1940-06-08 — Page 7

Saturday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 8, 1940.

NAZI AIR TERROR

IN ALSACE

Boys Are Shot Dead

While Playing

PARIS.

France is largely being spared the horrors of air bombing for

Leaves from a

Correspondent's NoteBook

MR. PEPYS IN

HONGKONG

the reason that the Germans happen during the peried before you Fuchrer, I rather think they might see if I did vote by chance did maire }

have been concentrating their entire slaughter apparatus upon the Belgians. The Nazis buve had time, however, to hunt and kill a few Alsatian children.

Recently 20 Alsatlan boys, of about 12, were playing football on a field above the village of Trois Maisons near the "hospital city of Phals- bourg, a place with no soldiers, It had been signalled to the Internin- tional Red Cross as a town of mercy. Suddenly, over the trees, came three returning German planes. Two Messerschmitts soared, but the third- captured Curtiss still bear- ing the French colours-swooped till 30 feet over the litle footballers.

The children scaltered and threw themselves on their faces, but not In time to escape the bursts of machine- gun fire froin the herole raider. The Curtiss then soared and rejoined the squadron returning to Germany.

My dear Conchita,-Whatever may receive this letter, to-day will sl ways be remembered as one of the most drainntle of the whole war,

At dawn this morning, the Ger- mans Invaded Holland, Belgium and Luxemburg: yel another net of wanton and unprovoked atgression.

Whiic Herr Goebbels was busy proclaiming over the radio that the Germans were entering these coun- tries only as "friends of the people," Invasion by to defend them from Britain and France, the Nazi 'planes were already hanbing open towns and military objectives alike, and landing parachute troops.

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THESE are stirring, times indeed.

to-morrow

will Who knows what bring?

But we are prepared... our ranks are closed and we are on our toes." United in effort 11N never before, Іл Lis man and womwn

every country is saying to Hitler to-night: "Come on, if you want to, we are ready for you!””.

Achtung, Herr

Fachrer! The

Lion crouches!

31st May-Up betimes and a cleur morning for which I am' mighty thankful. Last night I did go to the Valley with Mr. Caldbeck where I doe attend meeting of the Jockey Clubbe, whereof oin a member but followers It certain of Hitler's

And

Lord the to LONDON, ecuid possibly be imagined as daring not a voting member,

to say "1

told you so" to their way, the Secretary did watch mee

mee ashamed. There mu

much of in- be mying it now!

terest and I learn the members made shall bee room Wagering

But Lord! it is not the blzger. wagerers that doe throng it but the young wenches who doe stand there giggling and wager not at all. This morning was clear but clouds form later and must needs kindle the

after worked very late and at a half lamps at three of the clock and therr- after six did on my garments of u motor ceremony and sent for hackney. But 50 foule Wos the weather my boy could get none and so I am fain to ring upon the electricle telephone to the Hostelry elec garage and so get me a car and to Clubbe. There later comes the the en together to the Watch Clubbe when Captain of the City Watch and wee merry dinner in honour of the win- After some good songs and an ex- ning of the Junior Shield at Krickett. cellent conjurer. The weather clear- the The people of this country are ing later I did goe home in slow to change their opinions.

Freedom of thought and speech, Captain's motor-coach, and so very coupled with freedom of action to a tired to bed.

-Very busy at the offlce 1si. June- other. of undreamed extent

by been a found and, as is my want of a Saturday to Mr. Caldbeck's for HERE in England we know that hate of public policy here. Holland. Acier took my nunditon in war is now on our threshold. The tion stone

hus remarked with danger is very close to us....we can Every visitor

Betty and her Lord and after to the feel is hot breath on our fores. But mazement upon the almost complete the Gloucester House with My Lady

of restriction placed upon I think that, in a way, this knoty fack

Later to the theke not very much. monstrations, not to mention

I fall in talk with Cluble where the Press. all. Now we are at close grips with monst

by views expressed

who tells Major Cyril

me of his this evil thing.

Everyone I have seen to-day has This freedom has always been must

Who doe worn the same look, calm, resulteenerously extended to aliens resid-friend the Comptroller of Trade, who and afraid. There is a sense ofing in this country. Beyond a few is most hot against those intense netivity, nada feeling of deep certain regulations concerning em

formalities

as to registration, and ring him up upon the electricle tele- phone and when he doth answer a 100 feet could conceivably have taken uitement which holds nothing loyment, we have trented them all female voice doth say "Just a minute":

Five Bullets In Body White and whimpering the inds rose-all but two. One, a tiny, dark- skinned, boy, munned slightly, He is now in a hospital which I do not mention lest it be attacked again. The other, Paul Magnette, hay still

BIC

Too much has been written on the subject of Fifth Columnists for me Holland and Belghum How to do it. Interesting, however, are the Britain, Great 11z fighting for their lives, aided by the repercussions

of thought. One is Allied Forces of Britain and France where there exist already two dis- which, in the words of the Dutch linet schools Foreign Minister, answered within still for larger than the other, but half an hour the appeal for help from the voice of the minority is increa-

sing in volume.

the invicted countries.

flour after hour news has comme through of the herole resistance which is being put up against the German forces, -

...

