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August 28, 1940.
THEY'RE NOT
AFRAID OF
BOMBS
JOHN PUDNEY
visits a North-Eastern Coastal town where
1934 ........ 32420 $1000 bombs_havo fallen, describes the courago and morale of people in the little streats; tells the story of Mrs. K. and her family, who live on in their damaged home because there is work to bo dono.
All cars serviced the same si
for new cars
ADDITIONALLY
All units of $1500 and over in valge
carry the Hongkong Hotel Garage doors, pallid walls wispy with
guarantee for three months,
Inspection and trial invited
Hongkong Hotel Garage
Phones 27778-0
The
Stubbs Road.
HE street is smashed, empty a monument to courage which
"Apart from the pub," says
one family-No. 167."
And does Mrs. K., leaning over
room.
aix children romp in the small Then it happened. There was an awful noise. Everything went dark. The collings came down. but Downstairs is derelict, the two have made haby come toddling something must
upstairs rooINIA, which were
on the stairhend just before the
flapping woodwork, and a pathe. the policeman, "you'll still find hers, are amashed open to the ceiling of the room he was in
tic confusion of goods moulder. ing In the weather.
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wind.
The family is "making do" in
fell.
Refore the bombs smashed it, the banisters as I knock, look two other small rooma till they head and 1 knew he was all
was desolate, Inhabited by working-class people, but I re- member how their courage to
live blossomed in it.
*
disheartened от din- No: her iden of
cowed, traught 7 morale is a broad grin, an vitation upstairs and the hair raising story of her air-raid survival recounted in a conver
Now, uninhabited, its ruin is sational voice, while most of her
Battle for England
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strength
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air
ta tensified then enganalries, Fazon British xhorra and waters may be capable of interpretation as
the star f
much beraided Battle for England"
What further try as to come can only be surmised, but the striking success ĐĨ
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ngering
batteries
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
Wednesday, August 28, 1940. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20615
the Royal Air Furce, the Bestrat Novy and Tirith nati-nircraft
of her ancillary objectives, though against these particular
an objective of great Importance air attacks Tosters high hopes
If Germany the closing of the Straits of Dover to a triumphant outcome
British shipping. can be hammered so mercilessly and successfully in the air, where she is admittedly
strong, it in assumption! that the moderate forces, woult be able
“As I ran up I could feel his can find somewhere to go-and right. I couldn't see him, but I still Mrs. K. smiles and says: could feel his hend "After all, we must make the best of everything in war-time, mustn't we?"
++
We traffic in pennies for lee- cream in what's left of the house. We laugh: and I think With alx children, the young- of the sediment of panle- eat two and a half ("And I stricken citizens with long poe- wouldn't be without one of kets and loud voices in comfort- them"), and a husband basy able rooms far from here asking long hours s a labourer on each other, "What can we do to Government jobs, it has not been be safe?"
easy for Mrs, K. to pursue her Nobody has left this town, hunt for a new house she can near the Nort-East coast: no-
sions of it, cannot be everywhere at afford. Possibly, with a large enough|
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conorniretium
Has it occurred to her shallow-draught- speed bon La favourable weather, evacuate with the children? some means of screening the vessels,
and a teint to create a diversion else ask her. wberr, small but well-equipped | German forve might be landed o
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body is quitting: there is work:
to there is neighbourlines; there is
I still fun. I meet some of the men enjoying a Sunday drink in
"What, and leave my husband the pub with the boarded-up
English shores. It might conceivably and my eldest
Aon
working? windows, many of them are
be supplemented by a similar army Oh, no! When a man's work discussing the new homes to
of parachute troops, perhaps conveying he must be looked after. which they have taken their ed by gilders which, released from
wir towing planes at a great height You know what it is..
at an early stage of their journey,
would have a better chance of bank-
ing British round-detectors.
ля
battle
Nothing will shake Mrs. K. in her resolution or make her
families in the town.
to
any blue-pencil thing he
"But you can take it from of this budge from this North-Eastern me," anys Not only have British air fighters
Itelatively small forcea
the ship's rigger. the nature might be intended rather as war zone while her man has "you won't find a blue-spenell supremacy over reasonable proved their
have re- 'nucide
than munda" numerically German raiders, but they
warfare
into troops, their function being to dia-work to do.
man that thinks twice about she peatedly carried the if any, that
bave done organise British defences by destroy-
Nothing, I say, remembering stopping for blue-pencil on British German territory, and to land
alr- send could be dealt with as effectually material damage to Germany's pre- ing roads, railways, and communica- of various kinds, parations, of
Mind you, we all take for in- tons in a brief life of mischief be what she has just been through, raids. Official British computations of air vading England. Every petrol dump fore meeting their inevitable door.
cover if we hear stuff coming every thine bark
Rhine barge sunk, Then, presumably. larger forces losses on both sides during the more set ab speed motor-boat twmbed wild take advantage of the con-
down, but we shall soon be used recent ghung show that Germany every bigh
to "Yes, all six of them were has suffered far more severely than to stop which have long been pre- give battle to the British home ar with me in the shelter; and manages to get through to us."
to scrap metal, spells a weakening of fusion to land at various points These Agures, it must be the
great invasion.
