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Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

August 28, 1940.

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THEY'RE NOT

AFRAID OF BOMBS

JOHN PUDNEY

visits a North-Eastern Coastal town whore bombs have fallon, describes the courage and moralo of people in the little streets; talls the story of Mrs, K. and her family, who live on in their damaged home because there is work to bo dono.

THE

THE street is amashed, empty a monument to courage which sockets for windows and triumphs over all desolation. doors, rullid walls wispy with flapping woodwork, and a pathe tie confusion of goods moulder. ing in the weather.

"Apart from the pub," says the policeman, "you'll still find one family-No. 167."

And does Mrs. K., Jenning over

room.

six children romp in the small Then it happened. There was an awful noise. Everything went dark. The ceilings came down, but something Downstairs is derelict, the two have made baby come toddling must

upstairs rooms, which were hera, are smashed open to the wind.

The family a "making do" in

on the stairhead just before the celling of the room he was in fell,

Before the bombs smashed it, the banisters as I knock, look two other small rooms till they head and I know he was all

It was desolate, inhabited by working-class people, but I re member how their courage live blossomed in it.

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Now, uninhabited, its ruin is

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"As I ran up I could feel his cowed, disheartened

can find somewhere to go-and right. I couldn't see him, but I traught?

still Mrs. K. smiles and anya: could feel bis head..." morale is a broad grin, an in- "After all, we must make the vitation upstairs and the hair best of everything in war-time, cream in what's left of the We traffic in penales for ice- raising story of her air-raid survival recounted in a conver- sational vofer, while most of her

England

mustn't we?"

house.

With six children, the young of

We laugh and I think the sediment of est two and a half ("And I stricken citizena with long poc- pante-

wouldn't be without one of kets and loud voices in comfort- them"), and husband busy able rooms far from here asking long hours ns labourer on each other, "What can we do to Government Jobs, it has not been be safe?"

easy for Mrs. K. to pursue her Nobody has left this town. hunt for a new house she can near the Nort-East coast: no-

nions of it cannot be everywhere at afford.

Pribly, with a large enough. shallow-draught of

centration

Has it occurred

Fred boats. favourable weather. evacuate with the children?

sane means of screening the vessels,

body la quitting: there is work: to her to there is neighbourlines: there is I still fun. I meet some of the and a fent to create a diversion else ask her

men enjoying a Sunday drink in where, a small burt

well-equipped

"What, and leave my husband the pub with the boarded-up German force might be landed and my eldest sun working? windows.

English shores. It might conceivably

many of them are

be supplemented by a similar army Oh, no! When a man's work- discussing the new homes to of parachute troops, perhaps conveying he must be looked after, which they have taken their

ed by gilders which, released from!

03 battle

families in the town.

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waters may be capable of interpretation as the opening phase of the Malach heralded "Battle for England." What further fury in 1.

only t surmised, but the striking suverss of lie Rayal Air Force, the British Navy.

British anti-aircraft

Fall of her ancillary objectives, though their lowing planes at a great heigh You know what it is batterica against These particular

I on objective of great Imperiance at an early stage of their journey,

Nothing will shake Mrs. K. in attacks

fosters high hopes for the closing of the Straits of Dover to would have a better chance of baßl- a triumphant outcome. if

ing Balish wund-detectors,

her resolution or make her Many

"But you can take it from can be hammered no British shipping.

Relatively small Not only have British ar aghters

forces of this budge from this North-Eastern me," anya successfully in the air, where she in

the nature might be intended rather as war zone while her man has "you won't find a blue-spencil the ship's rigger, admittedly strong, it is a reasonable proved their, supremacy over

have re- "suicide squads" than assumption

numerically German raiders, but they

warfare

man that thinks twice about moderate forces,

she bratedly carried the if any, that

into troops, their function being to dis-work to do. would be able to land on British German territory, and have done organise British defences by destroy-

Nothing, I sny, remembering stopping for blue-pencil air- suil could be dealt with as effectually, material damage to Germany's pre- ing roads, railways, and communica-

for in- tions in a brief life of mischief be what she has just been through, ralda. Mind you, wo all take various kinds, parations, of Ometal British computations of als vading England Every petrol dump fore meeting their inevitable doom.

cover if we hear stuff coming ✩ ablaze.

larger losses on both sides during the more sel

down, but we shall soon be used motor-boat bombed would take advantage of the con-

"Yes, all six of them were to any blue-pencil thing he fusion to land at various points to has suffered for more severely than to scrap-metni, spells a weakening Britain These figures, K must

the forces which have long been pre- give battle in the British home ar with me in the shelter; and

