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Seated on the porch of her home near Stem, Miss Ruby Daniel (left), who recently returned from Europe, recites her experiences to her sister. Back Fro] Europe Miss DaniH was a Itaplist mis¬ sionary in Hilda post. She con¬ siders lierself mig'lily lucky in being' able to escape from that country and return to her na¬ tive land. tercd the war on the side of Germany, Hungary accepted the domination of the Nazis. "From the time I reached Buda- Kt in January, 1910,” says Miss niol, “we practiced air-raids constantly. To tell the truth, how¬ ever, wo were того fearful of the Russians than of the Germans. Every dwelling place, as well as places of business, was equipped with an air¬ raid shelter. In school we were forced to use the space in the basement formerly allocated to fuel. The fuel supply was cut so drastically, how¬ ever. that we had plenty of space. "Our longest stay in the shelter was for a period of about two hours and a half, one day last July, when wo were forced to go downstairs be¬ cause Russian planes were overhead. They succeeded in bombing a city nearby, completely destroying the postoffice and other important build¬ ings.” The occasion on which she saw the Nazi army was at the time Hitler was making his invasion of Yugo¬ slavia. Tlio German mechanized columns were granted passage through Hungary and rolled through the streets of Budapest. They received wild ovations from the Hungarian popu¬ lace. throngs lining the streets of the capital city of Budapest to cheer and salute the marching army. And all this was despite the mutual protec¬ tion agreement which had been signed by Yugoslavia and Hungary prior to the rise and spread of Hitlerism. Hungarian troops joined the Nazis in subduing and subjugating the Slavs. Hi/ i:\iu.i: FROM the windows of her Hun¬ garian homo she watched the German army roll through the streets of Budapest for a whole week . . . she hovered in an air-raid shelter as Russian dive-bombers screamed over the heart of the city and de¬ molished important buildings . . . she tells, from first-hand experience, how the terrible hand of famine clutches at the vitals of agonized Europe. It is the story of Miss Ruby Daniel, a young Baptist missionary, who has just returned from Europe. Miss Daniel, who is now at her brother's farm on the Durluuu-Oxford highway, about four miles from Stem, arrived at Miami, Fla., on the Portu¬ guese ship, tier /hi Pin! о on February Ifi. With her wore four other Euro¬ pean missionaries from the United States and 900 refugee Jews; all of them crowded on a boat that has a KKIMtLKY normal passenger capacity of 300. It was a most uncomfortable trip; a three-weeks voyage through perilous waters. The danger of being attacked by submarines was an ever-present one. They stopped at Jamaica on the way across the ocean from Lisbon, Portugal. Miss Daniel was the only Baptist missionary sent out by the Richmond hoard to Hungary. She began her missionary work in 1935 and spent four years in Budapest lx*fore re¬ ceiving а furlough in 1939. She spent her vacation period with her people here and, despite the fact that war had broken out on the European con¬ tinent in the meantime, she returned to her post in 1910. Officially she was the head of a girls' school in Buda¬ pest. Soon after her return from the United States and before Italy on- The Marching Germans The passing German troops marched right by the front door of her home, Miss Daniel says. The columns went by in n continuous stream for an entire week. The young mission¬ ary was awed by the elaborate equip¬ ment of the invaders, ranging from motorized units consisting of tanks and motorcycle reconnaissance squad¬ rons to smartly stepping infantry. The Germans probably are in dire straits for food on the Russian front, according to Miss Daniel. She tells of Hungarian soldiers returning from the Nazi-Soviet battleground telling stories of having seen German troops eating hard-tack from cellophane- wrapped packages dating back to 192C. Missionary acquaintances of Miss Daniel, who were in France when that proud republic was overrun, brought harrowing tales to her of civilians in the unoccupied portions of France suffering from terrible ( Continued on page luenly-two)