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When Hitler started his blitzkrieg, the gigantic wheeling movement of his armies through Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg pivoted on the position held by the 51st. Division at the north end of the Maginot Line proper.

and covered all the paths through the wood, which is

THE

51st

By G. E. LEY SMITH

about three of a

mile deep.

A.

On one side of the wood, to the left of the Gordons was a clump of trees, which was believed to be free of the enemy.

Round the wood, the un- dulating countryside was covered with long corn and hedgerows, proving admir-

TRUCK Engineering! TRUCK Power! TRUCK Performance!ing around Remeling the hearts by the men who fought so brilliantly and gallantly at In the midst of the fight feared by the Nazis. The awesome reputation of the kilted

Highland regiments which form it was strengthened in German talion waited for zero hour. Gordons were unaware that St Valery last year,

Two companies, "B" and the Nazis had been sweeping The epic part played by the Gordon Highlanders in the tack, with "D" Company "C" were to make the at- across the Low Countries. Battle of France is told here in the living impressions of the following through to allow men who suffered and survived in that sombre drama of men up" to move out to the left Only when they had left against metal. the "Maginot" and had as- This instalment tells how the Gordons' were moved from of the wood when the objec- sembled in a big wood near the Maginot Line to the Estuary of the Somme to stem the tide tives had been taken. "A" Metzervisse with other units of retreat in June, 1940.

Company was to remain in. of the 51st Division did they receive an inkling of the

arisen. desperate situation that had

Of all the units in the British Army, the 51st in the most able cover while the bat-

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By this time, the Nazi "Panzer" divisions had

reserve.

Strikes On the right of the Gor-

Zero Hour On The Somme

:

dons, the Black Watch were also to attack, but the Sea- forths on the left were ordered to maintain their

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driven their way through the hundreds of cows and all to silence the gun. The positions and keep up a Ardennes and broken the their poultry. The chance small party had evidently screening fire. French line at Sedan.

of a rich feast was not been seen advancing to the

In a light rain which fell allowed to slip. Foraging attack, and a German trench on the night of June 8 With the Highland Divi- parties were organised and mortar opened fire. Cor- Patrols went out to recon- sion, the battalion was every man had duck or chic-poral Shepherd was killed by noitre the ground. They rushed to the vicinity of ken and fresh milk and one of the shells, which felt reported that machine-guns VICTOR-Dulcelina, Maria.

Varennes, north-west of eggs for supper that night. close to him. Undaunted by were posted on the fringe of residence 11, Gup Road, Age 87. Verdun. Funeral will pass the Monument that they should be used to with chickens and eggs three men charged towards

It was intended Stores were replenished the fate of their N.C.O., the the wood. at 5.30 p.m. to-day.

Waiting for their first stop the German break- which lasted for several the haystack. Before they big-scale attack, the men of through at Montmedy. days.

could reach it, however, the "B" and "C" Companies -lay But the Dunkirk evacua- Before they left the vil- German gunners bolted, among the long corn and be- tion had started. Plans were lage, the men performed a leaving their machine-gun hind hedges slightly to the changed. The Division was little humanitarian service behind them.

right of the wood. Guns ordered to another front, which the members of the On June 2 the Gordons rumbled in the distance.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

Monday, May 5, 1941. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 28015

In used by the "Hongkong Telegraph" to Tile breng "sprelal ze the Telegraph

Indicate nows which is strictly copyright" cations Ordinance, 1030. Such news as

the United Press Associations, who re-

Arrangement.

A POISONED GENERATION THOSE well-meaning persons

Paris.

TO-MORROW: Germans Routed' At Bayonet Point

B.E.F. never forgot to do

were moved into position at Machine-guns occasionally During the last days of even in the midst of the

the Grand Bois, which lies stuttered. A ground mist battalions were fighting animals, such as rabbits in May, when other Gordon heaviest fighting. Many about twelve kilometres was lifting just before the under the provisions of the Telecommuni- around Dunkirk before em-hutches and dogs chained to

from Abbeville, in front of first light of dawn started to the village of Cahou.

penetrate the edge of the bears the indication "Up" is received in barking the Highland Divi-kennels were starving. The

Bois. Hongkong on the date of publication by sion was moving across soldier released thern.

