1941-07-24 — Page 4

Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

July 24, 1941.

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HOW effectively Britannia rules the waves is well demonstrated by the experience of the official Trade Mission which, under

my leadership, has just completed a tour of South America.

Travelling in British merchant ships, without escort or convoy-- except for the company of a similar vessel on the outward voyage and of a couple of ex-American destroyers on the last two days before reaching Liver- pool-we covered more than 20,000 miles, proceeding by an indirect route to Buenos Aires and returning from Valparaiso through the Panama Canal.

by the Marquis of

Hongkong Telegraph.chemy

Thursday, July 24, 1941.

Wyndham St., Hengkong Telephone: 20015

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arrangement,

THE BLACK-OUT

WAR, being what it is to-day, makes black-outs, a necessary

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RECORDINGS

exercises the inescapable res ponsibility of both the authori- ties and the public. That being conceded, it is still questionable whether these exercises should be made into endurance tests; debatable too whether the sun- set to sunrise black-outs ac.

WILLINGDON

P.C., G.C.S.I., G.C.M.G., G.C.I.E., G.B.E.

former Governor-General of Canada, Viceroy of In- dia, who headed the official British Trade Mission to South America. Now, on his return, he tells of his experiences, of the altitude of the Latin-American nations to Britain and the war.

surface-raider, victory. ΟΙ

In all those vast stretches of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans we saw no sign of submarine, aero-

most ardent wishes for British scribing generously to the vari- ous war funds. In Argentina During our visit to that coun- they gave us a pair of gold cuff- nor, so far as I know, were ever menaced by mine, try, the women of Peru publicly links and a gold brooch, each presented to Lady Willingdon made in the form of a Spitfire, torpedo, or gun.

Such German and Italian three lorry-loads of woollen gar- to bring home to Mr and Mrs for the British Red Winston Churchill, as a mark ships as sighted were craftment

Cross. My wife cabled an an- of their admiration for, the that for many months have nouncement of this gift to her Prime Minister. been lying in South Ameri- Majesty the Queen in London, can ports, fearing capture and received a gracious acknow- by the Royal Navy if they ledgment which delighted the

ventured to put to sea.

generous donors.

gave

LONG AIR TRIP

I HAVE. had long experi-

ence of official missions in all parts of the world, but

All these South American One German warship did

States are intensely cager to indeed come within Our ning of the heavy air raids last never of one so arduous and yet

manifestly view. She was the wreck of September, the River Plate. the Graf Spee, scuttled in them a thrill.

As a souvenir of the British

LET THEM KNOW

80 congenial as this. We tra- velled by air from Buenos Aires to Santiago across the mighty Andes, from one seaboard of the continent to the other. We had victory which brought her IN every country there the trying experience of cruis- to that ignominious end, I

was a great desire to ing about in dense cloud at a get hold of first-hand informa- height of 14,000ft. In the at- was given a switchboard tion from responsible English- tempt, unsuccessful on the first from her fire-control station, men as to what the real position occasion, to reach Quito, the which I had the honour of was throughout the Empire. capital of Ecuador.

The concrete results of my presenting to his Majesty There had been a great deal of

extremely active German and mission on behalf of the British the King.

Italian propaganda. South Government will, I hope, appear Under arduous conditions Americans had seen some in due course, and I have col- of travel, and amid the try- rather lurid pictures of the ef- lected much information to lay

the public more efficient in ob-

I feel that still greater energy Anthony Eden, when he returns serving the regulations.

can summer, I can very truly say that all the members of must be shown by all our na- to this country,

tional institutions concerned-- Everywhere I point gains greater emphasis my Mission worked tremen- the Embassies and Legations in greatest keenness to buy what- when the all-night tests are dously hard, and we hope South America, the Ministry of ever goods we can produce for held in midsummer and there- that what we have done will Information, and the British export, and to send in return ..Victor Silvester Orch.fore under intolerable atmos-produce useful results. Harry-Roy-&-His Band.pheric-conditions,--such-as-on- Robinson Cleaver Organ & P. Rossborough. Piano. F1786-If Tears Could Bring You Back The Organ, Dance Band & Mc.

