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THE EPIC OF THE about the squarters of a
51st
By G. E. LEY SMITH
and covered through wood,
three-quarters mile deep.
On one side of the wood, to the left of the Gordons was a clump of trees, which was believed to be free of the enemy.
Round the wood, the un- dulating countryside was covered with long corn and hedgerows, proving admir-
When Hitler. started his blitzkrieg, the gigantic wheeling movement of his armies through Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg pivoted on the position held by the 51st Division at the north end of the Maginot Line proper.
Of all the units in the British Army, the 61st is the most able cover while the bat- In the midst of the fight- Highland regiments which form it was strengthened in German
feared by the Nazis. · The awesome reputation of the kilted. talion waited for zero hour. !ing around Remeling the hearts by the men who fought so brilliantly and gallantly at Two companies, "B" and
Gordons were unaware that St Valery last year.
"C" were to make the at- the Nazis had been sweeping
Battle of France is told here in the living impressions of the following through to allow The epic part played by the Gordon Highlanders in the tack, with "D" Company across the Low Countries.
men who suffered and survived in that sombre drama of men ap” to move out to the left Only when they had left against metal. sembled in a big wood near of retreat in June, 1940. the "Maginot" and had as- This instalment tells how the Gordons' were moved from of the wood when the objec- the Maginot Line to the Estuary of the Somme to stem the tide tives had been taken. "A" Company was to remain in
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Metzervisse with other units of the 51st Division did they receive an inkling of the 2. desperate situation that had arisen.
By this time, the Nazi "Panzer" divisions
had.
reserve.
On the right of the Gor-
Hour Strikes dons, the Black Watch were
Zero
On
The Somme
also to attack, but the Sea- forths on the left were, ordered to maintain their
driven their way through the hundreds of cows and all to silence the gun. The positions and keep up a
screening fire. Ardennes and broken the their poultry. The chance small party had evidently
of a rich feast was not been seen advancing to the In a light rain which fell Phone 27778-9 French line at Sedan,
allowed to slip. Foraging attack, and a German trench on the night of June 3 With the Highland Divi- parties were organised and mortar opened · fire. Cor patrols went out to recon- sion, the battalion was every man had duck or chic- poral Shepherd was killed by noitre the ground. They rushed to the vicinity of ken and fresh milk and one of the shells, which fell reported that machine-guns VICTOR-Dulcellaa, Mariu. At her Varennes, north-west of eggs for supper that night. close to him. Undaunted by were posted on the fringe of
residence 11, Gap Road. Age 87. Verdun. It was intended Stores were replenished the fate of their N.C.O., the the wood. Funeral wil pass the Monument that they should be used to with chickens and eggs three men charged towards. Waiting for their first stop the German break-which lasted for several the haystack. Before they big-scale attack, the men of
days. through at Montmedy.
could reach it, however, the "B" and "C" Companies lay Germun gunner's Before they left the vil But the Dunkirk evacua-
bolted, among the long corn and be- tion had started. Plans were lage, the men performed a leaving their machine-gun hind hedges slightly to the
behind them.
right of the wood. Guns little humanitarian service changed. The Division was
On June 2 the Gordons rumbled in the distance. ordered to another front. which the members of the
B.EF never forgot to do were moved into position at Machine guns occasionally During the last days of even in the midst of the the Grand Bois, which lies stuttered. A ground mist May, when other Gordon heaviest fighting, Many from Abbeville, in front of first light of dawn started to about twelve kilometres as lifting just before the battalions were fighting animals, such as rabbits in the village of Cahou.
penetrate the edge of the around Dunkirk before em-hutches and dogs chained to
Bois.
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Monday, May 5, 1941, Wyndham St. Hongkong Telephone: 20016
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bears the Indication "UP is received in
Hongkong on the date of publication by sion was moving across soldier released them.
the United Press Aaroelations, who TO-
Arrangement.'
barking the Highland Divi-kennels were starving. The Fierce fighting had been going on all along the Somme. Efforts by the As the dogs hovered French to drive the Germans
serve all rights and forbid repubications, France to the Somme to elther wholly or in part without previous stem the advance of the around the camp looking for back had had little success.
German spearhead which was heading rapidly towards adopted them as pets and been given an eighteen-mile scraps of food, the men Now the 51st Division had gave them what tasty mor-front on the river, from sels they had over from Erondelle to the sea."
