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"If the Governor road my lotter to the paper the other day, this thing could have boon entirely avoided!"

German People Grow Apathetic

By Beverley Baxter, M.P.

Hitler is worried and ous would enter Germany and puzzled by the present at lay the country waste is nega. Lived by the oxlating memories titude of the German people, of the friendliness and good That is the consensus of humour of the British Army of opinion of four neutral ob- occupation after the last war. servers who have recently Goebbels has hind to admit to left the Reich after a close the Fuehrer that hatred is not study of conditions there. what it was in the armoury of

Nazi weapons. They have correlated their

The signing of the Lease and reports and placed them at Lend Bill by Roosevelt has also the service of the authorities had a depressing effect. There in London.

is no villago in Germany that Hitherto the leaders of Ger- has not some connection with many have

prepared their citizens of German origin in the people for war by an intensive U.S.A, The Republic of America. campaign of hatred against has always been a vision of in- their intended victim and then, dustrial power and vast wealth when the war begins, keeping to the German people and the up the hatred pressure at an virtual declaration of war by ever increasing rate. Now, that mighty nation, has added the deepening however, Hitler's propaganda materially to chiefa are finding that they are gloom.

The British Air Force, nc- not able to sustain their early successes in emotional extra- cording to the neutral obser- vers, is the next factor, which Oddly The attempt to put over is worrying Goebbels. "Butcher" Churchill as a baby enough it is not the inevitable killer has failed. The sugges casualties among civilians that tion that the English if victori- worries the German people but the fact that the British pilots

vagance.

Mussolini's

White Elephant

ON May 9, 1936, to the

Thongkong Telegraph. multuous "vivas" from the

Tuesday, June 17, 1941. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 26615

TILE prefix "Special to the Telegraph"

is used by the Hongkong Telegraph to indicate news which is strictly copyright under the provisions or the Telecommuni- callona Ordinance, 1936. Such news AL

beats the indication "Up" is received in Hongkong on the date of publication by serva all rights and forbid republications, either wholly or in part without previou

the United Press Associations, who re-

Arrangement

accompaniment of tu- Roman populace, Mussolini called

Italian

What Italy has lost, in Money, La- bour and Human Life, from Her Occupation of Abyssinia.

By PETER MATTHEWS

go through any barrage, to reach their objective. The workers in the factories are showing a sharp fall in 'pro- ductivo capacity.

The four observers agree that the people in the Third Reich are not defeatist and show no tendency to turn against the Fuehrer. They have simply reach a subnormal condition which nothing is able to change. One of the observers, a scientist, attributes this to the poor quality of the food over the last six years which is now having its effect.

This is the unanimous opinion

the upon people to "salute, after 15 had fallen out of the world led the seas was bound to mean of the four men: "The German centuries, the reappearance market for platinum, and a the complete isolation of Italian people as a whole seem to be- of the Empire upon the foreign company which had East Africa from imported sup-lieve neither in victory nor de- faithful hills of Rome." kept an agent in Addis Ababa plies except in so far as a. oc- feat. They are tired and dis- to purchase Abyssinian platin- casional aeroplane might reach pirited and would like the war an end. Hitler He had begun his speech, de um decided that there was no it from Libya, or a merchant brought to livored at the zenith of the reason for retaining him,

man might find a way through raves and complains about in- power and prestige of Fascism, Meanwhile the prospecting the blockade and gain Moga- gratitude but the fine edge of propaganda has been blunted by declaring: "The fate of for minerals which had been dishu.

by too much use. The depros- Abyssinia is sealed to-day, the carried out under the Em- Against the eventuality of sion of Germany constitutes one Ninth of May in the year XIV. peror's orders by highly quali war with Great Britain, stocks of Hitler's most serious pro- of the Fascist Era."

fied foreign experts had proved of petrol, of mechanised trans-blems.” RUSSIA, THE ENIGMA

Five years later, 25 the exceedingly discouraging.

port and spares and of civil and Undeterred by these dis military supplies of every kind RUSSIA, the enigma of world | Italian people must be ponder- politics during the past threeing whether they may dare even quieting signs, the Italians dis- had to be accumulated. For most of the important towns of

