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Friday, July 19, 1940, Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 28615 THE_prefix “Épecial to the Telegraph” se used by the Tiongkong Telegraph te indicate news which is fifletir copyright

THIS IS HOW YOUR WIFE FILLS

necessitated to

place ali rubbish

Fort McKinley, Thursday, tloos liave been 11th 6 amReveille! Boom! The gun which starts the band, arouses us to another day, and signals the Raising of the Flag, Alert after a long night's rest, we troop in kimonoes to wash-

in the receptacles provided, not to Catry food into sleeping quarters, avold waster

of. Small negligences water, and so on. these may appear to be, but a dis honourable return for the kindly-care and attention-and unfailing courtes whid, patience

ceived.

we have re-

But on the

may

been despatched with healthy appe-Mer Bring

arc

con-

not

the

bules

Depurt-

dixie-laden stampede

at

IN HER

TIME

EVACUEE'S DIARY

BY NORAH WHITESTONE

have succumbed to the Insidious In- fection.

the

are

We hear that Hongkong is, or soun will be, under Military Control. So aro we, though we can scarcely credit fact. True, Doughboys everywhere, including Military Police, though their function appears that of assisting rather then control. We must, however, obtain a pink ticket if we desire to pass beyond the confines of the Fort (forbidding name for this genial Inndiscapet).

At each fork or angle of the roads stands a a Filipino guardian; an en- quiry as to the.

of whereabouts

ready, intelligent, building brings a smiling and correct response. A decided Improvement upon the blank stares or unintelligible jargon which greets the Hongkong Becker after

I

K

ARONICSEC. But I fearn that our

guard

are picked men.

assed in the

horses are being

Kentucky

nearby corral, lithe Filipinos in saddle-splendid horsemen! A sight

twist and turn on dainty to delight the eye is the dexterity with which these 10 or 13.2 animals among the horde of rolling, galloping fetlocks

or roaming mules; through brush- wood, trees, up hill and down hill the they canter for half an hour at stretch, seeming never to change a leg except at bidding.

Be proud of the appearance of room or shower. Cheery greet your automobile,

inga ring out, intermixed with the wall of a baby. Fresh from ablutions we dress (the dais of the Court Martial forma a handy dressing room, draped with a length of rose silk) We make our little beds, and House 118 whole, our Camp has been honoured with the nevertheless, pre- sents a tidy and compliments of the Lady Super- homely

appear- visor upon the neatness and ance. I beg that

new-comers symmetry of our ensemble. note

well! And An excellent breakfast having do not depend upon purchasing in it is ex- tite, the morning may be spent in washing, ironing and for mothers two plates,

soap, with small chlidren this is no sine- knife, fork, spoon cure. Thoughtfully and justly they and Ica-spoon, have been given preference in the drinking, vessel dfying room and lavandains the unbreakable really to assist them. We scan the plente affats gre nollee boards for news of possible suitable. Easy removals, mall, and so on. A stroll

Do not perhaps to the Y.M.CA, for an ice bris

food. Every or light delicious beer. Or the thing is provided. Ancst Orange Pekoe is served in a For ilny paper bag inserted in each cup. there is a special The evenings are cool and lovely, Dietary early mornings delightful, the day- ment. time hot. A stroll, chil-chat, cards, 5 pm - The a book in bed, complete our day.. Rations queue.

Friday, 12th -- We had

"Mail from Hong- sidered our day to be ended, kongl!" Magic Pyjamas the universal wear, heads words! The billy bristle with metal curlers, hollow and

throng gaps where cratwhile shining teeth and gleamed. And who comes herel? leaving amaze

and uniformed A calm and collected young soldier, cooks with ladies suspended in mid-' In bed are quickly dissipated. Morn accompanied by a Filipino.

nurse, OKU strides with martial mien among Dir. Excitement dwindles many op ing Service in Catholic and Protest gaping crowd. He

wants,

for some petites and the mall-less have that an! Churches, and a full house

"nobody's baby" feeling. Perhaps to both. Exelilag news that a limited purpose or other, our names and numbers of our children. Those yet morrow!

number of evacuees are to be allow Saturday, 13th 7am-The plump ed upon their feet respond bashfully or boldly, pecording to temperament, und genial Sergeant-Major who he po to bedcart to Hongkong. So

keep

date, sweethearts, husbands Mrs. B I !! Anyone know constituted himself the foster father and fathers Friday, July

of the entire juvenile population,

10th 8

We have become accustomed to the Mrs. B. 7

Runour p.m.

la rampant with u already upon

possible entrance into our dormitory length of

of H

-though Young Doughboy has his orders to slons, wheelle scene of his diver vitality and

varied--hitherto

of an orderly or military man at any unknown. We are to do sol Without tremor or hesita- flagged walk in the she Interrogate Mrs. B.-and he means the wheeling the bonny twins in

Out-sized

upon the going to Australla on Monday; to possible or impossible our; we are allowed, rather should say encour- shade of plant Baguio on Tuesday; to the Islands tion he strides to each occupied bed acaelas. This rubicund, jolly Uncle of the Blessed on Wednesday! But "ged and exhorted to ignore many and, regardless of amazed stores, Sum excites universal admiration; we tof

previously (of Barrack Prep. School 118) freely enter

accepted

ated prohibitions; we continues colinly upon his way until ready to relieve a mother are still here and officially are likely "Omrers

apartments designated the delinquent matron Is located, wearied with the unaccustomed to remain put for (perhaps) a week Mess," "Showers for ten men."

