THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 7, 1941.
ADMIRE R.A.F.
DANISH LEGATION EVEN NAZIS
STILL CARRIES ON IN LONDON
A LEGATION WHO HAVE BEEN CUT OFF FROM ALL CONTACT WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF THEIR COUNTRY CONTINUES TO FUNCTION IN LONDON.
They are the Danish Legation in Pont Street, S.W. Ever since the German invasion of Denmark last April the Minister, Count Edouard Reventlow, and his staff have been unable to communicate with their Government.
They know little or nothing of what is happening in their country except what they hear from thei German-controlled radio, They cannot telephone. to Copenhagen, and the only 1 W's they receive
from their homes are brief mes- sages whirh can be sent through the Red Cross.
Yet the legation, are carrying on, because they are recognised by the Foreign Office as in charge of all Danish Interests| that are not under control of Germany."
A Few Went Home
Two or three members of the staff have made their way back to Denmark by a circuitous route, but all the others, including the Minis- ter, have remained at their posts,
Most of their work consists in looking after the 400 or 500 Danish seamen who are now sailing under the Allied flag.
Many of these Danes, some of whom spenk no English, often call at the Legation between voyage). The Legation also maintain con- tact with the Danish authorities. in Greenland and the Faroe Islands and the Danish Consulates in all parts of the British Empire Although the Legation can longer be supplied with funds from Denmark, their upkeep presents no difficulty. There A big Danish fund in London, and substantial Huma are received to the charter of the Daud vesph now under
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LOVER DIED, SHE TOOK POISON
German airmen and even the German public admire the skill and bra- very of the R.A.F., accord- ing to Mr. William Shirer, Columbia Broadcasting correspondent in Berlin, who has just returned to New York.
"No American correspondent in Berlin may send any details of alc attacks which are not in the official reports," says Mr. Shirer in "Life." "These reports are usually false."
"Despite the efforts of Good- bela's Propaganda Ministry, members of the Luftwaffe ac- tually engaged in fighting at the front and not running it from a Berlin desk, are full of praise for the bravery and skill of the R.A.F.
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praises the courage of the R.A.F. in flying long distances to bomb German targets.
A preity fifteen-year-old school- girl swallowed poison an hour af- "As for their allies in Italy, the ter the funeral of her forty-eight-Germanis refer to them sneeringly." year-old schoolmas er lover, wires John Walters from New York.
The schoolmaster, William Lounsbury, of West New York, blew himself up in his own school on Wednesday. He turned on all the gas taps in the cookery class- room and then ignited the gas.
The girl, with whom the master had fallen madly in love, was mother found yesterday by her lying on a bed poisoned.
Doctors are confident they can save her. The girl's name is being kept secret.
BELFAST LENDS
FIREMEN
Twenty members of the Belfast Auxiliary Fire Service have let Belfast for Southampton, where they will relieve volunteers on ! service there.
They will be away three weeks, attached to various and will be
units in Southampton,
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A picture of King Christian hangs in the entrance hall of the Legation. A sad, subdued at mosphere pervades the big building. Nearly all of the staff have homes in Denmark from which they are now cut off.
Little News
Count Reventlow, who spent the last war in London as a counsellor at the Legation, is separated from his two sons and his 20-year-old daughter, who is lady-in-waiting to Crown Princess Ingrid.
Others on the staff have wives and children in Denmark. Every How and again a telegram. post-card or a brief let er from home comes through the Red Cross, but the men and women at the Legation know little of how the lives of their families have been changed by the German occupa-
tion.
They do not sec a Danish newspaper until 1: is weeks or months old. They know nothing of life in Denmark other than as it is presented to the world by the German invaders.
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A fifty-five-year Dartmoor convict who es- caped had only seven and a half hours of freedom.
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--Like many other prisoners who have made a break, ho made the fatal mistake of going to 2 nearby farmhouse in search of a cup of tea.
The prisoner, Gordon Horsfall, escaped from a working party in the prison outbuildings. He was serving a six years' sentence for housebreaking, and, having earned his full remission would have been at liberty soon.
Mr. and Mrs. Rundleston were sitting down to tea when they heard a knock at the door, and found Horsfall on the threshold, While Mr. Rundleston was pouring him a cup of tea, Mrs, Rundleston signalled warders, who were less than 200 yards away. There was no struggle, and Horsfall went Back quietly.
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