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THE GERMAN military victory over the arm-

ies of the Polish Republic ended the first phase of the NO ENEMY

jonslaught on Poland. But the war continues to-

day by different means and methods not against SHIPS IN

the Polish armed forces but against the conquered people.

Having secured victory in the field the Reich moved instantly towards its second objective-"liv- |ing space" in the western provinces of Poland.

Long-prepared and carefully planned measures were put in hand to uproot everything Polish from the coveted territories and to hound the natives from their own countryside.

for

and

SUEZ

One result of the war with Italy is that all shipping to Italian East Africa by the Sucz Canal has ceased automatically, although theoretically it

can still go through the canal.

The convention of 1888 between

Schedules were worked out expulsion of the rest of the popu-all Maritime Powers established.

town every

as village lation from their homes are the the canal

an international showing the successive dates normal ending to these retalia-waterway open to all nations, even. by which such and such tory campaigns.

those at war, and Egypt's task is percentage of the Polish popula-, Or, again, troops of S.S. or tion had to be "cleared." The

Nazi police will suddenly de- to ensure free navigation in time muss emigration was systema- scend upon a small town, stop of peace or war, tically organised in the true Ger- their forries in a street chosen To-day, as in the last war,

the man manner and carried out at random, arrest a few dozen canal is still open to belligerents; with unbelievable brutality by bystanders, and order them to several hundred thousand speci- ally drafted S.A. and S.S. menj co-operating with units of the Labour Service and the local Nazi party organisations.

Sufferings Of The Refugees

The sufferings endured by the' Poles of the western provinces during the winter defy descrip- tion. Their homes

Arst. were

clean

the streets alded but in practice it is closed to Ger- by butal blows to Instil into the man and Italian shipping or ship- unfortunate victims a proper ping carrying goods to

or from respect for their German mas-italian East Africa by reason of ters, and the townspeople con the presence of Allied warships at. sider themselves lucky If the either end carrying out a very Nazi convoy drives off without effective blockade of the enemy's firing a parting volley maritime communications.

of rifle shots unarmod

at

civilians

the who

which To prevent sabotage have been made to witness the canal banks are closely patrolled might impede free navigation, the proceedings.

by the Camel Corps. Signal'sta- Such is the fate of the Polish tions are strongly guarded. of all looted of every shred of people under German rule. It is There is considerable surprise valuable property, their stocks not merely that the long-stand-that the rounding up of dangerous of foodstuffs seized. The re- ing German hatred and contempt Italians, now practically complete, quisitioning of buildings by the for the Poles are

being has been without trouble, Leading.

now

Nazis and the destruction of given full rein; It is not merely Italians had said that considerable many more during the fighting the fact that a Polish life means resistance and no littlo sabotage (which the Poles were forbidden nothing to the S.S. and S.A. men were to be expected, but this ap to rebuild) led to serious over- who are the new rulers of the pears to have been idle boasting.

More terrible still crowding, which was further in-country.

is Everything has gone off peaceful- tensified by the presence of that the German leaders intend ly. No-single-attempt to damage countless refugees. As overcrowd--and they make no secret of any vital point was made. ing reached intolerable limits, as their intention-systematically to It is also remarkable, in view disease spread, and as famine reduce the entire population. The of the large Italian community- conditions approached; the Nazi Nazi leaders know that hence- engaged in every walk of life, police and propagandists circulat-forward they will have to reckon that since Italy entered the war ed rumours that bread and shel-with a bitter Polish hatred of Italians have disappeared from

ter were to be had at some Germany and the Germans. circulation almost as suddenly place perhaps a hundred miles They realise that, in spite of and completely as silver coinage.

Desperate families, hop- persecution and terror and, ing that these rumours were true spite of their attempts to and ready to try any

methods rupt the weaker elements among

away.

in

cor-

railway their victims into betrayal of CANADIAN SOLDIER'S

GESTURE

of escape, besieged the stations. In thousands they their own country and service camped on the frozen platforms of the invader, that hatred will waiting for trains that. never persist so long as Poland lives. came (Polish coal was needed If the course of the war should Into the War Savings Bureau for the German war machine), one day demand présence at Wood Green, London, walked Other thousands set off on foot, elsewhere of the military and a Canadian soldier wearing goaded by hunger, battling with para-military

He now ribbons of the last war. sickness, seeking food, warmth, in Poland the Polish people might bought five shillings' worth of and a roof over their heads. A still prove a serious menace to sixpenny savings stamps. Who whole population of nomada, the plans of the Nazi imperia- would benefit, he asked an official, men and women, old and young, lists.

families with their small children, moved along the roads of Poland towards the interior.

the

formations

Extermination

in the event of his being killed. "The country," replied the official. "Right, the country may as well have the benefit now," said the

"CASE NO. 3"

Many of them took with them, The Nazis are coldly preparing Canadian, And, striking a metal objects of one sort or an- against the possibility of such a match, he burned the stamps. other which they had saved from danger; a part of the Polish na- exter- the wreck of their homes, hop-tion is to be physically ing to get food from the invad-minated. The work of "reduc- ers in exchange for the metal.ing the numbers of the Polish Such hopes were usually dis-population" is already under way appointed.

