REFUGEE IN
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1938.
CHAINS JUMPS
SHIP, TRAMPS TO LONDON
FOODLESS FOR FIVE DAYS:
A
SAVED BY TWOPENCE
"All the Ume I was afrald someone
would come up to me and arrest me. 1 thought if only I could get to the they would tell me what to do and help me. I had worked for the com-
Paramount News Studios in Londoni
pany in Germany.
Two Ends
But No Middle !
Mr. Justico Hawke, president of the London Cornish Associ ation, said at the annual dinner in London last month that tho two most beautiful counties. were the most easterly and most
One was Kent, the other they could guess.
Out of Kent came Sir Walter Moncktan, Attorney-General for the Duchy of Cornwall.
westerly. GERMAN refugee who broke out of shackles in the liner Westernland at Southampton a few minutes before she sailed for Antwerp, dived through a porthole, swam 300 yards to the shore, hid in a timber yard for two days and walked 74 miles without a penny in his poc- ket and without being able to speak a word of English arrived in London recently. He had not eaten for five days.
It was reported that he was a Dutchman named Martinus Telling, deported from America as an undesir- able.
His name is Alfred Torge, 33-year-old film artist, and he was fleeing from the Nazis to America with a Dutch passport.
CHAINED TO A WALL
His passport was not in order and he was sent back from Ellis Island in the German ship.
to leave.
this
"I struggled on all through Friday' night and found myself in Putney High Street. I went to a telephone booth and found the Paramount number. The exchange girl couldn'ti understand me.
"Then I spoke French, which she
knew.
"But I had no pennies to put in the box.
"went outside, not knowing what
to do. Then I saw an old Jewish woman.
I asked her if she could let me have twopence for the telephone. She gave it me at once,
་་་ telephoned to the studios and they fetched me In a car. I know they
would be my last chance knew that if they got me back to the English authorities will be all Germany they would put me in prom. I am so glad it in all over." right with me now they know who son or perhaps shoot me.
and
Police are taking care of the man "I knew than if the guard found unt his fate is decided by the allens "I was a stunt artist and worked bad broken the shackles and the authorities. for German film people. I got into porthole bars it was all up, and that
"PITIABLE” trouble with the Nazis for making if he saw me climbing through the Alma with Jewish people and decided porthole he might shoul.
Mr. G. T. Cummins, editor | manager of British Paramount News, Holland 1 bought Dutch! "Outside 1 could see the lights of arranged for Torge to have a bath passport with the name of Telling Southampton. I didn't know how and shave and sent to his own home Intended to get to South Amerten, far it was, but I mn a good swimmer.for a complete outût of clothes for
| hlm. where I hoped to find work.
tar as North got as There now German munitions being imported for Franco's army. 1 sup pose they didn't like me seeing such so was arrested and taken
"I
Africa
things, to Rotterdam in a German ship.
"The German Government tried to get me back to Berlin but the Dutch Government refused. I went to Bel- gium, raised some money by work- ing and decided to go to the United States.
|
SLEPT IN CHURCH "boisted myself to the porthole and dropped into the water. 1 struck out for the land.
"People were shouting and I think the guard must have gone into the
bin the tnument i left.
"I awarn towards the darkest place until I touched a kind of pler.
"It was terribly cold and i could hardly haul myself out of the water. "I got as far as Ellis Island, where There was no one about and I ran in across a railway and found myself they said my passport was not order. They handed me over to the in a timber yard.
hid Westernland.
HACKSAW HIDDEN "During the whole voyage I was kept in frons with one hand chained; to the wall of the cabin.
"An armed guard stationed outside) the door told me that I i made a attempt to escape he would shoot
me.
"His condition was pitlable," said Mr. Cuminins. "We gave him milk and food, but he didn't have much at a time after being without food for 50 long. He must have a wonderful constitution to have walked all those miles with nothing but water in its stomach.
telephoned Berlin and found that he was well known to our Then people there as a film artist. |1 explained that we would notify
the authorities of his arrival here.
needs some sympa- "He
certainly thetle treatment after his ordeal. We shall try to see if anything can be among the wood for days. I was dscndfully hungry and done for Torge, and if it is possible perished with cold. After two days for some organisation to look after |
him In the event of the authorities decided to try to reach London.
land."
twa
"Luckily I I found an old cont. My allowing him to remain in wet clothes had dried and this made
ttle
Warmer me a
"I wandered toto the streets and noticed me. Then found co one the London road and set off.
"1 drank from streams, but even
"But they hadn't found a hacknuw file which I had tled to my leg with if I had dared to ask anyone for food
a plece of bandage. During the I couldn't have made myself under- nights I sawed away gently at rstood.
"I reached Winchester and found - shackle on my wrist.
I slag- "After A few days I was free. the door of a church open.
inside and fell asleep. At Then I set to work on the iron bars gered of the porthole,
four o'clock in the morning-I think "The hacksaw blade was nearly it must have been Thursday I went worn away when I munnged to break out and started walking again.
"Next night I found an empty the bars.
"Lale on Monday night the ship charabane went Into Southampton. I thought hours sleep.
and
11
that
had
ve
Itinerant Put On Itinerary
Eng
El Centro, Cal. One case of Tackett vs. Teckett on
that wasn't the court docket here a divorce case. It was the case of Patrolman Jack Tackett who tackled Tommy Tackett, itherant, and haled The judge him before the judge. decided there were 100 many Tacketts in town and crdered the Hinerant Tackett to keep on his
Itinerary.
THE HONGKONG SINGERS
invite you to join
The Knight, The Squire, The Nun, The Monk, The Clerk of Oxenford, The Merchant, The Franklin, The Shipman, The Doctor of Physic,
and the rest of
Sir Walter sald that between the Duchy and Kent thero was nothing but waste.
43 JEWS WANDER IN THE SNOWS
Vienna, Apr. 18. Forty-three Austrian Jewish refugees--some children of eight, others old men and women of eighty-are stranded in a moun- tain hut near Murska Subota, a village in the homan's-land German between Jugo-Slavia, Austria and Italy, unable 10 seek refuge over any frontier.
They were expelled with 450 other Jews from Burgenland, Eastern Austria, on April 10.
They wandered homeless to the Juro-Slav frontier.
They are living now in the shows, In a akter's hut, about 25 1k, long by 18 ft. wide. They have no clothes other than those they stand and sleep in.
Food is sent to them with great difficulty by Jugo-Slav Jews who subscribe to feed them, and risk the bullets of frontier guards to get the food to them.
short Even so they are
of food and medical requirements,
soine Several are sick,
with dysentery. It is feared that the dysentery may sprend.
As Jews the wandering forty- three cannot return to Germany. They cannot enter Jugo-Slavia or Italy because they have not the necessary vizas.
The chlef rabbi of Jugo- Slavia has applied to the British authorities in Palestine for their admittance there.
Broken Back, Is Mended -By Breaking Again
Thirty-seven-year-old James Car- berry, of Darfield-avenue, Bradford, tle more than a month ago was a helpless cripple, his back broken, cascil In steel vest. The least movement brought him agonising pala.
James Carberry was a steel crector unt he fell 20ft to the ground. The bones of his spine were broken, but the spinal cord was Infact.
So James Carberry lived...In his vest of steet...helpless...for twenty- ono months.
Then he heard of Mr. II. E. Ken- 'nard, Harley-street boncsefter, and he came to London.
Mr. Kennard put him under an anaesthetic and broke his back again. He reset the Injured bones, “And in a month," Mr. Carberry told the Daily Mirror "I
rain.
right
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