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Boys Tell How They Sang in Lifeboats 300 CHILDREN SAVED WHEN GERMANS
TORPEDO
GRACIE FIELDS' REPLY TO M. P.'s CRITICISM
BRITISH
EVACUEE
THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY BRITISH CHILD EVACUEES, BOUND FOR CANADA, WERE ABOARD A LINER TORPEDOED IN THE ATLANTIC BY A GERMAN SUBMARINE.
They were asleep when the U-boat struck, but everyone was saved, it was an- nounced. Most of them are home with their parents. They landed at a Scottish port.
Nearly 500 other passengers and crew were also rescued.
The liner, blacked-out and silent, but for the throb of her engines, was pushing her way through rough seas as the torpedo hit her.
1
half
Within three and mulnutes of being roused, the 320 children were standing coolly at their lifeboat stations-exactly ns they had practised it six times
"Everything I have and slace the voyage began.
An
Some were in pyjamas, some half- the same applies to my hus-clothed, others wearing only band-is the British Govern- overcoat under their life inckets. But they faced the worst peril of their ment's whenever they want lives with the spirit of the men of it," declared Miss Gracie Dunkirk.
They sang As they stepped into Fields in Toronto, when she the lifeboats they roared "Roll Out was interviewed in connec- the Barrel,"
And they carried tion with what she termed darkness, the "uproar" over her Yet none of them is over 16 years affairs.
'Salt Of Earth'
Referring to a question in the House of Commons, she said that the amount she took out of the country ᎥᏁᎯ £8,000, und ॥
minimum of jewellery.
"The uproar is a complete mystery
out
old. Many are neater five
frum
orders in
Best description of their cour
Mr. C. H. Hindley. comes Gosport headrosster, under whose care they were travelling.
When he landed, with 74 of the children at a Scottish port, He said:
The way those children behaved
There
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to me," Miss Fields added. I am proved that they were the salt of the working every day for the Gover-earth. ment under the direction of Mr. Basil
Www no crying, not Dean, and am not making a cent for whimper. There was a bit of sickness myself in war services,
was In the boats, because the su "All my assets are in England. roughish, but those who were not ill don't see why I should be persecuted Ike this. Let the Government look up their files. They will soon find out I haven't taken everything out of the country. This isn't the first time the matter has been brought up in Parliament.
"I have been working harder in the past few months than I have, ever. done before, and it has not been for myself.
All
"I am getting sick and tired of it It's all so unpicasant. My home
is In England. I intend going back. can't understand why I should be persecuted.
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"I seem to have annoyed a lot of people by marrying an Italion. It was all right before the war. haven't earned a penny for myself
sang Roll Out the Barrel as they had never sung it before.
"Some admitted that they sang it so loud that they could not hear the others being i
boat
"One eight-years-old in my said: 'We don't want Hitler to think he can beat us that easy.
"Our boat was finally brought
Birth-Rate Is Expected To Rise
6,500 War Babies In Britain Every Week
· Marriages, Too
A BIG leap in Britain's birth-rate is expected to be announced shortly. Sociologists are waiting eagerly for the figures showing births, marriages, and deaths in Britain during this year's first six months-six months of war.
Already birth statistics are known for London and 126 towns, and despite the move- ment of thousands of people from town to country the birth- rate shows no decline.
In Country Areas
the
In the country aress, where number of residents has been vastly increased by movement from the expected, making the general rate towns, a big increase in births is for the whole country scar.
The six months which have seen this increase started badly.
four successive weeks In
For
January the number of deaths in alongside a ship, and, with a banana England and Wales outnumbered the
births.
basket slung from the derricks, we sent the children up three at a time.
women,
and
was
The
The
Women Set Them All To Salvaging
set
An idea by Mrs. Mary Rhodes, of Davyhill Estate, Walkerville,
has Newcastle-on-Tyne, everyone on the estate on hunt for "any old iron."
SHIP
Spain Is Feeling The Pinch
Food Goes To Germany
Mr. Thomas Edward Lawrence is a master of languages In Bil- bao, Spain.
