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July 31. At Sea: Shrill cries of happy.

September 7, 1940.

THE

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JOURNEY AUSTRALIA

Zoo, to tea in private houses, a motor. trip showing the beauties of the en- virons. Nothing could have marked more strikingly the unity of our Empire than the cager, trank and sincere comradeship which the popu- Jation of Sydney has showna 18.

children, the exhortations of their elders, the splash and surge of waters' as they plunge and cavort within the cool,

She seems interested in us. Shop- green limits of the swimming days of pence, except for the absence

The turn of the childless completes wharfmen chat and question in u keepers, waltresses taxi-driven, pool; an almost cloudless sky of males-and the black-out!

the operations. Once Inside the temporary medical above them; a deep blue; speck-

sanctum the pleasant, open-minded, democratic nanner, Prices are high generally, lesa, placid sen five,decka below. Tiny blue lights on dock; public ritual is speedily and methodically particular for elgarettes. Many rooms well lighted and heavily cur accomplished. A quick glance frot have sworn (not for the first time, And on "A" deck quoits are being tained. All port, holes are blocked at a keen eye, and the verification of however,) to forego the lures of nico- recommended as conducive to the night which mercifully allows normal vaccination scars any scar of forty reduction of our centres of anatomy; lighting of the cabins and corridors. or less years' standing secma to All tine, and wish them luck! Shoes, ping-pong or deck-tennis for the 'more aglie, tabic football

the bill and the inspectee is free to oysters and chocolates are cheap, nnd for the Fans and the system of pipe vea depart dingerwards.

our future diet may be unbealthly Adolescents.

tilation which admits cooled, fresh

cloying and unvorted. A whart In the music-room Luba Shofiain oir allows a comfortable night when Occasionally a lady, usually a worker chalting costly with me 'this has an appreciative audience envy acclimatised, though some stili do brunette, is asked to turn her eyes morning Indicated across the shining

EVACUEE'S

In

DIARY

fug both her manual dexterity and report a certain "andy-eyed" feeling skywards, rather n mystifying pro- Inlet a pleasant-looking Utilo setite- artistic ability, and in the quietude of a morning.

of a cream-enamelled and chromium dited cabin one typewriter, at least, taps.

to

erdure to those not 50 Invoured. ment, reminiscent to me of a email Hungry would-be dinners and wait- Devonshire hamlet, Reddish little Islanda Arc Innumerable,

our ing stewards are openly relloved at houses, not two' alike, with Inter- knowledge of geography lamentable, the termination of the proceedings spersing greenery, climbed the hUI- and most of our Information comes and the former troop solally down side, "Look at that congestion!" he Many are single-bedded cabins, from a freckled little bull-necked, to the delayed but still most accept exclaimed "no place to bring up ather-two-berthed. and three for red-headed, intelligent and eloquent oble fare.

kids! Could he only have Been those with children, but all alike in urchin. The ship's officers know

Hongkong and our apologies for comfort and spotless cleanliness. A nothing, or so they say.

don't

The doctor departs and we take homes! fine ship is the M.S. "Query"", beauti- know where we are, and we don't aboard two further officials who will fully furnished, decorated and know where we're going and we've henceforward travel with

and The MS. "Query" has taken on fitted.

never been here before!" is probably provide us with information, and that unfamiliar aspect common as good a way as any of damping addresses of available accommoda- ships in port and seems no longer the A bird's eye, X-ray view of the down the enthusiasm of the irrespon- tion in the ports to which we are homely vessel we have come to know vessel might suggest is luxury cruise sible-even though taken with more proceeding. They bring with them and like so well during our fortnight rather than an evacuer ship, and than a grain of salt.

for the fortunate few enbles phoned aboard her. With only some 128 only the absence of men singles us

from Sydney to Cairn thought passengers aboard for Melbourne the mut as anything out of the ardhary uneventful, with none of the habitual Lights on decki

The crossing of the line has been fal and much appreciated action. decks seem deserted in comparison And after our din- with their former teeming population. Many mothers openly admit the larifies of Father Neptune & Co. ner stroll is bereft of the usual col- But plenty of din ia still contributed relief afforded by the wise regulation who have, no doubt. more welchty alons and exclamatione.

