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The Lion's

Brood

to

the Rescue

By Gordon Walker

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

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

the

mark.

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 four continents?

In the East End of London, tional income.

The results have exceeded all c&- workers are digging out of blasted homes; on the Clyde pectations. The Commonwealth Air bank, ship riveters race against Training Scheme has forged eight months ahead of schedule, allowing the Nazi U-boat campaign. In now for h new expansion programme bomb-marked Coventry, plane which will double its present quota mechanics speed now sinews for to 72,000 airmen in a year's time. fight To the three air. squadrons now the RAF. Housewives fire bombs, clerks man the overseas will be added 25 more,

The 60,000 Canadians who are Home Guard-a nation has mo- bilised to meet n "total war." guarding British interesis in Ice- land, the West Indies, Newfound- But there is more to Britain lond, Britain and Afrien, will now third infantry than a brave and fighting be increased by a

Canadian division of some 12,000; island.

plus an armoured division of 12,000 It in the "Aussies" who men ind equipment, ond na army have reinforced Singapore-who tank brigade of 1,800 skilled opera-. stormed Bardia. Canadians tors, thus raising conscripted Vome guard Iceland.. Hindu Jats, and overseas troops to the 400,000 too, fortify Singapore, and

Canada's navy. which has already Rhodesian pilots defend convoyed some 4,000 vessels across skies of London.

New Zealanders stand guard within a year to include more than In Palestine. Uganda tribesmen 100 naval craft, and 27.000 naval

personnel.

record- Into Canadian plants a swell the forces against the Ita- lians in East Africa..

breaking stream of copper, zinc, pig They, like the Englishman iron, are being shipped from Cona-

da's northern mines: Cliffs of Dover on the day of the anti-aircraft guns, shells, cartridges "We and chemicals are coming off the with increasing fall of France, can say: fight alone-all 500,000,000 of production lines

tempo. Tanks, with which Britain will take the initiative on the con- come off Theirs

are beginning to

whereas a

Low transport trucks which carried British troops across Africa, months ago even tank designs were Canadian-made transport lacking. the 125,000,000 pairs of Indian- vehicles, which have already passed made boots on. which Empire the 40,000 production mark, are now troops are marching. Theirs is being turned out at a rate of close to the gold from South Africa, tin 600 a day. from Malaya, wheat from Aus Industrial bottlenecks and finan tralia, and a gift of $50,000 from cial snags have not escaped this tre the tiny speck of an island unity never before achieved by the called Banaba.

Hongkong Eelegraph.

Wednesday, July 2, 1941,

Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20815

THE prefix "Speclat to the

the North Atlantic, Is being doubled

is used by the Hongkong Telegraph" who looked eastward from the Bren guns, Bren gun corriere

to

Indicate news which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni callons Ordinance, 1930 Such new

hear the indication "UTH" is received in Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who ro servo all rights and forbid repúblications, either wholly or in part willlout previous Arrangement.

WELCOME STATEMENT

THE Colony's "bachelor" husbands will be grateful to His 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 whero they stand.

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INDIA

Dominion, Canadians have avowed their determination to drive ahend 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 political pro- into the common war chest an blems is infused with a new note of India's potentialties. The old rift ever broadening stream of guns between Government and Hindus, and butter, men and materials, which for years has been the chief which is giving the British trouble spot of the Empire, is just struggle a new momentum.

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and air ob-

If the truth were known, one of the principal causes for só much bitterness and discontent

Although solution has not as yet among the husbands, has bech

been agreed upon, Britain has never- the oyster-like attitude adopted

theless been able to benefit enorm❤ Canada entered the war as ously from the fact that India is one by Government over the evacua. 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-a country which turned queries have been made, only to of France in June, 1940, to work out its first smooth-bore gun as early

as 15-10.

When India's 360,000,000 have taken the dangers of war in the south Pacific.

the war broko out, New be met by evasiveness; the the transformation.

