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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1947,
They Listened In To Hitler's Telephone
As the Continental Express already existed during the Ger- gineers carried out sabotage with steamed out of Victoria Station, man occupation of 1814-18, when the perfection of art.
the other day, eleven "Belgiansa copy of each issue was placed Part of the movement which and thirteen Frenchmen, who every day on the table of the eventually blanketed the whole had daily risked their lives in German Commander in Brussels. country with its net of clandestine the underground 'war against was revived in 1940, giving its organizations, the engineers con- the Germans, leaned out of address AS "Oberfeld-kom-trived to maintain their equip windows of carriages, and mandantur, Bruxelles" (German ment in as pocr a condition as shouted "Vive · l'Angleterre !""
[HQ), and, the editor's name as possible. Lond cables were In-
British pastal workers.
By PETER LOVEGROVE
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They were all pustmen, dele- "Peter Pan, Egmont Park"geniously sawed at points which Ger- rates of the "Resistance move- statue, in one of the main parks would be difficult for the
mars to detect, but compara ments in their respective count. tries, who had paid a visit to
tively easy to repair as soon the area had been liberated,
They also listened in to German communications in a variety of the ways, but their greatest exploit cour of all was when they branched a char-listening set onto Hitler's secret
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freedom. Some had suffered tor-of
All were men with a fine
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT camp of Breendeck: others had ageous
been sentenced to death; all had acteristle of its predecessor, re- telephone line from Germany via Mrs. S. C. Collina wishes to thank held passionate belief that gularly published full details. of Strasburg to Paris. In this way High Command secret all secret conversations and" in- the many friends who sent salvation would eventually come German
und kept alive the structions from the Fuhrer were such kind messages of sym-rom Britain. And now they have plans. pathy and such beautiful paid tribute to the country which patriotism of the Belgian people. immediately passed on to other, floral tributes.
delivered sections, who in turn transmitted She hopes had first successfully resisted the t, too, was faithfully Lime to reply to them all comman enemy. personally.
grow
PALESTINE
the Anglo-American Committee;
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rison Plan," which proposes federation; (3) the partition at Libre Palestine into two independent circulation states, one Arab, one Jewish, along the lines of the 1937 Peel Report. The Anglo-American Committee recommended that Palestine
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Much has been written on the activitics of the Maquis, the saboteurs who blew up bridges
At night, after the last and trains, and the Allied agents livery many of these postmen weit With every day that passes, who dropped
01) even more dangerous hope of a sensible solution of the Little, however, is known of the They drove their vans to Palestine problem appears
to thousands of anonymous fighters rendezvous, where less. The half-hearted who carried on their normal oc-dropped arms and other pravy pursued by the Homerovcupations under the flose survell-ment by parachute. After burging found in London during their
mer the parachutes, the lance of the Gestapo and yet tributed the weapons to the secret Jernment only encourages ex-
tremists, Arab and Jewish alike in the secret and unceasing con- the Germans had formed
London, they assured me, hat played
a not insignificant part white Brigade, so named because heen, a glamorous and glorious Having frittered away many pre-niet with the occupying Nazis.
name to them since 1946. wasting cious months, they are
Such as these two dozen men. Belgian Black Brigade to fight stigieux" was the adjective still more time
leader of their delegation used. with efforts to They were all engaged on their on the Russian front. persunde delegations to turn
In spite of Increasingly severe During the occupation of France up nsual postal duties, sorting Ietters,
penalties-men who were de-he said, all their thoughts jin a well-nigh purposeless confer-trudeing from door to door, test-
ence in London. There has never ing telephone lines, tapping out tected were tortured or executed been centred on her: it was from more her that they received the truth bren a period since the Balfour telegrams. Or so it seemed to the highly organised and was kept up and the encouragement which WHO HAS THE in and led the 6 of his partnere Declaration in 1917 when there Germans.
came strengthened their determination
MAJORS? But the sorters scrutinized the until the liberation. This
first-bid diamonds. But what was the slightest hope of getting mails much more thoroughly than not one minute too soon for the not to yield. They would never
he did made little difference, the Jews and Arabs to agree on the regulations required. Letters eader of the Belgian delegation. forget it or the part the British Whether to pass or to open as all the side e:uld get was any plan for Palestine. Anyone to and from the
He was the Postmaster of people had played.
