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apparently strike the aver-. ago German at all..

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

Material

The poorest card-holders what is happening in the which marks the Ger-the grain harvest being

It was at small on account of the make a business of selling war. man outlook.

As a rule soldiers do "points" on their cards to not come home on leave; the frontier station. A rainy summer, 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 surrogates, soup extracts, sight of a keg of butter dried roots for soup making, cluded in the rationed list, to wear mourning for a

soldier. on the platform and and substitutes for whipped but have just been added to fallen particulars burst out, "Look, cream. With the exception, the system, the number of cares appear to engage the Grethe! What a pity Iof cellular-wool and milk points" on the clothing thoughts of people mora camera. fabrics from Holland there cards being simultaneously than what the Fuhrer and increased to 150, The ad- his associates have on hand. There is a whole keg of are few novelties. "10" butter, and abroad they "How

vantage is but small as the When watching news reels can 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 cusc offered by tradesmen. ing jumped from 40 up to smiling sadistically as they good deal of butter in

point to their work, the A widely advertised new 60, for example. 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 Pin a 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 thinks it significant, can

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Thursday, January 9, 1941. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 26015

THI: prefix "Special to the Telegrapa Indicate news which is strictly copyright

is used by the "Hongkong Telegraph" to

under the provisions of the Telecommuni- cations Ordinance, 1938. Such news as

hears the indication " is received in

WARTIMEhter

en-

the dulling effects of ings is only three pairs a common man are well known deney to submit to and "en-

year. Nazi propaganda.

to be small. Talks even with joy" privation, to obey with- reflexion. Obedience old acquaintances in Ger- out It is possible still to keep In spite of the keg of

many do not yield much gives him a good conscience, above butter there is certainly though only few demands what they say you recognise ful purpose or not.

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

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 [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

of the Gestapo and partly to idealism. The State is for the inability of the masses to the German something of in- grammes [1 oz.] of the clothing cards had. 100

Of these a dress withstand seven years of trinsic value, almost a mys- cooking fats. The meat, points."

preserve tic personality. It is the PRESIDENT Roosevelt yes-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 terday produced what is virtual-[about 1 lb.] a week, in-80, a pair of stockings six to power.

quire everything from his

Hongkong on the date of publication br the United Press Associations, who re- Kerve all rights and forbid repubijestions,

either wholly or in part without previous

arrangement.

U.S. "WAR" BUDGET

ly a war budget. "The budget cluding sausage. Poul-eight, and 20 metres of If you hear a word of op. 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 Sudetén 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 During the fairs in Leip- is easy to imagine what cowed as have Germans of one thing, less easily in- SO thoroughly ferent and are before, for Between June 1941 and June zig and Vienna, to which straits a man reaches before the Reich proper. 1942 the United States expects foreigners had been in-deciding on an overcoat or a

"We

da. never thought it to spend over G$10,000,000,000

would be 80 under Ger-

challenge of the Totalitarians.

fluenced by Nazi propagan

on national defence. Over and Vited, chicken could be new suit. above that, unspecified expendi- found at the restaurants The purchase of shoes is many," said a Sudeten Ger- German's peculiar mentality 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

themselves against attack must

be considered immediately," after.

stated President Roosevelt in. his budget message, thereby re-

immediately.

Milk is almost impossible

GERMANY

But just on account of the

--which an outsider can never fully comprehend 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,

affirming his pledge made earlier to obtain; adults are allowed "formality." The petitioner evening when wine had beyond which he can not be

this week to give Britain nid to

must make a petition in cased 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 Thus have the dictator nations has not been seen for a year, no more than one pair. An

Henlein."

the limit short of going to war.

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

the other tottering and dispirit-

ed, the third cautious, suspicious except what soldiers send fore the appeal is granted, declared that discontent was vessol sailing and wondering what to do next home to their families from petitioner must be prep the very deep and general in Eire Bases

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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 of as burden

succeeded in arraying against occupied countries; children prepared Bavaria ever since the "at- for a visit by the house ins- tempt" in Munich which is themselves the two most power- are entitled to a hecto- ful nations of the world. The gramme [between 3 oz. and his wardrobe. If the visit engineered by Hitler him- pector to verify the state of believed there to have been blter is about to be bit. The 4oz. of chocolate, so long shows him or her to have self, partly to revive his States industry and as the supply lasts; there several suits, dresses, sets of sunken popularity had part finance are to be used to their are scarcely any vegetables underwear, or anything ly in order to get rid of trou-an agreement with the Elreann capacity in a common fight or fruit to be had. You more than a good Nazi blesome companions. against what the Americans

should have, some of it may may go from greengrocer.to

But such tones are not: now know is a common foc. When this is achieved the anything but potatoes, cab-pensation given. As nobody themselves mostly by the re- which Britain should not have

greengrocer without finding be taken away and no com-

frequent. People console spectacular output of the Nazi bage-heads, and green toma, knows what the limit is, Aexion that the war is a been called on to shoulder led at war Industry during the past toes. Crops have been poor, long as possible before tak most of the citizens go as

matter for Hitler, that he once to many conferences behind ing the risk of asking for night it will all be over. Ap-

knows best, that in a fort- the scenes. have decided to oppose with all new shoes; and this is popu- 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 fate is scaled.

object of the Nazi shoe and 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

talking about this fortnight. which anti-U-boat action can be or U.S.A. are aroused to fight a Roosevelt's budget is an assur-

Bargaining Luxuries are hot formally single day may appear as a total war, there can be only one ance never to permit the aggres- result the crushing of thosesor nations to obtain that banned, however. Furs and thousand years and a thou-

But the difficulties are fully recog- nised. No politician takes seriously responsible for that war. Hit- domination of the world which silks are still offered for sale sand years as a day. If one suggestion that the bases should be ler may have his plans, his they neck. The challenge to without cards, but they are meets criticism at all, it does taken back, and that force should be aubtle manoeuvres, his clover Hitler and his partners is un- very dear. Quite a number not concern Hitler person- propaganda, but the two great mistakeable, and provides for of elegant silver foxes may ally. That he may be re-rangement for their temporary leas ost dofonders of the system them an ominous opening to the be seen here and there in the sponsible in any way for ing, or for their sale to Britain, with which Hitler is trying to smash year, 1041.

Istreets.

present conditions does not may be the way out.

political advantages to Elta in return,

eight years will be made to ap pear trifling.

The knowledge is sufficient to strike terror into the hearts of

There is no doubt the Government M.P.'s for any action considered

¡ganised.

used It necessary, *****

Dul it is thought that some ́ ́ ar-

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