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This is seen in all its horrors at present in Poland. There is more than a lust for vengeance at work in the Nazi mind. With the utmost brutality tens of thousands of Poles

are being driven eastward, so that German families from the Baltic and the provinces of Baden and Wurt- temberg may be established in their places.

Hitler's plan seems to be to make as large a part of Poland as possible German in racial character, by wholesale importa- tions, so that when the question arises of restoring the stolen territories to, a re-established Poland at the end of the war, he or whoever is in power in Ger- many at that time will have a pretext for pleading ethnological arguments in favour of consider- ing those parts of Poland permanently German. There might be the familiar plea for a plebiscite.

The technique is typically Hitlerian, and will deceive no one. He is a tireless exponent of the accomplished fact, as the lesser nations of Europe have learned again and again to their cost; but the Nazis forget that what they do the victorious Allies will be able to undo. The vindication of the Poles' national rights is one of the main pur- poses of Franco and Britain, and Hitler's stratagems, however, ingenious, will not affect the situation in the end.

The pity is that in the mean-

time so many Polcs aro subjected to torture, tyranny and misery for which there can be few. parallele in the history of Europe.

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TWO STRINGS TO HER BOW!

Even Hitler isn't keeping

pace with this..

"HAT—is' going-to-be done about the appall- ing increase in road casualties since the black-out began?

What is the Government going to do? What are you and. I going to do?

Think of it-4,133 is the number of persons killed on the roads in Great Britain during the last four months of 1939.

In other words, the number. killed in those four war months was just half the total for the whole year.

And remember: during that period the volume of traffic had vastly, decreased; children had been evacuated in big numbers from busy cities to country areas.

Yet, on the roads of Britain in the first four months of the war, more ilves were lost than the British Fighting Services have yet

lost in France, on the sea and in.

the air combined.

Moreover, in addition to the killed, there is an immensely greater number of injured.

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The black-out, Instituted to protect us from one danger, ex- poses us to another.

Is there a remedy?

Hopes were raised when Sir John Anderson demonstrated his com. fort" lighting a few weeks ago. Those hopes have proved false; for the lighting so far installed in London hus been a travesty of that demonstrated at Burnt Oak. From a safety point of view the present installations STO little better than useless,

Rond deaths in London during

413-3

FT is the number of people killed on the roads of Britain

by Parliament

The debate has been initiated by the Labour Party, con

cerned by the big jump la road casualties caused by the black-out.

In this article the need for measures that will make the

roads safer generally is omphasised

BY J. NEVILL BENNETT '

the Drst four war months were 63 per cent. higher than in the same months of 1038.

Not that London is in the worst position, by any means.

Birmingham's increase was 31 per cent.

And in Glasgow the number of deaths has been almost trebled- 123, against 44!

This despite the fact that local regulations strictly prohibit wheeled treffe of any kind from approaching a tramcar when it is setting down or taking оп passengers.

On the other side of the picture there is, Leicester-the only big city to show a decrease in fatalities. Leicester's total was 19 in. the

last four months of 1938, and 17 in the same months of 1939.

"Just luck" was how they ex- plained it when I inquired at the Chief Constable's office. Through- out 1930 their total of road deaths was only three higher than in 1938, and the month of Decem- ber, usually the worst, showed a drop of two deaths in 1039.

cannot

But, of course, you depend on luck. And the inquiries I have been making show that the towns with a low accident record are, in many cases, those where the local authorities take special precautions.

Balford is outstanding. It has

TREES GROW VERY SLOWLY

GERMANY, desperately short of the raw materials that form the basic properties of life, and without money to buy those ma- terlals, has passed from the Iron Age into the Wood Agc.

Seventy-three million Nazis at this moment are living synthetic lives.

They are born, they grow, they live, and they dlo to the back- ground of a' chopped-down forest, symbol of ersatz Germany.

Let's take a trip to, say, Dus- Beldort on the Rhine, which I visited a week or two before the

war.

We slip over the border in a German car. The new paint gleams. Only-and this is the Airal of many "onlys"-It isn't

paint. For the Nazi ersatz car is painted with wood.

A Teutonic scientist ground up nome sawdust, made it into a solu-

tion, added the necessary dyc

and there is your ereats paint.

sprayed on the car through a wooden nozzle instead of the usual steel one Probably the pipe that leads to the nozzlo looks like glasa. Looks. It's an ersatz glass that started life in a glade of trees.

