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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

January 14, 1941:

Among the Germans

in

Occupied Brussels

The first leaves are falling as I sit in the park opposite the Royal Castle in Brussels before my departure in the second week of September. Children are playing round the big pond, which brings up memories of the Luxem-

on the back, and acting as if they

This article comes from a Correspondent who, after five: had not merely won money but years' residence in France, left Paris in June, tramped to had received a welcome sign Bordeaux, then returned to the occupied capital for a short from Heaven. stay, and at last, “ding his way to Brussels, remained there during August an early September.

The Germans in Belgium are over-organized and therefore in- efficient, as many of the numer- 'ous" "departments ̄ ̄ often ̈ ̄work bourg Gardens in Paris. Toy is that they do not live up to the to-day. For they are not used to against one another, wittingly boats sail across the dark creed imposed on the super suffering directly as a people or unwittingly, and cancel out. waters and young voices fill racial citizens of glorious and during war. The bombing of The highest authorities are victorious Great Germany or Berlin and Hamburg is making sometimes quite ignorant of im- the air as the children laugh maintain the dignity which their them tearful. Yet I am convinced portant things done within their and shout. From the main citizenship enjoins. They are It is not only this which has turn- entrance on the other side of certainly in the main tired, war- ed their stomach against this province.

weary, and demoralised to a war: they are just sick of it for high degree.

no particular reason and most

the park comes the faint sound of trams and motor cars. You cannot hear the tramp of German army boots here, but you know it is there on the pavements.

them are not Nazis at heart,

In The Grip Of

Terror

of

Belgian Whispers

Living in Belgium you feel there is something in the Ger-

man machine that does not work

This statement is not based on wishful thinking but on actual observation and first-hand' ex- - perience.. Intimate and uncon

as smoothly as should. There strained contact with German

appear to be two distinct fea- Barbed wire shuts off the cen- soldiers, officials; and women in

tures, the military and the tre of the park, and German Belgium to-day, makes the pro- Truc as this may be of the economic, which are often out of sentries guard the wireless sta- paganda to which we have been Germans in Brussels, it would be ́ gear. When economic plans tion which has been put up there subjected, the official bulleting too much to conclude that their break down the military take next the children's playground and newspapers we have read among green lawns and flower beh in German and in French, wariness, disgust, or general dis- charge: In spite of the de- enough to bring moralized temper of the troops, beds.

seem unreal. Rarely, indeed approval are

the military machine still works On one side of the park flies scarcely ever,

them to open revolt. It may through inertia with tolerable can you hear

seem madness, it surely is some efficiency, and it would be wrong the among the swastika flag over the Royal

many German Palace; on the other side, the uniforms in Belgium any of the form of madness. but these to regard the soldiers as on the street as well as the courtyards, the high-flown phrases about people are in the grip of terror, rond to an early revolution. halls, rooms, and corridors of victory, greatness, and invincibl. terrified to death, and will never

It is often said, and with the former Parliament and Gov-

lity. On the contrary, the Ger- find strength and will power of ernment buildings swerms with

of all Germans are out of sym- German soldiers, for all these mans in Belgium betray a sur- themselves to oppose their Nazi apparent truth, that nine-tenths

lenders.

pathy with their Nazi masters, premises have been taken over prising lack of faith in the pro- by the invaders.

paganda of their Government, The Belgians, who clearly but if this is really so they are Only yesterday I heard a realize the obvious demoraliza- the passive nine-tenths, who will The uniforms are manifold in

German officer say quietly that tion of the German troops in not of themselves rise in active colour and design, dark green, light green, dark grey, light he thought the Germans would their country, are equally con- rovolt against the active one. grey, many shades of browns and find it impossible to invade and vinced of their powerlessness to tenth. But there is another blues, mixtures of black and defeat England. "Our people do take any sort of revolutionary possibility, which some

the English," he initiative.

petent observers incline to re- brown, black and white, and not know other combinations. All are explained, "but I have spent

A Belgian workman put the gard even as a probability. adorned with some kind of many years among them in their case in a nutshell the other day The stunned spirit of the weapon, a rifle or revolver or a country."

when he said, "They tell us they Belgians has largely recovered, rather ridiculous looking sort of

detest the war and want to go and the word "revolution" is dagger dangling at the hip.

home, but they are here all the often whispered. It was heard For these the Belgians have their

That is all that really now and then as far back as own facetious pet name.

