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Every three months men go away. "We get men poles apart in their per cent. of marks. That fellow la
was said in the last war that for every man In the line there were three men to make 4 newly arrived course of pun Atters "Such meri help one another. The him a cup of tea, ·
was having its first day at the bench, Cambridge man helps the labourer to Most of the men
new classes take their place. as qualified Army tradesmen; and standard of education. In the school now an Army tradesman, and if I at this mement wb have a Cambridge know anything of character, his life We went into a workshop where graduate and a pithead labourer. has been made."
In this war there must be ate in their lives had never used a use his head, and the labourer helps the Cambridge man to use his hands; about twenty, for, as war be Against their names on the roll that's the way it generally goes.
more technical
1.read their civilian occupations: and call comes
"I've met sonte, strange cases since bank clerk, cloth finisher, this school opened. I always makd mechancial, an army of techni- niter's mate, Joiner, bus conductor, a point of talking privately to each
P.O.
I
Their One Aim
clang and mechanics is required insurance agent, plasterer, handyman man in a new course, and discover an instructor, "nger," whispered
to make the equipment of the in factory, sull maker, electro-plater, ing bis civilian background. Army and keep'it'in repair.
carpet and ling motor firm,
driller for
First Chance
walked round the school and watched the men at work.
"They're quieter than usual be- cause you're a
if you weren't here, half of them would be singing nt their jobs; and that's a good sign. The diamantling of the twin rear axle of a gun tractor is a strong man's Job, but the heavier and the harder
This army of specially paid fliter try to turn a joiner into a gun been spent in trying to bring home the paper--and that's to get over-
Why
in wallpaper. So far, the War Office has
I asked some of them how long listed nearly 140. trades which they had been in the Army. Most carry with them special rates of of them had received a month's basle "On one occasion there arrived a the job, the louder they sing". pay. The last addition, just in- training, and had then been selected young man, aged twenty-four, who "And what do they think of the
had been pushing a barrow round the future?"
They have cluded in the list, gives an odd as likely tradesmen.
one thought, if you glimpse into the varied activi- wrongly there must be something streets all his life.
with the metho
the method of selecting
"His father died when he was a talk to them about it and I don't ties of the modern Army: it is these men?" I said to the Instructor, child, and this boy's whole life had say this because you may put it in "cinema projectionist."
make a wallpaper sales- a few shillings to support his mother seas and have a go."
I spoke to some of the men:- Army Tradesmen is something on into an engineer? Surely they and his smaller brother and sister.
"What's an average day's work?" ought to send you men with en- He could hardly write and he seemed quite new. It is the final proof, gineering backgrounds."
n bit dull and dazed.
I asked. if proof were needed, that we Ho surprised me by replying that "I said to him, 'Do you think you "Benchwork, stripping down, re- are up to the neck in true totali- his best men are invariably those campusa dead white. You're not and work on vehicles actually in this course?' And I saw assembling, a lecture, nolelaking. tarian war.
with no previous technical or en him turn gineering
experience. The
prize going to send me away?' he asked service." pupil of his previous course had been with a sort of blank look. Please Do you like the Army?" I asked a farm laboureri
don't send me away, guv'nor, for this another man. There are certain portions of is the first chance I've had in my "Not half," he replied. "This is heaven compared to where I've come As men from the listed trades every brain which have never de- life to learn a trade!
up. To think ferm, the training depot," "That pulled me enter the Army, they are given men with a genuine gift for skilled that it should take a war to give b "And you?" I asked another.
"I don't like the Army," he re- equivalent military duties, but, technical bench work are doing some man a chance to learn a trade. Of men is, there is still a shortage they are forced to try.
possess unless tad rewarded_enet
"He worked as if his life depcrided of them, and this the Army The trouble with the fellow who on it. He even learned to write and makes up by training recruits in has had previous experience is that spell. And he passed out with 08 140 different trades.
he knows a little, but not enough, All round us at this moment, beginning.
and he resents starting again at the und unknown to most of us, is Give me a baker's roundsman, or
Tradesman All
veloped," he said. "Thousands of
Hongkong Telegraph. great as the number of trades- know the digrerent, and they never course, I kept him; and how that plied, "but I like Hitler a lot less!"
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WAR'S NEW PHASE
GERMAN invasion of Yugo-Slavia and Greece opens a new phase in what is rapidly becoming World War II-a phose which Hitler certainly did wish would materialise .and which cannot, in the long run, prove of beneft to him. While sympathy goes out to Yugo-Slavia in that she has now to suffer the horrors of modem warfare, and to Greece because her experiences of war's frightfulness will be intensified, the fact remains that in this struggle
con-
the
against the evil forces of Nuzllern and Fascism, the present development in the Balkans offers a distinct strale- -gical-advantage to the Deniocracies.
