1941-04-17 — Page 20

Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 17, 1941.

Drink

WATSON'S Sparkling mineral

WATERS

for Purity, Quality & Merit.

JUST ARRIVED

New Parlophone Recordings

MP31-SARAH-SARAH. Blow Fox Trot........Harry Roy & His Band. WE'LL GO SMILING ALONG. F.T.....Harry Roy & His Band. MP3Z-THE BREEZE AND I. Fox Trot.

IF YOU HADN'T ASKED ME TO DANCE. Waltz F1758-TIN PAN ALLEY MEDLEY NO. 28...Pari 1

TIN PAN ALLEY MEDLEY, Part II F1767-TIN FAN ALLEY MEDLEY NO. 29.

TIN FAN ALLEY MEDLEY, Part II F1778 TIN PAN ALLEY MEDLEY NO. 30.

Harry Roy & His Band, Ivor Marton & Dave Kaye.

Part I

Ivor Morton & Dave Kayo.

Part I

Ivor Morton & Dave Kaye.

TIN PAN ALLEY MEDLEY. Part II F1772--WHERE THE BLUE BEGINS. Quick Step ..Victor Silvester Orch.

Waliz LOVE STAY IN MY HEART.

Victor Silvester Orch. F1764-MIST ON THE RIVER. Blow Fox Trot ...Victor Silvester Orch.

LOOK FOR THE SILVER LINING, Quick Step

Victor Silvester Orch. P1784—ALI, OVER TIE PLACE. Fox Trot..The Organ The Dance & Me.

CHEERIO. Quick Step

..The Organ The Dance & Me.

Solo Agents:

CO.,

LTD. Chater Road.

S. MOUTRIE &

York Building

NACET

BLADES

Satisfactory shaving de- mands speed, comfort and

a smooth result.

Nocet

Blades give you all three- et an amazingly low price.

You will be surprised, too,

at the number of shaves you

will get from each blade.

NACET

REOD. TRADE MARK

MADE IN ENGLAND

FOR 3 PEO RAZORS

Hongkong Benevolent Society

Room - 11, Ice House Street

The Society's Room will be open on MONDAYS & THURSDAYS

from 10 A.M. to noon

Passport Photos Executed Promptly

MEE CHEUNG

PHOTOGRAPHERS

15, 23, Ice House Street.

Tel, 26379.

STOP...

To make sure your automobile will GO is very important."

BUT

To make sure it will STOP is even more important.

To have dependable brakes . to know you will STOP regard- less of weather conditions.. use WHIZ NON-EVAPORAT- INC FLUID.

HYDRAULIC BRAKE

A high-quality, permanent fluid that protects and pre- serves Hydraulic Brakes Contains no water or alcohol. WHIZ NON-EVAPORATING HYDRAULIC BRAKE FLUID the sure way to know that you'll... STOP.

BRAKE FLU

The

(Whiz)

Sold Here

HONGKONG

HOTEL GARAGE

Stubbs Rd,

Hongkong Telegraph.

Thursday, April 17, 1941. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20615

THE prefix "Special to the Telegraph" la tised by the tangkong Telegraph" to Indicats news which is strictly copyright

under the provisions of the Telecommunt- cations Ordinance. 1935, Such now as bears the indication "UP", is' received in Rongkeng on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who re- serve all, right and forbid republications, elther wholly or in part without proviQua arrangement

TUBERCULOSIS

TUBERCULOSIS, the most spread, and insidious of the diseases to scourge the health of the Colony, continues to take alarming toll of the population, providing a problem which demands the fullest attention both on the part of the administra- tion and the public.

Latest figures show that so far this year 2,012 T.B.

at least the same number remain unnotined and therefore escape the ofclal records. It is this feature

HOW WILL HITLER

FALL?

