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This is seen in all its horrors at present in Poland. There is more than a lust for vengeance at work in the Nazi mind. With the utmost brutality tens of thousands of Poles are being driven enstward, so that German families from the Baltic and the provinces of Baden and Wurt- temberg may be established in their places.
Hitler's plan seems to be to make as large a part of Poland as possible German in racial character, by wholesale importa- tions, so that when the question arices of restoring the stolen territories to a re-established Poland at the end of the war, he or whoever is in power in Ger- many at that time will have a pretext for pleading othnological arguments in favour of consider- ing those parts of permanently German. There might be the familiar plea for a plebiscite.
Even Hitler isn't keeping
pace with this.
W
HAT is going to be dono about the appall- ing increase in road casualties since the black-out began? .
What is the Government going to do? What are you and I going to do?
Think of 4,133 is the number of persons killed on the roads in Great Britain during the last four months of 1939.
In other words, the number killed in those four war months was just half the total for the whole year.
And remember: during that perlod the volume of traffic had vastly decreased; children had been evacuated in big numbers from busy cities to country areas.
Yet, on the roads of Britain in the first four months of the war, more lives were lost than the British Fighting Services have yet lost in France, on the sea and in _the_air_combined...
Morcover, in addition to the killed, there is an immensely greater number of injured.
The black-out, instituted to protect us from one danger, ex- poses us to another.
Is there a remedy?
Hopes were raised when Sir John Anderson demonstrated his "com- fort" lighting a few weeks ago. Those hopes have proved false; for the lighting so far Installed in London has been a travesty of that demonstrated at Burnt Oak. From a safety point of view the little aro present installations better than useless.
Rond deaths in London during
4.13.3
I
is the number of peoplo killed on the roads of Britain
by Parliament
The debate has been infilated by the Labour Party, con
cerned by the big jump la road casualties caused by the black-out.
In this article the need for measures that will make the
roads safer generally is emphasised
BY J.
NEVILL BENNETT
the first four war months were 63 per cent, higher than in the same months of 1038.
Not that London is in the worst position, by any means.
Birmingham's increase was di per cent.
And in Glasgow the number of deaths has been almost trebled- 123, against 441
This despite the fact that local regulations strictly prohibit wheeled traffic of any kind from approaching a tramear when it is setting down CI taking on
passengers.
·
On the other side of the picture there to Leicester-the only big city to show a decrease in fatalities. Leicester's total was 19 in the
had a fine record for “safely first TM for some years.
Its Chief Constable, Major C. V. Godfrey, is an authority on road. problems.
Through his efforts to protect children against traffic perils, not
a single child was killed in the city during 1939,
Primarily, this was due to two causes: regular lectures to chil- dren by trafo officers, and the reservation of over 150 "play streets" for 'children,
Now a great many of Salford's children are evacuated, and Major Godfrey has been devoting his energies to securing safety in the black-out hours,
He has done well Of the nine persons killed in Salford from Beptember to December, only fivè lost their lives in the dark.
The result has been largely · achieved by two special preenu- tions.
First, all point-duty policemen are equipped with white helmets
"last""four"months or 1938, and 17 — incorporating a red light;"with"
in the same months of 1939.
"Just luck" was how they ex- plained it when I inquired at the Chief Constable's office. Through- out 1939 their total of road deaths was only three higher than in 1938, and the month of Decem- ber, usually the worst, showed a drop of two deaths in 1939,
But, of COUTES, you cannot depend on luck. And the inquiries I have been making show that the towns with a low accident record are, in many cases, those where the local authorities take special precautions.
Salford is outstanding. It has
Poland TREES GROW VERY SLOWLY
The technique is typically Hitlerian, and will deceive no one. He is a tireless exponent of the accomplished fact, as the lesser nations of Europe have learned again and again to their cost; but the Nazis forget that what they do the victorious Allies will be able to undo. Tho vindication of the Poles' national rights is one of the main pur- poses of France and Britain, and Hitler's stratagems, ingenious, will not affect the } situation in the end.
however
The pity is that in the mean- time so many Poles are subjected
to torture, tyranny and misery for which there can be fow parallels in the history Europe.
of
ERMANY, desperately short of the raw materials that form the basic properties of life, and without money to buy those ma- terials, has passed from the Iron Age into the Wood Age.
