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"There's nothing you bought we all?” "No,"

"No presents ?

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Unless?"

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"Unless you include a hrod like a raz football dredged from a canal and a taste in my mouth like smoker in a railway tunnel.

Our Paris repre sentative entertained me rather las ishly last night.”

"There is no duty, Sir, on hangovers - obtained abroad.”

* † wish there was. I'd refuse to pay and then you'd have to confiscate it.”

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"This Ron's really hills off bang- overy Have they any in the Station buffer ?"

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LONDON CARRIES ON

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 armies drilling in the parks. In any other city.

To the foreigner, London to

powered to find 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 are a few typical replien

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 ho do next? Bemb in both cases usual crowd of lookers-on was us? We can bomb back. Hitler gically calm; and there must be their reaction many such who are writing us, would appear to be similar. One not there.

is facing the long warfare he the increasingly dreads. Despite down as idiotically complacent, of vague, impersonal interest.

He has gained a spec despairing or indifferent. Only There could be no more mistakon serious news, few people were tacular victory, but his losses in to the Londoner himself are the impression.

carrying gas-masks- perhaps men and materials have, can- The Weat 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 nort of quiet, pondering absent-mindedness. My bus con- ductor yesterday gave me a clue

to

By A.

P. Luscombe Whyte

"If the Government

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

An A.R.P. worker: "We must

it: "They're forgetting me of a small country town on have asked several people about everything," he said, leaving early closing day. Few strollers, this, and received the same split into two forces. France their umbrellas and gas-maska behind; forgetting their change; No one window-shopping. Bond answer:

Street deserted. The parks. thought there was any real dan can defend the rest of her country. We must garrison. asking me for five pounds of

hawthorn, opan ger of gas they would make it England with regular "troups: potatoes' instead of two to Wal- bright with

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

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

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

Thongkong Telegraph. English equivalent

Tuesday, Juno 18, 1940.

Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20615

THE preax "Special to the Telegraph is used by the "longkeus Telegraph to indicate rows which is strictly "copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni Calon Ordinance, 1918. Such now. bears the indication "UP" in received Hongkong on the date of publication by La United Press Asenelations, who re- terve all rights and forbid republication,

Arrangement,

and excitement....

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

Square. Trafalgar

Almost empty, with one old man feed- ing the puzzled, hungry pigeons. Whoever thought to see forli-

either wholly or in part without previousfications in the Metropolia? Yet

Revenue of Thrift

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 politic1 antagonisms

new

barbed wire, wooden barricades, and these new sandbagged "forts."

The Londoner is taking these

a calm which would be even more

evidence of Labour's assured co-operation in the economic {sphere is doubly welcome. The astounding manifestations with

General Council of the Trades Union Congress has issued austounding if one did not realise manifesto pledging its full and strong support to the scheme of voluntary saving on the success

In

that he has for months been so battered by stories of struggle, reverse, treachery and the fan- 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 munifestation of the war.

Yesterday London had ing the war without resort to irflation so largely depends. empty air, yet there were still parties of strollers around the war's financial and economie Whitehall and the Mall, watch- problems, the General Council of ing these fantastic barricades 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 save to the utmost of their ability and to lend their savings to the country.

IF HIS

SAD King Leopold gave up. Her

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

Mussolini's care,

GRIN AND BEAR IT

em-

were frontiers, making invasion impossible, Then bomb and bombard the German-held Chan-

then will find he has gained.. little."

By Lichty el ports ceaselessly. Hitler

237

An

office elderly

worker: "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 lens, nat one showed belief in any- thing but ultimate victory. The hushed air of waiting which

London pervades

now has nothing to do with despondency... It is the hush of a people ponder- ing the trials which have already

--and the homeymoon was hardly over before he began standing faced them; and awaiting with-

up for something he called his rights!"

HAD

THIS

HE

DUTY

by

PAUL

HOLT

out fear those which may come. And a taxi-driver called it "This new little bit of bother."

SEEN WAY

Swan, Culbertson & Fritz which the non-combatant section hoped that if he shouted pax loud of warfare was a German tank com: Always a little further forward.

Investment Bankers and Brokers

Members of New York Cotton Exchange

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times like these I want my wife with

We shall be back in three- weeks..

mc.

+

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

The war intrudes on the most inti- male decisions of husband and wife,

Should she stay, to be with the people of Britain, who have made her a fing for their falth? She stay...

