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Friday, July 19, 1940, Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20015
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"Nordic" Myth
THIS IS HOW YOUR WIFE FILLS
been:
honourable return for the kindly care and attention-and unfailing courtesy and -patience ---
which we have re-
ceived.
Fort McKinley, Thursday,. tions have
to 11th Gam-Rovellle! Boom! necessitated
place all rubbish The gun which starts the band, in the receptacles. arouses us to another day, and provided, not to
Carry food
Into signals the Raising of the Flag, sleeping quarters, avoid waste ot Alert after a long night's rest,"
water, and so on. we troop in kimonoes to wash- Smail negligences room or shower. Cherry greet these may appear ings ring out, Intermixed with to be, but a dia- the wall of a baby. Fresh from ablutions we dress (the dais of the Court Martial forms a handy dressing room, draped with a length of rose silk.) We make our little beds, and House 118 has been honoured with the compliments of the Lady Super visor upon the neatness and symmetry of our ensemble. note
An excellent breakfast having been despatched with healthy appe- tile, the morning may be spent in
two plates, washing, Ironin and for mothers with small children this is no sine kalle, fork, spoon tea-spoon, cure. Thoughtfully and justly they a n have been given preference in the drinking vessel
are the
unbreakable drying room and lavandalas ready to resist them. We scan the, plenic affairs_are notice boards for news of possible suitable. Eday A stroll shoes. Do not
• mail, and so on.
But on the whole, our Camp nevertheless, pre- sents a homely appear- I beg that ance, new-comers may And well! not depend upon purchasing in Manila; it is ex- pensive, Bring
a tidy and
do
SOAP,
to the YMCA for an ice bring food. Every- or light delicious. beer. Or the thing is provided. bobles finest Orange Pekoe is served in a For the tiny paper bag Inserted in nach cup. there Is a special Depart- The evenings are cool and lovely, Dietu early mornings delightful, the day- ment. ume hot. A stroll, chit-chat, cards, a book in bed, complete our day.
had 12th, We
Friday, sidered
names
1
con-
teeth throng stampede,
and
dixic-laden
amaked
IN HER
TIME
EVACUEE'S DIARY
BY NORAH WHITESTONE
have succumbed to the insidious In- tection.
We hear that Hongkong is, or BOOK will be, under Military Control. So are we, though we can scarcely credit Locl. True, Doughboys
Including
the
Military
everywhere their function appears
Follec,
that of assisting rather than control. pink. Wo must, however, obtain a ticket if we desire to pass beyond the confines of the Fort (forbidding name for this genial landscape!),
At each fork or angle, of the roads standa a F
a Filipino guardian; an en-
quiry as to the whereabouts of a building brings a 'rendy, intelligent, Amiling and
correct response.
A
decided improvement upon the blank stares or unintelligible jargon which after greets the Hongkong seeker knowledge. But I learn that our guardians are picked men.
Kentucky
the
5 pm The queue. Rations "Mail from Hong-
A.Magnificent kong!!" Magie our day to be ended words! The bilty
horses are being exercised in Pyjamas the universal wear, heads and
corral, lithe Filipinos in the nearby hallow metal curlers, bristle with
seddle-splendid horsemen A sight to delight the eye is the dexterity gaps where erstwhite shining teeth
with which these 15 or 15.2 animals had gleamed. And who comes here!? leaving A calm and collected young soldier, cooks with fadles suspended in mid- in bed are quickly dissipated. Morn- twist and turn on dainty fetlocks accompanied by s 6 Filipino
with marilat mien among the air. Excitement dwindles many ap- ing Service in Caltiolle and Protest among the horde of rolling, galloping strides
une petites, and the mail-less have that ant Churches, and a full house at or rounting mules; through brush esping crowd. He wants, for and nobody's baby" feeling. Perhaps to both. Exciting news that u limited wood, trees, up hill and down hill number of evacuees are to be allow- they canter for half an hour at n purpose or other, our numbers of our children. Those yet morrow!
Saturday, 13th 7 . The plump ed to broadcast jo lengkong. So stretel, seeming never to change a ***
upon their feet respond bashfully or
We have become accustomed to the boldly, according to temperament, and genial Sergeant Major who us keep the date, sweethearts, husbands leg except at bidding.
!! Anyone know constituted himself the foster-father and fathers-Friday, July 10th 8
Rumour is of the entire juvenile population, is p.. Mrs. B
rampant, wit a possible entrance into our dormitory Mrs. B.
already upon the scene of his diver- vitality and length of life though of an orderly or military man at any We are possible or Impossible hour; we are Young Doughboy has his orders to slons, wheeling the bonny twins In varied-hitherto unknown. We are interrogate Mrs. B.--and he means their out-sized ргал upon
the going to Australia on Monday; to allowed, rather I should say encour- to do so! Without tremor or hesita fagged walk in the shade of glant Baguio on Tuesday; to the Islands aged and exhorted to ignore many
ncaclas.