Or, rather, that is what he was until a few weeks ago, for Mr. Lawrence has just returned to Lon- don after an exciting trip through the Bay of Biscay to Liverpool.
He has lived in Spain for 30 years. He says that the people in Bilbao are starving.
Bad Black Bread
Oil is unobtainable, wheat has been commandeered.
He spent thres weeks trying
to
These the doctors cannot treat be-
and an ounce of sugar, and the black bread is so deterious that there are epidemics of skin troubles and boils. cause there is nothing else but this black brend for the population to est
Spain's New
Tourists'
Reason is that everything in Spain is being openly shipped via Italy to Germany.
even
The Nazis have taken the whole of the Spanish harvest-all their sugar, all their all and petrol,
their Japanese rise.
Meanwhile thousands of German soldiers in uniform and with rifles, Nasi officers with swords and pistols have streamed fato Bilbao from the frontier town of Irun.
They say they are "tourists" coming from
occupied France to look at the
German submarines arrive
every
the evening at Bilbao and Vigo and silp away the next morning after filling
One day -Mrs. Rhodes, deciding to up with oll and food... do her bit for victory, started her
What petrol is left can be bought
반 Then the increase in the number own private anlvage dump. So the by the population at £1 6s a gallon.
checked.
more
than
house in three days took on the guise of a junk yard,
trim back garden of her counell
sald
General Franco is faced with the
choice of surrounding himself with pro-German Phalanglets who aro Anglophobes or
quitting
tor
£
Thinner Tickets On Buses And Trams.
"The ship had limited accommoda- of babies began. Now tion, and suddenly having to take on 0,500 are born in Britain every week.
extra men, many
Now Record
Ola bicycles, tin baths, bottles, bed- stolent children, laxed resources.
The new statistics are also
atcads Water Rationed
every office. fenders, and, in fact.
that Mr. Lawrence says a "high record for "With the food we had brought in pected to show
her, month before his departure the cafes Boys on the estate helped the lifeboats we managed to give the marriages, which means that a con-type of salvage littered the lawn.
They "scrounge" every bit of old were filled with swaggering German Water had to be tinued rise in the number of births youngsters tood.
can almost certainly be expected.
on. In officers in uniform who openly sald since the war started. I'm disgusted rationed strictly and washing
Iron they set their eyes Not long ago doctors, politicians,
three days there were two tons of that any, provisions sent to Spain with the whole thing. It's not fair.
barred"
and sociologists were forecasting a I've turned down several attractive
it, and along came a special oor would go straight to Germany. offers to do this work. I don't blame When the ship was struck it was dangerous decline in Britain's popula
poration lorry to cart it away to! Canada or Canadian people for this found that holds were filling.
the elty's main salvage dump. unpleasantness. They've been won children were ordered to take to the ion if the fulling birth-rate was not
A Harley-street specialist boals. After about four boats were
Rival Dumpe derful to me "
away, the ship ceased settling and unThe problem is by no means solved. Monty Banks “Bittar”.
nade to recall the boats. The increase in marriages and births Biter comment regarding his wife, temp was unsuccessful. Then a third is 'n Warume state of affairs. It is
This self, was made by Monty Banks, the to the booted the order tola hopeful sign, but no more.
to all, and began
By using thinner tickets on, buses, was given again. "The decline in the number of girl we get, the better." Already the boys:
coaches, rival scrounging gangi.
London "Just because I'm an Italian," be Everyone got away safely except the babies is the root of this tremendous and girls on the estate have started trams, trolley-buses, and Green Lare sald, "they are trying to make things purser, who was fatally injured when problem.
After Victory
Mrs. Rhodes said: "I thought i Transport Board will save, from 450
to 480 tons of paper pulp a year, disagreeable for Milsa Fields, I wish he missed a step entering the boat.
