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**In my bath ready, Hawkins?"
"Notquils,Sir. They'er just dustingit?”
"A grature of old world courtesy, no doubt, but was it really necessary?"
"Very necessary indeid, Sie, as it hap- pens to be a hip-bath which has lain come 'years in the sach-house, XXit Lordship rarely entertain."
"His Lordship's nations of hospital- ity are not of this century. He seemed to think he had a sacred duty to lay me low beneath the table. I marvel that I'm here to tell the tale."
"Yet in some wayt His Lordship is
well abreast of modern thought. This bottle of Ron's Lima Juica, Sir, in your room..."
"Placed there by His Lordship's own hand, Hawkins. And a very refresh- ing drink following upon a one-sided battle with his Lordship's decanters.”
"Yes, Sir, and Nose's has still further virtues. It ir justly renowned for anni. hilating the aftabaffects of alcohol, vulgarly known as mornings qßør.“
"So that's why I'm still alive and. kicking? Well, well, one lives and learns. Go and boil the kettle for my fault. don't want to miss my breakfast."
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Magnificent Response
workers
of
The
Britain Are responding magnificently to the call for a great drive to provide the arms and munitions needed to ensure u speedy victory over the evil forces which menace everything they told The representatives of over 5,000,000 Trade Unions, at the Conference in London, pledged their wholehearted
support of
the action taken to protect our people from the dangers inherent in the present prove situation by organising the whole resources of the country.
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in the
The Labour Ministers Government are getting on with their jobs In A manner which
Inspires enthusiasm and strengthens the the determination of the workers to put every ounce of effort into the task of "delivering the goods." As Miss -Ellen-Wilkinson-sold at a Labour; Party Conference last weekend, the defence of the country is now in the hunds of the people, and Labour leaders will not fall them,
every
used solely in the interests of the
Nazis in Holland-
by a Dutch journalist who has just arrived in this England.
W
HAT is going on in Holland?
The Dutch them- selves don't know very much more than what they see in their own districts..
True, their newspapers are still being published, but the only news they contain is supplied by Germany,
True, the radio stations are still broadcasting-even music by Eng- fish and non-Aryan · composers-- but the news bulletins are supplied by Germany,
The B.B.C. news broadensts in Dutch are eagerly awaited, but listening must be done in secret.
The German High Command swiftly plastered the country with huge potters ordering the popula→ tion to keep calm. The Germans are willing these postera declare co-operate with the Dutch local authorities provided that "no action is taken against the Reich. its leaders, or any of its soldiers."
Similar posters also announce orders to the people by the Dutch burgomasters in complete agree- nient with the German comman- der."
* *
For instance, Rotterdamn recently learned in this way that its burgo- master, "In complete agreement with the German commander," had ordered that from 7 p.m. to am, each day, trame over the Mans bridge would be suspended.
Everybody understood that this was to protect the Rotterdam acro- drome and oil tanks from sabot- age.
This use of the civil authorities to announce such measures shows that the German High Command, for its own sake, is trying to keep life in Holland as normal ns possible. No steps are yet being taken to suppress relligious ser- vices. The Jews feel nervous and stay at home, but there are so far no signs of active persecution,
Naturally, there is everywhere a feeling of uncertainty and unrest. Something must happen, but no- body knows how or when. There are whispers about sensational events in other places," but no- body is able check up on these rumours and the spreading of such
newa' La in extreme punishable by death.
*
cases
Trade and industry have come to a standstill, On May 10 the Der -man-High Command ordered all workers to resume their duties.
But many factories have been wrecked. The big textile plants in Eastern Holland aro intact, but lack of raw material prevented the workers from obeying the German order.
In the province of Brabant the textile factories are ruined. The big radio and electrical works in Eindhoven, which used to employ about 30,000 people, have closed down
Dock workers in Rotterdam and Amsterdam find nothing to do. The big ready-made "ladies' clothing industry of Amsterdam, which
for worked mainly export, IN standing idlo.
* * *
The German High Command has tried to get Fokker's aeroplane industry and the munitions fac- tory near Amsterdam going again, but both plants were seriously damaged by Dutch troops before the surrender and repairs will take tons of material and weeks of labour.
Through this widespread dis- organisation the Dutch are in ureat peril.
They have no work and no money. Their supplen of food and raw materials are taken uway from them.
The health of the nation is in danger, too. De- mobilisation of the Dutch Army has been post- poned in order
FUNNY SIDE UP
By Abner Dean
ABNER DIAN
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-and in Norway
to isolate outbreaks of typhold. In Rotterdam the whole population has had to be vaccinated against the disease. The German propa- ganda machine is now promising the Dutch a great war on unem- ployment. The important group of vegetable growers, which used to export huge quantities, has been told that Germany will buy the whole lot but at fixed prices..
Even then it is a boast. The Dutch railways are completely dis- organised. Nearly all wagons have been taken to Germany.
There are no vana available elther. In any case, oll and petrol are reserved for military purposes.
*
Finally, a word about the butch Nazis. They are very unhappy Just now. They feel that the en- tire population holds them respon- sible for all the lives that have been lost and for all the misery that has followed..
