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attractive. Though. round and ruddy, the fea tures were indistinct and blunted; small (to be really descriptive if not polite, the adjective "porcine" should be added) indirect eyes; a glance which I interpreted as expressing hopeless re- regard-cognition of the inherent de- pravity of the human race. But information was needed and, of course, every passer- by was "a stranger in these parts" Recollecting the bravery, of countrywomen at home, with tightened lips and wollbraced form, I ventured..
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The
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With Whom
They Live
By
NORAH WHITESTONE
This is the first of three reports sent from Australia by Miss Whitestone on the anni- versary of the evacuation. To-morrow, she will describe “The Land In Which They Live."
calm
client, and Carmelite reigna where one would expect the press of commerce.
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WEIRD and aggravating Idiosyncracy of this sup- posedly open-air people is the fixed and almost universal de- termination with which every ray (even of pallid, winter) sunshine is excluded from the buildings. Window blinds are kept permanently half-mast, roof-lights screened, ́ windows heavily curtained, and opened in winter and closed in summor! Consequently an Australian. home too often presents an as- pect reminiscent of the days be- fore the advent of the "funeral parlour" when the body lay in quiescence before its final exit.
Guarded probings produce no valid reason for this retiring custom. And the exterior of the houses refutes the theory of
of privacy, modesty and love Low brick walls of about 2 feet
high separate pathway from
"Where is Challis House?". Once more was reality less fearsome than faltering anticipation. In truth, this forbidding-looking membert of the Sydney Police-al- though the occasion was one of official ceremony and
garden; and here ngain is the he a member of the re- straining force-soothed my foundation in fact, previous THE CHARACTERIS- same curious lack of animation. TICS of the Australians There must be inhabitants, but qualms by an unexpectedly enquiries of the Police hav-
they are seldom seen. and offer benevolent glance, scratched
In theory, the notion of bright his head and politely (Yes! ing met with a mere gesture Promote reflection
of an impatient official arm many anomalies. Individually
public eye is an attractive one. politely) and with friendly and an entirely unintel- the citizen is most friendly, flower gardens open to the
kind, helpful and generous
the oc- alacrity drew out his little Hongkong Telegraph.books and traced the edifice. ligible mutter, leaving me loquncious and communicative casionally, of a fair-sized, digni- except for a feeling of my and (although on this point I fled, homely, old grey house My reluctance, though un- own utter insignificance in have been most vehemently op. screened by well-grown shrubs founded in this particulan the scheme of things, pre- posed by the Australians them- and trees; lurking tireamily be instance, had a substantial cisely where I was.
selves) wholesomely lacking in hind an ancient, weathered six- Isnobbishness and invidious dis- the days, of village England; foot fence, instantly brings back
Itinctions of class. In the mass catches at the breath and parts
The
Thursday, Sept. 4, 1941,
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Telephone: 26615
THE prehx "Special to the Telegraph” is used by the Hongkong Telegraph to indicate nows which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni rations Ordinance, 1934. Auch nÓWI MA bears the indication "U" is received in Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who re- serve all rights and forbid republications, either wholly or in part without previous arrangement.
AXIS DEBUNKING EVENTS are daily debunking
the political meaning of the
word "axis." Its current usage has been traced to a speech by Mussolini on November 1, 1936. Referring to the accord signed in July in Berlin, which had definitely shifted the main lines of Italian foreign policy away from London and Vienna, he said:
This. Berlin-Home protovei is not a barrier. It is rather an axis around which all European Stiles animated by a desire for peace may collaborate on troubles.
