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hours after the Ger- Within two hours they mans accupied Guernsey, had taken charge of the few of the Guernseymen island, although few Guern seymen knew they were knew they were there. there at all.
Fred Hockey, the signaller Those who did know real- at the end of St Peter Port ised it was hopeless to resist arms and no am- harbour, who later escaped with no from Guernsey and was able munition to speak of.
The officers went to the i to tell me this story of the German occupation, did not telephone exchange and dis- himself know that he had connected it. been invaded until some 18
FUNNY SIDE UP
By Abner Dean
Cope, 1914 by Colled Fonlara Syndicate, Jac
"You can nover tell what the future holds in store for you...when I was a kid they said I was a born loader!"
They hurried to the north- hours after it happened. ern tip of the island, where On the morning of Sun- the cable runs to England, day, June 30, he saw a Ger- disconnected it, and warned man plane land somewhere the man in charge that if he touched the cable gear he in the south, and speedily would be severely punished. "The policeman had no definite news either. He asked rise again. In the afternoon
Then they took charge of me what things were like, and I he saw another plane dip,
the other cable at the south- ́said, 'Very slack. Except for
don't know quite what to make of that."
LARKEN-On December 29, 1940, at and that one did not rise. eastern point, that leads to those planes going over, and 1
3
Jean, p.m.,
the beloved daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Percy
Larken, aged 0 years. Cortege
All that evening he watch- France. will pors the Monument at 5 pm. ed large, lumbering planes
going back and
to-day.
The
At that time Fred Hockey -
"The policeman said that all
the coast of France, and all though he guessed there was the best, and it was his belief
Hongkong Telegraph. that night he heard the
Monday, December 30, 1940.
Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20015
THE pred "special to the Telegraph”
drone of their engines.
Saw Nothing But of Germans he saw Indiexte news akong Zelegraph to nothing the following morn- under the provisions of the Telecommuni- ing, and it was only after- Tears the fadication "UP is received in wards that he learned- how Hongkong on the date of publication by the invasion had taken place,
which is strictly copyright
cations Ordinance, 1034. Ruch news
the United Press Associations, who re-
serve all rights and forbid republications, so that he could tell it to me
in detail...
either wholly or in part without previous arrangement.
"A Victorious New Year"
TO-MORROW is New Year's
Eve-eve of a year fraught with
tremendous possibilities. It may well see eliminated from the world the cruel, avaricious de- spotism of dictatorship; this-at- least is the hope and the New Year wish of that part of the universe whose faith in the rightfulness and righteousness of freedom and democracy re mains unshaken.
But ere this total destruction
This is what happened.
some dirty work going on.
the Germans had arrived.".
The
The Mere Man
of 1914-18, 'It was
"I got my bicycle and went Growing After the Great War This is the second in-home," and still there W38 stalment of the first full nothing unusual to see. description of the occupa- island was very still, except for Our Own widely realised tion of the Channel Islands the sound of those planes and Food by the Nazis, told by Fred the sound of the sea. Hockey, of St Peter Port,
to
:{
DUDLEY BARKER
"I was off duty for the after At about half-past ten on that Sunday morning a noon," he said, "and I had just had dinner, and was going off German plane circled and with George, Harold and landed on the Guernsey air- friend to spend a few hours on port, which was deserted.
the beach.
in Brilain that there was need to make the country as self-
"It was a lovely night. Every-suefent as possible in the matter |of food. Obviously, complete self- thing was all right when I got sufficiency, in insular territory with home, so I just went to bed.
a large population, cannot be attain ed. Yet, there were important Items"
First Germans in respect of which Brilons could
and whilst in
about ten minutes, when a-we could do, so we just went on "They were eating some fruit, tens of thousands of acres, which
of brutal Totalitarianism is
land. accomplished, there must be
was all about,
"Next morning I went down make themselves independent of out- to the sea wall at Bordeaux Bayside supply. But there was more which was the usual meeting talk than action; place for us villagers, and there many other countries, particularly in
tural experiments and conservation. were about a hundred people the totalitarian states, vast agricul- there, sitting on the wall, talk-
schemes were seen, British people ing, looking out to sea, a
made no progress in this direction. "They knew I had been The Briton, in a peaceful period,, is duty at the harbour, so they not easily roused from his dislike of "That was when we saw the asked me for news but I had innovations, and it has remained for the present war to pull him from A German officer stepped German plane drop down to the none to give them.
"Then two German officers his lethargy. drove by in a car.
