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"THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 4, 1941 · · --

{BURIED 17÷HOURS!^

In this scene from the Paramount triangle drama "Safari" the perturbed gentleman in the background is Billy Glibert," who may be asking Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. if the Scottish trad- er, Lynne Overman, is good for the check. Co-starring Fair. banks and Madeleine Carroll, the picture opens to-morrow sim-" ultaneously at the Queen's and Alhambra Theatres.

WATER BRINGS NEW

SHELTER MENACE

By A Special Correspondent

"SORRY TO TROUBLE YOU"

Nurses filled hot water bottles from a steam roller to bring vital warmth to a man trapped seventeen hours in a bombed Lon- don building.

The man, thirty-year-old Char- les Paynter, lay hour after hour, his legs pinned by a beam, on a bed soaked by the hoses of fire- men.

What at last he was extri- cated he turned to the men who had saved him. "Sorry to have caused you all this trouble," he said. And he smiled.

The rescuers smiled back. "No trouble at all mate," they said,

The barking of a dog revealed that Paynter was still in the wreckage after rescue work had been abandoned for hours.

A.R.P. squads, who had thought it impossible that there could be any more survivors, got busy again. They discovered the dog

and then Mr. Paynter.

Idea That Worked

The trapped man watched the slow minutes tick by on his wrist watch. Water dripped on

him

At last the rescuers, them-

the stretcher and haul him to safety. In the street a mobile

I PADDLED through the deep shelters of Lon-through the tons of debris which don's East End just a few hours after thousands of had collapsed on his bedroom men, women and children had huddled together on selves soaked by their vigil by his boxes and narrow seats crouching under mackin-side, were able to lift him on to~ toshes and ground-sheets. The below-street caverns gave them shelter from bombs and shell-splinters medical unit waited

but not from water.

Shelter after shelter in Stepney, I Bow, Limehouse, Tottenham, Walthamstow and many other boroughs were transformed into be dug at the foot of the concrete self-contained reservoirs. Inside them, people tried to keep dry.

The answer is YES.

This la what CAN be done: (1) Additional water ducts can

steps leading down to the shelters and grids can be placed over the Many of them didn't succeed.

Much gaps to prevent accidents. Neither did I.

of the water in shelters came After touring three shelters | from small-sized waterfalls within

of splashing down the steps. half-mile radius Stepney Green, I had splashed through miniature lakes 6in. deep. My shoes were squei- ching with water, my socks

a

saturated.

Workmen were busy in most of the shelters I entered.

Old Bill, in Beaumont Square, wiped his brow.

"I've swept gallons and gallons of water away," he said. "I've been at it all morning. And look at it now!"*

He guided me through the sud- den network of shelters. Muddied pools of water collected every- where.

A.R.P. workers toiled with pumps to clear other shelters.

And on the front garden rails, on doorsteps and hanging out of bedroom windows of houses nearby the damp mattresses and bed clothing of the shelter sleepers were put out to dry.

Orange Box Hunt People who had spent the night

in the shelters told me their ex- periences.

In a Stepney shelter, a woman nursed her little baby and held an umbrella above her head all night long to keep off the dripping water.

Four hundred men, women and children in Limehouse had scour- ed the neighbourhood for orange boxes and constructed their own dry platform.

(2) Concrete roofs of deep shel- ters can be made waterproof with asphalt or tar. The earth can be moved quickly to permit the treat- ment to be carried out.

These are no idle recommenda- tions. They are what the people want because they were sug- gested to me by workmen who use the shelters.

Nurses, unable to find hot water in a district in which gas mains were broken, were worried at the Jack of warmth for their patient.

"There's a steam-roller down the road. It's been waiting there to pull a wall down," suggested a warden. "Let's try it, any- way," said a nurse.

She ran to the steam-roller

the and asked

driver. "Surc I've got hot water." he said. And he climbed under the roller and fitted the bottles, which were taken to the medical lorry and tucked round Mr. Paynter.

Then the man who could still smile after seventeen hours un- der tons of wreckage was driven away to hospital.

REFUGEE TELLS OF PRISON CAMP TERRORS

A BOOK ABOUT terrorism in the Austrian concentration camps entitled "Man Crucified" is nearing completion. Its author is Mr. Bruno Heilig, late editor of "Der Weiner Tag" and "Der Morgan,” a refugee from Vienna after the pogrom of Novem- ber 10, 1938.