The Nazi authorities and is proceeding methodically officer at the Guildhall, London, a On the application of a military accepted the metal, but more and ruthlessly. Driven within often than not drove off

the frontiers that are shrinking every case was heard in Polish owners with their rifles. day, deprived of their homes and nature, was not stated. A Here and there German soldiers, livelihoods, barely existing under To preserve secrecy the gaoler

did not announce the and occasionally even S.S. men, conditions that are steadily wor-

accused treated the Poles with

more sening, the Polish nation feels the man's name when he entered the humanity; the little they could knife at its throat. The continual dock. He called "Case No. 3." do hardly affected the general references in the rantings of the It was represented to the pre- tragedy. But it is known that Fuhrer to "ten million Poles" are Harry Twyford, that it was in the siding magistrate, Alderman ́ Sir

HAVE YOU FALSE TEETH?

camera. Its

there have been many cases of, not accidental; read in the con-- mental breakdown among the text of the Nazi Terror in Po-public interest that the proceed- Reichswehr soldiers and even land the words have a shocking,ings should not be reported. He hardened members of the

then ordered the S.S. hardly believable significance. It

court to be stationed in Poland, brought on has been decided that the reduc-

cleared. OVER 10,000 DENTISTS ADVISE from members of the Dental Profession by the gruesome character of the tion of the Polish people has be-

who have given 'Steradent' n clinical work they have been called upon come THIS NEW, BETTER WAY TO

a political necessity, and to do. It is impossible to estim-action is being taken according- KEEP THEM CLEAN & GERM FREE The 'Steradent" formula is a new, scienthate with any accuracy the num-ly. Mass sterilisation is only one

discovery. Its sole use is to clean and purdy false ber of Poles who perished from of the methods by which the]* teeth, aut it does this as nothing else has ever done before. Just shake a little Steradent pour exposure and hunger last winter, Nazis are seeking to encompass der in a glass of warm water. Stir well Leave but the figure certainly runs into the murder of a whole nation. your false teeth, plates and bridges in a while tens of thousands."

BEFORE

AFTER

test.

you dress or for overnight, then just rinse. Every

kain disappears." Plates regain their wholesome,

come beautifully clean, lustrous and natural-look-

the subject of denture hygiene

ter-

ILL-TREATING NAZIS FICTION

an-

The usual German fiction Compared with the policy of [about the_ll-treatment of Ger- Wherever the Poles endeavour-deliberate pauperisation and Desh-pink colour. Dinay, discoloured teeth beed to fight back, using guerrilla starvation, sterilisation seems al-this time applied to the occupied mans has been produced again— Ing. Your platesfeel so smooth; cool, comfortable tactics, the only method of resis-most humane.

zone in France, no odour, or unpleasant faste. Every tiny tance left open to them, the Ger- The whole country, hermeti- crevice is cleaned, purified, arerilised: Brushing man conquerors used every re- cally sealed against outside

Berlin Radio said that a num- is''think of the past Steradent' is so much

obber of murders had taken place. more thorough and efficient, and is guaranteed source of military "frightfulness" servers, has become a gigantic Those responsible, Harmless. Satisfactory results in every case," against them.

the And even where concentration camp in which all nouncer consider Stradant” to be shorter den ure cleanes

declared, would be in existence," said Mr. W, L.D.S., R.C.S., 86. no semblance of resistance was the brutalitics and horrors

leading Dentist, when writing recently upon offered, where no excuse for re- Dachau and Buchenwald are, re-

of mercilessly punished. Agents: Imperial Chemical Industries rorism was levelled against a descale. It says. much

taliation existed, the same

produced. on ប vastly larger "I have tested Steradent' carefully in my (China) Ltd., Hong Kong.

for the present limited; their successes surgery and find that it definitely does clean WARNING. Refors imitations and inferior fenceless people. Only in excen- dourage of the Poles that attempts have been small. And they are themost filthy dentures, removing tartar and beyond repair, louist upon Steradant and thought

have the Germans substitutes. They may demore your plates tional cases

it necessary to make at organised resistance are still Aghting a grim opponent a Na- tobacco, stains entirely after three or four take, no chance,

specifc allegations against parti-being made. The smaller peas-tional Socialist Reich whose de- immersions. In my test cases no-brushing whatever has been done. Prolonged im

cular villages and towns, charg-antry in particular is fanatically liberate intention it is to maim, mersion in Steradent' did not cause any

ing Polish persecution of former determined to keep Polish resis- subjugate, and exploit a whole damage to the dentures." This report from

German Inhabitants as a Justi-tance alive and to meet the Nazi people. Against such a for the. Ocation for the wildest acts of Terror with a

counter-stroke. Poles will need all their courage "revenge." A heavy crop of pri- The degree to which the Poles and all the help that others can son sentences and the forcible are able to fight back is for thelbring to them.

Made in Englandi,

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Steradent

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