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Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

January 10, 1941.

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The Editor of "PM" Broadcasts on the Air Blitz

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and at very high altitudes searchlights spout Into the air this chaos. Hundreds of sturdy, five or six miles in the air. to meet them round the edge of triple-tier bunks 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...

Plumbing was going on.

clear, and you could follow are no searchlights and you can the fellow that came over trace the approach of the planes this morning, across the by the sounds and flashes of the There was a trained nurse and a sky little white puffs of anti-aircraft guns. They thud clean and properly equipped far off over the horizon. Then first-aid bay Things were anti-aircraft picked out his those near the City bark with a looking up. course in a wide are to the hollow sound; then all of a sud........ west.of the City.

den you jump out of your boots. The big shelters in the deep near when one goes off a few hundred Tubes 60ft underground are at

yards away.

once the safest and the most depressing. In one you can When they are close you can walk a full half-mile, stepping

I was lunching where he laid his long egg. It jarred the house a little, but only succeeded in divert ing conversation for a few minutes.

wait and count to 10 or 11 and over, the feet of an absolutely then see the little flicks of ex- solid carpet of sleeping humaniTMTM ploding shells in the sky, and a ty. In the middle of the tunnel minute later you can hear the you feel as if you could take;n

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.

Hongkong Telegraph. "PM", the New York evening

Friday, January 10, 1941. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20015

THE prefix "Special to the

is used by the tongkong Telegrapa"

to

Indicate news which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni- cations Ordinance, 1936. Such news # bears the Indication “UP" is received in Itongkang on the date of publication by'

the United Press Associations who re either wholly or in part without previous

serve, all rights and forbid repubileations,

arrangement,

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

of

newspaper.

Its

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

Toes

a broadcast account of his im

bomb stories. Here my pressions of London, by Mr abouts the man who makes Ralph Ingersoll, publisher of anecdotes of his narrow es- capes is called a bomb bore, Mr Ingersoll tells his fellow- and people sidle away to

When the guns are quiet you 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 under have had no narrow es- patterned droning buzz, quite

other conditions.

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capes since I have been distinct from the noise of trans- HAVE been here nine here. Most of the noise port planes flying back and days now. By day Ihas been anti-aircraft, and forth from the La Guardia Field at home for their motors are have been talking to mem- the raiders that have got kept out of synchronisation to bers of the Government. through the R.A.F. by day make it more difficult for the By night I have been visitor over the anti-aircraft sound detectors to pick them up. ing underground shelters, by night-have been few Often they fly round and round

trying to orient themselves. and over the week-end I and not very potent. They That is life on the streets at 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 City of London lives much of the time there has they are improvised and of all pattern to the London shelter, 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

"Apporenity it their own bedding. Most are the traffic in the street, in German France.

a very people come and go from

crowded, and people sleep there

long-term contract.” To the visitor who has in rows, shoulder to shoulder..... offices and shops, restaur- ants are crowded at lunch time. Now and then there is the siren to startle the

suas

tarily diverted from the active phases in North Africa and Albania and the Battle 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 Grecce, and adjust his Internal newcomer, but Londoners not been here since the war all kinds of people, children and sense. They will one day erect

economy to become"a granary"

for the Reich. Briefly, that time raids. scems about all that even avari-

cious. Hitler could ask of Boris,

of the war.

Bulgaria is terribly poor, and

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By Ralph Ingersoll

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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. pay little attention to day the most startling change-grown-ups,-men-and-womon

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. 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- political parties in the Govern- tion of the shelter-a very deep people look up to see if they minute at which the ment. In the single week I cellar underneath a department black-out begins as our have been here I have seen the store. In one room in five were card-tables, a darts game board, papers publish the weather conditions in several improve.

well-lit chairs in which to read, -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 city of 8,000,000 people There, one could see the whole drifted off to comfortable beds 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,

crowded, with no more room on private homes-

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." posts or showing obstruc- away a beginning had beon time bomb, sir, we finish this tions in the highways.

