1941-09-04 — Page 4

Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

September 4, 1941.

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pravity of the human-race. But information was needed and, of course, every passer- by was "a stranger in these parts." Recollecting the bravery of countrywomen at home, with tightened lips and well-braced form, I ventured...

The

With

Race

Whom

They

By

Live

NORAH WHITESTONE

This is the first of three reports sent from Australia by Miss Whitestone on the anni-. versary of the evacuation. To-morrow, she will describe "The Land In Which They Live."

client,

and Carmelite calm. reigns where one would expect the press of commerce.

WEIRD and aggravating Idiosyncracy of this sup posedly open-air people is the fixed and almost universal de- termination with which every ray (oven of pallid, winter) sunshine is excluded from the buildings. Window blinds are half-mast, kept permanently roof-lights screened, windows heavily curtained and opened in winter and closed in summer! Consequently

an Australian home too often presents an as- pect reminiscent of the days bo- fore the advent of the "funeral parlour" when the body lay in quiescence before its final exit.

Guarded probings produce no

custom.. And the exterior of

valid reason for this retiring the houses refutes the theory of modesty and love of privacy. high separate pathway from garden; and here again is the CHARACTERIS- same curious lack of animation. There must be Inhabitants, but TICS of the Australians they are seldom seen.

offer anomalies. Individually

Low brick walls of about 2 feet

THE

"Where is Challis House?" Once more was reality less fearsome than faltering anticipation. In truth, this forbidding-looking member of the Sydney Police-al- though the occasion was one of official ceremony and he a member of the re- straining force-soothed my foundation in fact, previous qualms by an unexpectedly enquiries of the Police hay-

In theory, the notion of bright benevolent glance, scratched.

flower gardens open to the his head and politely (Yes! ing met with a mere gesture promote reflection and

I of an impatient official arm many politely) and with friendly and an entirely unintel- the citizen is most friendly public eye is an attractive one. kind, helpful and generous; However, the glimpse, very oc- alacrity drew out his little Hongkong Telegraph. books and traced the edifice. ligible mutter, leaving my loquacious, and communicative casionally, of a fair-sized, digni- except for a feeling of my and (although on this point I fled, homely, old grey house My reluctance, though un- own utter insignificance in have been most vehemently op screened by well-grown shrubs founded in this particulay the scheme of things, pre- posed by the Australians them and trees, lurking dreamily be- selves) wholesomely lacking in hind an ancient, weathered six- foot fence, instantly brings back instance, had a substantial cisely where I was.

| snobbishness and invidious dis- the days of village England; tinctions of class. In the mass catches at the breath and parts

The

Thursday, Sept. 4, 1941.

Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20015

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AXIS DEBUNKING

EVENTS are daily debunking

the political meaning of the

word "axis." Its current usage

has been traced to a speech by

Mussolini on November 1, 1936. Referring to the accord signed in July in Berlin, which had definitely shifted the main lines of Italian foreign policy away from London and Vienna, he said:

This Berlin-Rome protocol is not a barrier. It is rather an axis around which all European States animated by a desire for peace may collaborate on troubles,

She Serves the

Best Coffee he is egoistic, unnecessarily self- the lips of an exile in brief nos-

CANTEEN GIRL

By Noel Barber

assertive, and often ignores the talgic regret-and excites dis- merest little courtesies current taste for the more blatant, tim-

ber-lace trimmed neighbours. in a self-respecting community.

A disappointingly overbuilt He pushes and bumps and el- bows a way through the clty city is this, standing upon an immense, almost untimbered, streets; and Melbournians, in-

wind-swept plain. Take your

Her name is Jenny. She is given full board and lodging, particular, seem frantically ea stance upon rising ground be young and she has a cherry free issues of working and walk-ger to change their spots with yond the suburbs, and seeming- smile. Three times a day some ing out uniform, and all her the greatest despatch possible. ly endless miles of timber-bullt or brick bungalows and villas - Shopping in the large stores fills the eye in unrelieved mono- you three hours off every afternoon,

fs a chastening experience, and tony. Each is detached, it is man in grey-blue goes up to her laundry is paid for. She has and says, “Jenny→→→will

a week-end off every month, and

I have more than once retired true, but only just; and that the must live 80 marry me?"

