1940-10-08 — Page 3

DONALD DUCK

VNOPE, IT SEEMS

SORTA

CHILLY

TD US!

STHEN, RUN UP AND GET THE

HERMOMETER!: JAYBE I'VE GOT

A FEVER!

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

QUICK BOYS, CALL THE DOCII'VE

GOT AM

ON

October 8, 1940.

By Walt Disney

ANCHOR

Butter

THE WORLD'S BEST

OBTAINABLE FROM ALL LEADING STORES Sole Agents: LANE, CRAWFORD LTD

MAGAZINE PAGE

HOW U.S.A.

SEES

IT

By ALEX H. FAULKNER, NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT The following despatch illustrates in a vivid way the importance to Britain of adequately informing American opinion on the true course of the German air attack and its repeated defeats over England.

It forms a timely footnote to the strange story of censorship blunder, when American journalists were not allowed to send home any word, even of the public's composure and London's freedom from damage, while the air raid on London was being broken up and Germany was spreading its fictitious claims to "victory."

New York. Aug. 20. "Americans are certainly getting a bit excited." This remark was made by a mem. ber of the British flying-boa? Clare's crew who had just flown the Atlantic and Wan looking at the big, black, air- rald headlines in the New York papers.

It emmed up the very different reactions of the people here and those at home to the efforts of Goering's Luftwaffe

The speaker had dropped out of the sky from another world We regarded him with awe, expecting him to tell harrowing tales of roar. ing guns, massed armadas of the air

locked in apectacular combat and ruin of bombs spreading fire and destruction on every hand He both disappointed and greatly re- Jeved us.

SOME SURPRISE

His nonchalant attitude was ob- viously perfectly genuine: it was shared by other members of the crew, and it come as a surprise for o number of reasons.

First and foremost was the fact that the newspapers here had been printing daily accounts of the

fights of thousands of Nazi 'planes and detailed descriptions of scutes of exciting dog-fights, to say no- thing of the radioed photographs of wrecked houses, which inevit ably have given the impression that Southern

England sounds (and Jooks) like a vast battlefield. Lender writers have been unspar- ing in their comparison of current events with Armageddon.

that

There are other reasons also. There is the profound anxiety felt by those who look on with a sense of helplessness from this side of the world. There is Hitler's record of successes in other fields, which have clothed him in a manile of

There is invincibility. supposed

history of what happened to France,

which made all the experts look so silly. In

parenthesis one these are the may remark that people who are now leaning over backwards in their anxiety not to be caught napping again.

the

Besides all, this there are the oft-quoted figures showing the dis- parity in numerical strength of the opposing air forces.

WHEN FACTS BEGAN

Fervading all the thinking about the entirely new phase on which the war bas now" entered in the dread of a terror rained from the skies. Many see what happen- ing in England now through the mist of Wellsian fantasy,

London however, was not im- mediately "wrecked." Once the American correspondents were al lowed to say what they spent trying in vain to say, the Friday Nazi raiders no longer appeared to be having it all their own way. Over the cables and over the air began to come a stream of stories from correspondents, who,

besides describing ik wild fights in the vicinity of the place now famous in America as "Hall's Corner," set out to describe the bearing of the people on the earth below.

These people would probably be outported to And themselves being compared to their Elizabethon an- restors, but the reporters made it clear that they were indeed dis- playing the legendary hermam and calmness and above all, the sight- ly Truckint humour associated with their forebears.

OPINION OF BRITISH

Americans have been sharply re- minded that severni generations of shopkeeping have not extinguished much qualities in the Drilish race.

The RAF's score-sheet, it was true, looked extraordinarily good. hut the United States papers have placed great emphasis ever siner the war began on the fact that all news from the belligerent countries censored and Grobbels's gift for mendacity has caused many Ameri- cans to look askance at any official

British whether statements, German,

nutr our

or

תח

Fortunately, no time has been lost in taking Americans with un- questionable reputations behind the scenes, showing them how carefully and accurately #gures

Many enemy losses are compiled articles have appeared emphasising this point, and commentators here have begun to admit that we are "doing pretty well."

