THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 17, 1941.
WOMEN RUN NAZI SHERIFF
H.Q. IN INTERNEE HOTEL
HITLER'S YOUTH Headquarters among the
KILLED
BY BOMB
Mr. G. Percy Trentham, one of the sheriffs of the City of London, was killed in an air-raid in Lon- don.
of
Mr Trentham was elected last
Court year to the
Common Council, representing the Bread Street Ward, and was installed as asher ff last September after hav- ing been de'ented by a narrow
aliens interned in the Isle of Man is a plain-fronted margin in 1939. hotel across the island at Port Erin and it is
He was the head of a firm of which public works contractors bears his name, and a liveryman
Glovers, Haberdashers' and Lorin- ers' Companies.
peopled by women and girls, writes a correspondent.of the Paviours, Cordwainers' and
Visitors are not allowed to en- ter either Port Erin or Port St. Mary, but the Manx people have permits to move in and out of the camps--which are in reality hotels and boarding-houses---and the majority of residents are still there catering for the aliens.
PARIS LISTENS TO
B.B.C. AT NIGHT
There are about 3,000 women in the two camps. Of these the "NIGHTS IN PARIS ARE A active Nazis number just over! VERITABLE TUMULT WITH
100.
A form of segregation
THE BRITISH RADIO BLARING FROM BALCONIES, WINDOWS has | AND COURTYARDS," WRITES
are
"YA."
A fly fisherman of international renown, he had captained the Eng- lish team on two or three occasions.
"new European order," the cor-
espondent asks:
"Are we really moving towards [peace?
"So the Paris newspapers say. "On the other hand public opinion if the views of people shivering in queues before half-
been carried out, as in the case | THE PARIS CORRESPONDENT empty shops, grumbl ng about re- Į
the OF THE MADRID NEWSPAPER Strictions and complaining of the lack of heating as the temperature. sinks to three degrees below zern Discussing popular reaction in can be so-called--believes seare ly the French capital to Germany's a word the papers print." Reuter
of the men's camps, and all Hitlerites among the women living together. But they are free to move about among the rest of the internces.
as
Occasionally there IN friction. Locally the 100 are known the "trouble makers" and the hotel in which they live as "Hitler Youth HQ."
Frankly these "trouble makers" are a source of trouble, but very shortly they may be placed much stricter confinement, sibly outside the island.
1,000 Pro-Nazis
111 THIS-
One Purt Erin boarding-house keeper to whom a reporter talked said she regards the women in her house us "paying guests."
They are,
the expense
of course, billeted at
of the Government,
but many of the women have pri- vate means and are able to buy luxuries freely.
"We get on very well with all of them except the small clique," she said, adding, "they hate every- thing British."
To-day, too,
have learned more about the men's camps, and on very reliable authority was given these ratios of the aliens' sent ments:
Strongly pro-British,
cent.
SEE AND TRY THE