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By HELEN WALKER

DUNCAN

Dozens of women and children from Hongkong. mingled with the dense crowds which swarmed throughout the Sydney Showground to witness the. Royal Empire Show during Easter week.

We thought that, by now, we were used to crowds in the city streets, but I am sure none of us have ever jostled and pushed amongst so many people before..

The Showground is a little city within the city of Sydney and, during the ten days of the exhibition, a great human tide (besprinkl- ed with "sticky-beaks" from Hongkong) flowed with dif- ficulty along the 14 miles of roadway. Exhibition halls and pavilions were choked.

events.

A general view of the Showground

Evacuates Enjoy Sydney's

Royal Empire Show

with eager, struggling sam- could sense that this year's represented by police in red reached in the Hall of Manu- ple hunters. Happy crowds exhibition broke new ground and white uniforms of toy factures, where the elabor- in holiday mood enjoyed all as an Empire rather than as soldiers. They moved slow-ately staged "Temple of the fun of the fair around a purely Australian pageant. ly around the clock-the Beauty" was being exhibit- the side-shows, and a huge It is claimed for the Easter hour hand men taking half ed. throng, packed tightly Show that, apart from being an hour to complete one re- One day, a jam occurred Hongkong Telegraph. around the great arena, was a national stocktaking of volution.

a quarter of the way down and. primary thrilled every day by the Australia's

As the hour hand reached the hall, and many of the brilliant cavalcade of the secondary industries, it is the different hours, the flag crowd pushed their way Grand Parade and ring one of the nation's biggest of the country represented back to the door. A pers-

money spinners.

was lifted and the police piring constable tried to In the early days-way Daily there was a long band and choir sang the hold us back, shouting des- tural shows or fairs were wood-chopping and an Em- try. back in the 1840's-agricul- programme of ring events, national song of that coun-pairingly, "I'm sorry, but I When seven o'clock cannot let you back. You held at Parramatta, just pire pageant. Every even- was reached, the British flagnust go forward." Women ing there was also a rodeo was raised and the commen-cried out, "You must let us Broke New Ground in which men from the out- tator spoke of Hongkong out. We will faint.”

back threw steers with their "where the British men, With scores of people By 1869, the influence of

bare hands. Men and girls parted from their loved backing up trying to push Sydney asserted itself, and that year a show was held clung incredibly to buck- ones, are holding high the their way out, the position

injuries Union Jack,"

began to look desperate in the Prince Alfred Park Jumpers, risked

when the constable and a

THE prefix "special to the Telegraph" bused by the "Hongkong Telegraph" to

under the provisions of the Telecommuni- indieste news which is sirletty copyright Dragkont in the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who r

cations Ordinance, 1016. Buch news

on

serve all elehits and forbid republications, either wholly or in part without previoua Arrangement.

BOMBING OF CIVILIANS

such, world-known institutions

outside Sydney.

An exhibition building was mounted and tried again.

from flying hooves, fell, re-

tors.

Popular Feature Show official decided to

THE brave words of the news reports, the success of Royal Air Force night fighters and the minimis. ing of damage achieved by the built there a year later and Herculean labours of civilian de- housed the first Inter-Col- The Royal Empire pag- petitions were among the open another door to let the The wood-chopping. com-ignore the regulations and ferice forces cannot altogether sup- onial Exhibition in Sydney. eant and Royal Empire hu- most popular features of the surplus people out.. press the thrill of horror at the For several years, shows man clock were staged every Show, and proved of great There were so many ex- latest savage bombing of London and were held there but, in 1882, evening by members of the interest to Hongkong visi-hibits in the various halls the nets of vandalism wrought on the first show was held at defence services, police, and

that I find it difficult to re- as what is now officially term- women's war organisations. Westminster Abbey and the Houses ed the "Showground." The human clock, a novel Every day, the ring of the member them all in detail. There were pyramids of Since our arrival from patriotic tableau, was staged axe could be heard as it cut Hongkong last year, we by members of the police its way through scores of fruit in the Agricultural evacuates have been told force. Each of the hour 10-inch logs. Stalwarts from Hall; a fine exhibition of much about Sydney's annual figures on the gigantic clock the big timber country were pigeons; poultry entries; in London have had their homes show. We were told that was outlined by police in in action, chopping huge dogs of all shapes, sizes and one Royal Show looked very blue uniforms and police logs, sawing gigantic limbs breeds in the dog ring and destruction much like any other but we cadets in physical culture and performing miracles of magnificent blooms in the brings forward again the question of were eager to see it. Though singlets and white trousers. balanced dexterity as they Horticultural Hall. retributive bombing; a natural de-new to us, however, we The hands of the clock were swung their axes 15. feet Children's Mecca

above-the-ground. Back The sideshows too, with woodsmen from America their popple of steam or

of Parliament.

Portsmouth and the Merseyside recently had their weeks of intensive

night bombing with great loss to

civilian life and property. The poor

blown skyhigh many times now. Each fresh wave of

sire-to-bring-home-to-the-Germani- citizen the sort of code his proud air force executes abroad. A recent poli on this subject In England found a growing weight of sentiment behind punishing the German civilians for the sins of their armed forces by aren bombing as against precision bombing, but it is doubtful whether we shall do this; at least without prior warning to the town to be as- salled. That would be rother

A

Quixotic idea exposing our own air force to concentrated defence fire and would perhaps be wasted on the Prussian mind. The idea might be successful, however, if the Royal Air Force succeeded in making the area uninhabitable for a time.

