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Saturday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

November 23, 1940.

AFTER

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IN

CAIRO 21 YEARS

The Australian soldier when the Australians were barracks in the British Empire. presented, Navy, Army and Air the troops. Every Monday night the floor show from the Con- first there in 1914. A wide- It is a foolish and reckless sol- Force, has again become a

dier who takes a chance of

tinental Savoy Cabaret puts on ly distributed military map twenty-eight days within those made in this war to cater for are held on other nights and Greater provision has been a free performance. Concerts familiar figure in Cairo of the city prints areas in grim walls

bounds to troops, whitę

the men in the ranks on leave, there are' periòdic dances; after a lapse of twenty against the red background city offers everything that the the city are several splendidly inexpensive

But the in bounds area of the in Cairo, Scattered through In the week-ends, organised

tours to the. one years. Immediately of the out-of-bounds por young soldier of to-day requires. run clubs where the men can Pyramids and the nearer tour- Open air cafes, bars, picture obtain food and drink at prices ists places of interest are con- the troops moved into

theatres, restaurants, dance much cheaper than those ducted direct from the camp. On The risk of being caught out halls and cabarets abound and charged in public bars. The Saturday and Sunday, quiet

any soldier. Tigh over city all parts of the Empire every Pasha is another club offering scen in the beautiful Zoological

tions.

New Neckwear & Cuffs their desert camp a of bounds is not worth while to aro thronged with soldiers from Y.M.C.A. in Skarin: Suliman bodies of Australians are to be

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generous leave pro gramme was adopted granting Cairo leave from 4.30 p.m. to 1 a.m.. to one third of each unit each night of the week.

To men who had been. living remote from any city with only a few hours daytime leave about once a month, this sudden freedom seemed very heaven.

A good rail service runs from near the camp and buses bring the troops to and from their actual lines.

Gardens as their fathers were twenty-five years ago. The old attendants greet them warmly and proudly rush them to the compounds housing the kan- garoos, wallabies and emus. It is a common thing for the old stagers at the Zoo to anxiously enquire after some soldier of a quarter of a contury ago as if Australia wore a place no bigger than their own few beautiful

acres.

In addition to Cairo, there is general leave every night to the pleasant little town situated a couple of miles from the camp. Quiet cafes and open air. béer gardens are a great attraction to the men here and provido a welcome break from camp life for those who cannot afford a trip to the city. Longer leave periods of four days are still being granted and Australians are to be seen as far afield as Alexandria.

Great care is being taken that the men present a smart appear. ance on leave. Shirts, shorts and hats are being worn in the daytime, with shirts, long drill slacks and forage caps at night. Many famous British regiments are represented in Cairo and our troops have a lot to live up to. Luckily, there is a good and cheap laundry service operating in the camp and each man is able to leave camp with his

Cairo is a city that has changed very little in the metropolitan area since the last war. Old soldiers say that the city is still much the same, combining as it does surprising beauty with equally surprising squalor

towers the, Citadel, and within night. A few nights ago, a meals, showers, reading and clothing pressed and laundered. Its wall the military prison of party comprised a Canadian. writing rooms etc. Probably the A khaki, webbing, waist belt is leave without alde Probably from the mili- the same name still flourishes. Rhodeslans, a South African, the best of the clubs is the Em- worn on

To-day, as during the last war, New Zealanders and Austra pire Services. Here in addition, arms. The cloth gaiter is worn tary point of view, the city it is known to all soldiers as one lians. Between them, all three billiarde may be played and on- with the buttons taken in to give is much better policed than of the most severe detention branches of the Services were re- tertainments are provided for a neater show of the ankle.

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'OPPOSED So much oppost- tion arises in Spain to Ramon Serrano Suner, above, advo cate of close relations with Germany and Italy, that Gon- oral Franco has dropped idea of making him Promier.

MOTHER AT FIVE

-Unprecedented In Medical History

Spain's No. 2

SPAIN'S No. 2. Man. That

Man POCKET CARTOON

is what some people have Who Wants To Be No. 1

-called-Don Ramon Serrano-

married sisters.

Suner, loosely called Franco's (lost to the United States in Suner resembles Mussolini in brother-in-law-they actually: 1898), and even parts of Mexico his frugality of living. He, too, and the South-Western Ameri- like the Duce, is rigorously But the fanatical lawyer who can States first colonised by guarded. His car is driven over has been helping the harassed Spaniards.

the pavement into the hall of Franco to create a new Spain They picture a vast con- his Ministry, so that he shall not has been slowly but surely federation of Iberians, allied to have to leave it in the open wresting the supreme power the Spanish republics of South street. There it waits for him, from the little general;

America. In short, they would with the engine well running, Now Spain's leading Fascist, like to see Spain back where before he leaves the building (they call them Phalangiste she was in the days of Philip again. there) seems destined to lose and the Inquisition, before Eng- He has never disguised his all that his brother-in-law has land had dethroned her.

feelings towards the Axis gained, by dragging his battered It is a large order, and the lowers, country at the heels of the Axis Spanish, Imperialists' belief that "We shall never forget Ger- their ambitions will be seconded many and Italy," he said once. Early this week he arrived in by Germany and Italy would "They never hesitated to help Berlin to meet Hitler and Rib- be pathetic were it not so us in our hours of danger." bentrop, ostensibly to exchange foolish. information on administrative

into war.

Yet Serrano Suner-devout; methods actually, in the belief Catholic as he is, idealist and

of well-informed quarters, to fanatic seems to share it.

make a deal with the 'Axis.

Germany has long wished to Price On His Head,

jdrag Spain into war at the side

strong forces in Spain opposed

DOWN

"Ha! So you don't know. what a power-dive' is!"

Christmas Card Patriotism

"For

For Justice and peace the whole

world o'er than

Additional staff was. en-

HP

SAUCE

Á PATRIOTIC note this year will working at high pressure for several · of the Axis, and has been carry- BEFORE the Spanish War he ing on terrific propaganda for

was a lawyer and a mem-replace the centuries-old. traditional months. the past year or more.. Never- ber of the Spanish Parliament, greeting on Christmas cards, which gaged.

manufacturers report are in greater theless there were until recently but little known, even in Spain. demand than for many years.

He was in Madrid when the In keeping with the times, the to such a step.

Civil War began, and there was phrase, "Merry Christmas," is being Now Suner, with a body a price on his head. Two of replaced by "Peaceful" or "Happy" guard representing the leading his brothers were, ehot, but he Christmas. A corps of physicians led by personalities in Spanish econo- was, exchanged for a Republi-A typical message on many Christ-

mic, political, military, Press can prisoner held by Franco, mas cards this year reads: the famous specialist, Doctor and propagandist circles, may and reached his brother-in-law Kari John Karnaky, of Houston, be about to take the plunge, in in a British destroyer, with his a Texas, are bringing all their spite of his statement to the hair turned grey.

Energetic and ambitious, a knowledge to bear in an effort to Voelkischer Beobachter that his save two little girls of five from country's position is "one of non hater of democracy and of the dying of "old age" before they bellgerency that must not be old army chiefe, he rose with- interpreted as disinterested in three years to become the rench the age of twenty.

second most important man in Incas.

When the right moment Spain-Minister of the Interior, comos," he added, "the leaders "Fuhrer" of the Phalangists, in Spain will give the order for responsible for the departments

"dreams"="" of Public Order, Sanitation and action

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The cases

are unprecedented in medical history.

Both girls kave reached full: adulthood and one of them, Linda

task of rebuilding|

And vanish for ever the sight of

Another

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“For our country's happiness and

prosperous future:

creates that

And for our friends happy and healthy, hungry

prosperous New Year."

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