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January 4, 1941.
By Ernie Bushmiller
HERE SHE
WELCOME
COMES
NOW
COUSIN CHIPMUNK
SOSHUL MARIGOLD! CLUB
These cool, bracing days get out in the open in
ERNIZ‘--
Kay-18
DUDLEY BARKER continues the story of the German occupation GODS OF
of the Channel Islands, as told
IT is appalling to think of was cut down to two ounces per
anything like starvation person a week.
to him by a native who escaped
I mean the islanders only of would be available for only two
course, for the Germans had all more months. the food they could eat.
in the Channel Islands, the "It's down to that now in very business of which is England, I know, but here you "I fear that, this winter, the the production of food. have margarine and cooking people of Guernsey will be
existing They have always been fats as well.
on little else except the islands of plenty, of fine
"Not so in-Guernsey. The bread itself is at least half po- potatoes and bread. And the vegetables, rich milk, fam- we had just the two ounces of tato flour already.
butter, and no other fats at all. ous potatoes.
"The Germans, on the other "The Germans even got at Guernsey's food market in hand, had as much butter as people who had vegetable gar-
St. Peter Port, the market. that all holiday makers knew, displayed in abun- dance the produce of all around the food grown and farmed on the island, the lobsters and fish caught in its waters.
Yet, after only three months of German occupa- tion, there is starvation ahead.
Nazis
Food
Seize
While
Islanders Go Hungry
I have that from Fred Hockey, who recently es- caped from Guernsey, and who is telling me this full story of the Germans in that one corner of the British even frying their food in it, our field of potatoes to make a little they wanted, and they were dens, or people who owned a Empire.
lovely Guernsey butter, the pigs pocket money. that they are.
"They published an
Potato Bread
"Then they started on the that those people could only "When we managed to get meat. They cut down the ra- keep for themselves five perch away," he said, "the food position to sixpennyworth per per- of potatoes each, and that had lion was getting serious, ́al- son a week, and we had to to last the winter. though it was still late summer, slaughter our milking herds to
"You could not even then, buy parafin or candles. Squads, of men were already out, felling trees for fuel for the winter.
The ratton, when we left, was a "Soap was another problem. sixpenny bar per person every month and with that you had to wash everything; yourself, your clothes, your house, and so
on.
Clothes Permit
"The other great trouble was clothes. They were rationed, too.
"Nobody is allowed to buy any clothes at all, not even a pair of bootlaces, without the consent of the Kommandant.
CHINA
WO HOP YEE SIN
The illustration represents two Buddhist monks who lived in the
"And if you want to buy something new, you have to take the old, worn-out article along with you when apply for per-Tang Dynasty. They wore colo- mission, to prove that it is really brated composers of religious unwearable.
wear it for a few weeks longer. "Nearly always they hand it back to you, saying you can
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poems concerning the emancipa- tion and salvation of mankind. The two were not related but
were great friends and always worked in harmony with cach
"You even have to get a per- other. Order
mit to have your shoes repaired and you have to take the shoes to prove they need it,
"As for buying a new packet of razor blades, it simply can't the island are having to grow he done. Most of the men on
beards.
"That meant an average of
I dare not think what will get that and to provide the about 20 evt. of potatoes for a happen in the winter.
Germans with all the meat they
mouth.
family. All the rest had to be handed over to the Germans.
Coal
Shortage
"And, of course, many people.
"Only those who had 'cut- thront razors can still shave themselves.
"Prices did not rise much,'
"Before the Germans came wanted, our food was plentiful and good. Some things were rationed, of before we left, it was announced "Even that did not last. Just course, exactly as they are ra- tioned in England, but you all tion would soon be a shilling- in the newspaper that the ra- know there is not much hard- gworth of meat per person a did not have vegetable gardens but the Germans put a anles tax ship in that,
or fields. They had to buy of a halfpenny on every six- "For the first week during
their which the Germans
potatoes, in "During August in were
strictly penny worth of goods you buy, were limited quantities. we Guernsey the food remained allowed to buy one tin of pre-
no matter what. much the same, although that served_food_every week. But "The rationing-did-not-stop- week the Germans com- by September all tinned food there. Coal stocks were get mandeered all the stored food was banned.
ting very low, and no coal was they could lay their hands on, and shipped it from the Island and no fruit except what was "There was no bacon at all,
being sent in. -Lo Germany, I suppose. locally grown.
"All our margarine went, for instance, and most of the other "By the time we escaped, the island was practically living on "The second week I asked a bread, potatoes, tomatoes and "It was feared a week before friend of mine, who is a 'baker, beans, plus whatever vegetables we left that, because of the coal what had happened to the we had growing in our gardens, shortage, electricity and gas bread,
fats.
""There's 50 per cent. less flour in it," he told me, 'the rest is made up of potatoes and some other sort of muck,'
"The bread got worse later on, but I didn't like to ask again what was going into it,
No Bacon:
"Pretty soon they began tightening the rations. Bulter
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"All coal was cut off from the glasshouses, and those that had grow maize and beans. been heated were turned over to
FUNNY SIDE UP
By Abner Dean
AT Z'NEM
"The only suit he liked was the one I was woaring!"
The islanders soon started to grumble about all this, but only for a little while.
"That was how we discovered that the Gestapo were in Guern- sey.
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They are regarded by the Buddhists as expressive of the School of Meditation. In the Ming Dynasty, the name of Wo Hop was given to them. This then, they have been considered means "happy union." Since
as the symbol of united happi-
Their faces are shown as youths, even though they grew
young. to be old men, symbolising that their eternal happiness kept them
nass.
At Chinese New Year in North China, a picture of these two is hung in ovary household.
Walter C. Clark.
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"There were Germany there
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"And there was, of course, a strong regulation that nobody was to say anything against the Germans, or Germany, or Hit- ler.
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