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February 11, 1941.
Hitler and his gang will curse the day
they_first_made use of the secret weapon that has helped them So far on their evil path
When OUR
Fifth Column
Is In
Action
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At the head of those who lead the regeneration of the Czechą
It is true that for a time will undoubtedly be handsome Jan Masaryk, son of the famous founder of Czecho-Slovakia. weapon. But, like most vantages, the chief one the Germans have been able All mits of $1,540, and over in valus Weapons, it can be being that Hitler's plans to enjoy the material bene- His inspired broadcasts ring Vast like a clarion call across the sea to his country- carry the Hongkong Hotel, Garar countered, and even in had been crowned with fits of occupation.
quantities of foodstuffs and men; and nobody hearing him the end turned into a success for six years.
stores have been despatched can doubt but that the efforts stronger weapon
Hated Invader to Germany to provide the of this dynamical man in the cause of the Czechs do not stop against the original
To-day we now have the doped population with the at more words over the air.
illusion of victory. But this In connection with Czecho- The Nazis to-day oc- signal advantage that in not plunder cannot go on for Slovakin it is a fact of interest cupy several countries, one single European coun- ever, and, at the same time, and significance that the Nazis but they have definitely try is the Nazi invader even to try to keep order in the are now known to be transfer- tolerated. He is loathed and ravaged territories large dangerous west--where the not conquered them. Daily, despite an ex- treme censorship of all news within these coun- hated-hated more and more bodies of German soldiers already much in evidence may tries of the "New Or as day succeeds day. His have to be kept as per destroy most of those war plants der," come underground exploitation of Europe, his manent garrisons. accounts of sabotage plundering of occupied ter- In Norway, for instance, British offensive to start, there and silent, secret war- ritories, and, most of all, his there are 300,000 German is not the slightest chance fare against the hated forcible creation of millions soldiers; in France over a able to divert more than 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. mercy the human and become so embittered, that
DEATH
MARQUES-On February 11, 1041,
n2
at 6.30 nm. the Kowloon Hospital, Carlos Place Marques, the Monument at 5.15 p.m. this
aged 68 years. Funeral will pass
afternoon.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
Tuesday, February 11, 1941.
Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20815
THE prefix "Special to the Telegraph" is used by the “Tongkang Telegraph" to Indicate news which is riietly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni- cations Ordinaner, 1936, Buch news as bears the Indication "UP" Ir received in Hongkong on the date of publication by the Untied Press Associatsons, who re serve all rigħla and forbid repudications, either wholly or in part without previzos Arrangement.
LEND & LEASE BILL
THE approval of the Lend and Lease B by the House of Re-
presentatives is a triumph for the Roosevelt Administration, not only politically, but in its accurate estim- ate of the present-day temper of American public opinion. Deter- mined, bu! unavailing was the Republican opposition to the main features of the measure, but the House's approval was assured when amendment after amendment was defeated. The Bill has yet to obtain "the acquiescence of the Senate, where a closer vole is likely, but its anal
ally assured.
Some Fables
By Arthur Armstrong
Little of To-day
By HANNEN SWAFFER
THEY wandered over the tyrant who ruled there, when the THEY
scarred
The War Lord had reckoned up the toll. war - fields.
And again the War Lord reckoned, grass was black with powder, until the hundreds
were thousands
ring their war plants from the
R.A.F. makes free play-to the "safor" cast in the countryside of Bohemia. One day wholesale Czech sabotage-a symptom
which have survived the R.A.F.
When the time comes for the
that the Germans will be
sent available forces to meet it. Rather they may have to reduce 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.
The Nursery
In Holland there is plenty of evidence that the democratic and freedom-loving population: will rise in vengeance against the Here is the nursery of the oppressor. In Belgium it is the and with fire that had long gone and the thousands millions. Fifth Column against Hitam, The Danes have found for themselves a newly-created national spirit. The Norwegi- Nothing makes it more ans are the same, and could clear that this is fully deal deadly blows at the Ger- realised by the British than
"You are still one out!" mocked out.
Things that had been men the tormentor. You haven't counted ler. were lying everywhere, and yourself!"
Those who first take up the sword where once harvests had ripened point it at their own hearts. in the sun-shine was blood and wreckage.
mana.
COARSE men, with race-glasses, the daily broadcasts in Deadly Blows Overhead,
smoke gathered filed two hundred and seventy-French, Polish, Dutch, Bel- into a pall, and the groans and ave motor-cars, and burned eleven curses 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
Bummer.
.
race-course.
implored economy.
one,
Few who know the French can
This is the end of all things," As they rode, they passed big bills of those unhappy countries, and turn on their hereditary
Just as the broadcasters enemy.
But it will be the Poles--the approval by Congress is now virtu- we're using petrol are well aware that they nation which has never known
said one in an agony of hope.hey smiled,
cm-have tens of thousands of Quisling-who will make the and dreamed of, all that God for pleasure," remarked meant to us, all that on which phasising the last word with a glisteners, so the Gestapo are greatest effort of all to smash, we, built up our hopes of Heaven. shouted: "Three to one the field cognisant of this disconcert- break and hurl to destruction The Devil, indeed, has won.”
War or no war, you must keep using fact, but the Gestapo the most horrible of brutal the race who have carried out cannot stop messages get- deeds. They have suffered a
The gesture is symbolic of the new and closer relations obtaining be- Iween Britain and the United States; it gives practical expression to a real and deep sympathy for the cause of the British Empire against the machinatlens of the Axis Powers which seek to destroy all those in- stitutions which are held so dear by Americans.
