1941-04-10 — Page 17

Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 10, 1941.

American Views

Views On British Censorship

There is apparent in what are generally called official circles In London some slight irritation with America's censorship complex." It arises, perhaps, from the conviction that there are more important issues, plus the bellof that Americans are not entitled to substantially greater or more sensational news than the British public, states "PM's" London correspondent,

London censorship is often slow and inefficient; sometimes downright stupid. But, on the basis of a fair amount of ex- perience with totalitarian censorship, I am convinced that Lon- don's policy is the most liberal anywhere, continues the correspon- dent.

It is obviously true that in-l formation designed to aid or as-]

sist Britain's enemies is sup-1 U.S. To Have

pressed, but no hard working) reporter in Britain is dependent entirely upon "official spokes-1 men" for his information.

For example, last July I saw. in detail defences of the most valuerable English coastline, was permitted to talk with the captains of the gun crews and was told how much ammunition they had-or rather didn't have,

Inspects Defences

I saw seven miles of open bench covered by one antiquated naval gun, piilboxes without Bren gas and all the other improvised and lade quate defences of this Island. At the time it was forbidden to reveal this information and, indeed, I made)

o attempt to do so.

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300,000

Men In Navy

By the addition of 42,000 to its existing strength the person- nel of the United States Navy will be raised to close on 300,000 officers and men. Including re- serves, the authorised total was hitherto 251,448, out of which 239,281 were on duty by the end of September last,

Until this year American war- Ships have been organised in two Hut, on the basis of those obser- main divisions-the United vations and with the knowledge of States Fleet, with its main bases what has been done since then. It in California and Hawaii, and is certainly safe to say--without the Asiatic Fleet. A section of the assistaner of this mysterious "ullitary spokesman-that, if the the former, based on the east Germans attempt Invasion now. It const, was known as the Atlantic will cost then 180 men for every Squail of the United States one they would have lost in June Fleet. It comprised a training Atfred Duft Cooper. Minister of unit formed by the four oldest Information, summed up the position battleships, one of which was de- of British censorship while talking militarised some years ago, a with American correspondents the division of cruisers of the latest other day. He said:

"It it's a question of providing type, and a considerable- num- Americans with a big hendline or of ber of destroyers and sub- providing the Germans with useful marines. information, you wwwn'? vet your headline,"

or Jaly.

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This force is now to become a suparate fleet. Presumably for some time to come the majority of new, units will join it as they are com

Tradition Of Tolerance Censorship in wartime is inevitable.missioned. It la irritating and unpleasant, but it may be useful to remember that. while British censors occasionally tell) us what we can't say, they never try to tell us what we must say or write, says the "Pa" representative.

In Britain the tradition of tolerance is strong. So far as censorship * cancerned military secrets are sacred, But comment is free. For how much of the rest of Europe can the sante be said?

air

Asiatic Flect

has hitherto been comparatively mo- The strength of the Asiatic Fleet

cruisers, about a dozen destroyers, desi, amounting only two or three with sheepmber of cabinaries, with some depel ships, minesweeper, gunboat and patrol vessels.

It is based on the Philippines, but

In a large measure, of course, one in the event of war its strategic value must rely on official communiques for would be greatly enhanced, as the military, and naval news. No British naval base ai impartial neutral observers were would be at its disposal.

Singapore there when the incident occurred.

The German communiques are still A very lurge number of new war- printed in Britain and no one has ships are under construction or on been beheaded or thrown into dun-order for the United States Navy, anoe vile for listening to a German including 17 battleships, 12 aircraft- brondcast.

cartiers, 40 cruisers, 100 destroyers and B0 submarines.

No responsible reporter would be wise to be placed in the position of refering any censorship, it is our

After the transfer to Britain of 50 to fight it. But it is to be re- destroyers designed during the last Job membered that the British censors war the United States Navy retains are inexperienced-consorship is not all about 170 destroyers, half of exactly in the British tradition, con- which are modern. Nearly all are eludes the message.

in full commission.

Cheers

War Without

For Nazi Germany

In the first of a series of articles on conditions inside Ger- many Wallace Deuel, who has just returned to the United States after six years in Berlin as correspondent of the "Chicago Daily News," describes the feeling of hopelessness which he found in Hitler's Reich.

NOT FOR POLES-Fino delicatesson store in Warsaw, Poland, is permitted to sell its wines and caviar only to Gormans, nof Polos. Germans must identify themselves. Pictura smuggled from Poland by Swiss journalist.

Duke's

Orchids Lead

For For Libel

To Action

The Duke of Westminster's orchids were mentioned in the King's Bench Division, London, recently, when the settlement was announced of a libel action in which the Duke was the plaintiff and the defendants were Daily Mirror Newspapers, Ltd.

Mr Valentine Holmes, for the Duke, said that the Daily Mirror, under the heading "Cassandra,' and entitled "Fragrant Frag ments," published this:-

"

"Just a couple of paragraphs let-

dren under 18 were killed in air raids surely snipped from the news:--

"Six hundred and forty-fires chil- during the month of October.

"The Duke of Westminster's famõtis collection of orchids. has arrived in Florida in 15 packing cages, and will Le cared for until the end of the war by an expert florist."

