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' ner for my birthday. As the news- _ , meme he“ °"""'"""'"‘ '" m “P” h"..l"::;i:"i:.r.e'..""...i- ~ I a a mi" i“ n2.r"..mt- WY. " usaon, -(By Gable)- With l he out of Germany in two weeks. ‘ ‘" ' i Lest limpse of German ooldierfl But five long, weary months were proc landing mBnflIve-ia on ahead at Bad Nauheim the beach at Biarritz, I bade iare- Returningcto Berlin from Gril- well to 19 months under Hitler, the nail, we d evened that our per- iast five of which were under armed zonal possessions had been rum- gum-d, maged through. and were consid- With other Americans interneu. erably depleted. lily housfrair I was rejoicingly awaiting the last happil declared: ‘Your stuff: __ leg toward what h re ust as you left it." But I we know darned found missing my personal notes, well is civiliza- photos, letters, memoirs of my tlon. Few would experience in fiance when the care to repeat Gemlans came in. Also gone were this unromant- cocoa, tea, coffee, soap butter and ically unpleasant ham I had laid by for the winter. Odyssey, which En route to Bad Nauheim cards, began last Dec-suspenders, shirts and shoes dis- l0 when the appeared from my trunk. Wilhelmstrasses We found Nauheim attractively mouthpiece or- within sight and sound of British dered us Ameri- raids on Frankfurt. The Grand can nenspaper- Hotel is the town's most luxurious, men from a con- hut facilities were not function- ferenoe to our ing properly, due to lack of use

frcm a pocket. White gloves an white hate are worn with many spring fashions straight from New York, making them ever so

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I had six hours of extra freedom. SPORADIC “RJOTS" but was picked up in my

after midnight. With other news- Embassy Counsellor Leland papermen, I was minded in Alex- Morris directed us to conduct our- nndei-plniz Prison without food or selves "as in any first class hotel." bed until the afternoon of Decem- Despite this strain on our imag- ber 11th, when we were allowed a inations. we toed the mark fairly

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meager lunch-provided we paid. well. Even our Gestapo guards Tiered Skirts Narrower ‘T ffjJAlH ‘ As Aldo]! Hitler hopenedthlsto wit‘ syrrigathelticalélev CXDIBIXtIB? out: Skirts with movement to the ‘ IY-"F-fi ‘Lb Algu . ed . ‘

Ifgrelgportvgrei gartiuck tguthe Berlin gghliilonlils duenpIAaxqfiaXrr-Iast gsly- fmnunued °Ii P359- 14 C°1 3) - SCALE o‘ Mats suburb of Grunau. chosis." They said that a certain f ' I

amount of spittoon-throwing and the evening of May 12th. We cross- o 10° BROWNSHIRT LAYS furniture-breaking was only nat- ed the French frontier early the '

DOWN THE LAW ural. considering our long con- The food was generally unpala- ‘Hlere, a minor Brownshirt offic- table, unnourlshing and occasion- ial issued instructions: "Keep your ally impossible -there was one rooms clean, keep feet of the beds, serving of rotten fish. for example. watch your conduct, in order to Potatoes that were frozen black avoid a bad impression with visit- and blue appeared regularly, and ing officials, arise piinctually for for weeks. in midwinter. we were meals." The Brownshirt also for- never served fruit or salad. A ticall) non-existent. The morning bade our using the comfortable pitcher of milk cost forty cents. _ of our departure from there, we chairs reserved for the guards. Sharp words often were ex- ' were treated to ostentatious man. It was so icy-cold in this sum- changed between waiters and 1: internment had a bright sidego carefree during the war. The euvers by a. German regiment, mer resort that we gathered all day "guests" as a result of the ser- it was provided by the lnternees Germans banned some entertairi- ggacticirlg landings along the beach 19118 ii-Wlllid $118M“)? StOl/B- WHEBT- vice and dirty dishes. ‘Ihen came thexnsglvfis, Newsmen got out a mgnls, such as kite-flying. and rdering the hotel. There were nines burst. flooding one room. the feldkueche-field kitchen lunches r_ lam Nauhueim Puddins." branded dandelion-picking as 1M" smoke screens, heavy firing by toilet dldn-g work and the water on Mgndgys and q-ynu-sdws_ These of which {our editions were 15- any guns of an Calibers’ and mums for shaving was like ice. We slept featured slumgullion, containing sued plus one “m; announcing war planes. 11nd‘?! 0111‘ 01V“ SWYHWFS- °V°P¢°P1l§ twenty to thirty grams 0f mim- "March Departure Probable.” LISTENED T0 LONDON RADIO Leaving Hendaye, we were not and shirts. The diet and the intense cold They also published the group's searched and were greeted by the Helmeted soldiers. with rifles created an epidemic oi’ skin rash. “mom, Wiho, 'I'here were spelling one group evaded the radio ban Spanish Wm, the mo“ wmb], pistols. and bayonet-s, guarded "5 Many of us stayed in bed all day bees 3nd debates, in which the by listening to London every nigh?» "propaganda"—tile best of food, incessantly, supper, per man. wn- of warmed our hands over char- reporm-s defeated the diplomats. with a pocket battery set. Other wine, service and mendunesg