On the main street of Dusseldorf, called the Adolf Hitler-Pintz (they pil are), there's a pretty girl.

Please don't critlelse her stock- ings. Not so long ago it was a toss-up whether those stockings

AND THAT'S AN OTHER REASON WHY GERMANYÝ WILL LOSE THE

WAR

were going to be stockings, a milk bottle, or a box of matches. In other words, those stockings were mede of wood,

Her dress, naturally, is a simple affair, and you've all read about Nazi dresses made of milk. But the

it just happens that the Nazis are short of milk. Try though they may, they can't manufacture ersatz . So Fraulein over there is more probably dressed in a neat two-piece of wood, suitably dis- gulaed, of course.

cows.

You don't like her shoes? That's a pity, because Miss Nozi is very proud of that patent leather shine. A shine, Incidentally, that was: made in the same way as the shine that they sprayed on the creatz car.

S we follow her down the tree- A Uned Adolf Hitler-Platz Wo watch her carefully. Out of her handbag-indubtably wooden

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one turned into cloth-Mira Nazi takes out a Jump of wood and pops it into her mouth. And seems to enjoy it. Though you wouldn't

think it was wood to look at It, for it bears a startling resemblance to chocolate.

Which is just what it is." Being short of sugar. Nazi selen- tists have taken wood chips and turned them into eractz zweetening material of a rough kind, to be sure, but suitable for their tastes when, hidden In ersatz sweets.

So have another lump of woood, lady.

But Misa Nazi 1040 is getting tired. Those wooden shoes must she turns up the be hurting street, and her wood-gloved hand turns the knob of the door of her Wood Age flat. Into the hall she steps, and switches

on the light, which glares out DI Jumps of wood in the celling only they look like ordinary metal electric

Attings.

Ersatz. She sees if the central heating pipes are hot. Those pipes are made of wood, too; wood pulp, to which has been added scette neid

which makes

an

Greatz glass.

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NOW for supper. For once in

way Miss Nazi 1940 has got n drop of milk. It's over there-In n milk bottle made the same way as the hot-water pipes.

There's always German anuango, of course. The only tragedy-is that Germany is short of soudage skins, as they are used for aero- PLEASE Turn To Page 4.

had a fino record for "safely first "" for some years.

Its Chief Constable, Major C. V. Godfrey, is an authority on road. problems.

Through his efforts to protect children against traffic perils, not a singlo child was killed in the city during 1930.

Primarily, this was due to two causes: regular lectures to chil- dren by traffic officers, and the reservation of over 160 "play streets" for children.

Now a great many of Salford's children are ovacuated, and Major Godfrey has been devoting his energies to securing safety in the black-out hours.

He has done well. Of the nine persons killed in Salford from September to December, only fira- lost their lives in the dark,

The result has been largely achieved by two special precau- tions.

First, all point-duty policemen, ara equipped with white holmets. incorporating a red light, with white coats, and with rod and green torches to facilitate traffic control.

Secondly, a system of "safety patrola has been instituted. Boy Scouts and members of other organisations, who have received. instruction from the polico, áro stationed with red hurricano and lamps at shopping centres other busy points.

"These volunteers,” I was told, "are appreciated by both pedes-- trians and motorists, who are very willing to obey instructions."**

The Chief Constable of Lan- cashire County, Capt. A. F. Hor- dern, is another officer who has mado a reputation for eficiency in traffic control.

His "Courtesy Cope" were: famous all over the country, but they have boen discontinued since September 30.

Bince then accidents have..gone up. But the police are trying to: meet the situation by various ox- periments, including à Bafety First campaign and the issuing of in- structions to pedestrians on how: to walk in the black-out.

Clearly, education and propa- ganda must play a big part if the: road toll is to be reduced.

Nothing can be gained by reviv ing the old dispute about who is chiefly to blame, the motorist or: the pedestrian.

There is not the clightest doubt that many motorists drive much faster than is justified in condi-.. tions of black-out streets, and. restricted car lighting.

Nor is there any doubt that the: pedestrian is slow to realise that he. is now the "Invisible Man.".

Whatever other remedies may be found by enterprisă and ex- periment, a bold and imagina- tively directed propaganda cam- palen on a national scale should be instituted right away.

We have had "Bafety First

The new campaigns in the past.

must be conducted more vigorously than

of Its: predecessors.

For the need is grave and more. urgent than ever before.

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