CROWNS. A GOOD
"E" Brown Brandy
ELMOLENEN KANN
FUOTT
C
DINNER
WATSON'S.
"E"
FINE OLD BROWN
BRANDY
DISTILLED BOTTLED and MATURED IN COGNAC, FRANCE, BY RENAULT ET CIE
FOR
A. S. WATSON & CO., · LTD.
WINE DEPT.
TEL: 20616.
TRUCK OWNERS!
YOU CAN SAVE MONEY WITH THESE NEW TRUCK TYRES!
New, Exclusive Hi-flex cord construction practically eliminates sidewall fallures and shoulder breaks- often gives twice the mileage of ordinary tyres. These new Goodrich tyres can save you money!
Goodrich
TriProtected
Silvertown
IMPORTERS: DODWELL & CO., LTD. Hongkong Bank Building
HONG KONG DISTRIBUTORS: KA FOONG HONG 131, Hennessy Road
Let us get on with the job of winning the war by supporting the BOMBER. FUND
Send Carto
your cheque to
"War Fund. South China Morning Post, Ltd.” Subscriptions to 31-10.40.5 5/7 n Ramified to London
$1,405,384.92.
£87,389.19.68
- (Randers are invited to send in suggestions -to-RI) - this ; agnón)....
Friday,
· HONGKONG‹ TELEGRAPHI
The LATEST
IN AUTOMOBILE ATTIRE
-
1
When you drose your car, do a Don't slop complete job... with polishing or waxing the body and cleaning the windows dross the tires also with WHIZ WHITE TIRE COATING. Give your car that sought after, that fin- smart appearence .. ished look that only white sido- wall iron can give you ... LIGO WHIZ WHITE TIRE COATING, White sidewall tires by WHIZ for the latest in car
November 15. 1940.
WILL EUROPE STARVE?
On Hitler Rests
The Legal
Legal and Moral Responsibility
It is not until we turn to the las
Since
of
The position in fertilizers is sound.
1014 the manufacture synthetic nitrates has made thè Con- tinent practically self-rumcient in nitrogen fertilizers, which are the most important. There is a surplus.
potassie ferillisers, and a 30 per cent, deficiency in phosphates probably be made good, in part at least, by the normal imports from North the U.S.S.R. and French Africa.
of
Grain Stocks
сал
What has been said so far relales
und
of 1940
The events of the last few months have completely altered the character of the British blockade of Germany. At the | beginning of the year it was possible to consider Germany as a unit and make certain 'mudi-j fleations for imports from con- tiguous countries. To-day the producing and consuming unit cluding some adjustment of cus-|
cdible oils and fats, that we and o to which the blockade applics is, tomary diets, but unless there is important group of tolstuffs, he with minor modifications, the succession of bad crops the marked deficiency. Before the war to more or less normal conditions, Continent of Europe, almost the total supply of essential foods the Continent produced olives and to the sort of conditions which might cil seeds and nuts sumcient to be expected in 1941 or 1942. The whole of which is allied to Ger- should be adequate or nearly supply just over a third of ita totul poaltion this winter is complicated many or occupied or economic Poverty and autarchy have com consumption of vegetable oils; and by the fact that the 1940 erupis War to it whale oil, supplied from the An- well below normal in most parts of bined since the list
the severe dur to ally dominated by her.
late spring, Labour pose as the vegetable oils, is odded winter Within the Continent commo- make the Continent almost self-tarelle, and used for the sume pur the Continent,
to the importa, the proportion falls shortages, and some destruction by
Department Aghting. The US.
estimates Agriculture dities will be exchanged as free-sufficient.
This is tree of grains, on which to under a third.
The subject of oils and fats is one whent crop at 34,000,000 tons, which ly as Germany. permits, while!
cent.
of trade with non-European coun- the fight for self-sufficiency In Ger
difficult to estimate how serious this sumption, and while no estimates of Hood deliciency in the Continentul diet other crops are available, it is pro- tries, provided the blockade is any and Italy has concentrated of the greatest complexity, and it isnt crop nt 3
with inarked success. crop year the Continent is self-would be. The chief edible products table that they are down in sore- reasonably effective, will be dif- flcult or impossible. Perhaps sufletent in grains; in a normal year made from vegetable and marine thing like the same proportion.
