HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
It's Difficult To Get Out Of Germany
This story of an escape from Germany was brought back by Carl B. Wall, young American Journalist who has just returned to the U.S. from 64 days in the Nazi Reich. After being in Berlin four weeks, he was called in by the police and was reminded- very gelly--that he had faile to register on arrival. He was given forms to Bli ont and told to report back.
I had received a cable ordering me to "cancel all plans and return home." I had gone first to the Propaganda Ministry and then to the police for the necessary an swers or permission to leave the country.
nussion.
AMERICAN AID
TO RUSSIA ANGERS JAPAN
TOKYO, Aug. 24 (Reuter)—The question of American aid to Rus- sia continues to hold the atten- tlon of the Press in Tokyo, with the "Miyake" reporting that there is an ulterior motive in the action Everything seems to be in or of the United States in sending der," he said.
ald to the Soviets via the Pacifie sheet of route.
He scribbled [17] paper.
a
"Take this paper to this ad. dress," he said. "They'll stamp your passport there."
The paper points out that American war supplies landed at Vladivostok would result in streng- thening the position of the Red army in the Far East.
GENERAL
PLANE LOCATOR HAILED BIG ADVANCE IN RADIO
(IN THE NEW YORK TIMES) *
The wartime development of a radiolocator that finds invad- ing panes through fog, darkness and clouds and helps to guide defending fighters to them was announced in Loudon coincident with a radio appeal by Lord Beaverbrook, Minister of State, that was directed in part to the United States and asked for tech- nicians to help in the further improvement and more widespread ase of the apparatus
Air Chief Marshal Sir Philip Joabert, newly appointed Com- mander-in-Chief of the Coastal Command air forces, sald that the device bad been developed on widely known principles of physics, hut despite this, details of the method of operation were withheld,
It was made known only that covered by accident or in a Bash. there is some sort of machinery It was not a sudden Inspiration,
The "Miyako" continues: "The with radio "eye" that can scan but rather more remarkable than is attempting to the skies for miles offshore and that It was an example of how
to solve a problem.
In checking over their records, The address was about a mile the police had obviously discovered away. Outside, I actually found a that they had no record of me. itax which had just dropped a United States had been in Berlin for nearly four passenger,
I think that was the weeks without official police per first time in Berlin when I man-compel the Soviet Union to join detect approaching aircraft in time vision and genius can develop and the ABCD encirclement of Japan for fighters to take to the air and expand known scientific principles And now I was trying to need to get a cab the minute by sending aviation oll of high prepare for combat. get out I could hardly blame the wanted it. Everything seemed to octane to Vladivostok via a route
The radiolocator has been one police for getting
Though millions of pounds have suspicious. It be breaking Things were going was really a minor miracle that too well.
so close to Japan."
of the greatest helps in Britain in been spend on radiolocators,” Air they hadn't arrested me days ago.
maintaining day supremacy in the Marshal Joubert said, "it is safe to The same paper, speculating on air over this isle since last October, say that the entire cost has al- the outcome of the forthcoming
and it may well become an instry. [ready been saved. It was of such Moscow Conference, express the
ment as aportant as a multipli- incalculable help that independent opinion that Russta, locked with
city of fighter planes and guns. In observers from the Dominions have Germany In deadly combat. is
als "broadcast Lord Beaverbrook stated categorically that the Battle for!
jwald that the device was "spread for Britain was won by the fighters! Anglo-American uld.
of the RAF and radiolocators."
REASON FOR STATEMENTS
The use of some such device has been fairly well known for some
Fifteen minutes later, I handed Myny passport and the paper to a young lady at the visa office. She disappeared and was back in A few minutes.
I was certain of one thing. case by this time was most cer tainly in the hands of the Gestapn That had been the reason for the
have
long delay in the exit visa. There "Something seems to be wrong.likely to accept any terms Was to doubt in my mind in she said. There's nothing in your Gestapo agents in the States were passport which shows you Dow checking
credentials.permission to stay in Germany." There was also no doubt that I I belleve at that moment, I hit was now being carefully watched an all-time low. I felt like lying in Berlin
my
down on the nor and kleking and screaming
The paper adds: "Japan musting the covering wings of science over the multitudes who inhabit watch the outcome of the Moscow
vast cities." Conference with grave concern,"
The radiolocator might be dea Pointing out that nobody in the cribed as an absolute altimeter m world believes that American war
A sharply focussed beamtime but a statement concerning supplies landed at Vladivostok would
be
The commercial daily, "Chngal Shdayo," says American oll ship-
tions as: date of parents' birth, re-had my photograph inside and be used in strengthening the Red ligion, name of children, date of looked highly official. Actually, ity in the Far East. wife's birth, a hundred and one didn't mean a thing. I had never other things. It took hours to shown It even to get into them out, but 1 managed to get conferences. them back before Police Headquar ters closed
AMERICANS QUESTIONED
presa
A
moment.
