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THE CHINA MAIL; DECEMBER 9, 1940.
GERMANY RESIGNED TO A BLEAK WINTER
YESTERDAY IN Germany was “Sacrifice Sunday," when the German people were press- ed to contribute to the Winter Help Fund, which has been a regular feature ever since the Nazi Party came into power.
Ostensibly, money collected on "Sacri- fice Sunday" is intended for the poor and the destitute, but many Germans have remarked that no balance sheet is ever published and the public is not told what happens to the col- lections.
SAW A BOMB KILL SIX
By the flash of a bomb
The fund is administered, ex- clusively by the Nazis.
Germany's "diplomatic Win- .ter Help Fund" the first con- tribution to which was the Axia/ Japan pact seems to have
come to a standstill.
Since the accession of Hungary a man saw his three sons, and Rumania, all Germany's soll- married daughter, and ellations have failed to produce two grandchildren killed any more contributors. in a raid.
He and his wife, who is still in hospital, are the only survivors of eleven people trapped in the cellar a north-east England town -house which was wrecked...
of
He is William Hadfield, aged for y-seven, and. he had been placed in the same ward as three German airmen who had been
shot down.
H's wife, Sarah, has now been told that her three sons, William,"
The failure of the diplomatic offensive is clearly revealed in Getman propaganda.
man-controlled radio broadcasts During the past few days, Gér- have maintained a discrect silence about the "New Order," and have
BARGAINING
PRESSURE BY NAZIS ON JAPAN
It has been suggest- ed in diplomatic cir- cles in Peiping that the delay on the part of Germany in re- cognising the Wang Ching-wei Govern- ment is due to Ger- many's desire to use recognition as a bar- gaining counter to force Japan to take action against Britain in the Far East. Reuter.com
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AMERICA'S VLADIVOSTOK
fallen back on claims that Britain. CONSULATE
is on the verge of collapse,
Chinese circles
eged sixteen, Harry aged twelve. and Andrew, aged ten, were killed, and also her married daughter, lapse of Britain" propaganda is importance to the Soviet Elizabeth Tarrant, twenty-six, and
This complete change has arous- ed comment and it is generally re- Chungking attach much cognised that this "imminent col in the nature of a stop-gap to
Mrs. Tarrant's two children; Wil- liam, aged eight months, and Margaret, aged two and a half years.
The other victims whose bodies were taken out after many hours heroic work by rescue squads
were
Miss Betty Scarborough, aged twenty, her sister Gladys, aged twelve, and Miss. Nancy Tar- rant, aged eighteen, sister-in-law to Mrs. Tarrant.
Mr. Hadfield
told a reporter:
"We got the children and the others into the coal cellar.
Lucky Escape
cover up the failure of Germany
in Southern Europe and France and the humiliation of Italy in Grecce and the Middle East.
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Hitler's Aim:
It is also taken as confirma: tion of the theory that Ger- many's recent attacks on British provincial towns and on ship- ping were intended to help Mussolini In his Greece cam-. paign.
absence
Italy's failure is as humiliating "Suddenly, there was a territo Germany as it is to Italy. her- ble explosion. By the nash a self, and it is considered highly the co.no i saw the walls of the probable that the Cellar bulge and cave in, bury. German help is a result of Ger- Ing our children and the others, man inability rather than Ger- "We two on the steps had amaz-
nan unwillingness. ing escapes. We were trapped and I could only move one hand. We could hear the rescuers and i kep. on shouting.
"I managed to move a brick from my wife's head and tried to cheer her up, as she was beginn- ing to lose' hope.
"I said to her: 'Sarah, while there's life there's hope,' and she smiled back bravely at me. "Several hours I could just see a pin-point of light as the rescuers worked feverishly to release us.'
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The experts have decreed that the vogue for women's wartime winter-wear will be brightly- coloured woolton, stockings to match" costumes, hats and hand- bags, for the order of the season ls to be practical; yet: gay.in. gy "I'd rather go stockinglessand risk feeling cold," one girl'sald, “I (Hink most girls would agree with me, too. Woollen stockings-and. co oured ones at that! What a hor-
ror!
A score o or more young women
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This is what one man had say about the iden: "How awful. Wo need pretty legs and faces to cheer us these days...
Other fashions decreed for win- ter wear are mackintosh, cape put- me-ups pneumatic capes that cari be blown un de gen low and mattress for unexpected. night-time sheltering tum Taus and ve vet cont collars to jake -the place of fur····
The British Press yesterday com- mented, that the best help Hitler can give Mussolini is to renew the raids on Britain in the hope of reducing our air aid to Greece and. to intensify the attacks on shipping to keep as much of the British Fleet out of the Mediter- ranean as possible. Reuter.
agreement to the estab- lishment of a United States consulate at Vladi- vostok.
It is considered that the open- ing up of Vladivostok wil make the port an important route" of Soviet-American trade.
Infarmed circles valso: con- Eider that the opening of this routa will
benefit Indirectly Chinese transportation pro bloma.
It is pointed out that Chinese- goods shipped to Vladivostok via Hong Kong from January to August this year totalled nearly $50,000,000, or nearly double the figures for last year. Reuter. JAPANESE TROOPS IN
PLAGUE ZONE
the
The Japanese troops on northern bank of the Chin River in northern Kiangsi are reported to be terror-stricken by epidemics which are prevalent in the area. Numerous Japanese soldiers are reported have died of plague.- Central News..
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