German soldiers in Belgium same. Some nine-tenths of the Ger- are frequently heard to declare counts." He added, with the air August, but only in a vague and man military here walk about in they detest this war, that they of a conspirator, "But you wait dreamy way. But the economic years of war the Chungking high black boots, which are are sick and tired of it and want and see. In 1918 we let them all spoliation of the country which Government can survey its posi-worn even by

the railway to go home. At first one can go home. This time not one of has not yet reduced the people tion with some satisfaction, not officials.

scarcely believe one's cars and them who lingers shall leave the to the apathy following long and unmingled with bright hopes for

wonders whether it is not some country: there is room for all gradual starvation has aroused

intense resentment. the future. With the goodwill Tramp, Tramp, of most of the world on her side and with considerable as- sets and potential assets forth-

Tuesday, January 14, 1941. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20015

THE preax "Special to the Telegraph is used by the Hongkong Telegraph to

indicate rows which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni- caulons Ordinance, 1330. Such news as bears the. Indication "UP is received in Stangkong on the date of publication by Lbe United Press Associations, who re- servo all rights and forbid republications, either wholly or in part withäut previous arrangement.

LULL IN FREE CHINA

AFTER three and

half

coming from the democracies and Russia, Free China has the treasure she has found in the pacific west.

tremendous resources to add to

Tramp

Sick and Tired

sort of trap or astute new form of them in the canal."

com-

of propaganda, but that idea The attitude of the Belgians For the moment only the soon passes and the conviction is towards the invader is clear, and spirit of revolt is there, ready to You cannot forget them. If you German soldiers are seriously not so delighted as the Nazi portunity should arise. At the Brussels is full of these boots. formed that the "victorious" the Flemish people also appear take shape if practical op- close your eyes the sound of their demoralized. At the slightest Government would have the beginning of September the tramp haunts you, be it by day inducement, and often without, world believe. It seems now that, good old La Libre Belgique ap- peared again on the scene. It or at any hour of the night. they will produce photographs faced with the Germans, they believed that, when the mo- And as accompaniments to the of their wives, children, dogs, are all really Belgians and their ment is ripe and active revolt The terrific bombardments

perpetual tramp, tramp, trump, or other pets, and talk at length mutual antagonisms fade at the becomes a fact in France or any of Japanesc nviators have

you hear the sharp shouts and about the bombing of their home prospect of having the country other occupied country, it will failed to dislodge the Govern- commands of the men who wear towns, the permanent dangers in curved into bits, The people of rapidly spread to all certainly ment from what seems to be its them, the noise of their in which their families live while Belgium feel now that the have to Belgium, last stronghold; the morale of numerable motors, carts, tanks, they themselves are or seem to been defeated by treachery, the civilian population has trucks, motor-cycles, buses, and be in relative security marking They have withstood the harrowing

no one clear iden The movement, if movement ex-overhead the roar of neroplane time. Entourage these sent as to who has brought them to it may be called, appears for the periences of rape and pillage, engines. There is no escape, for mental bullies to talk about their present plight, but all in present at least to have little or wholesale slaughter and fifth if you go into a restaurant columnist subterfuge; the army shop, especially a food shop, any feel you have them on the verge not the English who have betray-

or letters from home and you soon Belgiumi know today that it is no taint of Bolshevism, for

And Communists

Nazio is strong and well trained; the hotel or bar, boulevard or square, of tears. air force is being reborn, and the scene is everywhere domin-

ed-them, though the Germana lumped together in the minds the industrial life of the coun-ated by men and women in Ger of the soldiers now in Brussela conception.

So far as can be judged, most have sought to propagate this looked upon as traitors. The of most citizens of Belgium and

try is settling down into co-

man uniforms.

only tangible thing in the goal ordinated paths from which will

have been some two years in

It is touching and curious to towards which minds tend is the emerge a regulated economy to

arms. If asked about the end observe how they contrive to liberation of Belgium from for- offset the unsettled turmoil of

of the war they generally shrug spread the nows of the B.B.C. cign domination. (the the vast "no man's land."

their shoulders and show no They listen where and when they The absence of large scale

are

warfare of recent months has Technische Nothilfe, Arbeitsor future. They certainly criticize can, in spite of the heavy penalty is not often raised. It is dim-

encouraged a slackening off in the martial intensity that pre- vailed throughout the first three years. Japan has other fields to explore and both sides have felt the impact of the European conflict.

