1941-01-10 — Page 4

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Brenda MARSHALL

Claude RAINS

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EPIDEMIC OF SCURVY

Sea Hawk BREAKS OUT IN

HOLLAND

Directed by MICHABL CURTIZ

A WARNER BROS.

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DONALD CRISP FLORA ROBSON - ALAN HINE Screen Play by Howard Kuch and Seton 1. Miller +

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AN EPIDEMIC OF SCURVY has broken out in Holland, and the Dutch people firmly believe that Hitler's "grain and rye” loaf is responsible.

So sure are they that they have named the present acute form of the disease "broods- churft" or bread scurvy.

Messages reaching the "Vrij Nederland" (the Dutch news- paper published in Longon) in- duate the great concern of the

T.U. CHIEF

health-lowing Dutch people, who ON NAZI

state that dried Dutch bulbs, which are now unsaleable, are being ground down and mixed with flour supplied by the Ger-

matis

Food Stocks Impounded

The widespread nature of this convictio c: used the Gernues, authi ribes to issue a flat den al but the Dutch persist in the yea that ersatz material is being used in flour.

L

Food throughout Holland 13 by no means plentiful censored letters reaching the "Veu Nederland" show that 20.000 people feed at com.

unal centres at U recht daily.

Much of Holland's fud stuck: i have been impounded by th

Germ in authorities, just as maių thousands of Dutch workers have been transported to Germany

This removal of workers froin Holland foredoms to failure all present German efforts to organ- ise Dutch industry for the Ger- man war effort, for in addition to the fact that there are no raw materials for war manufactures available, the voluntary Nazi la- bour service scheme in Holland is singularly lacking in recruits. Kruter.

BLAST INJURIES A WARNING

|

TYRANNY

A remarkable trade

union indictment of Nazi tyranny has Just been circulated among the British unions by Mr. John Marchbank. the railwaymen's leader. Describing the struggle as “a people's war," Mr Marchbank

1 there were ever uny doubt about it. the tragic events ou the last months have brought the truth home to working peo- ple."

ITALY IN FINANCIAL MORASS

Only 40 per cent of the year's expenditure will be covered by re- venue under the Ito- lian Budget, accord- ing to the Zurich newspaper "Stampa" yesterday.

Revenue during the next financial year is estimated at 29 mil- liard lire. For the pre- vious five years de- ficits aggregated 80 milliard lire. Reuter.

MOTHERS WIFELESS

ground MEN

silver- job of husbands

Through the under channels of the international trade unión and Socialist movement, Mr. Marchbank has received con- (By A Special Correspondent) tinucus information of the en- Mrs. Davie, a plump, slavement of the workers of Ger-haired woman, has the inany and the occupied territories, mothering twenty-four This injormation has proved that whose wives have been evacuated Hitlerism is a "slave system, more Before the war she was house - ruthless, complete and aggressive keeper to M.P's and other tenants than any form of serfdom which of a block of luxury flats. Now existed in the Middle Ages. The she runs a husbands' hostel. tortures of the concentration camp and the Gestapo terrorise the peo- pl."

It is a house near Charlton Vil- lage, Blackheath, which has been Joaned to Greenwich Borough Council by a doctor. There, fot 34s. 6d. a week, a man can get a bed, breakfast, supper and amuse- ments,

Mr. Marchbark continues: 'Nazi tyranny extends to the inner life of the people. It sows suspicion, fear and hate in the very bosom of the family. None "It's a real home from home. dare trust his neighbour with and that's saying a lot." said Mi his innermost though a or speak John West, the first of the 'od"ers. free y avan in his own home. | lo'd me.

i

The authority of the State, of With his fourteen-year-old son. The Nazi party or the ruling c`l- 'Johnny, he works at Millwall que amongst its leaders is ab-, Decks, cycling ten miles to work solute.

Ensure Swift Supplies

"It is our war because the work- ing people have flung their ener- gits into the work of equipping the lighting forces, have surren- dered for the time being vital safeguards of normal industrial

every morning and back at night His wife and six of the children have gone to Northamptonshire.

It was supper time. "Usually, at this time of night and with the family away," he said, “I should be mucking about with the gas stove and dishes trying to get a meal together, and then carrying blankets to the public rhelter.

"Instead of that. I can nel u wash and sit down to a spread the accom-supplies of every essential wea- that makes your mouth water-

pon.

Warning of a danger that injury life so that the war trades shall to lungs caused by bomb blast may and to ensure

be kept in continuous production swift and ample go unrecognised and panying shock be put down to other causes, is given in The Lance', the medical newspaper.

The lungs can be damaged by blast wi hout there being any in- jury to the body surface, but there may be delay before symptoms develop.

"In cases of asphyxia due to this cause," it is added, "the Schafer method (the usual me- thod) of artificial respiration will prove not only ineffic'iye but even harmful, and this will have to be made clear to firs ald workers.

"When no adequate cover B available the effects of high ex- plosive on the lungs can be grea ly lessened by lying on the ground.

Clothing Tests

Three naval doctors who had examined twen-y-seven victims o night explosive. bombing Hound that in fifteen of the patients was ""ballooning" of the lower part o he chest. There was no satisfac tory explanation of this.

Dr. B. Zuckerman describe explosion blast tosta on rabbit- whose trunks were clothed, tr various thicknesses of rubber...." They showed that it is the pres sure wave of blast which bruism the lungs by its impact on the body-wall.

"They also demonstrate that th effect can be prevented, or dimin ished, if the body is clothed in c suitable material which is able to take up and disperse the pressure wave.

and seen as safely, here in the "It is our war, the people's war.basement on a decent bed." because it will decide whether we are to live under Governments without conscience and without of our own choosing or be deliver-faith acknowledge no single right ed, bound hand

to and foot,

of free association, free Lought tyrannical rulers who know no or free speech. They deny to the law except their own cruel people any voice in the framing caprices. In the countries under of laws and decrees which affect the heel. of the dictators,

their life and labour,**

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