Lord Haw-Haw Cited

them across the water, are being

such

AMERICA'S

WARTIME INDUSTRY Saboteurs Among

Employees

The obvious suggestion, that the

The US. Attorney-General, Duke is spending money in sending Mr Robert H. Jackson, revealed orchids to America and having them that the Federal Bureau of In- cared for there while poor children, vestigation has made a survey of whose parents cannot afford to send 1,200 plants which are working killed, is as offensive and damaging on defence orders and has es- as it is untrue, said M. Holmestablished systems-for-trapping-

widely "How statements can be spread, and how done, says a Washington report. unfounded soboteurs before damage can be damaging they can be, is perhaps best shown by the fact that the announcer

He suid that spies and bomb- on the Bremen radio, who is usually throwers were not the most known as Lord Haw-Haw, repeated serious danger to internal de- Bhem for German propaganda pur- fence, but agents attempting to incite labour trouble and urging The statement was reverse of the "business as usual and appease- truth, he went on. Since the out- break of war The Duke had been atment of aggressors as the road

ht very great pains to cut down his ex-to business profits." penditure on his hothouse and flower Four strikes are in operation of gardens to an absolute minimum, and plants which are working under de- to use them only away which fence contracts. notably at Allis would ussist the national effort to Chalmers, at Milwaukee, which 15 produce food. He had sold orchid holding orders for $40,000,000 and at plants of great value, and a number| International Harvester,

Chicago, had been resold to America, which which has a contract for $10,000,000. produced American currency for this

Unfair Practices country.

puses.

As

"It is true," he writes, "that Germany, has risen again, but the price in wear and tear of the people's nerves has been appall-indicated their willingness to ing, and millions of Germans have ceased to believe, if they ever did, that it is possible to hope for rewards which would be worth the price.

"The German people are tired heard one lorry full of men singing. as few people in the world have All the others sat in silence. ever been tired without break-the sidewalks and not even turn their "And nine-tenths of the people on ing down. In a single genera-heads to watch the troops. I have tion they have gone through a never heard a spontaneous cheer for major war, a starvation block-passing troops except when normal ade and a catastrophic defeat, parades were held. They have had two revolutions.

Berliners Not Happy They have had their currency

"I was in two of the principal wiped out altogether once and have streets in Berlin for the first half- been seriously threatened. with the that Face hnd towed for form. W

hour after the news became known "They've had the some exhausting last, I thought, I should see some

normal

human reaction. It was,

same fate again,

and disillusioning experiences of de after all, one of the greatest milliary pression na the rest of the world has had, and now they have entered on ni

new war,

All Except The Last

triumphs of

of all times.

"But there was no reaction to be seen, none at all. The Berliners looked neither Jubilant nor happy "They are winning all the battles nor even relieved. They looked just In the new war, It is true. But they the same as they had looked for more won all the battles in the last war, than six years, too-all except the tastand they tired. The second world war is a They just looked have never forgotten it.

war without cheers as far as Ger-

"Until the last battle in this wat many is concerned," has been fought and won it will be hard for millions of Germans to be- Hleve it will be won at all. And, be- sides, unless that Inst battle is fought and won soon enough what good will victory bo to the Germans? Tho longer the-war lasts the more the Germans will wonder if it is worth fighting.

Crippled On Way

Silent Men

"Scores of times I have seen columns of motorised troops pouring through Berlin and half a dozen other cities on their way to the front, first towards Poland and lafter to-

To Wedding

road, Ensiville, Wilts, was to have Tom Render, aged 64, of Muller- attended his daughter's wedding on a recent Saturday.

Instead he was taken to hospital with both feet

severed,

He fell in front of an oncoming train at Chippenham.

While receiving first aid he made.

Agreed To Settlement

soon as the true facts were brought to their notice, defendants

everything in their power to avert the consequences of the mistake Into which they had unwillingly fallen.

The Duke had therefore agreed to a settlement on terms which inv

Involved payment of a sum of money which the cerning itself with the Interests of he would hand over to a charity con

children who suffered in air raids.

Mr G. O, Slade, for the defendants, said they desired to express their

sincere regret to the Duke.

Mr Justice Wrotteries allowed the record in the case to be withdrawn.

THEY MEASURE MINDS

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show no nervousness in the face of at enemy, become nervous in an examination room!

Leadership?

"We make allowances for that, But one thing the professors of Cambridge have not yet been able to discover is a test of leadership,

"We can fall, within a small mòr- ain of error, whether a man is practical, slow, quick, reliable, slap- dash, nervous, stendy or mathema- tical, but nothing yet known to the paychologists will tell us whether he possesses the ability to lead other men and to gain their respect and confidence."

The fonts I have, described are a kindergarten compared with somo. have seen, which are set to members of the Royal Armoured Corps.

wards the West. But among all no complaint, but merely asked for SATURDAY !

these columns I have only seen and a cigarette.

The New Infantry

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couse

The National Labour Relations Board found International Harvester guilty of unfair labour practices at six plants, including those at Chicago and Rocks Falls (III.), where strikes were holding up defence The board directed the company to production. interfering with employees engaged in organization of unions.

Mr Sidney

the Labour Filmai, Teater, who is co-director with Mr W. s. Knudsen of the Office for Pro- duction

Management-the supreme defence commission-sald that the defence labour situation is vely satisfactory, and that he saw no reason for restrictive legislation. co-operation in industry than at pre- There was never a better spirit of

sent.

Mr E R. Stettinius, a member of the National Defence Council, has anked manufacturers to economise in zinc, which is scarce, so that more will be available for the manufacture of cartridges.

The Secretary for the Navy, Col. Frank Knox, denied that the Navy has established a peacetime censor- ship when he was asked why publicity was given to the movements of warships.

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Work For Objectora The US War Department has announced that 80,000 of the avall- ablo 100,000 reserve oflears will be con active duty by June.

the Mr

President Roosevelt has issued an

order authorising of

Conscription, Clarence Dykstra, to prescribe work of national Importance for con scientious objectors. The policy will be under the direction of religious organisations, supervised by tho Draft Board.

Objectors will work without wages, but the religious organisations, which will pay almost the entire cost of operating the camps, will supply them with pocket money. It is catimated that about 6,000 objectors have registered.

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