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June 21, 1940.
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NOBODY knows who gave the cry, where it came from; nobody will ever know. No newspaper gave it, no wireless announced it, but it was there
everywhere
throughout
Czechoslovakia.
In the big banks, in the hotels, in the factories.
Fight smiling. That was
the crul
A slogan, clear as if it were cut in marble. Words which will live in history like the words of Luther," Nelson, or Washington. Words which are stronger than tanks.
The Germans were there, the destroyers of the rights of man! They had settled. dlawn in
the
heart of the
truest Repubile
that
ever was.
HITLER'S
Over the Wenceslas Square, e.
Prague.
battalions
thundered the Prussian march. The
on the
greedy hordes of 11mmler stormed
into the houses like panthers for booty. Rob, rob, rah!
Eight hundred machine gunn, eight hundred of the world-famous Brenn guns, the best in the world, stolen from the fuctory In Bruenh, on their way to Germany.
SMILING
Every
Wenceslas every TANK parade on Square. The crew in charge of the tanks are silting ke Tibetan idols.
The crowd walks calmly around the tanks. The young fellows curiously inspect the engines, touch the armoured plates, the cater- pillars. Laughs and jokes,
The soldiers do not understand one word: 1
they are wet, fired, and bad-tempered. Pretty girls are flirting with them to divert their attention while the Inds fumble with the tanks.
motors
Signal
begin
to
The
crowd
The start. 10 work. The tanks start, stop. Silence
laughing. The The column oilleers are cursing. COTTICA
to a standstill. Engineers appear. Confusion.
The crowd double up with laughter. Inspection.
Result:-
There was water, milk, sugar, and even raw eggs in the petrol tanks.
Ever since, the Prague people
the called
tanks Hitler's
have omelettes.
Bohemia is hilarious. Who has done It? How? The Gestapo in- cross-examines; hun- vestigates. dreds are. questioned. The same typical answer from smiling tips:
not Ne rosimin "I clo
under- stand.
*
THE Skoda works in. Pilsen. The famous weapon forge of the country; moreover, one of the big- gest machine factories of the world. and A marvel of organisation technical sicill.
When Hitler solzed Skoda. I saw legionaries cry like boys. The Huna have Skoda, the sun is setting for us!
But the watchword fled their hearts. Fight smiling! Do not cry -fight, smile.
works!
steel It started in the There where the knowledge, the experience of the individual decile whether steel turns out 15 it should.
A year
Switzerland
ordered 10 tanks
hud from Skoda,
Neither light nor heavy machine-
gun Are was able to duinage these
tunks. Even light artillery powerless against Skoda steel,
Was
In April Germans offered fur- They ther tanks to Switzerland. referred to the good results of the recently delivered Skoda tanks. made concessions and obtained an order.
In July the new tanks were taken by German ofBeers to the. Swiss fortress of Thun.
A debacle. Even light machine- gun fire riddled them. Heavy fire caused * complete collapse.
We have enough cheese in the country, we need not buy it from Germany," ieered the Swiss officers. The expression "Cheese Tanks" spread.
Himmler, Hitler's bloodhound, came raging to Pilsen, Hundreds were arrested, heaten, tortured.
Two thousand men were sent to the Rhineland, to the Krupp fac- tory in Essen. There they spoilt everything that could be spoilt, for
NIGHT in the suburb. German patrol. A young girl walks slowly through s_narrow lane.
mun. womun,
every chilid, sabo- applied Lage. By day and night, with every every
thought, feeling.
The train rolls northward រំព the Moravian Spring Bohumil Alpamy
Bohumil Alpomy gally smokes his short pipe, shows the
ENEMY
And they all smile when they speak to the слету.
Nobody commands, nobody leads, and the effect on the enemy is ter rible. There are no leaders to be seized! And a million people can- not be arrested.
The smiling fight continues along the inost the whole line, it is spectacular conspiracy of an entire nation. a sight of stirring great-
THE entire nation of the Czechs speak with devotion of Bohumil Alpamy. A national hero. was an engine driver.
train He was superintending, a from Bruenn into the Rhineland, In The tain has a precious load.
ach of the fifty wagons there is a Gestapo. the German official of And on the englue one of the Black Guard.
shovel:
of the inan Black Guard the flourishing Inndscape, jetes and smiles.
The
Two short whistles. fireman in the tender lifts hi
With a split skull the Black Guard falls heavily.
"Jump off." shouts the engine- driver to the dreman. He puts the brakes on. The fireman jumps, in the falis, gets up, disappears wood. Full steam ahead?
A cracking. Eight hundred
The next curve. a splintering.
