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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 14, 1941

· STORM OVER HESS' ADVICE TO GIRLS

1,000 "LOVE CHILDREN" A

WEEK

SCORES OF THOUSANDS of devout German

ART GEMS BOUGHT

mothers are reviling the name of Herr Rudolph BY POST

Hess, Hitler's deputy, for bringing dishonour and shame on their households.

For the vicious harvest is now coming home of the iniquitous policy which he urged a year ago on the members of the Girls' Branch of the Hitler

Youth Service.

On that occasion he pleaded with them to "keep alive the German race" by becoming the mothers of German sol- diers' children

restore the Institution of mar-

riage to the position of sanctity and honour which it held in the minds of the German people before Hess's programme of pollution was introduced.

Unless Hitler agrees, the thou- sands of devout Catholic mothers without who are now cursing his deputy troubling to go through will begin to curse him as well. the formality of marriage.

With the ald of his eloquence he Bucceeded in persuading Fomo scores of thousands of them that

by

having "love children" they would be doing something noble in the service of the nation.

GREEK LEPERS

AID WAR PUSH

Lepers have joined in the Greek war effort. Unable to offer their lives in the firing line, they have decided as their contribution to sacrifice a day's food allowance each month.

Air raids have started a

flourishing new “mail or- der" business in antiques, jewels, stamps and rare books. Collectors "bidding" by post at the West End sale-rooms.

are

Last week 1.500 postal com- missions were received by a Bond Street firm for 541 lots.

Dealers are buying heavily for export to America. Nearly 80 per cent of the plate sold under the hammer goes to the U.S.A, Thou- sands of pounds worth of pictures and manuscripts are being sent across the Atlantic.

Brisk bidding and high prices have returned after months of wartime slump.

But no one wants the antique furniture for which dealers and private collectors once strove to outbid each other.

He himself offered to become the godfather of every child that was born to an unmarried mother. And now they are being born at the rate of 1,000 a week!

But not to happy girls who

A representative. of Sotheby's, feel that they are gaining patrio- A letter received by the Athens | New Bond Street, told a re- tic inspiration from their experi- | Central Welfare Organisation porter: "We had luts which from the small leper colony on were withdrawn from the summer Spinalonga Island,

near Crete, sales because they did not reach says:

the prices we had fixed for them. "We are living without future | Now they have been sold for much. hope, but our spirit surviving more than the prices

we then our dincased bodies in Greek, expected."

ence.

The girls to-day are miserable and disillusioned. They are dis- covering that many of the soldiers who obeyed the call of Herr Hess were men with wives elsewhere 101 Germany, men of whom they have not heard a word since they ffered themselves as sacrifices in the cause of Hess's policy.

Many of them are having to go into workhouses for their children to be born

Thousands of them have been disowned by their own parents.

Many of them are penniless. having had to give up their em- ployment in the factories and on the farms.

Their children, they know. will be taken care of in Nazi State orphanages after their own ordeal is over. But they are realising now, in many сазев that their prospects of ! real marriage at some time in the future are blighted.

Feeling Of Shame

and so are our hearts. We are Greece's children hearing our mother calling,

"Pale does not allow us to go to the front, where our country

most needed us.

WAR JOB

Money From Singing FOR 1,000

"In this great sacred struggle for Motherland the only thing we can do is to offer one day's food allowance per month until the end of the war. Our daily allowance is forty drachmae per person.

"We also enclose 875 drachmae collected from carol singing.

"We feel most sorry we cannot give our blood for our country.”

TO FIGHT HITLER

Egon L. Hanfstaengl, a German, But it is the mothers of these whe enlisted in the United States unmarried mothers who are feel-Army in order to prepare to com- ing the sadness of the situation :bat "Hitler barbarisin," boarded most seriously. In the majority of a train at a southern army base cases they are good. God-fearing women, members of the Mothers carrying the keys of his Munich Union belonging to their church. home, which the Nazis confiscated. "It was a beautiful house and And they feel that an ineradic- able shame has cast its shadow the keys are a constant reminder of its fate." he said. "I curry them over their households.

so that when the day comes I can smash the heads of the Ges apo who took it."

They are protesting to their priests all pastors, and the churches are protesting to Hitler.

Although they realise that the harm that has already been

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done cannot be undone, they STOLEN

are pleading with the Fuchrer

to disown Hess's policy and to

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A THOUSAND KITTENS ARE TO BE RECRUITED TO HELP WIN THE WAR. SO MANY CATS HAVE BEEN DESTROY- ED OR EVACUATED FROM LONDON THAT RATS AND MICE ARE MULTIPLYING EVERYWHERE.

That's why. in the situations Vacant column, this "want ad." appeared in a London newspaper: "Wanted. 1,000 male kittens."

Mr. Palmer, owner of a pets' store at Parkway, Camden Town. N.Y. has been asked by big firms, warehousemen and householders for kittens that can be trained to destroy vermin.

"We want them as quickly as possible," he told a reporter; "Male kittens are the best for this work."

MESSERSCHMIDT

HUN DEBT TO A THIEF

GERMANY OWES her best fighter 'plane, the Messerschmidt 110, to plans stolen from the French before the war.

This was revealed by a Free are the same. The depth of the French officer in London, con-wing a slightly larger in the cerned in initial experiments with centre section," the French machinë,

The ME 110 is, he says, de-and-plans are exactly the same. |" "In fact, the general dimansions signed from the plans of the within: 1 per cent.” he said. French Potez 63 fighter-bomber, }

*BUE” £him Sanɛfaresceh ? in

which: came into being two years - The ME-110 Introduced can" before the ME, and the only essential difference" is the greater speed at the Nazi machine, not

„since it is later....

Cannon Experiments

!, The, Potez: fighters Bomber had The ME 110 is a three-seater, four machine-guns, and so has as was the Potez 63. It has the the "ME 410 fighter-bomber, game” crew ù arrangements, the. The plans of the Potez. 63 were same arrangement and position of stolen from the aircraft works. the fuselage and wings. The tall, where the machines were boing spar and position of the engine | manufactured.