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Waiter Conducts Wedding
-AT GRETNA
A WAITER conducted a mar- riage ceremony at Gretna Green.
As midnight struck, 18-year- old Peggy Jameson, a student at a Tunbridge Wells art school, and 20-year-old Arthur Robin- son, an apprentice building en- gineer, who also lives at Tun- bridge Wells, arrived at the
to Gretna Hall smithy bo married.
They were told that Mr. David R. Macintosh, the priest, was in bed.)
Her "Holiday"
A wafter at the Hall said he would
conduct the ceremony.
He did so, as the eloping couple! stood beside the anvil.
Three weeks ago Miss Jameson left her home, saying she was going to spend a holiday with her aunt.
POLAND: GOEBBELS
FOOD
FAMINE IN
NAZIS TAKE
Untouchable !
ANTWERP.
RECENT German police decl- siens make it plain that the 310,000 Polish war prisoners in Germany, mostly employed in forced labour, are to be treated ay "untouchables,"
At Lohme, In Hanover, for instance, two Germans have just been sent to concentration camps because they sat drinking with a Polish prisoner.
City
WAR'S GRIMMEST
TRAGEDY NEAR
By W. N. EWER
GIVES A
PARTY
Recent events indicate that Goeb- bels is once more in favour with Hit- ler,
A short while ago the Fuhrer paid a visit to the propaganda chief's magnificent country sent at Waldhof- am-Bogensee, 40 kilometres north of Berlin.
Hitler brought toys for the children told the Berlin correspondent of the Berlingske Tidende,
THE GRIMMEST mass tragedy of the war is being and played with them, Frau Goebbels prepared in Poland.
By the end of Spring large areas will be in the grip famine.
of
Frau Goebbels told her guests-she was entertaining foreign Journalists- that Hitler very much enjoyed the Lon-visit-to Waldhof as a change from ille pied with winning the war."
For the moment, according to reports reaching don from reliable sources, there is food enough, but the in Berlin, "Where he is solely occu- **** Įstocks are running low and nearing exhaustion.
Columns Betray German Failures
more solidly
behind
to
The Germans have requisitioned
Frau Goebbels fried
persuade and carried away too much.
Every farmer and every merchant Hitler to see the film "Mother Love," who holds stocks of foodstuffs has which has aroused her enthusiasm to hind to make a return to the German such a degree that she has seen it aix authorities, and hon then been told: times
"So much you must give up, so much | But bli her efforts were in vala., you may keep.'
Whereas one-course dinners are And the amount taken is so great! Hitler's rule. Frau Goebbels treated tint in and around the cities only her guests to a more lavish meal. few weeks' supply is len.
It included asparagus soup and venison. Goebbels was a genlot host, and told stories of his own journalis-
Eating Seed
In remoter parts the peasants are the experiences... us well. He said
Instead, she came to Gretna. She' has stayed hero since, to secure the
A NOTE of pessimism has lately, the workers necessary restiential qualification.
crept into the City columns on the them in the war.
But it targets are not the big Her sweetheart arrived the night back of those same Nazi papers whose'
front pages brag about Germany's Nazi proilteers: they are captains hiding and hoarding-risking death before.
of industry who have already made by shooting to avoid death by stary
Ing. Already they are beginning to that her successful conduct of the war. Afiss JamŠROT says
Phrased in such a way as simply their getaway from Germany.
Nazi father is in Jamaica. She did not to give information to the merchant newspapers now print almost slaughter cattle to save food-stuffs, ask her mother's permission, fearr industrialist, these columns reveal daily reports about such fugitive a sure sign of impending famine.
There are reports of seed grain be- ing that she would refuse it.
a host of dimeuitics which face the capitalists, who are sentenced In
their absence for evading taxes or hug used for food, another sure sign Robinson Huld he was also afraid his Nazis.
The peasant, if he is lucky and is parents would refuse permission.
