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July 4, 1941.

HARD NUTS TO CRACK

"Wait a minute, Mum, while I stich the old flag in"

How Kirby

Muxloe,

from the "Daily Express" London

Most Bomb-Battered

Village In

stood

up

Britain

to the Blitz

Most astounding feature village was being made for happened there. Some eggs in of this village blitz. Seven the erection of surface a dish in the pantry remained either wholly or in part without previous houses as well as the Free brick shelters: none had as

INDEPENDENCE DAY

TO-DAY is American Indepen- On July 4, 1776, the

dence Day. American people declared their secession from British rule and took

dom and tolerance.

lives for themselves out of an anla- gonistie, rich and unknown wilder-

ness. They threw off the silks of civilisation as it was then known, to sweat and toil in a country which

unbroken.

Leaders

of the Free French

Until the spring of 1940 Charles de Gaulle was only

a Colonel in the French Army, Reynaud, then Pre- mier, impressed by his ideas of mechanised warfare which the French General Staff scorned until too late, made him a Brigadier Gen- eral. Although de Gaulle has continued to be the out- standing personality in the Free French movement, four other men have also risen to leadership.

GEN, GEORGES CATROUX: Bealdes de Gnulle, Catroux is the most influential of the Free French lenders. As a five-star. general he far outranked de Gaullo, and was Governor Gen- eral of Indo-China at the time of the French collapse. Refusing to obey Vichy's orders, he left for London and joined the Free French, and is its foremost re- crult.

Like many others of the Free French, Catroux has been a colonial administrator and sol. dier all his life. In the World War he hended the French mis- sion in Arabia, helped Marshal Lyautey suppress the Riff re- bellion in Morocco in 1926, und then fought against the Druse tribesmen in Syria. Catroux is now in command of the Free French forces in the Middle East and apparently has his headquarters in Palestine, whence he has been directing the propaganda drive in Syria for the Free French.

ADMIRAL EMILE MUSE-

LIER: The Admiral is the only

French sailor of note to go over to the Free French. When the collapse came, he left his job ns head of armament factories in Bordeaux, rushed to Paris, de- Admiralty Office, and escaped to Britain. This episode was in line with his World War record, when he designed and command- ed "Q" ships against submarines and took part in the French in-

volution of 1917. tervention in the Russian re-

Church were demolished. yet been built.

How to explain the villagers A further 80 houses were

escape? Mr F. W. James, the At 8.20 p.m. the blow fell. District Council's engineer and made uninhabitable and others were less seriously

There were explosions "like surveyor, puts it down to the the crack of doom" that lucky chance that the bombs fell damaged.

the evening when shook the village to its early in

everyone was still downstairs. But not a single life was foundations, followed by a

"If it had happened when the up arms against the most powerful lost that night in Kirby long rumbling roll of thun- nation in the world to back their Muxloe-one woman

over der, as one house after an- people were in bed," said Mrstroyed valuable papers in the

James, "there would have been right to govern themselves in free-80 has since died from other was laid in ruins. a different story to tell.".

shock-and no one was even Monster bombs had fallen The hardy colonists carved new seriously injured.

At the entrance to Kirby right in the heart of the Muxloe I was greeted by a no- How is this for a blitz? village, alongside the Free tice: "Prepare to Meet Thy In the Leicestershire village Church, and in a garden God!" The villagers, I fancy, of Kirby Muxloe there were about a hundred yards need no Scriptural admonitions

old away. 650 dwelling-houses,

In addition eight to remind them of the instabi- rand new, as well as the smaller bombs had dropped. The first living creature I met French naval units that joined labour. The tremendous fight against ruins of a fifteenth-century in a field on the outskirts Britain welded them into a nation; castle. At one stroke the of the village. they attracted immigrants with their Luftwaffe destroyed or new ideas and wealth from all parts damaged-well, I don't of the earth. They went through the want to disclose, just how fires of the Civil War and emerged many houses, but I do say *Stronger-because--their-weaknesses that no other community in had been largely burnt away. the kingdom can show such The Government of the United a high percentage of ma- States, backed by the frank pleas of terial destruction. Great Britain, is seeking to convince the 130 million people of this rich territory

that their own private Magna Coria 10

directly

promised them reward for

now

threatened by the world war which the Nazis, are prosecuting. Great Britain desperately wants Americu to take up arms and come into the battle before the enemy has reduced

her full forces against the western all other opposition and can turn

hemisphere.

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blitzed cities have done.

By WILLIAM

FORREST

on .the

lity of life.

was a bulldog. That was better. Surely symbolical of the spirit in which this village met and sur- mounted its disaster.

From his headquarters : in London he commands all the

the British or were seized in British ports after the battle of Oran. These include twą battle- ships, the 22,189-ton Paris and Courbet, finely-designed ships In a little office near the

but old and with a speed of only village centre two young_surve- 16 knots. He also commands yors told-me-how-well-the res-the 1,000 Free French pilots toration work was going.

hood.

now flying with the R.A.F. against Germany,

GEN. EDOUARD DE LAR- MINAT: De Larminat WAS

ex-

On the night of raid the village W.V.S. had 400 homeless Kirby Muxloe has its own people to provide for. They Yet, although it happened A.F.S., rescue squads, war- housed them and fed them in the only a colonel in the French

Army. But he held an some months ago, Kirby dens and all the rest, de- local golf club... Muxloe has found no pendent

central Next morning, by the light oftremely important post: chief of staff in General Woygand's chronicler to pen its story A. R. P. control of Blaby day more than half of the 400 for posterity, as the big Rural District Council. found that their homes, though Army of the Levant. Last damaged, were still habitable, summer he left Syria and joined

The

the Free French In the Middle Down in the underground and back home they went. Let me try to repair the headquarters of this control others found accommodation East. De Gaullo made him a quite briefly, for Kirby had happened over at Kirby omission. It can be done they knew that something with friends in the neighbour-general and appointed him com- mander in French Equatorial Africa. He comes from an old. Muxloe's blitz produced nei- Muxloe. But what? When ther firework nor heroics. they tried to get through

military family from Lorraine. That same morning Engineer The Free French emblem is the on the phone the line was James and his assistants opened Cross of Lorraine, the insignia States to this conviction so fervently plenty "Everyone behaved dead. It had been broken.. their little office in the village, of Joan of Arc.

