1941-04-16 — Page 39

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 16, 1941

CHINA MAIL

-WINDSOR HOUSE.

NEUTRALITY PACT

Mr. Matsuoka went for a non-aggression treaty and is returning. thank- ful to have anything al all, with a neutrality pact. Those are the facts, and they seem simple enough until an attempt is made to adjust them to the wider international situa · tion. The complexity of that riddle is best indicat- ed by the widely varying opinions on the signifi- cance of the agreement No two commentators agree on all points. Diffi- culty seems also to be ex perienced in all commen. tators agreeing 011 any one point.

It is, nevertheless. ex- tremely doubtful whether} the Nazi hierarchy can' find anything in the agreement to give satis- faction. The one factor which must have been ever-present in the minds of Mr. Matsuoka and M Stalin when the text was being discussed was the existence of a military al- liance between Germany and Japan. Yet Japan has accepted the role of neutral in any conflict in which Russia may find herself defensively engag- ed. Fresh from a survey of Axis might and resour- ces, Mr. Matsuoka openly

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All the women volunteers, he told me, had been instructed the use of stirrup pumps and sand bags, etc., "but the men are so ; aut | keen that they won't let the wo~ |

on it." Mr. Ashley

the poore Tmbing they get there, puntey Labour, piumben's ma the kernt the people are in tark Ting livet nublem

and heavily discounts the bed strength of the tie be- tween Tokyo and Berlin.

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guess, do their eight, ten and 12 Before the blitz starteci They tours a day before they have the safety.

Pact values these had 216 e parties, and in Sept.

thinking chance of days, however, are purely ember the number of volunteers) night's "wenk" on the rout

To-day im the street. relative, and the most had risen to over 2,000,

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And what enthusiasm! 1 drop- ped in at the local "headquar-i ters" of a group to find

there must have been 50 of them. Sit- ting on chairs, cushions, settees

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In Belgravia

On the following night I went to Eaton-square, i Belgravia, to the homes of people you and I rank s the ch Tupper ten, What are they dong? Are they puiling their weight?

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I soon found the answer. died with Major H. Cunningham Brodie and his wife in the quiet- digmily and comfort of one of the few houses in that area that does not bear marks of bomb blastinge- The butler served dinner — all within ration restriction, let me

say, even if enhanced by a pro- fessional cook-and disappeared.

He, like his employer, had other duties to perform. He is a nem- ber of a fire-watching squad and, . one task over, he undertakes another more perilous out in il raid.

and table corners in the home of they put in eight-hour stufts Mrs. Brunskill, who doesn't seem] their fire spotting. That surely to mind how they use her furni-must be something of a record. The device of broad-ture so long as they get on with "It has its advantage," one told me. "You see, we haven't casting false

to the job.

Her husband, a Port of London to dress to go to work. We're all create confusion and de- Authority worker, is a "big noise" ready.”

I went on the roof with the pression is an old German in this sector, and with Council-

lor J. Ashley carries out the ad-spotters, who are armed with a trick and it is being ex-ministrative side of the "busin- hooter (2 railway platelayer's

Their job is to watch the Major Brodie showed me the ploited to the full in the es."

to "fun" above and when they see A mixed crowd. No time

meaning of adaptability. Balkans.

get to their homes for a wash or any incendiaries to blow the Partner in a firm of colonial mer-

of the 4 horn and shout a message down chants, he is a member food; they had come straight Mrs. Brunskill's parlour for their to one of the "boys,"

City who races Cavalry,

of London and weekly meeting.

Hurlingham clubs. That,

you to the nearest post. secretary

would say, and

indicates affluence.. There sat the

When there's an alert the men reports front

to-day. chairman, taking

can use a shed in a back garden Yes. But it is all shed the watchers (and how thorough that has been fitted with a stove He is a post warden and has done

plans they were!) and making

and there's refreshment provided much in organising fire-watching from a fund contributed by resi-parties in his district. dents.

to

for the next week's rotu.

Around the table were a win-

real

He went out in the raid to see' what was going on in the crypt of St. Peter's Church, where Pre-' bendary Austin Thompson "hou- A chat in the "local," the pro- ses" evacuated people.

Competition

prietor of which has offered one Here was the perfect example of her larger rooms for meetings of the deep shelter. and recreation, and then a look

Three days ago, it may be recalled, the German High Command was cre- dited with an official com- munique announcing the fall of Larissa, a report since exposed as a grotes- que invention. On Mon- any of these reports, un- day night, they were in- less the arrival of trans- sistently alleging that ports carrying additional

Equipped these people, of King Peter of Yugoslavia reinforcements for Greece

with bunks, around the various groups.

Various nationalities, find blessed had fled to Athens on his could be so interpreted!

Councillor Ashley, I gathered, sleep and rest after the torments way to London, that The only safe course

knows something about news. of bombing.

item -for Back in her house, Mrs. Brodleti scores of transports were these days when the war "Now here's a little

gays to me, as we she is the daughter of the late on their way to Athens to of the ether is scarcely you," he

former Inspec- walked through a street-that had Sir Robert Hart, evacuate the British Ex-less carefully organised been completely evacuated, "At for General of Chinese Customs peditionary Force and than military operations, that house you see a pail of water, in China-sat knitting in pursuit

in of her war effort. She is a mem-) that British troops were is to believe nothing, un the house is now a couple offer of a group who supply all evacuating Tobruk. There til it bears an official streets away, but regularly she kinds of knitting and needle work af was not, of course, the stamp from the Allied comes along and replenishes that hospital bandages, doctors' and. pall with either water or sand" nurses' masks, and clothing for Can you beat it?

bombed-out people. slightest foundation for side.

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