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"TELEGRAPH” SATURDAY FEATURE

BEHIND

THE HEADLINES

By

and JOHN BLUNT

THE indiscriminate bombing of open towns by the Germans the murder of women children (not to mention the blinding and maim- ing), all go to make up the orgy of frightfulness

which Hitler and his hated people have for years pre- meditated. No words can adequately condemn the atrociousness of their work.

It surely is perfectly clear that no action on our part can be too drastic in ridding this world of this pestilence-this cankerous ex- crescence which is fouling all that elvilisation stands for. And the Huns

uns call

Kulturt

Hitler has boasted about his total warfare, and this is the only pro- mise he has mude which he has kept. Why, therefore, should we hesitate in paying him back In his own kind?

We hear time and time again how the Air Force has bombed Hamburg.

blasted

marshalling

yards at a dozen points, smashed Krupps and the Skoda Works, set ail tanics ablaze.

All this is very necessary and heartening, but it will be more heartening when we hear that for every open town the Germans bamb, we bomb three of theirs.

This is no moment for our finer feelings. Until we demonstrate to the German people themselves that our vengeance will be swift, ter- elless and sure-until we amash

their open towns more thoroughly than they endeavour to destroy ours until then, wit German air- men continue to receive instruc tions to murder nud malm Britishi -women and children, and lay waste our treasured cathedrals und

hemes.

say It is all very well to that Of course our people can take it. they can; but there Is Bitle doubt thut by now they want to hit the Germans harder than they are be- ing hit-and the sooner all claim to clean fighting a forgotten, the

sooner will the German murder machine be smashed. We must teach them to abhor the horrors which they themselves started, and the only way to drive home to their robot minds what their tota! warfare means, is to give them heavy doses of their own med

medicine.

the

Of course, it is universally Cugnised that

by bombing certain thickly

districts, populated Germons pre not making the slightest progress in their fanatica! desire to destroy England and the British Empire. Dut they TC cousing great suffering and creat- ing extensive destruction. In the last war, Germany was spared the witnessing of the horrors of war, but this time, until her people see

themselves for'

what Hitler has done for them until they suffer as they have

made others suffer—they will not yield,

It

must be remembered that we are defending civilisation against a monster who employs, every foul device in order to exterminate those who cure to stand ini, his path. We must counter device with device; method with method only by so doing shall we En the defeat of German frightfulness.

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sure

The umizing part of the orgy of killing is the fact that Hitler hus managed

io

supporters. secure Italy is beginning to realise that her partnership with a thug is any- thing but pleasant, and I

I im that Japan is becoming very doubt- ful as to the wisdom of

choice. of her Both of Hiller's deluded dupes. must be fully aware by now that the gangster business is not as sale it was represented to be, and the having succumbed to promise of a share in the loot, they now realise that the only thing they are likely to share is the grim punishment which is coming to incir master-Germany.

that

M

毖

My eye caught a headline in a Shanghai newspaper

other

day.

Jewish read: 14,000

It

the

Refugees Face Starvation Winter."

This

Just a mere handful of men, wo- men and children who have been hounded from their homes and countries-their worldly DOSSC*- sions snatched from them by Hit- fer's ruthless machine. Denied the right

ight to carn their own brend and butter, they have become penniless outensts, forced to the deepest depths of degradation,

littlo

This email community in Shang- hai is possibly fortunate in having. escaped direct contai with the Narls. What of the millions in European countries who, under the brutal heci of litleriam, have to face this coming winter? One Nidders to think of their anguish.

This time,

two or three years ngo, they were thinking of Christ- mas. Mothers and fathers of them were happily planning the hang- Ing-up of stockings. Their children-as precious to them as ours are to us-were writing little notes to the mysterious, kindly old, Father Christmas and watching the asher disappear up the on the journe land of happiness and hope whence come the dolls and toys. Now they live huddled and cold in hut- ments in a strange country, where few kindly strangers do their ut- most to alleviate their distress and

-deserved lot.

to that chimne

For them the legend of Father Christmas has faded away, and in its place stands the gaunt, grin- ning, bestial apparition of Hitler.

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This

sume opparition over- shadows the world to-day, but in due time it will be overcome--but will still be remembered as a hide- ous episode in the world's history which will fauve behind it sorrow, suffering and tragedy for many In the years which lie ahead.

The man who started this, and the legions who worship and follow him, must be ruthlessly deprived of their evil power by means which will not only prove effective, but speedy. In other words, they must De Lombed out of their own homes.

The peopic of the British Isles will never falter, and will leave no stone unturned in the task of des- troying Bitter and his works. Here In Hongkong we can encourage them by giving monetary assis- tance. Let's give unstintingly.

TELEGRAPH” SATURDAY FEATURE

CURRENT

Owing to the astounding. success of Greek arms, the

COMMENT

By "Scrutineer"

GODS OF CHINA

CHOU KWOK KAU

He was of the Imperial No- family of the Sungs. tice the tablet of admission to Court in his hand,

Being struck one day with the beauty of a married wo- man, he invited her and her husband to the palace, where he strangled the man. But the woman would have nono of his silver-tongued advances. Therefore, he imprisoned her,

The soul of her husband appeared before the Chlof

and Justice

begged von- geance. The young voluptu- _ary, in order to silence tha witness, throw the woman down a well and left her; but she was rescued by a good spirit and, after numerous nar- row escapes, told her tale to the Chief of Police, an honest man, who ardored the mur- derer to be executed,

Through the influence of the Empress, the Chief Censor liberated Chou's soul, and from then onwards he turned over a new loaf, lived a life of perfection and, through the instruction of the Parfect Ones, became the last of the Eight Immortals.

