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· HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

January 13, 1941.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

213

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All Alert To-day In Gibraltar

By C. H. James

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The

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in

A

the

Mediterranean, stands alert to high standard is maintained. Cinemas and cafes are open. day in a vigil that has not been

Spanish variety company has been relaxed night and day since war

performing at the theatre, while recently n concert party from began.

Madrid, recruited from personnel There was a time when, after of the British Embassy, and includ- nearly two centuries of undis. Ing Edgar Wallace's son, put on a show which was greatly appre- turbed peace, it was a fortress elated by the troops. In these and only in name; when small boys. other ways every effort is made to

relieve the tedium of life clambered unheeded over ob- fortress. There is curfew at 11 p.m.. solete guns and the ancient after which only men on duty may

be' abroad, walls were breached to make

Unc thing that wider carriageways. Now all is There is only

annoys the soldier, and that is that changed. The fortifications have mails sometimes fall to arrive. Ilis been atrengthened and perfected feelings can be appreciated, especl- ally, at a time when the home coun- to meet the fiercer menace of try is being subjected to air attack modern warfare; guns of every and his nearest and dearest exposed to danger wherever they are. Mail calibre watch the sky and sea; day looms very large in his thoughts. the large cosmopolitan populace

Not A Leaflet

Hongkong Telegraph. which once pursued a busy life

Monday, January 13, 1941.

Wyndham S, Hongkong Telephone: 20015

Till prey "Rarcial to the Telegraph is used by the "longkong Telegraph" to Indicate nows which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni-

unrestricted by permits and de- fence regulations has been evacuated.

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Bombardment

the In repelling berkal attacks Rock's A.A. Kunners have achieved some few very encouraging results, and Uiere There are still thousands remaining, but the is no doubt that the deadliness of the barrage which they put up saved defenders of the Rock far out the Rock from serious damage in a

launched a daylight attack, recent raid, when over 100 bumbers

bears the indication "U" is received in resolve has replaced the former extions Ordinance, 1930. Huch news as number them. An air of stern

Hongkong on the date of publication by

the United Prem Associations, who recareless gaiety of the place.

serve all rights and forbid republications,

either wholly or in part wiltout previous Visits To Spain Ifound that doubly echoed off the

arrangement.

WOMEN ENSLAVED

The

There Is Time

in

3-12

"Why can't you grumble about your income tax like other men-everybody thinks I'm married to a pauper!"

PRIVATE LIFE OF A PRIVATE-

The

Ancient Art

Tactics

of

Another article in the "Daily Herald" series by a journalist who recently. enlisted in a Guards regi- ment.

"I'll wound you," says the Sergeant, "Keep moving."

There is silence. Soverely scratched by brambles we reach the bend and get under the shadow of the wall; creep Lup,

clutching our rifles. T

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It seems to me that we are doing enemy squats

pretty well. The

rest,

"If yer mean kike, say kike. Can't yet talk English?" says the Lad from the Elephant.

HE Tall Boy from Sunder

land, whose voice sounds Within their shelters people slike lemonade coming out of a

our presence. tened to the roar and crash of burst-jug, says: "I liyuk teyuctics." twenty feet away, quite unaware of Then the Good Boy from Godalm- ing bomb and shell, an inferno of He means, "I like Tactics."

Tactics are the ringeraft of ing cocks his rifle. The clash of the Rock. When the "All clear" sound- warfare. Without good tactics bolt seems to echo like the slam of ed and they emerged they were sur-the strongest force in the world an iron gate. prised to see comparatively little

Instantly, the men in the trench damage. A rumour was circulated would lumber about, a blind

yell like demons and open fire; one of them throws a great dollop of Spain still provides the bulk that leaflets had been dropped: it was giant, a Carnera,

Tactics are headwork, fool- wet clay, and yells "Bang!"

That is a hand-grenade; it bursts Woman who exercises of Gibraltar's civilian labour, afterwards discovered that a. regi-

mental office had been hit and the work, feinting, and timing; they more authority than any other both male and female; the regimental files of one company had teach you when to attack and on my helmet. We are all dead.

HY, you horrible man." says when to hold your punch; how W Sergeant K, fixing the Good woman in the world is the workers swell the population been showered over the town..

