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HONGKONG INDUSTRIES

HONGKONG has had a war

on her doorstep for nearly four years and is now participating, financially and industrially, in another conflict thousands of,

WHAT A QUESTION TO ASK

DOUGLAS REED says

a

miles away, upon the result of I which depends the future of the Colony; yet, far from Hongkong displaying the "jitters", there is ample evidence to show that confidence in its future is greater than ever.."

Hitler's diplomacy has failed;

The R.A.F. is just getting into its swing; the Navy is mastor of the seas; the Army is improving daily; In Albania we have the chance of seizing a big success -quickly.

Why I KNOW We Will

AM convinced we can

But if I were a doctor,

sive success in this war,

Smash The Italians

Win

newspaperman

ENGLISH IN SONG

Educating the

Foreigner

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In the far-off days when there Was a country called Austria and in it a city called Salzburg where artists congregated for music and drama and the mu- tual refreshment of talk in the cafes, there was 1 Viennese singer whose ambition it was to ing English songs perfectly, "But," she said, "they tell me 1 - can never mustor the English language unless I talk with pipe in my mouth." Her new- found English acquaintance' gallantly rubbed the stem of his pipo on his alceve and offered it to her, but she was not quite ready to begin practice. Actually she spoke and, sang English very well, but there was that roundness of the vowels, that crispness of the consonants, that difficulty in swallowing the weak final syll. nblcs in words like "straighten" and "able" which betokens the foreigner. Perhaps the pipė would have helped,

To-day there are thousands of foreigners in the Empire, allies and friendly aliens who are

burning to learn to talk English. We understand that the proper authorities are setting up the proper machinery. They are to be taught by word of mouth and by gramophone records. Soon they may all be speaking like B.B.C. announcers, but will they be talking, as English people talk with or without pipes in their mouths? Probably not, and possibly the proper author- ties would think it very im- proper if they did,

But let us leave pipes and come to singing. Their aim is the opposite of the Viennese lady's. She wanted command of the language chiefly that she English Bongs. might sing Surely singing English songs could help them to get some command of the language for their own purposes.

If the Italians can be driven had to read the story of "The win this war, and know out of Albania into the son, if Baltic for Britain" written by dozen good reasons why into a disaster that is a deci- who spent ten days here!

their Dunkirk can be turned an American we cannot lose it.

It is fantastic to think that historians of the future will find so little about this stupendous Consider how much the songa examining a superlatively heal-

I do not know, as a layman, if incident in our Island story in of Schubert, Brahms and others thy man, I should know a dozen there are insuperable objections our island press, that they may have done for the knowledge of good reasons why he should not to the landing of British troops. have to look up foreign news- the German language in British Principal illustration is the die, and that still would not help The danger of a swift German papers to find the name of cities countries. No doubt there have if he walked in front of a motor- descent on them from the north, that were bombed, that the been English singers whose lorry.

of another Dunkirk, is obvious, heroism of bomb disposal singing of Lieder has been ad-

the Italian In Germany, Hitler is creating and

attack on squads, firemen, policemen, bus-mired but who, when they got a-New-Order-for-Europe, and-Greece may have been meant to-drivers-and-all-that-unknown to Germany, found some dif Goering is creating a new order tempt us to such a landing. legion, will be practically un-ficulty in choosing the right kind for Goering.

But I do know that if we can, known to them.

of sausages or in explaining to from the air and from the sea,

Our greatest setback in this railway porter exactly what. give the Greeks now just that war, to date, has been in the they wanted done with their extra ounce of punch they need Battle of Bloomsbury. It is a Handgepack. to push the Italians into the sea dreary story.

that is a major victory. The Italian morale, already heavily No Causo For Gloom burdened by the memory of the We have a good story to tell, and headlong retreat at Caporetto in should tell it through the lips of our the last war, would suffer a own people.

rapid development of Industry; the Shamshuipo and Laichikok areas arc now alive with Chines

factories, turning out in impressive quantity rubber foot- wear, torchlights and batteries, hardware, minerals and ores, piece goods and tobacco, to men-

tion but a few. The result has been a considerable increase in export values during the past twelve months, the release of new capital in the Colony, the employment of thousands of ad- ditional skilled and semi-skilled workers, the demand for more property, and a consequent im- press upon the current pro- sperity of the place. ·

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It is a significant and couraging sign; true, à good deal of this industrial develop. ment was the outcome of cir- cumstances and not any con scious effort, on the part of the Colony Hongkong's purpose

Goering's order is 3 new medal for German airmen, named after Roscheim, his own birthplace. He is its first re- cipient..

A knowledge of lyrical poetry will not give conversational case in daily emergencles, but if the poetry la joined to a tune written to at it, it will at least give some perception of the shape and accent of the language. Through singing, pronunciation be- comes instinctive, and such know- ledge as the singer gains is not mere- ly literary. He learns the language

'New Order' Flops

He reminds me very much of Bruce Lockhart's diplomat, of mortal blow.

But, even in spite of that, when I slund buck from the picture of the whom it was said that if he got For the first time one of the war and look at it, and look at the another decoration he would two dictators would have been common people of this country, in phrases not in words, and the only have one place to put it and driven from territory cheaply should say that the gloom prophets he would then be unable to sit taken in some spectacular Satur- are very wrong when they say we

are virtually, defeated." down.

day-afternoon swoop!

