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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 29, 1941.

CHINA MAIL

WINDSOR HOUSE

"MORAL OUTCASTS"

Rejection by the United States Government of the further request by ex- President Hoover to be permitted to organise re- lief supplies to Greece and other occupied countries Lin Europe is but a logical consequence of the bar- barities of the Nazis. None abroad

can feel

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other than sorrow that such terrible sufferings "should be inflicted upon helpless innocent people. But there goes with that indignation that the Ger-| mans should not merely accept with callous indif- ference the fate of people over whom they have rid- den roughshod, but decline also to give any guarantees that relief supplies will not be re- quisitioned,

German occupation has been that of systematic locusts. To their shame be it recorded that even when the Italians, whom Hitler sent in to police Greece so that his own troops could be spared for the Russian front, sent in milk for starving Greek

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AXIS ACROBATICS

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as

children the Germans STANDING on the short, dry, dangerous task soon to be under- But suddenly it is not funny. seized the bulk of it and bomber adfodrome,

browning grass of the huge taken: no hint of apprehension smali black" object falls to the one looks But I, too old to fly against an ground and lands on the tarmac forwarded it to Germany across the hangars over miles of enemy now, look up at the lovely silently. If is a soft, furry black

Certainly nothing more brilliant sun saturates a landscape very sparse.

verdant, undulating country: A sky. The cumulus clouds seem cat mascot, which he has been so

anxious. not to drop that he has, clearly shows the ac-of guilted ripening crops, across

had a wire tail fixed to it so that which deep shadows move

I wish that something would he can secure it to his fingers, curacy of Mr. Churchill's a clunulus clouds, sal before happen so that the dazzlingly bitte which have to clasp so many other description of the Nazis the sun.

vault of the heavens could become things. more overcast. For in a daylight as the moral outcasts of The landscape is still and peace- raid the clouds are embraced A shadow passes across his face mankind" No other ful, dancing under a heat-wave gratefully by raiding airnien as momentarily. Is this falling black tempered gently by a breeze from screens behind which they can cat an omen? We pretend not to people could have done the west:

hide if need, be-and there usually notice it. such a thing. But even

is the need. With such a picture The group includes a fair-head- This picture of a bit of England sky, how many of these laughinged, blue-eyed young man not long before Mr. Churchill seems beautiful, but strangely in- boys will come back?

from school. He is a Flight Lieu- spoke the Greeks were congruous, for, although one's

tenant. A short, stocky lad with | spirit wishes to capitulate and

They have gone into the carrying out his injune- become quietly absorbed almost "briefing room" to learn where

a, north-country accent is an air- gunner. Another tion to keep their souls as the camouflaged hangars and they are to fly,

young chap,. where they are with mouse-coloured hair and a aerodrome buildings are absorbed to drop their bombs how they serious but innocent expression in clean from all contacts into the unrolled canvas of this

his far-seeing eyes is an observer with the Nazis. No Greek countryside it is not possible.

sergeant, NCOs and officers. worthy of the name re-

alike are friends." There is a It might have been had not a

marked absence of Service cour- jects Mr. Churchill's pleable, twin-engined Blenheim bom-

tesies. Everyone is Bill, or Jack, to have faith and hope warning as its engines were ber suddenly roared out the

or Tubby,: and hold out against the started up, to whip the breeze into a terrific wind that laid the long. deliverance that is sure. grass backwards from the sun The people of Europe as until it cut a queer jagged pattern on the ground-with-fts quivering winter nears, wonder how shadow.

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By Richard Haestier

Presently a tall, extremely good-looking young... Wing Com mander, wearing the ribbon of the DFC with the silver rosette, denoting a bar, walks up and joins in the conversation. There is no will recognise their targets, to heel-clicking or calling him" “Sir."

they can fight disease. Over the far side, behind the study pictures of the buildings Those about to die do not salute. They know that the Ger- hangars a group of men have of the target area, to learn where mander is just another airman, they must destroy, get expet maps They are saluted. The Wis Com- mans do not care if they surrendered themselves to the fighter opposition might be ex- although he is not going up to

sun-drenched, peaceful moment. die and that, if the lives

pected and where anti-aircraft day because he is acting Station. of Germans might be but they are not graden fire to blast them from the sum- them off. After a minute or two not ordinary men. guns will throw up the heaviest Commander He has come to see saved by taking from eyed. They are all happy; so very what time they should arrive over "About time to move off,” he

mer sky. They are even told he looks at his watch. those things

obviously happy. They are laugh their targets, how long they will says, and the airmen crowd into withouting and lounging In the sunshine, remain and at what time they lenders with their kit to be take which they carmot su come watching the smoke from should be back again for tea to their waiting aircraft that have vive. Hitler's agents Arve

their cigarettes. twirling upwards.

hpaps of strange. The man who tells them is the

already been" "bombed up!!- would not hesitate to paraphernalia around them Intelligence Officer. He is a lit- Mighty Roar Of Engines strip them.

maps, flying helmets and goggles, the older than the boys who will packed parachutes with broad do the job, but he is a specialist Herein lies the particu-harness, canvas bags, stuffed with who has collected all the possible sort of commotion, the airmen Without any farewells, any lar brutality of the Nazi with clips on the top to hold to get there, do their job and come les start the engines, and, while other maps, small pieces of board information that can help them climb into their aircraft Mechan system. The outside toolscap paper and their preci

"Mae Vents. They are the boys

back safely. world would eagerly send

the gunner ste his guns and the who By the Blenheims, and are,

observer adjusts his maps, the pilot supplies to the stary goon to be off on a daylight raid

revs up his engines to satisfy cople of Nazi-occupi

my territory.

himself that they are running, well. urope it only they be sure that these stuffs or their equi would not be requ ed by the Germans. Bu the knowledge that the

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Germans in Greece at ready have seized elief that

Of Denger

have no worl no thought of the

Run To A Timetable The bomber crews file out, look ing of their wrist-watches. Miere

till ten minutes to ga hefs take-off. This business in t to a time-fable as regulag, da

Iway; systèm;~

From the far side of the all- field the gentle buzz of Increases to a mighty ron Tho bomb

egin to race towards un, their tall go up, they are off the ground and suining hoight into cannot help watching a jovial (the wind; a

Ho could not All wo on the ground can do figuro in huth, now

to wult und hope: but cluttered up with all he kit our airčinit “Jotu

of essential medi pplies

for bo

these

ho ka like an amiable Father But the high is silti piscentouts Christmas who had arrived pix clear blusherd are hard months too, hoolil Ho #coma. 10 clouds abouttak have so many things to carry that Whatever. yes first he drops his helmet, and the station, whe

a glove; then shineone retrieves cap deed to anotherépices of kit f

supplies creates the great- would not serve to replen est barrier. If the Amerish the

can Red Cross or some it would be easy

similar organisation could find the money to finance dropping of things devise a system of distri-relief.

minor

is very

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