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February 11, 1941,
Hitler and his gang will curse the day they first made use of the secret weapon
far helped them so on their evil path
that
has
When OUR
Is In
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►
Fifth Column Action
are not tired, nor have
It is possible that Hit- material resources of they will turn savagely on arms ler regarded his Fifth the occupied territories. their oppressors, let the cost their minds lost any keenness. Column as being his Britain began this be what it may.
war with many disad the Germans have been able founder
Jan Masaryk, son of the famous
REPONA
Vast
At the head of thoue who lead the regeneration of the Czechs It is true that for a time will undoubtedly be handsome most important secret
of Czecho-Slovakia. weapon. But, like most
like A
call clarion weapons, it can be vantages, the chief one to enjoy the material bene-11is inspired broadcasts
the sea to his country- countered, and even in being that Hitler's plans fits of occupation. the end turned into a had been crowned with quantities of foodstuffs and men; and nobody hearing him stores have been despatched can doubt but that the efforts stronger weapon success for six years.
cause of the Czechs do not stop against the original To-day we now have the to Germany to provide the of this dynamical man in the
signal advantage that in not doped population with the at mere words over the air.
illusion of victory.. But this In connection with Czecho- The Nazis to-day oc- one single European coun- plunder cannot go on for Slovakia it is a fact of interest cupy several countries, try is the Nazi invader even ever, and, at the same time, and significance that the Nazis but they have definitely tolerated. He is loathed and to try to keep order in the are now known to be transfer- Phone 27778/9. not conquered the in. hated-hated more and more ravaged territories large dangerous
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Hongkong Telegraph.
Tuesday, February 11, 1941,
Wyndham St., Hongkong.
user.
ex-
Daily, despite an treme censorship of all
news within these coun-
By Arthur Armstrong
tries of the "New Or- as day succeeds' day. His bodies of German
ring their war plants from the west--where the R.A.F. makes free play-to the "sufer" erst in the countrysido . of Bohemia. One day wholesale Czech sabotage-n symptom
soldiers already much in evidence may
destroy most of those war plants
When the time comes for the In Norway, for instance, British. offensive to start there the slightest chance that the Germans will be · able to divert more than
the Kowloon der," come underground exploitation of Europe, his have to be kept as per- which have survived the R.A.F. Funeral will pass accounts of sabotage plundering of occupied ter- manent garrisons. the Moment at 5.15 p.m. this and silent, secret war- ritories, and, most of all, his
soldiers; in France over a fare against the hated forcible creation of millions there are 300,000 German is not invaders whose one aim of labour-slaves is gradual- half a million; in Holland, a proportion of their forces ly bringing great popula- Belgium, Denmark, Poland to meet it, Rather they appears to be to exploit tions to such a state that and Czecho-Slovakia are may have to reduce their pre- ruthlessly and without they may, at any moment, vast numbers.
sent available forces to meet it. Rather they may have to reduce mercy the human and become so embittered that. In not one case are they their present available forces co-operating with the in- to increase the garrisons in oc- habitants in a mutual re- cupied territories where risings construction of their lands, are likely to break out, On the slightest provocation network of conspiracy, already a The elaborate underground many millions of persons living thing in workshops and would rise in fury to exter- homes of Czecho-Slovakia, will minate a scourge which is by that time have a vital coun- almost without parallel in
terpart elsewhere. the history of the world.
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LEND & LEASE BILL
THE approval of the Lend and Lease Bilt by the House of Re- presentatives is a triumph for the Roosevelt Administration, not only politically, but in its accurate estim- ute of the present-day temper of American public opinion, Deter- mined, but unavailing WAS [lite Republican opposition w the main features of the measure, but the House's approval was assured when amendment after amendment NVEIS defeated. The Bill has yet to obtain. the acquiescence of the Senate, where closer vote is likely, but its Anal approval by Congress is now virtu- ally assured.
the
The gesture is symbolie of the new and closer relations obtaining be- tween Britain and the United States; It gives practical expression to a real and deep sympathy for eause of the British Empire against the machinations of the Axis Powers which seek to destroy all those in- stitutions which are held so dear by Americans.
