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cathedrals seem to be intact. luxurious. It has been still total collapse of their The villages are descried, the farm- further improved in appearance, riding comfort, appointments and country with a resigna- stends empty. Crops are rotting on the ground. The first wave of the tion that has the appear- German Army consumed everything.

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cations Ordinance, 1936. Such new As bears the indication "UP" is recolved in Itongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who re- serve all rights and forbid republication, either wholly or in part without provious arrangement.

under the provisions of the Telecommu

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extent which

the

It was, in fact, until a week or two ago a land of the dead, metaphorle- ally and literally, since the corpses

.

Now the people are slowly creep-

They are, indeed, dazed by of men and animals still littered the the rapidity of the collapse, ground. but register no violent reac- ing back, only to and that there is tion to so great and unex-te to eat and less to do. Every- pected a shock.

where the first pick of what is going falls to the army of occupation, the Soldiers in considerable num- second to those who work for their bera are being demobilised and German masters, the scanty crumbs. returning home, and so, it is that remain are left for those who felt, the catastrophe cannot be fulfil neither of these conditions. too appalling. The Gerninn pro.

paganda machine is working on Backing the Mark

this state of mind.

Nevertheless some attempt is ende The R.A.F. attacks upon the to regulate on a fixed scale the In- of consumable aerodromes in the occupied re- adequate amount gion are used as evidence that cods which are available. There is no lack of cash-marks printed by the British, who have already the presses follow the troops. deserted their Ally, are now making direct onslaughts on of the German soldiers and the folk the Frenchman's home.

manoeuvres

These noturally are in the hands

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FUNNY SIDE UP

By Abnor Doan

EUREKA

EMPLOYMENT AGENCY BUTLERS, MAIDS, COOKE; CHAUFFEURS ETC.

4.16

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Car 1940 byted Feature Izadieste, Tue,

"Have you that one a size largor?"

who work for them, but they result There is little interest among-in ready sules for anything on offer. The Germans have Instituted h sort the ordinary people in the or Douglas social credit scheme upon the Petain which they base their murk-note Is- Government. The Marshal him- sue. The backing for this spurious currency is said to be not the coun- self is not looked upon with any terfeit capitalist backing of gold but man machines and men. enthusiasm. His achievements the more solidly founded reserve of in their own invinability has brought as a soldier in the last War work done.

about a noticeable impatience with!

into

Such faith {

Armoured Fighters

By C. G. GREY Nor are the German Flying Corps)

During the intense battles averse from going home to enjoy the of recent weeks our fighters have laurels of their stupendous triumphis.

thetr

are generally recognised, but his As a temporary measure it may be the prolonged delay in the promised last-minute entry into politics all very fine, but marits printed, even attack upon England, which they makes little stir in the French with such a basis, cannot produce have been led to believe was a malter the food and necessities of life which to be completed within a very few man's heart.

simply are not there. The gloomy weeks. On the other hand Laval, who fast that in time, unless something SIGNS OF THE TIMES

hus never been popular, excites radical is done, there will be nothing USUALLY so quick to re-

almost general distaste. Il to buy at all).

The Germans are aware of this. Tals belief in their own superior maintained their mastery of the would appear that Doriot is the pudiate any foreign press report only public figure who inspires Already their propaganda is puiting qualities comes largely of intensive air.

On some days the proportion or likely to embarrass or compro- any confidence at the moment the blame in advance upon the Bri- propaganda, since visible proof is too tish blockade. They have immense often lacking. The British bembing) misc Japan's Far Eastern man- and that is because he is faith in propaganda, not, so much as raits on Betzian and French air bases shot-down rakiers to our shot-down the past. That may be because the oeuvres, the studied indifference thought to be a man of the a panaces to solve all the riddles of are carried out with the greatest suc-fighters has not been so high as in

the situation, but as an excuse when cess. with which the Japanese Foreign | people.

the inevitable failure comes:

An informant who had occasion to Germans have become more wary. Office has treated the TC- Fow realise that it is Abelz,

The German army is a propaganda be on the Channel roast, near Calais, and have learned how to dodge our

behind Intted better armour port this week that Japan | a man who was asked to leave machine us well as a fighting force, rpuid observe the effect of the Britishnen. Or it may be that they have

reorientating her "Now France only a year ago for his The storm troops, those who have bombing on the aun emplacements fighter pilots.

