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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

November 15, 1940.

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WONDER if you feel as see your loved ones and your-

309 $3,000 frightened as I do. When self exposed to such danger. I have to go out at night during But you have a lot to loso. Have the standard of living of the an air-raid the searchlights all you read of the way in which seem to converge above my head countries Hitler has conquered and the air throbs with the is being pushed lower and sounds of German acroplanes lower? They are slave States, whose pilots dislike me.

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There are such unexpected their workers cut down to two- noises in this war and the bombs thirds or a half of the small.. are so much bigger. I should wages and rations of their Ger- feel so much enfer with a tin man colleagues. Every worker's hat to protect my head. I should organisation is controlled feel so much happier in even the destroyed. frowslest shelter. My walk, despite all the efforts of my will, would remind watchers of the London to Brighton walking race, if I were not alone, horri bly alone, in a black and mys- terious London.

You are rich? Then you may

reason for these raids must be tho belief that some large 800- tion of the public will be so do moralised by them that it will. march down to Whitehall to do. mand peace.

There has been justifiablo unger over evacuation and shel- ter arrangements in the East End, but do you find any desiro to surrender? I don't, and yet this is probably the most critical week of all In Hitler's war of

norves.

We are, unexpectedly and temporarily, in greater danger than most men who have volun- teered their services in the Bri- tish Army. We would not have it otherwise, for the whole na- tion, and not merely its younger men, must run riska to'save the whole nation's heritage. And

be tempted to ask yourself to grin and bear it as house we can consolo ourselves with whether his destruction cannot after house goes up in smoke the reflection that we have come be stopped. But what have the or down in rubble. But the through this baptism of bom- Thyssens and the Hugenbergs question answers itself. What bardment with amazingly little disorder or disorganisation.. and the other Industrialists or

way out can there be with a man when we have adapted our lives Press lords gained by compro- And, after all, we are living mise with Hitler? A little pro- who has set out so deliberately and our homes so that we get the maximum of sleep with the minimum of danger Hitler's. through an attempt at terrori longation of their privileges, but to crush you?

hope of that march on White- sation on a scale which has a certainty of a worso collapse Under the Weimar nothing to equal it in history, later on.

The Nazis are raging because hall will be destroyed and the of our Madrid and Warsaw passed Republic they were more heavily through hell and we can now taxed than ever (for they must our Air Force has begun aeri- random destruction botter understand their suffer- pay for the Nazi armaments) ously to bomb Berlin. But only homes may so obviously cease to

Hongkong Telegraph.ings and admire their courage, and they have temporary safety after Buckingham Palace and have any military value that it

Friday, Nov. 15, 1940. Wyndham St., Hongkong

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Hitler has now improved only, made uneasy by the cer- acres of the East End, after may die down.

churches and cinemas, after

And we can then face the fu- his methods of destruction and tainty of upheavals to come.

hospitals and homes of every

hopes. For he has the world's largest tar-

You are an ordinary, middle- kind, had suffered from the Ger- ture with high got. Small wonder that we or class citizen with no great am- man raiders. What mercy or what chance would Hitler have: next year when our machines dinary individuals are fright bition beyond that of leaving understanding could one expect will outnumber his and Ameri- your wife and family a little from this ruthless and bitter THE prefix "Special to the Telegraphened when the bombs fall. is need by the "tongkong Telegraph to

You are poor? Then you better off then they are now? man? indicate nows which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni-

may be tempted to ask yourself Then you may be tempted to ask cations Ordinance, 1938. Such news AE bears the indication, "Up" is received in whether, having so little of the yourself whether there is no

Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who re serve all rights and forbid republications. either wholly or in part without previous arrangement

-FAR EAST DEFENCE

THE War Office decision to create a unified Far Eastern Command is another welcome

can help will be. fully effective? You may, perhaps, not be as Unless Hitler actually enjoys frightened as I am, but you can- world's wealth to lose, you need way out of this mess other than destroying life, the principal not, I think; be more confident.