Whatever the immediate outcome of the Balkans war-and it is ceivable that the Nazis, with numerical and mechanised superiority will secure territorial gains, in both countries--the east to the invaders. in men and materials will be excecd- ingly heavy and must inevitably weaken the Nazis' military potential. Hitler has bern forced to divert his attention from the all-absorbing prospect of invading Britain to the task of consolidating his present con- trol over southeastern Europe. And his armies are to ineet well trained, well equipped forces whose past and present history as fighters abundantly proves them to be amongst the best in the world.
Overshadowing Hitler's Balkans campaign is the knowledge that the
fullest ald possible is to be given both to Yugo-Slavia and Greece by Britain and the United States. London has been markedly reticent in making any statements regarding the pre- sence of British forces in Grecer and it is clear from the different estimates given in Berlin and Rome that the Axis Powers are in the dark concern- Ing the numerical strength of those forces The important point is 'that In this case the British are established along a strategien) front, prepared and walling to strike; there can be no Norway this time. Furthermore, the Allied troops will be defending in terrain very much to their advantage, Retreat to certain points may be inevitable, even desirable, but that retreat can be rendered so costly to tho. Invaders that the sum effect for them will be defeat, noi victory.
The Allies can enter upon this new phase of the war with high hopes. Losses there must, be; perhaps dig.
.
It is something the night school pioneers could never have imagined in their wildest dreams.
to
Unorthodox
A few streets away from the in- stitute I entered a post office and, How big it is will be realised climbing several flights of stairs, came when I tell you that the War to the top floor, where young signal- Office has made plans to trainers were being taught morse by a
Post Office official. 20,000 tradesmen this year. then visited the chief garage of Few people have any idea of the town, a place which in former the character of this scheme. It days was proud of its vast windows, involves the strangest general where the latest and most expensive
saloon cors once post in employment that can be plate-glass.
gleamed behindi imagined.
To-day that huge sale room con- For instance, I have just been tains only the engines and axles of talking to joiners and bus con- Army vehicles, and round cach piece ductors who are being turned and interested group of young soldiers of machinery is gathered an eager into expert gun fitters; to elec- listening to the words of wisdom tro-platers and plasterers who spoken by elvilian instructors. are being turned into carpenters of the garage, men who used to sell Those instructors are the employees to bank clerks and miners who. are being transformed into en-wa, service civilian cars before the gineers; to Post Office sorters Each one has a long experience of and pottery workers who will the trade, and can impart knowledge soon emerge as full, fledged. The former manager of the garage
to be found in the text books. mechanical vehicle fitters.
still occupies the room in which hel This war has not only plucked once presided over the-sale-of-many men out of their environment: a Rolls-Royce; but now he corrects it has switched their jobs in the examination paperst most amazing way.
In peace time one was always meeting men who said, "If only
and
Improvising
"Tell me from the beginning,"
I could have my time over again, asked, "how a well-known firm like
In Training
yours has become an Army school,
has
by RACHEL FIELD
ALL THIS
AND HEAVEN TOO
Serialised by HARRY LEE
Chapter 1
New York-was
the
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When Miss Haines Introduced the lovely instructress many of the girls felt ruefully that she could not possibly have been the principal in thò case. and Emily was', unmoved, however, Inter on embarrassed the teacher with sly questions about a certain French prison, and about a noble family named Praslin, Mlle. Henrietto, who had felt the chill of their suspicion from the first, and who had gone og courageously in spite of it, guddenly turned deathly pale, and hurried from the room.
In the office of Miss Haines-who had been aware of the facts in the case before employing her-Mlle. Hen- rlette met the young American theo- logical, student, Henry Field, who had proved her friend during all the troubled days abroad. It was he who had recommended her to Miss Haines, and now he sold that he had stopped in to welcome her home. She reacted bitterly, saying that since her pupils had found the truth about her past, she would resign at once.
"You can face your conselence!" he sold, looking down at her steadily and taking her hand in both of him, "Face them! Don't beg for their respect- ⚫dlemand Iti Tell them the truth!"
"I owe it to you to try, Henry!" she aald, and went back to her pupils. They scurried guiltly back to their seats as she entered and walted In Etience.
"I'm going to tell you a true story, giris" she began. "Perhaps I'm wrong telling it to you-you're so young--- but in n few years you will be women of an age to love, and sulfer, and face dificult problems. So, perhaps, it will not hurt you to learn that life is not always the pretty picture postcard' you may like it to bel I there are any of you who do not wish to hear the No one stirred. All were silent-a tile frightened.
