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NANCY NO

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

GAY, IT WAS

50. TINY!

LET'S LOOK INSIDE!

Wednesday

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

GOODNESS!** THIS ALL SEEMS LIKE A NIGHTMARE /

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 bomba 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 rellability, I have been able to gain some remarkable Information as to

the full extent of this process of dis- location and demoralisation, which if continued for any appreciable time is bound to make itself felt eventually in the Nazi programme

ilselt.

AUSSIES ITCHING TO FIGHT Malaya Ready For Trouble

"the Japanese strike at Thai- land, they are in for a hot recep

on," declare siele and injured A.LF. men who have returned to Sydney from Malaya.

For over two months now the R.A.F. hos been stoging n tre-

Malaya is a fortress, and the AIF, mendous offensive against the in men standing to arms on the Thal- dustrial west of Germany, against land border are "itching to fight," Hamburg, Kiel and Wilthey told the "Sydney Sun." helmshaven, the Ruhr

and

the "Practically every day, for the past Rhineland. As this summer fades two months boat-leads of men have into autumn and then darkens into been arriving declared Private G. winter this assault mounts in inten- B. Anderson, of Broadmeadow (New- nity and spreads its destruction over castle). "There

tremendous the furthest points of Germany and number of troops there now—Aus- into Czechoslovakia

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

Relief From Boredom

"Our boys greated the order to RA.F. attack has been due to a move up on to the Thailand border new type of bomb recently put inte with delight for it. came after months use. Eye-witnesses have described

of inactivity. The wenther up there this

as a sort of aerial torpedo which is not too good-95 degrees in the straightening out when it nears the day time and B0 at night and our ground, takes on a horizontal fight. Its velocity carries it through many obstacles, piercing walls and causing houses to collapse before it Enally explodes.

The destructive power of such a bomb in built-up areas is evident, since in horizontal fight it cannot travel for without coming into con- lact with something. On one street in

Hamburg a whole row of houses demolished by one of these

Way

on

chaps were beginning to get bored,

"They are not bored one of them is rearing to go! There now. Every were lots of minor illness due to the heat and the food, but the chaps have forgotten that Ποιν.

and somewhere In the our chaps have had little to complain

People

September 10 1941

By Ernie Bushmiller

SAND THATA: DUMB AGENT SAID THIS HOUSE BELONGED TO A FAMOUS ACTOR!

HE'S RIGHT-- LOOK!

MR & MRS. SHRIMPO’· OF CIRCUS FAME:

UFS

TANKS FOR BRITAIN—“Aid on a gigantic scale," is how Britain's Primo Minister Chur- chill summed up U.S. help. Here are first two 282-tan medium type 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

Rulers With Torture: Report Issued

Details of Nazi torture are made public in a book entitled "Two Years of German Oppression in Czecho - Slovakia," published by the Czecho-Slovak Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with a preface by Eduard Benes, the Czech President...

In discussing treatment of Roman Catholic priests, said to

be used as beasts of burden in concentration camps, the book cites cases:

"It is a frequent sight," the ac- count runs, "to meet on the roads o priest dressed in rags, exhausted, youth in S. A. uniform with a riding cart, and behind him a pulling whip in his hand."

Neuro-Surgery Cures Severe

Head Wounds

LONDON (UP).-Soldiers from Dunkirk were taken to hospital in London with serious head wounds. That was 12 months ago. To-day, they are back with their units. Medical science has achieved another_pinnacle..

The surgeons now can treat serious head wounds-even with ley water and made to lie on Cases of fractured skulls and injuries to the brain-which were

Food Supply

Is Assured This Winter

They want only one thing-to fight. That is what they went there for.

"Our boys think the world of the G.O.C. (Major-General Gordon Ben- nett) and they will be happy to zo The following is from an account into battle with him at

him at their head. "Apart from d

of the way students of Prague were from the heat and the food, Bombs

treated after German police had suburbs of that elly diff old man noiv about. Bilg his

up there work until 1 "provoked-them-to-protest-against a clear view o'clock then finish for the day. extremities: porch with of the river which before was con- Australians have found it hard to

They were stripped, drenched cealed by three blocks of

of buildings. keep going all day." There is sumclent evidence coming "The boys

left over there," said the ground the whole night in ice-considered uncurable, only 16 years ago. Treatment is given out of Germany to show that the Private H. G. Shepherd, of Canberra, cold weather compelled to run at emergency hospitals of London County Council, and at other material damage in certain districts will welcome a scrop, And there around the riding-school, urged on centres all over the country. has been severe. It is known, for are plenty of troops there to handle by blows from whips and cudgels, instance, that the main Focker-Wulf the Japanese.

until heart and lungs could stand Air-raid casualties have been, airplane factory in Bremen was Looking across from the place no more.

treated with results that are de-f razed to the ground, though as yet where I was stationed, you could sce

"Others, again, bound in groups clared to be "wonderful-even the subsidiary plant on the banks of nothing but troops. The boys are

of three, had the lobes of their ears spectacular." the River Weser has not been bit. just aching to get into it."

torn, their eyes struck out by blows Two Dockyards Destroyed

from whips-the whole under the An injured skull formerly often, Missed Comforts In Hamburg two dockyards, where

amused gaze of German typists who meant early death or disability for five submarines were under con- who had his leg broken in an neel- When the students had suffered whose skulls were injured in alt- Private W. Keith (39), of Dubbo, were sitting there at their machines. life. To-day, hundreds of people struction, were completely destroyed: all the houses and shops around the dent, said that numerous men in the nameless tortures they were forced raids are walking the London streets docks are rubble and all that is left attached were complaining bitterly they were inspired by a sexual through the hands of

ambulance unit to which he had been to cry out in chorus 'We thank you."-cured. standing in the Adolf Hitler Platz, at the absence of comforts.

