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The first exclamation I heard on German soil during a recent visit re- vealed something of the fantastic unreality

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apparently strike the aver- age German at all.

Direct enthusiasm for the the war can be observed but seldom. Little is known of

which marks the Ger- the grain harvest being The poorest card-holders what is happening in the man outlook. It was at small on account of the make a business of selling war. As a rule soldiers do Ten in the world offers such the frontier station. A rainy summer...

"points" on their cards to not come home on leave; man, arrived by train Food that is put on show others economically better their relatives seldom get to with his wife, caught consists largely of coffee- placed. Until recently tulle know whether they are alive and lace also were not in or dead, and it is forbidden furnish

sight of a keg of butter surrogates, soup extracts,

dried roots for soup making, cluded in the rationed list, to wear mourning for a you with

soldier. on the platform and and substitutes for whipped but have just been added to fallen

Material particulars burst out,

"Look, cream.

With the exception the system, the number of cares appear to engage the Grethe! What a pity I of cellular-wool and milk "points" on the clothing thoughts of people more, camera. fabrics from Holland there cards being simultaneously than what the Fuhrer and

increased to 150. The ad- his associates have on hand... "10" butter, and abroad they "How

There is a whole keg of are few novelties.

vantage is but small as the When watching news reels you expect price in "points" of various at the cinema and the deso- say we have none." more of us? We are a items has been raised too, lation of enemy lands, with country at war," is the ex- the "points" for a dress hav. the "manly" German airmen It may be there is a cuso offered by tradesmen. ing jumped from 40 up to smiling sadistically as they good deal of butter in A widely advertised new 60, for example.

point to their work, the Germany; there are a stocking is said to be im-

people remain quite passive, To conclude, as some are no clapping, no ovations, number of countries pregnated to resist rain and inclined to do, that on ac- nothing of the chauvinistic from which it can be the attacks of gnats or mos- count of the scarcity of com- passion one might have ex- squeezed; but such an quitoes. "They should also modities the Germans will pected from the propaganda argument from an ob- be impregnated against lad- be unable to tide over the orgies of the Press. It is as ders," whispered an Aus- winter would be excessive if they are 'oppressed bomb- server, obviously seri- trian woman maliciously, optimism. It is not easy to raiding and cannot easily ous, who see a keg of The special meaning of her probe the heart of a German forget them. butter in a country of remark lay in the fact that of the Third Reich, but the 80,000,000 people and the German, ration of stock- living requirements of the Yet, although real en- Duke Ellington and His Famous Orch, | JOHANNESSEN.—At War Memorial

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is used by the "Hongkong Telegraph" to

under the provisions of the Telecommuni- cations Ordinance, 1935. Such news as bears the indication "UP" is. received in Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who re- serve all rights and forbid repubileations,

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U.S. "WAR" BUDGET

PRESIDENT Roosevelt yes-

terday produced what is virtual-

WARTIME

year.

thusiasm is absent, it would be wrong to conclude there is any spirit of capitulation or defeatism. The German has, either by nature or up- bringing, a perverse ten-

the dulling effects of ings is only three pairs a common man are well known dency to submit to and "en- Nazi propaganda.'

to be small. Talks even with joy" privation, to obey with- old acquaintances in Ger- out reflexion. Obedience It is possible still to keep many do not yield much gives him a good conscience,

In spite of the keg of,

butter there is certainly though only few demands what they say you recognise

above the hunger line, result in these times. In whether he is serving a use-

ful a great scarcity of

purpose or not. can really be satisfied, but to phrases from the newspaper general commodities in manage on what the cloth- or the wireless, and it is sel- cultivated by the Nazi re- These leanings have been Germany. Butter ra-ing cards allow requires dom you can find an indivi- gime, which has at the same tions are 125 grammes clever artistry or recourse dual voice break through. time exploited his proneness elther wholly or in part without previous [about 4lb.] a week, to to hoards laid up in advance. This is partly due to terror to a sort of philosophical which may be added 30 For the war year just past the inability of the masses to the German something of in- of the Gestapo and partly to idealism. The State is for grammes [1 oz.]. of the clothing cards had 100

withstand seven years of trinsic value, almost a mys-- cooking fats. The meat points." Of these a dress ration is 500 grammes a man's suit 60, an overcoat individuality of reasoning god Moloch, entitled to re- knocked off 40 at one stroke, propaganda and preserve tic personality. It is the [about 1 lb.] a week, in-80, a pair of stockings six to power,

quire everything from his ly a war budget. "The budget cluding sausage. Poul-eight, and 20 metres of If you hear a word of citizens without the obliga- I transmit is a reflection of a try and bird-flesh in darning wool cancelled out position, you may be sure tion to give anything in re- world at war," declared the Pre-general is not on cards, one point. The card must you have an Austrian before turn. sident, adding "it is safe only to but it is practically un- the soling of old shoes, for German, for these have not trian and the Czech are dif- also serve for footwear and you, or perhaps a Sudeten In this respect the Aus- prepare for total defence." This obtainable in the towns. bed sheets, and towels; so it yet been is America's answer to the

