1941-04-07 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 7, 1941.

CHINA MAIL

WINDSOR HOUSE

DEMORALISING NORWAY

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The Nazi attempt demoralise and disinte- grate Norway proceeds with Teutonic persistence. An intensification of po- lice control in West Nor- way is reported; and among other devices of the creators of the new order are the compulsory use of the Nazi form salute and the revival of certain pagan customs, such as the sun festivals which were held in the Scandinavian and Anglo- Saxon countries before! they were converted to Christianity. The display of rune inscriptions has long been thought a suit- able medium for inculcat- ! ing moral virtues into Nazi youths, and no doubt it would suit Hitler very well to paganise as much of Europe as he was able. He recognises in the Christian religion an es- sentially supernational force, the tendency of

which is towards the equality and brotherhood

of all men. Both tenden- cies are abhorrent to the

tian

MATSUOKA

"The Trouble? He Wants Something To Take Home!"

Our Home Army

uff reablies, Hitler or one of his

By

John Gordon

am-

Since we are supposed to beg

These men know every inch of Nazis, who class the Chris-facing the dangers of invasioni

the ground over which they will fight. They know every house. Church, Marxism, any day now, according to Hitler's

recent speech, our attention has;

Every door is open to them, be- and Freemasonry to- been turned to our Home Guards.

cause they are known. In the gether

months thu' have Every now and again in one of as opponents of

passed since these "Hot Guspel" speeches.

Dunkirk they have constructed, their favourite tenet of a which are intended to take the

claborately concealed but power- master-race. The idea! minds of their pviplexed people

ful pill boxes, and road blocks services or in the Civil Defence which are manned

on the first that before God all men cher henchmen will make Services like the Air Haid Ser-alarm by mn well armed, with are equal is destructive of steering reference to that extraor vices, the Fire Brigades. the tran- plenty of ammunition of all sorts

dinary new section of Britam's sport and the hospitals.

ready for defence to the last man, the whole conception on

| fighting forcer. which the Nazi system in

They looked a motley crew at These hidden dumps of These speeches ought give you first. They could not look other munition are scattered all over Europe is to be reared.

the .pression that t Home wise bu they had no uniforms, | the liome Guard Company's area. Another bastion of in-Guard is a band of undisciplined, unly on the sleeve of their jac-Only the men know where they doddering old men with pichstets a khaki armlet with the let- are to be found. They ensure tegrity and justice be- forks playing at Boy Scouts. Tolars LD, V. -which stands for Lu- that no man will ever be short of

who; end Detence Volunteers, the ori- a cartridge or a bomb. tween man and man is the listen to the speechmakers

really shuulet and probably do gal name law, and this too the Nazis' know better. you would imagine are trying to destroy in that the first hundred invaders to set foot in Britain, would sweep Norway. It is to the en- this motley force out of the way, during credit of the Nor-without a moment's trouble. wegian Supreme Court of

If they

wer, come to Britain Justice that all its mem-with that idea in their heads, they bers resigned rather than liome Guard is one of Britain's are in for severe shock. This

it is,a national force composed accept the decrees of the most brilliant improvisations of of local units who are intended to

It is well armed. Reich Commissioner, Ter- the war.

It is be used solely for a local purpost ready for battle to the last button. that is taking the first shock of boven, which manifestly it is not afraid of the enemy, buthan invasion wherever it should violate the basic statutes on the contrary is anxious to meet come.

him. And most important of all. in spite of the sneers about it, it is a very tough body, with just one ambition to be tougher still.

a

later Winston Churchill

Kave them the name of Home Guard.

The Home Guard is nothing like the regular army. Its pur- pose is quite different; its train ing entirely novel.

Each district of the country, and its

the

Nor will Bere be any food dif- ficulty for every man has in his home Iwo days iron rations. When the call comes these will sustain him for the first two days

uuti!

the food supply system comes into operation.

Now do not imagine that be-- cause most of the men are above military age they are inferior sol- diers. Most of them served for several years in the last war. They may not be so physically f as they were then, but mentally they are even tougher.

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of the country. They will

They know that if they meet take no hand in adminis-

very often each factory has

an invader they must be at theix Town Home Guard unit. Just as posts to hold him at all costs until tering laws which in their

in the Army the basis of each the regular troops arrive. They eyes, and in the eyes of all

It came into being as a mani-force is a company, but unlike the have blocks ready to close every festation of the real spirit of Bri-Army the companies of the Home; road and every field. There wil honest men, are partisan taln. Just after Dunkirk this Guard are trained to operate al-be no sweep through a panic and designed solely for country awoke with some

most independently of the sur-

other stricken

Britain as there was prise to the realisation that

it companies. They are in the purpose of political stood in imminent danger of be trained and intended

fact through France. It is the Home for purely Guard that will see to that. Every coercion. Terboven's ing invaded. Now Britain has guerilla warfare.

group of invaders will be penned In one little district, and it is the "People's Tribunal" and not been invaded since 1086.

always regarded invasion as one They are now clad like

intention of the Home Guard that the Supreme Court of the of the things that just could not Army in battle dress, the only

they shall be slaughtered where independent State of Nor-ristic way it refused either to let.

to it, And in its charac- distinctive touch being their arm-

they are penned. The Home Even that is to go shortly. Guard has every intention of see- way are incompatible. think about such thing or to Thanks to the United States they ing to that. And it has the men, They cannot function side prepare for it.

are now completely armed. In

means, and the strength and the fact there are now more rifles by side, and the Nor- Dunkirk and the fall of France than men--and they know how to toughness to see to it,

be- Much of the good fighting qual- wegian Judges will not changed its outlook in a flash. It use them. They have also

comes replised suddenly that the inva- come machine-gun experts, Tom.ity of the Home Guard consent to administer a der might be here in a week. The my gun experts and experts in from their democracy. There has travesty of justice. Al-British are a people who though all sorts of tricky things like the never been such a truly nation- normally slow to move, can move famous Molotoy Cocktail, theal army. There is no question of ready some hundreds of quickly when necessary. This deadly bomb in a bottle, first in- rank because of social position. patriots have been con- time they moved very quickly. A vented call went forth for every able-Spain. centrated in the first poli-bodied man to volunteer for the tical prison to be estab-defence of his own home district, Every square foot of Britain is lished in Norway.

so that the invador should be now guarded night and day by Men are prouder to be a pri- fought field by field, street by Home Guards. No parachutist vate in the Home Guard than a. There could descend from the skies, no Captain in the Army. If there is Just as the People's street, village, by village.

has never been any question of plane could land without a Home ever war on the soil of Britain; Court is a travesty of the surrender in Britain,

Guard soldier giving the alarm. the most glorious episodes of all The instant the alarm is given, will be those in which the Home Supreme Court, so Quis- | One million seven hundred every able-bodied man in the Guard play a part. When an in- ling's Nasjonal Samling, is thousand men answered the call area will don his uniform, take yasion comes they will beat it

at them now, a travesty of the Nor-practically every At man bethis rifle, and move swiftly to his Hitler may laugh

tween the ages of 18.ond 05 who post to encircle, trap or harry but the last laugh of all will be wegian Parliament.

Lwas not actually in the Aghting the invader.

to deal with tanks

in The men, in effect have chosen their own leaders, and they have chosen them because they have confidence in them.

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