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DONALD DUCK

GUESS WHO?

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

TOM?

FLOYD? TED?

FRED?

EDDIET

STANZ

JIMMY? ALZ

JOE? STEVE? HUBE? DICK?

BILL

JOHNNY?

GEORGE?

December 17, 1 1940

By Walt Disney

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Dearest Mother

Dearest Mother,—— THOUGH I fell no pre-

monition at all, events are removing rapidly, and I have instructed that this letter be forwarded to you should I fail to return from one of the raids which we shall shortly be called upon to undertake.

You must hopë on for a month, but at the end of that time you must accept the fact that I have harded my task over to the extremely capable hands of my comrades of the Royal Air Force, as so many spiendid fellows have already done.

First, it will comfort you to know that my role in this war has been of the greatest im- portance.

Our patrols far out over the North Sea have helped to keep the trade routes clear for our convoys and supply ships, and on one occasion our informa- tion was instrumental in say- ing the lives of the men in a crippled light-house relief slrip."

Though it will be difficult for you, you will disappoint me if you do not at least try. to accept the facts dispas- sionately, for I shali have done my duty to the utmost of my ability.

No man can do more, and no one calling himself a man could do less.

I have always admired your amazing, courage in the face of continual setbacks; in the

way you have given me as good, an education and back- ground as anyone in the coun- try; and always kept up a pearances without ever losing faith in the future.

My death would not mean that your struggle has been in vain. Far from it. It

HITLER

TO

WHEN that naughty old

tyrant King Leopold II took over the Congo Freo State as his own personal pro- party, few people, least of all himself even In his most optimistic moments, visualised it as the nest-egg it has since proved.

It was more luck than any- thing else, almost by a pin- sticking method, that the Royal rone got hold of this bit of Africa.

Everybody else seemed to he taking large, alices of Africa.

Almost avidly King Leopold read, and re-rond · details of every exploration, studied ånd re-studied avery map: Living- stone, Speke, Burton, and Stanley' woro magical names: From south to north, cast to

west, his eye wandered

***** Eventually, in 1876; on the pretext of suppressing slavery in those parts, Leopold' took charge of this : big, central, l'appio-shaped part of Africa.

now the Belgian Congo.

FOR the best part of his life.

up to 1908, he squeezed a large income from this picco of property, the greater part

The letter of an

R.A.F. hero

means that your ancrifice in as great as mine.

HISTORY regounds with illustrious names who have given all, yet their sacrifice has resulted in the British Empire, where there is a mea-

sure

of peace, justice and freedom for all, and where a higher standard of civilisation has evolved, and is still evol- ving, than anywhere else.

But this is not only con- cerning our own land.

To-day we are faced with the greatest organised chal- lenge to Christianity and civilisation that the world has ever seen, and I count myself lucky and honoured to be the right age and fully trained to throw my full weight into the scale.

For this I have to thank you.

.

Yet there is more work for you to do.

The home front will still have to stand united for years after the war is won. For all that can be said against it, I st.ll maintain that this war is a very good thing: every in- dividual is having the chance

******

This lottor was found among the belongings of a young pilot after he had been reported

to give and dare all for his principle like the martyrs of old.

However long that time may be, one thing can never be altered-I shall have lived and died an Englishman. Nothing else matters one jot, nor can anything ever change

it.

You must not grieve for me, for if you really believe in religion and all that it entails that would be hypocrisy. I have no fear of death; only a queer elation.

I would have it no other way.

*

I FIRMLY and absolutely believe that evil things are sent into the world to try us; they are sent deliberately by our Creator to test our mettle because He knows what is good for us.

The Bible is full of cases where the easy way out has been discarded for moral prin- ciples,

men

I count myself fortunate in that I have seen the whole country and known

of every cailing. But with the final test of war 1 consider my character fully developed.

Thus at my early age my earthly mission is already ful- tuea and 3 am prepared to ale

with just one regret, and one only that I could not devote ing years more happy by being with you; but you will live in

myself to making your declin-

peace and freedom and I shall "Missing believed? have directly contributed to killed.”

.

""

LOOKS THE

that, so here again my life will not have been in vain.

Your loving Son -

SOUTH-

CONGO

of 900,000 square miles. The means by which this income was derived have since proved iniquitous (to put it mildly), and mainly because things were getting a little out of hand, and he was growing old and tired anyway, he handed it over to his country in 1908, The period before 1914, under King Albert, saw vast im- provements.

river

Railways,

docka, transport, roada, mines, agri- culture were all taken in hand. There are now 3,000 miles of railway, 27,000 miles of road. thousands of miles, of naviga- j ble river.

