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·HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

July 19, 1940.

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Hongkong Telegraph.

Friday, July 19, 1940. Wyndham St.. Hongkong Telephone: 28615

THE prex "Special to the Telegraph" is used by the Hongkong Telegraph to indicate news which it trielly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni- rations Ordinance, 1910. Buch news a bears the indication "U" 1 recolved in Itongkong on the date of pubilestion by the United Press Assoctations, who re serve all rights and forbid republication, either wholly or in part without previous Arrangement,

"Nordic" Myth

THIS IS HOW YOUR WIFE FILLS

to

of

and so on.

on the

have been Fort McKinley, Thursday, tions

necessitated to 11th 6 am-Revellle! Boom! place all rubbish The gun which starts the band, in the receplucies arouses us, to another day, and provided, not

carry food

into signals the Raising of the Flag, sleeping quarters,

avoid Waste Alert after a long night's rest, we troop in kimonoes to wash-

Small negligences room or shower, Cheery greet these may appear to be, but lia- inga ring out, intermixed with

honourable retur the wall of a baby. Fresh from for the kindly care ablutions we dress (the dais of and attention-und unfailing courtesy ' the Court Martial forms a handy and pallence - dressing room, draped with a which we have re-

ceived. length of rose silk.) We make

But our little beds, and House 118 whole, our Comp has been honoured with the nevertheless, pre- sents a tidy and compliments of the Lady Super- homely appear- I beg that visor upon the neatness and once.

new-comers may And welll symmetry of our ensemble.

not depend An excellent breakfast having do

upon purchasing in been despatched with healthy appe- Manilla; it is ex- Lite, the morning may be spent n-pensive. Bring washing, ironing and for mothers soa

BOAD

two plates, with small children this la no sine- knife, fork, spoon cure. Thoughtfully and justly they and tea-spoon, have been given preference in the drinking vessel

unbreakable and lavandafas

are the drying room ready to assist them. We scan the plente affairs are notice boards for news of possible suitable. Easy not A stroll shoes. Do mail, and so on, ais

to the YMCA for an ice bring food. Every- or light delicious, beer. Or

the thing is provided.

the

babics finest Orange Pekoe is served in a For thy paper bag inserted in each cup, there is a special The evenings are cool and lovely: Dietary early mornings delightful, the day- me time hot. A stroll, chit-chat, cards,

note

Départ-

5pm. The

Rations 'queue. "Mail from Hong- Magic

con-

kong! ended.

and

dixie-laden

uniformed

pon the scene of his diver- vitally itherto unknown..

with

the

IN HER

TIME

EVACUEE'S DIARY

BY NORAH WHITESTONE

havo succumbed to the insidious in- fection.

We hear that Hongkong is, or 80071 will be, under Military Control. Se are we, though we can scarcely credit are Doughboys fact. True,

Military Including everywhere their function appears

the

Police,

that of assialing rather than control.

inust, however, obtain

We

pink

ticket if we desire to pass beyond the confines of the Fort (forbidding name for this genial landscape!).

A

At each fork or angle of the roads stands a a Filipino guardion; an en- quiry as to the whereabouts of a ready, intelligent, building brings a smiling and coff response.

correct decided improvement upon the blank stares or unintelligible Jargon which greets the Hongkong seeker after knowledge. But I leam that our guardians are pleked men.

A

a book in bed, complete our day.

Friday,

hud

Kentucky 12th. We

B D.m-Magnificent

in the Qur clay lo be

horses sidered

are being exercised Pyjamas the universal wear, heads words! The billy

nearby corrul, lithe Filipinos in the saddie-splendid horsemen A sight bristle with metal curlers, hollow and

dexterity to delight the eye gaps where erstwhile shining teeth throng stampede, had gleamed. And who comes here? leaving amazed

with which these 15 or 15.2 animals A calm and collected young soldier, conks with indles suspended in mid- in bed are quickly dissipated. Mord-

twist and turn on dainty fetlocks BLUESC necompanied by a

Filipino strides with martial mien among the air Excitement dwindles many ap- ing Service in Catholic und Protest among the hurdle of roiling, galloping and the mall-less have that ant Churches, and a full house at or roaming mules; through brush- hill and down hill limited ing crowd. He wants, for some "nobody's baby" feeling. Perhaps to- botli, Exulling news that

wood, trees, up coping

names purpose or other, our

number of evacuices are to be allow they numbers of our children. Those yet morrow!

Saturday, 13th 7 a.m.-The plumped to broadenst to Hongkong. So they canter for half an hour at a upon their feet respond bashfully or

leg except at bidding.

