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Hilda Marchant, London "Daily Express" Reporter, Is In Finland SPOTLIGHT
FINNISH CHILD EVACUEES PLAY IN WHITE GARMENTS
OLD BILL AT IT AGAIN
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"What will you take to follow, Sir? Filets de Sole Bonne Femme, "or"go straight to the roast duck?"-by-Bruce--Bairnsfather..... and re: produced from "The Bystander."
GERMAN
PRISONER'S
FAMILY
GAOLED
Knew He Was Alive! --Dared Not Tell ALL the members of a Ger- man family, who dared not reveal their knowledge that the son of the family was not dead but a prisoner in Britain, have been gaoled for conducting a memorial service to him "in an unseemly manner."
J
The son was one of the crew of a Nazi bomber shot down in a raid on British shipping off the East Coast.
'. He was posted as dead, and ene of the relatives made arrange- ments for the memorial service. But the same night they heard the British radio announce that the airman had been saved and was a *prisoner.
Knowing that they might be sentenced to death for listening to
Russian Refuse
Joseph Stalin
Farmhouse is Now
Mothers' Hospital
By HILDE MARCHANT
ON
GERMANY SHOPS CLOSED INĮ HUNDREDS
ties.
'I am
of this
ashamed
Nazi'
GAULEITER WILHELM BOHLE, THE BRAD-
"I am ashamed to own a nephew who is such a rabid Nazi,” said Mr. E, W. Bohle, a prominent Birmingham business man.
The choice of Gauleiter Bohle as Britain's future dictator- .if Germany wins the war-was revealed in the "Sunday Chronicle"
some time ago.
His uncle, who lives in Russell-rd, Moseley, told the "Sunday Chronicle": "I would fight to my Inst breath to I hate everything he stands for and will prevent such a thing. do all in my power to bring him down.
QUINS' DOCTOR Legation in London, and had come
Shop assistants are among the FORD BORN MAN WHOM HITLER HAS CHOSEN worst sufferers from the wholesale disorganisation of Germany's domes- TO BE "DICTATOR OF BRITAIN," WAS DE- tle trade caused by the regimentation of tide and the application of ration- NOUNCED RECENTLY-BY HIS UNCLE. ing to nearly all essential commodi- In Berlin alone, reports the Am- sterdam Telegraf, more than 35,000 unemployed retail trade em- ployees have been enrolled for train- Ing in industrial work.
These are only o proportion of Flun- those who have lost their jobs. The only British woman reporter in Finland
dreds of shops are being closed every HELSINGFORS. dny, while stalls in the markets are becoming steadily emptier. Shops WOMEN with children and those who are not doing are extending their "lunch hour" to 3.30, either be- to sell or work essential to the life of the capital are told in a final closing from one have
have ex- and strongly worded warning issued by the Helsingfors because their customers hav hausted their ration allowance. authorities to-day to leave for the countryside,
In many places, including Berlin,
Dr. Alan Dafoe has resigned his So far evacuation has been voluntary, but if this last lysed by In distribution of die guardianship of the Dionne quintup-
new ration cards. Instead of receivlets, states an Exchange Montreal I deliberately insulted him by
refusing to warning is not heeded the authorities will make it coming these through the post, people message. He will continue us their
return the Hitler have to wait in queues for them at physlelon.
Kalute, and he has never forgiven pulsory.
the municipal offices. Large nuin-
me. He thinks that because I Oliva Dionne, father of the Mr. quintuplets, has agreed, following the am German born I should bow I have just returned from a northern evacuation bers are still without their cards.
resignation, to drop his legal pro- down to the despicable Nazi rule. ceedings against the guardians. centre where women and children live in comparative Compulsory Labour Docree
"All I will say is," concluded Mr. The quintuplets, born in May, 1934, Czechs are now able to forced safety.
labour for the Nazi State. A decree were mude special wards of the King Bobic, "that if my nephew were Camouflaged by miles of thick forest and roads so buried in issued in Berlin provides that "com- by an Act passed by the Ontario nade dietator in this country-and A Board of such a thing is fantastic-[would snow that they could not be picked out, they have frequently pulsery labour service for projects of Legislature in 1935. watched Russian planes fly over them on their way to a nearby particular State importance" is to be Guardians was appointed in the same gidly be, vui in a concentration industrial town,
As an extra precaution women send their children out to play in white capes, and when an alarm is sounded they scamper into the forest that was once a summer hunting ground.
