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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 10, 1941:

A

NORAH WHITESTONE

writes from Australia on

AN EVACUEE'S

ILLUSIONS

route

and

DEFEAT

BITTER, BITING males astride blood bays; personnel often unobliging, WIND which howls joyful, smiling beach girls ignorant of around the house, billowing asprawl the golden sands; schedule, and sometimes the "edge-to-edge" carpets, the universal consumption blatantly rude. freezing the feet and ankles, of tea from "billy-cans;" and depressing the spirits bush-fires, kangaroos,

I really had hoped great things of all but the screaming sea- droughts. And all these en-

of Victoria's pet, the much dis- gulls; an inky, glowering, tertainments were supposed cussed crack train, "Spirit of desolate sea, spurning its to occur under the eternal Progress." I fear that I must spray above the deserted, rays of a grilling but bene. have suffered from some strange unkempt, all-but-derelict, de- ficient sun!

disability to be able to perceive the rosier tints of man and

caying jetty. An occasional Perhaps it would be in- nature. Be that as it may, the hermetically sealed "windows" to say that the of what is affectionately termed creaking, antiquated tram correct rattles by, which now, near- majority of the evacuees "The Spirit," and the compulsory ing its terminus, is devoid have been disappointed, but inhalation of passengers beyond its they have decidedly been breaths for some half a dozen shivering driver and conduc tor.

of other people'a

REVO

WHEN IT'S NIGHT-TIME IN ITALY

Gypsy Trails

nau.

JAZI

DOMINATION

Trails' End

tained.

U. S. FIFTH COLUMNISTS Hard to Catch

By Allen C. Dibble

WASHINGTON, May 9 (UP).—The difficulty of de tecting an actual fifth column agent is illustrated by the number of innocent persons who are accused falsely of subversive ac- tivities.

Hundreds of complaints- each the result of a citizen

becoming alarmed over the "suspicious actions" of some- one--are received daily at field offices of the Federal Bureau of Investigation throughout the nation.

Although the G-men pur- sue, each complaint on the possibility that it will reveal a new plot, many pursuits are fruitless, Most real foreign agents exhibit un- limited ingenuity in collect- ing pertinent information for their government. Thein tactics are sometimes 60 simple as to be disarming, the FBI said. At other times they can apply all the tricks of. international in- trigue.

How They Work The tricks of the fifth column trade run the gamut-

hours in a compartment over- disillusioned.' Floods are crowded with heavily-clothed more to the fore than bush humanity, scarcely lightened my Not a cheering pic fires, and gas workers are own spirit. Nor did the narrow ture? But this is the land the latest recruits to the corridors, the unpalatable meals, the unholy scramble (on the of sunshine, the country to dolce far niente regime. "Spirit," too!) for a cup of tea Points of interest are the at intervening stations, bear which we have been so de-

I out the eulogies of my in- luded as habitually to prefix distance between them.

know nothing of station life, formants as, to the luxury. I the adjective "sunny"! pix

THE long, free trail of dweller of the Danube re- Ganges River in India, if a should enjoy! but as every second person

the gypsies in Europegion, Adolf Hitler of Brau- grant of land could be ob- or seven months I have

on this continent seems to The rather pitiful rivalries spent in hope, and during own a car, and the bush- between the cities of Melbourne is coming to an end, Gifted as cooks, fine old:

* that period not half a slozen dwellers

appear the. and Sydney have resulted in days could be described as wealthiest of the population, toria and New South Wales, and decree requiring noma-handed down from one gen- gypsies, Michel II Kwik was as workers to threats made

variation of the gauge in Vic- with the Berlin-issued

gypsy recipes have been Absolute ruler of the from infiltration into plants warm, pleasant and sunny, hardship stories of the back the passenger is thrust from dic tribes of Nazi-con-eration to the next-all un- elected several years ago to legitimate employees that Hot days there never are, of beyond are now

of use as bait for innocent midnight and accommodated in trolled lands to give up written and date back to during a meeting on the relatives or friends living and though the sea lies op-

