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armies through Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg pivoted on the position held by the 51st Division at the north end of the Maginot Line proper."

51st"

By G. E. LEY SMITH

and covered all the paths through the wood, which i about three-quarters of a mile deep.

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-

Of all the units in the British Army, the 61at is the most able cover while the bat- feared by the Nazis. The awesome reputation of the hilted talion waited for zero hour. In the midst of the fight Highland regiments which form it was strengthened in German ing around. Remeling the hearts by the men who fought so brilliantly and gallantly at Two companies, “B” and

Gordons were unaware that St Valery last year,

"C" were to make the at- the Nazis had been sweeping The epic part played by the Gordon Highlanders in the tack, with "D" Company 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 ugh to move out to the left Only when they had left against metal.

This instalment tells how the Gordons' were moved from of the wood when the objec- sembled in a big wood near of retreat in June, 1940. the "Maginot" and had as-

the Maginot Line to the Estuary of the Somme to stem the tide tives had been taken, Metzervisse with other units

Company was to remain in of the 51st Division did they [receive an inkling of the desperate situation that had arisen.

By this time, the Nazi "Panzer" - divisions had

reserve.

"A"

Zero Hour Strikes dona, the Black Watch were

On The Somme

Hongkong Telegraph. Verdun. It was intended Stores were replenished the fate of their N.C.O., the

Monday, May 5, 1941, Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 26615

gunners

On the right of the Gor

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

the wood.

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

of a rich feast was not been seen advancing to the In a light rain which fell Phone 27778-9 French line at Sedan.

allowed to slip. Foraging attack, and a German trench on the night of June 3 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 Varennes, north-west ofeggs for supper that night. close to him. Undaunted by were posted on the fringe of that they should be used to with chickens and eggs three men charged towards 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

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

behind them.

right of the wood. little humanitarian service.

Guno changed. The Division was ordered to another front. which the members of the

On June 2 the Gordons rumbled in the distance. B.E.F. never forgot to do were moved into position at Machine-guns occasionally A ground mist During the last days of even in the midst of the the Grand Bois, which lies stuttered. May, when other Gordon heaviest fighting. Many from Abbeville, in front of first light of dawn started to about twelve kilometres was lifting just before the battalions were fighting animals, such as rabbits in the village of Cahou. around Dunkirk before em-hutches and dogs chained 'to

penetrate the edge of the Bois. barking the Highland Divi-kennels were starving. The Fierce fighting had been sion was moving across soldier released them. going on all along the France to the Somme to

Somme. Efforts by the stem the advance of the around the camp looking for back had had little success. As the dogs hovered French to drive the Germans German spearhead which,

TALE prefix "Special to the Telegraph indicate news which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni-

is used by the "Hongkong Telegraph" to

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Arrangement-

either wholly or in part without previous

A POISONED GENERATION THOSE well-meaning persons who seem to be more anxious about the kind of peace that will follow the war than about win

ning the war, ehculd consider more seriously than they do the character of the Germany that

was heading rapidly towards scraps of food, the men Now the 51st Division had adopted them as pets and been given an eighteen-mile gave them what tasty mor-front on the river, from sels they had over from Erondelle to the sea.

Paris.

By a tediously long rail- their feast of fowl. Un- As a German offensive

northwards by Rouen to Neuve Chatelle.

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TO-MORROW!

Germans Routed At Bayonet Point

SUNDAY THEATRE HAILED

"The greatest step forward in the history of the theatre since Cromwell," was how Mr John decision to allow Sunday opening Gielgud, the actor, described the

of theatres in Britain.

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

will have to be dealt with when way journey the battalion officially, the dogs were ad across the Somme was im the war is over. The people of reached its destination in

mitted to the strength, and minent, an attack was de- the Kaiser's Reich were difficult two-and-a-half days, travel-

when the march was re- cided upon for the morning to negotiate with and more diffi- ling by Verdun round the sued next morning the of June 4 The Gordons cult still to pin down to any south of Paris, and then, battalion was followed by were given the task of clear-

scores of dogs. engagement. The present gen-

ing le Grand Bois and ad- In the neighbourhood of vancing to another wood eration will be of an even more

The weather had broken. the Grand Bois de Cambron beyond. THE ALPHABET OF THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE untrustworthy character and In torrential rain, the of Black Watch and settled the battalion relieved the more determined than any pre-ficers and men bivouacked in down to a meal of chicken ceeding generation to assert the a wood, taking what shelter

To appreciate the difficul-

fantastic claims

and egg.

ty-of-this-operation,-a-de- of German they could under the trees.

scription of the Grand Bois ity to permit Sunday opening of superiority over all races and From there, they marched

is necessary. It is a wood of theatres and music balls in dis- sixty miles in three nights. But the whine of bullets unusual density. So thick is tricts where there are troops or By day they slept in woods. interrupted their enjoyment the undergrowth that it is a large number of munition Every time they camped it of the meal. They were be- impossible to see more than With the exception of plays pro- rained continuously. Buting sniped from a machine- a dozen feet ahead.

duced by special societies there the men never groused at the

have been no theatre performances gun post which the Germans

German machine-gun on Sundays for 160 years, since the discomfort.

had cunningly concealed in posts had been dug on the Sunday Observance Act of 1781 a haystack nearby. It was outskirts. Inside the wood

On Equal Footing becoming so troublesome the German infantry had One night they reached a that it had to be tackled im- strongly established them

The new regulation puts small, completely deserted mediately.

selves. Storm-troopers with village. The civilian popula- Corporal Shepherd was Tommy guns had been in tion had left behind them sent forward with three men stalled in almost every bush

A

stands for AIR FORCE--with plenty of dash.

