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Erigong legal GERMANY By Oscar Hobson

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23. 1937.

Caution And Common

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News Chronicle

City Editor

intervals, notice boards painted with a warning which the most

EFORE describing boys are now obliged to attend evidence of strain in their eyes. the severe military discipline to the camps let me dis for six months after leaving The boys were intimidated by school and before entering upon which they were being subject- Statemen

point military service. pose of one are being

in mendably cautiona

The one we saw was a small their Both before I went and

back, affair, containing only abou statements concerning the since I have come

me: 160 boys. The general ap The Commandant said that we illiterate could read-a skull courge to be followed at the con- friends have said to ference in Brussels. The British "Of course, they selected pearance of the place was not could ask the boys questions, and One hardly needed to ask if the We asked the commandant. Prime Minister correctly holds their show camps for you to unpleasant, though the wooden himself barked out questions to fence was electrified.

huts seemed rather cramped for four or five boys to which they that, if anything is to be ac-sec."

the number of boys they had to replied, as though reporting on whether any of the prisoners complished, they must approach I believe that there is very accommodate. But what im parade. His questions were in tried to escape. "Yes," he said, the delicate problem of media-itle, if anything, in this. I was pressed me most was the com- each case the same: "How old "all of them."

Ile went on to explain that the tion without threats. Japan. it with other delegates to the Con- plete and thoroughgoing mill- are you?" and "Have you put

on Weight?" International tarism of the place.

attempts occurred when they is recognised, will listen only gress

You could see it before you I talked to one boy who, as it were outside the compound in reluctantly to any suggestion of Chamber of Commerce, and as

10 got inside the camp at all, for happened, was wearing the badge working parties. He was ask- intervention, if at all, and one we had only a few hours ill-chosen word might prevent spare in Berlin we had to so at the entrance was a sentry of mernbership of the Nazi party. ed if any hud. succeeded. He re- camps within a short distance box with a boy on guard Despite that, he was definitely plied that none had, though on her attendance at the joint dis-of the city.

armed with a space. They are frightened, evidently being one occasion a tunnel 80 yards cussions.--As-It-Is-Tokyo-may-Nor did they hide things, for issued with special spades for afraid of being caught out in long had been excavated, and ex- not be officially represented, and the Nazis are (within the drilling with, and they are some way-though he thawed a plained with a twisted smile that- exactly as little as the commandant moved if ever an escaping prisoner though it is improbable that the narrow limits of vision which drilled with them

passed a certain boundary he Government will Ignore the their blinkers impose) an et with rifles.

They "slope" spades, "order" The impression of strain was shot down. meeting entirely, it may be that clent crowd and they are proud

The camp contained 2,300 pri- of these camps,

spades and "present" spades, the unnatural fixity of the eyes,

Of these, 1,000 were it will do no more than send

exactly in the same way as with which belied the evidence of sonera. observers.

think that both types of rifles: in fact, it was solemnly sun-tanned skins-was natural habitual criminals" and 1,800.

two classes parade in different lutions are rather more difficult (ration Camp at Sachenhausen. their tongues in such a crisis camps are appalling institutions explained to us that these evo- ly much greater in the Concen- were political criminals. The

but not for reasons which

to perform with a spade than This is a great new camp, squads, but are only distinguish- there is no good reason for them their authors would hide if they with a rifle, because of the at- situated in the pinewoods north able from the fact that the poli- to shut their eyes to the possi- could or could if they would sence of a proper grip from the of Berlin. It has only been in ticals wear a red, and the habi- bility of failure and the con- Both camps were spick and former.

occupation since last September tuala a green, strip of cloth lot sequences of such. It must be span to the last degree: orderli Time did not permit us to and was built by the prisoners into their white cotton uni- concluded that definite methods ness and cleanliness. I am not see much of the work which the themselves.

Buildings and forms.

