1940-02-28 — Page 13

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

February 28, 1940.

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BY SOMERSET MAUGHAM

WHEN I went to see Monsieur Dautry to thank him for enabling me to visit the French munition factories, I ventured to ask him whe- ther he thought flesh and blood could stand the long hours of labour, day after day, which he was demanding of the workers.

He said he was well aware that men could not be expected indefinitely to continue to work with such inten- sity, but in the tragic emergency he felt that he could ask them without hurt to themselves to persevere for a few months; then he added: "For every hundred thousand men Britain sends over a hundred, thousand men now at the front can be released to work in my factories. That will give me 800,000 more hours of work a week and that means an hour's work. less a day for 800,000 men." Monsieur Dautry is Minis-

ter of Armaments. He is not a politiciari, but an en- gineer and a great or- ganiser.

It was he who reduced to order the confusion of the French State railways and characteristic stories told of his efficiency, his in- defatigability and his deter-

mination.

are

Guns,

And Still

More Guns!

you are made aware that danger taj clono; at the gateway your matches and lighter are taken from you; and so that you may be preserved from temptation you are asked to give up your cigarettes. The work- nien wear wooden sabots in case of

"The

aeroplane

has diverted the full force and fury of war from the battle- ground to the home and the nursery."

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1. saw the whole process of manu- facture, from the white cotton flock saturated with ether and alcohol that looks so innocent, to the final) operation which is dangerous gether into the shed where it is Alor Star that only two men are allowed to- performed, and there is n trench Amrit

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have been built in case of air- I could quite understand that the He is a small man, with a raids; and arrangements have workman Look pride in, even fell in gallow face and decided fea-been made to remove essential love with, this beautiful instrument, full of water within a few feet of Batavia Ao spruce and clean, that could do the doors so that if there is a fire Bombar tures, a thick head of gray-aris, should the Germans ad-such delicate and accurate work. ing hair and an eye of piere-them the better part of a year one huge ball where inst February

they should immediately plunge in. Machines

are arriving from America with regularity. I saw ing brightness.

to get the factory working there was but one automatic min~ again.

chine and where now there are one; hundred and fifty,

He gives you an împres- sion of enormous energy; he is untiring and appears able

vance, so that it would take

The steel manufactured is) shipped away every night so that they would find at best

to do without sleep, or rest. only the produce of one day's

.He himself made out for me work.

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Cawnpore Cebu Colombo Dethi IN another factory I anw, where they mude explosive, the last part

Hamburg

FOREIGN EXCHANGE and General of the process takes place in little Banking Business transacted. cubicles so made that the roof and FIXED DEPOSITA received for One Year CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened _and front will blow out if there is an for shorter periods in Lacst or Other Cur- a programme to enable me to

WHEN you visit one of the nlone so that

explosion, and each man works rencies at rates which will be quoted on I think what most struck me in government

he alone may be

application. visit factories to get an impres- those worka, employing now hard they make heavy guns and big! Grim! And

factories where killed. sion of the effort France was on two thousand men, making to supply the troops sense of emptiness. In a vast shed "with all the material needed.

Was the

where work was going on at full! blast there was only a handful of) men and they seemed to be there merely to supervise the almost human, the strangely purposeful,

I FIRST visited a sugar fac-activity of the machines which

tory almost on the bank of the pressed and cut and carried the Rhine and so near the advanced huge ingots of red hot steel. posta of the enemy that it was

the

well within range of a big IT was a very different impres machine gun; but, except that slon I got when I visited various the women

were evacuated, factories in the neighbourhood of work was proceeding as quietly Paris, where in one I saw as in pence-time.

manufacture of armoured cars, In another-of-shelle-in-a-third-of- -I"saw also a factory which in peace-time produces

aeroplane guns; in these and othera woollen

which it would be tedious goods, and under-linen, but now enumerate, the crowded workers, is busily turning out shirts, the serried rows of machines, gave socks and pull-overs for the one the feeling of an intense, a fierco troops. It is within range of a but regulated animation.

to

not very heavy gun. I think at least three hundred women must the pains that are taken to make One thing that struck me WOB have been occupled there, but the powerful and yet wonderfully the only indication I could dis- manageable tanks cover that they felt themselves span as a private car.

spick and

to be working under peculiar

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Every part is quite exquisitely

conditions was that the per-finished. The machines that are manent wave of a good many used for

thin.

the manufacture of all

seemed to be wearing a trifle these lethal weapons are miracles of ingenuity. They work automatical- I went to a foundry which is little more to do than to keep a ly so that the man In charge has actually in front of the Maginot watchful

They have and children elegance of perfect adaptation to have been evacuated, shelters their use.