The boats kept together by torch "In 1920, the first year of real was a good way of doing my bit lo
Another fifty-live tons will be they would stop. She has been give signalling until rescue ships (ome a peace after the last war, this country help beat Hitler. Every estate should ing generously of her time and worship)
had its highest number of births have its permanent dump, collection saved by using paper with a machine talents. If they bother us any more,
The child them up.
were still singing ever recorded-067,874.
of salvage to go on all the time not finish instead of a water finish, and a further. 70 tons will be saved by I'm going to telephone her to came
The same thing is likely to happen just in special efforts, home and live likë normal person."when they were landed.
again when peace comes; but it will I am trying to keep my dump indicating the fare stages by number Boy's Story Mr. Banks added that, Miss Fields
„instead of by name. going for the duration." was now in Canada giving concerts This is what 12-years-old Douglas not be enough.
Greer, of Newcastle, told a reporter: "Children are our most priceless for war relief funds.
"My lifeboat swung against the side possessions. Next, to victory they of the ship. I saw the hole made by should come first. After
who is Miss Gracie Fields, and him-
film director,
"I am not British citizen and it was my own money," he said. "Any way, we followed the usual procedure when wo came from England, making
hold
-
the wer
the torpedo it was five yards' wide. population will be one of the fore-
"When we were picked up, it was most problems to be tackled."
the regular application for permission funny to see the big fruit baskets to take our money with us."
Now rival dumps have sprung up
people of the dumps is, "The more
on the estate. The slogun for the 480 tons of paper saved
Convicts Of Britain Are On War Work
coming down and then being hauled to wall for Canada again. They all Mr. Banks said that the statement up into the dark. They had to go A
say they want to take it.
Hotels in the port nt which they made in the House of Commons was long way, untrue. As an American citizen, he They only took the little children landed gave the boys and girls food. could take as much money is he and some seasick ones in the baskets. Local people gave them clothes and
Thousands of prisoners in wished from
"We bigger boys and some girls England.
before going home..
British gaols are doing war work. Captain Crookshank stated in the clubed up a rope-ladder. We ha they were sent off to a big centre House of Commons that in October, to hold on tight because the ship was But many of them have already.
Workshops have been fitted with Mr. Banks applied independently for rocking a lot.
One party was welcomed at the declared that they still want to go modern machinery to eliminate the the transfer of roughly £20
docks by Mr. Geoffrey Shakespeare, The official statement by the Re-slow methods which made production
tusk. Americks'a'nationality was at that Under-Secretary for the Dominions,
deal great time very obscure, but it was decided and chairman of the Children's Over-eption Board reports:
Mr.
£20,000, 10
away.
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The chief escort was the head- to threat him as a resident in this seas Reception Board, who happened master of a school, and included needed for the
the
Passenger
Used bus tickets collected in June weighed seven and a half tona,
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country lable to surrender to the to be one short holiday near the port among the rest were seven teachers, Army da belag made Ins
walls. State any dollar surplus arising from at which the children landed the master of a well-known college Bolsters and pillow-slips are turned
He spent all day with them, and in in the south of England, a masseur his business
His application was allowed on a message to the Overseas Reception from a children's hospital, a once out in vast numbers in
Prisoners are also doing ironwork buxincas grounds to enable him to There was not even a bruise school matron, a Salvation Army and carpentry to meet Servico.
Board, he said:ANESE ness, a chaplain, a hostel warden, a
decer, in the expectation that 'conmong them. It was an intervention ¡captain and two Qualcerational VASEN PAS "They are producto) carry on his business as a flm pro-
quirements of Providence." God is surely looking, "This company of children was bennemandie), siderable dollar earnings would be after my children girl hand drawer almost entirely from Bieteald-various kinds at the rate of a mill surrendered for our benent. The sailors and others who had odchools in London, Manchester, lion years These expectations not having been looked after them at the time of the Birmingham, Yorkshire, Northumber The Navy, and realised, the, decision was not justined
mishap, were, anthusiastic, about their land, by events, but the remained liable to bellaviour, and reported that they Lincoln, Cambridge, Aldershot, so also making cont
Cardiff, Newcastle on Tyne, rope fenders from account for his dollar balances are themselves, like guardsmen, on Newart Enfield, file for Wight othe promise was received Erom Mt. Banks
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