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VOL. CLXIX. No. 169 36 POLISH WOMEN TELL WAR HORROR STATION PACKED TO WELCOME REFUGEES CHANNEL ISLANDER LEAVES BELONGINGS Doctor Reunited with Brothers After 21 Years9 Absence Abroad THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, MONDAY, JULY 15, 1940. Woman from Jersey, Now Refugees from German-occupied Territory Have Seen Barbarism Close They ere too confused.

too hsppy, too emotional about it all to tell reporters much, but of the many tales recounted when 2.000 evacues reached Montreal yesterday there was none more moving than that of the three French-Canadians who welcomed the brother they had not seen for 21 years and who had-narrowly escaped with his wife t. ifTTT-, IS-1 $2dL I ti ifyi HI rn nil XnLi 5 rlmA lit I I5 If I seemed, they were just too late. They missed boats at Bordeaux and at Bayonne. Finally they obtained passage aboard a vessel which normally carried 500 passengers they and 3.500 others. From St.

Jean de Luz near Biarritz, the Pinards sailed to -Portsmouth but their travels were far from over. They pushed on to Plymouth, to London, finally Xr Scotland. Then came the Ion; ocean voyage home and the dusty train ride to Montreal. On a crowded Bonaventure Station platform late yesterday afternoon. Dr.

Pinard at long last met his three brothers A. M. Pinard, ot Hull, Paul Pinard of Montreal, and Major Arthur Pinard. of Ottawa and the emotion was more than any of them could brave. Unashamed, all four brushed tears from their eyes only after they had embraced.

The reporter's story was far from complete. There were many details he sought, but even re-porters must be human at times. "You can un-dersatnd," said Dr. Pinard huskily, "I can't speak. I want to see my brothers." 1 lT i-'T jfi 1 1 1' wLD A5 XL i vft Friends and relatives of returning Canadians and evacuated children who arc to be the guests of Canada, filled Bonaventure Station to await the arrival of the Canadian National steamship specials.

Among them were scores of volunteer Red Cross workers and members of local fraternal organizations, on hand with their cars ready to be of assistance to the travellers. rimto Here, Had Time to Packt Only a Few Clothes LEFT HOUSE WIDE OPEN Mrs. H. L. E.

Daubeny Be. lieves Germans Less Likely to Wreck It If Doors Not Barred A sudden command given just before a cocktail party on her esiate on th Island of Jersey sent Mrs. H. L. E.

Daubeny on a journey that in a little more than two weeks ianded her in Montreal by Saturday's C.P.R. boat train. She was given no warning of what was to happen. They were merely told to pack and line up for the boat. Within a matter of hours, after Mrs Daubcny's boat put off from the Jersey Pier, Hitler's airmen slid into the Jersey airport and the swastika was flying from the governor's residence.

"It was completely unexpected," Mrs. Daubeny said. "We had made our plans for the w-eek as usual. As a matter of fact we had planned the cocktail party for some officers who were stationed on the island and even as we waited for them we didn't know that England had declared the Channel Islands open territory and taken off every man in uniform and dismantled every instrument of defence. "I had to leave everything as it stood, even to the cocktail glasses on the table in the sun lounge.

We were allowed just enough time to pack a few pounds of baggage with our personal effects. Then we drove in our car to the pier and waited in a queue for more than 50 hours without sleep to get transportation to England. When we finally went on board we had to abandon our car and leave it were it was standing in the roadway." Mrs. Daubeny left all the doors of her house open, her cupboards and wardrobes unlocked. "You see," said the tall, fair-haired Irish woman," th- Nazis would have broken open anything they found locked up so we thought it just as advisable to give them a free passage into the house and place everything at their disposal.

Because in that case they might not be interested and, perhaps, we might even find our home intact when we return to Jersey after the war." DESTROYED WINE CELLAR. One thing Mrs. Daubeny was careful to do. She destroyed the contents of what must have been one of the finest wine cellars on the island. "They might have misbehaved themselves and done extensive damage to the island otherwise," she said.

"You know the Channel Islands are of no military value whatsoever," she added. "Hitler wanted them simply for propaganda purposes. He wanted to please his own vanity and that of the German peo- pie by saying that England's 'old est possessions' were in nis hands. It may sound childish but that is the way the German mind works." Mrs. DaubfMiy stayed in England Which Your i and son from conquered France.

