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In a hostel for Basque refugees in an English village the children were asked to write an essay on any subject they chose, using some words they had just learned. One boy, 14 years old, from Bilbao, became so absorbed in his task that he went on writing long after his companions had finished. He forgot all about the new words. But he wrote this little epic-"All for the Fatherland.”
T was July 18 when masses of workers were going through the streets, towns and cities of Spain, going with pistols and shotguns in their hands. Among them went our dear fathers and brothers. "What was happening, what was going on?" Ah it was the Fascist traitors who had risen in revolt.
Throughout the streets were notices, announcements and posters telling all the working men and women and all those
The Fatherland was in danger.
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In the streets ahots were heard, and crackling; blood was running in streams; in the dark night groans were heard. The workers, and in a word, the citizens of all Spain, went from one garrison to the other, went where the Fascists were making themselves strong.
Thus the days went by among shots and deaths.
A little later, towards the end of October, the battle] fronts were formed between the Fascists and the brave loyal citizens of Spain.
Then a serious thing happened. The news arrived that the Spaniards had been reinforced by the German, Italian and Portuguese columns, and by sections of world Fascism.
But the brave fighters of loyal Spain did not draw back because of that, nor lose hope. With more strength, with more fury, the brave Loyalists attacked, and at the Loyalista' feet fell the Fascists; which was indeed pleasing so.
Thus the days passed until the 2nd Decem- ber, they killed my dear father on the Ochan- dlane front, in the streets of Villarreal, In the great offensive.
From that day all was sorrow in my family, my sister in the hostel at Olavarri, in Bilbao. all were in mourning; until they put me and
all loved each other very much; yes, all like a hostel for orphans of militiamen. There we brothers.
B
UT the only thing that destroyed us was the Fascist aeroplanes which, without fear, killed women, old men and children.
towards the horizon, appeared 21 of Franco's One day, I do not remember the date, there,
aeroplanes. At once. the warning siren sounded, and a little after, the danger one.
the present hostilities in China. it seems that the time is fast approaching when something more effective than mild re- proaches will be neesssary if the ardour of Japan's fighting men is to be curbed to a sufficient extent that complications of a grave international, complexion shall be avoided. It is time for plain speech, surely. No useful children feared the bombs most. purpose is served by, suppress- ing a very natural desire to pro- test against what commences to appear to be unwarranted and Chater Road. often dangerous behaviour which imperils British lives and property.
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Then the traitors-you will understand whom I mean-began to unload shells, yes, machine-gun shells and bombs.... WO
Yes, but the brave Red nviators were not asleep. At once, in a minute, six of these brave airmen went up in the snub-nosers, yes, to the masters of the air. Now they took fight, rose up to a great height, to engage in battle, but the Fascista fled. The snub-nosera followed_them, giving_chase.
Then something great was seen, yes, a great air-battle in the nir, six ngainat twenty- one. It was barbarous.
Yesterday there many persons in Hongkong aware that the train bearing the British Charge d'Affaires, Mr. Howe, and the Embassy party from Hankow, as well as a number of passengers, includ- ing women and children, was in
be equally indignant, and the the "danger zone" on the Can-suggestion would probably be. ton-Kowloon Railway. Fewer wrong, if it were implied that still knew that an air raid was in this action WOR a deliberate
And then we saw quite clearly three Fascist neroplanes fall burning In Bilbao. He who had shot them down was a loyal airman and courageous as no other. But the. Fascist shots mortally wounded him; then the airman made. great efforts to save the plane. And now he has his wish. The aeroplane reaches the field without sign of struggle. But the brave cour- uzeous airman comes down dead. The people
Some of the Bilbao refugees on their arrival in England-a picture that sums
up their whole tragic story.
gave him a burial which the people followed.
So the days passed.
The Fascists came towards Bilbao. Then the women wanted to help Bilbao, and with Bilbao, the Fatherland. Bome went to the front to fight against the Fascists. Others went to make fortifications, that is, trenches, with young boys of fourteen, and many of thirteen, Old men and women went as well.
And all these went with plek, basket and spade. And the militiamen who saw them pass, going to make trenches, sald sadly, "Look how they are helping us. They too love their Fatherland.”
