THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 29, 1941.
CHINA MAID
BWINDSOR HOUSEL L
"MORAL OUTCASTS"
Rejection by the United States Government of the further request by ex- President Hoover to be permitted to organise re- lief supplies to Greece and other occupied countries in Europe is but a logical consequence of the bar- barities of the Nazis. None abroad can feel other than sorrow that. such terrible sufferings should be inflicted upon helpless innocent people. But there goes with that indignation that the Ger- mans should not merely accept with callous indif ference the fate of people over whom they have rid- dén: roughshod, but décline also to give any guarantees that relief supplies will not be re- quisitioned.
German occupation has been that of systematic locusts: To their shame be it recorded that even when the Italians, whom Hitler sent in to police Greece so that his own troops could be spared for the Russian front, sent in milk for starving Greek
AXIS
Round the Clock
children the Germans STANDING on the short, dry, dangerous task soon to be under- But suddenly it is not funny seized the bulk of it and bomber aerodrome,
browning grass of the huge taken no hint of apprehension. [small black object falls to the
one looks But I too old to fly against an ground and lands on the tarmac, forwarded it to Germany. across the hangars over miles of enemy now, look up at the lovely silently. It is a soft, furry black
The verdant, undulating countrý. A sky. Certainly nothing more brilliant sun saturates a landscape very sparse,
cumulus clouds seem cat mascot which he has been so
anxious not to drop that hy “hus, clearly shows the ac-of guilted ripening crops, across
had a wire tail fixed; to it so that which deep shadows move
would he can secure I wish that somethingly blue which have to clasp so many other it to his fingers, curacy of Mr. Churchill's small cumulus clouds sail before description of the Nazis the suti,
as
happen so that the vault of the heavens could become things. more overcast. För in a daylight
gratefully by raiding alimen as momentarily. Is this falling black Teat an omen? · We pretend not to screens behind which they can hide if need be and there usually notice it. is the need. With such a picture sky, how many of these laughing ed, blue-eyed young man not long boys will come back?
as the moral outcasts of The landscape is still and peace-raid the clouds are embraced A shadow passes across his face mankind." No other tul, dancing under a heat-wave tempered gently by a breeze from people could have done the west. such a thing. But even
This picture of a bit of England before Mr. Churchill seems beautiful but strangely in-
were congruous, for although
spirit wishes. to capitulate and They have gone into carrying out his injuncbecome quietly absorbed almost "briefing room"
spoke the Greeks
one's
the
The group includes a fair-head-
from school. He is a Flight-Lieu- tenant A short, stocky lad with
a north-country accent is an air- to learn where gunner. Another young chap,
By Richard Hdestier
his fat-seeing eyes is an observer
sergeant... N.C.OS and officers
alike are friends,
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There is a marked absence of Service. tesies. Everyone is Bill, or Jack, (or Tubby:..
a
tall, extremely
tion to keep their souls as the camouflage hangars, and they afe to fly, where they are with mouse-coloured hair and a serodrome buildings are absorbed, to drop their bumbs; How they serious but innocent expression in clean from all contacts into the unrolled canvas of this with the Nazis. No Greek countryside it is not possible. worthy of the name re- It might have been had not a jects Mr. Churchill's plea big, twin-engined Blenheim bom- to have faith and hope warning as
ber suddenly roared out the its engines were
Presently and hold out against the started up, to whip the breeze into
good-woking young deliverance that is suregrass backwards from the sun a terrific wind, that laid the long
minter wedring. the DFC with The people of Europe as until it cut a queer jagged pattern
dehoting a bar wall winter nears, wonder how shadow,
on the ground with its, quivering
In the conversation will; recognise their targets, to heol clicking of calling. they can fight disease.
Over the far side, behind the stutty pictures of the buildings. Those about to dle do They know that the Ger- hangars, a group of men have they must destroy, get exact maps. They are saluted. The mans do not care if they surrendered themselves to the of the target area to learn where mander is just another
sun-drenched, peaceful moment.
fighter opposition might be ex althought he is not goi die and that, if the lives
pected and - where anti-aircraft day because he is actin of Germans might be But they are not ordmaty men. guns will throw up the heaviest Commander. He has com
a minute pt They are all young and keen fire to blast them from the sum- them off. After 1 saved by taking from eyed. They are all happy, so very mer sky. They are even told he looks at his watch. those things withouting and lounging in the sunshine remain, and at what time they tenders with their kit, to be taken obviously happy. They are laugh-their targets, how long they will says, and the airmen crowd Intd what time they should arriva over "About time to move off he which they cannot sur some watching the smoke from should be back again for ten. vive Hitler's
thefr cigarettes, twirling upwards
to their waiting.aircraft that have have heaps of strange
already been "bombed up:" would not hesitate to paraphernalia ardulia them strip them
maps, flying helmets “and packed parachutes with broad
Mighty Roar Of Engines Herein lies the particu-hamess, canvas bags stuffed wit lar brutality of the Nazi other maps, small piecės: bi boar
clips on the top to hold system. The “outside (dolscup, paper, and their precious world would eagerly send
"Mae Wests," They are the boys the Blenheims, „atid 'arè supplies to the starving soon to be off on a daylight räld
of chemy territorvi people of Nazi-occupied
agents All
Europe if only they could No Thought Of Danger be sure that these food
stuffs or their equivalent in the
would not be requisition-
110. wort
no thought of the
-
The man who tells them. is the Intelligence. Officer. He is a. lit-
tle older than the boys who win the job, bút he is a specialis who has collected all the possible information, that can help them to get there, do their job, and come
back safely.
Run To A Timetable The bomber crows ble out, look, ing at their, wrist wafclies,
Without any forewe sort of commotion th climb into their aircraft.
to
les start the Engines; and wh the gunher tests his guns and the observer adjusts his maps, the pilot revs up his engines to satisfy wall [himself, that they are running
"From the far side of the field the gentle blizz of thglob take-off. This buaitreu
Increases to a mighty roaf: The qa time-table as regular, as a bomberi begih. 16 Tace towa gallway- systom,
cannot help watching; a, gennt Joust of a lonh: figuro, but duttored
thelb talle go up, thúy, are off ground and galming Haiglt the wind
ot All we on the ground. bith; [now is to wait and hoi ale kit our difernft returned
ed by the Germans, Bul bution of essential medi- the knowledge that the cal supplies and food for Germans in Greece al- infants in such a manner he looks like an amiable Father But the sky-ist-phill ready have seized relief that these materiala Christmas, who hop dérivad pix clear bluu: There are supplies creates the great would not serve to replen- have many things to carry that
Hy|mônity, too. «Šopíl..! He stems to "clouds: ubout" at all est barrier. If the Ameri- ish the German reserves first he drops his helmet, and then can Red Cross or some it would be easy, indeed to another nicco of Elt for him. ThHI a love then sumcohoretilbud similar organisation could And the money to finance dropping of things become
milnor joke. Hy laughs heart devise a system of distri- relief:
at it. It is very funnyr.
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