1941-01-13 — Page 4

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In

All Alert

To-day

Gibraltar

By C. H. James

IBRALTAR, guardian of the fessionals who have "joined up western approaches to the for the duration" a surprisingly Mediterranean, stands alert to. high standard is maintained, day in a vigil that has not been Cihemos and cafes are open. A| relaxed night and day since war Spanish variety company has been performing- at -- the- theatre, – while began..

recently 21 concert party from 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 ciated by the troops. In these and only in name; when small boys other ways every effort is made to relieve the tedium of life in the clambered unheeded over ob- fortress. There is curfew at 11 p.m., solete guns and the ancient after which only man on duty may

be abroad. walls were breached to make

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

annoys the soldier, and that is that changed. The fortifications have mails sometimes fail to arrive. His been strengthened and perfected at a time when the honic coun- feelings can be appreciated, especl» 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 dunger wherever they are. "Mall calibre watch the sky and sea; day looms very large in his thoughts, the large cosmopolitan populace which once pursued a busy life. unrestricted by permits and de- fence regulations has been evacuated.

J

Not A

Leaflet

Bombardment

3-12

"Why can't you grumble about your income tax like other mon--everybody thinks I'm married to a pauper!” PRIVATE LIFE OF A PRIVATE-

The Ancient Art

of

Tactics

Another article in the

the In repelling serial attacks

"Daily Herald" series by Rock's A.A. gunners have achieved a journalist who recently There are still some few very encouraging results, and there

enlisted in a Guards regi- is used by the "Hongkong Telegraph" to

THE prenx "Special to the Telegrap thousands remaining, but the is no doubt that the deadliness of

ment. the barrage which they put up saved indicate news which is strictly copyright defenders of the Rock far out the Rock from serious damage in 'n under, die provisions of the Telecommuni-

THE cations Ordinance, 1930. Such news as

number them. An air of stern recent rald, when over 100 bombers Tall Boy from Sunder-

launched a daylight attack, bears the indication "U" is received in resolve has replaced the former Itongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who re- careless gaiety of the place. serve all rights and forbid republications,

arrangement.

WOMEN ENSLAVED

The woman

ed Time

lund, whose voice sounds

"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 up,

clutching our rifles.

It seems to me that we are doing -

well. The entry squats

Tike

Within their shelters people tis-like lemonade coming out of a pretty tened to the roar and crash of burst-jug, saya: "I liyuk teyuctics." twenty feet away, quite unaware of ing bomb and shell, an inferno of He means, "I like Tactics." our presence.. either wholly or in part without previous Visits To Spain If When the "All clear" sound-warfare. Without good taetles bolt seems to echo like the slam of sound that doubly echoed off the Tactics are the ringcraft of ing cocks his rifle. The clash of the Then the Good Boy from Godalm-

There Is

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, n blind

yell demons and open fire; one Spain still provides the bulk that leaflets had been dropped: it was giant, à Carnera.

of them throws a grent dollop of who exercises of Gibraltar's civilian labour, afterwards discovered that a regi

Tactics are headwork, foot wet clay, and yells "Bangt" mental office had been hit and the work, feinting, and timing; they That is a hand-grenade; it bursts 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. woman in the world is the workers swell the population been showered over the town.

Auxiliary fire services, a civilian to get close, how to be tricky, Boy from Godalming with a dread- when to hold your punch; how "WHY, you horrible man," anys Sergeant K, fixing the Good subject of an article in the considerably by day, but all re-

turn to La Linea to sleep. Re- organisation, co-operated American journal, The Living lations between 'Gibraltar and was not allowed to interfere with

ful store. "Oh, why do some people rendering assistance, and the raid how to outwit an opponent.

Out on the Common we play have sons? See what you've done? Age, by Peter Engelmann, for- neighbouring Spain are cordial the usual routine. The evening a rather grim little game of You've given our position away. merly on the staff of one of the and it is quite obvious that no- Keya was carried out that evening. holds a trench. We, under the

parade and the Ceremony of the soldiers. Sergeant G's squad You've murdered your comrades.

000. you.

We pause and rest. foremost German newspapers, body in Andalusia wants war- Gallant work has been done, too, command of Sergeant K, have to there's keyuk for tea," says the Tall 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. loving Germans, an exile from

his native land.

well, in

"Mebbe

THE Man from Leicester has noises at us. We make rude noises.

Boy from Sunderland. military experts in removing un-

"If yer mean kike, say kike. Can't with horror and dismay.

We lurk in the bushes, armed exploded bombs, Incidentally, one

yet talk

English?" says the Lad from the Elephant. One may still visit the Spanish enterprising merchant has been rak- to the teeth.

ing in sixpences for the local Spil-

Sergeant G's squad made rude. towns in the neighbourhood, fire fund by charging to see the track The name of this remarkable,

concealed himsel behind a

back at them; but only half-hearted- provided one has the right of an unexploded bomb through two woman is Frau Gertrud Scholz

cellings of his storerooms, the pro- blackberry bush: his lips are ly, because we lost the skirmish. passes, but naturally everybody jectile finally coming to rest in the already stained with fruit-juice.

In this manner we begin to learn Klink. She holds unrestricted en the Rock is too busy as a rule floor, cutting out a neat silhouette of In spite of the fact that we all the arts of subtle silence and imper- have our worries, and are the cunning approach and the shock-

ceptible control-over-thirty-million-Ger-for travel, and the numbers who its shape sideways us it went.

movement the technique of

women, and is rapidly go are not large.

