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 east 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, so 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 shared out among the community as a whole."
The German families coming in- to the Paris region from the Ruhr and the Rhineland get plenty of coal and plenty of food.
Not so the French. They form long queues outside the municipal
-By WALTER FARR
Former Daily Mail Paris Correspondent
without
Remember those little metal offices to get their coal rations, models of the Eiffel Tower in the while the Germans, by a special
been arrangement, get theirs Paris shops? They've all bought up long ago by the Ger- difficulty. mats to adorn thousands of man- telpieces in the Reich as "symbols of victory"
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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
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 whether there heat but about should be any central heating at of flats
The once-gay Bois de Boulogne, where normally there would be strolling crowds admiring the 'all. autumn-tinted trees, is now the In thousands of blocks world's saddest beauty spot. there is not enough fuel for the
furnaces.
The public are not allowed to there because the "German go 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 card proving that they were un- employed.
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They move in dismal groups along the paths where once walk- ed the happy-go-lucky racc-goers on their way to Auteuil or Long- champ.
are trying to
The Germans create a "Gay Paree" of their own. Before the fall of Paris most of the Montmartre night clubs and cabarets were run by Jews. The dance hostesses were mostly Jew ish refugees from Germany and Central European countries.
A visit to the Northern Command R.A.O.C. Motor Transport Workshops. Averaging eigh- teen hours a day, the workshops are busily 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 to appoint Welfare Officers to the
Commands
Britain various
in means that a big offensive is being made against one of Hitler's most The secret weapons, Boredom. point is that if the invasion misses fire, or even if it doesn't and has to be beaten out of the coun- try, there will be the long win ter months when training for the Spring offensive will be necessarily limited to the rather short hours of daylight,
activities In peace-time, all which come under the rather for- bidding-looking title of welfare, from lantern-lectures: to darts. could be carried out within each unit by the officers in charge...
War
such as.gun and searchlight crews, out in the wilds of Stopshire and far too few for the organisation of concerts or other usual enter tainments.
for the A big send-off
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 within each Commandott Officers of the individual units
be
But nowadays the men in any given battalion, may be split up into widely-scattered units, and even on motor-bikes the officers
For men on leave one of the can't be the big-hearted Arthur's they used to be. There are all first things the new scheme did sorts of problems which have to was to set up information bureaux be dealt with when an entire gen- at all the main line stations in eration puts on khaki; problems London where troops could legal and matrimonial and finan- told about how to get here, there about enter- domestic. Furthermore, and everywhere;
thousands of young tainment, hospitality available chaps in the army who want and even guides to take them sort of round. go on doing
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- ness of the capital to lodgings for the night.
Now that they have all moved
cial and out, the Germans are encouraging there are 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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the same
to
groups, concerts and what-not.
Most difficult of all to
deal 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-
to cal societies are asked open these activities to the local troops and so are the local Darts clubs.
Such big centres as Plymouth and a number of northern cities 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 coming winter, but they can't together attractive choruses.
Paris in the past has recruited practically all its girls dancers from Britain and America,
get
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 ies of the Paris, bars has stayed
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Michel
their Lips
in what he was peace tirae so far as
tastes are concerned.
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 spare energies should be suitably. encouraged with seeds, young plants, the tools of the trade and Rue de la Paix ::: Fifth Avenue 11 manures.
In addition to all this, coopera- cinating women gather you'll hear | Avenida de Mayo ; ; ; wherever fas- tion is sought with the Army
to loveliness.
Sports Control Board in the mat-Michel's praises. Michel blends per- 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 disories of those games, from billiard prevents dryness and chapping. appeared during the invasion, 1s cues to Rugby goal-posts. And still missing..
Notice how easily, how evenly Welfare officers also work in with Michel goes on... its perfectly bal When I last saw Pierre, of the ENSA (Entertainment National anced consistency keeps your mouth Scribe bar, he was making ar- Service Association). ENSA sup-fresband kiss-invitingthe clock 'round rangements for hurried departure ply the concert parties, the actors from France. Horry, of "Harry's" and show girls and the musicians (Sank Roo Dongo) is, I under- and the lecturers, but the Welfare stand, now running a bar in Lon- people have to supplement this by don...
the provision of travelling cine- mas, and, most Importanty planos and other instruments of music: The Welfare officers In short, tüke care of the local problem, what ever it is.
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Carpentier, the boxer, who used to manage a bar on the Etoile, his just been demobilised from the French Air Force, and at the mo- ment is having a battle of words with Jean Borotka. (France's new And lastly the Welfare workers sports Fuehrer) im unoccupied try to rouse focal interest so as to France, as to yhether profession-ráíse both funds and enthusiasm: alism should be banned from Anyone who will offer a soldier French sport...
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I remember Frank, of the Ritz, or a meal at home-home being a telling me. Just before France spot the soldier probably hasn't I enclose 25 cents for introductory size broke up: "I'm counting: now been for some time--is doing 'ca | Michel Limticle in
on this being a ten-years. war. Hur real service in keeping up, the Name" when it's all over Paris will be man's morale, (or in plain Eng-Addres just the same as it ever was. Of lish, pecker), and in keeping down course it will
Ithe_pangs of boredom, which are:
shade.
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