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PAUL HOLT
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DEAR MICHAEL,
JA
feri-
Since France found they couldn't fight any more, thas war has left the battle hel again and, just now, is being fought by tight-lipped, school- masterish diplomats in bouk- lined studies. It's A war uf wangles again. But be that, whatever these longnosed gents fix
to-day, it's going to mean that plenty of to get hurt people are going to-morrow.
HUTA
It's no good looking at maps. make They don't any more. BC1190 I think the best way to Lackie it is to go back those old this-
kid primera.
STANDS for the
Octopus. machine is an
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Like
Nazi Hitler's WILE octopus with
eight tentacles (that's why it's called an ortopus-okto, eight; pous, a foot Greek). Seven of those feet are planted on Aus tria, Czerbo-Slovakia, Poland, Holland, Norway, Belgium and daren't let go. France. He
left. foot He has only
one Guess where he's going to try
Right, my put it. And guess why he's hesitat
to
801.
ONE of the young waiters of
the Cafe de la Paix
tals!
me on the day I left Paris that ho had learned to count up to twenty in German.
11 #good thing he has, for most of his customers are German army men wearing rey-gilan, m force men with lighter grey, and navy mun in dark blue. In e Cafe de la Paix it is now "En Bler," and not "Un demi," and "Noch ein Bier, instead of "En- core un demi."
cafe ter-
Germans crowd the races, monopalise restaurants ke
and
and Maxim's, Fouquet's, Larue
the Prunier, and take most of room on the pavements.
They run Paris. They have al- most every truck and
car, most motor-cycles and bicycles, They have most of the money- not real German merks, but paper notty issued on the Reichskredit- kasse, which have no value, cven in Germany but only in occupied territories.
Germans All the shops to buy presents to send home, which they could not afford to buy at home, even
if the gooda were available there. They like it in Poris.. Those Nazi troops love to
parade down the Champs Elysets, around the Arc de Triomphe every day Boon after noon. The French fake this with astonishing dignity, as also do the G00 British citizens, who were trapped in the city for lack of transportation when the French Government fled south,
Paris.
I said the Ge
·Germnas..run They do so in a thousand ways. control the Press from their They headquarters in the Paris-Soir building, where are written or up- proved daily editorials and articles mrdern which are, re-writing
Politics
ing. Because he's only got one foot left
Bride. He'd make an ideal match for any girl in the world And he's going to the altar, don't you worry about that.
STANDS for the
groom, Uncle Sam.
But before he gets round to Mendelssohn he's goi Not bachelor debts to pay More debts than ready cash, in fact.
that He's got to mee
the
IN Philippines, for which he responsible until 1946,
O.K. That means the Japan- ese, of course And Mexico. where the Nads and the Com munists have got together to scare the fellows In charge And South Amerien, partien- larly Brazil, where the Nazis could start something 140 morrow for five pfemig.
It wouldn't da if way of thome gents turned up to the bill in wedding clutching a hand. And, besides, there's the best man to be picked. There's an old friend, Boome velt, and a new friend. Wendel Willkie.
It isn't exactly going to be a shot-gun wedding, but a fella likes to get things fixed first. If you get m
TSTANDS for the Chines
Tortoise. You won't re member the lays when Chang Kai-shek was world war lord No. 1. For three years WI haven't been hearing much of him, but all of a sudden he's become th.. most important man in the world again.
All this time he's ben playing the old tortase d hare game with the Japanese invaders. He's retreated thousand miles, just like the Russians did before Napoleoni
A
128 years ago, and he's sitting
at in Chungking.
The Japanese generals are But the tired of their war. Japanese adentrals are rarin' to go. What They'd like to do would be to leave the Chinese Tortoise tucked in his shell and sail the sens to the south for ensier pickings. Look at the
MAP.
STANDS for the Rusman Garbo. She wants to be alone. Every time she makes another little grab in the West it's like putting another line of bricks along the top of her wall so that nobody enn prek Ver. One brick was Finland, another was Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania. Another Rumania's enstern province Bessarabia, and Bukovina the north.
