1939-10-05 — Page 11

Thursday, HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

October 5, 1939,

P.&O.S. N. Co. First Eye-Witness Battle Story

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From The Western "Fierce Activity,' Cannon, Tanks, Machine-Guns, Planes And Mines

Conductor Bans Wagner -Reminds Him of Hitler

By Hester Marsden-Smedley in the “Daily Express”. SCHENGEN (Luxembourg-German frontier) STANDING AMID THE NEAR-RIPE VINES WHICH MAKE THE FAMOUS MOSELLE WINE, I HAVE BEEN WATCHING FIERCE FIGHTING IN THIS THREE-CORNERED COUNTRY WHERE GER- MANY, FRANCE AND LUXEMBOURG MEET.

French tanks left the German village of Perl and clambered up the hill. The bombardment was two kilometres away from where I was standing, the objective being an observation tower in a fortified wood. were great puffs of black smoke over the wood, the sound following seconds later, echoing and shaking through men as Beethoven and Bach are the valleys.

HARRISON,

MR. JULIUS conductor and director of the Hastings Municipal Orchestra, has decided to bar Wagner from his programmes during the com-

ing season. There

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"The wholesale banning German muslo would be aboard," he said, "Blasterploces of such

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the property of the whole world and belong to class of art tio called inter- national.

"Bat Wagnerlan music is the prototype of Nasi aggression. It is heavy and mutant and. re- minds one of Hitler-who, inci- dentally, is a great admirer of

After each ten minutes of heavy firing there followed which quick, fierce, machine-gun fire. The ground a few yards beyond the river was suddenly rent by shells. A house in the German village of Salmdorf blew sky-high, probably an ammunition store. The smell of powder wagner." was overpowering.

FRENCH ARE ADVANCING Old pensant men unconcerned-

INSIDE GERMANY

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Taxi-Men Hard Hit

By Rationing

London taxi drivers are hard hit by A.R.P. and the

petrol rationing scheme..

Hundreds are out of work and many of these are unable to obtain other employment. -

"Ration books are being issued to cabs for 60 gallons of petrol a month," an official of the London Motor-cab Drivers' Trade Union said.

"That is roughly two gallons a day fer enth cab.

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BAVINGS ACCOUNTS alsó opened t allowed at rates obtainable on applies

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caras lbs. of which he receives 234 per cent, or 58

COMMANDESRED "More than 3,000 cabs have beani commandeered for the AFS., and many more have been taken by local borough surveyors.

taken without the drivers. There are "In many cases the cabs have been about 6,000 cabs left in London with 10,000 drivers to drive them.

"It would have been fairer to give

ly went on hoeing, save when they stopped for a moment to say "goodbye" to tearful women evacuated from the Luxembourg ed strikes of Germans in the Opel "speed-up system."

Birikes.Wholesale arrests follow-, some quarers to be a form of the village of Schengen, where Ger- car works in Russelheim last week.

"In London a cab travels about 17 petrol ration books to each driver, mans earlier blew up the Luxem-Germany have been told that anyone broadcasting station continues

Penalty Populace of Western Revoli Illegal German "Freedom"lve

miles per gallon, so that this would instead of for each cab. bourg-owned bridge.

mileage of 34 miles or so. Amen of over 82 A.F.5. or ambulance "The authorities will not Recept caught reading pamphlets dropped function, Broadcasting

to taxi-driver reckons that about 40 per drivers Many of our men are over by R.A.F. will be immediately im- metres between 10.30 p.m. and 11.1 spent in cruising.

on 29.80 cent, of the distance he drives is 52, and they know London better prisoned. Serious casca will punishable by death. Citizens must was heard urging the Czechs and be p.m. one night last week, the speaker

than any others. They are able to

Lorries now rushing extra guards to the neutral frontier are returning laden with women and children, washing, chickens, ducks, mattresses.

Judging by the position of the Ar ing the French are advancing. watch Intently as I lean comfortably against "neutral" sandbags which block the frontier bridge across the Moselle. Behind me lles Luxembourg, the "Pocket State" with its "army" of 300 volunteers, its fairy-tale towns perched upon the hills, and its fruit- ful vineyards. A few yards to the south-east Is France. Immediately across the bridge-Germany.

The Luxembourg Customs officer, out of a job for the moment, for there is little frantier traffic, tells me thai he watched the French, a few days before, penetrate along the) rallway line opposite. There had been hand to hond fghting. Then

not even pick up the leaflets. Only Austrians to revolt against Germany drives fares for about 20 miles and than many younger men."

"That means that if he is lucky he do a harder day's work at the wheel chlidren under the age of en and and assist Polish police are allowed to do so.

workers in their Police-Herr Himmler, chief of the minutes before the Nazi statione struggle for freedom. It was twenty from Berlin merging the German police, recently broadcast a decree could jam the blast for freedom. police forces with the Nazl

WHY GOERING IS SLIMMING

Storm

This was food ration permit- ted to every German (rich or poor) each day: 31⁄2 oz. meat; 2 1-10 oz. dairy products; 1 4-10 ir, of sugar; six-tenths of 2 DE of marmalade; eight-tenths of 1 oz of breakfast food; half pint of milik and 2 oz. of coffice,

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Refugees-So great is the need for technical experts, that Germany vainly promising restitution Jewish and other refugees of high technical skill if they will only return and serve the Fatherland.

