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HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE Stubbs Rd,

The Editor of "PM" Broadcasts on the Air Blitz

and at very high altitudes searchlights spout into the air this chaos. Hundreds of sturdy, POCKET CARTOON five or six miles in the air, to meet them round the edge of triple-tier bunka had been in- The daylight raiders are fountains of light disappear up burlap instead of canvas. Each the City. Sometimes the tall, stalled, like camp beds one upon another, but made with heavy fighter 'planes, with no more into the mist. Sometimes they was numbered, and the occupant than a single small bomb to break against low clouds in a came back to the same bed every deliver. To-day .it was white glow. Sometimes there night. clear, and you could follow are no searchlights and you can the fellow that came over trace the approach of the planca Plumbing was going on. this morning, across

the by the sounds and flashes of the There was a trained nurse and a and properly, equipped sky-little white puffs anti-aircraft picked out his those near the City bark with a fooking up. course in a wide are to the hollow sound; then all of a sud- west of the City.

**What did Firll you ! One screech-and see what you get.”

of anti-aircraft guns. They thud.clean

far off over the horizon. Then first-nid bay. Things were

den you jump out of your boots The big shelters in the deep

yards away.

I was lunching near when one goes off a few hundred Tubes 60ft underground are at once the safest and the most- where he laid his lone egg.

depressing. In one you can It jarred the house a little, When they are close you can walk a full half-mile, stopping but only succeeded in divert- walt and count to 10 or 11 and over the feet of an absolutely ing conversation for a few then see the little flicks of ex- solid carpet of sleeping humani

In the middle of the tunnel ploding shells in the sky, and a ty. minutes.

minute Inter you can hear the you feel as if you could take a I shall have to wait till I thud, thud, thud, thud of the handful of the air and press it explosions themselves coming between your hands and make a down from miles in the sky. It snowball of it. The night I was is a fine, heartening feeling to there there were 4,500 people think that one of those shells jammed together. may be knocking the tail off the man who is trying to drop nitro- glycerine on your head.

Fascism Stubs

The following is the text of get back to America to tell

a broadcast account of his im-

storics. Here- my bomb pressions of London, by Mr abouts the man who makes Ralph Ingersoll, publisher of

Hongkong Telegraph. "PM", the New York evening anecdotes of his narrow es-

Friday, January 10, 1941.

Wyndham St, Ilongkong Telephone: 20015

THE prefix "Special to the Telegrapn* Is used by the "Jangkang Telegraph" to indicate news which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni. cations Ordinance, 1936. Such news an bears the indication “UP” is recolved in Hongkong on the date of publication by

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under

Its

The warden and the nurses in the first-aid shelters were to me the most inspiring people I have met in London-calm, courage- ous, tireless volunteers, in- terested only in the people they looked nfter: When supplies were too slow in coming they bought them with their own

Toes

When the guns are quiet you

at home for their motors are

capes is called a bomb bore,. Mr Ingersoll tells his fellow- and people sidle away to countrymen the things which talk of other things. strike a war-time visitor who

can hear the droning of motors; As a matter of fact, I they make an odd irregularly has known London

have had no other conditions.

narrow es- patterned droning buzz, quite capes since I have been distinct from the noise of trans- I HAVE been here nine here. Most of the noise port planes flying back and days now. By day I has been anti-aircraft, and forth from the La Guardia Field have been talking to mem- the raiders that have got kept out of synchronisation to either wholly or in part without previousbers of the Government, through the R.A.F. by day make it more difficult for the By night I have been visit-or over the anti-aircraft sound detectors to pick them up. ing underground shelters, by night-have been few Often they fly round and round and over the week-end I and not very potent. They trying to orient themselves. made a two-day round of have been driven so high in night; under the streets there is the military airports de- the air that they cannot a whole other life, the life in the fending London.

find their targets, and shelters. There is no precise

the United Press Andctations, where

EYES ON BULGARIA

AT last it appears the turn has come for Bulgaria to take her place on the Axis carpet. The eyes of the world, momen-

tarily diverted from the active

phases in North Africa and

Albania and ihe Battle of Britain, are speculating on the course which Boris III will take when Germany demands that he alter his. government to make it pliable to Axia wishes, afford free passage across the country to out-manoeuvre Turkey and Greece, and adjust his internal

economy to become a granary for the Reich. Briefly, that

seems about all that even avari- cious Hitler could ask of Boris,

:

That is life on the streets at

POCKET CARTOON

BLOGGS PILLS

"Apparently it was a very long-term contract.”

The City of London lives much of the time there has pattern to the London shelter, they are improvised and of all two lives, one by day and been mist and fog on the sizes. The only generalisation one by night. By day, life Channel and so not many is that each is in the charge of in the City is almost normal; raiders have taken the an A.R.P. warden or a staff of there is the cheerful noise of chance and left the ground wardens, and the people bring the traffic in the street, in German France.

their own bedding. Most are people come and go from To the visitor who has in rowa, shoulder to shoulder-- crowded, and people sleep there offices and shops, restaur- _ants_are_crowded at lunch. time. Now and then there is the siren to startle the newcomer, but Londoners not been here since the war all kinds of people, children and sense. They will one day erect

time 'raids. pay little attention to day the most startling change grown-ups, men and women.

is the sudden end of the Everyone is concerned with

their improvement, from the Elsewhere I saw what looked There is no rush for shel- day at black-out time.

