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24 1941

Should We German - Soviet

Hit Berlin

Harder?

By F. G. H. SALUSBURY

ARE we bombing Ger-

many as hard as we should-and could?

Many people have asked the question.

Critics are demanding a policy of tit for tat.

They would like a long series of practically indis- criminate raids on Berlin,

Some even hint that a

sible for

our apparently considerate attitude to wards the Germans.

Relations Suffer

Growing Strain

By C. L. Sulzberger

ISTANBUL. for the Axis. There are re- The Russians always have. Increasing evidences of a ports of what amounts to a pen- been aware of such dreams and strain in the relations between sant sit-down strike.

continue to concentrate troops in Russia and Germany ne re-

vious.

"hidden hand" is respon-ported in diplomatic circles in Food is becoming scarcer in the Middle East, Bessarabin,

Turkey which have received re- Bulgaria, where shortages of Bukowina and Poland. ports that Germans in Rumania ment and cheese are already ob ure openly encouraging the hope for an imminent recovery of Bessarabia. Germans in Swe- Nazis Need Oil den are said to be inciting anti- Russian feeling.

Such criticisms, often so carelessly uttered, amount almost to a motion of lack of confidence. in the control of the R.A.E

I have been investigating the position, and am now able to give the facts.

THERE is no hidden hand": no influential person who loves the Germans, and blocks our offensive efforts.

We are not bombing Germany Yas much as we would like for

two main reasons:-

Messrs. Hon Yan Lam, Altred

Hon and sisters desire to express their grateful thanks 10 relatives and friends for their kind sympathy their recent and bereavement, also for floral tributes sent and attendances of

Hon Kam

the funeral of their beloved

father the late Mr. Shing.

DEATH

(a) We have not yet enough bombers to do so;

(b) The battle of the Atlan- tic has diverted a proportion of our aircraft from the interior of Germany.

Turkey has begun to acceler-. ate defensive preparations to safeguard herself against a sur- While priac from any quarter. it is not permitted to discuss According to these diplomats military matters during the pre- Germany is beginning to run sent state of siege in the Euro- Supporting the reports, ac- short of oil and certain foods, pean part of the country it may cording to diplomats here, are and while the shortage may not be said the training of man being considerably such recent symptoms as Rus- be critical before next year, she power is sian displeasure over the arrival must acquire full access to speeded up." of Nazi troops in Finland and granaries and petroleum wells. rived in Istanbul recently on a President Ismet Inonu ar- German irritation at the Soviet

embargo on the transfer of war The objective in the Mediter- tour of the principal centres. materials on the Trans-Siberian rancan might be to get oil by At the same time the partial, taking over Iraq's wells, the pipe evacuation of this city of 800,- Railway.

Refugee diplomats from Bal- lines terminating in Syria and 000 commenced. Two Turkish kan capitals say Germany needs Palestine and the Haifa re- steamers left with refugees sent supplies. It has been long pre-

finery.

at government expense to Ana- dieted in Southeastern Europe

tolia. that when Germany runs short tinuing their

Germans and Italians are con-

occupation of Something Brewing of materials as a result of the Greek Islands with the apparent British blockade she will attack aim of capturing Crete and

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The British colony was again.

the Soviet to gain control of blockading the Turkish coast advised by the embassy to quit Bessarabia, the Ukraine and the to place the Germans in European Turkey. Socony,, Caucasus.

stronger position for

Shell and other important com- attack against Palestine and a panies are taking steps to trans- possible occupation of Syria. for their offices,

There is no indication of Ber-

Food Situation It has always been our policy to direct attacks against those The Balkan food situation is If the Mediterranean objec- lin's plans regarding Turkey, SUITER. At the Kowloon Hospital, objectives which, in the opinion bad and this region probably fives are not reached the Ger- but Ankara expects to be pre- this morning. John Boss Suiter, of the Air Staff, are most valu-will not be able to send to Ger- mans could always make a quick pared. There is every indica age 37.

The funeral will take able, in particular circumstances many the quantity of supplies invasion of Russia. German tion that Germany is trying to place

time to-morrow and at a some

given time, to the as in previous years. Greece's officers frequently told the instill nervousness. morning.

onemy's war effort.

food reserve is running out and writer they expected to It is evident that Germany During the present Battle of the country faces starvation. through Soviet troops “like a has some big plans for the Mid- the Atlantic the very life line of

The Serbian part of Yugosla- knife through cheese” and carve dle East. Unusual numbers of his country is in danger.

via is largely ruined and great off the western and southern those casily recognisable young numbers of Yugoslav peasants territories and force a rapid 'Nazi "tourists" have been filter- are not ready to till their fields peace.