The Spitare fund exceeds grown men, and have nicotine- ing attack-the ancient and noble £4,000, und in nwany cases represents stained forefingers and wives art of Tactles in Warfare." Lightening her grip on twenty With the evacuation of so monthly contributions of a day's pay and children, and have to keep million others now forced to live many non-combatants, the com- civilian workmen.

from soldiers and sailors as well as our cars open for the drone of

It is hoped that

man

now

under the swastika. Under her parative rarity of women is a enough will soon have been collected Messerschmitts, we all feel hoy The

rule no woman can call her body

or her soul her own,

The Higher Savagery

The African tribes are filled with

dread, As the Alpmes pf clvilisation

noticeable feature of life in to buy Gibraltar's first Spitfire. As ish on Tactics.

most of the wealthy citizens who Sergeant K is whispering: Gibraltar. Wives and families used to head subscription flats are "You see; if we go forward] of servicemen have gone home, away from Gibraltar, this effort, fal- from here, we have to cross that lowing on contributions of over CI 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 the German women how many sidered sufficiently important for Both civilian and Army morale is be prepared for us coming.

"Now what we've got to do is, children they must have, and them to be given an exemption hith. The only comment following

spread. an alarm one morning recently which work our way round that bend from evacuation. Nursing is 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, thanks goodness the side that wall-then drop on 'em what they shall cook, and how.gory, while some are wives of dinner won't be cold to-day."

suddenly,

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

No one may publish a recipe not men serving on the Rock in The Army is very "confident of its ability to deal with any situation { upproved by authority. An agent varying capacities. Some wives which may arise and does not ceate 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 chens to see what is on the stove, others are in hotels, but only it was remarked that their morale also apparently remained **nim- on pantry shelves, nud,' 'above one hand is required to count patred." all, in garbage cans. The Ger- their number. man woman, indeed, is the hum- Prices, Sport

ble creature

of this female

| Fuhrer, and, like others of the

Nazi lenders, has risen from poverty to wealth.

It is not only in Germany and

its subject peoples that Frau Klink holds the minds of women

#

The other evening I watched famous Scottish regiment carry out the Ceremony of the Keys, a military ritual recalling over two hundred years of history on the Rock. The

narrow streets as the

And The Stage heurtening sound of the pipes echoed

through the

fortress.

Crowds

Gibraltar lay quiescent, Its grim

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

The Devon Gardener says:] "Please Sergeant, of think of zec man moving under that sycamore tree."

IL

The Sergeant whispers back— "You mean poplar tree." "Sycamore, sure-ly!"

can see the trunk of a tree withi

bushy top, it's a poplar: If you can't, it's a bush; and if it's al long-shaped tree it's a fir. Think we've got time to argue about ruddy botany ?".. He makes the signal which means Forward. We slink towards the trench.

Prices have risen on the Rock, Highlanders marched escorting the Sergeant, "there's no such thing "In the Army," whispers the and-housekeeping is by no means Keys to Casemates for the symbolical as it sycamore tree. There's casy, but there is no shortage of closing of the any essentials. Women's per- watched them, including many Spani-poplars, and there's firs. If you sonal requirements, however, are ards on their way back to Spain, difficult to satisfy. Many dress shops, have closed down, and Hope That Nazi in bondage. Herr Engelmann feminine needs are not being

Wiles May Fail catered for, so that women are says that the campaign is being faced either with paying very pushed in other countries. Good-high prices or going without, contours softened in the rosy looking and smartly attired Nazi In compensation, bargains may of the setting sun. Only the pipes be had if a store decides to sell could be heard as this Scottish rogi- girls have been sent on inter- off.

ment beat the Retreat, the were closed and the Key Sergeant national tours. Millions of pam-

escorted back to Government phlets have been distributed to are spent in normal ways that keeping of the Governor.

The garrison's off-duty hours you to return the Keys to the safe women in England, Scandinavia, appeal to the Briton-in boat-

Algeciras, across the Day, was ing, bathing, cricket and football and America. The work was in their season, tennis and of the western hills, and one knew already darkening under the shindows begun immediately after the squash; they all help to use up that on both sides of the Day people invasion of Denmark, Norway, the surplus energy which is were hoping that Nazi wiles would the Netherlands, Belgium, and created by a confined existence, not mange to drag into the macl- Amateur theatricals provide strom of war a land that is just re-

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

covering from the horrors of civil the whole world that is aimed at, 'With the addition of some pro- of prosperity for years to come.

I say.'

Gates

The Lad from the Elephant] says: "We could go up the road, stop a bus, tell the conductor to put us orf over there, and take em by surprise."

"He thinks there's going to be buses and trams in No Man's Land,” says the Sergeant. "Somebody tell him there's a

war on

• •

•

And small la the wonder, seeing

how far They lag behind in the arts of

wor.

•

Though they kill at times, and are

usually very

Fond of a barbecued missionury,

Or a tribal chief, as a last resort, They butcher a fellow. in good,

clean sport.

At wholesale slaughter and trea-

cherous lures

They rank with the rankest of

amateurs. *

They haven't a tank or n long

range gun,

Of spies and diplomats nary a

'one..

With a lack of skill that amounts

to crime, They murder their victims one at

a time.

..

Benighted heathen, they live con-

tent

In Innocuous unenlightenment. But the world has shrunk, for

or good,

Till a savage can't live as a savage

should..

The bushmen may have to don

grey spats,

Drink tea and plot with the

diplomats. •

They may have to give up their

quaint tom-toms,

For the manufacture of gas and

bombs.

•

And many a well bred savage

nation

May sink to the level of alvilla-

tion.

Otto Freund