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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 7, 1941.
FRENCH FEELING KISSED
CHANGING
UNDER THE NAZIS
SHOT WIFE, PRAYED
Shooting his wife
because she had an incurable illness, a weeping soldier knelt by her bedside andi kissed her pall.d lips, praying that she might die.
The jury at Gloucester Assizes found the soldier guilty of murder
to mercy.
Mr. Justice Charles said he con- sidered the verdict ather cruel, as the only order he could now make was that the man be de- tained as a criminal lunatic until This Majesty's pleasure be known.
GERMAN OCCUPATION of Paris has brought but insane and recommended him widespread hatred of the invaders among the French and has aroused hopes for a British victory in French hearts, Mrs. Jessica Hensley, an American who has lived in France for twelve years, said on her arrival in New York. Mrs. Hensley was in the vicinity of Paris when the Germans came there.
"It took the French some time to realise what it meant to be defeated," she told a reporter of the New York "Herald-Tribune." "At first they were stunned and they were happy, too, that war was over, that Paris had escaped bombing. They were bitter against the British who, they said, had taken their troops out of France. They met the Germans without any animosity.
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"I heard a number of French people say in June and July that perhap. Europe should be rror- ganised on a new basts and that the German would be able do it. Hut this state of mind did not last long The French urs intelivent people and they saw very that instead of organ s- ing them, the Germans were loot- ing France
Appalling Misery
"The mery in orcupied France is appalling to-day. No one has pract cally ever enough to tract Unemployment is general. Quali- Red workers are forced to go to work in Germany, because if they do not thru dole and their ration cards are taken away from them. And without a ration card cannot live in Paris Even
one
with
a rat in card one lives miserably enough
Mr: Hewley gate the present ration in Paris as follows:--12.5 ounce of bread a day. 12.6 ounces of mut werk, 35 ounces of fals a week, twen runces of cheese a week. Milk I told only to babier, she sa d, and soap is hard
Aryan men came in and sat down
I
Wept Beside Her
He had directed the jury that there was no evidence of insanity Had they found the soldier guilty of murder with a recomna ndation to mercy he would doubtles, have been reprieved and very soon rɩ- leased.
Frank Flintoft, nged thirty-one. of Worthing Road, Patchway, Br's- toi, had been told by a doctor that his wife's creeping paralysis was incurable.
He pleaded not Builty to mur- dering her and their baby daugh- ter.
"The wa ter was embarrassed, He asked them whether they had Marned June, 1938, they were seen the sign, and they said 'yes'a devoted couple. Mex. Finto{" but calmly asked to be served. illness became evident Sinn ait. The waiter called the manager, their marriage. After the bacda uf and the dialogue wis repeated. the daughter in April laut you Not knowing how to put the her malady progressed rapidly į visitors cul, the ananagers asked a high German official to talk to the two Jews. The official ask- ed if they had seen the sign. They said 'yes' but did not budge. They just calmly announced themselves as members of the Soviet Embassy in Paris."
Troops Constantly Moved
Mrs Hensley frequently took
from the the train
Gare du Nord in Paris to her suburban home, and every time she said ahe sa w trains of German gol. diers leave the station or arrive there. This made her believe that the German high command was constantly shifting the men, allowing them only a brief time In the capital. "I travelled
to find and people who have no Spanish border time to stand in ne uss their merchant
anything.
Hensie: went
it
,n
from
down to the
Rheimy,"
When
she
a
It was alleged that Flintoft that his wife with a rifle while she was in bed, and then shot his baby daughter.
While his
wife was waiting to be taken away by ambulance his tears
that she might die.
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Flintoft was alleged to have told the police: "There was nothing for her but worse pain and suffering. For the baby! there was no future I could leave her to. } thought it best she. I too. should be spared the pos sible misery of being an orphan.
Heartbreaking
Mr. J. F Bourke, prosecuting. described the case as bartureak- ing, but said there was no question of insanity.
Mr. A J
cal that a
ellow creature should
In Flintolt's defence. with a wine Long, K.C, said it seesard dlabsin rations, as there is not enough of concluded. "He said that 8,000,000 have to go on suffering so cruelly.
bottles of champagne had been It was a fair inference that Flin Mr:
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taken out of Rheims by the Ger-toft's mental control and balance live
Paris
mans. 1928
They were paid for, of collapsed and that he did not know with Ter husband. a world course, like everything else, with what he was done.
Mr. Just ce Charles, war veteran who contracted tuber marks, for the Germans never sim- culos - soun before
ply requisition anything. the current
They up said the law was clear War and died She was forced to buy, and their means of purchase must take upon himself the right There leave France because the block-are unlimited,
our train of killing a sirk persen. would be little southern France
for the secur.ty ing of dl French accounts by the passed through American Government made it where there used to be thousands sick, for it might not always b in posside ter her to draw
that they were killed for love, of geese kept for foie gras, her allowance from the United States, neighbour showed me that there
Embassy In
geese to be seen. Paris helped her to obtain from the German Administration in Paris her permit to leave. "The Germans are not nice to Americans since Roosevelt's re- election, "Mrs. Hensley said. "They kept my passport for a week and when they were asked for it they said rather arrogantly. You know we are very hury. You just have to wart Be 'ore C election they Franted permits much more quickly!"
The American
were no more
France. There is no more of any- And so it is with everything in
thing. It is the children who suf- fer most, I think."
DUNKIRK MAN ON
MURDER CHARGE
Leaning over his wife, whom, it Hardships of Winter
-was alleged, he had shot and bay- The Carly arrival of winter in Clifford Holmes,
onetted only a few minutes before, 24, a driver in France last year brought in the Royal Engineers, took her describable hardships to the hand and said: "Irene, speak to French, according to Mrs. Hens- me, because I love you." ley. It was freezing in Novem- This was stated at Manchester ber, and few people in Paris had Police Court when, Holmes, who- coal for heating, she said.
"The took part in Germans are allowing 125 pounds Dunkirk, was committed for trial the evacuation of of coal a month for an apartment accused of murder. with three people, but even this ration was not available in some last August Mrs. Holmes injured Mr. West, prosecuting, said that parts of Paris. The quality. of herself in jumping 13ft to escape. the coal is very poor. It is known from her husband, who seemed to over there that the Germans need have been obsessed by sexual de- coal to make synthetic gasoline, pravity towards his wife and ap- and other ersatz products: They peared to have been degenerating don't care if the people are cold, into a species of sexual maniac/ Their own people are heated all
right. The difference that is made between the Germans and the
French and which reminds the French constantly they are. de-
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sular Body to hold the next muni- Asked whether Jews were cipal election on. April 2 and 3 barred from restaurants and cafes and the Shanghal Municipal rate- in Paris, Mrs. Hensley began to payers' annual meeting on April laugh. "I shall tell you a story 16. -Central News. which I know is true," she said.
-"A few restaurants only. have At the Marine Gourt this morn- signs No Jews 'Admitted/ ---Aing, Wong Tai was fined by Com- Russian restaurant in the Etoile mander J. Jolly, Harbour Master. district has such a sign, and ona $15 or two weeks for boarding the evening, when it was full of 'Ger- | President Cleveland without man offiders, two obyłously, nüri, l permission.
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