1941-07-28 — Page 39

THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 28, 1941.

CHINA MAIL

WINDSOR HOUSE

NAZIS IN NORWAY

Fresh evidence of what happens to the people of a law-abiding and peaceful country when the German Army has crushed out or- ganised resistance and the Nazi Gestapo has taken over control is supplied in the documents seized in the British raid on the Norwegian Lofoten Islands and summarised] in a White Paper. All

freedom has vanished in Norway. The Gestapo

rules supreme, with the native police coerced into acting as its instrument. Gestapo authority is prac-| tically unlimited. It may forbid a Norwegian toj practice his trade or pro-į fession, prohibit assemi- blies or judicial inquiries, suspend pensions, levy prices, or confiscate all a man's possessions and send him to gaol or to his death. Even the conquering army is instructed not to inter- fere with the new misrule. It may act only if called upon to enforce compli- | ance with Gestapo edicts.

TEACHER: MENTA SAN, WHAT IS THE SIZE OF THE JAPANESE

MENTA SAN:

Motes

EMPIRE ? PLEASE TEA CHER, WE HAVEN'T YET READ THE MORNING PAPER.

Wind, Sand-..

And

were again active," says the murdering his wife.

War

or curry

the battle back to Mussolini. He lives

Yet careful reading of the documents reveals something more; some- thing which German pro- paganda would hardly wish the world to know.IN the Solum area our patrois, of the Khamsin justify any one in German advance Norwegians, despite close Carro communique. That does not The temperature usually is well in a trailer captured from some espionage and the severest tell much except that the war still over 100, and if the wind, as it Italian general in the British of-

in this burning waste of often does at this season, kicks up regulations, are still fight-sand, rock and desert scrub a sand storm, it creates an inferno ing back as best they can. through which runs the Libyan-which it needs a Dante to describe, Egyptian frontier, marked by Sand, pulverised to the fineness A letter of instruction to Mussoline's barbed-wire. fence. of flour, gets into everything. It the German police com- But behind such brief and vague is septic and slight scratches be- which to work and an

Communiques is bravery and en- come festering sores. plains of Norwegian un-durance in the midst of extreme The detailed ordnance maps ceaseless show place names on the escarp-

is on

willingness to accept physical hardship and

I nervous stram which must be ment, but these names usually in-

dicate only a point where faint

domination and their set seen to be fully grasped. détermination to remain Perhaps the nature of the fight-caravan tracks cross, perhaps the

this desert can best ing i

he tomb of sonte Arab saint. There anti-German. "At the understood if the setting is sketch-are a few fortresses built by the Italians, such as Capuzzo, which critical moment," it says, first.

The Western Desert is one of "they pursue a deliberate the policy of holding back and which ever became the stage for

most

disagreeable

a military campaign.

places

It has none

Mediterranean shore where

it

the

on

By Harold Denny

are the scene of frequent patrol encounters, and Sofaß on the

height at the edge of the escarp-

is ment.

the

It is one of a number of widely dispersed the open vehicles standing in plain, In it the general has a bedding roll, a little table on electric His meals

fensive of last Winter.

light. That is about all.

are brought from the cook tent some yards away.

✡

다

The morale, courage and endur- ance of these British desert fight- ers are beyond praise. Many of them have been campaigning con- stantly for seven months without a day's rest or leave, through General Wavell's drive of last Winter clear to Benghazi, then back in that disappointing retreat, and now out here patrolling, harassing and defending the west- ern approaches to Egypt. They admit that they are tired, but they remain cheery and uncomplaining.

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