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SIEGFRIED

Wives Storm A Prison

-New York.

WEEPING wives of convicts

at San Quentin, California, threatened to batter their way into a prison whero forty-one men had been given a` whipping by their guards.

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Clamouring to see the governor, the pretty blonde wife of one convict sald she would organise citizens into: an army to release the prisoners.

The prison whipping scene com- pared with the torture horrors of the Middle Ages.

Lead-Tipped Straps

After the forty-one prisoners were fed into the courtyard and bound, guards with lead-tipped strapa Jashed them unmerelfully. When the whipping ended some of the men were unconscious... The lashing was punishment for the men's part in a prison hunger strike. The California governor has order- ed the

resignation of the prison board, but the convicts' wives are gathering supporters and demanding active vengeance and the men's re- [case.

They've Been Diluting The Regiment

MR. HORE-BËLISHA, War Minister, to a visibly moved

House of Commons:

|WAALS (Dutch-German

Frontier).

WHY CHILDREN

ARE FRETFUL

Just think how harmful it is for a chtid-to carry, about a lot of poi- sonous waste matter in his bowelst No wonder children sometimes aro "little devils" for no apparent reason! The safest way to give your child a thorough internal cleaning is California Syrup of Figs. It acts I HAVE been watching up a natural movement that carries Germans aged seventy and away all the clogging, hard waste- matter and leaves the tio Inside seventeen building the new sweetened and clean, sector of the Siegfried Line A dose of delicious California along the Dutch frontier Syrup of Figs once a week keeps kiddies regular, happy and well. Get this week-end, says a cor- bottle to-diny, but be sure to ask respondent.

for 'California Syrup of Figs' brand. Obtainable from all chemists, drug- sirts and leading stores.

From Waals, where the Dutch, Belgian and German frontiers come together opposite Aaclien, I saw Labour Service youths and ardinary workers constructing forta cut into a low hillside.

SOLDIERS

COMFORTS

"As the London Scottish seems to have obtained an undue number of Englishmen, steps will be taken to with- draw the Englishmen and to replace them by men of Scot- tish descent. In future, but this cannot be guaranteed for the full duration of the war." The situation., according to Mr. Gibson (Lab., Greenock) had caused alarm inside and outside London-52 non- Scots had been taken into

day since Iltler gave the order that the Siegfried Line was to be pushed) one battalion and 100 into

The British Wor Organisation up to the North Sea. At present the Fund announce that by courtesy of another, He wanted the dis- forts reach no further than about the Blue Funnel Line, 10 cases of tinctive tradition of the regi-four miles north of the Belgian fron-supplies for troops will be despatch- ment maintained.

Mr. Hore-Belisha pointed out that every effort was made to send Scottish re- cruits to Scottish units, but the number in the quota was insufficient, and it was neces- sary to supplement them. from other sources.

DOCTOR CLIMBED UP ROPE WITH TEETH

wife nnd

Through glasses I could see the grey-green uniforms of the Labour: Service troops, and the khaki of the officer in charge.

Work is being carried on night and)

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ed

Hongkong To Sond Shipment Next Week

lo England next week. The At least one light line of fortifica-materials were purchased with public Hons is being worked on, and the donations to the Fund.

| Nazis believe it can be ready before

next soring. Lorries bring up one The contents of the cases are.--- shift of workers and take back the 1,216 abdominal swabs, 04 many-tail- other,

ed bandages, 674 traingular bandages,

9-Hour Day

Some of the workmen on the 617 rolled called bandages, 388 gauze Siegfried Line here (It should be rolled bandinges, 143 bandages, 160 more strictly called the West Wall towels, 30 sheets, 730 gauze dressings, where it runs north of Belgium) 2.320 small swabs, 144 operating cants, ae over seventy,

133 hospital socks (pairs), 224 pullov- ers, 223 socks (pairs), 371 scarves, 25 palte mittehs, balaclaya helmets. These men do not do the heavy The hospital supplies have been construction work, but they are busy sent to the British Red Cross, knitted at carpentering and plumbing, and articles to the. Oficer-in-Charge, So the same nine-hour shift as boys Army Comforts, and the Royal Naval of seventeen of the Labour Service.”

Comforts Depot.

ANOTHER dramatic story of the Simon Bolivar was re- vealed at an Ipswich hospital, where Dr. William Besson, Colonial None of the fortiscation workers is It is expected that similar supplies medical officer, lies with an injured spine and broken right arm. allowed to cross the frontier into will be sent regularly onco, a month.

"I was thrown right into the mention:

Holland. They are watched con- There will be no meeting at the air by the first explosion," he How after receiving his terrible stantly by Gestapo uples. Eleven U.S.R.C. on December 13, 20 or 27, said.

injuries, he directed rescue operations from this region ulone were but supplica of materials can be. tent to concentration camps in the obtained from Mrs. Phillips, 13 Ob- "Ismashed my spine and my as he lay in agony on the deck;

How he helped his

last six months for talking too much. servatory Road. arm as I landed on

the deck. daughter to some drifting wreckage the hill behind Wants, highest work on Tuesdays at the Helena May

When I drove to the look-out point The ship's bont we were in capsized when the ship's boat turned over;

The knitting section continues to

and I was thrown into

pelot in Holland, I saw water.

How he left their side to plunge to patrols moving through the woodsaltute and on Thursdays at 350, "Clinging to wreckage, I drifted for the rescue of his son, who had been ty yards away from the road which The Peak (Tel. 29019) and wool and four hours. Then I saw a rope trail-nwept away by a wave;

patterns are given to those who pre- ing from the side of a British de- And how he swam after the litite is the Dutch frontier.

fer to kalt at home. An appeal has stroyer.

boy until he could swim no longer, On the Line troops move into the been received from Englund asking "I grabbed it with my teeth nná? These things were told by his forts as soon as they are finished, jurgently for knitted comforts for the clung to it. Then gradually using my brother-in-law, Mr. John Davis, before even the concrete is dey. This Services, and it is hoped that all who teeth and my good arm, I hauled Liverpool University dental, student. done not only as a detence mea-can will kriit warm garments, so that myself up. I was too weak to shout Dr. Besson's 26-year-old wife, hissure, but because Aachen is so frequent consignments may be seni, for help.

daughter, aged four, and son, nged crowded that every billet that can as the men's needs especially And this what Dr. Besson did not six, were all drowned.

be found is useful.

great during the coming months.

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