Like Canada, Australia did not Zealand had the first Commonwealth husbands, not without cause, felt When Ganada-joined Britain strategic role of chief arsenal for the

in its war,

it was emphasised entire Empire circle from Teypt-to-rully wake up to the gravity-of-the-air-training school erceted bure

Hongkong..

war situation until the collapse of ly a month Inter. To-day, with they were being treated like that it was strictly Britain's When Australians need tents and France. But, when it did, training 1,500 pilots, gunners, children expected to be seen but war, and not Canada's. Canada khaki uniforms, India will furnish camps which had languished com- servers already Rghting under the more coal is needed placently in traditional Australian New Zealand emblem, the Dominion British men-of-war in not heard, Sir Geoffry's tem- would help, but everywhere them. When

the fashion

sprang suddenly

Into is pugmenting these with 4,000 more might be seen the "business as for

Eastern Mediterranean, or when life. The wheel of Australian fac each year. porary predecessor hardly up-gun!" routine. The Dominion's needs engineering equipment, torics, which had idly revolved with

Infant-industries, which were al- 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

or less a side issua In Zealand's New

economy, have to a bewildered, and later angry initiative, nothing like the all- more sandbags to protect homes and have to supply anywhere near their ways more

historic alles, the order is sent to in-home necessities, began to whir to reached the point where they are fill self-sufficiency orders. Farmers

their own troops with order, and therefore sacrosanct

and footwear. Aircraft Steady streams of wool, lac, hemp, began to plant more wheat, shear equipping

production has been introduced into and to be fulfilled without ques- ship that characterised Cann- timber, oilseeds, pig iron, finished more wool, and dress more meat for for

the Dominion's manufacturing pro- tion; for this, he could scarcely da's role in the World War-steel, scrap, manganese, chrome, and Empire markets.

One of the first achievements was gramme. be blamed. He was the logical, relying upon Britain for experts mica are Dowing, from Indian fields,

And while the Dominion is sub- fortunately the characteristic to train the army, technicians to mines, and forests to Indian factor the two-n-day capacity reached in

Australian Industry. These ordinating national econonly to spend product of his profession-the-supervise factories, blueprints les, and those of Britain east of Suez, aircraft production-a new product

At the India Office in London they for 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 nemy, $18,000,000

feld duct manufactured.

India's production of boots, be Australia's part of the Common- on its navy, individuals are sharing promptly and as effectively as

the burden as though they were rißen, wealth Air Training Scheme. anti-aircraft

guns,

but a few miles from, the scene of possible whether he personally That was a British effort

with Canada doing some of the, Charts will show the rapid expan-

Another significant attainment for hostilities. The Governor of the Hines is the New Zealand Reserve Bank has of Indian General Motors and agrees with it or not.

to nearly manufacture of equipment, which is paved the way by working a full It has, therefore, taken a year work. To-day it is a Canadian Ford to boost an initial production of Australian production

and turning his $10,000 pay for an official declaration on the project from top to bottom. 5,000 transport vehicles

70,000

a year; on the increase in the 800n expected to supply complete year When France fell Canadiane numbers of skilled workers enrolled outfits for every Australian soldier, check over to the war effort fund,

War orders have already jumped evacuation, how and why it was

were sharply struck with the in the compulsory national service. to $25,000,000 and 150,000 workers THE OTHER HUNDRED MILLION ordered, and the possibilities in

Nor has India neglected to man

This new revitalised effort on the the future of it being relaxed. realisation that their existence

was at stake, as well as power. A remaining political un- are boosting production to turn out the realisation 1,000,000, rounds of cartridges a day, If the statement is tardy, it la no less welcome, and expressed Britain's. They did not wait rest together with

troops, are reflected in the fact that tank guns, howitzers. This year will has been transmitted to other parts 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"

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

South Africa has managed to dis- Geoffry Northcote last night, it began drafting

patch several thousand troops to the Canadian managers took over war mobilization of 1,500,000 troops. On munitions alone.. becomes valuable, consoling and

