Tuesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
March 26, 1940.
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War comes to the East Coast
THE war comes to England. Here you are
within reach of the war, and you know,
it, Not many miles away, neruss those waters of the Humber, shining in the morning sun, the men of this city are being machine-gunned by the Nazi raiders, innocent fishermen who have one complaint only there is not enough fishing
The shermen here are reputed to be "some of the toughest men in the world"—and no wonder, for the Hull trawler-inen fishing on the "West Side" or up around Bear stond must develop strength and courage that no Nazi raider can undermine.
Soine at this toughness cominunicates itself to the city. "We've got to beat the hell out of Hitler" is the sort of remark you hear in conservation. The mind of full is much more fixed on the war than
, say, the mind of London.
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Why, I attended- a luncheon of 50 or 60 business inen, and what do you think was the subject chosen by the speaker? Short Waves, particularly as applied to war-and Fishing."
You cannot get away from fishing. No surprises there, for In the old days-yes, we speak here of the "old days," meaning the days before the war-about 80.000 of Hull's people relied on fishing for their livelihood.
Of course, the Admiralty have taken aver most of the trawlers for minesweeping und all that, but, as Alderman Frederick T told me, that creates a new problem. For, although the trawler-men themtrives find employment in the minesweepers, the uncillary trades have been badly hit by the censation of actual faising.
The Hull Beet has dwindled venuse its up-to-date vessels, largest and Best In the country, best suited the purposes of the Admiralty. So Hull bears some of the brunt of the economic war by the loss of ils fishing industry.
THEY LAST MET
NOW
IN CHINA
TOW you have only to be in this elty five minutes to know that the Royal Navy is here in strength says Harry, the cocktail shaker at the big hotel: "Do you know that I sell three times #5 much Plymouth gin now as 1 di before. the war?" Pink gin of course, is the turval officer's favourite drink.
The hotel lounge is ful of offleurs. Chub- by Lieut. Commanders. serious-looking Captains, and silm, gay, young Lieutenants. "Hallo," says one to another in the bar. "I haven't seen you since China. Have a drink."
The pink gins are släcked up," and "they" resume the conversation almost as if they
Yet it was China. had met yesterday,
"Staying long?" And the reply is, "No. Very much like ships I'm off to-morrow." That pass. But all these men in their blue uniforms, some of them coming into the hotel with their rubber boots still on, re- mind you that the war is here, just outside where the lumber meets the sea.
Then In the street you find
find convertal trawlers almost getting mixed up with the buses, where the wharves meet the high- ways. Grey-painted, grim, they appear as standing reminder that the war is on. They remind you that from here the crews of the little ships go out and sometimes Belleve me, there are never return. anxious hearts among the folk living on the edge of the Humber.
To the ordinary and expected perils of the seas are odded the dangers of the mine and the machine-guns from the skies. No woman ever knows when her husband's ship is due in from Antwerp or Rotterdain. She can ring up the offices, but all she learn is that the ship is delayed. can
A voyage in which a wife might expect her husband home in t week may now take three, so you can understand that what must be an Admiralty secret is often an anxiety for the women of Hull.
here of Yet sa conscious are the people the war that there are, so I am told, very few complaints. "We know we are on the official to me at the spot." sald Guildhall, where I was discussing the trade ihat situation. Everybody understands Hull, with its vast dock and its approach- ability by air from Germany. is in the direct line of fire when I comes. Yet not one in a hundred carries a gas mask!
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FIVE AIR RAID
WARNINGS
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No. 1
HULL
WAWIRTH,
Dort sind
which
means.
HE Nazi Heinkel diver from the clouds and rakes the decks of trawler and. merchant ship with a hall of machine-gon Ballets,
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What about then in the lieln- Bel? Arlist Haworth shows you two of them-two men in glasshouse--pilot and forward unner. Look at their equip- inent. Derth-dealer No. 1 is tho machine-gun (A). Just a stan- dard German pattern; it fres 400 bullets a minute. And that
casily gun can be swung down, left, right. almost any- where on its universal Joint mounting (B).
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FEW quick and in- teresting details are:
(C) the magazine: (D) the map; (E) the gunner's cushion; (F) the little glass "outhouse" in which the bomb-sighting appa- The mon -Patus--(G)__is_fixod. T
is the man Kun you see with the drops
bombs too. who
the Now the big glasshouse itself. The whole of the nose of the Heinkel is
is covered in "Plexiglas"
(F) three sixteenths of an inch thick. Let's prep through the windows. Notice at the top the pilot's Instrument panel (3)— Ike the dashboard of à car fixed to the roof.
AND
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there
Word
ND here's an interest- that feature. ing rubber-covered control column (K). The novel thing about it is that it can be swung 'to one It side for a change of pilot.
you see that pilot wounded or killed in his sent, up the gunner could scramble and take over the controls while actual standing at his side. The speed controls are at (L), while (M) is the armoured seat de- the to give the pilot signed maximum possible protection.
now on the A quick glance outside of the Heinkel. See that number there beside the key letter (N)? That is put there as a guide to aerodrome mech- mics. It shows them that the petrol to be used for this parti- cular plane must have an 07 octane content. The design at (0) Is the badge of the squa- dron to which the Heinkel be- longs.
