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WAR'S NEW PHASE
GERMAN invasion of Yugo-Slavia and Grecce opens a new plase in what is rapidly becoming World War II-a phase which Hitler certainly did not wish would materialise and which cannot, in the long run, prove
Our Great New Army
8-by H.V.MORTON
I'
(941
The SOLDIER
Goes to SCHOOL
now classes take their place.
a
motor
the
First Chance
Their One Aim
I walked round the school and watched the men at work,
"They're quieter than usual bek list youtor stranger," whispered, an instructor, "but, if you weren't here, half of them would be singing. nt their jobs; and that's a good sign. The dismantling of the twin rear axle of "n" gun-tractor-is-a-strong-man's- job,
Job, the louder they
sing."
Every three months men go away "We get men polen apart in their per cent. of marks. That fellow is was said in the inst war that qualified Army tradesmen; and standard of education. In the school now an Army tradesman, and 12 1 at this moment we have a Cambridge know anything of character, his life for every man in the line We went into a workshop where graduate and a pithead labourer. has been made." there were three men to make newly arrived course of gun fitters "Such men help one another. The was having its first day at the bench. Cambridge man helps the Inbourer to him a cup of tea.
Most of the men had never used a use his head, and the Inbourer helps In this war there must be sle in their lives!
Cambridge mun to use his hands; about twenty, for, ns war be- Against their names on the roll that's the way it generally goes. comes more technical and call
I read their civilian occupations: "I've met some strange cases since P.O. surler, bánk elerk, cloth finisher, this school opened. I always make mechancial, an army of techni- niter's mate, joiner, bus conductor, n point of talking privately to cach clans and mechanics is required insurance agent, plasterer, handyman man in a new course, and discover to make the equipment of the in factory, sult maker, electro-plater, ing his civilian background. Army and keep it in repair. carpet and no salesman, driller for
So far, the War Office has Insited some of them
fnm, salerman in wallpaper.
how Jong 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 basic
"On one occasion there arrived at out the heavier and the harder
And what do pay. The last addition, just in- training, and had then been selected young man, aged twenty-four, who
do they think of the had been pushing a barrow round the future?" cluded in the list, gives an odd as ilkely tradesmen.
"Surely there must be something streets all his life.
They have one thought, if you glimpse into the varied activi-
with the method of selecting "Its father died when he was a talk to them about it-and I don't ties of the modern Army: it is men? I said to the Instrictor, child, and this boy's whole life had tay this because you may put it in "cinema projectionist."
"Why try to turn a joiner into a gun been spent in trying to bring home the paper-and that's to get over- This army of specially paid Atter? Why make a wallpaper sales a few shillings to support his mother seas and have a go."
to some of the men:- Army Tradesmen is something man 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- Je could hardly write and he seemed quite new. It is the final proof, gineering backgrounds,"
a bit dull
dull and dazed.
I asked. if proof were needed, that, we He surprised me by replying that "I said to him, 'Do you think you "Benchwork, stripping down, re- Jecture, notetaking, are up to the neck in truc totall- with no previous technical or en- tim turn dead white. You're not and work on bis best men are invariably those can pass this course? And I saw assembling,, n
vehicles actually In gineering experience. The prize guing to send me away?' he asked service." pupil of his previous course had been with a sort of blank look. Please "D Do you like the Army?" I'nsked Tradesman All
Jabourer!
don't send me away, guv'nor, for this another man, "Not half," of is the first chance I've had my certain partions
he replied. "Tals heaven compared to where I've come As men from the listed trades every brain which have never de- life to learn a trader
veloped," ho snld. "Thousands of "That pulled me up. To think frem, the training depot," enter the Army, they are given men with a genuine gift for skilled that it should take a war to give a "And you?" I asked another. equivalent military duties, but, technical bench work are doing some- man a chance to learn a trade. Of "I don't like the Army," he re- great as the number of trades. thing quite different, and they never course. I kept him; and how that plied, "but I like Illtler a lot less!" men is, there is still a shortage they are forced to try.
know they possess this gift unless lad reworded me!
"He worked as if his life depended TO-MORROW : of them, and this the Army The trouble with the fellow who on it. He even learned to write and
tarian war.
д
arc
makes up by training recruits in has had previous experience is that spell. And he passed out with 88 A Day At Sandhurst
140 different trades.
he knows a little, but not enough,
beginning.
18.
