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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 2, 1940.
Home Or Be Arrested': Paris Under The Nazis
EVERY NIGHT AT ten o'clock Himmler's Ges- tapo agents drive through the streets of Paris and shout through loud speakers this blunt order to the humiliated French people: "Go home or be arrest- ed."
Dejectedly the Parisians obey this blaring cur- few. They know that if they do not they will be sent to concentration camps.
BEFORE I LEFT ROME
WARNING TO CONDUCTORS
New orders have been issued to London Trans-
Every few days, in order to port bus drivers and con- show the might of the German ductors to prevent pos- Army 50,000 mechanised troops, sible attempts by enemy complete with tanks, guns, ma-
chine-guns, and lorries, parade agents or troops landing the streets for hours on end. in the London area to The Parisians stay indoors, though they are invited
are the spectacle.
al-
to see commandeer buses.
In the order the Board stresses This grim story of life in the Importance of preventing Nazified Paris was given by a buses from falling into enemy Frenchman who escaped into hands and points out how valu- Spain.
able vehicles would be as troop
The Germans, he said, have set carriers. up staff headquarters in the
No Verbal Orders The day before Musso-Hotels Crillon and George V. The swastika flag floats from the lini thundered his war de-Paris Town Hall, the Chamber Drivers and conductors must 01 Deputies and the Eiffel Tower, not hand over buses during a claration from that bal-but not from the Elysee (Presi-journcy even to a uniformed in- cony whence he likes most dential) Palace.. to thunder, I was driving Black-Out Stays in the countryside near] Wartime lighting is still Rome with some English force. Machine-guns posted
the occupation friends, writes a London the streets after
have been taken away as a result correspondent.
of a French protest. Revolvers have been returned to the French police when on duty.
We stopped at an inn. In a back room were a score of young Fascists. The landlord was a lit- tle nervous.
uniform, spector in the Board's unless he is known personally to them and they are satisfied as to his credentials.
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in
Verbal instructions to hand over their bus must not be ac- cepted.
"Keep your heads and act promptly" is the advice given by the Board to the staff. An enemy agent posing in a Many Montmartre people London Transport uniform would who, deprived of their living soon be recognised, however, as were caught pillaging deserted most of the inspectors are well- "Better not let them hear you areas were immediately execut-known, to the outside staff. talking English," he suggesed. ed by the Germans.
Many of the drivers and con- But one of my friends, who Only મ few cafes in the ductors are
ex-Servicemen and knows Italians and Italian as few Champs Elysees are open. Not will know
what to do in the people do, would not have it. He more than six cinemas have been event of an emergency. walked into the back room and reopened, three of which show said, "Will you drink with me, German films exclusively for the gentlemen?"
"Yes," they cried.
"Wait a minute," he went "Before you drink I want clearly understood that I am Englishman.'
troops.
Guarding Key Points
The cost of living has risen by More than 18,000 London on. 30 per cent, since the Germans Transport employees have volun- it marched in. Three meatless days teered to act as guards at the key an a week are enforced and it is points of the Board's enormous
expected that there will soon be system.
and four.
Half the Metro (Under- They will act outside working in ground) is running, but there are hours and have already formed no buses or taxis because of the an efficient motor-cycle squad for fuel shortage.
carrying messages and warnings.
The young
men laughed then cheered. They called passers-by to join the party workers returning from the fields, Ja lorry driver, analr mechanic: They insisted that we should all be photographed together, arm in Jarm. Before our car drove off, Jamidst more cheering, there up- peared a tray of glasses of cham- pagne, bought by the very men of whom the innkeeper had been |nervous.
Fear And Dislike
The day afterwards Italy de- clared war.
MILLION MEN WANTED
FOR 'TICKLER'S ARMY'
WHEN HE STOPS bottling fruit, 45-year-old The plain truth is that the Fred Beaven, one of 400 workers at a famous najority of Italians do not dis- Maidenhead (Berks) jam factory, starts shouting like the English; they do dís.
like and fear the Germans. orders to his boss.
that they £1,000
They did not want to bo But, instead of sacking him, the keen on the scheme dragged into a war in which boss, Mr. P. A. J. Hammett, have promised another they are quite sure that, who-wealthy chairman of the firm and thousands of men for the
rubbing shoulders with his van ranks.” drivers and the boys who shave
ever wins, Italy will lose. Why, then, do they fight? Because they are in the grip of the gooseberries, cheerfully obeys
a strong and efficient organisation instructions from the man he whose leaders believe their own employs. future to depend upon the Nazis.
Model Army
At his own factory, Colonel Tickler has built a model army. We may regret that a whole Fred Beaven is company ser-It took him 24 hours to-do it,” nation should be unable to resist geant-major in "Tickler's Army,
Its own quartermaster's store the strong, well-trained minority Britain's most remarkable milit-has been set up in the factory, who rule. But do not make the tary force. It has been raised by and if the men are called out mistake of thinking that there Colonel W. M. Tickler, the man-each will receive a week's rations,
aging-director, to defend Maiden-blankets, arms, cooking are no regrets in Italy.
head against parachutists. His stoves in case they are engaged boss is a private.
in a protracted struggle with the The men, including the chair-enemy. man and directors, give up their
DEPORT
utensils
The firm's fleet of lorries and lunch hour to learn musketry, employees' cars have been mobi- and at their own request they lised to convey the men to the sacrifice their evening pictures scene of any parachute landings,
bowls and
OBJECTORS cricket to go out on and a petrol pump is installed for
When the war is over says, the
the soldier's nightmare route
narching.
emergency fill-ups."
The men have built their own Fired by the keenness of his fire engine out of an old family Rev. T. Chadwick, vicar of Dar-men, Colonel Tickler revealed tourer. They are constructing an laston, Staffs, all conscientious his plans to make his army à armoured car to lead, the convoy objectors should be deported to million strong in a few weeks. into an attack out of an old l- "some distant land." He says this in a letter to his parishioners, in!
War Office backing, Imousine, and sheets of steel which to have been lying around the fac¬ which he praises the action of am Introducing the scheme [local authorities in sacking ob-factory chiefs all over Britain, tory for years.
and in a few weeks I expect to Jectors.
"With
Many objectors, however, still get companies under training in holds jobs with local authorities, hundreds of towns," he said."
IN RAID
a.
the vicar points out, including 40 "Some of the men at my own PARSON TALKED ON per cent. of the officials in Nor-factory are now undergoing in- tensive Army training, and they wich.
"We are fighting for conselence; will return shortly to Instruct the
Toasting the health of a bride no military at the the right to live in a free world, men who have had
wedding reception, The cowardly objectors ought at experience.
North of England minister was once to lose their vote and their "Cheques to provide equipment interrupted by an air raid. positions, be given n soldier's are arriving, at my office by every His toast lasted longer than he wage, formed into án. Objectors' post. I have received one for had expected, for he stayed en Company, and made to work on £1,000 from a group of industrial]his feet and told stories to calm the land.'
leaders at Slough, who are so the guests till the raid was over.