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FOR 3 PEG RAZORS
THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 1, -1941;
“THEIR ›SMUGGLED ́S PARKLERS
DUTCHMAN WHO GOT AWAY WITH £10,000
now,
(By A London Correspondent)
DIAMONDS ARE BOOMING in London just and Hatton Garden, headquarters of the trade,
ITALIAN SWEARS
is humming with activity, catering for people anxi; REVENGE
ous to sink their money in this international "currency."
From a famous dealer, I heard some astonish- Emilio Matteotti, "The ing stories of how diamonds have been smuggled Man Mussolini Fears," into London from Amsterdam and other centres has arrived in London overrun by the Nazis.
"One noted Dutch expert, who | carried on an extensive trade in precious stones at The Hague,” he said, "actually underwent a sur- gical operation in order to hide hus diamonds.
"When he arrived in London a few days after the fall of Holland, he subjected himself to another slight operation to have the dia- ronds removed.“
“Antiques” Ruse
unharmed.
AMERICAN
VISITOR'S
ADVENTURE
Shot Down Nazi Raider
A United States obser-
after a dramatic escape from Lipari, Fascist Devil's Island.
He is a brother of Giacomo Mat- teotti, the Socialist leader whom Mussolini put to death, and whom he has sworn to avenge "with the blood of the Duce."
Emilio was arrested by Musso- denoun- lini's orders" when he ced the Duce as the murderer of his brother, and publicly took oath to assassinate him.
Safe in Britain Emillo Matteotti is now engaged in organising an for all international movement
Diamonds worth several million the were deposited in pounds vaults of a London safe deposit fam which suffered in recent bomising attacks. The vaults were ver with the R.A.F., who anti-Fascist Italians with the ob- provoking revolution He told the against Mussolini, Part of this rich collection was was trying a Spitfire, shot ject of muggled into England by an in-down a German 'plane, "Sunday Chronicle."
"I cannot give the details of my escape for fear of incriminat. ing some who assisted me. followed nearly a year of cau- tious planning.
nious Tuse
article in the
Puring as a collector of antique according to an Earthenware a dealer managed to which appears get half a dozen big earthenware American magazine Time.
Jarr past the customs, on payment
of norminal duty.
whose name is The American,
It
"If my escape had been post- weeks I could never
They
The jars were taken to a not disclosed, was visiting a sta-poned two garage on the outskirts of Lon-tion of the Fighter Command on have got away as all Greek ships don, where they were smashed,
a quiet day, when he was invited would have been the prey of the and mingling with the broken
to take a flight over the aerodrome, Italians on the open sea. fragments were diamonds worth
Escorted by another Spitfire, he would not have given me a dog's thousands of pounds that had
went up and was flying peacefully chance." tho been cleverly baked into
when a group of Messerschmidts "antiques."
appeared.
REAL MEAL
A South African diamond mer-
The British pilot naturally ac- chant who was in Brussels when
the challenge, but the Belgium capitulated, had in his cepted
On taking up his appointment possession a collection of precious American, in the interests of neu-
tried to retire.as Recorder of Kingston, Sir Don- stones worth something in the trality, tactfully neighbourhood of £15,000.
He was, however, pursued by one ald Somervell, the Attorney-Gen- eral, was presented with three Apparently some Fifth Column of the Nazi pilots. enemy in Brussels had warned the "When bullets began to zip past sugar loaves, the only emolument article states, "the attached to the office of Recorder. Germans that the dealer was pre- him," the
neutrality, One of the loaves was made of paring to leave with his diamonds | American abandoned
'plane, got the
sugar for London, for several fruitless flipped over his
pure white.
and. weighed attempts were made by Gestapo Nazi in his sights, pressed the gun 301b. agents to find the stones.
Expressing thanks, Sir Donald said: "I suggested. to my wife the possibility that they might give me some ersatz sugar, but I did not think that I should be given such quantities of the genuine article.".
Widow's Secret
They arrested the dealer and held him for a week. At the end of that time they had to give him best, for no amount of questioning or third degree would make him go back on his story that the dia- monds had already gone to Eug- land.
Не was allowed to go, and reached London with his diamonds intact.
They were carried by a timid- looking elderly woman in widow's weeds, who throughout the rail, and steamer passage was an ob- ject of general sympathy. She carried in her arms a burial urn, in which, she tearfully sald, re- posed the ashes of her dead hus- band.
But when the "widow" joined her diamond dealer companion in London a little later, the urn was rudely broken, and from it poured the glittering treasure which the Nazis had failed to obtain.
Old tricks like concealing dia- monds or other game in hollow walking-sticks, hollow boot- heels and the like are finished with for ever, another expert
told me.
"The Customs are too wide- awake for those dodges," he said; "but diamonds are still smuggled in and out,
button, and bagged one Messer- schmidt fighter for the armed forces of the United States."
It is emphasised that the United States Government has no official knowledge of this engagement.
FRENCH WORKERS LOOK TO BRITAIN TO FREE THEM
By An Industrial Correspondent INFORMATION ABOUT the position of French working-class organisations has reached British trade union headquarters from an unimpeachable source in unoccupied territory.
It shows that in both the occupied and unoccu- pied territories of France trade unions, while they remain practically intact, can carry on no activities apart from the welfare aspect of industry.
At least 75 per cent of workers First there was the attitude that are now convinced that only a Franca could have done no more, British victory, cati save them. that they had been let down by Widespread acts of sabotage are the British, and that they must save their own lives so that they could reorganise their mode of life.
CIVIL SERVICE AT occurring.
SCOTLAND YARD
!
Then came the realisation that Germany. Was stil! France's enemy, that, oppression was so unbearable that they began tɔ -question whether life was worth saving when every liberty was taken away.'
The idea grew that perhaps
In the occupied zones the harsh est measures are taken against those who refuse to accept forced labour conditions in armament Scotland Yard's £200,000 new factories, while workers who are building on the Thames Embank- considered to be slacking are de- ment, just completed and intend- prived of rations. ed as the new crime-fighting head-
"Phantasy Existence'? quarters for the London C.ID.,
Widespread unemployment ex- has been commandeered.", to ac- commodate the Civil Service staffists in most parts of the coun- | Great Britain might be able to of several Government Depart-try. There is lack, of every kind save them. In spite of German ments. The building, which was of raw material, and in some dis-propaganda they realised that the started in 1937, has 50,000 square ftricts trade union leaders, faced British people were fighting the fect of office space, Scotland with what is described as a Nazis with courage and self-sacri- Yard's information room, the telephantasy existence," sac 100 peo... fice, and m phone exchange and wireless dem ble asking for work where only To-day French men and wo- .i Majal-men : feel that their deliverance partment are already installed | 10 jobs exist.my f there, but the transfer to the new Since France capitulated, Bri- can be achieved by Britain, building of the C.L.D. and sthetish trade union leaders are in- specialised departments it cons formed, the reaction of the people trola is how likely to be postponed has undergone several distinct
phases. until" after, the war,
p Workers In France have main-. tained contacts with trade unions in Britain, and they are becoming stronger every day.