He wrote the greater part of his manuscript in an Isle of Man in ternment comp.

Aryans, Socialists, Democrats, /> Catholics, Jews, and the worst type of criminals form the com- pany of prisoners. The criminals are placed in charge of the rest.

Prisoners are graded and wear special badges-red for politicians, hard-yellow for Jews, and so on.

Men Lashed This is no mere story of ship, but a startling revelation of

Bruno Hellig has written. his re- brought to a debased markable book under great dif- cruelty

ficulties. At the Isle of Man in-

Water flowed so deep in- sec- tions of another shelter that men and women took it in turn to bale it out with small cans | science. into buckets. As quickly as

The average life of a prisoner in these camps is about six months.

Escape Ruse

The manner of his final escape from Buchenwold" reveals amazing state of affairs in Vienna.

an

His settings are the Dachau and ternment camp, however, he was they carried the water out, it Buchenwold camps, and he descri-given every facility and encoura- seeped in again through the bes the inhuman conduct of the gement to complete the work. roof and down the sides.

hutleaders and camp commanders "Thank heavens I managed to there. rave my old camping tent when my, home was bombed." a Bow man told me.."I tore it into sections and the wife and kiddles shelter- ed under it. They would have been soaked through without it. I know! I was shivering from the damp by dawn."

Repair squads answered S O S calls to shelters in Walthamstow during the night. They pumped water from underground retreats in recreation grounds.

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Two Remedies verywhere I went. I heard the plea."Can't the Council do to make the shelters

Roll-call is at 4 a.m., when prisoners must stand stiffly to at- tention for hours on end.

If a prisoner shows the slightest sign of movement he is punished by 25 lashes or more on the bare back, or forced to run the gauntlet of Storm Troopers armed with whips.

"Bo fantastio is the appearance of prisoners' after a few weeka that: the camp has the atmosp». hers of a Stunistia" anyjum. Ini dead many prisoners go raving mad and are then stified with thair blankaa.

If a prisoner can prove there are possibilities of his, leaving Europe altogether, he is granted leave to make his own arrange- ments.

A secret agency still exists in Vienna where, for fifty marka, a refugee can buy ♥ letter deglar-ue Ing he has bought a ticket for Shanghai, The profta from this agenoy are shared with the Ges- tapo men.

It was, with such a letter that Heilig managed to obtain a visa

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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 4, 1941

· ANTI-NAZI SURVIVOR TELLS————

WHAT HAPPENED WHEN INTERNEE

SHIRLEY TOO OLD AT 12

1 box office The screen's No star is now Mickey Rooney He has just displaced Shirley Tem- ple, who has reached the embar- rassing age of 12, and Ike that veteran in her heyday, must be bringing the studio every year roughly his weight in gold.

Of Mickey Rooney, even more than of Miss Temple, it may be everybody's sand that he is not

dish. A pessimist, the wit said,

SHIP SANK

A SURVIVOR'S STORY of the sinking of the Arandora Star, with 1,500 German and Italian in- ternees on board, appears four months after the disaster in a new Penguin Special, "The Intern- ment of Aliens," by Mr. Lafitte (6d.).

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The majority of the survivors from the Aran- dora Star were shipped away almost as soon as they landed and before they could be interviewed. Only' 71 hospital cases remained, and one of them, a re- sourceful anti-Nazi, has succeeded in making public the story through Mr. Lafitte.

This survivor left Seaton in

is a man who lives with an opti-termment camp on June 30 in a mist One hour of Master Rooney's, party of 182, of whom 12 were infections high spirits is enough, Nazis. They were not told their to infect many people with a destination. listlessness, depression and loss

When they eventually got on of appetite that baffled science till board the Arandora Star at Liver- it was observed that the fits coin-pool, it was found that there were. cided with recurring sagas of

Nazis as well as anti-Nazis in the the Hardy family.

ship. It was said that they were bound for Canada, but there was no definite news.

Battle With Beery

Sufferers dislike his perkiness and assurance not, it IN said, cunfined wholly to the screen.

There is a story that when he was teamed with Wallace Beery in "Stable Mates" the battle for camera and mike was terrifle until Mr. Beery, passing his hand across his face and fixing the

That is in the great acting tradi- tion. So might Burbage have rebuked a squeaking Cleopatra

No Boat Drill

Lafitte's book, which sets out to show that the refugee problem is really a British problem--a pro- blem of justice and personal free- dom in which the reputation of Britain is involved.

