THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 5, 1941.
Jews In Holland
May Be Off To
Herded Poland
LARGE NUMBERS of Dutch Jews are to be de- ported to Poland, according to a Stockholm corres- pondent yesterday. They will be confined in Jewish reservations established by the German authorities around Lublin, central Poland.
No confirmation of this drastic step has yet been obtained but a Netherlands Government official in London told Reuter yesterday that such a move would arouse no surprise in Dutch circles.
Dutch Jews, he said, had al-I tady been deprived by the Nazis +f their Dutch passports and lobe,led simply as Jews.
The Nazis were also reported to
of be establishing a kind ghetto in the Jewish quarter in Amsterdam, where Jews will be compelled to live.
Similar repressive in asures against Jews have been reported in various parts of Holland.
JEWS IN AMSTERDAM ARE
LARGELY OF POLISH ORIGIN AND. BEING STRICTLY OR-
THODOX, STILL WORE LONG
BEARDS AND BLACK ROBES,
WHICH ARE ONLY SEEN GEN- ERALLY AMONG JEWS IN EASTERN EUROFE.
Another large section of Dutch Jews are of Portuguese origin, and altogether there are about 200,000 Jew's In the Netherlands. Reuter.
BRITAIN'S BIG TANK OUTPUT
Trying To Catch Up
With Germany
SIGN OF AXIS ANXIETY
course
of
50 JAPANESE WARSHIPS PASS SOUTH
Some 50 Japanese warships passed Hong Kong on Sunday pro- ceeding south towards Hainan Island accord- ing to delayed reports.
BIG INCREASE IN U.S. NAVY
"The German occupa- tion of Bulgaria cannot
Legislation that would increase affect the final issue nor the U.S. Navy's enlisted personnel to 232.000 and au- immediately change the
thorise the President to acquire events," the Ankara radio 200,000 tons of auxiliary vessels for national defence, was intro- stated last night.
duced by Mr. Carl Vinson, Chair- man of the House of Representa- tives Naval Affairs Committee, yesterday.
It added: "The Axis move in the Ba.kans has conclusively proved the contention that the Axis pow- ers have not the courage to attack Great Britain directly.
"It may be that at the cost of great sacrifice this attack оп Great Britain will be attempted. but its success is regarded, even in Axis circles, as extremely dubious.
"Were the Axis partners sure of success in this direction they
The Bill would also authorise the President to raise the number of men enlisted to 300,000 at his discretion. — Reuter.
ARRIVE IN INDIA MORE ITALIANS
A further 6,700 Italian prison- would not seek to shift the sceneers of war have been landed of operations. inco another thea- Bombay in the last two days. tre of war."--Reuter,
SQUARE DEAL FOR YOUTH
Two thousand apprentices, with
Britain is fast pushing ahead with the output of a man aged twenty as chairman.
men and material in an have formed an apprentices' guild effort to overtake Ger- to safeguard their wartime careers
at Vickers Armstrong, Ltd., Bar
many's great lead in tank row-in-Furness, and secured the production and units to right to hold fortnightly conferon-.
res with the management. man them. The view has, The idea is likely to spread to been expressed that the other industries where apprentices, knowing what happened after the flow of tanks already ex- last war, are afraid industry may ceeds that of full-trained not give them a square deal. men to man them.
"There is nothing political about the guild," an apprentice told a reporter. "We are an xious to become skilled crafts- men,
after completely taught
the war. "There is a temptation to take better money for some classes of job which apprentices find hard to resist.
Two types of formation in c Royal Armoured Corps expand.ng rapidly are the Armoured. Divi- sion, possessing the most formid- able hitting power in the British Army, self-contained and working at high speed, and the even more weighty Army Tank Brigade. working at a slower pace with the Once A Fortnight
Sir Charles Craven, head of the The aim in equipment is stan- | Vickers combine, said: "The boys dardisation, with more armament | asked if we would see their repre- and heavier armour than even sentatives once a month. We re- that possessed by the heavy in-plied: Why not make it once a fantry tanks lost to Germany in, fortnight?' Franco,
Infantry.
.
"We are one of the few concerns. which still bind apprentices by in=" denture. Their welfare is as much our concern as theirs..
It was the knowledge that no known anti-tank gun in use could penetrate the tank rather than its "These apprentices are anxious relative comfort which gave a war- that in spite of the war and the time trip in a 25-tons land ship 'Go To It campaign they shall
a sense of security, British: ex-learn their craft as completely as
perts do not believe that the Ger- in peace.".
mans are any better exponents of the use of tanks. There is evid- ence, that the Germans still are having to re-shape. their ideas on equipment. Not one tank officer who served in France seems. to believe that the Germans possess any juggernauts.
RELIEF WORK AT LARISSA
The Larissa ́ ́ (Greece)”' cárth- The type of man who, by ex-quake victims are receiving valu- perience or easy application, able assistance from British and makes the most skilled driver, American sources. gunner, wireless operator, or com
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"Already 6,000 blankets have ar- mander of a tank is at a premium rived from the American Relief to-day. All three Services. as and some 150 tons of preserved well as the Ministry of Labour, food and other material have been need him..
placed at the disposal of the vic- Latest recruits, the 35's, are re-tims by the British authorities. garded by the Commanding Officer Senior officers of the R.A.MC. of a training regiment,29 the have also arrived.-British Wire- best type yet.
less...
The total now in India exceeds 32,000-Reuter.
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