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Saturday, January 11, 1941, Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20015

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FOR BETTER PROPAGANDA

push on to "the Straits"?

ERMANY," you may

"G read any day in any

paper, "is pushing to- wards the Straits"; or "Russia, is deeply interested in the con- trol of the Straits."

January 11, 1941.

RIDDLE

OF

THE BOSPORUS

By W..N.

EWER

The Trojan war was fought Names it had in plenty.

stantinople, the western count of the Bosporus, the Sea of Marmora, and

the Dardanelles.”

German Objective

Russla pressed southward, wanting

"The Straits," in the jargon on their shores; the ruins of First, Byzantium. Then, when control of the sen route through the of European diplomacy, means Troy, burled for centuries, are the Emperor Constantine moved Straits to the Mediterranean. At the ume time the Germanic Powers the Bosperus and the Dardanel. on the Asian shore just opposite the capital of the whole great (first Austria, then the German Em- the Gallipoli beaches. Two of Roman Empire there; Constan- pire) pressed south-eastward, want- les which (with the Sen of the great names of that war, by tinople.

ing control of the Innd route across the Straits into Asia, Marinora that lies between the way, were Ajax and Achil-

To the Russians of the Mid- them) link the Black Sea and les, not unknown in these days.

Berlin to Bagdad (with a railway dle Ages it was Tsarigrad--the line as its symbol) became the great the Mediterranean and divide

of German Imperial city. Raiding horse- objective

policy. It Europe from what our ancestors

brought the Kalser's Germany Into The earliest naval expedition men, looking in wonder at ita conflict both with Russia and with called "Hither Asia" and we

of which we know was the voy stand to-day) dubbed it Mickle-

seven miles of great wall (which Great Britain. "the Near East,"

age of Jason and his. Argonauts,

So these straits are an all important sea route the only passage to the outer seas from the Danube and South Russia and the Caucasus: the easiesi land route from South Asia into Europe or Europe into South Asia.

Coastal Colonics.

up through the Straits to the garth-the great fortress. Black Sea, secking the gold of Most Famous Town the Colchis,

To Russia a German mastory of the Straits was nightmare, To Bri tain, always and inevitably sensluve- ly careful about the route to India To the Turks it was, and is and Australasia, the idea of either German or Russian control was Until a century ago the gold now, Istanbul. There are other alarming. dust from Caucasian river was names in other tongues, for, We did not wari! Jussia menacing still strained out in fleeces. The next to Rome, this was, for long the Eastern Mediterraneori, nor dia "Golden Fleece" was no mere centuries, the most famous town we want Germany a menace, either: myth.

of all the world.

there or in the Persian Gulf,

Later the Greeks settled. For thousand years it British policy changed as one or the "Land route," because the colonies all along those coasts, stood impregnable and invio. other danger seemed the more acute. Straits are so narrow.

Among them were men from late, the capital of the Eastern Our Aim Is Plain The Persian Xerxes put a

Megarn.

Roman Empire.

Always and always there has been bridge of boats across them- Curving in from the Bosporus Then came the Turkish arm- this question of control of the Straits, though certainly it got blown just where it joins the Marmora ies, sweeping out of Asia across of mastery of Constantinople and the

Dardanelles. away by a gale. Leander and is a long, deep-water creek, one all the Balkans and into Europe Lord Byron swam the Dardanel of the finest natural harbours as far as Vienna.

To-day it arises again in an acute All day long the row boats in the world. On the shores of

form. The Third Reich, militarily

les.

and launches and train ferries this Golden Horn they built The Roman Empire fell. Con- stronger than either Austria or Im- swarm to and fro across the their city of Byzantium. Be- stantinople became the capital rewards that desired goal, Bosporus from Istanbul.

one

rapidly

cause it was at this focal point, of the Ottoman Empire. The towards that desired goal.

Rumania has been overrun. Bul- gario is now going through it all, This is the one route for at the crossing of those great Turks became the masters and

and Hitler's armies within 150 miles armies which have not mastery land and sea routes, little By- guardians of the Straits.

became zantium of the sea.

of the

The Ottoman Empire shrank of Constantinople. world's great capitals; so great and weakened. And now began British policy is plain enough. It Wherefore "the Straits" have at one time that the Greeks that pressure of two great is to help, by every means we can figured in history ever since often called it by no name, but Powers towards "the Straits" muster, the Turks to hold the City there has been history.

of the Straits, to bar the German simply "Polis" the City. which created that "Eastern path into Asia,

Question" which was so all- important during the nineteenth- century.

THE

GREEK WAR IN THE

NIGHT CLUBS

By DIXIE TIGHE

New York.

Russia? That is the great enigma of the inoment, Russia's own bl- tions did not die with the Revolu- tion.