,
Some Little Fables of To-day
T
By HANNEN SWAFFER
the
THEY wandered over the tyran who ruled there, when
scarred war - fields The War Lord had reckened up the toll. And again the War Lord reckoned, grass was black with powder until the hundreds were thousands
In Holland there is plenty of evidence that the democratic and freedom-loving population will rise in vengeance against the
same. The Danes have found
You haven't counted ler.
national spirit. The Norwegi- the tormentor. Things that had been men
Nothing makes it more ans ure the same, and could Those who first take up the sword
deal.deadly blows at the Ger- were lying everywhere, and yourself!"
clear that this is fully where once harvests had ripened point it at their own hearts.
mans. in the sun-shine was blood and
realised by the British than wreckage.
Here is the nursery of the oppressor. In Belgium it is the and with fire that had long gone arid the thousands millions.
trous ne out" mocked Fifth Column against Hit- for themselves a newly-created
out.
"You
*
COARSE men, with race-glasses, the daily broadcasts in Deadly Blows Overhead, smoke gathered Called two hundred and seventy-French, Polish, Dutch, Bel- Féw who know the French can into a pall, and the groans and Ave motor-ents, and burned eleven
-summer:
rice-course.
they which implored economy.
They smiled.
enemy,
cursts of the dying echoed where hundred gallons of petrol-which the gian, Norwegian and Czech, doubt that in time they must larks were wont to sing of nation wanted-on the journey to the spoken by "Free" nationals arise from their apathetic stupor rode, they passed-big-bills of those unhappy countries and turn on their hereditary
Just as the broadcasters
But it will bo the Poles-the "You can't say we're using petrol are well aware that they nation which has never known a remarked one, em-have tens of thousands of Quisling-who will make the for pleasure, phasising the last word with a sin listeners, so the Gestapo are greatest effort of all to smash, shouted: "Three to one the field!" cognisant of this disconcert- bronk and hurl to destruction the race who have carried out ing fact, but the Gestapo the most horrible of brutal cannot stop messages, get- deeds. They have suffered
Then he went on the course and
War or no war, you must keep uz the breed of horses.
1
Attila and his Huns. could not
"This is the end of all things,' said one in an agony of hope- lessness, "all that we strove for and dreamed of, all that God meant to us, all that on which we built up our hopes of leaven. The Devil, indeed, has won,"
But his friend, even amid the horror, was smiling. He had seen, bursting among the chaos, COOK PHEASANT was pluming ting through. They can or worse savagery than any of the the petals of a flower--the pro- A his feathers an, before a hen, he ganise
the jamming of others. mise of another spring-time. strutted in the spring sunshine. There broadcasts or attempt to do have surpassed the brutalitics' said.As it is with the stricken about he had more rivals than usual so. They can hunt out vic- done to the people of Poland.
tims and many of them--- What a Nemesis is coming to much shooting last winter," he said. but that is not preventing a the German race and in a lesser great number of patriots on degree to their trailorous Italian
partners! Even within the Continent hearing what boundaries of the totalitarian TE had Anished early two rounds Hitler least wants them to states there are signs that we HE
of golf, and had nothing to do hear.
will have many willing allies- "I may as well go and register," he
The Nazi chiefs are as allies who want nothing from But, to his surprise, the ductors re-well aware as the British us but the right encouragement, so that they can fight their own
"God's work is still going on," he were quite a lot of other pheasants
The moral effect of this willingness by the United States to extend all uld possible will be tremendous and beneficial to Britain, where millions A MAN, riding through a swellen stream, came to a hole in the the water river bed so deep that nearly covered his saddle.
Just then, steing near hin a fine, strapping horse-an animal hands higher than his own-he started to change mounts,
earth, so 'tis with the souls of meny" this year.
of souls calmly await the full might The of the German war machine. knowledge that a large proportion of the vast resources of the US, are to be made available to Britain will not only provide a wonderful stimulus to it nation which now has her back to the wall, but a fear- some and discouraging obstacle to Nazi uspirations.
