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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
January 4, 1941.
The Uncensored Story Of How Europe Is Living To-Day
BE
BERLIN
ERLIN is the, city with u "hangover"} hangover from victory.
No metropolis in the world ever enjoyed such triumphs as the Berliners have done in the last few years. They have lined Unter den Linden in their tens of thousands and "helled"
victory procession
after victory procession. They have thronged round the Chan- cellery to applaud their Fahrer on his latest stroke of success -Austria engulfed, Czecho- Slovakia, Poland, and then the of Western over running
Europe, culminating in the far
tastic smashing of France.
Confident--Then
Moreover, Goering had pro- mised the city immunity from
* For weeks the "Hongkong Telegraph” has boon trying to dis- cover the whole truth about how Europe, and particularly German- occupied Europe, is living to-day.
Thore-
* The Nazis are endeavouring to conceal the real facts. fore accurate information has been difficult to gain. Massos of material, apparently authentic, has proved on investigation to be tainted and biased. All such information has been discarded.
But, with the aid of unimpeachable noutral sources and particu- larly of certain famous American journalists, we have been able to build up, piece by piece,.itom by item, the first accurate story of how Europe is living to-day. Here it is—uncensored.
OSLO
Norwegians
cowed.
nro
BRUSSELS
noto Brussels, as to Paris, the
T In their capital of Germans carried their new Oslo they are making the Nazis doctrine of polite overlordship,
Whereas uncomfortable.
Warsaw was des- troyed, Paris and Brussels were The Germans began-charac- treated according to Nazi no-
n tions-"politely." air attack. The early leaflet teristically-by placarding
In Brussels the German sol- raids had been a joke. Berlin's shop "Jewish busineas,”
dier is courteous, affable even; A.A. defences had not brought
The housewives of the quarter sickhearted Belgians see him sure they did not want to dis- replied by forming a queue in giving up his scat in the trams the street and bringing the to the old and infirm, watch him close their disposition. The Berliners were free to enjoy shopkeeper the best trade he distributing cigarettes to be their victories.
down the raids because at that
True, their city was much more drab than it used to be. There were no taxis in the streets and very little other trailic.
had ever had.
That is just one instance.
.
Five At A Film
Kars.
10
VICHY
sort.
guilty of disrespect to a civili- Autumn Tang an; he is led through the streels, manacled.
PARIS
PARIS, once the Meces of
sightscors, still is. To her famed memorials, her luscious parks and gardens, still come sightseers in thousands-from Germany.
Hitler is showing off his Paris prize. It is the best propagan- da he can offer to his own duped people.
Poster Mockery
The whole German army, division by division, is being taken to Paris to see the sights. From bombed Germany thou- sands of civilians are being VICHY was once a health re- trip-trained for a few days of gluttonous gazing at the city There is perhaps no more unhealthy place in France drenched in beauty and in his- to-day. It is full of people who tory. are sick at heart; for them no waters, no bracing air, provide or will provide a "cure."
Bulldog Reynaud's National To Vichy, once a charming Service posters have been strip- town, came the Government of ped from the walls: in their Surrender. Came, also, a rigid place cynical pictures showing black-out, the closing of cine- German soldiers with babies in mus, casinos, and lidos.
their arms. "The German To-day, in place of these at- soldier is the children's friend," fractions, two cinemas, open in says the legend. Occasionally the Comman- day-time only, show to ener- Parisians look palely at it, dant announces that such-and- vated diplomats ten-years-old remembering the children of such a Nazi has been found films.
France mown down, machine- gunned, blasted and bombed by the German soldiers. - The late summer rains are But they do not demonstrate. bringing the tang of autumn to They reserve their anger. There No Patrol
The Nazis are a city, where it was always are few scenes,
is spring; it
now always on their best behaviour. The BUT that is the only "sunny autumn.
officers are installed in the Even Pierre Laval, the shadi- famous hotels the Ritz, side" to a grim picture.
Brussels, formerly so gaya est man in France, is suffering. Maxim's, Meurice, Crillon. city, is dead now.
The soldiers, unctuously po- He had just completed a 21- most never. These hardships they ac- Likewise, the citizens
There is little motor traffic. days "cure" for sluggishness of lite, help aged women across the cepted in the confidence that they sabotaging any attempts made There is no patrol for the few the liver before he was dis- roads.
by the invaders to give the cars which the there was always a
The young women have their acid flavour to these easy triumphs capital a "normal" appearance. not requisitioned.
