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March 26, 1940.

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War comes to the East Coast

THE

war comes to England. Here you are

within reach of the war, and you know H. Not many miles away, across those waters of the Humber, shining in the morning sun, the men of this elty are being machine-gunned by the Nazl raldera, innocent fishermen who have one complaint only-there is not enough fishing!

The fishermen here are reputed to be "some of the toughest men in the world"-and no wonder. for the lull trawler-men fishing on the "West Side" or up around Bear Island must develop strength and courage that no Nazi rolder can undermine.

Some of his toughness communicates itself to the city. "We've got to beat the hell out of Hller" is the nort of remark you hear in conservation. The mind of uit is much more fixed on the war than is, say, the mind of Landan.

Why, I attended a luncheon of 50 or 60 business men, and what do you think was the subject chosen by e speaker? "Short Waves, particularly as apple to war-and Fishing."

No surprises.

You cannot get away from dahing. ilere, for in the old days-yes, we spenk here of the "old days," meaning the days before the war-about 00,000 of Bull's people relied on fishing for their livelihood.

Of course, the Admiralty have taken.. over most of the trawlers for minesweeping and all that, but, as Alderinan Frederick Till told me, that creates a new problem. For, although the trawler-inen themselves fart employment in the minesweepers, the anellary traces have been lily hii by the cessation of actual fishing.

The Hull fleet has dwindled because its up-to-date vessels, largest and finest in the country, best sulled the purposes of the Admiralty, So Hull bears some of the brust of the econote war by the loss of Its shing industry.

THEY LAST MET

IN CHINA

TOW you have only to be in this Now

elty five minutes to know that the Royal Navy is here in strength says Harry, the cocktail shaker at the big hotel: "Do you know that I sell three times as much Plymouth gin now as I did before the war?" Pink gin of course, is the naval offer's favourite drink.

The hotel lounge is full of ofcers. Chub- by Lieut. Coninanders, serious-looking Captains, and slim, gay, young Lieutenants. "Hallo," says one to another in the bar. "I haven't seen you since Chinn. Have a drink."

The pink gins are stacked up, and they resume the conversation almost as It they had net

Yet it was China, yesterday. "Stay big long?" And the reply is, "No. I'm off to-morrow." Very much like ships that pass. But all these men in thetr blue uniforms, some of them coming into the with their rubber boots still on, re- hotel

you that the war Is here, just outside where the Humber meets, the sea,

Then the street you find converted trawlers almost getting mixed up with the buses, where the wharves mee

meet the high- waya. Grey-painted, grim, they appear as a standing reminder that the war is on. They remind you that from here the crews of the little ships go out and sometimes never return. Belleve me, there anxious hearts among the folk living un the edge of the Hu

Humber

are

To the ordinary and expected perils of the seas are added the dangers of the mine

and the

machine-guns from the skies. No woman ever knows when her husband's ship is due in from Antwerp or Rotterdam, She can ring up the offices, but all she can learn is that the ship is delayed.

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A voyage in which a wife might expect her husband home in a week may now take three, so you can understand that what must be an Admiralty secret is often an anxiety for the women of Hull,

Yet so conscious are the people here of the war that there are, so

told, very am few complaints, "We know we are on the said an official to me at the spat." Guildhall, where I was discussing the trade situation. Everybody understands that Hull, with its vast dock and its approach- ability by air from Germany, is in the direct line of fire when it comes. Yet not one in a hundred carries a gas mask!

FIVE AIR RAID

WARNINGS

No: 1

HULL

MANJETH,

Dort sind sie

ע .

EMRYS JONES'

DESPATCHES

FROM BRITAIN'S WAR ZONE A short series in which he will tell of those people who live beside the North Sea and to whom bombs, mines, and machine-guns are a a daily peril.

which means "THERE THEY ARE.

TH

ME Nazi Heinkel dives from the clouds and rakes the decks of trawler and merchant ship with a hall of machine-gun bullets,

What about men in the Hein- kel? Artial Haworth shows you two of them two men in a glasshouse-pilot and forward. gunner. Look at their equip ment. Death-dealer No. 1 is the machine-gun (A). Just a stan- dard German pattern; it fires 400 bullets a minute. And that gun can be swung easily up. down, left, right, almost any- where on its universal joint mounting: (B).

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FEW quick and in- teresting details are:

(C) the magazine; (D) the map; (E) the gunner's cushion; (F) the little glass "outhouse" In which the bomb-sighting appa- ratus(0) fixed. The man-

see with the gun Is the man you who drops the bombs too.

Now the big glasshouse itself, The whole of the nose of the Heinkel is covered in "Plexiglas" (1) three-sixteenths of an Inch thick. Let's peep through the windows, Notice at the top the pilot's instrument panel (7)— ice the dashboard of a car- fixed to the roof. 001.

Ang

were

ND here's an interest-

that Lenture, rubber-covered control column (K), The novel thing about it Is that it can be swung to one side for a change of pilet. If that pilot you see there wounded or killed in his seat, the gunner could scramble up and take over the controls while standing at his side. The actual speed controls are at (L), while is the armoured seat de- (ML)

Lize -signed to give the pilot

maximum possible protection.