GEN. PAUL LE GENTIL- held by President Roosevelt and his magnificently," I was told They did,

surveyed the damage and mo-

HOMME: bilised the necessary help.. Cabinet. But it is slow work and by one of the district A.R.P.

The career of Gen- One hundred and twenty men, eral Le Gentilhomme has been meanwhile the bulwarks of freedon chiefs-but village Hamp through to Glenfields, a village are threatened in Europe, America dens remain, traditionally two miles from Kirby Muxloe, builders, plumbers and the like centred in the French colonies. Glenfelds sent out a patrol to were brought in from neigh-In 1909 he fought the last pirate investigate

report, and bouring villages. Within four chieftain in Indo-China, In thereafter throughout the night, days all the emergency repairs, 1932, in the same colony, he messengers on motor-cycles such as felting roofs and board-suppressed a Communist up- On the night of the raid.kept the control informed of de- ing windows, had been com-rising without bloodshed. At the villagers heard aircraft velopments. overhead. There was

Much has been done-most of

the

it by

Nazis themselves-to weon the cilizens of the United

was in this war from the moment

Heroes there were in

that France fell and the designs of unsung. the Nazis to conquer the world be enme stamped as indelibly on the mind of the man in the street as it

was already stamped on the minds of knowledgeable people who had followed the news.

贷

# #

no-

and

however, get

pleted. Then starting from the the time of the French armis-- outskirts, where the damage was tice, Le Gentilhomme was But Kirby. Muxloe's thing unusual in that. The A.R.P. services were equal to wards the ruined centre, the and he immediately resigned to own less serious, and working In to Governor of French Somaliland, Senator Wheeler, Mr Lindbergh (formerly Colonel) and others of Midlands

were "going the occasion. They needed no squads got down the job of res-join the Free French. At the their ilk will have achieved a tre- through it" at that time, outside help. There was only toring the damaged houses to end of April ho-was with the de mendous victory for the quislings of Coventry, had been blitzed one fire at a gas main near the their pre-blitz state. Even the Gaulle forces in Italian East America as well as for Adolf Hitler and raiders were constant- A.F.S. to deal with.

wrecked Free Church-for the glass went back.

Africa and last month frighten- if they manage to delay Uncle Som's

And in a More than two-thirds of the led Vichy into declaring that the old to the point where it will be use-ly passing back and forth.

surprisingly short time the res- houses have now been complete Free French were about to take less. Britons everywhere need fear But this time there was a cue squads and wardens, with ly restored. Only in the centre over Somaliland. no rebuttal on the grounds of self different sound in the air. many willing helpers, had ex- of the village do you still see the

bris of the ruined houses.

village.

secking when they invite Americans The drone of the planes, tricated everyone from the de- boarded windows and the green the one and only ruin in the everywhere to urge their fellow

felt sagging on the roofs. countrymen to hasten the day of instead of dying away, por-

But the church? Not even battle. The fight is universal; isisted.

is lost for Democracy, America Inves

alone.

William Lord Hastings, who The Free Church minister. a period of living under high-pres- "I don't like the sound of Mr J. A. Caldwell, was in his the shell of that remains. The built the castle, had his hend manse opposite the church. The porch still stands, and in front chopped off by Richard the sure lerror until her day of reckon these fellows," said Mr

of it a notice-board with a well. Third, and Shakespearo records manae, like, the church, Was Ing comes: which she must then face Armson, local builder (and wrecked, but Mr Caldwell came chosen Thought for the Week: his dying curse:

Obloody Richard! misera- It may be that Americans-have one of my informants), to out with only cuts and bruises, "Good humour is a fine defence

against hard knocks."

ble England! allowed their thoughts to be diverted his wife. And the same and he is now conducting ser- overmuch into the Pactfie groove. It

The church, too will be rea- I prophesy the fearful'at may be that Japan will stay her sense of foreboding must vices in the village school.

tored. Another notice, Inviting time to then through Impotence, Indecision have been felt by everyone One of the big bombs ex- contributions to the restoration or decency. It is evident that she will not provoke a fight and who can in the village..

ploded in a cottage garden. In fund, anys: "We nek your res-

hand

when the real foe Hes In Europe? It

That aver trotched ago hath look'd upon. afford to seek a foo in the Pacife But what could they do the cottage were Mr and Mrs pect for this ground of hallowed My lord cannot have envi- Stafford with their two daugh memories. We look towards saged Limca -any moro' fourful is not too much to hope that July except remain where they ters. Mr Stafford's spectacles the future."

than those, wo live in. But may contain another famous day were in their rooms down- were broken and one of his eyes Kirby Muxloo in dolarmined. "miserable) England?" Nay: the day of the declaration of war ! against the Axis.

stairs? A survey of the was injured. That was all that that the old castle shall remain wonderful England!

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