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July 31, 1940.
DIARY OF
A BRITISH NURSE
This is the diary of a New
who
allowed to take a trunk, a suitcase Zealand Army Nursing Sister
went to France immediately after
Sept. II. Got my orders this morning to report at C-on Wednes- day. Have had a busy day getting ready and to-morrow shall say good- to all my friends. We are and a handbag. Lucky 1 ind finished
How glad last private case. my am that I came to England last March and that I stayed on. Now that it hns come I would have joined up st home, anyway. But being here saves so much time.
Sept,
et Reported 13. morning and was sent on to A Its the thirteenth. I wonder if it will be lucky for me. Everybody is very kind and everything is done for
SQ
C-this
our comfort. I like the look of the other slaters in
In our unit. They are of mixed age
twenties up to ages-from 57-80
of us in the unit. Some have given up their own private nursing homes to go on active service. The alder ones were on active service in
war was declared and was one of the to leave. She tells the war of herself and an
last experiences
Australian friend.
and others did knitting. We ate chocolates or biscuits or anything we
happened to have and once or twice
somebody ventured up into the kit- chen immediately above us and made
some tea. It was 4 o'clock and al-
ready daylight when the "all clear" went,
May 20. All day to-day they kept
coming over, bombing, bombing,
bombing. But they made no attempt on the hospital and it was quite an
cay mark. It was the harbour they
were after. They came over so often- that we stopped running down into the cellar and just kept on with our work. Otherwise we would never have got anything done. Matron. made the rule that as many as could be spared should shelter, Those necessary for carrying' on should stay
to tell them at home when I get back necessary. Those who will recover and do the work. When F. and I to New Zealand. Have made friends in 7 days we keep. Those who won't came off duty this evening we were with a girl from Queensland. Found we send off at once to "Blighty." all told
get our handbags and were to sleep at No. 3 the last war and some of them have out we came over in the same bost If they are too ill to be moved then taken by coach decorations.: I wonder what is ahead. and occupied the same cabin but that we keep them until they have re- canvas hospital at Offranville a little
covered enough to travel. I came a trip later.
village a
a couple
miles away. of rai In two days, they say, we are cm- Sept. 22. Have had a week of do- May 10. We've been getting cas11- May 21. We slept out last night barking.
ing nothing, but to-day started in on alties now for several days and the and got a good rest, which we need- I watched the shores of the job.
We're a
e're a marvellously happy operating Sept, 15. 1
Is theatre marvellous, ed. This morning carly we England fade to-day and wondered unlt and matron is wonderful. We're Nazi planes came over for the first back to No. 1. At 10 o'clock, were what experiences I shall have before going to make up for last week in time to-day.
They
didn't drop told to pack our suitcases in 10 min- We I see them again. We arrived
the
harbour. Our own men started bad to leave our trunks behind. The
were
and other heavy furniture have
came
safely
tely the next few days. The roulette bombs but we were told they mined utes and be ready to evacuate. in Dieppe, where we are to be at- tables removed from the Casino but sweeping up the mines and when Nazis were still bombing at inter-. tached to No. 1. Base 11ospital. Were be got lo do all the rest, There they exploded them the noise was vals. At the station one train was put into emergency billets, which we'
a bit squashed,
ed. Oficer apolo- are to be 7 wards with 180 beds. terrific. 1 happened to be off duty loaded with wounded. With Tom- gised and said we should have better We've scrubbed and cleaned to-day at my billet on the front and could mies we were put on another, but we quarters as soon as possible,
until we're all fired out, it's still Sept. 10. The Casino is to be our hospital and will have to be verted. But we cannot start to-day because we are waiting for supplies. So we went round the town looking at things. What a lot 1 shall have
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The
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Wednesday, July 31, 1940.
Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 26815
at
demoralization-of-actual
enemies
con-
army so well advertised in
advance as to
all chaos but we'll have it in some
sort of working order in no time. POCKET when it's full, we shall be
be busy. Sept 30. The diary had to go
has 106 much to do. Some partitions have been put up and a lot of
paint- ing done. It's beginning to get the real hospital look. The blacking out was difficult, but it's finished now. We've inspected the cellar which is marked down as our refuge in case of air raids. So for no trouble of that kind. There's no hot water luid on und no gas. We have to boil it all on primus oll stoves. An emer- ency operating theatre has been got ready.
