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The seventh instalment of the serios, "The Nazis in the Channel Islands. The story is told by a native of St Patar Port to

“DUDLEY BARKER-

Nazis Played Saluting Trick On Islanders

AF

FTER a time the Germans occupying Guernsey got a bit annoyed at being called Jerries and square- headed pigs," said Fred Hockey. ---------

Fred is the signaller of St Peter Port harbour, who managed to escape from Guernsey, and thus to tell me all about the German occupation.

"So they issued an order that, in future, we were permitted to speak of the Germans only as 'our garrison.". That stuck in the throat a bit. However, they held the whip.

"And, mind you, they tried very hard, in all sorts of ways, to make us like them, although if they succeeded at all, it was only with a very small number of ignorant people on the island.

"One day, about a month ago, they gave us a lovely demons- tration of a Prussian parude.

"A military band had arrived only that morning from Ger- many. And a very good band it was, too-probably the best brass band we have ever had in the Channel Islands.

A Funny Sight

"Afterwards the band played regularly every Thursday and Sunday evening at the county ground, and every Sunday morn- ing outside the White Hart, and quite a lot of people used to go

Thongkong Telegraph. along to listen to it. It really

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Radio's Friendly Link

EVERY day a multitude of raucous propagandist voices at test deplorably how radio is being exploited to poison inter- national relations. AI the more gratifying is it, therefore, to note a feature such "Friendship Bridge," which, by the joint benevolence of the British American Ambulance Corps and the

World-Wide Broadcasting Foundation in Bos- ton, Massachusetts, has for some time been doing much to promote kindly feelings between the English-speaking peoples on both sides of the Atlantic.

was an excellent band,

"Well, on the day that it ar rived it took up its position in front of the German headquar- playing military marches. ters in St Peter Port, and started

"All the German troops in the island were drawn up for the march past, and the Komman- dant, Dr Lanz, came to the front door to take the salute. Quite big crowd of Guernsey folk gathered to watch it all.

"Off went the band, and away went the German troops, goose- stepping as high as they could go, with the officers saluting, and the Kommandant and all the people crowded around in the sunshine,

"It really was rather a funny sight all that goose-stepping- and we were all quite good-tem- pered about it.

Salute Trick

FUNNY SIDE UP

By Abner Dean

ABNER DEAN

Cage, 1948 by Called Tscimi 2)sticir, los,

"You mean I can't bring my family along?"

PRIVATE LIFE OF A PRIVATE

Troubles-in the Kitbag

The new

Further extracts from the diary for hawk-eyed scrutiny. He has seen of a journalist who joined the millions of kits before, Guards.

Your spoon placed the wrong side. up will affllet him with a sense of THIS Army is highly equipped, something radically wrong-it will recruit is somewhat disagree with the official photograph: overwhelmed by the bulk and variety at the back of his brain, and you of the articles the Quartermaster will not get away with it, heaps upon him.

you guard your kit as you never

which a man of lifelong experience Ten Buby Toes in the song..

There is algo a blue kitbag, into guarded your life. You count your kit like the Ten Baby Fingers and may pack it all.

So

Japan's Spy Scare

A number of amusing de- tails have come to light on I have seen it done. Soldlers pass

the interrogation of various with blue sausages over their shout-

You are as harassed as a house- Britons in Japan, among ders: they achieve the miracle of keeper, and as stowage. So, one day, may 1.

preoccupied as on them some of the best- accountant.

But the piled-up mass of Govern-

You

ment property worries the rookie towel like a house-proud bride, and country.

You pat out tiny wrinkles in your known foreigners in the... who frst Ands it left on his hands.

He is full of the responsibilty that flick away specks of dust that were

The arrests, it was said, give comes with it. He has to stop and never there. think. He has to account for things, exact care of a child playing shops: to Japanese inspiration than to

arrange

your kit with the evidence of having been duc less This is where the taxpayers' money leap to attention, stift Kocs,

as a pace- stick.

and bawl your name and if he doesn't like it he can lump it.

columnists" who are said to play Then you wait, with the tenseness a considerable part in govern- And so there comes into our lives of Charles Lee, The Man They ment afairs at Tokyo. the awful anxiety of the Kit Inspec Could Not Hang, when he stood on tion.

the drop for the third time run-turned up a group of telegrams

In one instance, the officials.

If he loses it, he'll pay for it; and number, and say "Kit present, unstigation from German "fifth

ning

You have a vague ideo that every addressed by the British suspect It happens every week or so. You thing will come out right in the end, to a Chinese recipient in Kobe. are warned; Get that kit up-to-date, but aren't quite sure.

First the Britons pointed out scrubbed spotless, The officer nods and passes. The that all the telegrams were dug out and scoured and polished, pressed flat, breath you have been holding for and numbered with your Regimental the past seven minutes rushes outdated in the year 1922, then he "Afterwards the Kommandant Number. Or else!

with the fierce hiss of blown-out explained that the Chinese had made a little speech, and asked The day of the Kil Inspection is a tyre,

been a company employee at- all-those-of-French citizenship

Day

of Judgmení.

