1940-06-18 — Page 18

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June, 18, 1940.

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L

ONDON to-day should be the most dramatic city in the world. In any other capital faced with the evident dangers' which face London there would be tension, and excitement. There would be gesticulat- ing groups at every street corner; crowds awaiting news outside the newspaper offices, hastily enrolled citizen armics drilling in the parks. In any other city.

To the foreigner, London to-

powered to fine or send home people found without them. But evidently the Government do not consider it necessary.”

This attitude is very common, Our Civil Defence authorities might well take a hint from it.

Yesterday I asked a number of people, all strangers to me, what they thought of the situa tion. Here aro a few typical roplics.

A Bus Conductor: "I still say -we-can't-lose-Even-if-Hitler holds all the Channel ports, what then? The French can still hold him from advancing south. Our Navy and home forces make invasion Impossible. ·

day would appear almost lethar- tions. Perhaps to the foreigner brick air-raid shelters, but the What can he do next? Bomb cases usual crowd of lookers-on was us? We can bomb back. Hitler gically calm; and there must be their reaction in both many such who are writing us would appear to be similar. One not there.

is facing the long warfare he Despite the increasingly dreads. He has gained a spee down as idiotically complacent, of vague, impersonal interest. despairing or indifferent. Only There could be no more mistaken serious news, few people were tacular victory, but his losses in carrying gas-masks — perhaps men and materials have can- to the Londoner himself are the impression.

The West End. It has an one in six, and many more celled it out. In the end our signs of strain visible, but to

empty, hushed air that reminded women than men. Recently I huge resources will win." him they are clear.

They are showing themselves

in a sort of quiet, pondero By A. P. Luscombe

absent-mindedness. bus con-

Whyte

A Shop Assistant: "Our In- telligence Service let us down, as they did over Russia, Poland. and Norway. We enn't afford to be let down again;"

ductor yesterday gave me a clue to it: ""They're forgetting

me of a small country town on have asked several people about An A.R.P. worker: "We must. everything," he said, "leaving early closing day. Few strollers, this, and received the same split into two forces. France their umbrellas and gas-masks

"If the Government can defend the rest of her behind; forgetting their change: No one window-shopping. Bond answer:

We must garrison asking me for five pounds of Street deserted. The parks, thought there was any real dan- country.

hawthorn, open ger of gas they would make it England with regular troops;. pe atoes' instead of two to Wal bright with

masks. evacuate coastal areas entirely, ham Green. Their minds aren't spaces of unused deck-chairs. compulsory

Down the centre of the Hay. They could, with their new and fortify them as though they quite all here."

market workmen were building powers. Police could be em- were frontiers, making invasion

I-think-he is right Absent- mindedness. Perhaps it is the

Thongkong Telegraph. English equivalent of tension

Tuesday, June 18, 1940.

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THE prefix "Special to the Telegraph" Is used by the tongkong Telegraph' to indicato nows which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecomm TSİ-

callous Urdinance, 1916. Such new

bears the indication "UP" is received in

and excitement...

Yesterday I toured round Lon- don in an attempt to gain some mental picture of London in time of danger.

Trafalgar Square. Almost empty, with one old man feed-

Hongkong on the date of publication bying the puzzled, hungry pigeons.

the United Press Associations, who re serve all rights and forbid republication, either wholly or in part without previous arrangement.

Revenue of Thrift

Whoever thought to see forti- fications in the Metropolis? Yet the last few days has brought them to many parts of London. Vital points all over the city AFTER the fierce clash of have been hastily protected with barbed wire, wooden barricades, political antagonisms new

and these new sandbagged evidence of Labour's assured "forts." co-operation in the economic

The Londoner is taking these sphere is doubly welcome. The astounding manifestations with General Council of the Trades a calm which would be even more Union Congress has issued a astounding if one did not realise manifesto pledging its full and that he has for months been so battered by stories of struggle, strong support to the scheme of reverse, treachery and the fan- voluntary saving on the success tastic taking shape that his of which not only the Chancellor emotions are used up. Now he of the Exchequer's Budget calcu. is willing to accept philosophical- lations, but the means of financ-ly any manifestation of the war.. ing the war without resort to Yesterday London had an irflation so largely depends.cppty air, yet there were still

of strollers the war's financial and economic Whitehall and the Mall, watch-

parties

around

GRIN AND BEAR IT

to

carry

impossible. Then bomb and bombard the German-held Chan-

By Lichtyl ports ceaselessly. Hitler

then will find he has gained little."

An

office worker: elderly "Abandon volunteer home de- fence. Force all able-bodied civil workers to train at defence work in their spare time. Close down the amusement places: this is no time for them. Use the B.B.C. for training every citizen in defence instead of for foolish variety programmes."

A young Militiaman: "We are still fighting by Queensberry rules while Germany packs a horseshoe in her glove. We must bomb Berlin and other cities at once, and also plaster them with leaflets telling them why we are doing it and, what their airmen are doing to civilians. The Germans would crack under the strain long be-- fore we would."

Of all the people I spoke to, with their many different ideas, not one showed bellef in any- thing but ultimate victory. The hushed air of waiting which. pervades London now has nothing to do with despondency. It is the hush of a people ponder- ing the trials which have already out fear those which may come. And a taxi-driver called it "This new little bit of bother."

problems, the General Council of ing these fantastic barricades and the honeymoon was hardly over before he began standing faced them; and awaiting with-

the Trades Union Congress urges going up much as three years on all the millions of wage. ago they watched the erection earners whom it represents to of the gay Coronation decora- Įsave to the utmost of their Jability and to lend their savings

to the country.

