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Wednesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
August 21, 1940.
Nazi Officers
Families
Take
To
Their
Paris
SAYS HE WON-Col. Fulgen cio Batista, Cuban Presidential candidato of Socialist-Domo. cratic party, who announced in Havana ho had won over. whelming victory. Office of Dr. Ramon Grau San Martin would not give opinion.
PARIS has settled into the kind of life it may live unifi a peace treaty is signed,
Since war reached it this city; "tourist's" Interest in the city,
During the day German planes. has vastly changed. from the constantly drone overhead and de- gay, cosmopolitan centre which fachments of German troops inurch Englishmen knew a year ago, through the streets.
1ts buildings, cafes, parks and monuments are still here, it two thirds of its population are scattered over France and the Gerinon troops are in Occupation.
In the kite cafes German soldiers
Justily.
sing
Some of the German officers have brought thele families to Paris, and
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cinema has been installed for the Armay altowing German, Ahus.
French cinemas are open,
they have only old French Alms.
but
The occupation has not been harsh. The French municipal adminislyn- tion carries on with its own police, Frenclunen who have to deal with the authorities deal with Frenchmen.
What laws have been laid down at 0.30 p.m. and the curfew at 10 by the Germans are enforced by them. Nowadays the boulevards are French. Neutral observera have tenerted soon after the blackout.
For Purislans, the mast irksome regulations are the closing of rates
sver no French opposition or dis- which is still in force. obedience,
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The public appears to be thoroughly defeated to think of any thing but acceptance.
The police force has been divided up into three feetlonis, euch headed by a German colonel.
be
German soldiers and officers may
taking seca everywhere,
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They died for their
Country in a quiet
Cambridge meadow
"THEY laid down their lives in the service of their country as cortainly as if they had died in Flan- ders"... this was said of two men-a scientist and an engineer-who died during an experiment in a peaceful Cambridgeshire meadow last month.
The scientist was Oliver Gatty, nged thirty-two, of the Depart- ment of Colloidal Chemistry, Cambridge University, and the other, Alfred Stanley Chessum, of the Engineering Laboratory.
At the Inquest a verdict of "Mis- adventure" was recorded,
They were conducting an exper! ment described by Professor Gough, director of scientise research, Minis- of Supply, as great importance try to national defence, when, despite all reasonable precautions, there was an accident-in which they received fatal burns.
of
Professor E. K. Rideal, who holds the chair
Colloidal Chemistry, said that it was with the greatest difculty Mr. Gally was prevented from Joining the R.A.F. at the outbreak of war, so that he might render an even more important service 10 his coun- try.
German Fired
Camp: Gaoled
Rofugees
Despite heavy purchases of to- neco, beer, liquor and chocolate by the Germans, the Puris stocks are adequate at the moment.
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"SILVER
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WILLIAM BOYD ...... George Hoyna-Russell Haydan Stanley Ridges Frederick Burton « Ruth Rogers • & Horry Sherman, in veshur there".
But as refugees pour back lato COMING SOON the city the
possibility of a food shortage looms.
The
food supply, so far, has been An RKO Picture hampered by lack of transport.
Restaurants with their own cara can supply menus with chicken and Bah, but private homes And ment, potatoes, eggs, cheese and milk dimeult to get.
Plenty of other vegetables, salad ingredients, wine, bread and tinued foods are available at prices which have been raised in spite of regula- tions.
Shops dealing in postcards, cou venirs and maps of Paris and cer- tain luxury shops, particularly those setting silk stockings, have been well patronised by the German Fol- dier "tourists."
Pre-capitulation Paris had more than a dozen daily papers. Only twn of those remain. The "Sole" and "Matin,"
Two new papers have appeared, however. One of them, "La France jou Travail," is anti-Semitic.
No Banks
Anti-British articles have appeared in all papers, and the only foreign news permitted is from the official German News Agency or from the German radio.
TELLING him that he must count
The banks are still closed. himself fortunate that he was being Nearly all Government buildings tried in England and not us an enemy jare occupied by German forces, ullen in some other countries, Mr. German soldiers dynamited the Justice Croom Johnson, at Derby statue of General Charles Mangin, Assizes sentenced a German to eigh-who is detested Germany, because
months' teen
Imprisonment for he led the great counter-offensive of maliciously setting fire to an intern- 1918 against the German right flank. ment camp.
Mangin advocated a buffer State
The German pleaded that he lost between. Germany and France and control of his feelings because of also used Negro troops, both: Ameri- delay in delivering lettera when he can and French colonials, with great was anxious about his sick mother, success against Germany." who had since dled,
Mr. Norman Winning, defending, said the prisoner was returning to Germany from Rio de Janeiro when war broke out, and was taken off the ship when it was scuttled.
Certain newspapers had stated that| he was a spy.
He had acted in a fit of rage, but
This accident had ended a life of exceptional brilliance, and brought only 5s. worth of damage was caused home the fact that it was not only by the fire.
on the fields of Flanders and in the port of Calais that men were giving their lives for their country.
She digs for Victory
AGE
and infirmity
have
not affected the "will to win" Ile look the bold, and unusual of two elderly women in Lan- course of giving up his Fellowship cashire and Yorkshire..
Mrs.
Mr. Gatty hat a most distinguished
to work in the Department of When her husband died in Febru- rareer as a physical chemist at Ox- Zoology at Cambridge,
eight-six-year-old ford,-where-be-was-elected-to-♫ His interests were wide, and curled, ry last,
Elizabeth-Hornby-looked-with-some-i fellowsily at Balilot. His engineer- ranging from exploration in Spitz-thing like despair at the big garden ing mind stimulated him to seek bergen to investigation of psychic of her cottage home at Naikes-rond, original felds In research.
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And now this great-grandmother has a greenhouse full of tomato plants, rows of potatoes, carrots and other vegetables and a couple of strawberry beds.
"I don't want any fuss," she said: "I'm just getting on with the job, that's all
The other woman who is doing her bit for victory is seventy-five-your- | old blind Mrs. Annie Elizabeth Bry-
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All day Mrs. Bryant sita in a chair in the garden of her home at Markel Weighton, Yorkshire, and knits socks for the troops. So far she has produced thirty- seven pairs, And she is still at t.
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