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Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

November 18, 1940.

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Buick Sedan

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· 1935

Morris 10 Saloon

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1934

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1035 Studebaker Champion Coupo

1040

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1034

Studebaker Sedan

1930

35413 3202 81,300.

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Monday, Nov. 18, 1940.

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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 a 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

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

while in lives, America the figure is 1.4 per

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 uro. drawn from official documents which seem somehow to have escaped the notice of the Nazi

leaders. Dr. Gumpert seeks, by facts, to destroy the legend of the power-radiating healthful-

1 Small High Explosiveness of the Third Reich and to Bomb

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Bombs & Petrol for al Visit to Berlin

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Squadron of Fighters 1 Spitfire or Hurricane

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expose it as the propaganda lie which it is. He seeks to demon-

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 Ger- a many-an increased death rate, a falling birth-rate, a declining fecundity, an increase in rickets, the physical incapacity of the youth, a growing criminality, an increase in drunkenness, a doubling of mental diseases, an increase in venereal diseases, a: rise in tuberculosis for man and beast, an increase in opidemics, food poisoning--and many more. rmida list of evils on for

2 Coastal Motor Boats 1 Destroyer 110,000 Ton Cruiser

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All The Bombers Do Not

Reach

London

"Heavens! If they

The Mere Man

Britain's

Far Eastern Policy.

No news dur- ing the post week was bat- ter received by British people and their friends, in this part of the world, than the announce-i ment of the creation of a unified · Far Eastern Command under T was just like what you read armada" turned tall, wheeled in sections as souvenirs. It was. Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert,

in the papers. We were like scared birds, and now they warm and sticky,"

Brooke Popham...: The week, in- 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 drowsy lawn, the wide directly overhead.

ing pan," said Mrs. Budford. extraordinarily gratifying events savannah' of fields that stretch

In the excitement we had lost in the international scene, not- drop sight of the parachutist. But withstanding the Molotov-Hitler away to the creek, the estuary:) and the sea. Not a sound be something for spitel"

Mr. Warden, who works for parley. The continued success. neath the heat of the after. But they didn't. And now Mayell's farm, appeared at the of the Grecks, and the British the lane was alive with people top of the lane shouting "Ho's exploit at Taranto were certainly Someone said, "You wouldn't who had come out of their dug- coming down at the creek. They encouraging, but for Far East

machine-gunned me!"

ern residents the, appointment. think there was a war on" outs. "Hurrah!"

"Hi Hi There's one com- Young Wardell rushed out of of Air Marshal Popham was no when out of the sky came the

less significant. drilling drone of aeroplanes. At ing down in flames. The black the house in ghirt and trousers, first we could not locate them, machine came tumbling down, carrying his rabbit gun. then someone said, "Good Lord,turning and twisting, red flame Mrs. Wardell appeared with the

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

"You run down the lane and 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

noon.

look I'

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as low as that,

"They're bombers.

towards London.

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"Can't

going

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be-they wouldn't

allow them to get so far in- land."

50.

We counted them-41..

By Neil Macintyre

Old

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

Rather courageous. of. old Warden, we thought, unarmed.

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

The decision reflects the adoption of a definite polley 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 also an eloquent indication of how the tide of battle has turned Ja Europe to Britain's favour.

Gambling per

In The Colony

Whilst a hundred cent success would be impossible In any campaign to suppress organised gambling in

which

any

"You forgot the carving knife, ma," he called out to Mrs. War-city, the measure of suceCAS: SO far

achieved by our. "The poor boys inside," said dell as he ran past. They went

police in dealing with the problem here is not half as "What's that? Look!" a woman, "even if they are scouting over the field. We

great as the citizens inight expect Out of the clouds two gnant- Jerries!"

watched them, tiny figures on from a Force which certainly does like things came tumbling, "Hi there's a parachute!" the river wall.

not lack men or brains High above the retreating -straightened out and streaked

When they came back they after the tail of the ugly black armada, the swarm of harrying reported that the parachutist fish.

gnats still on its tail, a thing had landed in the creek. "He "Pop, pop, pap.. pop." like a white jelly-fish was drift- got out on the other side." "Oh, they're Jerries all right, ing downwards.