by the younger element, The Dutch trska on hand. The ship's bund of ullotting certain portions of the ts)

long ago capitulated to British youth decks for adults only

Little Princess first birthday, and and relinquished the unequal fight The young played upon deck for the first time; nters have their own special dining- Popular songs in which the younger favours in her honour have been on of attempting

keep it in its proper element Joined with spirit; but the sale and found a rendy market. The place. room. play-room, deck space and

We trust there may be at chief distinction has been drop in ship's shop has a display of surpris- least some of the ship remaining to Kames Even so, the ship's offers the temperature and the appearance ingly beautiful silverware of ex- resume her voyage, i have difficulty stresaing the neces sity of the provision, and passengers of whales and woolles, though nut quisite workmanship and anything argue the point when informed that much of the former could be seen, second-rate or shoddy acces and

beyond the spouts.

thema to the Dutch-on this ship at

A six-year-old dining saloon

nebgible for the

Dawn. And dawn August 1: here is 7.30 Amer

Irust

But, on the whole, our fears heve flown. We had dreaded the effects

clocks having been Aux. 6 Brisbane: of ship-board confinement upon advanced two hours on account crowd of virile youngsters who have

for weeks run wild in the spacious

surroundings of Fort McKinley

of black-out. But a shadowy landing at the river.

passenger or two is on deck and

a few members of the crew.

The majority of Sunday afternoon

the

1 ssengers having tone to the Zoo (ur at all events, ashore) I A tender takes and a cosy spot on the now quiet, worm and sunny deck; a magazine. off the fifty or tra. Whole Beets of small craft- so passengers Motor-boats, yachts, dinghies and olher row-bonts-nose curiously around and inspect our hulk and A cold

morning. A further bulk. A strange fact [A that the medical Inspection. Our vessel, necuparits are all male, not a feminine It was, too, a relief to discover

having lightened considerably, to he Bren. What does Sydney that the presence cf table-buen,

In all the golden pitches slightly and there have been womanhood do of a Sunday after- multitudinous cutlery, and fluger

glory of the even- sume cases of sickness. The ship's noon? bowls did not disconcert us, and that

Ing sun the MS. hospital contains {wn passenger we quickly settled down to the usual "Query" glides along the mountain patients, one unfortunate having lain adjuncts of civilized Ufe which our ous const and almost imperceptibly there since Manila Bojourn at the Fort, however inter- smooths of immobility; anchors drop. esting as an interlude, could not, per Hills poignantly reminiscent of the |forte, afford us.

Kowloon Seven, one gifted lady even Identifying Amah Rock!

accom-

Aur. 5 Cartu

.Aux. 13:

Round about 8.30 am. the MS. "Incognito" is wighted rounding the A lovely city. bend. A great reception we give her, Aug. 10 Sydney: A bright, cold, and she us Ironical enouiries are windless, dry yelled as to where she has been, eager requests for the Intest news Rule aired morning of brilliant sun- from Hongkong. Towels Ay; from

On July 28th the exodus of all re- maining McKinleyites Wha

A broad-beamed but trim plished. An escort of military cutter edges her way across the shin- motor-cycles preceded the orderly water, full in the path of the shine; clean, clear, bracing air; portholds, pandemonium reigns. evenly spaced column of twenty

cut doctor, a rippling bay. Ferries Getting beur. Port covered army trucks, ench accom- idle blerk Eng and chambers along. Under the famous Bridge, modating eight or ten passengers, aboard, his

action scanned with screams from the timorous with hond luggage. The uniform avidly from above by row upon row lest we may not clear! speed of some afteen miles an hour of interested Inees lining the rails of may seem rather funereal-If you do all five decks. not know Manila's ronds

every

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investigations,

stern, and the Sydney Poller Band The vessel słowie berths at our is rendy upon the wharf and greets her with strains of martial and patriotic music. The spirit of the The cleanliness la striking. even women is exerilent-all clase dieting- Dockland in apick and края.

Nu tions seen to be dronner and snob- Although it is for from the unholy

beggars, no dirt, no 1wo buildings heru received its roum de grace, OT hour of two or three am, which par alike, it would seem, and a lack of so we have. It would anner that A lovely, fresh and sunny medicus seem invariably to select for the gloring white so searing to the friend had been ported from friend morning. Once beyond

professional the their

сус. We are to remain for Warce for years to Jindime from the limits of the Fort--which gave even the time at 7.30 p.m. Is not the days to await the arrival of a fur- enthusiastic and excited greetings. most propitious, but an hour at which ther evacuce ship. when we Mel- At 12 noen we of the "Query" us a most cordial farewell—we the Internat economies, healthily rumble through the suburbs. stimulated by a day in the open, ureure-bound will transship for the transship to the newcomer, an

final lap.

dusk we depart with but a handful pleasantly anticipating the periodical

of wharf offeints to bid u Clod Atop shocks, timber-built shops, sustenance.