Dr. Victor Pinard, a native of this city, served in the last war as a captain in the Royal Canadian Dental Corps. After he was demobilized he came back to Montreal and made his residence here for a few months. But he had been in France, liked the country and decided to move over to Paris and practise there. Three or four days before Paris capitulated to the German armies.

Dr. Pinard. his Parisienne wife and their 12-year-old son, Alain, fled the city on an hour's notice. For 20 days they made their way as best they could south toward safety, as they thought, sleeping where they could find a bed, wondering how they might escape. But everywhere they went, it a few days to consult her husband, Capt.

H. L. E. Daubeny. who was in the evacuation of Dunkerque, and' to take her young son.

Meredith, away from Beaumont College, and their sail for Canada. She and Captain Daubeny decided that she must come to ihis country for the boy's sake. "The preservation of our younger generation is the real thing that matters," she said. "Both my husband and I decided upon that." She was in London long enough to learn on the best authority that London is so. well protected that the Nazis have little or no chance of bombing "Goering's promise that London wouldn't be bombed is absolute nonsense," Mrs.

Daubeny emDhasized. "The Germans were I trying to get through the balloon barrage every night I was there. But so perfect are the defences that they hadn't a chance. London is the safest place in Britain: It's impregnable." PLAN TO WORK HERE. Mother, and son are facing the new life in Canada with traditional British courage.

It is a question of settling down like any newcomers to this country and tackling hard work in the hard way. They are determined to be real immigrants in the best sense of the word. Canada is to be their home indefinitely. Meredith hopes to continue his education from where he left off only three weeks ago. He will apply for admission to Loyola College which is an affiliate of Beaumont, both being conducted by the Jesuit Fathers.

Mrs. Daubeny herself is an arts graduate of Galway University. Any idea of Britain not winning the war made Mrs. Daubeny laugh. "You fhould be in England to see how calm and absolutely confident the -people are.

If Hitler thinks his bombings can ever panic the British people like they did some of the continentals he is suffering under the greatest illusion of his life. If there was any disunion before the war it has totally disappeared now. All classes think alike and they all have only one thought in mind and that is that victory is a foregone conclusion. It is simply a matter of sticking it out." Tunisia shipped products valued at 52.005,000 to the United States in 1939. Future COMES HOME TO QUEBEC YOUNG CANADIANS RETURN liilitf 1 H't 4 1 4 i iA ONE ESCAPED ON FOOT Wife of Army's Second-in-Command Fled Across Europe in Disguise Wife of Minister to Hague Here By OGDEX GLASS.

Br-Eging vuth them staggering tales of horror, privation and the stark heroism of the war which has ravagf their country. 36 Polish women ano children were among the rearly 2,000 evacuees who reached Montreal over the week-er. Composed of eight women and 28 children, the party was the first contxgent cf the 2.000 Poles who are expected to arrive in this country under the auspices of a refugee plan sponsored by the consul general of Poland in Canada. Dr. Tad-eisz Brzez.iiii;:.

and subscribed to by their ccmpairiots the Do-cxion. Tncte who arrived here yesterday will be housed in local charitable and religious institutions fr a few days until are completed for the.r final destinations. Perhaps the most harrowing story cf all was told by Mrs. S. Sosnow-cki.

wife cf Gen. Sosnowski. sec-end in command of the now fighting in England. Mrs. Sasncwski arrived with her four sons, one of whom.

12-year-old Bog-den, expressed shy. lisping Eng-1-sn the relief which the entire party must have felt at their safety when he aid: "I don't think we'll ever have to run away from here." To make good her escape. Mrs. Snowski. who did not leave Warsaw until March 15.

tramped from that city to the Belgian border, entirely on foot, disguised as a German peasant woman, living literally from hand to mouth, sleeping in Leids and in barns. Arrested and released twice by the Gestapo, Mrs. Sosnovvski finally left Warsaw on March 15, six months after the German hordes had entered the city. During thsi time, her husband was fighting against the invading Nazis, then against the Russians and finally ssainst the Germans again in France: her oldest son was in tne Polisn navy, where he is today, and her four younger sons had been sent to comparative safety in Rumania. Throughout the period, Mrs.