The mics,

manages to get through to us." borne in mind, are no rough-and- pared for the great invasion

can only when wo thought it was all All this, hatever estimates

be conjectural, based ready

on initial "Battle for England" wil

The ship's rigger, I hear, is which clear' I let them come back in a one-idea man. England, actu

form of the clams which might easily be honestly fought wholly in or over

actual might be

Several times. Prioneous, but the result of careful An important part of it has been and

premeditated, It in

is com-doors. I carried baby up and in the course of our rather em- checking by appropriate methods, 11 will continue to be fought over Ger- forting to realise that Britons are

A

thoroughly alive the ingenuity of left him in the front room phatic conversation he is too soon, of course, in any that Ger- many, bably the German High Com- their enemy, and that they will lack (that's the one that had the back to the suggestion: "These been mand has built its hopes upon the nothing in courage or resource in de- rain in) and then I went back blue-peneil sirens now, Why on to the stairs to make sure all can't they play "The Campbells the others

were coming DP-are Coming,' instead of the row they do make

recent Achling show that Germany very high ? Rhine barge sunk, Then, presumably,

to

atlock

forces

be the

inany has been defeated in the air, but she has without doubl

no invader worsted in the serial nghiting so far fact-which hardly permits of denial fending the rail which Moreover, she has failed so far in une that the British Navy, or even divi- has desecrated for centuries.

MOYALE

MOYALE, little British frontier post on the Konya-Abyssinia border, is Front Page news. In this article, Violet Cressy-Marcks, English wo- man explorer, describes the post, its residents and its strategic importance. MOYALE

FUNNY SIDE UP

By Abner Dean

comes

I think this hard on the Campbells, but I hear through- out my journey not one kind word for sirens. Now that they unhappily seem to become a part of people's lives, people want them to be accurate and to sound pleasant.

FUSES WERE FORGOTTEN

-Man Killed

London, July 11.

It was revealed at a Poplar In- quest that a man was killed by the explosion of fuses which had been. forgolten.

Six years ago 14 packages were delivered to a Stepney warehouse for storage. When a Director of the firm and Walter Saunders, 53, ware- houseman, of Bovill-road, Lewisham, were unpackng the boxes they found in one what looked like small hand grenades. There was, an explosion, which killed Saunders.

is a frontier post on them. European women on the Kenya and Ethio- were forbidden in Moyale. The pian Frontier. The actual line British authorities in Kenya of demarcation runs between gave no permission to travel in

this part to men or women. two hills.

On the Northern one Officially, the postmen carne is Ethiopian Moyale (now north from Kenya and south Italian); on the Southern is from Ethiopia once a week, The British Moyale. In between the Ethiopian postman ran for four two is "No-man's Land.” A days, and then handed over to a fortress crowns the southern relay, who ran for four days peak.

more, and so on. He carried a The fort stands in the centre water-bottle and a bag, which of a compound, maintained with was marked in Amharic, 'the all the cleanliness and efficiency official Ethiopian language, and of British Colonial Administra- in English: "Addis Ababa to tion. It is surrounded by Moyale." He was dressed in thatched buildings, trees and Ethiopian garments, but had a dwellings. Round them all runs military cap. the circle of fortifications that

The key to Moyale's im- defend this frontier post.

portance is the wells near by. Just before the Italian stole These are heavily wired, and are Ethiopia from its rightful outside the fortifications. They owners, I stayed at British have been used for centuries by Moyale on my way from North- all travellers, and there had been ern Ethiopia to Nairobi. It was no trouble until the Italians a tiny settlement led by three came. A few small things could Europeans, a Consul who divided be bought in the village, but wells or streams are few and harder. The further northward next four years. his time between Moyale itself were expensive, as native cara- far between, and, if unguarded, you go, the ground is harder to and Mega, a few miles away, a vans passing through this post may be poisoned. doctor and a (very able) repre- were rare. sentative of the Kenya Frontier Police.

"Lofty's wife is having him shadowed!".

FAN

cover, and there is the same This is the cardinal difficulty scarcity of water. in both travel and fighting in The Italians are bad fighters, this area, but lorries can be used slovenly and undisciplined, and Wagler, the nearest post to to get to Moyale from the south the best Ethiopians are all Moyale (recently heavily bomb- without difficulty, and much working against them, hoping My Ethiopian soldiers and ed by Italian machines); had in ground has been cleared to make to regain their country. servants commented on the ita, garrison a few officers and possible the use of aircraft, If withdrawal is necessary at cleanliness and tidiness of this men. Any relief force would Difficult as the British task the moment, Moyale can easily post; it made a great impression have to carry its own water, as may be, that of the Italians is be regained in a short while.

WHISKY SAFE: FOR FOUR YEARS Scotland has passed the word along that it has enough' whisky in store to supply the world for the

This news, relayed to the United Slates Department of Commerce, said that stocks were so largo that, despite higher production and ship- play costs, the export price of whisky had not been incressed.

The report also stated that Scot- land was amaming whisky, partient- larly for the American market, be dollars that can be used to purchas cause males in Amerlen provide the

aeroplanes and other war material.