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All Alert
To-day
Gibraltar
In
By C. H. James
GIBRALTAR, guardian of the fessionals who have "joined up western approaches to the for the duration" a surprisingly Mediterranean, stands alert to high standard is maintained. day in a vigil that has not been relaxed night and day since war began.
Cinemas and cafex are open,... A
Spanish variety company has been performing at the theatre, while recently 1 concert party from Madrid, recruited from personnel There was a time when, after of the British Embassy, and includ- nearly two centuries of undis- Ing Edgar Wallace's son, put op a show which wns greatly appre turbed peace, it was a fortress clated by the troops. In these and only in name; when small boys other ways every effort is made to relieve the tedium of life in the clambered unheeded over ob- fortress. There is curfew at 11 p.m., solete guns and the ancient after which only men on duty may walls were breached to make be abroad.
There is only one thing that wider carriageways. Now all is
annoys the soldier, and that is that changed. The fortifications have mails sometimes fall to arrive. His been strengthened and perfected feelings can be appreciated, especl-
ally at a time when the home coun to meet the fiercer menace of try is being subjected to air attack modern warfare; guns of every and his nearest and dearest exposed to danger wherever they are, Mail calibre watch the sky and sea; day looms very large in his thoughts. the large cosmopolitan populace. which once pursued a busy life unrestricted by permits and de- fence regulations has been evacuated.
Not A Leaflet
Bombardment
In repelling aerial attacks the Rock's À.A. Gunners have achieved few very encouraging results, and there
There are still some thousands remaining, but the is no doubt that the deadliness of the barrage which they put up anved defenders of the Rock far out- the Rock from serious damage in a cations Ordinance, 1935. Buch news as number them. An air of stern recent rald, when over 100 bombers bears the indication "UP" is received in resolve has replaced the formes langhed a daylight attack. Hongkong on the date of publication by
the United rear Axxočlations, who co- servo all rights and forbid republications,
either wholly or in part without previour
'arrangement.
careless gaiety of the place.
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"Why can't you grumblo about your income tax like other men-everybody thinks I'm married to a pauper!"
PRIVATE LIFE OF A PRIVATE-
The Ancient
of Tactics
Another article in the "Daily Herald" series by a journalist who recently enlisted in a Guards regi- ment.
Art
"I'll wound you," says the Sergeant, "Keep moving."
There is silence. Severely scratched by brambles we reach the bend and get under the shadow of the wall; creep up,
HE Tall Boy from Sunder- clutching our rifles. Tland, whose voice sounds It seems to me that we are doing like lemonade coming out of a pretty well. The enemy squats Within their shelters people s- tened to the roar and crash of burst-jug, says: "I liyuk teyucties." twenty feet away, quite unaware of
our presence. . . ing bomb and shell, an inferno of He means, "I like Tactics."
Then the Good Boy from Godalm-
1:0
Visits To Spain If round that doubly echoed off Tactics are the ringeraft of ing cocks his rifle. The clash of the
warfare. Without good tactics bolt seems to echo like the slam of the strongest force in the world an iron gate.
Instantly, the men fr the trench. would lumber about, a blind
yell like demons and open fire; one giant, a Carnera.
of them throws great dollop of Tactics are headwork, foot- wet clay, and yells "Bang!" work, feinting, and timing; they
That is a hand-grenade; il bursts teach you when to attack and on my helmet. We are all dead.
Rock, When the "All clear" sound- ed and they emerged they were sur There Is Time
prised to see comparatively little WOMEN ENSLAVED
damage. A rumour was circulated Spain atil provides the bulk that leaflets had been dropped: it was The woman
who exercises of Gibraltar's civilian fabour, afterwards discovered that a regi
mental office had been hit and the more authority than any other both male and female; the regimental files of one company had woman in the world is the workers swell the population. been showered over the town.
Auxiliary fire services, a civilian to get close, how to be tricky, Boy from Godalming with a dread- when to hold your punch; how "WHY, you horrible man." says Sergeant K, fixing the Good subject of an article in the considerably by day, but all re-
co-operated well in turn to La Linea to sleep. Re- organisation, American journal, The Living lations between Gibraltar and was not allowed to interfere with
ful store. "Oh, why do some people rendering assistance, and the raid how to outwit an opponent.