Itrade in and textiles is para~ !
enforced
the Protectorate of year. Bolensia and Moravia. the schoolroom floor That the Nazia mean to apply thei squatted on
decree with full severity is shown by playing with a head-rack.
But most dramatic of all, was the fact that the puppet-President, tramping through the forest In Dr. Hach, and members of his deep snow drifts to the century-"Government" are expressly men- ald farmhouse that Is now ationed as the only persons exempt
from service, maternity hospital."
Here 200 bables have been born
There they listen to the dull, Uumping sound of bombs falling on jamid the deep silence of the fir trees. Woodland Beauty Culture
It was difficult to find the farm, the town fifteen miles away.
even from the road, for the
cari feel of tracks were burled in two
Roads Jammod
This tiny white wooden village-firm, unruffled snow,
a parallel to the thatched Oxford- Branches of fir trees have been root and shire village where I saw London's laid over the farmhouse children evacuated--has trebled its along the tops of the barns. population, for Finland not only has Getting the mothers to this place elderly evacuees but also refugees from the was a problem which
doctor had to face. Aghting fronts.
an
I met one woman who had He said to me: "I had a brain- brought her three children and wave. I told the fire department nine-month-old baby" from a town that they must be ready to move-my. In the Karellan Isthmus only a patients." few hours before n heavy bom- bardment began
The rond was jammed with re- fugees, leaving behind flaming homes, and all read vehicles were full.
A beauty expert of the Nazl Labour Frent has been telling women how to tend their complexions without using cosmeties, or even soap. She recom- mends:
A preparation of horse-chestnuts which "fathers like soap";
Boiled pine-needles as another soap substitute for use in the bath; and
Stewed ivy-leaves and potato-. Akins to cleanse the complexion. Still harping on the uselessness-of- The women are wrapped in rugs, soup, this expert advises continual put in a fire brigade car and bathing, "because the more you bath brought as near as possible to the the less soap you need, and water farm door. The last few hundred alone cleans better." yards they are carried by sledge.
Berlin nicssages received in Ain-
So she piled her children on
In the drawing-room were a dozen Jewels To Pay Russia sledge, and with the aid of a Lotta white cradles with equalling new- Joseph Stalin has been turned (one of Finland's army of women), borns. One infant the doctor pointed sterdam state that Germans are to be down by Soviet Russia. No-not dragged them ten miles to a rallway out was born during an alarm. THE Joseph Stalin, but a 0,000-station. ton cargo boat named after the Dictator.
The clothes they wore were the only things they brought out of their The boat, for which Russia bad home. nald half the price, was built by This family is now settled in
that already holds twenty
a Dutch Brun at Saandam.
house
When the trial trip was over people.
The Iocal school, fortunately the Russians, for reasons unknown,
painted white, is a creche for thirty refused to take delivery.
Thc Dutch young children. Their mothers ere company says doing war work in factories, so they foster- children with trial was left the
their but parenta couple in their sixties. successful, thirty-nine Rum. The ald woman nursed five sons slan experts of her own, now at the front. And raised objec she was delighted to have a young tions, which are noisy family again. now being dis- eussed.
P.S.-This
Is Funny!
A
260 Babies Born The old man, a typical farmer and ◆◆ remarkably agile for his age, I found
HEROINE - ALTHOUGH
HER NAME IS GOEBEL!
HER name is Goebel. She is not, as some people in Maiden- a foreign broadcast..the family head seem to think, the mother of the Nazi Propaganda Minister. completed the arrangements for She is a heroine. Mrs. Imella Goebel, seventy two, widow, or But at the church they found it. Havelock-road, Maidenhead, has nursed her Invalid son night and
the service,
"Who is this man Dr. Goebbels?? food, as he is not able to feed him- Mrs. Goebel asked.
self," Mrs. Goebel said. "I left Germany in 1885. "No, the rumours do not worry
impossible to keep up the pretence day since he was born forty-four years ago.
some of the relatives had even little too much. So the drunk a whole family were Imprisoned for "Jack" of respect to the dead."
