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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH July 2, 1941.

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The Lion's Brood to the Rescue

By Gordon Walker

XTHAT is this Britain? What This year they may be spend-

W is this Commonwealth ing $1,300,000,000 on the war

which is sending its men into effort alone. In the World War STUDEBAKER'S battle in defence of freedom on Canada's expenditures rarely exceeded 10 per cent. of the na-

· MATCHLESS FUEL ECONOMY

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four continents?

In the East End of London, tional income. workers are digging out of The results have exceeded all ex-, blasted homes; on the Clyde- pectations. The Commonwealth Air bank, ship riveters race against Training Scheme has forged eight the Nazi U-boat campaign. Ill. now for a new expansion programme months ahead of schedule, allowing bomb-marked Coventry, plane which will double its present quota FOR FURTHER PARTICULARS mechanics speed now slnews for to 12,000 airmen in a year's time. the RAF. Housewives fight To the three air squadrons now

the overseas will be added 25 more. fire bombs, clerks man Home Guard-a nation has mo- The 60,000 Canadians who are guarding British Interests in Ice- bilised to meet a "total war."

land, the West Indies, Newfound- But there is more to Britain fand, Britain and Africa, will now than a brave and fighting be increased by a third Infantry island.

Canadian division of some 12,000, plus an armoured division of 12,000 It is the "Aussies" who men and equipment, and on

ariny have reinforced Singapore-who tank brigade of 1,800 skilled opera- stormed Bardia. Canadians tors, thun raising conscripted home guard Iceland. Hindu Jats, and overseas troops to the 400,000 too, fortify Singapore, and Rhodesian pilots defend the convoyed some 4,000 vessels across Canada's navy, which has already skies of London.

the North Atlantic, is being doubled within a year to include more than 400 naval eraft, and 27,000 naval personnel.

Stubbs Road

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Hongkong Telegraphı.

Wednesday, July 2, 1941. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20015

THE prefix "Special to the Telegraph" Is used by the "Hongkong Telegraph" to indicate news which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni- cations Ordinance, 1936. Buch new a

beare the indication "UP" is received in Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who, re- serve all rights and forbid republications,

arrangement.

New Zealanders stand guard in Palestine. Uganda tribesmen swell the forces against the Ita- lians in East Africa.

mark.

da's northern mines.

Into Canadian plants a record- breaking stream of copper, zinc, pig They, like the Englishman ron, are being shipped from Cana- who looked eastward from the Bren guns, Brea gun carriers, Cliffs of Dover on the day of the anti-aircraft guns, shells, cartridges fall of France, can say: "We and chemicals are coming off the fight alone all 500,000,000 of production

118."

linçs with increasing iempo. Tanks, with which Britain will take the Initiative on the con- the Canadian 'tinent, are beginning to come off

lines,

whereas a few either wholly or in part without previous transport trucks which carried

ugo even tank designs were Canadian-made transport

WELCOME STATEMENT

THE Colony's "bachelor" husbands will be grateful to Hia Excellency the Governor for his broadcast last night on evacua- tion. It was a frank, consider- ed, explanatory and encouraging statement. The husbands and their families now know where they stand.

If the truth were known, one of the principal causes for so much bitterness and discontent among the husbands, has been the oyster-like attitude adopted by Government over the evacua-

Theirs

are

British troops across on

the 125,000,000 pairs of Indian- vehleles, which have already passed · made boots on which Empire the 40,000 production marks, are now. troops are marching. Theirs is being turned out at a rate of close to

day.

CANADA

or

INDIA

INDIA

CANADA

NEW ZEALAND

AUSTRALIA)

the gold from South Africa, tin 600

Industrini bottlenecks and nan- from Malaya, wheat from Aus-

mendous war effort. But with tralla, and a gift of $50,000 from clal snags have not escaped this tre- the tiny speck of an island unity never before achieved by the called Banaba.

Dominion, Canadians have avowed their determination to drive ahead This is Britain to-day. This with every resource at their com- is the Empire which in the past mand. few months has taken on a new vigour and unity. Paced by Canada, India, Australia, and At the heart of the Empire in Lon- New Zealand, it is funneling don, talking of India's pollenl pro- into the common war chest an blem is Infused with a new note of ever broadening stream of guns between Government and Hindus, India's potentialitics. The old rifi and butter, men and materials, which for years has been the chief which is giving the British trouble spot of the Empire, is just

as serious as ever. struggle a new momentum.

a solution has not as yet Although been agreed upon, Britain has never- theless been able to benefit enorm- Canada entered the wat as a ously from the fact that India is one tion. Pertinent but reasonable boy. To-day It is carrying on of the world's 12 leading industrial as a man. But it took the fall countries- country which turned as early queries have been made, only to of France in June, 1940, to work out its first smooth-bure cun

as 1540. be met by evasiveness; the the transformation.

