1941-06-14 — Page 4

Saturday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 14, 1941.

FOR

JUNE & JULY

HIT AFTER HIT!

From Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,

Paramount Films,

" ESCAPE"

with

NORMA SHEARER

ROBERT TAYLOR

"

& Warner Bros.

DANCING

CO-ED

with

LANA TURNER - ARTIE SHAW ANN RUTHERFORD

"PHILADELPHIA

STORY"

Cary Grant - Katharine Hepburn) James Stowart

"THEY KNEW WHAT

THEY WANTED" CAROLE LOMBARD

CHARLES LAUGHTON

"HIGH SIERRA'

"

with

IDA LUPINO

HUMPHREY BOGART

#

"BOOM TOWN”

Clark Gable Spencer Tracy

-

Claudette Colbert....

& Hody Lamarr

"CHRISTMAS

IN JULY"

DICK POWELL

ELLEN DREW

"The Lady Eve“.

with

BARBARA STANWYCK

HENRY FONDA

NO TIME FOR

COMEDY"

JAMES STEWART

ROSALIND RUSSELL

"TORRID

ZONE!

with JAMES CAGNEY.

ANN SHERIDAN

"STRIKE UP

THE BAND"

MICKEY ROONEY

JUDY GARLAND

EACH AND EVERY ONE A BIG PICTURE

ALL AT THE

QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

OLD BILENCE

SIDERIA

LAD FROM THE BLEPHANT

THE DRUMMAGEM

BOY

CORPORAL BEARSBREATH

Glibert Wilkinson draws for you above his conception of some of the characters who figure In the popular serica.

+

New Boy

say,

Heart Of Catholic London

By Douglas Woodruff

Fira bombs, dropped in the KID FROM WIDNES neighbourhood of St Paul's Cathedral, havo dovastated one of the most historically interest- ing parts of the English Capital. Paternoster Row, Ave Maria Lane, Amen Corner, all suggest by their names that they must have played a great part in bygone centuries and these streets grouped round St Paul's did, in fact, gain their names from the trade carried on in them.

Wis the

great Paternoster Row

sold,

the thirteenth century, and from centre where rosaries were made and where the cards were made with the the with Paternoster or Lord's Prayer which

together every child learned, Ave Maria, after learning to spell.

Although, as far as we can es-

had mate. London then never population much above 100,000, was a most impressive City, with the tallest spiro in Christendom. St. Paul's was the largest Cathedral That old St. Patil's was destroyed in the terrible Fire of London of 1880; its successor has, fortunately, if at diary and other bombs of 1940 and 1943. times narrowly, escaped the incen-

"PRIVATE LIFE OF

"As for the things they teach yet there is that about him "Now," says the Lad, stand-

needless to the attitude of a you---and A PRIVATE"

which indicates that he is no ing in

to monkey with....ho Victorian papa. "Let me give there's a good deal of things another instalment, of which ap man pears below to-day.

could take those ginases off, so yer a few 'ints. All yer got to you have to know before you're This series has won a high place to speak. We drink.

do is, exactly wot you're told a trained soldier-well, you'll In the affection of readers. Its

Do that, and you'll get along all learn those pretty much as you author Journalist

น

✩ anonymon

right. Get me, Hon? Argue learned to read and write. The now enilsted

Intimato -gives

"What brings you here?" asks the toss, and you'll get trod on. most important thing of all is, glimpses, graced with humour and

taking the routine day by day, That's discipline. See, kid? human understanding, of life in the Old Silence. "Conscript?"

"Keep yourself clean and tidy. You'll got used to that. If British Army to-day.

"No. Volunteer. I wanted to

Remember, you're not in Civvy we can help you, we will. But THE gentleman at the bar is be in it. So here I am."

The Lad from the Elephant Street any more. You're in the you'll get to know all you want

to know from the instructors." fair and bony, not particu-

"Thousands 'ave done it be larly young. He wears specta- expands. He is young enough Army, sonny-boy.

"Be decent in your be'aviour the Ele- to be the newcomer's son, but.

women. Re- fore; thousands 'll do it again," cles. The Lad from phant and Castle dislikes his ho suddenly adopts the attitude and courteous to

precepts of Our overcoat, which, he maintains, of a wise and benevolent grand- member, in this 'eap we expects says the Lad, still quoting the

yer to give up yer seat to an old ancient

4 bus. Why? Bo Sergeant. needs a belt or two and a bit of father.

"Well, kid," he says. "You'll geezer in a stripe to finish it off.

"Pipe down," says Siberia. "I, find it rough at first. But you'll cause you're in the Army, and personally, tell you that I like get used to it. We'll show yer don't you forget it."

the "Thank you very much. Won't the ropes. We know all that overcoat."

"Mine's a mild." The wearer of the coat turns tricks. I been in this mob you have another drink 7** to us and says: "Will you gen longer'n I care to remember.

