1940-11-09 — Page 9

Saturday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

November 9, 1940,

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MY DEAR?

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Victor Schiff, though of German nationality, was edu- cated in Franco. He wont

back to Berlin to become a Journalist and became one of the most prominent figures in the Social-Democrat movo- mont.

mon

drawn for many years.

By

moves,

London daily newspaper.

the true Franco

SAW

THE

Staff

as came

ments

TRUE

FRANCE

But

all.

cause I complete victory a storm

orders he shouted: "Bayonets upl

embark."

her after the France-German | their popularity and is the British Admiralty and that Climax when General de Gaulle ap and said sadly: "You lucky man-

armistice.

Never did I hear in these speakers linked by long cables with The French volunteers were stun- French volunteers really

ous crowd gathered in front of the tary discipline, protests were are in France. If the tragic days of the military dis- the destroyer's wireless. An enorm- ned. Then, against all rules of mill-

aster a single word of reproach warship and of the cafes,

shouted: "But thut's Impossiblel there Petain cabinet consi- against England. But

observed the crowd.. They were That's treason! Is Hitler already was a current of talk about in- local fishermen and dockera with ruling France? Down with the trai- dered them merely as a capacity and treachery with re- their wives and children, French, tors of Bordeaux!"

Polish, Belgian, Czech officers and One of Hitler's first moves

of gard to the French General soldiers, civilian refugees from Paris The French commander tried to

Fifth and and so-called after coming to power in 1933 negligible handful wine to deprive Mr. Schiff of adventurers it would ig- Column. The purely French wealthy and poor. All classes of the sorry, but as an officer I must carry parts of invaded France, appease the infuriated crowd. "I am

orders. I cannot his nationality for the two nore them. But the so- decision not to defend Paris population found themselves mixed-out my

had been at daggers called French govern-

to up in a huge Improvised gathering, then, neither with my superiors nor thunderbolt #

All faces reflected the tragedy of the with you. And whoever tries to go every man and broke the spirit

on board of this ship will be shot as moment. a series of audacious ment knows perfectly of resistance of the French The broadcast begon amid silence, a rebel,"

Mr. Schiff escaped well that the hearts of Army.

when the British Premier pro- Turning to the soldiers under his

the determination of his It was, only from that mo- clalmed from Germany with his wife and children despite the Ges- the vast majority of the ment that people began to talk country, to carry on for the common Only foreigners, Poles, Czechs, Be- tapo, who wore in hot pursuit population are on the about the necessity of an ar- of cheers broke out spontaneously, Bians, are allowed to

The French nimen retreated in a of him.

side of · these last mistice. I hard heated argu- The fishermen and the soldiers, the desperate mood. I was still in the

the refugees Mr. Schiff then settled in

everywhere on that dockers, and the officers,

waiting crowd and heard several hot- Paris as one of the resident champions of France's subject. But even those who with luxury cars and those who had was talking of throwing the bar-

homes rler. saved nothing from their

I also met in the crowd B correspondents of a leading honour and Liberty. were in favour of seeking an shouted frantically, the men waving French Senator, a former Minister of armistice considered as a matter their hats and caps, the women their the Interior, who too had hoped to this article he describes The German govern- of course that the French navy handkerchiefs to the British officers embark for the England he had re- as he sawment is not less aware of should be put at the disposal of and sailors. The cheering found it's fused to betray. He recognised me

the French Air Force should be pealed for French volunteers to come you are a foreigner"

to Eng

England and fight.. afraid of it. Hence the sent in time across the Mediter- When It was over hundreds of "It is really the first time" I said, The French world is clumsy attempt by the ranean in order to let the French officers and soldiers, mainly "that it is in France an advantage to

rushed to the British war- be a foreigner." French Colonies carry on the ship. They all asked to be taken to "And it is the first time in my life" upside down. It has be- men of Vichy to stigma- war on the side of the British England. A register was opened in he replied, with a broken voice "that front of the warship on the quay- I feel ashamed of being a French- come a crime in Marshal tise these men as "trai- Empire.

