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January 14, 1941,
Among the Germans
in
Occupied Brussels
The first leaves are falling as I sit in the park opposite the Royal Castle in Brussels before my departure in the second week of September. Children are playing round the big pond, which brings up memories of the Luxem-
*********** on the back, and acting as if they
had received a welcome sign
This article comes from a Correspondent who, after five: had not merely won money but years' residence in France, left Paris in Juno, tramped to Bordeaux, then returned to the occupied capital for a short stay, and at last, finding his way to Brussels, remained there during August and carly September.
to a
from Heaven..
province,
Arc
no particular reason and most of Belgian Whispers
In The Grip Of
Terror
Living in Belgium you feel there is something in the Ger- man machine that does not work as smoothly as it should. There appear to be two distinct fea- tures, the military and the True as this may be of the economic, which are often out of Germans in Brussels, it would be gear. When economic plans too much to conclude that their break down the military take wariness, disgust, or general dis- charge. In spite of the de- enough to bring moralized temper of the troops, the military machine still works them to open revolt. It may through inertia with tolerable -seem madness, it surely is some efficiency, and it would be wrong
The Germans in Belgium dre over-organized and therefore in- efficient, as many of the numer- ous departments often work bourg Gardens in Paris. Toy is that they do not live up to the to-day. For they are not used to against one another, wittingly boats sail across the dark creed imposed on the super- suffering directly as a people or unwittingly, and cancel out. waters and young voices fill racial citizens of glorious and during war. The bombing of The highest authorities the air as the children laugh victorious Great Germany or Berlin and Hamburg is making sometimes quite ignorant of im- maintain the dignity which their them tearful. Yet I am convinced portant things done within their and shout. From the main citizenship enjoins. They are it is not only this which has turn- entrance on the other side of certainly in the main tired, war- ed their stomach against this the park comes the faint wary, and demoralised
war: they are just sick of it for sound of trams and motor high degree.
This statement is not based on them are not Nazis at heart. cars. You cannot hear the wishful thinking but on actual tramp of German army observation and first-hand ex- boots here, but you know it perience. Intimate and uncon- is there on the pavements, strained contact with German Barbed wire shuts off the cen- soldiers, officials, and women in tre of the park, and German Belglum to-day, makes the pro- wuntries guard the wireless sta- pagarida to which we have been tion which has been put up there subjected, the official bulletins next the children's playground and newspapers we have read among green lawns and flower both in German and in French, beds.
Heem unreal. Rarely, indeed approval are On one side of the park flics scarcely ever, can you hear the swastika flag over the Royal among the many on 13th January, 1941, to Phyllis, Pulace; on the other side, the uniforms in Belgium any of the form of madness, but these to regard the soldiers as on the
street as well as the courtyards, the high-flown phrases about people are in the grip of terror, road to an early revolution. halls, rooms, and. corridors of victory, greatness, and invincibi- terrified to death, and will never It is often said, and with the former Parliament and Gov- lity. On the contrary, the Ger. find strength and will power of ernment buildings swarms with
of all Germans are out of sym- lendera. German soldiers, for all these mans in Belgium betray a sur themselves to oppose their Nazi apparent truth, that nine-tenths
prising lack of faith in the pro-
pathy with their Nazi masters, premises have been taken over
paganda of their Government. The Belgians, who clearly but if this is really so they are by the invaders.
Only yesterday I heard it realize the obvious demoraliza- the passive nine-tenths, who will The uniforms are manifold in
German officer say quietly that tion of the German troops in not of themselves rise in active colour and design, dark green. light green, dark grey, light he thought the Germans would their country, are equally con- revolt against the active one- grey, many shades of browns and find it impossible to invade and vinced of their powerlessness to tenth. But there is another blues, mixtures of black and defeat England. "Our people do take any sort of revolutionary possibility, which brown, black and white, and not know the English," he initiative.
petent observers incline to re- other combinations. All are explained, "but I have spent
BIRTHI
BLISS: At the Kowloon Hospital,
wife of Mr. A. S. Bliss, n són.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
Tuesday, January 14, 1941, Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20013
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arrangement,
either wholly or in part without previous
LULL IN FREE CHINA
AFTER three and A half
German
Home com-
A Belgian workman put the gard even as a probability. adorned with some kind of many years among them in their case in a nutshell the other day
The stunned spirit of the weapon, a rifle or revolver or a country.”
