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THE CHINA MAIL FRIDAY SUPPLEMENT, NOVEMBER 8, 1940
And THIS Was Paris
PARIS is preparing now for the
worst winter in her history. Every night along the left bank of the Seine, under cover of a severe black-out, great German lorries lumber towards the cast taking French food and fuel to Germany.
Every day trains and motor- coaches comes in from the east bringing thousands more German families to make the most of what food is left in Normandy and Brittany..
First thing most of these Ger- mans do when they get to Paris is to rush to the Eiffel Tower and stand gazing for hours at the big, specially made swastika flag flying on the top of it.
Goebbels has given special or- ders for the Eiffel Tower to be "boosted" in all German papers and magazines.
It was difficult to get a picture of Hitler walking underneath the tower taking in its full height, s0 a composite picture was made showing an enlarged Hitler emer- ging from the arch, the whole of the tower and the huge swastika flag.
German ex-Service men stand -near the tower selling that pic- ture in postcard size for the Nazi visitors to send home.
For months after the war start- ed there were rumours in France: that coal was going to be, ration- ed.
By the time coal ration cards were actually issued most people had got in huge stocks.
In many parts of Paris these stocks are now being confiscated by the authorities. Police go from house to house with lorries, say- ing: "All coal must be out among the community as a whole."
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The German families coming in- to the Paris region from the Ruhr and the Rhineland get plenty of cqal and plenty of food.
Not so the French. They form long queues outside the municipal
By WALTER FARR
Former. Dally Mall Paris Correspondent
offices to get their coal rations, while the Germans, by a special
A visit to the Northern Command R.A.O.C. Motor Transport Workshops. Averaging eigh- teen hours a day, the workshops are bustly overhauling and repairing M. T. of all description. They are photographed here at work on six-inch guns.
Preventing a Bore
The decision of the War Office.
Remember those little metal models of the Eiffel Tower in the Paris shops? They've all been arrangement, get theirs without to appoint Welfare Officers to the bought up long ago by the Ger- mans to adorn thousands of man- telpieces in the Reich as "symbols of victory."
The Germans have found yet another use for the Eiffel Tower. They have turned the top of it into an observation post where look-out men keep watch for our
'planes.
Unemployed Only
difficulty.
Gaiety By Order
The first chill winds of autumn are whistling down the boulevards these days. At this time of the year, war or no war, there always begins a battle royal between the flat-dwellers and their proprietors as to when central heating should be put on.
The dispute this year is not about the date for turning on the heat but about whether there should be any central heating at
The once-gay Bois de Boulogne, where normally there would be strolling crowds admiring the all. autumn-tinted trees, is now the world's saddest beauty spot.
go
The public are not allowed to
there because the German
authorities discovered that many hundreds of Jews and fleeing poli- ticians were trying to hide among
the trees..
The only people permitted to walk there up to a few days ago
were men who could produce A card proving that they were un- employed.
They move in dismal groups along the paths where once walk- ed the happy-go-lucky_race-goers on their way to Auteuil or Long- champ.
In thousands of blocks of flats there is not enough fuel for the furnaces.
The Germans are trying to create a "Gay Paree" of their own
War
various Commands in Britain means that a big offensive is being made against one of Hitler's most secret weapons, Boredom. The point is that if the invasion misses fire, or even if it doesn't and has to be beaten out of the coun- such as gun and searchlight crews, try, there will be the long win- out in the wilds of Slopshire and ter months when training for the far too few for the organisation Spring offensive will be necessarily of concerts or other usual enter limited to the rather short hours tainments. of daylight.
which come under the rather for
In peace-time, all activities bidding-looking title of welfare, from lantern-lectures to darts, could be carried out within each unit, by the officers în charge..
A big send-off for the
new scheme was given at a. meeting in the Mansion House on the in-
vitation of the Lord Mayor of London, on December 12. 1939, This was organised by the Direc tor of Welfare, Eastern Command and London. Under him are ap-. pointed Area and County Welfare Officers who work with Welfare Officers of the individual units within each Command.
could be
But nowadays the men in any given battalion may be split up into widely-scattered units, and Before the fall of Paris most of even on motor bikes the officers the Montmartre night clubs and can't be the big-hearted Arthurs
For men on leave one of the cabarets were run by Jews. The they used to be. There are all first things the new scheme did dance hostesses were mostly Jew-sorts of problems which have to was to set up information bureaux. ish refugees from Germany and be dealt with when an entire gen- at all the main line stations in
eration puts on khaki; problems London where troops Central European countries.
legal and matrimonial and finan- told about how to get here, there cial and domestic. Furthermore, and everywhere; about enter- chaps in the army who want there are thousands of young tainment, hospitality available and even guides to take them go on doing the same sort of round. The Rotary Clubs of Lon thing as they did in peace-time don provided members to pilot spare-time education, discussion
men through the unknown huge- groups, concerts and what-not.