every six months she gets a

worsted from the encounter inhabitants The men in grey-blue are in break of seven days.

with sharp-tongued, supercili- cramped for space upon this She and one or two of herous, bored assistants. On the spacious plain is, no doubt, the the Royal Air Force. And Jenny is a Canteen Girl,

companions share a bedroom credit side is the almost univer- result of the vehement rejection She works at one of Britain's which has hot and cold water, sul politeness and willing atten- of any extension of the building mightiest R.A.F. depots. She and there are several attraction given by the owners of the stands behind a bar, and serves tively furnished sitting-rooms smaller and suburban shops. out beer. Her customers in- for their use. clude men from all parts of the

she says: Empire. And

"I

NON-PROFIT BODY.

Thus Il Duce attempted to wouldn't change my--job-for-I-took a good look round this suggest the concept of a bene-anything in the world."

volent Fascist pence group, re-

volving in a Rome-Berlin orbit. But free peoples use the word with their own meaning-one which clearly recognises the liaison as an instrument deslign- ed for despotic domination. And even to the unhappy peoples who have been dragged into relations with the Axis, Musso- lini's phrase "collaboration on troubles" carries much more the meaning of trouble than of true collaboration.

you.

THE NAFFI

The canteen where she works

is a huge one run by that vast and chips for 3d." organisation known the whole

of flats.

*

THE hardiness of this people is a matter for A DETRIMENT to which envious wonder. I have not in our cousins should mind the proverbial "long, lean, canteen to see what it could really, for their own good name, sun-bitten Digger" but the aver What is the life of a 1941 offer airmen with very little give attention is the attitude of age citizen, whose physique dif- wards the public whom they are of other races. In a bitterly some sample meals. I paid 70. employed to serve. Railway cold season many houses remain build- Canteen Girl? How does she money to spend, and here are the State Services personnel to- fers as widely, perhaps, as that

for steak pie and chips and peas. servants (pardon! this word is unheated. Government live in the Front Line?

The story of Jenny will tell Some body else had a fish cake evidently taboo and apt to be ings only seem to be equipped with a double portion of chips resented officials), tramway with efficient central heating for 44d. Another man who staff, pastal employees-with a apparatus, though such in a few was really hard up had sausage notable exception here and there office buildings circulate a tepid all appear to regard cus- fluid which barely mitigates the But Naffi's job doesn't endstomers as a nuisance to be dealt frosty air. A request by a blue- as cursorily as may be, nosed "Pommie" for a hot-water world over as Nafi-the Navy, there. It is called a "non-profit with

trading organisation," although answered grudgingly if at all. bottle is likely to meet with A Army and Air Force Institutes. in point of fact it makes big The difficulties attending the ex- pitying smile-but it is gener-

Jenny is one of 28 girls who, profits. But the whole of these traction of information from ally vouchsafed. between them, run a canteen are returned to the men who them overwhelm the stranger. have not yet learned the correct that serves 3,000 R.A.F. men. own this vast organisation-On the other hand, possibly we Before the war she was a par- the men of the forces.

technique of approach regarding OF AUSTRALIA'S six or seven millions, it would entrenched The money is not split up into this invulnerably

scem at a hazarded guess that For Rome, the line from lour maid.

pennies and divided among the body.

about half. that number is en- When she joined the canteen armies. It is spent on billiard Berlin-we might call it the

The Police, generally speak gaged in controlling (such is the. Goebbels-Gayda-Gestapo axis she decided first to become a tables-four beautiful ones at

pianos, oning, are unhelpful. untidy in intention) the remainder. Ap- has become plainly puppet cook. For three months she this canteen-on string, with the German secret learned how to cook, and was cinemas, on free entertainment. dress, undignified in their deal- ple, Pear, Lamb, Egg, Wheat

ings with the public, and fall to each edible product is accorded police governing Italy in all paid while she learned.