Italian East Africa, -- years again comes startlingly to plan to celebrate a further closed, with no little publicity, the reception of these stores to the forefront of the interna- birthday of the second Roman the departure in 1987 of an im- only one railway, that from Roads That Have Helped Empire that may have finally posing mission of Italian and Jibuti to. Addis Ababa, was tional political canvas as reports foundered before the anniver- German scientists and prospec- available, and the payment of struction of these roads was to Ironically enough, the con- accumulate, firstly of an anti-

to explore Abyssinia's freight rates to the French com- cipated split with her strange Bary date is reached, Mussolini's tors

words then

remain equally true, possibilities. The contrast be- pany which owned the line and prove one of the vital factors, partner, Germany,

a mere five years later, contri- though it is in a very different tween the flamboyant announce of the harbour dues at Jibuti, buting to the speed with which alleged new economic agree sense that "the fate of Abys- ment of the mission's departure in French Somaliland, meant an Abyssinin's liberation was to bo ment, and now mobilisation-

and the modest references later unwelcome strain on Italy's accomplished, the latter presumably with the sinia is scaled."

to its return suggested that its foreign exchange.

One fact is very striking. intention of preparing to with-

New El Dorado findings merely substantiated A large part of the material Graziani's Southern Army took stand a.military_assault_by_the_

Mussolini lost the conclusions which the Em-imported went by road over the from Oct. 5, 1935, to April 30, Nazis. In the background What has

Stafford Cripps, through the crumbling of his peror's experts had previously 700 miles from Asmara to Ad- 1936, to advance from the fron- standa Sir

dis Ababa. The lorries had to tier of Italian Somaliland to British Ambassador to Moscow, short-lived East African Em- reached.

an

provide both

π

Natives' Revenge

What the extent of this

fow figures may give some indication

a

whose hurried return to London, pire? I put this question to an Of late years Italian propa- return. empty for fresh loads. Dagabur. This operation was his conversations with Mr Englishman who for years has Anthony Eden and the report had first-hand experience of gundists have talked less about The consumption of petrol must later to take our Imperial forces a matter of a few weeks only.. the country's mineral wealth have been enormous. answer was

By far the greater part of the PYE. BAND spread RADIO

that he will not return to Russia Abyssinia. His

130,000 Italian non-combatants because he feels that he has brief and to the point. "A and more about its vast agricul- tural potentialities. But, what- white elephant,' he

If Abyssinia was to be, ex- said to be in the country were ever these might be, It was clear * MARCONIPHONE, ALL WORLD RADIO "failed in his mission," all tend stolen

to heighten the drama which is called it.

To the masses of the Italian that they could be developed ploited economically, the first there labouring on road building now going on in eastern Europe.

only when law and order had necessity was the establishment and other public undertakings TRIAL DEMONSTRATION ON REQUEST.

But what all this portends is still people, the Ethiopian empire been established and the formi- of order and of a sound and ef- from which Italy was destined

appeared as an unexploited El dable problem of communica- fective, administration. Here to reap so few advantages. guesswork.

the Italians were handicapped The building of all these roads and Dorado awaiting development. tions tackled. One thing stands out

A German woman journalist, By May, 1936, the Italians by a lack of men with ex- the establishment of telegraph and clearly; Germany is prepar- sent out under Fascist auspices

colossal Investment of capital and ing to attempt another coup to write up" the new posses- had succeeded in driving back perience of colonial govern- telephone services represented

labour. But it has never yielded the What form it will take can sion, mentioned reports that the Emperor's forces to Addis ment.

In Eritrea, which was Italians any dividend. On the con- hardly be declared in un-

would East Africa

provide Ababa and in compelling him to

It weakened their cliances of area of Abyg- colonised before the advent of

trary, equivocal terms at the moment, homes for 6,000,000 white set- leave. But the but there are indications that

as colonial ad- troops were making their many. she is either dissatisfied with tlers by 1940, but she thought sluin under effective Italian oc- Fascism, they had achieved resistance when the British Imperial.

it prudent to warn her readers cupation was still only a small some success

ministrators. But the teach- pronged advance that culminated in:

the recapture of Addis Ababa, the help she is receiving from that these assumptions must be fraction of the total area of Russin and intends to secure treated with reserve."

country equal in size to France. ings of Fascism, with the em-

phasis laid upon the govern Strategic Liability more either by force or negotia- It was anticipated that a and Germany combined. tion, or that Hitler, supremely country with such a wide range

