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Further extract from. the diary of a journalist now in the Army.
"DEAR Mrs Culbertson: The inclos- |other ed hand cruised freat deal of condemned me. Although there were argument between my partner and eight or ten to one against me, I myself and also plenty of panning still say, and until I hear from you
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will continue to say, that I wasn't radically wrong in playing this hand. So please settle this ruckus, E. T., Chicago."
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I was not asked about the bidding, "West opened the club nine, de- but think I had better volunteer a clarer won and relumed the deuce few remarks. North's first response of trumps. West played the three-should have been two spades, not one, spot, and now comes the play and the finnt contract should have question, As West had doubled, de- clarer figured that the only possible een geven clubs, if any seven bld. excuse for his double was that he held four trumps, including the jack and ten. (The only high missing honour in the band, the spo
spade king, hardly could Influence his double inasmuch as it was under North'a Well, at any rate, spado bid.) declarer played dummy's nine of hearts and, when East won with the ten, the fight began.
"I was South, the declarer, and, although I don't claim to have play- ed the hand perfectly, I argued to the last ditch that my reasoning and line of play. were not bad bridge, but the result of a bad double on the part of an opponent. My partner and almost came to blows, and my wife, who was looking on, and several
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grazed. Thumbs get dislocated. Eyes, collect grit; muscles stiffen; throats relax.
Hearts stop; noses run, Boils rise: arches fall. Bac- teria break in; rashes break out.
The spirit is willing: the flesh is weak. I mean that soldiers, like ordinary men, occasionally fall sick.
Now the Army has no con- trol over Acts of God, but it can at least put them up on Parade. It is part of essen- tial discipline; if you've got to be ill, be ill in proper order.
In the event of a sudden at- tack of something, you may see the Medical Oficer by means of a Special Sick Re- port.
WHAT A VOICE!
Otherwise.you Report Sick the night before, giving your particulars to an Orderly Cor- poral, who puts you down for. Sick Parade at 7.45 next morning,
The sick men fall in on the edge of the Square. An im- portant non-com. is there. He la distributing the fatigue men twenty yards away, in a voice that you feel rather than licar.
It vibrates in your hip- bones and teeth seconds after he has finished shouting. We huddle together, stiffening, like corralled cattle when a lion roars.
He turns on his heel and marches' towards us.
"Lame men in the rear! Fall in, in three ranks."
We fall in. The damaged feet keep still behind us.
"O-peitar-deh...Ma-
harch!"
Our files open. We right dress. Looking straight to our front, we are aware of sonic- thing like a Death-Ray scor- ching our faces. It is the eye of the important non-com. inspecting us..
"LOOKATEM!"
His voice says: "Smatter wi' you?"
A melancholy Lancashire voice replies: "I'm bad, Sir."
"Jamean-ya bad?"
"Fell o'er in black-out, Sir."
"You'll fall over here it you're not careful. Look at your boots! Lookatem 1 Look to your frout, you right- hand man in the centre rank he has eyes in the holes of his cars-"And you. Smatter wiyou?"
"Me chess, Sir." "Chest? Chest? That's no reason why you should come on parade with a dirty cap-badge. Whenja clean it last?"
"Smornin', Sir."
"It's dirty. It's filthy. It's terrible. It's caked miley thick with dirty, filthy rust and green verdigris.
"And you--third man in the left in the rear rank- your cap badge is far too golden for my peace of mind. - I WANT IT TO BLIND ME! "Close or-dah. : Ma- harch! Move to the right in threes-Right
Tu-hurn! Ker-wick, Ma-harch!"
That Hitler
Bare Fists
Fight
By HAROLD A. ALBERT
Thousands of men in Europe ure lighting Hitler with bare fists. They are Britain's Becret allies in the fight for freedom.
...
They are the Czechs who steal cssential machine parts and compel factories to stand idle, the Frenchmen who slow up Hitler's New Order with half-day strikes, the oil work- ers who blow up precious Rumanian reserves, the ex- members of the trade unions er the occupied territories who dissolved their organisa- tions rather than submit to Nazi_ends. -
In Holland and Norway, as the invadors marched' in, local T. U. officials destroyed the lists of members, and burned the documents and books. When the Nazis launched their own controlled organisa- tions, they refused to Join or signed on only in order to wage war from within.