"NO!" TO A New

THE

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PRINCE

sign of Britain's changed policyTHERE is a story told of an in the Orient. It is a direct Indian Prince, the Mahara- warning to any Power, not to jah Gaekwar, which gives me allow itself to imagine that one-great pleasure whenever I recall sided appeasement continues to it.

peace.

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Tenants

UR new tenants-for that is precisely what

on

Isles

of Romance

captives were set to work rename, Kayamca in corrupt form has pairing their ships.

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persisted.

the United States be- come under the naval

For long Jamaica had the un bases for destroyers agreement

enviable reputation of being the world's greatest slave mert. That will be established in some of the oldest parts of the Empire. Antigua, smallest of the is-was because the Royal African Com- In fact, Newfoundland, dis lands concerned in the deal, was pany formed there in 1872 had a be the vulnerable spot in our This Maharajah 'ordered that one

Already there were 70 sugar fao-z political and diplomatic armour. of his parks in Baroda should be covered in 1497 by John Cabot, discovered by Columbus, who is monopoly of the slave trade.

church in Seville, Santa Maria tories, 60 indige works and 60: encao

rks on the island. Britain to-day means business, closed one day in each week to all is the oldest of all the English said to have named it after a

works la Antigua.

Since then bananas have taken. except the women of the city. Then, colonies. and overt threats, cunning en-

and croachinents

diplomatic on one such day, the Maharajah for

With the exception of the

For nearly a century and a pride of place as principal export.

rum come a close second. manoeuvring will no longer find got his own rule and drove towards

the park with a view to enjoying its Bermudas all the other bases half it remained uninhabited.but sugar and the famous Jamaica A large share of the spices and are in that sickle-shaped string Even now its population is only us hastily retreating and ner-

from this lovely island- vously on the defensive; we are

The gatekeeper was in a dilemma. of islands the West Indics 30,000. The whole island covers favourings that go into your food. pimentos, ginger, and a dozen other prepared to face up to anything he admitted-his-royal-master he which guard the entrance to the less in area than the County of comes

-London:

aromatie spices-are-grown-on-its- At one time there was a Bri-luxuriant hills. That the new Commander-in-would disobey instructions, whereas Panama Canal.

Many times in its history Jamaica- Chief of the Far Eastern Com- it he denied him admittance, who

tish naval depot at English| mand should be Air Chief knows what wrath he might not be

and hurricanes, and on the Tast serious visitation of this kind-the- Marshal Sir Robert Brooke Pop

Harbour, a fine deep inlet in the has been scourged by earthquakes Sugar and molasses are the earthquake of 1007-help Was ham is not without significance;

high rocky coast. principal exports-mostly to brought by the United States war- clearly, special attention is to be paid to the Empire's air de-

England and Canada--and sweet potatoes, yams and maize are fences in the East; just as ob-

grown for local consumption. "Dismiss that man!" said vious is it that emphasis is to

Maharajah, deeply offended. be placed on the preservation of the integrity of Malaya, Burma But when the gates were opened, and India. Hongkong is in-disclosing the Autter of women's shawls within, the Prince, realised cluded in the scheme, and al- his own mistake and drew back. though, as the 'official military Amending his instructions, he direct- spokesman pointed out, no in-ed that the gatekeeper should crease in our air force is en- promoted.

Most of these islands have inviting upon his own humble head. been in British hands since the He determined to stand by his seventeenth century, and the duty. Bowing low in respect, hojnames of many of them-St. declared that he could not open the Kitt's, St. Lucia, Port Royal in

gotca.

ships. Jamaica-recall the thrilling

the days when Captain Morgan and other famous pirates had their lairs in the deep harbours of the Caribbean Sea.

of Because

а regrettable mis- understanding over the landing of United States marines the ships were withdrawn, causing an international incident of considerable magnitude.