the bidding is dependent on a four tricks-ane in lieart, two German High
number of factors in addition two in clubs and one in dia who can suppose that any hope of Command and the Belgian quis-Louvain, and had been arrested such an agreement exists today, is lings were carefully segregated, about to be executed when the 39 a political prisoner. He was
to the amount of honour trick mands. strength. They prove thefe im- The damage. 199 done by portance HONG KONG CANTON EXPORT CO., LTD. of adult-minded. It is read and copied whenever pos-British to be executed wher
the
mast emphatically South's opening the bidding at therefore perfectly plain that the sible, and
"So you see," he told me, "I am
when the question is that of all when he was so weak and conférence in London is only an- municated to secret headquarters. doubly grateful to your country. other means to gain time. There When this was not practicaale First, for saving my life, and now
a fourth-hand opening after the short in the two major suits. other three players have passed. The chances were that the cp are of course, three possible plans wing to supervision, the
for the magnificent reception I The attraction of plenty of Practically everybody considers ponents could find a lit in hearts munications would be missorted,have had here." which, even at this late date, and vital instructions would find
the amount of playing trick or epades and thus could out- * might be put into operation in their
His comrades were full of steaks, cggs, milk, cheese way int mailbags des-praise for the way London had other food brought a record strength, through suit-lengths bid North and South, who would Falestine with reasonable prospects tined for neutral countries. "taken it." They had visited sense breaking number. of tourists to and intermediate honours like have to call one more in the of success. None of them is 'per- they would be delayed just long of the most damaged areas
of the Emerald Isle in 1840, David queens, jacks, and tens. But minors to take the bid away fect, and all of them are disliked enough for warnings to be given. the metropolis, and remarked Barry, general manager or the another element of importance from the majors.
As it happens, bid of 4. by both Jews and Arabs, but any In cases where the risk of detec- that Belgium had no destruction Irish Tourist Association, reports. is usually overloked, the ques« one of the three would be prefer- tion was slighter the enemy's to compare with ours. But then,"
tion of whether the hand's suit- Clubs by North would were able able to the present situation correspondence Was conveniently one of them added, "in my coun- fugitives, from the austere food ength is mainly in the major caused the pair to get set two
!"lost."
The tricks instead of just one, 46 where there is no policy. Until the
try. It was the RAF which did rationing still prevailing in the suits or in the minors,
Visitors Courier Links
matter of who has the major tricks lest (would be two in Government can make up their |
the bombing, and
were United Kingdom. they The men on postal minds and apply some long-term
delivery most careful to
aim only at from England, Wales and Scotland sulis can decide many a close spades, one in hearts and two
question profitably.
in diamonds. Notice that the duties did invaluable work plan with vigour, there is bound courier links between different clear to us that the Germans drink.
as military cbjectives. It is only too on their
reason East-West could take one to be a further increase in ter sections of the movements. Their bombed London indiscriminately. The twenty-second annual re-
more trick than North-South- rorist activity, and the moderate bags did not only contain their Another told me that,
was because of the five-card: in the port of the association noted that elements in both the Jewish and usual loads, but also a consider-dark days of the war, he bad trickle of tourists arrived from
suit-length held by West, whose Arab populations are placed in afable
side had two advantages over amount
during the of propaganda promised himself that he would the United States
the opponents-major sults and position of uncertainty and fear.material and underground news-visit London when the nightmare, year. The report said: "We' may
greater suit-length. The three possible solutions which papers,
was over. "though, if I had be-safely assume that they are but are politically practical are: (1) in Belgium, for instance, there lieved the Germans, there was the harbingers of the large con- as many as forty such no London to come' io."..
tingent which Ireland may expect the plan outlined in the report of were
clandestine information sheets The French postal workers from the American continent 'in (2) the so-called "Herbert Mor- and they achieved a wide circula-contribution to the undermining 1947 and succeeding years."
