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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 20, 1941

BRITISH WAR PRISONERS STUDY NATURE

LATEST NEWS from the prisoners-of-war camp Seven C at Laufen, Bavaria, shows that morale is excellent and the conditions reasonably good. The prisoners are now being allowed to visit an is- land in the river outside the camp.

They tell in letters to friends in Lisbon how they are making nesting boxes for birds and fixing them in trees on the island.

One officer has sent a request for a trout fish- ing-rod. Another plea is for flower seeds.

Some minor requests made by: the prisoners testify eloquently to the high degree of self-respect they are maintaining in captivity.| One man writes asking for but-j ton polish to be included in the next parcel. Another wants sock suspenders, while several request nail brushes. A Scots officer, ask- ing for textbooks, writes that he is studying all kinds of sub. jects from early Scottish history to architecture and botany.

Red Shorts Order

For summer recreation a large

consignment of rubber "gym" shoes is being sent from Lisbon Cotton shorts and stockings will follow. The German camp com-

WIFE

SHOOTS

RIVAL

BEAUTY

Taking a snub-nosed re- volver from her purse, pretty Nita Barr, of Dal- las, Texas, fired two shots —one through each eye of mandants have ordered that the Mrs. Blanche Woodall, a shorts must be bright red and the former night-club dancer, stockings white, with either red! or blue stripes. Presumably it is, who she believed had considered that khaki sports stolen her husband's love. equipment is insufficiently dis- tinctive as il safeguard against attempts at escape.

Meanwhile the recently started air mail service for prisoners' letters via Lisbon is working most successfully. The large ac- cumulation of camp letters en route for Britain is now practi- cally cleared. British Airways planes have carried as much as half a ton in one trip. The bulk of the mail from prisoners is now arriving by air from Germany, though some is still carried over- land.

Little recent received from

A few minutes earlier Mrs. Barr had stood before a mirror and rouge to applying lipstick her rival's face.

BLOOD

MONEY

Those who leave saving to others are traitors, said Lord

Kindersley

Grinstead,

at East Sussex, War Weapons Week "Money has become something in the nature of a sacred trust for the winning of the war, and when it is spent unneces- sarily it becomes tainted with the blood of those defending us."

PUZZLE FOR A RESCUER

Passing over a river bridge at Plymouth, a man saw a boy drowning

She turned to Mrs. Woodall's two

stroked young children, their hair, and told them; "Your in 5ft, of water. mother is the most beautiful woman have ever seen."

Then she walked into the lly- ing room with the former dancer and shot her dead.

"I "No," she told the police. wasn't drunk. Just don't remem→ ber what happened."

She has been separated from news has been

her husband, Eddie Barr, news- the Bo-called

Posen, which paper columnist, for two weeks.

old fortress.

reprisal camp at is located in an Apart from officers

sent there

from Bavaria, the majority of the prisoners are of other ranka.

Paper Footwear

At one time their plight was bad, especially as regards clothing and footwear. A traveller who visited Posen two months ago re-

PREFERS

PANTS TO

PANTIES

HER

a

The child had fallen into stream which was 40ft. below the bridge level and the man Carlisle Morrison, twenty-four, a Royal Canadian naval rating was in a dilemma.

If he dived off the bridge into the comparatively shallow water he would probably have broken his neck. If he jumped he risked serious injury.

But Morrison did not hesitate. He threw off his coat and boots, leaped on to the parapet, and jumped.

The water only party broke his fall, and the stones on the river bed cut his feet.

and

the swirling

He was dazed by the impact swept off his feet; but he current and brought the boy to the bank.

The boy, Brian Reade, four, re-

mastered

"There was nothing to it," Mor-

ports seeing British prisoners BECAUSE A WIFE WEARS going out to work in the Selds TROUSERS, SMOKES A PIPE covered in hospital. with their feet wrapped in news- AND SCRATCHES THE FLOORS papers and their clothes in tatters. WITH HER HOBNAILED BOOTS rison said afterwards. It is probable, however, that is NO REASON WHY adequate supplies ví Red Cross HUSBAND SHOULD BE GRANT- clothing and footwear have since ED A DIVORCE IN THE EYES reached this camp.

OF A NEW JERSEY JUDGE. What the prisoners suffered When Joseph Napolitano met

Ann Mrs. Mary during the first few months of his wife, Jimmy sh but promised Wallington, Surrey, who has died

she was dressed confinement is vividly recalled in masculine attire,

TOOK ALE FOR LONG LIFE

Jenner of

by another informant from the to return to lace panties and silk aged 100, remembered seeing the built and saw it Polish town of Thorn, where the stockings when they were married. Crystal Palace camp for British and French She did so for the three days burned down. She attributed her soldiers is situated. During the of "their honeymoon. Now she long life to hard work, whole- early winter the rations were so remains Mrs. Jimmy," even if in food and a glass of ale for bad that the men sold or she sometimes looks like Mr. supper. exchanged personal possessions,

watches, books, even clothing to obtain food.

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Despite strict Nazi orders for- bidding the populace any contact with the prisoners, the people of Thorn found means of helping them. The prisoners used to march daily in gangs from camp to work, and the people placed pieces of bread and bottles of beer on the pavements where the men could bend down and plek them up as they passed.

FIVE DIE AT PLAY

Five children were killed and three seriously injured playing with a small practice bomb at Cheltenham, Glos,

The dead are:

Kenneth Burford, aged ten; Parcy Mitchell, aged fourteen; Marian

Eandon, aged ten; Trevor Wollings, aged alx, "and John Chitty, aged boven. The bomb was found by Peter Mitchell when he and companions visited a neighbouring holiday report...

It failed to explode when Peter threw it into, a quarry and the boy took it hóme,

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GIRLS SCARCE AND

SO IS BEER

THE BOYS MAY HAVE to go short of beer now that the girls are being called up. Already brewers are finding a shortage of labour among girls who have left beer-bottling for war jobs.

They all say there is plently of beer and that transport isn't too bad it's just a case of getting the beer into bottles..

public-houses are closing at 8 ́

"We are having to ration our customers as" a result of the shortage of beer bottlers,"

The manager of a brewery representative of 'Style and Winch, there wald: Bottling is our chief the brewers, told a reporter. by difficulty as we cannot get the "On an average girls get £2 women labour. There is plenty a week for bottling. The older of beer in the country," but we hands segum to be content to cannot get it away radioa: remain in their jobs TVề thủ. At the Ministry of Labour it younger ones who seem to be was told. If it is considered giving them up for wat work," that there is more essential work he said.

for them to do, girls, will be taken The shortage of beer la ao from brewery Jobs. But as far acute In Birmingham and other as we know they will be left Midland towne that many I there,