Brenn guns torn away from the arch enemy.
his bier. He victorious
Alpamy es un miles in death like a hero.
Alpamys live in every heart a glowing love for the fatherland, in every soul a burning hatred against the enemy.
*Innumerable Czechoslovakin. In
Hearls of steel,
smiling lips. Woe to tler, when they open to utter the battle cry.
METHODS
OF
FUNNY SIDE UP
By Abner Dean
"I want a very tough steak-I'm mad at my husband!"
LOWLANDS AND GESTAPO RULE
JEWISH life
JEWIS
under the
Nazis in Holland and Bel- gium proceeds according to the well known pattern worked out in Poland Denmark and Norway.
From official reports of the Nazi- controlled radio in Amsterdam and Brussels, and from Information
BOMBING
What the Air Ministry's technical bombing terms mean
HIGH LEVEL
LOW LEVEL
DIVE
GLIDE
FIRE SEQUEL: SUSPECTED
The Kweng Sang Hong Chemical
they did not understand the orders works, Wanchai, scene of a big are given them. They smiled inno-
recently claimed another lettm cently when the Prussions cursed.
last night when Kwong Sing, aged Ne rosumin.
35, died on his way to the Queen Mary Hospital, from severe burns.
Kwong Sing was carrying a big bottle of carbolic acid when it burst in his hands, cousing severe burns to his body from which he succumbed.
Another two cases of scolds She smiles coquettishly at the
10-year- German sentry. Disappears into a also reported. Cheng You, block of houses. After a little old male was admitted to the Queen while another girl appears, then Mary Hospital suffering from sealds as a result of a kettle of boiling water KI Chai, aged 30,, was overturning. Upstairs ʼn dozen young fellows scalded when working at the Tulkoo and girls are sitting will drawn Sugar Rednery, and admitted to curtains. Everyone has before him amaniscript which he coples about Queen Mary Hospital.
another.
twenty times during the night.
In the morning a hundred leaflets are ready. Each leaflet is copied
all over the country by thousands of men and women. The number swells in geometrical proportion. ·
The "Ten Commandments” be- came famous. Instructions for the smiling fight against the oppressor.
A few days clupsed and every priest, in every church of the coun- try said at the end of his serthoti the following words: In these. dimeult Umes follow the Ten Com- 'mandments,"
FOUL PLAY IS MAN. DIES
Foul play is suspected in the dis- covery of the body of an old Chinese wornnt, found floating near Holt's Wharf yesterday,
The women, who was between 65 and 70 years of age, was apparently the victim of an attack, as she and a fresh wound at the top of her head. She was dressed in a black cotton facket, was toothless and bald. The Police are making the usual in quiries.
HIGH-LEVEL BOMBING
The safest but most highly skill- ed and perhaps least accurate form of bombing employed by raiders. The aircraft approach the target at a great height, muke rapid ealcula- tions involving speed, wind, tem- perature, etc., before carefully aiming their bombs.
If they score a direct hit (and it is not easy) the tremendous pene- trative power of a heavy bomb dropped from height makes it certain that the destruction will be On the other hand, the pilot Kreut. has to drop his bombs 114 illes away when flying at, say, 10.000 ft. and at this height a simple mis- calculation of wind strength is enough to deflect the bombs 70 or 80 feet.
Under ident conditions the bomb almer would like a clear, straight run in of 5 or 6 miles across his target to ensure anything like accuracy. In practice, gunfire and fighters confuse his aim and make it as difficult as possible for him to sight is target.
LOW-LEVEL BOMBING
Very dangerous for the aircraft because they are open to pompom, small arms and other fire from the ground as well as running a risk of
obstructions such meeting
as
balloon barrages. Nevertheless, it is an accurate method of bombing which can be very felling if the pilots are determined and retain their
Heaviest .calibre bombs are not usually suitable for such attacks owing to the danger damaging the aircraft oft
nerve.
DIVE BOMBING
The most. terrifying form of bombing, but not necessarily the most destructive. The bombers ora open to the same and even greater risk than in low-level bombing, but owing to the fact that they dive nat aim their aircraft at the target they can usually ensure grenter Moreover, the bomba accuracy. fall at an angle which may enable them to cause more superficial damage above ground. GLIDE. BOMBING
The bombers come in at a great height, then switch off their en- Hines to avoid detection and gilde towards the target. Essentially o form of high-level bombing execpt, of course, that the aircraft are losing height all the time.
As between day and night bombing it must be understood that there is a world of difference. Except on a bright night, under a full moon, where shadows are not confusing, it is never so siniple to. pick put a target by night as by day. Certain objectives, such as brittoes, harbours; plinting railway
lines, roads, ships at sea, etc. (all of which are known to the R.A.F. as "self-illuminated" targets), show up even by starlight. Other night objectives usually have to be t minated by parachute flares before the bomb aimer can feel confident of hitting them.
