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Gives German Police A“Telling-Off "
By MORLEY RICHARDS.
"Daily Express" Staff Roportar *
ROTTERDAM.
NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD Dorothy Hughes, London typist who has been a prisoner in Germany since war broke out, has reached Rotterdam, frce after six months. Her fiance is still in a German jail.
Sho 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. Misa Hughes and her, flance left London on August 26 for á holiday in Vienna. A friend who was going to see his fianceo in Vienna travelled with them. "Both 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,
me to Rossauerlunde prison,
"I was put with forty other women in a cell no bigger than a large double bedroom. The women were all street girls or criminals. Some had consumption or other complaints.
Flic wardresses hated me for being English. They said so. One told me: 1 I loathe the English, and this is the way to treat you." "We had to go to bed at Ave o'clock in the afternoon. Then we were called at three in the morning. "We slept on the stone floors with only rough, dirty mattressen. I 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 litle work with. We could do nothing except huddle together, and talk or cry.
-No Open Windows
"They would not let us open a window. When we tried, a wardress carne 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 five minutes.
"After a time they moved me to
THIS WEEK another cell where there were eight
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other girls, all political prisoners.
"A Jugo-Slav girl in the cell had * wound. She pleaded for n doctor, and at last one came, but he did not return for three weeks. Then they took her awny.
"I was and asked for medicine. It was three weeks before I got it.
"A wardress beat an English girl over the head with a Tolled-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 bad and often it made
Ine sick.
"Then I was moved to Berlin. There I complained to the 'police and told them off about the way had been treated. They shouted at me, but took a statement and made ine sign it.
"One of them said: "That is the way German prisoners arc being treated in England.'
---“I-- hud - one-letler - from....my.....boy.. He wrote it in December, but I got it two days ago."
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The two last wishes of ex- Trooper John Doogan, age 80, oldest bolder of the V. C., who in 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 that he should be buried ot Shorncliffe Camp, AMORE soldiers who fell to the Great War.
A War Office rule that none but serving soldiers should be buried In the military cemetery during the war has been waived.
Doogan won his V.C, at Laing's Nek, in Souflt Africa, in 1881.
B.B.C. CHIEF VISITS FRANCE
Mr. F. W. Ogilve, Director- General of the British Broadcast. ing Corporation, visited France recently to find out what sort of entertainment appealed to men of the B.E.F. In a trench he found some airmen listening to a radio programme, and he asked for... "and"was given their views on it,”
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Kills
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HAW-
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-By His ex-wifo "LORD HAW-HAW,” Ger- many's anti-British broadcaster, "was terrible to live with," his former wife told me yesterday, (said a correspondent.
Women-In English
"He had a vile temper and was jalways just as sarcastic towards me
TWO women who have died. At the inquest it was cnid that the as he sounds on the wireless,"
in England were killed by Hitler balance of her mind had been dis-said,
as surely as if he had put a pistol to their heads.
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"Haw Haw" is William Joyce, a Two days earlier her husband had founder of the National Socialist Lea-
gue, completed a book on Nazi-ism.
No other name lins been denounced
The Patriot Their names-Frau Elsa Sebald,
and cursed by Hitler personally in so I found his former wife in a cottage 50-year-old German refugee,
as that of Hugo at Horeham, Sussex, where she lives Frau Preuss, daughter-in-law of post-insulting terms
Preus
with her
husband. She second war Germany's greatest democrat.
Since
time in London continuing the "Joyce joined the Army when he sculptress, was born a Swiss, but she lifework of his father. He hopes that was only 15. He was intensely pat- book will contribute to the riotic, and would always stand strict- married a German official. They had his a son who, when war came, was aged eventual liberation of Germany from ly to attention when 'God Save the
the Nazi tyranny. 10.
Frau Sebald, cultured and a sicilful his death his son has spent divorced Joyce six years ago.
Racial persecution by the Nazis forced her to leave her husband and son, and when war broke out she fled from Germany to England.
Hor 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- talls of such things do not leaks out of Nazi Germany-husband and son mot death.
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Frau Sebald went to Nuneaton, be- came housekeeper to Mr. Walter Bradbury, a postmaster, of Arbury- road.
She was very reserved. All she would say of life in Germany was, "It was hell." She had Als of de- pression, and took drugs to bring
sleep.
They found her dead, from an over- dose, in n Nuneaton hotel. In her arms was the bust of her son.
Letters she left told of her gratitude to Mr. Bradbury. Suicide while of unsound mind was the verdict.
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