By Ralph Ingersoll-

limited funds; when rules are. too few or too complicated they make their own with great good

monuments in this city to the unknown shelter warden.

one of the few kingly survivors ters, but if the sky is clear The papers publish the man on the street-corner to the like the final step in the evolu

people look up to see if they minute at which

black-out begins ag

of the war.

Bulgaria is terribly poor and

is entirely dependent on Ger- many for textiles and machinery for which she can only pay with agricultural produce. Boris has had Fascist tendencies (and an Italian wife) for years, but these have not been of the extrava- gant nature of Italy's dictator. By the way it is interesting to speculate that by his failure in Greece, Mussolini threw away another project that he had in mind-the domination of the Balkans. He had made a good start with Albania, and Greece would have given him vakı- able bases from which to operato against Bulgaria whose people, poor

and rent with

Bulgaria's great standby now must be dependence on the goodwill of Russia who cannot brook with equanimity further encroachment of the Nazis in the area of the Black Sca,

POCKET CARTOON

So sail Time bomb or no timë bomb; sie, we fuish thin

rubber..!!

political parties in the Govern- tion of the shelter-a very deep the ment. In the single week I cellar underneath a department our have been here I have seen the store. In one room in five were card-tables, a darts game board, -in one corner of a promi- In one of the big underground and an up-and-coming canteen. nent page. In the half-shelters in which I spent most Many people played cards and hour preceding, the entire of one night 8,000 people slept. chatted and read until they There one could see the whole drifted off to comfortable beds city of 8,000,000 people

evolution of shelter life under they had made for themselves shut, curtain, board up and one roof. Deep in one cavern- in other divisions of the cellar. black out every window in ous room people slept shoulder The air was good; there was no their dwellings, offices, to shoulder, till they were so crowding. hotels, private homes crowded, with no more room on

the floor, that they slept prop- If anyone is worried about the everywhere people live or ped against walls, curled up on freedom of the Press in this work. The streets empty metal stairs in unbelievable con- country I can assure him that suddenly. The only lights gestion. Cold and draughty at it is doing an alert job. Stu- that come on are hooded or one end, it was thick and un- pidity and Inefficiency are har- ried in the columns of all masked, lights giving direc. comfortable at another.

papers, bad conditions exposed tions to shelters, first-aid Yet a few hundred yards and good work applauded.

a. beginning had been posts or showing obstruc- away

made on bringing order. out of tions in the highways.

papers publish the weather conditions in several improve. well-lit chairs in which to read,

The red, green and yellow traffic lights that wo are fami-

fratricidal hates, would have can see the raider. They liar with at home, are tiny red, been excellent material. upon rarely can, as by day the green and yellow crosses here. which to work.

Germans come only singly You cannot see them a few

blocks away.

The only noises on the streets fading in the face of something which all must recognise as a com- are the gears of the buses which mon, danger-a return to the semi-run on through the night, the slavery they endured Httlo more clap of boots on the pavements than sixty years ago before they usually the service boots of earned their independence.

the police, the A.R.P. wardens Physically the Serbs, Croats and

Onas, result of modern war and and the Home Guardsmen who Bulgars who make up the popula diplomacy however, is that the tion of Bulgaria, have little to lose feelings of the people are not able challenge you in the dark when from either the

or to find expression in force. Before you cross their beat.- Nazis. The former could expropriate pubile opinion can and itself, the All but a few of the taxis the property of the wealthy Bulgars propagandists and secret agents have

could And any and give it forestalled them, arma and brutal have disappeared. Within the peasants: The Nazis could order

order police

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they

Communista

the agricultural life of the country

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are few minutes after the black-out

are Imported, the leaders are

and build some much needed roads so the populace is terrified into the City is ready. It is a little acquiescence and a muzzled press after half-past six. Within a the tragic truth under pages of few minutes It comes: the even- Hes. Thus, what is happening in Bulgaria is known only to Baris and ing alren. The Germans are Hitler perhaps also to Stalin and methodical and punctual, fel- Mussolini and the people thrm-lows. selves will only know when Europe' learns of the next turn of fate in the history of this little country.

und railways, The people would show lille interest in the doctrines of Commnunlar or Nazllam and would be very unreliable military`material. It is possible, however, that the batred of the Cronts, Serbs and Hul-- Hars for ruch other and ... for the Turks, Greeks and Humanlans is

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They come droning through the black, and some nights the

POCKET CARTOON

GAS-PF

(*) know fór a fact that the fella's been blackballed by every decent shelter in London,"

I have said this before and I should like to say it again not until you have been hero and seen what it is like to live in an nerial siege can you get any idea of the size of the problem or the magnificence with which the. people of London are rising to meet it. Everywhere there is the calm and casual courage that takes your breath away in ad- : miration.

The bombing of civilians is n brutal and ugly thing, but the herolam, with which it is met and endured here restores one's confidence in humanity. No- where in nine days of walking and talking did I see the slight- est evidenco, of indecision or faltering. Here Fascism. hab stubbed its toe on the character of a people who can "take It," and who obviously propose to Lake it until the last Gorman raider has gone down in smoke; or hot-footed it for home with two Spitfires on his taili