"We may be entirely conquered side. It was 6000 covered

Will Petain's realm to believe tors" and "deserters".

British and occupied, even blockaded, but in signatures. A

liner. the

board and Later, when I was on the end Great Britain will win the volunteers were told, would arrive the ship had left the harbour I saw. in Hitler's final defeat As one of the last jour-

war and save us to This sentence during the night from Gibraltar and to my surprise about fifteen young and fight for it. The nalists to leave France after I heard time and again, not only be take them to England the next day. French pilots, all cheerfully smiling. fore, but also after, Paul Reynaud's The next morning the volunteers "How did you manage to embark?" men who uncondition- the signature of the armis- downfall and replacement by Mar- gathered in highest spirits on the em- I asked them.

shat Petain.

bankment. The liner had now ar- ww had to masquerade as Polish ally surrendered to the tice in Compiegne, I am in a

The number of volunteers left the French Mediterranean rived. The

they explained. "We per- invader and who are position-to-give-evidence-on-port-of-Port-Vendres in the East had increased over night, because suaded a few of our Polish comrades Pyrenees 36 hours after the bitter the rumour that a ship was to take who were the first to embark to send prepared to accept the true feelings of the ceremony in the Forest of Com- volunteers for de Gaulle's army had back on land a British sailor with Alled with Polish cups, suitcase a peace terms from Ger- French people during their plone The armistice terms were spread through all the district, and

still hidden from the French

men had come from Perpignon and We then mixed up with the other camp of Ar- Polish volunteers and smuggled our- many call those of their last days of freedom. Imo- The Petain cabinet, having repeated- the military training

would never geles.

selves on board." Suddenly French colonial soldiers dishonourable terms, was obvi sign dis

in England with co-nationals "traitors" tored for nearly a thousand ly proclaimed that it

of other "traitors." But who are willing to help miles along the main roads ously afraid of confessing that it had lined up on the quayside in front of thousands

them ap- after all I saw and heard during my from Paris to Clermont-promised to hand over France's war- the British vessel. With

ships and planes to Hitler and Mus- peared the French commander of the last days on a still free French soll, Great Britain in win- Ferrand in the Gentral solini, and it was not anxious to give port, a high-ranked naval officer I feel glad that I am able to give

his staff. French opinion the

He spoke a few evidence for them. These men re- ning the war and in Mountains, later to Agen Fished thet for lear of un, outburst words with the British naval officers, feet the true feeling of the French saving their country and Bordeaux in the South- of popular Indignation during nego- then addressed the French volun- nition; these men represent the real from the greatest disas- West, finally to Perpignan "How the average ter and the worst humi- in the extreme South of the really felt about liation in its history. country, sometimes with the the signature of the armistice was

By threatening with German advanced guard of known

vealed to me by dramatle scenes in capital punishment the tanks almost on my heels. I Port-Ventres which 1 By Victor Schiff

are now

the dis- tlations with the Germans.

"I have just received strict France that will survive tecrs: Frenchman orders from Bordeaux: no French- honour accepted by the men of Great Britain in man is allowed, to leave the coun- Vichy, the France that will be sayed and freed by Great Britain's victoryl these tragle hours, when the fact of try"..

but not its terms, was re-

shall never

forget.

the afternoon that Mr. Winston

members of General de talked to hundreds of people for was on Sunday, June 23. A in towns and hamlets, to British destroyer was anchored along Gaulle's army now on workers and peasants to of the quayside. It was announced in British soil Hitler's ficers and soldiers, to jour- Churchill and General de Gaulle French robots in Vichy nalists and civil servants, to from London. Loudspeakers were

in fact, admit- political leaders and ting how popular these mayors of villages.

are,

would broadcast speeches in French

to on the deck of the destroyer. Also several cafea on the embankment volunteered to have their own loud-

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