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The history of the

CHANNEL ISLANDS

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Monday, August 26, 1940. Wyndham St. Hongkong Telephone: 2001A

THE preax "Special to the Telegraph medy the "tengkong Telegraph

indiesta Dewa which la sülesly copyright

Thousands of Channel Islanders have been brought across to the mainland, many of them herded like cattle in cargo bonts, potato boats, and coal boats, and bringing with them no more of their possessions than they could carry in a suitcase.

Everything else-homes, nesses and setting up the ancient cry:

Haro A l'aide, mon farms, businesses, and the re- "Haro Herot

mainder of this year's crops of prince. On me fail tort"

(Harol Hara! Har Help me, my prince. tomatoes and potatoes has i am being wronged"), followed by a fallen into the hands of the recital of the Lord's Prayer. enemy. The majority of these Far from being an obsolete and unfortunate people are destitute menningless rigmarole, this privilege and dependent upon us for the has twice been exerclard In recent necessities of life.

months by Islanders who Imagined they had a grievance requiring im Moreover, they are Britons, mediate redress, our own people, who have sent thousands of volunteers to jOIR in verger le equivalent

measured out In зерделене

in about the fighting forces and con- 4-8ths of an acres, is Atl⠀ divided tributed relatively large sums into nets under the control of seig- of money to further the Allied neues, who pay rent to the King, or

Duke on the monarch 15 cause.

generally enlled in the islands

It is true that French bloon

Land

These payments, however, 碎机

flows in their veins, that they sometimes purely nominal, as with

speak a queer Anglo-Norman the rigneur who is required to pre.

under the provisions of the Telecomrusak | tongue unintelligible beyond sent us royal master with a pair of bears the indication “Um in reeriva in their own shores, and that Jer- golden spus whenever

Putions Ordinance, 1934, Buch nowe ze

Henghong on the date of publication by i the Untied Press Associations, who re- serve all rights and forbid republication, rither wholly or in part without pretium arrangement

Britain and France

The point was raised in Satur- day's report of the speech of the Foreign Minister of the Govert ment of Vichy as to what the

attitude of Britain to the new

nole of

he

Szpapers

sey, Guernsey, and Sark cach to land on island soll, and with an- has a Parliament of its own, during such a visit.

other sa

must act

But these are largely survivals

These obligations from a long and stirring history,

were faithfully carried out when the late King and the Channel Islander of to George V visited the Jalands in 1921. day is no much a countryman of The three-mile long Island of Sark, the British Isles as the Welsh- "the hyphen between Jersey atki

more man or the Scot, and quite as Guernsey," is even

separate: proud of it.

and traditional then the mister isles. In that peaceful sanctuary, out off from the world by ramparts of cliffs und swirling sens, six bundred, At the same time, while the souls still regulate their lives pecord-

Ancient Rights

people acknowledge an unswerv- ing to be feudal system. ing loyalty to the Crown they

Motor-cars are forbidden and, ac-

There'll always be an England.

SECRET EYES

OF BRITAIN

War

America

VAST subterranean war of Venetion Ambassador, Sagredor-- nerve and brain is sweep wily old diplomat-reports home in "No government on ing through

exasperation: the world.

or earth discloses its own nets less, and ganiard espionage on a scale knows those of others mate precisely, unknown in the annals of man, than that of England." as Cupbearer

The day of the humble spy in And the system brought results. The Purlton agent in Jamalen re- gone. In his place are ranged er trained and picked specialists- the Spanish plate fleet-a tempting ported the impending departure et

saboteurs prepared to blow up morsel. Admiral Blake, the BAITA who swept Von Tromp an arms factory or poison civili- gentleman

the Channel. an water supply: propagandist and his broom from

was notifed, experts, who can fake voices,

For alx months the English bull- pictures and news: agents-pro- dogs were on the trail. At last they vocateurs, whose main job in pounced, off Teneriffe, and a year's double crossing: intelligence labour In the Spanish gold and silver

mines of South

enriched agents, who must be highly England's coffers. skilled

technicians, Inguists,

The eighteenth century saw the military scientists, so that they foundations of the British Empire can swiftly grasp the signi- firmly laid. The famous Seven ficance of anything, from a com- years

swept the tenacious French out of India and Auneri- plicated plan to a movement of

ca. 'The troops; combatant co-operators, trative

Elder Pitt, whose adminis- genius led us to

victory, who assist attacks by working boasted: "Not a gun shall be fred Inside the enemy's territory; throughout the world but Britain and a miscellaneous crowd of shell know the reason why."