We have become accustomed to the boldly, according to temperament, and genial Sergeant-Major who has keep the date, sweethearts, husbands, seeming never to change a

constituted himself the foster-father and fathers-Friday, July 19th Mrs. B !!! Anyone know of the entire juvenile population, is p.m. Rumour is rampant, with possible entrance Into our dormitory and length of Bfe-though of an orderly or military man at any Mrs. B

already

We are possible or impossible hour; we are Young Doughboy has his orders to signs, wheeling the bonny twins in vari

out-sized pram upon the going to Australla on Monday: to allowed, rather I should say encour- Interrogate Mrs. B.and he means their to do so! Without tremer er heita- flagged walk in the shade of giant Bugulo on Tuesday; to the Islands aged and exhorted to ignore many

occupied bed acacias. This Tubleund, folly Uncle of the Blessed on Wednesday! But

But previously accepted prohibitions; we tion he strides to each and, regardless of amazed stares, Sam excites universal admiration; we (of Barrack Prep. School 118) freely enter spartments designated Bathroom." "Sergeants ព mother are still here and oficially are likely "Omcers" calmly upon his way until always ready to relleve continues the delinquent matron is located, wearied

unaccustomed to remain put for (perhaps) a week Mess," "Showers for ten nen."

Lest the above effusion should We are deeply content. An calmly stretched upon her back reod care of her children; he gambols, or 30. The scientists made short work of ing Sexton Blakel. Upon the out plays ball, cuddles anti comforts the instrumental

Y.M.C.A.,

prospect, I

I should add that I have the attempt to find a basis in science skirts of the scene we goggle and wailing, retrieves lost toys, and la an tuental concert at the YMCA suggest ton light-hearted or rosy a given expression to my own personal gape, lost in a mixture of admira- apparently, tireless. If he has mar- p.m.

to the impressions I for a mythical theory of "race" in-

tion of martial phlegm and scan- tial duties they do not appear oner-

Monday, 15th-A visit to the dis- feelings, and vented by German politielans and dalized bewilderment. But he got ous-at the moment.

pensary to show the genial, gentle, have gained from a general survey. highly flattering to the Germans woman! Orders is Orders!

7.30 s.m.-We watch a long file of understanding Lieutenant- Medico Certainly there are crumpled rose vast majority of people. This theory declares that if 1.30 am.--The tail of a typhoon covered army lorries chock-a-block little Billy's boll, Gwennie's bumped leaves but the

Americans kindly nose, or to discuss Mamma's more those whom the

certainly oppear you find, in any mixed national gets us leaping from our cols. Solid to the tailboard with those of us on

to way Bagulo. A Glorious Intima

intimate troubles. An epidemic has term "visitors"

the Medical

and qualitles, notably sheets of rain and raging blasts pour the

contented. Children of group, certain

happy, departure seems broken out, at which

ideal existence, Initiative and leadership, you may be into the open windows, which we morning. But the

Authorities show no undue pertur school age have an

in the or diminution of the din. batlon-slacks, shorts, knickers, and as I end these words

br sure that the members of the group close as quickly and efficiently as we to make no appreciable top in our Autlic

are able, pending the hasty arrival of numbers, our mid-day rest in the trousers-every

type of bifurcated guthering dusk, upon exhibiting there qualities belong to a couple of lanky, self-possessed.

is being enthusiastically low my eyes are

Donald the "Nordic" elements of the popula-helpful Doughboys, who complete the post, the Brass & Silver Band appears garment

pon the green, sun glittering upon coaxed into more or less shapely Gwennia and Geoffrey

who hitherto Paul, and a host of others, hurling tion, and are the representatives of frustation of the elements. We chat

metal. By some lucky being even by those an original "Nurdle" race, tall, blond with them a little. men with long heads.

And now a forring note. A re- chance I and a quiet corner upon the have qualled before the needle. balls. Fink frock, green frock, blue spacious verandah, settle myself Tailors ("in 24 hours") pre inundat- dungarees; cries of happy laughter ring out as they sport in glorious Mr. Julian Huxley has written aproach-to-our-people. Printed RC the bourds, back-well-propped, ed--No-maiter what our physicaldor and in security. And now a-

and deliver myself to the mixed proportions, age or condition, Inta brief pamphlet on the subject, and Culations (by no means onerous) upon

are issued to each new-comer, con- has mentioned some facts for which talning precautions necessary for the emotions engendered by most worth- slacks we must, insert our under- Mamma appears (or perhaps a lady

standings. Old, stout and stumpy, organiser of games) and

on a fresh lease of le. the theory in question cannot maintenance of cleanliness and order while music.

the great Sunday, 14th-No Revellet Hum- the divinely formed Sweet Angellne. takes account. For example, the tall, in the Camp. Though blond, long-hended type is most rusjority co-operate, further exhorta- ours that breakfast is being served the buxom Mamma-practically all Bables' bedtime. Good-night, Daddy! prevalent in Scandinavia and that region hus produced по anclent 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 "Nordlie" type. In point of fact the greatest strides in civilisation have been taken in coun-

atc.

3.30 p.m

WHEN

BERLIN TREMBLED

oft.

