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THE WAR CHEST
GOVERNMENT, who usually pre- to carry out their work un- obtrusively, on occasions also pander to the spectacular. They did so on Saturday when they announced a new gil to the imperial war chest; a gift of £200,000 a year' for the dura- tion of the war. The money is to come from the profts of the
Fund, and doubtlera the change public are as delighted, as they are amazed, to learn that the fund has proved such a gold mine.
Ex-
No one will quibble with the decision of the Government and the Exchange Fund Advisory Committee to make such a handsome donation, especially as there is an assurance that the stability of the fund will in no way be lessened. Nevertheless, one wished that Government had felt an inclination to take the public into their confidence. It is, after all, publle money which the Government are so generously donating to the war chest, and the donation has been made without even consulting the cum- munity. We have a right to feel that we have been cheated out of the satisfaction of being identified with a magnificent gesture, an identification which, as chief subscribera to this ex- change fund, we are entitled to enjoy. The fund has always been shroud-
With us luck as you wave us good-bye!
Gloomioh? Here we go on our soap,
•We've been ordered to prođ, probe and pry; Good enough, Mr. Duff, that's okay. And when we snari
"Let me see your morale,"
Folks will dare not say us nay. Wah us luck as you wave us good-bye-
Alles oop! To the moop! We abay.
Mr. Dulf Cooper, Minister of Information, is to be asked in the House of Commons why he has engaged a band of inverilaators to make door-to-door inquiries on the state of householders“ morale,
THE ARMY
makes itself
AT HOME
By Reginald Foster
A
"Take A Tommy To Tea"
Red
Cross Island?
BY DUDLEY
- BARKER
·HAVE often seen fine core-- monies at St. James's Palace in London, the official Court of England, where Ambassadors walk decorously in one room, and the Lord Chamberlain removes. indecorous lines from plays in another.
I have seen scarlet-and-gold heralds crowded on the balcony, welcoming proclamations with the trumpet, while ceremonial troops waited in the courtyard below.
But yesterday I saw there a finer sight still, though less picturesque. Burrounded by pieces of cord and cardboard boxes, crates of socka and slabs of chocolate, I saw the people who have contrived to keep International organisation. working between Britain and Ger- many, while Europe crumbled into chaos.
one
I saw the department of the British Red Cross that supplies British prisoners of war in Germany with regular parcels of food, cigarettes and clothing.
ROUTES WRECKED
It is a story worth telling, partly be- cause it is a story of good wiil on both sides. Whatever else the Nazis baye done, all the evidence shows that th y have scrupulously respected Inter national agroendent on this question.
Before the German break-through, there were not many British prisoners in Germany, and each of them was being supplied throughout the winter with two food-and-cigarešte parcels a week from the British Red Cross-thres every fortnight is the sumner "allow- ance
Those parcels had to go through a neutral country, and they were travel- ling smoothly across the Channel to Belgium, and thence, into Germany,
Ninety-seven per cent, of the receipt cards that accompany each parcel cazNO
times would be alive with holiday- 66AKE a Tommy home to back, properly signed.
makera doing a little shopping. The shoppers I saw were soldiers, detailed to buy vegetables, for their unit. Their shopping basket was a lorry,
tea."
Then war broke into Belgium. The routs was rapidly switched scross France and Switserland to Chermany.
That was all right for, a low weeks, London families are mak-in France fell. When the dividing low
ing this their motto while was drawn between occupied and uns
On the English Coast,
soldier
sat YOUNG astride a chair on the promenade, close to the little pil-box camp which Spain liken life here to that in London is so full of Service-
has become his seaside home.
A comrade was busy trimming his hair with a pair of scissors, watched with curiosity by an errand boy, unused to such sido- lights on Army domestic life. The errand boy was asked to go away by the soldier-barber and the domestic interlude continued.
The British soldier is settling down to domestic life in his front line.
In the last few weeks I have seen a good deal of everyday life in the front line, the Ufe shared by Ber- vice men and the remaining civil- lans.
One morning I walked down the main street, which in normal
An Ancient Lay Of Rome
Propaganda error ed in mystery, and only now can the Among many "howlers" In Italian public begin to appreciate how skil-roadcasts in recent months none has fully and successfully has it been ad-been more glaring than the capitall- sation of an article alleged to have ministered, During the compurative= |been sent by "Lady Stanhope" from ly short time it has been in operation, } Arabia, in which she says she feels the fund has not only been able to ashanied to be an Englishwoman, secure a cover of more than 114 per cent, but Ib in u position to deny it self £200,000 (about $3,200,000 at the current rate of exchange) and still have its cover unaffected. It is a position which only goes further to demonstrate that Hongkong ls the rienest and most solvent colony in the British Empire. For this tact we have good reason to feel proud..
