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"THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 8, 1941

GERMANS "HAD NO CHANCE" IN LOFOTEN SURPRISE

"TIN HATS

FOR

THE BRITISH ROUND-UP in the Lofoten SHRAPNEL"

Islands took less than an hour, it was reveal- ed in London yesterday.

Speaking in broken English, a young Ger- man among those captured in the raid told a Reuter reporter at a northern railway station last night that none of them was able to offer any resistance to the landing force.

"Your sailors just surrounded

us and we could not do anything

I was all over in 30 or 40 min- utes." he added.

The ten Quislings (Norwegian Fascists) appeared to be in des- pondent mood, in contrast to the cheerfulness of the Germans,

ENGINE DRIVERS ARE EARNING £15 A WEEK

The slow-down of railway traf- fie under war conditions is help. ing many drivers to make as much as £15 a week.

The Norwegian forces which

"It is not uncommon for engine. ivers to work fifteen to seven- participated in the aid on Lufo - ten Island consisted of naval teen hours at a stretch,” a railway ratings who had been trained for official said.

"After each land lighting and formed part of

spell of duty the the Norwegian

Trade Expeditionary Board of

stipulates 3 Force being train:el in Britain, twelve-hour rest period. That according to a Norwegian Gov-¦means that if his six-day week a ernment ofcial in London yes- driver who is working for such terday.

long spells cannot get in six turns of duty..

Volunteers Line Up

i

HOAX

For weeks past

A.R.P. workers

in the Control Office at Bromley, procession of small boys who have

Kent, have been puzzled by

a

produced sacks of shrapnel and demanded tin hats in exchange for their booty.

Questioned, each stated that they had heard they would be given a tin hat if they collected sufficient shrapnel. But none of them could as to the give any information source of the story

"It seems as though someone has been playing a rather cruel hoax on the kids," an A.R.P. official said.

The persistence of the rumour. can be gauged from the fact that in it was told to a reporter Salisbury, a hundred miles away. The A.R.P. official added:

"Of course, it would be ridicul- ous to give away tu hats when there aren't enough to go round for the defence services and the Army

"At the end of the week he may have four spells of seventeen hottrs When the ships arrived off the each behind him, Then the rail- "But if the salvage folk were at island, powerful loud-speakers way company has to pay him for all enterprising they could

broadcast messages population. telling

scrap.

ur-

te the local two days' work which he does notganise a whole army of small boys Chem ther do, in conformity with the guar- up and down the country to collect friends were at hand and sug-anteed werk.” gesting the crews would be will- ing to take aboard any volunteers. who would like to come to Bri- tain and jom the Norwegian Free Forces.

Hundreds of young men im- mediately lined up on shore. They went home, pot their best clothes and packed up all they wanted to bring away with them

Among the patriots, who num- bered more than 300, there were very few married men. Most of the younger men wanted to join the R.A.F. Reuter.

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UNDERGRADS IN FRONT LINE 'VAC'

ANXIOUS TO HELP in front-line war work, fifty Cambridge medical students have volunteered for duty as stretcher bearers at a Camberwell, Lon- don, S.E., Stretcher Party depot during their vaca- tion.

"We've

our improved

card- playing no end during the hours of waiting. But we haven't seen a single casualty."

depot

Working in relays of ten at a time, the undergraduates are each doing a full week's stretch of duty over a period of five weeks, re- lieving the full-time volunteers Mr. C. R. Mercer, the and enabling them to have a well-superintendent, thinks more highly curned holiday.

of the students' work than they "There's nothing in what we're do themselves. doing. really." Desmond Pond, twenty-one-year-old undergra- duate of Clare College, told a re- porter: "We fellows like to do a spot of useful, practical work during the 'vac,' and this seemed to be a job more worth while do- "The way the corporation treating than any other, some of these air raid victims is "We'd hoped for

blt 3 scandalous. Women come to me

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of for them and their children."

view-though I don't suppose "Londoners will share our view "They've fitted into the scheme -our shift has had a quiet week. I of things here without a hitch."

-VICAR

The Rev. F. J. Wright, vicar of St. Mark's, Erdington. Birming- ham, said this when he alleged that some of the victims are now compelled to spend must of their lives in Andersen shelters because they have no home.,

"There are streets of homes that have been damaged by bombs in which piles of furni- ture are going to ruin because houreholders cannot get the cor- poration to move it," he declar- ed.

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"Many people are living in their bombed houses with the sky as their roof. Their homes were bombed weeks ago and the authorities pushed them from pillar to post.

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