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document stating that they have not been ill-treated, have acquired no Infectious disease, und have received all their personal effects intact..

Is not known how many have died)

must have

their hornes, but there

shortly after reaching been many."

In comp or WHILE shells from a German submarine were flying and glass, "eyes" of the Fighting bursting overhead, 14-year-old Frank Elders, mess boy of the Forces and of scientists, Heronspool (6,202 tons, of West Hartlepool), armed merchant- without which no modern man, served coffee to the ship's gun crew, war could be fought,

This achievement in the result of 21 years intensive research and experiment in producing the 70 different varieties of optical glass, some of which are used in combination to make up lenses used in the highest-grade instru- ments,

Allies Co-operate

Economic Council To Be Established

London, Nov. 17. Foreign Embassies have heard that

A statement by a former prisoner Britain and France had decided to at Buchenwald communicated to the establish Joint Supreme Econo- half Foreign Office on Feb. 8 of the present mic Counell after two and

months of hostilities, a step which In year contains the following:

the inst war the Allies took only "Even slight offences-drinking after more than two and half years. some water during working hours

triumph of Allied

This is generally regarded as p strategy and, da believed to involve the pooling of the

He was the hero of a five-hour battle in the Atlantic on October 13, TIENTSIN GARRISON which raged when a U-boat attacked

the Heronspool. Hundred Men to Leavened the ship's gun as the vessel tried meal and with, having to stand to nounced to-day.

The crew of the theronspool man were punished with loss of midday The decision is expected to be an- From Shanghai

to steal away. The submarine fol-attention for four hours during the lowed the vessel, however, and began short free period normally allowed abelling her.

on Sundays, The Torpedo Joseph Abbott, of Swansea, who, "But the main punishment was the resources of the two Empires." with 35 other members of the crew, lash. A public flogging was given for! Thus, all raw materials in the erived at a British port tram New minor offences, for Instance, if a Dritish Hominions and Colonies will oner was caught smoking at work, be available to France under Invour- At the end of the afternoon roll-callable conditions, while France may the numbers of the prisoners sen-supply wheat from home and from tenced to be fogged were rend out-Algiers, as well as fruit and veget- there would be several every day-ables and other commodities, to and the men were led out and bound Britain-United Press. fast to the whipping-block.

Tientsin, Nov. 17. Major-General Sir John Laurie, the commandant of the British garrison "In 1914 many foreign instruments furces in North China, in a formal were being used in the Services, but letter notified the Japanese garrison York sald: today the equipment is 100 per cent.ornmandent at Tientsin on Thursday "Shots went across our bows, but British," said Mr. T. J. Offer, of the that the entire Durham Light In- we did not stop. We began aring at Scientile Instrument Manufacturers' airy Battalion, numbering about the U-boat, and a duel went on from Association of fireat Britain, in an 606, now stationed at Tientsin and seven o'clock at night until a few

Peking would be withdrawn.

minutes past mknight. Hundred Uses

"Some of the shells exploded riggst | The mule further indicates that wer the vessel, but the Gerinang suc- "This optleat glass is used for peris-company of the second battalion of ceeded only in scoring minor hits. empes, telescopes, binocutors, aerial would he transferred

the East Surrey Regiment at Shang-

"Right at the end they stopped to North Aring and sent over a torpedo, photographie lenses, range-finders China and stationed at Pelting and

un sights, snipers' sights, anti-al-Tientsin.

This hit the fore part of the ship. There was an explosion which blew craft sights, and a hundred other in- struments.

the fo'castle away.

interview.

"British firms are meeting all res quirements for the re-urmoment pro- str. The tests to which the in-

It is understood that the company by stationed in North China - ludes about 100 men.Donici.

"We took to the boats, some of which were leaking, und rowed about for six hours. During most of this! time we had to buil. struments are subjected are very photographie lenses are 110w used

"We were rescued by the American stringent, and they have passed them almost exclusively in Hollywood film liner President Harding and taken to most successfully."

studios, and Britain now actually New York. We had some electric Giving an example of the prestige exports her spectrographie apparatus torches with which we made signals, succeeded In attracting the of British photographic lane man-to countries most generally known and

President Harding's attention," facturers, Mr. Offer said that British as her keenest competitors.

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"The usual punishment, 25 strokes with a raw hide whip on the buttocku, was carried out by two hefty S.S.

London, Nov. 18. urds, taking turns with the whip. Following the visit of the French A third S.5. man held the victim's Finance Minister, M. Reynaud, to Jaws together to stifle any cries. England, a highly important an- Some of the older prisoners, unable nouncement is expected shortly re- tn, work fast, were flogged in this garding economic collaboration.

human way for laziness.

M Reynaud's thoughts, as he out- "After the flogging the victim was ined them in his talks in London, made to take down his trousers and amount to nothing

than an display his bloody stripes to an S.S. economic federation of Britain and man, whose business it was to judge France as the first step towards whether the lash had been strongly creating a United States of Europe. enough laid on.