Russia grew from small begin- nings around Moscow until she The Soviet Government has re- reached the Black Sea. At once peatedly, hinted at, its desire to share,

the Straits became all impor- with the Turks.

in some way, control of the Straits

tant to her: her one warm- water outlet to the world.

But, ambition apart, the thought of German armies in occupation of

Threat To Both

.

Free passage through the the shores of the Bosporus and the Straits: if possible mastery of nightmare to Soviet Moscow as ever Dardanelles must be as much 1 the Straits so that no enemy it was to Tsarist St Petersburg. could reach the Black Sea, be- came a secular object of Rus- BRITISHI propaganda abroad

sia's policy.

"In Europe Russia has two sea still suffers from excess of

There was sentiment, too. way of the Black Sea, she would gateways. Germany holds the gate- modesty. We do not sing our

bunch of red gardenias. The The Tsars, because Ivan III had have a stranglehold on all Russian own praises often enough or loud enough. The multitudinous orchestra at The Ver- slim gown, armless, shows her married the heiress of the last trade in the glo

sailles was playing "Its à sun-tanned arms and neck. Emperor of the East, claimed to The drive to the Straits is a threat barrel-organs of Dr Goebbels Lovely Day To-morrow," and And the neckline is so fashioned be heirs of Byzantium, took its to un, but ten times as great a threat

as their to the Soviet Union, prevent our feeble notes from Nick Prounis, co-owner of the that the "veil" grows right out double-headed engle being heard_by_more_thun a few club, remarked with a sigh of of the shoulder line. She wears crest. They claimed, too, to be

What, then, will Russia do if the relief, "Well, it certainly won't another tiny bunch of red car-protectors of all the Christians Germans push on from the Danube Sir Francis Younghusband be in Greece."

nations at her waistline.

of the Greek Church.

towards the Bosporus? cites the case of our defeat of

Besides the new trend, Miss

From the time of Peter the Great Nick, born in the Pindus re-

Will she help the Turks to resist? Hitler's invasion plan. This

to the days of the Bolshevik revalu- Or will the try to strike some bar- gion, is one man in town who Froman has brought along a

tion, Russin hankered for Constan- gala with Hitler, some arrangement defent he calls the decisive knows that the Italians are hav- special exit after a song. She tinople.

for joint control, some device of ap- battle of the war, Yet what useing a real spot of bother in leaves still singing. Very cute.

peasement, hoping that this time Catherine, when she unnexed the (despite all experience) tier will have we made of it to drive home Greece. Surrounded by little

FRIENDS of Sylvia Fair- archway inscribed, "The Road to word?

Crimea, passed in state under an hold to a bargain and will keep his world opinion

delicacies like pheasant and soulles, Nick recalled the sort of banks, widow of Douglas, were Byzantium. century and h people Mussolini is running up Morocco. Since the death of Sir Edward Grey a

glad to see her last night at Ei

That is the riddle of the. Straits later, in 1015, Mr Sazonoff sent to

memorandum which diplomacy is trying to read to- against backwards.

ns yet the answer is her husband, Mrs. Fairbanks claiming for Russia, in the event of day. And the men of the Pindus moun- where und for a long time con-

Happily, he pointed out that has been seen practically tion Allied victory, "the town of Con- hidden. tains are now in the midst of cern was expressed for her fog and rain and that they don't health. mind the weather any time of

to

Our ever-

growing strength and Hitler's first real failure? None, says Sir Francis. We should have proclaimed it to every corner of the earth. Instead, we have left neutrals and others to draw their own conclusions, forgetting that he who does not shout to- | year. day is apt to have his case, how ever convincing, simply ignored.

To this criticism, in which there is a germ of truth, it may

Castlerose.. Charlie

;

RADIO-

She was in a party with two And as for rations, they haven't been on any diet that of her country women, Aileen will be thrown off a. calorie bal- Brindsley Plunkett and Doris

ZBW, 355 metres (845 k.c.) and 31.49 metres (9,520 kilo-cycles) ance by war.

Chaplin was in the party, too, and, if you Request Variety and Dance Z. B. W. on a Frequency of 843 L.c's, "Plenty of water, bread and don't mind, the Pantz freres, be replied that in America, for cheese and they are well satis. Kurt and Hubert. The three English blonde beauties had a example, the success of the fled," he said.

foil

Radio Programme Broadcast by raven-tressed R.A.F. and the Royal Navy in He said the average man of Chaqueneau,

Kay Z.B.W. on a Frequency of 845 k.c's. frustrating the invasion scheme the mountains could make the

and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 pm. and 8-12 midnight on 9.62 m.c's, per second,

H. K. T.

in

did not go unrecognised and un- average wrestler in this coun- -At another table, rising praised. But there is one ex-try look as if he planation of our failure to "shout," which Sir Francis has were just about

passed by. We were handi

capped by not knowing whether

strong

enough

NICK OF THE VERSAILLES KNOWS HIS PINDUS MEN

Programmes

and on Short Wave from 12.15-2.30 p.m. and 8-10.33 p.m. on, 9.82 m.c's. per second.