tion throughout the country. and the overthrow of the enemy. Sortage of accommodation at 1 The best known of these--"Lowas even more technical than hotels and at resorts prevented
Belgique"--achieved that of their Belgian colleagues, thusands of persons front mak
It of 401,000. had The telephone and cable ening a planned trip to Elre. Barr
I said many persons have made ad- vance reservations for this year. and even succeeding years. He West tate there was one report of a Pass
1H reservation being made for 1961. should be neither a Jewish nor an When. Franklin D. Roosevelt father of his country than its Burry said the postwar tourists 2H Arab state but that Britain should is immortalised in British expectant mother.
it this stage, South (5) were spending much more freely continue to exercise a mandate, bronze-atanding or seated, de- There John Stuart Mill than prewar visitors. He estimated plenty sorry about having open- and that an additional 100,000 pending upon how the present who, one critic said, appears to that prices in Dublin hotels and ed the bidding. He passed the Jews should be admitted 15 2008 controversy turns out he will be sitting in, a bed of thistles, restaurants were about 20 to 25 3-Hearts, reckoning he hadDDAJA
(Dealer: South. North-South as possible. The second recommen- find himself in the somewhat Gibson's statue of William Hus- per cent, above the pre-war level. shown the full strength of his dation was impracticable, but in mixed company of George kisson, whoever he was, Has A typical dinner menu in one hand, which he most assuredly vulnérable.) . !
Washington, George II, Peter been described as "a classic Dublin's leading hotels (nelad had, hoping that either Northg After South bids 1-Heart. the Anglo- inspired language,
or-West 2-Diamonds, North ́2-No. American report stated: "Pales Fan, Lord Byron and more than figure of boredom rising from a ed hors d'oeuvres (poisto salad, tould safely go to 4-Clubs
tomatoes, hardboiled eggs in that the pair could beat 3-Trumps and East passes, what tine is a holy land, sacred to Chris- 360 other figures of history or bath." legend.
Jacob Epstein's sculpture of nayonnaise, cold meats and vari-Hearts. North felt he had bid should un expert bidder do in tian, to Jew and to Moslem alike.
Rima-heroine of W. H. Hudson's (cus vegetables), choice of two all he could, so left the 3-Hearts] the South ?.. And because it is aholy land, And most of the other statues "Green Mansions-was painted (kinds of soup, a choice of two Palestine is not, and can never that adorn London, obstructing green one hilarious night by a kinds of fish, a choice of filet become, a land which any race or traffic in some cases, have caus- bunch of law. Etudents, and A mignon or sweet-breads · grid, a of Epstein figures main course of roast duck with religion can justly claim as its ed or still cause as much differ- whole tribe
Strand very own. The fact that it is a
ence of opinion as the proposed was removed from
building
potatoes and vegetables, followed tenant. an outraged.
by an ice cream sundae or pastry, holy land sets Palestine complete ly apart from other lands, and
The cost for the dinner, which dedicates it to precepts and prac tises opposed to narrow national Roosevelt statue, which has in London. He awarded the du- was grandly served by walters in
Safe from atomic bombs, the Idano and Nevada, and coat to blous distinction to a Hyde Park, swallow-tailed coats. wos seven ism."
generated countless letters
United States Navy has aminers from Pennsylvania and editors and is about to be de- figure of Byron-hanched up in shillings and sixpense. The second plan, as propound bated in the House of Commons,
In contrast to the drobness of 250,000,000-gallon supply stored West Virginia, aided by some 800. ed. by the British 'Government's
over sidewise half top-
London, the hotels, cafes and bars in lis "Red Hill Underground, a Japanese-Aincricans from Hawall Should Roosevelt be seated
Others
"would disagree. A strallin Dublin are freshly painted and vast Pearl Harbour "ank farm" The nerve centre of the “un- spokesman, Mr. Herbert Morri-
"as we remember him about London discloses a Robert son, provides for two provincial or standing, triumphunt over Burns, who looks close thought decorated. Americans found the buried under 200 feet of volcanic derground" is also buried deep governments, Arab and Jewish, his infirmity," as sculptor, Sir suspenders had broken, Lord tins more on the style of such
beneath a lava "ridge. "Here" in t cocktail lounges and soda foun-red ash
This capacity, with 12 smaller vault protected by massive, bombë for an indefinite period, with a William Reid Dick and the Clyde in astonished proximity to establishments in the United surface tanks, can fuel the Paci-proof doors, 1s the pump house. "British zone" in Negeb near to Roosevelt Memorial Committee a full-bosomed female riding a cub
Victoria with
Ac Fleet for the next six years; In this brightly-lighted command - the Suez Canal. This plan has intend? Is Sir William's statue lion, Queen
Built at a cost of $42,000,000 prat, techniciana man elaborate recently been endorsed by the a good likeness? Is it a work who dragged that horrible- Prime Minister and is thought by of art? Would the late Presi- object-in-here", expression and a plies, although it was almost im- and the lives of 18 men, the un-control panels which check on the many Palestinian experts to be the dent have liked it?
