THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 7, 1940.
News Snack Bar
THEY ARE BOMBING THE RED CROSS
London, May 18.
SOME 25 MILES behind the frontier in Alsace lies the town of Phalsbourg. This town has been dedicated by the French to one purpose and one only-the alleviation of suffering and distress.
Phalsbourg is a town that has been converted into one vast hospital and clearing base in the sector of the Maginot Line.
-Aux Ecoles
--the 15th Jane I enter Paris-the 16th I dash into London--the 17th I take America-the 18th 1 send an ultimatum to God.
Norwegian Feat.
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Several Nazi airmen walked into Norwegian estaminet and, over their beer, talked loudly about their sea- plane moored in a flord. Two Norwe- gian airmen at a table nearby slipped
A correspondent with the French Army described on January 27 how it had been hoped that the Nazis would at least respect the humani- tarian function of the town and leave it alone.
But on Thursday Phalsbourg was devastated with bombs; the hos- pital wards and casualty stations were deliberately destroyed by the planes that flew low over the housetops rain- ing death on the injured and dying.
GERMANY AGREES
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At the Red Cross Conference Madrid in 1932, General Schickele, of the French Army, proposed a scheme that was readily adopted, whereby the wounded should be spared the horrors of bombardment in time of war. It was agreed that centres of no military
Now Fully Aroused
or strategic importance should be set Ban On Strasser's Book
aside as a Red Cross, town and that all troops and material of war should be prohibited from entering them. Such centres were to be publicly de- clared to be devoted entirely to the work of the Red Cross.
Germany agreed to this arrange-
ment.
The entire scheme
was to have
New York Times.
U.S. Bemoan Lack`
The book "Hitler et Moi," by Otto Of News Strasser, leader of the anti-Nazi "Black Front" organisation of re-. fugees from Germany, has been ban- ned in Hungary.
Strasser alleged in his book that Hitler murdered his great-niece.
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Bukarest has spy fever — but the city is laughing at one "agent."
out of the estaminet, rowed to the been ratified at a special conference They Got The Bird! seaplane, calmly obliterated the Swas- at Geneva last October, but the war tikas on the fuselage and painted Nor- prevented this, wegian colours in their place. They then started up the engines, made a perfect take-off and, after a success- ful crossing, landed at a British port, the Norwegian colours acting as their passport,
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Goebbels's Magazine
NAZI CONTEMPT
and So the French set to work completely demilitarised Phalsbourg, Not a soldier, or gun or rifle was to be seen. There were no defences and no effort was ever made to provide A.R.P. facilities, as they were con- vinced that the Germans would never dare to bombard the town.
The French were wrong.
A new, well-produced, bi-weekly magazine called Signal has appeared It had a on European bookstalls. ready sale because of its attractive the appalling effect make-up, somewhat resembling the of the wounded and, of course, the
This innocent visitor, tired of be- ing watched, ordered a crate of pigeons and then took them out into the country.
A complaint that there was Tittle official British news was made in the opening of the Columbia broadcasting system's news bulletin for America.
The greater part of incoming news was of German origin, said the an-
nouncer.
Pilot Survivor Named-
The name of a British áirman who, it was stated, escaped by parachute when his plane was shot down over He tied pieces of paper to each Norway, was given by the official Ger- pigeon and then let them loose. The man wireless as birds were duly trapped, but the daw, born in October, 1918, watchers found that all the "messages" were blanks.
The Germans, knowing full well Big Gun From
on the morale
American magazine Life, and its defencelessness of the town, visited Graf Spee
brightly coloured pages.
it with their bombers. Despite the Signal is Goebbels's latest propa- enormous red cross outlined in white. ganda paper and is being sold all over in the centre of the town, despite the the Continent. It is published simul- revulsion that their conduct must in- taneously in three languages, and con- evitably engender in other neutrals, tains articles and pictures "boosting" the Germans have demonstrated their the Nazi war effort and decrying the complete contempt for the French Allies.
faith in honourable warfare.
GILES
"Blimey-so I ave!".
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Salvage workers have succeeded in removing one of the big guns from the forward turret of the scuttled poc ket-battleship Graf Spee.
The gun has been taken under the closest guard to the workshops of the company which bought the wreck.
Pilot-Officer War-
The other occupant of the plane was killed, the announcer stated. Reuter.
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Women In Cart
Machine-Gunned
German barbarism at its worst ia
revealed in a "Black Book" dealing with the Nazi invasion and issued by the Polish Government in Paris..
Women were machine-gunned — some of them by a German tank while even shepherd boys were kill- ed at their work, the publication states, The women were attempting to leave the war zone in a farm cart when the tank turned its guns -on them, killing them and the driver. One of the women was the American wife of Count Michalowski.
Mr. Cochran
And Nudity
Mr. C. B. Cochran, the producer, speaking in London, said that there had been "wild, unconsidered corres- pondence" and "indiscriminate, ex- aggerated remarks from the pulpit suggesting that the theatre was in- -dulging in an orgy, of nudity. Ho was addressing the annual dinner of the_Gallery First-Nighters' Club, "Theatrical evangelists" round the con ference table, he said, had practically asked for sanitary inspectors and ina- pectors of virtue to watch productions. The critics could better elevate the theatre by more careful selection of plays and finer standards of produc tion and acting.