We are NOW approaching the at regular intervals from order in East Asia" policy to an anti-French activities, who now borne the brunt of the heavy fighting which have been and are being con-

perlodi when we are not likely to get included with- rules France. His orders are and made victory so swiftly possible, structed

are propagandisis to a man. They Dunkirk southwards;

The closing of this constal Zone what is normally regarded as good drawal from the Axis alliance, given at the frequent dinners are a fanatical bellef in Hitler and leaves only a firmer conviction which he enjoys with Laval in equally finaleal hatred of Eng- to a depth of from 20 50 30 miles bombing weather.

In the last war we knew pretty inland is in part due to these raids, Paris, dinners which are matters land. that the story is closely allied to of public comment and the ob They sweep through to their vic- as well as to screen from prying eyes well that cleur moonlight nights facts.

jects of which little. effort is turies, grimfaced young men, without the concentrations which the Ger- were good bonbing weather, and es_feelings except those conditioned mans are making there, The people that bad weather, either long hours made to conceal:-

them; old writs with the of-this-district-are-all mostly pro- of darkness, gales, rain, snow, heavy British and consequently potential clouds or fog, meant that there Vichy, for a nation which has minds of Infants.

sples; peasants of Picardy and Artols would be no bombing. Today, what After them comes a different type have bravely helped British soldiers with blind-flying instruments, direc reached the nadir in its history. gives an excellent picture of a saldier, older, less fanatic: Aus- and others to escape, running grave tonal wireless, reliable thotors, para- certain French state of mind. trians, Bavarians, and East Prussions risks themselves. To break down chutes, floating fuckets and rubber feeling the Germans plan all dinghies, air crews will take risks Naturally the place is crowded Each company of these has its pe this

which they would not have taken beyond capacity. It is full of talker, who interminably, fins into they can to discredit the British.

their purs that England is Jew

oven Ave or 10 years ago.

what the weather was. Last winter. pied France, as well as French capitalists and Communists, a Motech British Prisoners So far our bombers have not cared officers, immaculately accoutred, who wants the world so that she can

devour it nit for herself.

One ease of relined. cruelty was when it was at its worst, the RA.F. and political aspirants.

were prisoners They crowd the cafes, hotels,. They may not belleve all they are wfinessed at Mailnes, where a body used to go up in low-lying, lec-form- being ing fog in the dark and somehow east. They were in full plough through it on those bomb- and boulevards. The refugees told, but they, too, have a faith in of British

except for their tin hats hleteering trips. not very deep rooted. It is, however, uniform

And recently, while there was and officers are enjoying the Hitler. Their hostility to England is marched calm and the mild pleasures to England who stands against a swift These had been replaced by a varie be had there. The aspirants and final victory, and therefore be galed assortment of every kind of short spell of electrical storms, with hats, toppers, cups, hornburgs, wo-the I.A.F. bombers went on with The changed attitude of Bri- are busily fishing in the stirring tween them and their families and headgear, male or female: bowler hail and ice-forming, clouds high up. Back to "Mutter" is in effect the men's bonnets, berets, plumed Ascol their jobs, apologetically bringing pathetically ridiculous their bombs home once in a while tain and the United States to-political pool in the hope of find- beer gardens,

ing an agreeable job..

because they could not find their wards Japan's Far Dast

There is adequate food for cry of the second-line soldiers. But models. A

1inue to follow Hitler wherever he machinations has, undoubtedly, those who can afford to buy it that does not mean they will not con- spectacle. contributed towards persuading always provided that you are my chose to lead them. Japan to modify her grandilo- quent strutting in the Orient, but the signs are that the most potent factor has been the com- parative failure of her war machine in Chinu. Tokyo's new attempts to reach peace terms

The rumblings of discontent within over the costly China In- cident have long been audible to the outside world despite rigor- ous.efforts to suppress them; the complaints come not so much from the mute and pliant masses

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cial, industrial and political leaders who realise that they are playing a losing gamble,

well-to-do refugees from occu- ridden, a cesspool af internationni

not a butter lover or do not ex- pect to find a wide selection of luxuries in the shops.

Here Is file evidence that France has suffered one of the greatest de- fents in her history,

Outside the boundaries of this temporary capital, food is not

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In many

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Its only purpose could have been allotted targets. (One would think to make the weary men look clown- that any good railway line was a Ish or to suggest to the French in- legitimate military objective.)

habitants that British troops had But until intely the Germans hove On been looting the shops. Other tales

Thoughts On England

ler's urmy.

arcas

admission that her people are to discover any serious attempt to constantly came into contact with alone. sources are getting low. Japan's are threatening the Vichy Govern- tle about this vital branch of Hit- dents in the Bayonne-St, Jean de the hope of There is little chance Bombs & Petrol for a apologists will find it hard to ment