Fifth Article

THE PISTOL AT

ENGLAND'S

PISTOL pointed at Eng fortifications were taken by sur-

"A land's

heart." It vas prise, or encircled, although one

HEART

Napoleon, of course, who said fort held out for many days. By George Slocombe

it, and he said it at Antwerp. The Dutch were cut off by But more than two centuries their own famous water de- before Napoleon, Philip the fences. Queen Wilhelmina and Second of Spain had already her Government took refügo in pointed the pistol, loaded and England. After brief but fired it.

heroic resistance, the young

a

It was from Antwerp that the Belgian King, Leopold III, sur- Prince of Parma, Alexander rendered with his army. Farnese, was to have embarked

his army of foot and horse for History has few examples of a the invasion of England in more tortured conscience than 1588-that great venture which that of this royal Hamlet. His the small vessels of the English surrender was bitterly attacked at the time, and by most of his Fleet nipped in the bud,

ministera.

It drew from Faul Reynaud, M. Pierlot, Belgian Primo Minis- retreat to the line of the Lya then Premier of France, one of ter, and M. Spaak, Foreign Min- and the Escaut was due rather both now in Britain, to the German break-through of

1

The Low Countries have al- ways been closely linked with the fortunes of Britain.

The wars of religion, the the most savage' and contemptu- istor, sublime struggle of William of ous denunciations I have ever "The little States will have to the French front on the Belgian Orange against Spanish despot heard broadcast on the air from follow a policy very different and the French waters of the ism, the ambitions of Louis the one national leader of another. from the past," thinks M. Spaak. Meuse than to any defeat suf-

fered by itself. Fourteenth and of Napoleon, the It plunged the British and the

"When the King decided to Dutch and British naval rivalry French nation and the many with criticism and bitter hosti- in the reign of Charles II, the millions of Belgian refugees into lity. If he left the army to its lay down his arms on May 28, fate, how could he hope one day the position of the army was Belgian revolution which consternation.

Winston Churchill,

to return as liberator. almost

desperate. The front had been. separated Flanders from Holland

His father, in 1914, had not pierced at several points. All and broke up the United Nether among the Allied statesmen,

choice to make. our reserves had been thrown lands, the rise of the Dutch and showed understanding and cle- had the same Belgian colonial empires, the mehey. "It is not the moment war of 1914-all these tremen- to judge," he said. dous events have had a direct But the French Government and its Press seized cagerly cffect on British policy.

And now Hitler has thrown upon the surrender as a justi the Low Countries more pro- fication and explanation of their foundly than ever into our orbit, own army's defeat. Our fate is joined to theirs.

Grave Dilemma

He had been able to fight are into the battle. Munitions were arguard action to the safety beginning to be scarce.

"Our army's freedom of move- of France, and from that sub- stantial base to rebuild an army, ment was hampered by the and take over a sector of the enormous number of civilian re- fugees. The prolongation of long Allied front.

Leopold's decision will be the struggle would have led to judged by posterity, and the his- sacrifices out of all proportion torians will discuss it intermin- to the military results which ably. But in Belgium, I am were still possible." told, his position is understood and respected.

Royal Prisoner

The Dutch have been forced by Hitler's perfidy out of their Actually, I am told, the posi-

So much for the tragic events long and honourable neutrality tion of the King was desperate,

of the past. Two invasions in in the wars of Europe. The The Belgian Army could not Belgians were neutral by dictate have held out for more than

a single generation, each time by Germany, each time in vio- of the Great Powers, who guar- three days. It was practically

The young King is now a pri- lation of a neutrality carried anteed their independence in surrounded. It would have

soner in his own castle, the sometimes to extremes. 1831.

been forced to lay down its arms Chateau of Laeken, just outside. What of the future of Belgi- Their neutrality, scrupulous- in the field, or be massacred to Brussels. He is allowed few

um? Can she return to the ly respected by themselves, kept a man. The Belgian monarch visitors.

policy of isolationism and neu- them at peace during the can be criticised оп two He still wears the uniform of trality?

Belgian

} commander-in-chief. I-He did not reveal his des- He has consistently refused to New Policy

Faith Destroyed

Henri

profound truth.

