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Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

November 14,

1940

DONALD DUCK

By Walt Disney

Cape. Low, Walt Diy Production

10-8

"Weil Rights Rowen

MAGAZINE PAGE

H. V. MORTON on a Home Guard Patrol ..

"Enemy Airmen have landed"

was ten o'clock, and I was

I soinst to bed.

I had done all the things we do in 1940. I had listened to the nine o'clock news; I had relieved the car of its dis- tributor arm; I had walked round the house looking for chinks in the black-out cur- tains; I had cast a morose eye at the stirrup pumps and at the buckets of water.

LIFE IN

1940

In

elins, and the ker-lack of closed

moved bolts. We then

off single file, stealing like shadows up the use and across stubble fields, where we spread out' in extended order.

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"Na, I' ain't seen no Germans, nor has anybody else. I reckon. I who out, with the tractor, till dark, and no Germans came down this way, that I can swear to

Sill, wo search the barns, the stables, the out-houses and the rick yards, and the wavering moons of our torches move over the

, disarray of farin

old has

hay-carts, chaft-

and the like.

Harry and George climb upon a

mound of hay and prod about in

was a glorious night, ait; and I am reminded of some

sand and great moon lifting a serene

Glancing up at the quiet sky, clear of cloud, I saw the gold flush of a rising moon, and I thought, "more raids to- night." Then I went indoors.

I was standing in my bed- room putting out my Home Guard uniform at the foot of the bed. I attached braces to the cheap, sharp brass but- tons of the trousers, set out a pair of step-in boots, and loaded the six chambers of my revolver.

I wondered whether we were living in a penny dread- ful or in some romantic period of the world's history on which future ages will glance back with envy and excite- ment.

Then I paused and listened as the rattle of a motor-cycle came down the lane. Instead of going on, the sound came up to the house and stopped.

I heard quick steps and a sharp rap on the door. Who could it be?

After nightfall we are lock- ed away among dark woods and silence, and every sudden call is a mystery until the door is opened. Switching off the lights, I threw open a window and saw a young officer in a tin hat standing below,

"Can I see you for a ma- ment, sir?" he asked. "Enemy airmen have landed near here."

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TOW, I had been feeling.

Ntured and every day my

ngo. I became suddenly wide- awake and full of energy. I flow into my denims and was downstairs facing a pink licu- tenant; who treated me as if I were a centenarian; which was irritating, because I now folt no older than eighteen.

He explained that five, or per- haps seven, enemy alrmen had been seen to bale out over the dis- trict as dusk, was falling. Troops had blocked all roads. Could I he neked apologetically, get my Home Guards to go across country to a certain place?; ver

"Yes, I'll take them there my self," I replied eagerly.

"Oh really, sir, that's most

face over a curved field, a moon not even mildly interest- ed in Man.

Why have lovers, I wondered, always interpreted the moon's ex- pression as one of sympathy? It is an expression of complete de- tachment. Nelther love nor hate can Interest the moon.

Hedges rose against the sky as if drawn in blackest ink. Stubble stretched away, white and brittle, and from it came a warm, sweet smell that has the end of sumuner in it.

Now and again we stopped to listen, moving on again with no sound but the soft awish of our boots among the corn stalks.

How lightly life is now polsed on the needie's point, I thought the ordinary and the Incredible side by slide, separated only by a split" second,

A few moments úgo I had been going to bed: now I was moving over moonlit fields, every sense e loaded revolver at alive, with my belt.

It was incredible, like something one had read long ago in "The Boy's Own Paper," preposterously Juvenile, yet, at the same time, terribly real and tragle.

Stop! Harry comes up and whis- pera hoarsely: "Oughtn't we to beat Badger's Copse?"

"Right, Harry, you go in with Frank and we'll creep up and wait for you."

They melt into the wood in which they have ferreted, trapped and shot since they were small Loys. We kneel like shadows at the dark edge.

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Suppose the Germans came out now! What would happen? If they got Lough they would get more than they expected; if they quietly surrendered-well, I sup pose we should give them cigarettes and lead them home to a drink until the police came for them.

Funny, weird, ridiculous business to be going on by moonlight on the sand, sweet harvest fields of Eng- Jand.

And what would they feel like, I wondered, to fall from the skies into a quiet English home among women and little children unon whom, a few hours before, they were ready to drop their londs of

donths.

I suppose if airmon could see and know their vicuns, perhaps. they would make a point of "fail- ing to locate their objectives."

