri inan prisoners.ta ihla country,

So, in St. Jamer's Palane yesterday I was able to watch the women ́nackery making up the perosis, stacking them. tato great beapa, labelling' them, with` distinctive addresses, (vý plGLE MOTORRA

It is a triumph that the service ta „British prisoners: has been - uninter- rupted by the last few weeks, buè da noš *Imagine that... tue- worries of the Bad

Cross are over t

They must have a neutral intere mediary batwood the two warring nationa-To-day they have Spáin, bus who can say how long in kits Elrope any sucks" route for supplies "orm)iano)

Bo an idea has grown, un," which may. “perhaps be turned into; reality. Coul Anot some little leland; be set aside x 1. safe/clearing hours) fot! Detaonserat majo. | piles paaudzig both waysBySKET

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Kplies to and from (haż Ladis

country?