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Thursday,

HONGKONG: TELEGRAPH

GONE

ARE THE HORSE

AND CARRIAGE

And Gone with them are the old- fashioned methods of waxing the carriage.

Have you been using the same auto wax for ?.

simply through.

Don't use a horse and carriage aulo wax.

force of

It

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to RUB and RUB, in order to attain a waterproof, weather re- sisting wax finish for your cur,

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Gone

August 21, 1941.

NAZI-SOVIET WAR POSES A PROBLEM FOR THE FUTURE:

World Economy

Is At

At Stake

Having by this time digested would destroy every vestige of individual most of the comment of various' ob- nationalism and elementary freedom in the servers of the new war, one is easily whole of Europe.

He is head of Russia's armies

led into concluding that the whole Democracy, by the way, has found the Try WHIZ LONDON COACH WAX business was practically unexpected, way of successfully defending herself and that it surely took even the Rus- against revolutionary. Communism; she has sians themselves by surprise. All of not discovered, so far, the way of properly which goes to prove that the German defending herself against Nazi militarism. Gestapo did a far better job in get- As a matter of fact, this is the kind of job ting information out of the U.S.S.R. democracy is engaged in, right now. than the Soviet secret police man- Next to the military and ideological

THE generalissimo of the Red armies who Re- problem now created by the Russo-German directs the war against Germany aged to secure from the Reich. sult: the Nazis knew ex-

war, there comes the issue as Defence Commissar is Mar- of economic world relation-shal Semyon Timoshenko, a soldier of 27 years' experience. ships, and they will un-is military training began as doubtedly be strongly a private in the Czar's forces in influenced by the out- 1914 and reached top army ranking on May 8, 1940, when

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actly when and how and

where to strike, while the slow-moving Rus-

By POLYZOIDES

Hongkong Eclegraph.sians have given the impression of come of this conflict. With Nazi Germany he replaced Marshal Kiementi

Thursday, Aug. 21, 1941.

Wyndham St., Hongkong

Telephone; 20015

THE prefix "Sperial to the Telegraph" tised by the Hongkong Telegraph to. indicate news which it strictly copyright

cations Ordinance, 1916. Such news a bears the indicatión “Un" is received in

storm came.

-

missar.

There is an Alger-like touch to

to fils returned

native village of Furmanovka and was hard 05

the line of Timoshenko, vil year he

being caught napping, when the having solved her economic problem by E. Voroshilov as Defence Com-

simply using her military force to secure From the strictly racial, historic everything she wants in any part of under the provisions of the Telecommuni- and psychological view, the Nazi ad- Europe, and with Russia only partly suc home town people everywhere might longkong on the date of piles by vance into the Baltic areas is cer- cessful in her experiment of state capital-welcome a local boy who made good. affive a rights and furlid republications tainly a masterpiece of up-to-date ism, what Anglo-American democracy has: Soviet marshal, ke kissed his old

strategy. All the way from East to do now is to underwrite practically the brother, a labourer who

rough homespun clollies of a poor

the United Press, Associations, who co-

either wholly or in part without previous strangement.

more

whole economic cost of Russia's war, owing to the fact that industrially and otherwise the Soviets are hardly up to Germany in the matter of efficiency and means.

Whether under such terrific strain our!

WORKERS AND THE WAP Prussia to Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia "AGAINST HITLERISM and clear through to the gates of NOTHING stood out

Leningrad, those areas constitute the hallowed ground of the earliest Teuton advance to the east 700 year's economic system will manage to weather ago when the Knights of the Cross the storm and survive at the end of even and the Knights of the Sword were in flower.

prominently during the pre- war days of Hitler's regime than the Nazi leader's contempt Inbour as expressed through the trade unions. The liberalism of the Trade Union movement was, and still is, anathema to Hitler

for and suspicions of organised

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stands for the abolition of precisely the system which he so vividly represents-dictator- ship.

-Fuchrer-it-must-be-infuriating,-

a victorious war, it is as yet too early to say. One thing is certain, however, and that is that the last vestiges of American

Wearing

the brilliant uniform of n boyhood friends and embraced

man.

his wore the

After the close of the Finnish war

Marsha Timoshenko had led the

early last year it was revealed that

Red troops in the northern campaign.

He also commanded troops who met the Germans at the close of the war In Poland in the fall of 1939.

Timoshenko is known as a cavalry

In

specialist. He fought, beside Josef V. Stalin in the defence of Tsarlisyn (now Stalingrad) and he rede with the cavalry of Semyon Budenny the dash into Poland in 1020.

