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This is seen in all its horrors at present in Poland. There is more than a lust for vengeanco at work in the Nazi mind. With the utmost brutality tens of thousands of Poles are being driven eastward, 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 ethnological arguments in favour of consider- ing those parts of Poland permanently German. Thero might be the familiar plea for a plebiscite.
one.
The technique is typically Hitlerian, and will decolve no He is a tireless exponent of the accomplished fact, as the lessor 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. The vindication of the Poles' national rights is one of the main pur poses of France and Britain, and Hitler's stratagems, howover ingenious, will not affect the altuation in the end.
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 of Europe.
TWO STRINGS TO HER BOW?
Even Hitler isn't keeping
pace with this.
W
“HAT is going to bo 'done 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 it-4,133 is the number of persons killed on the roads in Great Britain during the last four months of 1930.
In other words, the number killed in those four war months was just half the total for the whole year.
And remember: during that period the volume of traffic bad vastly decreased; children had been ovacuated 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” haya" yet lost in France, on the sea and in the air combined.
on
Moreover, in addition to the killed, there is immensely .greater number of injured.
The black-out, instituted protect us from one danger, ex- poses us to another.
Is there a remedy?
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Hopes were raised when Bir 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. Front a safety point of view the present installations
littlo better than useless.
Road deathя in London during
413.3
IT is the number of people killed on the roads of Britain
I in the first four months of war, and is will be discussed
by Parliament
The debate has been Intilated by the Labour Party, con- cerned by the big jump in 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 1938.
Not that London is in the worst position, by any means.
Birmingham's Increase was 81 Dor cent.
And in Glasgow the number of deaths has been almost trebled- 123, against 441
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This despite the fact that locat regulationa strictly prohibit wheeled traffic of any kind from approaching a tramcar when it is setting down Or taking passengers.
On the other side of the picture there is Leicester-the only big city to show a decrease in fatalities. Leicester'a total was 19 in the
last four months of 1933, and 17 in the same months of 1939.
"Just luck" was how they ex- plained it when I inquired at the. Chief Constablo's office. Through- out 1030 their total of road deaths was only. three higher than in 1038, and the month of Decem- bor, usually the worst, showed n drop of two deaths in 1939,
But, of course, You cannot depend on luck. And the inquiries I have been making show that the towns with a low acoldent record are, in many cases, those where the local authorities take special precautions.
Salford is outstanding. It has
TREES GROW VERY SLOWLY
ERMANY, desperately short of that form the raw materials 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 Nazia at this moment are living synthetic lives.
They are born, they grow, they live, and they die to the back- ground of a chopped-down forest, symbol of ersatz Germany.
'Let's take a trip to, say, Dur. seldorf on the Rhine, which I visited a week or two before the war.
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the
We slip over the border in a German 'car. Tho new paint gleams. Only-and first of many "onlys"-it isn't
• with wood.
For the Nazi erguiz enr is
A Teutonic scientist ground up some sawdust, made it into a solu- tlon, adifed the necessary dye- and there is your erantz paint. It is 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 glaze Wint started life in a ginde of trees.
On the main street of Dusseldorf, called the Adolf Hitler-Platz (they All aro), there's a pretty girl.
Please don't crilicine her stock- Ings. Not so long ago it was a toss-up whether those stockings
AND THAT'S AN- OTHER REASON WHY GERMANY WILL. LOSE THE
WAR
were going to be stockings, a milk bottle, or a box of matches. In other words, those stockings were made of wood.
Her dress, naturally, is a simple affair, and you've all read about the Nazi dresses mude of milk. But It just happens that the Nazis are short of milk. Try though they may, they can't manufacture ersatz So Fraulein over there next is more probably dressed in two-piece of wood, suitably dis- pulsed, of course.
cows.
You don't like her shoes? That's a pity, because Miss Nazi to very proud of that patent leather shine. A shine, incidentally, that was macta. in. ilo samo way on the shine that they sprayed on the ereats
car.
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AS we follow her down the free- A lined Adolf Hitler-Platz wo watch her carefully. Out of her handbag Indubitably a" wooden one turned into cloth-Miss Nozi takes out a lump of wood and pops it into her mouth. And seems to enjoy it. Though you wouldn't
think it was wood to look at it, for it bears a startling resemblance to chocolate.
Which is just what it is. Being short of sugar, Nazl selen- tists have taken wood chips and turned them into ersatz sweetening to be material of a rough kind, sure, but suitable for their tastes when hidden in ersatz sweets,
So have another lump of wood. lady. ***
had a fine record for "safely first"
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 singio child was killed in the city during 1939,
Primarily, this was due to two causes: regular lectures to chll- dron by trafic officers, and the reservation of over 150 "play streats" for children.
Now a great many of Salford's children aro evacuated; and Major Godfrey has been devoting his energies to securing safety in the black-out hours.
Ho has done well. Of the nine persons killed in Salford from September to December, only fivé lost their lives in the dark..
The result has been largely achieved by two special precau- tions.
First, all point-duty policemen are equipped with white helmets Incorporating a red light, with white coats, and with red and green torches to facilitato tramc control,
Secondly, a system of "Bafety. patrols" has been instituted. Boy, Scouts and members of other organisations, who have received Instruction from the polico, are stationed
-rod with
hurricane lamps at shopping centres and other busy points.'
"Thess volunteors," I was told, "are appreciated by both pedes trians and motorists, who are very willing to obey instructions."
The Chief Constable of Lan- cashire County, Capt. & F. Hor- dern, is another officer who has made a reputation for officiency in. traffic control.
His "Courtesy Cops **
woro; famous all over the country, but). they have boon discontinued! since Beptember 30,
Since then accidents have gone- up. But the police are trying to meet the situation by various ox- periments, including a Safety First campaign and the issuing of in- structions to pedestrians on how to walk in the black-out.
Olearly, education and propa- ganda must play a big part if the road toll is to be reduced.
Nothing can be gained by roviy-- But Miss Nazi 1940 is getting tired. Those wooden shoes musting the old disputo about who is
be hurling ale turns up the street, and her wood-gloved hand turns the knob of the door of her Wood Age flat. Into the hall she steps,
eps, and switches on the light, which glares out of lumps of wood
מ!
the ceiling only they look like ordinary inctal electric fittings. Eraatz. She sees If the central heating pipes are hot. Those pipes are made of wood, too; wood pulp, to which has been added acetic acid
which makes an ersatz glass.
Now for supper. For once in a
way Miss Nazl 1940 has got a drop of milk. It's over therein n milk batile made the some way os the hot-water pipes.
There's always German sausage, of course. The only tragedy Is that Germany is short of sausage skins, as they are used for nero. PLEASE Turn To Pago 4.
chiene to blame, the mug or
the pedestrian.
There is not the slightest doubt that many motorista 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 to now the "Invisible Marí.“.
Whatever other remedies may be found by enterprise and ex- pertinent, bold and imagina- utely directed propaganda cam- paign on a national scale shoula. be Instituted right away, f
We have had "Bafoty Fitot campaigns in the past. The now one must be conducted more vigorously
of its predecessors.
For the need is grave and more- argent than ever before.
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