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by

PAUL HOLT

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DEAR MICHAEL,

Since France found they couldn't fight any more. This war has left the battlefeld again 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

fix gents

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 maĮS They don't make

any more.

sense. I think the best way to tackle it is to go back

those old

kid primers.

thie-

STANDS

for Ther Hitler's

Octopus. machine is an

to

Like

Nazi

w*k}" octopus with

eight tentacles (that's why it's called an octopus-okto, elght; pois, a foot Greek). Seven of those feet are planted on Aus- tria. Czecho-Slovakia, Poland. Holland, Norway, Belgium and France. He daren't let He has only On foot Jeft. Guess where he's going to try

put it. Right, my And guess why he's hesitat

10

Ko.

MOHI.

ONE of the young waiters of

the Cafe de la Paix told

me on the day I left Paris 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 army men wearing grey-green, pir force men with lighter grey, and navy men in dork blue. In the Cafe de la Paix it is now "Ein Bier." and not "Un demi," and "Noch ein Bier." instead of "En- core un demi."

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

They run Paris. They have al- most every truck and car, und most motorcycles 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 fill 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.

Those Nazi troops love to parade down the Champs Elysees, around the Arc de Triomphe every day soon after noon. The French take this with astonishing dignity, as also do the G00 British citizens who were trapped in the city for lack af transportation when the French Government fled south.

I said the Germans run Farls. They do so in a thousand ways. They control the Press from their headquarters in the Paris-Soir building, where are written or ap- proved daily editorlats and articles which arc re-writing-modern

ing. Because he's only got one foot left.

B

STANDS for the Brid

groom, Unele Sam.

He'd make an idea! match for any And he's girl in the world going to the altar, don't you worry about that.

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

The Japanese generals are tired of their war. But the Japanese admirals are rarin' What they'd like to do to go. would he to leave the Chinese Tortoise tucked in his shell and sall the seas to the south for Look at the easier pickings map. More

some

IN

are

But before he gets round to Mendelssohn he's got bachelor debts to pay. debts than ready cash, in fret. He's got to see that the Philippines, for which he responsible until 1946. O.K. That means the Japan- ese, of course, And Mexico, where the Nazis and the Cory- munists have got together to scare the fellows in charge. Aund South America, partiça- larly Brazil, where the Nazis could start something morrow for five pfennių.

It wouldn't do if any of those gents turned up to the wedding clutching à bril hund. And, besides, there's the best ma to be picked. There's an old friend. Roose. velt, and a new friend, Weniell Willkie.

In-

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

Chinese

We

Tortoise. You won't re member the days when Chiang Rai-shek was world war lord No. 1. For three years haven't been hearing much of him, but all of a sudden he's become the most important

man in the world again, All this Lime he's

been playing the old tortoise and hare game with the Japanese invaders. Hr's retreated 11 thousand miles, just like the Russians did before Napoleon

STANDS for the Rain

She wants to be Garbo, alone. Every time she makes another little grab in the West It's like putting another line of bricks along the top of her wall so that nobody can prek DYPT. One brick was Finland. another was Latvia, Estonia Lithuania. Another IN Rumanin's enstern 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 worry

UN.

But there'll come a time when the Russian Garbu doesn't want to be alone any more. She won't want to be alone to fight Hitler.

L

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

the British STANDS for

Lion. He's wounded and he's lying up in the long grass. waiting for his enemy to runk in after him. All you can see Is the tip of his tail facking He's angry. lazily to and fro. And you know that a lion is never so dangerous as when he's wounded and lying up. waiting for his enemy.

Hope your exams go well.

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The

51st.

ASK any schoolboy whose On their east side the Camerans history lessons have reached the can into an enemy who was also No quarter was given by Four Years' War, 1914-18, what lacking.

either side-anys on official 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 Seaforthe Glorious bist the Highland went on under furious machine-gun Division.

and moriar fre, and completed their The Germans enlied them "the fank the "enpture of a wood So did Ladies from Hell" because of their the Gordons, who cleared out the kalts They were in the battle of Grand Bots at Cambron, an the left whose wfantrymen the of the French, smnsh They helped 10 Hindenburk Line In 1918. Their fought with great bravery. most memorable netion was their The division lund 10 retrent ten break through at Villecourt in May mules in the next two days neross

LAXI

1917

made up of famous Black Watch.

the River Bresle The division. regiments the

to hold an The Argylls, trying Gordon Highlander, the Seaforthe eight-mile front with rides against and Argylls, and the Camerons, with tommy guns, suffered terribly artillerymen. engineers und now motoreel and tank

dividevi

n! traits.

