THE CHINA 'MAIL, AUGUST 27, 1941.
NAZI PEACE OFFENSIVE
ALREADY BEGUN
(By RAY BROOK)
GERMANY'S LONG-AWAITED peace offensive will not be postponed until the end of the Russo- German war but already has been started in the remaining neutral capitals of Europe and is being intensified daily, according to information from neutral foreign observers arriving in Turkey.
A sample of the technique already has been demonstrated in Ankara.
It is known that a certain German diplomatic personality, in conversation with prominent people in Ankara, permitted himself to show keen irrita- tion over the British signature of the Anglo-Russian declaration, criticising the British on the ground that this act was an aid to Bolshevism in all Europe.
GESTAPO SEIZE 1,000 CZECHS
(By A Czech Correspondent)
The latest news from
The British, he continued, fall
to realise that the war against the Soviet should now be struggle against a common enemy
communism,
Common
L
The German then admitted nervousness over the outcome of the Russian campaign, emphasis- ing that in his opinion German failure to crush the Soviet could only mean revolution throughout | ▶< Europe, with bolshevism triuni- phant upon the Continent.
WOULD NOT
LOOK AT HER
OWN FACE
"I do not want to see my face now that I am getting on in years, said Granny Eliza Kirk. She gave' away all her mirrors and never again look- ed into a glass.
She died recently, aged 103, Lincoln- shire's oldest inhabit- ant. She lived at Owmby, near Market Rasen.
the Czech Protectorate Heard In Many Capitals CHILDBIRTH
reveals that a determined Travellers arriving here from
new effort is being made the Reich and the occupied coun- DEATHS ARE
tries report that simi ar convers
by the Nazis to subjugatesations, pursuing almost identical the Czechs and to break lines, have been directed to the their stubborn resistance
ears of influential neutrals in dozens of capitals. to German rule.
Some of the tales from Ger-
include
The Gestapo has carried out the largest round-up for
many several months. More than 1,000 Czechs have been arrested in Bohemia
nd Moravia and sent to concen- tration camps at Buchenwald and Breslau.
Among them were many pro- minent Czechs, including the uni- cersity professor Vaclav Halfert, the former deputy Richter, ** director of the Zbrojoka arma- ment works in Brno, many county officia's, railway officers, and pro- vincial Sokol leaders All have been subjected to brutal examinų- tjuns.
NEEDLESS
Upwards descriptions of
tions in the occupied territories:
of 60,000
growing Communist manifesta mothers in England are frank German admissions that invalided for life in one
feeling is getting countries,
Communist out of hand in come
year following childbirth. and graphic details of bitterness More than 2,000 mothers displayed against Great Britain die yearly in childbirth.
as a capitalistic country main taining a blockade which serves according to those reports, to starve the workers and ants.
peas.
The German press and radio, it is reported, have been instructed to concentrate more hil
more
and
thele
repre-
The Gestapo claims that the Action was a heavy blow against upon anti-Bolshevist themes
less and less against Britain. President Benes's underground organisation. Czechoslovak eir-
German Army leaders in cles in London, however, state that the contact with their under-private conversations are ground organisation has not been sented as expressing open adrira- tion for the courage of British air- interrupted.
At the same time. President men, British troops and the Bri- Hacha, the puppet leader of the tish civil population under Ger- Czechs, has announced in Prague man air raids.
Of 770 mothers who died in one year, 443 might have been saved by prenatal care. Thousands for whom the birth of a child means agony could be long-drawn spared much, ir not all their suffering."
These are some of the principal facts which induced Dr. Edith Summerskill,
write a M.P., to book to focus at ention on the unnecessary suffering endured by women at childbirth.
In "Babies Without Tears" Dr. Summerskill deals ruthlessly with existing anomalies and gaps in H far-reaching reshuffle of the
the still makeshift maternity sys- leaders of the National Solidarity This courage proves, the Ger-
tem in this country, sparing nei- Organisation, the only Czech party mans have told neutrals, that Brither laggard authorities nor those the Nazis allowed to be formed tain and Germany have the racial of her own profession who put after the occupation. He dis- link of Nordicism, that two such missed Nebesky, the leader of the peoples must have an equal hand professional interests before hu- party, and his deputies Hruby, in the management of Europe and Sitorsky, and Baron Belcredi, and that only some negligible differ- nominated a farmer, Jan Fousek, ences in polítical philosophy-stand who was formerly an officer in in the way of Anglo-German co- the Austrian Imperial Army, as operation against the perils of bol- the new leader.
HIS SECOND £15,000 FINE
shevism.
Diplomat Confirms
Opinion
man welfare.
Ministers Don't Know
She points out that the report of a Departmental Committee in 1937 had practically the "same old story" to tell as that of 1932. What measure of progress has been made she attributes to the larger part played by women in public affairs.
One of the foremost diplomatic observers has expressed the con- "Legislation affecting women, viction, based upon this informa-particularly married women, has tion from Germany and the occu-always lagged behind that deal- pied countries and an analysis of ing with the problems of other A second fine of £15,000 was the German press. · and radio in sections of the community," she imposed the other day on Robert recent weeks, that this technique states, and with a typical Sum- Hogg. 61, potato merchant, of is being employed in the most mersktillian touch writes, "It Dalkeith, Midlothiah, who had perfected German pattern as the has been unfortunate for women: been remanded in 'custody on a opening wedge to a second Ger- that there hay never been charge of failing to offer for sale, man proposal for peace with Bri- Minister of Health who has en- to the Treasury £6,655 in Amer-| taip,
dured labour - pains.” . ican dollars,~
He expressed the belief that The day before he had been Berlin is now engaged in a cam- She points out the illogical out- fined £15,000 at the London Man-| palgn extending... throughoutlook of the male section of a com-}} sion House for failing to register Europe to promote through radio,munity, prepared to die to pro- securities.
press and the spoken word-din- tect the mothers of the race in ned into neutral diplomats and war-time, but not prepared to travellers and directed toward Bri- | initiate commonsense reforms to tish cars-the... proposition.. that safeguard them in peacetime. only. an end to the Anglo-German war and a common front. against the Soviet can save this hemis- phère. from revolution and chaos,
FOUR NAZI AIRMEN RECAPTURED
After an all-night-search. two- more of the five Nazi airmen who escaped from an internment camp. ---in north-west. England were re-
: captured.“
HE'S GROWN.A
“POMATO” ·
A Russian peasant has produced
STABBING CHARGES
a
Antonia Mancint caterer; of Hunter Street, W.C., was at Bow Street. committed for trial on charge of murdering Harry Dis- tleman ("Scarface Hubby"), at a Wardour Street club, and wound-
Two of the men were captured a cross between a tomato and ning Edward Fletcher with Intent twelve hours after their escape, potato, giving tomatoes on the to murder... and thus ono still remains at stem and huge potatoos in the "It is alleged the men were
stabbed in a fight at the club.
large..
soil, says Moscow radio,
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