1939-05-27 — Page 15

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

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May 27, 1939.

Rush of Duich defence troops into netive service was explained by Premler Hendryk Colijn of The Netherlands as not inspired by fear but to prove that the nation was ready for any even tuality. He is shown, left, un a visit to the submarine base at Den Helder,

Refugees Pay £100 To Send Furniture

HUNDREDS of tons of furniture belonging to

refugees from Germany and Austria are lying unclaimed in London because the owners are in Nazi concentration camps after trying in vain to reach England.

Many of them were detained they pay anything they are asked in after they had paid huge aums German money to get their furniture to German firms to send their personal belongings abroad.

out.

"The German money is no goxi tu connot them anyway because they Port of London officials sald recent-take it out of the country,

ly that each week an average of more

"German transport firms charge than 700 tons of refugees furniture,them from £30 to £40 just for the sealed with Nazi swastika badges, in four-ton packing enses, arrive by sea packing case alone. from Hainburg.

It costs

them

In German money anything from £100 to send furniture for which

Packing cases, with Nazi and Bri-they can hardly get 30s. when it gets tish Customs seals side by side, after here.”

standing unclaimed for a few days,

are being moved to bonded

wire-

"A NEW BUSINESS"

At one wharf an official said:

Fach

homes, or to barges which store them"There has been a terrife increase In

this furniture trafie fately. in the London docks.

Seals put on by the Naz! authori-week we get from sixty to a humired cases weighing from three to Ove exporting ties to stop

unpermitted tons each, as well as between 1,000 goods appear to tell a story of Ger- and 1,500 smaller packages. The in-

money or

the owners

other any

man economics.

The British Customs seals of good solid lead are bound together by generous twists of strong wire. The Nazi seals are made of a cheap light alloy linked by thin white string.

TWO WEEKS' WAIT

---All" such packing-enses are Sup

posed to be opened in the presence of Customs officer at the address, to which they have been demand for officers to go to various

sent. The

crease is so great that it represents almost a completely new line of business,"

On some of the refugees' packing- cases landed near London Bridge were found printed labels with the Union Jack at one end and a British Fascist symbol at the other. In be- tween are printed the words, "Mind Britain's Business.-The-labels were, apparently stuck on before shipment' from Hamburg.

The Nazi captain of a Hamburg addresses to supervise the opening steamer which landed nearly ninely of furniture cases is so great that tons of furniture one day told an fumiture arriving now

cnanot

are 2,000 the

"There be English friend, opened and inspected for nearly a packing cases standing along

dockalde at Hamburg from all over fortnight.

Germany and Austria, wafting for a ship.**

Mr. L. Woodbridge, partner in n firm of foreign removal contractors,|

of Hundreds of people stood on Lon- said: "We handle an average

Bridge six don

recently looking at twenty lift-vans, or cases, and

of twenty-three huge packing casey ferry trucks-that is, 122 tons furniture a week, about one-sixth that had the names of their owners of the total furniture traffle to Lon-painted on them in foot-high letters. don. There is also a lot going to These were Hull and Grimsby.

"We often find that the furniture sent here cannot be collected because concentra. its owner has gone to a tlon camp, Refugees have told us

PRESERVE

Your Blankets

A sprinkle of Keating

nomes:

some of the Zdenko Dworak, Weln; Gustav Knauer; Harry W. Hamacher; Alex- ander Philipp; Walter Schneider; with-Grestow.

The two packing cases of Zdenko Dworak from Vienna had no Nazl sign on their seals. They were sealed with heavy lead stamps of the Austrian Imperial two-headed oogle.

Recruit Measured By Ladder WHEN 21-years-old David

Thomas Smith, of Kings- ton-street, Walworth, S.E., pre- sented himself as a recruit at the depot of the 7th Queen's Regiment, Territorials, recently he almost upset the depot's or- ganisation.

David in Gft. 11in. In height. Tho official measuring stand at the depot stops at Oft. Oln.

He was measured finally against a wall. A corporal stood on a ladder to make the mark.

David, who is known to his friends as "Tiny," will have to walt for his uniform. The quartermuster could find nothing to fit." Everything will have to be specially made.

"I decided to do my bit like the

"I am used to being chaffed about

kasps Rjankott, Woollies, | rost," he said. altia fine from math and

U it dry.

Inject' parti. Dust under my height-I was Lamppost at carpett Couns pichers | school—so I don't mind being taller calls and in cupboards than the rest of my new pals in the when Spring cleaning. Terriers.

"My father served through the German Agents:-Mfuțier & Phipps (China), Lid. War. He has given me

bugle which lie picked up on the Battlefield at Beaumont Hamel as a memento of my enlistment"

KEATING'S

POWDER

Then David's father let out a "secret."

"It is not my son's Brst experlenco of the Army," he said. "He ran THE PROVED away and joined the Guards when he was 15 and drew a man's pay for INSECTICIDE four months before he was found to

be-under-nge, Then he was dir charged,"

BUT IT MUST BE KEATING'S

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