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The
Hongkong Telegraph.
"You know
it's only the
milkman.."
by WILLI FRISCHAUER
the distinguished Viennese journalist now a refugee in England.
"P
OLICE Curs roared through the streets, we heard the shrilling of pollee whistles, andl. when we looked down from our windows, we realised that our street had been occupied by Black Guards and police..."
A Jew from Vienna, one of the few able to leave Germany after the recent pogrom, was giving me his own story of his escape.
"We watched S.A. men taking away Jews from the houses, and, behind the curtains, we saw the weary faces of tired wonten look- Ing at their husbands for the Inst time as they were bundled Into
Wyndham St., Hongkongue cars.
'Phone 26615 February 22, 1939
This Is Not War
No
"It was seven o'clock in the evening, and after the bustle of the arrests had dled down we heard nothing but an occasional cry from a child. It was the only sound to break the ominous still- ness, but for the marching of heavy boots which ebbed rhyth- mlenlly to and fro.
MORE insensate example of the utter irresponsibility of
We sat down round the table could have Japan's militarists been provided than by the hurrin the big roomt. father, mather We could do fying mass murder of civilians and I. We waited. In British and Chinese territory nothing else.
"Suddenly the doorbell rang. on the longkong frontier ester-
We tried to pull ourselves together, day morning.
But it was to get ready for... only Anny, the girl from Number 42. She came to tell us that they had taken her brother away. She We sat down and wept quietly. were so afraid that we could not even try to comfort her.
It is hard to imagine that even Japan's spokesmen, notorious as they are for the ense with
excuses which they make
foreign lives attacks
find exelise property, can yesterday's violations.
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for and for
The airmen whe visited the Hongkong frontier demonstrated for forty-five minutes the differ- ence between mass murder and civilised warfare.
What possible excuse can there be?
Firstly, the Hongkong-Kwang- tung border is not demarcated by an imaginary line. It is clear and unmistakable, a wide strip of water that glimmera shimmering- ly to visiting airmen..
"Night fell, and we sat still. scarcely exchanging a word. We had heard many rumours during the day. "Ali mule Jews would be arrested, they said, Father tried to make a cheerful face and even to crack a joke. But somehow our terror gave sinister meanings to his poor brave little jokes.
"The night passed, and we were sti sitting round the table when dawn came. We did not dare to go to bed or even take of our clothes. We were tired out, almost hysterl-
Secondly, no trains run on the Chinese section of the Kowloon- Canton Railway, and this fact is definitely known to the Japanese. How much longer could we
hope to remain free? military authorities.
Thirdly, the military post and railway station at Lowu were clearly marked by British flaga.! It would have been impossible for airmen bumbing at low altitudes, as the Japanese bombed yester- day, not to see these flags,
These are incidents that coa- cern Great Britain, which already la protesting in unmistakable terms to Tokyo,
a
But there is another incident, more appalling incident, that eivilised concerns the entire world.
There was a rumbling on the stairs outside. We looked at each other. Was it now?
It was only the man from the upper floor going out to work early. Sunlight came through the window on to the floor now.
"Then the doorbell rang-I shall never forget the sound. I looked up at the clock. It was seven. A second time the doorbell rang be- fore we realised that our hour had The impatient shriek of struck. the bell sounded threatening.
Slowly I got to my feet, but the few steps to the door seemed miles. I could hardly drag myself there. Before I got to the door the bell
Shum Chun was not a'military objective. It has not been a military objective since the Japan-rang for a third time...."
ene troops raided the border last December. The Japanese authori- ties are fully aware of the fact that no Chinese troops have been stationed at Shum Chun since the beginning of the 'year-that thu Chinese cily is no repository for war materials and that oven the anti-aircraft defences have been removed.
The Japanese authorities knew, too, that Shum Chun had been turned into a refugee zone by a refugee committee headed by the Bishop of Hongkong. They know that many refugees who sought sanctuary in Hongkong had re- turned to Shum Chun with the Assurance from the Hongkong authorities, who received it from the Japanese military comman- ders, that 48 hours notice could be given before the border area would again bo molested.
My friend, sitting opposite me in our comfortable lampstead Gut. trembled, as he told me his story. His tale brought back to him the iworrors of the night, the danger from which he had only just ca- eaped.
