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KNOW THE JAPS FO

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by James R. Young

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Where She Danced

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...

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1947.

GERMAN PRISONERS

ON THE

N the middle of the night of September 19/20 1944, one thousand five hundred sullen men under guard tramped from Colchester North Station to Berechurch, a distance of some four miles, and were brought to a halt in a wide field encom- passed by barbed wire. The night was very dark and the ground squelched with mud. There was no cover, and tentage had to be obtained from a supply dump a short distance away. When dawn broke, the men went about setting up the tents and drawing tinned rations. It was a cheerless scene: the men were wet and despondent; some thankful they were qut of the hell that was Normandy; others highly indignant to find that everything had not been "ald on" for them; all wondering what captivity would be like.

For these were German prisonera,

the first large body of men the around Chen to be brought to the Eastern Command area. The fol- lowing night they were joined by another 1,000 and by 24 September over 6,000 of Hitler's Westwall de- fenders were encamped around Berechurch. Among them were mcn who had participated in the 1940 Bzkrieg, nung "We March Against England" In the Paris cates, and had been scheduled to land in Britain after the Luftwaffe had dis- posed of the Few.

ROAD BACK

Over twa years have passed in their respective areas of men whobiology, German and philosophy. since that wet night when the first were domiciled there,

Ancient and model languages. Only. remnants of the Wehrmacht reuched Unbending Nazis are not in the 40 students turned up at the first Berechurch. The desolate meadow running at 辽算。 nor

are high lesson in March 1945, but by July las become, in the words of Cardinal ranking, officers,

the number had risen to and whether or nut now there are several hundreds at- Frings, Archbishop of Cologne, flest they have political leunings. All tending the six-week courzea. German from Germany to vialt 180 told, some 15,000 men, will go back- POW Camp, a "gilded cage." The every month, five times as many as tents have given way to row! of in the past. The dispatch of all the "Nissen huts and brick buildings; prisoners will take 20, months under

How they live in British what they do and camps

are thinking... Rebirth of the Church...Lessons in Democracy

BY PETER LOVEGROVE. concrete

Toods run where once, these arrangements, but it is possible muddy paths meandered; there are that it will be speeded up if suficient ornamental flower beds and veget-1 regular shipping can be organised. able gardens; it is all neat and trim. The sullen, despondent men them- selves

are changed: despite the unrhed wire, the sense of frustration and injury, many of these men have learned much which was always closed to them; they find a new hope in the future.

And now they are on their way home to participate in the recan- struction of a new and, we hope, a better and peaceful Germany.

The Government recently an- nounced its scheme for the **- celerated repatriation of the 394,000 Germans held in Britain, a decision which has meant much at Bere- church, for 136 is the Base Transit

Camp for the whole of Eastern IT was no new experience for his- Command, where men for repatrin- toric Colchester to have alien tion are collected from other, Com-

Roman troops in and around its

mands, and every week 1,000 men walls. Through all the years, its

pass through its gates on the road armlos, story is one of marching

fortiled back. gorriadas, beleaguered camps and confined prisoners. Alter three centuries of Roman occupa- tion, Jute Saxon and Angle brought Are and slaughter to the city; later, the Dano's Black Army, with double- headed

and sharp arrow masshered the entire townspeople. After Crecy, French prisoners of rank were held in the castle; Dutch soldiers. Scotsmen, religious mal- contents and State prisoners have been imprisoned there at different periods.

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With the coming of the Hanoverian manarchs, even German mercenaries have been stationed there. Records show that in 1809, four squadrons of German cavalry were employed to suppress a rising of the militin at Ely, and there was

Breat outery in the country when these foreigners were ordered to, flog the leaders. Mure- recently, when British troops left for the Crimea, troops from Hesse, known locally as the German leglon, were quartered in Colchester,

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occupy

the

I also saw two chapels, beautifully and simply decorated; In one, an of canvas and a home-made casel, artist was painting on an old piece a biblical scene which is destined for the mula oftar.,

from

The thirst for knowledge is not confined to religious affairs? Since May 1943, when a school opened. men have received. technical and agricultural training, and learned English and other foreign languages, Discussion groups are held regular-

come ly; lecturorя

univer- sitles and the Political Intelligence Department; the men can also go to the re-educational training centre at Willon Park, where they get course in the democratic way of life. The value of these open forums In obvious. The men are interested que-

mr a propagach of what they hear a

Ger-

the fearful

by

their

in them; they ask pertinent British machine ticks. It would be tlons; they, want to know how the

idie to pretend that they are being converted to democracy: they have AART

of a rigid machine In part 186 Camp does not only cater for which individual thinking was dis- these transient guests. It is the couraged for too long, and they have largest camp in Eastern Command the natural and inevitable blas to

of men discount and also holds a number

cannot work who

outside variety of reasons; some who are awaiting

No doubt they cannot see distribution 10 Inbour- units; hard cases of Nazis inbelled many's present day tragedy against

background of "Blacks"; a few in protected custody the

committed Iniquities who mily be arraigned as war leaders and so many of their com criminals; and a number of officers rades. No doubt they

have little of all ranks, from subalterns to n major-general. Total

sense of their gullt, and they blame population over 6,000,

Britain not only for the barbed wire around them, but also for the and the Prisoners do all the camp main destruction of their cities tenance In This town-within-a-town.