PAGE
The 51st.
ASK any schoolboy whose On their east side the Camerons history lessons have reached the tan
Into An enemy who was also No quarter was given by Four Years' War, 1914-18, what lacking.
elther side—ays an official document, division of the British Army was The exualites were appatogly always in the thick of the fight- heavy. ing. He will tell you it was the
On the apposite side the Seaforths Glorious Glatthe Highland went on under furious marchine-gur Division.
and mortar Are, and completed their The Germans called them "the task--the capture of a wood So điể who cleared out the Ladies Tron Hell" because of their the Gordons, k.118 They were in the battle of Grond Bois at Cambron, on the left whose infantrymen to smash the of the French, They helped
In Lisse
181A Their fought with great bravery Hindenburg inal incorobie netion WEIN their
The diviniti had to
LAKA
barak through at Villecourt in May miles in the next two
1917
the River Firesle
the
retreat den days acros
Je huld ap
The divisios, made up of tumous
the Hinck Legumeists
Watelt,
The Argylls, trying Gordon Haghlander, the Seaforthe eight-mile front with "rißes ngur and Argylbs, and the Camerona, with toinmy-guns, suffered terribly ortillerymen, engincera
molonard and tank
now
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enemy for two days. Somehow Recently offend documents were can only guess at their desperala assured by the War Oflee to add a galaminy they fought their way Chapter of matchlers rourage furough the German Hues to rejoin
lisaster to their history their battaliote
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of
How they
were
decimated
18
in the retreat of
to
Don't be surprised if Garbo picks up a few more bricks. A fair share of the Dardanellest wouldn't hurt Turkey, and I don't suppose it would worry IR. But there'll come a time when the Russian Garber doesn't want to be alone any She won't want to be alone to fight Hitler.
more.
the B.EF in 14 present war
Division
On June "the French Une was broken again and
the road left open
to Ruuen, where
11 in a fearful account at the British supplies were.
bok.
The
of confused orders from the French Scottish line, still intact had to fall Cominand, lack of adequate weapons, Outside the steepled village church broken French support. But i at Arques, British naval and army also the record of soldiers who agaitist oflivers shouted to each other above all the odds, hopelessly outnumbered, the noise of the dive-bombs and the
guns: "Which way shall it be?"
Dieppe, St. Valery-en-Caux, Havre!
mont the end thr
Scotland
psle of
THEY LIK
frum the Cave
River Bresle Free The
£
was the afternoon of June For ten days the Scola their way
to the sca. They reduced German bridge- had battled
Now they were alnost in sight of heds south of the Somine, but the the English Channel, those that were
badly jefi. damaged that they were left without
bine
the
You could go on with alphabet up to twenty-six. easy, but I think that's enough for to-day. Except, of course, for one more letter.
the British L STANDS for
Lion. He's wounded and he's lying up in the long grass, waiting for his enetny to couns in after blt. All you can see is the tip of his tail farking He's angry. lazily to and fro, And you know that a lion is when never so dangerous as he's wounded and lying up. waiting for his enemy.
Hope your exams go well.
arrel
tanks
NO were
But their the slayed intnet. They were within reach of tho se at Inst. They could go with honour. the church The officers outside
Then the Righlanders were given bne of eighteen miles to hold from made up their minds-Havre, where The French the Navy would evacuate the High- to the sel Erundelin
and the French whar land Division and IX Corps, a furce of several ther
remained with them. sund men, bait promised to straighteni Grim-lipped Sects out the enemy line in front of them brigade group, which
They attacked hundreds of men--they called it the before handing over twice in front of Abbeville. They Ark Forre-set off to cover the main failed both times.
On June 4 the French
withdrawal.
cheered. A Incuns OPTIO
But the motorised Germans were tarked advancing from tourn Inster than again in the centre, with the Scots our men could on their funks-without tanks. The
port. French lanks were unlisted, their following infantrymen were own down by machine-gun fire.