Fierce fighting had been going on all along the servo all tights and forbid republications, France to the Somme to elther wholly or in part without previous stem the advance of the around the camp looking for back had had little success. As the dogs hovered French to drive the Germans Somme. Efforts by the

was heading rapidly towards adopted them as pets and been given an eighteen-mile German spearhead which scraps of food, the men Now the 51st Division had gave them what tasty mor- front on the river, from * *

sels they had over from Erondelle to the sea. their feast of fowl. Un- By a tediously long rail-

As a German offensive follow the war than about win-way journey the battalion officially, the dogs were ad- ning the war, should consider reached its destination in

mitted to the strength, and minent, an attack was de- across the Somme was im- more seriously than they do the two-and-a-half days, travel when the march was re- cided upon for the morning character of the Germany that ling by Verdun round the sumed next morning the of June The Gordons. will have to be dealt with when south of Paris, and then battalion was followed by were given the task of clear the history of the theatre since "The greatest step forward in scores of dogs. ' northwards by Rouen to'

ing le Grand Bois and ad-Cromwell," was how Mr John Neuve Chatelle,

In the neighbourhood of vancing to another wood decision to allow Sunday opening Gielgud, the actor, described the In torrential rain, the of Black Watch and settled The weather had broken. the battalion relieved the

the Grand Bois de Cambron beyond.

of theatres in Britain. : ficers and mon-bivouacked-in-

who seem to be more anxious. about the kind of peace that will

the war is over. The people of the Kaiser's Reich were difficult

THE ALPHABET OF THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE to negotiate with and more diffi-

C stands for CHURCHILL-the best of the bunch.

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G stands for GUST-some cause for swank.

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H stands for HURRICANE-à very high rank.

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K stands for KICK-which we get out of fellowship.

L stands for LAUGHTER-an aid to good bellowship,

M stands for MONEY-blown in by Puffs.

N stands for NOTHING-given by Snuffs.

P

stands for ORDINARY whiffs, you and i

stands for PLANES--which our blown-in will buy.

Q stands for QUEER FOLKS-Snuffs this means you.

R stands for RIGHT and for R.A.F. too.

stands for SPITFIRES-fighters supreme

T stands for TOADS quite the other extreme.

U stands for US with a job to be done.

V stands for VICTORY-which soon will be won.

W stands for WELCOME-hero's luck to good Fellows.

X stands for UNKNOWN--who invented the Bellows.

Y stands for YOU-if you are not still a Snuff. Z stands for ZEAL--so just do your stuff.

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cult still to pin down to any engagement. The present gen. eration will be of an even more untrustworthy character and more determined than any pre- ceding generation to assert the fantastic claims of German superiority, over all races and nations.

a wood, taking what shelter down to a meal of chicken they could under the trees. and egg. From there, they marched

* M

*** To appreciate the difficul ty of this operation, a de scription of the Grand Bois is necessary. It is a wood of

sixty miles in three nights. But the whine of bullets unusual density. So thick is By day they slept in woods. interrupted their enjoyment the undergrowth that it is Every time they camped it of the meal. They were be- impossible to see more than rained continuously. Buting sniped from a machine- a dozen feet ahead. the men never groused at the gun post which the Germans discomfort.

German machine-gun Hitler is held up to the German

had cunningly concealed in posts had been dug on the people, and especially to German

a haystack nearby. It was outskirts. Inside the wood becòmirig 80 troublesome the German infantry had youth, as a deity. If he himself One night they reached a that it had to be tackled im- strongly established them believes that, he is a man of small, completely deserted mediately. disordered brain. If he does village. The civilian popula- Corporal Shepherd was Tommy guns had been in

selves. Storm-troopers with blasphemoustion had left behind them sent forward with three men stalled in almost every bush

not, he 'is £1 scoundrel.

