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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

January 4, 1940.

Warfare in The Arctic

MUSCLES Circle

LARGE MUSCLES are GREAT on stevedores or carabao drivers.

BUT..

THE SCENE of to-day's a moment's notice, once in, this

fighting in Finnish Lap- land, where Soviet troops They're no longer necessary when and Finns struggle for pos

session of the Arctic Road,

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In the forests

same curly toe keeps it in place. venient to carry them than to manoeuvre them through the close-growing trees.

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Northern

Between noon and 3 p.m. & rosy glow on the horizon lights up the snow in a theatrical and romantic way.

by

Truda Panet Borcalis

A few fishermen of vary- land these days, never see the In fact all this month SUNPROOF ing nationalities 'go there sun.

WAX during happier times to they will probably see no day-

catch the salmon and trout xxan recom- that abound in the lakes and rivers. A handful of mo- torists take their cars up

During the the sandy high-

night the glories way from the

of the shimmer- Arctic Circle,

ing sea-green where the Hel-

and pink Aurora singfors - Rova- niemi railway

may thrill ende, to Linn-

them in the Northern hamari, the ice- free harbour on

Arctic sky. Otherwise they must depend Ocean.

on the moon and stars to light their way. Early in the New At intervals all the way up the Year the sun appears again and road are little

red wooden every "day" is considerably hotels, charmingly furnished, longer than the one before, where in summer students from hastening towards the 24-hour the University, speaking several length it attains at the end of

June. languages, look after the com-

and of tourists fort passengers from the twice-a-day THE NATIVE inhabitants of buses, that take two days over the country suffer, we can the full journey.

hope, possibly less than refugees of any other race because they are a nomadic people.

Hongkong Telegraph.

Thuriday, January 4, 1940 Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 26615

THE prex Special to the Telegraph" Is and by the "Hongkong Telegraph to Indicate news which is sulctly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni- cations Ordinance, 1916. Such, news as bears the indication "UP" is received in Itongkong on the date of publication by the United Prem Associationt, who re- serve all rights and forbid republication, either wholly or in part without previous

arrangement,

Beating The Bomber?

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the

of

The little Lapp, most timid

the snow and

This is the Story of

A H

flower.

MOOI

H MOOI was six years For a moment Ah Mooi's old, small and golden She was terribly frightened and heart nearly stopped beating. brown, slender and was turning to run away when remembered the little brother fastened on her back. She stood quite still and held

THE southern half of the road and harmless of souls, travels with a mouth like a folded

is pretty but monotonous. hundreds of miles every winter Endless fr-forests completely after new feeding-grounds for cover the rolling countryside, the reindeer that are his wealth.

One lovely morning, when Living in their pointed skin is a war of paradoxes. Here and there a river cuis the THIS

Russia brands Britain and road and while unfrozen must tents, they settle a while round all the rice had been gather- be crossed on a floating plat- some place where their beasts ed and when Ah Mooi's France as aggressors for doing form that is propelled by hook- can hoof away what it has been urging them to ing notched billets of wood on The men spear holes in the ice spare, she called Ah Mooi.

browse on the moss they love, mother had a little time to

do for years.

For weeks the the wires that stretch from bank

to bank. But beyond Ivalo, of the lake and fish under con- world's mightiest armies face which boasts a tiny hospital, a ditions freezing enough to deter each other without any fighting hotel and a few shops, the the toughest of Messrs. Hardy's The enorm customers. Then, the feeding worth talking of taking place. It scenery improves.

ous lake of Inari can be seen be- ground laid waste, they move on is therefore perhaps not surpris- tween, the

its with all their belongings to the trees, with

next suitable spot. ing that the claim of Dr. Gocb- thousand little islands. bels' Propaganda Ministry that At Salmijarvi and Pitkajarvi reindeer are turned loose to range at fifty per cent of the British air- where battles are now being will over the whole country, that the Lapp stays any length of time in one planes which raided Wilhelm-fought,-is-the-grandest stretch-place and even then he makes many of country to be seen. Pitka- excursions in his skin canoes, in- shaven and Cuxhaven were jarvi, ("jarvi" means "lake"), ciuding one grand trek down to beautiful. A Rovaniemt to sell the skins collected particularly brought down tells heavily is

during the winter. against Germany's chances of ultimate success.

huge stretch of water is backed

by a great hill which in summer and winter is equally impressive. The road runs along the cast shore and the western shore is in Norway.

It is only in summer, when their

The reindeer provides the Lapp

These are

she

his small feet.

How glad she was to hear, someone calling.

The creature stopped us in a moment a big "foreigner" came along and fastened a large strap

Ab Mooi knew why she had to his Alsatian. When he saw been called. For days she had the small Ah Mool looking so 80 happy and excited, pale und frightened he spoke to been

her in Chinese and told her not (though no one would have to be afraid. guessed this; Chinese children

Soon Ah Mool was telling him arc usually 80 grave

that if anything had hurt Ah tranquil) for she had been pro- Tai she would be punished. mised that soon she was to The foreigner said he would take begin to carry Ab Tai ("Little her home and explain everything Brother") on her back.

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and

to her mother.

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with his winter clothing of skin and FOR some months Ah Mooi had THE foreigner, who was really a very kind doctor, loved fura hood, a clank, huge mits.

been prepared for this. the Chinese as much as they all From the British point of

and loose fur stockings to tuck into his soft, high boots. These are also Sometimes several sticks would loved him. Very soon Ah Mooi stuffed with straw against frost-bile.

be fastened to her back, then an was telling him how, to-day, view these raids were highly

Reindeer horn provides his wife successful; but no attempt has

with needles and weaving-shuttles old doll and Inter a bundle; and she had been allowed to carry North of this point trees and with pins for her hair. ills Ah Mooi could hardly wait to be Ah Tal for the first time. been made to deny that the at- gradually grow fewer

and children drink reindeer milk and his allowed to have Ah Tai fastened While she was chattering away tacking force suffered heavy smaller. The next stop on the feasts are of reindeer meat.