The remnants of one company into three brigades-ore in the news Argylis were surrounded

the

agin

memy for two days. Somehow - une at their desperate Recently official documents were can only guess issued by the War Office to add a gallantry--they fought ther way new chapter of matchless courage through the German lines tu rejoin but trage disaster to their history, their battalion

of

It s the story

they Dow

decanted

in the retreat of the EF the

Division

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On June 7 the French line was braken again and the road left open to itouen, where

all the British supplies were.

The

present weľ. it is a fearful account Scottish Bue, stili intact had to fall of confused orders from the French back.

Cornanwal, lack of adequate weapons, Outside the steepled village church broken 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 noise of the dive-bombs and the

guns: "Which way shall it be?" pride of

Dieppe. SI Valery-en- Caux, Havre?

certained al Scotland

The end the

THEY took

Larze

from the over French the River Bresle

I'

was the afternoon of June

9. For len days the Scots their way to the acu. Now they were ulmost in sight of hends south of the Somme, but the the English Channel, those that were

They reduced German bridge- hnd battled

were

unts amoured

badly left. damaged that they were left without tanks

Then the fighlanders were given

But their line stayed intact. They were within reuch of the sco at last. They could go with honour. The officers outside the church

a line of eighteen miles to hold from made up their minds-Havre, where Erondelle to the sea. The French the Navy would evacuate the High- Land Division and the French who IX. Corps, a force of several thou- remained with them. sand men, bad promised to straighten Grim-lipped Scots cheered. A out the enemy line in front of them brigade group, which rucuns svine before handing over They attacked hundreds of men--they called the twier in

froal of Abbeville. They Ark Force-set off to cover the main fulled both times.

withdrawal.

But the motorized Germans were

march towards the

On June 4 the French attacked again in the centre, with the Scot advancing from Rouch faster than on their flanks without tanks. The men could French tanks were annibliated, their port following infantrymen were mown down by machine-gun fire.

PARIS IS LEARNING A

WORD-VERBOTEN’

-by-

WALTER KERR

New York Herald-Tribune Reporter, who hai 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 control.

THE same kind of control is felt in other ways. Thousands of stores, shops, cafes and restaurants 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

is for men i 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 rents.

This situation could be cleared up in a short time if the occupying

All army cared to work on it. Parlalans 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 la 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 -1- this is the spread of the Ger- men language. The menus' In many restaurants are printed both in French and German, although

there is such little choice that not many words are used.

Franco-German dictionaries 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 trancs a day in a small Left Bank hotel to twenty francs daily in a luxury hotel such as the Ritz.. At the German-imposed

rate

of twenty francs to the mark, this means that German officers 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

Chamber of Deputies, Qual d'Orsay, Ecole Militaire, Invalides, where Napoleon and Foch are Many private flats arc-oc-

The swastika ales every. where. The French tricolour is forbidden.

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On the streets are the grey cars of the army and air forec, thou- sands of them recently repainted after the seizure of the Nether lands, Belgium and France. Soldiers drive them at higli speed. French police, still on duty, watch

·' them pass helplessly.

One hope remained-St. Valery. A staff officer fought his way alone in a car through the German hell- Arc to tell the Ark Force that the 152nd 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 cruelty sustained gunfire till the lust soldier had been taken off by the Navy. The survivors of the Ark Force escaped too.

The two lost 152nd and 153rd Brigudes in the darkness dragged their swollen feet towards St. Valery. A fan-shaped line had been thrown around the little town to keep the chemy off, The Gordons 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 a.m. 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 came again. Had they only known the naval ships were waiting at Veules les Roses, only four miles away, and taking off other British troops.

Their rifles were useless.

A length their last shot was fired.

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

with men.

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

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But not their guns and their vehicles. General Fortune's last order was that they should be destroyed. They were.

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