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many
effects
fashions and customs.
on
in
So far, women have not adopted. military motifs dress as much as might have been expected—that is, apari from those who have gone into the uniforms of the various feminine auxiliaries, But one effect of the wor
on that highly conservative creature, Beards man, is noteworthy.
are coming back.
The censor, it is hoped, will not go faint if we announce that occasionally naval officers have been seen in the Gripps, with beards that have added to the handsomeness of men who are always outstanding for their smartness,
Shaving must be more than ...ever a nuisance at sea m these
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OLD BILL has returned to
the B.E.F.
Now that it is so cold on the Western Front, the Balaclava helmet has come into fashion.
some nameless enthusiast in 1518. I was presented with this shell-case by a sergeant and I am bringing it home as a curio,
ONLY a few hours ago there was a raid warning at the Boot where I have been writing these lines. rose from my chair and
scene of infinite enim,
The civilians were quietly going
In every passing lorry-load of looked out of the window at a men, you will see a good percentage with their heads encased in these woollen coverings, and a steel helmet worn-above them.
This effect takes one back to the last war very vividly, and, if you know where to look for him, Old Bill can be found quite easily. I was with my old regiment yester day in their front-line trenches and saw several men of the Old Bill species,
By this I mean men who though they may only look a little like Old Bill now, will in course of time get more and more so, and will in the end evolve the same frame of mind.
I say this, for Old Bill himself is but a portrait of a state of mind, and its nature is directly relative to surrounding conditions,
among the most elderly males. its the roughest pull in
Even the village centenarian was driven to face the perils of using a safely
Hongkong Telegraph. history.
Saturday, March 9, 1940. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20615
days-if a mine went off, one might receive a nasty cut!-- and that may explain the re- turn of "face-fungus."
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Evidently not a few civilians, men still in their twenties, have been spurred to eniulation. A widespread re- vival in beards therefore would not be surprising. Much may depend on the attitude that wives and sweethearts adopt to this threatened change.
The word "Beaver!" was probably the most effective slogan ever invented.
It gave the beard, even
Voice Hitler can't stop
A
By JACK LAWSON, M.P:
Tlast we have the long- of the desired story secret German radio station, told in a six- by those penny pamphlet directly concerned.
Where is this "Ireedom station"? Millions in many lands have asked that question.
From time to time we were told It was in Germany. Switzerland, Spain.
Russia. Sudetenland. Austria, Luxembourg. Honolulu.
Iceland.
One day the Gestapo stoji all cars on the road to Berlin to find it. Later all furniture vans in Wurtemburg are held up. Then the police raid bärges on the Rhine. In vain.
But it is in Germany all right. "Helio. Hallo Anti-Fascist Station calling. Wave length 29.8." They are jainmed. Lurn up on 31 metres. then another. but always switch back to 29.8. Mi- lions of German workers and peasants listen in
In spite of Hitler, In spite of the Ocstopo, we continue our broadcast."
Somewhere a few brave men are pit- Ling themselves against Hitler, Goeb bal and their Nazi erew. The Gestapo uts them, in towns and lonely cot- tages, on mountain tops and in boat houses.
O
NE broadcaster pays with his life for his daring. but another takes his place.
"Hallo, Hallo! Organise striker, Fight filler and his helpers. Spread the truth about his abominabla deeds. Make no distinotion in race or rellylon. Help the wonten wolkoss husbands are in concentration camps. The chidren whore parents have been assassinated by tier need your help and sympathy.
"Hifler hac czling the flower of German culture, Imprisoned the tower of the German working clase, enslaved the flower of the German prasrats, and new leads us all to death Perce in the German people. death to the litter regime." Bo run some of the Freedom Station
Ten Commandments. Read what Freedom means to those who have lost it. You will vow to yourself that this Freedom we possess in Britain is beyond price.
Men and women of every land send messages which are broadenst by the Freedom Station, we are told.
