THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 29, 1941.
HEARD A HELLO IN ICELAND
FIVE GIRLS and four men were walking through the streets of a town in Iceland when a British private darted across to them.
"I'm out of bounds, but
"I shouldn't be here," he said to one of the men. ~~~could one of the young ladies just say 'Hello' to me?"
The girls clustered round him, shook his hand and "hello-ed" him, and
a look of contentment spread over his face.
"That's all I wanted," he smiled. "I'm going now. how good it was to hear an English girl's voice again."
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That snapshot of the life of
WAR CAN'T
Iceland has been! forces 11 hought back to England by one
ENSA's concert parties
Stayed Ten Weeks
With their seaside Summer show, the Rebald Brandon and. Dickie Pounds. "Here We Are" Company went to the Arctic t a month, but the lonely Brit sh soldiers kept them there for ten weeks
TOUCH HIM
Thirty-seven years. arto Milli- !can Dalton worked in a Londo,
He was unhappy Chy office,
He wanted to be te fled him.
free
I
They were thirsting for the!
Mithe Dalton thew up sound of heh English voices and i Englishwoman," i the sight of an areading to Mis (Phekie Pads, job to live among the hills of the
Brandon
The inhabitants trent themi well and they have all they want, but they are lonely for their own folk.
"Once, when we were sailing down the past coast in foul wea- ther We put m at midnight at a little harbour. A British officer came abowid and begged us to go ashore.
Lake District.
a
He didn't look for a little country cottage overlooking lake. He chose, at Borrowdale, a cave as high as a three-storey house set in wooded crags above the river.
Few Worries
Tu-day this seventy-three-year- "Most of the party were n
old hermit is less affected by the¦ bed and several were seasick. but we hadn't the heart to refuse war than any man in Britam. Hel
cares nothing for the black-out. and so they wer for a chat is timing worries are few. the early hours. The pleasure on those men's faces was sufflernt i irward."
Stage On Cans
The company gave fifty-seven 1 performances and four broadcasts. Drapings were provided by Drury Lane, yet this elaborate show was often given in Nissen huts
The stages were built up on emoty petrol cans," Mr. Brandon said, "and the huts were so nar- row that when we were lined up on the stage the ones at each end of the line had to bend their heads sideways to fit in!
liked everything, "The boys but it was the old songs tha always brought the house down.
If only our forces were not so desperately bored they would be fairly well off They resent thei safely in which they are living? while their families face bomb-
Ing.
They Want Beer
"Food is plentiful. The lights)
<
the towns.
the night
Peep into Milllean's home. He wears a Tyrolese hat decorated į with a heron's feather, a plaid Jover a brown coat, green corduroy ! shorts, puttees and climbing boots.
His cooking utensils have been collected from scrap dumps.
vegetarian and mamly on wholemeal bread i bake myself," he told me.
"I'm
a
Bracken Bed
hive
"My only luxury is coffee, for which pay 28, 2d. per lb.
and! aleep on a bed of bracken need only my plaid and an cid. crdown
warm, to keep me don't burn a light, though I fic in bed from beginning to end of black.out.
"Seven hours'
sleep is enough | for anyone. The rest of the time I just lie and think and listeni You can't feel lonely with natur as your companion
bluze out through Millican, who claims to be "he
inventer of shorts," has 22s
"Their other great need is Eng-| week to keep him in food
attempt is being tobacco.
lish beer An
nade to brew it on the island.
"I shall never forget New Year's
Eve
ן,
and
He makes tents, builds raft:
We came out of a building and is a Lake District guide.
just before midnight to find hun-j
dreds of trumps queuing up for rum ration.
When they saw us they fell¦ into a long line and we walked through the snow shaking every man by the hand.
"Then we all stood there, so home and sung far away from Auld Lang Syne
BOYS OF 14 PAY INCOME TAX
Hundreds of boys aged fourteen are now paying income tax.
Many of thern, not long out of -school, are being paid at the rate of 1s, 2d. per hour by contractors With overtime, they are earning nearly £5 a week,
Inland Revenue authorities are Laced with a problem.
the
STANDARD
You'll never know
HUNS SEIZE PANTIES
Paris
Germons in are confiscating silk panties to make para- chutes, according to Americans from France.
Motor factories
are said to be run- ning full blast manu- facturing small armoured cors and spare parts.
are
in- Edwin
The Germans becoming more solent, .Mr. Thorn, former com- mander of the Ameri- can Legion in Paris, said: "They sneered at
us, saying: 'We shall be in New York soon. You'll be sold out at home.'
Mr. Thorn declar- ed: "The French are getting as mad Os hell and the women are pushing them on to resist the Germans. No one will speak to Germans any more.
"At the first indica- tion that the United States is entering the war you will change all Europe all people need for revolution is encourage-
see
о
over
little ment."---Reuter.
CLOTHES
FOR ALL--EXCEPT MEN
A PLAN TO HELP the war effort by making clothing for men, women and children in standard sizes only, is proposed by the Retail Trading Stan- dards Association.
At present there is no organised scale of sizes for ready-made clothes.
The scheme will economise in the standard suit for men is "off." manufacture, distribution and Mr. W. T. Munro, chairman of consumption.
the trade promotion committee of
It will help to solve the pro- the National Wool Textile Export
"If said:
the blom
Mr. and for the
Miss Corporation,
comes when London "Migs-Fits" who could step into day ever
ever come.
our
res-
new outfits without the wasting ceases to be regarded as the lead- of time and material in altera er of men's fashions, then
woollen fabric exports will drop. tions. Evacuees and those too busy to "Doubtless there will be
trictions on home productions be- shop would appreciate the idea,
There will be sizes for almost cause of the war, but I do not
Shopping by post think that u standardised sult will:] every figure. will be made easier.
As well as the standardisation If-the-tax-is not stopped at.
source. they cannot take of clothing, set, sizes, for house - action against those who fall to hold, textiles have been proposed. This will mean that single and pay tax. N
wilt Being minors, such bova can double sheets or blankets only be sued through their par-only be obtainable in two sizes. Pillow-slips and possibly towels ents or guardian.. "Everyone, even an infant in will be standardised, too.... arms, is lable for Income tax,” an Anname tre authority fold, the "Daily⠀⠀⠀⠀ Mirror." "Age
doce
Prestige Of London
not matter. It all depends. Because the prestige of Lon on the amount of earned or un don as the men's fashion centre of the world must be maintained, earned income.".
The women's fashion trade] frina-state-of-flux. Loading. London designers · are helping us in the hopa that we can cap- ture some of the business, parti- cularly, in the tailor-made lines.” Mr. Munro announced the formation of a Men's Apparel Council under the chairmanship of Mr. Hardy Wigglesworth, a London woollen merchant, which will assist the Corporation to fur ther, London's importance in men's styles,