Walter C. Clark.

cannot last, for the simple reason that the Germans are

"PEACE" TREATY FARCE

situation in the Balkans is is efforts to keep his partner face the ridicule of the world whose now crystallising and is very Hitler from the Mediterranean at all laughter would be Homerle, if he much in favour of Britain, costs have ended in being excluded were to ask for and get German aid. This control

from that area himself. His African Face in a case like this in just as not it to exercise it Turkey, Bulgaria and Yugo- possessions are practically cut off important in Europe as it is in China. from their base of supply, Graziani jf Italy goes out, then France would Slavia, which form the ram- either refuses to advance because he be a useful tool in Hitler's hands, but part against further German cannot do so, or because he fears the it is hard to belleve even in this age advance, have definitely pro- ether go forward over the desert, or politics that Weygand would put between Japan and Wang Ching-wel consequences if he did. But he must of moral depravity in International claimed their neutrality and allow his army to rot where it is, French Colonial ports at the their determination to main- · MEDITERRANEAN tain it.

B

PRESSURE

03

The signing of the "pence" treaty

is surely the biggest farce that has of a declining power such would be. Success brings in many for a very long time. As a sham and been staged in the diplomalle world friends, failure very quickly sheds a piece of hypocrisy for covering up them. Mussolini served Hitler's rur the desperate position in which Japan Had Rumania displayed a The relentless pressure ar the pose In Immobilising the British. Fleet

now finds herself, it compares in little more courage and reaisted British Flect in the Mediterranean would stronquered France, and he folly with the polley that aimed at the pressure of the Axis, she means the strangulation of Italy and would still be useful if he could bringing China to her kaces.

free nation the starvation of Libya, the Dode- now that he is at war with Britain-

continue. to might now be

Wang Ching-wel, ilko Quisling. do so. But Hitler is has been brought to his knees, but canese, Abyssinia and Somaliland. It instead of a state controlled by is now for the Italian people to get now convinced that he must abandon not China, in a broadcast from rid of the Fascist group, which serve Syria into Egypt, and so Mussolini la

dream of an advance through Tokyo the other night, the speaker Germany.

a useful purpose In Italy when

Spoke of

of this magnificent gesture, of Mussolini's fatal blunder in confined its attention to domestic of no further tise. It all reads like the generous terms, of the bright

politics,

a Greelt play, and like a Greek play but, when it

the " destroyed

hopes for

a new order in Asia, and the tragic development was implicit trying to secure possession of

accepted tradition in foreign policy

10 on. He spoke of Japan's Greece as a base from which to and challenged the British Empire, in the first act, from which every magnanimity and of her generosity dominate the Eastern Mediter-fell into dangerous company. The thing moves to its destined ende in relinquishing extra-territoriality rancan has resulted in his losing heart of the nation has been strained extinction of Mussolini. what little freedom he had in by over-exertion, and it will require

that area.

a long period of rest before it can recover from the toxic effects of the Fascist creed; All these comings and

It is clear that his ambitions goings between Hitler and Mussolini, do not correspond with his power Clano and Ribbentrop will cease since to achieve them, seeing that there must be a sense of discomfort heart of the Italians is not and never has been in this great adventure.

ITALY'S FATE

with Britain now..before the defent

his

HITLER'S UNEASY CONTROL

and of foregoing an indemnity.

In the next sentence he spoke of Japan's sphere of influence in North China

and Inner Mongolia, of economic co-operation, of the right of Japanese to settle and carry on Hitler's power extends from one business in any part of China and, end of Europe to the other, but it is anally, of permanent control of the an uneasy control. Even Hitler in ports. "Mein Kampf” realises the demoralis- This

Insult dellberufe

to the

ing effect upon those who dominate intelligence of the listener is either a mensura of, Japanese ignorance of If Italy is wise she will seek peace peoples by whom they are loathed.

No German can reside in Holland, what normal people know, or it. The future for Italy is certainly not turns into a rout, and before her Norway, Denmark, Belgium, France, indientes a degree of self-deception. bright. Instead of restoring the colonial empire is irretrievably lost. Poland or Crecho-Slovakis, and not that has no parallel in history, Jupan

mado Great Roman Empire, Mussolint has "The exit of the Italians from the be

more brutal or else wants to get out of China, and Wang found hintsalt expelled by Hitler from war, unless Mussolini can stem the humiliated by the cold glassy stare Ching-wel has agreed to these terms, the Balkans, and now he is in danger tide in Albania, is a clear possibility, of these people who are so dearly but as he has shown no loyalty to als of loung what wall hold he has on since Hitler either cannot or will not superior to them in culture. One own ruler, it is hardly to be expected Albania, which be seized on Good go to the Duce's nid. It is probable thing is certain they are deeply he will show any to the Japanese Friday, 1930.

however, that Mussollal would not affected, bi tha ungidamant experience, treaty, Buty

December 7, 1940.

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