All round us at this, moment, pd he resents starting again at the and unknown to most of us, is "Give me a baker's roundaman, or
A Warner Bros.-First National Picture Starring proceeding the biggest scheme of a postman, who has never used a file BETTE DAVIS and CHARLES BOYER from novel
T
adult technical education ever or a drill, and, providing he wants) undertaken in Britain.
to try, it's a treat to teach him!"
Unorthodox
It is something the night school pioneers could never have imagined in their wildest
A few streets away from the in- dreams.
stitute I entered a post office and, How big it is will be realised climbing several fights of stairs, came when I tell you that the War to the top floor, where young signal-{ Office has made plans to train lers were being taught morse by a
Post Office official. 20,000 tradesmen. this year. ther 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 cars once post in employment that can be
gleamed behind plute-glass. imagined.
To-day that huge sale room con-
and
and
service civilian
For instance, I have just been fains only the engines and axles of talking to joiners and bus con- Army vehicles, and round each plece of benefit to him. While sympathy ductors who are being turned of machinery is gathered an enger interested group of young soldiers, into expert gun fitters; to elec- Ustening to the words of wisdom tro-platers and plasterers who spoken by civilian instructors, are being turned into carpenters; Those Instructors are the employees to bunk clerks and miners who of the garage, men who used to sell cars before the are being transformed into en- war. 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 not to be found in the text books.
The former manager of the garage mechanical vehicle fitters.
stu
occupies the room in which he This war has not only plucked once presided over the sale of many Emen-out-of-their-environment:- Rolls-Royect but now he corrects Whatever the Immediate outcome it has switched their jobs in the examination papers!
goes out to Yugo-Slavia In that she is now to suffer
the horrors of modern warfare, and to Greece because her experiences of war's frightfulness will be intensified, the fact remains that in this struggle against the evil forces of Nazism and Fascism, the present development in the Balkans offers a distinct strate- gical advantage to the Democracles.
the
of the Balkans war-and it is con- ceivable that the Nazis, with numerical and mechanised superiority will secure territorial gains, in both countries the cost to the Invaders In, men and materials will be excced-
most amazing way.
In peace time one was always meeting men who said, "If only
Improvising
"Tell me from the beginning," 1
I could have my time over again, asked, "how a well-known firm the
I'd never be this or that."
thing, War, offering men. what the struggle for existence could rarely offer: the chance and the leisure to learn a new trade.
In Training
yours has become an Army school
by RACHEL FIELD
ALL THIS
AND HEAVEN TOO
room.
Serialised by HARRY LEE
Chapter 1
A
H
When Miss Haines Introduced the lovely Instructress many of the girls felt ruefully that she could not possibly have been the principal in the caso. 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. Mlie. Henrisite, who had felt the chill of their suspicion from the rat, and who had gone on. courageously in spite of it, suddenly. turned deathly pale, and hurried from the room.
In the office of Miss Haines-who had been aware of the facts in the chse before employing her Mc Ken- riotto met the young American theo- logical student, Henry Field, who bad proved her friend during all the troubled days abroad. It was he who had recommended her to Miss. Haines, and now he said that he had stopped in to welcome her home, She reacted bitterly, saying that sines-her- pupils - had found the truth about her past, she *- would resign at once, ̈•
"You can face your conscience!" he sald, looking down at her steadily and taking her hand in both of him, "Faco them! Don't beg for their respect----- demand it! Tell them the truth!".
"I owe it to you to try, Henry!" she sald, and went back to her pupils. They scurried gulitily back to their seats as sho entered and waited in silence.
across
-"Tot-going-to-tell-You-n-true story; girls" she began. "Perhaps I'm wrong In telling it to you-you're so young-- but in a few years you will be women of an age to love, and suffer, and face difficult problems. So, perhaps, it will not hurt you to learn that illa, lạ not always the pretty pleture postcard you may like it to be! If there are any of you who do not wish to hear the And here is this horrible for, although this sort of thing goRAMERCY PARK-to this day story, you have my permission to go." ingly heavy and must inevitably
ng on all over the country, the story restful oasis in the wilderness of
No one stirred. All were silent-a. has never yet been told."
New York-WDE 11 Gunlit whirl of little frightened. weaken the Nazis' milltary potential.
