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SHANGHAI BOY TELLS OF WAR EXPERIENCES
Training conditions among the troops at VICAR
Home were described in a letter recently received
from a former Shanghai boy who is well-known as WANTS goal-keeper with one of the local senior football REPRISALS
a sportsman, having distinguished himself as a
teams. He joined up with one of the battalions which was in Shanghai, and went with them to India. From that country, his adventures are told In his own words. The food situation at Home and how the public are reacting to Nazi air raids are well recounted. The letter follows:-
THE VICAR OF ALL SAINTS
CHURCH, DARLASTON. THE REV. T. CHADWICK, WHO RE- CENTLY ASKED THAT ALL CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS SHOULD BE DEPORTED, NOW URGES IN A LETTER TO HIS PARISHIONERS THAT THE
AND
FENDED TOWNS
AND VIL-
After a couple of months of en- Which naturally brings me to GOVERNMENT SHOULD forced silence due to the exigen- the subject which
NOT is interesting
HESITATE cies of the service (good old stand-the whole world-Jerry raids on
IN ORDERING SWIFT by excuse!) in the shape of six England. We are at the end of
DEADLY RE- weeks on the high seas and moun-one week of Goering's so-called PLANES BOMB OUR
PRISALS WHEN "GERMAN tains of work since our arrival in Blitzkrieg. Yesterday the R.A.F..
UNDE- this country, again and tell you all about my-time with a bag of 140, of which LESS WOMEN AND CHILDREN, I can now write topped the century for the second LAGES AND MASSACRE HELP- self and what has happened to me day more anon.
"I have no patience," he says, since my last letter.
Without exaggeration these "with the puerile cries of some Escort Increased raids are a frost. Jerry comes people, even though they over in crowds-hundreds at Two days out of Liverpool, our time is met by our aircraft
hold high positions, when' they as talk of mercy and try to escort was increased and during they cross the coast, chased by sociate the German people from dis- the last 12 hours the sea literally the Spitfires and Hurricanes all their foul rulers. swarmed with protecting boats, over the place, shot up to blazes "Let the German people while overhead were dozens of
by tremendous barrages of A.A. perience the war as their 'planes. All very impressive, and fire, and such as are left are glad wage it in England. doubtless a great deterrent to any to be out of it. The speed with "Reprisals. on German
which may enemy subs,
have which they disappear is amazing. will arouse German anger against been around, for not a sign was Oue lot of about 300 passed dir-Hitler and his satellites. there of any excitement.
ectly overhead one day, heading "The bombing of open towns
may
ex- men
towns
Ger
We arrived in Liverpool. on a inland in temporarily mighty and villages, followed by instant cold, misty morning, which did formation, but before they had reprisals in Germany, will pave not give me a favourable impres- gone quite out of sight they were the way for a rising in sion, at first glance, of England. all back again-hell for leather, Į many." Strange to say, I felt no thrill at every man for himself-heading setting foot in my own country for home. for the first time.
They drop bombs, of Aldershot was our final des- but never with much accuracy. tination and there we stayed two They are too harried for that.
course,
A.R.P.PLANS
weeks, while we were fitted out Most of the bombs are dropped in IN THE
i.
with all sorts of new gadgets for bunches, as they lighten their waging war, and had time to get machines to make more speed, but over our embarrassment at have ing to wear romper-suit-like Bat- tiedress, wonderfully comfortable "clobber" with 'no buttons to clean, praise bel
most of these drop in open coun- HOPFIELDS
try and do little damage beyond spoiling one or two cows' output of milk for the day.
of
They have caused damage, course, but mainly to civilian pro- perty in town's. These are no ac- cidents, I can assure you, but de- liberate foul play. But then,
Leave In Worthing During those two weeks, half the Battalion was sent away at a time for six days leave, I spent what can you expect of a Ger- mine with a fellow-sergeant at man? Read on further, and per- his home in Worthing, a lovely haps your blood might boil. little town on the Channel coast, Children Machine-
Gunned
The annual trek of thousands of South Wales people to the hop- Worces- tershire, and Gloucestershire' has. itelds of Herefordshire,
started.
Parties leaving Wales were not such "mixed parties" as those. of
normal years.
