1939-12-19 — Page 14

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December 19, 1939.

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RAIDERS PADDLED RUBBER BOAT WITH THEIR HANDS

PADDLING their collapsible rubber boat with their hands, two German airmen who had been 48 hours adrift after their bomber had been shot down in the North Sea, landed near Whitby, on the Yorkshire coast, and were captured by a railway special constable.

This was the account of the capture given by George Thomas, the officer concerned.

"I was about 200 yards from Sandsend Tunnel when I saw a man standing at the entrance.

"As I approached, the man ran ↑

away and tried to climb some SPOTLIGHT

railings, but I caught him.

"Speaking broken English; be said that he and his companion were sur- vivors of a plane crew of four. Two other occupants of the plane were shot and died when the plane came down in the sch.

ON

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Thomas took the airman to Sund- NAZI SACRIFICE

send Station and police officers went for the other man, uslug the collap- alble boat as u stretcher to carry him: to the clifftop.

THEIR SOS? The previous night, dist:cs signals were seen off Whitby and the Whitby and Runswick lifebouts put to sea, but failed to ind a distressed

crew.

SUNDAY

"One Pot Sundays" have been done away with by the German "Winter Rellef" authorities, who rentise that It is difficult for Germans under pre- sent conditions to create anything else but one-pot menus in the normal way.

The collapsible boat was fitted with Instead, every second Sunday.in life-saving and signalling apparatus. the month will be "Sacrifice Sun-

The airmen were talten to Whitby day."

Cottage Hospital and the matron Those working for arms and or sabl: They are both getting onganisations will have a sum equiva- nicely and are not serluusly ill. They lent to, 10 per cent. of their income- are suffering from, exposure.”

The Al Ministry official aimounec ment stated that the Biers were part of the crew of a bomber which was attneked by British fighters.

Mined Ship

MOTHER SEES BABY'S PICTURE

RE-UNITED: OTHER CHILD DIED IN HER ARMS AT SEA

LONDON, Nov. 20,

ONE of two babies who were ly unclaimed in hospital at urwich after the sinking of the Dutch her Simon Bolivar was reunited with her mother to-day.

She is ten-months-old Adriana Knevel. A suilor dived into the sea from a British ship to bring her to safety. He also saved 13 months-old baby.

fax or wages-tax-which applies in Germany to very low wages-de- ducted from their money during the winter, as a contribution to "Winter Hellef."

the

The latter, which purports to be a charitable institution, is in fact a dis- guised State super-tax to provide for the nourishment of underpaid State labour, and to pay for arma – ments and various itens for Nazi leaders which would look bad on a Government balance-sheet.

Only Half For Needy

The "Frankfurter Zeltung“ in a long article full of praise of the fuud, says:

"Should any ignorant persons have asked a year ago why do we have to continue to contribute to the Winter Help

fund now that everyone has work. then he would find his reply Dr. Goebbels's speech-to help all those in need.

"ΟΣ course, of the 500,000,000 Reichsmarks-£41,670,000 collected In 1938-39," the paper adds, "only about one-half was used for this pur-

seven-puse, and even less would have been used had it not been necessary to

The mother, 35-years-old Mrx help those in the Austrian and Süde- Anta Knerch of Amsterdam, whe ten provinces."

is in Colchester hospital, saw a ple- "Public Order Service"

fure of her baby in the newspapers. to-day.

The child was at once taken the 30 miles from Hurwich to her mother.

"Anna Was Gone"

Mrs. Kaevel smiled later as she lay in bed with the child in her arms only to break down again when she told an Evening News correspondent how her uther daughter Anna, aged eight, was drowned.

"I Jumped into the sea from our boat, clasping her in my arms," Mrs. Knevel continued. "We drifted about-in-the-water for what seemed hours and hours. Then I was pulc out of the water and landed safely. I looked down at my child, but Anna

was dead.

"My husband is in hospital at Shotley. Please give him a message for me...Tell him that I am well that baby is sufe-and tell him about out Anna,"

Another Briton

Youths, of the German minority in

Puznan the

district of occupied Poland are being trained in rifle and revolver shooting by military instruc- tors. They are to be called the pubile Order Service"-for the fer- rorisation of Polish inhabitants. "No Foolish Fashions"

The chief of the Technical Office for Clothing and Leather of the Ger- man Labour Front has warned Nazis that Germany does not possess sufll- clent textile materials to allow the novelties." It would not be neces manufacture of foolish fashion

cardboard shoes, but "modish ex- sary to manufacture paper suits or "ggerations of every kind must be avoided."

It is denied the fashions, will be deed, it is claimed that the lead in regimented to uniform style. In-

fashions has since the war left Paris and been taken over by Vienna and a British Berlin. Mr. James P. Couper, passenger, is one of those saved. His

home is at Grasmere, Westmorland. Stockings Rationedi

A strict guard was kept at the Silk, artificial silk, cotton and wool Great Eastern Hotel, Liverpool-stockings and socks for men, women street, over the 70 survivors of the and children-except for children Simon Bolivar, who are temporarily under the age of 3-are now rationed. staying there.

Women in Postal Service

Everyone entering or leaving the hotel was questioned by the police, and foreign ruitlonn's had to remain until they could obtain permits, for many had lost all their papers.

Brave Surgoon Permits were not lasued to the Germans or Germani-Jewish refugfices among them.

The number of women in the Ger man postal service has been increased from 43,000 to 75,000 since war broke

out.

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Another, Mir. Wensyoort, Dutchman, saw a newspaper plc- ture of his wife and two children, safe at a Harwich hospital, They are being brought to London. A young British surgeon, Dr. II. C. Hugh, it is disclosed to-day, tried to by attend the captain of the Bolivar as here lay dying on the wreckage of the bridge, but the doctor was too late.

There were many dramus af reunion and separation in the hotel to-day; one man, Mr. A. V. Grace,) who last saw his wife when he put her in a lifeboat, was loftl

Saw fellow passenger thui ke drowned a few minutes later,

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