The treatment of German and Italian refugees is described in detail.

Nazis and anti-Nazis were mixed indiscriminately, and Mr. Lufitte concludes that during the en ire period of War Office control of the The cabins on board had been camps, the conditions of interned equipped to take double the refugees were well below the usual

passengers. standard of the Prisoners of War Four slept In a cabin for one, Convention. The food was excellent and more than sufficient.

of number

"We left Liverpool at night."

youngster with one eye, remark-writes Mr. Lafitte's survivor. "We ed "I there's going to be any were not allowed to walk on the mugging in this picture, I'm go- promenade deck, where armed ing to do it."

guards were on patrol. We had lifebelts in

our cabins, but I noticed that there was no boat drill. There were 12 lifeboats with a capacity of 80 each; they were worn out. There were ap- proximately 1,700 to 1,900 per- sons on board.

from St. Paul's.

The Human Boy From my point of view, soften-

"On July 2, at seven in the ed by the haze of 8,000 miles, I find even Master Rooney's faults morning, a hollow explosion was human and rather endearing. Al-heard in the engine-room.

Cries

and running started in the cor-

lowing for the exaggerations of ridors. I dressed scantily and comedy and the fact that the actor has to show what most of went out with a lifebelt. I wanted us only feel, there is a good deal to go to the lifeboats, but the armi- ed guards prevented me. I could of Andy Hardy in adolescents

not see any officer; nobody could everywhere which accounts, of

give any advice. course, for the series' territic Vogue.

As for his talent, that is surely beyond question. His timing and command of vocal and facial ex- pression are as deft As any veteran's; and with a gift comedy, proved in roles as dif- ferent as Andy Hardy and Puck, goes the feeling for drama and

for

serious characterisation which gave us "Huckleberry Finn" and "Young Tom Edison."

Altogether a remarkable per former, this prodigy of 19. It will be interesting to follow his career, to see whether a snub nose and stature of 5ft 3in will be considered as cute at 29 as they are at 19.

GERMAN HOLD ON SPAIN

Richard Boyer, in an

"Most of the rafts were lef!

on board and were tied down with wire, which

could

not be loosened. without im- plements,

Had No Chance

two

"Many could not believe thit the ship was sinking. Some be- caine hysterical. Suddenly shots were fired. Later on I heard internees were shot at who wanted to go to lifeboats which were re- served.

"The Nazis went on deck at once in files of two under the leadership of Captain Burfend (master of the Adolph Woermain); they had access to the lifeboats They had many seamen, brought down about seven life- boats, Captain Burfend stayed on board and was drowned.

"I came to the upper

and

deck,

but no lifeboats were left. Scenes

of distress3. A man hanged him- self. The old and the ill people in the dečka below had chance.

no

"I advised two soldiers who

article in the American drawn bayonets to

were still standing guard

with

throw away

newspaper P.M., describes their bayonets and to spring into appalling conditions in the water. They said they were Spain.

B

not allowed to, because they had

not had an order, but I persuaded

"I found Franco Spain was al-them. most as much a part of Germany "Uni- Bavaria," he writes. formed Nazis were everywhere in Madrid, and repression was, so severe that it made Germany al-

most seem a free country."

According to Boyer, who has just returned from Europe, there are more starvation and despair' in Spain thun in any other Europ- ean country.

"Of all countries being held in one way or another by Germany, Spain is filled with most dyna- mite," he declared.

"People are in so desperate

Saw Ship Sink

"As the boat heeled over i climbed down a rope ladder with a plank in my hand into the water. I swam away from the ship and saw it sink.

"The first hours in the Atlan- tic Ocean were dreadful. water was terribly cold. praying, shouts of 'Mother? in every langurga depressed terribly. Old people got heart attacks and· `dled." .

The

Cries,

us

After being six and a half hours

a condition that even another in the water this survivor was

bloody revolution could be lit- | rescued. Of the 182 from Scatop

tle worse than what la going on 101 were drowned. at present."

After landing at Greenock the A French count attached to the survivors went to hospital.

On

Vichy Government in Madrid told July 11 they got clothes and were Boyer: "Here Germany conquer-nnally interned with Nazis again. ed Europe. She used Spain as a gigantic laboratory in which to Problem of Justice. perfect the weapons with which

she crushed France and is now a The Arandord Star incident oc- using against Great Britain

cupies" "only"n" brief

of Mr