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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 4, 1941.

BRITONS GOING HUNGRY IN HUN CAMPS

HOW NAZI.

BRITISH PRISONERS OF WAR IN GERMANY WOMEN

ARE SO BADLY FED THAT MANY OF THEM ARE TOO WEAK TO PLAY GAMES.

Letters to M.P.s from all over the country from

DEFEATED

people whose sons and husbands are in German HITLER

prison camps have revealed this fact, Sir William Davison (Con., Kensington South) told the House of Commons.

He asked the War Minister if he was aware that many prisoners at Oflag VII Camp had only the

Women workers, con- scripted into Hitler's arms factories have forced wage concessions from the Nazi

battle dress they were wearing when captured in regime, says a correspon-

the summer and were without overcoats.

The Minister replied

that he was aware of the

Jack of winter

and was using

clothing LOVE

every

means in his power to remedy it.

had

The German Governmen Lee urged through diplomatic. channels to fulfil their obligations ! In the last few days the Amer can Embassy had been asked toj

ake :rther repre, entation

Eden Dissatisfied The Amerie Embassy in Ber- Im said that 1,838 parents of good, ceived by prisoners at the camp in the week ending October 19, and the flow was continuing

othes and book had been

e-

Sir William Davis01: I am

DEFEATS

SWASTIKA

.dent.

Until the outbreak of war Nazi propaganda was still busy with the slogan that woman's place War in the home, although even then many female workers were engaged on war production.

During the last year at least 200,000 women have been driven into compulsory employment. The German Labour Front promised that they would receive men's wages, but it was the big indus- trialists, and, not the Nazis. who hart the last word. Accordingly, the Nazis announced that "the re- (BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT) | form of women's wages must be

A wedding cake stood postponed till after the war. on the table of a little dieds stayed away from the tac- home in Brittany; nearby toes, Production began to fall.

Chamber of Commerce

The women took a hard. Hun-

warned relying

a pretty lace cap lay care-the Government against fully packed, ready to The wedding of Madeleine and Jean had

upon the compulsory recruitment of women. Finally, last June, the

wear

told that Polish and French par- been arranged.

cels are arriving much than ours.

better

War Minister; I am dissatisfied with the conditions. hence representations made.

the

Mr. W. S. Morrison, Postmaster- General, said the number of par- cels sent from Britain during Oc- tober was 95,896

The

con-

That was months ago. France collapsed, and J-san, tv en- ty-three-year-old Frenet sailor, come hune on leave to wet the girl of his dreams,

the

Rather than live under shadow of the swastika they de cided on a bid for freedom and started out оп a perilous jour. ney to England the day

they Red Cross reported should have been celebrating t that fiften

wagons

the little Brittany village. taining 29.934 parcels have ar. With another rived at Geneva.

young They contain, Rene, also a sailor, and his fiang e..

couple. food, tobacco. niedical comforts Yvonne, who were to have been and clothing.

married few days Inter, them Fifty-six tons fcting par-sailed for forty-eight hours in els have arrived at Leton and small- fishing boat Felope they

being sent un,

were picked

by larg French vessel making for an Ea. glish port.

Job Now Too Big

A Political Correspondent writes: There is a great deal of uneasi- tess over the work of the Red

Cross.

No one doubt. the good inten- Fons of that excellent voluntary ganisation, but there is growing apprehen-ion about the way it is handling some of is werk.

up

Fairy-Godmother

On their

their

to

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Ministry of Labour announced an investigation of female wage rates in the vital iron, metal and chemi- cal industries.

The inquiry resulted in a de- cree. which brought the wages of a few key women workers Up to

to per cent, of men's

wages. "Substantial restrictions in these increases the decree stated, "are The Cessary to avoid the revision RIVe rise to a general increase lan women's wages, which would ah" at ably disturb the stability of the genes wages level. The gen- eral ban on wage increases is to be enforced with the same strict- ness as hitherto,"

Far from being satisfied with the miner concession, the women's silent opposition continued. Re- kevinly increased wage rates Bre Jamouriced for women in the min-

Og and printing industries.

CHEQUE LOST WHEN STATION WAS BOMBED

separated The men were held for arrival they weke

interrogation, the girls sent An intrument camp.

Hearing of French widow of an English sol-police court

plight. the

It was revealed at a West End dier, who died in the last war.

that 1 cheque for £20 10. to he adepted the two girls, giving them evidence in an alleged false pre- produced in Food parcels and winte: over- wik in a London club, the Cercle | tences case, was lost some weeks coats are urgently needed by Bri-Prancais, which she has started i ago ush prisoners, particularly the for General

a police station was 1,500 in Offag Vil.

The cheque was in a file with other documents which were de-

troyed by fire.

British prisoners receive the same food rations as German garrison troops, but the German stomach seems more harde nad to dog, cat and horseflesh Bath quality and quantity of food suppl ed is below the minimum essential for good health. It is the duty o the Red Cross Society to supplement those ra- tions with food porzels from home, The job has now become too big

for it.

There is a crying need for full- time paid experts to organise' the purchase, packing and dispatch department. No Breakdown in or- ganisation should be tolerated.

French forces.

de

when

Gaulle's Free | bombed.

rc-

it was in the club one even- Ing that the couples were united. Now, at Caxton Hall Register Office, Madeleine, who Bird, forty. ship's officer, of no The case was that against Robert Is twenty-one, and Jean have just been wed.

fixed home, who was charged "We had hoped for a double with obtaining a pair of binoculars wedding," a reporter was told by worth £29 10s from an Oxford Tantine, which is the two girls' Street firm, and with obtaining by name for the fairy godmother who fals pretences jewellery worth brought about the reunion. "But £230 from another Oxford Street Yvonne is ill and her flance can- firm.

He was remanded in cus- not get leave."

tody.

BOMBER PILOT WAS WOMEN USED SHOES

TO BEAT MAN

AN ARTIST

An RAF pilot, having reported the details of his attack on the Fiat works at Turin, spent the rest of the day telling his com- Hanions in the mess about the mag- mificent view he had had for

Mont Blanc as he flew back over

*France.

1*1 bave never seen a sight like "the pilot said. "On our way ick from Turin we were betwear:

he moon and the mountains, and

WOMEN TOOK OFF their shoes and used them aš, clubs and others struck out with their fists against a man alleged to have interfered with a three-year-old girl in a Liverpool air-raid shelter.

A police officer had to beat the crowd back with picture in my log book of his baton to get the man away after he had tried

ing mass of Mont" Hane

even more, sharply in

to escape on a tramcar.

hightand, standing o

the cloud "bosa below: fat.. Liverpool*

This evidence was given three, "and"

Police Court her.'

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