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September 5, 1940.
By Walt Disnev
PHOOIE SIX GIVEN AWAY THIS WEEK
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BELGIUM
by-the-Thames
BY DUDLEY BARKER
one room of this London suburban house at Rich- mond a man, stripped to the waist, is busily hanging cheer- ful, if rather yellow, wallpaper on the walls.
On the patch of grass out- side another man is repairing a bicycle, Continental style. that has already experienced
war.
A
Kirl fair-haired baby staggers about between them,
colliding chirping happily, now and then with their legs. Through the open door woman calls, "Manger!"
The Belgian refugees, whom we have almost forgotten, are gradually settling down.
Settling Down
About 250 of them came to itichmond, including some who were originally billeted in other places which later be- Their came protected areas, experiences have been fairly typical of what happned to all the refugees, so let me teli you how they are getting on at Richmond.
The organisers decided, wisely against any billeting on private families Instead they took over nearly 20 emply. unfurnished houses in the dia. trict, and each became a small Belgian colony.
They appealed to the Rich mond people for furniture, and They they got stocks of it. appealed for clothes for the refugees, and they got so many that they opened a clothing depot at which they could all be fitted out.
They did not have to develop a spirit of neighbourliness. It was there from the first.
Baths For Eight
One English housewife, for in- stance, saw a party of eight smell Beiglan children arrive, wenry, frightened nud extremely grubby.
She at once left what she was doing, took all eight into her house, and bathed them, two at a She sent them back, sull time. tired, not quite so scared, and shiningly clean.
Ireacherously Leopold When capitulated to Germany, some of the people in Richmond, but not many, without much charity or good sense, turned on the refugees as though it were their fault, and some stupid, unkind things were said.
Actually, the refugees themselves
their
without
lime to beemne, making any fuss about it, offeini fairy godmothers.
housewivca was One of the allocated
of cach houseful 10 refugees. She was who prepared the house for them, put all the fuznRure right, shepherded the
oldren to the clothing depot to see that they got proper clothes, made of the essential things somehow the house needed and contrived to provide them--often from her own pocket.
When any of them were ill, she Sho Look got a doctor for thera
the children to the dentist, and saw that they were settled comfortably anto Fangilah schoois. the children waves all gone to school now, and 20 being spec Eruglish lessons arranged for them
Home From Home
The housewife in charge of the house visited was a middle-aged. unobtrusive
WHORE yu might duplicate u thousand times with shopping basket JA My Engin main street,
She had treated the six families in her house so generously, and yet
suply and naturally, that for every Belgium there she has come to typity England, and to give to then love of this country they will never lose
·JAMIN MAR beautifully 11 fils, amuelatne, cried one Belgian run- mang happily downstairs in à neut Falue suit wlsch, the unsewife cots- lessed timely. her husband had ition hum
See, madatne, have fuse the walls Took now, called the young man Yes, wine was papering the plot. she admitted, she and her husband hud tanight on the wallpaper, and luk how splendidly he was hang- w it, quite professionally
The little girl is truly happy at school, mudarne " said one Belgian mother
10
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f his father is still alive, he will be so glad to know that his buy's education has not been interrupted
went hin
good school JI Antwerp, madame," said another, a woman still tormented by lack of news of her husband since she fled from Belgium
Only one thing. I should say, is needed now to make these Belgians
The men want to work. cotiteni
"We have been to the Labour Exchanges,
registered ̧* we have
"We know stid one of them to me. that the English unemployed must Orst have jobs, but after that, if But only we,
could work. Luo, there madame's husband hus provided us with tickets at the ibrary, and 1 cun continue my studica,
He picked up a book on ustro- noy. lie was an officer to the Belgian State Murine.
He was o lecturer, tog, and he must not, he said, get rusty. If only he could get the two volumes of Nicholl's Cuncine Guide to Naxigation.
"Ah, then," he said, "I should be happy"
The housewife quietly slipped a and notebook from her handbag, made a note of the title.
"We'll have to see if we can get hold of the books somewhere," she murmured.
FUNNY SIDE UP
By Abrier Dean
5)
"The senior class at Yale voted him 'most likely to succeed'
so who was to stop him when he tried to kiss me?"
WE DON'T MIND
THE
by an L. D. V.
A
a little "IF the night is
misty," joked a friend of mine, an Army officer return- ed from Dunkirk to man gun in England, "the first big battle on
will English soil
be- probably be fought out tween the British Army and the L.D.V."
When I passed that joke on to the ex-Servicemen in my village section of the Local Defence Volunteers, they
"Then And said, chuckled, God help the British Army."
Perhaps
shall we
not realise, unless an invasion of this country is attempted, just what sirength we have added to ourselves by form- ing this part-time Army. I can speak, as I say, only for my village, but I believe the
be the same spirit to
any- where.
We are
ordinary only an lot. We cannot boast six generals in one section, all in splendour arrayed, like the Surrey village to which Ver- non Bartlett referred in the House of Commons the other day.
But we have found some
resented Leopold's action almost "Dangerous Woman" surprisingly useful talent in
Ont
more than the English did. woman became hysterical when it was spoken of. The men shook their heads sadly, and, at first refused to believe it,
• Then good sense reasserted itself, and neighbourliness continued, The English Housewives still pop into the Belgian homes to ask i there is anything they can do to help.
Some of them rather shyly offer a little food now and then, for the refugees who arrived here destitute hava only 11s. for an adult and 9. Od. for a child a week to find all their food, their fuel, Ughting and so on.