"I'm getting this one," snys Anythink you want to know, tlemen join me in a drink?"

"We don't mind," says the come to me, Lad.

"I'm about to become one of you, so we may as well get ac- quainted," saya the gentleman

at the bar,

"You mean you're joining our mob?" asks the Lad.

"Yes. This will be my last drink in ordinary clothes for some time to come. Landlord, same again!"

"

M

" X "That, really, is the kernel of the whole matter," anys Old Silence..

"Thanks," says the newcomer. Old Silence. "Really," he tells "It feels rather like one's first "I'll put you wise, son. I the new-comer, "there's nothing day at school." learnt by experience. I would much to tell you on joining up. "But now one is grown up," 'ave been glad of somebody like. As an intelligent man, you simp- says Siberia, "and not so sons!-

anybody does. me to 'clp me out when I was a ly adjust yourself, the same as tive. And there are sterner rookle like you."

✩ * "Of course, if any point comes "First of all," says the Lad, up that needs explaining-and "I'm gonner give you a nick there are certain to be many a half years of civil life and five to months of the Army, shines out name. I'm gonner call you The such points--we'll be glad

help. There's little enough to of his amiable eyes. "Okay, Schoolmaster.

wear actually learn, in matters of pro- Schoolmaster."

cedure: you just naturally pick "Infinitely obliged to you," all that up.

Bays the Schoolmaster.

"You're very kind," says the

newcomer.

"Why? Because you

We introduce ourselves. We like the look of the newcomer. glasses." He has a studious, kindly air;

"Whatever you any."

Refugees

Vichy, and the Gestapo:

The writer of this articlo is a former Berlin news- paper man, the author of "Suicide of a Democracy" a story of France's fall. He escaped last May from a concentration camp

France and now lives in New York.

lessons to learn."

"I'll put you right, son," says the Lad. "Don't you be afraid of nothink. I'll look after yer." The vast pride of eighteen and

being permitted to return to Ger themselves out of France, has now under many. With the Aryans we shall bech bottled up, apparently

at Madrid. The deal separately."

Gestapo pressure Refugees were kept on pins and few who recently tried to cross the needles. In many cases their in- frontier without an exit visn were arrested by the Spanish authorities. quisitors politely promised them they concentration camps at Figuerras had nothing to fear if they returned and Miranda are now full of Ger- to Germany. No one knew exactly man and Austrian refugees.

A STUDY

TERROR

IN

By HEINZ POL

2

France

of

for

after another from the list. to-day to have arrived in Berlin of the

"Pariser

20 their families from the hands of the

There is another dilemma for the grant.a refugees. Many consulates visa only on presentation of a French exit visa and a transit visa through a vicious Spain and Portugal. It circle, because the latter cannot be obtained unless one is first able to produce a transatlantic visa.

Last but not least, there's the ques tion of money. Even if they do suc- ceed in

in cutting

all the red tape (Vichy recently announced that exit visas ¡would be granted in special cases), Although the Nazla few refugees are able to meet the checked the camp-lists against their enormously locked-up travelling ex- Adolf Hitler's "List of the marised in this recent United what to expect.

own, no arrests were made immedi- penses. Most of them have-nothing- 200" haunts every refugee in Press dispatch from London:

"Rudolph Breitscheld, former ately. Apparently the Gestapo pre- but the clothes on their back.

A steadily increasing number France, where Marshal Petain's Vichy Government is now acting German Minister of Finance, ferred to play its favourite cat and

ΟΣ area. "occupied as bloodhound for one of the and Rudolf Hilferding, former mouse game, leaving the victims in a Gestapo agents is searching the un- The strain drove some of the re- "undesirable elements." The pro- cruellest Nazi manhunts ever head of the Social Democratic state of excruciating uncertainty, as Party in the Reichstag, were re-

staff

saving "prominent personalties," of staged. Fear spreads

young member of the

well

writers an 'snatching

known Gestapo agents cross one name ported in advices reaching here fees to suicide. Erich Kaiser, a blem is not merely a question of

anti-Nazi emigre paper

at scientists, professors, physicians and Parts, hanged himself in

Nazla. The thousands of unknown "Breitscheid and Hilferding, tion camp in southern France. Barred from escape by diplo- 9 prisoners of the Gestapo, matic red tape or plain lack of

A good share of those refugees still refugees leading a miserable exis funds, the men who fought according to information receiv Nazism in Germany and her ed by German Socialists in Lon- in France have foreign visas. They tence in France include the best and arrested at Arles, can't leave, however, because-dos- most implacable enemies of Fuselsm. conquered satraps can only sit don, were

Vichy Government sull refuses to of humanity, but of expediency. For there are hardly any more valuable and wait some of them in near Marseilles, a month ago and pile statements to the contrary-the To save them is not only a question

turned over by the French to grant them exit visas. miserable concentration canips, the Germans under an extradi- Until a few weeks ago Spain made fighters against Ilitler than these some of them in hiding.

tion claim made under terms of it a practice to grant transit vlaas and women whose life purpose it is for Portugal provided the refugee to destroy Nazism and to help in the of a new and better visa. construction They didn't realise it fully the armistice agreement.

already had Д transatlantic then, but their doom was sealed "Both reportedly had United This loophole for refugees smuggling Germany. when Vichy signed her honour States visas, but were refused able pence" with Hitler last June. Buried deep in Article exit permits by the French."