The danger to China is that the may

be lulled into a false com- placency; hoping that hostilities may tail off into a mere atand-

ing on guard, she may grow weary of

war preparation as well she might after the herole struggle she has already put up.

Battles are not won by retreating,

The problem of King Leopold prescribed by the Germans. Servants, waiters, tram conduc- cult at present to say definitely tors, indeed everybody, does his how the King stands with his best to pass choice items along akin to incipient propaganda for people in Belgium. Something as fast as possible, and all listen Leopold, le Roi Humain is afoot with delight for the sound of and many people wear a tiny British acroplanes which come gift crown in their buttonhole as after dusk to bomb the Germans a symbol of adhesion to his in their midst.

"

Britannique"

Wins

cause, The King appears to be in some sort of conflict with the Germans, though no trustworthy Information is available on the nature of their disagreements. He is more or less a prisoner,

Their names are perplexingly numerous. Besides the Deutsche Wehrmachtangehorige military proper) there are mem- bers of the Arbeitsdienst, pleasure in the prospect of the frunisation Todt, Streifendienst, the occupation of Denmark and Nationalsozialistische Volka. Norway, and they wonder what wohlfahrt, Hitlerjugend, various they are doing in Belgium, kinds of Civil servants now in "which will never become Ger military uniform, bank clerks, man, anyway.” transport officials, Kraft durch They do not want to fight, they Freude men and women, and the can easily be induced to profess Gestapo.

that they personally have no But the striking thing about great sympathy for the Nazi these hundreds and thousands of Government, they obviously have soldiers and semi-soldiers, rang; no firm faith in ultimate victory, ing from youths to grey-headed and the view can often be heard men, girls, nurses, and what not, that, "if we do not succeed with

our invasion of England in the In spite of the thorough Ger- and while this fact and the however. A great Chinese offensive | Chungking by the Democracies,¡ course of September-and we man militarization, or perhaps bellof that he is causing the is the last thing that the Japanese China should learn how

and by would care to face during the next

shall probably not succeed; because of it, the Belgians show Germans difficulties tend to im- few months and such an event might The recent outbreak of rice board, we shall never win this war." they have an opportunity. On from enjoying the affection of the money is being though we still hope, of course their real sentiments whenever prove his position, he is still far well force them to reasonable peace ing, the artificial prices of luxuries term to the attende elsewhere in the Free capital, the life of ease Without any inducement they September 1 there were horse the whole of the Belgian people.

must look after her own fate If she could peraunde the living in Hongkong, are all retard now occasionally add, "And that races near Brussels, -and among Japanese troops to evacualo the ing influences on the steady upward means revolution."

the horses was one called Bri- mainland she would have a solid gradient which Chiang Kai-shek We know German and Ger- tannique. Nobody seemed to. basis for future prosperity which noither Britain nor America would has pursued. So for the signs are mans sufficiently to remember know anything about this horse,

not too serious; they

is needed some of their re-actions, how but it seemed that everybody ing the stalemate which has now

HOW to divert the Chinese away from the cruelty and sentimentality are was backing it to win. Well, as WATERBURY, Conn. (UP),-Wo been reached Chur

Chungking also risks dangerous suggestion - thu

that the war typical features of their charac- Chesterton says, the curious men shoppers who smoke, and not moral

disintegration by removing is as good as won because China Is the object round which

now morally aligned with the Deter. A man who does not hesitate thing about miracles is that they men, create fire hazards in depart- generation of Chinn is focussed, mocracies and because Japan is to machine-gun women and sometimes happen. And a mir- ment stores, according to the city fire

board. She must fight or make peace. The allowing her attention to wunder.

The board voted to ask for an Chinese cannot be kept for ever in Now indeed is the time for China children will sit down and acle happened that day: the dark a state of pent-up patriotizm unless to rally her people for a great drive cry, yes, actually shed tears, at horse Britannique camo in first, ordinance forbidding smoking in the effort to whiï the war is mus- and one which may, happily, prove the though of his pet canary and the crowd lost all restraint, department stores. Members sald the last effort necessary to achieve being killed by a cat. They are laughing, roaring, shouting "Bri- but women do, and drop oshës dear. tained.

men rarely smoke while' shopping, There is also, the question of the her aim to rule her own people and decidedly in sentimental mood tannique," clapping one another inflammable materials, vaat funda made available to country under one flag.

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Women Smokers More Careless