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1 FRANCE DEMOBILIZES ARMY.

2. PETAIN, RULER OF FRANCE, FACES SERIOUS PRO- BLEM OF RECONSTRUCTION AND THE FOOD CRISIS.

CHURCHILL TOURS DEFENSES,

3

4 ITALIAN PRISONERS OF WAR AT ALEXANDRIA.

5. CANADIAN RE-INFORCEMENTS LAND IN ENGLAND.

6 PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT WITH SEC. OF NAVY KNOX

TOURS WATERTOWN ARSENAL.

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September 4, 1940.

PARIS UNDER THE NAZI

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blame for French misfortunes "Dospite the carefully con- on the British, who, they say, trolled moderation of German: left Franca to her fate.

troops in the Paris area, Parisi- "All classes of French deoply ans are not allowed to forget. resent the British action against the power of Germany, the Fleet. Your Government "German bombers and other

#

must explain much more fully to warplanes constantly fly over make the French understand. the city and practise dive-bomb-.! eventful when I left, with a few other prominent landmarks,.

Walter B. Kerr, junr., American journal- ist, who represented. the “New York Herald- Tribune" in Paris until recently, has given DAVID SCOTT, a Special Correspondent in Lisbon, the following exclusive eye-witness ac- count of present conditions in Paris.

E said: "The morning after German occupation, which inter- cafes, etc., shortly before cur- Hthe occupation of the city

fered little with them.

"About 600 British civilians home.

affair.

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"Life in Paris was quite un- ing at the Arc de Triomphe and

outward restrictions which the while German troops, watched. French accept philosophically. by curious sightscors, drill and "A general curfew order was practise infantry tacties dailyTM imposed, first for 9 p.m., then at the Ecole Militaire and other 10, and then 11.

Paris parado grounds.. "French

the police enter

German discipline is rigid on few, warning people to get parade, and the troops are kept the Germans commandecred all

hard at work in drill and mano- the big hotels for use as officers*

"The underground train and euvres.

"The soldiers look very force headquarters, etc., but allowed in Paris, loft entirely free till the bus services are much re- the few guests, mostly Ameri- now, can be heard talking Eng- duced and there are few cars on in their war kit bristling with

the streets.

hand-grenades, automatics and cane, to remain.

lish in restaurants and are seen

"Early in the occupation, the daggers, but are very pleasant, going about freely, but they are Germans opened a mild propa- friendly and anxious to please in "By this time French people, unpopular with the French, es ganda campaign by posters, their contacts with civilians. finding the Germans harmless, pecially since the French Fleet simultaneously introducing the "Relations between officers. were resuming their normal life

death penalty for tearing or de- and men off parade also show a among the invaders, but the

facing these.

comradely spirit. streets remained pretty empty,

"But posters fixed during the "Officers are well-behaved in as three-quarters of the popula-

day were always defaced and public, and no swashbuckling or torn next morning.

bullying le allowed, at least in tion had gone.

"The favourite poster shows a Paris, handsome Nazi soldier sharing his food with French children. Paris, I found great activity, all "Daily at lunch time, a Ger- obviously in preparation for an man infantry company marches attack on Britain. down the Champs Elysees and "Troop movements by rail and goose-steps past the German road are going on in all diree- headquarters in the Hotel Cril- tions, but especially north of the

Laire.

"I also saw several traínloads ☆ ☆

of French negro troops going "French people in cafes or on east without arms, probably des- the side walks look the other tined for labour in Germany. way when troops pass.

"The morale of the German "No one tries to make them troops is naturally very high salute the troops or otherwise since they feel on top of the Interferes. Only the Paris police world' and expect quick victory are required to salute the Ger- over the British.

"A Nazi newsreel cameraman man officers.

"None the less, American cor- I met in Paris told me he was. respondents brought from Ber-scheduled as the twentieth man in to see the Paris occupation to land in England. were forbidden to talk with

"The Germans are doing all they can lo win the confidence "French people were more of the French, praising the worried by private concerns like heroic fight of the French Army food supply and the whereabouts against the 'invincible German of relatives, etc., than by the forces,' and putting all the

Necessity Knocks

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Hongkong Telegraph.

Wednesday, Sept. 4, 1940. Wyndham S., Hongkong

Telephone: 20016

Repeatedly

countries. These questions will find no satisfactory answers in power politica.

lon.