The two figures climbed out of the wood. Nothing there, they said: 80

So we went on into the blackness of a hollow and out into a green wash of moonlight, where a cottage stood, dark, silent and

asleep.z

read long ago, of Roundheads

arching for Cavallers,

Is a picture I shall never for- Rel; the green light spilling down from roofs, the pitch-blackness of the

barns and sheds, the old beams, the grey shadows of rats melting noiselessly away, and the figures of the patrol, in heroic, silhouette, inoving with rifles of the high port.

E cover the last half

W mile slowly, creeping

over the curved fields, watch- ing the hedgerows, searching the copses; then below us we see the dark line of the road.

As we climb over a gate, a sharp voice cries "Hal" and we walk up to be recognised by a sentry.

A brown lorry is drawn up in the hedge. The moonlight sides -over-bayonets,The troops-are-

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ant detaches himself from the shadows and comes forward.

"It's most frightfully good of you, air, to have done this. I do

noi too tired." hope you're

Too tired; be hanged! I could goon like this all night,

"I'm afraid you're going to be most awfully sick with me, sir." he continues. "I've just had news to call in my men, because the Germans have been captured at Bagworthy Major."

Seven miles away! I suppose they were blown over in the dark. What bad luck! Still, never mind. We've done our stuff."

The

combined local knowledge of farmer, poucher, and sportsman was pooled for a moment," In order to hunt the invader from a little bit of England.

As we wonder back down the moonlli lanes, we talk of this and

thin

"Well, if they had been here- abouts, we'd have had "ein sure enough," says Harry.

And we all agree, as we unload under the elm tree and go home to bed:

Norwegian "Go Slow" Drive

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to masters, according

the Stockholm correspondents of newspapers." --

The "National Zeltung" reports that all oficials of the administrative district of Brandu were dismissed for "go slow" conduct and that the ad- ministration of the district has been completely dislocated....

Similar disobedience is reported from many other parts of Norway

yard from 800 feet described how he was trapped in a ter rific anti-aircraft barrage.

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The raiders caused heavy explosions, culminating huge. fires.

"We flew along at about 13,000 feet and then came round slightly enst of the tar- get," said a pilot.

"One searchlight picked us up, and then suddenly we seemed to be in the centre of the biggest collection of A.A. bursts and searchlights I have ever seen.

"They all came on at once --just as though somebody had pushed over a switch.

"From my height I could de- finitely make out the shape of the Mole.

"I decided to take the odd chance, and we went down in a dive to 800 feet.

"We got up a dickens of n speed.

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"When we got down to about 8,000 they had about 15 searchlights on us.

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"The heavy flak' (anti-alr-' craft fire) had been coming up all the time, and now the light. 'flak' started.

"It just came straight up at us. I have never seen po much before, f

frightfully, good of you," he said, enched the sheds My Volunteer and Chinese back, having got so far, so wa

Ilko 'n schoolboy thanking an uncle

for a ten-shilling note,"

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In a few moments darkŭgures meeting under the big elm tree. It was bright enough for me to recognise little Harry, big Frank, George, Jack, and some of thứ other men, who wear the Mons Star

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torch revented in turn a

a barrel, a pair of gum-boots, a bicycle, and a

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over the ridge to

Brown's Farm, where the dogs went mad. A window opened, and old Brown's voice asked what the blazes we be doin',mort

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your safety catchen: Alustalarla minute I thought the Germans

opened bolts, the tinkle of falling

thought we couldn't go

Just carried on.

Was Blinded““

* "was "able ow and

a glimpse of the Mole

ble to say: there was

Raid

I-saw-a-long-dark-shape.

to the west of it that certainly looked like a ship.

"We just carried on diving. "I gave the order to release the bombs at 800 feet.

"Then straight away we shot down to 100 feet over the Mole and just above the wa-

ter.

"There seemed to be more

ever. searchlights than

At times I was blinded.

"It was impossible to see the results of the bombing.

"Suddenly in front of me, I saw a lot of trees coming up straight ahead..

"One of the searchlights, flattening out to try to catch us, had illuminated them, just in time for me to see them.

"I pulled the aircraft up, and we went over the top.

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"The trouble was we didn't daro go up too high, because. as soon as we did every gun In the place started opening

"We must have stayed over the town, for, about ten min - utes, just charging backwards and forwards trying to get away, ideato je dosta a

"Practically all the time we were at about 100 feet,

We went south, zig-zagging all the time.

We got about 15 away, and then, alth wore being shot at, abla to gain height."'

"As we went up we had take Violent evasive act! the time. Finally we got

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