The diplomats, who yearn for revenge. They ignore, freeze, --and to-day comes the "hang-over."
The Nazis made a gesture to Leopold remains in isolation Paris even now that it is over- isolate the amorous German The same Berliners, cramped and
opening in the chateau of Lacken, just run by Nazis, find slight conso soldiery. of their the population li-tempered, shelters in the early hours of the theatres and cinemas again. outside the city.
iation in the company of their MEANWHILE, the Nazis morning after the nightly visitation The people simply stayed away.
kind.
are engaged in turning Paris of the R.A.F-planes which were
The Hotel du Parc is the main into a gigantic changing-house. not supposed to come. They
Petain headquarters of the
The Reichmark, arbitrarily THE German propagandists Government; almost all the fixed at the value of 20 francs are trying persuade the diplomats are quartered in one to 1 Rm (the pre-war rate was Bruxellois that they have come or other of two hotels which about 11), buys them the luxur. to bring them prosperity. They are connected by a covered ies which Germany has not tell them that all employers causeway. have instructions to find work
Own
Girls who walk, talk, or flirt Their food had improved with German soldiers have their slightly with the conquest of the heads shaven by their rich countries
west, friends and relatives. though restaurant prices were unpleasantly high.
lo the
Often everybody in a restaur- They enjoyed the luxury of warm ant gets up and goes out when water on two days a week, and of a German party comes in. real soap-as opposed to ersatz al-
would soon disappear.
BUT
crawl
out
sub-
are
by
arc
At a showing, one night, of asking themselves what exactly these the best film in Oslo, five people triumphs ndd
They hove up to. Kained a precarious empire and lost made up the house.
their personal security,
Real Worry.
They have cause to worry. Their
city has more target orcas than any other capital in Europe..
A Typical Night
Germans have missed.
Work-By Order
to
And that was a typical night.
Button Holing for at least three-quarters of There is rationing, of course The Templehot airport is central than Croydon is to London. the tale which has to be told their pre-war employees-this despite the almost total absence
more
Their angs factories are as im- of any city which the Germans-of raw materials,
Siemens
portant as those in the Ruhr. In the enter. But there is not, appar-
densely populated areas are ently, the acute food shortage. But they are not so success renrcat plants the A.E.G. cleċ---- other
peasant nent that exists elsewhere. Norway fl with the
com- work, the gigantic tricity
that see
the bas always lived on the fat of munity, who works, the aircraft factories.
German occupation will bring To-day the Berliner has not quite the land.
them ruin. the same palate for the butter that
is coming in from Derimark of the coffee
from
Drussels,
In the cafes there are fights
or the goods between Nazi troops and young
that have been looted from Paris.
known for many months. Silk stockings, lingerie, jewellery, watches, clothing; these have almost vanished from the shops:
Every day diplomats, going of Paris. They are across the about their business, meet in Rhine adorning the wives and this shady corridor. They can- friends of the invading soldiers. not avoid meeling.
The Problem
lle krews that these will come to Norwegians. The Horst Wessel WARSAW strained, sad faces; of frus- streets at night. an end-but he suspects, in spite of Lied is often drowned by "Ja,
Dr Goebbels, that the R.A.F. raids vi elsker," the Norwegian Na- will go on and on.
tional Anthem.
free h
As always, when the Berliner feels himself up against trouble, he takes
Demonstrations for refuge in a despondently cynical Norway and King Haakon every joke.
Their latest is to wish each other day worry Himmler's. Gestapo
A "plinter-less" night.
agents.
ROME
dungeons,
where
the
TOODEN beams and metal W
girders from
the 6,000 wrecked homes of Warsaw are now being sent to Germany to help repair the damage caused by R.A.F. bombs,
The capital of Poland, a year after the bombardments, is still
And there, with button-holing and whispering, spring and bur- BUT there is a problem loom- geon the countless rumours ing which must stir uneasily in which are Vichy's staple diet. the minds even of the humble Vichy is full of tears, of sentries who pound the deserted
trated hopes. It is also full of pretty women.
Soon, perhaps, even in Paris. But, like the other capital of showpiece of an aggressor's France, it is almost empty of victory, the question in every laughter and almost empty of mind may be: "Where is my food,
next meal coming from"
Food.
MOSCOW
peace.
