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BELIEVE Hitler's Germany has passed its peak and is on the

April 3, 1941

HITLER

HAS

decline. I believe Hitler LOST ALREADY

has lost the war.

Those two sentences sum up my conclusions, based on an objective study of the internal situation in Germany- ja study made at first.

all the freedom to see

By Edwin Hartrich

Formerly Berlin, Correspondent of The Columbia Broadcasting System:

there of any anti-Hitler man, Winston Churchill, brought home to them the hand and facilitated by movement. If there are backed by Jews, has caused grim fact that two car play and hear for myself that any Communists I did the war that at present he the game of aerial warfare. I enjoyed as a neutral. There was no unrest or Whether he will continue first R.A.F. raid on the Nazi

Hongkong Telegraph. ing.

Thursday, April 3, 1941. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20615

THE Frenx "Special to the Telegraph

te used by the longkong Telegraph" to the provisions of Telecommuni- cations Ordinance, 1996, Bach news as

bears the indication "up" is received in

Hongkong on the date of pubilestion by the United Press Associations, who re- serve all rights and forbid republications, either wholly or in part without previous arrangement.

GOVERNMENT HOUSE

GOVERNMENT House, for

not see or hear them. believes it.

Sad Plight of Refugee Jews in Shanghai

war.

a

On that Sunday night the

Goring assured the people

on an

I do not expect a sen- sabotage of which I to do so in face of a first- capital took place." sational crack-up, but heard.

class military defeat is As one American · corres- doubtful.

pondent covering the war crevices will appear.

Of course, there were Hitler is still regarded.strikes in the Rhineland When I say that I believe from Germany said: I was as a wonder man and when workers protested Hitler has lost the war Ias surprised as any of the thought that war was far miracle worker who will against lack of sleep mean the Nazi regime and German civilians. We had removed from the interior find some magic man- caused by R.A.F. raids, its leader and not neces-

: of Germany, that Britain ner to cross the English but the Nazis were quick sarily Germany itself.

Here are some reasons to and Germany were fighting Channel and smash Bri- to deal with them.

support that conviction. it out over the narrow tain. He is not close

First, to win this war, waters of the English to German hearts like "Uncle" Hermann Goer- THE intelligent German Hitler must successfully in Channel.

takes official Nazi state- vade and conquer England, ments with large doses of

WHEN the war had started Scotland, and Wales. Hitler is above that. salt, but the average man"

seems to believe them,, as Second, he must do this of Berlin "that, come what may, He is the Germans' god. far as I could see. The Ger- soon before the year is out. wall of fire will protect the Nazi capital, no enemy plane will I have to report that man is essentially a patriot.

Third, because of the pro- ever penetrate our anti-aircraft defences." The air raid of there was no noticeable He does not entertain any

bitter hatred against the jection of England itself as August 26 was considered by this many to have been an accident indicate nown which is strictly copyright evidence whatever in English, but has been told premier objective in

that can happen in any war. However, to emphasise that it Germany while I was so often that this wicked war, all other military suc-

cesses elsewhere will not was not, the R.A.F. came again Janswer the demands of the the following Tuesday and Wed-

German people.

nesday nights.

These raids and those that fol- Fourth, if Britain is able towed did much to destroy the to repulse a major invasion illusion that Germany could pro- Jattempt by the Germans tect itself against British planes. Hitler has definitely lost the. The raids continued

average of three nights a week. While there was relatively little However, despite the last damage done to Berlin, the Ger- mana head exploding bombs and. consideration I have to re-the crashing welcome of anti- port that Germany has re- aircraft guns to R.A.F. planes sources to survive a long overhead. The paramount fact SHANGHAI, which for nearly a States currency or have relatives

was that the century has been a frequent city with jobs in the city.

apparent. to all This barrier was too great for war, perhaps two years at R.A.F. can pierce Goring's wall. of refuge, has again assumed that role, and for two years now, has been many to surmount, the chief haven for Jews from central stream continues. An estimated 30 the most, before an internal of fire and they can bomb Berlin

to 60 arrive in every vessel from collapse would set in. Europe.