A striking feature of the debates und committee. forams in Washing- ton on the Lend and Lease measure
2
"Men don't seem to have done so Every bullet doesn't hit YOU.
thought.
the
☆
But na old, inan on the bank knew jected him. A varicose vein, or
rhouted.
"That's all very well," replied the man in trouble, "but I've just dis
covered that I'm riding a donkey!"
Alerce.
*
er the wolves will be frighten-
ed, and behave like Jambs," soist
they
was an inch 'short..
country?
and one
It was Nelnori.
that less than
all about such things. "Never swap something, in bis leg, would not let Government that every body wars of liberation." horses while crossing the stream," he him march, they said. Besides, he of "Free" nationals or- In the empire of Hitler him- And so there was nothing in the ganised in Britain has its self there are millions who hate war that he could do to help his own army of agents at work the Nazi regime (it need only
be remembered Wondering, he stopped before among its oppressed fellow ten years ago more than 12,000,- shop.
In the window, surrounded by the countrymen, working relent 000 people) voted Communist; has been the highly Intelligent, and A LOT of lambs were defending sort of engravings which the middle flessly underground to pre- they can hardly all have reversed
themselves against many
more Fort wolves. So they dressed themselves classes call-Art, was a picture of a in wolves clothing and looked very very little man wearing a uniform Pare their minds for the their true opinions in the in-
covered with medais, but wonderful time when a day arrives terval.) to relate-pussessing only one am which will not be "Der Tag" Vital Conclusion
for the Germans.
But again, the Nazis can only learn from Hitler's strategy There is one thing We can weed out the less clever and re- during the war, and from which sourceful
these "Free" agents. Some will assuredly If the Nazis are to be defeated we can draw a vital conclusion. vanish, the others will pursue it will not be only by war on their grim task.
land, sea and air or by the MEMBERS of Parliament wanted
Czechs To Fore blockude: the spontaneous up- to know things, so they asked
rising and the wielding of the lots of questions.
"Well—," Bodies stretched for miles, bodies
The spearhead of this anti- revolutionary weapon against Nazi drive is already known to the Nazis will cause their whole that once were strong men in their inquire into it."
Czecho-Slovakia-for Members wanted to know other be
the structure to disintegrate, prime, shapes that, only days before, had leapt with the Joyouanoss of things, and they asked more ques- Czechs, swamped and tricked It will be then that the leaders youth, the figures of women yester- tions.
"Well," said the Minister. "Well but not pounded by high explo- of the Third Reich will under- day glad in their motherhood, and
Bives like the other Nazi victims, stand to the full the real mean- the lifeless shells that had shone - make inquiries."
And at the end, nobody knew any-Jare not in the shocked' stato ing of the words "Fifth only with an infant'a half-born Entio.
constructive arguments advanced by both sides. There are sound, logical grounds for some of the apprehen- slons advanced by the opposition. The truth is that the United States Is taking most important, and virtually irrevocable alep; its reper-
destined to cussions Bre
be felt throughout the world. It places the United States as the officially ac- knowledged enemy of the Axis; it is a challenge to them which, perhaps, they will find themselves unable to Ignore. The Bill may well shape the future history of the entire World; its implications are comprehensive to a degree which must impress Japan as much as they will Germany and Italy. When the measure be- comes law, the world generally will know that so far as the United States is concerned, the die has been cust. The thought is both exhilarat- ing and subering.
But the wolves didn't. They went on eating lembs like anything.
When you make war on wolves you must be wolves pourselves.
THE War Lord dreamed. In the
Land of Shadows the Prince of Punishment moted justice out.
They are your dead," he said, "count them!":
"He seems to have been a pretty useful cripple, and the rejected mate do acrobatic as he went back to dances at a bottle party.
Even if you lose a toe you can win
a battle.
salda Minister. "I'll
of
So, to his long task, the War Lord thing more than wher, he started to where their virility has still to Column." They will curse the
bent.
ask,
"You are one cut!" thundered the
Truth: lies at the bottom of a recover itself. Their spirits are day they first made use of this
burning at white heat. Their secret weapon. "Well--bell!"
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