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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 14, 1940.
GIRL BLAMED FOR TROTSKY MURDER HOLLAND
BLONDE SYLVIA AGELOFF, the New York
UNDER THE
girl who has emerged as the mysterious "femme GERMANS
fatale" in the international intrigue which resulted in the alpenstock assassination of Leon Trotsky, exiled Bolshevik, is blamed as the instrument of his death.
Fifth Column's
New Task
From a Dutch Correspondent
Seyss-Inquart, the Reich Commissioner, has offi-
Albert Goldman, attorney and friend of the 'dead man, declared she had introduced Trotsky to Jacques Mortan, Van der Dreschd, Frank Jackson,cially praised and thank- or whatever is the right name of the "Quisling" who attacked him during a political argument in his Mexican refuge.
At the same time it was reveal- ed in New York that Miss Ageloff, whose attractive bluc eyes are made bluer by the octagon-shaped spectacles she wears, had worked. as a £300-a-year investigator for New York's Department of Wel-
fare.
In an interview in. Chicago Goldman said:
ed the
German Fifth Column in the Nether-
lands for its "exemplary attitude."
FAKE RADIO He said of these men--who had
TO PARA TROOPS
stabbed in the back the country whose hospitality they enjoyed- that they had shown themselves to be "especially susceptible to the Fuehrer's call." "Now a new task awaits you," he continued." "You the have learnt to understand Dutch-and you must act as media- tors. You have earned your place "I spoke to Trotsky's secretary
It is learned from source among these people, and you are in Mexico last night and was in-
live in their formed that the assailant had con connected with: French military fully entitled to fessed in the Russian language intelligence that before the Ger- midst." As if the Reich Commis- that he had been driven to com- mans converged on Paris early sioner for the occupied area had mit the crime by the Kremlin. in: June they scattered parachutes.not already made the German in- "He is said to have told them: near Creil and Senlis and broad tentions clear enough, he added: 'I had to do it. The G.PU threa cast messages giving code num-"You must realise that every one tened to kill my mother, and orbers and mysterious instructions, of you is a representative of the
on the German Reich. None. similar to those heard dered me to kill Trotsky.
German radio recently. of us is a Trotskyite."
Strong Warning. "Sylvia, who is a sister to Ruth These begin with the word: and Ageloff, Trotsky's former secre- "Attention V Man 255,"
Seyss-Inquart declared in a tary, and a member of our Com- added: "The sun rises at 6 o'clock
that ort the same day In view.
the speech of munist Party, was a welcome guest | to-morrow.
their at the Trotsky home.
weather situation: do not watch "Dutchmen would be able to
the freedom of Also maintain "On her arrival she introduced cipher 24 but. cipher 34
country, and that politics in the Van der Dreschd as Frank Jück- use No. 7."
Netherlands were the affair of son, am active comrade, and he
The object was to let it be Dutchmen," although he admitted soom became a friend of the guards concluded that numbers of para at the same time that "neutrality and attendants."
chutists had landed and were might become only a formality belig given instructions. The flight of officials was the sequel which could not be taken into ac
count by Germany." Seyss-Inquart Most of them pretended: that
let down very badly the German in the they had received telephone or- he killed Trotsky not because of investigation showed that
Van Der Dreschd declared that ders to abandon their posts, but propaganda as embodied
notorious White Paper by saying that Germany's reasons for not politics, but because of Sylvia, was, not the case.
respecting Netherlands neutrality though he admitted he was infuri-
No doubt this supplies the rea-were that when great nations were ated by the Russian's insistence that he should commit acts of son for the discovery of a num- engaged in war such. trifles could sabotage against the Stalin regime ber of German parachutes in the not: be considered, and that Hol- Midlands and northern England. land was a refuge for German emigres and "might even become the centre of a plot against the life of the Fuehrer. It must have been a welcome change for his Dutch uudience not to hear repeated the well-worn lie that it had beer proved that the Netherlands had plotted with the British to attack the Ruhr district.
In the police headquarters at Mexico City a different story was told, but it still involved Sylvia Agelof
in Russia.
This probably inspired him to commit the crime, he said, but his.. decision was hastened by the ex- dictator's decision to dictate to him regarding his private life.
