THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 8, 1941.
TO DEATH
BEHIND THE NAZI WITH HIS FLAG
FACADE IN OCCUPIED EUROPE
THE VEIL DRAWN across the face of Germany was difficult to pierce even in Nazi “peace” time.. It has become even more impenetrable now.
For one thing, Himmler's organization has grown rapidly and steadily, and for another, the army now works hand in glove with the secret po- lice. Any revolutionary movement is therefore im- possible as long as both are intact.
When they crack, after a series of military reverses, the German home front will also break down.
A Greek soldier guarding the Acro- polis was ordered to take down the Greek flag and replace it __with______the_Swastika when the Nazis enter- ed Athens.
No sooner had he taken down his flag he furled it round his body and, before the eyes of the Germans, hurled himself to death from a parapet, says the
Greek Press Bureau.
"FRAUD
TO FLY
FOR US"
If we look behind the Nazi The "Volksschadlings Veror- facade of housts and beastliness dnung" (decree against offences) we find the average German It was found necessary to issue with no reserves of resistance to testifies to the gravity of the situa- fall back upon, He is rather like tion. It is a law Imposing the the man
who sees his image of death penalty for any crime "de- multiplied strength mirrored in trimental to the interests of the the Bovril bottle while he him- people." The voice of the Nazi self is really a pony little crea- has become very much like the ture.
voice of Moscow. A "Volksschad- ling" is. for example, anyone committing an offence during the black-out." If you steal while the black-out is in force vou are liable to lose your head. To quote an- other example, Frauy Elsabeth
to Bremen, Robert Coryat, Reinhard of Nurnberg was work- ing in a post office for the dura-38, was refused ball at ton of the war. She was convict Bow Street when commit- ed of stealing some snall parcels, the contents of which she used for ted for trial at the Cen- herself or sold, thus making up, tral Criminal Court for for her shortage of rationed goods.
The Germans did not have peace in the true sense of the word until 1924, after ten years of great privations. Eight or nine years later, while the world was in the throes of another economic Crisis, they were overtaken by Hitler's hordes (it they had not joined them) and dulled for the next war, the present one,
People Tired Of War
Thus the German generation of to-day has passed at most one- third of its existence in precarious peace and two-thirds in war. This has left the people exhausted. The German has lost faith and no longer cares
for promises, politics or victories. Little man. where is your next meal coming from? This has become his mala interest.
Up to 1939 the food situation had been steadily deteriorating. It has become infinitely worse since August 28. 1939, when ration was introduced. Since then Germany's little man has lived from "Zutellungsperiode" 10 "Zutellungsperiode", the period of four weeks for which rations are fixed.
The list of rationed goods endless; the amount issued is in- versely small, Suits, cloth, wool, shoes, fuel, bread, flour, fals, but- ter, margarine, cheese, milk, inita- tion honey. cocao, jam.
coffee. tea. rice and fruit are all ration- ed,
Insufficient Rations
Arrested after a flight
At her home the police found falsely representing him- food and clothes to the value of self as a British subject
£50. She had acted in a way detrimental to the interests of the when applying for a com- neople within the meaning of the mission in the R.A.F. Volksschädlings-Verordnung (de- ' cree against "offences) and was Volunteer Reserve. condemned to death and decapl- tated.
No Faith In Figures
The little man in Germany is aware of the risks he runs, be- cause every base is reported In detail in his Nazl paper. And yet the number of those who break the food regulations is re- markably high. Life, he foela, has become cheap. He does not know how many of his country- men were killed In Poland, on the way to Norway or on the Western battlefields,
It was stated that Coryat's correct name wa Harold İsaa. Corlat His father was French and his mother English, He had lived with his father in Morocco.
When his mother dled an aunt brought him to England when he was 4,
Chlef Inspector Edward
Greeno sald Coryat
had been
on operational flights over Ger. many and France.
Mr. G. D. Roberts, K.C., for the defence, said Coryat pleaded guilty to the offence subject to circumstances of strong mitigation. Applying for bail, Mr. Roberts said that at its worst the offence He believes no fleures. He hears was merely that of obtaining by of the 60,000 British civilians kill-false pretences the right to fight ed and seriously injured in air for this country.