Our mummificent Alé 'Force is just

musical phrases of a well-written song express the character of the verbial phrases. Take Purcell's line: "No, never; no, never intending to visit them more.”

In

must be to scize this golden Hitler's possession for eighteen would be strengthened In his American newspaper correspondents, future tend to pronounce the words.

opportunity and to consolidate it. Everything possible should be done to stimulate the new trend. With an eye essentially for the future, industrial plan- ning should become a policy. At the present factories are being

built with little or no attention paid to the sites; they are sulta-

of the

flow of the

What of Hitler's New Order Not only Mussolini's standing getting into its swing, our Navy, hard

but also Hitler's' would be pressed, la still master of the seas; It has been translated into German in Europe?

vasily Improved to fit the music as "Auch wenn hir So far he has collected three seriously shaken, and all round our Army has

anie wiederselt, wiedertelt hier diesen

The success somewhere soon, and should Strand." very small tags to the tall of his the Mediterranean men would through long training: we need

German, as is the fate German-Italian-Japanese kite begin again to look up and look be able to find one.

of translations, les all across the The war on our cities is certainly who has sung Purcell in English will

musical phrase, Rumunia (where his troops are), towards us.

but the foreigner Hungary (which hopes by this Relief. For Franco

very serious, but nobody in this at least know how to any emphatically sycophancy to keep them out)

country thinks that it can beat us: that he does not intend to do some-

More serious are the writings of thing. Moreover, he In Bulgaria King Boris's hand and Slovakia, which has been in

will not some of them known personally to "nevere" and "vecsect." lonely struggle to keep his me as staunch nad stalwart friends months, anyway.

country out of the war.

of this country. But the really big or useful

And in Syria? There French They have been writing that our recruits, the ones Hitler wants- soldiers are already talking of censorship "ts ominously reminiscent But leaching the language by song

still stand aloof. Russia, Spain, Bulgaria, Turkey de Gaulle's successes in Central of that which oppressed France be- can only be done through good songs. Africa, are already listening fore the French suddenly found the There are too many songs written to And that brings me to eagerly to the news

that his my marching under the Arc de English words where lie tune is ou

Triomphe."

contradictory Albania, a word which at this emissary, General Catroux, has And the Americans, at that, suffererman words imposed on it, perhaps words as is the Purcell tune of the moment should be written on all arrived in the Middle Enat, far less from the censorship than do our leaders' hearts.

more Catroux, who as a prisoner of the British people, who never had so necessarily "classical" songs.

so. But good songs are not Think Not only the people of this war in Germany in 1916 was information before they acquirof Chevallier's "If you die an old ble for immediate needs, but in country, who are very staunch in kept in a dark cell for three tries of all time, the Ministry of In-blame. The music-hall, when it was ed one of the must expensive minis-mald you've only got yourself to many cases offer little scope for / adversity, but, far more, those months, is a patriot in the grand formation.

other wavering and threatened French tradition, known

fuller of good specimens than the countries, need

Our Other 'Army' English concert platform, British throughout the French Empire. n

English song from the sixteenth These are the things we might we shall begin to organiza that

One day, I hope, and I hope soon, century to the twentieth, not forget In Albania the god the achieve, if we are daring and "Army of Pre-Occupation," of sabo heritage of the English language set ting the ageless folk-song, is a rich Greek, gods-have sent us the nlert.

teum and disintegrators (nolda Hit- chance of one.

The war on our shipping is ler's conquered countries and inside naturally to music which our concert

platform singers have neglected certainly very serious, as serious Germany itself which enabled Hillerprehensibly. Never mind the concert- Its proporation. Hongkong is as it was in April, 1917, when quickly and easy to conquer hull reportery. Go anywhere, where trial area; around the factories, exporting Its

Norway and Holland and other coun- ordinary English people sing their Own manufac we were nearer to defeat than tries. could be built workers' houses. tured commoditics more and ever before; but we overcame it This is the army which enn wings In the way they speak their own language. Pick out a handful of Hongkong could have its indus-more; it is not impossible to then, and we should be able to us this war, and which our Bahting them, put them on gramophone,re- trial centre, thriving and self envisage the time when the overcome it now. D services, our secret service and a real cords it necessary, but above all get

Ministry of Information should now the foreigners to sing them as or contained. The Idea Is partly made goods vies with its entre watch an American film about

Colony's export trado in home- In recent days I have had to be combining to form.

dinary English people sing them, not Our chances of winning this war or the international-minded singing visionary, but indications sugpot business. Enterprise and the R.A.F., and an American are good, not bad

trachor teaches them, and it will be gest the desirability of such a intelligent planning at this stage film boasting that only Ameri-well. It is up to our leaders, and rel

The ute we make of those chances odd if the singing foreigners do not plon in the future, and the pre- I'may do much to bring this can nowspapers now tell their a great chance offers unexpectedly in quicker than those who learn from on terms with the language sent appears to be opportune for about.

readers the truth, and I have Albania..

textbooks.

important development in the future..

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The New Territories honst many open spaces served by road and rail; here might be 'catablished a centralised indus-

success.

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