The opinion is often expressed that delude the Japanese people about

occupied France is in a much better the withdrawal from Nanning, shape, in spite of all the devastation, vicers especially as the city fell into

Squadron of Fighters

1 Spitfire or Hurricane

1 Flying Fortress

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of discrimination between British and not shown any fondness for bombing French prisoners of war are comin bad weather-which is curious. mon. Nevertheless, on the whole, because there were no belter bad- the treatment of prisoners whore care weather flyers than the Luft Hansa airline plats before, the war. The 10 o'clock night mail lett Croydon The unexpected delay in the much I left to the second-line troops is not

for Berlin without fall for years, other Fron

of occupled hail, rain, snow or fog. parla France come reports that the Ger-

We have yet to see whether the spirit of indifference exists, also been having its effect upon the with Chungking are not prompt. plentiful, yet in a minor degree the advertised attack upon England has 100 bad. ed by a desire to avoid further The men are returning fairly quickly German Air Force.

A neutral observer who was pri- mans are getting down to the ques aggravation of the United States to their homes and to the harvests

At Arst they were left bombing war targets and will take walch have been

cases vileged to have a squatiron parked tion of the British subjects still in enemy will give up all pretence of of to indiscriminate plastering und Britain, so much as a tacit

ruined by Inattention. But it is hard in the woods near his home, and who residence.

thickly-inhabited

through men, diezlosed a Now it is learned that the rest-heavy clouds and bad weather in creating panic among war weary and the country's re-meet the formidable problems which both officers and

Luz districts are being gathered and the populace. put under some sort of surveillance of panic if the Government will be He found that on the whole the the first intention was to put them frank wth the people and let them were fine physical types, into a concentration camp, but finally know what is happening so far as courageous and decent. In recent the German authorities requisitioned it can be done without telling the weeks, he had noticed a considerable an hotel and are now keeping them enemy, too much. Next to the ill-fated decision to increase in the number of very young there under fairly reasonable coll-

The finding of enemy bombers at

one of tho night remalris move south of the Great Wall, the pilots joining the squadron, biggest blunder Japan committed] There was, however, no suggestion As yet southern France has not problems of our war.

Moonlight, while helping bombers The sudden cessation of the during the past ten years was to sign that these new arrivals had any con- suffered from any great shortage of innexion with heavy pilot lotses. For commodities. It is even suggested Japanese advance along the on with the Axis. There are

Is more the fighters,, and it is probable that north Indo-China frontier: the deations that she now realises this, the system in vogue. In the German that the fate of British residents in to find their targets, may confuse

for, committed technically though she Air Force lends to concent from the German-occupied France

than under the Vichy a bright starlight night without a half-hearted attempts to prevents to render military and other ald serving officer and man all accurate pleasant

Government, French people may be moon gives the best chance of co- the Burnin Road from being re- to Italy, Japan is doing her utmost knowledge of casualties.

to wrigglo

the obligation out of

ers and guns. operated; the repudiation of to

Sometimes, with fuck, searchlights lo the Government to "take a few planes from squadrons hostile..

virulent attacks, which the

of Marsellios On German battle flights. Further to Gingotre Wang Ching-wel, and the recallve in talk of "escape clauses" and units; a low pads not operate as indifferent, but the official is often operation between searchlights, fight- maintains searching through fairly thin clouds of General Abe. All these are into account geographical relations all over the country make up the The patterned events and all lead to one a well us the objectives looming fortify this policy of concealment of daily against England are certainly may show up in enemy bomber in

concerning verdict; that Japan is utterly tired behind British diplomacy

at least losses, pilots and crews are almost not entirely spontaneous. A similar silhouette to fighters above. But if of the futility of her adventures in the Italo-Greek war,"

assumed a new to another. China; that she enrmol face, the pro-shows that Japan has at least continually transferred from one unit trend is observed in most of the Press the clouds are thick the bombers In unoccupied France. It may not may remain in or above the clouds

The best way to stop them

like. pect of interminable hostiles which respect for British diplomacy. The are draining her economic and finan- truth is Japan hoa got herself into While Individual' pilots would ex-have any great effect upon the feel- and are dimcult to findin clat reserves in dorming monner, Jam and she is about to try and organ admiration for British R.A.F.ing among the ordinary people, but and that the bone she can cut her extriento herself as best the can. It fighting qualities, the squadron as it does offer an excuse for official collecting taxes attack them at

whole believed implieitis in the Ger-hostility to the British. (losses the Beller:for her! La

Is i wise decision, if belated.

the hands of the Chinese within 24 hours; the answer is patently clear.

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