Posters displayed at the German Consulate in Antwerp urge all doc- tors, engineers, and other technical experts of German nationality, no matter what their race, to return home and work for Germany again. It is promised that fortunes con- Ascated from such refugees will be restored if they return,

Jewish technical experts and pro-

the French had gone back not re- Troops, bringing the number of men tessional men throughout the world treated" he emphasised-just gone whose duty it is to force the civil have treated this brazen insult with back,

population to stimulate their the contempt It deserved, enthusiasm for Hitlerism up to 200,-

As he spoke he gripped my collar and pushed me down. I swallowed a mouthful of sand as the world burst about my ears.

000.

Sinners--According to the Angriff,

"You need only look at the parking--

I peeped cautiously round the places in front of cafes, variety halls, sandbags. A mine had exploded in public baths, and road-houses to see the middle of the permanent way how many sinners there still arc. across the river. Whether one of one local authority near Berlin held their own or a present left by the French I could not say. We all thought it was a present.

In a few moments, I saw the guard across the river doubled, and a machine-gun mounted upon the bridge with its squad of grey unl formed tin-hatted men.

census of care. Out of 556 of them, 400 were on excursions and spins."

King's Lunch Under Haystack

of men.

"The possession of petrol permits is not an O.K, for the unlimited use of core. If it is found in future that The King took his lunch recently motorists are driving for pleasure, sitting on a rug behind a haystack. the permits will be withdrawn from now on and the motorisis punished. He had paid a surprise visit to There has been an, as yet un-

The police authorities are determined troops in the West of England, shak- reported violation of Luxembourg!

to supervise most strictly the obser- ing hands and chatting with hundreds neutrality further along the River!

vance of these principles." Moselie. A dozen German pigs swam

Supply-German's petrol shortage Everywhere he sought out re- across from their shore and seram may become more acute. Mexico servists and inquired their occupa bled Into Luxembourg. Their excuse threatens to seize nine German ships tion in civilian life. was that when the villages opposite falls to settle a debt for Mexican cil was his comment on the replies.

now in Mexican ports. it Germany

"Everyone seems to be a postmanı," had been suddenly evacuated at an amounting to about £1,500,000,

The King surprised the men of a hour's notice, they, together with cattle and poultry, hind been left un-orders to the civilian population is soundly at the bottom of

Discontent-An Increasing flood of crack Infantry battalion sleeping trenches Pigs swim, zo over they came. The pouring out, governing every phase they had dug on a hilltop, Luxembourgers interned them all of their Ilc. Work service is Next, a surprise awaited well-

at the known county regiments who thought: right. Being extremely kindhearted compulsory, workers being

and well fed-folk they returned complete disposal of the military they were out for an ordinary route some of the pork to their neighbours authorities. Supplementary pay for march and were halted at the road- when a few came back and demand-overtime and Sunday work has been side to receive the King.

abolished. The ed it.

"wor salary" is Villagers, overcoming their cur- But they did it with outspoken commodate the work to the necessit-when they realised that the King was determined by the "need to ac prise with difficulty, clicered lustily expresalons and emphasis on their les of the war," which is admitted in amongst them. Jack of welcome for German pigs.

lended.

worse.

across

I turned

the peaceful Luxembourg roads to the southern; edge of the Grand Duchy.

My cars still humming from the Schengen explosion grow A peasant driving his cattle in said tersely: "C'est lo Cangu." Away over there lies the Maginot Line. Beyond it the Siegfried. Be- yond that the Suar Valley with Ita Fich coalfields. In good time wo will be told exactly what is happening.

story of the tenacity and power of the French.

Bishop, At 81

Offers To Go.

To The Front

And during a wide tour in this war atmosphere the King found time to decorate an officer for gallantry in Polcrtine

Super-Neutral City

The Pope, has emphatically rejected

Eighty-one-year-old Dr. Winning- suggestions that the few women and But I know that there i feree ton-Ingram, former Bishop of London, Sildren in the Vatican City State activity. I know, too, from what the has offered to go to the front again, should be evacuated. people who cross over tell me, the under fire, as he did in the last war; he is reported to have said: "No, de- When the proposal was put forward He disclosed this in a sermon at Fulham Parish Church recently,, "lest cidedly not. No one will dare touch It be said that we old men just send our city. We are super-neutrals.”,

Experimental the young men to die."

black-outs ordered in the Vatican City because "The hisue is even more clearly de-a patch of light might compromise fined this time than last," said the the rest of Rome, The Vatican

Scandalous Thing'

Copenhagen.

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The Danish Press publishes, the Bishop. "It is a fight between the Guard are all equipped with story of the fortunes which the Nazi spirit of Christ and the spirit of Anti-masks, but the Pope is convinced that leaders have accumulated in foreign Chrish".

no one would intentionally hit the Vallean.

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Alrendy the strains of war is having! particularly noticeable when he re- iis effect upon the Pope. This was contly received M. Neluwenhuys, the Belgian Ambassador.

countries without prominence and Dealing with Britain's decision to without comment, owing to the in- Bght, he said: "We might, at any structions to preserve strict neutrality, rate for

Danes, however, are heard to de- Ignoble peace by saying that Fotand time, have bought an clare: "If this is true it is a scandal-was no concern of ours. That is ous thing, having regard to the what we were invited to do. tightness of the German currency

24 "We were told, 'Give us regulations and the habitual Nazi hand among these weak nations in himself every comfort. His entour

Sinco war began he has denied insistence on duly to the Fatherland Eastern Europe, and we will not in-age notice that he leaves his food un- and the necessity to obtain every terfere, at any rate at present with touched. He has always been sparing. scrap of foreign currency,"

the British Empire. Germans who possessed

but now he only cats once a day. smallest cash securities abroad have they refused the bribe. We will not been discarded, Instead he has a "To the eternal credit of our rulers, Even his simple iron bedstond, has been 'punished by the Nazis, with stand

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