These messages are set out in this book. They were put into leaflet form and sent on adventurous journeys. A message from British miners was hid- den from the Gestapo. Where? In the pages of "Mein Kampf: then taken our and read by feeble lamp-light in deep mines, while senuineld watch for Intruders, as in the days when Chris- tians met in the Catacombs of Rome.
W!
HAT book! Bixty-odd pages of thrills!
Who are these people who broadcast and pass on the messages so that millions get them? No one knows. That la To be named means death. the only honour awarded.
.
One must be prepared to leave father, mother, wife, children and friends for that falli. Men are nothing: Petty Jealousies. falth everything. vanities, contentions, are burned up like dress in persecution. One thing alono satiaDesreedom lives.
The story of those silent, unknown ontes is gripping mankind and will grow in splendour with time,
A
LL tho Res, trickery and scheming to use the products of man's mind for destruction are being brought to nothing by these few unknown ones. This along, we know of them: They include men from the extreme Left to the extreme Right: and they sub- ordinate everything to Freedom. No Society is worthy of existence apart from that. Hitler cannot kill that For ho cannot alience, the voloo of the Freedom Blation.
*Freedom Catllnig: The Story of the Beoret German Radio (Frederick Bruller Ltd, London. Odj
razor.
Only men of the strongest character, with jaws of toughest steel, dared to defy the general ridicule to which beards were subjected.
In fact given sufficient mud, water, tedious hardships, and a long war, these are innumer.
able types here who would develop' Into herd of Okl Blis.
Mechanisation bas somewhat changed the outward appearance of the infantry, but not the human nuture of the old soldier.
In the course of my wanderings during the last few days, I gleaned some curious facts,
Unused shells left over from the Inst war, it seems, are stili bring found, either
buried,
Of lying around in obscure places, They have
to be handled carefully; several have exploded.
This leads to the following com- pletely possible situation. A man might have gone all through the Jast war without scrutch, then come out to this one and be blown up by a shell that hus lain dormant for twenty years.
Just the sort of thing that would
happen to Old Bill. And
Now, at long last, a reaction seems to have set in. mainly, it appears, because the Navy is too busy winning, the war to have time to shave.
Assuredly no mere civilian will dare to shout "Beaver!" this time!
One old brass shell-case has. just been found by some engineers working at the village of" (een- sored).
On 1, engraved in the brass, was a picture of Old Bill.
A head and shoulders of the gentleman that I had drawn be- fore the last war ended has been copied on to the shell-case by
about their business, and a few oldfers passed by with scarcely i bored glance at the sky. The warning was repeated but with no more exelting results.
I confess that I gained a little myself from this exhibition of been working is the answer to the calm. for the room in which I have bomber's prayer.
It is a small cube directly under the roof of a prominent, thin building, and n bomb could go through it as easily as a steam hammer through a custard ple.
It also happens to be one of the coldest rooms I've ever been in, and I should like to be worm if I am going to be bombed.
TT must be apparent to even the.
most casual observer of this war that it is strangely and closely entwined with farming,
This is not very curlous, really, for the French, inured us they are to periodic warfare played out on the home ground, never seem to relax their peace-time secuna- tions in order to make room for a war.
am sure they would plough and sow up and down No Man's Land if it were possible to do so, and, as it is, certain quiet rectors provide a peculiar spectacle.
You can easily see a battery of ferocious-looking
Buns
pointing
an
out through their camouflage anti-Nazi direction, whilst only o few yards away a bland and un- concerned gentleman with a shovel is loading a monster wagon with beets.
A team of horses harnessed to a farm cart can be seen standing placidly beside tank.
A pill-box, bristling with machine-guns, is just discern- Ible through the local washing hanging on a fine.
This fenture of warfare was also visible
In the inst war, I well re- member a farm that continued its peaceful operations well within the range of enemy shells.
Now and then a shell would ex- plode in a nearby field, or even hit the farm bulidings, but French farmers war zones are not dis- turbed by little things like that.
THE IMPORTANCE OF SYLT
For bylt before this war
EW-people had ever heard→
began. Indeed, its military importance has only existed since Hitler ordered it to be fortified and converted into a base for mine-sweepers, patrol vessels and aircraft in 1934. ·
It is the largest German-owned island outside the Baltic, the total are being 30 square miles.
