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LONDON CARRIES ON
L
ONDON to-day should be the most dramatic city in the world. In any other capital faced with the evident dangers which face London there would be tension and excitement. There would be gesticulat- ing groups at every street corner; crowds awaiting news outside the newspaper offices; hastily-enrolled citizen armies drilling in the parks. In any other city.".
powered to fine or send home people found without them. But evidently the Government do not consider it necessary."
7
This attitude is very common. Our Civil Defence authorities, might well take a hint from it.
Yesterday, I asked a number of people, all strangers to me, what they thought of the situn- tion. Here aro. a few typical replica.
A Bus Conductor: ""I still say we can't lose. Even if Hitler holds all the Channel ports, what then? The French can still hold him from advancing south. Our Navy and home forces make invasion impossible. Was Us?
To the foreigner, London to- day would appear almost lethar- tions. Perhaps to the foreigner brick air-raid shelters, but the What can he do next? Bomb gically calm; and there must be their reaction in both cases usual crowd of lookers-on
We can bomb back. Hitler many such who are writing us would appear to be similar. One not there..... down as idiotically complacent, of vague, impersonal interest. Despite the increasingly dreads. He has gained a spec- is facing the long warfare he despairing or indifferent. Only There could be no more mistaken serious news, few people were tacular victory, but his losses in to the Londoner himself are the impression.
carrying gas-masks- perhaps men and materials have enn- signs of strain visible, but lo The West End. It has an one in six, and many more celled it out. In the end our. him they are clear.
empty, hushed air that reminded women than mon. Recently I huge resources will win."
They are showing themselves
A Shop Assistant: "Our In-
absent-mindedness. My bus con By A. P. Luscombe Whyte as they did over Russia, Poland
ductor yesterday gave me a clue to it: "They're forgetting
and Norway. We can't afford to be let down again.”
everything," he said, "leaving me of a small country town ou have asked several people about An A.R.P. worker: "We must their umbrellas and gas-masks early closing day. Few strollers, this, and received the same split into two forces. France behind; forgetting their change; No one window-shopping, Bond answer: "If the Government
asking me for 'five pounds of potatoes' instead of two to Wal. Their minds aren't ham Green.' quite all here."
I think he is right. Absent-
carry
Street déserted.
The parks. thought there was any real dan enn defend the rest of her country. We must garrison open ger of gas they would make it England with regular troops; bright with hawthorn,
to deck-chairs, compulsory spaces of unused
masks. evacuate coastal areas entirely, Down the centre of the Hay- They could. with their market workmen were building powers.
new and fortify them as though they Police could be em- were frontiera, making invasion impossible. Then bomb-and bombard the German-held Chan- Hitler then will find he has gained little."
mindedness. Perhaps it is the GRIN AND BEAR IT
Hongkong Telegraph. English equivalent of tension
Tuesday, June 18, 1940.
Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20015.
THE preûz "Special to the Telegraph” Is used by the tongkong Telegraph to indicate news which dị sirietly copyright under the provisions of the Telecomumuni-
bears the indicatión "up" is received in
the United Press Associations, who re-
and excitement..
Yesterday I toured round Lon- don in an attempt to gain some mental picture of London in time of danger.
Trafalgar Square. Almost cations Ordinance, 1916. Buch news as empty, with one old man feed- Hongkong on the date of publication bring the puzzled, hungry pigeons. servo all rights and forbid republication, Whoever thought to see forti- either wholly or in part without previous fications in the Metropolis? Yet arrangement.
the last few days has brought them to many parts of London. Vital points all over the city
Revenue of Thrift
barbed wire, wooden barricades, and these new sandbagged "forts."
AFTER the fierce clash of have been hastily protected with political antagonisms new evidence of Labour's assured co-operation in the economic
The Londoner is taking these sphere is doubly welcome. The astounding manifestations with General Council of the Trades a calm which would be even more Union Congress has issued aastounding if one did not realise manifesto pledging its full and that he has for months been so strong support to the scheme of reverse, treachery and the fan- battered by stories of struggle, voluntary saving on the success tastic taking shape that his of which not only the Chancellor emotions are used up. Now he of the Exchequer's Budget càlcu. is willing to accept philosophical- lations, but the means of finane-ly any manifestation of the war. ing the war without resort to Yesterday London had an irflation so largely depends, empty air, yet there were still
parties of strollers the war's financial and economie Whitehall and the Mall, watch- problems, the General Council of ing these fantastic barricades, the Trades Union Congress urges | going up much as three years on all the millions of wage-ago they watched the erection earners whom it represents to of the gay Coronation decorn- save to the utmost of their ability and to lend their savings to the country.
As the result of this co-opera- tion there should be a strong and steady reinforcement to the sources from which the Ex- chequer replenishes its capacity
around
IF HIS
has given him a castle. He sent his children to his sister, Crown Princess of Italy. They are now in
Mussolini's care,
By Lichty el. ports ceaselessly.
An elderly office worker: "Abandon volunteer home de.. fence. Force all able-bodied civil workers to train at defence work in their spare time. Close down the amusement places: this is no time for them. Use the B.B.C. for training every. citizen in defence instead of for foolish variety programmes."
A young Militiaman: "We are still fighting by Queensberry rules while Germany packs a horseshoe in her glove, We must bomb Berlin and other cities at once, and also plaster them with leaflets telling them why we are doing it and what their airmon are doing to civilians. The Germans would crack under the strain long be- fore we would."