Soon the export of rubber- once the Congo'a 'main export -was eclipsed by gold, copper, palm oil, cotton, coffoe, dia- monds, copal.

By 1984 the value of tha gold was 200 times bigger than that of the rubber crop.

Additionally, cocoa, maize, livestock, radium, coal, sugar. fruit, wood, rice, tin aro all produced in this part of Con- tral Africa,

Altogether, more than 6,000 industrial establishments were operating up till recently, though Belgium. could count only 15 whites for every 102 000 natives.

Before the war the Belgiany planned to make it a grand tourists' paradise-a quick, cheap holiday for Europeans by 'plane.

Disease statistics have fal-

len rapidly during the last ten

years. On an average, there are only a dozen cases yearly of plague, the tsetse fly men- nce has decreased similarly, dysentery: deaths are few and far between, and malaria is well under control.

THERE are still pigmies, despite ail this Western civilisation, "Land cannibals are common.

Some of the Congo cannibals-be- Beve that they eat the bodies of the dead their spirits will thus be prevented from troubling the community...

:

The pigmies are partial to dead elephant. When one was reproach-

ed for eating meat from an ole phant, one that had long been dead, he said: "I eat the meat, not the smell"

Fox years now the Belgiana and

Germont have growled over the Congo bone, the Belgians rellerat in annually that never would they give up their.colonies, the Germans emphasising equally emphatically that they didn't want them anyway. Time will soon show whether or not this was just another. German bed-ume story:

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FUNNY SIDE UP By Abner Dean

Cope, 1919 by Einsted Pestner

"Those sosts were fine last night, but to-night we camo to see the picturo!"

DEATH for listening-in to Britain;

TEN YEARS' jail for selling food without

accepting ration coupons;

THREE YEARS' jail for talking to a Polo;. SIX MONTHS jail for stealing-a-soap-

ration card.

This is

Nazi Justice

Ro

OSA BERGER, în altrac- tive woman of.30, stood in the dock of a Nazi court.

For two weeks she had been under arrest. Now she faced the judges.

Her crime? She stole a ration card for soup. She hadn't one of her own.

"But I haven't used the card," she pleaded.

The plea was ignored. She was led away to serve six months' im- prisonment,

Brunne Helzer is also 30. He had no clothes only rags. And it was very cold.

So he stole a clothes ralith card. "I have no clothes except the rags 1 am standing in," he told the court.

Twelve months' imprisonment, These two enses,' reported re- cently in the German Press, reveal the harsh and brutal way Justice is being administered by the Nazis.

L

ET me go over a number ecurt.reports I have clipped from recent issues of Ger- man newspapers.

Hore, for instance, is the case of an unnamed woman who appeared In court with her hale hacked af in the crudest style,

The clerk explained to the judge

that she had been caught in the company of a Polish prisoner "of war. She was at once arrested, and the case was reported to the local Gauleiter.

the Introduction of the severe rationing system she Gold meat and butter lo her customers with- out receiving ration coupons.

Frau Krause picaded that she had made no profit from the sales. She just wanted to please her customers.

The court acknowledged this as a kind,y action, and so she was sentenced is only ten yearn' hard labour, although the ecurt was em powered to pass sentence of death for the offence.

Next I read of the man who threw salt on the ley pavement faces.de mis house because his son

had slipped and hurt his ankle. He was accused of waste.

Three weeks In

Recently I have counted reports In the German Presa of 62 convic- tions for listening-in to British, and French breadcasts.

En

Only one case was reported fully. Georg Kaiser,

inn-keeper from Mannheimi, had not only listened to the British broadcasts, but allowed his guests lo juin him in his crime.

Kutor, was sentenced to death. His wife, who had not informed the authorilles of her husband's ["treachery," was sentenced to eight

years' imprisonment.

IN the

conquered Polish territories, special Nazi 'courts deal with hundreds of women dully. Here is a typical case reported from Bromberg.

Sophie Lenkowska, the indict- mant said, put on the uniform of a Pollah efflcar and took part in the Oghting alongside her countrymen. She helped carry off Polish Germans who were to be executed." Three years imprisonment was Her participation In the "Polish the additional punishment.

He himself punished the woman by cutting off her hair before hand- ing her over to the court.

BUT

food rationing offences occupy most of the time of)

There was Frau Krause, owner ot a Borlin restaurant. Even after.

atrocities" was "proved" by reliable witnesses. Without hearing · her- defence, the court sentenced Sophie to death,

Will Frischauer

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