Certain atrocities cannot be related The success has been achieved where the Town Hall was situated,

the neuro- Ironically enough the statue of he added, "and I never once received which most of the Gestapo, ngents The greatest of these surgeons is

"I was in Malaya for Ave months," und sadistic pathological strain by surgeon.

Losses From Bombing William I.

The district around the Fried- single parcel.

and German soldiers seem to be working in London. He is a tall, Very Small Fraction "Even parcels sent to us from our affected.

bearded man with the delicate hands In carlier rakis on Berlin the The boys are lath to believe that this

relatives seemed to have gone astray. Much Unfit To Print

of an artist.

Raymond Gram Swing, WOR com- Siemens factory in the north-west is due to deliberate tampering with number of girl students, taken from his operations said only a local that the food supply in Britain was "The Germans also brought a

Local Anaesthetic

mentator broadcasting from London suburbs of the elty was severely the mail, and put it down to bad or theis hostel in

A reporter who attended, one of recently said he was surprised to find damaged. The Cleisdreieck subway ganisation."

the course of station and the army stores depot at Bellevue were destroyed. In the and quality of the food at Malaya space

Pie. Keith said that the quanilly nocturnal rald. Many of the girls anaesthetic was used. The patient, larger now than a year ago.

were dragged on to Chorinnestrasse,

large open after it was all over, said it was only 00 houses

excellent.

like having a tooth out,.. spaces surrounded by

"Last year. there were more non- Cigareties a bomb which hit the plentiful, although pipe tobacco was violated in view of the bound male patient's body was used for graft-greater portion of bombed,

were PRC

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

the supply. students, some hard to get at times.

of them by several The morale of the troops was ex-sold In

made up of essentials. I was succession. The German ing It is reported that Dr Joseph Goeb-cellent, he continued. Their equlp victims with elgarette ends."

soldiers burned the breasts of their Patients are kept together in the told that despite the rising curve of bels, Propaganda Minister, hus: kept |ment was 100 per cent, and they felt what follows, in the book, is tool under the supervision of the neuro-ja food shortage in Great Brlinin this hospitals, constantly shipping losses ... there will not be the Ministry's most recent investiga-confident of handling any emergency loathsome and horrible for publica-vese job is to treat cases of face set by the government." tion into the morate of the people Planes were constantly in the air tlon in a newspaper).

surgeon in charge, a plastic surgeon winter below the minimum standard away from the German High Com-and, any move that might be made sanna, If it is true, may be against Malaya would certainly not yeterincomat until Injury, and a general' practitioner.

richsberger Station is in ruins.

were

where

A

btech was

drowning of

of 80 people in one shelter.

very

gar and

significant.

take the inhabitants by surprise.

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Most cases in the wards of the Food losses from the bombing of Munich," "Invasion, Political Per- One of them, in London, is an 11-losses from torpedoing at sea, he hospitals to-day are air-raid victims. ware-houses, is only a fraction of the sccution, Destruction of Czecho- Slovak Autonomous Life, Atrocities," year-old girl, Joyce Saunders, kold:: "Germanisation," "Persecution of She was hit on the head by flying Christian Churches," "Persecution off

debris..

"Once the food is landed In Deltain Yet, she is being cured. Jews," "Economie Enslavement and

Paralysed

the chance of its being destroyed in Robbery."

Another London patient, Mrs Min-1sn't being piled up in the ports or warehouses is quite small. The food nie Forrest, was injured seriously In

near the ports; it is being distributed

Torture Laid To Women

"In the streets of Brno," it! Is ro-one of the first air raids. Her, head all over the country and in such ported, "scenes took place in which way to recovery,

is still bandaged but she is on the small fots that its destruction by: even German women and children vled with each other to

Miss Margaret Roberts, a London bombing is extremely dimcult." see, who could most cruelly torment the Jews shell splinters, and her right side who dressmaker, was hit on the head by

Food Restaurants. who had

Restauran

been driven into tho was paralysed. To-day, she is cured Mr Swing also told of the more streets. The Jews were balted to and her hair, which was cut off than 900 eating places, called British the great delight of the German for the operation, has grown again Restaurants, set up population. Many of

of the wounded

all over the der —glossy, brown curis,.... lying on the pavement remained

country, There folks who have only for hours, only a few ware success-war catastrophe could have had a shilling or so to spend on a meal ful in finding first-aid; the hospitals such devastating effect."

outside

their homes, can cat a meal or 20 cents without reducing rationed food. The government to death.” Owner)mans try to destroy Czech education Family lend the money to

When a Czech delegation requested authorities to open the restaurants, the Czecho-Slovak the reopening of universities, the and after that they are self-support- nation; itself is being expropriated, Nazl Secretary of

Frank, ing, he said? the book:nserts: Rafa sold to have

and clinics were soon full to over- It also is reported that the Ger

ing One Jewish

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The economie damage the nation If the war will be won Eng MrJSwing concluded that on the has suffered in two, unhappy years land, you will open your schools whole the food situation was not des of the German regime may be yourselves; if Cermany wins,an perate and guessed that the present nasessed at one-third of the national alementary school with Ave cleases, frilisis diet was healthdirtban sin property lalt after Munich. No will be enough for youCSS WIRTSCH

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