G. E.
DID YOU WONDER?
Why Flowers Are
Perfumed
Some Blowers and certain insects mu- have a relationship that is tually beneficial. From the asso- clation the insects obtain food, in the form of nectar or pollen or both. In return (quite uninten- tionally) they carry pollen from flower to flower, assisting in cross- pollination,
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It is thought that the carllest flowers offered only pallen as an inducement to insects to visit them. Later in their development, flowers added the sweet liquid known as attraction. an added nectar About the same time perfumes or odors came into use by dowers as alds in the important business of luring Insects. As a final conpict- ing touch, showy colours and strik-- ing markings were used to attract and guide insects in Ucir quest of pollen and nectar.
The scent given off by some flowers serves the Important pur- pose of attracting flying insects to the blossoms. Experiments in- dicate that it the flower retains its perfume, insects will continue to visit it even after the petals and other showy parts that might at- tract the sight have been removed.
Other experiments indicate that bees are not so much attracted by acent in flowers as are files, butter- files and moths. This is supported by the strong, aromatic perfume of flowers attractive to butterflies, and the stronger scent in the eve- ning of flowers visited by night- flying moths. Moths released hun- dren of yards from and out of.
bush fly sight of a honeysuckle straight to the flowers.
In general, the amount and type of perfume given off by flowers varies directly with the type of Insect which the flower wishes to attract.
It is of Interest to note that after cross-pollination has been recom- plished. the Bower will cease to make hector or give off perfume. The showy petals, 100, will shrivel and fall. No longer needing to 'altract Insects, the Rower ceases to provide a lure for them.
obtained from refugees it appears that the procedure of dealing with the Jews in the Low Countries is somewhat as follows:-
Jews who had emigrated from Polund to Holland and Belgium are being sent back to Poland into the so-called Lublin Reservation. Jewish refugees from Germany are being arrested, detained in the local pricons for several days, to ascer tain the whereabouts of their for-
tunes, and then sent back to Germany. The native Jewish populations of Holland and Bel- gium are treated in very much the same way as the Danish and No:- wegian Jews, that is, with greater severity than the rest of the popu lation and with a marked tendency to introduce the anti-Jewish dis- criminatory regulations prevalling in the Reich.
a more
nod-
At the same time, the process of stripping the Jews of all valuables, footistuffs and stocks of raw ma- terials is proceeding in ruthless manner even than in Po- land. All day long OND German military trucks in front of Jewish shops and private houses. whether the occuplers are there or not, removing everything that is of value, including furniture, kitchen utensils, linen, clothing and stuffs for despatch to Germany.
Following the method introduced in Poland, the Nazi authorities of Belgium and Holland have ordered the Jewish communlikes to provide a certain number of Jews for forced labour, to clear away the debris of the bombed cities. The Leader Front, in a of the Nazi Labour speech at Nuremberg, announced that 150,000 Jews from Poland, who forced labour in are now doing Germany will be sent on to Holland and Belgium to "make good the destruction which Jewish capitalists have wrought in Holland and in Belgium by bringing them into the war"
mnus.
IN the occupied territories of Holland and Belglum, the Nazis have issued appeals to the popula- tion to co-operate with the Ger- Among the promises made in these appeals figures the phrase "Hitler will solve the Jewish pro- blom
In Europe after winning the war". The appeal
the indicates manner in which this "solution" will be effected, namely: Jews will be deported from Europe to the various French and British Colonies room for in Africa, "to make Aryans"
The Jewish question is a world problem", one appeal continued, hut the big nations have hitherto done nothing to solve it; therefore undertake the Fuchrer promites the job."
A graphic illustration of the Jewish scene under the Nazis is supplied by the official Nazi Radio In Brussels which announced that the German Military Command. had ordered the execution of fourteen Nazis and four German soldiers for looting Jewish humes. The executions were announced in the streets of Brussels to stop the private looting of Jewish houses. It is for the Nazl State to loot the Jews, not private individuals.
Belgian
In Brussels, the American Con- sulate has opened its doors for the registration of Jews winking to emigrate to Amerien. The Consu- late is besieged by Jews whose only hope is in escape from Nazi tyranny. The staff is obliged to work seven days a week to keep pace with the applications.
FURTHER particulars of the fate of Jewish refugees who fled from Belgium to France show that ap- proximately 150 Jews were killed In the bombardment of Rotterdam, 31 In Brussels, 20 In Antwerp and
similar numbers in Liege and other Belgian towns.
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