Matters would therefore be seri- the most important effects of it is over 90 per cent. self-sufficient, oils are margarine, compound lardi,
were not abnormally large this change, from the military The position in wheat and rye, the and table olls. They and animal fots! point of view, are to be found, two most important for human con- are also extensively used in industry, bus, although not quite desperate,
sumption, is even more favourable. chiefly in making soap, but nan as there
ficiency. Figures on stocks are in- In ment and dulry and poultry pro-lubricants and in the manufacture stocks available to offset the de-
than self-of explosives,
but they on the side of raw materials.
duce Europe is more Germany is now assured of sufficient.
In the years before the war it - adequate supplies of iron and bauxite, but her supplies of ported a little, beef and mutton, but exported substantially greater quan-
the war total stocks of grains in many other vital materials-oil, titles of bacon, hum, and pork. It
The deßeleney is much less impor-Europe wore well in excess of u coul, textiles, rubber, and cer-also exported each year over 200,000
ver 50,000 tons of cheese, and two reasons. The first that the have not yet been, substantially re- milk, over stantially increased, while the over 100,000 tons of eggs. Shortage Continent hus always relied chiefly
it et toddler will make necessary to
Grain consumption could certainly demanda on them have become
reduce dairy herds and poultry, but on fats of animal origin. If we add eslimates of the production and trade HEWITT. At Baguio, P.I. on Novem-
and marine oils mal during 1940-41, while leaving ber 1, 1940, to Mignon, wife of much greater. But the most unless this has to be done on a very in butter, land, and suct to the be maintained at 90 per cent, of nor- William Hewitt, a son.
Attire..
Gold llera HONGKONG
HOTEL GARAGE Stubbs Ed
BIRTO
30.D
Hongkong Eelegraph.
Friday, Nov. 1, 1940.
Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20015
21
Winter
the
normal con-
can be verliled and.
complete and supplemented by
comparing available supplies in re- cent years with normal consumption. It is possible conclude with como
to
Conditions confidence that at the beginning of
tain minerals-have been нuh-tons of butter, over 200,000 tour oftant than it seems at first sight for normal year's imports and that they
dramatic problem' which arises Purge scale production will not beingures for vegetable Auced at home carry-over to meet a future emer-
con- **
any case be preserved or catmed,
te
on both sides of the Atlantic, 'Autarchy"
that Europe faces starvation?
A definite and certain answer | is not possible for a number of THE prefix "Special to the Telegraph" reasons. One does not know is used by the Hongkong Telegraph" to indicate news which is strictly copyright just how effective the blockade under the provisions at the Telecomsauni,
bears the indication "U" la received in
arrangement,
Success
the
percentage
it
cannot
reduced much below normal concerns the Continent's sup-sumption, and the surplus meat vices from about 30 per cent. to over geney. Stocks, like crops, are not
60 per cent. The
evenly distributed. Most were uc- second reason plies of food. It true, as we sulting from the sinughterings can in
that, above certain minimum, fnts cumulated or have now been seized are not an essential item of diet.by Germany. Almost all are now have been told by certain people
That minimum is fully supplied from under her control. If she does not animal sources--from ment, milk, and use them where they are require cheese, as well as from the more or the result will be local famines. leas pure animal fats Included in the That is the crux of the matter. above computation.
The fact that there is enough food not more than or 7 produced or stored on the Continent Probably Vegetables are almost everywhere
On the Continent proper cent. of the total calories con- to meet subsistence needs, this win- local crap. duction and consumption have nor sumed on the Continent are provided ter and in the future, does not menn mally balanced, and production can
means that the loss of two-thirds of means that nobody need starve, that Canadiance, 1916, Such news as will be; how much food will be be treated. There is a shortage of from vegetable or whale oils; which that nobody will starve. It merely itself cause offset by surpluses or stocks else- production almost equals consump-privation,
where. There
ere will be shortages in Heugkong on the date of publication by sold to Germany by Russia; how fruits, but it is not large. Orange their supply, while it will cause some deficiencies in some regions can be the United Press Associations, who re-
the Low Countries, Polnud, Norway, serve all tights and forbid republication, much the remaining independent on in years when the Mediter-farmine.