Repeatedly this great city of the Dalren after having crossed Asin on east absorbed countless thousands of the trans-Siberia railway..

Shanghai is not an ideal site for a streaming refugees to its doors who were escaping from China's troubles, Jewish colony. Since China is a and for several years after 1917, land where the white man ordinarily

The morale of the civilian po- eign-military-and-naval pulation in Berlin may be gum- Shanghai-was the barbour for thou does not do manual labour, many un- sands of Russians fleeing from the skilled Jews lack the possibility of

going to work. Meanwhile, Shang-attaches in Berlin, as well med up in one sentence: They new regime in their homeland.

Since the anti-Semitic outburst in hal's business, curtailed by the Sino- Purope reached its present, intensity; da employment offers lille possibility as the German people at are generally uneasy.

home, wonder night and day Though they have not lost 20,000 Jews, German of and Austrian, have landed in Shang-

And the fact the Jews are virtually why a blitzkrieg invasion confidence in ultimate victory, hai's Bund, and have made their forced by clrcumstances to live in homes here.

Hongkew under some apprehension was not launched in late they cannot understand why war

has not ended or why the Historical records show that China of Japan, Germany's tripartite Ally, once before-1,900 years ago--was a also is of no help to their living con August or September of the Blitzkries trug force refuge for Jews. These ancient re- ditions. Many Jews are also handi- against England. With each Low Countries and France did cords indicate that Jewish refugees capped by a defeatist psychology passing day our puzzlement not span the Channel and smash came to China probably soon after after many months of browbeating

England. A.D. 34 as a result of Babylonian in Europe, and most of them lack grew.

command of English, the universal; persecutions.

business and professional language in In late August we. Ameri- Since Shanghai was probably the Shanghai. only place in the world where Jews

Jewish circles In Shanghai acknow-can correspondents were were able to come without visas, this

at the moment is: "At the been devastating. The sub-city soon became known to Jewish ledige that the United States, or pos- waiting from day to day for general line of propaganda

circles throughout the world as the sibly some Jewish colony established

the war to move to its cul- proper time to be decided by the attack sidence is continuing and at the

be under a powerful democracy Mecca

freedom where

could

Alaska,

the Philippines or the Domi- mination of an invasion. of Fuehror himself, the obtained.

against England will be started present time there is scarcely a

We heard reports and victory will follow This However, when Jewish immigrants nican Republic constituted the chief Britain, room unaffected. In some parts began to stream into Shanghai, they hope of most of the Jews in Shang-

that the date had been set thin prophecy or explanation has the walls have been split from started to settle in Hongkew, Shanghai, enys United Press.

hal'a Japanese-controlled Late Early Jewish Pioneers for August 15, then Septem- not sold itself completely to the top to bottom; the wall in one

Tokyo," where freedom was presum- upstairs room has come apartably least guaranteed. Thus Hong- Before the onrush of German Jews ber 1, and then September home front, and daylight now permeates kew, home of some 20,000 Jews, now in Shanghai, this city was already the 15. The German civilian German friends and acquaint- has its own "Ghetto," with Jewish home of many Jews from many parts population had been told ances of mine living in Berlin through a two-inch crack; a water pipe in the gardens has

friends and relatives living in The reason the Jews settled in stituting the largest numbers. In the that Britain was about to have been receiving letters from been forced out of position and Hongkew is simple to explain: there, days of the European persecution, succumb to the Germa näther parts of the Reich suggest.

food, rent and clothing are far when relatively few Jews went to the stone steps leading down to cheaper than in other parts of Shang- Shanghai, these longtime residents power and might on the day ing and pleading that Berliners the the lower levels of the hal where foreigners live. Some contributed much in putting the new-that the Fuchrer chose to leave the capital and seek safety

Jews estimate expenses there at 3D comers on their feet."

in the country. It was an in- with the rapid increase push the button. per cent. less than at the Interna- grounds have been thrown out

teresting sidelight the French in numbers, many of them pauperised of alignment. From its appear-lonal Settlement and

Concession. Moreover, Jews found by German authorities, the support The German propaganda stories of bombed Berlin and in ance, Government.House might little infringement of their activilles of the Jews became a financial pro- Ministry scored heavy blows much more exaggerated form

Liem, and committees were establishTM

have spread throughout the well have been the victim of an forthcoming from the Japanese.

ed to deal with it. Soon outside help in telling the civilian popu Reich, and what alarm they have earthquake.

was called and New York's Jew-lation that the evacuation caused.