"It is also evident that Individual efforts at self-defence on the part of

British victory-Bel-

new

must try to attack the pro-

Franco-Russian war of 1870. grounds:-- In 1914 it was violated by Ger-

perate plight, and intentions, in receive the envoys periodically

Spaak says: "No. wide-many-a "Scrap. of Paper."

advance, to the Aliled com- sent to him by Hitler. He will The policy of so-called indepen- manders, and delay his surren- not lend himself to any attempt dence has not averted invasion, After 1918 Belgium placed der at least for another day, to bring Belgium into docile ac- and we must never forget this her faith jointly in the collec- to allow his Allies to extricate ceptance of her defeat. tive security promised by the themselves from their own dif-

Messages undoubtedly reach, League of Nations, and in ficult situation.

him from the outside world. II. He acted, not as consti- the pledges made by France,

They tell him of the silent, in the western nations have not proved adequate to save them from disaster. Germany and Britain in the tutional sovereign, but as com- domitable resistance of his

"We must now realise that when Pact of Locarno.

mander-in-chief of the army. In people to the invader. They tell pence is restored and peace can The rape of Abyssinia and the former role his duty was to him of the loyalty of the im- only come, from the Belgian point cases have been the failure of sanctions des- follow the advice of his cabinet, mense Belgian Congo, which is of view, with notified to the health authorities on troyed her faith in collective and, if necessary, follow them now united with French Equa- foreign pollenave to adopt a

policy. But he torial Africa in continuing the "This new polley cannot be merely average of 104 per week and nearly security. The unopposed entry to France or to Britain.

a return to the ideas of 1918 and to 28 per day. This, however, is only of German troops into the preferred to act as the chief of war against Hitler. half-the-picture;-it-is-safe to say that Rhineland in 1935 destroyed her the armed forces and to share

They tell the imprisoned King the policy of the League of Nations.

-It-la-not-the-moment-to-judge the- faith in Locarno.

the fate of his army.

of the sabotage and subterfuges history of

the League, but in my Thereafter Belgium fell back It was a grave and terrible played on the Nazis in occupied view it was too big, and the obliga- on the old policy of neutrality, dilemma which confronted this Belgium, of the whispering cam- tions imposed upon its members were and began to rearm.

young sovereign, the son of the paign, the listening campaign, accordingly too loose and vague. con- noble Albert I, and himself en- the effect of the B.B.C. broad- blem from another angle. We must We have seen the sequences. Cynically breaking dowed with many of his father's casts, and of the newspapers and not alm so high, but aim more ac-

to the Low qualities. his latest pledge

broadsheets privately printed curately,

Economic Ties If he chose one path or the and passed from hand to hand, Countries, Hitler invaded Hol- land and Belgium. The Belgian other, he was certain to meet and sometimes, no doubt, ap- "We must begin buliding from the pearing mysteriously upon the bottom, begin with a few nations at breakfast table of the Nazi a time, nations which are linked Gauleiter in Brussels, as every together by similar political systems, morning the newspaper of the similar economic necessities.

with Western Europe, Free Belgians appeared during Gracin Britain. France, Belgium, the last war on the table of the Holland, and the Scandinavian coun- German Governor-General in tries fulfil these requirements. They have a common background of demo- the occupied capital.

Meanwhile, the Low Coun- cratic history, of long political ex- trics have again become, for us us try to create a political and in this island, the Pistol pointed military alliance between these coun-

Trips That tries.

setens to me to be the at England's heart.

In Antwerp and Rotterdam only means of counterbalancing the and in all the Dutch and Belgian great power of Germany and its ex-

pansionist spirit. canals are being mustered the "But it is clear that a political and flat-bottomed boats for Hitler's military alliance, if it is to be solid and lasting, must be completed by invasion of Britain.

Behind these cities lie the comic ties, closer commercial re-

Economic aerodromes from which we are

prosperity is à ̈matter being bombed by Hitler's of life or death for the little coun-

which prompts Sclentine. Research Committee of the' Hongkong Anti- Tuberculosis Association, in the dis- cerning and constructive report just issued, to observe: "Owing to the great prejudice against T.B., the

Medical Department should be ad- vised to instruct its Health Inspec- lors to be most tactful In dealing with notified cases, in order that others will not be encouraged to hide their disease and secretly spread infection."

Baltic to Black Sea

Fortified by

by Nazis

By DAVID SCOTT

LISBON.

