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44 mot sulterentsfu,pin' due faith. the Ballisle, use, and to the win fects that of course Britain will
Each and every one of us must play game pirt in the tremendi,
The most tragic figures. in all Europe to-day are those who have fled from their homes before the advancing armies. Some have escaped to England but
The Refugees Cannot Forget
Belgian, Dutch and British refugees arrived by the thousand from Nazi-ravaged Lowlands.
Each of these victims of war has had tragic personal experiences. Burned into the memory of each will be pictures such as those sketched below by our Brussels correspondent, who, with his five children and other refugees, has just arrived at a British port.
I was seven days ago, the wn
in Brussels, when awakened by the sound of bombs and anti-aircraft fre The explosions sounded ter ribly close to us
WH
In fact. I found later right houses were destroyed within a few hundred yards of my home
Within an huor, having beru advised to leave at oner, my tum hold or ten hind packed a few be longings into hired
squeezed in with theat
ear We
We evel| managed to take withi UN thar perambulator
taret -mo old Charles, nty uutisoma
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Halfway to the can w again met the bombers me a bridge
There were one at two other ears travelling with us Everybody gat out and shritereu
The bomba exploded two inundred -yards away
No damage except ruled Cottages No
for twn
casualties
We hurried in
All along the road were colunins of motorised units going to the front. Crowdy #! *** cheering thran cheering wit 1
Line".
The spirit of the Helgint; pripaala tlon, in fact, was amuzing Even when the air-raid
sirens went. they lined the main roads to flok "Nowers at the troops:
The port is Tulk of thousands of refugees, most elderly people and children, each with a bundle or 'n suiteuse.
Every road into the town 13 Jammed with Bewcomers
It la after midnight before my
mus vruggle for the survival of all FUNNY SIDE UP
that we hold dem We do not dengt The ultimate result, but only by the unselfishy spet of ever is iedai and klist the strug
shortened. To shiten de sashik asul day when freedom tog the and hipplebe will Pestored universally.
Ft those of diverseneng who live
•Tigosperent under
under. British rule, and
Who enjoy the great, hht pege of Brit- "ash nationality,
yet, m 83% (pangefear. And
Sef ours, there argi
Darise who the filing is the duty
me and worm wh
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Dorritert vir ligy Might there was
Sof, worthy "the Union here and syet who, are doing) nothing to keep if y
Some complain", that "they," "life? beezz
put off helping because of the insausfactory inethod of handling.
estation1 problem. There
ter
many have been some stufffity, lodgk ng, and modeling but that is usel
STACJI,
WAITH E
a sinult matter when viewed in red fy Fation to the crisis through which the peque in the Homebus are passling. In the British Isles of this moment,
mul
children have Themselves to hear, untold Some are airendy without hours and must have lost all their
possessions.
Nevertheless, Dy stand determined to suffer, be- cause they know that they must gut- fer before they
chit Tusiquer.
Their unquenchable spirit will ensure RIP future safely. Can any of us, there fore,
withhold service stand aside, or Bruneind
assistance to such R righteous Cause? Those who have to the War contributed so generously to War Fund undoubtedly enfoy a
a keen scase of pride that the Colony has done so well. But has it? It will proba
bly cause some surprise when it is made known that of approximately one and a third million dollara sub- scribed
well over a to the Fund, millon
represents the contributions of less than two hundred subscribers. All honour to those firms and in- dividuals who gave so unsparingly. But only a little over two thousand received. subscriptions have been
The total of the Fund is splendid, but the total of those who have made possible is sadly disappointing.
It
are
It may well be that there are many who feel that small donations -unnecessary, in view of
the genero- sity of those placed. In better eir cumstances, Contributions to the common cause, must be relative, and It is to be hoped that the thousands of all races who have not as yet res-- ponded to the appeal, will do so- to the best of their respective-abil- tios. To help quickly is not only a gesture of loyalty, but should be a pleasant duty. The future bonefits will be shared by all alike-the pre- mlum entirely optional..
