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Supreme

Court

DONALD DUCK

GUESS WHO2

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

TOM? FLOYD? TED BOB? AL?

BILL? HANK?

JOHNNY?

MAGAZINE

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

Flrat, 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 huve helped to keep the trade routes clear for our convoys and supply ships, and on one occasion our informa- tion was instrumental in sav- ing the lives of the men in a crippled light-house relief ship. 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 shall 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 ap-

pearances, without ever losing faith in the future.

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

HITLER

TO

WHEN that naughty old

tyrant King Leopold II took over the Congo Free State os his own personal fro- porty, few people, least of all himself even in his most optimistic moments, visun'ised 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 roue got hold of this bit of Africa.

Everybody else acemed to he taking large slices of Africa,

Almost avidly King Leopold 'read and re-read details of

every exploration, studied and· re-studied every man, Living- stone, Speke, Burton, and Stanley wore magical name From south to north east to west, this oye wanderer.

Eventually, In 1876, on the pratext of suppressing slavery in, those parts, Leopold took charge of this big, central. apple-shaped part of Africa. now the Belgian Congo,

FOR the best part of his life.

up to 1908, hoʻshteezed a large income from this piece of property, the greater part

The letter of an

R.A.F. hero

means that your sacrifice is as great as mine,

HISTORY resounds 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 civiliantion 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 letter was found among the belongings of a young pilot after, he had been reported "Missing believed *killed.'

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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 on 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.

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

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

I'count myself fortunate In that I have seen the Who.c

· country and known men of overy ca.ling. But with the final test of war i consider my character fully developed.

Thus at my early age my carthly-mission-is-already-ful tea and ai prepareu la uie

with just one regret, and one only-tnat 1 could not devote myself to making your decun- ing years more happy by being with you; but you wid live in

peace and freedom and I shall have directly contributed to that, so here again my life will not have been in vain.

Your loving Son

LOOKS SOUTH THE CONGO

of 900,000 square miles. The means by which this incomo was derived have since provedl 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.

Railways, docks, river transport, roads, 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 ble river.

Soon the export of rubber- once the Congo's main export was eclipsed by golit, copper, palm oil, cotton, coffee, din- monds, copal.

By 1934 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 are all produced in this part of Con- tral Africa,

Altogether, more than 6,000 Industrial establishments wara operating up till recently, though Belgium could count only 16 whites for every 10- 000 natives.

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

Discase 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- aco has decreased similarly, lysentery deaths are fow and far between, and malaria is ⚫ well under control,

THERE are still pigmies, despite all this Western civilization, and cannibals are common.

Some of the Congo cannibals be- love that if they cat 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 'ment from an e- phant..one that had long been dead,' he said: "I eat the meat, not the. smell."

OR years now the Belgians and Germans have led over the Congo bone, the Belgians reiterate Int annually that never would they give up their colonies, the Germans emphasising equally, emphatically that they didn't want them anyway.

not thii was just another German

Time will soon show whether or

bed-time story,

FREDZ

EDDIET

STANT

JIMMY

JOE? STEVE? HUBE? DICK?

GEORGE?

December 17, 1940.

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"Those scots were fine last night, but to-night we camo to see the picture!"

DEATH for listening-in to Britain;

TEN YEARS' jail for selling food without

accepting ration coupons;

THREE YEARS' jail for talking to a Pole; SIX MONTHS' jail for stealing a soap

ration card.

This is Nazi Justice

ROSA BERGER, an attrac

tive woman of 30, stood

in the dock of a Nazi court.

For two works she had been tinder arrest. Now she faced the, judyos.

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

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

The plen was ignored. She was led away to serve six months' Im- prisonment,

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Brunns Helser is also 30. Ho had no clothes only rug. And it was very cold.

So he stole a clothes ralien card. "I have no clothes except the rays I am standing in," he told the court.

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

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ET me go diver a number of court roports I have clipped fmin recent, issues of Ger- man newspapers.

Hore, for instance, is the case of an unnamed woman who appented In court with her hair hacked off 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,

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

Three years Imprisonment was the additional punishment.

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DIT fond'ralianing offences occupy meat of the time of the courts.

There was: Frau Krauso, owner. of a Berlin restaurant. Even after

the

introduction of the Eevera rationing system she sold meat and butter in her customers with- out receiving ration coupons.

Frau Krause plendea 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 su she was sentenced to only ten years' hard Jabour, although the ecurt was em- powered to paas sentence of death for the offence.

Next read of the man who threw salt on the ley pavement.

busside uns house because his son had slipped and hurt his ankle. He was accused of waste.

Three weeks in jau. Recently I have counted reports In the German Press of 62 convic- tions for instening-in to` British and French broadcasts.

Only one case was reported fully. Georg Kawer, ... un Inn-keeper from Mannheim, had not only ilstened to the British broadcasts, but allowed his guests to join him la his crime.

Kaiser was sentenced to death. His wife, who had not informed the authorities of her husband's "treachery," was sentenced to eight - years' imprisonment.

TN the conquered

Polish

courts deal with hundreds of women dully. Here is a typical case reported trem Bromberk

Sophia Lonkowska, the indict=' mant sald, put on the uniform of a Polish cfficer and took part in the nghting alongside her countrymen.

She

helped carry, "of· Polish Germans who were to be executed. Her participation in the "Polish atrocfiles" was "proved" by reliable "WILDCSECK. Without hearing 'heri defence, the court sentenced Sophie: to death,

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