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Par Hoti, almost as bewildered na most politicians by the mudden stiut of world diplomary, has writ- ten to him non at school, anticipat-

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DEAR MICHAEL,

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Since France found they couldn't fight any more, this war has left the IntUefek!

agnin and, just now, is being fought by tight-lipped, school- masterish diplomats in book- lined studies. It's a

war of wangles again. But be that, whatever these longnosed gents fix up to-day, it's going to mean that plenty of people are going to get hurt to-morrow.

It's no good looking at maps musky They don't any more.

Benne.

I think the best way to tackle it is to go back to those uld

kid primers. this--

Like

WH

STANDS for the Nazi

Octopus. Bitler's machine is an octopus with eight tentacles (that's why it's called an octopus-okto, eight; pour, a foot Greek). Seven of those feet are planted on Aus- tria, Czecho-Slovakia, Poland, Holland, Norway, Belgium and France. He daren't let go. He has only one foot left. Guess where he's going to try to put it. Right, my son. And guess why he's hesitat-

ONE of the young waiters of

the Cafe de la Paix told me on the day I left Parls that he had learned to count up to twenty in German.

It is a good thing he has, for most of his customers are German nrmy men wearing grey-gries. force men with lighter grey, and In the navy men in dark blue.

Cafe de la Paix it is now "En Bler," and not "Un demi," und "Noch ein Bier," instead of "En- core un demi,"

Germani

ans crowd the cafe ter- races, monopolise restaurants like Maxim's, Fouquet's, Larue and Prunier, and take most of the room on the pavements,

They run Paris. They have al- most every truck and car, and most motor-cycles and bicycles. They have most of the money- not real German marks, but paper notes issued on the Reichskredit- kasse, which have no value even in Germany but only in occupied territories.

Germans all the shops to buy presents to send home, which they could not afford to buy at home, even if the goods were available there. They like it in Paris.

Thoso Nazi troops love to parade down the Champs Elysees, around the Arc de Triomphe every day. soon after noon. The French tuke this with astonishing dignity, as also do the 600 British citizens who were trapped in the city for lack of transportation when the French Government fled south..

D

I sold the Germans run Paris. They do so In thousand ways. They control the Press from their headquarters in the Paris-Sair building, where are written or up- proved daily edúorials and articles

modern, which are rewriting

Ing. Because he's only got one foot loft

B

STANDS for the Bride He'd Kroom. Urk Sam. make an ideal match for any girl in the world And he's going to the altar, don't you worry about that.

softe

Merry

But before he gets round fo

he's got Mendelssohn bachelor debts to pay debts than ready cash, in fact

He's got to ser

that The Philippines, for which he 124

1946, Br responsible until O.K. That means the Japan. use, of course. And Mexico. where the Nuzis and the Com munists have goi together to scare the fellows in charger. And South America, purficit- larty Brazil, where the Nazis could lart something 10- morrow for five pfennig.

It wouldn't do if any of those gents turned up to the wedding clutching a bill in hand. And, besides, there's The best

rian to bu picked. There's an old friend, Roosen veli, and a new friend, Wendell Willkie.

It isn't exactly going to be a shot-gun wedding, but a fella likes to get things fixed first. if you get me.

We

T STANDS for the Chinese Torluise. You won't re- member the days when Chang Kai-shek was world war lord No. 1. For three years haven't been hearing touch of him, but all of a sudden he's become the most important man in the world again.

All this ELEC be's playing the mid tortoise and hare game with the Japanese invaders. He's refrented thousand miles, just like the Russians did before Napoleants

B

#1

128 years ago, and he's sitting pat in Chungking.

The Japanese generals are tired of their war. But the Japanese admirals are rarin' to go.

What they'd like to do would be to leave the Chinese Tortoise fucked in his shell and sail the seats to the south for easier pickings. Look at the 121 p.