He said: his feelings had been wounded when, after confiding lo Trotsky that he wanted to marry in New York, Trotsky had snorted, "You are a fool to marry the girl." “Saving The World”
ז
FAMOUS
CHURCH
BOMBED
this
As was to be expected, in view of the continued. opposition to the Germans in the Netherlands Seyss-Inquart. ended with a strong BY A MARVELLOUS warning to the Dutch that they It was when Trotsky made this statement, Dreschd, declared, that CHANCE,. FOR. WHICH NO must cooperate in the "reconstruc
TO he decided to kill the "old Bolshe~ THANKS ARE DUE
THE tion of Europe"-obviously Hit
and vik,"
A thereby. "save the GERMANS,
BEAUTIFUL ler's: Europe. world."
NORMAN CHURCH IN S. E. ENGLAND: WAS ALMOST UN- DAMAGED BY A RAIDER WHO DROPPED HIS BOMBS IN THE CHURCHYARD, THERE:
Miss Ageloff. has been "grlil- ed" by the police regarding her association with, the crime.
In New York her father, Samuel; Ageloff, an estate agent, her, sister
The church,, built in the middle Ruth,and, her sister, Hilda, an out- spoken admirer of the Stalin re- of the 12th century, is an almost pure and wonderfully preserved gime, could not be found, but a example of late:Norman architec relative, Mrs. Benjamin Ageloff, ture. said Ruth, had Introduced. Sylvia to Trotsky's murderer in Paris in 1937:
Three or four bombs fell
About
NAZI OIL LOSSES
Nobody knows for certain ho
in much oil Germany had stored u the churchyard. The biggest before invading, Poland, how muc "I remember hearing. Sylvia say crator made is close to the west she has captured in the sub 20jugated countries,, what her way that if anything happened to him door of the tower.
time consumption of oil amount she would kill herself," said Mrs. graves were, desecrated.
to, the degree to which she h A crack is noticeable. in the Ageloff.
expanded her own productio Sylvia Ageloff was employed by fabric of the tower, and within plants, or the amount of damag the New York Department of Wel- the church the blast had the done to her supplies. By the R.A. fare as a social investigator in May effect of raising the gratings of raids. last year.
After several months the heating apparatus and dis- It is known, however, that Ge she pleaded illness and took placing, some of the tiles, of a many's consumption in peace-tim
floor.
holiday in Mexico. Again this year she pleaded- illness and re- turned there. She was due back lat work in a fortnight?.
Fellow employees describe Hor as the best-dressed girl in the of tice. She always-wore expensive clothes, sald one of them, and al- ways seemed to have plenty of imeneyi
CHARGE^IN:
But that is all..
BOTTLE CLUBS RAIDE
v
was 7,000,000 tons a year. Of th It has been calculated that sh prodliced roughly 2,000,000 toi herself, 500,000 tons from natur oll and 1,500,000 tons as petr from coal. Incidentally, it shou be borne in mind that a ton of does not produce a tom of patri The amount: produced by: refin ment varies according to the o Scotland Yards, in their efforts tane value of the petrol. to improve the night life of tho | The plantati Leuna.is statbu West End, carried out: two raids; | have turned out 400,000 tons With warrants they entered the synthetic, petrol a year: Axwril premises of two bottle party clubs in the current issue: of "Fligh| After a four hours hearing in in Regent Street) taking 80 names calculates thatta German raid secret the magistrates at Weston at one and 40 at the other. The this country by 400 aeroplan Super Maro sentenced Herbert warrants had been granted by which spent three hours in. t. Francon, 41, a commercial travel the magistrats before the recent would mean a consumption
360 tons of pettol, so Leuna-wou ler, of Victoria Road, Mill Hill, order from the Home Office; London to two months' imprison- In the opinion of the Hotels have been able to provide: 1 of raids int mont. He, was charged. with at- and Restaurants Association, the quite a number tempting, to obtain information Government; measures against course of the war, and its déstru are in- tion, if it has been complete from a fighit-sergeant. of the bogus bottle parties
SECRET
R.AF contrary Regulations.
to the Defence adequate and can have only a destroyed, must be a heavy thou
limited effect.
not a crippling blow to Germany