Increasing and supplementing impress as guardians of the the dignity of a "Board". Ap- essentials. The cartoonist who

She didn't stay as a cook for the canteens in wartime hus peace. Perhaps their functions parently one must not sell an an axle pictured the Axia as

very long. Perhaps the man- been a terrific job for the men are punitive rather than protec- egg except through official chan-

and women behind Naffi. Intive.

nels, and each feathered produ- knew his dictionary, for that is

the first nine months of the

cer is registered. Only fruit of ageress thought her

approved lineage may be mar- the first meaning of the word,

PUBLIC keted-and ton upon ton of per- but it had to be made visibly emile would be an asset in the war they had to get 160,000 canteen. At any rate, she now square yards of linoleum, 85,000

GARDENS and parka fectly eatable fruit is allowed to crooked when extended to Tokyo. serves beor there at 7d. a pint. chairs, 1,000 clocks, 6,000 mir-

rors, 11,000 beds, and an extra present a sharp contrast to the rot beneath the trees. Nor And it's a very modern axletree

She works every morning get- 450 pianos. They even had to thronged city streets. Beyond must it be given away. In with a differential which permits Japan to keep carefully at peaceting, things ship-shape, then get 400 portable oven ranges aan occasional dismal down-and- Melbourne an apple may cost at lunch-time. The month, so that they could cater out, or an errand boy shuffling Id., but in Sydney at the pre- with Russin. The effort to serven make it run also through Moscow afternoon is more or less free, for the camps that were spring the fallen leaves, they are void sent time I am informed the has now broken down openly. At 5.30 p.m. the real rush of ing up all over the country.

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cherry

Hongkong Benevolent Society of course, Bostonians, brought the day begins. It lasts until

Room - 11, Ice House Street

The Society's Room will be open on MONDAYS & THURSDAYS from 10 A.M, to noon

Count the "TELEGRAPHS"

Everywhere

up on Oliver Wendell Holmes remark that their State House is the "hub of the solar system," could have foretold failure for this attempt to make the universe revolve around some upstart "foreign" axle..

half past nine at night.

1

THE RARE

of human life. No cheerful, price is 8d. or 4d. pushing nurses; no young cou

romping children; no pram- A land of plenty this indubi A CHANGÉ "But why do men who are ples regardless of the passing tably le, and "too right" a land cars. of pitiful waste. To one who being fed in the Forces need world; no riders; no SIX BARS

extra food?" you may ask. The Country quietude is a delightful has witnessed the painstaking, children garnering each tiny, The canteen at this R.A.F. reply is simply this: When the thing, but this cerie lack of ur- patient gropings of Manchuria's depot has six bars, apart from a airman or the soldier has a few ban life ills, the stroller with a shop and a restaurant and a hours off but can't leave camp, dismal sense of vacuity and dos pin-point cinder, each blade of As a handy headline word mobile canteen which goes round he feels like a change. So he solation; brings inevitably a withered grass and their grate- Axis may be overworked. But to airmen at lonely stations. goes into the canteen, where passing contrast with the lively ful, smiling acceptance of half there is a radio and à piano, and galety, of European public garai dog biscuit offered by a stranger, comes the reflection those who write or read it in In charge of one bar, Jenny has has his meal in the cheapest dens.

(amounting to conviction) that English know it for what it is a pretty big job, though at least cafe in the world.

City shops are thronged, but had Mr Browning been such a plunderbund having no ele-half of the men hardly drink

Ho is "eating out." He en- an office will again strike this witness his April rhapsody strange note of chilling might have been terminated In ments of enduring cohesion. Indeed, the thieves have so far any beer at all-they drink tea, joys psychological as well as same fallen out that another dietion: 16,000 cups of ten a week at a material satisfaction, and it is inanition. Glancing through a less buoyantly optimistic tones. just that which makes the work hardwood and plate-glass door On the beach below now burzis ary definition should soon be penny a cup!

Jenny gets 228. a week. But of the thousands of canteen way, one sees that the resplen- a mighty beacon of massive

dent counter is free of clerk or treo-roots and fallen logs. Bean to be the only accurato ono

"Imaginary line.

that fa pocket money. She is girls so important.