To large extent thus taken the place of Heligoland, nearly 40 miles away, as the main island target in the North Sei close to the' German const.
It has also supplanted the former German air base at Tondern, on the mainland of North Schleswig. not far away, which in the last war was the target for intensive allack by the Royal Naval Air Service.
As a result of the plebiselte held alter
the conclu-ton of peace. Tondern became Danish territory, and is now known as Toender.
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In shape the Island of Syit is long and narrow, running roughly north and south for over 20 miles, the maximum breadth being eight miles. It forms one of the chain of Istands known በ the North Frisians, to distinguish them from. the East and West Frisian Islands, lylog off the German and Dutch Coasts further to the south, All the islands to the north of Sylt now belang to Denmark.
A sheltered harbour has been formed at List, on the eastern shore of the island, towards its northern extremity, Intensive dredging has so deepened this port that it can new be used by ahips of a tonnage up to about 15,000.
North
Immediately
after the out- break of the present War the civil
civil popu- lation of the Island, num- abou! bering 0.000 in ali, 0,00 was evacuated, leaving t principal town on the island, Westerland, on the west const, almost desert-
GERMANY
WESTER LAND
บท
Milas
ROMOE
Lighthouse KONIGSHAVEN
Kamput Beighthouse
Munkmarsch 2AERODROME
Keliam
HINDENBURG
DAM
Lighthouse
ed. In pence time it is quite a - popular watering place. The nero- drome lies between it and the eastern shore.
WAS
Although Germany was at that Ume represented as being almost without financial resources, during the year from 1923 to 1927 a sum of twenty million marks found by the Rolehsbahn (State fallways) for constructing a mes- nive causeway, known as the Hin- denburg Dam, to connect Syit with the mainland.
Seven miles in length, it is tra- versed by a double line of rallway and a motor road, the Interruption of which would obviously cause in- convenience to the garrison, accus- tomed to rely on supplies of food, stores and ammunition reaching" them
regularly by this route.
Presumably it is with this object that bombs have been dropped upon the Hindenburg Dam, since it would be impossible to do any permanent damage by bombing to the dam itself, bullt to withsland the heaviest onslaughts of North Sea galer,
Near the centre of the island is the nerodrome whose existence has caused Sylt to be selected as a
In the first week of the war, on target for British air attocks. It includes at least two underground September 0 Inst, an air engage hangars of considerable size, one ment was reported by the Danes to for seaplanes and the other for have been in progress over Sylt, aeroplanes. For its defence several two aircraft of unknown nationality batteries of 4.1-inch, 3.5-incli and being brought down in the sea in smaller anti-aircraft guns have
the vicinity of the island. It: in been erectedt. For the" protection questionable whether any attack of the garrison there are bomb- was then made on Sylt, self, the proof shelters and other protective - combat being a mere Incident In
'an operation of wider, scope. ‚arrangements.
FOAR
Ballum
ENMARK GERMANY
Though the strong defences of Sylt may make it impervious to any lasting damage from any bombs, the British attacks are bound to have a considerable nuisance value in hindering enemy aircraft from landing or taking off and in keep- ing the garrison for ever on the alert,
It should also be poulble to in- Jure the slipways along which mine-laying aircraft travel when entering and leaving the hangars, well as to bomb dying-boats, minc-sweepers and other crafi lying in the harbour of List.
ns
The possibility of subotage is not to be ruled out; while there always the chance of trainload of explosive passing over the Dam having been detonated by some nccidental means. Since the war there have been several serious collisions on the German rallway system, the eficiency of which La undoubtedly low.
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Since 1037 the Island of Bylt has been a closed milltary zone. No foreigners have been allowed to vinit it. Precise information about lis actual armaments and the extent of Its equipment as a naval and oir base is Impossible to obtain. But Danish and other neutral reports and the attention being paid to the. laland by the R.A.F. are evidence enough of its importance,
This is not the last we shall hear of Sylt.
Francis McMustrio