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It is the business, therefore, of the R.A.F. to assist in this battle so far as it can. Con- sequently any sort of "ven- geance bombing" is completely cut out.

It is the function of an air force to bring weight to bear at

decisive point.

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Arrangement.

PURGING THE NAZIS

IN the making of the "new

This point is now made up of anything which contributes to enemy attacks on our life line across the Atlantic.

Also there are the invasion ports which must be attended to

from time to time.

world," of which so much is

Thus it will be seen that the now being said, what part will R.A.F., at the monient, has its the Germans play? Some say hands pretty full-and it is do- that their co-operation is im-ing a magni.lcent job. perutive, that you cannot minis- ler to a sick world unless you treat all the world' on equal terms. Others say that the

Nazi disease is so deep-rooted in

the German constitution that no be got from that help can quarter for many a year 10 come, if ever.

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MEANWHILE, it may be said that in recent raids on -Berlin-our newest and heaviest

bombers have taken part, and

our most deadly bombs have been dropped.

Not only are we now using an increasing quantity of the heavier bombs, but in due course we shall have at our disposal heavier types still.

ever.

Of the latter way of thinking is an observer who attended the meetings, of the International Law Association after the last

The heavy bombers now com- war. The purpose of the Asso-ing into action are faster than ciation was to spread the rule of law among nations, but it was seen from the first that the Germans had no such purpose. And this was long before the baleful designs of the Nazis were in existence. The Germans attended the conferences, not to help, but to hinder. Their one aim was to get some advantage for Germany. They voted solid- ly to that end, whereas the

Their speed will offset the shortening hours of the summer nights and enable us to get far- ther and farther into Germany in the minimum time.

This year there will be a very large expansion-which has al- ready begun in the strength of our bomber forces.

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THE story of the indestructible spirit of learning in China was told by the Rev. E. R. Hughes, M.A., Reader in Chinese, Oxford University, at the China Institute in London at a recent meeting.

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Mr. Hughes said that, when the war started in 1937 there were 108 universities and 42,- 000 students. Seventy-seven out of the 108 had been forced to evacuate, and students had taken their books and equipment with them on their trek to safety. The thoroughness of the Japanese in destroying universities was illustrated in one instance where, after reducing the building to ruins by bombs, a land mine was put down, and kerosene poured on the debris.

to

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SWOTTED TO GET DIVORCE

Of the universities forced to evacuate, 17 had gone to Hunan and Szechuan, 15 to the South-west Provinces, two Shansi and Kansu, and 18 to the more remote provinces. Two universities were in Japan-controlled territory, namely the Catholic University in Peiping and the Yenching University. At the moment it was impossible to estimate the loss to libraries and laboratory equipment, but it must be enormous,

The strain on the communi- with cations of the country

Mr Arthur Kingsley Thomp- these large evacuations was son wanted to divorce his wife very large. When the Tsing-on the ground of desertion." hua University started on

He asked the Poor Persons second trek, only 500 professors Committee of the Law Society and students, mostly women, to help him. They replied that could be accommodated by train he was not poor enough. Then The went to a solicitor. The so- and steamer. The rest com-licitor said the divorce would Betty Carstairs, speed-boat menced a march of 1.130 miles, cost £50. "ace" and heiress to a million-which took 60 days. pounds Standard Oil fortune, who recently offered the use of her yacht to the Duke of Wind- sor, is "Queen" of a Bahamas island.

HEIRESS ISLAND "QUEEN"

Bar Thompson hadn't gọi £BO,

27 he was then only a £3-a-week temporary clerical assistant in the " LCC. Fire Service.