trim, well-laki, misery that has befallen their people;

They their own bread, repair their own Poland; even, in some cases, for not bake for having given guarantees to

boots, do their own laundry, Tuni having shown long before 1930 that their own shows and produce their we meant business. Democracy, to own newspaper. The huts, shower- men who are accustomed to carry baths and drying rooms, und the oul

and orders unquestioningly roads were all built by German methodically, seems a slow, cumber- Inbour.

"We're very proud of the some and unconvincing affair.

sold the Lagerfuehrer, o But, after all, many of these must

PRIORITY in repatriation is given results,"

to those prisoners who were mild-looking grey-haired mon of 50 have been Nazis because they had of being known to be an-Nazis before 1939 from Munstor, who served in the little or no opportunity or who have shown since a "positive two world wars and sixteen years anything else, and their willingness to think and discuss ob- democratic attitude" and are likely in the Reichswehr before being put to try.

In the bag in Normandy.

Jectively and above all to learn to play a useful part in

the re- The habilitation of Germany. For

men are most enthusiastic about others ways may bear fruit about .their entertainment halls, one day, It is too early to tell now. prisoner groups most part such men are controlling

variety- other The "Kleinkunst Buhne", responsible positions. Next highest hall, was managed by a professional

artists who has just priority goes to workers, such timber workers and miners, par- patriated. those who have volun- ticularly

to work in the mines, A teered

number certain

get preferential treatment on compassionate grounds. and thereafter, the general criterion is length captivity.

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been re

ONE of the most important fen- tures of the camp is its re-

of service spit i ligious instruction. There is a theo-

logical college, where suitable men

NEWSREEL

"Why, George.. you pagal !F".

CORRIGEN

"Any piler qolisations

from

once kiving owned

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"...and here's one of my wit and me, taken on holiday

MIUFACTURING D. LI

CLOSED

BY THE WAY

by Beachcomber

Chained for the Roman Cathelle A CHEERY headline has in- Only those men whose hopes are 'Church; there, they learn what

formed us that "Britain in the British Zone can at present Christianity means, the structure of is Building A Bigger And be sent, but agreement is being the church, fundamental principles sought from the other controlling of social life, the family and the Faster Electronic Brain." powers in Germany for the reception state, as well as mathematic, physics,

AN EVENING OUT IN 1914

MAN has been wistfully re-

calling an evening's outing

in the London of 1914.

He bought a snack supper, a glass of beer, a cigar, enjoyed a variety show....and returned home with 28.,change oul of is,

If we can rely on Mr. Dalton should be possible to repeat such an outing in 1948 for an expenditure of Is. 8d.--which, as everyone knows... IR absurd.

WHAT WARS DO

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by

and other memories

BERNARD HARRIS

Mills in Dewsbury were offering woollen blankets, 72 by 32ins, for 4s. 35. a pair. White Witney blankels ranged from 10s. 6d, to 16s. Cl. a pair.

The Chancellor' solemnly assures For baby you could buy acom us that our pound to-day still retains plete set of "surpassingly beautiful" 49 percent of Its 1014 purchasing long clothes-50 pieces for 21s. power. It may be possible to reach His pram, with wired-on tyres, cost such a conclusion by skilful jug-. £2 59. gling with wholesale prices of com- modities

But, so far as the day-to-day ex- penditure of ordinary folk is con cerned, it is pretty certain that our 1947 paper pound is worth barely a quarter of the 1014 golden, sover cign.

is a sobering experience to glance at the nowspaper advertise ments of 1914 and see the havoc which two wors have inflicted on our redhomie set-up.

The other day a three-bed-room house near where I live on the out- sicirts of London was sold for £4,200. In 1914 such a house would have cost, new, £400, You could buy i house with six bedrooms and three reception rooms for £700.

And you could furnish ' for less than £100. A 3-It, walnut dressing- inble, with two drawers and a be villed swing mirror, cost £223, a oak, bedstead, complete with bed- ding, £4.48.; 12ft. Gins. by 10ft. ans, Wilton pile carpet, in two tones of green, £5 58.

Compte dining room cultes sold as cheaply as £2 2s, and plands were priced from £8 02, upwards,

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THE YEAR'S MOST EAGERLY AWAITED!

