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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20058, 3 October 1939, Page 12

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SNOW ON CONTINENT GERMANS AND WAR In giving some impressions of hf s 16 months’ trip abroad, from wh.ich be has just returned,' nothing cajme more readily to the mind of Mr. James W. Jack, public accountant,' of Wellington, than the very "bad weather he, and his wife experienced while travelling on the ' Continent before last Christmas.

“We were motoring through snow for hundreds of miles,” said' Mr. Jack. “So intense was Ihp cold that car engines froze, and c Y? n when we stopped for lunch it was necessary to put the car under cover to keep the engine from freezing. After it. was all over it was very pleasant, but still I would not like to go through the same experience, again.” When they were at Goa, the Portuguese port in India, said Mr. Jack, they saw two German steamers' and two Italian corrie in to lake refuge, and while they were at Bombay a number of P. and O. ships'arrived, and.' in accordance with iristryctions'from the Admiralty, their passengers were disembarked at once, Mr. Jack said that they were in Italy and Germany about February of this year. They had found the German people very friendly, and he personally did not think the German people wanted war or were to blame for it. The rulers of the nation' were at the bottom of it all. Mr. Jack said lie was also sure that Herr, Hitler had not got the eighty million German people behind him by a long way.