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THE CHINA, MAIL, JULY 16, 1941.

PARISIANS, UNDER YOKE, HOPE GONE MISERY RISING

(By Sonia Tomara)

A YEAR AGO on June 15, German troops en- tered Paris. It was Friday. The city was deserted. Three million Parisians had fled before the in- vaders. Those who remained were barricaded be- hind closed doors and windows.

The French government was in Tours, on the Loire. It was not to return to Paris in the first year of occupation.

and

Men on motorcycles came in of thousands of Frenchmen could when they first through the gate of Pantin And no employment

Qualified the

to Paris, and

northeastern returned poorest suburbs. They rumbled over workers were offered jobs in Ger- the Paris pavement at 7 a.m. many. Forty thousand accepted. they had not occupied Later came tanks, trucks an 'If

officers. with

They their dole and ration cards would curs Alled

been taken from them. poured from the north, northwest have

the west. The proudest According to information smuggi-

the of Paris

distress is de ed out Arc victors rolled past the

greut among white collar Triomphe, on the Place de l'Etoile. very

longer needed. The and down the Champs Elysees workers no

unemployed is The rallying point was the dole received by Concorde, which Jean Giraudoux. twelve francs a day, or 22 cents at rate. Yet rationed the French poet, had called "the, the official

goods are scarce and the prices world's most beautiful place."

on the "black market" are said to be "extravagant."

on

The swastika flag was soon to float over the Triumphal Arch and the Eiffel Tower.

a

It still floats there. After over a year of occupation the German are entrenched solidly in the City!

become of Light, which has city of gloom and darkness--not | unity because of the black-out which envelops it every night. but also because of the misery and despair which are the lot of Frenchmen as of all people un- der German domination,

Little News

Little news has come

out

Misery Growing

So misery la growing from

day. day to

Persona arrived from Parls recently say that last winter was hard but next winter, it is feared, will be even Worbe.

This summer's crops are expect- ed to be small because most of the seeds have been eaten. Besides, more than a million farmers and farmhands are held in German

WANTS FIT MEN OUT OF

OUTS

BALLOON CREWS

The Secretary for Air is to be asked in Parliament if he will consider a release to all other services of officers and men of military age and medical fitness employed in balloon barrage crews.

now

He will also be ask- ed what decisions reached have been for the employment of members of the Women's Royal Air Force in balloon bar- rage, so as to release men of military age and fitness.

BOMBED

HOSPITAL

MOVES

prison camps. Transportation of St. Thomas's Hospital,

goods is hampered by absence of

of gasoline and shortage of coal. One four times bombed, is to Paris in the last year. Whatever hundred and fifty thousand French

has reached here has been railroad coaches have gone to Ger-move out into the coun- brought by weary refugees from many. Paris is said to be like a try. A new St. Thomas's

It has France. No mail and no cables city of the dead at night. have been let out of occupied no taxls, no buses, no private cars. is to be opened in a hut France. The Germans jealously Only German military get gaso- encampment surrounded guard the frontier they have line. drawn through the heart All through the winter, Parisians by trees, hills, and green the country. Even the French had hoped against hope, it is said, fields at a beauty spot in men who live on different sides, that Great Britain and the United

of

of!

the when

Most of the ruins of the old hos- pital are to be walled up till bet- ter times. It is the first London hospital to take this step.

A hundred beds and a skeleton staff will remain in London,

of it know little of one another. States might join hands to defeat the heart of Surrey.

overlords. But the It seems from reports received, the German from France that the Germans German victories in the Balkans Mediterranean seem to have succeeded not only in split- and the

the ting the land but in dividing the have erased optimism. So

Parisians appear

resigned when French people.

they are pushed into "collabora- Parisians have learned a bitter tion" with the enemy. "We have lesson during the year

00- to live," they say, "and only the cupation. At first, Germans came, they were reliev Germans can give us bread." ed to see order restored and the threat of bombing removed. The Germans were "correct," they paid for all they bought. It seems to-day that they have bought - with French money to be sure-all there was to buy in France. They started with the goods in the stores that were still plentiful a year ago. Their army of occupation, esti-

TATTOOING BACK IN

FASHION

mated at first at 2,500,000 and AGAIN

more, fed on French wheat and beef. The champagne wine stor- ed in the cellars of Rheims and

The other day a reporter talked with some of the 70 nurses and 40 clean- "pinkles"-pink-overalled ers' at the hospital,

They have survived the wreck- ing of their kitchens, their can- nurses' home, teen, dispensary, medical out-patients' block, and several wards. They have spent days without normal water, light, heat, or telephone,

You might think they would be rather excited, wondering who would be lucky enough to be sent to Surrey for the duration.

Instead, one nurse said, "Matron

Tattooists in England are busier Epernay was shipped to Germany. than they have been for many

But all this was not enough,} years. As time went on, and the inva- The reason is that thousands of Blon of England was postponed, men and women going into the hasn't yet told us who is to leave German troops were sent home forces are bringing tattoo marks London. I think we'd all prefer

to stay here. or to the Balkan front. But back into fashion.

..

the German authorities stili Both men and women are hav-. "It doesn't seem right to leave

their are levying 400,000,000 frança|ing

regimental badges now that the bombing's getting a day for occupatson, Yet it tattooed on their arms, there is bad again. It's as if we were is calculated that the cost of also a big demand for identifica- walking out on It, I hope she occupation

doesn't choose me for Surrey:" doba not exceed tion number markingse 150,000 francs a day..

Invade Mines And

Factories

alr

Children's Hut

A London tattooist stated that The sister in charge of the "pin- though men. still formed the bulk kies" said, "I've been able to find of his clientele, increasing num- only two who are willing to move |bers. of women were attending out to Surrey. The others refuse

daily.

to leave_London.”- "Another idea is to have their on them The rest is pure profit for Ger- blood groups. tattooed many. The billions of francs in case they are caught in piled up over months have been raids." used to buy the majority of stocks in all French industrial enterprises; Germans now con- trol the iron works in the' north-}|- east, the coal mines of the north, the French textile mills, the Lyons silk industry, the chemical

"CIGARETTE AND

LIPSTICK OUTLOOK!

plants near Parls and Marseilles,kynjadi algun dia,

the phosphates of North MUST GO

and the utilities "and" railways.

They also have "bought" from Bamendata

In the new St. Thomas's each ward hut will contain 30 beds, a ward kitchen, and a sister's room. Covered passages will link the huts. One hut will be set aside for child air-raid victims.

"St Thomas's medical students who have been working in nearby Surrey hospitals, will now be able to return to their own hospital, and serve our sick,”

"I was told. They will live in an old manor.

the French many of their foreign The "cigarette and lipstick out-house close by ale holdings such as the Bor copper look on life" must be changed, "We hope eventually to have. mines in Yugoslavia. If peace said the Bishop of Exeter, pr. about 350 beds, and a staff of nearly 700 there Food lorries were signed it would be natural C. E. Curzon, recently. that the Germans would take over. "I have no objections to cigaret-will be sent out daily from the from the French their share in tes, but I am glad Unsticle London hospital. Emergency cases the Suez Canal.

was not invented when I was a will be sent to the country as soon as they can be moved." VANDER With war still going on along young man," he said. the Channel, and France being "They are symbols which will The governors of St. Thomas's cut off from all reserves of raw have to be replaced by others. I are hoping to retain the new pre- materials, work has been scarce, suggest these new symbols should miser after the war as an auxil-

Jary: hospital. It seems from reports that tens be the spade and cradle..