Buthroom," "Sergeants calmly stretched upon her back road care of her children; he umbols, or so. We are deeply content. An The scientists made short work of ing Sexton Dlake! Upon the out plays ball, cuddles and comforts the instrumental YM.C.A..

Lest the above effusion should the attempt to find a basis in science skirts of the scene we goggle and walling, retrieves lost form, and le, un lee-crtal concert at the YMCA suggest too light-hearted or rosy a

gape, lost in a mixture of admiro- apparently, tireless. If he has mor- p.m.

prospect, I for a mythical theory of. "race" in-

I should add that I have tion of martial phlegm and scan- tial duties they do not appear oner- vented by German politicians and

to my own personal given expression dalized bewilderinent. But he got ous-at the moment.

Monday, 15th,--A visit to the dis- feelings, to the Impressions

I highly flattering to the German his woman! Orders is Orders!

pensary to show the genial, gentle, have gained from a general survey. people. This theory declares that it

7.30 am-We watch a long file of understanding Lieutenant 1.30 am-The tail of a typhoon covered army lorries chock-a-block little Billy's boil, Gwennie's

Medico Certainly there are *crumpled you find, in any mixed national gets us leaping from our cols. Solid to the tailboard with those of us on nose, or to discuss Mamma's

leaves but the bumped

vast majority of more those whom the Americans group, certain

kindly qualities, notably sheets of rain and raging blasts pour the Way .to Baguio. A glorious initiative and leadership, you may be

into the open windows, which we morning. But the

clous intimate troubles. An epidemic has term "visitors"

certainly departure seems

appear out, at which the Medical

happy.

contented, Children of sure that the members of the group close as quickly and efficiently as we to make, no

ake. no appreciable gap in

our all

Authorities show no undue pertur are able, pending the hasty arrival of numbers, or diminution of the din.

school nge

an ideal existence, have an exhibiting these qualities belong to

a couple of lanky,

bation-slacks, Bell-possessed,

shorts, the "Nordic" elements of the popula-helpful Doughboys, who complete the pour mid-day rest in the trousers every type of

gathering dusk, upon tho green tion, and are the representatives of frustation of the elements. We chat upon the green, sua glittering upon coaxed into more or

asticity low, my eyes are Colin and Shello, with them a little.

Gwennie and polished metal. By

shapely an original "Nordic" race, tall, blond

Geoffrey, Donald and Some

lucky being even by those who hitherto

Foul, and a host of others, hurling men with long heads.

And now a jarring note. A re-

choace

find a quiet corner upon the have quailed before the needle. balls. Pink frock, green frock, blue Mr. Julian Huxley has written aproach to our people. Printed Re- spacious verandah. settle

(by

na mcans onerous) upon the boards, back well propped, ed. No matter what our physicafeendom and in sécurity, Andr

myself Tallers ("In 24 hours") are inundat dungarees; erles of happy laughter brief pamphlet on the rubject, and gulations

ring out as they sport in glorious are issued to cach new-comer con and deliver-myself-lo-the-mixed-proportions, age or condition, has mentioned some facts for which taining precautions necessary for the emotions engendered by most worth- slacks we must insert our under- Mamma appears (or perhaps a lady how a the theory in question cannot maintenance of cleanliness and order while music.

standings. Old, stout and stumpy, organiser of games) and the play account. For example, the fall, in the Camp. Though the great Sunday, 14th-No Revelllel Rum- the divinely formed Sweet Angeline, takes on 0 fresh lease of life. blond, Jong-hended type is most majority co-operate, further exhorta- ours that breakfast is being served the buxom Mamma-practically alí Bables' bedtime. Good-night, Daddyl prevalent in Scandinavia and that reglon has produced no ancient civilisation at all comparable with those produced by people of the dark Mediterranean type. More- over, the great Individual leaders of thought and action have certainly not been of the "Nordic" type. In point of fuct the greatest strides in elvilisation have been taken in coun

under the provisions of the Telecommual- cations Ordinance, 1954. Bach new AS bears the intestion "Up" is received in longkong on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who re-

rights forbid either wholly or in pars without previous Arrangeinení

"Nordic" Myth

nte.

