FLIGHT FROM EUROPE

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21208, 3 September 1940, Page 3

FLIGHT FROM EUROPE

REFUGEES IN AUSTRALIA Seeking a haven in Australia, many refugees from German-occup-ied countries have arrived in Melbourne, states the Melbourne Age. ! They include a French family, M. and Mme J. Mylls, their attractive daughters, Jacqueline, Diana, and Pamela, and their small son, lan, who , escaped from France with only the j clothes they were wearing. The three girls left their Paris home of St. Malo, in Brittany, when j Germany invaded France, and their 1 father, who had stayed on in Paris tdl just before the Germans occupied it, had to leave his car many times to’ take refuge in ditches from the machine-guns of German planes on his flight to join them in St. Malo. ; The family escaped to England on j the last troopship to leave the port, j a few hours before St. Malo was ; taken by the Germans. In The Soviet Manner Mile. Gizela Schneider, a Polish : girl who has spent many years in England, but who had left London to visit her family in Lemberg in August last, managed to escape from Poland the day before the invasion. Unhappily she chose Finland as a refuge—and a few weeks later she was fleeing from there too. Her family remained in Lemberg till the town was occupied by the Russians, when they escaped to England, losing all their possessions. They, too, are coming to Australia later. Mile. Schneider has had little news of her friends and relatives in Rus-sian-occupied Poland beyond the fact that the women spend most of their days in food queues and that the housing shortage has forced families to live in single rooms in blocks of flats, in the Soviet manner. From German-occupied Poland the only 'news that filters out is that brought by refugees who have managed to escape. “And their tales of atrocities would be unbelievable it they were not supported by conclusive proof of their truth,” she says.