when he said, "They tell us they Belgians has largely recovered, rather ridiculous looking sort of
detest the war and want to go and the word "rovolution" is dagger dangling at the hip.
home, but they are here all the often whispered. It was heard For these the Belgians have their
same. That is all that really now and then as far back as own facetious pet name.
counts." He added, with the air August, but only in a vague and of a conspirator, "But you wait dreamy way. and see, In 1918 we let them all spoliation of the country which go home. This time not one of has not yet reduced the people them who lingers shall leave the to the apathy following long and country: there is room for all gradual starvation has aroused
intense resentment. of them in the canal."
tion with some satisfaction, not officials. unmingled with bright hopes for the future. With the goodwill of most of the world on her
side and with considerable as-
sels and potential assets forth-
coming from the democracies and Russia, Free China has the treasure she has found in the pacific west.
-tremendous-resources-to-add-to-
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
But the economic
op-
the
It
Sick and Tired. German soldiers in Belgium Some nine-tenths of the Ger- are frequently heard to declare man military here walk about in they detest this war, that they years of war the Chungking high black boots, which are are sick and tired of it and want Government can survey its posi-worn even by the railway to go home. At first one can scarcely believe one's ears and wonders whether it is not some sort of trap or astute new form of propaganda, but that idea
The attitude of the Belgians For the moment only the soon passes and the conviction is towards the invader is clear, and spirit of revolt is there, ready to Brussels is full of these boots. formed that the "victorious" the Flemish people also appear take shape if practical You cannot forget them. If you German soldiers are seriously not so delighted as the Nazi portunity should arise. At the close your eyes the sound of their demoralized. At the slightest Government would have the beginning of September tramp haunts you, be it by day inducement, and often without, world believe. It seems now that, good old La Libre Belgique up- or at any hour of the night. they will produce photographs faced with the Germans, they peared again on the scene.
is believed that, when the mo- And as accompaniments to the of their wives, children, dogs, are all cally Belgians and their ment is ripe and active revolt The terrific bombardments perpetual tramp, tramp, tramp, or other pets, and talk at length mutual antagonisms fade at the becomes a fact in France or any of Japanese aviators have you hear the sharp shouts and about the bombing of their home prospect of having the country other occupied country, it will failed to dislodge the Govern-commands of the men who wear towns, the permanent dangers in carved into bits, The people of rapidly spread to all certainly ment from what seems to be its them, the noise of their in- which their families live while Belgium feel now that the have to Belgium. last stronghold; the morale of numerable motors, carts, tanks, they themselves aro or seem to been defeated by treachery. the civilian population lastrucks, motor-cycles, buses, and be in relative security marking They have no one clear idea The movement, if movement withstood the harrowing ex- overhead the roar of aeroplane time. Encourage these senti- as to who has brought them to it may be called, appears for the periences of rape and pillage, engines. There is no escape, for mental bullies to talk about their present plight, but all in present at least to have little or wholesale slaughter and fifth if you go into a restaurant or letters from home and you soon Belgium know to-day that it is no taint of Bolshevism, for columnist subterfuge; the army shop, especially a food shop, any feel you have them on the verge not the English who have betray- Communists and Nazis are is strong and well trained; the hotel or bar, boulevard or square, of tears. air force, is being reborn, and the scene is everywhere domin-
ed them, though the Germans. lumped together in the minds. So far as can be judged, most have sought to propagate this looked upon as traitors. The of most citizens of Belgium and the industrial life of the coun-ated by men and women in Ger- of the soldiers now in Brussels conception. try is settling down into co-
man uniforms.
only tangible thing in the goal have been some two years in ordinated paths from which will Their names are perplexingly
It is touching and curious to towards which minds tend is the emerge a regulated economy to numerous. Besides the Deutsche arms.. If asked about the end observe how they contrive to liberation of Belgium from for- offset the unsettled turmoil of Wehrmachtangehorige
of the war they generally shrug spread the news of the B.B.C. eign domination. (the the vast "no man's land." military proper) there are mem- their shoulders and show 110 They listen where and when they
The absence of large scale | bers of the Arbeitsdienst, pleasure in the prospect of the warfare of recent months has Technische Nothilfe,, Arbeitsor future. They certainly criticize can, in spite of the heavy penalty is not often raised. It is diffi encouraged a slackening off in ganisation Todt, Streifendienst, the occupation of Denmark and Servants, waiters, tram conduc- how the King stands with his the martial intensity that pre- Nationalsozialistische Volks. Norway, and they wonder what tors, indeed everybody, does his people in Belgium. Something vailed throughout the first three wohlfahrt, Hitlerjugend, various they are doing in Belgium, best to pass choice items along akin to incipient propaganda for years. Japan has other fields kinds of Civil servants now in "which will never become Ger- as fast as possible, and all listen Leopold, le Roi Humain is afoot to explore and both sides have military uniform, bank clerks, man, anyway."