Thus II_Duce attempted to suggest the concept of a bene- volent Fascist penco group, re-
She Serves the Best Coffee he is egoistic, unnecessarily self- the lips of an exile in brief nos-
CANTEEN
By Noel Barber
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GIRL
NON-PROFIT BODY
THE hardiness of this people is a matter for A DETRIMENT to which envious wonder. I have not in
assertive, and often ignores the talgic regret-and excites dis- merest little courtesies current taste for the more blatant, tim- in a self-respecting community, ber-lace trimmed neighbours. He pushes and bumps and el- A disappointingly overbuilt bows a way through the city city is this, standing upon an streets, and Melbournians, in immense, almost untimbered, wind-swept plain. Take your Her name is Jenny. She is given full board and lodging, particular, seem frantically en-stance upon rising ground be young and she has a cherry free issues of working and walk- ger to change their spots with yond the suburbs, and seeming- smile. Three times a day some ing out uniform, and all her the greatest despatch possible. ly endless miles of timber-built or brick bungalows and villas Shopping in the large stores fills the eye in unrelieved mono- man in grey-blue goes up to her laundry is paid for. She has and says "Jenny-will, you three hours off every afternoon,
is a chastening experience, and tony. Each is detached, it is a week-end off every month, and
I have more than once retired true, but only just; and that the mo?" marry
every six months she gets a
worsted from the encounter inhabitants must
live go The men, in grey-bluc are in break of seven days.
with sharp-tongued, supercili- cramped for space upon this the Royal Air Force. And
She and one or two of her ous, bored assistants. On the spacious plain is, no doubt, the Jenny is a Canteen Girl,
companions share a bedroom credit side is the almost univer- result of the vehement rejection She works at one of Britain's which has hot and cold water, sal politeness and willing atten- of any extension of the building mightlest R.A.F. depots. She and there are several attraction given by the owners of the of flats. stands behind a bar, and serves tively furnished sitting-rooms smaller, and suburban shops.. out beer. Her customers in- for their use. clude men from all parts of the Empire. And she Boys: "I
I took a good look round this
Dur cousins should mind the proverbial "long, lean, wouldn't, change my job for
canteen to see what it could really, for their own good name, sun-bitten Digger" but the aver anything in the world."-
What is the life of a 1941 offer airmen with very little give attention is the attitude of age citizen, whose physique dif- the State Services personnel to- fers as widely, perhaps, as that she money to spend, and here are wards the public whom they are of other races. In a bitterly
some sample meals. I paid 7d.
employed to serve. Railway cold season many houses remain for steak ple and chips and peas. servants (pardon! this word is unheated. Government tell Some body else had a fish cake evidently taboo and apt to be ings only seem to be equipped with a double portion of chips resented officials!), tramway with efficient central heating for 4d. Another man who staff, postal employees-with a apparatus, though such in a few The canteen where she works was really hard up had sausage notable exception here and there office buildings circulate a tepid
and chips for 8d. is a huge one run by that vast
all appear to regard cus- fluid which barely mitigates the But Naffi's job doesn't end tomers as a nuisance to be dealt frosty air. A request by a blue- organisation known the whole
as cursorily na may be, nosed "Pommie" for a hot-water there. It is called a "non-profit with world over as Nail-the Navy trading organisation," although answered grudgingly if at all. bottle is likely to meet with a Army and Air Force Institutes. in point of fact it makes big The difficulties attending the ox- pitying smile-but it is gener-
Jenny is one of 28 girls who, profits. But the whole of these traction of information from ally vouchsafed. between them, run a canteen are returned to the men who them overwhelm the stranger. this vast organisation-On the other hand, possibly we that serves 3,000 R.A.F. men, own
have not yet learned the correct Before the war she was a par- the men of the forces.
technique of approach regarding OF AUSTRALIA'S six or The money is not split up into this invulnerably entrenched
seven millions, it would For Rome, the line from lour maid.
pennies and divided among the body.
scem at a hazarded guess that Berlin-we might call it the When she joined the canteen armies. It is spent on billiard
about half that number is en- The Police, generally speak- gaged in controlling (such is the Goebbels-Gayda-Gestapo axis she decided first to become a tables-four beautiful ones at has become plainly a puppet cook. For three months, she this canteen on pianos, on ing. are unhelpful, untidy in intention) the remainder.. Ap- string, with the German secret learned how to cook, and was cinemas, on free entertainment. dress, undignified in their deal- ple, Pear, Lamb, Egg, Wheat
ings with the public, and fail to each edible product is accorded police governing Italy in all paid while she learned.
