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CHINESE STUDENTS IN DEFENCE OF THEIR NATION

THE VOLCANOES OF THE. NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES THE CHINA WAX AND INSECT- WAX INDUSTRY IN SZECHWAN

SOME SEA PENG (PENNATU- - LACEA) FROM AMOY ISLAND “SMALL MONEY"

April 13, 1940.

This Is What It Means

Ewer in

Front of the Front

"Patrol activity near- How often you have seen that phrase in Western Front communiqucs, Here W. N. Ewer, back from the Maginot Line, tells you what it means. He is the first British journalist to have penetrated with a patrol in front of the front.

"BY W. N. EWER

“REMEMBER," said the French Commandant, "when we get into the wood, no noise. And don't. bunch together....

Picked volunteers these patrolmen on both sides.

"I don't think there are Ger-: That is the war as I saw it close man patrols about to-day. But up we can never be quite sure.

"Only the day before yesterday we lost two men quite near here, be- enuse they were a bit careless." a bunch of them. They had como down to the hotel at X, some 20 inlles behind the line, for a bath and a few hours leave.

We were "somewhere in Alsace," well in front of the Maginot Line, going up with the Commandant to Inspect an observation post in the pine forests which lay ahead.

White Silence

J

We fell in one, Sunday night with

"Reconnaissance group of the Nth Division," they called themselves. Merry young daredevils, nearly everyone of whom had his Croix do

A quiet word of command. Our Guerre already. patrol of some thirty men shook

"Shall we see you to-morrow?" itself out into, extended order-anald an Englishman. The French dozen paces or so between man and boy laughed. "Mais, non, mon chet. man--and vanished silently among To-morrow we have make war the trees.

"Follow in my truck," said the Commandant. "Watch my signals.

"But don't hall in the open... "Now. Forward."

again!"

"Well, there it is."

I wish some of the folk who say this

a "phony war" could spend

a few days creeping about those

The forest was a white silence of forests or a few nights in an obser- soft, deep snow; for the thaw had vation post. not yet come.

A hundred yards ahead our patrol went warily forward, quiet figures fitting from tree to tree, alert and noiseless,

Scomed Unical

At the least sound-g rustle of wind in the pines or the snapping of a dead branch-the whole line stiffened into instant readiness, Each rifleman slid to liis nearest cover.

Our two Bren gunners slid to the ground, watching over their sights. Everyone listened intently,

At a signal a couple of scouts went ahead. Nothing. All cleor.

We moved cn.,

This agata and again in the white silence. It seemed foolishly unreal.

"Like playing Indians," the idea came into my head.

Almost as he had read my thoughts, an officer whispered to me fa minute or two lator:-

"C'est la guerre a la Fenimore

Mais quand meme, c'est la

He was right, of course.

Though

Snap... Tinklo

Twenty of you: the enemy a few hundred yards away: your nearest supports two or three miles behind you.

You peer through the blackness. You hear something snap and tinkle.

It may be the first faint warning of able attack; or just a rabbit blundering into the wire.

Decidedly, as the French soldiers put it. "ce n'est pas amusant, vous savez."

But they do not grumble. They know the job has to be done,

They nrc the Wardens of the Marches of civilisation.

No War Love,

Say Girls

VILLAGE girls of Warton,

It was hard to believe it, at any near Lytham, Lancs, are indig- moment we might stumble on Gernant at the suggestion that they man ralders.

There would be a burst of firtag, with sailors..

are seeking war-time romances Then, since neither side probably had orders to attack, a mutual with- drawal, taking dead and wounded home.

Baybe a line in a communique- "Yesterday patrol activity near

"Like playing Indians with real Indians and real guns."

Away to the right somewhere, a couple of rifle shots just do emphasise the point.

The Guns!

And, a little later, the thud, thud of distant gundre to our lefi,

"The guns of," whispered my nel-hbour.

So we went on for two or three miles.

I caught a glimpse of blue smoko through the trees ahead.

"What is that?" I whispered. The lieutenant grinned. "It's all right. We are here."

IL was the kitchen fire of the ob- servation post.

Picture a smail clearing in the forest, tangle of barbed wire,

In the centre, the post-a tiny trench fort held a lieutenant and 20 men.

rend

Three hundred yards or so farther: on, though invisible among the trees, is another post-a Germon one.

The frontier, oddly enough, runs between the two.

Life in this front post is not luxurious. The trenches are just trenches without any concrete ΟΣ "modern comfort."

Their correspondence - league, consisting of members of a Bible class, is in Jeopardy. An attempt to cheer sailors may cease. Through Mrs. Halstead, the vicar's wife, the girls-farmers' daughters, mill workers, and shop assistants have "adopted" the destroyer Icarus, to which they have sent parcels of comforts accompanied by letters.

People are saying the letters contain "Jove and kisses." Mrs. Halstend said;

"The girls merely sign their Chris-

There is no address. tian name.

Boy Friends Already

"The letters are enclosed' in, a parcel of knitted comforts and are addressed to the commander of the destroyer. He posts them on the ship for the sailors to read.

"I havo known most of girls since they were bables, and the last thing in my mind was to make the league into a matrimonial agency."

Elsie Geffrey, nged seventeen, of Church-road, Warton, sold: "We tell the men all about our dances and Wo social activities. We also say remember them in our prayers,

"I have a young man already and I am not secking & war-time romance."

Another member of the league, A week or ten days they stay up Miss Frances Hutchinson, who works here, always on the watch, waltlus in a cafe, sald:—

for something which, so far, has not "My own young man is in the happened, walling to give warning Army. From what he has told me of to the line three miles behind. the loneliness that sometimes come Here then is, ns it were, the shape over them, I thought our little plan of the war in this bit of the Western would be welcomed and not mis- Front that I have seen for myself. understood,"

Between the Maginot Line and the Siegfried Line-between the outer defences of euch-runs a belt of any thing from 10 to 15 miles broad: hill and forest, or abandoned farmland.

Not so much a No Man's Land a n Both Men's Land.

Through Woods

Down the centre of the belt-al most exactly along the frontier-a double line of observation posts, French and German, a few hundred yards from each other, fring very rarely, but ceaselessly watching for any major move!

Through the gaps between these posts-gaps of anything from a arter, to half a mile the recon- noitring patrols slip, mostly by night, sometimes by day.

They come nosing down through the woods, hoping to And out something that will interest their staffs, perhaps to pick up a prisoner or two: hoping not to run into a cunning ambush.

"Slight patrof activity"-"War`n la Fenimore Cooper. Men with rifles and Bren guru hunting each other in the woods.

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