V
raids during the last six months. Wing-Commander John Alex- Yet he knows nothing of the gen- 'ander Powell, R.A.F., said that eral damage done by the R.A.F. Coryat's character for efficiency in Germany, or rather his papers had been exemplary. Many of these articles are al-print not a word about it. He lotted in quantities sufficient for knows what he has seen for him- just one meal or one day of the self or heard from the "spoken whole period of four weeks. For
newspaper" which is his real instance, a quarter of a nound source of information. of ersatz coffee is issued. If you The little man in Germany is instead, 600 grammes, or just over apathetic. He does not want any more territories and cares little for
German armies have! what the already occupied. The effect of
want coffee beans you can have,
two ounces.
an
of
There are sometimes special rations of rice, for example, or occational half pound pulses or "Dorrgemuse." a mix- ture of dried vegetables ro- miniscen of hay. No such "Specia's" may b. letued on ration carde marked "y" which ls the official way of saying that no Jew can receive rice or enf. fee, frult or shoes.
The rations are
insufficient.
SHE WAS
IN FOUR
raids is beginning to tell in spite WARS
of the fact that the average Ger- man is better protected against
them than we are here, as the WHILE GENERAL GORDON German houses have strong, well, WAS BESIEGED AT KHARTUM, built cellars.
R.A.F. Raids Well Planned
While one might argue that it does not mafter much whether or no
The Bomber Command chooses the little man in Germany gets both time and place carefully and his 25 grammes of tea per period. effectively.
or
were
MISS ELIZABETH ANNIE DOWSE WAS ONE OF THE FIRST NURSING SISTERS TO SAIL UP THE NILE AS FAR AS WADI HALFA, THAT WAS IN
1885.
During the siege of Ladysmith, at a hos- 1900, she was matron pital there.
She and her staff went from - one lifeboat to another, minis«"
tering to wounded and tearing to up their caps and aprons make bandagen.
Carnival in Cologne remained undisturbed, but the On active service again in the staple foods and goods fall short of actual needs. Local paners are
following nights the industrial Great War, she .was matron of town, with the the hospital ship Britannic, tor- consequently alled with advertise-quarters of the ments offering for exchange or chemical industry, the cable works pedoed in November, 1916. sale second-hand clothes, trousers, tor works (Kaln-Deutz)
(Felten-Guillaume) and the mo- jackets, boots, mackintoshes even a piere of uncut cloth. As subjected to. very heavy attacks. to food, only clandestine trame None of the workers can forget the nights which the forest of tall and trade la possible. The pro- vision of the extra food that chimneys came crashing down, makes life bearable has become The Rhinelander never loved an essential part of life. Not the Nazi system; now he fears its kennt "kien -- Gebot”. (Necessity consequences. With Britain's vigorous to the very last, knows no-law) is a war growing strength in the air, wider } ! honoured saying of the Germans, districts will learn the same les- and, it is exemplified to the full son. Thus privation, loss-of-faith, at present,
and the R.A.F. attacks are slow- ly preparing the soil for revolu tion, but this can only come after the Nazi army has suffered seri- ous defeats.
Many Law Breakers As there are more civilians than officials, the former will find ways: of breaking the food regulations, Offelals have a preferential põsis
tions, eo ipso This continual P.C.S' BARGE RESCUE and, a widespread law-breaking vi
In this war she kept buny knitting for the troops... Now she has died
rave,.
STOCKINGLESS GIRLS: M.P'S PLEA
Stockingless girls have m cham-. pion in Mr. Lipson, M.P. for Chel- tenham
He is to ask the President of at home in the midst of a war of Wearing respirators, Police the Board of Trade if in view conquest is one of the chief Nazi Constable Stephenson and Police of the clothes rationing scheme, weaknesses. It spells disaster for Constable Williams rescued Alfred he will appeal to Government de- their system in the long run. It Goodyear, 40, ∙ of Romford, Essex, partments and other comployers has engendered an utter disregard who, overcome by fumes, had not to insist on their women of any regulation, which will fallen into the hold of a Thames employeen wearing stockings when actively militate against Nazism. I barge.
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