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Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

November 14, 1940.

DONALD DUCK

By Walt Disney

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B. V. MORTON on a Home Guard Patrol .

"Enemy Airmen have landed"

was ten o'clock, and I was

I going 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- tributer arm; I had walked round the house looking for chinks in the black-out cur- tains; I had cast a morose cyc at the stirrup pumps and at the buckets of sand and

water.

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' mo- ment, sir?" he asked. "Enemy airmen have landed near here.

I had been feeling Ntired and every day my

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

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

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

"Oh, really, air, that's most frightfully good of you," he said, like a schoolboy thanking an unclé for a ten-ahililog nota.

In a few moments dark figuréa were meating under the big elm tree. It was bright enough, for me to recognise litle Harry, big Frank, George, Jack, and some of the other men, who wear the Mons Star on their uniforms, mo

***Load,” I said, "and put over “your safely, catches, "magneetit There was the crisp kar-lick at opened bolle, the Unkle of falling

LIFE

1940

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clins, and, the ker-lack of closed bolts. We tien moved of In single file, stealing like shadows up the nine and across stubble flelds, . where we spread out in extended order.

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was a glorious night, a grent moon lifting a serene face over a curved fiold, 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. Neither love nor hate can interest the moon.

Hedges rose against the sky as If drown in blockest ink. Stubble stretched away, white and brittle. and from it came a warm, aweel smell that has the end of summer In 11.

Now and again we stopped to

· listen, moving on again with no sound but the soft swish of our boots among the corn stalks.

How lightly life is now poised on the needle's point, I thought the ordinary and the incredible side by side, separated only by a split second..

A few moments ago I had been going to bed: now I was moving över moonlit felds, every sense alive, with loaded revolver st 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 tragic.

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

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

They melt into the wood in which they have ferreted, trapped und shot since they were small boys. Wo kneel like shadows at the dark edge..

Suppose the Germans came out now! What would happen? If they got tough 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- land,

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 loads of death.

i suppose if airmen could sco and know their victums, perhoos they would make a point of "fall- ing to locate their objectives."

The two figures climbed out of the wood. Nothing there, they said. So we went on into the blackness of a hallow and out Into a green wash of moonlight, where a cottage stood, dark, silent and

asleep.

We scorched the sheds. My torch revealed in turn a barrel, a pair of gum-boots, a bicycle and a pink-eyed ferret in a cage.

We went on over the ridge to Brown's Farm, where the dogı went mad. A window opened, and old Brown's voice asked what the

dolu yeppi Tazes we beds, is it Hallo, Frank! Hallo, Jacki - Why for a minute I thought, the Germans had come, and I war: bbbut to set the dogs on 'em, that I was Joe",

"Na. 1 ain't seen no Germans, nor has anybody else, 1 reckon. I was out with the tractor till dork, and no Germana` came down this way, that I can swear to . . .”

Still, we search the barns, the siables, the out-houses and the rick yards, and the wavering moons of our' torches move over the picturesque disarray of form implements, old hay-carts, chaff cutters, and the like.

Harry and George climb upon a mound of hay and prod about in it; and am reminded of some' story, read long ago, of Roundheads searching for Cavaliers.

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shall never for- is a picture get; the green light spilling down' from roots, 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, moving with rifles at the high port.

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A7E 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 volce crles "Halt!" and we walk up to be recognised by * sentry.

A brown lorry is drawn up in the hedge. The moonlight slides aver bayonets. The troops are standing listlessly. A pink lieuten unt delachier liknself from the shadows and comes forward.

"It's_most_frightfully good of you, sir, to have done this. I do hope you're not too

Too tired, be him onl

I could

go on like this all night.

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

Seven miles away! I suppose they were blown over in the dark. What bad luck! Still, never mind.

મ We've done our stuff.

of The combined local knowledge, farmer, poacher, and sportsman' was pooled for a moment, in order to hunt the invader from a little bit of England.

As we wander back down the moonlit lanes, we talk of this and that.

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

And we all agree, as we unlond under the elm tree and go home to bed.

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R.A.F. pilot A bombed-Kiel-naval-deck-

yard from 800 feet described how he was trapped in a fer- 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 east 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.

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a dive to 800 feet.

"We got up a dickens of a speed.

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

Described as women of good position and education, Mrs. Gwendoline Walton, 39, her 16-

"The heavy flak' (anti-air- year-old daughter, and Mra.craft fire) had been coming up Voilet Masters, aged 60, of Sea-

all the time, and now the light forth Road, Westcliff, were fined ink started. £5 each at Southend for stealing growing onlons, pears, and a marrow, worth 3s., from a gar÷ den,

They were said to have usert m motor-car to take the goods away. The charge against the daughter was diamtused

There are a large number of empty. houses in the town,” said Detective. Jaknector Harria, and people are going into gardens stripping them of vegetables and fruit without makina thy inquiries regarding ownership

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"It just came straight up at 18. ·I have never seen zo much before.

"I thought we couldn't go back, having gót so far, so we just carried on.

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 At searchlights than ever. 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.

Away At Last

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

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

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

"We went south, zig-zagging.

time. all the t

Was Blinded" "We got about 15 miles

"Now and then I was able to catch a glimpse of the Mole in front of us,

was impossible to say for certain whether there was

ship there or not

away, and then, although we were being shot at, we were able to gain height.

"As we went up we had to take violent evasive action all the time. Finally we got away.

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