A POISONED GENERATION
THOSE well-meaning persons who seem to be more anxious about the kind of peace that will
Paris.
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By a tediously long rail- their feast of fowl. Un- As a German offensive
uing the war, should consider reached its destination in
will have to be dealt with when the war is over. The people of the Kaiser's Reich were difficult
THE ALPHABET OF THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE to negotiate with and more diffi- cult still to pin down to any
ABVA
stands for AIR FORCE-with plenty of dash. stands for BELLOWS--which blow in the cash,
C stands for. CHURCHILL the best of the bunch.
stands for DARING-Pilots with punch. stands for EGOISTS—usually Snuffs.
D
E
F stands for FIGHTERS-paid for by Puffs,
G stands for GUST—some cause for swank.
H stands for HURRICANE-a very high rank.
stands for INTEREST-this must be keen.
Jstands for JOKES-provided they're clean,
K
stands for KICK-which we get out of fellowship.
L stands for LAUGHTER—an ald to good bellowship.
M stands for MONEY-blown in by Puffs.
N stands for NOTHING-given by Snuffs.
O stands for ORDINARY whiffs, you and
P'stands for PLANES—which our blown-in will buy.
Q
stands for QUEER FOLKS—Snuffs this means you.
R stands for RIGHT and for R.A.F. too.
T
stands for SPITFIRES-fighters supreme
stands for TOADS--quite the other extreme,
U stands for US-with a job to be done.
V stands for VICTORY--which soon will be won.
W stands for WELCOME-here's luck to good Fellows.
X stands for UNKNOWN—who Invented the Bellows,
Y stands for YOU-if you are not still a Snuff.
Z stands for ZEAL-so just do your stuff.
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The weather had broken..
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TO-MORROW:
Germans Routed At Bayonet Point
SUNDAY THEATRE HAILED
"The greatest step forward in the history of the theatre since Cromwell," was how Mr. John decision to allow Sunday opening Gielgud, the actor, described the
of theatres in Britain.
This new step, announced by Morrison, in the House of Com-
follow the war than about win-way journey the battalion officially, the dogs were ad- across the Somme was im- mitted to the strength, and minent, an attack was de- more seriously than they do the two-and-a-half days, travel when the march was re- cided upon for the morning character of the Germany that ling by Verdun round the sumed next morning, the of June. The Gordonst
battalion was followed by were given the task of clear northwards by Rouen to scores of dogs.
ing le Grand Bois and ad- In the neighbourhood of vancing to another wood the Grand Bois de Cambron beyond. In torrential rain, the of 'the battalion relieved the ficers and men bivouacked in Black Watch and settled To appreciate the difficul- the Home Secretary, Mr H. ty of this operation, a demons, enables a licensing author-- a wood, taking what shelter down to a meal of chicken
-and-egg- they could under the trees.
scription of the Grand Bois ity to permit Sunday opening of From there, they marched
is necessary. It is a wood of theatres and music hails in dis- sixty miles in three nights. But the whine of bullets unusual density. So thick is tricts where there are troops or By day they slept in woods, interrupted their enjoyment the undergrowth that it is a large number of munition Every time they camped it of the meal. They were be-impossible to see more than rained continuously. Buting sniped from a machine- a dozen feet ahead. the men never groused at the gun post which the Germans German machine-gun discomfort.
had cunningly concealed in posts had been dug on the a haystack nearby. It was outskirts. Inside the wood becoming 50 troublesome the German infantry had youth, as a delty. If he himself One night they reached a that it had to be tackled im- strongly established them believes that, he is a man of small, completely deserted mediately.
selves. Storm-troopers with disordered brain. If he does village. The civilian popula Corporal Shepherd was Tommy guns had been in not, he is a blasphemous tion had left behind them sent forward with three men stalled in almost every
ceding generation to assert the fantastic claims of German superiority over all races and
nations.
Hitler is held up to the German people, and especially to German
scoundrel. But whatever he bo
or is believed to be, the effect is the same upon the youth of Germany. For years their only mental and moral food has been that dished up by teachers who are sworn to teach nothing but Hitler and him glorified. What can be expected of children in structed by teachers who are bound by this oath?
