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BELGIUM by-the-Thames

BY DUDLEY BARKER

IN one room of this London

suburban house at Rich- mond a man, stripped to the waist, is busily hanging cheer- ful, if rather yellow, wallpaperzi on the walls.

On the patch of grass out sade another man is repairing abiycle. Continental style. that has already experienced

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baby yirl staggers about between them. chirping Jappily, colliding now and then with their legs Through the open door woman calls. "Manger!**

The Belgian refugees, whom we have almost forgotten, are gradually settling down.

Settling Down

About 250 of them cano Lo Richmond, including some who in were originally hilleted other places which later be

Their came protected areas. experiences have been fairly typical of what happned to all the refugees, so let me tell you how they are getting m at Richmond.

The organisers decided. wisely against any billeting on private families Instead they took over nearly 20 empty. unfurnished houses in the dis- trict, and each became a small Belgian colony.

They appealed to the Rich- mond people for furniture, and Chery they got stocks of it. appealed for clothes for the refugees, and they got

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that they opened EL many clothing depot at which they could all be filled out.

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schoul 121 Antwerp dame sau another. wonut still tormented by lack of nows of her husband since she fled from Belgaum

thly one thing. I should say, in nerded now to maar these Belgians Content The men want to work.

"We dance beer to the Labour Exchanges, we Fave registered," maid one of them to me "We know that the English unemployed must first have jobs, but after that, if

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ibut could work. there.

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tudles

One English housewife, for le- stance, saw a party of eight small children arrive. wisty. Delgian frightened and extremely grubby

She at ance left what she was her into doing, took all eight house, and bathed them, two at a

spid, get rusty She sent them back, still- time. tired, not quite so scared, and shiningly clean.

Leupold treacherously When capitulated to Germany, some of the people in Richmond, but not many, without much charity or good sense, turned on the refugees as though it were their fault, and some stupid, unkind things were .sald.

Actually, the refugees themselves resented Leopold's action almost One more than the English did. woman became hysterical when it was spoken of. The men shook their heads sndly, and at first refused to belleve it.

Then good

and

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Some of them rather shyly offer little food now and then, for the refugees who arrived here destitute have only 118 for an adult and 38. Cd. for a child a week to find all their, food, their fuel, lighting,

and so on.

He picked up a book on astro- mony 1 Was un offer in the Belgian State Murine. He was n lecturer, too, and he must not, he It only he could get the two volumes of Nicholl's Concise Guide to Naxigation.

"Ah, then," he said, "I should be happy."

The housewife quietly slipped i notebook from her handbag. und made a note of the title.

"We'll have to see if we can get hold of the books somewhere," she risurmured.

September 5, 1940.

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PHOOIE SIX GIVEN AWAY THIS WEEK

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"The senior class at Yalo voted him 'most likely to succeed' so who was I to stop him when he tried to kiss me?”

WE DON'T MIND THE JOKES

by an L. D. V.

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“IF the night a little misty joked a friend of mine, an Army officer return- ed from Dunkirk to m gun in England, "the first big battle on English soil will be- probably be fought out tween the British Army and the L.D.V."

When I passed that joke on to the ex-Servicemen in my Local village section of the Defence Volunteers. they chuckled,

"Then and said, God help the British Army."

Perhaps We shall not realise, unless an invasion of this

ia country attempted, just what strength we have added to ourselves by form- ing this part-time Army. I can speak, as I say, only for my village, but I believe the spirit to be the same where.

any.

We are only an ordinary lot. We cannot boast six generals in one section, all in splendour arrayed, like the Surrey village to which Ver- non Bartlett referred in the House of Commons the other day.

But we have found some

"Dangerous Woman" surprisingly useful talent in

Sent To Gaol

-Husband A Warden

unexpected places.

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Take barbed wire, for instance.

It was alleged at Croydon yester-I, who was a child during the last day that a bust of Sir Oswald Mos- war, and am now waiting to be ley, coples of Action, had cards called up in this one, am much showing former • membership of more scared of barbed wire than I Fascist Party, were found at the flat am of the enemy,

In Bishopsford-road, St. Heller, of

Edward N. D. Bell, aged forty-one, But you should see the way the solicitor's managing clerk, and his grocer's assistant tackled the Bluff wife, Ivy, aged thirty-one.

(and shyly produced, afterwards, a few grubby photographs of him. Mrs. Bell was sentenced to three celf, a young fellow of eighteen, months' hard labour for using insult with the other sergeants in the ing words and behaviour. "We con- crowd that occupied Cologne). ... sider you are a dongerous woman,”

You would have been impressed, said the presiding magistrate, Dr. L

I think, by the dexterity with A. C. Lankester.

which Mr. X, who lives rather grandly in a big house on the Green, and is now called up in the Reserve of Officers, handled a mal-. 1ot to drive In stakes.