But what has been accomplished" from the plane, went into the airport, and although we waited
"They were the first we had already, by quickened effort with operations room, unbuckled it did not rise again. his revolver, and laid it on "We Sat Staring" been, and we were too surprised far-seeing direction from the Gov- to do anything but stare at ernment's food experts, has been the table. He was there for
"There didn't seem anything them.
gratifying. The latest news is that British plane came in sight to the beach and sat there all the which they had bought that have lain waterlogged, will soon be from the direction of Eng- afternoon, wondering what it morning from Le Riche's shop in under cultivation as a result of St Peter Port, paying in German land-drainage schemes being pushed marks. The car was a Guernsey ahead in many parts. of the country, "The boys didn't have the car they had commandeered. Land which has been decollet for mondays of anguish and anxiety; it The German officer ran so heart to go bathing. We just "They were driving alone, years will now "grow for victory."
is inevitable. The enemy of our hastily to his own plane that sat there, staring at the sea, and cool as you plense, in the sun- So successful have agricultural shine, towards Fort Doyle. We plans in Britain become from the "It seemed to make it worse stared at them, and they smiled pooling of brains and energy that there is a temptation to ask ourselves ing him he will become desperate volver, and took off again, that all this was happening in at us and saluted, and as he sees Nemesis overtak- he forgot to pick up his re- not talking very much.
Then they here in Ilongkong, we cannot de the same. Different geographical and more vindictive. Experts The airport was silent. such perfect sunshine, and such were gone.
"Nobody said anything, except and economic factors naturally will. in military strategy appear to be
that I At half-past two in the a peaceful place.
muttered something require plans suited to
particular problems and needs, but, convinced that Hitler must and
invasion of afternoon a German plane "We went home for tea, and about, "There go the square if some concentrated effort is made, will attempt an
there is no reason why we should work at St Peter Port. All the "Well, that answered all our not be equally successful in our bid Britain; and the people of Bri-landed on the airport again, then I got on my bicycle to go to headed pigs." tain are alive to the danger. and this time three officers people were standing by the questions, the Germans were to make this Colony, if not self- suelent, at least less dependent co They stand ready to meet and got out (one of them re-doorsteps again, and some cute here all right, so the meeting on other sources, for some of our food. repulse any such threat. They
knew no more than they did. home to breakfast.
With regard to vegetables, poultry are not boastful about their claiming his revolver from to ask if I had any news, but I the seawall broke up and I went!
"Whlie I was sitting at break-nnd dairy goods, we have seen the ability to defeat Hitler's final the table in the operations "I cycled on into the town, and
enterprise of certain small local ex- still I saw nothing unusual, fast in my kitchen two more periments schlove fruition. The con- throw for the domination of room).
German motor bikes that they made to supply a good deal of Europe and a large part of the They approached a soli- except that everything seemed German soldiers went by, on viction grows that Hongkong can be quiet and nervy. There were no must have brought with them in own food, and Government, to whom rest of the world, but their quiet
the matter must be of vital concern, standing Germans to be seen.
the planes. They didn't inter- should urgently consider, the matter. determination is backed by con-tary policeman
"I went out to relieve my mate fere with anybody,
from the point of view, of economy fidence in their fighting men and near the airport, and asked
as well as defence. material-confidence begat by him, in perfect English, to at the signal station, and he
I understand that Government has experience; the experience of the fetch, the officials of the asked me what I thought of Patrols On Roads
things now.
already made some preliminary in- "By noon the place suddenly vestigations into the subject, and great aerial victories in the island,
""Don't like the look of them,' seemed to be full of Germans, that a report on the possibilities has opening stages of the battle of Britain.
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Its
I was Interested the
other day to read
No Resistance I said. 'I believe that was a By nightfall they were all in been prepared. It is Hongkong's destiny to The policeman telephoned German plane, that came down their positions, and the German Queer
football patrola were out on the roads.
"And that's how the Germans Football that in
match in Europa. alt twenty-two players "Streamers, Confetti and Fun Galore" watch this grim and stupendous the station, and soon the on the airport.
struggle from afar; we can help bailiff and the police inspec- "He went off home, and I was
left alone in the signal station, occupied Guernsey. It made us Game with our money--and may it tor came down in the police There was nothing to do. No. laugh a bit, a day or two later, held by the referee. They were al
were ordered off the
never be more lavishly given
body came near me. No ships to read the German communique lowed to come back later to continue.
about it, which was printed in the game. W than in the now year of 1941- but it will be hard to avoid a
came into the harbour.
our newspapera.
The report did not mention what The German, communique action was taken, but I hope the Drone of Planes
said:
referre, stood the offendera, in tho British island of corners of the changing-rooms until "It was all deadly quiet, except "The. for the drone of the big troop Guernsey was captured in a they felt nahamed of themselves,
A friend of mino tells me that the carrying planes that started to daring coup de main by detach- come over about six o'clock and ments of the German Air Force. quearest game of football he ever "In an air fight the German saw was in Turkey,There were the terrible ordeal which they New Year for only by victory kept it up all night.
"At midnight one of the local reconnaissance aeroplanes shot about forty thousand people on each wide, no goal-posts, and, as far as ba are suffering to-day and which in the battle against Hitlerism
can the world realise happiness policemen came to relieve me down two Bristol Blenheim could judges do baliz and prosperity which, in normal (one of the signallers had bomberROWBWAST times, are the sentiments, ex-slipped away at the last moment TO-MORROW BWASTIKA,
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