Colla

and

green be

Shello,

and

the play

about

The British and French broadcasts, to the Allied broadcasts at in German may well have a remark-seven and ten o'clock ́each night.

At those hours many people are ‚able effect on the German people.

They will not make From these, German citizens get "unavailable." 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 binds of their homes they are "play- Even before the war, when ing with death," as we used to cali brought back from Paris a copy of a the perilous practice of tuning in to publication printed by German re- Lordon, Paris or Lyons.

One night I was listening to a Paris The German citizens that two explosions had occurred in tries where mixed types predomin- ONLY one air-raid warning suffering from the effects of years furces, it was snatched out of my

had been sounded in Berlin of nervous strain. The harsh Nazl hands by friends eager to hear "the broadcast. The announcer reported

rule of fear had reduced them to a other side."

they Air Ministry, the other at the police It is hard to understand how any~ up to the time of my escape. It state in which they were unfitted to tune in eagerly-though sccrelly, be-Berlin the night before: one at the

cause of the heavy penalties one with even an elementury ac happened at half-past three one withstand the slightest shock. quaintance with history can bring

would suffer If caught in the act-Turn to Page 5, Fifth Column.

himself to believe in the existence

By Abner Dean of a "pure" race, a community inta

The wall of the sirens woke me which there has been no infusion

I tumbled out of bed of "foreign" elements. Even among in my flat.

the collar, highly clannish people like the and hurried down to Scottish Highlanders it was by no

which had been turned into an air- means uncommon for strangers, raid shelter.

Most owing allegiance to a neighbouring chief, to be included within the arrived before me, in their night THE authorities membership of another clan. Such a clothes. And most of them were in structions that no more air change of allegiance would, either such a state of fright that, before raid warnings were to be sound- from choice or from compulsion, In- long, was less afraid of bombs volve a change of name. Under the then of

of panie. Drehen laws in Ireland there was Two big

morning in the first week of the

war,

of my neighbours

had

rovision for the adoption of new ed 'mad, who usually look-

case

was

Next day friends told me of similar behaviour in the shelters where they had sought refuge. The whole of Berlin, apparently, had given way to Its fears. I really believe that if a real raid had followed hard upon that first scare, lots would have broken out among the population.

gave in-

ed unless bombs began to drop. This rule, I understand, is still in force, even in the coastal districts regularly patrolled by British planes. Ont To soothe the nerves of the people,

in Nazi uniforms, families into the clan, and even for were trembling uncontrollably. The the analgamation of class. There women were nearly all crying. are legends of similar fusions in the hugged her child and prayed in frag- the Nazis announced that the air raid I warning had been caused by a Bri and of the early Greeks Romans. Everyone knows what hap mentary, hysterical sentences.

spectacle that will remain with fish plane that had lost its way and pened, during the incursions of the me throughout my life. When the "neeldentally" crossed into Germany. barbarians when the provinces of the all-clear sirens sounded three-quar- Brilleh ralds were for the purpose tried to Roman Empire were overrun. ters of an

hour later,

I went back of dropping leaflets. 1

Berlin they Franks and Burgundians entered to my flat convinced that these people secure coples, but in

tvere unprocurable. Henvy fines Gaul. Visigoths founded a kingdom were all pitiable cowards. in Spain. Vandals established them- But, lying sleeplessly in bed later, threatened everybody found in pos selves in Northern

Africa, Italy I realised that this was not, truc. session of a leaflet. Indictment be- was overrun Ostrogoths und The fact was that they were all fore the People's Court and. certain imprisonment, if not the death sen Lombardy, Saxons, Jules, Frisians,

tence, awaited, these guilty of pass. und Angles made homes for them

leuftets from hand to hand.

by

on

but

that

The effect of these threats, of courec, was to heighten curiosity. A clandestina trade sprang up li

dangerous commodity. heard of people paying large sums for one copy.

reives in Britain and were absorbed Mr. Huxley's view of nationality, into the Romano-British population as depending en cultural, not bloto-ing already there. In the tenth and gical characteristics, appears to coin- eleventh centuries, Danes and Norcide with the doctrine expounded mans, descended upon the island, pretty fully by David Hume, the As recently as the seventeenth cen- Scottish philosopher, two hundred Hume held that physical tury the refugee Hugenots move years ago. from France in such numbers that causes have no discernible operation

the human mind,

When more leaflets were dropped, they formed 5 per cent of the popu ntional character is due to mornl the price dropped-but the demand lation of London. In short, I is 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 five marks, pure uomixed race, descended from leaders, the situation of the nation. some hypothetical ancestral clan. If with regard to its neighbours, the the Gemana are an exception to way in which the people conduct the rule, by what miracle did they their affairs, social and domestic, and escape the fate that has overtaken the Influence of the customary laws

and religion of the country. every other people on, the globet

HAVE heard many people say after reading a leaflet, "I wonder if this is true? What do you think?!

FUNNY SIDE UP

"He'd be easier to namo if YOU had any rich relatives1'!

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