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O.K., BOB-I'LL MEET YOU"
IN THE PARK AT TWO... FIRST BENCH NEAR THE
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Monday
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
September 16-1940.
METRO IA ako By Ernie Bushmiller
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Ancient Dungeons Are Rome's A. R. P. Shelters
"The Colosseum dungeons where Christians were once herded before being thrown to the lions are now serving as possible refuges for present-day Romans against the British lion with wings.”
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FIFTH COLUMN LAWS REVISED
NOW
CURFEW ORDER FOR SUSPECT BRITONS
BRITISH SUBJECTS whose activities are considered to be detrimental to the That is part of an account of site of the 1824 exhibition is now nation's war effort may be subjected to restrictions similar to those applying to war-time life in Rome given by being equipped as a huge sheiter
in 10 miles long and Buft, deep,
enemy aliens. the correspondent of the Portu-
"This is the effect of a new Order, known as Regulation 18a, which has been Many
famous points иге guese newspaper "Dlario De
walled up with sandbags forming Noticias."
introduced by the Home may order a person to remain indoors most cases members of Fascistor splinterproof shelters.
after certain hours, prohibit him from other banned or suspect organisa- and order tions. The curfew order is not nu- Apart from this Rome life is quiet Office.
visiting specified areas Streets are un- j and fairly normal.
Restrictions will vary accord him to give up any sporting guns, tomatically imposed on such pernoris, Meanwhile, some of the 12,000 to other or pedestrians and usually full of
18,000 "C" Class enemy aliens who articles.
are interned will have cyclisis. Few cars are running excepting to the activities of the sus-glasses, binoculars, supa
vehicles allpected persons and in what man-
Non-Internment Cases official and milltary camouflaged black and white rebrner the authorities consider
The restrictions have been intro-considered and referred in the Adm patterna,
to restrain their duced to cover cases where interh-visory Committee with a view to re-
Jense. ment is not justified.
A few Class "C" men, it is under- In son asen the Home Secretary
stood are among the 7,500 male civi- Han internees already sent overseas Consultation with the Dominion Guy- ernment concerned may lead to the release of some of these.
The chief problem for Rome autho ritles, he says, is the protection of ancient monuments against bombing, Millions of sandbags are being used whenever statues and other monu- ments cannot be removed to safely
10-Mile Shelter
to
Numerous first-aid posts are hi. Indvisable
under the trees in all public efforts.
den A tunnel under construction connect the centre of Rome with the parks and gardens
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British subjects concerned are in
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The Home Secretary announced in the House of Coinmona recently int there to to be "no general revi- alon of conditions governing intern- ment of enemy allens, but that cer- tain mistakes would be rectified."
Humiliation Of France
5,000,000 Depend
On Nazi Aid Information concerning the state of affairs in France is slowly reaching the United States. The correspon- dent of the evening paper P.M., who has just completed a 2,000-mile tour of the occupied territory. tells a terrible
story.
probable
France, he says faces famine this winter and possible re- volution when the German Army of occupation departs.
"Sonte 5,000,000 Frenchmen." hc writes, "have been reduced to final humiliation, being fed, clothed und sheltered
by the conquerors, The Germans do it with hearty cfficiency. The French receive it-they musi live--but as one girl said. Yes, they ere kind, but is difficult to be grate- ful,
Army
"Thousands of the French stand behind barbed wire and stare with bloodshot eyes to the country wherein once were free men. Thousands of French civilians stand motionless beside the road and do not seem to see their conquerors, who swing through the ruined cities singing lustily. The rolling fields of Northern France are golden with grain that never will be harvested because there is no one to harvest It."
Writing from Strasbourg, the New York Times correspondent, Percival Knnuth, declares that it is a foregone conclusion that Alsace-Lorraine will not be returned to France. "Every- where in these provinces," he states, "are evidences of the process of Germanisation which is to make in the Reich
corporation
their complete."
An allotment scheme ":to combat the high
igh cost of living and provide the food has been started in unoccupied France, It is a collective scheme. Workers are provided with seeds, they work a number of hours in the factories and a number in tho
gardens
from
people arriving at Zurich unoccupied France report n -terrific rise in food prices. Butter is. 30 per cent dearer than before the German subjection of France, and meat, sugar and flour 60 per cent. dearer. There is growing unrest at this inflation.
You May Have To Take Your Glass
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"The shortage of glasses in becom- Ing extremely actious," said Mr. D. R. Anderson, Tandlord of the Saddie Hotel Halifax, Yakda
"Most of the glance, used in public houses came from the Continent, but]. that source of supply is almost stopped, and already our replace- ments are posting us twice what they
id before the war, take
"Mare serious is the difficulty In retting glasses at any cost.”. When he ordered about forty dozen half-pint tumblers, he was lucky. If he had a couple of dozen delivered, said Mr. Anderson
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