He sighed. Looking around he seemed only now to realise again that he was Date:
"It only British people know how lucky they are," ho said, "when their bell rings at seven in the morn- ing they know it is only the milkman.”
Then he continued with the account for his arrest. It was, how- ever, no different from the pro- ceduro which the police apply to And in the coll Into
The Japanese cannot possibly And adequate excuses for the wholesale slaughter of mon, women and children that occurred criminals. In Shum Chun yesterday. They which he and fourteen other Jews were pressed there were really three housebreakers.
cannot possibly explain away the machine-gunning that claimed so many Innocent lives.
It was deliberate and barbaric massacre.
They provided, he said, quite a chango in atmosphere.
My friend was lucky to have a British visa in his passport and his
tragedies "The world cannot realise the constant which tear the hearts of those Jews who survive."
twelve different tax receipts i perfect order. When the prison became intolerably overcrowded prisoners were called up and asked, which of them could guarantee to get out of the country at once.
to
My friend raised his hand, and with three others who were in the same lucky position he was taken special room, where their papers were examined.
All four of them had been in Now they Vienna all their lives. must leave the city for ever.
Where are you going?" they asked each other.
French Conga." London
"Dutch West Indies..." "Shanghal...
"Join the Jews and see the world," my friend said to me cynically,
But the world is not such a pleasant place to look at just now, and the Jews' troubles start again as soon as they cross the German frontier.
The other day I met a famous Jewish doctor who was happy ta_ escape to Britain. Patiently he had been waiting for permission to take up bis studles again and quality to practise here.
I knew him in Vienna come years ago. Patients Rocked to his house from far and near. He had gained Inme for his research work in a special field of medicine. He had taught foreign doctors how to apply his own particular treatment which had cured hundreds who had formerly been held incurable. flere in London he goes to school
again.
He joins young English students in the lecture theatre, he work side by side with them in laboratories and hospitals under doctors who, a year ago, would have been honoured to be allowed to watch him at his work in Vienna.
A man of nearly sixty, he has adapted himself quickly to his new
But when he comes home in the evenings his age begins to tell. Would he be able to carry on for two years until he is allowed to practise again Would It then not be too Into...7
And still he was regarded as one of the lucky ones, who could look forward to a now life.
What about another. friend of mine, who succeeded in getting a little money out of Germany? Hero ho is
is with enough to live for an- other aix months. What is he going to do?
He carried on an estate agent's business in Germany. He can justly regard himself as ono of the real grontest exports in Berlin estate. He knows every abre of the city. But, what now?
I watched him at lungh in a little restaurant the other day. With every bite he took ha glanced unxi- Qualy at the monu. Every bit means another bite out of his small for
time. Soon there would be money left and nothing to eat,
"They have given permission for our boy to come to England," saki a letter which I have received from
In Hamburg: il young couple "Please took after him when he gets there and visit him in the home to which they will take him. This letter really is not written with ink. Into every word goes a tear of sorrow for the child whom we must lose in order to save him. We shall probably never see him again...."
Ten thousand of theso poor Jew- ish children will be brought to Great Britain and thus be spared
are which the horrors parents' fate.
their
I have a little baby myself, who is the only bright spot in a life of the many difficul- To ties of an axile. think that I should, here and now, say goodbye to the little rascal, never hear her happy laughter again, nover dry the tears on her rosy face-and regard myself lucky because it is the botter alternativo-it is too much for words...
The world looks up when win- dows are smashed and synagogues burned down. It cannot realise the constant tragedies which tear the heart of those Jews who sur- vive.
In my own family there have been, three violent deaths since Hitler marched into Austria in March of this year. And there are still members of my family who regard the dend ones as lucky.
Poles Arrest
German Girls
Berlin, Feb. 21.
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Yesterday Was
Shrove Tuesday
ET us all give thanks for the good old customs and especially for one of the jolliest of them, which ordains that we ent our fill of pancakes on shrove Tuesday.
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And whether we spice the doughy dnintles with juice of lemon or of grape, or swallow them favourless as ascetics do, let us pause for a moment in our feasting to remind ourselves. that in more pious days they were consumed for the benefit of the soul, rather than for the palate's delight.