Increasing and supplementing impress as guardians of the the dignity of a "Board". " Ap- essentials. The cartoonist who
She didn't stay as a cook for the canteens in wartime has peace. Perhaps their functions parently one must not sell an pictured the Axis as an axle know his dictionary, for that is very long. Perhaps the man- been a terrific job for the men are punitive rather than protec egg except through official chan-
volving in a Rome-Berlin orbit. But free peoples use the word with their own meaning-ono which clearly recognises the liaison as an instrument design- ed for despotic domination. And even to the unhappy peoples who have been dragged into relations with the Axis, Musso- lini's phrase "collaboration on troubles" carries much more the meaning of trouble than of true collaboration.
Canteen Girl? How does live in the Front Line?
The story of Jenny will you. THE NAFFI
:
Of course, Bostonians, brought the day begins. It lasts until up on Oliver Wendell Holmes' half past nino at night. remark that their State House
is the "hub of the solar system,"
SIX BARS
pram-
cara.
build-
and women behind Naff. Initive.
nels, and each feathered produ- thought her cherry the first nine months of the
cor is registered. Only fruit of. the first meaning of the word, ageress
approved lineage may be, mar- but it had to be, made visibly smile would be an asset in the war they had to get 100,000
canteen. At any rate, she now square yards of linoleum, 85,000 -
THE RARE
PUBLIC keted-and ton upon ton of per crooked when extended to Tokyo. serves beer there at 7d. a pint. chaira, 1,000 clocks, 6,000 mir- GARDENS. and parks fectly catable fruit is allowed to And it's a very modern axletree
rors, 11,000 beds, and an extra present a sharp contrast to the rot beneath
the trees, Nor with a differential which permits She works every morning get- 450 planos. They even had to thronged city streets. Beyond must it be given away. In Japan to keep carefully at peace ting things ship-shape, then get 400 portable oven ranges a an occasional dismal down-and- Melbourne an apple may cost with Russin. The effort to serves at lunch-time. The month, so that they could cater out, or in errand boy shuffling Ad., but in Sydney at the pre- make it run also through Moscow afternoon is more or less free, for the camps that were spring-the fallen leaves, they are void sent time I am informed the
of human life. No cheerful, price is 3d. or Ad... Hongkong Benevolent Society has now broken down openly. At 5.50 p.m. the real rush of ing up all over the country.
A CHANGE
romping children; no
A land of plenty this indubi- pushing nurses; no young cou "But why do men who are ples regardless of the passing tably is, and "too right" a land of pitiful waste. To one who- being fed in the Forces need world; no riders; no could have foretold failure for.
extra food?" you may ask. The Country quietudo is a delightful has witnessed the painstaking, this attempt to make the The canteen at this R.A.F. reply is simply this: When the thing, but this cerie lack of ur patient gropings of Manchuria's universe revolve around some depot has six bars, apart from a airman or the soldier has a few ban life fils the stroller with a children garnering each tiny upstart "foreign" axle.
shop and a restaurant and a hours off but can't leave camp, dismal sense of vacuity and de- pin-point cinder, each blade of As a handy headline word mobile canteen which goes round he feels like a change. So he solation; brings inevitably a withered, grass and their, grate- Axis may be overworked. But to airmen at lonely stations, goes into the canteen, where passing contrast with the lively ful, smiling acceptance of half those who write or read it in. In charge of one bar, Jenny has has his meal in the cheapest dens.
there is a radio and a piano, and galety of European public gar- a dog biscuit offered by a stranger, comes the reflection English know it for what it is a pretty big job, though at least cafe in the world.
Mamounting to conviction) that are thronged, but had Mr a plunderbund having no ele half of the mon hardly drink-Ho ments of enduring cohesion, any beer, at all-thoy, drink tea, He is "cating out." He en- an office will again strike this witness Browning been, such joys psychological as well as same strange. note of chilling might have been terminated in fallon out that another diction 10,000 cups of tea a week at a material satisfaction, and it is inanition, Glancing through a less buoyantly optimistic tonus, ary definition should soon be penny a cupl
Just that which makes the work hardwood and plate-glass door- On the beach below now burns seen to be the only accurate one Jenny gets 228, a week. But of the thousands of canteen way, one sees that the resplen- a mighty beacon of massive
dont counter is free of clerk or treo-roota and fallen 1orsch Imaginary line.”
that is pocket money. She is girls so important.
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