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NAZI HEALTH & MORALE
GERMAN moralo is notorious- ly low when things go badly. So said a forcien correspondent Intely; and there have been. various. examples which support this statement. Moreover, when people have been sustained in a long war on undiluted falsehood, all glorifying themselves, the reaction is certain to be violent when the truth is suddenly thrust upon them.
In a recent book, "Hell" Hunger," written by Dr. Martin Gumpert, a German now in the -United-States--it is stated-that- the Third Reich has achieved the mournful distinction of heading the international tables of
1 Cent Buys Percussion Cap of a .303 suicide statistics. It cannot be
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an accident that in Germany 4.1 out of every ten thousand take their own lives, while America the figure is 1.4 per ten thousand The number of patients in the mental and and nervous sanatoria of Ger- many has almost doubled since 1923.
The statistics in this book are drawn from official, documents which seem somehow to have escaped the notice of the Nazi
leaders. Dr. Gumpert seeks, by
facts, to destroy the legend of the power-radiating healthful 1 Small High Explosiveness of the Third Reich and to Bomb..
expose it as the propaganda lie which it is. He seeks to demon- strate clearly that Fascism pro duces not health, but sickness, that it is the unhealthiest and most unwholesome political system ever born in the brain of
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The author's final indictment is a long list of evils that the regime has brought upon Ger- many an increased death rate, a falling birth-rate, a declining fecundity, an increase in rickets,
All The Bombers Do Not
Reach
London
was just like what you read armada turned tail, wheeled in sections as souvenire. It was
I'm the paper we were like scared birds, and now they want and tidy.
haring tea on the porch; facing were thundering back home," the drowsy lawn, the wide directly overhead, savannah of fields that stretch "Heavens! If they away to the creek, the estuary
The Mere Man
Britain's
No news dur Ing the past. Far E Eastern week was bet- tor received by Policy
British people and their friends in this part of the world than the announce- ment of the creation of a unified Far Eastern Command under Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke Popham, The week, in- "It'll make a mat for the fry-fact, has been seven days of, ing pan," said Mrs. Budford. extraordinarily gratifying events.......... In the excitement we had lost in the international scene, not drop sight of the parachutist. But withstanding the Molotov-Hitler Mr. Warden, who works for parley. The continued success and the sea. Not a sound be something for, spite!"
of the Greeks, and the British neath the heat of the after- But they didn't. And now Mayell's farm, appeared at the
the lane was alive with people top of the lane shouting. "He's exploit at Taranto ware certainly Someone said, "You wouldn't who had come out of their dug- coming down at the creek. They encouraging, but for Far East-
machine-gunned' me!"
ern realdents the appointment of Air Marshal Popham was no think there was a war on," outs. "Hurrah!"
"Hi Hi There's one com- Young Wardell rushed out of when out of the sky came the
less significant, drilling drone of aeroplanes. At ing down in flames. The black the house in shirt and trousers, first we could not locate them, machine came tumbling down, carrying his rabbit gun. Old then someone said, "Good Lord, turning and twisting, red flame Mrs. Wardell appeared with the look!"
streaming from, its wounded dinner knives in her hand.
dis- "You run down the lane. and side. It flattened out, Almost overhead, at a height appeared behind the tree-tops tell the Guarda," she said to one. of a few thousand feet, three of Wendell's farm, and, a mo- of the lads. V-shaped formations of planes ment later, a great column of were advancing. steadily like black smoke curled up to the fish moving against the stream, sky.
noon.
"They must be British, flying
as low as that.. :'.".
"They're bombers. ›
towards London ·....
German...!"
going
they're
"Can't be-they wouldn't
allow them to get so far in- land,"
We counted them-11 50.
"What's that? Look!"
"Pop, pop, pop, pop.".
By Neil Macintyre
·
Young Wardell and Mr. War- den were already legging acrosa the field towards the creek.
Rather courageous of old Warden, we thought, unarmed.
The Home Guard were run- ning up the lane, hiking their equipment over their shoulders. Young Tom Evans, the builder's man, was first,
The decision reflects the adoption. of a definite pölley in this ares which many people had long desired to see expressed in a manner that could bé understood. Little mistake' can be made by reading in the now move a clear sign of Britain's firm deter- mination to call the bluff when the time should come."
The ability to adopt a stiffer al- titude in the Far East than hitherto is also an eloquent indication of bow the tide of battle has turned in Europe to Britain's favour.
Whitsta hundred success
Gambling ceni.
per In The
would be impossible In any campaign to suppress organised
Colony gambling in
any
The ordinary man, not trained in police methods, cannot pretend to give any advice as to how the prob- lem could be tackled, but he cannot full to be impressed by the con-
do not
We'd hoped he would suddenly court prosecutions
"You forgot the carving knife, ma," he called out to Mrs. War-clty, the measure of success so far "The poor boys inside," said dell as he ran past. They went
achieved by our police in dealing with the problem here is not half as A woman, "even if they are scouting over the field. We
great as the citizens might expect watched them, tiny figures on from a Force which certainly does Out of the clouds two gnat- Jerries!"
not lack men or brains.. like things eame tumbling, "Hi there's a parachute!" the river wall. straightened out and streaked High above the retreating When they came back they after the tail of the ugly black armada, the swarm of harrying reported that the parachutist .fish.
gnats still on its tail, a thing had landed in the creek. "He like a white jelly-fish was drift- got out on the other side." "Oh, they're Jerries all right. ing downwards.
