1941-09-10 — Page 23

NANCY

SO THIS IS THE HOUSE I RENTED.. THE AGENT DIDN'T

GAY. IT WAS

SO TINY!

LET'S LOOK INSIDE!

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

September 10, 1941.

By Ernie Bushmiller

AND THAT DUMB AGENT

SAID THIS

HOUSE BELONGED

GOODNESS!--"THIS ALL SEEMS LIKE A NIGHTMARE !

TO A FAMOUS ACTOR!

HE'S RIGHT.: LOOK!

B

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R.A.F. RAIDS ALARM NAZI LEADERS

Hamburg A City of Ruins

While Germany is paying a heavy price in men and equipment for victories in Russia, the condition of the home front, writes W. E. Lucas in the American news- paper "Christian Science Monitor," may well be giving the Nazi leadership still more cause for alarm.

Unceasing bombings, some- times day and night, by the tireless Royal Air Force-and with A constantly increasing tonnage of bombs dropped-are bringing dislocation not only to Germany's production in the West, but, what is still more serious, to the morale of the war-weary German people.

From sources of unquestionable reliability, I have been able to gain

·some remarkable information as to the full extent of this process of din- location and demoralisation, which If continued for any appreciable time is bound to make itselt felt eventually in the Nazi programme itself.

AUSSIES ITCHING TO FIGHT

Malaya Ready For Trouble

"If the Japanese strike at Thai- land, they are in for a hot recep- tion, declare sick and Injured A.I.F. men who have returned to Sydney from Malaya.

For over two months now the R.A.F

bas been staging a

ire-

Malaya is a fortress, and the ALIF. mendous offensive against the in-mon standing to arms on the Thai- dustrial west of Germany, against land border are "itching to Right,”- Bremen, Hamburg, Kiel, and Wit-they told the "Sydney

Sun." helmalinven, the Rubr

kuor and the Practically every day for the past Rhineland. As this summer fades two months boat-loads of men have Into autumn and then darkens into been arriving," declared Private G. winter this assault mounts in inten- B. Anderson, of Broadroadow (New- alty and spreads its destruction over castle). There is a tremendous the furthest points of Germany and number of troops there now-Aus- Into Czechoslovakio and Poland, trallan, British and Indian, where the Nazis have already trans- ferred many of their war industries.

New Bomb Used Much of the effectiveness of the R.A.F. uttack has been due to n new type of bomb recently put into Use. Eye-witnesses have described this as a sort of aerial torpedo which, Ang out when it nears the

Relief From Boredom

UFS

TANKS FOR BRITAIN—"Aid on a gigantic scalo," is how Britain's Prime Minister Chur- chill summed up U.S. help. Here are first two 281⁄2-ton medium typo armoured tanks ready for shipment to Britain from Pullman-Standard Car plant at Hammond, Ind. ́They're · the first of a large British order.

Czechs Charge Nazi With Torture: Report

Rulers Issued

Details of Nazi torture are made public in a book entitled "Two Years of German Oppression in Czecho - Slovakia," published by the move up on to the Thailand border:

"Our boys greeted the order Czecho-Slovak Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with a preface by Eduard of inactivity. The weather up there with delight for it came after months

is not too good-05 degrees in the

chaps

in Hamburg, a whole row of houses ett) and they will be happy to go

was

toms,

demolished by one

Jave

Benos, the Czech President.

cites cases.

"It is a frequent sight,” the ac- count ruas, "to meet on the roads a dressed in rags, exhausted, priest pulling a caft, and behind him a youth in 5. A. uniform with a riding

Neuro-Surgery

Severe Head

Cures Wounds

day time and 90 at night-and our Roman Catholic priests, said to In discussing treatment of

takes an a horizontal night. They are not bored now.

were beginning to get bored. be used as beasts of burden in

Every Its velocity carries it through many one of them is rearing' to goi There concentration camps, the book obstacles, piercing walls and causing were lots of minor Bluesa due to the houses to collapse before it Anally heat and the food, but the explodes.

have forgotten that now. The destructive power of such a

They want only one thing to fight. bomb in built-up areas is evident, That is what they went there for. since in horizontal flight it cannot "Our boys think the world of the travel far without coming into con- G.O.C. (Major-General Gordon Ben-whip in his hand."

