ON PORTUGUESE ISLAND

New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24104, 24 October 1941, Page 8

ON PORTUGUESE ISLAND

140 BRITISH SAILORS (Reed. 6.1-1 p.m.) LONDON Oct. '>-2 One hundred and forty British seamen whose vessel's have been torpedoed are Ining on the Portuguese island of Sao Mimic!. says the Gibraltar correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. The correspondent recently visited the island and ton ml the British sailors fretting to take part again in the Battle of the Atlantic. The men are billeted with residents, who have lent a building for a Hub. The Portuguese are showing, open sympathy for the ■British cause. food shortage GERMANS' FATAL MISTAKE . ■ NI-:\V YORK, 0,-1. 22 stinrl en ii" t r'° inosL ' a votirable circunil.nW \ • German people would not hold out in t.ui I ace ot hunger longer than another two or three years." said Dr. beale Harris, who made a nntri- i tioiial survey of Europe after the Great Dr. Harris made this statement at a conference of the American Dietetic Association, and added that Germany was making the fatal mistake of sacrificing the most valuable future food ret°~ol£ e Vi n ? rt l er , to . satisfy immediate wi b i C - had dra ! nod Denmark, Holland Belgium and France of dairv cattle and pigs and had slaughtered