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HERO IN THE NIGHT

The Story Of a German Freedom Party Broadcast

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The German Freedom. Sta- HE short-wave band

tion asks whether it is true that on the wireless set

great nrens of land round Acheni makes a special up- and Saarbruecken have been roar of its own. Hunting evacuated?

"Is it true for tea last night among the that German canisters in the kitchen 1 merchant ships could hear it as

are now sailing under the Angs moved the needle along the of neutral coun- scale.

someone

tries or lurking

in their har- bour?

"Is it

that

true women

hours on

Voices blared and dropped dead, a stream of American jazz rose, churned thickly must queue up and swooped away; then for

end to obtain telephony, scrambled out of what food they recognition, gave way to an are allowed for abrupt explosion and the their families?" insistent stutter of Morse.

I found the tea and

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ACHTUNG

ACHTUNG

The sound rose slowly and fcil away into,confusion, swelled and dropped again. I touched wide, quivering. He was talk one. looking for the pot. The noise the tuner, watching the fluid ing to Austria now, implying green light, which showed the fairly clearly that he was there. and held stendy. strength, shrink and expand. among them, in the mountains After a minute the man who

THE tuning light nar cades of a revolting city, their rowed and stretched speaker risking death with each

be- hesitated

The engagement is announced

tween Mr. David William George Noreuti, only son of Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Nureati, Landon, Eng

land, to Miss Catherine Palma 1lunt, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 11, J. Iunt of 205, Prince Edward Road, Kowloon,

The

Hongkong Telegraph. Wyndham St., Hongkong

'Phone 26615 November 4, 1939

Britain's Bulwark

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Without a victory at sea no Jarge invading force could reach and maintain itself on British

Aoil,

He was quoting now, repeating

very cars.

had been turning the knobs the definition of freedom made or the woods, speaking in their came in and said. "Come and by a Hamburg merchant called listen to this."

it

"What is it?" "German."

"I'm making ten.",

"It's peculiar, I should say

Sieveking in the eighteenth cen. "They promised us a land tury. And as those solemn, un- flowing with milk and honey, gainly sentences from the main- and we are destitute and en-

By Tangye Lean

He was closing now,

losing scarcely a frac

tion of a second between the mitting on this wavelength, 20 sentences, "We shall be trans- comma 8 metres, at 22 o'clock Middle European time every night. Down with Hitler! Long live the heroic resistance of the Long live free- free peoples! dom!

Wo Long live peacal shall be here to-morrow night in spite of the Gestapo!"

a great literature slaved. Austrian men and wo- Was revolutionary. Quite stream of different from the others." He spread out in the night over men, stand up! Show that you Germany, you felt this voice was are not afraid of the tyrants, looked as if he had opened a keeping alive the tradition show that you are not cowards!"

Not from the padded luxury The nolee in the background door and seen something unex- silenced by the illiterate and

ignoble howlings of Adolf Hitler, of an announcer's studio, not moved forward like a curtain. pected.

keeping it alive for the day when from the safety of a concrete shutting out the movements of Then, as

Thomas Mann and the writers wireless station, did these dan- the operators till they spoke next of the future should be recog- gerous words spread out. They night. We turned off the set anised as the bearers of a culture were more naked, like a chal- and looked at each other with

lenge shouted from the barri- bright faces. stamped out by gangsters.

we went into the sitting room, the voice caught at us. I have not heard voice on the wireless do this be fore.

BROADCASTING HOUSE con Boothe you or impress you with its stability, the Americans express an enthusiasm slightly greater than they feel. The Nazis can lash the ether like shark. This was unlike them,

Picnicking: American

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Style

The plenie ground in many in- stances furnishes: all the necessary. cooking equipment; and all have solidly-built stone fire-places-with- piles of logs stacked up nearby.

On following this bypath, clrange carried in large. thermos containers plenici" What ET'S have La magie in that phrase, what sounds meet the ears and appetising with taps. Sometimes, tea or coffee

is prepared on the spot. visions of flowering glens and shady odours All the nostrils, for here, on

one common patch of ground trees and hidden nooks where the

hundred plenics are in full swing. world is nil our ownl

Roughly-hewn wooden tables with benches attached on either side fill a large clearing among the trees. Cars of all descriptions are parked in every vacant spot. An occasional chartered bus may also be seen, but there is hardly a family, however humble, that does not own an "auto" of ancient if net of recent vintage.