There are few men travelling this year, and, in some cases, parties of 40 and 50 women and children were without a single
man.
Hop growers have taken pre-
set amongst the loveliest Downs country imaginable. I fell in love with the whole place, and have made up my mind that I shall
I was out yesterday on a job of cautions consistent with the times. settle there when my soldiering work which took me to a place Trenches have been dug in the days are over:
which I must not name and which | fields for use as air raid shelters; This, my second glimpse of was visited by Jerry. I was driv-wardens and first-aid experts England, explained why English-ing a lorry and when Jerry came will be at hand. while stirrup- men rave about this little island. over I pulled up on the side of pumps are available to deal with There can be very few places in the road under, a tree and sat incendiary, bembs. the world like the south of Eng- tight. There was no time to do A good crop is reported from land. Beautiful hardly describes anything else.
the three counties.
it.
A hundred yards ahead of me Leave over, we settled down to was a little playground in which hard training, moving out of Al-
a couple of dozen little-children dershot to our present place to do were playing. When Jerry came so. We are still at it-and, un-up, these kiddies were rounded
NEW STAMP
like most training, thoroughly en-up and hurried along, I suppose, GLUE
joying it, exhausting though it to an air-aid shelter. At any some times is. I have been over rate, they had to run down the
UNCLE SAM'S POSTAGE nearly all of Hampshire, Sussex road. They were machine-gun- STAMPS SOON MAY BE COM- and Kent on manoeuvres-that is ned from the afr. why I know the south of England
PLETELY AMERICANISED.
is so lovely. Sleeping out in the down and sprayed the street from One dirty hound came right. open is really enjoyable-soft, end to end, right along the line of thick grass, balmly dry weather running kiddies. How none were and, best of all, no mosquitoes, or hit is. a mystery to me. I could ather biting and stinging horrors see the bullets hitting the road all Bees and hornets are plentiful about them, but they got clear but peaceable. Wonderful Eng- away, thank goodness. land!
market for the American farmer The event may stir up a new and a profitable new Industry for American capital and labour.
Fronts of United States postage stamps might be said, now to be 100 per cent American, honouring I wish I could say I saw that as they do the nation's great and Disappearing Tricks Jerry hound shot down. He zoom-its memorable events. Training these days has a dash wards and disappeared. I hope ed straight up immediately after-
But the backs have a foreign
of spice. Migale warfare, because he was one of the 140, and ane composition: The glue is made of it is mimic, always makes us that burned all the way down. I starch manufactured from cassava careless about "safety tactics", but now we have to be extra careful have never felt so mad in my life root imported from the tropics. -not about the friendly "enemy's I write of it..
before. I am angry even now as but because of the real enemy
Civilians Keep Calm
Recent tests have shown, how- overhead. It is amusing at times,
ever, that dextrin made from while careering about chasing, or
sweet potato starch was satisfac- being chased by, the other side,'
tory for postage stamp glue as But let me get on to something well as for labels and envelopes. to see all troops suddenly stop pleasant, "shooting" each other up and
Agriculture exports say; there The behaviour of the civilians is a large potential market for the vanish completely from sight on here during the raids is something sweet potato starch: The United. the appearance of a plane-any to marvel at-they are so cook, so States uses more than 1,000,000,-- 'plane and only continuing the unhurried and so cheerful even in 000 pounds of starch annually, of "battle" when the umpires' whis- the middle of a bombardment. I which approximately one-fourth tles blow the "all clear." We are think their attitude towards it all comes from the imported cassava now..very expert at making our is that it is all a nuisance which root. selves, and all our impedimenta, must be endured. Certainly I such as two-ton lorries and arm-have never heard one of them outed carriers, absolutely invisible express: fear yet. If Adolf could from the air. Jerry planes have see them during a raid he would their heads."
passed over us by the score, sing-stop his terrorising tactics at once. It makes me smile to think that ly and in huge masses, but never because it would be apparent in 1987 half' the population of once have they spotted usus even to him that these tactics aro Shanghal left town because, half- being battalions of infantry, plus wasted on the civilian population. a-dozen bombs were accidentally scores of lorries and such-liko. They simply refuse to panic if dropped on it. A bit of a con- Touch wood!.......
ever a thought of it has entered |trast, don't you think?;