Wednesday! But Blessed on
previously accepted prohibitions; we tion he strides to each occupied bed
This rubicund, jolly Uncle of the and, regardless of amazed states, Sun excites universal admiration; we (of. Barrack Frep. Schoot 118) freely enter apartments designated
likely Officers
"Sergeants" Bathroorten men mother are still here and oficially are. to relieve his way until always ready continues calmly upon
men should wearied with Is focated,
unaccustorned remain put for (perhaps) a week the
Mess," "Showers the delinquent matron
We are deeply content. An Lest the above efusion calinty stretched upon her back read care of her children; he gambols, or so.
rosy a ink Sexton Blake! Upon the out- plays ball, cuddles and comforts the instrumental concert at the YMCA, suggest too light-hearted skirts of the scene we goggle and wailing: retrieves lost toys, and is, an ice-cream and home to bed 0.30 prospect, I should add that I have given expression to my own personal gape, lost in a mixture of admira- apparently, tireless. If he has mar- p.m.
and to feelings,
the Impressions I tlon of martial phlegm and scan- tial duties they do not appear oner-
Monday, 15th visit to the dia- dulized bewilderment. But he got ous-at the moment.
pensary to show the genial, gentle, have gained from a general survey. his woman! Orders is Orders!
7.30 am-We watch a long file of understanding Lieutenant- Medico Certainly there are crumpled rose 1.30 am The tail of a typhoon covered army lorries chock-a-block little Hilly's boil, Gwennie's bumped leaves-but the vast majority of certainly appear term "visitors" gets us leaping from our cots. Solid to the tailboard with those of us on nose, or to discuss Mamma's more those whom the Americans kindly
way to Baguio. A glorious intimate troubles. An epidemic has term "und
contented, Children of the Medical happy. sheets of rain and raging blasts pour the initiative and leadership, you may be lose as quickly and efficiently as we to make no appreciable gap in our Authorities show no undue pertur school age have an ideal existence,
into the open windows, which we morning. But the departure seems broken out, at which
shorts,
and as 1 end these words in batlon-slacks,
knickers, th diminution of the din. are able, pending the hasty arrival of numbers, or a couple of lanky, self-possessed,
3.30 p.m-Our mid-day rest in the
the trousers-every type of
low my eyes are Colin and Sheila, Gwennio Geoffrey, Dona'd' and
and
host of others,urling frustation of the elements: We chat upon the green, sun glittering upon conxed into more or
metal, By some lucky being even by those who hitherto Poul, and a with them a little.
I find a quiet corner upon the have quailed before the needle. buils. Fink frock, green frock, blue And now -u-jarring note..../
...A..re_Dverandah, settle-myself Tailors (in 24-b
what our physical ring out as they sport in-glorious- Mr. Julian Huxley has written a
proach to
(by no means enerous) upon the boards, back well propped, ed. No mattenours) are inundat- dungarees; cries of happy laughter our people. Printed Re- gulations
the mixed proportions, age or condition, into freedom and in security. And now a brief pamphlet on the subject, and
are issued to cach new-comer, con- and deliver myself to has mentioned some facts for which
taining precautions necessary for the emotions engendered by most worth-, slacks we must insert our under- Mamma appears (or perhaps a lady
standings. Old, stout and stumpy, organiser of games) and the
fresh lease of life. the theory i11 question cannot maintenance of cleanliness and order while music.
the great Sunday, 14th-No Revelle! Rum- the divinely forme Sweet Angeline, takes on account. For example, the Tall, in the Camp. Though blond, long-headed type is most majority co-operate, further exhorta- ours that breakfast is being served the buxom Mamma-practically all Babies' bedtime. Good-night, Daddy! prevalent in Scandinavia and that region has produced no ancieni civilisation at all comparable with those produced by people of the dark Mediterranean type. More- over, the grent Individual leaders of thought and action have certainly nut been of the "Nordic" type. In point of fact the greatest strides in civilisuilon have been taken in coun-
The scientists made short work of the attempt to find a basis in science for a mythical theory of "race" in- vented by German 'politicians and highly altering to the German people. This theory declares that it you find, in
any mixed national group,
certain qualities, notably
sure that the members of the group exhibiting these qualities belong to
the
the "Nordle" elements of the popula- helpful Doughboys, who complete the past, the Brass & Silver Band appears garment is being enthusering dusk, upon the green be-
tion, and are the representatives of an original "Nordic" race, tall, blond men with long heads,"
ule.
WHEN
BERLIN
TREMBLED
of bifurcated
less
play
about
The British and French broadcasts to the Allied broadcasts at in German may well have a remark-seven and ten o'clock cach night.
At those. hours many. people, are ,able effect on the German people.
They will not make You cannot get them,
Behind the drawn blinds of their homes they are "play-
From these, German eltizens get "unavailable." news of the outside world from appointments. which they have for so long been cut on the telephone.
oft.