nade on bringing order out of rubber.***

is entirely dependent on Ger- many for textiles and machinery for which she can only pay with agricultural produce. Boris has had Fascist tendencles (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 Balkana. He had made a good start with Albania, and Greece would have given him valu- able bases from which ́operate against Bulgaria whose people,poor and rent with fratricidal hates, would have been excellent material upon which to work.

to

Bulgaria's great standby now. must

be dependence on the goodwill of Russla who cannot brook with equanimity further encroachment of the Nazis in the area of the Black

"So I said Time bomb' or no

The red, green and yellow traffic lights that we are fami- can see the raider. They liar with at home, are tiny red, rarely can, as by day the green and yellow crosses here. Germans come only singly You cannot see them, a few

blocks away.

The only noises on the streets LONDON, Jan. 9 (Reuter) The great changes which have

fading in the face of something which all must recognise as a com-are the gears of the 'buses which come over the Netherlands East Indies since the outbreak of

mon danger a return to the semi-run on through the night, the war and the loyal co-operation of the native population in de

slavery they endured Uttle more clap of boots on the pavements fence measures, were emphasised to-day by Jonkheer de Bruine, | Sen,

than sixty years ago before they usually the sorvico boots of earned their independence. who is on an official visit to Britain for the Dutch Colonial

the police, the A.R.P. wardens Physically the Serbs, Croats and One result of modern war and and the Home Guardamen who Ministry.

corps on the model of the British Bulgars who make up the papula diplomacy, however, is that the He stated that there is a grow. Home Guard,

tion of Bulgaria, have little to lose feelings of the people are not able challenge you in the dark when Economically the Netherlands East from either the Cominuniata or to find expression in force. Before you cross their beat. ing demand of natives for a fur-Indles are now part of the sterling

All but a few of the taxis thor measure of conscription to bloc and the Dutch guilder is no zis. The former could expropriate public opinion can find itself, the

the property of the

the wealthy Bulgurs include, natives" (all "Nether-¡tonger necepied, spe

have disappeared. Within a landers in the East Indies be No Rationing

if they could find any--and gives

-the Nails could.

the leaders are few minutes after the black-out ano official pointed out that there the agricultuent life of: the tween the ages of. 18. and 46 are is no need for any rationing in the and build some much, necaed olid hocence and plan w dalo the City is ready. It is a little already conscripted). ...

press after half-past six. Within a Netherlands East Indies and the and railways. The people would hides the tragic truth under pages of Omcers training schools are now 70,000,000-population is almost acil show lille interest in the doctrines Her Thus, what is happening in few minutes it comes: the oven- open to natives, who are being train-sumefent.

of Communisen or Nazism and would Bulgaria is known only to Boris and ing siren. The Germans aro ed also as air pilots, gunners, and Most of the Dutch Navy has al- be very unreliable military material. Hier-perhaps also to Stalin and methodical and punctual fel- observers; many natives are proving ways been based in the Netherlands It is possible, however, that the Mussolin and the people them-low be good ng Dutch pilots.

East Indies and is still there. All hatred of the Croats, Serbs and Bul-, | Polves will only know, when Europe Natives and Chinese are also parti-repairs can be done there and new gers for such other and for the learns of the next turn of fate in the They come droning through cfpating actively in the local defence ships are being built,

Turks, :: Greeks and "Rumanians 3s · history of this Hilla country,

the black, and some nights the

to the

ld order

country

propagandists forestalled

arms and brutal}; the populace la

Lycret

agents have

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re! I know for a face that ther fella's been blackballed by every "decent" "shelter, in London.!!i

I have said this before and “I should like to say it again not until you have been here and seon what it is like to live in an aerial siege can you get any iden 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-co miration.

The bombing of civilians is a brutal and ugly thing, but the heroism 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 sco the alight- est evidence of indecision or faltering Hero Fascism has stubbed its too on the character: of a people who can "take it,"o and who obviously propose to tako it until the last German raider has gone down in smoke or hot-footed it for home with two Spitfires on his tall,AGS

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