JWANCHAL 4-20_WA

Greer GARSON

in

Walter PIDGEON

"BLOSSOMS in DUST"

the

NEXT CHANGE.

THE MOON IS DOWN"

With Sir Cedric HARDWICKE

TOYE

DOLLS

· ETC..

CHEAP GOWNS

As for clothes, the young ladies could buy chiffon evening gowns for 52s. Bd. Women's serge suits were 405. 9d, black velour coats £0 68. A fur coat of black wolf, "hardly distinguishable from black fox," cost

£2 129, Oct.

Spun silk stockings were 3a, a pair, docaksin gloves, 21. 6d. For Es. Od. you could try a fine nainsoole night- gown" or a dozen lawn handker- chiefs,

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in the moon. And it that doesn't Satisfy you, what on earth do you expect from the millennium?

a ib plum Jum 1011⁄2d. for 3lb.; Scene at meeting eggs 18s. for 120; eating apples 4s. -a-bushet.--.

wear waistcoats,

their shirts outside their Butch Garbo.and.

Lefty Dietrich

THE report that Butch Garbo and Lefty Dietrich are both likely

If scientists can attach this brain

to be in England for, a week in the to a super-stratospheric-jel-rocket near future has led to the cancel the brain will be able to have

ling of all Army leave. The idea breakfast in Norwood and on the of imposing a curfew on London, evening of the same day do sums

to keep the crowds out of the Instead, streets has been rejected. gunboats will be moored in the Thames, to fire blank of stated tervals, over the heads of the

multitudes. Extra doctors will be maved in from the eman- try districts. Tanks and armoured

Their hotel will ladies.

be the meeting of

Friends

of two

taken over and fortified by troops, International Culture. A ma

and applications for autographs will protested loudly, at the wearing of have to be passed by

by a specially, shirts Inside waistcoats, and proud-

constituted Autograph Board. Planes ly displayed his own shirt

will patrol the air above London, Scotch whisky was 40. Gd, a bottle, compared with to-day's 259, vd. and

all day long, writing the numea, of was hanging loose over his waist-

the ladies in coloured smoke. a black market price of £3 upwards, at The chairman said that this There was no need for rent tri- had nothing to do with the proceed- bunals in 1814.A nice bedroom, ings, and the mun was led out with breakfast, in a sekel home in Maida Vale" could to bad for 1ts. 6d.

week. Or you could get full board in Denmark Hill for 18s.

Usual change in a moderate-size the hotel for bedroom, breakfast and bath was 39. Od.

Α DISTURBANCE broke out at a cars will precede-and-follow the

A standard brand of cigaretten, now 1. 24, for ten, cost 3d, or 1s 111⁄2d. for 50. Cigars were 3d. each, five for 1s. Fipe tobacco, now 25. 8d.,

was 5d. art cunge.

Instead of the 8gns, and 10gns, week which many of the seaside landladies have been extorting last summer, you could enjoy a "liberal (6 table" in a Margale seaside boarding house for just Ign.

3/- EXCURSION

The Great Eastern Railway would take you on a half-day excursion to Clacton-on-Sea for 38, retum, and

Great Northem would take you from King's Cross to Skegness and back for the same money.

..

Box calf laced shoes for Indica, "excellent for walking, were priced at 7s. a pzir. Similar shoes in glace loid for the children cost is. 6d. You could see many of the London Usual price of a man's lounge suit shows for 6d. If you went up to 1s, was around £3 15s. His boots were at matinee' you not only obtained 123 Oxt. To

to 10s. Dd., his bootlaces, a comfortable seat but had tea pro- 41⁄4d, a dozen. Pyjamas-were avail- vided as well. able for Ba, lid, braces for 16, a

Chelsea

were playing Tottenham leathers food pridte of 1914 were: They attracted

coat £2.105. Hotspur 32 years ago yesterday. big crowd-at Od. Fat chickens 38. 6d. to 48, a par; a

cad parcels, of fish, direct from Grimsby, Mr. Dalton, then 28, was married. elb: for 25, 91b, for 25. d.; Cheddar in 1014. No matter what the figures cheese is 14. alb. margarine 6d. show,, I am sure he will agree that a lb., finest smoked, Dankh bacon, his money went fnuch more than "sold by the side or halinde,” 100, twice as far as it does now.

Typical

Half the Time Is; Plenty

I'D LIKE

TO BUY

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which

Tail-piece

A telephonist's wife has given.

(News Item.} The proud father, looking at che of his infants, probably said, "Sorry you've been trebled."

crying. This is pure Fascism." birth to triplets. An S. o. W. handbill was found afterwards on the dais, calling on democracies of the world to

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2, Pitering: 7, Likri 11. Gend; 11, Urged:

A. Mnipo tuns from here. (9) 4. Ielating 10 ani, assumed pervading force of nature.

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