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August 30, 1941.

CURRENT COMMENT....By Scrutineer

The attempted assassination of Laval was one of those events about which one speculated, People did not nok if it would happen, but just when it would huppen. That it has taken place confirms the statements of numerous writers who have been allowed to speak about the internal conditions in France, and contradicts

the inspired utterances from Paris and Vichy,

There cannot be much regret for what has occurred, seeing that even Marilial Petain had Laval put under arrest and flatly refused to reinstate Film at the request of the Nazis. He

was, therefore, regarded

traitor

even in Vichy: how much more must he be considered one by the Free. French and by every Frenchman' in fact who loves his country? Assa- sination is a horrible thing, but the murder of truth and justice, the be trayal of a nation into servitude, are still more horrible. Laval stood for:

Jatter.

the

It is inevitable that as the Ger- many become more and more -in- volved in Russia, and as the bleak cold winter of Europe Gets in with Its long nights, that desperate efforts will be made to make life for the Germans in those countries, in which their

presence is so deeply detested. Terrorism and quite intolerable. sabotage will be the order of the day; murder, arson, and destruction of every kind will be resorted to in order to drive out the hated German and all his-works.

despair of

already elving way to hope for

renewed liberly. This is noticeable in Nor-

En way

France. Holland and now

campaign

does not so much The stimulate a new movement; it merely #ives expression to what is already there and is growing daily stronger, Nowhere is this more evident than In France.

The agony

In

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IRAN

It was quite evident that when Russin entered the war, something had to be done about Iran. Ger- many y's:

Ultraine advance into the

R and her designs on Baku made obus that by this route she might reach the oil wells of Iran and threaten India If she defeated Russlo. for Through Iran it was possible Britain and USA. to help Russia, und so keep back the Invader. The middle East, for the time being, is now consolidated and from Egypt to Syria, from Iraq to Iran, the British

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forces are Rubranlec Russia so badly needs through this 'southern route. With the Baltic and the White Sea closed in winter this should be an excellent Burma Road.

Iran, or Persis, is holy ground. 'It is rich in history, for the country was old a thousand years ago. Cyrus and Darlus, Alexander the Great, Sohrab and Rustum, who were great war- riors, have left their mark on the Zoroaster, the founder of Zoroastrianism, the religion of the Parsees, come from this region, Then There is Omar Khayyam,, whom Fitzgerald hins made accessible to us. Persla received its due reward when the exhibition of Persion art was held in London a few years ago. Of recent years, life in Iran has been turbulent, and much intrigue been going on, because officials in Teheran were as usual far beyond the number required for normal diplomatic work.

By Scrutineer QUEENS & ALHAMBRA

The incapacity of the Japanese to senso: the strength of China's oppdat tion, and the fixed beller that thing could easily be defeated in the field, corrupted by bribery or terrifled by of Chungking, ruthless bombing Kunming and other towns, have led the Japanese to state terms of peace -which- no self-respecting Chinese

de secus.oined to spind "ax hours once ambnih in having their, hair dyed, and many more hours in the baths, smoking, gossiping, urikaid. coffee and generally, slacking, it is not reasonable to suppose at the excessive efficiency of the Germans did anything more than firflate them,

QUEEN WILHELMINA could possibly accept.

at in the Queen of Holland's birth- day to-morrow, and it will be fittingly honoured by all Dutchmen in Hong Kong, Queen Wilhelmina, whom the Germans sought to capture, Or murder, has set a splendid example. to her people. Her courage and her determination, her lofty Idealism for her country and her fight for its free- dom, have inspired the Dutch people hroughout the world, and is in keep- ing with the best tradition of the Dutch race.

"TELEGRAPH”.

SATURDAY.

FEATURE

Al the present time the Dutch Navy is co-operating with the British. The Von Tromps and the Blakes are no longer rivals for trade, but alles in he great cause of hberty on the sch Dutch piluís are in the Allied air force, and Dutch merchant ships aru only Allied goods. The carrying economic resources too, of the Dutch Empire are at the disposal of the Allies. This is no small contribution that is being made, but it is increas ed a thousandfold by the fact that the Dutch, who love established for themselves a proud position in art and in religion, in clean living and in hontst dealing, find themselves on our side in this great struggle.

It assures us that the ideals for which we are figthing ore precisely the same as theirs, and that they are. well worth fighting for.

No doubt the Dutch in Holland will be forbidden to celebrate the birthday of the Queen, but it will be celebrated, nevertheless, with even greater fervour because of that. The Germons in Holland are being educated they are learning daily how much they are hated and how brutal and ruthless their conduct has been.

As the Dutch survey the ruins of Rotterdam and remember how thhity thousand Dutch people were massa- cred, they realise that the Germans are indeed the master race in crime. They have no peers in that respect; they have degraded humanity by the treachery. By their broken treaties with Holland they have bulil_up_ force of resentment that must finally submerge. them. It is for that day ara Dutch deliverance the of earnestly working, and that is why they will celebrate the birthday of Queen Wilhelmina so fervently and so confidently.