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

"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 pop, pop, pop.” ~

A black object came floating a burst of charred fragments. "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."

Inspect it. It was a plece of "It's just like what you read Then, "just like what you fabric, cheap, ersatz rubber, in the papers," said the man in read in the papera" (and, may- part of the floor covering of the the corner. "If I hadn't seen be, doubt), the great black burning plane. We divided it it I wouldn't have believed it."

War

Medals

Britain's Mean Something

Military Medals,

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 full to be impressed by the con- tinuance of a vast racket everyday police court prosecutions do not seem to disrupt. The break- ing-up of coolies' pal-kau schools and the like may keep our magistrates busy, but that is not what we want. We should like to seo. the various lottery schemes stamped out entirely. And we should be happy if the many high-class, fashionable gambl- ing dens, where thousands of dollars change hands nightly and where the -- operators wax rich from their ill- gotten gains, were given more atten-

fon by the police.

It is inconceivable that they can- not be located, though It is admitted that they seem to be shifted from one address to another. Often I have overheard well-dressed people discussing-on-ferrles-their-winnings or losses of this or that place. There seems to be little difficulty in find- ing a guide if one only expresses with sufficient conviction a desire to play a hand or two.

Even in the case of small gambling, the police do not seem to have gone

personally testify to the uninterrupt- ed existence- for, many, months of several fan-tan' schools operated: in: shop corners, and, along the footpaths-

than one thoroughfare..

THERE is one branch of war Lee, who was killed at Narvik. nine bara, 125 D.C.M.s, and 200 thoroughly about Investigations I can

production in which we do There have been 99 naval not try to compete with Ger- D.S.O.8, with three bars, 827 Apart from the R.A.F.'s three many tho manufacture of D.S.C.s and 510 D.S.M.a.

V.C.s there have been 21 D.S.0.8, Two of the Army's four V.C.s including four bars (one officer medals.

have been won by officers and winning two bars to a D.S.O. ho When Britain gives a medal it two by N.C.O. Other awards gained in India), 368 D.F.C.8. means something; it is some to the Army include 75 D.S.0.8 and 225 D.F.Ms to sergeant- thing to be treasured for the and five bars, 226 M.C.s and pilots and other ranks. reat of the recipient's life-and by his descendants.

So it comes about that in the first year of war only 1,746 awards have been made among the three Services apart from the Empire Gallantry Medal, Order of the British Empire awards and lesser distinctions.

The Nazis, however, hand put their medals with the casual lavishneas of the ex-Kaiser.

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

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

THE Russiansyld not do s0 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 Seas, a Incuded in the Russian awards wero 119 medals for the Heroes of the Soviet Union," the highest award in the whole of Russia for Bravery in the fieldin

SO far only anime -Victoria Crosses have been

by the Navy, three “Air Fares and four

FUNNY SIDE UP

By Abner Dean

One such school went on for at least, four months, Min, Lyndhurst Terrace, within a stone's throw of the Central Police Station. I have.. seen police at both ends of the street, perfectly aware of what was going on and yét.

I have doing nothing netually witnessed the payment of squeeze

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

The whole proçedure suggests thatrea regular tributes are exacted for im munity from atrest. Citizens could hardly be blamed, therefore, for... thinking the same: might also apply li in the case of the big-gambling dentens

Roller

The report that a mant

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je had ' broken "his: leg ::as Phe last week In an acci Skating dent at the new

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skating rink at North Point reminder me very vividly of the time when "few through the air with the gresti!!" ext" of ease."-- I was about twelvo years old at the time, and roller.. skating was a favourite recreation after school, hours, Iy

didly for several months, until blind to an aerated water bottle cap stuck in the tarred roadway

To say that I "look a Bop" is pute ting it mildly. The road at the spot was at a slight incline, and I plunged head foremost for fifteen Idet ör. more. Not only did - lehit "thms dust, but I had bandages on the face for three months.

I have not put on skates, duce, but

'I have always enjoyed the beri

ance of others. Skating · In "an. hilarating sapori, and in every Nine 'night", for the spectator, anwella

have been scores of Chine children in the Colony performing marvellously well, and the sport.is likely alan become more

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