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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 23, 1941.
INSIDE STORY ON OCCUPIED EUROPE
AMERICAN CONSULAR AND DIPLOMATIC AGENTS EXPELLED FROM AXIS-CONTROLLED PORTIONS OF EUROPE CAME HOME IN THE NAVAL TRANSPORT WEST POINT WITH VOLUMINOUS REPORTS ON INTERNAL CONDI- TIONS IN GERMANY AND ITALY AND IN SUB- JECT COUNTRIES UNDER THE SHADOW OF THE FASCES AND SWASTIKA.
State Department officials boarded the great transport, formerly the luxurious liner'America, as soon as she reached Quarantine at 10.40 a.m. and cautioned the homecoming consuls against reveal- ing any political information until their reports have been studied in Washington.
Thus, when reporters were permitted on board from a second cutter twenty minutes later they found the consuls, normally an uncommunicative lot, more closemouthed than ever.
The interviews, while extreme- | withdrew voluntarily from Ger- ly sparing in detail, nevertheless many and Italy: nineteen ambu- made possible the following sum-lance drivers who survived the mary of the economic and pullti-sinking of the Zamzam, fourteen cal situation:
other nationals, including Freder-
GROWING APPREHENSION IN TURKEY
According to the British United Press Istanbul
correspon- dent apprehension is growing in Turkey in view of the con- firmation of reports about the continua- tion of unusual troop movements in Bul- garia. One sees in Bulgaria, large num- bers of German sol- diers who have arriv- ed from Libya and who are still wearing the uniform adapted for desert warfare. It is estimated that the German troops amount to at least two divisions.--Tass.
First-The war against Russin is Ick_A. Sterling, American Minister not nearly as popular as Adolf to Sweden, who said he was home Hitler thought it would be. Ger-on sick leave, and Prince Carl of mans, for the first time since the Sweden, a nephew of King Gustav Nazi legions started to march, areV. The West Point docked at Pier filled with anxiety over the slow [81. West Twenty-first Street and progress of the drive on Moscow. the Hudson, at 12:36 p.m.
Second-There is no hunger In Two, American newspaper men, | ▶0 Germany as yet, but the rations Jay Allen, a correspondent for the аге drab and poorly balanced, North American Newspaper Al- Until the West Point cleared and malnutrition is increasing. liance, and Richard Hottelet, a Pier 61 on the late afternoon of Third-The Germans feel that a member of the Berlin staff of The July 15 three of her most cele- "shooting war" with America is United Press, who had been held brated passengers, Dr. Kurt imminent. Unlike the situation in virtually incommunicado by the Reith, former German Ambassa- 1917, when Berlin awaited Wash-Germans since their arrest in dor to Austria, and Dr. Manfred Ington's intervention with some- March, were among the returning Zapp and Guenther Tonn, man- thing like contempt, the Germans nationals. fear that America's striking pow-
agers of the American branch of the German Transocean News er would turn the tide.
Service, were locked in their
when persons are being deported
cans,
Films Twice A Day For Consuls
But once the transport was up- German pro-
As every one expected, the oust- ed Germans and Italians reacted Fourth-The hate campaign coolly to each other during the staterooms, a customary procedure against America in the controlled crossing to Lisbon. At the re- German and Italian press is hoy-quest of both groups they were from Ellis Island, ing little effect on the people, who segregated in the dining salon. show no antipathy toward Ameri- The Germans ate practically everything on the menu, usually Fifth-Immense damage has commencing the day with a tartar been done in the cities of north-steak, which is ground hamburger west Germany by the RA.F., not meat topped with a raw egg and der way, the two as much as London says, but blanketted with salt and pepper.pagandists and Dr. Reith, far more serious than Berlin ac-They consumed so much soft drink mits. Of the big cities Hamburg, that the ship ran out of most be where the American consulate was verages during the return voyage. damaged, and Cologne were the There was a service bar aboard, hardest hit. Cologne's great cathe-but it handled no liquor. However, dral is untouched, but many his-the Italians carried a copious sun- toric shrines as well as industrial ply of wine. plants have been shattered, In- cluding the Gurzenich, with its fifteenth-century
minarets.