next morning.

WITNESS GERMAN MILITARY MANEUVERS

After a second night in the train, we were lodged in the Hotel Palals, at Biarritz, where food was prac-

CHEKIANG PROVINCE

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i l A . h 1d f C tholics at I h dl d with lsd th d bread, ersatz coffee and synthetic The Germans never provided flifiuflefiiiiilgfpllyfllfisinching “$535 cheurcinorperiiiitted furtive céfibfiflom ,,,w,,,,,°’§e,,,,iu§,_”,,'§§f marmalade. facilities for buying cigarettes or and first aid. to say nothing of conversations with Latin Ameri- Axis gel-rim“;

‘FOMEH Office Dfopilgflnda of- toothpaste and rarely for soap. tap’ ballroom and Indian dancing. cans. other worshippers held Taking eyéngs smgm mwnb 11°15“ Wh° Visited "5 "we prfle-i‘ COIWIWOHS imliwved an" m1? There was also a series of lectures siinday services in the hotel. merit was generally bearable. But 59d amazement at m" slbuw/“yl- 9111119551’ 106286 i1 protest, via on spring sports, Our nearest link to America the cumuiative egg“; o; “me

vl-“ming "w" i" Wm “veiled Washington. Frederick Oechsner, of the united was the small river "ma". along dragging on without mm or hope '- “thwt the“; kxmwledgf‘ It w“ Hbwever- the 59mm“ °bV1°"$' Press, received a special medal for whose banks we walked mornings o; deparmng without word from ' hinted new‘ 7191955- ma“ W ‘s’??? 1? believed "if"? the." W911i“! "5 directing Wednesday and Saturday and afternoons. Elsoape DIME friends or families, the German 11° “Ifrse '13” dthan 69mm“ ed We"- 91" f°°d actua-IIY Bmmlnted entertainments, The neWSDjaDrrmeii were numerous, but none was tried. rations and other inconveniences, ‘m EH5 Isa“ ' 1° m“? and 5 ha" times the G"- organized a male sextet, which later Two temporary disappearancei the night-long plodding of guards

man-s’ 0W" Twkbotwm W!‘ "- expanded into an excellent chorus. stirred wild rumors until the ab- under our windows, plug the Arrows pointing toward Kinhwa, right, Burma Road, left, and from Formosa lower right shown in- GERMANS STEAL mms- The Germans were hand!" Prom the lobby, the Gestapo and sentees showed up. kllvwlfidgv that every move was creasingly strong Japanese penetration into China from the east and west. Dotted arrows simw tlllv l! PERSONAL PROPERTY capped by the winter's extreme hotel employees watched our shows All this ended when special watched, every conversation snoop- against key points. Klnhwa ls provisional capital of Cirekiang Province and most important Fm

needom mm 6mm“ “me an $113} “railway tie-ups and the with goggle-eyed amazement, pro- trains carried us and the Central ed 1113011,, all add up to a drab Chinese military,

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