The maintenance in future years and parts of France. Whether or not either wholly or in part without previoux countries will be permitted to ranean crop is good, and there is a
surplus of lemons.
of supplies of meat, animal products, they are made good depends upon import. Nor can one make nc-
has scored another and to a less extent grains, depends the decision of the Reich. curate estimates of Continental! "Autarchy"
The legal and moral, responsibility success in the production of sugar, upon adequate supplies of fodder and stocks, or of recent or future where the deficiency in the years be- fertilizers. Before, the war the de-
fore the war was only of the order ficiency in fodder supplies was met rests with Hiller, as Professor Good- production.
of 8 per cent. The European con- by the import of maize, barley, oats, hart demonstrated recently, but he in feed to his anti-British propaganda, in The statistics are reasonably aumer will have to forgo coffee when and seeds for the manufacture of oil may refuse to assume it, as an aid
only existing stocks are exhausted, as well cake. The total deficiency in
hope of embittering Anglo- simply be- passenger plane by Japanese complete to the end of 1988: which he has never learned grains and cake, however, wus on American relations, or war machines, resulting in the they must be supplemented by to drink, and the third of his tobacco of the order of 10 or 15 per cenuse he does not want to use
which came from Turkey and over-and the position is really better than
but these deprivations, while this, since large quantities of home German reserves for this purpose. If death of nine people, including incomplete figures for 1939, es- the American pilot, Mr. W. C. timates for 1940, and guesses unpleasant, will not be injurious to produced grasses, legumes, and potn he does adopt this policy, and local some slaughtering of animals (the world should know that German tinental
shortage is in wine, which been Kent, is just part of the fortunes for 1941 and subsequent years, health. The most surprising Con-toes are used as feed. There has famine results, it is important that of wara cynicism which is Nevertheless, a careful study of France imported in vast quantities already, and there will have to be borsts of ample food supplies, while to the from Algeria, but in this food the more, but most Continental animals not literally true, ure true enough
peoples she has conquered. I production. given additional sting by the production. and trends.
self-suficient. fact that it constitutes but one end of 1938, modified to take remainder of the Continent is just can normally be fed from domestle to enable Germany to sustain-the of many barbarous acts con- into account the factors which nected with a war which, accord-have been operating since that ing to international law, does time, does give us an idea, pro- A. J.
BRUTAL ACT·
THE heartless cynic will re- mark that the shooting down defenceless C.N.A.C.,
of
21
not exist!
bably not wildly inaccurate, of Technically speaking there is the Continent's prospects of little or no difference between feeding itself. For the pur poses of this study the Continent deliberately shooting down an
is taken to include all European unarmed plane fonded with civilians and just as deliberately countries with the exception of bombing civilian populations: the point la, both are horrible acts, without justification.
U.S.S.R., Turkey. British Isles.
und the!
Exaggeration
os teo,
McWHINNIE
the
Introduces you in this article to the
Up
SEVEN SEAS PATROL
I
thom. There were boyz HAVE just come ashore at; Away on the loneliest ocean patrols There was an income tax collector a northern port from a fine in the world-the Aretle and the among
North and South Atlantic-they sigh straight from the Universities. There were others whose shore jobs weren't 11,000-ton liner which is now an for R sudden decision by Hitler to much good, anyway.. A mixed com- armed merchant cruiser.
try to sneak his bottled-up ships, outplement.
the
They know that successful bloc-
An expression of regret from Tokyo would not have been out Stated baldly, the principal
But they've pulled together with Once, she carried millionaires to of safe harbours. They yearn for
the same ideals. They shore the of place. The more charitably conclusion is that the danger of the East. Now the Navy takes her action.
Month after month they have been same disappointment because minded would like to think that general starvation on the. Con- through the silence of the Northern
hoping the enemy would show up guns are silent. the act was that of an irrespon- tinent has been grossly exag-Patrol.
Where they played deck games a Month after month they have been sible squadron leader with hisgerated; but it is necessary to
disappointed. But they sail on, peer- senses temporarily blinded by distinguish between short-run year ago, the Navy's big guns are in through the ley darkness of keding was always the same."
Northern nights
watching and. the lust of war; but Tokyo has prospects during the coming manned to-day.
Where the strains of foxtrots and displayed complete indifference, winter and the longer run. In
to float through the Although their work is "dull" to while the Japanese news agen- the longer ran, during the next rumbas used
mouth-orgon shunty from a sailor finding happier crews. cies did not even report the oc- few years, Continental produc-ship, you can now hear only an odd them, you'd search the seas without currence; this suggests official tion can reasonably be expected of watch. connivance in brutality, and the to approximate to normal con-
hoping.