"Adolf Hitler, we swear that
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Geography Up To Date
workers.
With the exception of plays pro- duced by special societies there have been no theatre performances
on Sundays for 150 years, since the Sunday Observance Act of 1781.
A
On Equal Footing
The new regulation puts the theatre on a footing with the films and other forms of entertainment at time when it is in need of all the assistance it can get.
Mr Gielgud said that bush
decision would enable managements to embark with assurance on new
OMEONE remarked to me the Then came Norway, and for the Italian advance and rolled it
other day, "What a lot of weeks we talked knowingly of back?
Narvik and various places on At present Libyan geography geography the child of to-day is that all-important railway. No, is to the fore, and I fancy that learning! Even a week or two of I am not going to name them most of us are more confident news bulletins and papers should for you. Do it yourself-if you about
whereabouts of teach him more than we ever cani. Somehow we seemed to Benghazi and Tobruk even of knew. This generation should know a little more about France Derns and Bardia. But can we be better Informed than the and Holland and Belgium, so go further back than that with
perhaps their names stlek better, out stopping to think?
I agreed. Then I bogan to wonder. We seem to have both, learnt and forgotten' such p lot
we will train the youth of Ger- | last." many that they grow up in your ideology, for your alms and purposes, in the direction not by your will. This is pledged to since September of 1989. As you by the whole German system cach country came into the lime. But could you put your finger
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actorsons, giving employment to
who
con-
Mr Bronson Albery, trols the New Theatre, Wyndham's and the Criterion, said he had no doubt that. Sunday opening was now a foregone' conclusion in the West End and the suburbs. "Generally
speaking, I should say close on Mondays, but possibly that most theatres will
decide come cases Fridays will be fixed;" in Mr Albery added.
to
Actors and actresses welcome the new regulation, as it provides for a the day on which most people have the leisure for entertainment.
six-day week and performances on
Pritt Not To Resign
Labour Party Views
It is shocking how quickly we forget. The other day I came across a bundle of old maps, cut out of papers at the time, and how strange they looked! Yet 1 friend who said scornfully, "But remember half agreeing with a of education, from the primary light, its napies became as fami- unerringly on, for instance, St do you need those to make you school through to the univer-llar as our own. But if we Valery? Bity"
remember where the places Mr D.. N. Pritt, K.C., Labour It is said that forty years must learnt readily, we have forgotten
are?"***
M.P. for North Hammersmith, And I do not believe that we elapse before a system of educa- nearly as readily.
At the time I felt I could have asked by the local Labour Party tion can justly be judged. That Do you remember, when Po- than the younger generation. But now I could not.
adults are any more ignorant drawn those maps from memory. to resign his scat will not do so. ls, one must wait to
see what land was attacked, how we pored There seem to have been 80
The North Hammersmith Labour manner of man that systém has over maps and talked of places many things to think of during Is this a disgraceful confea Party Boys that Mr Pritt: "now re- produced in a people who are free we did not know how to pro- these busy months, and I do not slon? I do not know. Didn't Prew nother we party nor the views of the overwhelming majority to think ns they will. Under the nounce and had never heard of think that the average intelll: Sherlock Holmes, that prince of of the people In the constituency" Nazi tyranny, however, no such before? But now-how many gent child would be any wiser detectives, refuse to waste grocently Mr Fritt has come into
The
exoculives statement said:" freedom is enjoyed, and by mass towns in Poland could you name than we are,
matter on such irrelevent details production a type of human offhand and could you place them
as the fact that the earth moves prominence by his participation in boing is turned out which is accurately on the map? Finland
so-called "*"People's" * Convention, Even the names which word round the sun? Bo why should which was inspired by the Communist developed only on one side, with meant a lot, too. But now Hol- so prominent in the first Greek I waste energy trying to remem- Party, and which lies under the grave out any corrective or restraint to sink is the only name that leaps advance are forgotten as they ber the exact whereabouts of suspicion of seeking to exploit war- a pursuit which can bring to my mind, and we had all advance,yet farther. What was Hamm? The RAF know just time discomforts of the people for the nothing but confjet and misery heard of it before the Russo- the first important place they where it is, and that is the main purposes of Communlam
Bir Prili, in a statement said he had to the world.
Finnish war
captured when they stemmed thing!
no intention of resigning his sont,