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April 16, 1940,
FREE
'HELL-PRISON'
Gives German Police
A
"Telling-Off"
By MORLEY RICHARDS
"Daily Exprosa" Staff Reporter
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ROTTERDAM. NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD Dorothy Hughes, London typist who has been a prisoner in Germany since war broke out, has reached Rotterdam, free after six months. Her fiance is still in a German jail,
She told how she was kept in a small cell with forty other women, was given bad food, and had to sleep on the stone floor. Miss Hughes and her flance left London on August 26 for a holiday in Vienna. A friend who was going to see his fiancec in Vienna travelled with them.. "Bóth men were taken away from our hotel on September 8," Miss Hughes said to me, “and I had to stay there alone. I was not allowed to go out.
"On December 1 the police took
ine to Rossauerlande prison.
"I was put with forly other women In a ecli no
bigger than a large double bedroom. The women were all street girls or criminals. Some had consumption or other complaints.
"The wardresses hated
me for being English. They said so. One
told me, 'I loathe the English,
and this is the way to treat you.' "We had to 10 to bed at ve o'clock in the afternoon. Then we were called at three in the morning. "We slept on the stone floorn with only rough, dirty mattresses, 1 had to sleep with all my clothes on to try to keep warm.
The food was terrible--sour bread and sour soup,
"We had nothing to read, and not even a needle to do a little worl with. We could do nothing except huckle together, and talk or cry.
No Open Windows
"They would not let us open a window. When we tried; a wardress came and sealed it up.
"Once a week we were allowed to have a shower. Then we had to un- dress, bathe and dress again in ve minutes.
"After a time they moved me to THIS WEEK another cell where there were eight
other girls, all political prisoners.
"A Jugo-Slav girl in the cell had She pleaded for a ⚫ wound. doctor, and at last one came, but he did not return for three weeks. Then they took her away.
THIS WEEK
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"I was ill and asked for medialne. It was three weeks before I got It.
"A wardress beat an English girl over the head with rolled-up FORTNIGHTLY blanket because she complained.
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"I was in this ghastly prison for nearly three months. I could not cat more than one meal in two days, the
food was so und and often it made
me sick.
Then There I complained to the police and told them off about the way I had been treated. They shouted ot me, but took a statement and
was moved to Berlin.
of them said: "That is the
orc German prisoners AVAY
being treated in England."
"I had one letter from my boy. He wrote it in December, but I got it two days ago."
Hitler
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Two Wishes
Both Arc Granted
The two last wishes of ex- Trooper John Doogen, age 80, oldest holder of the V. C., whp has died at Folkestone, will be carried out.
One was that his V.C., should be presented to his old regiment, the King's Dragoon Guards, and the other int he should be burled Camp. Among at Shorncliffe Boldiers who fell in the Great War.
A War Office rule that none but serving soldiers should be burled in the military cemetery during the war has been waived.
Doogan won his V.C. at Laing's Nek, In South Africa, In 1881.
B.B.C. CHIEF VISITS FRANCE
Mr. F. W. Oglive, Director- General of the British Broadcast- ing Corporation, visited France reocally to find out what sort of entertainment appealed to men of the BEF. In a french he found Bome airmen tistening to a radio -programme, and he asked for— and was given their views on it. Photo courtesy B. B. C..
Kills Two
English
Women-In
TWO women who have died!
HAW- HAW'S
TEMPER
-By His ex-wife "LORD HAW-HAW," Ger- many's anti-British broadcaster, "was terrible to live with," his former wife told me yesterday, Bald a correspondent.
was
"He had a vile temper and always just as sarcastic towards me she At the inquest it was said that the as he sounds on the wireless,"
turbed.
"Haw Haw" is William Joyce.
in England were killed by Hitler balance of her mind had been dis-sald.
as surely as if he had put a pistol to their heads.
Two days earlier her husband had founder of the National Socialist Lea-
gue. [completed a book on Nazi-ism.
No other name has been denounced Their names-Frau Elsa Sebald,
and
cursed by Hitler personally in so refugee, and 50-year-old German
that of Hugo Insulting terms us Frau Preuss, daughter-in-law of post-Preuss. war Germany's greatest democrat.
The Patriot
I found his former wife in a cottage at Horeham, Sussex, where she lives with her second husband. She
Since his death his son has spent divorced Joyce six years ago,
the "Joyce joined the Army when he Frau Sebald, cultured and a skilful his time in London continuing sculptress, was born a Swiss, but she lifework of his father. He hopes that was only 15. flo was intensely pat- the riotle, and would always stand strict- mareled a German official. They had his book will contribute to a son who, when war came, was aged eventual liberation of Germany from ly to attention when God Save the
the Nazi tyranny.
19.
Racial persecution by the Nazis forced her to leave her husband and son, and when war broke out she fled) from Germany to England.
Her Son's Bust
One of the few things they allowed her to take out of Germany was a bust she had carved of that beloved son.
Then, somehow or other-the de- tails of such things do not leak out of Nazi Germany-husband and son met death.
Frau Sebald wont to Nuneaton, be- came housekeeper to Mr. Walter Bradbury, a postmaster, of Arbury-
road.
She was very reserved. All the would cay of life in Germany was, "It was hell" She had ata of de- pression, and took drugs to bring Bleep.
They found her dead, from an over- In hier dose, in a Nuneaton hotel,
arms was the bust of her son.
Letters she left told of her gratitude to Mr. Bradbury. Sulélde white of unsound mind wan the verdict.
Frau Preuss was the wife of Dr. E. G. Preuss, whose father, Hugo Preuss, wns
the author of the Weimar German Constitution, the model of democracy destroyed by Hitler and the Nazis.
Cursad By Hitlor After a long illness, worsened " bý the light from her homeland, she threw herself out of the window of bor fourth-floor fint in Grove - End- road," St. John's Wood, N, W.
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