India's 350,000,000 have taken the dangers of war in the south Pacide. When the war broke out, New husbands, not without cause, felt. When Canada joined-Britain-strategic role of chief-arsenal-for-the-Like-Canada, Australia-did-not-Zealand had the first Commonwealth. they were being treated like in its war, it was emphasised ning Empire circle from Egypt to fully wake up to the gravity of the air training school erected bare-

Hongkong

war situation until the collapse of ly a month later. To-day, with that it was strictly Britain's

When Australians need tents and France. But, when it did, training 1,500 pilots, gunners, and ok ob- children expected to be seen but war, and not Canada's. Canada khaki uniforms, India will furnish camps which had languished com- servers already aghting under the traditional Australian New Zealand emblem, the Dominion not heard. Sir Geoffry's ten- would help, but, everywhere them. When more cont la needed placently in

British men-of-war In might be seen the "business as for

the fashion

denly

sprang into is augmenting these with 4,000 more porary predecessor hardly up-

Eastern Mediterranean, usual" routine. The Dominion's Malta needs engineering equipment, torics, which had idly revolved with

or when life. The

of Australian fac each year. preciated the need for explaining effort was lacking in Canadian or when London calls for 5,000,000 the full knowledge that they didn't Infant Industries, which were al- to a bewildered, and later angry initiativo, nothing like the all- more sundhags to protect homes and have to supply anywhere near their ways ca

or less a side issue in New Zealand's

have economy, public, what was to him an out effort of to-day.

historic sites, the order is sent to In- home necessitles, began to whir to dia.

A self-sumelency orders. Farmers reached the point where they are order, and therefore sacrosanct

their own It was the same apprentice-

troops with uniforms and Stendy streams of wool, lac, hemp, began to plant more wheat, shear equipping and to be fulfilled without ques- ship that characterised Cana- timber, oilseeds, pig iron,

footwear, Aircraft Anished more wool, and dress more meat for

production has been introduced into tion; for this, he could scarcely da's role in the World War steel, terap, manganese, chrome, and Empire markets.

the Dominion's manufacturing pro- be blamed. He was the logical, relying upon Britain for experts mica are Rowing from Indian delds, One of the first achievements was gramme. fortunately the characteristic to train the army, technicians to mines, and forests to Indian factor the two-n-day capacity reached in And while the Dominion is sub- product of his profession-the supervise factories, blueprints ics, and those of Britain cast of Suez. aircraft production- new product

At the India Office in London they for Australian industry. These ordinating national economy to spend soldier who carries out an order from London for each war pro- will turn up a growing inventory of much-needed planes will be used to $80,000,000 on its army, $18,000,000 promptly and as effectively as duct manufactured.

India's production of boots, field be Australia's part of the Common on its navy, individuals are sharing the burden as though they were possible whether he personally That was a British effort guns, anti-aircraft guns, and rides. wealth Air Training Scheme.

Charts will show the rapid

but a few miles from the scene of agrees with it or not.

with Canada doing some of the sion of Indian General Motors Another significant attainment for hostilities. The Governor of the lines is the New Zealand Reserve Bank has It has, therefore, taken a year work. To-day it is a Canadian Ford to boost an initial production of Australian production

top to bottom. 5,000 transport vehicles to nearly manufacture of equipment, which is paved the way by working a full for an officini declaration on the project from

and turning his $10,000 pay evacuation, how and why it was When France fell Canadians 70,000 a year; on the increase in the soon expected to supply complete year

War orders have already jumped ordered, and the possibilities in were sharply struck with the numbers of skilled workers enrolled outfits for every Australian soldier. Check over to the war effort fund.

Nor has India neglected its man are boosting production to turn out

to $25,000,000 and 160,000 workers THE OTHER HUNDRED MILLION the future of it being relaxed. realisation that their existence in the compulsory national service. at stake, ns well as power. A remaining political UR-

This now revitalised effort on the If the statement la tardy, it is Was

together with the realisation 1,000,000 rounds of cartridges a day, no less welcome, and expressed Britain's. They did not wait rest in the terms adopted by Sir for blueprints from London, but that modern warfare requires fewer and to make anti-aircraft guns anti- part of Britain's four major "Allies" troops, are reflected in the fact that tank guns, howitzers. This year will has been transmitted to other parts began drafting their Geoffry Northcote last night, it Canadian managers took over War mobilisation of 1,500,000 troops. on munitions alone.

own. India has not duplicated its World see Australla spending $325,000,000 of the Empire.