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KIDSAU

ano entering the back as he lay shak-edge is something of a relief to us public-speaking, processions and depleture at the King's House which

Five buliets bad pierced his body,

ing on his face.

saw the body prepared for the funeral.

I saw the field with the an- mistakable goal posts. I talked with the boys who escaped and I afthm it is impossible that any airman below little Paul for a man.

here

samme

Joseph

was no

mistake is by the fact that, at the tiny hamlet of Uberach, another airman

death machine-gunned to Wattelet, the

Paul 35 Magnette,

Are the Germans then without human feeling? Not necessarily.] Pes They kill children deliberately, drop} bombs on lorries and lecing women. smosh villages ruthlessly all as part of u logical programme. This total war. One of its component parts is terror.

of

hysteria. All day long we have been buying papers and remaining as near as welcome visitors, and in particular Cur sympathy we extended' as possible to the radio. Even naw when, as I write, it has just struck anal friendship to the refugees from midnight, the street outside my win Germany and Austria,

Now the public consetence, roused su quiet it this hour, is dow, usually s full of nuvement and the sound of by what has happened is beginning People are asking whether people's voltes. No one wants to go to stir.

although generous, to bed there is too much going on our behaviour, not been

filte mistaken, in those countries which are so near has to us, we are all waiting for further whether we have been wise to open news, and ready for anything which our gates so freely.

By far the gresiter number of the moy cume.

Te-day, had all this not happened, British public remain unmoved and veryone would have

uneasy minority. been going Impatient of this everyone nway for their Whitsun holiday. They do not believe that many mem- The English are notorious for their bers of Hitler's "Fifth Column" have THYSSEN CALLED bolidays, and this particular period slipped into this country in the guise is a great favourite. Most shops and of refugees, nor yet that there are "HEAD OF THE· factories were closing down (except more than a few unhappy people, for skeleton stuffs) at midday to themselves genuine refugees, who day, and people who left home early must obey the commands of the Ges-

he

of

I

computes, says Major Cyril, that and so he wastes two or three. And this has lost him a two weeks work since-the-war did start. Anon come some taik some others and after

2nd. (Lord's Day).-Up by eight of home carly and so to bed. the clock and did bathe and trim my- bile to break my fast, selle and ate I having

the mornlog duty at the ofter. And so down the Peake und I Thence all meet doc order many papers.

we are hardly come Mr. John and being done to the Clubbe to

our first glasse of Hollands waters when in comes Major L. O'Trigger, of Irish born whe wee all three being fathers. And later comes Doctor them and so very merry-it in these Kaip, as wild an Irishman as any of

It bee time for mee to get back to the dark days one can be merry-until nuncheon

SIXTH COLUMN"ved at their places of business tapo to work against their protectors: Peake where I take any did take

carrying week-end suitcases. Then, for fear of retribution exacted upon mighty late, Thereafter of course, came the news that all their relatives still in Germany

PARIS-M. Henri Pichot, a dis- abled ex-Serviceman and president of the French Ex-Service Legion, has -discovered

red a "Sixth Column.". Ac- cording to

exiles to him, it consists of abroad who, although strictly anti- Hitler, remain German at heart and

on in are making propoganda for complete and defective peace, which would leave Germany's

power 10 make war almost unimpaired.

leave was cancelled; that Whitsuni had, affefully, ceased to exist.

to the

are

nap and then after a dishe of tea None the less, a few

to the Peake Clubbe where I and demanding a vigorous "combout" of

booke or two in nabody-so change the Library. Home and played with Not one grumble was to be heard, all aliens living in this country, and internment of many.

the Kitten until my Children return although it must have meant great the prompi

and latter we goc to dinner and so personal disappointment to many. Sume even cry: "Intern the lot and

the safe site.

side

to bed. But the feeling that it was absolutely be on

at one's posi, Regulations have already been en-

3rd. More ruln and I do not re- essential to remain however humble that post might be, forced by the authorities with re-

movements of aliens so wet a June these many years. Took my nuncheon at the Parisian to be of use, was so universal that gard the official cancellation of the holl- within certain areas, but, apart from Grill with my Lady Betty and her that, they continue to live peaceful Lord, and I like the place well and M. Pichot gives a worning

day was hardly necessary. in Les

and unmolested lives, and it is the must see more of it. But the or Heures de la Guerre, the ex-Service man's weekly. He refers to the

"THIS ̋evening"came the news of desire-of-mast Briicas that they-chestra-did-seem to mee..overloud. exiled Fitz Thyssen, the Rubs, mil- Mr. Chamberlain's resignation, and should continue to do so.

4th-This day once mare very wet, of the appointment of Mr. Churchill as of course, the Government have been at times for so small a room:

for a long time expending the great Come Mr. Caldbeck and his Lady Prime Minister.