Fairy Godmothers Do not think that the refugees grumblo, Almost all of them are showing true gratitude., And they almost worship a score of English housewives who have given up all I den.

The husband, who was fined £6 con- for assaulting a war reserve stable, sald ho was a City rald war-

or by the target score put up by Thu excavalryman gardener manure rifle practice in the dis- La ed arved pit over the Beltis.

To the LD.V..

anyway, this is truly a people's was, bringing back half-forgotten memorien of dim stories of other wars, rend in his- 18y

Unks

L. D. V. OF 1859

LOOK through the Family Album. Perhaps you may find a "photo" of grandfather or Uncle James with aide- whiskers, purk-pie hat and rifle, dated 1869. Funny old fellow !

on the

But grandfather or Uncle James was facing the same menace as you are to-day- The menace of invasion-use then it came from France.

Napoleon III, was throne of France; he had mar- ried the beautiful Spanish Countess Eugenie de Montijo, Eugenic was ambitious----- she hated the "ideology" of Hberalism. England was the home of liberalism. Changes in the foreign policy of France threatened Britain. Junior officers of the French Army boasted openly that France was ready to try an invasion of the British Isles. The second conquest of Britain was at hand. It was to be 1859 and All That!

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The tours and menaces caused nxiety in Great Britain.

Colonel Jonathan Peel proposed on May 12, 1850, the organisation of n National Volunteer Association for promoting the practice of rifle shooting.

Not.

Bas

June next year

Queen Victoria reviewing nearly 20,000 volunteers in Hyde Park. Meetings for of the National Association Rifle Shooting were held at Wim- bledran

meeting, in At the first July, 1800, the Queen fired the first The meetings continued to be held at Wimbedon until 1890. when the thirty-first meeting was heid

Thes Bisley Conumon, un number of enrolled volunteers was then over 220,000.

ctures were taken at the These pictures

1607 at ia eighth meeting held arms":

Wimbledon. A feature of this meet- ig was the visit of 2,000 Belgian Gardes Civiques and Volunteers, acclaimed by the British Volun teers and by the people alike. The French danger passed away.

Were there nut wars in which borsemen rode through the down. knocking on a door, casting a hand- ful of gravel at a sleeping window,

tying the news. To Warg in which hill-top beacons flated, and the villagers filed out stently to their places in the fields? We have our more prosale coun- terpart—a bicycle bell ringing in a front garden Just before dawn, few words to an open window, and then, in unes and twos, inen in Kluski carrying their rifles down the lanes where the cottages slumber, where

Tootstep crunches every pully on the gravel, and only the distant searchlights reaching to the clouds seem silently awoke.

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We

hadl have

teething troubles, like everybody else, and we have made our little mistakes.

There was that bellicose, fire-cat- ing Arst meeting in the Institute, while the young women gathered. curious and giggling, in the evening sunlight outside.

There was the excitement, while we stood to our posts through most of one night, of a shot exploding suddenly in

in the soundless air. Hurriedly we sent in our report to headquarters expectantly prepared for battle.

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The explanation came next morn- ing. It seems that one of the men enrolled in the next village was the local poacher (and a very use ful fellow, too).

There he was, standing with his gun, when up popped a rabbit. Instinct was too strong for him-- and well, there it was.

He was really very apologetic about it.

The LDV, I suppose, has be come the source of more fokes than anything else in this war-but lot that pass; we can do with a few jokes, anyway.

If and when the trouble starts, not all the laughs will be ou one side. Speaking only for my village, I don't think many Nazis are going to pass through it unscathed, pin

Not, at least, till we are all dead. You might say that our motto is "On no passe pas. The ex Service-men don't put it in quite those words, or quite so politely. but it means the same thing

Empress Eugenle herself had to seek refuge in Britain. The Volun- teer movement, however-and, by the

with friendship way, the Belgium-become a "British insti- tution."

Where Would You Find-

1. A ratel?

2. The capital of California? 3. The Schoodic Lakes.

4. The nation whose flag bears three white stars within a white crescent on a green field?

5. The schoolhouse of "Mary

had a little lamb" fame?

6. The Ambassador Bridge? 7. The Pillars of Hercules? 8. Calexico and Mexicali? 9. Gotland?

(Antwars)

1. A nocturnal carnivore, gray above, and' black below of southern and western Africa and India.

2. Sacramento.

3. A group of 12. takes in sou-

eastern Maine..

4. Egypt.

5. It was moved to South Sudbury,

Mass, by. Henry Ford.

4. A suspension bridge across the Detroit River, connecting De-

troit, Michigan and Canada. 7. The two opposite promontories situated at the oustern extremi ty of the Strait of Gibraltar. 8. Two small border towns, one

in California the other Mexico; their names are con- California and tractions of Cal Mexico. We be

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9. An island in the Balile Sea; a

province of Sweden.

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