3.30

WHEN

and

& Silver Bond appears garment is being ON DITUI, and ns end these words In

BERLIN TREMBLED

less

rose

the

bo

The British and French broadcasts to the Allied broadcasts at about In German may well have a remark-seven and len o'clock each night. able effect on the German people, At those hours many people ure From these, German citizens get "unavailabic." They will not make news of the outside world from appointments. You cannot get them which they have for so long been cut on the telephone. Behind the drawn off.

blinds of their homes they are "play- Even before the war, when I ing with death," as we used to call brought back from Paris a copy of a the perilous practice of tuning in to publication printed by German re- London, Paris or Lyons.

One night was listening to à Paris

tries where mixed types predomin-ONLY one air-raid warning sufering from the effects of years fupees Wenus auger to use the

had been sounded in Berlin of nervous strain. The harsh Nazi hands by friends eager to hear the broadcast. The announcer reported state in which they were unfitted to tune in eagerly-though secretly, be- Berlin the night before: one at the rule of fear had reduced them to a other side." The German citizens that two explosions had occurred in withstand the slightest shock.

cause of the heavy penalties they Air Ministry, the other at the police Next day friends told me of similar would suffer if caught in the net-Tura to Paga 2, Sixth Column behaviour in the shelters where they Berlin, apparently, had given way to | had sought refuge. The whole of its fears. I really belleve that if a real raid hid followed hard upon that first scare, riots would have broken out among the population,

war.

It is hard to understand how any-up to the time of my escape. It one with even an elementary ac-happened at half-past three one quaintance with history can bring himself to belleve in the existence morning in the first week of the of a "pure" race, a community Into which there has been no infusion

The wall of the sirena woke me of "foreign" elements. Even among

in my flat. I tumbled out of bed # highly clannish people like the and hurried down to ne cellar Scottish Highlanders it was by no which had been turned into an air- means

for uncommon

strangers, raid shelter. owing allegiance to a neighbouring

case

Must of my neighbours had

clothes. And most of them were in

gavo in- structions that no more air

chief, to be included within the arrived before me, in their night THE authorities membership of another clan. Such a change of allegiance would, eliher such a state of fright thut, before raid warnings were to be sound-

choice or from compulsion, in- volve a change of name.

of bombs long, I was less afraid Under the than of panic.

ed unless bomba began to drop. Brehon Inws in Ireland there was Two big fellows, who usually look- provision for the adoption of new

This rule, I understand, fa still in families

ed magnificent in Nazi uniforms, force, even in the coastal districts into

the clan, and even for were trembling uncontrollably. The regularly patrolled by British planes. the amalgamation of clans. There women were nearly all crying. One To soothe the nerves of the people, are legends of similar fusions in the hugged her child and prayed in frag- the Nazis announced that the air raid

of the early Greeks and

It warning had been caused by n

Bti- Romons. Everyone knows what hap-mentary, hysterical sentences.

was a spectacle that will remain with tish plane that had lost its way pened during the Incursions of the

and barbarians when the provinces of the

me throughout my life. When the "accidentally" crossed into Germany. ail-clear sirens sounded three-quar- British raids were for the purpose Roman Empire were overrun ters of an hour later, I went back of dropping

tried to Franks

leadels. and Burgundians entered

to my flat convinced that these people secure copies, but in Berlin they Gaul, Visigoths founded

kingdom

Vere all pitinble cowards.

fines in Spain. Vandals established them-

were unprocurable, Heavy But, lying sleeplessly in bed later, threatened everybody found in pos selves in

Africa, Italy Northern

I realised that this was nol truc session of a leaflet. Indlement be- Was

overrun by Ostroguths and Lombards. Saxons, Jutes, Frisions,

all fore the People's Court and certain and Angles made homes for them-

Imprisonment, if not the death sen- selves in Britain and were absorbed

tence, awaited those gulity of ing leaflets from hand to hand.

mons

The fact was that they were

The effect of them threats, of course, was to heighten curiosity. A clandestine trade sprang up in this dangerous 'commodity. heard of people paying large sums for one copy.

Mr. Huxley's view of nationality, into the flomano-British population as depending on cultural, not biolo already there. In the Lenth andgical characteristics, appears to coin- eleventh centuries, Danes and Nor-icide with the doctrine expounded descended upon the island, pretty fully by David Hume, the As recently as the seventeenth con- | Scottish philosopher, two hundred tury the refugee. Hugenots moved years ago. Hume held that physical from France in such numbers that causes have no discernible operation they formed 5 per cent of the popu- on the human mind, but that iation of London. In short, it is national character is due to moral the price dropped but the demand mere fantasy to assume that there causes, such as the nature of the Increased, I finally managed to buy is anywhere in the modern world government, the teachings of natural one for Ave mark, pure unmixed race, descended from leaders, the situation of the nation.

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some hypothetical ancestral clan. If

with regard to its neighbours, the the Germans 'are··'an `exception to way in which, the people, conduct the rule, by what mirucle did they their affairs, social and domestic, and escape the fale that has overtaken the influence of the customary laws every other people on the globez and religion of the country,

When more leaflets were dropped,

HAVE heard many people say

after rending a lenflot, "I wonder if this is true? What do you think?".

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