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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 avriting 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 10 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?" Ahi it was the Fascist traitors who had risen Ini revolt.
Throughout the streets were notices, announcements and posters telling all the working men and women and all those
Hongkong Hotel who could use a rifle or anything else to defend their country.
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The Fatherland was in danger.
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In the streets shots were heard, and crackling; blood was running in streams; in the dark night groans were heard. The Stubbs Rd. workers, and in a word, the citizens of all Spain, went from one
Harrison to the other, went where the Fascists were making. themselves strong.
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Thus the days went by among shots and deaths.
A little later, towards the end of October, the battle] fronts were formed between the Fuscists 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 nol-draw-back because. of that, nor lose hope, With more strength, with more fury, the brave Loyalists attacked, and at the Loyalists' feet feil the Fascists: which was indeed pleasing so.
Thus the days passed until the 2nd Decem- ber, they killed my dear father on the Ochan- dinne front, in the streets of Villarreal, In the great offensive,
From that day all was sorrow in my family. all were in mourning; until they put me and
my sister in the hostel at Olavarri, In Bilbao, a hostel for orphans of militiamen. There we all loved each other very much; yes, all like
brothers.
B
UT the only thing that destroyed us was the Fascist aeroplanes which, without fear, killed women, old men
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One day, I do not remember the date, there, is to be curbed to a sufficient
towards the horizon, appeared 21 of Franco's extent that complications of a aeroplanes, At once, the warning siren grave international complexion sounded, and a little after, the danger one.
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there
many
in Hongkong aware that the train bearing the British Charge d'Affaires, Mr. Howe, and the Embassy party from Hankow, as well as
and children.
Then the traltors-you will understand whom I mean-began to unload shells, yea, shells and bombs.... we machine-gun children feared the bombs most.
Yes, but the brave Red aviators 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 Fascists fed. The snub-nosera followed them, giving chase.
Then something great was seen, yes, a great air-battle in the air, six against twenty- one. It was barbarous.
And then we saw quite clearly three Fascist .acroplanes 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- accous airman comes down dead. The people
a number of passengers, includ- ing women and children, was in the "danger zone" on the Can-be equally indignant, and the suggestion would probably be ton-Kowloon Railway. Fewer wrong, if it were implied that: still knew that an air raid was in this action was a déliberate
it
A
Some of the Bilbao refugoes on their arrival in England-a picture that sums
up their whole tragic story.
gave him a burial which the people followed.
Bo the days passed,
Then
The Fascists came towards Bilbao.
the women wanted to help Bilbao, and with Bilbao, the Fatherland. Some went to the Others front to fight against the Fascists. went to make fortifications, that is, trenches, of with young boys of fourteen, and many thirteen. Old men and women went as well.
And all these went with pick, basket and spade. And the militiamen who saw then pass, going to make trenches, said 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 bad. to be defended, hand to hand.
O
In it
NE day an English merchant ship arrived in Bilbao waters. came English personalities. Among. them came our second mother. Mrs. Manning. [Mrs. Leah Manning. Hon. Bec. 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 to to the Havana, a ship sent for our removal to England, which was going to leave carly 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 letter as a remembrance.
It was all weeping.
HEN the motor started up and the bus began to move. I did not lose sight of my mother, as perhaps it was the last moment I would see her. The. bus turned a bend. Now I could see her po
more.
On the way, to forget our sorrow, we began to sing anti-Fascist songs, mostly Socialist. At Boolack in the evening we reached the ship Havana. At six the following morning it set off 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 seasick. At 12 o'clock midday wcased France.
Now, at night, we had neither beds nor bunks, and we grabbed two blankets, and under cover, full of cold, we had to wrap our- selves up, all we orphans. And so we passed the night, you could say, without sleep.
And next morning, on waking, we in English waters.
We to
Besides, I am sorry, I 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
The police physician was called in
Here we are living, and we love cuch other like brothers, and will go on loving each other, forgetting the sorrow of Spain, our dear land.
The next morning we entered the www.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. After we had been registered we climbed into a motor-bus and went to the camp, and they put us the "You tell me," said the Judge, "that into tents. progress. Only a score knew slight against Great Britain.
Fifteen days later they called us by Adirondacks, Paul Smith, has told his person knocked you down with But there is no point in denying A FAMOUS hotelkeeper in that aircraft had elected to that such 21 suggestion will of a law-sult which he had with unhis motor car. Could you swear to the microphone that we must leave.
the man?"
as the motor-bus was waiting. In. bomb the Canton-Kowloon line occur, at least in the minds of Irishman called Jones.