The worst enemy of the Dutch has been the Fifth Column in their' midst, The Dutch Nazis fool that the day of reckoning will surely come. They dread more than anything else the return of tree- dom to Holland,
And Holland will be free. It is only biding its time to rogain what it has lost.
Death Over Chungking
FROM "CHINA AT WAR"
BY BJARNE BRAATOY
N
ORWAY has been 琵 great disappointment to the Nazi invaders.
They had expected to be received with open arms.
had Their commanders
not counted on any losses.
Instead, and in spite of treachery within, they were met with resist- ance. They lost some of their most valuable ships.
The German naval attaché at Oslo was heard to reproach a Nor- weglan bitterly with the sinking of the cruiser Blucher at the entrance to Oslo harbour. ·
He had good reason to be con- cerned. Among the 1,500 men lasi on board were the advance Gestapo forces.
. For several days after the occu- pation of Oslo, therefore, the Nor- weglans were able to organise without fear of Nazi police control. The Nazis also lost
men, far more than they counted on. The full story of the resistance made all. along the coast has not yet been told. More is known of the guerilla warfare inland,
Above all, the Nazis lost in morale.Innumerable-young- soldiers believed that they would be welcomed as protectors by people who had shown them hos- pitality when they were child refugees during the last war.
Bome of them went visiting their foster parenta, Their dismay at being thrown out was such that soldiers were seen to collapse in tears outside houses which had
once been their homes.
The Germans set out to placate the Norwegians, They tried to play
The drastic and unprecedented powers contained in the new Emergency Powers Act ure being put into operation specdily and em- ciently. The workers have confidence that these powers will be THE motors of three squadron: Another attack followed, the Chinese of dark-green Chinese pur-ships zooming up from the initial; nation and to ensure that no vesteduits roared. At the take-off tulls and bellies of the enemy raiders. dive with their noses pointed at the interests will be uticwed to stand line, signal flags busily, efficient-The two attacks forced the enemy to the the way of the national effort.
ly waved them into line.
emply their death load on the river Mr. C. R. Altice and Mr. Ernest
One by one they took off and and its Lauks before their bombar- Bevin have emphasised the fact that at the end of the war, any customs circled over the aerodrome until ders could find anything definite an or conditions
set aside by the they got into formation 1,000 the cross huirs of their bomb
"Sissy Liu" made another attemet organised workers in order to speed meters above the ground. Soon to strike at the enemy leader. He Up production during the war will they disappeared in the hazy had its talle at the cross hairs at 500 meters. Then be restored. In giving that pledge, sky, patrolling Chungking at a meters. Then 300
150. Hi guns started
Д salvo. height of 5,000 meters.
Enemy bullets whizzed by all around "At this time everything for The young strong faces in the hum. His right foot felt hot. As he which we stand is in jeopardy-cockpits are
turned to the pulled away he saw it was bleeding. our political rights, our rights of horizon, looking for black dots ile kisked and found his foot stil! conscience, our industrial rights-
Mr. Attlee added:
all will
enerny.
were
#1
than
game of protection.
★ ★ *
They began looting-but only wholesale. That is to say, they left the retall shops alone.
The stores accumulated by the Norwegian authorities were taken dividual Norwegian was spared the
and sent to Germany. But the in-
rod, except in such matters as stricter rationing and the control of private bank balances.
Jour
As time went on and it be- came clear that Norway must be considered
enemy country, more severe ensures were intre- duced.
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The Norwegians were no longer allowed to move about freely in the occupied territories. They were threatened with reprisals.
Looting became more systematic and more detalled.
Above all, the economic life of the country was destroyed. Towns and farms have been bombed to bits or wiped out by fre.
Unemployment is tremendous. Inland and coastal communica- tions have not got going.
So far, Norway is a dead loss to the-Nazis. They have to go on fighting for the country.
★
The occupation, in fact, is cost- ing them as much trouble and ex- pense as the original invasion,
After all, the Norwegians stil have their own Government in existence within their own tron- liers, even if it has had to retreat to the far north.
The Norweglan broadcasts from London communicate the instruc- tions and information to
the Norwegian authorities from the non-occupied areas to the occu- pled parts, where everybody Ilstens.
The Nazis have, so far, been un«. ablo to prevent that.
The Norwegians, therefore, con- tinue to present a firm front, at* least in the spirit.
The first favourable circum- stanco will show that the front can be re-established in action.
Leg off To
Aid War
BECAUSE he wants to be able to do something for his country, old Tein Endersby-he is seventy-five-has had a leg amputated.
