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"THAT VILLAGE
RAIDED
Crn
AGAIN
was
"That village" in a South-
which county selected a few weeks ago for bombing by Herr Hitler has been bombed again. "That village" consists of two duck ponds, one by the church and the other close to the pub, known to the older residents as the Club.
There is also a delightful old- world green round which are clustered some old houses, the most beautiful of them a Queen Anne house, with virginia creeper growing over its portals, ancient shutters anfeguarding each room, and an old-world garden stretching away at the back with two well-known land- marks, a gigantic plane tree and an almost perfect beech tree; box hedges and snails.
The latest raid chose the Queen Anne house in, which resides the largest family on the green, an old-fashioned family with many sons and daughters.
Apparently some Central are the writers Josef Kopta and Jan their machinery to Russin and to hold should retire when there
is hard by the Hongkong Telegraph to Europeans thought that the
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HITLER WEAKENING
HITLER and his
far-reaching reverses since the
Grmela,
South America.
The shutters and the ancient thick brick walls suggested that no air raid shelter was neces- sary, so the schoolroom, at the back of the house was appointed the place to which all the house-
was an air raid, not that any member of the family thought everywhere--execpt for under the provisions of the Telecommuni- Germans, as they gained Specious Devices Awst
some armament factories-the Ger-that such a retirement would bears the ladication "UP" is received in fresh territories to the north In their usual way the Germans mans are depriving Czech industries ever be necessary.
favour of German. No tesa serve all rights and ociations, who re- and west, would become try to deceive foreign opinion by a in
FALLING SHUTTERS few specious, demagogie devices. thoroughly German is the deporta- either wholly or in part without previous more tolerant towards their wages (they say) have been in- tion of industrial workers to the
Some nights ago the shelter creased; and they point to the two Reich. earlier enslaved peoples.
was tested. The curious hiccup wages packets which the workers Under the latest compulsory labour
German aero- Bohemian now receive: the Arst containing the law all Czech men from 16 to 70 ping noise of a Even in the "Protectorate" there were a wage at the old rate, the second have to work where their masters plane was heard overhead. Down ostentatiously containing the amount tell them. Probably hurdly less than the stairs from the old corridors military few a very few who of the increase given since the Ger- 300,000 have already been taken rushed the family, and only machine have suffered three nursed such beliefs; they entered ir sus
across the frontier. From the indus- The Germans also declare that trial area around Morovska Ostrava just in time, for suddenly the atart of the European war. The played up to the Germans rationing in the Protectorale is less 11,000 were taken off within a few shutters seemed to be falling
They weeks. in the hope of future reward, strict than in German itself.
The deportations are carried inwards and then outwards, and first was the successful retreat How completely they misread pretend to show that they encourage out is ruthlessly from Bohemia as there was a dull and appalling
Czech movements by pointing to the from Poland. of the B.E.F. from Dunkirk, the National-Socialist mind is vlajka Party existing under their
thump. when Hitler thought that he seen in the reports coming from patronuge,
The shutters fell on the had the cream of the British Prague since the collapse of "They do not point to the reverse this? Part of it may be seen in a
side of these devices. Wages in certain amount of bland and faulty wooden floor with a clatter, and army in his grasp, but dis-France.
Was Hitler to unteach Mein some trades have indeed gone up a workmanship. Port may be seen on there was the sound of break- covered to his consternation
halfpenny an hour; but the worker the land. It is believed that the that five-sixths of the trapped Kampf and repudiate the whole has to pay either a third or two harvest will be less than half of ing glass; the window had men had magnificently escaped: doctrine of the Herrenvolk, the thirds more for everything he buys normal, and it seems as though some gone, and the room was full of In the in the shops. In reality he in far farmers have returned to the 1918 dust. The lights were at once the second was the failure of his German master race?
tacties of growing only for their put out and one of the daugh- aerial blitzkrieg on England
German mind success elsewhere worse off financially.
Rationing is better than in Ger- own households,
ters and her mother rushed into which was to pave the way for has meant that they can now many, but food is much scarcer than fast year they grew for others to the hall to telephone to the
little ever under the Republic. The Vlajka harvest; they saw their, produce a successful invasion during afford, not to show a September; the third has been leniency, but to be more ruth- Party exists-led by criminals whose taken off to Germany. Even this police record startlexi even Yon year the Germans have taken large
The family had to find other quar- the penetration of his so-called less in tightening_the_clamp.__
-stocks-of-potato-whether-for-food-ters, and finding.to-their-surprise, impenetrable defences by the
The fresh wave of arrests in Neurath, the "Protector"
The rank-and-fite of the party is or for fuel alcohol is unknown, that the house still stood, retired to
largely Bohemia began
of rif-raff or (Purchases of potatoes for Germany" the heavily shuttered dining-room. Royal Air Force and the conse- quent bombing of Berlin and France collapsed. The Gestapo
menswaggering Prague, cured the Vlajku on dozens of other highly impor-
storm the officers of the Czech tant cities within the Reich and Germun-occupied areas.
And now there are indications that Hitler is already visualising ultimate defent unless he can find better means of support than Italy. The German leader has tacitly admitted that, so far as he is concerned, the military | situation_ris-a-ris England in
and S.S.
What is the Czech reply to all
even Belores When the 5.S. men in have been heavy in Spol.)
5.S. men.
The
arrest of leaders
of the
Most of all the Czechs bide their
youths for the most part-be- National Solidarity Party, the crowd time and look for future deliverance. came aware of the muttering houd the Vinka as robustly as the The British Government's recognition of the Czech-Slovak Government In against them in Germany.