with delight for the sound of and many people wear a tiny felt the impact of the European transport oficials, Kraft durch. They do not want to fight, they British aeroplanes which come gift crown in their buttonhole as Freude men and women, and the can casily be induced to profess after dusk to bomb the Germans a symbol of adhesion to his The danger to China is that she Gestapo.
that they personally have no in their midst. may be lulled into a false Co- But the striking thing about great sympathy for the Nazi placency; hoping that hostilities
these hundreds and thousands of Government, they obviously have may tail off into a mere stand- ing on guard, she may grow weary soldiers and semi-soldiers, rang, no firm faith in ultimate victory, of war preparation as well she ing from youths to grey-headed and the view can often be heard might after the herole struggle she
men, girls, nurses, and what not, that, "if we do not succeed with has already put up.
Battles are not won by retreating,
our invasion of England in tho. In spite of the thorough Ger- and while this fact and the however. A great Chinese offensive Chungking by the Democracies. course of September-and we man militarization, or perhaps belief that he is causing the is the last thing that the Japanese China should learn how and he shall probably not succeed, because of it, the Belgians show Germans difficulties tend to im- would care to face during the next whom the money is being spent. few months and such an event might The recent outbreak of rice heard though we still hope, of course their real sentiments whenever prove his position, he is still for well force them to reasonable peace ing, the artificial prices of luxuries we shall never win this war." they have an opportunity. On from enjoying the affection of terms to free their hands elsewhere. in the Free capital, the life of case Without any Inducement they September 1 there were horse the whole of the Belgian people. China must look after her own fate which
are many wealthy. Chinese if she
retards now occasionally add, "And that races near Brussels, and among the living persunde
in Hongkong, are all retard. nes she would
the horses was one called Bri- troops to evacuato
the ing influences on the
stendy
Kapa means revolution." have a solid gradient which Chiang
We know German and Ger- tannique. Nobody seemed to basin for future promeries would
has pursued. So far the signs are mana sufficiently to remember know anything about this horse, not 100 serious; they con be
conflict.
could
nelther Britain nor
which
grudge her. By voluntarily accept che
prescribed by the Germans.
#
'Britannique" Wins
checked. But something is needed some of their re-actions, how but it seemed that everybody ing the stalemate which has now to divert the Chinese away from the cruelty and sentimentality are was backing it to win. Well, na
been
The problem of King Leopold
cult at present to say definitely
cause. The King appears to be in some sort of conflict with the Germans, though no trustworthy information is available on the nature of their disagreements. He is more or less a prisoner,
Women SmokersTM
More Careless WATERBURY, Conn. (UP)---Wo--
reached Chungking also risks
risks dangerous suggestion that the war typical features of their charac- Chesterton says, the curious men shoppers who smoke, and not moral disintegration by removing is as good as won because Ching is tor. A man who does not hesitate thing about miracles is that they men, crente fire hazards in day are the object round which the re- now morally aligned with generation of China is focussed. mocracies and because Japan is to machine-gun
board. women and sometimes happen. And a mir- ment stores, according to the city fire She must fight or make peace. The allowing her attention to wander,
The board voted to ask for an Chinese cannot be kept for ever in Now indeed is the time for China Children will alt down and acle happened that day: the dark a state of pent-up patriotism unless to rally her people for a great driva Cry, yes, actually shed tears, at horse Britannique came in first, ordinance forbidding smoking In the effort to win the war is sus-and one which may happily, prove the though of his pet canary and the crowd lost all restraint, department stores. Members #14 Lained.
There is also the question of the her alm-to rule her own people and decidedly in sentimental mood tannique," clapping one another infiammable materials.
the last effort necessary to achieve being killed by a cat. They are laughing, roaring, shouting "Bri- men rarely snake while shopping. vnst funde made available to country under, one flag.
"
but women do, and drop ashes near,
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