There are velled admisalous that similar offences.
not caught, may montage to hide "The trouble is that I don't yet freights to and from Russia cannot)
But enough to keep his family alive. earn enough to keep a wife," he said. "But I am hoping we can stay with our people until I get some
money,"
THE SHIPS THAT SWEEP THE SEA (Continued from Page 3.)
more
INSIDE
GERMANY
by. Willi Frischauer
In Vienna, Konrod Fehringer, "king be reduced, that of the Austrian gambling, casinos" is transport costs the latest victim. He left the country in a few weeks' time there will be
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have to a long time ago. be increased.
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transport problem
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in the space these
nu food for the towns.
-And in addition to the towns there
He was
at at the present moment no Nuzl would dream of asking Hitler about the future.
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is in Poland to-duy, needing to be of a German defeat. What then?
And Goebbels' reply was: "No the "dispossessed."
STOCK MARKET fed, a large ned pitiable army of Nutional-Socialist would think of such
The
SLYS;
REPORT
There are hundreds of thousands cowardice as leaving the country. It may be millions of them; men and our cause is lost, we must all die with Hongkong Stock Exchange women and children homeless and summary Issued yesterday without resources.
There were no noticeable features in the market during the short ses-
City columns. They are full of advice 031 how official this problem can; solved *in. spite of existing}
The effects of the blockade roundly denied in the political part of-the-papers-ro. adınitted frankly, Bolt them any sort of a The word blockade, of course, is gun-in the bows, and they're ready
never mentioned.
How cager the men are for service is seen by the ready response made be to the recent Admiralty
appeal. conditions." Practically the entire man power of the_drifter-fleets volunteered,
"Certain difcul-
for off; a litle more proudly, per-les is the phrase employed, but it haps, than usual because of the dingy is easy to see what it me
means. White Ensin astern. same- Exporters, for instance, are advised thing to them to be King's men
пя to the "new methods" they must again, though they never remember having left off being men fighting practise to avoid these "dimculties." They must demand payment in ad-
for King and country, since even avance if they export overseas and King and country, must be fed.
their responsibility for the goods God speed our drifternen! Drake must end with their arrival in the learnt his trade amongst their an-nearest neutral port.
ira
anti-
lot of Drake's indomit-i THE Nazis, these last few weeks.
survives
launched 11 violent capitalist campaign, designed to swing
cestors; and
able spirit still Trade.
the have
sion..
Паустя HK. Banks $1,495. H.K. TotalsTM $84.- Land $36.
Trams 17
Dairy Farins $21.03. Lanc. Crawlords $700. Win. Powell St. Entertainmenta $7. Docks ts. 38.00.
Seller Docks Cum Rts. $22. HK, Intels 4 Lands $37.
Trane $17.50.
Wharves $100.
Saldr
Docks Cum ts, $21.00. Docks X 11 $10.63.
Electrics $8534.
Watsons $9.35 Dorka Rs. 0.70.
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Crowded Towns
All over Pomeranin and Posnum the Polish peasants have been "dis- possessed," ordered at a few hours' notice to leave their homes, to hand over their farms to German settlers. In the bitter cold they are wander- ing homeless
country, across the finding shelter where they can, fed by their fellow-countrymen who have little enough to spare.
These wandering outcasts. these now overcrowded towns, are going quite soon to be smitten by famine.
Earl as trawler engineer
THE twenty-two-year-old Earl
of Craven, owner of large estates in Yorkshire and Berkshire, was one of the crew of a trawler which ran aground recently on the north-east coast."
It is disclosed that he is now taking part in the salvage work.
Lord Craven was third engineer on the trawler.
He has been attending focal dances) this
week and dancing with girls who had no idea they had a peer for a partner.
"I love the sea," he told a reporter.
"I take orders now, and it probably doco
me good."
Lord Craven succeeded his father In 1832 and latér held a commission In the Reserve' of Officers, Cold- stream Guards, until his marriage Just year to Irene, Oc of Mrs. Meyrick's daughters,
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