GIVEN TO GERMANY

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 14, 17 January 1941, Page 6

GIVEN TO GERMANY

FRENCH ARMS TAKEN TO

SWITZERLAND

BERNE. January 15,

War material brought into Switzerland by the French troops who were interned here is being handed over to Germany. Vichy requested that the material of the 45th French Army Corps should be handed over to Germany instead of being returned to the French Government. A CONTRAST A reader forwards an extract from the Birmingham "Weekly Post" of November 15, 1940, with the comment that it presents a strange contrast, with the excuses made for workers in New Zealand who overstayed their holiday leave or otherwise hampered essential work. The extract is as follows:— "NEGLECTED THEIR WORK." "Walsall Magistrates on Monday ordered Frank Perkins, Wordsworth Road, to pay £2 damages for neglecting his work. "It was explained that some workpeople applied for an extra allowance. This was granted. Perkins appeared to think he had a grievance, and in I the presence of other employee? declared that he was not going to work any longer. He put down his tools and went away. The result was that a mill had to close. ,

"Frank Brotherton, who was also summoned, was said to have made a practice of absenting himself on Mondays and Tuesdays. This had caused his employers heavy loss. He pleaded illness as an excuse. He Was ordered to pay £3 damages."