B

stands for BELLOWS—which blow' in the cash.

C stands for CHURCHILL-the best of the bunch.

D stands for DARING-Pilots with punch.

E

G

stands for EGOISTS usually Snuffs.

stands for FIGHTERS-paid for by Puffs. stands for GUST--some cause for swank.

H stands for HURRICANE—a very high rank.

stands for INTEREST-this must be keen. stands for JOKES provided they're clean, stands for KICK—which we get out of fellowship. L ́stands for LAUGHTER—an ald to good bellowship. M stands for MONEY-blown in by Puffs.

N stands for NOTHING given by Snuffs.

O stands for ORDINARY whiffs, you and I.

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

P

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—here'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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Cable Address). SWANSTOCK

nations.

man

Hitler is held up to the German people, and especially to German youth, as a deity. If he himself belloves that, he is a

of disordered brain. If he does not, he is Д blasphemous scoundrel. But whatever he be 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 are aworn to teach nothing but Hitler and him glorified. What can be expected of children in- structed by teachers who are bound by this oath?

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Geography Up To Date

workers.

the

theatre on a footing with the Alms and other forms of entertainment.at a time when it is in need of all the assistance it can get.

new

Mr Gielgud said that the decision would enable managements to embark with assurance on new productions, giving employment to actors.

trols

that

to

Mr Bronson Albers, who con- the New Theatre, Wyndham's and the Criterion, said he had no. doubt that Sunday opening was now a foregone conclusion in the COMEONE remarked to me the Then came Norway, and for the Italian advance and rolled iti

West End and the suburbs. A S

"Generally speaking, I should say. other day, "What a lot of weeks we talked knowingly of back?

Narvik and various places on "Adolf Hitler, we swear that geography the child of to-day is that all-important railway. No, is to the fore, and I fancy that some cases Fridays will be fixed,"

At present Libyan geography that most theatres will decide

close on Mondays, but possibly in we will train the youth of Ger-learning! Even a week or two of I am not going to name them most of us are more confident Mr Albery added. many that they grow up in your

news bulleting and papers should for you. Do it yourself-if you about tho whereabouts of Actors and actresses welcome the ideology, for your aims and

teach him more than we ever can! Somehow we seemed to Benghazi and Tobruk-oven of now regulatión, as it provides for a knew. This generation should know a little more about France Derna and Bardia. But can we the day on which most people have alx-day week and performances on purposes, in the direction set by

be better informed than the and Holland and Belgium, so go further back than that with the leisure for entertainment your will. This is pledged to

perhaps their names stick better. out stopping to think? you by the whole German system last."

It is shocking how quickly we forget. The other day I came across a bundle of old maps, cut

how strange they looked! Yot 1 remember half agreeing with a

of education, from the primary I agreed. Then I began to school through to the unfvor- wonder. We seem to have both alty."

It is said that forty years must elapse before a system of educa- tion can justly bo judged. That is, one must wait to see what manner of man that system has produced in a people who are free to think as they will. Under the

Nazi tyranny, however, no such freedom is enjoyed, and by mass production a type of human being is turned out which is developed only on one side, with out any corrective or restraint to a pursuit which can bring nothing but conflict and misery to the world.

By

learnt and forgotten such a lot. M. Forrest Mill out of papers at the time, and since September of 1939. As

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each country came into the lime But could you put your finger friend who said scornfully, "But light, its names became as fami- unerringly on, for instance, St do you need those to make you liar as our own. But if we Valery? learnt readily, we have forgotten nearly as readily,..........

Pritt Not To Resign

Labour Party Views"

Mr D. N. Pritt, K.C., Labour M.P. for North Hammersmith, asked by the local Labour Party. to resign his seat, will not do so.

remember where the places And I do not believe that we are?"

At the time I felt I could have Do you remember, when Po- adults are any more Ignorant drawn those maps from memory,

than the younger generation. But now I could not. land was attacked, how we pored There seem to have been so

The North Hammersmith Labour over maps and talked of places many things to think of during

Is this a disgraceful confes- Party says that Mr Pritt "now re- we did not know how to pro- these busy months, and I do not sion 7 I do not know. Didn't views of the overwhelming majority presents neither the party nor tho nounce and had never heard of think that the average intelll- Sherlock Holmes, that prince of of the before? But now-how many gent child would be any wiger detectives, refuse to waste grey The executivestituency;" towns in Poland could you name than we are.

"Recently matter ön auch irrelevent details offhand and could you place them

'Priit has come into as the fact that the earth moves prominence by his participation in

the

the Communist meant a lot, too. But now Hel-so prominent in the first Greek I waste energy trying to remem- Party and which lies under the grave sink is the only name that leap advance are forgotten as they bor the exact whereabouts of uspicion of seeking to exploit war- to my mind, and we had all advance yet farther What was Hamm The R.A.I know just time disconfort of the people for the heard of It: before the Russo- the First importantă place they where it is, and that is the main purposes) or commualimu Finnish war.

captured when they stemmed thing) and

vn thọ The people:

Mr

"said:

accurately on the map? Finland Evon the names which were round the sun? So why should which was inspired by

so-called People's Convention,

Mr