Then, too, he trains as many as in the me-taal which grand-in her silvery voice the doctor losses. Heavy losses, too, have bus roule is Ylaluostari, where necessary of his reindeer to net as

had embroidered so was watching her carefully, there is a small Russian monas- transport animals. He and all his mother

noticing that Ah Moof's eyes been inflicted upon German air-tery and an inn. Some miles family and their luggage travel over beautifully.

The were inflamed and sore. planes striving to bomb the further on is Alaluostari, where the snow in "pulkas".

A me-taxi is a large square doctor had lived a long time in English coast. And a German there is another Russian church. narrow, boat-shaped sleighs holding

Then there are no more signs one person only. Once in, you araling made of strong cloth and China: one of the things that

in for good, so to speak. Should bomber was brought down by of human life until Liinahamari your very wild puller decide to run with coloured embroidery on it made him sad was that so many away, you may turn somersaults and often of birds and flowers. It children suffered in this way the Royal Air Force Patrol be- ia reached. fore it reached British shores.

and often went blind, These German losses have been ascribed to marked superi- ority in the British fighter planes. But the more considered and generally accepted view is that air defence is to-day so well organised and efficient that, both in Germany and in Britain, it has got the upper hand over the attack.

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Subsequent events may cause

be dashed from rock to rock on the

Because this harbour remains very hard ground but you cannot get has four long ends to fold and open throughout the Beverest out unless you cut the traces and let tie round the body. Very often winter it was rapidly becoming him go. you annoy your rein- quite a settlement. A large inn, deer he may turn round and try to the babies are nearly as big as a petrol station, several dwel- gore you, pulka and all. But sup the small children who carry posing you get a docile beast, the ling-houses and godowns were motion is pleasant. He can attain them! there when I last visited it five quite a considerable speed with his years ago and by now It must clumsy, lolloping gait, and cover be very much enlarged. All this many dozen miles a day under good tract of land north of Pitkajarvi is called Petsamo, so when the Soviets claim to have conquered BESIDE the native Lapp, many to leave plenty of room for Al or captured it, it is probably an exaggeration.

conditions.

He had found a way of treating and often curing them," but it usually meant, hospital- often too difficult, for Chinese parents are afraid of the"foreign

Ah Mool came and listened devils." whilst her mother told her how careful she was to bo of Ah Tai. "If you sit, Ah Mool, remember

Somehow this was Ah Mool's lucky day, for just as her mother came out to meet her,. the next village came by. He hurried forward and told Ah Moor's mother how the wonderful foreign doctor had cured his son's eyes some

the Chief of Finns have settled up in the Tai behind!".

northernmost parts of their country and the loss of their farms and Progress by troops over villages, burnt by retreating armies: this judgment to be revised. ed country is

this sort of heavily wood- will cause. terrible suffering.

Farmers and wood-cutters in these SOON lovely fat Ah Tai--who two or three years ago. of necessity desolato regions lend at the best of was several months old-WES almost insuper- times an extremely hard life,

has taken.

But so far, it is the logical con- difficult

Bye and bye, after much talk- clusion from the course the war ably difficult in summer. Great med mosquitoes, they must small flat back and Ah Mool put grandparents, who really matter- During the short summer, tor-fastened up tight to Ah Mooi's Ing with Ah. Mooi's parents and treacherous swamps called "mos work 24 hours a day in their fields 808" cover low-lying land

collect green stuff for themselves a small hand to each side, helded most, for grandparents are between lakes and can only then and hay to feed their beasts during the tiny feat, and felt im-very important in China, it was agreed that Ah Mool should go be crossed by those who know the 7 or 8 months of snow.

with the doctor."

to

It

their own country.

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By the time the rice was next completely cured and back, with harvested, little Ah Mool was

Manifestly it is a conclusion greatly to the advantage of the

In the winter, apart from trapping, measurably happy. them well. In winter, of course, Allies. It is not they, but Gor- the ice and snow make them there is that can be done out-of- Ah Tai was wearing his

doors. Thos0 who can afford it, many, whose power in built on safe and, with their. lack of often move down to Rovaniemi for "tiger" cap with, two pointed an assumption of the overwhelm trees they prove, like the ice- the winlar, returning to their farms fur cars, so that any wandering

bound lakes, the only places at the hat sign of thaw, ing striking force of airplanes. where progress on skis is at all it is these hardy mound to keep a ferocious tiger and not a baby who are evil spirits would think it was It is not they, but Germany, swift.

and give it a wide berth. Ah Tai again fastened in the me- who will suffer most if this

It would be difficult to find a more

tani to her small back. Sho determined adversary than the Fins She trotted off and walked told him of all the wonderful striking power be neutralised.

which separated the rice fields hospital and how kind the along the narrow grass verge things she had soon in the big from each other and was turning "foreign devils" had been. a corner by the well.

·To-day Ah, Mool is happily Suddenly a huge creature employed as Amal to the camo springing towards her. doctor's children.-","

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FINNISH skis have, as a rule, none of the complicated harness needed by sklore in mountainous districts. A sim-

with that inborn quality of “alsu”,

from giving up despite privation and that quality which prevents a man exhaustion.

If, in fact, the bomber cannot always get through, Germany

Should the Soviet, with her over will have lost the advantage

whelmingly superior numbers, over- upon which she very largely re-ple strap allows a curly-toed even then she is very far from any run his country, she will find that boot to bo slipped in and out at kind of real or successful victory...

lied.