There were women, too, who went to drive trams and other buses, taxis and cars, and many of them went to help the man at the front. The others advanced little, with thou- sands of losses. The others had planes, and we had none.
They had modern tanks, but we held them. At the Bollube front, their aeroplanes fell, so that it was a joy, and all by rifle fire. Now we did not fear snub-nosers. Then Bilbao had to be defended, hand to hand.
NE day an English merchant ship arrived in Bilbao waters. In it came English personalities. Among them came our second mother, Mrs. Manning. (Mrs. Leah Manning, Hon. Sec, of the Spanish Aid Committee). She visited our hostel for orphans of the militia in which there were 150 orphans of the militiamen. She liked our hostel very much.
These English people who came with Mrs. Manning came for a great undertaking. They came to save more than 4,000 children. They
came to save them from the bombs, and among: them they listed us.
Now they recognised us; they gave us a number, and a few days later a bus came. It was to go to the Havana, a ship sent for our removal to England, which was going to leave: early the following morning.
We prepared our baggage and climbed into the bus, and out there was my mother, who' was staying in Spain alone, for the sake of our- happiness. My mother was crying. She gave me a strong embrace, and a mother's kiss, and. then saw to my sister, and she gave me a lotter- as a remembrance,
It was all weeping.
T
HEN the motor started up and the
bus began to move. I did not lose sight of my mother, as perhaps 1. was the last moment I would see her. The bus turned a bend. Now I could see herņoj more.
On the way, to forget our sorrow, we began to sing anti-Fascist songs, mostly Secialist. At Boelock in the evening we reached the ship Havana. At six the following morning it cet O from the port of Bilbao,
A little later they gave us breakfast, and I and many others had to go under cover as we had no cabins. In the Cantabrian Ocean we began to feel seaslek. At 12 o'clock midday we passed France.
Now, at night, we had neither beds nor bunks,-and-wo-grabbed-two-blankets,-and- under cover, full of cold, we had to wrap our- scives up, all we orphans. And so we passed the night, you could say, without sleep.
And next morning, on waking, wo wro in English waters.
Besides, I am sorry, Í had forgotten, with the Havana went the English squadron, to take care of it and show it the way. It was already seven when we reached Southampton, and that night we slept a little better than the others, for we slept on top of a lifeboat, and with a blanket.
LAUGHTER IN COURT
progress. Only a score knew elight against Great Britain. FAMOUS holelkeeper in the
Jones
"Paul,” he asked, "fore those your
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AT this moment am thinking of my dear mother whom I left
The next morning we entered the port and a great crowd was waiting for us. At five in the afternoon we took hold of our bags, and they re- gistered us, after we had waited in. a queue for more than all the morn- ing. Alter we had been registered we climbed into a motor-bus and "You tell me," said the Judge, "that went to the camp, and they put us
into lents, [But there is no point in denying A Adirondacks, Paul Smith, has told this person knocked you down with Fifteen days later they called us by that aircraft had elected to that such a suggestion will of a law-sult which he had with un his motor car. Could you swear to the microphone that we must leave. bomb the Canton-Kowloon line occur, at least in the minds of Irishman called Jones.
the_mun?"
as the motor-bus was waiting. In "I did." replied the complainant fact, we took hold of our bags and within a few miles of the some British people.
"I sat in the Court-room" (he re-
but he only swore back at climbed into the bus. We said good- lates) "before the case was called me and drove on."
eagerly, British frontier at a time when There is in Hongkong at this with my witnesses around me.
bye to our comrades, who were cry- The police physician was called in ing, come of them, the train bearing Britain's chief time a gentleman not yet re-bustled in. He stopped abruptly and to examine a prisoner who had been
After tea we came to the country representative in China was just covered from wounds inflicted looked my witnesses over with care arrested for drunkenness. After an house where they were going to lodge below them. It was with real by Japanese airmen who are Then he turned to me,"
examination the doctor addressed the us, to live together. We were very concern that newspapermen at-said to have mistaken his car
constable who had made the arrest, pleased with it, for it was very beau- assuring him that the detained man irut and had a big garden. tempting to follow the course of for one belonging to Chinese
""They are." I replied.
