“Couldn't keep my eye
on the ball to-day!"
"Never mind, you can tell this whisky blindfold”
THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 21, 1940.
HOW THE GERMANS GET THEIR SCRAP-IRON -VIA ITALY
This is almost a Believe it or Not gons and taken away. On her next story for the Germans are making voyage from America, with some more no attempt to break the blockade along | scrap iron; she was held for only half an hour at Gibraltar. Again there the Dalmatian coast.
were German railway wagons waiting at Genoa.
There is enough bauxite (alumin- ium-bearing ore) to make thousands of tons of aluminium for new airplanes of the little lying on the wharves Jugo-Slav ports, but no German 'ships come to take it away.
There are twenty-seven German ships in Trieste, but only two of them have come south this year to collect some of this bauxite.
Of course, the Germans believe that some day we shall put a stop to this leakage, and that is why their railway wagons are concentrated on scrap iron rather than on Dalmatian bauxite,
There are 5,000 tons of bauxite at It all belongs to the Ger- Dalmatian mans, and the Jugo-Slavs are growing so fed up at seeing it there that they are beginning to dump it on one side so that they can get on with repair-
And in contrast to the thousands of | Ragusa. German tourists on the
coast last year, the only German I have seen so far was a plump little man in the steamer from Split to Ragusa, which is the most peacefuling the quay. port of south-eastern Europe.
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At Zelnika, in the great bay Kotor, south of Ragusa, there 40,000 tons, all of which has come mines from the German-controlled Ragusa and Serajevo.
The only thing that temporarily dis- turbed this peace was the German in-ear Mostar, in the mountains between
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a few days ago it looked as if the
Italians would fall for all the German
stories about the crippling of the Bri-
tish Fleet, which was coming to the
Adriatic. But no one here fears that now, although in a cinema at Split I heard boos, whistling, and catcalls at a newsreel about the Easter celebra- tions in Rome. The Dalmatians are Roman Catholics, but they resent any Italian claims to make the Adriatic an Italian lake.
But the failure of the Germans to come and collect the bauxite that be- longs to them-they have a monopoly in one of the largest bauxite mining companies-is still a mystery on the coast. The last German ship into Ragusa was the Ankara.
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Somebody started stories that the British were coming into the Adriatic, Ankara they were due for a repetition of the Altmark affair. It cost them £100 to hire a local pilot who could zigzag the ship in and out of the islands, well within territorial waters, until they were far enough north to make a dash for Trieste.
Going into Split from the railway
station I was stopped by two police-
-By- Sydney Morrell
men and my passport was examined. carefully, although I had come from Belgrade, and was, therefore, only the country. travelling about inside Lower down the road two other police- took charge of my bag and men searched it. The same cross-examina- repeated when I reached tion was
Where had I come from? Ragusa: How long would I stay? Where would I be going? Did I have any revolvers or other explosives?
My plump little German fellow- traveller underwent the same cross-
examination.
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In the restaurants and cafes the waiters speak German better than
English, but they still regard the visit of the Duke of Windsor as their hey- day and last summer's invasion of Ger- man tourists as a shame just as you would resent it if the Germans were to organise mass trips to Stratford-on-
and Avon
talk proprietorially of "their Shakespeare.",
There are two explanations here for this mystery. One is that the Italians have asked the Germans not to tempt
I met an American in the ship com- the British Fleet into the Adriatic.ing down from Split. He is a traveller The other, which is more feasible, is and writer. that the German railways are quite busy enough taking a much more im- portant material out of Italy-scraping a personal friend of Hitler. After iron.
The German railway wagons, which carry coal to Italy, are going to Genoa for this. And the scrap iron comes. from America, passing through the British blockade.
Officials of a Jugo-Slav shipping company here told me that one of their ships arrived at Gibraltar a few weeks ago with a cargo of scrap iron from, the United States. She was beld for six days, but as she ostensibly bound for Genoa she was then released.
was
At Genoa the crew saw the scrap iron loaded into German railway wa-.
He spends a lot of time travelling, and enjoys the local reputation of be-
the outbreak of the war he visited Germany and made a special broad- cast to the people of the United States, telling them how wonderful things were in Germany,
One thing he did not announce to them, but which he told me, was that he went from Germany to Luxem- burg, where he had some money, in order to withdraw that money from the bank and deposit it in Switzerland, because he thought the Germans might take over Luxemburg.
In our first ten minutes of conver- (Continued on Page 11)
By George McManus
BY GOLLY IT MUST BE GRAND TO LIVE HERE IN WASHINGTON AN' BE IN POLITICS - BUT I GUESS IT'S NO USE FER ME TO TRY TO BE A POLITICIAN - 15
OH-LOOK AT THAT HANDSOME MAN- MABEL-WOULDN'T
HE MAKE PAYS
SENATOR?
THINK HE IS MARVELOUS
YOU'RE RIGHT-JESSIE -
·JUST LOOK AT THE FINE SHAPE OF HIS HEAD-I'D LOVE TO .. MEET HIM - WOULDN'T
YOU - DEAR ?
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