If you write off the whole of of dealing with the Far East able to judge of the adequacy boys do or to judge its value. equipment were unexceptionable,

of the feeding, but we war, slowing up the slaughter shown the diciaries and samples are told, Imilled to 35 a week;

were Hours of actual labour are, we yet the place lacked all humanity. the rest of this description as sentimental nonsense, the hard ** with a view to eventually stop- of the food supplied.

fact remains that in this one the boys are paid a wage of 3d. ping it entirely, have been con- The two commandants, Prus-

Inside the fenced compound camp 1,300 Germans (mostly sidered. Though they do

not sian incorruptibles of the ruth. a day and can get leave at wock-

there grow not even a blade of youths and all non-Jews), whose admit it, it is fairly obvious that leas type, who showed us round

grass. Apart from the ground only offence is that they have certain powers most active in answere í all questions put with

covered by the hutments, it was expressed political views dis the present campaign for inter- frankness-in one instance with

The curriculum includes fcc- one vast sandy parade ground. tasteful to the Nazi Party, re- cession have not only made in-almost brutal frankness.

tures, mostly, I imagine, on mill- Over the main gate and at the ceive identically the same treat- tary subjects. One was golag angles were inspection towers ment as habitual criminals who on while we were there: it was in which were posted warders have served numerous earlier on parachute descents.

with searchlights and machine sentences.

of both Theoretically men Entry into the lecture room guns-grim example of Jeremy On the Opposition benches in

classes can secure liberation if me the oportunity of Bentham's "panopticon." London there was no hesitation reference concerned Hongkong's gave

convince the prison about speaking of tho con-physical safely. There is always judging the appearance of the The compound was surround- they can

of the the danger of economic warfare boys en masse. It gave me a cd by wire fences and along officials that they have been con- Brussela conversations, The leading to an armed clash; and shock.

Superficially they looked them, planted in the ground, at verted to good citizenship. We Liberal leader in. the House of there is no denying that this fur Commons; Sir Archibald Sin- outpost, strongly defended as it clair, put the case bluntly. He may be both economically and said, in effect, that a boycott of politically, woukl suffer from Japan, by her chief customers sanctions of even the mildest Were these to be the stir, would make it impossible for her kort. to finance her war. Just like saw-toothed variety, necessital- that. There was no doubt in ing a virtual blockade, the post- the Liberal leader's inind. When lion of this Colony would be- he added that there were vulner come.

more apparently. able places, like Hongkong, unpleasant. Nevertheless, there which, would not care. toare few persons here who would participate in such a policy, Sir not applaud the adoption of a

A newspaper heading we ex- The Gloucester's opening night Archibald evidently had strong policy by the Nine-Power thought of the menace which Treaty signatories if there were pected to see: Batten Down and was a thoroughly Worth-y affair.. must lie behind any form of any prospect of the China tragedy Up Again. sauctions, if these are to be being terminated. effectively enforced. There is

uso blinking the fact that amicable settlement at Brussels;

dependent plans but have dis- The Labour Camp is a new

cuance joint proceedings of one institution, which all German sort or another.

sequences

no

of failure

even

Hongkong will hope for an

ends.

were shown ono model prisoner who was shortly due to be ro- leased on that ground. He was an embezzler.

BULLS AND INNERS inary methods, such un-

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promising human material could be induced to drill and march with the extraordinary precision they displayed when, at roll call, the 2,300 of them marched for- ward across the parado ground.

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ed off, an elderly "political" (to Shing-Mun Dam is exceed- judge by his face, an idealist popular on moonlight with a touch of fanaticiam about

standing on a chair, began to- The waterworks wonders, him) doubled forward

conduct the convicts in.com-. munity singing.

Jean Batton has nothing on ingly sanctions on the part of a group or at least the laying of the 1.E. the O.A.G.! He travelled nights. of powers for it is highly im foundation of mediation and "by Falmouth to Macao" in less probable that a boycott would be lasting peace in the Far East. than twenty-four hours. univerant--would possibly lend But Hongkong is British, strong

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A contemporary referred to Bures were aimed. There is no ment shirk a vital issue oven at the High Cost of Loving." need to stretch the imagination | the

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cost of loss of trade and b- believe that Sir Archibald's. Į security in this Colony-

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The singing of those convicta made a deeper impression on me than anything I experienced in: my stay in Germany. Every man joined in. The sound must:

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