1941-04-05 — Page 6

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MOST PEOPLE ·

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AND DOCTORS KNOW THAT

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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 5, 1941.

Heralded as rollicking entertainment "Young People,” star-

ring Shirley Temple, Jack Oakle and Charlotte Greenwood, comes to the King's Theatre to-morrow.

VETERAN TRAINING POSTPONED

Those members of the Veteran Company, H.K.V.D.C. detailed to parade at Murray Barracks on Monday, 7th April, will not now attend. The training programme scheduled to commence on that date has now been postponed to Monday, 21st April. Further in- structions will be issu- ed later."

GET INTO

OFF DUTY

DOVER NO GHOST "PRETTIES"

TOWN DESPITE BOMBS & SHELLS

(By Ernie Pyle)

DOVER, AS YOU ALL KNOW, IS THE ENG- LISH CITY THAT IS CLOSEST TO THE COAST OF FRANCE. IT IS SUBJECT BOTH TO AIR RAIDS AND TO SHELLING FROM BIG GERMAN GUNS ACROSS THE CHANNEL.

I suppose most of you picture Dover as a de- serted city, a half-wrecked ghost town. It isn't any such thing.

It is quite alive. Thousands of, public shelter system that is people are living here and going unique. It is a vast network of on with their business. In fact, tunnels in the chalk rock, winding Dover is not as badly damaged around underneath the city at an not nearly so as Coventry or average of 60 feet below the sur- Bristol or some of the other blitz-face. The total length of this ed cities.

The waterfront is pretty well battered and most of the bulldings there have been evacuated. But the rest of the city carries right

on.

The Grand Hotel, where all the American newspapermen stayed during the great air-raiding days of last September, has since had one whole end bombed off. This end simply fell away from the rest of the hotel as though a giant hand had cut it off with a knife.

Washbowl Stands

If you look way up at the naked standing wall, which used to be an inside wall, you will see one lone white washbowl still screwed to the wall. They say a newspaper- man went away hurriedly, leaving his razor lying on the bowl, short-

ly before the hotel was hit. Pre- sumably the razor is still up there, but there's no way to get to it.

network is three and a half miles, and it can be entered from 23 dif- ferent spots throughout the city.

In the

event of a night-long blitz the entire population of Ramsgate could crowd into these tunnels. They were started the year before the war and took more than two years to build.

Drives 150 Miles Incidentally, I'll tell you some- thing to show you how wide awake this coastal defense area is. A friend from Tunbridge Wells drove me around. We drove all day and covered 150 miles.

(By A Special Correspondent)

"Women must try to get out of uniform whenever they can. They should change, whenever pos- sible, into something brightens things up for pretty and feminine. It

everyone."

This is the opinion of Mme. Schiaparelli, the famous dress, de- signer, queen of fashion, who is on her way back to France from New York.

"I know that Dame Fashion has been conscripted to help to win the war," she said. "She has been sacrificed for dungarees and uni- forms. It is part of the sacrifice which all must make.

Heavy Coats

"But I hate these heavy coats and shoes which have to be worn now, and that's why I advise wo- men to get out of them when they

can.

"Before the collapse of France, my daughter who was an am- bulance driver, was never al-' lowed to come to dinner in her uniform, but had to change to something feminine, a pretty dress.

"After the war? Furs, feathers and flounces again, and plenty of them to celebrate victory."

Schiaparelli. the woman who has dressed two continents since the last war, was wearing a navy |

blue suit. Her only ornament with the demure little blue and Ramsgate, which is a

In midafternoon we drove into white check blouse which peeped miles from London.

good 75 over her suit was a diamond lucky traffic policeman the way to the

We asked a spider, Lord Mayor's office. The police on," she said, "and for that rea- "Britain says we must carry man was a nice-looking, pleasant son I am going back to Vichy to young fellow, He told us way, then looked in the car and what I can for French fashion,"

the what is left of my France to do

said:

"Is this Mr. Pyle?"

My first impulse was to dis- FRENCH WANT THEIR

FACTORIES BOMBED

The Dover area goto a bunch of shells from the other side about once a week, But even the ones that land right in town mount from the car and bow to do little damage.

the passing throng, on the assump- Even a newcomer like myself, tion that my prowess as a literary after a few minutes' practice look- gentleman was now recognised in ing, can go around town and say the uttermost

the corners of

THE DETERMINATION "This was a bomb" or "This was a earth. But logic stayed this FRENCH PEOPLE TO. OVER- shell." A shell seems to knock action, No such conclusion was THROW THEIR GERMAN AND down only just what it hits, in- permissible under the cold light ITALIAN OPPRESSORS WAS stead of wrecking everything all of fact.

OF

EMPHASISED BY M. HENRI

around the way the big bombs de. The truth is simply that the HAUCK, LABOUR ADVISER TO I saw buildings in Dover that police all over the area were be- THE FREE FRENCH FORCES, had received direct hits by shells ing notified from one city, to the AT A LUNCHEON OF THE NEW yet had only a few feet of brick next who we were and what we EUROPE CIRCLE IN LONDON. and stone knocked off one corner. were about.

Dual Warning System

AND SO SAY ALL

OF USI

Miss Margaret Ann Wedderburn, Drumlithle, Kincardineshire, who has just celebrated her hun- opinion of Lord Haw-Haw.

He said, "The French working men are saying, “We are work- ing for the Germans in our fac- tories," why don't you bomb UB?

Sabotage is going on in many factories, and the spirit of re- sistance against the enemy and against Fascism is growing imong the working class of France.

German 'planes cross the coast so frequently that cities in this area have six or eight siren warn- ings a day. In fact these coastal towns have recently put in effect of a dual warning system, t

The regular siren goes when the dredth birthday was asked her I feel that ninety or ninety- 'planes are first caught by the sound detectors. Then, if the "He's nae use wasting the bats 'planes..come directly overhead, a

tery on," she replied, local warning is sounded. This may be a steam whistle or a com- pressed-air squawker different from the regular siren.

Avo per cent. of the French peos ple are wishing for a British victory!

LORD MAYOR GREEK THEY SAY IT WITH

CITIZEN

There was a frst warning in Sir George Wilkinson, Lord Boy: friends in Britain ard, now. Ramsgate while we were there, Mayor of London, has been made saying it with soap because flow- in midafternoon, and I noticed, an honourary citizen of Megara, ers are a bit expensive and soap lots of people take to the shal Greece, as a tribute to his work is so much more useful Girls Menu for the Lord Mayor's Greek Reller like it because they fear good per« fumed brands may become scarce."

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