Somebody had field glasses. emerge from our bushes. We'd The Spitfires are after them."
"What? Those two boys at- Through them you could see tho have asked him in to tea. tacking-that formation?" tiny figure of a man, swaying, Going home on the train we Then the air was suddenly kicking. He was drifting to saw the crashed Messerschmitt in a field beside the line. It was alive with dancing gnats."""Pop, wards the creek.
A black object came floating a burst of charred fragments. pop, pop, pop."
"Come in under the verandah. down towards us. It fell out- Soldiers guarding it gave the You'll be hit by one of the side the gate. We rushed to train the "thumbs-up" sign. bullets."
Inspect it. It was
"It's just like what you read a piece of Then, "just like what you fabric, cheap, ersatz rubber, in the papers," said the man in read in the papers" (and, may- part of the floor covering of the the corner. "If I hadn't seen be, doubt), the great black burning plane. We divided it it I wouldn't have believed it."
Britain's War Medals Mean Something
manufacture
the
of a vast racket which the
seem to disrupt. The break- ing-up of coolles' pat-kau schools and like may keep our magistrates busy, but that is not what we want. We should like to see the various lottery schemes stamped out entirely. And we should be happy if the many high-class, fashionable gambl ing dens, where thousands of dollara change hands nightly, and where the operators wax rich, frore their BI- gotten gains, were given more atten- tion by the police. ing
It is inconceivable that they can- not be located, though it is admitted that they seem to be shifted from one address to another. Often 1 have overheard well-dressed people discussing on ferries their winnings or losses at this or that place. There seems to be little. difficulty in find- lag a guide if one only expresses with suficient conviction a desire to play a hand-or two.
Even in the case of small gambling, the police do not seem to bave gone THERE is one branch of war Lee, who was killed at Narvik. nine bars, 125 D.C.M.s, and 290 thoroughly about investigation. I. can personally testify to the uninterrupt production in which we do There have been 99 naval Military Medals,
ed existence for many months of Apart from the R.A.F.'s three
several fanstan schools operated In not try to compete with Ger- D.S.O.8, with three bars, 327 many--the.
of D.S.C.s and 510 D.S.M.S... V.C. there have been 21 D.S.O.8, shop corners and along the footpaths
Two of the Army's four V.C.s including four bars (one officer-ot more than one thoroughfare. have been won by officers and winning two bars to a D.S.O. he When Britain gives a medal it two by N.C.O.s Other awards gained in India), 868 D.F.C.8 means something; it is some- to the Army include 75 D.S.O.s and 225 D.F.M.s to sergeant- thing to be treasured for the and five bara, 226 M.C.s and pilots and other ranks.". rest of the recipient's life-and
medals.
by his descendants.
So it comes about that in the first year of war only 1,748 awards have been made, among
the three Services apart from the Empire Gallantry Medal, Order of the British Empire awards and lesser distinctions."
The Nazis, however, hand out their medals with the casual lavishness of the ex-Kalseri
In the Polish campaign alone, Hitler listributed 40,000 Iron Crosses.
It would take an astronomer to work out how many he has given away since, and no reliable figures are available, ****
THE Russians did not do so badly either. In their brief war against Finland they took occasion to give 18,499-awarde
British have given in a whole year of total war, spreading across the Seven Seas,
the physical incapacity of theseven times as many as the youth, a growing criminality, an increase in drunkenness, A doubling of mental diseases, an Moran discases, a increase in venereal rise in tuberculosis for man and beast, an increase in epidemics, food poisoning and many more.
Incuded in the Russian awards ware 119 modals for the
of the Soviet Union, the highest award in the whole of Russia for bravery.
FUNNY SIDE UP
By Abner Dean
Ono such school went on for at least four months In Lyndhurst Terrace, within a stone's throw of the Central Pollen Btation. I have scen police at both ends of the streat, perfectly aware of what was going an and yet:
payment of actually witnessed thing. I have squeeze by the men, who run the "business. When a constable came along, one man who had a plece of paper would glance at the officer's number, hand over a sum of money, and then mark off a line on the sheet..
The whole procedure suggests, that:::2% regular tributes are exacted for immed munity from arrest Citizens could hardly be blamad, therefore," for thinking the-same. might also apply In the case of the big-gambliwa denak Roller of hid broken
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roller
years old at the skating was a favourite after school hours. I got on splen didiy for several months, until 1 Was blind to an aerated water bottle cap stuck in the farred roadway.
HOME wreation"
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ting it mildly. The road at the apót was at a slight incline, and I plunged head foremost, for- Afteen-Kost or more. Not only did I hit the dust, but. I had÷bandages on the fáce. Zur three months.
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