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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

November

1940.

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Monday, Nov. 18, 1940.

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Telephone: 20015

THE prefix "Aneelal to the Telegraph" is used by the "Hongkong Telegraph” to indiente Dewy which is sfriette copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni- estions Ordinamen. 1914. Anch new* ** haare the Indiesflow "trpn ja vaerived in HARRYAN on the date of muhijestion he the United Trace Ausnetsfiona, who re- serve att pishis and forbid republications, either wholly or in part without previous arrangement,

NAZI HEALTH & MORALE

GERMAN morale is notorious- ly low when things go badly. So said a foreign correspondent lately; and there have been various examples which support this statement. Moreover, when people have been sustained in a long war on undiluted falsehood, all glorifying themselves, the reaction is certain to be violent

when the truth is suddenly thrust upon them.

In

趄 recent book, "Hell Hunger," written by Dr. Martin

Gumpert, a German now in the

United States, it is stated that' the Third Reich has achieved the mournful distinction of heading the international tables of

I Cent Buys Percussion Cap of a .303 suicide statistics. It cannot be

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an accident that in Germany 4.1 out of every ten thousand take their

lives,

While in

own

A Complete .303 Round America the figure is 1.4 per

One Piece of R. A. F. Forest Confetti

1 Incendiary Bomb

1 Complete Set of Spark Plugs

1 Small High Bomb

S.A.

5

A Bullet

19

12

"

25

93

A Complete .50 Round

50

17

"1

1 Dollar

1 Bomb Fuse

*

1 Parachute Flare

10

25

50

100

1 Large High

Bomb

250

1 Bomb Rack

500

$1,000

5,000-

10,000

100,000 500,000

ten thousand The number of patients in the mental and and nervous sanatoria of Ger- many has almost doubled since 1923,

The statistics in this book are drawn from official documents which seem somehow to have escaped the notice of the Nazi

All The Bombers Do Not

Reach

London

was just like what you read armada turned tail, wheeled in acctions as souvenire. It was

I was hap you were like scared birds, and now, they warm and sticky

The Mere Man

Britain's

No now

ing the past Far Eastern week was bet Policy

tor received by British people.

having tea on the porch, facing were thundering back home, "It'll make a mat for the fry-fact, has been seven days of the droway lawn, the wide directly overhead. savannah of fields that stretch

drop

ing pan," said Mrs. Budford.

In the

lost

away to the creek, the estuary "Heavens! If they sight of excitement we had but and the sea. Not a sound be something for spitel"

Mr. Warden, who works for neath the heat of the after-

But they didn't. And now Mayell's farm, appeared at the NOON.

the lane was alive with people.top of the lane shouting. "He's Someone said, "You wouldn't who had come out of their dug- coming down at the creek. They

machine-gunned me!! think there was a war on," outs. "Hurrah!"

“Hi! Hi! There's one com- Young Wardell rushed out of when, out of the sky came the drilling drone of aeroplanes. At Ing down in flames. The black the house in shirt and trousers, first we could not locate them, machine came tumbling down, carrying his rabbit gun. Old then someone said, "Good Lord, turning and twisting, red flame Mrs. Wardell appeared with the look!'

streaming from its wounded dinner knives in her hand. side. It flattened

"You run down the lane and' out, dis- Almost overhead, at a height appeared behind the tree-tops tell the Guards," she said to one of a few thousand feet, three of Wendell's farm, and, a mo- of the lads. V-shaped formations of planes ment later, a great column of were advancing steadily like black smoke curled up to the fish moving against the stream, sky.

"They must be British, flying

as low as that..

"They're bombers.

towards London

German .It.

going

they're

"Can't be they wouldn't

allow them to get so far in- land."

50.

4

We counted them-41 ...

"What's that? Look!"

fish.

"Pop, pop, pop, pop.”.

By Neil Macintyre

Young Wardell and Mr. War- den were already legging across. the field towards the creek..

Rather courageous of old Warden, we thought, unarmed.

The Home Guard were run-. ning up the lane, hiking their equipment over their shoulders. Young Tom Evans, the builder's man, was first.

"You forgot the carving knife, ma," he called out to Mrs. War The poor boys Inside," said dell as he ran past. They went a woman, "even if they are scouting over the field. We Out of the clouds two gnat- Jerries!"

watched them, tiny figures on like things came tumbling, "Hi there's a parachute!" the river wall. - straightened out and streaked High above the retreating When they came back they after the tail of the ugly black armada, the swarm of harrying reported that the parachutist gnats still on its tail, a thing had landed in the creek. "Ie like a white jelly-flah was drift- got out on the other side." "Oh, they're Jerries all right, ing downwards.

We'd hoped he would suddenly Somebody had field glasses. emerge from our bushes. We'd The Spitfires are after them."

"What? Those two boys at- Through them you could see the have asked him in to tea. tacking that formation?" tiny figure of a man, swaying, Going home on the train we Then the air, was suddenly kicking. He was drifting to- saw the crashed Messerschmitt alive with dancing gnats. "Pop, wards the creek.

in a field beside the line. It was A black object canic floating a burst of charred fragments. pop, pop, pop.”

"Come in under the verandah. down towards us. It fell out- Soldiers guarding it gave the You'll be hit by one of the side the gate. We rushed to train the "thumbs-up" sign. bullets."

"It's just like what you read inspect it. It was a piece of Then, "just like what you fabric, cheap, ersatz rubber, in the papers," anid the man in "If I hadn't seen read in the papers" (and, may- part of the floor covering of the the corner.

be, doubt), the great black burning plane. We divided it it I wouldn't have believed it."