Sos-rowski remained in the conquered capital, nursing Polish soldiers. Several times she was working in hospitals when they were bombed. At one time three pavilions of one hospital were blown up; at another there was no water, no electricity t.o heat no food for 48 hours while surgeons carried on operating in chairs, on beds, anywhere. Always, "it was hell." fhc aid s.mply. Polts were herded into open freight cars like cattle.

Mrs. Sos-xiowfki recounted, and transplanted away from their homes to concentration camps, to far distant villages, and anywhere, in fact, where their conquerors thought the fri ght du least harm. Once. she her-tcli pulled the bodies of teven dead ch from a single car. Then there as Mrs.

W. Babinska, wife of th Polish Minister to The Hague, who whs travelling with her daughter. Mrs. B. Karpinska, her son.

Richard, and a nurse. During the last year she has seen her three homes, at Warsaw, The Hague ard Angers, destroyed. When she get off the train yesterday Mrs. Karpinska carried a small hand-bar all she had left in the world. Evacuated from The Hague when the court left the country.

Mr. Bibinska is at present in England his diplomatic mission. Alio on the train was Mrs. K. Strachewicz who received a medal rem the Polish Government for part she played in the defence cf Lwow sfter the last war when she was only 15 years old.

Mrs. Strachewicz. who actually shouldered a gun during the defence of the city the Red Russian armier. wore her medal proudly yerterday. She left Poland in October France.

Approximately a week before the b3ttle rf France began she was evacuated again, with her two sons and her daughter, to Eng land Her husband, a general in te Polish forces, fought in his native country, in France, and is still in command of his unit at present serving in England. These are isolated examples of the many nightmare stories that could be told by almoit any member of the party ghoulish stories barbarism that Canadians have rot heard before, and could hardly contemplate. As one gray-haired elderly lady expressed it: "You have been spared so far You are fortunate and I tru-t you will continue to be. It a great deal more horrible tr.an I can tell you. We cannot ay how grateful we all are frr your welcome to this lovely ci-u trv The? persecuted people showec stra.n cf their experiences on lreir faces, some of them sliil faur.i from privation, in their man-rerurrjE ar.d in their peeeh.

Yet cf tstm. too, gave evidence of rel.ef and happiness even If tney coupled its expression with rTs the-r relative might be spared to kno tne same. Tht ign of a MELLOW ALE 4c Have you trid Black Hora Utaly? It'a bttar than avar today I Quints' Toys Are Sold In N.Y. for War Relief New York, July 14. Yvonne's woolly dog brought $3.

Annette's mechanical Donald Duck was knocked down for $8. Maries Pop-eye doll got $6 and that's the way it went today at the auction of The Dionne Quints' old toys, with Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe as assistant auctioneer, at the garden party for the British War Relief Society at suburban Harrison. A one-eared cotton baby rabb that belonged to Cecile or Emilse got $7, while Dr. Dafoe autographed pictures of the five famous sisters and pictures of' himself bringing the total garnered through the quints' effects to more than $100 of the $4,000 contributed by the 1.500 guests.

The garden party was held on the 30-scre estate. "The Ledges." of H. Spencer Auguste, banker, and was attended mainly by New York society folk. Godfrey Haggard, British Consul-General in New York, and Dr. Dafoe made brief speeches in which they expressed the gratitude ofBritain and the Empire for help that has come from the United States.

Shyly, Dr. Dafoe, who was billed as an auctioneer, preferred to let Texas O'Rourke and Bill Steinke, fellow members of the New York Society of Circus Saints and Sinners, do most of the talking. He stood by on the platform erected for the purpose and encouraged bidders. U.K. WOMAN PILOT DIES Mrs.

Elsie Joy Davison I3 First Such Casualty of War London. July 14. (CP. Cable.) Britain's first woman pilot casualty of the war was announced Saturday night. She was Mrs.

