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January 6, 1941.

The seventh instalment of the series, “The Nazis in the Channel Islands. The story is told by a native of St Peter Port to

66

-DUDLEY BARKER-

Nazis Played Saluting Trick On Islanders

AFTER 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 parade.

"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 along to listen to it. It really was an excellent band.

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

FUNNY SIDE UP

By Abner Dean

ABNte DEAN

Cope, 1118 by Custad Pontoro Syndicate, Tas,

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

PRIVATE LIFE OF A PRIVATE

Troubles-in

the Kitbag

Further extracts from the diary for hawk-eyed scrutiny. He has seen

of a journalist who joined the millions of kits before. Guards.

Japan's Spy Scare

Your spoon placed the wrong side up will affict him with a sense of THIS Army is highly equipped; disagree with the official photograph

something radiently wrong—it will) The new recruit is somewhat at the back of his brain, and you overwhelmed by the bulk and variety will not get away with it. of the articles the Quartermaster

So you guard your kit na you never heups upon him.

There 19 "All the German troops in the which a man of lifelong experience Ten Baby Toes in the song..

also a blue kilbag, into kit like the Ten Baby Fingers an

guarded your life. You count your,

A number of amusing de-. island were drawn up for the may pack it all.

tails have come to light on march past, and the Komman-

I have

seen it done. Soldiers pass

+

the interrogation of various dant, De Lanz, came to the front with blue sausages over their shoul- You are us harassed as a house Britons in Japan, among.

ders: they

achieve the miracle of door to take the salute. Quite aj

keeper, and as preoccupied So, one day, may I. stowage,

as anthem some

of the best- accountant. big crowd of Guernsey folk But the piled-up mass of Govern- gathered to watch it all.

You pat out tiny wrinkles in your known foreigners in the ment property worries the rookie towel like who first finds it left on his hands.

a house-proud bride, and country. "OT went the band, and away He is full of the responsibility that lick away specks of dust that were

never there,

The arrests, it was said, give went the German troops, goose- comes with it. He has to stop and

You arrange your kit with the evidence of having been due less stepping as high as they could think. He has to account for things, exact care of a child playing shops: to Japanese inspiration than to EVERY day a multitude of go, with the officers saluting, This is where the taxpayers money fear to attention pl

goes.

as a pace instigation from German "fifth off he loses it, he'll pay for it; and stick, and bawl your name and your columnists" who are said to play raucous propagandist voices at the people crowded around in if he doesn't like it he can lump it. number, and say "Kit present, sir?"

And so there comes into our lives of Charles Lee, The

Then you wait, with the tenseness a considerable part in govern- test deplorably how radio is the sunshine.

the awful anxiety of the Kit Inspec Could Not Hang, when he stood on

Man They ment affairs at Tokyo. being exploited to poison inter-

tion.

the drop for the third time run turned up a group of telegrame In one instance, the officials national relations. All the more gratifying is it, therefore,

Radio's Friendly Link

19

to note 22 feature such "Friendship Bridge," which, by

and the Kommandant and ail

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

मै

ning.

You have a vague idea 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 Salute Trick scoured and polished, pressed flat, breath you have been holding for dated-in-the-year 1922, then he

and-numbered-with-your-Regimental the past seven minutes rushes out the joint benevolence of the "Afterwards the Kommandanthe day of the Kit Inspection is a tyre.

cise! Or

with the fierce hiss of a blown-out explained that the Chinese had made a little speech, and asked all those of French citizenship Day of Judgment.

been a company employee at- The corners of your smile tickle tending to matters involving his to raise their left hands. There laid-out articles on your bed misses more sweet than any you have ever

The officer who looks over the your ears; and you know a relief own private yacht and that the were very few. Then he asked nothing. He doesn't have to go in experienced, all those of British citizenship!

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.