War

Medals

Britain's Mean Something

THERE is one branch of war Lee, who was killed at Narvik. nine bars, 125 D.C.M.s, and 200

There have been 90 naval Military Medals. production in which we do not try to compete with Ger. D.S.O.8, with three bars, 827 Apart from the R.A.F's thres many the manufacture of D.S.C.8 and 510 D.S.M.8.

V.Cs there have been 21 D.S.0.5, medals.

Two of the Army's four V.C.s including four bars (one officer have been won by officers and winning two bars to a D.S.O. he When Britain gives a medal it two by N.C.O.s Other awards gained_in_India), 368 D.F.C.s means something; it is some to the Army include 76 D.S.0.8 and 225 D.F.M.s to sergeant- thing to be treasured for the and five bars, 226 M.C.s and pilots and other ranks. rest of the recipient's life and by his descendants.

Sq. It comes about that in the first year of war, only 1,746 awards have been made among

leaders. Dr. Gumpert seaks, by the thres Services apart from

facts, to destroy the legend of the power-radiating healthful-

Explosiveness of the Third Reich and to expose it as the propaganda lie Explosive which it is. He seeks to demon-

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Visit to Berlin

strate clearly that Fascism pro- | duces not health, but sickness, that it is the unhealthiest and most unwholesome political system ever born in the brain of

man.

The author's final indictment is a long list of evils that the regime has brought upon Gor-

1 Day's Upkeep of a many-an increased death-rate, Squadron of Fighters

1 Spitfire or Hurricane

Flying Fortress

2 Coastal Motor Boats

Destroyer

10,000 Ton Cruiser

1 35,000 Ton Battleship

be pleased to. with-the

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a falling birth-rato, a declining fecundity, an increase in rickets, the physical incapacity of the youth, a growing criminality, an Increase in drunkenness, doubling of mental diseases, an Increase in venereal diseases, rise in tuberculosis for man and beast, an increase in mics, food poisoning and many more.

but there is no doubtin

the Empire Gallantry Medal,. Order of the British Empire awards and lesser distinctions.

The Nazis, however, hand out their modals with the casual lavishness of the nx-Kaiser.

In the Polish.campaign alone, Hitler distributed 40,000 Iron Grosses.

It would take an astronomer to work out how many he has given away since, and no reliable figures are available.

THE Russians did not do so badly either. In their brief war against Finland they took occasion to give, 18.499 awards

seven times as many as the British have given in a whole year of total, war spreading

across the Seven 5008 S

Incuded in the Russian awards were 119 medals for the Herods of the Soviet Union," the highest award in the whole of Russia for

In the field.

FUNNY SIDE UP

By Abner Dean

and their friends in this part of the world than the announce- ment of the creation of a unified Far Eastern Command under Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert: Brooke Popham. The week, inz

extraordinarily gratifying events. in the international scene," not- withstanding the Molotov-Hitler parley, The continued success of the Greeks, and the British exploit at Taranto were certainly encouraging, but for Far East- orn residents the appointment of Air Marshal Popham was ne less significant. :

The decision reflects the adoption. of a definite policy in this area, which many people had long desired to see expressed in a manner that could be understood. Little mistake can be made by reading in the new move a clear sign of Britain's firm deter mination to call the bluff when - the time should come,

The ability to adopt a stiffer at- titude in the Far East than hitherto is alsó on eloquent Indication of how the tide of battle has turned In Europe to Britain's favour,

Gambling

In The

Whilst a hundred per cent success - would be impossible In any campaign to suppress organised

Colony gambling in any

elty, the measure of success so far nehieved by our police in dealing with the problem herd is not half grent as the citizens might expect irom a Force which certainly does not jack men or brains.

The ordinary man, not trained in'

police methods, cannot pretend to give any advice as to how the prob- lem could be tackled, but he cannot fail to be impressed by the con- tinuance of a everyday police

#vast

do not seem to dish the.

The 24tions

break ing-up of coolies' pai-kau schools and the like may keep our magistrates busy, but that is not what we We should like to

see the v lottery schemes stamped out entirely.. And we should be happy. K the many high-class, fashionable gambl- ing dens, where thousands of dollars change hands nightly and where the operators wax rich from their - gotten gains, were given more atten- lion by the police."

It is inconceivable that iliey, can- not be located, though it is admitted that they seem to be shifted from ono address to another. Often I have overheard well-dressed people discussing on ferries their winnings "or losses at this or that place. There seems to be little dificulty in And- ing a guide if one, only expresscs will sufficient conviction a desire to play a hand or two,

Even in the case of small gambling. the police: do not seem to have:

igone thoroughly about investigation. I can. personally testify to the uninterrupt- ed existence for many months of several fan-tan schools" oporated in shop corners and along the footpalhe —of more than one thoroughfare,

One such school went on for at least four months in Lyndhurst Terrace, within a stone's throw of the Central Police Station. I have

are of what was perfectly aware on and yet

I the payment” of Detually witness nothing.

by the men who run "business." When a constable came along, one-man who had a piece of paper would glance at the officer's number, hand over a sum of money,: and then mark off a line on the sheet.

seen police at both ends of the MAN

have

the

The whole procedure suggests that regular tributes are exacted 'for im- munity from arrest. (Citizens, could, l hardly be blamed, therefore,„, for thinking the same might also apply in the case of the big gambling dens Roller The report that a man had broker” his leg: last week in' an) mock Skating dent at the, new roller

akaiing rink at North Point reminded me very vividly of the time when "flew through the air with the great- est of ease.” I was

was about twelve years old at the time;" and roller: skating: was...... favourite recreation. after school hours. I got on splen.... didly for several month, unil} {{was- blind to an aerated water bottle cap stuck in the tarred roadway,

To say that I "look a dop” is put- ting it mildly, The road at the spot. was at a 'slight incline, and I plunged "head · foremost, forgyal teen feet

more. Not only did «Ichất; the dust, but, I bad bandages on, 13 three months:

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