"In the occupied zone outside

gruesome

in

Ing uncut news reels of the Dunkirk stories.

battle, the capture of Rouen, etc., in "The food situation is neute in French cinemas, and are not con- and details Paris, owing to lack of trans- sang the tragle consequences of bombings portation from the countryside. France.

"Consequently, the central "Shots taken by cameras fixed in market is almost empty. Food the noses of dive-bombers attacking and these shows, but the net effect on

the French

publle is likely to be unfavourable for Germany,

"The French authorities have now been ordered to maintain French.

French admit, number more than a

"No French people south of the

Far from destroying the poraibilities for union among nations, the war scoms rather to be destroying the alternatives.

The experience of Britain and Even if the peoples were looking

France shows that alliances are forward to nothing more than an

not so well adapled to defence end of armed strife and a return

as to offence. They prosper, as ito old ways, such a return might

Adolf Hitler once pointed out, well be impossible. For the con-

while there is something to be ditions which underlay those in a new system of world order. got out of them. To secure a practices

are being shattered

Meanwhiic, the problems the world order in peace and justice French civilans before sending "The Germans are already, show- apparently beyond repair.

United States is facing as a joint such as Britain and America As notable

a

article

by guarantor of the integrity of desire a more genuine unity than “Argus” in The Christian Science The Western Hemisphere may alliances is needed. Monitor recently poluted out, speedily educate Americans to Britain's offer of union to one of the main supports of pre- the advisability of sharing these France came as experience was war British policy has disappear problems as widely as possible. driving home this lesson. The

with the French Third Americans are beginning to costly significance of that experi Republic. The tendency of the recognize the important role the ence should not be lost sight or available consists mainly of can. British ships are the high spots of

ned goods, frozen meat leaders of France is to British Navy has played in in countries less hard pressed. stored provisions, adjust their economic and poll- defending the Monroe Doctrine. While an international federa- tical life with that of the Con- Currently. British offers to col- tion in any complete sense may strong Right Wing tendency war prisoners in France, who, the

"Paris newspapers with a tinent. Even in seeking coun- inborate with the Americas in not prove feasible while one of terweights to Hitlerian Germany, solving the problem

alone appear now, of

raw the potential members remaine incline these leaders

toward material surpluses indicates

"The principal daily Is Le million. at war, yet for all who value other totalitarian States, speci- corresponding recognition by individual liberty and national tion of Stephane Lausanne, is boundary into the occupied area ex- Matin, which, under the dire Loire are now allowed to cross the fically Italy and Spain.

Britain of its stake in the out- independent the question of

now violently anti-British.

cept railwaymen required to repair The unlikelihood of Britain's come of the diplomatic struggle preserving these will remain

and operate the railway system, and finding an

totalitari- after the war. European partner between

However heavy

certain key men in factories and ad- "It has called on Reynaud to ministrative services. across the Channel, even after a aniam and American libertari- the responsibilities of collective

"Currency exchange has been British victory, is causing con- unism in the New World. security may have once seemed commit suicide as the man re- servative and imperial-minded There is nothing academie to peaceable peoples, the respon- Aponsible for the French disas- fixed at 20 franes for one paper mark In the occupied area, but the French Britons, us well as

are reluctant to change their money, these who about the thinking that is pro- sibilities which confront them ter.

"Gustave Herves' paper. 'La knowing the paper mark valueless have always favoured collective ducing a new basis for co- to-day are still more arduous security, to look in new direc- operation among peoples still and risky. In their efforts to Victoire appeared a few days except by the grace of the German tions. Britain must look to free. Just as conditions are fulfill these they

ago with a strong anti-democra- Army authorities, are being Lic bias, but was then killed ward the members of the British outmoding old political concep- brought together in a way that by the German authorities for and department stores do a big trade,. "All the same, the French bazaars. Commonwealth and toward the lions in Britain, they are forcing could hardly have been foreseen defending the British against a with German soldiers buying fancy United States for collaboration new questions upon

other a few months ago.

effective

BRITISH

CHILDREN IN AMERICA

By Robert Waithman

even

NEWS stories from London small houses. But the

willingness and ability to care for the children is & matter of official record.