Auxiliary fire services, a clvillán to get close, how to be tricky, Doy from Godalming with a dread- considerably by day, but all re- subject of an article in the

ful stare. "Oh, why do some people turn to La Linea to sleep. Re. organisation, co-operated well

rendering assistance, and the raid how to outwit an opponent. American journal, The Livinglations between Gibraltar and was not allowed to interfere with

Out on the Common we play have sons? See what you've done? You've given our position away. usual routine. The evening a rather grim little game of you've murdered your comrades. Age, by Peter Engelmann, for- neighbouring Spain are cordial the

of parade and the Ceremony the soldiers. Sergeant G's squad ooo, you." merly on the staff of one of the and it is quite obvious that no- Keys was carried out that evening. holds a trench. We, under the we

We pauso and

"Mebbe foremost German newspapers, body in Andalusia wants war— Gallant work has been done, too, command of Sergeant K, have to there's keyuk for ten," says the Tall

Bay from Sunderland, and now, like other freedom- in fact the very idea fills them as part of the day's routine, by the try to take it..

military experts in removing un-

We lurk in the bushes, armed exploded bombs. Incidentally, one loving Germans, an exile from with horror and dismay,

to the teeth.

Sergeant G's squad made rude his native land.

One may still visit the Spanish enterprising merchant has been rak- ing in sixpences for the local Spit-

nolses at us. We make rude noises in the neighbourhood, fire fund by charging to see the track THE Man from Leicester has

concealed himself behind a back at them; but only half-hearted towns The name of this remarkable

provided one has the right of an unexploded bomb through two blackberry bush: his lips are ly, because we lost the skirmish. woman is Frau Gertrud Scholz

passes, but naturally everybody jectile finally coming to rest in the already stained with fruit juice.In this manner-wa-begin to learn In spite of the fact that we all the arts of subtle silence and imper- Klink.

ceptible movement-the technique of She holds unrestricted on the Rock is too busy as a rule floor, cutting out a nent silhouette of

have Our worries, and arc the cuaring approach and the shock- control over thirty million Ger- for travel, and the numbers who is shape sideways as it went.

The Spitfire fund now exceeds grown men, and have nicotine- ing attack the ancient and noble man women, and is rapidly go are not large.

£4,000, and in many cases represents stained forefingers and wives art of Tactics in Warfare. tightening her grip on twenty With the evacuation of so monthly contributions of a day's pay and children, and have to keep

civilian

workmen. It is hoped that million others now forced to live many non-combatants, the com- from soldiers and sailors as well as our cars open for the drone of under the swastika. Under her parative rarity of women is a enough will soon have been collected Messerschmitts, we all feel boy-

most of the wealthy citizens

Sergeant K is whispering :- rule no woman can call her body noticeable feature of life in 10 buy Gibraltar's first Spitfire. As ish on Tactics.

Gibraltar. Wives and families used to head subscription lists are "You ace; if we go forward of servicemen have gone home, away from Gibraltar, this effort, fnl-from here, we have to cross that lowing on contributions of over £1 Frau Klink, through her tens and such few Englishwomen as per head of the population to the bit of open space, and then they of thousands of underlings, tells remain are engaged in work con- general war fund, is very creditable. can mow us down or at least

Bath_civilian and Army morale is be prepared for us coming.

"Now what we've got to do is,] the German women how many sidered sufficiently important for children they must have, and them to be given an exemption high. The only comment following work our way round that bend

an alarm one morning recently which from evacuation. Nursing sis- sent everyone to cover for half an in the road, and creep up along- when; what they shall wear, ters come foremost in this cate- hour was. "Well, thank goodness the side that wall-then drop on 'em

suddenly. what they shall cook, and how.gory, while some are wives of dinner won't be cold to-day."

The Army is very confident of its No one may publish a recipe not men serving on the Rock in

ability to deal with any situation approved by authority. An agent varying capacities. Some wives which may arise and does not cease may pop unexpectedly into kit- who are working long hours yet to prepare for it. The troops attend contrive to do the housekeeping; to the welfare of the Rock apes, and chess to see what is on the stove, others are in hotels, but only it was remarked that their morale also apparently remained "unia- on pantry shelves, and, above one hand is required to count paired."

or her soul her own.

all, in garbage cana. The Ger- their number,

man woman, indeed, is the hum-Prices,

ble creature of this female Fuhrer, and, like others of the Nuzi leaders, has risen from poverty to wealth.