The repart contains a number of other highly important suggestions which call for the most sympathetic consideration of the Authorities, Seme provide for almost elementary

Germany has now almost completed a vast system of for precautions which, it is surprising, have not already been effected. Fortifications extending along the new German frontier and those Investigation of the condi- of associated or dominated States from the Baltic to the Black example. tion of houses in the poorer areas Sea. and the thorough operation of the Government's rules on house ventila- tion. Why should it be necessary for an unofcial body to prompt the nuthorities in such an elementary

matter?

and obvious

this

the

The now Eastern Siegfried Line begins near Memel, where tifications of East Prussia, now It is formed by the pre-war for-

greatly re-inforced.

Other recommendations must, of necessity, be carefully investigated before decisions are made, as they Thereafter it switches south involve capital outlay and recurring to the Bug River and follows this expenditure;

consideration, river line which now forms the though, does not deny their desir-

between German- ability. One is that open-air schools boundary should be encouraged; another that occupied and Russian-occupied there should be established well- Poland to the Ruthenian border. equipped Chest Clinics in Colony

The section covering Poland, for the selection of cases to be sent to the institutions, these clinics to be which has been constructed since provided, not only with X-ray equip the German conquest, is built on ment, but also an independent the Siegfried, not the Maginot, laboratory of their own; the comprinciple; that is, thousands of mittee further recommends the pur- chase of a radiophotography outat pillboxes, small forts, gun posi- for mass survey, and that as a tions, etc., covering a depth of minimum, a 150-bed hospital and a many miles rather than cla- 300-bed sanatorium for the treat, borate underground fortresses. ment and care of TB. patients be

At the same time the Germans provided in non-malarial districts, equipped with sanitary facilities,

can achieve nothing of value. The strategic value.

DAMZI

BERLIN

WARSAW

RESUME

U.S.S.Q.

GERMANY

PRUDAPEST

SILGRAD

RUMAN

YUGO

SLAVIA

„Sona JULGARIA

bombers.

Peril Ahead

e.

tries of Western Europe, over-popu~ lated and dependent upon export trade for their very existence. It is hopeless to try to create a political When Hitler is defeated, as union with a country which has to the last would-be invader of go elsewhere for its economic sup- Britain was defeated, can the port.

Low Countries return to their League Idea

isolation, their dangerous neu- "This political and economic al- trality, expressed to the caprice lance of the Western States might and the intrigues of another be completed by other regional all- German aggressor?

ances or understandings, and with these small Can Britain, in her own in-

base, organisations to serve as and higher organien- terests, remain indifferent while tion, a league of local federations the Pistol is again pointed at might be attempted, but with less precise obligations and functions than England's heart?

the smaller federations at the base.” Listen to M. Honri Spank.

These are Henri Spaok's concen- He is the Belgian Foreign tons of the European problem at this momon. Later, he warned me, he

all have to revise our ideas,

But he is sure of this that in the Locarno, he supported Leopold while the little States of Euroue have to follow a policy, very dit- III in advocating a return to the forent from that of the past, and that policy of complete neutrality. the Great Powers will have to "On May 10, 1940," he told The new Concert of Europe must

shoulder heavy responsibilities.. me,Belglum was as united to create a braver and a sweeter musle resist the Gorman attack as she than the old. had been in 1914, 7NMA

Genova, an ardent advocate of

the League of Nations. After

All of these recommendations ap-west to east rall and road com reaching the Black Sea near the

are working hard to improve the tem known as the Carol Line, Minister. He is a Socialist,

For years he frequented may have to revise them, as we may pear to be but normal requirements munications pf this area, osten-

the Tuberculosis problem is

is to be tackled in any sort of sincere and sibly for the purposes of traffic mouth of the Danube. businesslike manner. Half measures with Russia, but with obvious Thus, by now construction and adaptation Germany in the last Inanicial aspect must not be per- ] In Ruthenia the German lino year has created a great barrier mitted in thwart the ultimate objec- links up with the defence sys- all along her castern frontlers tive, which is to free Hongkong, 08 for as possible from the scourge of tom now being built by the Hun- which is calculated to make her

The matter is urgent as both garlons. officiel, statistics and the report of

The last link to be forged in the Anti-TB. Association demons line of the Carpathians, joins this chain is the southern section trate. Effective action by the au with the Rumanian defence sys- covoring Rumania. thorliles is required.

This again, after following tho

invulnerable.

"The Belgian army fought [bravely and honourably, and its

TO-MORROW : The Riddle of The “Balkans.

Page 20Page 21