Line.

Women

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LONDON, Feb. 27 (Reuter)—The London County Council will probably. lower the rates next year.

eyo.

the

yet so true is it allowed at rates obtainable on application.

BAVINGS ACCOUNTS also opened in Local Currency and Sterling with interest that familiarity undertakes Exocutor & Trustee business, The Bank's Head Office in London artd claims recovery of British Income breeds contempt, Tax overpaid, on terms which may be those workmen, ascertained at any of its Agencies and

Branches, and there are

twelve thousand

of them at the powder factory,

Ko about their į

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the women I had Reserve and Undivided

scen at the front

making ahirts

and sweators.

Everywhere the

workmon

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"Now we know

we're going to like it here"

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KAN TOND PO.

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-FOR HEROES, killed by Science on the Somme. shells, you find everything, minable houra of arduous toll for they are aware that their efforts are for the security of their country

JAPANESE STRIKE spacious.

CHINESE POLICE Tho machines needed to bore and the welfare In the future of

thoan huge steel rods, to manufac-¡their children. tura thoso tremendous carriages,

Only Doing Their Duty are so enormous that you have none

Says Spokesman

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" TIENTSIN, Feb. 27 (UP)~~Asked

of the crowded effect of other fac tories.

The din is not so terrific and al-;

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THE BEST DIET a

DURING

why Japanese sentries occasionally though work la incessant, going on CONVALESCENCE The Council's, Finance Committee struck French Chinese policemen has recommended a decrease of 3d. passing through the barriers under night and day, day after day, for In the pound.

the existing Polico exchange agree-seven days a week, there is an odd The rate paid in London will then ment, a Japanese military spokesman effect of dignified leisure,

afternoon that

this

the

be 7 shillings 3d, with an additional stated

Every- special rate of 3d

Japanese sentries were only doing thing is on gigantic scale. These The Council announces, however, their duties.

monsters, looking ridiculously kal that it will not be cutting down on social services nor will it give up the said, that Japanese sentries would not six months to make, and in the It might not be possibly known, he the toy guns made for children, take howing and other schemes put in permit foreigners entering the French hand before war broke out.

Concession to bring in large quantities factory I saw they produced two a of baggage, atating that it was neces-weck. sary to all in a form. However, no such offletal form exists,

No Spanish Copper. Ore For Nazis

LONDON, Feb. 27 (Router)-In the House of Commons to-day, Mr. Ronald Cross, Minister of Economic Warfare, replying to a question, sald

After operations, or wasting and other diseases, you feel so weak and exhausted that you wonder whether you'll over feel really well again. Everyone urges you to cat, Yet food nnuscates Doctors all over the world have you. But you simply, must, eat,

found that Horlicks can be re-

I spent one morning at a powder. tained by the weakest stomach and the patients find it agreeable and palatablo,

A local rumour that the barriers factory. From the moment you enter will be lifted next month cannot be eno of the many small buildinge confirmed.

Dorsetshire In American Waters

that according to his information no MONTEVIDEO, Feb. 27 (Reuter). copper oro shipped from Spain since-The British, cruiser, Dorsetshire,

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Jewellery Stolen From Peak Road

Mr. Stewart, of No. 20 Peak Road, Horlicks im- has reported to the Police the loss of miediately starts to pour new jewellery valued at $577 from his strength into your exhausted residence during the past ten days.

Relaxing Import body. At the same time it sti-

Restrictions

LONDON, Feb. 27. (Reutar),~

the outbreak of war had reached or supplies and fugl, is not arriving between Britain and France, the which was expected here this morning Following the recent understanding Germany.

Goods could be shipped from Spain (to-day after all.

Board of Trade announce that ther without passing, through the area of

The festivities which had been ar- have arranged for a substantial re- see British or French contraband ranged for the officers and men to-laxation in the restriction on imports control.

night have been cancelled.

from France.

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Local Activity On Western Front

Your convalescent is shortened and in an amazingly short time again. Full of energy and vi-munique issued to-day states that you feel ready for anything

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