East African front despite the violent production. And Canadian fac- Even so, turbaned Hindu Jats, from World War days in

opposition which at first threatened encouraging.

to defent the Union's war participa- One of the important points tories began tooling up to North famo

American specifications, which Mesopotamia, are reinforcing gart!-

sons from Palestine to Hongkong. stressed by His Excellency was

fitted were actually more

to Ten training centres in India will Zealand is farther away from the on

Rhodesian pilots are arriving in the need for pointing one's eyes Canada's. industrial equipment. soon quadruple India's air force to seat of the Empire in London. than

and 2,000 air any other portion of the London in increasing numbers, New Instead of quibbling about ex- 'include 500 pilots

mechanics each year. Gunnery, an even of the populated world, And foundland has sent more than 6,000

a half New Zealanders have drawn all eligible males. mistakes and its heart-breaking penses, 10,000,000 Canadian

are are now giving nearly 60 cents signalling schools supplying experiences. Evacuation is a

of every dollar of their share of trained experts in modern warfare themselves into the Empire war big issue, but there are other the national income to support to man ships which slip down the schemes apople

Way ya Into the Hooghly and at Dom- equally, if not bigger Issues a record-breaking $2,000,000,-

to the future rather than living

in the past, with its admitted

000 war budget.

bay..

NEW ZEALAND Cinderella of the Dominions, New

as any other of Cyprus, guardian of the Suez Canal, supplied the first organised colonial troops of the war. Burmi They proved this off Uruguay, gave all, Uganda sent-milliant tribes- which are wholly interrelated.

They are still talking about the when New Zealand sallors manned men armed with modern rifles, Bar- It is as essential to tackle one

Nizam of Hyderabad, who subscribed the guns of the Brish enuiser Achil- bardos. gave seasoned sailors, and gave cotton. Nearly as it is another of them. In the

$500,000 for air services, and entire les to help disable the German poe Tanganyika eyes of the British War Cabinet, demand correction; but they maintains two squadrons of RAF ket battleship Admiral Grat. Spee. $50,000,000 from 10 colonies has been They proved it when 30,000 of their dropped into the Empire war chest, Is Britain. A new spark has evacuation is part of the right time must be chosen, and named after his state.

troops volunteered to man stations

Empire,

but Colony's successful war effort; this is not the right time.

· AUSTRALIA

from London to Singapore, and when welded together rot an New Zealanders helged the "Aussies” Commonwealth in -u truer sonse the iden may be hard to swal-

than ever before. The old cement low, and unless it can be appre- His Excellency gave a number the British blitzkrieg in North to capture Bardia. clated, 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, a common king, and may suffer, a8, perhaps, it assurances which the Colony rend "Made in Austrasics" who sur break out in the South Phelfie and enter

For was the

exciting can accopt without hesitation. already has. But the future is

battinsoti:}B.. action.

in For to-day satne tall, good-natured, but fearless, st ours to make or mar; we They go a long way towards prised Sidi Barrant. It was these 40,000 home defence troops go into strengthened by something new and Linked closely to Australia in the prelude to the search for fuster pence, have the means, but there must meeting the plaints of the hus volunteer troops from Down Under" be the determination to make bands, and in this knowledge, who under Intense fire stormed war programme, New Zealand has be 100.000,000 people are roamaning thoso means productive. It is the husbands can increase their round the defences of Bardia gun to expand industries and theft common desire for freedom Australia has given the Empire strengthen ties with the Mother with g vigour which not only pru not a question of letting by efforts to fulfil the task which2000 of these troops. It is con- Country in a manner which promises misca a closer: Empire unton, but gonca bo bygonds, for there are theirs by circumstance and scripting 250,000 for overseas and to to find a new role for the far-away which harbingers a new era of world.

guard the Commonwealth against the Empire member. some things which, one day, will heritage.

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ed-operation.

preferences in being

the