WHEN Italia, A.A. Kunis Christians were held prisoners finding and burying its dead. M neasy pact, but peace bought their delicacies tire to
I
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City Squares
An where the privileged foreigners
some months ago at non-exis- before being thrown to the lions,
longer doing the business they all the same. The citizens, tent British 'planes over Rome have been cleared to shelter the
were. The French havo dis- poorly dressed on Western and injured two of their own modern Roman from the possi-
appeared; the British have been In citizens with falling shrapnel, ble result of a new Imperial
and standards, queue up outside the whittled down; there are a few the city squares greens, In the Axis howl went up that policy.
the courtyards of newspaper offices and read the Germans, but their Reichmarks Britain had deliberately bombed A tunnel being driven under mansion houses, haphazard one thing which matters to them are not popular, the most sacred city in Europe, the city to connect its contre graves dug between air raid the never-ending story of the the centre of the Roman Catho- with the proposed site of the alarms are yielding up corpses battle between the R.A.F. and lic faith and the custodian of 1942 exhibition has been hur- and the metal handles of cof- the German air arm. the greatest relics of Western riedly converted into a huge civilisation.
shelter 10 miles long and 80ft. fins needed by the German
Reich. The story was manifestly deep. false, but, while failing to dis- ABOVE all 113 subterranean The capital faces a winter of eredit the Allies, it has had the activity the daily life of Rome goes
on in a quiet and fairly boomerang effect of raising an manner. There are fewer cars and
normal starvation, pestilence, and auf- awkward doubt in the mind of more cyclists.
fering beyond the ken of civi- the twentieth-century Roman. The official cars and military lised man.
He is not quite certain vehicles which are running being a whether he has a "safety licket" new colour note to the street scene, It is a city of living dead, in the countless memorials of ey are camouflaged in "Jazz" pat more than 1,600 houses were Rome, Its 400 odd churches and Paint-duty policemen are often razed to the ground and 4,000 the sanctity of the Vatican City, superseded by white-gloved kuldiers bombed to ruina. There has with sicel helmeis picking up ex- perience in handling traffic in an been no restoration yet.
Papal Colours
terns of black and white.
emergency.
Dodging Realities
And so Moscow once again has become a city where people work to eat and do not work to enjoy the fullness of living. For the rest it is a normal city--as normal, that is, a problem. The auto buses are fam- The pubile conveyances reflect this Moscow can ever be. The sym- med; travel is uncomfortable. Mos- where the millions phony concerts continue in the cow is a place park during the summer; the mill around the traffic stops. Private
and cars are few and taxis prohibited. State-supported opera thentre carry on; the cafe so- Chess Player ciety plays its chess and dreams
its dreams.
Endless Streams
DUT, fundamentally, your Russian ! Is no keen an amateur politician as ho is chess player, and the foreign news and the maps of the war zones Moscow is the city of endless are keenly acceptable. The special groups which Explain the develop- streams of pedestrians. It is m
ments in the International situation The Royal Palace, the Bank of one of the busiest places in the are well attended, and the earnest Ilo has provided for oventu- allties in the typical Italian
of and the Hotel Bristol are heaps of it. That is one of the quickest classes are held, in order to have the National Economy, the Polytechnic, world-there is hardly a car in Russian workmen pack the factories, Rome-unique among ellies manner without the organis-
offices, schools, and parks where such ing thoroughness of the senior Europe in its historical associatians masonry.
ways of forming an impression mysterious doings of the outside -in unique also in its posllion in this partner in the Axis but with an
A German soldier who has been of its standard of living. All world explained to them. war eye to effect.
Its cliizens throng the streets and on duty in the town recently, said: the morning, all the afternoon,
Rather like the Berliners, the Rus- The churches are now picked publie parks and gardens looking at it is one great cemetery. Sower and in the early evening, when Glans in Moscow, make great play o
the monuments of the city's great out in the Papal colours of white past and hoping that they will pro- rats come up into houses looking for the Civil Servants with their their day of rest. They use it for and yellow to make identifica tect them from the harsh realities of food. When they are caught they portfolios leave their innumera- relaxailon and for getting sunburnt. tion cnay from the hir. Millions the present.
ble offices and mingle with the They return to Moscow packed in the of sandbags are tiered up hensive. Italy wilt
defeated Doge fetch 10s, ench, prepared as homegoing crowds, Moscow is a stuffy suburban trains, tanned and relaxed, their arms full of wild against the ancient monuments without the necessity
of bombing food. Canl costs £8 a ton. Soap is city of walkers as well as dowers, their baskets full of mush- of the city. The Colosseum Rome from the air.
practically unobtainable at 68. a ib. workers. The famous shops rooms,
They need not be unduly appre-
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