We are alongside the wharf and Soced, and in the chill of evening flowered bungalows halft the popula-

allowed ashore. Again a medical we are content to seek the shelter of tion seems to line the route tm

Inspection. This time an examino- the lounge. curious. benevolent Interest; the First the crew are given the tion of the wrist. The Reception other half gazes from its windows; works, after which women with Committee boarded us and proved

Aug. 15 At Sen and many a smiling, waving "good- bye" cheers and speeds us on our children are called. Tiny mites most kind and attentive in their ef- forts for our comfort and welfare. must be snatched from their Those alighting at Sydney were in through the "Rip." cots, bundled in blankets and formed that cars would be watting wome

Pitching and borne along the decks in a now to convey them to their destinations The "comite does not compare rolling. Plenty sickness. (already arranged).

with the "Query" for comfort and distinctly chilly wind.

Senator Foll delivered a charming sonce, nor has she the pleasant full- Sympathy la general with the little speech of welcome to Austra- macy of the latter vessel. The animate and Inanimate, is safe aboard sometimes indignant mothers. The lia. Never from start to finish have annroach to Melbmime is dismal;

toddling ones treat this (to them) we been allowed to feel ourselves flat, misty, bleak and sunless, nocturnal excursion as an immense strangers in a strange land. Friend- A living chain at Filipino porters and unlooked for lark, one le ly welcome has awaited us every-

But to cheer our drooping anirita a rwings luggage from truck to double pyjamed fellow of two and a half, whore, quite irrespective

Jannch

and masinhanes gongway. "Passengers to the left!

"Welcome to Victoria"! At 7 nm. all formalities have been neemnll-bed

way.

The procession is most efficiently organised; the column walts upon the wharf side, and Truck No. 2's passen- gers must not alight, nor their bag- gage be unloaded, untli No. 1's cargo,

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mother pass to the front.

And without hustle or worry ench lorry te depleted of its human freight. As each boards the vessel she passes before the ship's officer, who checks her name upon his records and at once allots Cabin No. An orderly, unhurried file we are, glad that the long suspense is ended.

The hour is 11.30 am, and at 12 at least two of our senses are agree- ably evoked. The googl Down wo expectantly troop to a finely proper- toned, beautifully decorated dining saloon to demolish at least a number of the seven courses served by Javanese stewards.

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At 1 p.m. a further contingent of passengers from Manila, pro- per arrives. and with enger animation friend greets friend and compares notes of Manila vergus Fort accommodation.

At 6 p.m. we pull out, having self- pityingly surmised that there would be none to speed our passing: that we should steal away unlamented and unsung. Another example of the fallacy of anticipation Quite large-sized handful of delayed sur- vivors of the expedition, American well-wishers and one or two British residents peered up to our heights, and if the necessarily bawled salutes were neither lacrimous nor lyricalj they were, none the less, as cheerful; and cheering as unexpected,

Save for a brief rainstorm our pro- gress has been an unbraken sequence | of calm and Jake-like seas, sunshine and soft breezes. Nothing marks us out, as guests of the Government. We enjoy all the amenities of first and second class passengers in the]

RUSSIA

MONGOLIA

SINKIANG

TIBET

INDIA

Lanchow

of ทล.

Nearing journey's end. Not a blea-

Ant

In Sydney we have been taken for and passengers may disembark. The trips to the Botanic Gardens, to the arrangements for final destinations

"MANCHUKUO,

SEA OF JAPAN

occupied by

Japan

JAPAN

PACIFIC OCEAN

Sian

CHINA

Hanchow. Wenchow

CHUNG KING

Foochow

Amour

FORMOSA

Nann

HONGKONG

BURN

Rangoon

INDIAN OCEAN

are less efficient and thorough than those at Sydney. Addresses changed at the last moment,

were

I am unable to give any authentic account of the disembarcation as I myself ignominiously performed this operation on a stretcher to hospital, which establishment, after 起 Jew exploratory prods, cast me into the outer darkness; unaccompanied and st[1 bemused by the morphla administered on the ship.

WHITESTONE

NORAH

Hainan PHILLIPINE

Manila

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