Out on the Commion we play have sons? See what you've done? Age, by Peter Engelmann, for neighbouring Spain are cordial the usual routine. The evening a rather grim little gamo of You've given our position away.
parade and the Ceremony of the soldiers. Sergeant G's squad Doo, you...
You've murdered your comrades. merly on the staff of one of the and it is quite obvious that no- Keys was carried out that evening, holds a trench.
We, under the We pause and rest. "Mebbe foremost German newspapers, body in Andalusia wants war--- Gallant work has been done, too, command of Sergeant K, have to there's keyuk for tea," says the Tall and now, like other freedom- in fact the very idea fills them as part of the day's routine, by the try to take it.
military experts in removing un-
We lurk in the bushes, armed loving Germans, an exile from with horror and dismay.
exploded bombs. Incidentally, one enterprising merchant has been rak- to the teeth. his native land,
One may still visit the Spanish te sixpences for the local Spit- THE Man from Leicester has
ing
Sergeant G's squad made rude towns in the neighbourhood, fire fund by charging to see the track
concealed himself behind
noises at us. We make rude noises has the right of an unexploded bomb through two blackberry bush: his lips are ly, because we lost the skirmish,
back at them; but only half-hearted- provided one
ceilings of his storerooms, the pro- woman is Frau Gertrud Scholz passes, but naturally everybody jectile finally coming to rest in the already stained with fruit-juice. In this manner we begin to learn Klink-She-holds-unrestricted on the Rock is too busy as a rule-floor-cutting-out-a-neat silhouette of In spite of the fact that we all the arts of subtle silence and imper
have our
ceptible movement—the technique of worries, and for travel, and the numbers who its shape sideways as it went.
are the cunning approach and the shock- The Spitfire fund now exceeds grown men, and have nicotine- ing attack the ancient and noble go are not large.
£4,000, and in many cases represents stained forefingers and wives art of Tactics in Warfare, With the evacuation of so monthly contributions of a day's pay and children, and have to keep
from soldiers and sailors as well as many non-combatants, the com- civilian workmen. It is hoped that our ears open for the drone of parative rarity of women is a enough will soon have been collected Messerschmitts, we all feel boy- noticeable feature of life in to buy Gibraltar's first Spitfire. As ish on Tactics,
most of the wealthy citizens who Gibraltar. Wives and families used to head subscription lists are
The name of this remarkable
control over thirty million Ger- women, and is rapidly tightening her grip on twenty million others now forced to live under the swastika. Under her rule no woman can call her body or her soul her own,
Frau Klink, through her tens of thousands of underlings, tells the German women how many children they must have, and when; what they shall wear, what they shall cook, and how. No one may publish a recipe not approved by authority. An agent may pop unexpectedly into kit- chens to see what is on the stove, on pantry shelves, and, above all, in garbage cans. The Ger man woman, indeed, is the hum-
ble creature of this female Fuhrer, and, like others of the Nazi leaders, has risen from poverty to wealth,
Prices, Sport
,
Sergeant K is whispering: "You see; if we go forward,
"Don't let me hear a whisper,
Boy from Sunderland.
"If yer mean lelke, saý kike. Can't yet talk English?" says the Lad from the Elephant
The Higher Savagery
The African tribes are filled with
dread,
As the flames of civilisation
spread.
•
And small is the wonder, seeing
how far They lag behind in the arts of
war.
•
*
Though they kill at times, and are
usually very
Fond of a barbecued missionary.
Or a tribal chief, as a last resort, They butcher a fellow in good,
clean sport.
At wholesale slaughter and trea-
cherous lures
amateurs.
• • •
The Sergeant whispers back-They rank with the rankest of "You mean poplar tree." "Sycamore, sure-ly!"
They haven't a tank 'or a long
range gun,
of servicemen have gone home, away from Gibraltar, this effort, fol- and such few Englishwomen as per head of the population to the bit of open space, and then they lowing on contributions of over £1 from here, we have to cross that remain are engaged in work con- general war fund, is very creditable, can mow us down or at least sidered sufficiently important for Both civilian and Army morale is be prepared for us coming.