1
A new
Ort, D. We've settled down now to a routine. No wounded yet, but some sick casts. The engineers have fixed up hot water in the "theatre", but there's still none in the wards, They're going to build operating theatre. Supplies for promote wide-will be brought from London, and they say they are to be first class, We have marvellous billets. Moved some time into one of the hotels som on the "front"
spread terror
of it before
, it arrived, but
Everything is done for our corn. fort. Our day is-up at 6.30, break- When we go across to the fast 7.
CARTOON
waited on the crowded train on the in the slation until three o'clock
moved. even afternoon before we Then, when we did start, we only got about two miles and stopped again at a junction.
"Walter!.......... Must you worry me when I'm digging for victory?"
We didn't understand why, but It was because they were bombing aguin. Presently we saw them bomb the hospital train with the wounded aboard which was behind waiting to be embarked for England. And the Hospital Ship in the harbour was hit. No case of accident or mistaken iden- tily either. The bomb went right down the funnel. The only food we had were iron rations-bully beef and biscuits. Sometimes we man- Or aged to get a drink of water. one of the boys would go off and come back with lemonade. We were nil very cheerful and kept our spirits in spite of the weary waiting. May 22. We
got to Le Mans Inte this evening and will have to wait here to retrain. We have travelled about 100 miles and it has taken us over 28 hours. The chaos is terrible. Worst thing of all is the refugees. We We left them behind at Dieppe,
up
saw them all the way as we travelled south and we find this town choked with them too. They have no food, have had no rest for days and are being bombed and constantly machine-gunned.,
We have not had a wash since yesterday
morning. Have had ta
:
phase. This form of attack is its actual approach was marked ns calculated and malicious as by such fear-producing devices hospital we have to wear our tin hats and have the gas masks at the alert that of the bombers and para- as whistling bombs and diving It's about a quarter-of-a-mile walk. We're a very happy unit. Some of chutists, but is not limited to planes, whose devastation was as
us lunch at 12, come on again and the particular nation against much mental as physicnt.
work till 5.
see the whole thing. But the girls clean up our faces as best we can You get so smutty The others lunch at 1, are off duty on duty didn't know what it was and with cold cream. which armies are being sent.
Americany for example could
until 5, and then work until 8 when got an awful scare. To-night they in the trains. No hope of a wash We have been put night- either. Last week started. bombing in real earnest. Instead, it is directed all help not only the Allies but
the night statt comes on. nations, including neutrals, and themselves by refusing to accept we got a gas ring in cach wurd, but First alarm was at 7.30. We pulled to sleep in an office. The best I can there is still no hot water, Rows all the beds into the safest places we manage is a hard upright chair. therefore can and should be the propaganda of German invin- and rows of beds now, where a few could and. Drew the heavy black This is Wednesday and we've only resisted by all nations.
cibility. German
months ago people were playing out curtains across the windows and had one night's reasonable rest since weaknesses
roulette. The theatre where audi- pinned them down to stop flying Saturday, Propaganda aime at the naturally are not publicized in ences used to sit and listen to enter- glass.
May 24. We spent nearly 24 hours or-the-German-press-and-broad-tainments is now full of beds. Get- of Nazi
Everybody y who could be spared in Le-Mans waiting-for-a-train-Got ——— ting it all ready we seemed to make potential
went to shelter In up hundreds of beds. to casts, but are becoming known
the cellor. A away yesterday at 6.30 p.m., and It seeks totalitarianism.
skeleton staff stayed on duty with arrived at La Baule this morning at. bring this about by arousing increasingly to military men. matter
April 2. No Bghting yet, but the bed cases. The walking cases 11. It took us all that time to go
That lasted for abou
120 miles or 60. Anyway disunity, apathy, fear, or panic. Each Nazi device, no
they've built us our new operating came down with us.