"It began like this," he repiled yellow leaves and laughing, chattering "For most of our story wo will be Hitler has been forced to divert his
"The war had not been going on for girls that cold September morning in in Paris in a large and beautiful house. long when we saw that the civilian 1848. In their mid-teens, bright hair the restrience of the Duke and Duchess attention from the all-absorbing
motor car trade was dead for the billowing. they scuttled up the sleep that house I shall tell you.
blown about their faces," "full skiria of Praslin. It is of the governess: in prospect of invading Britain to the
duration.
steps of Miss Haines' exclusivo school, "On a February. moming some years task of consolidating his present con-
"What could we dor We were not eager 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, prettlest and whence she had been summoned for trol over southeastern Europe, And thousands of men in trades for munitions. It looked as though pertest of the Bock, had promised to an interview. She was a passenger on his armies are to meet well trained,
enlarge the seclusion of the cinss-a-small Channel.steamer which was which are civilian trades, but we should have to close down.
'battling its way "Then one day we had a call from well equipped forces whose past and
the stormy. now become military by virtue the War Office. Can you give soldiers group was soon displaying with pride Havre. She was travelling alone, too,
of Emily-centre
breathless waters from Southampton toward Lo present history as fighters abundantly of totalitarian war, was obvious- an intensive mechanical vehicle back numbers of a Paris newspaper having long before learned to take care proves them to be amongst the bestly one that could not be solved training, bringing them in eight which detailed praccedings in a of herself. weeks to by Army schools.
a standard of proficiency notorious murder trial. It was tho "A young man-moyed to the rail, 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 Such schools do not exist.
experience?" That was all they had yet met Mile. Henriette, the new to you, do you he asked Therefore the War Office has wanted! It sounded crazy; but we French teacher, but Emily insisted that honest le 'Since we seem to opened schools for soldiers in accepted the job. universities, training colleges,
Bald the War Office. In technical institutes, workshops, arrive to start training. In twelve daya time twenty men will garages, post-offices and such days we had transformed ourselves like civilian institutions all over from a fan of motor dealers and re- the country. It is probably the pairers into a school of technical in-
struction. most unorthodox thing the War
"We turned the showrooms info] Office has ever done.
classrooms. We bought, borrowed These schools are run, not by and installed suitable equipment, we soldiers, but by civilian teachers, who selected from our mechanics all those train the men up to specifled War men with expert knowledge who Once 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
In the world.
marches in.
"
Men Poles Apart
Overshadowing Hitler's Balkans campaign is. the knowledge that the fullest old possible is to be given both to Yugo-Slavia and Greece by Britain and the United States. London has been markedly relicent in making any statements regarding the pre- sence of British forces in Greece 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 strategical front, prepared and waiting to sfrike; there can be no
The men come to us in a constant Norway this time. Furthermore, the I had a fascinating glimpse into stream, live in civilian pillets and Allied troops will be defending in this strange new world when I visited are marched to and from work by
by R terrain very much to their advantage, seaside town once famous for its sergeant. Our method of training does not follow normal school routine. Retreat to certain points may be bathing and its galety.
I was taken by a capinin, who is "We have studled the psychological inevitable, even desirable, but that responsible for about a dozen schools aspect of this job and we decided retreat can be rendered so costly to tucked away all over this town, to long ago that while these puplis of the Invaders that the aum cffect for
ours are soldiers, to us they are just the local technical institute,
Here he turned me over to the men who want to learn a particular them will be defeat, nut victory. principal, who finds his normal classes job.
of civilian students
by rooms Thero. In a The Allies can enter upon this new full of young men. In
enlarged
a spirit of friendly co khaki,
operation and mutual understanding phase of the war with high, hopes.
He took me to room after room in between students and staff.. Once Losses there must be; perhaps dadi which young soldiers were bending they come inside they can forget they appointments; but the long view sug work-benches, or listening to lec
over wireless apparatus, standing at are in the Army, if they wish to
20 as they learn! gests that the Balkans struggle will tures. They were learning to be gun.
That's the one thing that interests become but another null in the coffin electricians, the institute for turning them out in ten week for fitters, electrical atters, and artillery us-teaching them, awakening theft
. Interest;
rest, stimulating their minds, and of Totalitarianism, and a new path to They come to tha-
every part of the country; indeed, the course has been extended-sex-
A New World "So we began twelve months ago.
the ultimate victory of right and the whole of Bellain, meets at Ita pert enough to have held down a job
here in the old days).
liberty over might and inhumanity.
work benches, repla
bo
an
she was the woman accused of the the only ones hardy enough to brave
the deck?'" crime.
And Emily was right.
(To be continued to-morrow)
with
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