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IS FACE was not HIS
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 well-braced form, I ventured.
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With
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Whom
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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."
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and Carmelite... calm reigns where one would expect the press of commerce.
WEIRD and aggravating idiosyncracy of this sup- posedly open-air people is the fixed and almost universal de- *termination with which every ray (pven of pallid, winter) sunshine is excluded from the buildings. Window blinds are half-mast, kept permanently roof-lights screened, windows heavily curtained and opened in winter and closed in summer! 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 modesty and love of privacy. Low brick walls of about 2 feet high soparate pathway from garden; and here again is tho
"Where is Challis House?" Once more was reality less fearsome than faltering anticipation. In truth, this forbidding-looking member of the Sydney Police-al- though the occasion was one of official ceremony and 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
ing met with a mere gesture promote reflection
In theory, the notion of bright his head and politely (Yes! 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; However, the glimpse, very oc- alacrity drew out his little Hongkong Telegraph. book and traced the edifice. Bigible mutter, leaving me loquacious 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 particular the scheme of things, pre posed by the Australians them. and trees, lurking dreamily bo- 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 tinctions of class. In the mass catches at the breath and parts
The
Thursday, Sept. 4, 1941.
Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20615
THE prex "Special to the Telegraph" 11 used by the ankona Telegraph to Indicate news which is strlefly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni- rations Ordinance. 1938. Such new AS bears the indication "Up" is received in longkong on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who, ra- serve all rights and forbid republications, ether wholly or in part without previous arrangement.
AXIS DEBUNKING
EVENTS are daily debunking
She Serves the Best Coffee he is egoistic, unnecessarily self- the lips of an exile in brief nos-
CANTEEN
By Noel Barber
GIRL
Her name is Jenny. She is given full board and
assertive, and often ignores the talgic regret--and excites dis- merest little courtesies current taste for the more blatant, tim-
ber-lace trimmed neighbours. in a self-respecting community. He pushes and bumps and el- A disappointingly overbuilt bows a way through the city city is this, standing upon an immense, almost untimbered, streets; and Melbournians, in
wind-swept plain. Take your lodging, particular, seem frantically ca- stance upon rising ground be the political meaning of the young and she has a cherry free issues of working and walk-ger to change their apots 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 man in grey-blue gocs up to her laundry is paid for. She has
Shopping in the large stores or brick bungalows and villas fills the eye in unrelieved mono- and says "Jenny-will you three hours off every afternoon,
a week-end off every month, and is a chastening experience, and tony. Each is detached, it is I have more than once retired true, but only just; and that the marry me?"
every six months she gets, a
must worsted from the encounter inhabitants
live 80 The men in grey-blue are in break of seven days.
with sharp-tongued, supercili- cramped for space upon this- the Royal Air Force. And Jenny is a Canteen Girl.
She and one or two of herous, bored assistants. On the spacious plain is, no doubt, the 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 mightiest R.A.F. depots. She and there are several attrac- tion given by the owners of the stands behind a bar, and serves tively furnished sitting-rooms smaller and suburban shops. out beer. Her customers in- for their use. elude men from all parts of the "I she Empire. And
says: Thus---Duce-attempted to wouldn't change my job for suggest the concept of a bene-anything in the world." volent Fascist pence group, re-
word "axia." 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-Rome protocol to not a barrier. It is rather an axis Around winch all European States snimated by destre for peace may collaborate on far užlen.
NON-PROFIT BODY
of flats.
THE hardiness of this people is a matter for DETRIMENT to which envious wonder. I have not in our cousins should mind the proverbial "long, lean, I took a good look round this canteen to see what it could really, for their own good name, sun-bitten Digger" but the aver What is the life of a 1941 offer airmen with very little give attention is the attitude of age citizen, whose physique dif- volving in a Rome-Berlin orbit. Canteen Girl? How does she money to spend, and here are the State Services personnel to- fers ns widely, perhaps, as that some sample meals. I paid 7d.wards the public whom they are of other races. In a bitterly employed to serve. Railway cold season many houses remain for steak pic and chips and peas. servants. (pardon! this word is unheated. Government build- But free peoples use the word live in the Front Line?
The story of Jenny will tell Some body else had a fish enke evidently taboo and apt to be ings only seem to be equipped with their own meaning-one
with a double portion of chips resented-officials!), tramway with efficient central heating which clearly recognises the you.
THE NAFFI
for 44. Another man who staff, postal employees-with a apparatus, though such in a few liaison as an instrument design- The canteen where she works was really hard up bad sausage notable exception here and there office buildings circulate a tepid all appear to regard cus- fluid which barely mitigates the ed for despotic domination. And is a huge one run by that vast and chips for 3d.
