THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 25, 1941.
A ›LETTER FROM GERMANY DIRECT
NIGHTS IN A CELLAR FOR WEEKS ON END
"PLEASE TELL ME WHETHER THE ENG- LISH ARE AS FRIGHTENED AS THE GERMANS ARE IN THEIR SHELTERS." THAT QUESTION IS ASKED IN A LETTER WRITTEN BY A GIRL WHO WAS IN STUTTGART UNTIL A FEW WEEKS AGO.
She gave the letter to Sefton Delmer in Lisbon to take to her brother at school in London. Rendel Sperrling her real name is kept secret so that the Nazi will not know it is a German-Jewish girl of thirteen.
I have never seen such poor-
either
And the
From Stuttgart she was sure to win the war. flew to Italy to meet her looking people as in Spain, or so parents, who travelled many broken houses. with her through France Spaniards don't like the Germans and Spain to Lisbon. Some barefooted children picked sand- There she is now waiting up the crumbs from our
wiches in the station. They were so astonished and glad to get them.
to to America. Here is
go her letter:
you
Darling Freddy. Have had a lot of bombs” I am fer- ribly glad to be out of Germany. Now I can tell you about it.
In Stuttgart we spent almost every night in the cellar for several weeks on end The Bri- tish 'planes did not come to the residential parts of thr but oncentrated on tories.
the
Rush To Shelters
It is wonderful to be in Por tugal. There is plenty to eat. the streets are full of happy people, and every one is pleas
US. They like England
ant to here. Write and tell me how it is in your shelter whether the Eng- fish are as frightened as the town, Germans. whether you have Tae- enough to eat, and whether you have to wear wooden shoes like I did.
Nevertheless, some of the peo- ple in the cellar were frightened.
very
Much love and kisses.
Your Rendel.
They were particu- MAN GIVEN 10S. 60.
larly nervous when the gung began to go before the sirens had given the alarm.
They all came rushing down in the funniest clothes, One WO- nian care down without her wig.
We Jews had a special shel ter lo ourselves.
were not supposed to mingle with
true Germans.
ЗБ
we
FOR LOSS OF SLEEP
ورا
A London Transport rail em- ployce who lost his attending Bow County Court was
sleep
awarded 10s. 6d. costs by Judge Tudor Rees.
A solicitor said that the man should have been resting to get ready for night duty.
Judge Tudor Rees; What are
They used to Try to stop peu- ple from seeing lim damage, But that wasn't always possible, despite the police cordon. There¦ you? was an enormous crowd to sec The Man: A fire guard. the wreck of the giant gasworks, The Judge: A fire guard!
The flak (anti-aircraft gunfire) The Man: Well, a fire watcher. used to make such a noise tha! The Judge: And you lost your you could hardly hear yourself sleep through coming here. 1 speak. I thought nu one would will allow you half-a-guinea. be able to see the munition works. They were painted black. and some of them had branches on them to look like a forest.
But the English hit them all the Fame, and the workmen were very frightened. I know. because I used to play with their children.
I had to wear woeden shoes. because I
allowed was not have leather ones. They very scarce, and only the Na
children can get theni.
to
are
with
The pangle are furnus the English, because they 1e ཀa ན everyone awake. They thought j the war would be ever this at- tumn. Now they bomb England til :
they will ay na Moro
aeroplanes, and then invade it in the spring.
"What! No Peace?"
But they don't talk politics in the shelter. All they
want in the shelter is to be able to sleen. How much longer is this going on? I heard them ask.
WANTS MORE HATE
FOR HUNS IN
WAR EFFORT
"It is time a bit of healthy hate for the Hun crept into our war effort," declared Air Marshal W. A. Bishop, Director of Air Force Recruiting in Canada, in a speech at Kingston, Ontario. "Canada must win the war or perish," he added.-Reuter.
HEELS TO BE LOW!
Big changes in footwear styles including a ban on high heels and the manu- facture of the sandal type
-
are
favoured by women of shoe - which is much expected shortly.
All fancy footwear and decora- tive effects on shoes are expected to come under the ban.
pair of
"Utility" footwear is to be the aim, so that one shoes will serve for style of dress.
various
An order imposing the ban is likely to be made soon by Minister of Supply.
the
Manufacturers have been con- sulted on limitation of supply and the production of "utility" foot- wear which the manufacturers believe can be done without sacri- ficing design.
The new footwear will be de- signed for long wear.
NEW HAIR STYLE DICTATED
BY PIN FAMINE
ENGLISH GIRLS are going to lose those long, rolling curls soon. There is a scarcity of hairpins, and it is going to get worse. The metal is needed for Britain's war effort. Hairdressers are therefore designing new styles. Curls will not disappear
altogether, but they will be shorter and tighter.
Mr. E. L. Gifford, managing taining the wire for the pins director of a film of hairdressers because it is being used for wur I was astonished to see that in London's West End, told a purposes.
one could get shoes and clothes reporter:--
in Italy without ration cards. The food was better than in Stuttgart too.
•
But mummy and papa, who
"We have had to ration our "J used to buy
hair-customers to one box of 1,000 pins by the hundredweight. Now pins at a time.
The shortage is I am forced to buy them by likely to continue for the dura- the thousand.
tlon."
half a
had been there for some time. "We have used over said things were much scarcer ton in our shops since the be- in Italy now than they had been. ginning of the war, but they are And it is quite true, the macaroni getting so scarce now that new was almost black
For Export Only
Mr. R. A. Joseph, London gen- hair styles dispensing with pins eral manager of Kirby Beard They don't. fike, the Germans will have to be found.
and Co., Ltd., the world's big- In Italy, and they don't like "There is a definite tendency gest manufacturers, ta'd that the the war. It was wonderful to for hair to be shorter,.
supply of all wire for the manu- ste oranges on the traen.
facture of grips and hairpins for Germany we did not even see
the home trade was stopped about three months ago. oranges in the shops,
“England Will Win??
Ln
The New Style
"We have designed a style in _which_chort tight curls take the
place of hairpins...
“Straight, halp from one-side of the head is scraped ονομ and: Interlaced with tight curls on the other · aide.
In the train: on the way to Portugal! through France, there were some sailors in our carri age. They were Alsations, and spoke German. They said the navy would never surrender to sald;
"We have a tremendous ex- port trade," he said, "and we can get a fair amount of wire 'for that, but the home market.
must go without.
"Usually I keep 2,000 gross in
A well-known manufacturer stock in London.
To-day I haven't even a sam-
the Germans and that England "We have great difficulty in ob-ple card in the place."