The progress of the war has es tablished by now, however, that in- discriminate bombing cannot win a victory. It can reduce the resources

PRIVATE LIFE OF A PRIVATE

Seconds Out

of the Ring!

have described the tree-fell-

ing contests at the Sydney gans and the cries of show- Show as the greatest tests thousands of visitors. There men, were popular with of axemanship they have

was the thinnest man in the ever witnessed.

world; a 42-stone girl; the Every afternoon in the "Missing Link"; Ubangi the main arena, a grand parade dwarf and Boris the big of the finest cattle and man., There was also a horses in Australia held the gentleman whose secret ray "Don't you believe it," says interest of many, thousands suspended frying pans in AN idiotic conversation breaks

out in a sudden burst, like Widnes. "'Itler brenthes worse." who crowded the stands and the air and cooked eggs in

rice from a torn bag. We have

A rival showman

been out in the wilds, learning Man from Leicester. "If it come knowledged as the greatest offered to suspend his assist-

"You know what?" says the fences. This parade is ac-them. the important art of creeping to that, we could sort of make a and crawling.

toime

feller Oi know, a feller called spectacle of its kind in the ant in space without the The idea is, to emulate the Brummy Joe, Prime Minister, world. Led by a cavalcade use of a ray and without serpent, and get along on the jus for the points of one's ribs. One pro- Brummy Joe's a terror. It took cattle and horses moved him.

being of standard-bearers, the proposing to fry eggs on truding haunch may betray the eight, coppers to pinch in around the arena in a seem whereabouts of a whole section, once."

We have been approaching #

The show closed down

ren's day, which was greatly enjoyed by many thousands

swarmed to all parts of the

"Tommy Farr'd be better ingly endless procession, with the traditional child- and suppress the free life of a coun-} point covered by a light machina says the Old Soldier.

while the sun shone on their, try but a determined people will not

E could go over wiv is well-groomed coats. be cowed by it and an active leader- drunk with the joy of firing we could

gun. The Kid from Widnes, Foreign Minister," says the Lad. The parade and the ring of boys and girls who ship will devise Inrgely adequate de- blank ammunition, has, accord-

make Len Arvey events were broadcast fences.

Foreign Minister." blitzkrieg overing to a very conservative ca-

through dozens of loud- speakers to the thousands grounds, Many Hongkong children, enjoying their of people crowded in the stands. Occasionally, in the had the time of their lives Easter holidays from school,. midst of some such descrip that day at the show. tion, would come an urgent

Thus the

Britain has fallen far short of the timate, met his death 37 times. "War Minister," says Widnes. "Nah, it couldn't be done," the air has been black with the in a place he could not with says the Old Soldier. wings of the invaders sweeping right glory boast

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"Why not?" asks Widnes, "Who'd du politics?" "They could make an ment." says Lelecsetr.

arrange-

"Itler wouldn't fight," says the call for Mrs X to proceed. Many exhibitors and

Lad.

having been pre Widnes, "It'd be a diplomatie ar dren's tent in order to pick products cheaply during the "E'd 'ave to," says the Kid from immediately to the lost chil- stand-holders sold out their The ralds on the civilians of Bri-mitted to fall out for a smoke, rangement."

mitigated balderdash, "My old woman,”

Bays the Leicester,

"So would Brummy Joc," insists

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bevy of small boys attempt-

we find ourselves talking un- filer'd fight dirty," says the Lad, up her wandering tribe, or last day of the Show. Women E carries a foot o' lead an S.O.S. would be broadcast scrambled for vegetables and underscored the ignoble character of Old Soldier, "talks tripe. She pine covered wis rubber bands brf from somebody's aunt who preserves as the district ex- the German fighter where instead it

says why don't Hitler and "Would they charge or entrance was still waiting at the cor- hibits were sold, and one night have been whitewashed; they Churchill'ave a set-to all by fee?" asks Widnes.

ner for her nephew. have taught us in time a lesson in themselves, and settle the war "Bob a end," says the Lud, "Make

ed to carry away a huge preparedness from which at long that way ?" -

a. packet!!

Press of People Pumpkin offered to them by "I bet there wouldn't half be some last, under the lash of the Luftwaffe, "That wouldn't be fair," says excitement," says Leicester "With Every exhibition hall an exhibitor "if they could we are profiting in deadly earnest.

Widnes. "Itler's the younger us and the Jerries in the audience."!

lift.it." Old Winnie's getting on

rough-ouse," says the throughout the Show was "Proper Lad.

certa in years."

packed uncomfortably day All in all, it was "We'd all 'ove a go," anys Widnes. "It'd be just like a war," says the after day. Frequently wo- the greatest show on earth Old Soldier,

men had to be assisted and one which will be long But we're 'aving a war now," way through the press of remembered by everybody, the la8.RED

Hlimy so we are?" anys Widnes, peopic to fresh air The especially the evacuates "Put them tags out and tall In,"

Was peak of congestion

from Hongkong." „say, Iko Sergeant..!!

One of the things we should do when Germany is beaten to her knees, is to make a mass daylong raid on Berlin after all the inhabit ants have been given a week to evacuate. The ashes of that cily

would be a fitting memorial to all that the Germans are fighting for in this war.

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I dunno," says the Lad from the Elephant and Castle. "Ole Winnie's got plenty go in 'Im. It's the fighting spirit, seo,

"Winnie breathes 'onvy," says the Old Soldler.

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