World War: Germans Against Germans

First contingents of British children arrived in Canada last week, shipped over to preserve them from Adolf Hitler's total war. Contingents of German war prisoners also landed in Canada to be sent in boxcars to prison camps far from civilization. In mid-ocean one man "scuttled himself" by leaping from a porthole. Others on arrival struck a final blow for Germany by destroying the British gas masks which had been issued them.

More than gas masks were needed by 1,640 war prisoners, mostly German but including some middle-aged Italian merchants and businessmen interned when Italy declared war. They were loaded into the...

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