These questions, which winmocrat on November - De. possible to buy a bottle. to take|derground" was a war-time top flow of fuel through a three-mile home. The Ice cream was rich and secret project, which some 4,000 tunnel linking the "underground" one most likely to be eventually,
On the other hand most people many American tourists would men fabcured almost three years, with Pearl Harbour, plers, start an argument in any pub, admire Charles I on his borge and recall the hometown "auger how to build, birt which die Navy hush. To facilitate maintenance of
such other statuary provides for two separate sover astride a horse, was put on Abraham Lincoln in Parliament mundae and listened to a juke box. Inspect
works as as they ate a "Melancholy Baby" now permitted a few outsiders to the huge fuel lines, a smail-rail- read carries workmen and equip» cign states, 2 Its bee plant view in statue form by the peo-Square--although a small boy ft Stores were crammed with mer. The 20 sinks are ench 250 feet ment through the tunnel and. cept this but, of the three ple who had chopped off his cently Inquired why, since chandise. Much of it was made high, or approximately the height about the big tanks. this is the one that is most ob head. Questions were asked coln has a chair, he doesn't si in Britain" for export, and has not of a 20-storey building. CylindriLeaks-In the tanks, which are.
It jectionable, to the Arabs. It is not again when one armed Lord,
Those who disapprove of Lon- yet been made available for the cat in shape, they are steel with 100 feet in diameter and apnced our duty to propose a definitive Nelson" was stuck up on adon's statues, do not always con, home markets in the United concrete lining. They contain 200 feet apart, and in the lines solution. That is the function of pedestal in Trafalgar Square, fine themselves to conversation. Kingdom. However, to prevent 1,000,000 pounds of structural can be instantly spotted with the British Government. But it is Londonera, love, to argue Some 50 Bestptured figures have tourists from denuding their steel and 21,000,000 pounds of scientific direction apparatus, fair to contend that faithful and about statues. They have some been destroyed or have dir stores, Irish customs officers were reinforcing steel. The project, Tre tanks are so big that when conscientious implementation of remarkable statues to argue appeared in the last few hundred exceptionally strict in checking lacking any precedent for design, a lepk in one must be repaired, years. One of two three-quarter outsoing-luggage and they her was supervised by Lt. Comdr. Ben the fuel is withdrawn and water any of these three plans would about have a reasonable chance of suc in front of the National Gal- the Thames bon
There is George Washington size wrestlera
ra disappeared from mitted visitors to take only limit-Rush, now Hawail's territorial is pumped in up to the arvel, of
daries ed Aumbers of articles,
superintendent of public works. the, leale. Worignen descend in o cess; and that, if the British Gov-lery, of Art,, exchanging stares the
Ident markets were filled with Over 1,600,000 cubic yards of small boat which is lowered from emment lack the courage to em with Landseer's lions around the couple home meat at reasonable prices. One earth had to be moved for the the tank celling
lief brace any of them, they had much the base of the Nelson Column.
-clad athlete, scantily clad
popular; establishment had 30 to project and much of the material The last two fatalities occurred dlalodged by better admit their incapacity, hand London was grateful to the peo- boisterous art hatet is stored 10 customers of the counters con- was removed from a depth-of-503 when a forced blast, at air the responsibility over to the ple of Virginia for donating the nearby, waiting until the Minis inuously throughout the day, feet, The job was done by hard-sized a boat and, the worked United Nations, and clear out of statue but it is whispered that try of Works can shake Ingne with at least 15 clerks selling reck miners from Coloratio, ex-drawned before ald could reach Palestine as soon as possible, Washington looks less like the few men to reinstate him.
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