Help From Abroad Formerly professors received quite good stipend, but reductions had

There was only one thing for it, Government been made, the

now he decided; he must conduct the case taking 30 percent. Many students, himself. through war conditions, found them- Betty has driven a taxi in selves unable to continue. their Borrowing law books from a friend A colonel was ordered in the Brighton, run a bar in Lowes-studies, and here the Government who was a solicitor's clerk, he studled Divorce Court in London re-toft, stalked tigers in India, and slty was low. The American Y.M.C.A.

made an allowance, which of neces-hard.

and the International Student Service had contributed help in this direction. Eventually he drew up the neces- sary documents in his own writing, To replace books and equipment, had affidavits sworn, and applied for the Oxford Scheme had sent out books, court order. to the value, of £5,000, and it was bought the island in when

1933 hoped to form something of a per- she felt bored, for £0.000. manent link between the two coun She thought it might be a treasure tries in this direction. islund.

cently to pay £800 damages to a major.

had her arms tattooed,

She is the boss of 3,000 acres of

spoke with opon minds in accordance with the merits of the matter. Later those Ger- mans were bound hand and foot in Nazi chains, with Gestapo spies ever on the watch.

The point this observer makes that the Germans' black

·Major George Edward Shelley, record in brutal aggression has Grenadier Guards, now employed at converted wilderness and 800 Ne- Its counterpart in their inherent the War Office, was granted a decree contempt for and defiance of on the ground of his wife's miscon- duct with Lieut-Colonet Christopher International law. Until their Ronald Spear. root principle that might is right Mr Justice Hodson said Colonel is extirpated in the hearts of Spear came home from China, and leaders and people alike, the went to stay with Major and Mrs work of spreading the rule of Shelley at their London house. law must be carried out despite and without Germany.

groes.

She

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When we consider the teach-shock to him was undoubtedly pro-To-day there is a regal Carstairs of students with the peasantry and

effect for good.

Unexpected Snag

Then he met an unexpected snag. A process server whom he asked to serve the papers on Mira Thompson refused because he was not

acting through a sollefior.

But Mr Thompson found a way

"You admit

The number of students had fallen at first, many having enlisted, or were It turned out to be barren and doing war work, but after a year had out. He took an AFS. friend with He abused the trust placed in him bleak, with only two inhabitants increased. Most of the universities by his brother officer. When this whose job was to look after a near- had evacuated to parts where cultural im

to his wife's address. She became known to Major Shelley, the by lighthouse.

life was at its lowest, and the contact opened the door.

you are my wife?" found. ing with which the youth-of-

mansion, a church, a coconut palm artisans was bound to have a lasting Mr. Thompson asked. Germany have been saturated | ness to overthrow everything grove, smooth-white roads and for years, it may take a genera- connected with Nazilam and to houses for the coloured folk she re- Mr Hughes paid a tribute to the tion before the purging is embrace as a national policy the achieved, Mr Winston Churchill | principles of international and other British spokesmen | justice and decency, which con- have several times expressed the | stitute some of the fundamentals opinion since the start of the of Democracy. Until and unless war that when Germany has there is evidence to show that

been militarlly defeated, the Germany has effected a complete Allies will be willing to permit change of heart she cannot hope that nation to take its place in to enjoy any sympathetic co the Councils of the world, but operation on the part of the they have insisted, and rightly democracies for her resuscita so, that this will be utterly de- tion. The decision will rest pendent upon Germany's willing- entirely with the German people,

cruited.

youth of China in its efforts to ac- Every day, dressed in dungarees, quire knowledge. Thousands among with a great knife in her belt, them, sons and daughters of rich men, Betty tours the island at breakneck had walked many miles, Into bleak speed on a motorcycle.

and Inhospitable regions, to Join a training school. She has coaxed asparagus, beat, celery, carrots, and cucumbers from reluctant soll, and converted swamp

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"Yes," she replied.

Then the friend-handed, her the divorce notice.

Granted Decree Recently, In the Divorce Court, Mr Thompson, now an accounting of- cor in the Fire Service, stated his The Ministry of Education in 1940 case in person to Mr Justice Henn

not to go blindly into the interior, The case lasted less than five appealed to the graduates of Shanghal Collins, without money or plans, but to inform minutes. He was granted a Visitors to Whalecay say that the the proper quarters in order that nislą has n'over, been happlor. She told travelling arrangements could be Three barristers congratulated him Them: ""The best thing I ever did was made, but the enthusiasm of Chinese on his skill in conducting the case. to buy the inland. I've never been youth was not willing to wait for And the total cost of his expenses hoppler."""

Iand inlo rice fields."

fomeini' sanction.

was £14 11. 6d.

decrea

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