Plenics here are essentially family affairs, and no one is too old or too

and young to join in the fun

But-in God's own county le vacy, the aim of every British plenic party, ja singularly belting. To such an extent is picnicking indulged in It had a peculiar urgency, by the great American public that and its tone scarcely altered. It whole areas of State property have been set aside for that purpose, and went fast, as if it might be here in their hundreds swarm car- children silenced suddenly by shot. loads of men, women, and

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to take part in their favourite sum- When, twice, it hesitated, your mer pastime. attention was tightened, and

Brolling or grilling over the open fre is the favourite method of cook- and ing steaks and "hamburgers," for these a long-pronged implement

or a wire cage-like utensil is used.

Among other facilties supplied for the convenience of plenickers are refuse bins and pure running water,- Not that flowers and

are

the Lennis courts, punch-balls, quolls, you hear it come back on the absent from the scene. Some of the feasting. Not

loveliest parks and lakeside woods dainty sandwiches, chocolate biscuits Washrooms and toilets, and dressing-

trees

for them

де

the

But the tasks of the British word with the relief of spec-have been marked out as camping and lemonade, considered plenie fare rooms for bathers, for there is usual- tetors who watch a hurdler re-sites and public picale grounds. in this country. They bring freshly a pool or lake nearby. All these-

Admiralty go far beyond keep ing invaders at bay.

Upon it fall the manifold duties involved in keeping the sca safe for British ships to carry supplies in all waters, and in preventing enemy ships from running the blockade.

The great key ports like G braltar, Alexandria, Singapore, and Hongkong have been pro- vided not only with protection against enemy attack but with reserves of fuel and ammuni- tion,

gain his stride.

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corn on the cob, pies, potators and are free, Driving along the magnificent

The lake water itself, which is pure State highways, where parking in onions, sausages, referred to as "hot

dogs" or "Franks," and very often a enough to drink. is limpid clear, with I came in when a country was prohibited although the scenery

the sandy bottom plainly visible being described where the people arrives periodically at a small side-

often breath-taleingly beautiful, one huge raw steak.

neor Vie edge. The use of mup ix Out come the pots and pans,

don gally. could not buy flor or brend or road surmounted by a conspicuous though these are often provided, and prohibited. Swimmers

a hearty meal is quickly prepared. patterned bathing suits, and take

other Water or some milk without written permission. sign which proclaims that at last one

advantage of the rafts and the warm beverage may turn and rest,

sun to acquire a deep tan. The list went on interminably: potatoos, ekka, sugar, KONĮ), cocoa, leather, coul, ment, all these and others were held back from its inhabitants, not locally į but throughout the country, as they had been in the disastrous war of 1914-1918.

"You will not hear facts like these on the Goebbels radio," said the voice. "Their business Three or four years ago there is to suppress the truth as ours was some uneasiness in Britnin is to state it. But we go further. We ask whether certain things about the preparedness, of the

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equipment of the Navy that it can safely be said that it has never in the last twenty years been so fully provided for emer- gencies, New ships of every kind have been built, and other ships have been refitted.

THE German Freedom

the

Station. From obscure wood where its opern- tors were hidden, from the van or the unnoticed garrot in the frontier town, came tho news The knowledge that Britain's that a German voice could still speak in the name of freedom. forces are well prepared to do It seemed barely conscious in fend its shores and ita, sea-thla formal, statement, made borne supplies undoubtedly con- with the only touch of ceremony,

fat its existence In an Impri tributes to that quiet confidence soned nation was as remarkable with which the British people as the news it told.

It went on. are facing the war.

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One cannot but notice the fine phystate of the boys and girls as they frolic in the water, but equally noliecable are the many : aged and egerulent men and women who bask in the run with brief apoarel and no Inace of self-consciousnCKS.

For men full bathing suits with tops are required in some places. Many girls swim without caps, and on emerging from the water they pul on bright kerchiefs to accompany their colourful playeulia,

Some privately-owned picnic sites. and "beaches," where admission of about is d is chorged, supply dance floor with musle from a clut ina June. and youthful, dancera rovel In the "Big Apple" and the "Shag." Loudspeakers broadcast ruming comumentaries on fights and baseball games alternately with the rhythm of popular swing banda, and the piciickers of America listen and lounge, swim and sunbathe, chow gum and crunch popcorn from noon tnightfall, when they, fold up their belongings and not very silently, steal away in their "fivvers" or trailers, while the less fortunate depend on their thumbs to hitch-hike their way home.

How different is this American scene from that to which the pic nicker is accustomed on this side of the Atlantic And who shall decide which manner of enjoying the great outdoors is to be preferred?

For myself, a plenle can only mean adventuring into the mysteries of the countryside, culminating in that de- lightful discovery of the "very place," excited unpacking of the luncheon baskot, perhaps & droimy melody playing on the portable, and,

peace, perfect peace.

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