Most difficult of all to deal ness of the capital to lodgings for
the night.
Now that they have all moved out, the Germans are encouraging ordinary French people to open up night clubs with pure-blooded German and French artists.
Some rather crude,
childish cabaret turns have been brought
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with are the men of isolated units
Under the head of education much is being done to help the soldier with his start, or his re- start, in civil life when the war is over. Lending libraries are be- ing arranged for and even recitals
likely to assail him if his life is all training and nothing much else, Farmers are invited to let the men do a bit of work around the farm-anything for a change. Amateur dramatic clubs and musi- cal societies are asked to open these activities to the local troops and so are the local Darts clubs.
and a number of northern cities Such big centres as Flymouth have done fine work in raising funds and getting down to the job
war on bore,
The world's
from Germany to help create the atmosphere of the "new Paris."
There's a scarcity. of chorus girls in the capital. Music-halls of good music, since nobody now smartest women such as the Folies Bergere are supposes that the soldier is any trying to put on shows for the different from what he was in coming winter, but they can't, get peace time so far as tastes are together attractive choruses. 'concerned..
Paris in the past has recruited practically all its girls dancers from Britain' and America.
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The Germans have placed a ban on coloured artists in Paris. In fact, special regulations have been framed regarding all coloured people in occupied French territ ory, restricting the areas where they can travel and hinting that they should leave the country al- together.
Not a single one of the celebrit
There is, too, a tremendous lot of Digging for Victory going on among men who are aforetime en- thusiastic owners of gardens. The Welfare officers arrange that this very useful and healthy outlet for encouraged with seeds, young spare energies should be suitably plants, the tools of the trade and
manures..
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Rue de la Paix 2: Fifth Avenue In addition to all this, coopera cinating women gather you'll hear Avenida de Mayo :.. wherever fas- Sports Control Board in the mat- tion is sought with the Army Michel's praises. Michel blends per
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les of the Paris bars has stayed ter of providing pitches for all fectly with delicate skin tones, its on to entertain the conquerors sorts of games and for the access creamy base keeps lips petal-smooth, Frank, of the Ritz bar, who dis-ories of those games, from billiard prevents dryness and chapping. appeared during the invasion, is cues to Rugby goal-posts. And Notice how easily, how evenly still missing.
When I last saw Pierre, of the ENSA (Entertainment National anced consistency keeps your mouth Welfare officers also work in with Michel goes on... its perfectly bal- Seribe bar, he was making ar Service Association). ENSA sup freshand kiss inviting the clock round. rangements for hurried departure ply the concert parties, the actors from France. Harry, of "Harry's" and show girls and the musicians (Sank Roo 'Donoo) is, I under- and the lecturers, but the Welfare stund, now running a bar in Lon- people have to supplement this by don.
the provision of travelling cine Carpentier, the boxer, who used. mas, and, most important,, planos to manage a bar on the Etoile, has and other instruments of music. just been demobilised from the The.Welfare officers in short, tako French Air Force, and at the mo- care of the local .problem; what- ment is having a battle of words ever it is, with Jean Borotra (France's new And lastly the Welfare workers sports Fuehrer) in, unoccupied | try to rouse locul interest so as to France as to whether profession raise both funds and enthusiasm. alism should be banned from Anyone who will offer a 'soldice : SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY OFFER --- French sport.
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I remember Frank, of the Ritz, or a meal at home-home being u telling me just before France spot the soldier probably hasn't enclose, 20 cents, for introductory size broke up: "I'm counting now scen for some time is doing a Michel: Lipstick in.
on this boing a ten-years war. But real service.in keeping up the Name.... when it's all over Paris will be man's morale (or, in plain Eng- "Address Just the same as it ever was. Of liah, pecker) and in keeping down course it will
'the pangs of boredom which are
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