He is stated to have spoken of pre- "TREE-BINDING"

paring unlun of the British ond New Possibilities

French Customs, a common currency *Twenty-five strokes Wa9 the for both countries, and the pooling favourite punishment at Buchenwald, of the vast economie resources of but there were others. The sweat the two nations.

in

in enormous

box for example. It often happened The dimculties in the path of such that the prisoner was already dead before the 'sweat-box' was opened to an ambitious scheme are admitted to be great The comparatively low release him.

"Another punishment was that standard of life of the French and

wages prevailing known 45 iree-binding and the the smaller guards showed great inventiveness in France might result developing the possibilities of this French dumping on British markets a Customs union torture. If only a slight offence had in the event of been committed, the prisoners would being realised. be bound to the tree in such a way

announcement is The impending that they stood facing it, and as if likely to deal with speelfe measures collaboration of far embracing It, their hands pinioned of economic together.The straps that bound them more limited and insignificant scope, would be pulled so tight that they and Mr. Reynaud's plans for a very could barely. move. The guards Federation, although taken would now

play merry-go-round seriously, are considered as being of with them, that is, they would force long range character-United Press them to make their way round and round the tree. If they could not

inove quickly enough it was usual to idleness on look-out duty, often help them by kicking their ankles, amused themselves by calling u This was only the less pevery form prisoner over to the fence. New of tree-binding Another form of prisoners would obey the order, and the same punishment

ended jas soon as they approached the S.S. ntally. The victim would be strap-machine-gun would open fire. This ped to the tree, facing outwards, his form of joke was quite frequently arms pulled back and round the tree indulged in,

often

"It must not be thought that these barbaric tortures were exceptional. At Buchenwald these things were of daily occurrence," DEATHS IN HEAT Criminals as Foremch

prisoners

even

trunk and then bound together. The "But most of the prisoners who die thighs and feet, the latter only just at Buchenwald die in the stonn touching the ground, would also be quarry. Round the quarry a chain tied, sumciently tight to stop the of S.S. posts were also established circulation of the blood. The prt-which it was death to approach. soner would be left hanging in this "It frequently happened that one,

weaker of the older or position for hours at a time.

would be ordered to carry a stone block which it was physically im- possible for him to manage, though he exerted every ounce of his limited strength. The SS. guard would try again and again to force the prisoner to carry his load.

"Naturally the unhappy man would fall behind his companions, After.a "Severu! the older prisoners in short while those who had filed past Jour working party died in the stone him would bear a shot. The prisoner quarry on that blazing hot June day, had been driven out of the line by After the morning roll-call we had the guard and over to the SS, post, been divided into labour groups each who had shot another victim while 100 strong. To each group a foreman attempting to escape."

The prisoner then describes his} "Arst day at hard Inbour:"

.

Was assigned, chosen almost in- "Among the Jewish prisoners was variably from the habitual criminals, a youngster, 22 years of age, called whose right it was to knock us about Erich Lowenberg. He had been con- as he thought ft.

tor in a synagogue, had married "We were accompanied by an S.S, young, and his wife was expecting. detachment of guarda, .not one of a child two months later. Erich whom could have been more than 18 Lowenburg-it happened about July years old. They were, nevertheless, 16, 1038 was driven by an S.S. qulte competent at manhandling and guard on to the highway near thu beating us.

quarry and forced in front of a heavy "Close to the quarry was a spring, lorry driven by another S.S. inaa. bubbling with fresh, clear water. An hour and a half later the young Prisoners who tried to approach the inan was dead." spring for a drink were driven away by the S.S. guards.

BEYOND DESCRIPTION "By afternoon 80 out of our An Infamous Commandant original 100 had collapsed, some of The statement adds that the Aryan them with sun-stroke, and not even death roll in the camp was at least the brutal onslaughts of the guards ano day. Out of the 2,000 Jewish were able to bring them back on to prisoners that arrived on June 16, 80 their feet to resume work. We had died in the first four weeks and 30 to carry them back in the end to the more in the fifth week, camp hospital-all but two had died." The tortures inflicted off the pri- "The camp is surrounded by a wire sonurs by certain of the 5.9, men, fence, electrically charged at night.the statement says further, "are be At Intervals there are look-out posts (yond the power of any pen to des- with machine-guns, manned by S.S.cribe," detachments: The prianders are for- It refers in particular to "Horr bidden to approach the wire. If they Standartenfuhrer Kock, infamous as do, the S.S. are instructed to fire on the perpetrator of nameless brutalf- them.

ties at the Kolumblahaus in Berlin, and at the camps of Esterwege and Sachsenhausen, now in charge of the Buchenwald camp." "How many "Newly arrived prisonerg were deaths of defenceicas prisoners,” it often ignorant of this regulation, and asks, "has this man on his con-

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the S.S. men, bored at their enforced science?"

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