is complete. There have been many evidences how novel, has its limitations theatre and it's magnificent. The half an hour but punctually at 10 we're here. The unit from the countries invaded by and vulnerable points. As the equipment is splendid, everything we o'clock they came over again. They We've been given until Monday
can possibly want. By the end of were trying to bomb the harbour so rest, then we start work again at
use e
It the hospital here. Everybody hus Germany in the past year that propaganda phase of German
the month we'll have hot water in that our ships could not
gain into the cellar stood up to the strain of the last $ demoralization of this sort con- aggression is repelled by both
It nearly broke our tributed to the amazing Nazi neutrals and belligerents, the hospitals here. The Hotel Metropole and this time we
Swarms of tanks, air is cleared for calmer, more has been converted-5 large wards after wave came over. The worst hearts, though, to say good-bye to
cu 5 floors and there are four other planes, and guns do not tell the realistic analyses of German
the thud and the explosion to make in Dieppe,
We bad brought June 13. We've been here three town. The scheme is that we take weren't so bad, whole story of these battles, military methods, and for their hospitals under canvas, outside the downwhistling noise as they come the beautiful hospital we had helped by pillows and blankets down with us weeks all but a day, Three weeks Not only was the mechanized speedier overthrow.
the wounded as they come in
to get some of respite from bombing but to-day convoy, clean them up and get them and some of us tried to bed, dress wounds, operate when sleep. Some brought their sewing Turn to Page 7, Fifth Column
successes.
all the wards. There are Ave other Down we went Dyed there, Wave inys very well.
We have the
the Planes Speaking of FUNNY SIDE UP
DEFIANT
BEAUFORT.
The Air Ministry revealed that new this advantage over the single-scal types. of British aircraft fighter fighter: in addition on an unknown and a bomber-had been in action for number of machine-guns firing for- the first time over Holland.
rard, they have also a power-operated Without doubt these new types gun turret åring aft. In short, there- were used in such mumbers and with fore the Deflant may be likened to such a display of confidence and ef- a Ilurricane with a stir in. Its tall. As for the new bomber-the fielency as to surprise the enemy. It
atlacked was known, of course, at the begin- Bristol Beaufort, which ning of the war, that Britain had the Waalhaven airport-this, too, was has new Boulton and Paul Deflant talked about before the war but single-engine two-seater fighter in not hitherto been heard of in action. production, but not until yesterday's It is a development of the famous account of how three Defiants shot Blenheim twin-engined bomber, but far better down a Junkers 88 on their first en is faster and probably counter was anything heard of them armed. To distinguish it from the In defion.
Blenheim note the thicksel appear-
In many ways they appear to re-ance of the fuselage forrard, which semble the Hurricane, for allhough terminates, midships, in the power- they are still on the "Secret List," operated gun-turret, thele general outline is familiar and
As for speeds, it is safe to assume;
It is also known that they are that both theso now types do "well powered by the famous 1,010 h.p. over 300 m.p.h. Nolther
Rolls Royce Merlin engines as used however,
in the majority- of-Britain's single- alone.
scal Aghters. They have, however,
Is built for
of them,
sheer speed
G. E.
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Etiquette
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE was the author of one of the world's greatest books on etiquette.
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In certalu parts of Persia gentle- men follow the rule of getting -down on their knees ant kissing the shoes of a lady, upon introduc- tion to her.
When
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a gentleman is walking with two ladies he assumes a pos)- tion on the outside-as if he were walking with only onc.
In Quito, Ecuador women tip their hats to
mch.
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When a Chinese does not wish to have a caller remain as a dinner guest he says "won't you stay with inc, please?" That serves as a hint to the visitor that his presence Is not desired.
According to a survey taken by Columbia University a majority of male excorts walk in the Wrong position when accom- panying lady-between them and the windows of the shops,
In Labrador a man passing a neighbour's. house must stop for a enack of bread and ten or he will be breaking an important rule of etiquette...
A new organization in Sydney, N.S.W., is known as the “Arrocta- tion for the Prevention of Taking Of Hals in Elevatora.". It believes
"It's funny
to
By Abner Dean
THE (SWINGEROOS
AND THEIR MIXED-UP MELODIES
ABNER DEAN
I can danco this way all night and my foot
nover got tired!"
that removing hats tenda ·toward Unnecessary flirtatious, gestures, "promotes" class distinction because the courtesy is not shown to female
elevator operatora, - it's hard on men's hats" and, besides t'a 'em- barrassing to", bald headed: gentlc-
men,