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GERMAN PRISONERS--

ON THE ROAD BACK

BY PETER LOVEGROVE

In the middle of the night: of, be sent, but agreement is being able men are trained for the 19/20 September 1944, one sought from the other controll Roman Catholic Church;, there, thousand five hundred sullen | Ing powers in Germany for the they learn what Christianity men under guard, tramped from reception in their respective mezins; the structure of the Colchester North Station to arcas of men who were domicil- church, fundamental principles Bere church, a distance of some ed there. Unbending Nazis are of social life, the family and four miles, and were brought to not in the running at all; nor the state, as well as mathema- a halt in a wide field encom- are high-ranking officers, tic, physics, biology, German art passed by barbed wire. The whether or not they have poll- and philosophy, ancient and night was very dark and the

modern languages. Only to ground squelched with mud.

students turned up at the first There Was no cover, and

Jesson in March 1945; but · by tentage had to be obtained from

July the number. had risen to a supply dump a short distance

143, and now there are several away. When dawn broke, the tica! leanings. All told, some hundreds attending the six-week men went about setting up the 16,000 men will go back every coureeg, tents and drawing tinned mouth, five times as many as I also saw two, chapels, rations. It was a cheerless in the past. The dispatch of beautifully and simply de- scene; the men were wet and all the prisoners will take 26 cormed; in one, an artist was despondest; some thankful they months under these arrange painting on an old piece of When, the other day, we smiled were out of the hell that was menta, but it is possible that it canvas and a home-made asel, Normandy; others highly i will be apesded up if sufficient a biblical scene which is des- at the Taxation Committee for dignant to find that everything regular shipping can be or tined for the main altar. imposing a consumption tax on in- had not been "aid on" forganised.

The thirst for knowledge is toxicating liquors instead of in- them; all wondering what cap

not confined to religious affairs. creasing the excise duty, we hard-tivity would be like.

186 Camp does not only enter Since May 1945, when a school ly expected to find that the Gov For these were German for these transient guests. It opened, men have received ernment had a reserve card up prisoners, the first large body is the largest camp in Eastern technical and agricultural train- its sleeve. Effective as from 9 of men captured around Caen Command and also holds a ing, and learned English and a.m. yesterday, the duties on spirits and area. The following number of fer variety of cussion groups are held regular who cannot other foreign languages. Dis- are await-ly; lecturers come from univer

..

RIPOSTE

and tobacco have now been subj stantially increased, and there is, after all, no special dispensation in favour of he who imbibes his whisky at home. Government has, in fact, gone much farther than the most pessimistic anticipations and there are few who will nor consider the consequences as de- manding the exercise of fortitude on the one hand, and a lighter Touch, when pouring the evening tot, with the other. How many will, at the same time, derive the rich inner satisfaction going with the thought that he may possibly be subscribing to the idea of bet ter pay for the Junior Clerical Service, it is unwise to conjecture too closely. Enthusiasm for square deal

is not invariably matched by any parallel zeal when it results in a demand for direct contribution. The official spokesman has urged that it might casily be painless extraction, im plying that importers and retail ers 'in a fine spirit of tolerance may recognise that the few are better able to bear the burden than the many. Our own perhaps

rather tempting proposition con- tains a catch in it somewhere, and we are far from rivalling Mr. Follows in his capacity to voyage on such alluring seas of thought To disprove the more customary theory that wholesale wine and spirit merchants and such instiru tions as the British American Tobacco Company are in the trade with an aim and a purpose beyond that of merely seeing to

Hard Cases

CARNIVAL

By Dick Turnar

c Lo brought to the

right they were joined by an-

Among

cther 1,000 and by 24 Septem- reasons; some who ber, over 6,000 of Hitler's West- wall defenders were encamped around. Berechurch. them ware men who had parti- cipated in the 1940 Blitzkrieg, sung "We March Against Eng- land" in the Paris cafes, and had been scheduled to land in disposed-of-the Few. Britain after the Luftwaffe had

DAKOTA CRASHES

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After

Guatemala City, Nos. 28. Twenty-two persons were. killed when a LASCA airs line planc

crashed near Guatemala City on Tuesday, it was disclosed yesterday."

