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O.K., BOBI'LL MEET YOU

IN THE PARK AT TWO...... FIRST BENCH NEAR THE

ENTRANCE?

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

September 16, 1940.

Bed By Ernie Bushmiller

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"The Colosseum dungeons where Christians were once herded before being thrown to the lions are now serving as possible refuges for present-day Romans against the British lion with wings."

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That is part of an account of site of the 1924 exhibition is now war-time life in Rome given by being equipped as a huge shelter, the correspondent of the Portua 10 miles long and 80ft, deep. guese newspaper "Diario Noticias,"

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The chief problem for Rome autho rities, he says, is the protection of ancient monuments against bombing Millions

sandbags are being used whenever statues and other monu- ments connot be removed to safety.

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FOR SUSPECT BRITONS

BRITISH SUBJECTS whose activities are considered to be detrimental to the nation's war effort may be subjected to restrictions similar to those applying to enemy aliens.

Apart from this Rome life is quiet Office. and fairly normal. Streets are un-

Restrictions will vary accord usually full of pedestrians unet cyclists. Few care are running excepting to the activities of the mus. official and military vehicles allpected persons and in what man- camouflaged black and white zebrener the authorities consider it palterna.

advisable to restrain Nunicrous first-aid posts are hid-

their under the trees in all pubise efforts.

to den turnat under construction connect the centre of Rome with the parks and gardens.

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or

cases

"This is the effect of a new Order, known as Regulation 18a, which has been introduced by the Home may order a person to remain indoors most cases members of Fascist

after certain hours, prohibli him from | ather banned or suspect organisa- visiting specified areas and order tlons. The curfew order is not cu- him to give up any sporting guns.tomatically imposed ori such persons. other Meanwhile, some of the 12,000 to glasses, binoculars, maps

18,000 "C" Clasa enemy aliens who [articles.

Non-Interament Cases are Interned will have their The restrictions have been intro-considered and referred to the Ad- duced to cover

cases where Intern-visory Committee with a view to re-

Есаве. ment is not justified.

British subjects concerned are tu

A few Class "C" men, It is under- stood are among the 7.000 male civi Han internees already sent overseas. | Consultation with the Dominion Gov- ernment concerned may lead to the release of some of these.

In some cases the Home Secretary

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Humiliation Of France

5,000,000 Depend

On Nazi Aid Information concerning the state of affairs in France is slowly reaching the United States. The

correspon- dent of the evening paper P.M., who has just completed a 2,000-mile tour of the occupied territory, telis a terrible story.

France be says faces probable

famine this winter and possible re- volution when the German Army of occupation departs.

"Some 5,000,000 Frenchmen," he writes, have been reduced to final huiniliation, being fed, clothed and sheltered by the conquerors. The Germans do it with hearty efficiency. The French receive it-they must live-but as one girl said. 'Yes, they are kind, but is dimeult to be grate- Jul

"Thousands of the French Army stand behind barbed wire and slure with bloodshot eyes to the country wherein once were free men Thousands of French civilians stand motionless beside the road and do not seem to see their

conquerors, who swing through the ruined cities singing lustily. The rolling felds of Northern France are golden with grain that never will be harvested because there is no one to harvest

it.

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Writing from Strasbourg, the New York Times correspondent, Percival Knauth, declares that it is a foregone conclusion that Alsace-Lorraine will not be returned to France. "Every- where in these provinces," he states,

are evidences of the

process Germonisation which is to their

incorporation in the complete"

An allotment scheme "to combat the high

cost of living" and provide food has been started in unoccupied France. It is a collective scheme. Workers are provided with seeds, they work a number of hours in the factories and # number in the gardens.

Swiss people arriving at Zurich from unoccupied France report a terrifle rise in food prices.. Butter is) 60 per cent, dearer than before the German subjection of France, and ceni. ment, sugar and flour 60 per dearer. There is growing unrest at this inflation.

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