THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 12, 1940
News Snack Bar
MUNICH BOMB PLOT TRIAL: NAZIS AFRAID TO HOLD IT IN PUBLIC
ACCORDING TO REPORTS from Berlin, George Elser, who was arrested on a charge of placing the bomb which wrecked the Buergebrauen cellar at Munich on November 9, just after Hitler had left the hall, will shortly be tried in
camera.
Capt. Best and Maj. Stevens, the two Englishmen who were kidnapped from Dutch territory by Gestapo agents armed with sub-machine-guns, may be tried in public. The charge will probably be the creation of an organisation on neutral soil directed against the German State.
There appears to be no question of Elser's trial being worked up into a cause celebre, because the evidence against him is so weak and obviously falsified, that even the gullible German public would not be deceivad.
"Daily Herald"
London
Swastik and Siegfried
"I see there's nothing on the menu again, Swastik,"
"No.. it isn't. It's off."
Death Ends Barony
Lord Bayford, who was Minister of Agriculture in the Baldwin Govern- ment from 1922 to 1024, died sud-
It is expected that the Press will be permitted to hear the charge read out
"Le Petit Parisien"
"You can be the neutral!"
"What-and get all the kicks? Not much!"
and that the court will then be clear- So We Should Hope ed, before sentence is pronounced. Elser will almost certainly be execut- ed.
CASES NOT CONNECTED Part of the evidence at both the trials, will be given by Gestapo agents
"Owing to the shortage of oils in England, housewives will no longer be able to dress their salads with cod- liver oil," said Lord Haw-Haw.
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who have been spying upon German Young Germans
refugees living in neutral countries.
It is improbable, however, that any
attempt will be made to establish a Evacuated
direct connection between Elser and
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the two Englishmen, as the original Evacuation of German children from attempts to do so resulted in such a the Rhineland to Denmark is reported hopeless tangle of contradiction that by the correspondent at Toender instructions were issued to the Ger- (Southern Denmark) of a Copenhagen man Press by the Propaganda Minis- newspaper. try not to discuss the two cases as a single affair.
He says about 200 Rhineland child- The two Englishmen are believed twelve, have arrived at Toender:
ren, between the ages of ten and to be still confined at the headquarters. of the Gestapo in the Prinz Albrecht- strasse, Berlin; Elser is in gaol, either in Munich or Berlin.
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denly at his home at Wincanton, Chased Plane
Somerset,, aged seventy-two.
There is no heir to the barony, 12 Miles
which becomes extinct.
he repre-
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Graft In Russia
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Paria
"Fire away, sir. “Don't worry" about me; I've done this hun- dreds of times in the circus."
"Ric et Rac," Paris.
Complaints of lack of discipline and Balloon Shot-Down
excessive bureaucracy in Soviet State institutions were published recently in
A barrage balloon with Pravda organ of the Soviet Com- cable drifted low over the Essex vil- a trailing munist Party.
lage of Vange. Machine-gun fire from There is much graft," the news- anti-aircraft battery shot it down and sergeant-pilot paper says, "The heads of certain it fell in a farmyard. credited with State departments and institutions having brought down four German have faked the status of different em- planes, has been awarded the Mili- ployees, making out they draw higher
Light From Church tary Medal.
salaries than is the case, and they Tower His latest exploit was described in thus deceive the State." the official "Journal." He brought
As Sir Robert Sanders, sented Bridgwater from 1910 to 1923, named Sales, officially
A young French and Wells from 1924 to 1929,
10:
Rise For 13,000
On Farms
Thirteen.. thousand
workers
are
affected by the decision of North Yorks Agricultural Wages Committee to increase wages
of all male farm workers over twenty-one from 38s, to 40s, a week. No increases were grant- ed to women,
Mystery Radio Hits
At Us From Abroad
G. P. O. engineers believe that the "New British Broadcasting Company," radio station, from which anti-British propaganda was heard recently, is a low-power station operating from. somewhere in "a distant part of the Continent.”
Further tests are being made,
Rector Marched
With Brass Band
The Rev. Robert Halton, rector of St. Mary-at-Hill, Eastcheap, who once used to fill his church by inviting passers-by to follow his brass band, is dead.
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The band was composed of vólun- teers who, for a period in 1934, used to march through, the streets of the City inviting people to "fall in and follow the band" to attend Sunday services in the church.
Mr. Halton used to march with thêm
down a Dornier 17 in
chasing it almost on the ground for Island Monster Shot twelve miles in Reuter.
9 Call Boy,
flames after
enemy
territory.
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The Chief Constable of Folkestone, Mr. A. S. Beesley, told the local Bench that since the beginning of the war. 305 breaches of the lighting regula- The "Isle of w
monster" is dead. It was caught and shot by Mr. W.
tlons had been dealt with in the town. Clark in a copse near Bembridge after
"Timothy Anderson, caretaker of the frightening for over six months, Wolowing a light to be shown from
parish church, was fined £1 for al- men and children who had encounter-/ ed it in the woods between Ryde and
window in the tower. He suggested John Hooper, of 14, Perry Hali- Osborne House.
that bellringers were responsible. road, Orpington (Kent), is only eleven The animal resembled a large fox
* years old, but he's a "big shot" in the about the head, but had a shaggy What JP. Did Not Know: family circle. He's uncle to nine mane, and the rest of its body was children all younger than himself. practically hairless. Its paws were the
His mother and father, now sixty- size of a large fist.
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"Uncle'
four and sixty-one respectively, had Those who had seen it prowling fourteen children, and John's eldest stated that its movements, were slow trate's) firm had no driving licence,
brother is forty-one.
and deliberate,
This must“Be" the new Boviet Gövernm
henry
A policeman told Mr. Harold King- don, J.P., of Basingstoke, that a lorry- driver employed. by his (the magis- and that the firm was thus- commit- ting an offence. Mr. Kingdon replied: "I have administered the law for 32 years and have never heard of this before."
This was stated at Alton, Hants, when fines of £1 on the firm and 6s on the driver were imposed.
15-Year-Old Girl's
Taxi Rides
A 15-year-old girl, accused at Chat- ham Juvenile Court of stealing £14 and two gold rings from her uncle's house, was said to have ridden to her. work in a laundry by taxicab.
It was also stated that she had thrown half-crowns on the counter when purchasing twopenny articles in the firm's canteen, tellin tants to keep the hang sent to an approve
he assis
She was