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Monday, June 9, 1941.
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THE pre "špecial to the Telegraph" is used by the Hongkong Telegraph to Indicate news which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni rations Ordinance, 1938, Buch news AL bears the indication "Ur 13 received in longkang on the date of publication by The United Press Associations, who re serve all rights and forbid republieations, either wholly or. In part without previous Arrangement.
ENTRY INTO SYRIA
Impelled by motives whose urgency no one can question,
Britain has noted with Free French troops against French-mondated Syria, re- vealing andther extraordinary turn of events in a war which began with Britain and France close Allies.
the
America who would like to see us taking the initiative, and Turkey who would like to see next her southern border any other Power but the Axis, will no doubt welcome. British action.
The reactions of the heterogeneous population of Syria and the Levant are awalled
with some anxiety on
their our part; reception of General Catroux pro clamation. will decide... whether the Allies will have an easy tenure of the country with garrison forces against
parachutist passible
attack-or whether they will have to combat the Arabs as well as the French.
However, the latter seems improbable and
the
may
also expert General Dertz will not that the French who have stayed with have their
hearts in & Oght against vinen whom
must know worthier cause on Syria is not
countrymen
are enrolled in
attack
The
likely
to lead to a general conflict between the British and French nations. AdmiralDarton
has
In-
de
serted that French
Syria, will be protected or any other Power but he has never gone further. It
France
to de- nothing would avali clare against Britain and forfelt for ever the goodwill of America to save a territory that she should have given up two years ago hed which she could now only pass, on to her mortal enemy, the Germans.
FOR FIVE MONTHS MY HOME has be- come a green pasture for those friends and neighbours who have been bombed out of theirs. And I am be- ginning to think that Bombees are much worse than bombs.
I dislike other people's luggage their sponge bags in the bathroom, and most of all their dogs, kept on leads in the drawing room, hating us and trying, to get sly nips at our legs in the black-out. And I hate other people's combings in my hair brush
June 9, 1941.
Bombs and Bombees
By Phillida Hughes
Phillido Hughes in the wife of the "Sunday Express' famous · humorist, Nathaniel Gubbins, whose weekly column "Sitting on the Fence" is a national asset. Miss Hughes' sense of humour is equal to her husband's and, iike his, probably developed while she was working in a newspaper office as a serious-minded reporter.
In those days she wrote about fashions and other which the Editor considered were suitable for his women readers. To relieve her feelings Miss Hughes occasionally added pungent comments in pencil on the margin of her cup-comments which the sub-editors joyfully read and reluctantly blue-pencilled.
When she finally turned her back on Fleet Street, she began writing auch umuring sketches as the series: “A Lady of No Leisure But whereas Nat Gubbins likes to work in peace and quiet, Miss Hughes can turn out a witty article in the midst of a heated family argument.
Answer it! I hate the thing. Never can make myself under- stood), or of laying a table;" ("Where do I put the crusts? What shall I do with theso knives?" I could tell you what to do with them, my sweet, but I......! won't.) A dithering procession from lounge to kitchen each holding one plate or one cup and saucer, which is placed gingerly on the nearest plece of furni- ture, is known as "clearing away, the tea for you". Violet tells me several times a day that all this is going to Break Up My Home. Violet has seen it hap- pén, so often and "don't want it to happen to me.
My pet Bombee, who never 'moves from the chair nearest the fire, talks like the information: gratuitously given in pocket diarles that no one ever reads. She knows all the phases of the moon by heart-"Moon's up to- night at 0.8. That menna they'll be over early. Let me. see, It'll be half-moon Saturday week, and full moon for Christ-
mas..
I am tired of people who are always cold, the rubbing of shine,the, banging of arms. Air raids have an` I hate the way they sit on the grocer's. The butcher Shall I ever have my home to immediate effect on the cir-the edge of the chair and cajoled. Three hearty meals myself? Shall I ever know di- culation. I hate their more won't presume to lie back to be cooked for you each vine solitude, leisure and silence again? Night after night I intimate belongings in my comfortably. (Lounge, fool, day, and the vegetables keep my pet Bombee company bedroom, mules with fluffy lounge! You're tired. brought in from the gar- by the fire, while the others are ostrich feather trimming, You've had a ceiling come dens. When are you going washing their hair, combing their dogs, polishing dear Pa- and the prolonged and ex-down on your head, we un. to begin, pets?)
pa's spoons. No one has hinted
hausting goodnights and derstand.) I hate their Most of all I hate them yet at a move. hope you sleep wells. I hate constant "Is there anything for being pathetic and mak- their "Oh it's so kind", and I can do to help you?" (Yes. ing me so damn sorry for "Are we putting you to any There's clean linen to be got them. trouble?" And I hate them out for your beds. The
Conversation
between self
and pet Bombee:-
"Was that the siren ?" "No. Your dog wheeing." "Ooh! They'll be over early Violet to-night, the devils.".
at mealtimes with their maid's stony expression to Violet, the maid of all- "Oh! more" and "Well just be softened. The rationed work, starts to shiver, and a teeny weeny potato, then." goods to be fetched from announces a cold.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
MISS
LOCK
Lichtes
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is always too hot in sum- mer, too cold in winter. Sweating and mopping all
"Pa'raps they won't."' "But it's a full moon.' "Let 'em come!"
By Lichty August. Shivering and pay a little visit while it's quiet.
& PDT, AF FORUM
"Tho neighbours are accusing us of ruthless aggression. so stop snatching apples from Nick the Greck's fruit stand till this Balkan situation clears up!"
CONTRACT How to Play
BRIDGE
AND
How to Win
By JOSEPHINE CULBERTSON Good Distribution Is Not Enough
"I think I'll go upstairs and
"I should."
