The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-22
GERMANY KEEPS
q, UP BLASTING
tcOntinued frOm Pace u

FACTORIES ana business Trims, az
ter the first few weeks Of war, had
ceased to keep their CARP" on an
emergency basis. Now they must
have fully trained air raid wardens
on duty In uniform day and night.
AL wardens, both Of the General
ARP organization and the Special
Self Help organizations in al big es-
adjustments must take Freshener
courses. Police now make surprise
visits to office buildings and private
homes to check up the effectiveness
Of the blackout, which Is often far
from perfect.
Owners of the so called Peoples
gas mask, are asked to submit
them for periodical inspections.
Only comparatively few persons
possess them.
Warning Notices
Since the beginning Of the Bril-
fish raids on large scale precautions
propaganda has been carried out
through newspapers, posters and the
radio.
Such warning notices as eight is
the surest target" appear every
where now. Propaganda shorts"
are shown at movie theaters to
show the citizens how to extinguish
1ncendiary bombs. Nightly the radio
now warns that for military rea.
sons" air raid sirens will be sound
ed for only one minute instead Of
the usual two. Air raid wardens
are urged to see that nobody sleeps
through an alarm.
For month now training of air
raid wardens had been speeded.
Complaints have been made that
civilians instead Of going to cellars
stand at windows and fail to black
out their homes or offices suffi-
GENTLY. The air raids branch of
the self help organization now has
been instructed to see that q sand
box Is kept on the land of each floor
OF apartment houses in addition to q
bucket of water, to fight fires.
The air ministry decreed that
there should be air raid drills in
each building under the direction of
the self help organization.
The official news agency in a
communicate cited German bornbings
OF merchantmen off the north and
west coasts of Ireland as evidence
OF the effectiveness of the new Ger
man blockade" of Great Britain.
Two OF the ships attacked, it was
asserted, were 125 miles west of Ire
land.
Crime Against Humanity
Berlin, August %. - (UP) -
Competent quarters, commenting on
the alteration Of the United States
neutrality daw to permit American
ships to take British and other war
children to safe homes, stated to-
day that 1t would be a Crime
against humanity for Germany to
guarantee the safety of these ships"
The spokesman said: 1.-THE new
law Is based on the assumption of
the guarantee of safe passage by
warning powers. The Reich govern
ment already in the case of the
(arny tranSport) American Legion
pointed out the infestation of the
sea around England with mines. A
mere guarantee, which in the pres
ent situation would not be workable,
would be a crime against the children
to be transported Of which the Reich
government does not wish to make it.
self a party.
After the American neutrality
law excluded the possibility of in
cidents which might lead to conflict
and worked for best relations be-
tween Germany and the United
States, 1t cannot be in the inter-
est of the two countries to create
through false humanitarianism
new possibility of incidents"
The chance in the neutrality law
was intended primarily to remove
as many British children as possible
from the dangers of mass German air
raids on Britain.
Nazi Prisoner Caught
Ottawa, Ont, August %. - (UP)
- Gunther Lorentz, German pris-
oner Of war who escaped from a
northern Ontario internment camp
August 10, has been recaptured in
Montreal, the defense department
announced today.
The announcement said that
Lorentz was the Werner Roche"
authorities had been seeking since
Monday.
The error in name was caused
when another prisoner answered for
Lorentz when the roll-call was
taken at the Ontario camp.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police at
Montreal said that Lorentz was
captured as he attempted to cross
Victoria Bridge, spanning the st.
Lawrence River. to Montreal.
He was in civilian clothes and
made no attempt to elude capture
when police approached him. He
was identified by his handwriting.
Police said Lorentz was "arro-
CANT" and appeared not to have
suffered from his journey through
the wilds of northern Ontario to
Montreal.
Lorentz escaped from the northern
Ontario internment camp through
a carefully contrived tunnel Mon
day.
Lorentz, it was expected, will be
returned to concentration camp
Immediately