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IRAN:

August 27, 1941.

Most of Her 15,000,000 People Are Illiterate, But Country Produces Oil

Iran (Persia) is the fourth oil-producing Iron used pressure to secure fatter payments from the British. Later American oil interests country in the world: 78,000,000 barrels a year, were given concessions. Most of Iran's 15,000,- Angio-Persian developed and exploited, the 000 people are Moslems of the Shi'a sect. The fields, with the British Government owning a ruler in Mirza Riza Pahlevi, proclaimed Shah in controlling interest in the company. In 1933 1926.

The Soviet Stands the

Strain

By Vernon Bartlett

Somewhere across the plains of Eastern Europe two vast armies are fighting out the big- gest battle of history. New In the com- names appear muniques. At one moment it sounds as though the German claim to have broken through is correct, and the next we hear of Phone 27778-9 serious fighting scores of miles behind the new front line. The truth, of course, is that there 2 war in is no front line in

21 discre- which there is such pancy between the mobility of

Hongkong Telegraph. infantrymen, if the Ruraisins

Wednesday, Aug. 27, 1941.

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THE prefix "Special to the Telegraph

is ined by the longkong Telegraphi

can continue the tactics they have learnt froin the experience of the British and the French- that is to say, if they can keep their nerve while tanks break through and then can close the gap before adequate reinforce-

Indirale news which is strictly copyrightments and supplies can follow,

under the provisions of the Telecommuni cations Ordinance, 1936, Buch now AS brars the indication “Up" is received in Flongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who re serve all rights and forbid republications, either wholly or in part without previous arrangement.

of

EVACUATION ISSUES DISILLUSIONED, disappointed and wrathful husbands are preparing

a public war themselves for words on Thursday evening at the Peninsula Hotel; the subject is Evacuation; in the pillory will bo Bratly the Evacuation Representation Committee, secondly the Hongkong Government. The mere fact that the Government is likely to be supplant- ed as the Big Bad Wolf is enlighten- ing can it mean that the policy of the representation committee has be come even more nebulous than that of the Government regarding eva- cuation? The case for and against will be instructive, even if results yielded therefrom are not especially tangible.

they can win the war, however much territory they lose in the process,

They were believed to have One two great weaknesses. feured for their air force and for At least their communications. one of their fighter models has scored remarkable victories and, so far, their railways have stood the strain well. Nobody writing from a distance can confidently declare whether the Germait Luftwaffe is slowly gaining that preponderance which hitherto has decided every campaign in this war.

But while military verdicts are thus rash and unwise, there can be no doubt at all about the In political successes Soviet warfare. The areas which the Royal Air Force lays waste night after night are those where you would rightly expect Hitler's campaign against the Soviet -It-is-passing-strange that is the Union to cause most resentment most violent local controversy in the there was no area in Germany Communistic angrily history of the Colony-should have

before the war than the Ruhr. remained so aloof from the normal

Three weeks ago the Deutsch- talk publle forum-the newspapers. Cor- respondence there lins been in abun-landsender broadcast a

dance,

but tho columns of

the

Colony's press, always open for thla and other matters of public interest and welfare, have been severely

boycotted by the representation com- mittee in affording the Colony-know- ledge of its decisions; two notable a questionnaire examples are (a) was circularised a few months ago on

to members requesting views

evacuation;

more

attacking the "ailly chattering of

TURKEY

TYRIA.

ARABIA

Persian caviar fishermen are seen above with a day's take, from the Caspian Sea, where Iran borders southern Russia. Below is a view of the great central plateau of Iran, where nomads raise fine. horses for themselves and weave fine rugs for the world markets.

TOTAL Propaganda

cowardly pessimists and grou- means sers", which is surely significant in a country where there is no freedom of speech, let alone freedom of criticism. On no

previous occasion have the com- muniques of the General Staff in Germany been so wide of the mark; they had hitherto differed from the communiques of the Luftwaffe in their regard for several aspects of the there was nothing secretive about ii accuracy. The "destructive bat- (or there shouldn't have been) but tle east of Bialystok" had to be neither the questionnaire nor the announced two weeks in succes- result of the replies were given to the newspapers; (b) an appeal has sion. Never before has the old been despatched to Lord Moyne, phrase, "according to plan" been Secretary of State for the Colonies sed so frequently or with less requesting a review of the evacuanbility to convince. Day after tion policy; the public has been kept day the Germans are assured in ignorance of the contents.

that "the fighting power of the This policy of secretiveness can be Soviets has been destroyed for very misleading: it cultivates picion and serves no useful purpose. ever", but the war in the East The European press has, from the goes on. stari, maintained a highly sympathie- Ule attitude towards the case of the husbands. But if the husbands are admit that up to the present

SUS-

wi!!

they

considerations at Thursday's definite and constructive There must be a

purpose.