"Yes. Will it be alright for me to go upstairs?".
:
flogging her arms all Decem- ber. And her feet, which are just a pair of barome- "Quite." ters, trouble her all the year "You know what I mean, round. Why do female feet don't you? Just to pay a little behave in this curious way? visit to.. Even gardeners, who
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"I know."
Pause
grumble at everything, "Ooh, there's one overhead
rarely mention their feet, now."
"I don't hear it."
and who ever heard of a
"Oh don't you? It's going
postman collapsing in the like this" (painful imitation of
hall and crying "Well, I a droning Dornier.)
never thought I'd be able to
deliver your bills and cir- culars this morning. Me poor feet!"
But even one extra guest can cripple Violet for a week. "We're in for a wet spell," says Violet. "I know by me feet." Or "We're go- ing to have a heat wave, you mark my words: me feet-have-begun-to-swell
Pity Violet can't offer services of her feet to the Government for weather
"Um... um."
"The Devils!" "Um..
um."
"Can I draw my chair a little nearer to the fire?"
"Of course."
"That was a bomb."
"I thought it was one of our guns."
"No, it was a bomb, and near, too.'
"Gq on.
"Do you think I could have a glass of water?"
"I should think so." "Oh, shall~I-get-it-then?" "Do you mind?" "Where do I get it?" "From the kitchen.",
"Oh, will it be all right then
it ?!
reports. Cultured English if I go into your kitchen to get voice on radio: "A depres- ""Quite all right.”
sion is moving eastwards **I think I'll just go upstairs and, according to Violet's again." feet, which have now begun to swell..
HE EVENING BLITZ
TSTARTS, the sirena wall.
"Um...
um.'
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"To pay a little visit, I mean." "I know."
Later
"Could I put a little piece of coal on your fire?"
"Chuck a log on."
"Oh, will it be all right if I
and we practically hurl our re- do that?"
fugees on their tummies when a "Of course. Quieter noise like the Inrushing tide isn't it?"
now,
sweeps overhead and racedes."Oh, that's only a lull. I
At the first "Look out!" every know. The devils.”
hand goes out for her own be. longings dear Papa's silver
A pamphlet rald over Unoccupied France would serve to put the issues squarely before the French people who could never tolerate the abject and dishonourable dealings of the TT is quite natural and proper to port was, of course, excellent, but spoons are clutched to a breast;
Vichy Government if they were fully Informed of events; certainly they would never bear arms against Bri- trin. For that matter, it is certain that Hitler would not sleep nights
knowing that French armies were on the continent.
attach great importance to the surely he had no right to assume a clock (it was 'a présentation distribution of one's hand and to that there would be only one loser to dear Papa) is snatched from give great consideration to how well, outside. To credit South with such
or how badly, It fits with partner's spade strength that there would be the mantelpiece, and the dogs bide. Even so, high cards can rarely no need of losing a spade trick was get blast-proof cotton wool bon- ue ignored; only under the most ex outrageously optimistic. And, since nets tied under their chins. traordinary circumstances can the South had not cue-bid the oppo- Then an orgy of tea making. opponents' aces and kings be "put to nents diamond suit, how could "So refreshing!" (Yes, isn't it? North know that there would be no
Norih, in to-day's hand, took en- diamond loser? As a matter of fact, Do, you care for a little arsenic tirely too much action on its two North should not have ventured to in yours?)
even five clubs, let alone six; he even kings and a queen.
should have been quite content with the four spade contract,
It is important for Britain, while prosecuting her alm in Syria - with | sleep." absolute firmness, to avoid untoward friction with the French people-as it is equally important to them that they should not cut themselves irrevocably from us. Franco and Britain will always be neighbours; once again, it is to be hoped, thay will be friends.
As for the Arab people on whom the wer now thrust, they are pro- mised the Independence for which they have always yearned.
The events of Iraq will serve as a useful object lesson to them. A usurper attempted
A coup for the Axis,
trealles with
tain
events
the
Brit
broke
and was displaced and the former Regent re-installed with the minimum of violence by British troops who were, as subsequent proved, interpreting the Wishes
of all
peoples and officials except Raachid All' limmediate following. The prompt and success- ful Beltins actionespecially the re- installation of the Regent may have impressed the Moslem world favour- ably.
* །
It another strange eliance or destiny. In a war that has brought subjugation to so many countries that here, in the Middle East, a new
created by British hands,
- South denter. ・・
Both sides vulnerable.
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"Well, I'm all for lulls."
"Och, that was near?" "No. Miles away." "Devils!"
"Um."
"I think I'll go upstairs.
"I say, what's matter with your tummy?"
"It's those devils!"?
Lator "Well, good night." "Good night." "Are you all right?" "Rather
"Are you sure you're all right?".
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spade ruff; to refuse to cover would binson's with our sponge bags. give the enemy three natural spade and our pets, rubbing our shins, tricks. Four spades eastly could clutching Mother's... rosary
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"Quite sure."”:
"Good night."
"Devils, aren't they?"
"They are."
Next morning
"How are you?"
"All right.
"Are you sure you're.
right?"
"Rather!"
"Dreadful night, wasn't it?".. "Lousy."
"Devils, aren't they?"
Violet and I are amazed at the curious mental, and physical condition which is the result of being bombed out of one's home. Hands that are accustomed., to wield mops and dusters can only rub legs, or lift ten cups
"Well, I think I'll just go up- to lips, or draw chaira nenror to stairs to pay a little visit. May the fire after they have been jy” with us several wooks. Henda 2
that have run houses for years.
**They are."
with a fair amount of compe- Look out! Here comes 'an- tence are Incapable of anewer other
Ing the phone in mine; (Oh, you Devils, aren't they?.
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