TAKING OFFENSIVE

the

In the last 48 hours things have taken yet another. turn for the better from our point of view as the result of the R.A.F, ralds into Ger- many and German-occupied terri lory and even as far afield as Italy. There could be no surer sign of our fighting spirit and fighting ability, The outside world is so impressed by German numerical superiority in the air that it fails to realise that the R.A.F. has defnitely taken the offensive and is inflcting on enemy more injury than the Luft- watte is on England." That is Mr. H. R. Knickerbocker's cable to the Hearst newspapers from London. This morning's headlines have done much to hasten that realisa- tion, and the Nazis are helping by the obvious desire to conceal the truth about the R.A.F. raids ́ frum the world, Side by side with dozens of columns of news from England are scrappy messages from Berlin giving little more than the fantastic official German figures, it does not require much imagination to un- derstand why.

Now those who lately were in a mood of despair, are beginning to hope that this summer will draw to a close and still find Hitler, · Like Napoleon, gazing jealously across the Channel at our white cliffs or perhaps ruefully licking his wounds after an unsuccessful", attempt - to cross the sen.

It

universally conceded that te he fails to invade England success

fully before the winter sets in or even if he fails to make the attempt he will, the eyes of the world, of this war, have suffered his first great reveren

Meanwhile, tagood thing that Americans should realise the dringer, for nothing else will bring home to them their responsibility

MAY 1940

AUGUST 1946

WAR EFFORT

WAR EFFORT

EEP AT

THE SONG OF THE WHEELS

HOLLAND UNDER NAZI

Bombing raids by the R.A.F.

acro-

to

on German-occupied dromes in Holland have been distinguished by good marks- manship on military targets. In spite of some danger to civilian life and damage civilian property, the Dutch bomb people feel that every that hits its mark is one more blast to free them from their prison cage. Most Dutch have Indeed shown a magnificent

spirit and a recognition that a British victory is the only hope for their future as an in- dependent nation,

what

Active resistance is impossible. The Dutch have developed their own techalque lu showing they think of the German invaders and nt obstructing in any little way that can be useful and still The Germans know that practical. they are not liked. Their treat- ment of Holland has not been so openly conciliatory as it is reported. to have been in other occupled States. The Gestapo has settled down' heavily on the country, and an economic stranglehold enables the Germans to extract what they wont.

On the surface Holland wears a fairly, normal aspect. The Govern- ment are functioning; the wheels of industry still turn; trains run much as usual; and the rebuilding of de- vastated areas is actively in hand. Beneath all this there is a fold- able problem to be faced. Before the invasion Holland WAS well stocked, in spite of the blockade

of there were adequate reserves raw materials and ample-food sup- plies.

FOOD SUPPLIES RAIDED

From the moment of the German entry into The Hague this great; warehouse of consumable goods was raided."- Payment was given in useless paper marks and the goods disappeared into Germany. In the first week 8,000,000 kilograms [17,660,000lb.) of butter, about per cent of the total reserves, were removed. The same thing happened in varying degrees to alher, stocks of food, clothing, and raw misterials. If there is to be starvation is this war the Dutch.

90

for abaring the defents) of "pur-fear that they will starve first and common principles-and-liberties. the emost thoroughly and

E

MESSAGE FOR TO-DAY

Despond not. Britain!

this sacred hold

EEP

KEEP AT

NAZI RULE

Should

Of Freedom, still inviolate, be

assailed,......

The high. unblenching spirit

which mevalled

In ancient days is neither dcèd

for cold;

Men are still in thee of herole

mould.

Men whom thy grand old sea-

kings would have hailed As worthy peers, invulnerably

mailed,

Because by duty's sternest law

controlled.

Thou vet shalt ise, and send

abroad thy voice Among the nations, hattling for

the right,

In the unrusted'armour of thy

youth;

And the pppressed shall hear it

and rejoice For on the side is the resiatic

might

Of Freedom, Justice and Eternal

Truth.

JAMES DRUmmond buRNS

This wholesale requisitioning brought

the card-rationing syslum. There was not much left in the shops for sale, For the Dutch (the system does not opply to the German invaders) the ration for olls and fat is 125 grammes (a little over 4oz.), for ten 10

and for coffee ..grammes,

50 grammes a head a week. These quantities are temporary, and will decrease as stocks become exhaust-

ed.

There is one portion of the popus lation which will suffer from the cutting down of tinned foods. The stores were accumulated prinel- pally to feed the unemployed, who will now get none of them. In- stead they are being organised Inbour corps to be crafted anywhere within the territory controlled by the Third Reich. Refusal to join this. organisation entails starvation, ar no ration cards Will be issued to. recalcitrant workers. Dutch labour is thus compelled to serve, how ever unwillingly, its new masters.

saved

factories, however, there is a scar- city of fuel for power. For the Bame reason the heating problem in the coming winter will present for midable difficulties, which will be overcome only if the Germans con- sider it expedient to keep the Dutch

warm.