LONDON (UP)-Soldiers from Dunkirk were taken to 1act

with something. On one street

nto battle with him at their

The following is from an account hospital in London with serious head wounds. That hend.

was. 12 of the of these

"Apart the

the way students of Prague were months ago. To-day, they are back with their units. Medical tent and the food, heat and somewhere in

treated after the four

.German... palice had chaps

had little to complainprovoked" them to protest against

science has achieved another pinnacle. ̈ ̄ suburbs of that city an old man now about. People up there work until

extremilles: of the river which before was con- Australians have found it hard, to

were stripped, drenched led by three blocks of

of buildings. There Is sufficient evidence coming

The boys I left over there," said the ground the whole night in lee- ...compelled to run to show that the Private If. G. Shepherd, of Canberra, cold weather In certain districts "will welcome a scrap. And there around the riding-school, urged on has been severe. It is known, for are plenty of treeps there to handle by blows from whips and cudgels, until heart and lungs could stand instance, that the main_Forker-Wulf the Japanese. alrpione factory in Bremen razed to the ground, though as yet

"Others. again, bound In groups the subsidiary plant on the banks of

of three, had the lobes of their ears torn, their eyes struck out by blows from whips-the whole under the An injured skull formerly often amused gaze of German typists who meant early death or disability for were sitting there at their machines.ilfe, To-day, hundreds of people When the

students had suffered whose skulls were injured in air-i nameless tortures they were forced raids are walking the London streets Certain atrocities cannot be related

alts on his porch with a clear view o'clock and then finish for the day. water and made to lie on cases of fractured skulls and Injuries to the brain-which were

cealed

out

of

Gamage to

malerinl

all day."

"Looking across from Was

the River Weser has not been hit. Two Dockyards Destroyed In Hamburg two dockyards, where live submarines were under

con-

struction, were completely destroyed:

with

ley

the place no more.

where I was stationed, you could see nothing but troops. The buys are just aching to get. Into it."

Missed Comforts

The surgeons now can treat serious head wounds-even considered uncurable, only 15 years ago. Treatment is were at emergency hospitals of London County Council, and at other centres all over the country.

Air-raid casualties have been; treated with results that are de- elared to be "wonderful-even spectacular."

'all the houses and shops around the ambulance unit to which he had been to cry out in chorus 'We thank you. curuccess has been achieved

Private W. Keith (39), of Dubbo, who had his leg broken in an neci- dent, said that numerous men in the docks are rubble and all that is left attached were complaining bitterly in the Adolf Hitler Platz at the absence of comforts. the Town Hall was situated.

"I was in Malaya for five months," is ironically enough the statue of he added, "and I never once received William I.

a single parcel.

district around the Fried- richsberger Station is in ruins.

"Even parcels sent to us from our relatives seemed to have gone astray,

In earlier ralds on Berlin the The boys are loth to believe that this

station and the army stores depot at Bellevue

were destroyed. In the and Chorasse, where

as they were inspired by a sexual through the hands of the neuro and sadistic pathological strain by surgeon, which most of the Gestapo ngents

The greatest of these surgeons is and German soldiers seem to be working in London. He L” ň tall, affected.

bearded man with the delfeste hands of an artist.

Much Unfit To Print "The Germans also brought a

Local Anaesthetic

Food Supply Is Assured This Winter

Losses From Bombing Very Small Fraction

Raymond Gram Swing, WOR com- mentator broadcasting from London

Siemens factory in the north-west is due to deliberate tampering with number of girl students, taken from his operations sold only suburbs of the city was severely the mail, and put it down to bad of their hostel in the course of anaesthetic was used. The patient, larger now than a year ago.

