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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 į

away and tried to climb some SPOTLIGHT railings, but I caught him.

"Speaking broken English, he said, that he and his companlun were 800- vivors of a plane crew of four. Two other occupants of the plane were) shut and died when the plane came down in the sen.

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GERMANY

Thomas took the airman, to Send- NAZI SACRIFICE

send Station and police officers went for the other man, using the collap-f sible boat as a stretcher to carry him to the clifftop.

THEIRS Q3.2

The previous night, distress signals were seen off Whitby and the Whitby and Runswick #feboats put to sea, but falled to find a distressed

crew.

SUNDAY

"One Pot Sunday's" have been done away with by the German "Winter Relie!" authorities, who realise that it is difcult for Germans under pre- sent conditions to create anything else but one-pot menus in the normal

way.

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

The airmen were taken to Whitby day."

Cottage Hospital and the matron Those working for firms and or said: "They are both getting on ganisations will have a suni equiva- nicely and are not seriously ill. They lent to 10 per cent, of their Income- are suffering from exposure."

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

The Air Ministry official announce ment stated that the fliers were part of the crew of a bomber which was attacked by Brillah 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 lying unclaimed In hospital at Harwich after the sinking of the Dutch liner Simon Bolivar was reunited with her mother to-day.

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

Only Half For Neody The "Frankfurter Zeitung," in i long article full of praise of the fund,

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 in Dr. Goebbels's speech-to help all

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need,

those in

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"Of course, of the 500,000,000 Reiclismarks £11,070,000 collected in 1038-39," the paper adds, "only about one-half was used for this seven-pose, and even less would have been used had it not been necessary to

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

saved a

The mother, 35-years-old Mrs. help those in the Austrian and Sude- Anna Knevel, of Amsterdam, who ten provinces." is in Colchester hospital, saw a plc- "Pablle Order Service" ture of her baby in the newspapers to-day.

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

"Anna Was Cone" Mrs. Knevel 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 other-daughter Anna, aged eight, was drowned.

Youths of the German minority in the Poznan district of occupled Poland are being trained in rifle and revolver shooting by military instruc- tors. They are to be called the "Public Order Service"-for the ter rorisation of Polish inhabitants. "No Foolish Fashions"

The chief at the Technical Office for Clothing and Leather of the Ger- "I jumped into the sea from our

man Labour Frant has warned Nazis boat, clasping her in my arms, Mint Germany does not possess sum- Knevel continued. WC drifted about in the water for what seemed cient textile materials to allow the manufacture of "foolish fashion hours and hours. Then I was pulled out of the water and landed safely. novelties." It would not be neces I looked down at my child, but Anna cardboard shoes, but "modish

sary to manufacture paper sults or

was dead.

"My husband is in hospital at

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for me...Tell him that I am well- that baby is safe-and tell him skout our Anna."

Another Briton

Mr. James P. Couper, a British passenger, is one of those saved. His home is at Grasmere, Westmorland, the A strict guard was kept at Great Eastern Hotel, Liverpool- sirect, over the 70 survivors of the Simon Bolivar, who are temporarily staying there.

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

Bravo Surgeon Permits were

issued to the not Germans or German-Jewish refugees among them.

It is denied that fashions will be regimented to uniform style. In- deed, It is claimed that the lead in fashions has since the war left Paris and been taken over by Vienna and Berlin,

Stockings Rationed

Sk, artificial silk, cotton and wool stockings and socks for men, women and children-except for children under the age of 3-are now rationed. Women in Postal Service

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, Mr. Wensvoort, Dutchman, saw a newspaper pic- ture of his wife and two children, There were many dramas to safe at a Harwich hospital, reunion and separation in the hotel They are being brought to London. to-day; one man, Mr. A.. V. Grace,

A young British surgeon, Dr. H. C. who last saw his wife when he put Hugh, it is disclosed to-day, tiled to her in a-lifeboat, was told by ajattend the captain of the Bollvar ́ns fellow passenger that he Saw her he lay dying on the wreckage of the drowned a few minutes later.

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