The article quoted admittedly ex- presses unfavourable views on Eng- land, but unfortunately for, Italian propagandists it was written more than 100 years ago by the Lady Hester Stanhope, who was notorious for her eccentricities. To such ex- tremes have Italian propagandists been brought to find material, un- favourable to England.
(Lady Hester Stanhope, a niece of Whether the Colony itself reaps all the younger Pitt, died in 1939. Find- ing the restrictions of ordinary the benots it should from such a
society intolerable she left England situation is more than doubtful; in 1810 and finally settled In 1814 nevertheless it is likely that any one among the half-savage tribes on the will cavil at Government's decisionslopes of Mount Lebanon, where for toutuse it exchange fund profits the remainder of her life she lived In the style of an Eastern potentate in the manner proposed. It is im-
surrounded by slaves and exercising perative to Hongkong that Britain almost despotic power:}, wins this war; wherefore every effort we can make, whether great or small.
to help the Mother Country in this enormous task, must be given its due credit." Which is why the individual should eschew the idea that, because
ally insignificant; and there is the Bomber Fund created by the Hong- kong Telegraph" and the "South China Morning Post" Their objects are public dentical; to encourage a whose future welfare, freedom and
Government is making such substan prosperity depends entirely on the tial war gifts, there is no call for him ability of the British Empire, to win to make his own effort. The old ttg this war and to achieve that objective "Every little helps must be taken in the shortest and most effective way sacrifice possible.
·Hterally. The voluntary
still remains the most potent and We hope, therefore, that Govern- effective type of, gesture, Thousands ment's latest gesture will prove | a | will make enforced contributions be stimulus to the community to make fore the year's end through the war further and greater efforts to swell taxation, but there remains plenty of the coffers of the various war funds.
Not
only is more money needed, but
I heard someone who had been in
Madrid, when Oghting reached the outskirts of the city.
men on leave, and aro carn- There is a front-line icecreaming the thanks of the War Office and the welfare or-
girl.
Her kiosk is surrounded with barbed wire and weapons of war have replaced bathing huts. Herganisations. stock of spades and buckets and fishing nota is not in much demand. But her icecreams are.
Men who have come off sentry duly find her kiosk very welcome. Dozens of times this giri has hurriedly closed her shutters and dashed to the shelter of a basement house opposite," when ̈ alren or gunfire have been heard.
Hotel Adolf”
There in the farmyard which has become a military position. Ducks st waddle in the pond, the old farmer goes about his duties. And in the middle of the yard I have seen men, stripped, round buckets. having their morning wash and shave.
A one-time country cottage, at cross roads, has been renamed "Hotel Adolf." A concrete pillbox is labelled "Picca- dilly Olreus"--the label la property enamelled and stamped, and goodness knows where it came from.
Up on the cliks an inn has become the headquarters of a unit si a focal defence post. The back parlour, where the hoilday maker used to gain with the locals, fa labelled "platoon head. quarters," and the civilian who happens to go in for drink is regarded as an intruder."
Peculiarly solid road barricades havo become the subject of soldiers' front- line humour. One I passed was chalked *Don't bend," and another. "Hitler's toll gate and the sentry with fixed bayonet seemed a pretty enclent toll- keeper.
Food From Fields
Townspeople have been quick to adopt Ons shop has the soldiers humour. legend. Haircut inished if alren zoez," and another proclaims, " We don't intend to run sway. Here we are adi here we stay."
Sometimes the cliffs of France show up, bright and clear, "The Fatherland looks well to-night" people say, and the soldiers' laugh that follows would hardly bring a smile to Hitler-not. If he knew the British soldiers' laugh.
Mushrooms play a part in the domes La life of the front-line soldier. · Many' of these little front line camps are ant up in open country. Beveral times. I have seen soldiers returning to their tent or billes with, mushrooma. The men have quickly learned which are the best felda:
A few mushrooms cats be a great help, to the cooking resources of these small units of seven or eight men, acaitered on the highways and byways of the front line
Much of the cooking is done by the men themselves. In other casos nation are brought by road in travelling kit "chens, using a hxybox system.
All over the country groups of men ̈engaged in this new defence of Britain Srare settling down to a front-line Hie de distinctive in its way, an trench-life in the last war.BRYAN
Many a lonely cottage or country farmhonen now has fie regular quote of
are
There is no organised move- ment, but prople in every walk of Life
spontaneously Inviting troeps to spend a few hours at home with them, and the troops all declare it is the best part of their leave.
The secretary of St. Stephens House, the Toc H centre opposite the Houses of Parliament, told me "There have been many cases of with people getting acquainted men on leave and either inviting them home or giving them a day or evening out.
"When the men return here they are delighted with the hospitality, no matter how humble it was.
"Many of them find amusements for themselves, seeing the sights of London and going to a show, but that palls after a time when they are alone and nothing seems quite so welcome to the man who can't get to his own home as a few hours in someone else's home."