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In Franco 50 trade unions actually staged an anti-Nazi, anti-Patain demonstration at. Toulouse, and organised ship- yard strikes and disturbances from Dunkirk to Marseilles.
And that was only the begin ning
Since then the reports of sabotago, slow work and ovoh opon strikes flowing through. underground channels of in- formation to the II.Q. of the
When the waterworks en- gineers of Warsaw went on strike in July, it took only the Gestapo to effect a decision. When the coalminers of Liege stubbornly came out against a Nazi wage deduction of 29 per cent, threats of transfer to concentration camps in Ger- to get many were necessary them back on the job.
Recently members of the Nazi organised German minority at Podbrezova joined Slovaklan workers in a strike for fairer wages. Order this time was restored only by threat to close all the shops in the
the region, starving strikers' wives and children.
The storm spreads inside Germany itself. The labour authorities are facing a serious problem in factory workers 011 piece rates who play truant once they have earned a sub- sistence wage," pat
On the railways, slow. work and passive resistance have reached the pitch where goods, wagons stand idle two days in five. Absences of women have increased to eight per cent. of the working time, gl Often these disarmed figh ters risk imprisonment and even death. ` One woman went to prison for six months for staying away from work 57 daya out of 144. A Bruna- wick worker was gaoled for
International Transport Work-nine months for putting sand
ora Fedoration have mounted till they present a cumulatiye Heffect of opan warfare.
in machinery,
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to the Kolben Danek faced
We lead on. He stalks away, still muttering under his breath: "Far too golden for my peace of mind."
Conversation breaks out.
"Listen to me cough- Eruookerhook". 'Im and 'is capbadge!" : "Let me show you my bad leg.”
ENTER THE M.O.-
The Sick-Bunk Sergeant, a melancholy man, overburdened with the weight of all the sickness of the camp, says "Make less Noise From the Treatment Room comes a clink of iodine bottles.
The Medical Officer arrives. · He has had to acquire the diagnostic versatility of a Sherlock Holmes; brooding never-ending Sick Parades like the experts at the Mint who sort good money from bad as it rides past on a conveyer-belt.
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When this is over he will never want to see a human foot again: and he will think of compiling a little handbook of Imaginary Ailments, in- cluding Chancer's Arm, Ski- ver's Sclatica, Swinger's Strain, Old Soldier's Stomach, Bobber's Back.
He will doubtless give a chapter to that peculiar paralysis of the heel and ankle, which accompanied by anxiety and depression, some- times indicated that a Route March is scheduled for two- thirty.
"Smith" says Sergeant Mas, the melancholy one.
. "Erhooc ... erhoohoohoo. hooooc" coughs the man with the chest, and goes in for diagnosis.
treason charges for "removing too much metal from aero- plane engines".
It may have been coin- cidence that leaking taps led to the loss of the contents of five petrol tank cars, but 80 Czech railwaymen were ar- rested on sabotage charges,
Inevitably, casualties must "occur in this war by 'civilians. Karl Gryzka, an 18-year-old Polish youth started forest fires, tried to derall a train loaded with military supplies, and faced an execution squndi.
In Prague, Motodej Racek was sentenced to death for breaking into an armament factory under cover of the black-out, stealing driving belts and steel casting pat- terns and considerably delay- ing output.
Three other men, Josef Svoboda, Karek Chal and Jaromir Perka, were shot for stealing essential machinery parts and causing a factory to close down.
Their names, it is true, are difficult to the English tongue. Yet we should take some ziote of them. They are the martyrs of our day and age.
A group of people pledge themsolves to eat as much as possible of, unrationed food- stuffa, so as to diminish the stocka, or to smoko more heavily so that more tobacco has to be imported; using up
valuable rall space.
A burly porter drops a valuable object of art down- stalfe und says it was too heavy for him. A Mayor pins a British leaflet on the village notice board with the inscrip tion, "It is forbidden, to pick these up".
They also serve who only stand and wait. And Europe's unarmed men know how little a waiting game sults Hitler,
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"During this time, the Cabinet will meet in extraordinary session when- "ver necessary and will also hold consultations from time to time with high ometals of the War. and Navy Ministries."
Overseas Chinese
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