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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

WIFE

SHOOTS

RIVAL

BEAUTY

Taking a snub-nosed re- volver from her purse, pretty Nita Barr, of Dal- consignment of rubber "gym" shoes is being sent from Lisbon las, Texas, fired two shots Cotton shorts and stockings will follow. The German camp com-

-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, or blue stripes. Presumably it is, who she believed had considered that khaki sports stolen her husband's love.

stockings white, with either red!

Mrs.

BLOOD

MONEY

Those who leave saving to others are traitors, said Lord Kindersley at East Grinstead, 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 sarily it becomes tainted with the blood of those defending

us.

"1

unneces-

PUZZLE FOR

A RESCUER

and rouge to Passing over a river bridge at Plymouth, a

She turned to Mrs. Woodall's two

stroked man saw a boy drowning young children, their hair, and told them; "Your in 5ft. of water. mother is the most beautiful woman 1 have ever scon."

equipment Is sufficiently dis- tinctive as

A few minutes earlier safeguard against a attempts at escape.

Burr had stood before a mirror Meanwhile the recently started applying lipstick

service air mail

for prisoners' her rival's face." 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

news has been the so-called Posen, which old fortress. sent there

reprisal camp at Is located in an Apart from officers from

Bayarla, the majority of the prisoners are of other ranks.

Paper Footwear

At one time their plight was bad, especially as regards clothing

and footwear.

A traveller who

Then she walked into the lv Ing room with the former dancer and shot her dead. "No," she told the police. "I wasn't drunk. Just don't remem- ber what happened.”

She has been separated from her husband, Eddie Barr, news- paper columnist, for two weeks.

PREFERS

PANTS TO

PANTIES

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

and on to the parapet, jumped.

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

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

The boy, Brian Reade; four, re- covered in hospital.

"There was nothing to it," Mor- rison said afterwards.

TOOK ALE FOR LONG LIFE

visited Posen two months ago re- ports

British seeing

prisoners BECAUSE A WIFE WEARS going out to work in the fields TROUSERS, SMOKES A PIPE with their feet wrapped in news- | AND SCRATCHES THE FLOORS papers and their clothes in tatters. WITH HER HOBNAILED BOOTS It is probable, however, that IS NO REASON WHY HER adequate supplies of 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 during the first few months of his wife, Jimmy, she was dressed Mrs. Mary Ann Jenner, of confinement is vividly recalled in masculine attire, but promised Wallington, Surrey, who has died by another informant from the to return to lace panties and silk aged 100, remembered seeing the Polish town of Thorn, where the stockings when they were married. Crystal Palace built and saw it 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 sholang life to hard work; whole- early winter the rations were so remains Mrs. "Jimmy," even if sama 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.

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 pick them up as they passed.

FIVE DIE AT PLAY

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

The dead are:

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.

"We are having-to-ration- ourj customers ng a result of the shortage of beer-bottlers," Kenneth Burford, aged ten; representative of Style and Winch, Peroy Mitchell, aged fourteen; the brewers, told a reporter, * Marian Eardon, aded ten; "On an average girls get £2 Trevor Wellings, aged alx, and a week for bottling... The older John Chitty, agedagven,

hands seem to be content to The bomb was found by Peter remain in their jobs It's the Mitchell when he and companions younger ones who seem to be visited a neighbouring holiday giving them up for war work, resort. pasangan

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

he anid.

The shortage of beer, is so cacute; in Birmingham and other Midland - towne » that many

public-houses are alösing, at 8:

pum

The manager of a brewery there said: "Bottling is our chief difculty" as we cannot get the woman labour. There is plenty of beer in the country, but we cannot get it away.",

At the Ministry of Labour it was told. “If it is considered that there is more essential work for them to do, girls will be taken from brewery jobs. But As far as we know they will be left there,”