"The High Spot"
I talked to an infantryman who was otic of a parly of four made up by a Kent businessman and his wife on Saturday afternoon, taken to tea, to a theatre and on to a supper dance at night.
"It was a wonderful day's out- ing," Private Harris told me. "It made the high spot of my leave.
"But in a way it embarrassed all of us. It must have cost a lot of money and we could not pay our share.
"People should not imagine that it is necessary to spend a lot on enterixining us.
"I have found from talking to many of the other men on leare who have been almliarly enter- tained that they would have been quite as happy inken home to ten, eat home-made cakes, listen to the radio and made to feel they were enjoying civilian home life for a few hours."
Combats Boredom.
The War Omco 1 learn, is still "very anxious to combat boredom "among men on leave who are put
of touch with their friends, TM Take 2, Tommy home to tes," would be a magnidcent slogan för the public to adopt," one important Army officer told me. It would. prevent many men going off the rails for want of something to da...”
Men on leave want a little, feminine society, but not neces sarily of the glamour girl kind,
The motherly woman who pro 'vides 'some good, home-made cakes and's cup of tea, and makes a chap feel at home for a few hours done something for the welfare of the men that sot all the' organizations
room for voluntary. eHOLLKOR SK more subscribers Hitherto donatiops ruests young men ; of the front se put together can achieve.*RS
Buch efforts we are glad to see are have come from too small, a xestion Bein# xtxítali ted
WOT of the community; there is room and prontinues to function happy at all opportunity for many thousands
Môn D kind - whơnd date have made "WO:26
tions" to do so inuwen
and mon
who are cloomed former met LESDAY
some places road-houses have be one milliary headquarters and rose Adana monceal, alcaid shelters, and;
AP other thingps." I saw CD with the legend,
#Parachutists served at 12 Hours? 24
ticular, who need this rich entertainment, because for the there la not the regular pIORISMETY
of activities such as is arranged fo "the overesKA MAZUJU
occupied France, that roufe.became irrja
posible.
It seemed that supplies would haya to stop. There was only one route, through Petsamo in Finland, but
was dificult
The supplies were not stopped. The
British Red Cross got into touch with the International Red Cross at Cieneva, and they sent 60 tons of food, wort c9,000, direct from Switzerland into Germany, to the British prisoners.
TWO-THIRDS COMPLETE
Last week a w route opened through Lisbon, ACTORS Epain, and -thancă to. Switserland...
The problem was how much food lo send. There were many more prisonera of war in Germany than before-but how many?
Nobody knows exactly, not even the War Office, not even the Germans them- selves, who, a fortnight ago, naked Dr. Marcel Junod, of the International Red Droen, to go from Switzerland to occu- pied France to help them sort it out.
The normal procedure is for the list of prisoners to be sent, to the British Prisoners of War Bureau in Berlin, which hands it on to the American Amd bassador and the International Red Cross in Geneva (we hand our lists to a similar bureau in London, and to the. Bwiss Ambassador).:
The American ambassador in Berün and the Red Cross in Genevs both park the list on to London, and relatives are informed. The whole process normally takes about three weeks.
This time the chaos in Europe de- layed thinga, and it is only now that the data are starting to pour through They are coming.night and day-so Inst that the Red Cross in Geneva hax increased the number of girls in its Index department. from 500 to 1.500.
All the names are being telegraphed to London as quickly`as possible, and Mr. R. A. Butler was able to announce on Tuesday, that the names" of two- thirds of all the British prisoners of war had reached Geneva, SMAR
Acting ou that information, and the amount the postal authorities 'could bandle. the people in St. James's Palace made up their minds bow much to send. 12.000 PARCELS A WEEK
They have large quantities available. Last week they sent: 12,000, parceli, and this week they are sending the same.
- In the same way, of course, the derw man Red Cross, has been getting sup- plies of extra food sri comforts to Greg man prisoners in this country, du Ples Bo, in St. James's Palson yesterday I was able to watch" the 'wonión packers making up the parcels; stacking them.': into great heaps, labelling them with distinctive addressensul 25AW
It is a triumph that the service to British prisoners has been uninter rupted by the last few weeks, but do not Imagine that; the worries of the Red Cross are over, Mars, And They must. bare a neutral Inter- mediary between the two it warring nationalTo-day they, have Spain, but: who can say how long, in this Europe any such route for supplies can lasty Be an idea has grown up which may "perhaps."be" turned intoŭreality,!? Could; not some little island be set naida 'sa 1. safe clearing hours for prisoners zip- piles passing, both ways?, CISSP bit« Could; nof; both sides? guarantee,†Be
safe paisage of a regular service of sup-53 piles to and from that land/From escht Warring Docentry "A to 1:encha warring country) C
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