1940-06-22 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 22, 1940

FAROES HAPPY WITH NEW GOVERNMENT

OBSERVER STATES POSITION OF ISLANDS UNDER ALLIED. CONTROL

The taking over of the Faroe Is- It is a mistake to suppose that the lands by the Allies for the duration of | islanders are Danes,Like. Iceland, the war can be justified on humani- Faroe was colonized by the Nor- under the crown tarian grounds alone. The majority weglans and held

GIRLS TOLD: "BE CHASTE"

"Be good and chaste and you will lead a happy life," Bishop Walter Carey told girls of Croy- don High School at thoir- prize distribution at Eastbourne.

He spoke of `men who "were decoyed to horrible placos) by harples who took their money.

“Don't be misled Into thinking that loose talking or conduct or a pretended. appetite for cock-. talle will make you attractive to men.

"The attraction is a natural one, but it wlik-spring-.from". goodness."

WAR BONUS FOR CIVIL SERVANTS

REFUGEES SAFE-BLESS DOLLY

A seven-year-old girl was the lucky mascot of fourteen:Dutch refugees who tried to sail the North Sea in an open boat and were picked up by a coaster thirty-six hours later and landed at an east coast port.

The child's courage and cheerful- ness as she danced and sang Dutch folk-songs on the deck of the small boat inspired the refugee party and helped them to safety.

A Dutch Army officer, a lieutenant in the infantry, who navigated the boat, told a reporter that he knew nothing of the sea, but volunteered to 'do his best to get the party across.

"We sailed from Scheveningen," he said.

"I decided, the best plan was to keep to the coast, going in the direction of Belgium. After some hours in the boat, which tossed about like a cork,, someone found an old compass:hidden below.

of the people there are highly civilized of Norway, and was once part of the When Norway and dependent on the import of diocese of Bergen. manufactured foods, goods, and lu-united with Sweden in 1914 the xuries, all of which came to Faroes, with Iceland; and Greenland, of Den- them by the merchant ships of the remained under the crown mother country; and no other Power mark. But the islanders had their amount of in- except Norway had any regular com- own dialect, and no munication with them. The exports Altration of Danish has destroyed it. of the Faroes are almost entirely of In fact, in the last 50 years, it has salt sun-dried cod.

been revived more strongly than ever, with the sturdy determination of the people to acquire self-government. There are to-day two political par- ties in the Faroes: one desiring to preserve unity with Denmark; the other desiring home rule on Icelandic lines, that is, with only the king as a link with Denmark. And

The terms of an arrangement be- home rule, under Allied protection, has suddenly been given them. Until tween the official side and the staff

side of the Civil Service National Whit-cheerful.. Germany seized Denmark the Faroes

THEY SHOULD HAVE STAYED INDOORS

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- DIDN'T WANT TO LEAVE "Wé debated what would be the best plan and decided to take a chance on After thirty-six A war bonus is to be paid to all reaching England. whole-time. non-Industrial Civil Ser-hours with nothing to eat, except stale bread, we were sighted by a Dutch vants..

coaster and. taken aboard.

"The little girl, Dolly, who was with her mother and father, kept everyone

"Had it not been for her I am afraid

hope."

Dolly cried at first, and refused to leave the open boat for the coaster. "Ours is a much nicer ship," she 'sald.

had their lagting in the form of aley Council have been announced. The London, May 27. "If-the-people had only kept under county council, and they were repre- bonus will take effect from February some of us would have given up cover when the German airplanes sented in the Danish Government by 1, 1940.

member in both the Upper and first flew over Boulogne, there would

Lower House at Copenhagen. not have been anything like so many Governor of the islands

has under casualties among them," I was told

constable, him a Judge and a chief to-day by Miss Patricia Moorhouse, a

and six syslumenn, or district officers young London woman who left Boulo-

of state. This force always sufficed before the. German gne two days

to keep order among the 350,000 or so troops got there,

law-abiding inhabitants of the 16 oc- cupied islands of the Faroes.

war,

Since the beginning of the Miss Moorhouse and four other Brit-

been running ish women have

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of

Y.M.C.A. canteen in the centre Boulogne. On Tuesday, after three nights of bombing raids and with the Germans a few miles away, British Army: authorities ordered them return to England.

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"The first raid was on Sunday evening and lasted till early morn ing," said Miss Moorhouse. "We did not realise they were coming till all the anti- the lights went out and aircraft guns opened fire.