Hundreds of secret eyes made this extras, from cryptogram experts no empty beast. No fewer than 27 to fifth-column agitators.

volumes, headed "Intercepted Des- The Czechs, the Austrians, patches" lle to-day in the British the Poles, the Danes-were all Record Office for the years 1750-

before

the viper 1763. hypnotised thir-struck.

AT the outbreak of that world- wide war, the French drew up a What, may we ask, was our secret plan regarding their all-im- own Secret Service doing? . portant naval strategy. Full par- The Secret Service is a secret siculars of this roun reached Lon

don, via Sweden! Exactly how is service. But if the lesson of

not completely cerlain. the British Intelligence Service Jt sulcient to slate that the is any pointer of the present, French were angling for a Swedish

alliance. The

The Swedish representa- you need have no qualms about ve in

Paris was

aran called Bunge. Bunge sent the Information to Stuckholm.

When

Sark received the Island from Queen

France is to be. The bitterness in M. Paul Baudoin's remarks found their root in the refusal of Britain to raise the have always been fiercely an cording to laws which have remained Įblockade against France, thereby tagonistic to any attempt to unchanged since the first Seigneur of

from interfere with preventing foodstuffs

the privileges Elizabeth, nobody but the ruler may defeated country. vouchsafed them by royal chat- keep a pigeon or a reaching

female dog. The Minister found time also toters in bygone days. attack Mr Churchill's speech on the French war elfort and to cast part of the blame for that failure on tandequate support afforded

by Britain,

man occupation, receives one

Taxes are still paid in kind, and They insist on governing Mrs. Sybil Bathaway, the present themselves in their own way in- Dame de Sercq, who has decided in dependently of the statutes of ity with her people during the Ger- Westminster, Issue their own teenth of the crops of every Island

and exercise

their car right to levy Customs duties at SO low д rate that tobacco, wines, spirits, and perfumes are

currency

One of the saddest sequels to This war to the death, as both sides are agreed that it must be, is the re-alignment of a former on sale in the shops at prices ally on the side of the enemy-

Four "Peoples"

But the spite of the ractal and his- torical bonds which unite the people that incline visitors to the be keen rivalry between the stands, relationship existing between. Lancashire zurul

Whe

not voluntarily it is true, but lef that they have unwittingly Fourwbat akin to with suficient submission 16

stumbled on a modern Utoplu. Yorkshire, is evident in their dealings make the net abject rathan than Victor Hugo, writing in the will och other. compelled. As the Premier has middle of the last century front A Samion, 43 Guenney-born pointed out this is no time for Hauteville House, perched high person, rarely loses an opportunity recrimination but rather for re- above the quaint hillside town of orging the superior merits of his construction and, leaving the of St. Peter Port and command. ve island over those of Jemey. home of the Caesarians, or of Alder- fate of the former French leaders ing a superb view of the Eng- ney, whose inhabitants to their successors, it behoves lish Channel, described the jucally as Riduntans. Britain to maintain that stern islands as "bits broken off from

con-

are known

tlie

by far the most beautiful-is suin.. cent, and what goes on in the great

world outside, they think, is none of their business at all.

the matter.

of a

himself

rid of the

LET us go back to the days

Napoleon made of Queen Elizabeth, not less master of Europe he shut the Con..

tinental ports to British trade and clever and unscrupulous than by this lund blockade hoped to ruin her famous father. Philip of "peridious Albion" and her race of Spain had exhausted his pa opteepers. Now, more than ever, Brits agents had to break the tience. Elizabeth and her wily

blockade with

Gold information. advisers, Burleigh and Walsing was distributed lavishly, and ably ham, had trieked him time and backed by brain and courage. again. It was high time that any messages reached London. Pirate Drake and his buccaneer- any were intercepted by Napo-

leon's

excellent espionage system. ing confederates swung from one message, found in the wallet their own yard-arms.

suspect, ran thus: "Warh the So Philip sent his agents to linen nm sending you before you

it, in order report on England's man power, use,

to get naval strength and coast de stickiness." Search brought to light a report transcribed in chemical ink fences, while his shipwrights on the hem of a petticoat. A hun- dred years later, during the Great began work on his Armada

But not secretly. Two years War, a woman spy tried the same before the Armada sailed, Wal- trick. It was then held to be dri- singham, chief of the English ginal and unique.

