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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
Evacuates
A general view of the Showground
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 thrilled every day by the Australia's primary
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
Tuesday, May 13, 1941. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephono: 28815
TUK prefix "Special to the Telegraph?
in rületly copyright
radions Ordinance, 1938. Buch new, AS
Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Fress Associations, where
serve all rights and forbid republications, either wholly or in part without previou arrangement
events.
and
In the early days-way Daily there was a long band and choir sang the hold us back, shouting des- indicate news which runcur cop back in the 1840's-agricul- programme of ring events, national song of that coun-pairingly, "I'm sorry, but I under the provisions of the Telecommstural shows or fairs were wood-chopping and an Em- try.
When seven o'clock cannot let you back. You held at Parramatta, just pire pageant. Every even- was reached, the British flag must go forward." Women outside Sydney.
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.”
With back threw steers with their "where the British men,
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 THE brave words of the news in the Prince Alfred Park Jumpers, risked injuries Union Jack."
that year a show was held clung incredibly to buck- ones, are holding high the their way out, the position began to look desperate from flying hooves, fell, re-
BOMBING OF CIVILIANS
reports, the success of Royal Air
such world-known institutions
as
Westminster Abbey and the Houses
scores
when the constable and a
An exhibition building was mounted and tried again. · Popular Feature Show official decided to
The wood-chopping com-ignore the regulations and petitions were among the open another door to let the most popular features of the surplus people out. Show, and proved of great There were so many ex- interest to Hongkong visi-hibits in the various halls that I find it difficult to re-
tors.....
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 fence forces cannot altogether sup- onial Exhibition in Sydney. eant and Royal Empire hu- press the thrill of horror at the For several years, shows man clock were staged every latest savage bombing of London and were held there but, in 1882, evening by members of the the acts of vandalism wrought on the first show was held at defence services, police, and what is now officially term- women's war organisations. 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
fruit in the Agricultural Hongkong last year, we by members of the police its way through scores of 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; 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 Each fresh wave of destruction much like any other but we cadets in physical culture and performing miracles of magnificent blooms in the
were eager to see it. Though singlets and white trousers. retributive bombing; a natural de-new. to us, however, we The hands of the clock were
cf Parliament.
Portsmouth and
the Merseyside recently had their, weeks of intensive night bombing with great loss to civilian life and property. The poor
In London have had their homes
blown skyhigh many times now.
brings forward again the question of
sire_to_bring_home_lo_the_German. citizen the sort of code his proud alr force executes abroad. A recent poll on this subject in England found a growing weight of sentiment behind punishing the German civilians for the sins of their armed forces by area 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-
would Balled. That
be rntler D
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.
PRIVATE LIFE OF A PRIVATE
Seconds Out
of the Ring!
balanced dexterity as they Horticultural Hall. swung their axes 15 feet Children's Mecca above the ground. Back- The sideshows-too-with- woodsmen from America
their popple of steam or- have described the tree-fell-
ing contests at the Sydney gans and the cries of show- men, were popular with Show as the greatest tests thousands of visitors. There 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 breathes worse." who crowded the stands and the air and cooked eggs in 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. A rival showman the important art of creeping to that, we could sort of make a and crawling.
rice from a torn bag. We have
the
feller Ol 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
toime being. of standard-bearers, The progress of the war has es
the proposing to fry eggs on points of one's ribs. One pro- Brummy Joe's a terror. It took cattle and horses moved him. tablished by now, however, that in- truding haunch may betray the eight coppers
to pinch 'in around the arena in a seem- discriminate bombing cannot win a whereabouts of a whole section, once."