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sities and the Political Intelli-

training centre at Wilton Park, gence Department the men can also go to the re-educational

where they get a course in the deinccratic way of life.

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"Of course I understand the nature of an oath!'

your caddie, ain't I?"

An Open Letter To Lady Cripps

Hong Kong to San Francisco simpler mind suspects that this different periods. With the enr- and drying rooms, and the roads their cities and the misery that plenty of everything for all surance that they have a great

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The value of these forums is obvious. The med -are-interested in them they ask portinent questions; they want to know how the British historic Colchester to have alien It was no new experience for

machine ticks. It would be idle

Dear Lady Crippa-On Octo home-one and a half yours to pretend that they are being ber 4 you set out from England after peace was declared Im troops in and around its Roman

converted to democracy; they walls. Through all the years,

on a goodwill mission to China Europe. For just as in Eng have been part of a rigid to see the results of nearly two and they do not know much its story is one of marching ing distribution to labour-unite: machine in which individual million

pounds of British about life in Hong Kong, the of Nazis labelled thinking was discouraged for voluntary aid to this country. armies, beleaguered garrisons, hard cases

rest of the world is not yet, fortified cemps and confined "Blacke"; a few in protected too long, and they have the

Tomorrow, (Saturday) you fully, aware of Britain's con prisoners. After three centuries custody who may be arraigned natural and Inevitable bias to will start on the return jourany tinued privations, its stringent of Roman occupation, Jute as war criminals; and a num

discount much of what they and soon will tell the people at food rationing and its almost Saxon and Anglo brought fire ber of officers of all ranks, from hear as propagands. No doubt home what you have seen and complete lack of luxury com- and slaughter to the city; later subalterns to a major-general. they cannot see Germany's pre-heard. I wonder how your modities.

sent day tragedy against the picture of Hong Kong and the Dane's Black Army, with Total population over 6,000.

Before you return to your double-headed axe and sharp! Prisoners do all the camp background of the fearful Chinese relief, as it is now, will Fund's London offices, Lady arrow massacred the townspeople.

entire maintenance in this trim, well- iniquities committed by their be painted to those in England Cripps, why not make a tour of French prisoners of rank were take their own bread, repair comrades. No doubt they have financially and fundamentally hotels, shops, and business pre Crecy, laid, town-within-a-town. They leaders and so many of their who have supported the effort the Colony's public restaurants, held in the castle; Dutch their own boots, do their own little sense of their guilt, and for ever four years.

mises all frequented by the suldiers, Scotsmen, religious laundry, run their own shows they blame Britain not only for malcontents and State prisoners and produce their own news- the barbed wire around them, this, Lady Cripps?-

May I suggest you tell them wealthy and cbserve the casual air with which they rid them- have been imprisoned there at paper. The huts, shower baths but also for the destruction of in Hong Kong there in selves of dollars in the easy na

the ing: of

Hanoverian were all built by German labour has befallen their people; for there are many Chinese who many more. monarchs, even German mer- "We're very proud of the re- having given guarantees to made large fertunes and othera China is a beautiful.country.

Polund; even, in some cenaries have been stationed sults," said the Lagerfuehrer,

inmild-looking grey-haired man of for not having shown long be during the occupation, and meet cicar: blue akies but its cases who became comparatively rich and its hills rise proudly up to 1909, four squadrons of Ger- 50 from Munster, who served fore

1939 that we' meaut after the liberation. Yet there, people are filled with an almost man cavalry were employed to in the two world wars and six business: Democracy, to men are hundreds of others who are belligerently national feelings :: suppress a rising of the militia teen years in the Reichswehr who are accustomed to carry poverty stricken and starving Britain's policy, together with at Ely, and there was a great before being put in the bag in out orders unquestioningly and and the main reason is because the rest of the world, seems to outery in the country when Normandy.