IF HIS

SAD King Leopold gave up. Hitler

has given him a castle. He sent his children to his sister, Crown Princess of Italy. They are now in

Mussolini's care.

Sad King Leopold does not want any more part of this modern world. As a boy, he saw his father fight the| Germans. He saw his father win.

Then die in a mountaineering acc!,

up for fomething he called his rights!"

HAD

THIS

HE DUTY

by

PAUL HOLT

SEEN WAY

TING Leopold ran away from met by Germans, every man of whom

were raw

umes like these I want my wife with We shall be back in three weeks,

mc.

In the afternoon Monty telephoned It again. They aren't going now. will have to be later. No castles for Gracie.

So with us all. There is no escape,

As the result of this co-opera- - tion there should be a strong and to the steady reinforcement sources from which the Ex- chequer replenishes its capacity to spend on the colossal scale necessitated by war. The benefit will be directly shared by the wage-earners who thus help to establish it. On the sufficiency of the response to the appeal for voluntary savings will depend

rondwet a man had a gangster's tommy gun. Those any more, from war. It rides the two most important achieve dent. He saw his wife die by his on leave in Londen who came by Guards had a bayonet with which to hearth. The thunder rattles the china. ments the restriction of ex-side in a car crash. And then he saw destroyer from Boulogne. He hos to fight a tommy gun. They're all on the kitchen dresser and the guns we're still fighting are already no undertone to the penditure on non-essentials, and the mounting wave of a new aggres-

quiet heart-beats of the night. sion against the eastern border of his 80 back. This is what he told me:-gangsters and a restraint of rising prices in country.

"Four days ago, I myself set a Queensberry rules,

The war intrudes on the most inti- post. They

"If the war spreads here, it will

mate decisions of husband and wife.. respect of essential articles of

Ho chose the easy way. He said advance

He knew that we soldiers, young men who had not been come as a creeping barrage of death. Should she stay, to be with the people consumption. That is one of the he'd be neutral. most substantial contributions would help him, if it came to R. He under are before. Their first taste Village by village, town by town. of Britain, who have made her n diag

hoped that if he shouted pax loud of warfare was a German tank com- Always a little further forward.

"First they heavily bomb their sput, of the population can make to march. their own well-being, as well as

He celed pax again. He had not cepted the flag. They went out to, demolishing, say, one house in twenty. to the equipment and maintenany more heart for this struggle. meet it and the German tank drove Then they spray lightly with incendi-hearth. The focal point. Keep that, ment appeals to the parents of fifteen Where will he run to? To Italy, to forward. Its guns scythed them down my bombs. An hour later, when and all else is saved: The Govern everybody is out putting out the fires, cast and south-east coast towns to ance of the nation's defences.

America? Where is far enough?

and its bulle went over their bodies. they come a third-time and finish it send their children to safety. Seventy

per cent. have answered, "Mon for man, we can beat the off." exports has formidably increased Jerrics." (Every mit I have met Against such tatal warfare, against I heard Malcolm MacDonald's ap- On the face of them, our trade during the past year and that back

from Flanders says, that.) the bombing of refugee ships, hospi-peal. It was stilted and clogged with returns continue to provide a our ability to pay for imports on "But the men who ore Bghting out tals, trains, quoys, the trudging reellches, but carnest. If it had been satiric commentary on the Ger- the scale which our war needs there now are fighting ngulust and fugees on the roads-a strong heart simplo, ninety, a hundred per cent. man pretenalon to be crippling dictate must depend on

enemy who hurls his men at you as is not enough, the courage of disci- would by now have answered. though they were bullets, to be used plined men is spllied uselessly. That

For that is the duly of the civilian." our overseas trade and bringing ability to expand our exports once.

A foe who user platoons as what Leopold, who was a King,

in Spain? A castle in Spain isn't to siege. To send his children to safely, advance units like hand grenades.

and his wife too, if she is needed to good any more.

look after them. But himself to

| which the non-combatant section enough the Germans

Britain's Trade Front

would

noting at them. The tank stopped. It holsted a white flag and our post ac-|

our'

THE Huns have invented an "Tentirely new form of war

for their faith? She stays.

THE Romant up Focus, the HE Romana had a word that

ary. Yesterday morning I neighbourhood that is his own.

And

us to the verge of ruin and star- much further than we have yet though they were flame-throwers and has run away from to his castle. To set his house in order for the vation. In spite of U-boats and done. That is the moral which uncharted mines, and in spite Sir Andrew Duncan underlined

OTHE

THER people, too seek senetu fortify the hame, the street, the of the loss of some markets due in his speech to the Belfast fare. They make the civilians of talked to Gracle Fields. Ifer hus- to stick to it until he is told to go. to Nazi aggressions, both our Chamber of Commerce. Our their enemy their ally. They panic

ship for If Leopold, the sad young man, passage for four in A exports and our imports, go on.export Industries are part and them with bombs, drive them out into band, Monty Banks, had booked

parcel of our defence industries. the roads, then dive to machine-gun Americit. lle still holds an Italian had seen his duty that way, the hearts increasing

passport ond-has to go to America of those who bad their men Their expansion may indeed be them, creating chaos

Flanders would be lighter--this regarded as a major operation "I saw a company of the Guards to complete his U.S.A. citizenship.

Said Monty: I have to go, and in morning. 'go out on counter-attack. They were of the war..

It is to be noted, however, that the gap between Imports and

in