Then he went on the .course
But his friend, even amid the the breed of horror, was smiling. He had scen, bursting among the chaos,
horses.
mise of another spring-time. strutted in the spring sunshine. There
The moral effect of this willingness earth, so 'tis with the souls of meni" by the United States to extend all ald possible will be tremendous and beneficial to Britain, where millions of souls calmly await the full might of the German war machine. The
AMAN, riding through a swollen stream, caine to a hole in the water river bed so deep that the nearly covered his saddle.
this year.
much shooting last winter," he said..
Every bullet docen't hit YOU.
Attila and his Huns could not
within the
the petals of a flower the pro: A COOK PHEASANT was pluning ing through. They can or- worse savagery than any of the
his feathers. as, before a hen, beganise the jamming of others. "God's work is still going on," he were quite a lot of other pheasant broadcasts or attempt to do have surpassed the brutalities
so. They can hunt out vic- tims-and many of them- What a Nemesis is coming to "Men don't seem to have done so but that is not preventing a the German race and in a lesser great number of patriots on degree to their traitorous Italian the Continent hearing what boundaries of the totalitarian
partners Even
of golf, and had nothing to do. hear.
will have many willing allies- knowledge that a large proportion strapping horse-an animal hands "I may as well go and register," he
higher than his own-he started to thought.
The Nazi chiefs are as allies who want nothing from change mounts.
But, to his surprise, the actors re-well aware as the British us but the right encouragement. But on old man on the bank knew jecled him. A varicose vein,
so that they can fight their own all about such things. Never swap something, in his 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- That's all very well," replied the And so there was nothing in the ganised in Britain has its self there are millions who hate man in trouble, "but I've just dis war that he could de to help his own army of agents at work the Nazi regime (it need only
country?
ourondering, he stopped before among its oppressed fellow ten years ago more than 12,000,- be remembered that less than
of the vast resources of the US, are to be made available to Britain will not only provide a wonderful stimulus to that nation which nuw has her back to the wal, but a fear- come and discouraging obstacle to Nazi aspirations..
A striking feature of the debates and commlitee forums in Washing- ton on the Lend and Lease measure
Just then, seeing near him a fine. He had finished early two rounds Hitler least wants them to States there are signs that we
shouted.
covered that I'm riding a donkey!"
Kerce.
*
was an inch short.
shop.
OT
on the window, surrounded by the countrymen, working relent-000 people) voted Communist; has been the highly intelligent and A LOT of Inmbs were defending
themselves against many more sort of engravings which the middle lessly underground to pre- they can hardly all have reversed wolves. So they dressed themselves classes call Art, was a pleture 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-
terval.) covered with medals, but wonderful time when a day arrives "Now the wolves will be frighten- to relate-possessing only one arm which will not be "Der Tag" Vital. Conclusion
for the Germans.
There is one thing we can But again, the Nazis can only learn from Hitler's strategy
"Free"
constructive arguments advanced by both aldes. There are. sound, logical grounds for some of the apprehen- alona, advanced by the opposition. The truth is that the United States Is taking a most important, and virtually irrevocablo ɛlep; ita reper- cussions,. are destined to be felt throughout the world. It pinces the United States as the offelally ne-
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 impreu 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 cast. The thought is both exhilarat- ing and sobering.
ed, and behave like lambs," they said,
But the wolves didn't. They went on eating lembs like anything. must be wolves yourselves,
and one eye.
It was Nelson, "He seems to have been a pretty useful cripple, said the rejected man,
When you make war on wolves you as he went back to do acrobatic weed out the leas clever and re- during the war, and from which
し
THE War Lord dreamed. In the Land of Shadows the Prince of Punishment moted justice out.
"They are your dead," he sald, "count them!"
Bodies stretched for miles, bodies that once were strong men in their prime, shapes that, only days before, had leapt with the joyousness of youth, the figures of women, yester day glad in their motherhood, and the lifeless shells that had shons only with an infant's, hall-born anile.
Bo, to his long task, the War Lord bent,
"You are one out!" thundered the
dances at a bottle party.
Even if you lose a toe you can toin a battle.
M
EMBERS of Parliament wanted to know things, so they asked Jots of qucationa
"Well," said a Minister. "I'}} inquire into it."
Members wanted to know other things, and they asked more ques Uons.
sourceful of these
we can draw a vital conclusion. agents. Some will assuredly If the Nazis are to be defeated vanish, the others will pursue it will not be only by war on their grim task.
land, sea and air or by, the
rising and the wielding of the The spearhead of this anti- revolutionary weapon against Nazi drive is already known to the Nazis will cause their whole be
Czecho-Slovakla-for the structure to disintegrate. Czecha, swamped and tricked It will be then that the leaders Well" said the Minister. "Well but not pounded by high explo- of the Third Reich will under- I'll make inquiries."
sives like the other Nazi victims, stand to the full the real mean- And at the end, nobody knew ony-are not in the shocked staté ing of tho words "Fifth thing more than when he started to where their virility has still to Column." They will curso the ntk.
"Truth lies at the bottom of a recover itself. Their spirits are day they first made use of this well-well!"
burning at white heat. Their secret weapon.
Czechs To Fore blockade; the spontaneous up-
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