Elsie Joy Davison, a member of the women's section of the Air Transport Auxiliary whose job it is to fly new planes from the factories to Royal Air Force stations. She was killed during an instruction flight Farm wage increases are spread-ing throughout England Would MONTREAL KU Widow Have to Face? Imperial Life Policies Gazette Tholo ICopyrish' Rfrvd). Clutching her gas-mask container in one hand and her doll in the other. 9-ycar-old DOROTfll' BALDOCK and her brother. ALBERT, 12.

were photographed at Bonaventure Station yesterday shortly after they arrived in Montreal from England. Both of them born in Ottawa, the two children were returning to their home city to stay with friends "until our daddy and mummy can come out." They had been in England for four years. guarantee freedom from hardship dren and to maintain them in the United Slates.) The four children of George Vanier, Canada's Minister of France, reached Montreal Saturday night by regular train. They escaped from France at the last moment, and were brought to Canada by their maternal grandmother. From the Channel Lslands came a small number of passengers, telling reporters they had destroyed everything that could be of value to the Germans, even to smashing bottles of wine which they had in their cellars.

Some of the French acted in a like manner. Mrs Alexandre Le-moine, of Paris, "What I left intact won't be much use to the Huns. Or to anybody else, for that matter." Aboard the trains, as they travelled westward towards Montreal, there were scenes rich in human interest. The corridors were crowded with cnildren. Some of the mothers had made miniature homes out of the sleeping-car sections.

Cake and oiscuit crumbs seemed to be everywhere. The children, covered with soot from sitting for hours in iaacinalion on the observation plalfurm, gaped at every mile of Canada as it flashed past them. The younger ones, the babies, slept serenely through it all, oblivious to the shouts of the youngsters, the roaring wheels, the pilch of the train. This reporter con icmembrr only one special train thHt excelled in human drama the train that brought the Athenia survivors into Montreal from Halifax at the start of the war. JAM OBSERVATION CARS.

There wasn't an inch of space left on the observation platforms of the trains which arrived Saturday and yesterday. For they were crowded at all times with children, packed like sardines. And if there is any doubt that the people of Canada uren't gad to see these youngsters, the doubt'ng one snould have ridden those trains, to see people come out at every little station along the route, to see them wave and cheer the kids, to sec station-masters take off their caps and salute them thru was a sight to tug at the heart even of those who have worked on the evacuee ships and trains since the beginning. But not all the drama was among the children, most of whom are only vaguely aware of what this is all about. For the first time, really, the older people came sharply into the scene particular the French and Polish.

Their numbers were not great, but they attracted the attention of everyone, possibly because they, and especially the Poles, were the victims of an actual invasion, not a threatened one. They brought along all kinds of litHe treasures from the homes that perhaps are no longer standing, and while some of them have a certain amount of money, there are others who are very poor. Yesterday, they were worried and glad at the same time. They were a little bewildered at the crowd in the station, but their eyes lit 110 when you -asked them if they were happy to be in Canada. There was no question that they were.

Som of them, however, had left part of their families at home, and there were mothers who had lost their in the army while Poland and France were still resisting within their borders. Again, there were parties of English schoolboys Roine to fchools in Canada for the duration of the war. and a number of young girls with similar destinations. Some of the English youngsters had been in France during the German drive, and had got out of Paris just before the surrender, walking many miles to take lorries or trains for the coast and crossing to England in small vessels that were bombed. Red Cross workers and a number from the Montreal Refugee Committee were present at every train to give what assistance was required.

All the children arriving on the week-end, with the exception of the Canadian repatriation group, are privately sponsored and will go to the homes of relatives or friends in Canada. Spanish General Dies Vigo. Spain, July 14. (Pi General of Engineers Manuel Bar-riero. 59.

reputed here to have been the first user of heavicr-than-air craft for military purposes, died today. In 1903, during the Riff wars, Barriero piloted a primitive biplane over Conico Mountain. He was shot down and severely wounded and later was awarded the Laureada. Spain's highest military decoration. 1 "ti 'yj real, walked down the platform wearing a blue coat and a cap with brass buttons tewed on them army bulions given her by soldiers aboard the ship.

She also wore an official "Canada" shoulder badge and corporal's stripes, the latter made by her mother. uiuiica. ui a auijmai 111c diii sunk by warships which accompanied the refugee liners were widespread among the passengers, but were not confirmed. Whatever the reason, however, depth charges were dropped by one of. the escort 1 ships while en route across thc-t Atlantic.