But when a self was well content to vacate their wanderings, seek toiled in the kitchens of Rus- Tribal delegates signified desired information is not the period when gypsy slaves Polish plains near Warsaw. abroad will suffer if the "Pommies." posite the suburban hotel- Prince Edward Roader lives the vaunted product of progress pub in which I write, I have in Malvern and a Felix and proceed in an elderly though a permanent residence sia, learning culinary secrets their votes by the finger-made available. swum but twice--upon one Villager at Brighton (both ventilated compartment in which and a trade. Those from imported French chefs, print method. It is part of of these to-be-remembered suburbs. as unlike their I could, at least, inhale air showing indecision in This attempt to conven- the king's duties to see secrets may also be obtained days I experienced real satis- originals as the mind can with coal grit, at least had not choice of an occupation gypsies is not the first in tribesmen, and he keeps a are familiar with the produc- tionalise the lives of the that there is justice among by enticing employees who are given work on farms

picked group of men travel- tion of confidential materials by the Labour Service.

ling from one encampment to enter the service of a to another to check on gypsy foreign power unknowingly For a number of years

in an advisory capacity or When Imre Magyari-operating as a commericial through an espionage ring

faction, and pleasure.

chiefly the "Spirit" somewhere around

a vehicle over the border. I my-

which, although impregnated

conceive) a distance of per- the minute previous passed haps fifteen miles, necessi- through the lungs of another. tating the assistance of two But the discomforts of pro- trams or two trains and gress, the miles of ring-barked

of typical Australia the wilt and succumb for the

By

American industrial

Nor did two months in tiresome waits at windswept dead or dying trees, the lifeless; the European uziganes have Marion Simms activities. form to preconceived notions forms, social life is apt to loveliness of Sydney's myriad labourers on new buildings, Europe's history. Other called the greatest of all concern, export-i m port Sydney in any measure con- corners or on desolate plat- worthlessly endured when the worked intermittently as land of sun-bronzed, out- duration. Communication flowering wooded heights, her particularly as brick-layers, efforts, however, have failed.

But this did not alter the They have always stubborn- SVPsy fiddlers-passed on a association, scientific group, year ago in Budapest, 1,000 businessmen's club or essential quality of their ly refused census investiga-

and small

sunny bays, her sparkling beaches, cheer sized, white-toothed, virile is scrappy, the transport exile's heart.

Good Whisky-

lives. They still slept at tions, and would not enter gypsy violinists-their in-engineering organisation.

struments muted-played at The FBI has warned that night in their wagon cara- military service for any his funeral. Magyari start-disloyal employees are in a vans, travelling on to new country. Even such details ed playing the violin as a better position to commit ignored completely by them showed great promise for a non-employee, since the as passport regulations are prompted.

-in-their-travels,

concert career, but gave it former have Under the new edict, their

a complete chief occupations for gen- Hoping to bring the wan- up to return to gypsy fiddl-working knowledge of the erations will be gone. No derers under some semblance ing. He played often for plant functions. more wandering the coun- of control, some countries in Emperor Franz Josef of the past have offered them Austro-Hungary and was tryside telling fortunes, en- tertaining with weird music grants of land for perman- given many royal honours. Warning that foreign and performing bears. No ent settlements. But they After playing over Europe, agents will make every effort will have none of it. Only Magyari received offers to to obtain employment in more horse trading; no more

the king of Europe's gypsies annear in the United States, strategic plants, the FBI has begging.

-Michel II Kwik-it is said He declined them all, not recommended close scrutiny The new order has no hopes one day to settle his wishing to travel so far of the background of place either for the gypsies' people in a gypsy kingdom, away from his beloved applicants seeking positions ironbound caste system, possibly on the shores of the Danube.

in defence industries.

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according to the clan they, belong to. In the old days, members of one clan were troubadours, entertain in g with weird stringed instru- ments. Others trained the great black bears as dancing| performers. Still others were metalsmiths, skilfully turning out utensils and spoons in tin, zinc, and

copper.

has

The Danube-favourite spot of the gypsies known these dark-eyed wan- derers since about the thir- teenth century, when they first appeared on the banks of the river. From where did they come? No one knows. Perhaps from Egynt, or the Ural moun- tains, or India. Since then. they have scattered with the winds of the world, carry- ing their legends and easy- going philosophy as far away as Scotland and America.

After enslavement by the Tartars, the gypsies of Eu- rope had a century of free dom, which is now ending by-orders from another!

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