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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
December 23, 1939.
Where Hongkong Interned Its Germans 24 Years Ago
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THIS PICTURE is of especial interest at this time when Nazis are being interned to College. The picture shows the Hongkong internment camp during the last war. The sile Road, and it was in 1248 from 1915 to 1910.
the La Sallo was Chatham
GERMANY HAS BLACKED OUT SMILES, TOO
(By a neutral European journalist who has just completed a journey through Germany)
I alighted at Frankfort in pitchy darkness and went to an hotel that was practically empty."
Again I had the sensation of being I STILL feel depressed even in a place where the civilian, and the foreigner, is an now that I am back in my neu-even more so
This cheerless, uneasy tral home in one of the countriesensation was to weigh on me all the bordering Germany,
time I spent in the country.
I had no dimeulty in obtaining a I was to learn that even the Ger- visa, and entered Germany at a local mens feel it, and only the active railway station near the frontier.
from ita de-
Flown From France To
Dying Wife
A young alrerafiman, John Hughes,
of Trealaw, near Pontypridd, Gin- My train was dimly lit with dark Nazis seem immunes blue buibs which did not give suf-pressing effect on the mind.
What struck me here, as every-morgan, was sent home from France ficient light for reading.
At, Freiburg, the first station im- where else. was the complete absence in a special plane by the RAF au- mediately behind; the Siegfried Line, of mirth. Nobody smiles. The Ger- thorities in an effort to enable him the train was invaded by hundreds, mans have forgotten how to smile; to be at the bedside
their faces look stern and worried. of men in full fighting kit.
Uneasy Sensation
From here onwards until we ar- rived at Frankfort (almost two hours lafe) the train stopped oi and at each more numerous stations troops came in. A glance into the corridor showed that every inch of space was occupied,
wile.
of his dying
Australian Prisoners tives were anxious that her husband
Decline
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SYDNEY, (UP)-The construction,
When Mrs. Hughes, of Trealaw, was taken dangerously ill, her rela should be at her side. The Society of Friends at Trenlaw learned of the RA.F. Record Office in England.
Soon afterwards Aircrafuman
ot Long Bay Jul, Australia's largest Hughes was summoned by his com- I was told that more trains were and most modern penal institution, is manding officer in France and given Jour-an architectural success but it re- leave to go bome. He was taken as following, and throughout the
Mon and a passenger in a special plane and ney I noticed that the troops trains mnias 91 per cent, empty. going in the opposite direction-women prisoners in Australia have in 30 hours arrived at Trealaw, but carrying men from East to West, shown a steady decline for the past only to learn that his wife had died
a short time before. 50 years. were just as numerous.
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1939
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