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neaple in 11] can
Splet, we are told, are every- wherre Firth Columar activities are feared
The ship we are to travel in s Marggly filled with British refugees,
1 sers ElT latormed the Nazis about 11 le Came at 3 the following
CHR Just ITN WI have
ROB abed, the bombing starts.
One kannb explores on the quay 150
two more yards away and astern of the ship
I sure a parachute soldier drap en The way and disappene behind Ober Warefactises ter he is caught by soldiers and killed
Theer is 20 pante at alt in the Shilp Wonderful English women take charge of all the children.
My Ble Churies is upset only because his milk is cold and u sweetened
Despite the noise of bombing and Shoutlog. many people sleep. A
end of mine snores, a packet of sandwiches clasped in his hand
Myself, I cannot sleep. What in happening, buck there, where the Aghting is
Next marating, WU аге told to leave the ship because 01 the dunger, and to repmbark later A big air-raid is expected.
Back we go to our hotels and Indgings, or to the British con- sulate
Thirty volunteers are called for, to transfer all the baggage to another sh[p.----
By Abner Dean
"Did you ring for mo, Madam?"
Where Would You
Find
1. The Grampians?
2. Tuscaloosa?
ABUER DEAN
7.15
One-Minute Sermon
This is the Victory,
- John, 54. ET these wards in proper per- speritve. Turn back to Psalm 08. 1: God's victory. Then read John 16, 33: Christ's victory.. After that read the verse of the
8. The University of Puerto text: our viclory.
Rico? 4. Raritan Bay?"
5. A steinbok? 6. The thirteen
statés?
You will see that victory. is, literally, the Christian's inherit- ance. I descends to him from Go through Christ. The "vlo- torious life" we all desire original nothing less than the
life that
7. The North Shore 7 8. An orchestra: conducted
Nicolal Sokoloff.
9. The Gem State?
was, and la, In Jesus,"
Faith wina, .not by fighting”but by the world, and the faith which by laying hold, Jesus overcame
accepts the son of God is the faith which shares is triumph,"
·HUGH REDWOOD
Aud all the lime the bombs were roaring.
At 1 a.m., won after we have all let the ship, the Germans come back and bombard it again, for an
even longer period than betore.
Dy now I begin to hear some of my fellow-travellers' storien. Most of us are British subjects who have teen ving in Belgium
There are nine Irish clerical students from Lambour. They got across the Albert Canal just before the Belglans blew up the bridges
They passed damaged houses, dead bodles, dend animals, and evet tally KOL
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Mivain
1
Before long, however, they had to leave the tralo berause waves of German aeroplanes came over and tried to destroy it
They tramped on, taking cover every few minutes.
In
place, about thirty civilians had been killed. "It was the suddest experience of my life, says one student, pity still in his
yca
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We hear, from weary newcomers. that even refugee trains are being bombed.
A party of English and Irish priests returning from Tournai have been mistaken for'parschule men because of their clerical al- . tire
Once they were arrested. their alfeulties being increased becau one spoke Flemish with a German accent.
Women, travelling with Their children, tell how they crouched over them In ditches to protect them from bombs and machine- gun fire
Many have had to make their wi to the quay on foot.
A Cardiff woman who has lived for many years in Brussels arriven with her
sixleon - year - old Haughter. She says that a pard- chutist came down in the garden of a neighbouring house.
Many other refugees tell parachute landings-the new terror.
At last we snil, still relating to ach other tales of tragedy.
Even on the voyage. Death follows as.
Doctors and nurses are called tor a woman who gives birth to twins. All three, they say, are dead.
Some of the saddest of our pas- sengers are nuns who had to fee from their convents.
They say that from two convents 170 nuns were evarunted, Including sick and dying, together with some hun- dreds of civilians who had taken refuge.
One of these was a woman of 86 who was brought in wheel-
A barrow. She died in the arms of a
nun.
One of the most touching sights at this convent was a mother who arrived with three little children lied to blcycle which she had pushed along the crowded roads,
*
AIR ACE
By CARL OLSSON
WAS standing in the middle of a rain-drenched fleld some- where in front of Verdun look- ing at a Hurricane...