methodically, seems # these foreigners were ordered to

elow, the wealthy Chinese will not The men are most enthusias- cumbersome and unconvincing lift a finger to help the im flug the leaders. More recently, tic about their entertainment affair. But, after all, many of poverished section of its own when British troops left for the halls. The "Kleinkunst Buhne," these must have been Nazis be

community.. Hesse, variety-hall, was managed by a Crimea, troops · from

cause they had little or no-op-

From morning till night the known locally as the German professional artist who has portunity of being anything Colony's roads feel the weight country which the wise distribution of that which Iegion, were quartered in Col- just been repatriated. cheers and that which satisfies, cheater.

else, and their willingness to of puzens of · expersive Christian Teaching try to think and discuss objne streamlined limousines white own justifies no doubt a beguiling

One of the most important Lively and above all to learn along the sidewalks are ined harm is likely to emerge. The

Two years have passed since features of the camp is its re about others' ways may bear the beggars, the "cumshaw customer has, however, usually that wet night when the firstigious instruction. There is a fruit one day. It is too early children; the destituted and the learned to his cost that the remnants of the Wehrmacht the logical college, where suit- to tell now. blandishments of the Council reached Berechurch. The deso- late meadow has become, in the Chamber rarely reach into the words of Gardinal inner recesses of the offices in Archbishop of Cologne, first which these vital decisions are German from Germany to visit made, and infers, that the most 186 POW Camp, a "gilded likely reward for gratuitously cage." The tents have given providing the information would way to rows of Nissen hats and be a snub for his pains.

brick buildings; concrete roads. run where once muddy paths meandered; there are ornamen tal flower beds and vegetable gardens; it is all neat and trim. The sullen, "despondent men themselves are changed; despite the barbed wire, the sense

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War Crime Policy Criticised

Singapore, Nov. 27. The entire system of war crimes trials in Southeast Asia was des- cribed as "inefficient" in today's issue of the Singapore "Malayan Tri- bune," which criticised the policy of trying seri-

Two Years

F BARCLAY ON BRIDGE

And now they are on their way home to participate in the reconstruction of a new and, we hope, a better and peaceful Germany

The Government recently an

noudced its scheme for the ac- celerated repatriation of the 894,000 Germans held in Bri- tain, a decision which has

By Shepard Barclay

"The Authority on Authorities"

READ THE HEAD

CLEARLY

the

oldi.

be appeasement on every scare. But I fail to see why poorly filled coffers at home should be emplied even more for the re habilitation programme of a is not much and more impoverished than ur

our

Those of the Chinese who ilave money live well in Colony, indeed they live like lords, domestically and socially, yet they least of all are tolerant ef the plight of their own re sourceless' people.

M. B.

Taking No Chances

Sioux City, Iowa,

Nov. 27

Lee Moore, a former

The British Government in Hong Kong does its utmost in aiding where the, Chinese fail to tread, but there ought to ho more much more cooperation in slave who has attained whose A dropped the K; permit- the shape of dollar bills from the unusual age of 105 ting him to finish with spude the wealthy. But then it is taking no chances. tricks and set the contract seems they are very content to When he dies, the negro

South could have read that leave it all to us.

lead exactly, If it were a Your obvious wish to help will have a plot of fourth-best. West would have the needy and to promote more ground ready for his had the A-J-10 for his higher friendly feelings between Bri-burial and a headstone cards, and the J would have tatu and China is very"""well"

he picked that suit Instead of been the sound lead. Hence it understood. and appreciated, to mark his grave.

He came to Sioux City re- different one. There are was not a fourth-best, but the Lady Cripps, but it is a little combinations of

carda top of probably a trebleton, disconcerting to know that cently for that purpose and in which make it possible, occa with the A-1-10 and two, two British families may soon pour vested his last $300 for the let sonully, to place an amazing smaller ones in the East. Such more hard gained cash, which and stone number of the hidden paste- being the case, the Q was the they, earned in the factories an- Moore carries a Manila paper- boards, though only one has right play from dummy, If East day the stress of war into the pouch in his pocket containing re- been seen.

ducked this, South would be laps of poverty stricken Chinese ceipts for his purchases and to Rasured of two spade tricks. If while the moneybags of their make sure. Instructions for Eust used the Aron It, as he countrymen remain tightly cles burial do not, become illegible the envelope contains a metal plate would, South, could hold up the ed

HKJO DQ J9,8.6) CAKS

meant much at Bercchurch, for 186 is the Base Transit Camp $862 SAJ1064 for the whole of Eastern Com- $862

mand, where men for repatria- HA 42 - ous cases but releasing tion are collected from other 0462. minor suspects.