A quick glance now on the outside of the Heinkel. See that number there beside the

key letter (N)? That is put there na a guide to aerodrome mech-

les. It shows them that the

anics, to be used for this porti- cular plane must have an 87 octane content. The design at (0) is the badge of the squa- dron to which the Heinkel be- longs.

The port is Hull and Hull is the port, but the others serving the nation are not torgotten. To, one fund the citizens have contributed £6,000 in cash for comforts, NOTHER thing, of the 33,000 and many thousands of articles for the Apeople evacuated from the city, use of the troops, including such old things about 50 per cent. have returned. Some as planes, muiles of furniture, and even

a cage of budgerigars. were sent for sufety to Scarborough.

"Why, look what happened to Scar- As you travel up through the flat farm- borough in the last war," said a friendly lands of East Anglin, you feel that you acquaintance. "Anyway, I'd rather be in are approaching the war zone of England. Hull. It's a fine city-even in the black- Understandably, the nccent in Hull is on out." And I tell you this city is blacked the sens, and thoughts are focussed on the trawler-men and merchant sailors

out.

nund

The people here have experienced Ave whose port this ta. Hull to help them, air raid warning to date, though the Nazis Hult to save them from the Nazl airmen have not come inlund now for some time. who think it fun to swoop down

The business men can't forget that we pepper their decks with bullets. are at war. Nearly avery afternoon their

The people here are interested In the telephone calls to London are grently de- layed, for the Admiralty must know all winning of the war that is nearer to them that's going on around the coast, and so than it is to us who live in London or our

great Inland cities. the 'phones are busy.

Indeed, I can't imagine how anybody Nearer because of the battered ships, hero, can ignore it, when, abnost dally, the zoom of 'planes, the reports of the merchantmen are to be seen coming up machine-gun firing not far away, and tho Humber with a significant tarpaulin because sailormen of Hull have died under hiding the gun they have been given as the Nazi terror, a dofence against the Nazis.

No, the war is not a "bore" hero.

BOOK REVIEW

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los darauf!

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LET THEM HAVE IT !”

Englishwomen

are Hopeless!

says Chinese woman

By Monica Dickens

WE-poor-British-women! What do we know about marriage and happiness?

A Chinese woman, Kuo Chin Chiu, has looked at us, and what she has seen she has written in a book, "Peach Path" (Methuen: 88.), which shows that the Eastern World knows more than the Western World about this business of being a woman.

QUIZKRIEG

What do YOU know about the War?

After more than six months of historic events, how much do you remember of the history which YOU are helping to make?

Since Hitler's "Biltakrieg" is still postponed, try your memory on "Quizkree"-a series of questions about wartime events.

1. Did Gemarny invade Poland on, before or after

August 317

2. Was general conscription introduced

or a month before war started?

a day,

3. Was it for a two, three or four years' war that Government Departments were instructed to plan?

4. Which was the quicker to declare war on Ger-

many-Canada or South Africa?

5. If you can, name the French Minister, of War or the French Minister of Foreign Affairs in Daladier's late Cabinet.

8. What type of warship was the Courageous? 7. Who was the famous Prime Minister assassin-

ated by Fascists on September 21, 19397

6. Which was the largest skip sunk by Germany up

yesterday?

0. Who was the once Commander-in-Chief of the German Army who lost his life in the Polish campaign?

10. By how much was the yearly rate of Income Tax increased by Sir John Simon in his Arst war Budget?

For answers see Below,

QUIZKRIEG

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Here is how she sums us up. ""Mrs. Robinson ̄anys over a good --- stir whisky-and-soda at the club: perfectly 'My dear, I gave up n marvellous career to get married, and look what's happened. I can't possibly go back to my music now. That's what marriage does for yolt...

"Miss Smith, getting into the thirties, calls every man 'darling.' and can gulp enough sherry every evening to drown her sense of hopelessness till next morning. 'Men,' she sniffs. there are so few worth while, My people brought me up with the sole idea of getting married, but where are the men?"

"Mrs. Slave lives in the suburbs with two children and a fat, com- placent husband. Hear her whine as she flings her withered hands in the washlub:

'I never get a chance to go to the pictures. She gets thinner and thinner and goes on whining and slaving, never doing anything she wants, because she is too mentally lazy even to Suggest it.

women! I am

Poor Chinese glad I am British. 1, Monica Dickens, have looked at the plc- ture of Chinese marriage that Kuo Chin Chla rives in her book, and what I see is this:

"Jade Pure and a young man called Good. Renown have been friends for several years. Jade Pure has her ideals of the man she wants to marry.

*** "She weighs Mr. Good up enre- fully. Mr. Good wants as a wife a woman who in educated enough to understand him... he does not want a wife who outshines him. Ko wants woman who will de- cornto his home.

"They discuss ways and means they study the rules and make sure they will like the game."

If this is the Chinese recipe for married happiness, 1 prefer the European brand.

In the Western World we add on Ingredient which the Orientals Ecem to have overlooked. WE FALL IN LOVE.

"THE LOVE STORY OF GIL- BERT BRIGHT" by Franit Tiisley (Collins; s. 3d), Is the story of a father's love for his son, told by the son with reality and humanity. An outstanding well-written book, with an end that I found deeply moving.

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