Tuesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
March 26, 1940.
MAGAZINE PAGE
War comes
the East
to Coast
THE
THE war comes to England. Here you are within reach of the war, and you know J. Not many miles away, across those waters of the Humber, shining in the morning sun, the men of this city are being machine-gunned by the Nazi rulders, 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-men fishing; on the "West Side" or up around Bear Island must develop strength and courage that no Nozi ralder can undermine.
Some of this toughness communientes Itself to the city. "We've got to beat the hell out of Hitler" Is the sort of renurk you hear in conservation. The mind of Hull is much more fixed on the war than In, say, the mind of London.
Why. I attended a luncheon of 50 or 60 business men, and what do you think was the subject chosen. by the speaker? "Short Waves, particularly n applied to war-and Fishing,"
No surprises You cannot get away from fishing. there, for in the old days-yts, we speak here of the "old days," menning the days before the war-about 60,000 of Hull's people relied on fishing for their livelihood.
Of course, the Admiralty have taken over most of the trawlers for minesweeping and all that, but, as Alderman Frederick Tili toki me, that creates a new problem. For, although the trawler-men themselves find employment in the binesweepers, the Ancillary trades have been badly hit by the cessation of hetual ship
The Hull fleet has dwindled because its up-to-date vessels, largest and Onest in the country, best suited the purposes of the Admiralty. So Bull cure some of the brunt of the economie war by the loss of its sting industry,
THEY LAST MET IN CHINA
NOW
you have only to be in this city five minutes to know that the Royal Navy is here in strength says Harry, the corktail shaker at the big hotel: "Do you know that I sell three times as much Plymouth gin now as I did before the war?" Pink gin of course, is the navul officer's favourite drink.
The hotel lounge is full of officers. Chub- by Lieut. Commanders, serious looking Captains, and slim, 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 stacked up, and they resume the conversation almost as if they
Yet it was China, had met yesterday.
"Staying long?" And the reply is, "No. I'm off to-morrow." Very much like ships in their blue that pass. But all these men uniforms, some of them coming into the hotel with their rubber boots stili on, re- mind you that the war is here, just outside where the Humber meets the sea.
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Then in the street you find converted trawlers almost getting mixed up with the buses, where the wharves meet the high- Grey-painted, grim, they appeur as ways.
standing reminder that the war is on. They remind you that from here the crew of the little ships go out and sometimes never relum.
Believe me, there are hearts among the folk living on anxious the edge of the Humber.
To the ordinary and expected perils of added the dangers of the the
seas are mine and the machine-guns from the skles. No woman ever knows when her husband's ship is due in from Antwerp or Rotterdam. She can ring up the offices, but all she ean learn is that the ship is delayed.
A уоупце
might In which a wife
expect her husband home in a week may now take three, so you can understand that what must be an Admiralty secret is often
of Hull. an anxiety for the women
Yet so conscious are the people here of fold, very the war that there are, so I few complaints. We know we are on the
official to
at the spot," sald Guildhall, where I was discussing the trade situation. Everybody understands that Hull, with its vast dock and its approach- ability by air from Germany, is in the direct line of fire when it comes,
Yet not one in a hundred carries a gas mask!
an
a
mo
FIVE AIR RAID WARNINGS
•
No. 1
HULL
sind sie
Dort sind
which means
THE Nazi Heinkel dives
from the clouds and rakes the decks of trawler und merchant ship with a hall of machine-gun bullets.
What about men in the Hein- kel? Arlist Haworth shows you two of them-two men in a
ment.
glasshouse-pilot and forward gunner. Look at their equip
Death-dealer No. 1 is the machine-gun (A). Just a stan- dard German pattern; I fres 400 bullets a minute. And that gun can be stung easily down, left, right, almost впу- where on its universal Joint mounting (1).
up,
FEW quick and in- teresting details are: (C) the magazine; (D) the map; (E) the unner's cushion; (F) the little glass outhouse" in which the bomb-sighting appa
The mun
ratus (G) is Axe the mon you see with the who drops the bombs too.
Now the big asshouse itself. The whole of the nose of the Heinkel is covered in "Plexiglas" (H) three-sixteenths of an inch thick. Let's peep through the windows. Notice at the top the pilot's Instrument panel (J) —— '
thr Ike the dashboard of a fixed to the roof.
.