TC atory has reached London through a neutral country.
Sandbag Thefts
Death Penalty
Johann, Weinhammer, a twenty- Munich youth, hos Ave-year-old been executed In Germany for steal- five shillings ing sandbags worth during the black-out
Five others have been executed for black-out crimes, and in Lenin grad 'n similar penalty was Infileted on a gang for attempted robbery and wounding soldier.
me."
Evacuated By Air
asked to offer their gold wedding ***Hitler Fund" rings and Jewels to a to be used to pay for imports from Planes dew near to the farmhouse Russia. In this way their most pre- as the baby's first- cries were heard. clous possessions will find their way The operating theatre is the directly or indirectly into Communis! stone-floored dairy, and it has hands. proved remarkably adaptable. The
It is also reported that German farmhouse has no water fald on, so living permanently in neutral coun-
milk it is brought in
by tries are to be told that it is their
duty to hand over their foreign cur aledge.
cans
It is sterilised in the barn at the rency holdings to the Reich. back.
Other Finnish children'
are still being sent by plano and train into Sweden and Norway.
gre their Though they will not families for a long time, they at least are being spared for Finland's future. On my night journey back to Hel- sinki we stayed for coffee at a way- side station, and, on the floor of the waiting-room was: soldier with his wife and two children. They were sound asleep on a mattress.
A porter told me that the
Vatican Fire;
Incendiaries Suspected
INCENDIARIES were suspected to nabave caused a fire in the Apostolle came back on leave on the first day Chancellery attached to the Vatican
of heavy bombing of his home.
He was now taking his family
HITLER IS FULL
In Rome
The adjoining church of Saint north, then going back to the front. Lorenzo in Damaso was damaged by
fire and water.
have A carabinear is stated to dashed into the church in spite of the flames and saved the Blessed Sacra- The blaze started about midnight, Hitler has a complete idea for the land by the time it was quelled at 5 a.m. it had destroyed most of the future of Europe, and he will either church wing overlooking the Corso translate that idea into reallly or fall Vittorio. The cupola of the palace
crashed amid the flares. with his regime. That's what Dr. Goebbels' told
The Bre-Bohting was handicapped country foreign Journalists at his horne forty miles north of Berlin by the bitterly cold weather.
Tapestries Lost
OF GREAT IDEAS ment
"I have to hold his cup when he has tea, because he would drop it! Her life has been one of self-f he had to hold it himself. sacrificing devotion. Her home has "We are both incurable and alone the week-end. virtually been her prison for lenjin the world. years.
"We never have a visitor, except a woman who calls each month with read the church magazine, but I Fer bath her legs are paralysed. aloud to pass the time. Yot this brave little woman cleans her own home, and is nurso to her Invalid son, Alfred.
She last saw the top of the street, a bus or a shop in 1020.
Tapestries and come frescoes by Whoever belleved, added Dr. Giorgio Vasari in the Salon of a Hun- Goebbels, that Hüller would be pro-dred Days in the Chancellery are re- pared to yield and neck a compro- ported to have been ruined, but the mise with the enemy under pres-firemen saved many art treasures sure of a shorlare of raw mate- from the church.
The celling of the church was pull- understood rials proved thai ho nothing about Germany and Nazi-ed down to prevent a further "out-
break
This was the second outbreak of Since the outbreak of war Hiller fire at the Apostolle Chancellery Stricken by a grave illness soon after his birth, Alfred, to her, has Minister somebody has made a mis-had thought only of victory. He had within a few days.
tako. I have nothing to be ashamed not attended any concert opera or never grown up.
"It is lonely here, but I am not unhappy.
"As for this German Propaganda
It is one of the most important 41 have to wash, shave and dress of. If anybody wants to know about film entertainments, and there had pontiacal buildings in Rome and en- my son, cut his hair, and cut up his me, the police tiave my 'particulars." been no receptions at the chancellery, joya extra-territoriality.
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