Tho-corners-of-your-smile-Uekle to raise their left hands. There laid-out articles on your bed misses more sweat than any you have ever

The officer who looks over the your ears; and you know a relict tending to matters involving his were very few. Then he asked nothing. He doesn't have to go in experienced. to raise their right hands, and' all those of British citizenship,

we all put our hands up.

own private yacht and that' the messages were all instructions sent to this man while the Briton was off cruising. None the police that the messages of this completely convincing were innocent, the Briton finally said:

..

tack for the islanders, as I'll there-I saw the boats bringing "It seemed a bit queer at the explain to you in a minute. them in, and was held to secrecy time, but it wasn't till after- The funniest piece of propu- about it, under the most severe wards that we found out what ganda, though, was supposed to penalties, which may have in-

Were They Convinced? it was all about."

be a great secret (the Germans cluded death: Thanks to the fur-stretching

"Look at the name of this didn't seem to know you can't "Now let me tell you the rea- Chinese in the messages. Now "As we raised our right hands keep anything secret range of short-wave transmisa photographer snapped us-and island).

on an son the German propaganda was go out to the cemetery and you on the wrong tack when they will find the same name on a sion, many thousands of British | pictures appeared in the German

tried to prove the British were tombstone. It has been there

12 years!" islanders 'giving the Nazi salute,

in

Knit Two, Purl Three The secretary was summoned and explained that the symbols were knitting Instructions, the signs quoted standing for "knit two, purl three, slip one.".

During the height of the spy

citizens must now be familiar newspapers of the Guernsey Snappy Landings bombing us. with this successful essay in and heiling Hitler l'

"Early one morning about 50 sey folk would have welcomed it. consisted in a number of scraps "The reason was--the Guern-; Another piece of "evidence"- the cultivation of friendship and "I'm told it's an old trick, and German soldiers, all dressed up

"Most of us had grown so to of paper found in a suspect's understanding. The moment they did the same thing in Paris. for battle and carrying their hate the Germans, in spite of office. The papers were covered was doubly ripe for such a ven- But we didn't know anything guns, went off with a few boats their soft-scap methods, that with mystic signs such as: K2, about that all we knew was and a film camera to the little we would willingly have taken a P3, S1. When the police ques ture. The British and American that we had been cheated into island of Herm, which lies off chance on our own lives, if the tioned their victim he said: peoples have often been highly helping their propaganda, and our cast coast.

British started bombing the These memos are in the hand- "They put the cameraman Germans out of the island. I writing of my lady secretary. I critical of each other--though the whole island was furious.

"We couldn't protest, but that ashore on the deserted bench, have heard scores.of Guernsey suggest that you call her in.". behind it all there has always little trick quite spoilt any pro- and then the German soldiers folk say that. been a large degree of concealed pagania value of the goosesten made a gallant landing from admiration. Each has many parade for us."

their boats.

Welcomed Bombs qualities which the other lacks.

Before long the Guernsey is boats, and made the landing "Then they got back into the But the

"Indeed, we were delighted events of recent lunders began to learn quite a again, and again. They landed when the British did bomb the months have brought out how lot about German propaganda on that beach hundreds of times airport. My father-in-law was much the two democracies have tricks. Once some bombs were

dropped in the vicarage garden that day, till they had a film up there at the time, and he was scare one missionary educator at Sark, and the Germans made which looked like thousands and as delighted as the rest of us was deprived of a first year grent play of the British bomb- fully armed, landing on a bench. Incidentally, as it happens, the his arrival at the port of Kobe thousands of German soldiers, were when we heard the news. arithmetic Instruction book upon ing their own people.

"I suppose they had already R.A.F. killed 15 Germans in that from his post in Korea. "But we made a few private taken a film of German troop- raid, and not a single Guernsey-water police who inspected his inquiries," said Fred Hockey, ships leaving Germany. "and we soon found out that it

baggage wero quito "unable to "For the reaction of the understand the book, but man- was a German plane that had Growing Hatred Guernsey people, towards the aged to convince themselves that Gormans, after three months of it very likely contained a secret "Another day, in Guernsey, a "Not all their activities were this 'polite' invasion, is that code of the greatest danger to dustman tipped a dustbin into just propaganda, though, One they loathe them like poison. his cart, and saw a funny object reason why we were not allowed

the Empire. "A few of the ignorant people roll out a live bomb. The to be out of doors at night was may have been partly won over The knowledge, that so many newspapors said it was a British that they were practising all by the propaganda, but most of

NEW INDIAN DAILY A friendly American eyes

bomb, put there in the hope of sorts of things then-landings the Islanders would give their

IN ENGLISH upon them is a constant stimu- blowing up some works. But on the coast among them. lives to see the Germans driven by hir G. Sarangapany, editor of the lus to their determination to

The "Indian Dolly Mall," published we knew enough by then to "There doesn't seem much out as one day they will see Tamil Murasu, Singapore. Is the fight Nazlam until it is over know that was just another doubt that, if the Germans ever them. They are powerless to fatest addition to the ranks of the thrown. And when that timepiece of German propaganda, do really try to invade England, do anything now but to submit English-language. comes the words Britain and "I don't think a single person they plan part of the invasion to German orders. But that is Singapore. This new journal, con- British will have a new stand- in the island believed that story. to come from the Channel Is- how they feel about it." ing in the world-most of all in! And, anyway, that sort of. pro- lands. And they certainly have the Now World.

common. They find and confess that it is a great deal more than they had suspected. Henco the British people see or hear from the other side of the Atlantic an outpouring of sympathy and admiration for them, in their struggle against dictatorship aggression and for the preservation of human liberties, which

is without parallel in the history of the two nations,

are

dropped those bombs.

paganda was quite on the wrong a lot of guns and ammunition

man.

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