Jellicoe's Pride
Collingwood had to face up to the tedium aboard ship when there was There is the same matey atmos- no possibility of battle. Dkin' he I went on board that armed mer-phere in an armed merchant cruiser say nearly 150 years ago that his cruiser expecting thrilling that you find in the destroyers. Yel, wita were forever at work. "to keep every conceivable branch of sake and to save them from mis-
chief? The affair is not only a surplus to be wasted or diverted daredevil nights at sea. But all the from
And didn't Jellicoe, Commander- tragedy; it is another tragic to munitions industries. Care-blockade boys wanted to talk about the sea service.
Some of them sailed' in this ship blunder on
the part of the ful planning of consumption and was how YOU at home were stand-
Admiralty took her over and invited 1014 to 1010, show that he appro- inted the kind of boredom you get So the men came too. Japanese militarists, for its only distribution will be required, in- up to your encounter with the when she was a luxury liner. The in-Chief of the Grand Fleet, from In a warship which can't And 'n effect is further to allenate
They wanted to hear about the the men.
The caplain, rugged, sun-tanned | night? ........: world opinion and to make The first is that of the natural fear women and kids whose spirit Hitler's
horse-loving inquire, had a brief re- bombers cannot kill.
"I feel," he said, "prouder, with China more and more deter- 'and hatred of war. Then comes the
They wanted news of the Indus-tirement after a fine record of naval
mand suchmen, and during mined to fight to the end. protective, when the first care is for areas where men and girls on service. When the call came, he put every day tint passes that I com- period of waiting and watching they the lives and comfort of their men-vital work volunteer to stay at their on his unitorin again. •.
are cheerful and contented, in spite WOMEN'S. DEFIANCE
folk exposed to the dangers of war benches and machines while the There, may be, other stages not so bombs are falling... clearly marked, but there is one
attitude calls for condemnation. sumption. There will be no chunt
tales of roaring guns-kebergs-the crews are hotch-potches, drawn my people employed both for health's
IT is commonly said that to be sure of success a great cause must women of a nation. There can be Women themselves and their children
enemy.
have the devoted support of the stage which is peculiar to the war. Yearn for Action
#1
the
+7
Naval Reserves of the uroy dullness of their lives."
The destroyer boys in the Channel So did the commander. He left his are getting their thrills. Vory.soun offee, set amid the roars and bustle
are flung Into the Aring line, sub- How many times have you been of the City, for the bleak allenthey expect more to come, no doubt of where and how the wo-jected to alarms and death in its proud of the Navy? Today the blackness of the Northern patrol. Whenever, the Italian fleet, pokes men of the British Commonwealth most forbidding aspects. And their Navy has that same pride in you. stand in this struggle to preserve passion of anger and hatred is con liberty, dignity, and honour. They centrated upon one man-and_who know tint this peculiarly n wo- can hate like a woman roused?
So did the old Yeoman of Signals, it pose out of safety, the Navy in
Jeitement, too. Men who know no fear themselves with more than 30 years service in Mediterranean tras a bit of ex- are thrilled by you at homb. In the the Royal Navy to,, his credit. But, on the bridge, in the wardroom and were proud to come buck." overything for which they have women have come to that stage in down on the mess-decks, it was
man's cause, arid that “If 15 A5, A According to some observers, many captain's cabin, with the cominander as he told me,me and the captain And you at home. are getting
lost
enough War in d. right to last you a lifetime,
blockading our successful
fought for generationsa,will vania.which their predominant desire and always the same,. The heroes of the Who sailed the seas under the Ited frendrons just sall on, though they're
Then there were officers and men That is why every plan to help the resolution is to live ull vengeance sea these days are thrilled by theEnsign in, other ships, but cano to
the Navy.s. Royal Navy reserves, ispalling for, a fight. ' wat in which women have been
more successful their specially enlisted, has been carried wreaked upon the arch-criminal, bravery of the landlubbers.
They no longer fear him. They
Iwork is. : through with muchy energy,» «HE
defy him, and scorn his threat to They themselves haven't been get. There were business and professional The tonger they don't run into
of the RNVR The Manifestations of the war grind them down in the war of ting, near the enemy, because the men who were called up as members faction, the
enemy won't come out. spirit pass through "värious stages; nerves:
Page 20Page 21
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.