Seventy-three million Nazis at this moment are living synthetic lives,
liver
They are born, they grow, they
and they die to the back- ground of a chopped-down forest, symbol of ersatz Germany.
Let's take a trip to, say, Dua- seldorf on the Rhine, which I visited a week or two before the war.
We slip over the border in a German
The car.
new paint this gleams, Only--and
is the rst of many "only"-it isn't paint. For the Nazi ersatz car is painted with wood.
A Teutonic scientist ground up some sawdust, made it into a solu tion, added the necessary dyc— and there is your crantz paint. It 18 sprayed on the car through a wooden nozzle instead of the usual steel one Probably the pipe that leads to the nozzle looks like glass.
Looks. It's an ersatz glass that started life
glade of trees. In a On the main street of Dusseldorf, called the Adolf Hitler-Platz (they all are), there's a pretty girl.)
Please don't critielse her stack- Ing. Not so long ago it was a Loss-up whether those stockings
AND THAT'S AN- OTHER REASON WHY GERMANY WILL LOSE THE
WAR
were going to be stockings, a milk box of mateties. In bottle, or other words, those stockings were made of wood.
Her dress, naturally, is a simple affair, and you've all read about the Nazi dresses made of milk. But it just happens that the Nazis are short of milk. Try though they they can't manufacture erantz may, cows.... So Fraulein over there is more probably dressed in a neat two-piece of wood, suitably dis- guised, of course.
You don't like her shoes? That's a pity, because Ming Nazi is very proud of that patent leather shine. A
shine, Incidentally, that was made in the same way as the skine that they sprayed on the eratz cor,
•
As we follow her down the free-
thed Adolf Hitler-Platz Wo watch her carefully. Out of her handbag-indubitably wooden one turned into cloth-Miss Nazl laken out a lump of wood and And seems pops it into her mouth. to enjoy . Though you wouldn't
think it was wood to look at it, for it bears a startling resemblance ta chocolate.
Which is just what it Is. Being short of sugar, Nazi scien- tists have taken wood chips and turned them into cratz sweetening material of a rough kind, to be sure, but suitable for their tastes when hidden In ersatz sweets.
So have another lump of wood, lady.
But Miss Nazi 1940 is getting tired. Those wooden shoes must be hurting . she turns up the street, and her wood-gloved hand turns the knob of the door of her Wood Age fint. Into the hall she steps, and switches on the light, which ginres out of lumps of wood in the ceiling-only they look like ordinary metal electric fittings. Ersatz. She sees If the central heating pipes are hot. Those pipes. are made of wood, too; wood pulp, to which has been added acotic neld which makes an erantz glass; -
For once in a way Mins Nazi 1940.has got a drop of milk. It's over there-in a milk bottle made the same way as the hot-water pipes.
There's always German sausage. of course. The only tragedy that Germany is short of suurage aking, as they are used for nero- PLEASE Turn To Pago 4.
NOW for supper.
white coats, and with red and green torches to facilitate traffic 'control.
Secondly, a system of "safety, patrols" has been instituted. Boy Scouts and members of other organisations, who have received Instruction from the police, aro stationed
with red hurricane lamps at shopping centres and other busy points.
"These volunteers." I was told, aro appreciated by both pedes- trians and motorists, who are very willing to oboy instructions."
The Chief Constable of Lan- cashire County, Capt. A. F. Hor- dern, is another officer who has made a reputation for efficiency in trame control.
His "Courtesy Copa" were famous all over the country, but! they Батс boon discontinued since September 30.
Since then accidents have gone up. But the police are trying to meet the situation by various ex-- periments, including a Bafety First. campaign and the issuing of in- structions to pedestrians on how to walk in the black-out.
Clearly, education and propa- ganda must play a big part if the road toll is to be reduced.
Nothing can be gained by roviv- ing the old dispute about who is, chlong to blamo, the motorist or the
pedestrian.
There is not the slightest doubt
that many motorists drive much faster than is justified in condi- tions of black-out streets and. restricted car lighting."
Nor is there any doubt that the pedestrian Is slow to realise that he is now the "Invisiblo Man."*
Whatever other remedies may be found by enterprise and ex- periment, a bold and imagina». tively directed propaganda cam- paign on a national scale should ba instituted right away.
We have had Safety First " campaigns in the past. The now-
be one must conducted inore vigorously
its. than any of
predecessors.
For the need is grave and more- urgent than ever before.