Even before the war, when 1ing with death," as we used to call brought back from Paris a copy of a the perilous practice of tuning in to publication printed by German re- London, Paris or Lyons.
One night I was listening to a Paris fugees, it was anatched out of my
tries where mixed types predomin-ONLY one air-raid "warning sufferous strain. The harsh Nazi hands by friends eager to hear the broadenst. The announcer reported
had been sounded in Berlin It is hard to understand how any up to the time of my escape. It rule of fear had reduced them to a other side." The German citizens that two explosions had occurred in one with even a, elementury a happened at half-past three one quaintance with history can bring morning in the first week of the
himself to believe in the existence of a "pure" race, a community into which there has been no infusion
war.
of nervous strain. state in which they were unfitled to withstand the slightest shock.
Next day friends told me of similar behaviour in the shelters where they had sought refuge. The whole of its fears. I really believe that if a real raid had followed hard upon that Berlin, apparently, had given way to
first scare, rlots would have broken out among the population. had
in-
The wall of the sirens woke me n highly clannist people like the und hurried down to the, cellar, of "foreign elements. Even among in my flat. I tumbled out of bed Scottish Highlanders it was by no which had been turned into an air-
for means uncommon
strangers, raid shelter.
authorities
gave
owing allegiance to a neighbouring Most of my neighbours chief, to be included within the arrived before me, in their night THE membership of another clan. Such a clothes. And most of them were instructions that no more air chonge of allegiance would, either such a state et fright that, before raid warnings were to be sound.
bombs from cholec or from compulsion; in- long, I was less afraid of volve a change of name. Under the than of panic. Breton laws in Ireland there was Two big fellows, who usually look- provision for the adoption of new ed magniAcest in Nazi uniforms,
into the clan, and even for
were trembling uncontrollably. The the amalgamation of clans, There
were women nearly all crying. One are legends of similar fusions in the hugged her child and prayed in frag- СПЕС of
Greeks the early
and
mentary, hysterical sentences. Romans. Everyone knows what hap-
was a spectacle that will remain with pened during the Incursions of the me throughout my life. When the barbarians
when provinces of the
the
of the all-clear sirens sounded three-quar- Reman Empire were overrun.
ters of an hour later, I went back Franks und Burgundians entered
red to my flat convinced that these people
ed unless bombs began to drop. This rule, I understand, is still in furce, even in the coastal districts regularly patrolled by British planes. To soothe the nerves of the people, the Nazis announced that the air rold warning had been caused by a Bri- and dish plane that had lost its way "accidentally" crossed into Germany.
British raids
purpose of dropping leaflets. I tried to secure coples, but in Berlin they unprocurable.... Heavy fines in Spaln Vandals established them- But, lying sleeplessly, in bed later, threatened everybody found in pos- selves in Northern Africa, Italy I realised that, this was not true, session of a leaflet. Indictment be-
and
certain all fore the People's Court wore and The fact was that they was overrun by Ostrogoths Lombardy. Saxons, Jutes, Frisians,
imprisonment, if not the death son and Angies made homes for them-
tence, awaited those guilty of pasi- pass- selves in Britain and were absorbed
ing leaflets from hand to hand...
Gaul, Visigoths founded a kingdom | were all pillable cowards.
Mr. Huxley's view of nationality,
to the Romano-Brkish population as depending on cultural, not biolo already
fenth there. In the
and gical characteristics, appears to coln- cleventh centuries, Danes and No:-cide with the doctrine expounded mans descended upon the island. pretty fully by David Hume, the As, recently as the seventeenth cen- Scottish philosopher, two hundred fury the refugee Hugenots movad years ago. Hume held that physical from France in such numbers that causes have no discernible operation. the human mind, but that they formed 5 per cent of the popu- on.
were
were
for the
The effect of these threats, of course, was to heighten curioslly, A clandestine trade sprang up in
commodity. this dangerous heard of people paying large suma fur one copy. Smetk
When more leaflets were dropped,
I
lation of London. In short, 1 Is national character is due to moral the price dropped--but the demand more fantasy to assume that there tauses, such as the nature of the increased, I finally, managed to buy. Is anywhere in the modern world government, the teachings of natural one. for five marks. pure unmixed race, descended from leaders, the situation of the nation Borne hypothetical ancestral clan.If with regard to its neighbours, the
tune in eagerly-though secretly, be-Berlin the night before: one at the cause of the heavy penalties, they Air Ministry, the other at the police would suffer. if caught in the aet-Tuin to Pago 2, Sixth Column
By. Abner Dean
FUNNY SIDE UP
the Gezeians are an exception to
after reading a leaflet, "I way in which the people conduct I HAVE heard many people say the rule, by what miracle, did they their affairs, social and domestic, and wonder if this is truc? What escapo, the fate that has overtaken the influence of the customary inwe every other people on the globe? and religion of the country.
do you think?"
"Ho'd be easier to namo if YOU had any rich relatives!