Mr. Chamberlain is a fine man, up-est cure in u just, but most thorough and their Children to the Hostelry.. sincere, who has done test of each case on its own merits, To take their nuncheon with mee, right and many great things for this country, and "allen tribunals" are at work and a pleasant meal, though I am He will procably receive his just in all parts of the country. There sadde at heart that young Mr. Cald- no doubt that those responsible beck and my pretty Mrs. Dinna re- maced of appreciation from future

their work uninter-turn to Shanghai, and also Mistress undisturbed by any Carolyn who was unable to take the But even now we changes which may take place in meal with us. Very late in the Office and after to the Snake Pit and thence to Mr. Caldbeck's for dinner and so ean safely leave our "Fifth home to bed.

exists at

lionaire and onc-time supporter Hitler, as "the spearhead of the sixth column, who, while enjoying sheiter in Allled lands, are hard at work to prevent Germany from being crush- ed." and adds:

"We do not reproach Herr Thyssen and his fellow exiles with remain ing good Germans, but we must be as ardently French as they are Ger-

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of his ideals. But Mr. Chamberlain Column" problem-If it

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our

But even so

5th-Very busy at the Office all day and on my return home I am for the past few weeks had not en-all-to them!

much troubled as to the kitten as that unanimous confidence

TO turn to a more cheerful theme. doe find wee must change the name which

Mr. has been so fully given Churchill. Therefore

Prime Our countryside is the brighter for of Ariobarzanes to Bathsheba, it be Minister did the only thing possible the return of the gipsies with theiring that sort of a cat,

caravans, taking the its shorter name doth remain Ba or ... resigned to make way for the dailypainted

I do Bar and I hear no protest from John right man. I listened to Mr. Cham-road agairi after the winter, berlain's short farewell radio speces not know if you have gipsies in your David. Dined at home and early to to the nation, and felt great sym- part of the world, or if so, whether bed. pathy for him - In-what- must-have they are harmless, filcturesque pro well but it "averns the` boat goes not

6th. To Mr. Caldbeck's to bid fare-

been a bitter moment. But his voice like ours.

The gipsies in this country may so carly so I may see them. Drank a was strong and determined as he

maybe two of Hollands appealed for the nation's unflinching steal a few rabbits or hens occasion-glasse or

80 to the Clubbo with support for his successor and declar-ally, but on the whole they cause waters and

little trouble, and are a cheerful three of the King's officers and there, ed his own willingness to serve in sight, attractively bronzed by the after a main or two at dice to our Mr. Churchill's cabinet in any capa-. city in which he could be of use, open air, the women and children nuncheon. Very busy again at the Even his detractors must admire this dressed in bright colours and appear-offee and home pretty betimes.

Ing always happy and man's courage and resoluilon In de-

and none can doubt his public vitality.

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A Friend From Egypt

unexpected

Shortly after had seen my first The reaction in other countries, so caravan this year (with much the far as we yet know it, to the new same pleasure that one feels on hear Nozi invasions, is what might have ing the first cuckoo In Spring), 1 been expected....general indigna was amused to read in the Press that tion, mixed in some cases with fear, gipsles were applying for "travellers' and, on all sides, intense interest in ration books," to replace the ordinary the Allies' lightning riposte through ones which they had used, in com-

Pilots and crews of the Royal mon with everyone else, during the Belgium.

winter months. The former will en-Air Force aircraft which made LESS expected, perhaps, is the able them to take up their nomad the great flight over Vienna and

without inconvenience, outspoken comment of the Moscow-existence Radio, which quotes the writings of buying their food as and where they Prague found an

to welcome them on Lenin in condemnation of the use of want to: to expect a gipsy to deal visitor

(Fin-like the rest of us with one set of their return." force against small nations.

Standing there in his red tarboosh, fere with the whole scheme of their the national headgear of Egypt, was Ilves during the summer months, Mahmoud Abdul Fath, a member of The broadenst closed with the In any case, the association of the the Egyptian Portinment and pro words: "We cannot therefore sym-gipales with anything so orderly and prictor of "Al-Muri”, one of the pathise with the Imperialisticl

bureaucratie as a railon book of any leading Egyptian newspapers which methods

used by our Germanic

sort, is amusingly incongruotis! ► |elrculates extensively neighbours."

Arab population, What has now become of that great I must bring this letter to an end:

He had speelal permission to visit unbreakable bond of German-Soviet will probably take its place in the Royal Air Force zone in France. with Monsieur friendship which was to assure for far emptier post bag than in previous The pilots talked the Nazis invincibility and ultimate weeks. In the Brat half of this week Fath and sympathised with him be- victory?

everyone was making up arrears of cause the flier weather on the air- Soviet Russia appears to have cast correspondnce while the old rate of held was so unlike the warmth and off her war-dress, and to be bustly postage was still available, and the sunshine of his own country, engaged. In pursuing a policy of post officials, were dealing with mails He, on his part, congratulated them peaceful trading, notably with those of n alze reminiscent of Christmas as their magnificent light. He was countries whose sympathies are anti-time. Now each inland letter costs parilcularly pleased when Nazi. Moreover, she is encouraging 242 and overyone thinks twice bocer replied to him in Arable. He -dertaker-neutrals -to preserve-thels fore putting-pen-lo-papas had lived in Bømt for some yearNA neutrality at all costs and to reslat My love to you and your family, Indegd, he had done much of his further. German, aggrosalon,

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