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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-

All the women volunterns. ces. Mr. Matsuoka openly}

store told me, had been instructed in and heavily discounts the bed areas London

hopkeeper, | the unse of stirrup pumps, and sund bags, ele, "hit the men are NO strength of the tie be the more bombing they get there, | painter's labourer, plumber's ini i the keener the people are at tark.

fish porter.

and ¦ kren that they won't let the wo- tween Tokyo and Berlin,

i bog tveir probleins

on . Mr. Ashley Ison nked in the building trade.men come t A full quota ༢༢། Out of the pact, on the

incendiary and another family combination said bombs has fallen in the distret, of timber foreman and milkman. face of it, both countries; but, thanks to the fough

Behind the seated Secretary and and chairman were four 18-year who new liberties of the commeil,

sought

15 of olds, who act quekly got the cooperation

messenges. action, with a strong sug- the people, the potential

danger raids gestion that both are of these fireworks" was consid- Well, these men, as likewise playing for rubly redured.

secure

Are

Poplar, which I veited first on dow cleaner, upholsterer.

ut the minst man he's the sterplaty my fire tour, I one

taxidriver. Bet kompen

Iti

Drover

Suther

milk

can

༢)།། guess, do their eight, ten and 12 Before the blitz started they hours a day before they have the than thinking about

and

safely. Pact values these had 210 fire parties, and in Sept-chance of days, however, are purely ember the number of volunteers night's "work" on the roof

had risen to over 2,000. To-day in the streets. Yet, believe me,

relative, and the most

they are the most completely

fire-watching relevant issue in this case organised

is the great imponder-ghting units in the country.

able: the degree of faith

placed by either in

other's signature.

NAZI TACTICS

news

the

Plan For Week

and

And what enthusiasm! I drop- ped in at the local "headquar- ters" of a group to find there must have been 50 of them. Sit

ting on chairs, cushions, settees

By William Gibbons

on

he

I felt it was a night well spent.

had an misight into the real characte; of these men, who meas sure then contribution to the war effort a their strength and, lab-

In Belgravia

On the following night I went to Eaton-square, in Belgravia, to the homes of people you and I rank as the rich

ten." "upper What are they doing? Are they pulling their weight?

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

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

He, like his employer, had other He is a mem- duties to perform.

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and table corners in the home of they put in eight-hour shifts 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 false casting

to the job.

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

one task over, he undertakes I went on the roof with the

another more perilous out in pression is an old German in this sector, and with Council-

lor J. Ashley carries out the ad-spotters, who are armed with a

raid. trick and it is being ex-ministrative side of the "busin

hooter (it railway platelayer's

Their job is to watch the Major Brodie showed

me the horn). ploited to the full in the ess."

of meaning A mixed crowd. No time

adaptability. when they see real "fun" above and Balkans.

get to their homes for a wash or

incendiaries to

the Partner in a firm of colonial mer- blow any

of the horn and shout a message down chants, he is a member

City of London and to one of the "boys," who races Cavalry,

Hurlingham clubs. That, yout to the nearest post.

indicates affluence. When there's an alert the men would say, can use a shed in a back garden Yes. But it is all shed to-day: dited with an official com- the watchers (and how thorough that has been fitted with a stove He is a post warden and has done

plans munique announcing the they were!) and making

and there's refreshment provided much in organising fire-watchingTM

parties in his district. dents.

to

to

Three days ago, it may food; they had come straight

Mrs. Brunskill's parlour for their be recalled, the German weekly meeting.

There sat the secretary and High Command was cre-

chairman, taking reports

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fall of Larissa, a report for the next week's rota

Around the table were a win-from a fund contributed by resi-

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 King Peter of Yugoslavia reinforcements for Greece had fled to Athens on his could be so interpreted!

Competition-

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- ses" evacuated people.

Here was the perfect example:

Equipped with bunks, these people, of around the various groups.

various nationalities, find blessed Councillor Ashley, I gathered, sleep and rest after the torments item for Back in her house, Mrs. Brodic as we-she is the daughter, of the late, "At tor General of Chinese Customs

A chat in the "local," the pro- prietor of which has offered one of her larger rooms for meetings of the deep shelter. and recreation, and then a look

way to London, that The only safe course knows something about news.of bombing. scores of transports were these days when the war "Now here's a little on their way to Athens to of the ether is scarcely you," he says to me,

been completely evacuated. evacuate the British Ex-less carefully organised walked through a street that had Sir Robert Hart, former Inspec peditionary Force and than military operations, that house you see a pall of water, in China-sat knitting in pursult

in of her war effort. She is a mem the house is now a couple of ber of a group who supply all that British troops were is to believe nothing, un-Well, the woman who lived evacuating Tobruk. There tll it bears an official streets away, but regularly she kinds of knitting and needle worke was not, of course, the stamp. from the Allied comes along and replenishes that hospital bandages, doctors and pall with either waler or sand!" nurses' maab, and clothing för Can you beat it?

bombed-out, people, slightest. foundation for side,

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