Thanks to the far-stretching range of short-wave transmis- sion, many thousands of British

to raise their right hands, and'

messages were all instructions sent to this man while the Briton was off cruising. None we all put our hands up. tack for the islanders, as I'll there-I saw the boats bringing the police that the messages of this completely convincing them in, and was held to secrecy were innocent, the Briton finally

"It seemed a bit queer at the explain to you in a minute. time, but it wasn't till after- "The funniest piece of propa- about it, under the most severe said: wards that we found out what ganda, though, was supposed to penaltics, which may have in-

Were They Convinced? it was all about.

be a great secret (the Germans cluded death,

"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 on' an ann the German propaganda was go out to the cemetery and you a photographer snapped us--and island).

on the wrong tack when they will find the same name on a pictures appeared in the German

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

12 years!" "The reason was the Guern- sey folk would have welcomed it. consisted in a number of scraps Another piece of "evidence" "Most of us had grown so to of paper found in suspect's

bombing us.

citizens must now be familiar newspapers of the Guisey Snappy Landings

'giving the Nazi salute, with this successful essay in and heiling Hitler!"

"Early one morning about 50 the cultivation of friendship and "I'm told it's an old trick, and German soldiers, all dressed up understanding. Tho 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-soap methods, that with mystic signs such as: K2, 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:

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- peoples have often been highly helping their propaganda, and our east const.

British started bombing the These memos are in the hand- "They put the cameraman Germans out of the island. I writing of my lady accretary, I behind it all there has always little trick quite spoilt any pro made a gallant landing from

and then the German soldiers folk say that, been a large degree of concealed paganda value of the goosestep their boats. ndmiration. Each has many qualities which the other lacks, parade for us."

the whole island was furious.

critical of each other-though ́}__"We couldn't.protest, but that ashore on the deserted beach, have heard scores of Guernsey | suggest that you call her in."

in

Before long the Guernsoy is- But the events of recent landers began to learn quite a

man,

►

The

Knit Two, Purl Three The secretary was summoned Welcomed Bombs and explained that the symbols. "Then they got back into the

were knitting instructions, the boats, and made the landing "Indeed, we were delighted signs quoted standing for "knit months have brought out how lot about German, propaganda again, and again. They landed when the British did bomb the two, purl three, siin oro much the two democracies have tricks. Once some bombs were on that beach hundreds of times airport. My father-in-law was

During the height of the spy. common. They find and; dropped in the vicarage garden that day, till they had a flim up there at the time, and he was scare, one missionary educator which looked like thousands and as delighted as the rest of us was deprived of a first year confess that it is a great deal at Sark, and the Germans made thousands of German soldiers, were when we heard the news. arithmetic instruction book upon more than they had suspected. great play of the British bomb- fully armed, landing on a beach. Incidentally, as it happens, the his arrival at the port of Kobe.. Hence the British people see orj ing their own people.

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

baggage were quite unable to "For the reaction of the understand the book, but man- them, in their struggle against was a German plane that had dictatorship aggression and for dropped those bombs,

Growing Hatred

Guernsey people, towards the aged to convince themselves that Gormans, after three months of it very likely contained a secret the preservation of human "Another day, in Guernsey, a "Not all their activities were this 'polite invasion, is that code of the greatest danger to liberties, which is without dustman tipped a dustbin into just propaganda, though. One they loathe them like polson. parallel in the history of the two his cart, and saw a funny object reason why we were not allowed

the Empire. nations.

"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 newspapers said it was a British that they were practising all by the propaganda, but most of

NEW INDIAN DAILY friendly American eyes are 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. lus to their determination to we knew enough by then to

lives to see the Germans driven The "Indian Daily Mall," published: "There doesn't seem much out one day they will see Tamil Murasu, Singapore, in the

by Mr G. Sarongapany, edlior of the. fight Nazism until it is over- know that was just another doubt that, if the Germans over them. They are powerless to latest addition to the ranks of the thrown. And when that time piece of German propaganda. do really try to invado England, do anything now but to submit English-langungo comes the words Britain and i

"I don't think a single person they plan part of the invasion to German orders. But that is Singapore. This now 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."

sisting of four pages and priced at ing in the world-most of all in And, anyway, that sort of pro- lande. And they certainly have TO-MORNOW: -ESCAPE

two cents'n' copy, Lakes the place of the New World,

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

thio dally Eriglish news page of the FROM THE SWASTIKA:] **Tamil Muraku.”

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