Revising some of my ileas about the delicacy of modern fighting aircraft, thinking how much better that Hurricane looked in its stained battledress here in this desolate field than any I had ever seen, in peace- time stations with their com- fortable hangars and "posh" concrete runways,
Suddenly I heard the blare of a klaxon,
One Hour's Work
In the next field a French soklier. steel helmoted, had popped up out of 's sandbagged post and was pointing upwards shouting, “Arious.
avions,
I looked up and saw five glinting shapes.
Next minute a tall young man same running along the road from the RAF. squadron H.Q. He leapt a ditch dragging his parachute harness
his shoulder as he ran, and headed towards the Hurricane,
over
An aircraftman hauled the chocks and tethering gear aside.
The
'PHONEY'. WAR
Dear Uncle Sam, I seem to
remember
Was it October or was it
November?),
Somebody, called it
"phoney" wa Somebody said it eas
rather a bore,
Dear Uncle Sam, is it still
30 "phoney"?
Is the fight for liberty "all:
balonen"
And when men speak of the
British guts
Does Porty-Second Street.
still say "Nuts"? ·
f
Dear Uncle Sam, do you
still think whether
One bit of Europe's as bad
as another? Possibly, Sam, but forgive
us, do,
For now you're a corner of
Europe, too.
-A. P. HERBERT.
there was an ear-splitting roar and he was off
That was the first time I saw "Cobber" Kain.
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Less than hour later he was back again, carrying a plece of bent airscrew and the buttered end of a Germau machine gun.
The German aireaft he hnd n- tacked was
a fuming wreck Ave miles away. The other pilots clus- tered round him, enger for details. A Bit Tonso
ram-
I can sa him now, leaning his huge length agulbst that shackle bar, holding the half-tankard of beer somebody has pressed into his hand, rather thy and reflectively answering the "shop" questions of his brother pilots,
He was looking a Maurice
bit tense, and I founi qut he had been out to the wred.And that wreck was a nasty sight.
One
We reach England At Victoria station, six-year-old Doktorczyk is sitting wearing a soldier's forage cap on his head and eating a jammy doughnut.
He says he got the cap some- where near Brussels.
He, and his Inughing young sister, and a few other children, are the only happy passengers...
Another family party of four children are sitting on the plat- form. A railway porter has got six bara of chocolate from a slot machine and handed them round. He hus vanished beforb the children сап murmur
their thanks....
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dividing the Highland from the Lowlanda.
2. A city in Alabama, named for.
an Indian chief; the name means black warrior.
3. Rio Piedras, P. R..
4. It lles at the southern end of Staten Island, and forms the western portion of lower. New York Day.
5. A small African ' antelope, - 6. Del.. Penna., N. 7, Ga., Conn., Moes., Md., 5. C., N. IL, Vou N, Y., N. C., and‚R, I.,
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fuan bid RFC. pllot, looked a bit quizzically at him, and as if in answer to the unspoken
question, "Colber" suld slowly: "The hunt's all fight but the kill's not so
Rood,
I have met many aces, some in the last war, as well, as this. They all vary in perfonailty touches.
Some of them, like one Australian pilot (who has, filso refched double Agures, but whom the Air Ministry in its wisdom will not let us name), are all on springs, but hård, ferociotis hunters.
They live for the moment when the enemy machige-awings up in the reflector night and the trigger button sends their whole, dircraft shuddering to the burst of fire.
Some haye a casual "day's work
manner about their job. A few, a very few, might pass for the hell diver" types that Hollywood has. pinstered on celluloid.
For Civilisation,
But "Cobber" Kaln had what is common to all the air aces-from:
Rain Ball, VC, Mannock, Haw
McCudden, Bishop and the rest
of the Great War to these latter- days knights of our RAF-an utter absorption in the technicalities of their job as
well ing spirit.
1 an unremitting fight-
It is the like of "Cobber" Kain" who will put "paid" to Gooring's machine-made terror spreaders.A "handful of young pilot as Chur chill has called them, will savo tivillu sation.