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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 14, 1940.

TERROR IN CONQUERED COUNTRIES

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SMART FELT HATS.

British Make. Sale Price $4.50 each

"BATTERSBY”.

and "WARD" FUR FELT HATS Sale Price $12.50 each.

British Make

Pure Wool Blankets and Travelling Rugs

NOW AT GREATLY

REDUCED PRICES.

YEE

FOR

"JAEGER"

Pure Wool Pull-Overs Sale Price $9.50 each.

HAND OF

NAZIS

·IN SPITE OF the rigid Nazi Press and radio censorship, the strict control of the mails, and the activities of the Gestapo, news of conditions in Hit- ler's “conquered" States continues to filter through various channels to the London headquarters of the Governments concerned.

Information is gathered from neutral broad- casts and radio listening services of embassies and legations in London.

Occasionally couriers arrive in London from the Continent bringing with them dispatches which lift the veil of silence. They travel through the Ger- man-occupied territories under assumed names, and ostensibly on business. Their passports are always in order, and they vary with every journey.

From these and other sources a land of plenty, only sugar being which, naturally, have to be kept rationed. Also Other Woollen - Articles

Now, however, bread, butter, secret, the "Shadow Cabinets" of for sale and Morning Gowns

Europe piece together a compre-margarine, and cooking fats at Reduced Prices.

hensive picture of fe under rigidly controlled. Livestock is be- Nazism.

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In striking contrast to the reign of terror which still exists in Po- land and Czechoslovakia, condi- tions in Norway and Denmark are said to be fairly tolerable.

Apparently the German soldiers and police have received instruc- tions from Berlin to be on their best behaviour. So far from in- terfering with the normal life of the people, the Nazis keep them- selves to themselves.

Norway

are

The

As in all the occupied terrl- tories organised labour in Hol- land is suffering severely. 300,000 Trade Unionists in the country are how controlled by an obscure Nazi official who, before, the invasion, led the Dutch National-Sociallat Trade Union, which boasted a mem- bership of 5,000.

A huge quantity of rolling stock belonging to the Netherlands State German army officers behave Railways has been sent to Ger- with circumspection in the cafes many. Much of the traffic hither- and restaurants of Oslo. The to carried by rail is being sent by Gestapo agents who have descend- barge.

The German

.Belgium

ed in swarms keep very much in the background. technicians sent to direct impor-

According to Mr. John W. Cu- tant State factories are concilia-dahy, former U.S. Ambassador in Brussels, is face to face with famine. Reports from other sources indicate that his statement is not an exaggeration.

tory.

But the iron hand Is 'there all the same. Public meetings are forbidden, Trade Unions, where they function, are under close surveillance. The newspapere have to submit to a severe cen sorship. The news they publish

is from German sources. The Norwegian has not sub- mitted willingly to the invader, he has accepted the inevitable, but it is a passive obedience. Mines are being worked solely for the benefit of Germany. Factories

have been despoiled of their out- put. Timber, wood pulp, and minerals have been taken in huge quantities.

Although they are out of the war, the people have not lost in- terest in it. Their heart is with the Allies, but the time has not

will yet come when they

rise against the enemy, In the words of my informant, "They grin and bear him.".

Holland

00000000

NAZI LEAFLETS GOING BACK

"!

Some of the Hitler speech leaflets which were dropped over a South Coast town re cently will shortly be floating down.. over Germany..

A young British air- man who was on leave when leaflets were dropped from German planes collected about three dozen which fell in the gar- den of his parents' home.

Rolling them into a parcel he said, "I'll give these back to the

Germans next time I fly over there." He has already made more than 20 flights to Germany. -

ESCAPED IN FROCK COAT

A British officer who

The bread ration, for instance, reached Sweden after es- has been reduced to half a pound per person daily. Even with this caping from Norway was restriction it is anticipated that wearing a frock coat with wheat stocks will be exhausted in two months.

tails cut off. It had been

It is the country people who are suffering most. There is still a fair supply of food available in the towns, and in some cases the Germans have prepared reserve

stocks. But the rural areas have

been drained dry.

