New Discovery
CLEANS FALSE TEETH
Although German soldiers and and a "horrible" brew called "enfe
No greater compliment to thes police are occasionally killed and rational." The Germans have "amateur airinen,"
as they wer thrown into Dutch canals, Mr. confiscuted the stocks of Bordeaux | once called, could have been paid Bonnet said reports of such eventsį wine, this American said, and the than when four squadrons --Dur- had been overplayed in the United price for other wine has gone up ham, Surrey, Nottingham and Stato, Other Americans return from five to eighteen francs. It Gloucester - were sent to France ing from the Netherlands predict can only be sold if the purchaser to take their places beside "Regu-| ed that when the day cumes for brings his own bottle.
lar" fighter squadrons in the front the withdrawal of German forces'
line. there will be "some very nasty" happenings.
Resistance In Norway
A lone American arriving from Belgian Morale Good Luxemburg was George P. Waller, of Montgomery, Ala., charge d'af- The Belgians are "definitely on faires und consul in the grand the right side," an American re- duchy since 1931. He was met turning from Belgium said, A by William H. Hamilton, consul- small minorily are pro-German, general of the duchy at New but the great majority are pro-York.
English ond anti-German, he A steady grown of passive re- added. The morale of the Bel- sistance to the German occupiers gian people is quite good, he con- tinued, and they are optimistic despite their hardship and are looking to America to save the situation.
of Norway and an increase in the number of Norwegians slipping out of fjords and coves in small fishing boats to cross to Scotland and England were reported by an American arrival from Norway.
This man said that the "V for Victory" campaign was popular in Oslo, to the annoyance of the Nazis, and that Norwegians were distributing at considerable risk chain letters containing uncon. sored news.
Another consul from Belgium | said the food Bituation there wäg so bad that the American Consuls who had been stationed in Brussels and Antwerp found the scant and tasteless rations available in Germany plentiful. "My Belgian colleagues just could not see why anybody grum- Illustrating the antugonism of bled about food in Germany,' young Norwegians, he told of a said this consul, "They were liter- schoolgirl, accused of a minor in- ally hungry when they joined fraction by the Germans, who was us and thought that we were brought before a picture of Adolf eating well. This goes to show! Hitler by two Nazi soldiers and in- how far worse off than Germany formed she would be released ir the occupied countries are." she said "Heil Hitler!"
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Winn, of Atlanta, and Charles Thompson, of Chicago, members of a vaude- ville trio performing at Brussels theatres and night clubs when the German Army overran Belgium, reported that in Brussels the population was reduced in some, cases to eating cats, dogs and rats.
"To hell with Hitler". shouted the girl. She was put in gaol for twenty days,
Plight Of Greece
Greece ta one of Europe's countries hit hardest by the war, Leslie E. Reed; the coun- sefor of the American Legation In Athens, sald. It is on the verge of famine and one won- dore how her people will Burvive.
Food Scarce In Italy
The Italian people cannot under- stand why they have no rice, no Another passenger from Greeçu flour, no fish and only few vege-confirmed this report, He explain- tables, said an American who has ed that all the resources available. lived in Florence many years and in Greece had been exhausted who was forced to leave because during the war with Italy, that he could no longer get funds. The the fishing fleet was, destroyed by bread is so bad that it makes German bombings or taken away people sick and coffee and neat by refugees and the British troops, belong to the realm of memories. that.communications were destroy- Cooking has become a difficult ed and food could not be im- art, with the few ingredients that ported. This informant believed are obtainable.
abandoned . Many Italian that the Germans families live on chicory soup. Greece to the Italians in order to There is no more frittura of any let them: try to solve an insoluble kind because there is little olive problem, oll and no animal fats. Tomato sauce is used instead of butter, In the summer there are fruit and vegetables, but the coming win ter is dreaded.
Swiss Better Off
Switzerland is better off than her neighbours, a foreign diplomat who passed through that country It is whispered in Italy that said, but her people feel that their food grown in Italy goes to Gor- relative freedom will not last, many and this makes Italians Foodstuffs are rationed in Swit- hate the Germans only the more zerland as in most countries of this American said. The "tedeschi Europe, but the rations are big- (Germans) are blamed for the ger and one can count on them, war, the high prices, the shortage the diplomat added. But next of food. The victory in the Balkans winter will doubtless be hard in failed to restore. Italian morale. · Switzerland as elsewhere.
Bordeaux
...: The Germans control Switzer- ta land entirely, he said, but they don't want to take it over becatise they need it as a somi-indepen- dent clearing centre. The Swiss hope that their independence may outlive, the war.
There is no more Bordeaux wine In and around Bordeaux, Laurence W. Taylor, Consul in that city until May 10, sald. Mr. Taylor would, not any whether the Ger-
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In the short time they were in action they accounted for over 100 of the enemy.
The County of London Squa- dron in three patrols destroyed 13 of the enemy, one "probable," and damaged 15 others. In their first big battle the Glasgow Squadron shot down 12 without loss.
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