South Africa has managed to dis- patch several thousand troops to the becomes valuable, consoling and

Even production. And Canadian fac-

so, turbaned Hindu Jats,

NEW ZEALAND

East African front despite the violent encouraging.

opposition which at first threatened. One of the important points tories began tooling up to North famous from World War days in

Cinderella of the Dominions, New to defeat the Union's war participą, stressed by His Excellency was

American specifications, which Mesopotamia, are reinforcing garri-

sons from Palestine to Hongkong. were actually more fitted to

Ten training centres in India will Zealand is farther away from the tion. the need for pointing one's eyes Canada's Industrial equipment. soon quadruple India's air force to any other portion of the Empire, of London in increasing numbers, New-

seat of the Empire in London than

Rhodesian pilots are arriving in to the future rather than living

Instead of quibbling about ex-include 600 pilots and 2,000 air even of the populated world. And foundland has sent more than 6,000 in the past, with its admitted mistakes and its heart-breaking penses, 10,000,000 Canadians medinis ench year sweeping and yet a little more than a million and of its sons, Jamaica has conscripted

ti-submarine, mine and a half New Zealanders have drawn all eligible' males. are now giving nearly 50 cents signalling schools are supplying themselves into the Empire war experiences. Evacuation is of every dollar of their share of trained experts in modern wartore

Cyprus, guardian of the Suez Canal, supplied the first organised big issue, but there are other the national income to support to man atilps which slip down the scheme as closely as any other of

colonial troops of the war. Burma equally, if not bigger issuce

They proved this off Uruguay, gave oil, Uganda sent militant tribes- which are wholly interrelated. a record-breaking $2,000,000,- ways into the Hooghly and at Bom- Brilala's people.

000 war budget. It is as essential to tackle one

They are still talking about the when New Zealand sallors manned men armed with modern rifles, Bar- Nizam of Hyderabad, who subscribed the guns of the British cruiser Achii- bardos gave seasoned sailors, and as it is another of them. In the

gove colton. Nearly $300,000 for air services, and entire les to help disable the German poc- Tanganyika eyes of the British War Cabinot, demand correction; but the ly maintains two squadrons of RAF ket battleship Admiral Grat Spec. $50,000,000 from 10 colonies has been

They

it when 30,000 of their dropped into the Empire war chest. ovacuation is part the right time must be chosen, and named after his state.

volunteered to man stations troops

This is Britain. A new 'spark has Colony's successful war effort; this is not the right limo,

from London to Singapore, mid when welded together rot an Empire, but the idea may be hard to swal-

New Zealanders helped the "Aussles" a Commonwealth in a truer sense low, and unless it can be appre- His Excellency gave a number

If the British blitzkrieg in North to capture Bardia.

than over before. The old cement common king, and cinted, the rest of our war effort of assurances in his broadcast-Africa had a trade mark, it would

They will prove it if trouble should of legal ties, n

preferences s being may suffer, as, perhaps, it assurances which the Colony read "Made in Australia. already has. But the future is can accept without hesitation. For it was the "Aussies" who sur break out in the South Pacific and economic exelting, action. still ours to make or mar; wo They go a long way towards priced Sidi. Borrani. It was these 40,000 home defence troops go into strengthened by something new and

same tall, good-natured, have the means, but there must meeting the plaints, of the hus-volunteer troops from "Down Under Linked closely to Australia in the prelude to the search for juster pence, be the determination to make bands, and in this knowledge, who under intense Bro atormed war programme, New Zealand has be- 500.000,000 people are reaffirming

expand

and their Industries

common desire for freedom those means productive. It is the husbands can increase their through the defences of Bardla.

Australia has given the Empire strengthen fles with the Mother with a vigour which not only pro- not a question of letting by efforts to fulfil the tank which 12000 these troops.. It is con- Country in a manner which promises misca a closer Empire union, but gonca be bygones, for there are a theirs by circumstance and scripting 230,000 for oversens and to to find a new role for the far-away which harbingers a new era of world

co-operation. some things which, one day, will heritage,

guard the Commonwealth against the Empire member.

of

boy.

AUSTRALIA

exp

afr.

but fearless,

proved

gun to

For to-day in battle which is the

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