BRITISH WIVES AND GERMAN HOUSES.
Snt—Your comment on Mr. London's letter in your issue of Septem- ber loth wishes away a very real source of distress. I have known many recent cases of German families being ordered to quit their houses —required ultimately for soldiers' wives—within forty-eight hours, leaving behind all furniture, regardless of such details as impending births in the family. The German Wohnungsamt is then, as you say, responsible for finding alternative accommodation—which will consist, in the average bombed town, of a damp cellar hitherto regarded even by German standards as uninhabitable, or of a flat already occupied beyond capacity. Eviction is necessary, but the way it has been effected was not. Most Germans so treated—with no hope of improving their accommodation except by a lucky demise among their relations, or of recovering their furniture till the end of the occupation—find it harder to square this with our declared principles than any other feature of Military Govern- ment since the war.—Yours faithfully, D. E. VINEY. 4 Downs Hill, Beckenham, Kent.
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