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THE WAR CHEST

GOVERNMENT, who usually pre- fer to carry out their work un- obtrusively, on occasions also pander to the spectacular. They did so on Saturday when they announced new gift to the imperial war chest; a gift of £200,000 a year for the dura- tion of the war. The money la to come from the profits of the Ex- change Fund, and doubtless the public are as delighted, as they are amazed, to learn that the fund has proved such a gold mine.

No onc will quibble with the decision of the Government and the Exchange Fund Advisory Committee to make such a handsome donation, especially as there is on assurance that the stability of the fund will in no way be lessened. Nevertheless, one wished that Government had fail an inclination to take the public into their confidence. It is, after oil, publir money which the Government are so generously donating to the war chest, and the donation has been made without even consulting the com- munity. We have a right to feel that we have been cheated out of the satisfaction of being identified with a magnificent gesture, an identification which, as chief subscribers to this ex- thange fund, we are entitled to enjoy.

The fund has always been shroud- ed in mystery, and only now can the

ICOPERS.

With us luck as you made a good-byel

Gloomioh! Here we go on our way. We've been ordered to prod, probe and pry;

Good enough, Mr. Duff, that's okay, And when we snori

"Let me see your morale,"

Folks will dare not say va mag. Wish sir luck as you wave uɛ good-bye-

Alles oop! To the moop! We obey.

Mr. Duff Cooper, Minister of Information, is to be asked in the House of Commons why he has engaged a band of investigators to make door-to-door inquiries on the state of householders' morale.

THE ARMY

makes itself

AT HOME

By Reginald Foster

A

On the English Coast.

YOUNG soldier sat astride a chair on the promenade, close to the little pill-box camp which has become his seaside home.

A comrade was busy trimming his hair with a pair of scissors, watched with curiosity by an errand boy, unused to such side- lights on Army domestic life. The errand boy was asked to go away by the soldier-barber and the domestic interlude continued.

The British soldier is settling down to domestic life in his front Ilne.

In the last few works have soon a good deal of everyday life in the front line, the life shared by Ser- vice men and the remaining civil- ians.

One morning I walked down the main street, which in

normal

An Ancient Lay Of Rome Propaganda error

public begin to appreciate how skil-broadcasts in recent months none has Among many "howlers" in Italian

been more gloring than the capitali- sation of an article alleged to have been sent by "Lady Stanhope" from Arabia, in which she says she feels ashamed to be an Englishwoman.

fully and successfully has it been ad- ministered. During the comparative ty short time it has been in operation, the fund has not only been able to secure a cover of more than 114 per cent, but is in a position to deny it- sell £200,000 (about $3,200,000 as the current rate of exchange) and still have its cover unaffected. It is position which only goes further to demonstrate that Hongkong is the richest and most solvent colony in the British Empire. For this fact we have good reason to feel proud,

A

The article quoted admittedly_ex- presses unfavourable views on Eng- land, but unfortunately for Italian propagandists it was written more Hester Stanhope, who was notorious than 100 years ago by the Lady

for her eccentricitles. To such ex- tremes have Italian propagandists been brought to find material favourable to England.

tin

[Lady Hester Stanhope, a nieco of Whether the Colony itself reaps all the younger Fitt, died in 1939. Find- the benefits it should from such a ing the restrictions of ordinary situation is more than doubtful; society Intolerable she left England nevertheless it is unlikely that any one in 1810 and finally settled in 1814 will cavil at Government's decision slopes of Mount Lebanon, whore for among the half-savage tribes on the to utilise is exchange fund profits the remainder of her life, she lived in the manner proposed. It is im- in the style of ao Eastern patentate perative to Hongkong that Britain surrounded by slaves and exercising wins this war; wherefore every effort almost despotic power.]

we can make, whether great.or small

a

"Take A

Tommy To Tea

ten."

Red Cross Island?

BY DUDLEY BARKER

HAVE often seen fine cere- monies at St. James's Palace In London, the official Court of "England, where Ambassadors walk decorously in one room, and the Lord Chamberlain removes Indecorous lines from plays in another.

I have seen, scarlet-and-gold- heralds crowded on the balcony, welcoming, proclamations with: the trampel, while ceremonial. troops walted in the courtyard: below.

But yesterday I saw there a finer sight still, though less picturesque.

Burrounded by pieces of cord and cardboard boxes, crates of socks. and slabs of chocolate, I saw the people who have contrived to keep одо international organisation working between Britain and Ger- many, while Europe crumbled into chaos,

I saw the department of the British Red Grosa that" supplies British prisoners of war in Gerranny with regular parcels of food, elgareties and ` clothing..

ROUTES WRECKED

Ti is a story worth tolling, partly be- cause it is a story of good will on both sides. Whatever else the NaxĪS ŽATO done, all the evidence shows that they have acrupulously respected Inter- national agreement on this question.

