1939-12-15 — Page 3

Deaf Mutes 3.7 A. A.

Making Shells

ON THE HOME FRONT.

SIX deaf and dumb men are working a special department in a munition factory in England making 3.7 nuti-aircraft shells at the rate of a million a year.

A short time ago they were working as cobblers, carpenters, and giass-blowers.

They were sent to the factory from a deal and dumb school because they can stand the noise-flke the beating of leavy sea breakers and steam hooters-better than the ordinary worker.

Their jobs in the shot-blasting department, where fine steel shot- is blown into the shell cases by compressed air and whirled round ai a pressure of 80lbs, to the square inch.

These deaf and dumb men take it in turna to work, dressed in a kindl

of diver's uniform and helmet, In a large steel tank.

I peered through a small mica window and saw them working, says

a Homeside reporter. As they received the shells Into the tank from a man outside they talked by deaf and dumb signs.

"Men were falling il with the noise, so we solved the problem by alving these men the job," an official nafd.

Shot blasting process in shell making is something new. It is done to make a smooth surface Inside the shell, before it is filled with high explosive, and the men are paid £3 10s, a week.

NAZIS GOT HER IN THE END

Bride Fled - To Be Drowned

WHEN Hitler marched into Austria Herr Waren- reich, a Viennese lawyer, and his fiancée fied.

They were Jews.

Their wedding arrangements had)

to be abandoned.

Her Warenreich sought refuge In

Switzerland,

His fiancee came to England and found employment at Blackburn ns

a malti.

Ex-Kaiser

Gets His

Herr Warenreich stayed at Zurich Ration Card

for five months before coming to Binckburn

January 26.

CX-

for the wedding o'n AMSTERDAM, The

Kaiser, who is showing a keen Two days later he and his bride interest in the course of the war, ported never to SUC ench ather

has now received his ration card again,

for sugar.

The man left for America, where he hoped to and employment.

A powerful wireless set has been installed at Doorn, and the ex-Kaiser Frou Warenreich left to join her listensin regularly to the news husband by the Athenin, two days bulletins from Dutch, British and before the outbreak of war.

German stations. If he is unable to After the vessel had been torpe-hear a bulletin for himself, some of the family must note the member doed she was posted missing.

For at Ume her husband clung to main Items. a slender hope that she had been picked up by a Canadian ship.

Now that hope has been abandoned by the announcement of the full casualty Hist.

The ex-Kalser reads all the war) bulletins and indicates by small tags on a big wall map the positions of the different armies.

in the garden of the castle a shelter

Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 15, 1939.

H. R. Knickerbocker Sends Vivid War Despatch

POILU

ONE

FORTY

Doctor Buried Doll As Child

THE story of a Leicester doc tor burying a still-born child and a doll in place of another child, whose body ho preserved in formalin, was told at a Lei cester inquest recently.

The inquest was the sequel to the finding of the remains of three wo-

men

and three children Inn zine) bath at a bungalow at Syston, five miles from Leicester,

Took Body Away

In the bath was the body of a child, Trevor Albert Deverlek, whom the Inquest was held..

on

Albert Sidney Deverick, the father, milk roundsman, of Melrose-street, Leicester, said the child was born on March 10, 1938, and died 14 days later.

Later the ductor came and took) the body, along with the order for burial.

No post-mortem examination had been made before the child was taken away.

ROUTS GERMANS

WITH THE FRENCH ARMY,

YOUNG French soldiers on the Western Front slood around the bodies of two German infantry-men to-day and gazed at them, sald a "Daily Express" Special Correspon- dent. I watched the Frenchmen. "Poor fellow," one said. They all nodded.

Suddenly one man exclaimed: { "Hitler did that." All agreed: "That's true,"

.

Our visit--the first by foreign war correspondents to the Western Front

took us Into the Maginot Line; ill took us into the front Ine wlin four hundred yards of the German troops; it gave us "ringside scat" In an artillery duel, and made us withcases of an argument of shells

screaming over our hends.

It brought us into Germany, where the French have penetrated as for as the outskirts of the Siegfried Line.

The two Germans were motor cjele scouts, killed this morning as they were making a reconnaisance In the Warndt Forest.

Both were about twenty. Both were clad in the field grey of the old German Anny, like their fathers twenty years ago. Their belts and buckles bore the slogan: "Gott mit ung" ("God is with us").

Feeblo Reply

We also stood to-day beside tiny group of French graves in a ceme- tery beside the Maginot Line. Aud we thought that no peace ofensive can succeed now because the war has gained too much momentum.

The Arst sight of the Maginot Line convinced both layman and expert that it could never be broken by any military power. Wc watched a French artillery

ndvaren tist offensive from where we cruild see shells landing on a crest called Klureichen, frem which the Germans were shouting at the village of Bister-just captured by the French.

just

'With some French officers wa walked along a road marked "Ver- botener Weg (forbidden road) and picked up fragments of Germon copy book with expense accounts for the Troops written in Gothic script,

At this section of the front in the Warndt Forest the French penetrated deepest. This was illustrated when our cur stopped and French soldiers told us of a feat of arma performed the previous day by one of their com- rades:

"One of our boys, Private Thome- ret, was carrying a container of coffee. He had a sub-machine gun over his shoulder, but never dreamed of meeting any Germans because he was at the edge of his own comp.i

'Great Activity' "Suddenly he saw twenty yards away a file of about forty men. le was about to hall then when he saw they were Germans. At the come 'mument the Germans saw him.

"White he was reaching for his gun they knocked down our boy and wounded him in four places. Never mind. Thomeret fell on his stomach und got his machine gun working.

"He killed three Germans and That the other thirty-seven ran,

ໂາຍ what

huppened. One Freachmean against forty Cer-

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TEKTIS."

SHANGHAI RUMOURS

Sir Bernard Spilsbury, Home Of- fee pathologist, said the remains had, 45] heen preserved in formalin. Death appeared to be natural and due to

Central congenital disease of the

heart.

Sentiment

Dr. Theo Zebulun Lovell, of Catherine-street Extension, sold he had a coffin sent to the house, and while the undertaker was waiting, he Etill-born child and n put into it dolor sentimental reasons."

big enough for all members of the household has been constructed.

Twenty-two of the ex-Kaiser's grandsons are serving in the German Army.

our

The Arst salvo startled a farm dog into pante-stricken flight across the neids.

Soun all along

sector the French Kuns were roaring. Th Germans replied, but feebly. Two ot their shella burst in the road just after we left. Then we come to the German frontier post at Gemeinde Lauterbach. It was strange to co past a German Custom house with- out showing a passport and without a German visn.

I stood empty and wrecked from Inside by a German mine which had been intended

to kill Frenchmen when they opened the door,

Shanghal, Dec. 14. Prominent banking clrcles to-day the ridiculed reports circulated by

China

that Daily News

had decided to Shanghai bankers issue goldnotes for the purchase of foreign exchange. They pointed out thai in view of the Chinese currency policy such a measure would serve no useful purpose. They added that Chinese dollars can be readily con- veried into foreign exchange and that the reports were entirely unfounded, probably being a new version, of the rumour circulated by the Japanese Jast summer that all Chinese bank- notes would be recalled and sub- stituted by two different types of notes for domestic and foreign ex- change.-United Press,

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