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December 16, 1939.
GERMANY
Churchill Angers Nazis
The German Press is strange- ly silent about the future of the German "People's Cnr," which was to render Germans a na- tion of motorists.
Since 1937 hundreds of workhen have been constructing a big factory at Faltersleben, neur Hanover, for the production of this "Volkswagen." who included many The wurkmen, Italians, were housed In a special "town" of their own.
The money to finance this scheme came from the pockets of hundreds of thousands of German artisans and workmen, who contributed 5s a week thut for months, on the promise when they had raved £60 in this nanner they would get is ear.
There is reason to believe that their hard-earned marks have mere- ly gone Into Hitler's war-chest, and that the Follersleben factory is now
Instead armaments
of producing four-senters.
Ocean "Snipers"
Mr. Churchill has added another black page to the history of Britain by placing British snipers on the occan," stated the official German
wireless.
"Great Britain," it added, "is now acting against. all rules of maritime warfare, especially the submarine protocol of 1930, by arming her mer-
"She will have to expect now all the reprisals which according to her an cient tradition, Germany has a right
DEAL IN
OLD IRON
of
JOHN STEVENS, Youthampton, bought a mo- tor-cycle as old iron. It cost him 2s, and a follow-specu. lator put up half of that.
But when he began to breaks it up, the mechanism in- terested John so much that ho repaired it instead and took it out on the road.
The motor cycle did not go very well and. attracted the notice of the police, with the result that the 2. bargain hns now cost John another pound in fine and costs, for the licence had not been in- cluded in the 29. worth-nor had the insurance,
Speedy & Best Treatment For British Wounded
By DOUBLAS WILLIAMS "Daily Telegraph" Speelal War Correspondent
To-day I visited the first casualty clearing station set up ready for action on the British Front.
A room which a week ago Was the kitchen of a French
chant ships for attacks on Germanvillage cottage has been miracul- submarines.
ously converted into an operat- ing theatre. The walls have been whitewashed, the floor to its original scrubbed down tiling, and the stove fitted with a sterilising machine.
to 1:ke."
The "Illustrierter Beobachter" contain two pictures of Mr. Churchill
which carry the caption:
"First Sea Lord and First Liar of his Majesty."
More Germans Called Up
In one corner stual maesthetiz equipment, in another a while metal table, laden with all manner of sur- gical instruments.
In the middle of the room was an operating table of the collapsible
Berlin is full of soldiers, and con- voys continue to pass through from Poland, according to the Berlin cor-type constructed of metal tubing. respondent of the Belgian Agency.
There are indications that a new mobilisation order, calling op still more men, has been issued in Ger many during the last few days. Joy Bells Ordered
All churches in Germany have been instructed to ring their bells for a hour at noon for seven days in suc- cession to celebrate the entry of the German troups into Warsaw, says the German News Agency,
They will at one and the same time be ringing for victory and tolling for the fallen.
This Is in addition to the order that all buildings are to be bellagged to celebrate the German entry into Warsaw, which is to take plaće "one day this week." "Splitting Up Europe"
Above it had been rigged up on in- genious light, consisting of high voltage electric bulbs wired inlo rc- flectors cut from pefrol tins and polished.
A grey uniformed sister was tidy- ing-up when I entered, and in the washroom with annex (formerly a
a boller, a couple of orderlies were tin boxes containing unpacking: sterilised dressings. A little French gri sat on a bench soaking an in- jured finger in some kind of antisep- tic.
Aid For Civilians
Was
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"We do what we can to help the local civilians," said the surgeon, formerly a famous consultant from Wimpole-street. The rst case we hud here
delivery. Mother and child are doing well.'
The station is established in amall village, the acute cases being A cutting comment on Germany's accommodated under roots in com- ward fashioned out ΟΙ new ally is provided by the Swedish fortable weekly. "Se," which depicts the empty school-roons and barns, the Mongolian face of a Soviet soldier | less serious cases in tents in an or on its cover with the capikon -"Asia~ chard-near by ties lend
in splitting up
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Europe." Shortage of Tank Ships
Hended by an R.A.M.C. colonel. the staff includes H number of medical officers, a surgeon, an X-ray specialist, a dentist, a matron, seven nursing sisters and sume 80 other
A starthig picture of the lack of adequate river tommage on the Danit-ranks. be and Danube canal system, the importance of which to Germany has been frequently stressed by Field Marshal Goerint, is painted by the economic supplement of the "Deuts che Allgemeine Zellung."
1k between the It is the direct fighting line, where the casualties are collected, and the base hospital, whence the wounded are sent home across the Channel.
The RAM.C. to-day is an elabor- afe and efficient machine designed to clear up the buman debris of the battfield,to save and to repair the wounded and generally to care for the the
well-being physical
of the soldier.
This states that to remely the most acute deficiencies boats and barges from the Rhine have been taken to pieces, transported across
on areassembled country
and
the Danube. In particular, states paper, were is a severe lack of tank vessels.
"Poor British Listeners"
The 12 Uhr Blatt" publishes un- der the above headline the news that English radio news will in future be approved by the Ministry of Informa- tion. "Only the swindling arounce- ments of the notorious London le headeriers" are tu allowed now, states the paper.
Rapid Ambulance Service In the Inst war many deaths re sulted from gangrene because operue tlound surgery in many cases was nut avidiable near the front line.
To-day surgeries, with, complete modern equipment, are placed as near the front as possible, so that Emergency operations can be suc cessfully performed with the mini- 182 of delay and before the patient's contilan proves fatal. Only yesterday, the doctor told me, a soldier had been brought in from forward unit suffering from a per- foratet ulcer. He actually resched the operating table within four and a half hours of his ottrek, co rapid was the ambulance service.
11 is now nearly seven years since Germans heard radio news from their
by stations uncensored, Dr. own Goebbelt's Propaganda Ministry. Unsatisfactory Work-Prison
Beneath the headline "Prison for Gerinan attempted Sabotage," the
An operation was immediately per- Press reports from Halberstadt that formed, and in a few weeks he will an inhabitant of Aschersleben" has bent and well again. If the treat- been sentenced to nine months' im-ment had been delayed a few hours prisonment for performing unsatis longer his life could not have been
as to get official per- saved. factory work mission to change his lol.
Other surgien operations which This Instance typifies the many in have been carried out during the few Germany where men and women are days the hospital hus been function- forced by the Nazi State into working include treatment of a fractured for which they are untied. The spine, several appendicitis cases and victim's efforts to obtain more suitu- other abdominal operations. ble employment are labelled "sabo- tare." Child Labour
The headquarters office la installed
In the former Moirie, and the officers mess in a large type of house, where mcals are taken in n bright room
Germany is returning to the em-looking on to the garden. ployment of child labour on farms, according to an agricultural experi, speaking on the German radio.
"On
have hitherto been held during the
11-
my own farm," he said, "Ifternoon, must now be held in the
or not at all, it is. employ children whose average age morning
nounced. Markets held in the after- is 12.
noons have given trouble when the
"Unfortunately," he added, "
Cafe Moals as Rations
shall have to employ, very many un-black-out began. skilled hands this year." "We Are Starving”.
"I wish we were in your. country, Here in Germany we are starving" Thle message was written under the stamp of a letter received from a German girl by friends in Victoria, Australia,
Under a new regulation in: Ger- food served in restaurants many, which is subject to rationing will count as part of a person's rations,
This will hit people who were in the habit of having some meals in restaurants lo eke out their rations. Even vegetarian restaurants are restricted to serving only two Open-air markets in Berlin, which three dishes.
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