Before the Oerman break-through, there were not many British priamera jo Germany, and each of them was being supplied throughout the winter with two food-and-cigaretle parcels a week from the British Red Cross-three every fortnight is the summer allow- anco.

Those parcels had to go through a neutral country, and they were trávci- ling smoothly" scross the Channel to Belgium, and thance into Germany,

Ninety-seven par cent of the reocipt cards that socompany each partel cazie

Then war broke into Belgium. The switched LETOSS route' was rapidly France and Bwilserland to Germany.

all right for å few week.

times would be alive with holiday-PAKE a Tommy home to back, properly signed makers doing a little shopping. The shoppers I saw were soldiers, detalled to buy vegetables for their unit. Their shopping basket was a lorry.

I heard someone who had been in Spain liken fe here to that in Madrid, when Dghting reached the outskirts of the city.

There is a front-line icecream girl. Her kiosk is surrounded with

barbed wire and weapons of war

London families are mak-trance fell. When the dividing line

ing this their motto while London is so full of Service men on leave, and are carn- ing the thanks of the War Office and the welfare or-

have replaced bathing huta, Horganisations.

stock of spades and buckets and Ashing nets is not in much demand. But her icecreams are.

Men who have come oil sentry duty find her klank very welcome. Dozens of times this girl han hurriedly closed her shutters and dashed to the shelter of A basement house opposite, when. sirens of gunfire have been heard.

**

Hotel Adolf "

There is the farmyard which has become a military position. Ducks still waddle in the pond, the old farmer goes about his duties. And in the middle of the yard I have seen men, stripped, round buckets, laying their morning Wash and shave.

A one-time country cottage, at cros roads, has been renamed "Hotel Adolf." 'Ploca- A concrete pillbox is labelled dilly Circus "the label is properly enamelled and stamped, and goodness know where it came from.

Up on the cliffs an ion has become the headquarters of a unit at a local defence post. The back parlour, where the holiday maker used to yarn with the locals, is labelled "platoon head. quarters," and the elvillati who happens to go in for a drink is regarded as an intruder,

Peculiarly solid road barricades nave become the subject of sollers' front line humour. One I passed was chalked "Don't bend," and another, "Hitler's toll gate"-and the sentry' with fixed bayonet seemed a pretty efficient toll- keeper.

·

Food From Fields Townspeople have been quick to adopt soldiers' humour. One shop has the legend, 'Haircut finished if stren goes," and another proclaims, "We don't Intend to run away. Here we are and here wo stay."

Sometimes the cliffs of France show up, bright and clear. "The Patherland looks well to-night," people say, and the soldiers' laugh that follows would hardly bring a smile to Hitler-not if he knew the British soldiers' laugh,

Mushrooms play a part in the domes to life of the front-line soldier, Many of these little front Uns camps ara'set up in open country. Several times I have seen soldiers returning to their tent or billet with mushrooms. *The men have quickly learned which are the best felds. NORA, ww

a few mushrooms can be a great help to the cooking resources of these small units of seven or eight men, scattered on the highways and byways of the front line.

to help the Mother Country in this ally insignificant; and there is the enormous task, must be given its due Bomber Fund created by the Hong- credit. Which is why the individuni kong Telegraph" and the "South Chine should eschew the idea that, because Morning Post." Their objects are Government is making such substan-whose future welfare, freedom and Identical; to encourage Dublis tial war gifts, there is no call for him prosperity depends entirely on the to make his own effort. The old tagability of the British Empire, to win

Much of the cooking is done by the "Every little helps must be taken this war, and to achieve that objective men themselves. In other casse rations literally. The voluntary Excrifice in the shortest and most effective way are brought by road in travelling kite still remains the most potent and possible.

Hi Bukas Nichen, using a haybox system go IN We hope, therefore, that Govern. All over the country groups of men engaged in this new defence of Britain are settling down to a front-line ire se distinctive in the way as trench life room for voluntary effort Not only is more money needed, but

the coffers of the various war funds. Many lonely, cottage, or country: farmhouse now hins ils régular quota of ...r. Such efforts, we are glad to see, are more subscribers. Hitherto donations "guests--young men of the front tine

being ** stimulated. The Bw.or. have come from too adali 2 secțion Who are welcomed for a meal to statuer to function happy st ml of the community, there is room and

VeIn some places, road-houses have be.... „Cousas military" headquarters and road bulloni da dina a opportunity for many thousanda,

Hardens) consentyalerald Vähelters, and how! intrinsie."; who to date have made no contribui Shoher things I saw one with the legend.

vto: do: so inow.

There is no organised move- ment, but people in every walk of itre arc spontaneously inviting troops to spend a few hours at home with them, and the troops all declare it is the beat part of their leave.