89 years the official residence of His Excellency the Governor, and a prominent island land- mark, is in the process of dis- integration. It is no longer fit for habitation. The un- pleasant news is dramatised by the swift progress of the damage -in less than three months the building has become a mass of masonry. cracks and broken Similarly disturbing the cause for such a state of affairs, Old age has possibly made some contribution, but primarily the building has been the victim of tho Colony's defence pre- parations.

Forty feet below Government House has been constructed an

A.R.P. tunnel. In consequence of this work the Government House grounds have suffered a subsidence and the effect upon the Governor's residence has

form of welcome which could have

return to the Colony. I expert

boring of the A.It.P. tunnel beneath the house is the principal reason for

sirici amicial investigation.

the damage, the matter calls

for

shops, cafes and industries.

Immigration Bar

However, as the stream of Jewish immigration, swelled into torrent there were 15,000 by August 1939 the Japanese decided it was time to raise the bars. An immigration

but still the

of the world, with Russian Jews con-

However,

Ish joint committee began contribut

NEUTRAL observers, for-

J

"during the night at will.

This realisation camo doubly hard after the successes of the blitzkrieg.

on how

ing the bulk of the support

for from Dunkirk meant that The more the Nazi propaganda Shanghal's Jewish immigrante. By

and belief it commanded in public circles.

The building is manifestly unsafe and it appears that His Excellency must setk elsewhere for an official

the end of 1939, hundreds of Jown England could never hope to strayed from the military situa residence; this is hardly the happiest

were subsisting mostly on the com- resume military operations tion into the name-calling, nose- been mado to Sir Geoffry upon his regulation adopted on Aug. 11, 1999 mittee's allotment of U.S.$3.30 per that would directly affect thumbing stage, the less respect

person_n month, with the agreement of the Municipal By July, 1040, local committees Germany, Council and the French Concession

The people has been focused - technical opinion is agreed that the Counell, provided that all German were keeping 2,200 Jews in refugee man camps, serving 8,143 meals dally with Jews, who were distinguished by the the cost per person yarying from one

on, one objective-the physical summerto letter "3" on their passport, would Chinese dollar in the

THEN came the night of conquest of the British Isles. be. prohibited entry into Shanghal $1.36 in the winter (roughly six and

Propaganda and reporting have Sunday, August 25. unless they possessed $400 in United eight cents,, American, respectively),

been grooved to promise that

18 is the fact some of the re-

That may prove to be one when the Germans conquer Bri- It is now certain that Government House is beyond repair, and when is all in the future; for the present fugees are finding places in private of the decisive dates in world tain then they have won the normal times return to the Colony, the Colony can only regret that such business, while others are establish

it is admitted

history.

This has its boomerang pos- a fate should overtake Governmenting their own, although the question arising will be what

House and to express sympathy to that some of the refugees are men- to do with such a valuable site. The

For Hitler's Germany it sibilities. For unless Britain is againy to. at in normal society. The

Invaded, and soon, unless Britain obylous alternative appear to be His Excellency that he should be tally and physically unable ever clther to build new. Government placed in such a predicament at a committees are also heartened by was a day when the scales is conquered, there will be offices or to use it for the construc- time when the necessity of possessing several community projects, such as began to slip from the eyes general boller that Germany has

a contral and accessible residence is a Jewish hospital and-in-modern, tion of our much needed city. hall,

of the people. That day lost the war well-equipped school. museum and library, This, however, greater than ever before.

A Shanghal committees,

war.