THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 10, 1940
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SWISS GIRL GALLIPOLI
WHO
TOOK FORT PHOTO 'FOR PLEASURE'
MEMORY:
TURKISH TRIBUTE
London, To-day.
The Turkish Ambassador to London has presented a Tur- Facing a charge of committing an offence against the Defence Regula-kish flag to Holy Trinity tions by taking a photograph of a fort, Church, London, to be hand- Margaritha Steffen, 21-year-old
ed over to the 29th British Division which fought at Gal- lipoli in the last war.
a
Swiss domestic servant, was told by Sir Godfrey Baring, Chairman of the Magistrates at Newport, I.O.W., in binding her over for 12 months, that in any other country at war she would have been sent to a long term of im- prisonment.
How the photograph was taken was told by Mrs. M. E. Moriarty, of Dud- ley-road, Ventnor, in evidence.
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She said she was travelling in
Steffen railway compartment with
from Ventnor to Sandown on October
The flag bears an inscription saying that it is "given on behalf of the Tur- kish nation as a tribute to the dead of both sides who fell heroically in the honourable struggle at Gallipoli."
General Sir Ian Hamilton, who com- in that manded the British forces campaign, was among those present at the ceremony.-Reuter.
"NOT IN VAIN"
Havas says that after placing the British and French 24. Stetten shut the window for her flag beside the
the Memorial to the 29th when they were about to enter à tun-flags on
Rustu nel, and they then got into conversa- British Division, Dr. Tewilk tion, although the girl could speak | Aras, the Turkish Minister, said that English only imperfectly.
Steffen told her, "I can only read and speak German and French. I can speak French like a native," "I do not
Later she like the English."
pro- duced some photographs, and among them was one obviously of a fort.
"I said, Mrs. Moriarty continued: 'Do you know you will get into trou- ble with the police for taking photo- graphs of a fort?' and Steffen repllea 'Yes.'
“As the train approached Shanklin we passed a gasometer, and Steffen said, 'Gar.' She asked me to tell her when we got to Bandown as she want- ed to change there to go to Freshwa- ter (this was where the photograph. was taken).
"Before leaving the train Steffen on a wrote her name and address piece of paper and gave it to me.
the
to-day they could stand before the Memorial commemorating those who fell in Gallipoli and say to them:
"Sleep peaceably in eternal sleep. sacrifices, which have From your not been in vain, comes this friend- ship which will always bind together."
NAZI SECRET
SERVICE
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Paris, To-day. The activities of the secret service German were discussed in the French Press yesterday.
It is pointed out that these activi- the tles are chiefly directed against strengthening of Franco-British opin-
INFORMED POLICE "Afterwards, considering the inci-ion. dents in conjunction, I thought
unusual and 1 whole thing rather consulted my husband, who is a spe- the cial constable, and he informed police."
that
Police-constable Batley said the photograph was of a portion of a fort in his district taken from about 30 yards' distance. It included a gun turret and an ammunition magazine.
Letters have been posted in France to various people; the envelopes wear a deep black mourning border and the letters within carry the now familiar slogan that the French are dying for England, “because the English do not fight wars themselves."
The falsity of these crude methods have time and again been referred to by French and British statesmen. — Reuter.
alous one in war-time he submitted that there was a perfectly simple ex- planation for it, à romantic one, in fact.~
Police-constable Shield, of Ventnor, said that Steffen admitted taking the photograph, and produced it with number of others of Highland scen- ery. When asked if she knew who lived in the building, she replied "Soldiers," and when asked why she took it she answered, "It is my plea- sure."
On the back of the print words equivalent to "the fort" were written in German:
Steffen, it was stated by her solid- tor, was an allen, but a friendly allen, (although her offence was “M-
As to her remark in the train, “I do not like the English," she had told him that she meant the language and not the people. If she had had any sinister motive or intended to use the photograph for the benefit of an en- emy she would never have shown it to a casual acquaintance in a railway
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