When priests were inore powerful than pritiers, and the people flocked to them for "shriving," or absolu- tion, on the day before Lent began, housewives found themselves in nice Bttle letetic quandary. All Herdt food was forbiditien during Lent -what, then, was to be done, with that bowl of delicious fat which yet reuined in the larder on Shrove Tuesday?
Naturally, no thrifty dame, were she never so devout, could bear to see such goodness wasted-but she dared not have it still in the house
We by Ash Wednesday's dawning. can imagine the moment of ponder-
ng-the
plump hands on hips, und head side-bent.
Tappily the fat suggested the fry- ing-an, and the frying pan pininly tinted at cakes; and thus to a reli- gious law's demand and the medine- val mothers careful way of house- keeping do we owe the lonely cele- bration of Pancake Day.
IN the course of the centuries there has been, it would seem, no basic change in the method of making pan- cakes. John Taylor, the waterman- poet, tells us in his quaintly seomful fashion that in his me he lived from 1880 tht 1053"wheaten four was used, which the cooles do mingle with water, caps, splee, and other raglent, magical enchantments, and then they put it by little and little into a frying pan of boiling suct, where it makes a confused, dismal issing, until at last, by the skill of the cook, it is transformed into the form of a flip-jack."
The lazy ones among us must, I think, very much regret the lapsing of an old-time rule that the last member of the household to be seat- ed at the breakfast-table should be the first to receive a panenke. How- ever, this was a burbed courtesy, for the intent was to put to shame the "le-a-bed," who, if too sensitive of the rebuke, would fling the cake to the dog. It the dog refused it, then the late-comer was branderi
lolla indeed.
t
as 1
on
But I suppose few people nowadays have pancakes for breakfast Shrove Tuesday: the stomach wel- comes them far more gally at the huncheon-hour, when the time of the ringing of the Pancake Bell is past. You have heard, perchance, of how this bell-in far-off days called the Shriving Bell-proclaimed from a thousand church towers the time for the frying-pans to begin their sizzling? Izi London-where many traditions have outlasted cus- tom-the bell is no longer rung, though the sound of it echoed down many century,
SU
ND was not this one of London's A famous "eries?
On Tuesday Shirive there sounds.
#bell.
To passers-by it plainly rings to:
tell: Prepare to eat your pancake!
In some country parishes in Eng- tand the bell rong again yesterday, and maybe village children seram- bled, screaming, for puncakes tossed. down to them from a clamorous bel- fry, as their great-grandfathers did: when they were young.
The
classic
scramble, of course, is that which-as inevitably as the com- ing of Pancake Duy itself-took place at Westiniuster School yesterday.
hurled the Once more the cook pancake—a particularly tough one, made specially for the occasion-over the bar that is set up in "big school,' and the boys taking port in the "greeze" hurled themselves upon it. He who captured the cake, or the largest part of it, as usual, enrried of a guinea also. It is said that the frying pan used at this most historic scramble is 500 years old.
Once, during his reign, King George the Fifth honoured the event with his presence and laughed loudly as any at the fun of 11.
E present King, too, has shown THE
Jala Interest in Pancuke Day eus- loma. A few years ago he kicked off in the two-days-long "game" of foot- ball that is part of the Shrovetido celebrations at Ashbourne, in Derby- shire as it is nt various places in Warwickshire, Durham, and thuraberland.
& Oristinally, the purpose of
Nor-
this
football was to provide nn opportunity for the populace to "lot
The wholesale arrests of girls of of steam" before assuming the gra Germun origin between the ages of vity of Lent. Previously cock-nghi- 15 and 10 by the Polish authorities ing was the safely-valve, is going on in the Polish Corridor, necording to a German news agency. After quesUening some are freed, but others are reported to be slili in prision.
Alicante Bombed
Madrid, Feb. 21.
At least seven were killed and 12 It is announced in Polish offeinl circles that the arrested girls were wounded, while 18 houses were de- former members of a hiking, club stroyed to-day, when five Savolas which was discovered being used as planes dropped thirty 160-kilo bombs. secret organisation for political as well as a large number of in- purposes, which is the reason for the cendiary bombe on the contre
Alicante to-day.—United Press. arrosts-Reuter Special,
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