A reporter who attended one of recently said he was stirprised to find damaged. The Clefsdreieck

* local that the food supply in Britain was Eubway

ganisation,"

Ptc. Keith said that the quantity nocturnal raid. Many of the leafter it was all over, said it was only

were dragged on to lurge open like having a tooth out.. 60 houses quality of the food at Malaya

"Last year there were more non- wan excellent, Cigarettes

by tanks and spaces surrounded wee vlolated In view of the bound male.

Bone from some other part of the essentials," he said. "To-day

the supply is ing

made up of essentials. I was

also men in

Patients are kept together in the told that despite the rising curve of emergency hospitals, constantly shipping losses .. there will not be: (What follows, in the book, is too under the supervision of the neuron food shortage in Great Britain this

were

a bomb which hit the fplentiful, although pipe tobacco was students, some of them by several Patient's body was used for graft- greater portion of

one theller.

hard to get at times.

gas and water mains coused the ve inorale of the troops was ex- drowning of 80 people in

The German succession. It is reported that Dr Joseph Goeb-cellent, he continued. Their equip soldiers burned the breasts of their bels, Propaganda Minister, has kept ment was 100 per cent, and they relt victims with cigarette ends."

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the Ministry's most recent investiga-confident of handling any emergency loathsome and horrible for publicn-urgeon in charge, a plastic surgeon winter below the minimum standard |

tion into the morale of the people Planes were constantly in the nir away from the German High Com-and any move that might be made on in a newspaper). mand. That, if it is true, may be against Malaya would certainly not significant.

Chapter titles take the inhabitants by surprise.

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Food losses from the bombing of | Most cases in the wards of the cara of Happy Development Until hospitals to-day are air-raid victims. ware-houses is only a fraction of the Munich,

Political Per- secution.

One of then, in Londoh, is an 11-losses from torpedoing at sea, he ott, of Czecho-year-old girl, Joyce Sauniers, Slovak Autonomous Life, Atrocities.' "Germunisation,"

She was hit on the head by flying "Persecution of debris. Yet, she is being cured. Christian Churches," "Persecution of Jews," "Economie Enslavement and Robbery."

Paralysed

Another London patient, Mrs Min- Torture Laid To Women nie Forrest, was injured seriously in one of the first air raids. Her head

sald,

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"Once the food la landed in Britain the chance of lis being destroyed in isn't being piled up in the ports or warehouses la quite small. The food near the ports; it'in being distributed

small lots that. Its destruction, by Roberts, a London bombing is extremely dimcult."

Food Restaurants

"In the streets of Brno," It is re- is still bandaged but she is on the over the country and in much ported, "scenes took place in which way to even German women and children! Misg

vied with each other to see who dressmaker, was hit on the head by could most crually torment the Jews shell splinters, and her right side who had been driven into

the was paralysed. To-day, she is cured

streets. The Jews were balled to and her hair, which was cut off than 900 eating places, called British Mr Swing also told of the more the great delight of the German for the operation, has grown again Restaurants, set up all over population. Many of the wounded-glossy, brown curls. remained lying on the pavement

country. There folks who have only

the

for hours, only a few were success-war catastrophe could have had a shilling or so to spend on a meal ful in Anding first-ald; the hospitals, such devastating effect."

outside their homes con dat a meal and clinics were soon full to over- It also is reported that the Ger- their rationed food. The government for 18 or 20 cents without reducing One Jewish factory owner mans try to destroy Czech education usually lend the money to local flowing. was trampled to death."

When Czech delegation requested authorities to open the restaurants, Economically the Czecho-Slovak the dopening of universities, the and after that they are self-support- ration itself is being expropriated, Nazi Secretary of State, K. H. the book asserts:

Frank, la sald to have replied;

ing

he said."

"The economic damage the nation "I the war will be won by Eng- Mr Bwing concluded that on the hids suffered in two unhappy years land, you will open your schools whole the food situation was not dese of the German. regime may be yourselves; Germany wins,an perate and guessed that the present assessed at one-third of the national elementary school with five classes British diet was healther than in properly.

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