The Red army purge of June, 1937, brought the name of Timoshenko to the forefront. Following the execu

one

of the

was named commander of the North Caucasus military corps area. This district at the time was considered.

of

the

most important. 11 long had been a battleground and some of the most important conflicts civil war were fought in this area,

Before being sent to the North Caucasus, Timoshenko served in the chief nssistant 10 of the Prior to

Kev district as Gen. Jonas E. Yakir, one

When the writer of these lines was in neutrality are fast going by the board be-on of eight Red milltary leaders, he Koenigsberg, the capital of East Prussia, cause of the Russo-German war. The unanimous front which in 1939, ten days before the war began on trade unionism ins taken throughout the world, and September 3, nothing was more pathetic notably in Britain and her than to see how distressed those East It is to be regretted of course that Empire, against Hitler's belliger-Prussian Germans were over the prospect Stalin, who is credited with being a shrewd ent programme to dominate firstly Europe, and later on, the that the Baltic republics were about to be and clever man, had not foreseen in August, world, is therefore hardly sur- handed over to Russia under the secret 1989, the blind alley into which he was be-caders executed in 1937,

that he had been assistant comman- prising, although to the Nazi terms of the treaty of that year between ing led by the Nazis who offered him their der of the White Russian district assuming as it does a solid front Moscow and Berlin. Eventually the deal dubious temporary alliance. But that is under Gen. Jeremy Uborevich, who of the democracies' workers, was sealed and finally consummated. Every an old story now. Hitler, having isolated also was executed. pledged to destroy the pernicious German from those republics was moved and attacked one by one all of his op- The Red army generalissimo wears back to the Reich, abandoning forever his ponents during the last 20 months, is the highest decorations. He is a Hero Australia's workers are among homestead of many centuries and many heavily counting on knocking out Russia of the Soviet Union and holds the intest to voice their deter-

before that country gets any substantial were bestowed for his leadership in mination to this end, and recent generations before him.

help from the British and Americans. the Finnish and Polish campaigns. ly the Australasian Council of Everybody thought at the time that Trade Unions sent the following the new arrangement was to be lasting, potential enemy for the Nazis to tackle, on the Party's central committee in Following which, there will be only one Party member since 1919 and served of Australia in London, making except, of course, Hitler, who was set upon and that enemy will be the United States, clear their position in this reclaiming those lands as soon as practic- struggle against brutal dictator- able. His legions are now marching back with or without the other republics of the

Western Hemisphere.

German system.

cable to the High Commissioner

ship: "This Congress recalls and into the old Teuton domains. re-affirms the declaration of the

ing the war against Hitler and

New South Wales and Victorian While he is thus encouraging the branches of the A.C.T.U., and Lithuanians, Latvians and Estonians to other sections of the Trade expel the Bolsheviks from those lands, Union Congress of 1940 support Hitler is helping the Finns to make good Fascism. We record our un- their losses of 1940 while at the same time compromising determination to he has given Rumania the "go" sign to continue the struggle against march into Bessarabia and Bukovina and the aggressor Powers endeavour-reclaim the provinces Russia took away ing to destroy personal liberty, from her less than a year ago. Thus in industrial and political freedom, East Europe Hitler now appears as the bargaining and associationship, strange champion of the self-determination and therefore pledge the Trade of peoples--his policies in Czechoslovakia, Union Movement to work for Poland and Yugoslavia notwithstanding. the swift and complete victoryThe Bolsheviks have few friends over that for the cause of Democracy part of the world.

and the right of collective

against aggression and op-

pression. We affirm that to prevent the possibility of in-

·dividual profiteering by the war

the immediate nationalisation of

These truths are not very pleasant,

there should be brought about and not very encouraging; but the time has the arms industries and the come to face things as they are, and not as utilisation of the nation's credit, we wished them to be."

We demand a substantial imme-.] There are in Eastern Europe two huge diate improvement In the standard of life and freedom of armies fighting for the mastery of those speech and assembly. Congress areas; but more than that there are two expresses its horror and systems and two philosophies of life locked condemnation at the barborie in mortal combat. Neither of them is and ruthless method by which popular with us; we are opposed to both. the forces of Nazism and. Fascism are endeavouring to And yet we have to help one of them gain world control and domina-against the other, and there is plenty of evidence to show that we are going to back Here is a document which the Russian horse to the limit, irrespective reveals the uncompromising of consequences.

tion."

attitude of labour to Hitlerism.

This is the voice of the peoples We are not doing so because we favour of democracy speaking even Communism; but rather because we feel more forcibly than through the that Russia, if victorious, will be satisfied mouth of any statesman, or

politician. It is a fight, to the with her survival and the continuation of finish" declaration which is the task of her national and popular re- being echoed over the world, demption; while should Hitler win, he

✩ ☆

the

Order of Lenin. Both these honours

Timoshenko has been a Communist

White Russia and the Ukraine.

He was born 46 years ago, in of a pensant.

Bessarabln, the son

His younger brother, Em, is 11 worker.

CAN WE COUNT ON MUSSOLINI'S AID TO HITLER

TO ARRIVE IN TIME?

HOPE IN RUSSIA