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The wealth of Trinidad depends o another form of production. In the volcanle hills la a remarkable pheno- immense and apparently inexhaus-

Most.historical and largest of the islands concerned is Jamaica, with sixteen good harbours and a popula- Some of the harbours soon totion of nearly a million.

When Columbus was stranded for 12 inonths on its northern shores he shelter U.S. warships are the be very places where the pirates found the natives called it Xaymaca Menon-the famous Pitch Lake, of.

shared their loot in drunken "Tale of Springs" and although ible value, carousal while their miserable the Spaniards tried to change its Circular In form, covering an

By Abner Dean

visaged or likely, the fact that So moral courage met with its At- the Naval Commander-in-Chiefting reward.

is to consult and co-operate with That it does not always do so, few the Air Chief Marshal, and that men in either East or. West will re- the Colony's General Oficer quire to be told. Littleness, dressed Commanding is directly respon-up in the trappings of authority, cares nothing about duty faithfully sible to him, is satisfying evidence that Hongkong is not to be left performed, but only about seeming isolated and ignored in any general affronts to its own importance.

plan for the defence of Britain's Far East possessions.

It is always instructive to observe the conduct of people in the presence more influential beings-those

The comprehensiveness of the War of Office plan is Impressive, providing with the granting or withholding of for defensive co-operation between favours at their disposal. India, Burma, Malaya, the East In-

This really is an excellent test of dies, and Hongkong in collaboration character, since. It is hunan and with Australia and New Zealand,natural for people to desire to stand This, in effect, is Britain expressing well with powerful Individuals. herself prepared to safeguard the For

East and the southern Pacifié against

Do they on that account relax

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aggression, a mission which doubtless their standards and turn their backs would receive the moral and practical upon their duty? Or do they stand fast to their principles? If so, it is assistance. of the United States,

The latest announcement is also a possible that their steadfastness may reminder that gone are the days be punished by neglect or active when it was possible to believe, that will on the part of offended authority. because Britain was so occupied in Most of us have been in the posi-. Europe, she could not afford to give tion of the Maliarajah'a gatekeeper, due attention to her East and Paclic and perhaps even more unfortunately industry placed in that our own Maharajab- 'Interests; with her war

mpidly reaching peak output, the was not always a just man. Mother Country is attaining a post-witch co

Or the course of moral courage, whose real rewards are set far be- yond the sphere of promotion or dismissal?.

Which course did we pursue? Tho tion when she can wage a world course of moral cowardice? wido war it necessary, and what is more, wage it successfully. No bet tor corrective to false ideas possibly entertained by certain Powers about Britain's overseas polley could have been, given than by the announcer- ment of tall new defence plan, AS

Robert Power.

FUNNY SIDE up

nteer for my next trick

who came in on..

THE GREAT MARVO

preferably some-

farea of over 100 acres, this lake is the source of the Trinidad asphalt, which wolls up in low, bulging masses In the vast clrcle. In the centre of the lake a patch of liquid glich bubbles constantly valuable off.

Trinidad has,, 100, deposits.

Southernmost of the new United Slat

bases will be that in British

Gulana,

Britain's only possession on.

the South American mainlands.

Much of the country is jungle lund, but there are extensive deposits. of gold, diemands, manganese, etc.

British Gulma was in the nows recently; it was the country in. which, so it was proposed, Jewish. refugees from Germany should be settled.

Bernard Moore

MOROCCO PILOTS Surrender To British

Members of the French Moroccan air force continue to dy to Gibraltar

and surrender to the British authori fles. Another two French warplanes. carrying five pilots passed over to the British alde when they landed at Gibraltar recently, says an official Spanish news agency message from.

Algeciras.

The Berlin correspondent of the Spanish Tartier ""organj, out that the Angle

struggle cannot be decided

German

ning attack as was the case with other countries.” England Island and a German-ex forces would.'” have obstacles int

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