Sixth-Black
pinnacles and
hatred against
Axis Consuls Were Tense
Germany swells in Belgium, Hol-first day out and again as the ship The passengers were tense the land, Denmark and Norway.neared Lisbon, But the weather There is near-famine in Brussels, was so fine that even the Germans but Amsterdam and Copenhagen relaxed. have sufficient food. Norwegians mann's
Captain Fritz Wiede- son, fifteen-year-old
are
whose
presence in America on a mission of appeasement was exposed last May by the New York "Herald Tribune," were accorded the same priviléges as the others.
These privileges
were almost as numerous as those enjoyed by first-class passengers on a Carib-. bean cruise. The Germans and Italians had the run of the main deck and sun deck. There were
ing pictures (twice a day). competitive deck sports and mov-
The films wore) handpicked co as not to offend Axis sen- elbilities. They were innocuous products of Hollywood-"Straw-
Blonde," "Virginia," "Arizona," "Spring Parade," "Yosemite the Magnificent,". "All This and Heaven Too" and "Flight From Destiny,”
are subsisting on fish and potatoes, Edward, confided to a sailor that Natives of Oslo twenty-four coffee beans a week. Consul-General at San Francisco, sufficient for two cups
of weak
expected to be called immediately coffee.
into the army. Other Germanis eating were loud in their praise of the
berry permitted his father, the former German
The marines and the sailors,
Seventh-Italians are better than the Germans,
but food and the ship, noting particu-numbering 586 and largely navar the people are apathetic. There larly the absence of vibration reservists, had been instructed not is widespread discontent, but no when the huge transport was do- to chat with passengers, but to Immediate prospect of revoluing twenty-three knots.
tion.
answer courteously any questions. Eighth-Passive
"Relations were very cordial--The use of cameras was prohibit- resistance L increasing in occupied France, but said Captain F. H. Kelley, United mans and Italians and the return- there was no row of any kind."ed during the voyage. The Ger- there is still no general sabotage States Navy, commander of the ing Americans were put through or anitation, Of all conquered chip, who belittled reports of a at least three lifeboat drills. Gun countries, Norway comes closest drunken
1
Zamzam Survivors
on:
to, open revolt. and only the pre-German
rumpus between two crews manned. the transport's consular clerks. A four five-inch naval guns sence of 250,000 German troops steward intervened before blows twenty-four-hour duty. Thero prevents an uprising:
were struck, according to the were numerous gunnery drills, story, and next day the Germans but no actual firing, and Joh had mellowed to the extent that Two days' out of New York the each gave the steward a $5 tip.; Supporting these conclusions
West Point spotted an American, the consuls have brought back a executive officer, Captain Giles C. only warship sighted during the Both Captain Kelley and the battleship on patrol. That was the wealth of data which will be used Stedman, who was master of the crossing. for the transport. by Washington in its war against America during her brief service guaranteed safe passage by all Axis morale. The consuls were as flagship of the United States belligerents, was running without assured, of prompt re-employment, Lines, said that the Germans and convoy. for the State Department needs Italians were very courteous to experienced observers in new the officers and crew. "listening posts" being created in Africa and unioccupied Europe. Many of the returning already have been assigned new missions.
consuis
The West Point reached Lisbon
on the morning of July 23; hav- "We were agreeably surprising averaged twenty three knots. ed," cald Captain Kelloy. "We Italians were allowed off ship. six were prepared for any even hours after arrival, but the Ger- tuality, but no incidenta occur- mans were held until the follow- red."
Ing afternoon when trains bearing expelled American consuls had
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The West Point completed a sin The policing of the transport voyage It had carried to Lisbon guard of sixty men and three Germans 452 ousted German and Italian officers.
Access
|consular agents, commercial re-decks of the vilyuny
armed.
h
Germans Make No Complaint
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212 consular officials and their and members of the purser's de- delighted at being the first to go familles, sixty-five other govern-partment, who were recruited by ashore, Captain Kelley recalled. ment passengers, including mem- the American Export Lines. Each "The Germans, being very well, bers of the American Battle time a steward ventured" below disciplined people, made no com- Monumenta Commission' and their with a suit to be pressed or a plaint and seemed to understand families; sixty-eight Chinese bundle of dirty linen, a Marine the reason for the delay," diplomats and their families who went with him,
(Continued on Pago 8)