H. K. T.

10.15-11.15 am. Relay of Morning Service from The Methodist Church, 12.15 p.m. Verdi's "Aida" Act 1. 1.00 Local Time Signal and Wea- ther Report,

1.03 Albert Sandler (Violin)`and IIls Orchestra.

1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press, Weather Forecast and Announce-

young Holly- wood

12.15 p.m. Short Service of Inter- stors,

cession. Lucille Ball and 12.30 Vivian Ellis (Piano) and Roy; Desi Arnaz Fox and His Orchestra.

1.00 Local Time Signal and Wea-ments. were hold-ther Report

1.03 Variety.

Joyco

1.45 Short Plano Recital by Eileen

2.03 Elgar-Enigma Variations, Op.

to throw a the invasion had in fact been white mouse. frustrated. Not even now can So, if it is a lovely day here ing hands, and just across the it be confidently said that Hitler to-morrow Nick should care, be- way a former Hollywood star, will not attempt to throw his cause it certainly won't be in Connie Talmadge, now. Mrs Weather Forecast and Announce-36-Theme (Andante) and Varia- exponents of Blitzkrieg upon the Pindus Mountains.

Walter Giblin, was sitting and Britain's shores.

Was

CB-

1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press,

ments.

2.45 Old Dance Favourites. 2.15

Close Down.

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5:45 Indian. Programme. 6.32 Turner Layton (Vocal) and' Duke Ellington and His Orchestra, 7.00 London Relay-Tho News. 1.15 London Relay-"questions of the

Hour

1.30 Variety with Quentin Maclean, Len Green and The Mills Brothers.

8.00 Local Time Signal, Weather

(Report and Announcements,

tions,

The B. B. C. Symphony Orches- tra conducted by Sir Adrian Bout.

2.30 Close Down.

5.45 Indian Programme. 7.00 London Relay-The News. 7.16 London Relay "Questions of the Hour."

7.30. Marek Weber and Hla Orches- tra and Charles Kullman (Tenor),

8.00 Local Time Signa), Weather Report and Announcements.

8.03 Excerpts from Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Gondoliers."

8.32

Nick was up on what day it looking just as happy as she The event seems much less was, however; just a table away could be.

EL Morocco was spruced up likely than it did, but British from him sat a crowd of cute statesmen could not, and cannot youngsters--young enough, in- by the appearance of Mrs Har- even to-day, take the responal-deed, that the guest of honour rison Williams who bility of saying that the invasion could have the full number of corted by the Greek shipping

candles on her cake and not magnate Andi Embericos. Hitler may danger is over.

At Monte Carlo the band was assemble his flat-bottomed boats blush. One of the guests at and other paraphernalia again. this happy birthday party was playing without Ted Straeter who flew out to the const for His technique is protean and Nick's young daughter. adaptable. The reluctance of

A new trend in night club the Kate Smith broadcast. He

Was gowns British propaganda to "tell the singers"

News Combientary, started spent five hours-Thanksgiving world that the Invasion boxy when Jane Froman, who is war. Day-with his mother and then had been laid is understandable. bling with charm at the Ver-raced for Hollywood. But that does not dismiss the sailles, made her debut thero in And I don't know why, but I general question of whether our a creation thought up for her think it's a wonderful world propaganda abroad is not in by Valentinn. A white. crepe when Honey Chile Wilder is he need of an injection of ginger. "veil" floats from the back of ing escorted about town with Many firmly believe that it is.- her head fnatened on by a perky Prince Nepal.

8.03 London Relay-"Muslo Hall.”: 0.00 London Relay--The Nowe and News Commentary,

9.30 Request Variety Programme. 11.00 London Itclay-Talk: “In My Oplaton."

1116 Request Dance Programme. 12.00 midnight, Close Down,,.

To-morrow's Broadcast

· Radio · Programme · Broadcast by

Reginald Foort at the Organ. 8.45- StudioBook Reviews, 0.00

London Relay--The News and 9.30 Behubert-Trio No. 1 in B Flat, Op. 99. Cortat, Thibaud and Canals (Instrumented Trio).

10.02 Handel "Alcina" Buite 10.15 Studio-Sunday · · Evening Epilogua.

Conducted by a Priest of the Church of England,

10.85 Close Down,

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