The young son of Dr. G. Simpson. Montreal dentist now practising in London, he had teen the depth charges set off. "and it was very interesting." he added calmly.

He arrived with his mother ana suier 10 siay wnn relatives here. He was only five years old when he first left Canada. MAUROIS IS RETICENT. Some of the Frenchmen who ar rived were reticent about 1hc! French surrender. Andre Maurois, i me autner.

declared: for a Frenchman, it feels very good to be in French Canada." A. Leger. former undersecretary of the French Foreign Office, would say nothing about the French "1 was on leave for some months before thf capitulation." he told reporters. Maurois will go to Massachusetts in September to deliver a series of lectures at the Lowell Institule. Lcger's plans are indefinite, although he said he might visit French possessions in the West Indies.

Among the Canadians who reached home was a black-bearded priest. Rev. Antonio Desrochers. of St. Leonidas, Que.

Asustant-general of the Order of St. Mary in Brest, he left that city the day the Germans attacked. He walked five miles to a place on the coast where he picked up a tug bound for Plymouth. She was bombed by German planes on the crossing and her her mast cut down by gunfire, but no one aboard was hurt. In the English contingent was Captain A.

S. Cunningham-Reid, member of Parliament, who was under fire in the British House of Commons last week for leaving the country. Denying that he had fled. Captain Cunningham-Reid declared he was on an official mission in connection with the evacuation of British children. (A London dispatch on Saturday said he was acting for Mrs.

Doris Duke Cromwell, who hi offered to receive 500 chil 1 A. 1 1 fi7.flte IMrfMn (C'i ight RpPrfi). REV. ANTONIO DESROCHERS, native of St. Leonidas, who was assistant-general of the Order of St.

Mary in Brest, France. He left Brest the day the Nazis arrived and reached here yesterday. SOVIET FORCE SENT TO EASTERN BORDER 30 Troop Trains With Tanks, Artillery Reported on Way to Manchoukuo Shanghai, July 15. (Monday) iTj Reliable travellers arriving here from Europe via Vladivostok reported today that they saw more than 30 Soviet Russian troop trains, complete with tanks and artillery, moving eastward. This report was linked here with the recent disclosure that Japanese-dominated Manchoukuo protested to Russia July 9 regarding recurrent incidents along the Man-chuoukuo-Siberia border.

These incidents allegedly included Soviet encroachments on territory and the kidnapping of Manchoukuoan officials. The report also was linked with recent Japanese press, claims thiit Russia, Britain and the United States weer engaged in a gigantic 'plot'' to disturb Far Eastern affairs. (Presumably the only good route for moving troops on the scale mentioned would be the Trans-Siberian railway. This skirts Manchoukuo in a wide loop on the northwest, north and northeast. (A branch the Chinese Eastern Railway strikes down directly through the heart of Manchoukuo.

(The Manchuoukuo-Siberian border has been the scene of frequent clashes in past years. Most recent difficulty, the so-called "vest pocket war" on the Outer Mongolian border, was ended last fall, and Japan and Russia agreed on the boundary last month.) Volunteers in Preston. England, serve over 1 000 frre nim nf ts daily to troops passing through the station. CITY WELCOMES MORE CHILDREN ESCAPING NAZIS (Continued from Page One.) haired Pole3 who crowded into the waiting-room of Bonaventure station and listened to greetings from their friends in this country, the newsmen lound tierce and tragic stories, true accounts of real bravery and almost unbearable hardships. They found children who had known how it felt to lie with their bodies against the ground as Nazi plsncs screamed overhead and bombs fell and exploded all about thrm.

They found a fourteen-year-old French boy. Pierre Desy. who had walked alone out of Paris, trudging many miles until he came across a band of refugees and had travelled on with them, eventually to rearh London and almost miraculously to find his parents there. And some of thcfe Polish mothers had staggered across the torn fields of their country with children clinging to their backs, as they fd from the relentless German advance. COURAGE UNDAUNTED The English children were similar to those who had reached Montreal in liners tw weeks ago eager to visit Canada, ready to talk of air raids and black-outs, and all saying stoutly that the British were going to win the war.

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