All this, however, can only when we thought it was 'all The mies. burne in mind, are no ruugh-and- pared for the
be be conjectural. "Battle for England" will not ready
The ship's rigger. I hear, is estimate based
which clear I let them come back in a one-idea man. Several times Initial
eromenis, but the result of careful An important part of It has been and might be premeditated, it is com-fdoors. I carried baby up and in the course of our rather em-
launs which might easily be honestly fought wholly in or over
wit
continue to be fought over Ger- forting to realise that Brit left him in the front
thoroughly alive to the ingenuity of
room phatic conversation he comes in too series, of course, to any that Ger. many.
Probably the German High Com- their enemy, and that they will lack (that's the one
that had the back to the suggestion: "These many has been defeated in the air, but she bas without doubt been mand has built its hopes upon the nothing in courage or resource in de-
on to the stairs to make sure all can't they play "The Campbells Why Moreover, she has failed so far in one that the British Navy, or even divi has descerated for centuries,
the others were coming up. are Coming,' instead of the row
they do make
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checking by appropriate methods.
Whatever be the
England. actual form of the attack
worsted in the aerial fighting so far fact-which hardly permits of denial fending the rail which no invader Fain in) and then I went back blue-pencil alrens now.
MOYALE
MOYALE, little British frontier post on the Kenya-Abyssinia border, is Front Pago nows, In this articlo, Violet Cressy-Marcks, English wo- man explorer, describes the post, its residents and its strategic importance. TOYALE is a frontier post on
MUYA
them.
European women
FUNNY SIDE UP
By Abner Dean
I think this hard on the Campbells, but I hear through- out my journey not one kind word for sirens. Now that they unhappily seem to become a part of people's lives, people want them to be accurate and to sound pleasant.
FUSES WERE FORGOTTEN
-Man Killed ·
London, July 11.
It was revealed at a Poplar in- quest that a man was killed by the explosion of fuses which had been forgotten.
Six years ago 14 packages were delivered to a Stepney warehouse for storage. When a Director of the firm and Walter Saunders, 53, ware- houseman, of Bovill-road, Lewisham, were unpackng the boxer they found in one what looked Nka mall hand grenades. There was en explosion, which killed Saunders.
on the Kenya and Ethio- were forbidden in Moyale. The pian Frontier. The actual line British authorities in Kenya of demarcation runs between this part to men or women.
gave no permission to travel in two hills. On the Northern one
Officially, the postmen came is Ethioplan Moyale (now north from Kenya and south Italian); on the Southern is from Ethiopia once a week. The British Moyale. In between the Ethiopian postman ran for four two is "No-man's Land."
A days, and then handed over to a fortress crowns the southern relay, who ran for four days peak.
more, and so on. He carried a The fort stands in the centre water-bottle and a bag, which of a compound, maintained with was marked in Amharic, the all the cleanliness and efficiency official Ethiopian language, and of British Colonial Administra in English: "Addis Ababa to tion. It is surrounded by Moyale." He was dressed in thatched buildings, trees and Ethiopian garments, but had, a dwellings. Round them all runs military cap. the circle of fortifications that
im- The key to Moyale's defend this frontier post.
portance is the wells near by. Just before the Italian atole These are heavily wired, and are Ethiopia from its rightful outside the fortifications. They owners, I stayed at British have been used for centuries by Moyale on my way from North- all travellers, and there had been ern Ethiopia to Nairobi. It was no trouble until the Italians a tiny settlement led by three came. A few small things could Europeans, a Consul who divided be bought in the village, but wella or streams are few and harder. The further northward next four years. his time between Moyale itself were expensive, as native cara- far between, and, if unguarded, you go, the ground is harder to and Mega, a few miles away, a vans passing through this post may be poisoned. doctor and a (very able) repre- were rare. sentative of the Kenya Frontier Police.
Cope, 1948 by United Youtuen Brudiouta, ina.
Abite
‚“Lofty's wife is having him shadowed!"
cover, and there is the same, This is the cardinal difficulty scarcity of water.
in both travel and fighting in The Italiana are bad fighters, this area, but lorries can be used slovenly and undisciplined, and Wagier, the nearest post to to get to Moyale from the south the beat Ethiopians are all Moyale (recently heavily bomb without difficulty, and much working against them, hoping My Ethiopian soldiers and ed by Italian machines), had in ground has been cleared to make to regain their country. servants commented the its garrison a few officers and possible the use of aircraft. If withdrawal is necessary at cleanliness and tidiness of this men. Any relief force would Difficult as the British task the moment, Moyale can easily post; it made a great impression have to carry its own water, as may be, that of the Italians is be regained in a short while.
WHISKY SAFE FOR FOUR YEARS
Scotland has passed the word along that it has enough whisky la store to supply" the world for the
This news, relayed to the United States Department of Commerce, fald that sločks were so large that, despite higher production and ship. ping costs, the export price of whisky had not been increased,
The report also stated that Scot- land was amazing' whisky, partien-
cause 'sales in Americs provide: the
larly for the American market, be- dollars that can be used to purchase
aeroplanes and other war' pasterial.