New York's Population.
The population of New York City, according to the Consolidated Edison Company’s research department, was 7,760,000 on January 1, 1946, or a 4.2 per cent, increase over the 1940 census figures.—New York, April 22.
a “Lili Marlene” Banned. | WAAFS at the Ruislip Royal A.iv | Force station have been told hy their I commanding officer that they must j not sing ‘■.Lili Marlene” —once the I marching tunc- of the Germans— I within hearing of German prisoners | of war. The Air Ministry stated: “On the morning of the arrival at ! Ruislip of a new batch of WAAF’reI cruits, who had been in the service (only two or three months, the commanding officer heard that they had i been singing ‘Lili Marlene’ to German prisoners of war. The commanding officer told them that they must not talk to the Germans, and. thinking that their singing of the German song might lead to fraternisation, added that they must not sing it in ■ the immediate vicinity of Germans.l: No complaint has been made by the : Germans.” —London, April 21. . J
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 April 1946, Page 8
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