I'd never be this or that."
And here is this horrible for, although this sort of thing is go-RAMERCY PARK-to this day story, you have my permission to go." thing, War, offering men what in on all over the country, the story restful oasis in the wilderness of
never yet been told."
a sunlit whirl of the struggle for existence could "It began
like this," he replied, yellow leaves and laughing. chattering
"For most of our story we will be rarely offer: the chance and the "The war had not been going on for girls that culd September morning in in Paris in a large and beautiful house, leisure to learn a new trade. long when we saw that the civilian blown about their faces. full skirts of Praslin. It is of the governess. In 1048. In their mid-teens, bright hair the residence of the Duke and Duchess motor car, trade was dead for the billowing, they scuttled up the sleep that house I shall tell you. duration.
steps of Miss Haines' exclusive school, "On a February morning some years "What could we do? We were not cager to hear more of the scandal ago she had not yet arrived in Paris, The problem of training these manufacturers. We were not tooled which Emily Schuyler: prettiest and whence she had been summoned for thousands of men in trades for munitions. It looked as though pericat of the nock, had promised to an interview. She was a passenger on
of enlarge the seclusion
class a small Channel steamer which was which are civilian trades, but we should have to close down. room.
battling its way across the story "Then one day we had a call from now become military by virtue the War Office. Can you give soldiers group--was soon displaying with pride Having long before learned to take care
Emily-centre/ of a breathless waters from Southampton toward of totalitarian war, was obvious on Intensive mechanical vehicle back numbers of a Paris newspaper having ly one that could not be solved training, bringing them in eight) which detalled proceedings In n of herself, by Army schools.
weeks to a standard of proficiency notorious murder "trial. It was the young man moved to the rail Such schools do not exist.
equal to a motor fitter of three years' first day of school and none of them beside her. You don't mind if I talk experience?" That мда all they
had yet met Mile. Henriette, the new to you, do you,' he asked with
be Therefore the War Office has wanted! It sounded crazy; but we French teacher, but Emily insisted that honest smile. Since we seem to opened schools for soldiers in accepted the job.
at the the only ones hardy enough to brave she was the woman accused
the deck?** crime, universities, training colleges, tight, sald the War Office. In And Emily was right.
(To be continued to-morrow) technical institutes, workshops, arrive to start training. In twelve days' time twenty men will garages, post-offices and such days, we had transformed ourselves like civilian institutions all over from a firm of motor dealers and re- the country. It is probably the palcers into a school of technical in- most unorthodox thing the War struction,
"We turned the showrooms into Office has ever done,
classrooms. There schools are run, not by and Installed multable equipment, we We bought, borrowed soldiers, but by civilian teachers, who selected from our mechanies all these train the men up to specified War men with expert knowledge who Ooice standards and pass them out could pass it on to others, and we as qualified tradesmen; and as soon planned a syllabus and a time-table. as one-class marches out with a new
trade at Its finger-tips, another marches in.
A New World
Men Poles Apart
"So we began twelve months ago. The men come to us in a constant
I had a fascinating glimpse into stream, live in civilian billets and this strange new world when I visited are marched to and from work by a seaside town once famous for its sergeant. Our method of training bathing and is gaiety.
does not follow normal school routine.
job.
I was taken by a captain, who ta "We have studied the psychological responsible for about a dozen schools. aspect of this job and we decided tucked away all over this town, to long ago that, while these pupils of the local technical Institute.
ours are soldiers, to us they are funt Here ho turned mo over to the men who want to learn a particular principal, who finds his normal classes There is a spirit of friendly co- of civilian students enlarged by rooms full of young, men in khaki.
operation and mutual understanding He took me to room after room in between students and staff. which
soldiers
were bending they come inside they can forget they over
wireless apparatus, standing at are in the Army, if they wish to
ས་་ appointments; but the long view sug-work-benches, or listening to lec. so long as learn!
they Work They
were learning to.bo
That's the one thing that interests ux-leaching, them, awakening their electricians.
turos.
gun
Once
gests that the Balkans struggle will Atters, electrical fitars, and prtillery interest, stimulating their minds, and
become but another nail in the comin
of Totalitarianism, and a new path to
the ultimate victory of right and
liberty over might and inhumanity.
They come to the, Inatliute from turning them out in ten weeks-for every part of the country: indeed, the course has been extended-ex- the whole of Brilain meets at its pert enough to have held down, a job work benches.
here in the old days,