But Nuffi's job doesn't end tomers as a nuisance to be dealt frosty air. A request by a blue- even to the unhappy peoples organisation known the whole
as cursorily as may be, nosed "Pommie" for a hot-water who have been dragged into world over as Nafli-the Navy, there. It is called a "non-profit with
trading organisation," although answered grudgingly if at all. bottle is likely to meet with a relations with the Axis, Musso- Army and Air Force Institutes. in point of fact it makes big The difficulties attending the ex- pitying rmile-but it is gener- lini's phrase "collaboration on Jenny is one of 28 girls who, profits. But the whole of these traction of information from ally vouchsafed. troubles" carries much more the between them, run a canteen are returned to the men who them overwhelm the stranger. meaning of trouble than of true that serves 3,000 R.A.F. men. own this vast organisation-On the other hand, possibly we have not yet learned the correct Before the war she was a par- the men of the forces. collaboration.
technique of approach regarding OF AUSTRALIA'S aix 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.
seem 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 Goebbels-Gayda-Gestapo axis-she decided first to become a tables-four beautiful ones at The Police, generally speak- gaged in controlling (auch is the has become plainly
are unhelpful, untidy in intention) the remainder. Ap- a puppet cook. For three months she this canteen--on pinnos, onjing,
ple, Pear, Lamb, Egg, Wheat string, with the German secret learned how to cook, and was cinemas, on free entertainment. dress, undignified in their deal-
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 axle pictured the Axis лs an knew his dictionary, for that is very long. Perhaps the man- been a terrific job for the men are punitive rather than protee- egg except through official chan- *
women behind Naff. In tive. ageress thought her cherry the first nine months of the
has now broken
Hongkong Benevolent Society of course, Bostonians, brought the day begins. It lasts until
Room-11, Ice House Street
The Society's Room will be open on
MONDAYS & THURSDAYS
from 10 A.M. to noon
Count the TELEGRAPHS”
Everywhere
-up-on-Oliver Wendell Holmes'. half past ning at night.
and
of human life. No cheerful; price is 3d, or Ad..
pushing nursos; no young cou
nels, and each feathered produ- cer is registered. Only fruit of the first meaning of the word,
approved lineage may be mar but it had to be made visibly smile would be an asset in the war they had to get 160,000
RARE PUBLIC keted--and ton upon ton of per- THE crooked when extended to Tokyo. canteen. At any rate, she now square yards of linoleum, 86,000
GARDENS and parks fectly eatable fruit is allowed to And it's a very modern axletree serves beer there at 7d. a pint. chairs, 1,000 clocks, 6,000 mir-
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 pianos. They even had to thronged city streets. Beyond must it be given away. In
apple may cost... Japan to keep carefully at peace ting things ship-shape, then get 400 portable oven ranges a with Russia, The effort to serves at lunch-time. The month, so that they could cater an occasional dismal down-and- Melbourne an
out, or an errand boy shuffling 1d., 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
down openly. At 6,30 p.m. the real rush of ing up all over the country.
A CHANGE··
romping children;" no pram- A land of plenty this indubi- "But why do men who are ples rogardless of the passing tably is, and "too right" a land being fed in the Forces need world; no riders; no cars. of pitiful waste. To one who extra food?" you may ask. The Country quietudo is a delightful has witnessed the painstaking, “ The .canteon at this H.A.F. reply is simply this: When the thing, but this cerle lack of ur- patient gropings of Manchuria's children garnering each tiny, depot has six bars, apart from a airman or the soldier has a few ban life fills the stroller with a 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 head!ino 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 atations. goes into the canteen, where passing contrast with the lively ful, smiling acceptance of hulf strangor, comes the reflection hose who write or read it in In charge of one bar, Jenny has there is a radio and a piano, and gaiety of European public gar- a dog biscuit offered by a
has his meal in the cheapest dens.
(amounting to conviction) that English know it for what it is a pretty big job, though at least cafe in the world.
City shops are thronged, but had. Mr. Browning been such a plunderbund having no die-half of the men hardly drink
He is "cating out." He en- an office will again strike this witness his April rhapsody ments of enduring cohesion,
remark that their State House is the "hub of the solar system," ould have foretold failure for
this attempt to make the universe. revolve around some upstart "foreign" axle. .
SIX BARS
Indead, the thieves have so far any beer at all-they drink tea joys psychological as well as same strange note of; chilling might have been terminated in
10,000 cups of ten a week at a
Just that which makes the work hardwood and plato-glass door- On the beach below now burns penny a cup!
Jenny gets 228. n week. But of the thousands of canteen way, one sees that the resplen- a mighty beacon of massive
dent counter is free of clerk or tree-roots and fallen logs. that is pocket money. She is girls so important.
ary definition should soon be seen to be the only accurate one
Imaginary line."
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