66

selling the TRUTH"

GANDA with the gloves off their way objectively to a given valuable aid in combating dis- cases and commonplace all- CAN you imagine it? PROPA- whispering, arguing, bribing intelligent guidance, given in- ments; the man who has helped Yea, in Germany it is total and influenced the choice of a -PROPAGANDA that hits as end. hard as a panzer division--PRO- PAGANDA as a supreme war propaganda-50 per cent. of thousand modern household and

dangerous weapon they employ endorsed by common usago.. their war effort and the most personal needs now universally

against us.

weapon which gives no quarter to our enemies.

HERE are professionsi PROPAGANDA which cap-

propagandists ready- NOT until we give our tures every known weakness,

effort the strength made, properly equipped for a every slip of the tongue, every failure and failing of the enemy and imagination of the specialist total war of news, their brains and turns it to his disadvantage will we begin to combat his wiles familiar with all the means and in a crescendo of sound that and wickedness; not until the subtleties of propaganda. These every human being of every experience and skill of the train- men should be enlisted against tongue in every part of the ed publicity mind is harnessed what to-day is the greatest pub- to it will the full effect of our licity force of the age, German

propaganda. globe shall hear.

own propaganda be felt.

Total all-in propaganda such Propaganda is not merely the as only experts can wield is what

Small wonder that the German

PROPAGANDA about own and American production

our

a majority agreement doing here," said

in.

onc

salesman.

whose

honest with themselves they commentatora are reduced to efforts which will frighten the dissemination of news but the we must have. This must not

Government officials have failed to agree on fundamental angry attacks on the Russians lives out of those misguided employment of news objectively. be the distribution of news by a training for such work is prob- Issues. This should be one of the for having the impertinence to dupes who retain the slightest it is news in the hands of the carefully controlled number of

"This is hope of an Axis dictated peace. defend themselves.

There are many who claim the lematic-but the carefully plan- madness what the Reds are sing, it the meeting is to boast

broad-

S in many another knowledge to perform these ned, well-timed use of facts. in As

field of wartime en- functions, but few indeed who a thousand original and lively on what the husbands really want at caster describing the battle for this moment; it may not be so easy Labau. "Their resistance is deavour, the propaganda effort can attain the brilliance and forms; hammer blows of propa- to secure, but until this has been vesilgated the men

men will continue to absolutely senseless." And the has neither at home nor abroad high standard so necessary in ganda, in fact, in the hands of

can give to the ordinary facts can muster. brgue at cross purposes. Secondly Deutschlandsender, which has so

that

which evangelical fire

Opportunities by the thou- the disgruntled must endeavour to often scoffed at Mr Churchill's reached as yet 100 per cent, of this great hour of trial: few who as many publicity men as we sand, orthodox and unorthodox, in mind all the factors, political promises of retaliation for the its possibilities. bear

exist at the and expedient as they

Only in the German effort makes them significant.

Our Prime Minister, Mr Chur- exist to let our own people, our present moment, and formulate their bombing of London, is now com-

could that be claimed, where te the other only optionalism pelled to complain apologetically decisions

of rhetoric, but invari- of the British achievements in nbly is intolerant of commonsense; "this unchivalrous method of propaganda has achieved great chill, invests his every utterance, friends and our focs know the er results than the prodigious however commonplace the de- facts upon which public opinion

tails, with that something which is formed. the evacuation issue calls for a con-

use of men and materials. In inspires ordinary people, gives We must wait months, we are siderable amount of coinmonsense it warfare." its problems are to be tackled fairly.

their Fifth Column work, which them courage in adversity and told, bofore we are equipped for: first weakens the enemy, and carried them on to renewed total war with weapons, but we Really great intuitive can have total propaganda to- where, in contrast to our own effort.

is

Whether the Russians can While the moral aspects of the case hold the Germans, only the pre even more clear-cut and in

they future will tell. But, quite favour of the husbands

than were a year ago, the same cannot be apart from all the reports of

practical issues, and claimed for the

ost unrest in the slave states since few hundred more or less skilled gifts like these are the marks morrow! the most this is something which

Such gifts belong also to the vehement husband must take into the eastern campaign began, civil servants, tons of thousands of the greatest leaders of men. consideration, and upon them, very there is ample evidence, from largely to baso, his judgment. That the German's own microphones, of trained and properly equipman who has by publicity ro is not the easy course to choose, but of a new uncasiness among the ped operators are projected into duced the cost and cut the toll..

every community and country of living, given wartime feeding 1:1t is the right one at this particular

Gorman people. timo

Sidney

Garland