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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 1, 1941,
250 NAZI AGENTS FOR MOROCCO
AIM TO SECURE NAVAL AND AIR BASES ON COAST
By Our Diplomatic Correspondent
INFORMATION HAS reached diplomatic quar-. ters in London recently that a batch of about 250 German officials, calling themselves civilian members of the Armistice Commission, were being sent to Algiers.
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This figure does not, of course, include “tour- ists" and other agents, who have been arriving from Germany in a steady stream. These officials, to whom Admil. Darlan has given permits, are of the classical Fifth Column type.
They consist of members of the Gestapo, graduates of the German Arab-language training schools and economic experts. On arrival in Algiers they will cross Algeria and Morceco by rail to Casablanca, a distance of about 800 miles.
It is understood that Gen. Wey- gand has sent a mild protest to Marshal Petain against this new incursion, which is especially im- por'ant because, instead of re- maining in a single group at | Casablanca, Gen. Weygand has
been called facilities to
on
ONE LETTER
MIGHT HAVE
HAM CAUSED
GASSING
The weight of a ham hanging on a gas-pipe. is believed to have caused a gas leak in a house in Bosden Fold Road, Hazel Grove, near Stockport, where a seventy-six-year-old widow, Mrs. Sarah Fidler, was found gossed recently.
Her stepdaughter,
CHANGED WAR Miss Alice Fidler, was
If Daladier had written
also affected by gas fumes. The ham had
been hung on near the joint in a gas-pipe in the cellar.
to offer them a simple letter to the King establish themselves of the Belgians in the first throughout the important centres
month of the war, staff of Morocco.
conversations would have0000000
opened between
the
France and
The line taken by Gen. Wey gand in his protest is that presence of so many Germans will been lead to resentment among his younger officers and increased de Gaullist sentiment. He continues secret cooperation in de- to shield himself behifid the fence measures could
Petain -
prestige of Marshal though this is now waning-when have
own Inertia.
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Belgium, MAN WHO FED
begun immediately, he meets with criticism of his and the whole picture of the war would have been Spying And Propaganda changed.
Neither Marshal Petain nor Gen. Weygand is, however, in a position to override Admi. Darlan's arrangements with the Germans, and this new batch of 250 will
LIBYA ARMY
The man who through- out the swift-moving Middle East campaign, the swiftest in the on simmering till France fall histories of wars, kept the This is the story told by the
Daladier didn't write the let ter. Не would "let things simmer," he said. They went
at once begin spying on military French writer Jules Romains in mobile British forces sup- and aviation organisations in his book, published by Hutchin-plied with food, petrol
Morocco at the same time as it son, “Seven Mysteries of Europe.” and all else they wanted,
distributes money and propaganda to the natives.
The ultimate object is under- stood to be the disruption of the local administration with a view to securing "with the ut most speed for Germany naval and air bases on the west coast of Morocco for the double pur- pose of
sea-borne attacking commerce and paving a way for the full-scale invasion and ex- ploitation of Morocco.
RIOM PRISONERS' ACCUSATIONS
Secret Envoy
was Major-Gen. Balfour Romains speaks with authority, Oliphant Hutchison.
His name was revealed in the House of Lords by Lord Croft, Joint Under-Secretary for War...
for he was the secret messenger sent by the French Government to persuade the Belgian King.
He went to Brussels with a message for Leopold. It was
Major-Gen. Hutchison, who is something not to be put on paper. It could only be delivered "while a Deputy Quartermaster-General looking the King in the eyes,'
is 52, a brother of Lord Hutchi- son of Montrose, and one of those says Romains.
This was what he was to say, little-known figures in the Army from France to Belgium: "If who do great work behind the your
call comes too late and scenes. He commanded the 10th without the necessary contacts Hussars and would have handed with us beforehand, it's just too the command over to the Duke bad about the guarantee-we of Gloucester had not the abdica- won't march."
tion thrown greater responsibili
SCHUSCHNIGG A FATHER
Romains did not see King Leo-ties on the Duke.. The lack of energy shown by pold, but he says he got the Bel- Major-Gen Hutchison was the Riom Court in getting on with glan Government to agree to the during the last war with the 3rd the trial of a number of French terms of the letter to be exchanged Army Corps, in Mesopotamia;, and. political and military leaders; between Daladier and the King. was mentioned in despatches four among whom are the ex-Premiers, Eagerly, hurrying back to Paris.times. M.M. Daladier,
Reynaud and he found Daladier was bored with is Blum,
as the whole subject. He thought it described a
in some "suspicious"
Spanish was unimportant and put it aside. quarters.
Could Not Act According to the latest reports, which are not denied by the Presi
Gamelin, according to Romains, of unoccupied France, the trial
foresaw the lines of the German has once more been postponed.
The Paris correspondent of the advance from the first weeks of Madrid newspaper "ABC," states the war. He told the writer in
A report has been spread, in that allegations iade by the December, 1939, that "the enemy. accused against former high offis would submerge the separate in-Vienna social circles that a daugh
born to Kurt cials who are now important mem-vasion of Holland and Belglum ter has Cals who now tration in a general thrust forward from Schuschnigger start have made the Riom Court "afraid the estuary of the Rhine to the Chancellor, who is still in German
hands, and his second wite. Coun to let the cat out of the bag.,
tess Vera Czernin-Fugger, says Associated Press,
BURGLARIES IN A MOSCOW CHURCH
Swiss frontier."
He thought this would happen in May. It did..
Gamelin did little to prevent It. It was not stupidity, says Romains, possibly timidity, most of all a strange inability to act."
Jules Romains is famous for a book called "Men of Good Will This book is about men of frozen will.
The Commissariat for Foreign Affairs the other day notified the American Ambassador, Mr. Stein- hardt, of the arrest on March 14 of a gang of professional thieves who in the past year had five times burgled the French Catholic church of St. Louis des Francais in Moscow Most of the stolen church property, including the evening chalico and the altar plece, had
CHILDREN'S BEDS FOR TROOPS
report No verification of the could be obtained from official quarters. All that could be estab- lished was that Schuschniggand his wife were living in a Bavarian: village. They were married by proxy in 1938, when Schuschnigg was in the custody of the Ger- mans, a few months after the absorption of Austrin into the Reid
Herbert Williams (Cons.) -
The reason for the cancellation, he explained, was that it was
The fact that the Office of Works impossible to fit soldiers into these been recovered.- C in October, 1980, cancelled a beds as the contract was for hedg
Mr. Steinhard had made an contract for 500,000 beds was for evacuee children,AWNE appeal to the Soviet au ioritica disclosed by Mr. Richard Law, Ha added: "There is a shortage of which Under-Secretary, War Offco, In of beds for the Army. It is re- to protect this church,
but at the priest, Father Braum, is in the House of Commons recently grettable, American citizen:
to a question by Bir repaired:
being