STANDS for the Ruin Garbo. She wants to be alone. Every time she makes another little grali in the West it's like putting another line of bricks along the top of her wall so that nobody enn perk over. One brick was Finland. another was Latvia, Estonia, Lithuanin. Another is Rumania's eastern province Bessarabia, and Bukovina to the north,

Don't be surprised if Garbo picks up a few more bricks. A fair share of the Dardanelles. wouldn't hurt Turkey. and I don't suppose it would warry UM. But there come a time when the Rassinn Garbo doesn't want to be alone any

She won't want to h ulone to fight Hitler.

the

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You could go on with alphabet up to twenty-six. easy, but think that's enough for to-day. Except, of course, for one more letter

L

British

STANDS for the

Lion. He's woundest and he's lying up in the long grass. waiting for his enemy to come in after him. All you can see is the tip of his tail freking lazily to am! Fra. He's angry, And you know that a lion never so dangerous as when he's wounded and lying up, waiting for his enemy,

Hope your oxuma go well.

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The

51st.

ASK any schoolboy whose On their enst side the Camerons history lessons have renched the ran into an enemy who was also Nu quarter was given by Four Years' War, 1914-18, what attacking.

rither side--suys an officini document. division of the British Army was The casualties were appallingly always in the thick of the fight- heavy. Ing. He will tell you it was the

On the opposite side the Seaforths Glorious Dist-the Highland went on under furious machine-gun

Division.

and mortar fire, and completed their The Geriaus called them "the task the empture of a wood. So did whn cleared out the Ladies from Hell" because of their the Gordons,

smash

M They were in the battle of Grund Bols at Cambron, on the left the of the French, whose infantrymen 100x They helped to Hundenbi Line in 1915. Their fought with great bravery most memorable action WHA their berak through at Villecourt in May miles in the next two

1817

The visto had to

retreat teri days acroNS

the River Bresie. The dividon, sunde up of famous regiments The Black Watch,

The Argylls,

to hold un Trying Uze Gordon Highlander,

Seaforths elghl-mile front with "rilles ugnimut and Argylls, and the Camerons, with tommy-guns, suffered terribly

gitcera und now

til y mator.sed and tank units. llvided The remnants of one company of

are in the news Argylls were into three belgattes

the surrounded by enemy for two days. Somehow one doruments were can only cuess at their desperate

fought Office to add a gallantry they

their

why

Recently offeint Issued by the Wes bess clampter of matchless courage through the German lines to rojedn bat tage disaster to their history.

11 in the story uf lacuན་ They

wete

deraunted

the retreat of

the BF in the present war.

their baltacinza

Division

On June 7 the Freach line broken ugain and

wan

the road loft open

to Rouen, where

It is a fearful account all the British supplies were.

back.

The

of confused orders from the French Scottish line, still intart had to fail Command, lack of adequate weapons, Outside the steepled village church jaken French support But it is at Arques, British naval and army also the record of soldiers who against officers shouted to each other above all the odds, hopelessly outnumbered, ie nuise of the dive-bombs and the

guns: "Which way shall it be?** mental The end ise pride of

Dieppe, St. Valery-en-Caux, Scotland

Havre?

Je

tanks

THEY took over

French the

from the River Bresle

1

were

was the afternoon of June

B. For ten days the Scots their way to the sun, They reduced German bridge- na bullied

Now they were almost in sight of has ength of the Somme, but the the English Channel, those that were

NO billy left. dalpaget att they were left without But their line slayed intact. They were within reach of tho Sca at lust. They could go with honour. Then the Highlanders were given The officers outside the church hae of eighteen miles to hold from made up their minds-avre, where E: ondelles

the Navy would evacuate the High- The French

Land Division and the French who IX. Corps, o furce of severni that remained with them. sand men, had from.sed to straighten Grim-lipped Scot cherred. Ʌ out the enemy line in front of them brigade group, which means some before handing over They attacked hundreds of men--they called it the

front of Abbeville. They Arl Force-set off to cover the main failed both times.

withdrawal.

twice

to the

But the motorized Germans were.