Of all the people I spoke to, with their many different ideas, not one showed belief in any- thing but ultimate victory. The hushed air of waiting which pervades London now has nothing to do with despondency. It is the hush of a people ponder- ing the trials which have already
and the honeymoon was hardly over before he began standing faced them; and awaiting with-
up for something he called his rights!"
HAD
THIS
HE DUTY
by
PAUL HOLT
out fear those which may come. And a taxi-driver called it "This new little bit of bother."
SEEN
WAY
times like these I want my wife with
We shall be back in three weeks.
mje.
In the afternoon Monty telephoned again. They aren't going now. It will have to be later. No castles for Gracie.
to apend on the colossal scale CAD King Leopold gave up. Hitler necessitated by war. The benefit will be directly shared by the wage-earners who thus help to establish it. On the sufficiency
Sad King Leopold does not want) nay more part of this modern world. of the response to the appeal for As a boy, he saw his father fight the voluntary savings will depend Germans. He saw his father win. ́ING Leopold ran away from į mot by Germans, every man of whom] So with us all. There is no escape, total warfare. I met a man had a gungster's tommy gun. Those any more, from war. It rides the Then die in a mountaineering acc!- two most important achieve dent. He saw his wife die by his on leave in London who came by Guards had a bayonet with which to hearth. The thunder rattles the china ments--the restriction of ex-side in a car crash. And then he saw destroyer from Boulogne. He has to fight a tommy gun. They're all on the kitchen dresser and the guns penditure on non-essentials, and the mounting wave of a new go back. This is what he told me:-gangsters and we're still fighting are already on undertone to the
ston against the eastern border of hits
quiet heart-beats of the night. a restraint of rising prices in country.
"Four days ago, myseld set an Queensberry rules. respect of essential articles of
advance post. They were raw
The wor intrudes on the most inti- "If the war spreads here; imate decisions of husband and wife. He diose 13e easy way. He said consumption. That is one of the he'd be neutral. He knew that we soldiers, young men who had not been come as a creeping barrage of death. Should she stay, to be with the people most substantial contributions would help him, if it came to it. He under are before. Their first Laste Village by village, town by town of Britain, who have made her a flag
hoped that if he shouted pax loud of warfare was a German tank com- Always a little further forward. for their faith? She stays. which the non-combatant section enough the Germons would noting at them. The tank slopped. It of the population can make to march.
holsted a white flag and our post ne-į "First they heavily bomb their spol.; THE Romans had a word that sums it up. Focus, the their own well-being, as well as
He cried pax agalu. He had not cepted the flag. They went out to demolishing, say, one house in twenty. to the equipment and mainten-where will he run to? To Italy, to forward. Its guns scythed them downary bombs. An hour later, when and all else is saved. The Govern- mare heart for this struggle.meet It and the German tank drove Then they spray lightly with incendi hearth. The focal point. Keep that, ment appeals to the parents of fifteen America? Where is far enough? and its bulk went over their bodies. everybody is out putting out the fires, cast and south-east coast towns to they come a third time and finish it send their children to safety. Seventy "Man for man, we can bent the off."
per cent. have answered. exports has formidably increased Jerries." (Every man I have met Against auch total warfare, against I heard Malcolm MacDonald's op- On the face of them, our trade during the past year and that back from Flanders says lat.) the bombing of refugee ships, hospi peal. It was stilted and clogged with returns continue to provide our ability to pay for imports on "But the men who are fighting out tals, trains, quays, the trudging recliches, but earnest. If it had been satiric commentary on the Ger- the scale which our war needs there now are fighting against an fugees on the roads a strong car simple, ninety, a hundred per cent. man pretension to be crippling dictate must depend on
enemy who huris his men at you as is not enough, the courage of disel- would by now have answered. our overseas trade and bringing ability to expand our exports once.
our though they were bullets, to be used plined men in splited uselessly. That King.
For that is the duty of the ċivilian, · A foe who uses platoons as is what Leopold, who was
To set in house in order for the us to the verge of ruin and star-much further than we have yet though they were name-throwers and run away from to his castin
in Spain? A castle in Spain isn't so siege. To send his children to safety, vation. In spite of U-boats and done. That is the moral which
advance units like hand grenades.
good any more.
and his wife too, if she is needed to uncharted mines, and in spite Sir Andrew Duncan underlined < Hung have invented an
look after the But himself TIER people, too seek sanctu- fortify the home, the street, the of the loss of some markets due in his speech to the Belfast fare. They make the civilians of
ary. Yesterday morning neighbourhood that is his own. And to Nazi aggressions, both our Chamber of Commerce. Our their enemy their ally. They panic talked to Grnele Fields. Her hus- to stick to it until he is told to go. exports and our Importa go on export industries are part and them with bombs, drive them out into band, Monty Banks, had booked
It Leopold, the sad young malt, increasing.
"[parcel of our defence indo tries the roads, then dive to machine-man passage for four in a ship for
Americh. Ho still holds an Italian find seen his duty that way, the Hearts Thoir expansion may indeed be them, creating chaos..,
passport and has to go to Ameries of those who had their men in It is to be noted, however, that regarded as a major operation
Flanders would to complete his U.S.A. citizenship.
beghier this the gap between importa and of the war.
Said Monty: I have to go, and in morning.
ance of the nation's defences.
Britain's Trade Front
any
entirely new form of war-
"I saw a company of the Guards fo out on counter-attack. They were
I
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