"I did," replied the complainant fact, we took hold of our bags and
within
"I sat in the Court-room" the re-engerly, but he only swore back at climbed into the bus. We said good- the some British people. 13 few miles of
Intes) "before the case was called me and drove on.
bye to our comrades, who were cry- There is in Hongkong at this with my witnesses around me. Jones British frontier at a time when
He stopped abruptly and to examine a prisoner who had beening, coine of them.
After tea we came to the country the train bearing Britain's chief time a gentleman not yet re-bustled in. 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 examination the doctor addressed the us, to live together. We were very below them. It was with real by Japanese airmen who are Then he turned to me."
"Paut," he asked, "are those your constable who had made the arrest, pleased with it, for it was very beau concern that newspapermen at-said to have mistaken his car witnesses?"
assuring him that the detained man ful and had a big garden. was not suffering from the effects of tempting to follow the course of for one belonging to a Chinese
They are." I replied. the train from Hankow dis-offlcer. Sir Hughe Knatchbull- Then you win,'' he exclaimed alcohol but had been drugged.
"Ye're right, sor," said the police covered that was passing Hugessen will shortly go home mournfully. I've had them wit-
mun, greatly disturbed. "Shure, I drugged him all the way to the which area
was to complete his convalescence. nesses twice myself."
AT this moment am thinking through an
negro from Maryland was station."
of my dear mother whom I left known to be under attack. They Some equally unfortunate ac-
In Bilbao, and I know nothing of her. were aware of the Japanese cident might have befallen Mr. brought before a Justice of the Peace
on auspicion of theft.
And, no well, I remember my dead undertaking that Mr. Howe's Howe and his party yesterday. "You've stolen no chicken?" asked
This is part of the evidence in a father, and what he told me when he Itrain would not be molested, but
Restraint, it is agreed, is very the J.F. "No, suh." "Have you dog ease heard in a Scottish Court. A was alive," which was this: "If they they were also aware of the
defendant, M'Lure, camo
up and element of the chance involved necessary on the part of British stolen ny gcear?" "No, sah." "Tur- rural witness, after relating how the kill me, avenge inc.
The man wan discharged. As he struck him, proceeded: in bombing any target from the people at this time. Certain of keya?" "No, anh."
Ills Majesty's subjects must run reached the Court-room door he turn- "So, yer Hannur, Julst up and cd to the J., and said with a broad gles him a wipe. Juist then his dog course, as everyone does now at war. That is realised. When grin Fo' de Lawd, squire, if you'd came along on I hit him again."
Hit the dog? that bombs were actually drop-it is stated that British people said ducks you'd n had me.”
No. yer Honour. Ht M'Lure. Ant ped ahead of the train. It replace some value on the lives of
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then I oopa win stane and thrawed It at him and it rolled him over on quires no great flight of fancy their ambassadora, indeed on the
And let us finish this history, as to imagine what might have lives of every single subject, no A brilliant English Judge was over."
"Threw a stone al M'Lure?" you might call it, thinking of our happened had the tracks been reasonable person can fall to greatly feared by young counsel for
"At the dog, yer Honour. An' he happiness in England and thinking damaged by a bomb,, and the understand the feeling of mis- their efforts in Court. A youthful got un an' hit me again."
too of those who lost their lives de- "The dog?"
fending their homeland and their train which travelled under the!
for the first time! "No. M'Lure. An' wl' that he stuck | Ideal, and of those who are fighting shelter of the Union Jack. sped giving which such incidents as barrister who once found himself ad-
yesterday's create and foster in dressing a jury
quailed before those glinting eyes and his fall down atween bis lega an' went | nt tits moment. blindly into disaster.
the British mind.
became painfully nervous,
off."
"MLure?" Japanese would unquestion- It is the earnest prayer of all
"Gentlemen of the jury," he
"No. the dox. An' when he came ably be indignant were the sug that unpleasantness and mis- stammered and stopped. "Gentle-
"The dog came back and pounded gestion made that the airman understanding may be avoided men of the Jury, my very unfortunatej back lie hounded me yer Honour."
Great Britain and Gentlemen of the jury, my client you!" responsible for bombing, or at-between
"No, M'Lure, ver Honour. An' he bul tempting to bomb, the tracks Japan. Perhaps plain words has been most unfortunate,” isna hurt a bit." over which this particular train from the right quarter will do could go no further.
on, Mr" encouraged hin "Who fen't huri?" had to pass yesterday, were in much to preclude such
"The dog, yer Honour." Un Lordship. The Court is with you so dulging in bravado. They would fortunate possibilities.
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Those were his words, and his words shall be done. "Til 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- big the greatest thanks to the Ald Committee, and to those who do so much for us.
And let us end giving a Viva, but o very great one, that Its echo may be heard through the world, and that Viva is
"VIVA EL SOCTALISMO "
-TO-day's Though!
WHEN war begins, the devil
nakes Heit bigger.
---JOHN BAY.