On June 4 the French attacked advancing from Rouen faster than

again in the centre, with the Scola

march towards the

on their Banks--without tanks. The our men could French tanks were annihilated, their port

One hope remained-St. Valery.

following infantrymen were mown down by mochine-quo fire.

PARIS IS LEARNING A

WORD-VERBOTEN'

by-

WALTER KERR

New York Herald-Tribune Reporter, who has been expelled by the Germans from France.

French history, making it conform with the Nazi viewpoint.

Let there be no mistake about the power of this contral.

THE same kind of control is felt

In other ways. Thousands of stores, shops, cafes and restaurarits closed in the days before the Ger man army marched in.. Then the Germans ruled that none 'should reopen without their permission. Some tried it and were promptly

closed.

This, despite the fact that the Germans in the Press and on the radio, keep saying how necessary it is for men to go back to work. They have forced many places to reopen through threats of con- fiscation and granted permission to others to stop, but it looks like being a long time before great factories like Renault and Citroen will be in full operation again. The Germans are more interested in sending the people back to the land.

Thousands of Frenchmen are out of work or earning less money than ever before. Thousands are living on credit at their grocery shops. Few can pay their renta

This situation could be cleared up in a short time if the occupying All army cared to work on it. Parisians need is transportation to bring food from farms to the markets, permission to go to their homes in the provinces and the means of getting there, and work.

But the army is much more in- terested in military affairs, and German civilian officials are more Interested in harnessing French economic life to their own needs rather than to the needs of the French people..

DERHAPS inevitable among all

'this is the spread of the Ger- 'man language. The menus in many restaurants are printed both in French and German, although

taere is such little cholce that not many words are used.

Franco-German dictionarles are sold in stores and at street corners. German signs are posted, such as the one before the Hotel Crillon, saying "Parken auf diesen Platz verboten"Parking in this square forbidden." That one word is

sinking In-"verbotten."

A room now costs from ten tranes a day in a small Left Bonk hotel to twenty francs dally in o luxury hotel such as the Ritz. At the German-imposed rate of twenty francs to the mark, this means that Germen ofleers pay less than two shillings a day at the Ritz, Crillon, Meurice, George the Fifth, and many others. Frenchmen,

of course, pay the

usual fee.

The German army has taken over great buildings such as the Chomber of Députies, Qual d'Orsay, Ecole Militaire, Invalides, where Napoleon and Foch are burled. Many private flats are oc led. The swastika flies every cupied. where. The French tricolour is forbidden.

On the streets are the grey cars of the army and air force, thou- sands of them, recently repainted after the seizure of the Nether Janda, Belgium and France. Soldiers drive them at high speed French police, still an duty, watch them pass helplessly.

A staff ofcer fought his way alone. in a cur through the German hell- fire to tell the Ark Force that the 192nd and 153rd Brigades had made for St. Valery. The rest were to go! on to Havre. The Ark Force must hold out.

It did through four days of con- stant bombing and cruelly sustained gunfire till the last coldler had been taken off by the Navy. The survivors of the Ark Force escaped too.

The two lost 152nd and 183rd Brigades in the darkness dragged their swollen fect towards St. Valery. A fan-shaped line had been thrown around the little town to keep the chemy off. The Gordona and the Black Watch, unbroken, fought in a desperate ring, a few hundred men against thousands. But the bridge- head broke.

The French units in their sector gave way. The Germans took the town, surrounded the Highlanders, and covered every embarkation point with their guns.

At 8 am, on June 12 the French capitulated.

Still the Highlanders would not give in. They took up new positions to try to recapture the town or find boats to take them off when darkness camu. again. Had they only known it, the naval ships were waiting at Voules les Roses, only four miles away, and taking off other British troops.

· At length their last shot was fired. Their rifles were useless.

men,

CICOTLAND'S

shield was broken, as Scott wrote of another fatal battle, and nearly 5,000

with

Afty-seven-year-old Major-General V. M. Fortune, a D.S.O. of the last war, at their hend and two brigadiers fell into the enemy's hands.

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