"Policemen were blowing their whistles, but you could hardly hear them for the gunfire. People, many of them half-dressed, came rushing out of their houses to see what was going

on.

"Many of them were hit by shrapnel and splintered glass from windows, but many others still stood gazing up into the sky till the German airplanes, flying low to get beneath the range of the guns, came in from the coast side of the town and machine-gunned the streets.

"Only then did the people run for shelter."

STRAPPED ON CAR

For three nights Boulogne was bombed at the same hour and for the same length of time. Throughout each day Miss Moorhouse and her com- panions helped to feed and bandage the refugees, who were flocking into the town with wounds received from airplanes which had machine-gunned them on the roads,

"Many of them had bullet wounds through the hands, which they had put up

to protect their heads," she said.

"Most of them were Dutch and Belgians who had travelled miles in ramehackle care or farm:wagons, on -bloyoles and on foot." One our drove In with two little girle strapped to the running boards," There had not bean room for them Inside,

"The townspeople were wonderful to the refugees, doing what they could to help and comfort them, in spite of their own confusion, and bewilder- menter They gave them fooch and provided rugs and blankets for those who had nowhere to sleep except in their cars, or on the quayside.

"On the morning that we left hun- dreds of people were

the quayside,

HARD COUNTRY

The bonus is to be paid to those whose salary is 95s. a week or less in London, 91s. or less intermediate cen- tres, and 878. or less in provincial cen- tres, or the annual equivalents of these

rates.

Civil Servants over twenty-one re-

ceiving under 40s. will have a bonus of 3s. a week. Those receiving 40s, to 50s. inclusive will get 4s. a week, and those receiving over 50s. a week will have a 5s. bonus. A bonus of Is. 6d. will go to Civil Servants under eigh- teen and a bonus of 2s. 6d. to those aged from eighteen to twenty-one.

The Faroes present a wild topo- Each island rises abruptly graphy. from the sea, often almost sheer to one or two thousand feet; little scat-

Officers whose ordinary remunera- tered villages and towns seem to cling with difficulty to the green slopes, tion exceeds by not more than 5s, the whose tops are seldom free. of mist, rates of 95s. 91s, and 87s. mentioned because of the prevailing mountain-will receive a bonus sufficient to bring sea fog. It is a desolate treeless wet their pay and bonus together to the land, but magnificent fjords, in which same level. there is remunerative whale+hunting, thread the mountains from north to south, and the fishermen-farmers in hospitable their croft-villages are people.

The principles of this agreement apply to scale payment sub-postmas- ters and to branch managers of Em- ployment Exchanges.

In the small outer isles life is more primitive, but none the less courteous and hospitable; the inhabit-OFF THE RECORD ants spin their own wool and make their own clothes, and they are almost their potatoes self-supporting with and cows and sheep, fishing, bird- snaring, and peat-cutting. The potato has made possible a great increase of population where previously there was often famine on the fallure of the rye and oats.

"IMPORTANT STRATEGICALLY ·

The. Faroes felt the pinch of ad- versity early in the war, and flour, tea, tobacco, coffee (the chief drink), and engine and radlo spare parts and petrol have been very scarce. Under Allied protection it is certain that the people will be better off. Strate- gically the islands are important for the Allies. Hitherto enemy ships could run for shelter in the mist- covered fjords. Now the Allies have a useful base, if they wish to use it, for refuelling and other operations, half-way between the Shetlands and Iceland. There are several good har- bours, Torshavn, with its town

of 4,000 inhabitants, the capital, is best known. The mountainous nature of the islands would make the establish- ment of aerodromes extremely diffi cult. Few airmen have risked landing in the Faroes, but in 1933, Lindbergh landed and took off at

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The spirit of the people is that off freedom-loving men and women who. live and prosper under the, Nort Atlantic storms. Not least among th foes of the Nazis, henceforth the hardly fishermen of the Faro wding, Into | who know the sea from Greenland.

Shetland,

ED REED

It took all her parents' powers of persuasion to get her aboard. After questioning by British mili→ tary authorities, eight out of the four- teen refugees were found to be Ger- man Jews and were detained for fur- ther inquiries.

STH COLUMN ARMS

FOUND

The discovery of a secret store of firearms, ammunition and uniforms in a German-controlled cardboard fac- tory at Krsko, Yugoslavia, spurred the police in their drive against suspicious foreigners.

It was learned authoritatively that the factory management had been ar- rested-Associated Press.

By ED REED.

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