Commands, and every week! CQJ544 1,000 men pass through ite gates on the road back.

Quoting the official review of the work of the war crimes courts which said that the number of}

Priority

suspects had been reduced from Priority in repatriation 9,000 in June to 4,500 today, the

added: "In ten months, given to those prisoners who

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accused, of whom 445 have before 1939 or who have shown

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been convicted and 182 Beatenced since a "positive democratic North to death.

attitude" and are likely to play

2NT

K for the third round. Hence Compare the standards of on, which have been printed his he would lose no more spade living in Hong Kong and Eng-last wishes and a photo of the tricks, and would make his con- and today and any intended negro;

tract if West hail the heart A, voluntary aid from Britain here Metre was born in Buenos as he did. Success with the would promote #sidiculous Aires, he said, on July 12, 1840- diamond finesso would haya situation. As you know, the At the age of 17, when “Buchanan enable him to score an extra British housewife's biggest and was President," he came to the trick

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a useful part, in the rehabilita "It will be surprising if in the tion of Germany. For the most

AQ875 end more than 800 of the accused part such men are controlling South almost automatically, D073 pass through

the

courts----leas than one in ten of the number responsible positions. Next East was smart enough to hold

prisoner groups or occups other played the 7 from dummy, and CJ 6 5 4 Brrested.

highest priority goes to up his A, using the 10. Afrald "The explanation behind the workers, such as timber to take that and make himself

new policy is a simple pas. The workers and miners, particu. vulnerable in the Bult, Sauth2

H 10 9:42 D4 whole system of war crimes trials larly those who have volunteer played low East returned they r C KQ 9 3 - in Southeast Asia has been los-ed to work in the mines. A 6 to the Q, which; "blanked eficient, ad that fually there has certain number get preterentia South's Through a success been no option but to proceed treatment on compassionate ful finesse, five diamonds were against a few and let mady grounds, and thereafter, the scored and two high clubs, but

The oficial review

declared that it would have been imprae- general criterion is length of that made only eight. tricks ticable to bring 9,000 suspects to service spent in captivity. Only When South Jost the lead then

reasonable

those men whose homes are in to the heart A West had a the British Zone can at present little spade to return to East,

Henter

most important worry now is United States: Because he was feed To her, the sight of a unable to pay his passage the Hong Kong grocery store, with ship's officers sold him as a slave: its shelves of unrationed and He remained a slave until freed edible goods would have with by the United States civil war, out exaggeration, a bright The thin old man who wante to bury himself without help dreamlike quality.asu.

The egge, the bacon, meat from any county or state, fish, fruit and nuts and all the search of light work. He was

fused a State pension" things that they have done had papers in his pocket without so patiently for so long he was the owner of

in England in within reach of worth $300.

La

all who have the money to buy But that property consisted of in Hong Kong But the peo the headstone and burial lot

ple at home are not fully aware

of the bulk or foodstuffs stored

in several parts of the world,

Ask them instead of giving)

Associated Press.

Ottawa, Nov. 28, to save their money to buy, food Contracts were completed to- (Dealer North East-West from our exporting Dominione day for Canadian construction vulnerable.)

and America, just as Chine of $35,732,825 worth of shippin What desperate chance can doing And tell them in Enger the French Government In Southtry, seeking 3-Noland to issue more, very many the next two years. The Ca Trumps, after West leads the more details to the countries tract embraces 13 freight heart 7-to the East having almost unar ected by the war and 140 Cargo made a spade bid?

tabout how they are living at sociated Press,

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