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charge of trenchery.

goods, scarves, slik Houses, hand- "A new paper, La Vie Nakerchiefs, and so forth to send home

to their womenfolk. tionale,' and other pro-Fascist

"Going south, I mot several_es- organs have started an anti- emped British prisoners, disguised as Jewish campaign.

peasants or workmen tramping to- "Germans generally have not wards the unoccupied area, hoping to get out through Marseilles or some interfered with shops or private other port, commerce, but I saw pictures

"They slept out and Uved from from a gallery belonging to Seg- hand to mouth, not daring to speak. mann, the big Jewish art dealer, to anyone for a week at a time for

fear of detection. being removed

German by

"They had no money and were troops.

terribly dirty and footsore,"

when they New York them

arc quite There is the organisation of big more you houses where some of the children know the people who live in them will go when they arrive and from have described queues of the easier it is to understand that which they will be taken by their British parents applying at the the differences Dre Jess than the hosis. There are arrangements, to be made for meeting the ships and Passport Office for permits to similarities. send their children abroad. American families in these plea- providing cars and buses from the FUNNY SIDE UP

There are .hore, too,

queues of parents sant,

you

think

ጳሱ

many

white houses are thinking, Piers.

English

do Why feeling and behaving as familles

In are

their

brick-built American mothers and fathers are They are applying for permission homes, worrying

the

their same opening

homes over

to Allled to receive British or French' children problems,

the

think children, why do you expressing

the into their homes for the duration opinions, and cherishing the same Gallup poll showed at least five million families were willing to cure for young war-guests from Britain und France?

hopes.

same

of the war.

The people who are standing in the queues on this side of the At-

Now these American parents are Jantle are mostly Americans from wanting to take British children There is more than one expluna- what are called "upper income into their homes. From places tion Dorothy Thompson, the most groups." That is, they are, if not around New York the United States widely read woman columnist in wealthy, at least not poor.

Committee for the Care of Europe's America, recently called for a ges Three-quarters of the applicants in children, which is the newly or ture by the American Government New York are women and most, of ganised body outside whose door the and the people that would beat the the women are mothers.

queues have been forming in the "drama and grandeur" of this oc- on which America offers They are wives of lawyers, Wall last week, has received ten thou casion

sanctuary to the children of her Street brokers,

oficials, sand applications.. compuny advertising

sister Democracy, men, wellers, doctors,...

But I do not think the women Iessors. If we have to attach an Well-to-do because, for a start the who are standing in the quelles in architects, clergymen, university pro They are all from the reasonably English label to them it might be applicants who are willing to assun the

In New York are corridor complete financial responsibility for thinking of drama or grandeur. the war guests. Later there will be think most of them are there Nine out of ten of their houses time to consider thousands of other because there has suddenly occurred are white and built of wood. They apt

a chance to offer personal and in- oppilentions from less. affluent dividual aid as distinct from the have porches at one side and behind parents who will need financial help, impersonal and collective aid their there are garages and more trees, but the logical way to tackle the Government can give. probably a lawn and perhaps a situation is to begin with those who tennis court.

"thousand a year and upwards."

aro

Committee is dealing only with

are best equipped-to do the job.

it is in their

By Abner Dean.

DELAUNDRY

/EUREKA HAND LAUNDRY

Inside the

I thinks they feel deeply enough: principal differences the hardwood floors, At the head of the new commit- to, want to give the glinting white kitchens, the tee, which is co-ordinating, all man- power to give what it cellors with elaborate central heat- ner of voluntary efforts, Is President What makes me think so is this,

dentag Ing apparatus and the two or three Roosevelt's wife. There is a great During all conversations I have had bathrooms.fun mora

deal to be done. There is the ad- about this plan I have encountered There is usually more room in the ministration of the Ave-millon- only one doubt about it. The doubt

appeal houses and they stand farther apart dollar

which is boing is whether British parents might London, ar West Didsbury, Man- which grants can be made to these this, doubt shows a humility which than houses stand in Golders Green, lotinched to provide a fond from resent the American offers, think ANER chester, or Jeanand Dent, New- American parents who will need could come only from a man or woman who understands how British castle,

them hundreds of atidavits fathers and mothers may be feeling. There are almost no garden gates There are or fences and there is in a general to be drawn up, ained and mailed It Is with Christiani nility that sense a greater spaciousness about to Britain so that evidence of the this gesture is being made,

Last week they pulled off more buttons than they could.

so they're giving some of them back!'!%

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