* Fairy Godmothers
Do not think that the refugees grumble. Almost all of them are showing true gratitude., And they almost worship a score of English housewives who have given up all
Sent To Gaol
--Husband A Warden
It was alleged at Croydon yester day that a bust of Sir Oswald Mos- loy, copies of Action, had cards showing former membership of Fascist Party, were found at the fat in Bishopsford-road, St Heller, of Edward N. D. Bell, aged forty-one, solicitor's managing clerk, and his wife, Ivy, nged thirty-one.
Mrs. Bell was sentenced to three months hard labour for using insult- ing words and behaviour. "We con sider you are a dangerous womun,"
said the presiding magistrate, Dr. L.
A. C. Lankester.
The husband, who was fined £5 reserve con- for assaulting a war stable, said he was a City rald war den.
unexpected places.
★ *
Take barbed wire, for instance. I, who was a child during the last war, and am now waiting to be called up in this one, am much mars scared of barbed wire than I am of the enemy.
Bat you should see the way the grocer's assistant tackled the stuff (and shyly produced, afterwards, a: few grubby photographs of him- self, a young fellow of eighteen, with the other sergeants in the crowd that decupled Cologne).
You would have been impressed, think, by the dexterity with
which Mr. X, who lives rather grandly in o big houso on the Green, and is now called up in the Reserve of Officers, handled a mal- let to drive in stakes..
JOKES
Or by the larget score put up by the ex-cavalryman gardener at mininture rifle practice in the dis- used gravel pit over the fields,
To the L.D.V., anyway, this is truly a people's war, bringing back half-forgotten memories of dim stories of other wars, read In his- tary books.
news.
Were there not wors in which horsemen reste through the dawn, knocking on a door, ensting a hand- ful of grave: at a sleeping window,
**To currying the wars in which hill-top beaco flared, and the villagers filed siently to their places in the fields? We have our more prosale coun- terpart n bicycle bell ringing in a front garden just before dawn, few words to an open window, und then, in ones and twos, men.
khaki carrying their rifles down the lunes where the cottages slumber, where every footstep crunches loudly on the gravel,, and only thu distant searchlights reaching to the clouds seem, silently awake.
our
We
teething had have troubles, like everybody else, and we have made our little mistakes.
'There was that bellicose, fire-eat- ing first meeting in the Institute," while the young women gathered, curious and giggling, in the evening sunlight outside.
There was the excitement, while we stood to our posts through most of one night, of a shot exploding suddenly in the soundless air.
Hurriedly we sent in our report 10 headquarters expectantly we prepared for battle.
The explanation came.next morn- ing. It seems that one of the men' enrolled in the next village was the local poacher (and a very use- ful fellow, too).
There
he was, standing with his gun, when up popped a rabbit. Instinct was too strong for him- and well, there it was,
He was really very apologetic. about it.
The L.D.V., I suppose, hug be come the source of more jokes than anything else in this war-but let that pass; we can do with a few jokes, anyway.
If and when the trouble starts, not all the laughs will be on one side. Speaking only for my village, I don't think many Nazia are going to pass through
unscathed.
Not might say that our motto is "On ne parse pas.” The ex- Service-men don't put it in quite, those words, or quite so politely, but it means the same thing:
at least, till we are all dead.
Lo
L. D. V. OF 1859
OOK through the Family Album. Perhaps you may find a "photo" of grandfather or Uncle James with side whiskers, pork-pie hat and rifle, dated 1869. Funny old fellow!
But grandfather or Uncle James was facing the same menace as you are to-day-- the menace of invasion-and then it came from France.
of
Napoleon III, was on the throne of France; he had mar- ried the beautiful Spanish Countess Engeale de Montijo.
Eugenie WHA ambitious- she hated the "ideology" liberalism. England was the home of liberalism. Changes in the foreign policy of France threatened Britain. Junior officers of the French Army boasted openly that France was ready to try an invasion of the British Isles, The second conquest of Britain was at hand. It was to be 1859 and All That!
The rumours and menaces caused Som anxiety in Great Britain. Colonel Jonathan Peel proposed on May 12, 189, the organisation of National Volunteer Association for promoting the practice of rifle shooting.
June next year BOW Queen Victoria reviewing nearly 20,000 volunteers in Hyde Park. Meetings for of the National Association Rule Shooting were held at Wim- bledon. At the first meeting, in July, 1800, the Queen fired the first shol. The meetings continued to be held at Wimbledon until 1890, when the thirty-first meeting was held
Thu on Bisley Common. number of
then over led volunteers was
440,00 These pictures were taken at the 1857 at eighth meeting held in Wimbledon. A feature of this meet- ing was the visit of 2,000 Belgina Gardes Civiques and Volunteers, acclaimed by the British Volun- teers and by the people alike. The French danger passed away,,
Express Eugenio herself had to seck refuge in Britain. The Volun- teer movement,, however and, by with the way, the friendship Belgiumbecame a "British insti- tution."
Where Would You Find-
1. A ratel?
2. The capital of California? 3. The Schoodic Lakes
4. The tion whose Bag bears three white stars within a white crescent -on a green field?
6. The schoolhouse of "Mary
had a little lamb" fame?
6. The Ambassador Bridge?
7. The Pillars of Hercules? 8. Calexico and Mexicali? 9. Gotland?
(Answers)
1. A nocturnal carnivore, gray above and black below of southern and western Airles and India.
2. Sacramento.
3. A group of 12 lakes in Bou
eastern Maine.
4. Egypti
It was moved to South Sudbury, Mass, by Henry Ford.
6. A suspension bridge across the Detroit River, connecting. De-
troit, Michigan and Canada.
7. The two opposite promontories altunted at the eastern extremi- ty of the Strolt of Gibraltar. 10. Two small border towns, one in California the other in Mexico; their names are con-
California
tractions Mexico.
d. An Island in the Baltic Sea; a
province of Sweden.
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