As with Holland, the Nazis are using the shortage for anti-British propaganda.

Czechoslovakia

given him by a Norwegian who had bought it for his

wedding...

The officer was one of ten who, reached England with 115 men, after having been interned in Sweden.

The embittered, stubborn resis-

They had been given safe con- tance of the Czechs to the Ger- man regime has become a byword, duct in a Swedish steamer from Neither physical nor moral terror Petsamo after travelling 900 miles can crush the spirit of these by road through. Finland and the people.

Arctic circle... ent in "under- A story current:

It is Holland, however, where ground" circles illustrates this. To the German jackboot is coming, listen to the Czech news broad- down heavily. The Nazi "army casts from London, is, of course, of occupation" has been streng an offence for which the punish- thened recently by another 20,000 ment is a long term of imprison~ troops.

ment or death....

a An innkeeper in small Bo- Warnings against "demonstra- tive behaviour" have been broad-hemian town is surprised by the cast following disturbances at The police, who find him in bed with Hague, in which Gestapo mena blanket round his head and over were roughly handled.

a portable radio, listening to the B.B.C. broadcast..

The Dutch army is now demo- bilised, and a number of officers and men drafted into a compul- sory "reconstruction service" for work in factories and on the land.

Wearing the blue boiler: suits with which they were issued be fore leaving Sweden,they sang Barrel-their "Roll Out the camp song when they were on the march,

Major D. C.. Tennent, who' brought the men home, said that many of them took four weeks to cover an average distance of 150 miles to. Sweden, They had to cross mountain ranges, frozen Jakes and rivers which were made raging torrents by. melting snow.

Physical Training

While in Sweden, they bad kept fit by doing daily physical training, and the Swedes - did everything to make them as comfortable as possible.

The Czech gendarme, drag- ging him out of bed, says: "You idlot! We don't mind you liston Ing-in to London-1 do it my self-but at Severe sentences have been

least you might imposed on many prominent have the sense to turn off the altizans who have falled to carryloudspeaker in the garden." an and workshops" out Nazi orders. The manager Infactorles of a well-known chain-store throughout the country the pre- was court-martialled and sen-vious night's London broadcast is tenced to three years' imprison- the main topic of conversation.. ment because he was alleged to Leaflets dropped by the R.A.F. In

"The men are delighted to be have warned his sales girls not the early stages of the war are to speak or fraternise with Ger- still being distributed secretly home," added Major Tennent, "and" man soldiers. S

among the rural population. The will be ready for anything after The girls terrorised by the children are told about them in a spot of leave." Gestapo, had to appear as wit the schools; when they go home, fa nesses against their employer, they repeat these "messages from Second Lieutenant George: Val-

Sentences of from one to four heaven.

and alleen in de lance of the Sherwood Foresters, years penal servitude were pass- But Czech resistance sometimes a well-known Rugby football ed by a German: court at Rotter- takes a more deadly form. No ployers lost most of his kit in dam on six Dutch workers who longer du the Prague newspapers | swimming a river. He heard on went to the assistance of an R.A.F.print stories of black-uniformed reaching Sweden that his wife had

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on a reconnaissance flight over found with a stab wound or a bul- heir. Holland, AR PRADE

let through the head. Nothing is

But the Germans gain little by published, about the mysterious Food was the greatest problem such methods. Very rarely. Is 4 fires, at the, marshalling yards, naar the men made their way over Dutch girl or young man scen In military transports are being as mountains and rivers. the company of a German soldier sembled. or civillan.

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The food problem, especially in the big towns, is becoming acute. Before the invasion Holland was

Torroriam continues. There are tortures and murders and arrests. But of blind submis- alon, there is no‘alg

Major Tennent said that they had to "scrounge' most of their food to supplement what the Nor wegians gave them,