Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 March 1944 — Page 14

SEATTLE, Wash, March 23 (U. P.) —Monkey meat, dried corn and “things I don't want to tell about,” made up the diet of Chester M. Peters, former ‘University ‘of Washington student, during’ his two-year escape journey from the PHlippines, he said today.

Streets Are Emptier of ‘Traffic Than Any Time . Since Middle Ages.

By RALPH HEINZEN Peters, one of a few civilians to United Press Staff Correspondent escape from Manila Srwugh the NE Ww ORK, et S, desc his Paree ¥ Mgrs Gay Japanese boasting He * the eity of light and laugh- could tell only part of the details ter, has become a sullen, blacked-|pacquse his wife is a native girl out capital in mourning. whom he married about 10 years ago. Sing tie eS A : “The tp that carried Peters ul yard on the edge of the city of my way south from the internment camp at Baden Baden to Lisbon, where I boarded the exchange liner Gripsholm. There was a blackout. The sky was filled with bombers. The streets where once a thousand taxi horns had honked were silent. We had read in the French and German newspapers at: Baden Baden—that the Nazis tad taken over Paris with characteristic Prusvl thoroughness.

Everything for Nazis

They have moved into the very heart of the captured capital, into the great hotels, the best clubs, the palaces and historical buildings. | The newest and largest theaters and | the famous restaurants in Mont-| parnesse and Montmartre have been | set aside for their convenience. The chamber of deputies has be-| come a German recruiting center for labor to be exported to Germany. The foreign office in the Quai d'Orsay—from. which came first recognition of the American republic—is a German supply warehouse. In the Hotel Crillon, in whose great salons was written the misnamed Versailles treaty, lives the Nazi Gen. Otto von Stulpnagel, commander of occupation forces in France. Paris streets are emptier of traffic today than they have been since the middle ages. Rubber stocks long ago vanished and the city’s famous auto-taxis have gone with them. The Germans have requisi tioned all the horses.

Paris Suffers Heavily

Like other Nazi-occupied cities, Paris has suffered heavily from allied bombings. R. A. F. and American air raids have killed or wound- | ed an estimated 15,000 persons, and more than 10,000 homes have been wholly or partly destroyed, according to French newspapers read at Baden Baden. More than 400,000 Parisians captured by the Nazis in the 1940 debacle remain behind barbed wire in Germany. Despite Vichy's pledge of “collaboration,” the Germans still do not trust the Parisians after dark. Night slayings of Nazis mounting into the hundreds have prompted a strict midnight curfew. Social life practically has ceased to ‘exist in! Paris. . . Only the cabarets—the Follies Bergeres, the Casino de Paris, ABC, Tabarin, the Grand Guignol—once on the calling list of every American tourist, are permitted to remain open until morning so the! German army can enjoy itself. But|

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TAte ‘Things | Won't Tell About’ In Two-Year Flight From Japs|

mother at Bothell, Wash.

the United States, almost two years after he, his wife and a few Americans left Manila in a small sailboat, ‘was an island-hopping voyage with the Japs sometimes only one island behind, and often on the same island, he said. Peters arrived in Australia wearing shoes fashioned from old automobile tires and carrying all his possessions—an extra pair of pants and some papers—in.a tin box. The army gave him clothing and he sailed for-the United States, arriving in San Francisco early this month. - He is residing with his

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CHICAGO, March 23 (U. P).—A committee to’ study post-war trade possibilities between China and United States has been named by Murray Lincoln, Columbus, O., president of the Co-operative League of the United States. Lincoln. said the committee was decided upon and its program outlined after discussions with Dr. Shin Chi Hu, secretary of the Co-opera-tive League of China, now attending the league's annual convention. Members include’ A. J. Smaby, Minneapolis; . Howard A. Cowden, Kansas gy and A J, _Hayes, Su-

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