Tom, an old soldier of the last war, would have liked to volunteer for this one, but apart from being too old, he hurt his right leg recently, and
117
in
Détermined not to be idle in war time, he consented to have it am- putated, and is now well on thic way to recovery. Ho plans to farm return to the land as a worker. "The old leg weren't no use, so
I hangin' on to
ngo
go If we do not defeat the in the glare. Some of the boys able to control the rudders. He
his promise, he was again in his ship doctors said he would never walk- The rest of the enemy arinada was patrolling the Chungking skies when again. do not believe it in are veterans of the Shanghai- grinned. necessary to make a long app
appeal to
in. The three
Chinese the Chinese Air Force on the 10th whirlpool of fought the people of our country. I am Nanking aerial duel days, some elesh
another
of armada certain that everybody knows that, young hawks who have just squadrons were in while these powers are necessary, received their wings from the enemy ships, bullets, and bom-bon Japanese heavy Lombers which
shells. They rolled,
dived, went into
batches ralded Chungking. The the real force behind us to-day is aviation academy. But veterans spins, and climbed. They attacked was warm. At 5,000 meters the will and determination of aor young hawks, they and reattacked. For more
one and shove were some floating clouds. free people."
Chinese
circled Equadrons ready to test their strength with hour they were hot at the tails and The That is the resolute spirit which an air armada of 117 Japanese bellies of the enemy bombers. They around them, laying a trap for the didn't see the point
the said at St. Peter's Hospital, animates the millions of workers in heavy bombers which in four of the trading lines of Japanese death dealers the enemy Bertford. "I asked 'em to cut it off. moke behind, others losing altitude. the mines, fields and factories of batches on June 12 were to rain put the enemy ships refused to spin this approached from
Shortly after 1 p.m.
"I was in the Grenadier Guards In the south- Britain who are working day and fire, destruction, and death on and crach.
west. The formation was in good the last war, and if it wasn't for the night and giving up their week-ends
Seemid Lieutenant Chen Meng-kun order. The bombardiers were on old leg I would have volunteered for ran Chungking. In
I shall have to be content with thethis. a great effort to make up for Just time. They are facing the facts
Flowery" and "Sissy Llu" were was furious. He resorted to a more their stomachs aiming from
working on the land and doing my bll attack. With His bomb sights. The ginner's had of the Krave. and grin
situation lending, their squadrons combing the direct way
the triggers,
way now. which
a widower, lives on an old- confronts the nation, and clouds south of Chungking when the throttle
ship and rammed his
Down from a cloud hole dived two every set-back to the Allied cause i flest batch of 36 Japanese planes wasence open, he crushed at and their fingers tight on
when he is not working, mension "Flowery" waggled his plane against it. Its all-metal whar Chinese pursuits, their machine-guns only serves to nerve them to greater sighted. efforts.
wing tips and pointed the nose of his was smashed, and the enemy fell to trained on the Japanese squadron He is alone in the world, has no fixed
destruction. Chen, with the lender. The latter had to dodge address, The national emerney has proved ship southward. With the throttle its
"I've been in bed for twenty-three- nerd for the adeption
Chinese off, inanaged to
to glide down and make formation. And
Oghters of wide open, he led his "ght-horse-; Tower left wing of his biplane turni bit. That was enough to break the living relative für as bo knows no Socialist
weeks," he added, "but I shall soon principles. These prin- men" to the initial charge. eipts are being applied over an was a frontal attack, Flowery" a clumsy landing on his home field, whirled down to attack.
be out and about doing something the bullo Second Lieutenant Peng Chun for England." ever-increasing field of industry and half rolled, power dived, and pressed It was leisurely examining finance, and the Government hus the electric control with his little holes and the torn wing tip of his maneuvered his ship into position. complete powers to extend them to lingel. A burst of machine-gum plere with his mechanic when the He sighted the big tall of a Japanese every phrase of national activity, chots rained on the enemy squadron rest of his comrades landed, one by ship in his beam sight until the cross rain of enemy bullets got him. He
In this war there is no limit to the leader. His beamsight
Informed one, many with bullet holes in their hairs bore nothing but the tail.dropped, went into a full spin, crash- sacrifice that the workers
are him that the first burst sent some slips. The wing cominander grinned "Down you go!" His machine-gun ed. He exchanged his life for seven.
His death was quietly, revenged_by: prepared to make to defent Hitler steel bullets and explosive shells into when he informed his ghters that volley sent the enemy bomber to the
Orange his comrades. One by one, five nnd win Just ponce.
have
at the twin-engined seven enemy wrecks had been on the south bank of Chungking. They
Hulic the huge
flames left a troll in the hazy sky enemy ships were shot down. the assurance that their leaders in Japanese ship, but without apparent way back to their base. It was
And victory.
Chungkingites watched the At supper, the wing commander the Government will see to it that rosult. Instead, there came a rain!7-0
Meanwhile, "Slasy" boarded An downfall of a monster which had toasted a glass of water to the empty overy section of the community will of bullets from the Japanese guns
ambulance, heading for the hospital; come to rain fire and death on them.seat of Peng Chun, and solemnly. be called upon to share
whatever and bom-bans,
Dut Peng Chun did not see it for declared: "We have revenged your sacrifices are necessary for the Other Chinese, ships, now. came "Walt for me," he waved to his corn- effective prosecution of the war, and upon the Japanese, dived, opened radies, "mine is a blitz wound, and I long. While trying to point his nose sucrifice to-day with six enemy, ships. the attainment of our ideais. Ore, ond pulled away in good order, shall foin you tomorrow.". True to at the second Japanese bomber, May you, rest in peace!!!
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