The show closed down victory. I can reduce the resources
Tommy Farr'd be better ingly endless procession, with the traditional child- We have been approaching says the Old Soldier.
while the sun shone on their and suppress the free life of a coun-
ren's day, which was greatly point covered by a light machine try but n determined people will not
E could go over wiv is well-groomed coats. gun. The Kid from Widnes. Foreign Minister," says the Lad. be cowed by it and an active leader- drunk with the joy of firing "We could make Len 'Arvey events
The parade and the ring enjoyed by many thousands of boys and girls who ship will devise largely adequate de blank ammunition, has, accord- Foreign Minister."
swarmed to all parts of the fences. Thus the blitzkrieg overing to a very conservativo ca- Bellain has fallen for short of the timate, met his death 37 times.
"War Ministor," says Widnes. through dozens of loud- "Nah, it couldn't be done," speakers to the thousands rounds, Many Hongkong
children, boasts of Hitler and Goering. True -Siberia ought to be wounded
of people crowded in the
enjoying their the air has been block with
Easter holidays from school, the in a place he could not with says the Old Soldier..
stands. Occasionally, in the wings of the Invaders, sweeping right glory boast about. We are,
had the time of their lives nevertheless, learning how to
arrange-midst of some such descrip that day at the show. do it.
tion, would come an urgent ment wouldn't fight," says the call for Mrs X to proceed Many
across the countryside-—but the alr has been made considerably clearer on the return trip by the Royal Air Force.
....
The raids on the civilians of Bri-
tain have united the country where Hitler hoped to divide it; they have underscored the ignoble character of
And now,
*
having been pet-
"Why not?" asks Widnes, "Who'd do politics?" "They could
says Leicesetr,
Lad.
rangement."
make an
were broadcast
exhibitors and
"E'd "ave to," says the Kid from immediately to the lost chil stand-holders sold out their mitted to fall out for a smoke, wine'd be a diplomatic adren's tent in order to pick products cheaply during the wo find ourselves mitigated balderdash
talking un-tler'd fight dirty," says the Lad, up her wandering tribe, or last day of the Show. Women So would Brummy Joe," Insists an S.0.5. would be broadcast scrambled for vegetables and "My old woman," suya the covered wit rubber bands Old Soldier, "talks tripe. She beer-bottle corks."
pipe
"'E carries a foot o' lead
ort from somebody's aunt who preserves as the district ex-
the German fighter where instead it вауз why don't Hitler and "Would they charge an entrance was still waiting at the cor-hibits were sold, and one
might have been whiltowashed; they havo taught us in time a lesson in preparedness from which at long last, under the lash of the Luftwaffe, we are profiting in deadly earnest.
One of the things we should do when Germany is beaten to her knees, is to make a mass daylong raid on Berlin after nif the inhabit- ants have been given a week to evneunte. The salies of that city would be a atting memorial to all that the Germans are fighting for In this war,
11
Dacket,"
ner for her nephew.
Press of People
bevy of small boys attempt..
ed to carry away a huge pumpkin offered to them by
Churchill avo a set-to all by fee?" asks Widnes. themselves, and settle the war
"Bob a
a 'cod
says the Lad. "Make that way?"
bet there wouldn't half be some "That wouldn't be fair," says excitement," says Leleester, "With Every exhibition hall an exhibitor "if they could
"'Itler's the younger us and the Jerries in the audience." Old Winnie's getting on in 'years."
Widnes.
man,
"I dunno," says the Lad froni
> "Proper
rough-ouse,"
saya the throughout the Show was lift it."
"We'd all 'ave a go," says Widnes. packed uncomfortably day All in all, it was certainly "It'd be just like a war," says the after day. Frequently wo-the greatest show on earth. men had to be assisted and one which will be long "But we're 'aving a war now," says through the press of remembered by everybody, "Bilmy so we are!" says Widnes, people to fresh air. The especially the evacuates "Put them tags out and fall; in," says the Bergeant,
prak of congestion was from Hongkong.
the Elephant and Castle, "Ole Old Soldier. Winnie's got plenty go in 'im. It's the fighting spirit, seo,
the lad "Winnie breathes 'eavy," saya the Old Soldier.
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