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Germans Set Up Second Dachau in the Pyrenees

There is a second Dachau-the Nazi concentration camp in Bavaria in a small village in the Basque Pyrenees, near Pau. The camp is five miles from the de- marcation line, and German officers and commissions of various kinds frequently go over to see that their instructions are curried out.

Now it is the main

The camp, which originally accommodated Republican Spaniards seeking refuge in France, was in May the chief concentration camp for German women in France. camp in France of Germans of both sexes.

The inmates are of two kinds; i those previously interned in camps like St Cyprian and St Germain Les Balles and those direct from Germany. There are Jews and Liberals, mainly from the Palatinate and Baden.

Herded Like Cattle

Hundreds of French men and

Young Officer and Wife

Found Dead in Embrace

In the flat in Brighton from which they were married

women saw trainloads of people from two and a half years ago, Second Lieutenant Alfred Felix Germany driven out of trucks like cattle at Oloren station. There were Deparmentier Worsfield de la Bere, aged thirty-seven, old und Infirm persons, epileptics, and his twenty-seven-year-old wife, Sybil, were found sprinkling of those whom past suffer-dead recently clasped in each other's arms.

sufferers from other diseases, and a

ings had driven mad.

Friends told a "Daily Express" reporter stories of "wild par- Their departure from Germanytics" at the flat-in Vernon-terrace, Brighton-where the couple was hasty, and there was every sign were host and hostess. They welcomed all friends with a drink, of disorganisation. A seven-mouths- old-baby arrived without parents, and had a "spyhole" in the door of their flat so that they would and there were hundreds of enses of know who was outside. wives without husbands and vice versa.

When the couple were found charming couple and devoted to cach ngas tube lay near them.

On the wall over her bed was crucifix which Mrs de la Bere made from the

other.

"After he left to join lils unit-he volunteered and was given a commis- slon-she seemed very lonely. Once she sent a note to me to ask me to visit her with a puppy they had given

Many did not have an opportunity to take the barest necessitles. Trans- port conditions were such that when the human wreckage was unloaded once said was four tvere dead. The Genhans wood of the Cross at Calvary. me usually take the precaution of re- moving bodies before the prisoners maiden name her father was the te husband adopted his wife's

"She said to me: If my husband arrive in the unoccupied zone.

Rev. John de la Bure, of Woolfardis should die I should not want to live."

Deven-when worthy,

they were"Although both had received legacies

Other prisoners' died from pneu-

blues.. she said, she had the

monta after their arrival. The Ger- married in June 1938 at Brighton I think they had got through the

mans ordered the French not to help the prisoners in any way. If any thing is done it is carried out secret- ly, but the French guards pre in terror of the visits of the German commis- sioners.

There are about 13,000 prisoners in the camp. They are in 'sections, but there is no confael. between them.

In Quarantine.

Register Office.

Russian Honeymoon

At the ceremony which followed at the Brighton Chapel Royal the bride wore a vell on which her hus- Band had. painted flowers. They went to Russia for their honeymoon.

its

money quickly. His illness cost them hundreds and they were both generola."

Loyal Regiment Competition

Moustache Growing OFFICERS and men of the Loyal Regiment, now Singapore, who entered

.at the

As a wedding gift Mr de la Bere, "who was a brilliant architeel-some of his drawings were hung at the Royal Academy-completely recon- There is typhus in one section,structed an old Sussex manor house which is in quarantine. The suffer which was reputed to be haunted.

He spent thousands of pounds on moustache-growing competition, ings of people there are terrible. General conditions ore bad, and food the house, its furnishing nud insuffletent.

grounds. The

bathroom alone, which begun in December by their Restrictions that ensure that these hundreds. In the grounds were kept M. Elrington, have made their was lined with aquarium tanks, cost Commanding Officer Lieut.-Col.

conditions will continue have been two beats

which rust biert Imposed. Living

nny appearance before the judges. conditions are guineas each. cramped and uncomfortable, There

But they never lived there. are no seats in the huts, which are

He had several car crashes and had bought three new cars in eigh teen months.

Infested with vermia, Hygienic con

dilions are almost non-existent.

Prisoners continue to arrive in large numbers without warning, and the French authorities have no time to prepare anything. Many prisoners die from exposure.

the was taken to the Vernon-terras In his last accident he broke a leg. at, where his wife had lived when single, and there she nursed him through a long Blness.

The winner of the competition was Private F. Burton, of "A" Company, who is now $5 richer as a result of the Commanding Officer and Capt.

"champlon" by "a long hair", T. R. Brook, the adjutant of the Regiment, announcing him

the

The finalists after the Trooping the Colour ceremony in commemoration of the Loyal's 200th anniversary.

The ginger-hued ment of Private upper lip adorn- Crathern, of headquarters Company, brought him the second prize of $3, while the third prize of $i went to Bandsman J. One friend said: "They were O'Cornnel, also of Headquarters Co.

Each sector is surrounded by bar-

Army Took House bed wire. It is estimated that the coump can accommodate 22,000 people, There Qey received news that and it sometimes takes even a visit their dream house had been taken ing priest two hours to see a particu-over by the military. Jar Inmate.

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A 65-YEAR-OLD Home Guard who was said to have fractured an airman's skull with the butt of a rifle was fined £25 at Devon Quarter Sessions recently.

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In October he saw Flying-Officer Jack C. G. Saril and a young womnin friend inside a prohibited area,

Scully challenged them in an offensive way, It was alleged, then fetched a ride and struck the Air Force officer twice.

Scully sold that in the lost war he rerved an Headquarters Stoff in France and Italy.

"Shut Up"

He warned Sarl and the woman

to keep away from the prohibited urea, but they started to climb a fence.

Challenged a second time, Sorli said, "Shut up."

He fetched his unloaded rifle and jabbed Sarll with the bult

Scully was found guilty, but the jury recommended lenlency because of his age and loyal service.

Announcing the fine, the chairman said he bore in mind that Scully served with distinction in the last

war.

BOMB ON ST. PAUL'S—

-damaged the High Altar during a recent raid. The bomb pierced the roof (above). Below: Broken masonry on the

Allar Stops.

Portion of Peiping Language School Being Moved to Baguio

Plans to remove a portion of the Peiping College Chinese langunge studies institution to Baguio, the summer capital of the Philippines, were disclosed recently. The institution has been maintained in Pelping for many years by varlous American missions in China for teaching newly arrived missionarles the Chinese language.

While removal plans are not consider it undesirable to teach yet complete it is understood newly-arrived missionaries the lan- that the institution is planning age of Chinn under such conditions. The Rev. John Hayes, an official of to send a staff of five Chinese the school, is now in Manila investi teachers to the Philippine moun-gating possiblities of successfully taln resort where youthful operating the school in Baguio. The American missionaries destined report prior to undertaking the estab

school oficials

aro awaiting his for China and coming to the tahment of a Dagulo branch. Orient in the future would be

unoffenlly disclosed that sent for language study prior to Philippine kumigration authorities assuming their duties in China. are proving a stumbling block in the deafred movement of the school to The removal plan is the result of Baguio. The Manila authorities are the war in China and Japanero con- alleged to have refused permission trol of North China. It is sald that for the Chinese teachers to enter the? local administrators, of the school Islands.

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