THE Great War proved the British Secret Service, knew all about Intelligence Service second to none it. A certain Richard Gibbes, in the world. Information, carefully pretending to be a Scotsman and garnered before the outbreak of hos- tilities, enabled our Navy to strike therefore a sworn foc of all immediately. things English, did a useful tour

We knew exactly how the Ger- of the Spanish parts. Metho- man submarines and destroyers were 150 distributed. We knew, and nipped warships and "heard talk of 300 in the bud, the German scheme for gallies."

Furthermore, he willingly allowed Many other things we knew. Live Dons himself to be pumped" by Inquisi- much so that the German naval at- No, he knew very teha once netually asserted. almost little about the "good harbours and publicly, that for sound intelligence rivers on the West Coast of Scot- work one British man was worth ten Innd, but was quite sure that the Germans. Yet the Germans were River Thames was a very ill river, spending six times as much money Tull

of sands within and without on capionage as we were before the And our unknown sight of land, and not possible to Great War.

often brain-sloggers were

cold- bring in a navy."

Time moves on 50 years, and Die shouldered especially when medals tator Cromwell rules England with and rewards were to be had. the Bible and the sword-plus the The Treaty of Versailles 1010, let an orgy of finest espionage system

upon the world In Europe, loose Chlef of Cromwell's secret service espionage such as the world had. was John Thurloe-inscrutable, ruth- never known. During 1933-34 some Jess, fanatical Puritan.

six hundred sples were captured in Europe alone, and many were shot the first time spies had been shot AGENTS were in every foreign'

in peace-time, for 150 years. court, and £70,000 was spent an-

And for all the novelists may nually on their up-keep. Jews, and write, a British agent has never Puritan divines alike were employed been caught during peace-time in

S. M. Day

quered lands, must arid do rentian legal career in any of the Channel and by the echo of Gennan jackboots dically he counted some

11.

Conversely, the people of these and unrelenting aspect towards ¦ France," and even to-day the islands tend to look down their noses concessions,

country however humani- j influence of that

is at their neighbours, and only The older, Surquese remain outside the arena tarian they may appear, that strongly marked.

Are fur. of friendly dispute. For them Sark will give auccour to the foe. In granite-built houses releasing supplies to Germany's nished in the Continental style conquered territory, Britain is with outside shutters at their merely supporting the illegiti windows. mate offspring of an unnatural The judicial system, too, has its

To-day the people of the four union so that the parent may go

origin in the days when the archipe islands are united in the face of an ahead and reproduce at leisure lago formed part of the ancient adversity that has swept down upon und unhindered.

Duchy of Normandy, and a course at them. Their exquisite, sleepy elvili- the University of Caen, In Normundy sation has been brought crumbling

un about their ears by sudden machine, The French people, as well as has always been regarded

integral part of the training for a gun fire, the crush of falling bombs, the inhabitants of other

trainping their deserted streets. that issue but and it is purely

Centuries of virtual isolation from

Never in all its history has "this routine that their Ministers the main currents of European his noble little people of the sea" been plead for concessions that they tory have led to the survival of in- called upon to face so overwhelming know must contribute eventually numerable customs of feudal origin.„ catastrophe, but it has answered to their own undoing. No one

The most remarkable of these is the arrogance of brute, force with courage and an unswerving con- will quarrel with that desire on probably the Ciumeur de Haro, a fidence that a day of restitution lics their part to obtain the best unwritten lay which gives to every ahead. terms possible from friend and stand-born person the right to sun- inary justice by going down on his foe alike but sentimentality, one knees in the presence of two wit of the most vulnerable spots in the armour of Britain, must be congealed over with the blood of object. We must concentrate all those Allies who have already our resources for the benefit of filed with a desperate desire to de

those contributing actively to stroy the barbarian hammering at died for a great cause.

that cause rather than engage in the gates. Ruthlessness must be met by maudlin exchanges with the ruthlessness; Britain must risk dubious representatives of supine the anger of her former Allies Powers beneath the heel of w to achieve her single-minded Hitlerism.

Many thousands of Island folk, defying the certainty of poverty and the oppression of a ruthless enemy, have refused to leave their homes. Those who have reached our shores

children and men of military age

are for the most part women and

Let us welcome them within the fortress, these unfortunate ones who

once a thousand years ago fought with Duke William at Seniac but are our- brothers in arms in the war of Ito-day.

Absolute

éfficiency,kocrecy obedience. were demanded.

and

'trade routes.

So

Germany, No other country bas a

At least once a week, they had to record comparable with thik communicate with London. The

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