It is not only in Germany and

its subject peoples that Frau Klink holds the minds of women

in bondage. Herr Engelmann says that the campaign is being

Sport

And The Stage

cellinga of his storerooms. the pro-

wha

"Don't let me hear a whisper, mind!

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"There's a gap in the bushes farther on, so keep down, belly, to earth, and move steady.”

The Devon Gardener says: "Please Sergeant, oi think oi zeci

that man moving under The other evening I watched a famous Scottish regiment carry, cut | sycamore tree." the Ceremony of the Keys, a a military The Sergeant whispers back- - ritual reenlling over two hundred You mean poplar tree."

years of history on the Rock. The

"Sycamore, sure-ly!" heartening sound of the plpes echoed

"In the Army," whispers the through the narrow streets as the Prices have risen on the Rock, Highlanders marched escorting the Sergeant, "there's no such thing and housekeeping is by no means Keys to Casemates for the symbolical as a sycamore tree. There's

Crowds easy, but there is no shortage of closing of the fortress.

can see the trunk of a tree with any essentials. Women's per- watched then, including many Spani-poplars, and there's firs. If you a bushy top, it's a poplar: if you sonal requirements, however, are ards on their way back to Spain, difficult to satisfy. Many dress

can't, it's a bush; and if it's a Jong-shaped tree it's a fir. Think we've got time to argue about ruddy botany ?"

shops have closed down, and Hope That Nazi feminine needs are not being catered for, so that women are

Wiles May Fail

faced either with paying very Gibraltar lay quiescent, its grim | pushed in other countries, Good- high prices or going without, contours softened in the rosy fight HE makes the signal which means Forward. We slink In compensation, bargains may of the setting sun. Only the pipes looking and smartly attired Nazi bo had if a store decides to sell could be heard as this Scottish regi- towards the trench.

The Lad from the Elephant. ment beat the Retreat, the Gates girls have been sent on inter-off.

were closed and the Key Sergeant says: "We could go up the road,

Government national tours. Millions of pam-

The garrison's off-duty hours was escorted back to

put us orf over there, and take phlets have been distributed to are spent in normal ways that House to return the Keys to the safe stop a bus, tell the conductor to

keeping of the Governor.

em by surprise." women in England, Scandinavia, appen to the Briton-in boat-

Algecirna, across the Bay, was "He thinks there's going to be ing, bathing, cricket and football and America. The work was in their season,

tennis and alrendy darkening under the shadows buses and trams in No Man's

of the western hills, and one knew!

Anys the Sergeant. begun immediately after the squash; they all help to use up that on both sides of the Bay people Land," invasion of Den rk, Norway, the surplus energy which is were hoping that Nazi wiles would "Somebody tell him there's a the Netherlands, Belgium, and created by a confined existence. not manage to drag into the mael-war on.

A branch whips back and hits, theatricals provide sirom of war a land that is just re- covering from the horrors of civil

"I'm wounded," France. It is the subjugation of entertainment in the evenings. war and so put back Spain's chances me in the eye.

I say. the whole world that is aimed at. With the addition of some pro- of prosperity for years to come.

Amateur

The Higher Savagery

The African tribes are nlled with

dread,

As

the flames of spread.

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civilisation

And small is the wonder, seeing

how far

They lag behind in the arts' ot

war.

Though they kill at times, and are

usually very

Fond of a barbecued missionary, Or a tribal chief, as a last resort, They butcher a fellow in good,

clean sport.

A wholesale slaughter and trea-

cherous lures

They rank with the rankest of

amateurs.

They haven't a tunk

rango gun,

ог

a long

OL. sples and diplomats nary a

one.

With a lack of skill that amounts

to crime,

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They murder their victims one at

a time,

Benighted heathen, they live con-

tent

In innocuous unenlightenment, But the world hos shrunk, for

or good,

Til a savage can't live as a savage

should.

The bushmen may have to don

grey spats,

Drink tes and plot with The

diplomats.

They may have to give up their

quaint tom-toma,

i

For the manufacture of gas and

bombs.

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And many a well bred savage

nation May sink to the level of civilisa-

tion.

Otto Freund

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