The country's primitive econ- ment of people by force rather confident of his military might, has decided to rid himself of the of climate and altitudes would omy had been disorganised by than by consent; were the worst investment was it is impos Italian European and the passage of mountain and possible, preparation for the calculate with any exactness. But a

of The difficulties were increased of cargo unlonded at Italy's East shackles which have bound him tropical crops in abundance. forest lent themselves to gueril- rulers of subject native races. magnitude. The total weight to his arch enemy Communism, Gold and platinum were already la activities; and the task of The alternatives are, in fact, being produced in some small keeping open hundreds of miles by the Government's policy of African poris in 1933 was 1.053,000 nb copying Its Libyan model and metric tons, or more than treble the complementary, the accomplish-

measure there, and it was be of vital communications

which might settling Italian immigrants on total of 313,000 tons exported from ment of which appears to be a lieved that prospectors would sorbed forces

the most fertile land available, Italian East Africa. natural corollary to Hitler's con-discover other valuable mineral otherwise have been used to ex- from which the natives had, A comparison between the value of imports and exports la, evcil- moroj quest of eastern and south-

oven tend the area of the Italian resources. There were

been expelled, The dispossessed striding. Exports from Italian East eastern Europe.

hints that there might be oll in occupation.

But the Italians were beset Abyssinians withdrew to the Africa for 1938 were valued by the considerable quantities.

with other problems than the mountains and forests, and re- Fascist authorities at 191,000,000 ilre: great, Thus, whilst Italy Was pouring sup a personal, it shallow triumph for

But the optimistic estimates maintaining these communica- raids upon these new Italian re, was more than 12 times as

villages.

plies into the

the country, exports from Ribbentrop and a loss of face on the fostered in Italy were by no tions and of garrisoning towns part of Britain and her then ally

And the exploitation of Abyssinia Franco. Russia, however, probably means endorsed by independent and points of strategic impor-The task of providing the it were practically negligible. made more out of the bargain than experts. In 1934 two foreign tance. They had to face the country with a modern road

provision's whelkby merchants were her companies had been tempted by necessity of carrying out a vast system was taken in hand as was rendered more difficult by the bloodless gains in Poland and her the high price of gold to begin programme of road building and soon as the conquest of 1935 allowed to send goods, to Italy only if States at comparatively small cost. operations in the country, but other public works. The great began. Early in March, 1986, they could obtain foreign exchange Events have shown that Mussolini's Filter is not a man to be content these proyed so unprofitable obstacle to the exploitation of when that campaign had been by exporting to hon-Italian countries,

Rs were avail in progress for only five bargain with the lesser, part of a

white elephant was a strategle lin- that they were, soon-abandoned such resources

bility

of the frat order-and, worse especially if it is obtained at higher after £60,000 had been ex- able was the almost entire lack months, there were said to be

and the fact that Russin

of modern communications and 80,000 Italians engaged on-road southeastern pended to no purpose.

bicase be

with a of vital parts ASCSELE

Hitler desires which In 1996, again, the bottom the vast distances which goods building in Southern Abyssinin the unthankful beast proved to

had to be transported before alone. One estimate puts the petite.

It is doubtful whether Italy, would are, in fact, essential to his war needs makes his present pact with

they reached the. ports on the length of roads so far completed

have

derived any benefit from her Stalin nothing more than a scrap of | intriguing possibilities.. Attempts Red Sea and the Italian Ocean, as in excess of 12,500 miles, now. Empire even if the Duce had not; about one-fifth of which are committed the folly of making on Pant Germany paper. Thus, it is not inconceivable are being made to separate the for trans-shipment to Italy.

surfaced" with tarmacadam. enemy of a Power in control of the and Russin will go to economic and political issues between seks

cannot afford to Germany and Russia, but history has

The road net spread out like a son. But one thing is certain. concede too much to Germany, and shown how: impossible this is

Italy's giannile Investment in Abys- certainly not to give up the Ukraine. Russia concedes her economie do these two-formidable tasks spider's web from the high

the form of capital, labour alninin

human life never aven her control of the Black Sen, her vantages she has, to all intents and Italian foreign policy in its platenu on which Addis Ababa.

bogan lo strategie hold on Poland and her ill-purposes, old her political dul Kotten gains in the Baltic. she is unwilling to do fils, war in the blindness added a third. War stands, linking the capital with yield a dividend, and now that

against, a Power which control-Anmark, with; Jibutip and with or it doing so hins prased. The situations fraught with most likely resulte

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