London had a bracing effect in many They were strutting through the streets of
Prague and National Solidarity Party is only one parts of the Protectorate, Vienna' while fathers of families and not the greatest, of the measures. The people saw in it a signpost to
the Germans lately taken by
to appler and brighter ways thun they and their own less athletic tants out the Czech way of life, have known under the Germans, for
whom to protect means to stile. brothers were in the firing line, political, economie, cultural.
All the rellts of the former pro- To justify their soft jobs at home the Gestapo and Black vincial autonomy under the Republic hove now been scrapped. The pro- Guards begun quite suddenly to vincial representative bodies, com-
western Europe is a stalemate; discover nests of rebellion in the mi and committees have been
disappeared.
Local government
officials
Since March 15, 1930, they have not haul executive power; but their
Universities Closed
in other words, that Britain has most unlikely places. In Prugue fought him to a virtual stand- | some of the men who had still on the western front. Now publicly welcomed the Germans disalution now is taken by Czechs he must direct his attention to |a year ago—and had been re- as yet another step towards the what he believes might be more viled for it by their compatriots simple incorporation of Czech terri- vulnerable fronts-Africa and were thrown into prison by tory within the Reich. the Middle East. But here the Germans. again he finds himself up After the collapse of France against that tremendous obsta- and the low Countries the ar cle, the British Navy, and rests were widened in scope. realises that without corres- | Within recent days many Social-
More significant are the barriers ponding nautical forces and Democrats and Left-Wing politi- against Czech teaching. Universities strategic bases, his quest is cians, hitherto unscathed, have and schools in Czech-Slovakia had foredoomed.
much the place that they live in Scotland to-day; getting education Hence the new intrigue with
was the goal of a young Czech and Laval and his pro-Nazi satellites have followed them. The Mayor the source of pride to his parents.
No Czech university is now open. for control of the French navy,of Frague. Dr. Klapka, until re- French bases in the Mediter-cently patted on the back by German setentille institutions are for his com-valing themselves of a recently ranean and French assistance, the Germans
given
leence to take apparatus or So Looks in Africa. This manoeuvre is placency, is now arrested.
stitute. Hitler's first blatant display of is the city's prominent official, from a Czech university in- weakness. It implies distrust Dr. Nestavak. With officials In some institutes little was left of Italy's strength (German have gone many of the remain after the destructive excesses of last military leaders have never at-ing educationists; and only the November: Unt little is now Im- mentary schools and secondary tempted to hide their feelings in usual Gestapo news is heard of periled. The building of Czech ele-
schools has been forbidden. them, this matter) and it admita an
Dr. Wenig (it has alrendy been All building materials, it is snid. inability to make further pro-reported) has been tortured until are required by the military-but gress without new contributing his mind has given way. A brother German schools are still being built. factors.
professor of his the Legal Faculty The stocks of publishers and book- of the Caroline University, Dr. sellers are confiscated en bloe: once It would be premature to Matejka, is somewhere unknown. So again, "required by the military." claim that Britain has Hitler on
In economie life there is the same story pf the run; but Britain has certain-
discrimination. For a num- ly made him pause and consider with every move producing afber of reasons, not wholly, German-
made.
Industrial production hns gituation for which the more telling counter-stroke; the fallen by a third. Fuchrer had made no previous word "blitzkrleg" has lost its The lack of raw materials may be provision. Slowly, but surely, real meaning; from now on it is chalked up to the British account. the initiative is passing from the country who can stick it the Certain examples of faulty work- Germany to the Allies; the days longest that will win. We beatmanship may be chalked up to the
Czech of spectacular Nazi victories are Germany in the last war because What is German-made is the de- over; before them lies the we could stick it; we shall do it tiberate closing of factories in tho drudgery of tactical warfare again.
Protectorate and the sending of
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and let the truth be told-all got under the spacious dining-room table as much, that is, of their bodies as they could squeeze under it.
In a short time A.R.P. officials arrived, and a cursory examination showed that a very large bomb had fallen on the lawn behind the house a fove yards from the room in which the family had been sitting. Nothing more was done unil the norning
ukme.
It was then found that a craler sanie 12ft. deep and some 25ft, across had been made on the old lawn. A small plantation, known always to the family as the island-for around it each one of them when young had delighted to cycle--had vanished.
A very old yew free some 30ft, in height was found later in the inorn- ing in the front garden of a bome some distance away. Before coming to rest I had made a large hole in the roof of a house,
All three doors at the back of the house had been blown out, although euch had been bolted and locked,
Each of them in times of peace, owing to age, had been very difcuti to open; the blast of the bomb had found the insk easy.
Round the corner of the old house there is a passage way between the
| stables, now the garage, and the house. At the end of that passage there had stood for 20 years & door which bad always defled opening... The bolts had rusted, the massive key in the lock would not turn-not even if a rod of iron were employed. The bomb had opened it with no apparent trouble and with no damage to the door.
The family having lived on the freen for many years, seldom If
close ever troubled to
windows. Although the windows at the back of the house were only a few yarda
from the bomb, those which had been left open suffered little damage. Every pane in the shut windows was brakani.
More strangely, a window on top landing had fallen outwards, |and through II must have passed a fragment of the bomb. I passed along the landing, through the open door of a bathroom, cut the wires suspending the electric light, as as would a pair of sharp cleanly scissors, and then passed on out of the window. That was the only broken pane in the front of the house.