B.B.C. LONDON LETTER

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 4591, 12 November 1942, Page 2

8.8.C. LONDON LETTER

A WEEKLY MISCELLANY Trench Audacity. The man who said the French are always excited when something exciting is afoot would gloat over the latest ‘escape’ story to reach the BBC. It concerns a husband and wife and their sixteen-years-old son who have just arrived in Britain. When the family set out from their home town their main concern was their papers —these were not in order for crossing the demarkation line into Unoccupied France. However, as Monsieur related, they ‘took’ a taxi, and drove off. Some way from the ‘line’ a German girl in uniform, walking along the road, hailed them and asked for a lift.

At the frontier, the guards, seeing a German unifornf- emerge from the taxi did not challenge it, nor were the other occupants asked to show their papers. After they had crossed they saw that the German girl was, in fact, going on dutyl Nazi Brutality.

The Reverend E. S. Loveday broadcasting from the BBC on the Governent report on ‘ Religious Persecution ’ in Germany, said, in the course of his talk: ‘You can’t begin to explain this calculated filthy cruelty except in terms of sheer stark evil.' SHORTS FROM THE TALKS Extracts from talks and commentaries in the BBC’t overseas short wave transmissions: Laval’s Boy Thugs. ‘I don't for one moment take this precious Legion of Petain’s very seriously. Its real purpose is surely to give some semblance of public approval to a regime which is only kept in power by German bayonets and a band of French thugs recruited by Laval for the repression of his own countrymen. One day the German bayonets will be dealt with; and you can take my words for it that the day after, Laval and his strong-arm boys will be regretting the day they were born—if they have the time. France herself will see to that.’ Thomas Cadett.