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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH-28, 1941,

NAZIS POUR SLAVES INTO NEW HOMES

ON THE RUSSIAN border, where tiny streams

and rows of sturdy tank traps and barbed wire CANADA'S

separate eastern Germany from what was Lithuania until the Russians moved in, one gets a small but compelling picture of the migrating peoples whose movements, are permanently altering the character of Europe regardless of the outcome of the war.

These are some of the 70,000 Baltic Germans who are being repatriated as part of the Reich's campaign to bring within its borders all the so- called Volksdeutsche, or persons of German descent, that it can. According to published figures, 550,000 have returned from various parts of Europe since October 1938.

aro

cars most

forward former

Germaną,

Simple peasants for the part, these people from, Lithuania have packed what they

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with

PART IN

SEA WAR

Cmdre. L. W. Murray, of the Royal Canadian Navy, has arrived in Lon- don with the important mission of administering Canada's naval services the based on Britain. He double, car exclusively for

hopes also to see some- could bring, sometimes with New roads are being construct-thing of the real war of

Farm production is being shot and shell. horse and a wooden, springless ed.

sometimes In wagon,

shawls, speeded up, and, much renovation sometimes in only their coarse has been undertaken in the city

find and worn garments. to

a itself,

Food is still more plenti- Most of ful here than around Berlin, for new life in Germany.

wo example, and ration cards have them are cheerful, but the men have

and not yet been introduced, although the weariness hopelessness that comes from they will come later this month. lung

hardships. Almost all of Transport restricted during the the children are completely stocial Polish campaign, has been except for the one small boy off'stored, and it will be possible to 5 years whose mother, with no move more of the produce from visible expression, holds him up here to less agricultural regions. while he dies for the beneßt of photographers.

Promised Good Farmland

of

More fortunate than, some the European wanderers, these people have the promise, at least, of the German government that they will be provided with farms with approximately similar

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NAZIS TRY TO TRICK FRENCH

re-

Here is an example of sources and livestock as those the methods adopted by They left behind, German com- missigns operating in Russia the Nazis is give the have inade a careful inventory of French people in occupied the possessions and capabilities

France of these returning citizens.

future. Between them and their new homes are three

or four months in large

the impression But that is in the uncertain that they are "good" to them by providing them where with food.

camps

their the

gressing.

He was at sea, throughout the last war, for most of the time in warships escorting Transatlantic convoys. "But," he said, "I have seen more of real war in London during the last few days than I have ever seen before."

Cmdre. Murray has come from the Ottawa office where he worked Naval as Deputy Chief of the Staff, to set up an office in London for his newly-created post of Commodore Commanding Cana- dian. Ships and Establishments in the United Kingdom.

"I shall go to sea for as long as I can - perhaps until May," he said. "From my office in Ottawa I have tried to keep in touch with things, but I feel that I have to go out and learn the language that people are speak- ing nowadays. It is different from the language we spoke last

time.

"At my new office in this coun- try." Cmdre. Murray added, "I shall be able to see the captains as they come ashore and find out

all their troubles.

"In addition to our ships, we 420 volunteer have here some reserve officers serving with the

They

be will Royal Navy,

Royal Navy

they will be examined carefully A French business man whose my concern as well. There is for disease or other undesirable land produces chiefly potatoes ar-hardly a ship of the qualities and catechised in Gerived to see how the crop was pro-that has not some Canadians on man thinking. They had first experience with it at border, where officials greeted them and welcoming banners and flags decorated the otherwise dreary streets.

En route one saw, near Posen,

vm "to

board." He discovered that all the Poles and Free Frenchmen are

and serving in Canadian ships potatoes had been collected put in sacks which filled two large our advantage, and, we hope, to sheds on his farm.

theirs," Cmdre, Murray says.

Each sack bore a label: "1m- ported from Germany."

the final steps in this resettlę- A few days later the Nazis had ment process. There Volksdeut- posters on the walls of a neigh-many for the French populations. Twenty thousands pounds of sche from the General Govern-bouring town announcing that, ment (section of German-con- while the English are endeavour these would be sold at cost price trolled Poland) have been

in- ing to starve the people of France, by the German authorities in the stalled in homes many of which the German authorities, who are public market the following day.

And the French business man were built during an carller doing all they can to provide food German government

a saw his own potatoes, sold by the were for them" had just imported occupied by Polish people after large stock of potatoes from Ger- Nazis, 1918. About 35,000, persons have. been brought to this area, which is now the warthe gau (district). of the Reich, in a direct exchange of population.

and

The German authorities say. that they have made every effort to make the exchange as equal as possible In resources, furnishing and livestock.

Scars Of War Still Evident

Some scars of the brief and savage war that wiped out Po- land is a nation a year and a half ago can still be scen from the train windows as one travels between the borders Osterode and Bentschen.

near Many

of the bridges, including the broad span over the Vistula, are still being repaired, where, sec tlons were destroyed, and a few shell-damaged houses can be observed. Although this terri- tory has been incorporated into the Reich, special, police. passes are still required, and it is al most impossible for foreigners to visit the General Government.

In Posen almost every trace of its Polish occupation has diB- appeared with an amazing thoroughness. Street signs are new, and in German, Freshly painted patches on store fronts and other buildings are still evident

'Frequent signa in raltrond stations and other "places say that only: German will be #golian and......... many.......... business, houses have placards provente | ing the entry of Poles.

Tin Pan Alley's most memorable songs are sung by glam: orous stare Allon Raya, and, Be tỷ, Grabfalle Their grand ter" met is Just pack of the apactaqular show promised patrona the King's Theater, when, Tin, Ran. Alley!! 29th, Oanzúry Ford "musical of our exolting times opens. Japk Oakla Band: John.

Payne, head brilliant ozef of entartainment-makers.

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