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On the Sierra de la Guadar- rama trenches are hastily dug, while in Madrid the milkboy does his usual round. But the

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fortify Madrid."

ESS than 40 miles from the Puerta del Bol, the main square in the heart

of Madrid, bullets whistle, hells burst, men bleed and die. But life in the city lots as The peaceful as it ever waLS,

broad streets with the highest skyscrapers in Europe, and the narrow, lanes with the Bitby slums are stil seething like human anthill,

People can hardly walk on the crowded pavement, but walking Spaulards are never in a hurry They chatter, Jakte, laugh as if they were unaware of what is happening 40 miles away, or in- diferent in it,

They

- coutre, they are not. Eney, although the Cloverninent for Lar too long made the mistake of keeping all bad news from them, that the situation is now aeroun, The have a presentiment that i Madrid ever fell into the hands of the rebel, at least 50.000

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER

MADRID JUST

WAITS...

QUE FORTIFICAR MADR

the Heral neuse of the phrase-13 Ponstantly reminded that he lives in war zone.

Every third man wears mida uniform, all cars and lorries carry flags and flash through the streets at breakneck speed with deafening hooting, as if the fate of the Re- public depended on the few seconds drivers win by their which the 1234'11

recklessness.

Housewives of Madrid feel the They war more than the people. have to queue every day, dreven twice a day, for meat, butter and eggs. But the Spaniard's capacity for waiting is incredible. Patience is, after all, a form ut indolence, They must have inherited it from their Moorish ancestors,

would be ruted and that almost every intly would lose at least our of its members,

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But Spaniards sure the most im- provident people in the world." We live to-day let us five and enjoy tc. Mañana, to-piorrow,' we'll see, To-day as we live and the sun sbines and the sky is blue, let us Have a walk in the Gran Viu or the Calle Mayor, glance at the shop- windows, sit on the terrace of a caft and have our boots cleaned there for the third time since this morning, look at the girls with the pale faces and the carminé lips and nakis.

Let us go to the cinema or the show. Why catch-as-catch-can should we bother about to-morrow, mafland "

But in spite of his efforts to forget all about this civil war and to behave ustial, the man-in- the-street- and Overybody in Madrid is a man in the street, la

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Moreover, the women of Madrid are perhaps even more determined to resist Farcism. They know that the Republic had done more for them than for the men. IL L liberated them, morally and ma- terially from an almost oriental slavery, another millenary inheri- tance from the Moom which was tic mala" stand carefully

by -Church.

Madrid by day looks, If not quite normal," as the newspapers re- peat with e. considerable amount of exaggeration and autosugges-

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tion, anyway quiet, peaceful and almost happy.

Thut by night Madrid looks cer- fainly not normal" at all. Since the first air raids In September, when 250 kilogram bombs were dropped in the middle of the town

one blew a deep crater in the garden of the Ministry of War, another destroyed a garage, but casualties were officially denied measures of passive defence have been taken.

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The Prado Muscum was closed, very wisely, and the most precious Goyas, El Grecos and Murillos, are now stored in bomb-proof cellars. Posters are stuck on most buildings and houses indicating how many people can find shelter there in the case of emergency. The beams of big searchlights wander hastily across the sky, and a part of the town is plunged into darkness.

But Heaven knows who is re- sponsible for these air defenec re- gulations. They are so stupidly logical that I should be inclined to suspect Fascist sabotage, if I did not know by many other examples that Spanish military incom- petence has no limits and is per- fectly genuine,

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are lamps, which can be seen miles away and are an ideal gulding, mark for rebel aviators. All thr main streets are lighted as usual, with few queer exceptions. At the Puerta del Sol, the northern part of the square has normal are lamp lighting, the southern part, nfty yards opposite it, remains dark because it is the side of the Spanish Home Office.

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Can one fmagine that London airmen would fail to recognise Tra- falgar Square because the part along the National Gallery re- mained dark, while the part near the Strand and Whitehall was -lighted normally?

In the Gran Vin all are lamps and cafes are lighted. But Inside the huge Telephone Company skyscraper in the same street, nl- though every window is hermetic- ally covered with black curtains, you walk, if you are wise, with an electric torch. If you don't want to break your neck on the stairs or your nose against the walls.

But all narrow and 11-Tamed Innes which end in the Gran Vla azc

as dark as a cemetery by night. At least one category of in- habitants of Madrid--and not the most reputable-is safe against alr raidal

Is this perhaps the reason why these lanes are so crowded? The. classleni tradition of the close re- lations between Mars and Venus is upheld in the Spanish etyll war!

Most of the foreigners have left Madrid. Many of those who re-

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Ilonal colours, mainly French or South American. They are treated with peculiar courtesy.

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Spanlards feel grateful to any foreigner who resisted the panic, deliberately

entertained by tain foreign diplomatic represen tatives, and who chose to share tha general fate.

Many of them live in buildings and houten which their. Embassies rented and Dr Legnilons have equipped for that purpose. Certain foreign legations notoriously niso give shelter to personalities of the Right who are afraid of being ar- rested.

The British Chargé d'Affaires. Mr. George Olivie Forbes, wisely decided not to participate in this definite misuse of diplomatic privi- leges. While the Ambassador, Sir Henry Chilton, prefers practising from Hendaye, un French terri- tory, the "Walt and fee" policy which is, quite rightly. deeply re- sented by all Spanish Republleans, his deputy remains with a small staff in the Embassy, which is guarded by a few grey-haired militia men, who play cards most of the day in a corner of the garden.

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* * Mr. Forbes has made accommo- dation for the 150 Britons who still reside in Madrid, in case of a siege. Ile can lodge and feed them for at least six weeks,

But let us hope that the non- tains of tins of corned hert, peas and condensed milk, now stored in the cellars of the Embassy, wil still be untouched when the war is

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