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...Moscow radio beamed speeches by German clergymen, Catholic and Protestant. Many of the speakers were said to be captured German army chaplains. They praised Moscow's National Committee for a Free Germany (TIME, Aug. 30), told how the Russians allow them to practice their religion in the prison camps, urged listeners in Germany to pray for peace, work against the Nazis...
When the works manager told Sydney he would have to work in the pits, the boy refused. Promptly he was sentenced to a month in prison; under the Essential Works Orders, no war worker may refuse the job to which he is assigned...
Older miners understood. "Pit nerves" were common in youngsters; prison was no cure. Quietly, some 23,000 miners in 20 neighboring pits struck. The unions frowned, but the men stayed out. The Regional Fuel Controller intervened: "Without the power of compulsion, the Government could not control the war at all. . . ." Still the men stayed out. There was talk that showed that Page was just the spark: the men wanted to know when the Government's plans for a postwar new deal in the coalfields would materialize...
...Gestapo knocked at the door, carried Mrs. Shiber off to jail. Later the Nazis bagged Kitty and the priest. Mrs. Shiber was sentenced to three years at hard labor. Kitty and the priest were sentenced to death. But Mrs. Shiber believes that Kitty has not been executed, is in prison in Germany. The priest, according to Mrs. Shiber, was snatched from prison the day before his execution by two British Intelligence officers dressed in Nazi uniforms...
Leader of the German Communist Party, Ernst Thalmann, works on a prison farm outside Hanover, is healthy, is still a Communist. On his last birthday he received thousands of letters...