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EMRYS JONES' DESPATCHES FROM BRITAIN'S WAR ZONE
"THERE THEY ARE
The port is Hull and Hull is the port, but the others serving the nation are not forgotten. To one fund the citizens have contributed £5,000 in cash for comforts, NOTHER thing, of the 33,000 and many thousands of articles for the Apeople evacuated from the city, use of the troops, Including such old things about 30 per ccat, have returned. Some as planos, suites of furniture, and even
a cage of budgerigars, were sent for safety to Scarborough.
"Why, look what happened to Scar- As you travel up through the flat farm- borough in the last war," said a friendly lands of East Anglia, you feel that you acquaintance. "Anyway, I'd rather be in are approaching the war zone of England. Hull. It's a fine elty-even in the black- Understandably, the recent in Hull is an out." And I tell you this city is blacked the seas, and thoughts are focussed on the trawler-men and merchant sailors
out.
The people here have experienced live whose port this is. Hull to help them, air raid warnings to date, though the Nazis dull to save them from the Nazi airmen and have not come inland now for some time. who think it fun to swoop down The business men can't forget that we pepper their decks with bullets. are at war. Nearly every afternoon their
telephone calls to London are greatly de-
The people here are interested in the layed, for the Admiralty must know all winning of the war that is nearer to them that's going on around the coast, and so than it in to us who live in London or our
great inland cities. the 'phones are busy.
Nearer because of the battered ships, Indeed, I can't imagine how anybody here can Ignore it, when, almost daily, the zoom of 'planes, the reports of the merchantmen are to be seen coming up machine-gun firing not far away, and the Humber with a significant tarpaulin because sallormen of Hull have died under hiding the gun they have been given as the Nazl terror. a defence against the Nazis,
No, the war is nei a "bore" here."
BOOK REVIEW
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A short series in which he will tell of those people who live beside the North Sca and to whom bombs, mines, and machine-guns are a daily peril.
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los darauf!
LET THEM HAVE IT !”
Englishwomen
are Hopeless!
-says Chinese woman
By Monica Dickens
WE poor British women! What do we know about marriage and happiness?"
A Chinese woman, Kuo Chin Chiu, has looked at us, and what she has seen she has written in a book, "Peach Path" (Methuen; 8s.); which shows that the Eastern World knows more than the Western World about this business of being a
ivoman,
QUIZKRIEG
What do YOU know about the War?
After more than six months of historic events, how much do you remember of the history which YOU are helping to make ?
Since Hitler's "Blitzkrieg" is silli postponed, try your memory en "Quizkrieg" a series of questions about wartime events.
1. Did Gemarny invade Poland on, before or after
August 317
2. Was generat conscription introduced a day,
or a month before war started?
3. Was it for a two, three or four years' war that Government Departments were instructed to plan?
4. Which was the quicker to declare war on Ger-
many-Coxada or South Africa?
5. If you can, name the French Minister of War or the French Minister of Foreign Affairs in Daladier's late Cabinet.
G. What type of warship was the Courageous?
7. Who was the famous Prime Minister assassin-
ated by Fascists on September 21, 19397
8. Which was the largest ship sunk by Germany up
yesterday?
9. Who was the once Commander-in-Chief of the German Army who lost his life in the Polish campaign?
10. By how much was the yearly rate of Income Tax increased by Sir John Simon in his first war Budget?
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For answers see Below.
QUIZKRIEG
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Here is how she sumps us up. "Mrs. Robinson says over a good stiff whisky-and-soda-nt-the-club:
11 perfectly My dear, I gave up marvellous career to get married, and look what's happened. I can't possibly go back to my musle now. That's what marriage docs for
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into "Miss Smith, getting thirties, calls every man darling.' and can gulp enough sherry every of sense evening to drown her hopelessness till next morning. *Men,' she sniffs... 'there are so few
while. worth
My people brought me up with the sole Idea of getting married, but where are the men?
"Mrs. Stave lives in the suburbs with two children and a fat, com- placent husband. Hear her whine as she flings her withered hands In the washlub: I never get a chance to go to the pictures
She gets thinner and thinner and goes on whining and slaving, never doing anything she wants, because she is too mentally lazy even to suggest it.
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Poor Chinese women! I
I, Monica glad I am British. Dickens, havo looked at the pic- ture of Chinese marriage that Kuo Chin Chiu gives in her book, and what I gen is this:
"Jade Pure and a young man called Good Renown have been Jade friends for several years. Pure has her ideals of the man she wants to marry.
"She weighs Mr. Good up care- fully. Mr. Good wants as a wife a woman who is educated enough to understand him... he does not want a wife who outshines him. He wants a woman who will de corate his home.
"They discuss ways and means ... they study the rules and make sure they will like the game,”
If this is the Chinese recipe for married happiness, I prefer the European brand.
In the Western World we add an ingredient which the Orientals seem to have overlooked. FALL IN LOVE,
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