PARIS IS LEARNING A
WORD-VERBOTEN’|
-by- WALTER
KERR
New York Herald-Tribune Reporter. who has been expelled by the Germans from France.
French history, making it conform with the Nazi viewpoint.
Let there be no mistake about the Dower of this control.
THE same kind of control is felt
in other ways. Thousands of stores, shops, cafes and restaurants closed in the days before the Ger man army marched in. Then the Germans ruled that none should reopen without their permission. Some tried it and were promptly closed
This, despite the fact that the Germans in the Press and on, the radio, keep saying how necessary it is for men to go back to work They have forced many places to reopen through threats of con- fiscation and granted permission to others to stop, but it looks like being a long time before great like Renault and Citroen
Thousands of Frenchmen are out
of work or caruing less money than ever before. Thousands are living on credit st, their grocery shops. Few can pay their rents,
This situation could be cleared up in a short time if the occupying All army cared to work on it. Parisians need is transportation to bring food from farins to the markets, permission to go to their homes in the provinces and the means of getting there, and work.
But the army is much more' In- terested in military affairs, und German civilian officials are indre interested in harnessing: French economic life to their own needs rather than to the needs of the French people.
.1
DERHAPS inevitable among all
flories in full, operation again Phis is the spread of the Ger
The Germans are more interested in sending the people back to the .land.
man
Themenük in language. many restaurants are printed both in French and German, although..
there is such little choice that not many words are used.
Franco-German dictionaries are sold in stores und at street corners. German sims are posted, such as the one before the Hotel Crillon, saying "Parken auf diesen Platz verboten"-"Parking in this square forbidden." That one word sinking in-"verbotten."
now costs from tea A room francs a day in a small Left Bank- hotel to twenty francs daily in a. luxury hotel such as the Ritz. At the German-Iniposed rate of twenty francs to the mark, this means that German officers pay less than two shillings a day at the Ritz, Crillon, Meurice, George the Fifth, and many others. Frenchmen, of course, pay the usual fee..
The... German army has taken over great buildings such as the Chamber of Deputies,
Qual d'Orsay, Ecole Militairo, Invalides, where Napoleon and Foch are buried. Many private data are oc- cupled. The swastika flies every where. The French tricolour is forbidden.
On the streets are the grey cars of the army and air force, thou- sands of them recently repainted the seizure of the Nether- after lands
France. Belgium and Soldiers drive them at high speed. French police, still on duty, watch them pase helplessly.
march towards the
One hope remained-St. Valery. A stuff officer fought his way slunc ka n ear through the German helt- Ar to tell the Ark Force that the 152nd and 153rd Brigades had made for St. Valery. The rest were to go on to Havro. The Ark Force must hold out.
It did through four days of con- stant bombing and cruelly sustained gunfire til the last soldier had been laken off by the Navy. The survivors, of the Ark Force escaped too,
The two lost 152nd und 153rd Brigades in the darkness dragged their swollen feet towards St. Valery, Λ fan-smped line had been thrown around the little town to keep the enemy off. The Gordons and the Black Watch, unbroken, fought in a desperate ring, a few hundred men against thousands. But the bridge- head broke.
The French units in their sector gave way. The Germans took the town, surrounded the Highlanders, and covered every embarkation point with their guns,
At 8 am on June 12 the French capitulated.
Su the Highlanders would not give in. They took up new positions to try to recapture the town or find boats to take them off when darkness come agala. Had they only known it, the naval ships were waiting at four miles Veules les Roses, only away, and taking off other British troops.
At length their last shot was fired. Their rifles were useless.
.
"COTLAND'S shield was broken, as Scott wrote of another fatal battle, and nearly 5,000 men, with fifty-seven-year-old Major-General. V. M. Fortune, a D.SO. of the last war, at their hend and two brigadiers, fell into enemy's hands," "
the
But not their guns and their vehicles. General Fortune's last order "wagTM" that "they should be destroyed.
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