SO thoroughly ferent and are before, for challenge of the Totalitarians. During the fairs in Leip-is easy to imagine what cowed as have Germans of one thing, less easily in

Between June 1941 and June zig and Vienna, to which straits a man reaches before the Reich proper.

fluenced by Nazi propagan- 1942 the United States expects foreigners had been in- deciding on an overcoat or a

"We never thought it da. to spend over G$10,000,000,000 vited, chicken could be new suit.

would be so under Ger-

op-

on national defence, Over and found at the restaurants The purchase of shoes is many," said a Sudeten Ger- German's peculiar mentality

above that, unspecified expendi-

tures are to be made on behalf here and there, and the of the Allied cause, "The mat-meatless days were also ter of providing munitions for suspended, though rein- the Democracies defending troduced immediately be considered immediately," after. stated President Roosevelt in his budget message, thereby re-

themselves against attack must

aflirming his pledge made earlier this week to give Britain aid to the limit short of going to war.

Thus have the dictator nations

the other tottering and dispirit-

GERMANY

But just on account of the

-which an outsider can. never fully comprchend however much he may try- it is impossible to predict how he will react to the com- ing war winter. There subject also to another man guest of the fair one must be a limit somewhere, wine had beyond which he can not be must make a petition in eased his tongue a little; "if herded, but where is the only skimmed milk and in writing to the local authori- We had known that, we limit? very small quantities; cream ties and testify that he has should never have supported has not been seen for a year, no more than one pair. An Henlein."

Milk is almost impossible'

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to obtain; adults are allowed "formality." The petitioner evening when

-one swaggering and boastful, also neither coffee nor tea, indefinite period elapses be- Another visitor to the fair! Question Of

ed, the third enutious, suspicious except what soldiers send fore the appeal is granted, declared that discontent was

vessel sailing and wondering what to do next home to their families from petitioner must interval the very deep and general in

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ful nations of the world. The gramme [between 3 oz. and pector to verify the state of believed there to have been

the

Eire Bases Considered

STRONG pressure is to be put on the Government by members

of all political parties to secure

:

Government for the use of naval bases in Eire.

Mr Churchill's reference to the loss of the bases as a burden

-succeeded in arraying against occupied countries; children petitioner must be prepared Bavaria ever since the "at- for

themselves the two most power are entitled to

for a visit by the house ins- tempt" in Munich which is a hecto- Manila

biter is about to be bit. The 4oz.], of chocolate, so long shows him or her to have self, partly to revive his his wardrobe.. If the visit engineered by Hitler him- Madang tremendous resources of tho

United States industry and as the supply lasts; there several suits, dresses, sets of sunken popularity had part Salamaua finance are to be used to their are scarcely any vegetables underwear, or anything ly in order to get rid of trou-lan agreement with the Eireann

capacity in a common fight or fruit to be had. You more than a good Nazi blesome companions, against what the Americans may go from greengrocer to should have, some of it may

But such tones are not now know is a common foc.

be taken away and no com- When this is achieved

greengrocer without finding

frequent. People console anything but potatoes, cab-pensation given. As nobody themselves mostly by the re- which Britain, should not have spectacular output of the Nazi bage-heads, and green toma, knows what the limit 18, Aexion that the war is a been called on to shoulder led at war industry during the past toes. Crops have been poor, most of the citizens go as matter for Hitler, that he once to many conferences behind eight years will be made to ap-

long as possible before tak- knows best, that in a fort- the scenes. pear trifling.

ing the risk of asking for night it will all be over. Ap- The knowledge is sufficient to have decided to oppose with all new shoes; and this is strike terror into the hearts of the resources at their command, larly believed to be the real parently they do not realise would have the fullest support from the Axis partners. When two and his faté is scaled.

object of the Nazi shoe and talking about this fortnight. which anti-U-boat action can be or

how long they have been necessary to regain the bases from nations like Britain and the The message behind President wardrobe inspection system. To the well-trained masses a U.S.A. are aroused to fight a Roosevelt's budget is an assur- total war, there' can be only one

Luxuries are not formally single day may appear as a ance nover to permit the aggres- result the crushing of these sor nations to obtain that banned, however, Furs and thousand years and a thou-nised. No politician takea seriously responsible for that war. Hit- domination of the world which silks are still offered for sale sand years as a day. If one a suggestion that the bases should be ler may have his plans, his they seek. The challenge to without cards, but they are meets criticism at all, it does taken back, and that force should be subtle manoeuvrea, hia clever Hitler and his partners is un-very dear. Quite a number not concern Hitler person- propaganda, but the two great- mistakeabic,, and provides for of elegant silver foxes may ally. That he may be re-rangement for their temporary leas est defenders of the system them an ominous opening to the be seen here and there in the sponsible in any way for ing, or for Ueir sale to Britain, with which Hitler is trying to smash year, 1941.

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