"Now what we've got to do is, them to be given an exemption high. The only comment following from evacuation. Nursing sis- sent everyone to cover for half un in the road, and creep up along- an alarm one morning recently which work our way round that bend ters come foremost in this cate- hour was, "Well, thank goodness the side that wall-then drop on 'em gory, while some are wives of dlaner won't be cold to-day." suddenly.
The Army is very confident of its men serving on the Rock in
ability to deal with any situation mind! varying capacities. Some wives which may arise and does not cease
"There's a gap in the bushes who are working long hours yet to prepare for it. The troops attend contrive to do the housekeeping; to the welfare of the Rock apes, and farther on, so keep down, belly others are in hotels, but only it was remarked that their morale to earth, and move steady."
also apparently remained "unim- The Devon Gardener says: one hand is required to count paired."
"Please Sergeant, of think oi zee) their number,"
The other evening I watched a fi тал moving under that famous Scottish regiment carry out sycamore tree." the Ceremony of the Keys, a military ritual recalling over two hundred And The Stage years of history on the Rock, The heartening sound of the pipes echoed through the narrow streets as the "In the Army," whispers the Prices have risen on the Rock, Highlanders marched escorting the Sergeant, "there's no such thing and housekeeping is by no means Keys to Casemates for the symbolical casy, but there is no shortage of closing of the fortress.
asycamore tree. There's Crowds any essentials, Women's per watched them, including many Span poplars, and there's firs. If you can see the trunk of a tree with sonal requirements, however, are ards on their way back to Spain.
a bushy top, it's a poplar: if you] difficult to satisfy. Many dress shops have closed down, and Hope That Nazi can't, it's a bush; and if it's a long-shaped tree it's a fir. Think in bondage. Herr Engelmann feminine neods are not being catered for, so that women are
Wiles May Fail we've got time to argue about says that the campaign is being faced either with paying very
ruddy botany?" pushed in other countries. Good-high prices or going without, contours sattened in the rosy HE makes the signal which micans Forward. Wo slink looking and smartly attired Nazi In compensation, bargains may of the setting sun. Only the pipes girls have been sent on inter-off.
be had if a store decides to acil could be heard as this Scottish regi- towards the trench.
ment beat the Retreat, the Gates The Lad from the Elephant] were closed and the Key Sergeant says: "We could go up the road, national tours. Millions of pam-
The garrison's off-duty hours was escorted back to Government phlets have been distributed to are spent in normal ways that ilouse to return the Keys to the safe stop a bus, tell the conductor to put us orf over there, and takej cm by surprise." women in England, Scandinavia, appeal to the Briton-in boat- keeping of the Governor.
ing, bathing, cricket and football Algeciras, across the Bay, was "He thinks there's going to bel and America. The work was in their season, tennis and already darkening under the shindows buses and trams in No Man's
of the western fiflls, and one know begun immediately after the squash; they all help to use up that on both sides of the Bay people Land,"
snya tho Sergeant. Invasion of Denmark, Norway, the surplus energy which is were hoping that Nael wiles would "Somebody tell him thero's a the Netherlands, Belgium, and created by a confined existence, not manage to drag into the mael-war of.
A branch whips back and hits Amateur theatricals provide strom of war a land that is just re- France. It is the subjugation of entertainment in the evenings, war and so put back Spain's chances me in the eye. I'm wounded,"
covering from the horrors. of civil the whole world that is aimed at. With the addition, of some pro- of prosperity for years to come.
It is not only in Germany and its subject peoples that Frau Klink holds the minds of women
Gibraltar lay quiescent, its grim
RA
I say,
Of spies and diplomate norý a
one.
.
With a lack of skill that amounts
to crime,
They murder thele victims one at
a time,
•
•
Bonighted heathen, they live con-
tent
In innocuous unenlightenment. But the world has shrunk, for ill-
or good,
Till a savage can't live as a savage.
should,
The bushimen may have. to don
grey spats,
Drink ten and plot with the
diplomats.
They may have to give up their
quaint tom-toms,
For the manufacture of gas and..
bombs.
And many a well bred saysge
nation
May sink to the level of civilisa-
tion.
-Otto Freund