GUERNSEY ISLAND
CONDITIONS UNDER NAZIS SEVERE RATIONING LONDON, Sept. 27. (Received Sept. 27, at 11.30 p.m.) According to eight Guernsey residents who landed on the south coast after a daring escape, the Germans are allowing most of the inhabitants of the island to carry on their jobs at a flat rate of 30s a week for bachelors and 38s for married men, with an allowance for each child. The Germans are courteous to an exaggerated degree, endeavouring to win the islanders over to the Nazi cause, but the shadow of the Gestapo is over all, and 15 years’ imprisonment is the penalty for speaking slightingly of German soldiers. Rationing is increasingly severe. Two ounces of butter and sixpence worth of meat are allowed every week. The bread is made from potatoes and something like chaff. Guernsey newspapers are bi lingual and contain short German lessons every day. The sale of spirits has been banned.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24415, 28 September 1940, Page 11
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154GUERNSEY ISLAND Otago Daily Times, Issue 24415, 28 September 1940, Page 11
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