Geography

Up To Date

SUNDAY THEATRE HAILED

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This new step, announced by the Home Secretary, Mr H. Morrison, in the House of Com- ity to permit Sunday opening of mons, enables a licensing author-

tricts where there are troops or theatres and music halls in dis- large number of munition

workers.

With the exception of plays pro- duced by special societies there have been no theatre performances on Sundays for 160 years, since the Sunday Observance Act of 1781.

On Equal Footing

theatre on a footing with the films The new regulation puts the

assistance it can get. and other forms of entertainment at a time when it is in need of all the

Mr Gielgud said that tho decision would enable managements to embark with assurance on new

, giving employment to

,

now

Mr Bronson Albers, who con trols the New Theatre, Wyndham's and the Criterion, said he had no doubt that Sunday opening wa West End and the suburbs. now a foregone conclusion in the

Generally

But whatever he he or is believed to be, the effect is the same upon the youth of Germany. For years their only mental and moral food has been that dished up by teachers who OMEONE remarked to me the Then came Norway, and for the Italian advance and rolled it. are sworn to teach nothing but other day, "What a lot of weeks we talked knowingly of back? Hitler and him glorified. What geography the child of to-day is that all-important railway. No, is to the fore, and I fancy that some cases Fridays will

Narvik and various places on

speaking, I should any At present Libyan geography

most theatres will decide to on Mondays, but possibly in can be expected of children in-learning! Even a week or two of I am not going to name them most of us are more confident Mr Albery added.

will be

Axed," structed by teachers, who

news bulletins and papers should for you. Do it yourself-if you about the are

whereabouts 01 Actors and actresses welcome 'the teach him more than we ever can! Somehow we seemed to Benghazi and Tobrukeven of new regulation; as it provides for a bound by this oath?

knew. This generation should know a little more about France Derna and Bardia. But can we the day on which most people have six-day week and performances on be better informed than the and Holland and Belgium, so go further back than that with the leisure for entertainment, Inst."

perhaps their names stick better. out stopping to think?

By

Pritt Not To Resign

"Adolf Hitler, we swear that we will train, the youth of Ger- many that they grow up in your

I agreed. Then I began to

It is shocking how quickly we ideology, for your aims and

wonder. We seem to have both

forget. The other day I came purposes, in the direction set by learnt and forgotten such a lot

across a bundle of old maps, cut your will. This is pledged to since September of 1989. As

M. Forrest Mill how strange they looked! Yet 1 out of papers at the time, and you by the whole German system each country came into the lime- But could you put your finger friend who said scornfully, "But remember half agreeing with af of education, from the primary light, its names became as fami- unerringly on, for instance, St. do you need those to make you school through to the univer- liar as our own. But if we Valery? sity." It is said that forty years must learnt readily, we have forgotten

remember where the places] Mr D.-N. Pritt, KC., Labour olapse before a system of educa- nearly as readily,

And I do not believe that we

are ?"

M.P. for North Hammersmith, adults are any more ignorant drawn those mapa from memory, to resign his seat will not do so. At the time I felt I could have asked by the local Labour Party than the younger generation. But now I could not.

The North Hammersmith Labour,

Labour Party Views

tion can justly be judged. That Do you remember, when Po- is, one must wait to see what land was attacked, how we pored There seem to have been so Is this a diagraceful confes Party anys that Mr. Pritty or the manner of man that system has over maps and talked of places many things to think of during produced in a people who are free we did not know how to pro- these busy months, and I do not slon? I do not know! Didn't let here we party northe to think as they will. Under the nounce and had never heard of think that the average intelli- Sherlock Holmes, that prince of of the people in the constituency

Views of the overwhelming majority Nazl tyranny, however, no such before? But now-how many gont child would be any wiser detectives, refuse to waste grey freedom is enjoyed, and by mass

towns in Poland could you name than we are...

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