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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 13, 1941.
PIMPERNEL BOY'S DASH
GIVEN A LIFT by a German soldier though he was trying to escape from Occupied France, fired on by German sentries, sentenc- ed to be shot, then reprieved and given twenty-five lashes a day to make him talk.
These were some of the adventures des- cribed by the seventeen-year-old son of on R.A F. squadron leader.
When war broke out Michael when an officer stopped them by Brady. son of Squadron-Leader suggesting they might make me C. P. Brady, was studying at the talk.
Sorbonne, Paris. He stayed there i I was put on a bread and water one laf a day for a week until two days before the Germans diet
day they gave 11:0 entered the French capital, when and every he decided to make an attempt to twenty or twenty-five lashes. For get to England to his mother and six weeks I was in solitary c30- then they took me to
father.
car.
Не
finement
"Four days later I escaped by wunming across the COMPA 1.1 flowed through the prison camp.
"Free from the prison, I managed to "Aump' a goods trai
He set off across France, but, another prison. was taken ill. As he sat down by the roadside, a German sol- dier came along in a offered Michael a lift. "I was dressed like a Frenchman and speak good French and I tray- elled with him for an hour wdh- out his having any suspicion al my beng English,” sand young Brandy.
"Before he dropped
1
1:16
managed to take a map from the cur to help me
that lay before me.
2 The journey
Then I "borrowed" it
bicycle
from a village street and, pedalling like blazes, made a dash across the boundary line. German sold ers watching for people trying to es rape shot at me, and I was lut in the leg.
Aided Soldiers
"It wasn't a bad
ever.
wound, how-
And that was the end of the excing adventures of Michael Brady Now he is hoping to goth the Fleet Air Arm
FRANCE
UNDER
THE HEEL
Wearing of the French
Still making his way across France, young Michael became national colours and dis- friendly with two British soldiers play of the French na-
who were in hiding and trying to
escape to England. He took them tional emblem in occupied under his wing and when they France has been forbid- were challenged by French police den by the Germans. got them safely through. Michael's next jub w out of France, Taking h his hands, carefully avoch
left Fremd ronds, be town.
2
"I was just congratub. self on being another steja home when a Spaniard
me.
EARNS £3-£4
A WEEK AT
15- GOT DRUNK
Two boys aged fif- teen, stated to be earning good money, one of them between £3 and £4 a week in a wor production fac- tory, were accused at Juvenile Windsor Court of being drunk and disorderly.
They told the Court they had been cele- brating the departure of a school friend on active service.
They got drunk and fell out among them- selves. In a fight one of them who had a knuckle duster missed another boy's face with a punch, but smashed a plate-glass window valued at ten guineas.
£1
The boys were fined each for being drunk. One was or- dered to pay ten guineas damages for breaking the window.
1,500,000 EVACUATE
Reception areas have now taken about one and R hat millor evacuees from London and other Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, places,
to get The ban appears to foreshadow de mino good for the people of the areas the now under German control, since first step to suppress order it as the
French national sentiment in the my-northern parts of the country. It ards is no secret that the Germans, in a greater Europe, sted their plan for
I have for a long time had their eye. "I explained I was Bit
northern provinces, and a
on France's civilian, but papers I had en me, and in any peace dictated by Hit has announced.
He points out that in the re- showed I was trying to
is extremely improbable way. that the northern and north-wes-ception areas preparations, had to for anything up to tern coasts of France will ever be be made also
two million troops. returned to that country. The
Latest figures show that in the for Breton indepen-{ movement
administrative London County dence, fostered by the Germans for
children of stapl their own ends, is proof enough of area, 370,000
been age have
evacuated. but 80,000 remain.
i
the ler,
it
Navy. That gave the show They put me in an inte unent
camp."
In four days he found himself in three separate prisons.
Swam To Escape
At night he He tried to escape. found his
to the wardens way house and stole the prison keys and a revolver.
"I let the others know the gates
that.
West Ham
A recent proclamation made by❘ In East Ham, 30,000 have gone, the Mayor of Brest gives some idea of the oppression under which the people of occupied France labouring.
are
It also shows, by expressly for would be open," said Michael "but bidding the throwing of stones at they got so excited at the chance German soldiers that the spirit of of escaping that they made a lot the French people is still very of noise and the warders got sus-much alive under the Nazi heel. picious. Someone told them what The proclamation says:- was happening. 1 was taken off and told I was to be shot.
"Everything was ready for the shooting and I had given up hope
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NGENOHL'S CIGAR STORES
“La Perla del Oriente”
Regulations For The
Population
leaving 4,500, and in 38,000 are in the country, leaving 5,000 behind.
Of children under five years old, 181,000 have gone from, the London County area, leaving 39,000.
At East and West Ham 5,000 and
17,000, respectively, hav gone, leaving 3,000 and 4.000 behind,
Mr. MacDonald rays that about 4,500 aged and infirm persons had been taken from the London shel- ters and put into hosp.. or homes in recept on areas. The In accordance with instructions same number of old chronic sick from London in- from the Kreiskommandantur had been taken (German District Command), the stitutions hospital,, in reception Mayor of Brest requests the po-areas.
pulation to comply with the fol- "Cockney Gossip"
lowing regulations:
1. National Emblem.-By order of the hend of the military ad- ministration in France, the French population is forbidden to wear the. tricolour emblem in public, in whatever form. No object dis- played to the public must be de- corated with the French national colours.
Clubs
But 3,500 refured to be moved.
A small committee was organis- ing hostels and homes in the re- ception areas for aged and infirm
Houses and other special cases. were being obtained and a number of people had already started to 2. Insult to Italians.-The in-move. habitants are strictly forbidden to One of the biggest probirins, insult the Italian Vice-Consul at was to find places where mothers Brest, M. Vittorio Job. If the Vice- from the cities can get together, do Consul is insulted afresh the city their washing and laundry, and of Brest will be inflicted each time "have a good old Cockney gossip. with a fine of 50,000 francs,
Mothers' clubs would meet the
3. Throwing of Stones or Sundry difficulty of the busy housewife Debris at German Soldiers-Acts who wants to turn a family billet- of this sort will be repressed withed on her out of the house during extreme severity. If the culprits the day. time, so that she can get are not discovered the city risks on with, her own tasks, being subject to a considerable
fine.
Unaccompanied
have presented na
The Mayor counts on the spirit blems.
of understanding of the population' It is the larva baad
for the avoidance of incidents the father and mother, and, several. consequences of which may be children--who provide the diff- serious for the whole community. Iculties.