The last sentence is par- XIX of the German-French armistice was this stipulation: ticularly significant and par- "The French Government is ticularly sad. Not more than 70 obliged to surrender upon de- or 80 of the original "List of mand all Germans named by the the 200" are now safely out of German Government in France France.

Many of those still in France as well as in French possessions, colonies, protectorate territories cannot be located, either because they are in hiding or have turn- and mandates."

actually belloved ed wanderer to escape intern- France would make good that ment. Sometimes they are promise to play Judas to the rested, only to "cacapo" (with people to whom she had given the help of a few humano French the Gestapo officials) before haven in good faith while the catches up with them. Nazi terror was spreading over. Nazi thoroughness has been, a Europe. But Vichy went even help on this score. Once com-

No one

further than she was bound to

ar-

under the armistice. Months piled, copies of the Gestapo list ago the Petain Government de were turned over to the Paria clared that no German or Aus- police, the Ministry of the Interior and the Surete trian refugee would got an exit Nationale at Vichy. visa. In other words, the door The Nazis lost no time starting was closed. The Gestapo could their man hunt. German commis- come and take the victims at its sions made up of regular Relehrwehr pleasure.

officers, Elite Guard officers and The dread "List of the 200" Gestapo agents began visiting all la only an elastic term given to concentration camps in the unoccu

pied and occupied areas a fow weeks the names of one-time anti- after the armistice was signed. They Nazis wanted by Hitler. It was came armed with lists of all Austrian compiled long before the blite and German political leaders of the against France was started and Pre-Hitler period as well as emigre writers who had been campaigning was amplified by the Gestapo ngainst Nazism. from files surrendered by the The procedure was almost always French police after the sur- the same, render. No one will ever know were teily paille. Intern.ces wore The Nazi commissioners usually thereal number involved. Ined up as though on parade and Names make news and many of received this little pep tale the anti-Fascist names on "Gentlemen, you need not be dis- Hitler's lat meant nothing on turbed. We are looking only for u

few very definito persona? As Gre-}|| this side of the Atlantic. The gards the non-Aryans, there is no wholo tragic story is best sum chance of their being amnestled or

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and

This part of London is now the centre of the publishing trades, a It has been since the first age of the printing press, and journalists know it well, for it adjoins. Ficet Street their have where the newspapers

names The street

round Fleet home. Street reveal that it was once cover- ed with great Churches and religious *Blackfriars, where

The Times" office is, keeps its name

from tho Dominican house and foundations.

Church, a foundation so grand that the Emperor Charles V was housed there when he visited London in 1022, and there the historie plea of King Henry VIII to divorce his wife Catherine of Aragon was tried be- Parliament used to meet in Black- fore the Papal Legato.

Cardinal friars, and here it decreed the fall of Henry's great Minister Welscy. In St. Paul's Cathedral a short distance away you can still see which the great red marble tomb Wolsey had prepared for himself. But his bones do not lle in it. The tomb, with all his other possessions, was declared forfeited to the Crown nnd successive Kings of England in herited it but did not know to what use to put it. But in 1805, two hundred and seventy five years after the fall and death of Wolsey the great English gallor Nelson died at Trafalgar and was brought back to England for a national burial. Then Wolsey's One tomb was taken out of store and Lord Nelson's bones rest In it in the Cathedral crypt, side by side with those of Wellington.

If it had not been for the great Fire, the destruction wrought in 1060, the loss of the relics of medl- aeval and Tudor London through the indiscriminate German bomblag would have been much heavier. The older structures had more wood in them and were Httle Atted to The English are now discussing the stand up to heavy explosions, rebuilding of the parts of their capital which have suffered most, and are realising that they have an to rebulld unexpected opportunity In the neighbourhood of St. Paul's in Way a more planned and spacious that will show off the Cathedral and Its great dome to more advantage.

They recall hint Paternoster Now, for instance: first came into existence BA a street for the merchants of re- ligious objects, precisely. In order to clear the space immediately round the Cathedral where such, merchants bad in the first place installed them. selves. Perhaps now the whole area will be claimed for Cathedral pre- cincts; but we may be sure, as it is England, that the old names will not be allowed to perish and the lines of these famous streets will be served.

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