was not suffering from the effects of Here we are living, and we love the train from Hankow dis-officer. Sir Hughe Knatchbull-
"Then you win, he exclaimed
but alcohol had been drugged. each other like brothers, and will go
"Ye're right, sor, covered that it was passing Hugessen will shortly go home mournfully. "I've had them wit-
"said the police on loving each other, forgetting the man, greatly disturbed. "Shure, I sorrow of Spain, our dear land. through an area which was to complete his convalescence. nesses twice myself.""
drugged him all the way 10
the A known to be under attack. They Some equally unfortunate ac-
Maryland was station." negro were aware of the Japanese cident might have befallen Mr. brought before a Justice of the Pence
on suspicion of theft.
In Bilbao, and I know nothing of her, undertaking that Mr. Howe's Howe and his party yesterday.
And, as well, I remember my dead "You've stolen no chicken?" naked train would not be molested, but
This is part of the evidence in a father, and what he told me when ho Restraint, it is agreed, is very the J.P. "No, sah." "Have you dog case heard in a Scottish Court. A was alive," which was this: “If they' they were also aware of the necessary on the part of British stolen any geese?" "No, sah." "Tur- rural witness, after relating how the kill me, avenge me." element of the chance involved
defendant, M'Lure, came up and The man was discharged. As he struck him, proceeded: in bombing any target from the people at this time. Certain of keys?" "No, sah."
His Majesty's subjects must run reached the Court-room door he turn-
"So, yer Honour. I juist up and dies him a wipe, Julst then his dog course, na everyone does now, at war. That is realised. When grin Fo' de Lawd, squire, if you'd came along an' I hit him again." that bombs were actually drop-it is stated that British people said ducks you'd a had me,"
"Hll the dog? ped ahead of the train. It replace some value on the lives of quires no great flight of fancy their ambassadors, indeed on the to Imagine what might have lives of every single subject, no A brilliant English Judge was happened had the tracks been reasonable person can fail to greatly feared by young counsel for damaged by a bomb, and the understand the feeling of min their efforts in Court. A youthful train which travelled under the giving which such incidents ns barrister who once found himself ad- shelter of the Union Jack sped yesterday's create and foster in before those glinting oyes and
for the first time: dressing a jury blindly into disaster.
the British mind.
became painfully nervous. Japanese would unquestion-! It is the carnest prayer of all "Gentlemen of the jury," he and stopped, "Gentle- ably be indignant were the sug-that unpleasantness and mis-stammered gestion made that the airman understanding may be avoided men of the jury, my very unfortunate back, he bounded me ver Honour."
cllent Again A long pause. responsible for bombing, or at- between Great Britain and "Gentlemen of the jury, my client you!" tempting to bomb, the tracks Japan. Perhaps plain words has been most unfortunate, but over which this particular train from the right quarter will do could go no further.
on, Mr" encouraged his had to pass yesterday, were in- much to preclude such
Lordship, "The Court la with you so dulging in bravado. They would fortunate possibilities.
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Those were his words, and his words shall be done, "His death shall be avenged."
Writing this, I have written it with tears in my eyes, and let us forget everything with a good-bye, and giv- Ing the greatest thanks to the Ald Committee, and to those who do so much for us.
"No, yer Honour. Hi M'Lure, An' then I cops wi' a stand and thrawed It at him and it rolled him over an over."
And let us finish this history, as "Threw a stone në M'Lure?"
you might call it, thinking of our "At the dog, yer Honour. An' he happiness in England and thinking got up an' kit me again."
too of those who lost their lives de- "The dog?"
tending their homeland his tail down atween his legs on went at this moment.
"No. M'Lure. An' wi' that he stuck deal, and of those who pre fighting and their
off."
"M'Lure7"
"No, the dog. An' when he carrie
"The dog came back and pounded "No, M'Lure.
Honour. An' he' yer Jann' hurt a bit."
"Who isn't hurt?”:
The dog, yer Honour,"
M. B.
And let us end giving a Viva, but n very great one, that is echo may be hened through the world, and that Viva in-
"VIVA EL SOCIALISMO." -TO-day's Thought WHEN dar begins, the devil
nakes - Heil dipper."
JOHIN RAX.