•
ND here's an Interest-
see
there
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A ing fenture, that rubber-covered control column (K). The novel thing about It is that it can be swung to one Fide for a change of plot-[ƒ that plot you
were seat, his wounded or killed in
could scramble and take over controls while standing
ut his side. The actual at (L), while controls (M)
is the armoured sent de- signed to give the pilot the
the R
the
letter (N)? That is
as a
up
EMRYS JONES'
DESPATCHES
FROM BRITAIN'S WAR ZONE
"THERE THEY ARE
BOOK REVIEW
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A short series in which he will tell of those people who live beside the North Sea and to whom bombs, mines, and machine-guns
are a daily peril.
los darauf!
LET THEM HAVE IT !”
Englishwomen
are Hopeless!
says Chinese woman
By Monica Dickens
WE poor British women! about marriage and happiness?
What do we know
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
woman.
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 still postponed, try your memory on "Quizkrieg"—a series of questions about wartime events.
1. Did Gemarny invade Poland on, before or after
August-31T
key
2. Was general conscription introduced a
or a month before war started?
day,
maximum possible protection.
A quick glance now on the outside of the Heinkel. See that number there beside the
That is put there aerodrome mech- anies. It shows them that the petrol to be used for this
parti cular plane must have in 07 octane content. The design at (O) is the badge of the squa- dron to which the Heinkel be-
longs.
The part is Hult and Hull in the port, but the others serving the nation are not forgotten. To one fund the citizens have contributed £5,000 in cash. for comforts,
ANOTHER thing, of the 33,000 and many thousands of articles for the people evacuated from the city, use of the troops, including such old things about 60 per cent, have returned. Some as planos, sulten of furniture, and even
a cage of budgerigare... were sent for safety to Scarborough,
"Why, look what happened to Scar- As you travel up through the fat 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. Understandably, the accent in Hull is on Hull. It's a fine city-even in the black- out." And I tell you this city is blacked the sens, and thoughts are focussed on the trawler-men and merebant sallora out.
The people here have experienced five whose port this is. Hull to help them, air raid warnings to date, though the Nazis Hull to save them from the Nazi airmen 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 The people here are interested in the telephone calls to London are greatly de- Layed, for the Admiralty must know all winning of the war that is nearer to them than it is to us who live in London or our
that's going on around the coast, and 50 grent inland cities.
IPhones are busy.
the
I can't imagine how anybody
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and
Nearer because of the battered ships,
hero can ignore it, when, almost daily, the zoom of planes, the reports of the merchantmen are to be seen coming up machine-gun Aring not far away, and the Humber with a significant tarpaulin because allermen of Hull have died under hiding the gun they have been given as the Nazi terror. a defence against the Nazis.
No, the war is not a "bore" here.
3. Was it for a two, three or four years' war that Government Departments were instructed to plán?
4. Which was the quicker to declare war on Ger-
many-Canada 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.
0. What type of warship was the Courageous?
7. Who was the famous Prime Minister assassin-
ated by Fasciata on September 21, 19307
D. Which was the largest ship sunk by Germany up
Vesterday?
D. 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 Jolin Simon in his first war Budget?
For answers see Below,
QUIZKRIEG
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Here is how she sums us up. "Mrs. Robinson says over a good slift whisky-and-soda at the club: My dear, I gave up a perfectly marvellous career to get married, and look what's happened. I can't possibly go back to my music now. That's what marriage does you...
for
"Miss Smith, getting Into the thirties, calls every man 'darling.' and can gulp enough sherry every
sensc evening to drown her
of next morning, hopelessness 'Men," she wolffs... there are so
while. few worth
My people brought me up with the sole Idea of getting married, but where are ilie men?'
"Mrs. Slave lives in the suburbs with tv children and o fut, com- placent husband, Hear her whine as she flings her withered hands in the washtub:
'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.
Poor Chinese women! I am glad I am British, I, Monica Dickens, have looked at the pic- ture of Chinese marriage that Kuo Chin Chlu gives in her book, and what I see is this:
"Jnde Puro and a young man called Good Renown have been friends for several years. Jade Pure has her ideals of the man sho 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 mako 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 WE scem to havo overlooked. FALL IN LOVE.
"THE LOVE STORY OF GIL- BERT BRIGHT," by Frank Tilsley (Collins; Bs. 3d), is the story of a father's love for his son, told by the son with reality and humanity. An outstanding well-written book, with an end that I found deeply moving.
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