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complish the purpose of making ing heat of the South Ameri- fects of the "blitzkrieg." before the Foreign Secretary Mr

Monday and Tuesday.

The

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Britain's Strangest G.H.Q.

By Walton Adamson-Cole

I am at a British G.I.Q. where at this moment a relent- less offensive against the enemy is being directed but no daily communique records the pro- gress of this campaign.

Around me

not field- marshals and generals but economists, business men and shipping experts who control Britain's fourth arm-shipping and. blockade.

Arc

An atmosphere of confidence prevails. The Battle of Britain's occan supply lines ia rnging and graphs tell its progress, but anxiety over torpedoed tonnage is allayed by conviction that wo shall master the submarine menace and implement. Mr Churchill's forecast that the Battle of the Atlantic mny be won in a few months.

Ships-big, small, motor or oll burning-seem to be the very breath of these, men's lives. Perhaps it is Leenuse they know that their stewardship of these ships is the in- surance on the existence of the lives of free Britons for, without ships,. Hitler's blockede triumphs.

Telling Reports

Into this vast operation control headquarters flow reports telling of the progress of the battle of ship- plag and. bleckade,

Who better than a man who, since the day war broke out has been sifting this information. and taking swift action on the data acquired from it could tell the story of the

campaign?

Here it is os he spoke to me at his desk littered with coded cablegrams and charts:

"We are getting supplies through. The enemy is being repulsed at a considerable but not perturbing cost. To get a true perspective of the posi tion assess the progress of this battle by taking our losses in one week, Bay at 80,000 tons, and put them against the weekly loss of vital raw material and suppiles of 400,000 tons that the enemy suffers through blor- kade. The successes are not all his. "No one appreciates more than Hitler that the cargoes sunk by his U-bant or surface raiders are in- significant against the tonnage that gets through. With the gathering momentum of help from the Amer icas still more will arrive despite his threats.

Evil Bait

"Our blockade has now put the 'screw' on the Nazis in a supply sense,

By their food blockade pro- paganda and devices to embroli us with the French fleet they confess the blockade is bludgeoning their plans, Cleverly they blame the Council to satisfy the demand the valuable products in which blockade, for the world's sufferings In a bid to beat it. France and the of that continent for fuller in- South America.abounds.

Low Countries are told they go "WHEN FRANCE FELL- formation about the achieve-Of-course, the war, which-hashitingry because of the blockade."

ments and resources of the produced shipping difficulties as THE Latin-American na-

well as difficulties of exchange, British Empire. tions are ardently de- voted to the ideals of indepen The spirit of the British re- is the main obstacle in the way political freedom. Bidents in South America is ex- of fuller trade for the mutual dence and The moral support given by this cellent. There was great ea- advantage of South America among the younger and Britain. As these difficul- country to their struggle for gerness liberation at the beginning of members of these communities ties are progressively overcome, the nineteenth century is not to come home and fight for their it is my sincere hope that we forgotten by them. They realise country. We brought back from may prove to have done some- that to-day we are fighting in Valparaiso not only British and thing towards strengthening the French recruits, but South bonds of friendship and good defence of South American li- American volunteers as well. will that have existed between berties as well as of our own.

those nations for so

Britain.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

"South America is assured that

she is not selling her goods purely because of it. But South America is alive to the dangers of Nazi economic Infiltration and penetration and still remembers those German promises to full orders last October after the

victory over us,

"These stories of blockade evils are a balt to distract the attention of the 'world from the Nazi efforts to organise Europe as an arsenal.

"The Nazis ransacked countries

the war would soon be over. Now they are finding great difficulty In organising things. It is not the food that is worrying them but shortage- and in some cases complete absence ---of vital raw materials.