There is a general feeling that the Germans are anxious to avald the possibility of internal troubles. For this reason alone it is probable that they will try to maintain a standard of existence in Holland at Icast a little above starvation level. Politically the Germans have at- templed no radical changes. far

central as possible the

and local governments have been permitted to continue, ostensibly on tradi- tional Dutch lines, always, of course, under the overriding con- trol of Seiss-Inquart and the Ger- man gencrals, with Himmler and his satellites in the background,

As

The Germans seem largely to have ignored questions affecting the reigning House. At first they tried to make capital out of the Queen's departure to England, but partial local hostility to the House of Orange soon died down, and a German triump card dis- appeared with it. Since then the Germans have maintained discreet. silence on the subject.

Decrees are issued and the general adminis- tration is carried out by a body terming itself a "Committee," com- posed mostly of the Chief Secre-. taries of the Departments of State, most of whom remained in The Hague after the departure of their Ministers to England.)

n

THE VELVET GLOVE

Naturally the Germans wished to reward their Dutch supporters, and many of these found jobs in the Administration. Few arrests have been made, nor is there much evidence of revenge having been taken against known enemies of

Nazis. A number of suicides he the days following the German conquest may have removed poten- tial vietins from the Gestapo. On the whole, the Dutch people have been left alone. German refugees who had escaped Illegally from Germany have been sent, back to inn unknown, but imaginable, fato. Other German refugees, apart from being compelled to report to the police every day, are more or legs ignored. Nothing on a large scale seems to have. happened to Left- Wing sympathisers or to Jews, of whom there are inrge numbers in Holland. The concentration comp has been reserved principally for Roman Cathailes, and especially for, a body of Catholle University

In the wider economia field, the Germans seem to have promulgated a plan of their own devising Factories which fit into the Ger- man scheme of things are encour- aged to work, and every effort in made to keep them supplied with the raw materials which they need, If these are avaliable. As the Germans have, appropriated a large quantity of Dutch coal for German/professors.

WHITEAWAY'S

for wr BLANKETS &

DOWN QUILTS

AIR-CEL-BLANKETS

¡DOCTORS SAY THESE NEW BLANKETS BRING

HEALTHIER, MORE REFRESHING SLEEP.

In White Only.

Size 60" x 80′′ $32.50 each.

WITNEY BLANKETS

THESE FAMOUS BLANKETS ARE GOOD TO BUY BECAUSE THEIR DURABILITY MAKES THEM CHEAP IN THE LONG RUN; WHITE WITH BLUE BORDERS.

SINGLE & DOUBLE BED SIZES

From $16.50 each.

COLOURED BLANKETS

IN BEAUTIFUL SOFT LAMB'S WOOL. PASTEL SHADES OF:-GREEN, PINK, MAIZE, BLUE & BUFF.

Size 60" x 80" $21.50 each..

DOWN QUILTS

WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED A BEAUTIFUL NEW RANGE OF TAFFETA AND MAROCAIN COVERED DOWN QUILTS, IN SOLID COLOURS, AND ATTRACTIVE DESIGNS. COLOURS: GREEN, ROSE, LEMON, BLUE AND GOLD,

Prices from $54.50 each.

Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co., Ltd.

PRESIDENT LINER

Sailings

DATO' SAN· ·FRANCISCO "AND LOS ANGELES

Via Shanghai, Kobe, Yokokama

SS "President Pierce":

SS, "Prealdent Coolidge"

S9. "President Taf!"

Honolulu.

ост.

NOV.

NOV.

27

To NEW YORK AND BOSTON

Via Manila, Singapore, Penang, Colomba, Bombay à Capetowa.

SS 'President Garfield"

OCT.

SS "President Monroe"

OOT.

23

Tɔ SINGAPORE & FENANG

·SS "City of Norfolk''.

ост.

SS "City of San Francisco"

TO SAN FRANCISCO

DEC.

LOS ANGELES

Vik Tokolianis

OCT. NOVÉ

"City of Newport News".

"City of Norfolk"

via Yokohama,

* * AMERICAN ✰ PRESIDENT LINES

KAMA BOUND-WORLD

#AGENTS, FOBĚTRÁNSCÓN DESIGN AIR AND UNITI