An the result of this co-opera- tion there should be a strong and steady reinforcement to the 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

Sad King Leopold does not want establish it. On the sufficiency

any more part of this modern world. of the response to the appeal for As a boy, he saw his father fight the voluntary savings will depend Germans. He saw his father win.

So with us all. There is no escape, KING Leopold ran away from met by Germans, every man of whom

total warfare. I met a man had a gungster's tommy gun. Those any more, from war. It rides the two most important achieve Then He saw his wife die by als on leave in London who came by Guards had a bayongi with which to hearth. The thunder rattles the chins

die in a mountaineering acel ments-the restriction of ex-skle in a car crusli. "And then he saw destroyer from Boulogne. He has to fight tommy gun. They're ullion the kitchen dresser and the guns penditure on non-essentials, and the mounting wave of a new aggres go back. This is what he told me:-gangsters and we're still aghting ore already on undertone to "the

quiet heart-beats of the night, sion against the castern border of hist a restraint of rising prices in country.

"Four days ago, I myself get an Queensberry rules.

post. They were

raw the war spreads here; it wil respect of essential articles of

He chose the easy way. He stud ndvunce consumption. That is one of the he'd be neutral. He knew that we soldiers, young men who had not been come as a creeping barrage of death. most substantial contributions would help him, if it came to it. He under dre before. Their first taste Village by village, town by town enough the Germans would noting at them. The tank stopped. It "First they heavily bomb their spat,

HE Romans had a word that of the population can make to march.

sums it up. For the their own well-being, as well as

The focal point. Keep that, He cried pex again. He had not cepted the flag. They went out to, demolishing, sny, one house in twenty. to the equipment and mainten- any more heart for this struggle. meet it and the German tank drove Then they spray lightly with Incendi-hearth.

An hour later, when and all else is saved. The Govern Where will he run to? To Italy, to fur word. Its guzas scythed them down ary bomba

ment appeals to the parents of fifteen. ance of the nation's defences.

America? Where is far enough? and its bulk went over their bodies. everybody is out putting out the fires; cast and south-east coast towns D..

they come a third time and finish it send their children to safety." Seventy Britain's Trade Front

per cent, have attɛwered. "Man for man, we can beat the off." exports has formidably increased Jetries" (Every man I have met Against such total warfare, against I heurd Malcolm MacDonald's op- On the face of them, our trade during the past year and that back from Finnders sys that.) the bombing of refugee slips, hospi- peal. It was stilted and clogged with returns continue to provide m our ability to pay for imports on "But the men who fire fighting out tals, trains, qunys, the trudging ro cliches, but earnest. If it had been there now are fighting against an fugees on the roads a strong heart simple, ninety, a hundred per cent. Lantiric commentary on the Ger- | the scale which our war neccs, enemy wlio hurls his men at you is not enough, the courage of disel-would by now have answered....

man pretension to be crippling dictate must dopend on our though they were bullets, to be used plined men' is spilled uselessly. That our overseas trade and bringing ability to expand our experts once. A foe who uses platoons us is what Leopold, who was a King,

To set his house in order for the. us to the verge of ruin and star- much further, than we have yet though they were fame-throwers and has run away from to his castle

In Spain? A costle in Spain fant 80 siege. To sind his children to safety.. advance units like hand grenades. vation. In spite of U-boats and done. That is the moral which

good any more.

and his wife too, if she is, nected to Jool after them.. But himself to uncharted mines, and in spito Bir Andrew Duncan underlined (THE Huns have.invented na

THE

*ATHER people, too seele sanctus fortify the home, the street, the entirely new form of war- of the loss of some markets due in his speech to the Belfast fare. They make the civilians of talked to Gracle- Fields. Her husto stick to it unul he is told to go.

ary. Yesterday morning neighbourhood that is his own. And. to Nazi aggressions, both our Chamber of Commerce.Our their enemy their ally. They panic "exporta ahd" our imports go on export industries are part and them will bombs, delve them, aut into band, Monty Banks, bad booked increasinge d

parcel of our defence industries, the ronda, then dive to machine-gun proge for four ship for If Loopali, tlie and young man, America. He still holds an Italian had seen his duty that way; the hearts Their expansion may indeed be them, creating chaos.

passport and has to go to America of those who and their mont Flanders would) behter th It is to be noted, however, that regarded as a major operation |

to complete his U.S.A. citizenship,

Bald Monty: I have to go, and in morning. the gap between imports und of the war.

holsted a white flag and our past ac-|

"I saw a company of the Guards go out et 'counter-attack. They were.

THE

For that is the duty of the civiliun.