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CHINA'S STRENGTH The position China grows stronger from day to day. Japanese statesmen admitted many months that the subjugation of China was Impossible so long as help was com→ in from Russian. As it has beer. made abundantly clear that German

more help is now to go to China from the United States, and as Britain has declared that no interference will be tolerated on the Burma Road, and thus that there can be no interruption

has

A recent visitor to Hongkong from Teheron said that the Germans were very industrious, took no relaxation

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an hour for lunch, as their Afth lumn efforts were a full time job. There was nothing rubtle about their methods, which were frankly anti- British

as to be expected, but also anti-Russian. which we would nof have expected six months ago.

The young military men, as In looked upon Hiller as their Japan. menter it not their god, while gome of the people looked towards Russia For salvation. But as the climate in fairly warm in Persid, and as men

Answers to Quiz

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1. You probably would not want to, since it would be extremely leathery. 2. (a) Switzerland (b) 3. Kentucky, USA. (c) Japan.

a. Soting. 4. Heavyweights, G. Sailor. Murder of a wife by her husband. 7. Hierophant. 8. The stripes represent the thirteen original states, and the stars the number of states in the union. 9. Crossed eyes, 10. Between 'five and seven per cent.

In the course of this "China In- *1.cident,” Japan hos made blunder after blunder and has completely undermined the respect the rest of the world bad for her intelligence and her military power before this war began.!

·JAPAN'S COURSE Japan has reached that stogo in

· hèr carber, of aggression at which sho must either plunge recklessly or re- -trent prudently. It is ironic that the advance Into Indo-China-the big- gest prize Japan has won so far- should be the ocension chosen by her opponents to make a demand for the rovision of her policy.

It is ironic, too, that in her over- whelming ambition to advance fur- ther Into the East Indies, the should have so foolishly miscalculated the reactions of Thailand. In order to win the favour of the latter country. she provolted the quarrel with Indo- China and presented Thailand with a large slice of French territory.

This gift, of course, was to ad- vance her sult, and was meant In fact to lead to a union of economic and military Interesis; but unfortun- ately for Japan, Thalland, like many other young ladies, preferred her in- dependence and did not see why the present slie had received should re- quire in return such a heavy sacrifice on her part.

Japan now regrets that she gave that portion of Indo-China away to such an ungrateful and unresponsive friend, since the refusal of Thailand to co-operate in the "New Order of Greater Asia" advertises rather widely the failure of that polley.

Just as Japan was about to realise her dream of her new order, or rather just as she thought she was. she ands herself confronted by what can only be described us an uncen promising attitude on the part of the United States, the British Envire,

She has com China and Thailand. pleted her own encirclement, and in- stead of demanding from others on understanding of her divine mission, she is now required to understand the point of view of her opponents. That is the new note.

and

The United States now ugly n

Sho though Japan did not exist. senda tunkers to Vladivostok munitions to Chine, and planes to the Philippines and to Malaya. Japan's credits are frozen and her trade is crippled.

Japan's present position calls to mind the Duke of Wellington's re- mark to a friend, "Sir, you are in a dd awkward predienment and you must get out of it as best you can."

STUBBORN SOVIET

The position in Russia is that the Nazis are still struggling to get pos- session of Odessa, and are threaten-

Ing Leningrad, neither of which

cities has as yet been captured.

The campaign has definitely not gone according to the German plan, and the prospect now is that winter to the supplies, it must be even-more--will-set-in-before--the Nazis have completed their task. By the middle of September, the weather in Russia begin to get really bad and trans

Instead, difficult. port

becomes therefore, of Moscow being entered within six weeks, it does not lock as though it would be captured within The stubborn defence six months. of the Ruslans, was to be expected, but it was feared that their equip- ment would not correspond with the This resist. strength of their will to view has proved to be wrong.

The success of the Russian Revolu- tion was made possible by the defeat of the Germans in the last war, so the preservation of the democratic system will be greatly helped-by the efforts the Russian forces in this.

The Nazis would; if they were successful in Russia, make the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

a.pact appear like of friendship. It is because the people of Russia, know what is in store for them if they fail, that they are now fighting with all the tenacity and ferocity of which they are cap- able, in order to succeed.

moral

There has been a note of insincerity on the part of Japan ever since this war in China started. In the first place, she has insisted in calling it an ineldent and not war, as though China was not worthy of her skill. She has tailed about a new order co-prosperity in China, and has destroyed all order and certainly laid waste and impoverished a great part Baks of China. She for

recognition of her lofty spiritual and mission in China, and at the same time seoks to con

corrupt the people the widespread sale of

of heroin. She ask for first treatment of her claims and of her nationals and at the same time affords justice nor protection foreigners in those parts of China where she exercises power. Insult and injury have been heaped upon British and Americans for the past four years, while their trade has been crippledi

by

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Lutile sympathy can be found, then for Japan, whose recent bombings of Chungking suggest that she has four years learned nothing.

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