The socretary of St. Stephens House, the Toc H centre opposite the Houses of Parliament, tõid me There have been many cases of people getting acquainted men on leave and either inviting them home or giving thein or evening out.

with

day

"When the men return here they are delighted with the hospitality, no matter how humble it was.

"Many of them find amusements for themselves, seeing the sights of London and going to a show, but that palls after a time when they are alone and nothing seems quite so welcome to the man who can't get to his own homo As A few hours in someone else's home."

"The High Spoť"

I talked to an Infantrymen who. was one of a party of four made up by a Kent businessman and his wife on Saturday afternoon, taken to tea, to a theatre and on to a supper dance at night.

It was a wonderful day's out- Ing. Private Harris told me." It made the high spot of my leave

"But in a way it embarrassed all of us It must have cost a lot of money and we could not pay our share.

"People should not imagine that it is necessary to spend a lot on entertaining via

"I have found from talking to many of the other men on leave who have been, similarly enter. tained that they would have bees quite as happy taken home to lea, cat home-made cakes, listen to the radio and made to feel they were enjoying civilian home life for a few hours.**--*

Combats Boredom

The War Office I learn, is still 5/ very anxious to combat boredom `ament` men on Ianya who are out- of touch with their friends, stay

Take a Tammy home to "tea," would be a magnificent slogan for, the public to adopt," one important AArmy officer told me: ("It would prevent many men going of the rafts for want of something to do Menon leave want a Hitle feminine society, but not neces- aarily of the glamour girl kind,

***The motherly woman who pro vides some good home-made cakes feel at home for a few hours does and a cup of tea, and makes a chap

...

effective type of gesture. Thousands will make enforced contributions be ment's latest gesture will prove a tore the year's end, through the war stimulus to the community to make taxation, but there remains plenty of further and' greater efforis to swell the last we ALAN-ARAS Mos: Katsomething for the welfare of (this-

F Parachutista:served at all hours. BEY

men that hot all the organisations put together can achieve

Its lathe, Hönse" Furces in. Blac £ticular, who need this sort of entertainment, because for them there if not the regular programzis of activities such as te arranged for 'khe, overseùs men/

din

was drawn between occupied and une occupied France, that routa became ime possible,

It seemed that supplies would have to stop. There was only one route,

was dimetilt

through Polaman. in Friuland, buč

The supplies were not stopped. The

the International Red Cross at Clènova, and they sent 60 tons of, food, worth £9.000, direct from Switzerland into Germany, to the British prisoners.

Britlah Red Cross got into touch with

TWO-THIRDS COMPLETE

Last week a new through Lisbon, across „thenca_to_Bwitzerland.

route opened Spain, and

The problem was how much food to send. There were many more prisoners of war in Germany than before-but how many?

Nobody knows exactly, not even the War Office, not even the Germans then- selves, who, a fortnight ago, asked Dr. Marcel Junod, of the International Ited Cross, to go from Switzerland to occu pled France to help them sort it out.

The normal procedure is for the list of prisoners to be sent to the BritiKH Prisoners of War Bureau in Berlin, which hands it on to the American Am- bassador and the International Red Gross in Genova (we hand our lista to m. 'similar bureau in London, and to the

Swiss Ambassador),

The American Ambassador in Berlin and the Red Cross in Cleneva, both pass the lat on to London, and relatives are Informed. The whole process nomially

akca about three weeks.

This time the chaos in Europe de layed things, and it is only now that

sts are starting to pour through They are coming night and day—sO fast that the Red Cross in Genova. BAS Increased the number of girls in its index department from 500 to 1,400;

All the names are being telegraphed to London as quickly as possible, and Mr. R. A. Butler was able to announce on Tuesday that the names al two- thirds of all the British prisoners of war had reached Geneva.

Acting on that information; and the amount the "postal" authorities could liandle, the people in St. James's Palace made up their minds how much to send.

12.000 PARCELS A WEEK

They have large quantities available, Last week they sent 12,000. parcels, and this week they are sending the same.

tri the same way, of course, the Ger man Red Cross has been getting sup piles of extra:food and comforts to dep man prisoners in tiils bountry, a

64 in St. James's Painos: yesterday. I was able to watch; the women paskets. making up the parcela, stacking then. into great houpa, labelling them with distinctive südresses, dengan teh godi It is a Lefumph that the service ta | British" brisoners has been uninter- rupted by the mał'Tów works, but do not Imagine that the worries of the Red

They muat šībayo ay neutral Eater. madiary betwIED the two NAWILITAKER A nations,""" To-day they have:Epain, bus who can say how long in this Europe, any: such sroute: fortaupplies 'can last? Bojan idea has srown up, whichčena y perhaps be turned into reality,” Gould *not some little island be set'saldejna 'a -safe clearing hous for!pelacunes), MUDA "plies naming both ways?ish Cutta would not both sides guaranies the ARIU pamage of a regular servios of supë tiplies to ang from that island), from bach warring wypountry is to neki varrin

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