"They are worried and their every net llustrates their dire need to get in touch with the world.

The Director of A.R.P., in granting the concession of can- celling the exercise after the second night, held himself to be a hard taskmaster and not completely satisfied with re- sults. Albeit, few will contest the claim that the public, as a whole, responded nobly to the demands which called for great-

Everywhere we found the The citizens of the various us and er fortification both physical most sincere desire to show countries we visited are doing a many years, and towards in- and mental than any of the pre- friendship and sympathy for great deal to support our cause. creasing economic intercourse indiscriminately because they thought

The British colonics there are between this country and the ceding black-outs. After this

It was evident that the fall helping in every way, and sub- Latin-American nations. has been said, it still remains to be demonstrated what preto bring about the defeat of of France had been expected cisely of value to the authorities Britain. The relief and ad- was gained by the continuation miration produced by this coun- of the black-out after midnight, On Monday night the actual "raid" lasted from 10 o'clock to 10.30; on Tuesday from 10.15 to 10.25. That gave the or- ganisors with their various units of fire-fighters. rescue squnds, decontamination squads, First If I were to refer to special Aid and so forth, a full hour incidents that impressed me on and a half to carry out their my tour, I should recall the din~! experiments, and the incon- ner at Lima, to which 400 Peru- venience (a word used by the vian sympathisers with Britain Director of A.R.P., but not hear more about the British war exactly fully expressing the effort. They follow our for- conditions under which the tunes with anxious interest. Colony was sufferlig) to the The arrival of our party of public could have reasonably mainly middle-aged and elderly been brought to an end. As it Englishmen, who had left Lon- was, half of the Colony spent don six weeks after the begin-| two sleepless and wholly un-invited the members of my Mis- comfortable nights. For many sion: Every speech delivered of those who faithfully carried on this occasion conveyed the out the requirements of darken-

try's steady determination to fight on were increased, during our stay in South America, by the splendid exploits of the Greek Army, and by General Wavell's triumphant advance in Africa.

ing their rooms, it meant also, and a consequent loss of con- the blacking-out of fresh air.fidence.

Tie necessity of black-out exer- Wing-Commander Steele-Perkins could have obtained all the re-

cises in summer time is not denied, but let them be effected without sults he needed up to midnight subjecting the Colony to futile dis- and then by lifting the black-coniforts. If the requirements of a out, have given the sweltering black-out exercise cannot be met by populace a few hours of relief. the public in the space of three At the best of times a black-hours, the solution is not to extend the regulations into the sweltering out does nothing to aid morale; hours which precede the dawn; the under Monday's and Tuesday's nerves no purpose. The answer is conditions the Colony's morale either (a) have more exercises, but became practically non-existent. shorter duration, or (b) penalise It is bad policy to whip a will those areas which full to comform to the regulations by giving them.extra ing horde; it breeds resentment || black-outs.

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"This is the time of the year when Ed takes out tho straw hat he packed away. so neatly and carefully last 'autumn and decides to buy:á 'now-ona!??.

"We have access to all the markets -the cotten, oil and rubber they want.

The world is being provided with example, not only by us, of how the Nazis Ignore the rules of inter natiorial trade-and defy the neigh- bourliness and understanding--which 'makes world trade possible—to ex- pielt other people for the anke of their war machine and gratification of lust for possession."

Movable Towns For Workers

Munition workers whose factories aro in districts where local accom- modation

bo will is over-taxed, housed in movablo hut towns which can be built in a few weeks.

Plans for setting up thesomose produced towns are complete, and one will be ready in a few weeks.

Mr Designed and planned by Howard 'Robertson, the towns, are constructed in sectionalised units,

The huis are complete in a factory, then dismantled and the various paris taken to the alle,

Electricity and water will be init restaurants and go- Cinema, creation rooms are included in the town planning.

on."

Where new munition factories aro being built the workers homes will be erected at the same time,