¡ reverse.
of short radio waves is sent out
Accted. Sensitive radio detectors are tuned into catch
ing plane.
li, even as guarded as those by Alp
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Back at my room at the Adlon, I filled out the forms which were I don't know why, but I took
used Dy the Soviet! from a ground station and sweeps Marshal Joubert and Lord Beaver- to register meat last with the uut my wallet and showed her the against Germany alone, the pro- the sky like an invisible search-brook, probably would never have police. They were highly com.little green card which allowed Nazi "Hoch!" declares it is clear light. On striking the surface of been made If the time had not A number of experiments are plicated. They asked such ques-me to attend press conferences. It that American war supplies would
come when technicians were ur- being conducted at the Stock would be better off if missionaries an enemy airplane the beam is re
gently needed. It is expected the Farm, Central Experiment Station. teft them alone. Mrs. C. E. Kelly, a certain number of women in the Serdang, Kuala Lumpur. towards research the faint
worker at the Depart- Women's Auxiliary Air Force may the provision of nutritious and ment "echo."
of Anthropology, Sydney be trained to operate the radio-economic pastures and fodders. So accurate are these detectors. ments to Vladivostok will "Arstly it is reported, that they can estocators, but it is estimated that in
University, told the Federal Par- The latest issue of the Malayan llamentary Select Committee on menace Japan's security." and as male not only the direction but She studied It for
addition to 3,000 women
Some Agricultural Journal states that a Social Security. shrugged good-naturedly
serts the act cannot be tolerated also the distance of the approach-20,000 men are needed for division limiting factor in cattle-keeping and
"Missionaries are 80 tuli of pointed to the paper which the silence.
The paper declares that supplyfog and clouds, day and might, It.
in Malaya is the adequate supply their own righteousness that they The beam penetrates among the three services.
"These demand's are always
and feeding-try to "Well," she said, "it's their faullng military fuel to another power has a speed advantage over the
of pasture, fodder growing demands for the
force a way of life on stuis, directly under Japan's nose, at a
aborigines who invent and improve, and those
without thought to acoustic detectors, whose large ime when the United States is
The Journal goes on to say that their customs and beliefs," who make and maintain the tech- the importance of making full use curved listening horns are often
|nical equipment with which the
said. Kelly mark the disappeared again into sure against Japan, is "tantamount defence stations, Sound which the office. It was fully 20 minutes to taunting and irritating the
no emphasis at present. Where the work goes on here, listening detector picks up
A great many materials, either Meanwhile the police had begun before she came back. It was the Japanese people."
from the vibrations of motor and where man has sought out many recognised feeding stuffs or po picking up Americans left and most miserable 20 minutes I ever
propeller travels through the airtin to join us.
inventions, you have an Invita- right. In
tential emergency feeding stuüs. & single night, they expect to spend I sat there picked up 14 for "questioning" smoking
jat 700 miles an hour, which is only one terrible
have been examined by the che Derman
about twice the speed of a fast technical skill and vision to take
men of knowledge, mical division during the Most of them, like Arthur E. Dun- cigarette after another. What ning, president of the American really needed was a drink-per-
| year. Chamber of Commerce in Berlin. ferably a Mickey Fina.
After that there was nothing to police had given me. do but walt. Day after day, I went to Police Headquarters to see-not mine." whether my exit visa had been ap- proved. There was always the same answer--"No," I walked for days for weeks
FAREWELL PARTY
men
"Nomadic
Mra. tribes
With that somewhat baffing re-applying stringent economic prospect in photographs of air-raid battle for freedom is being fought. of all possible feeding-stuffs needs should receive social benefits if
At last, she came out and hand-
through it
The
hurriedly. The
Shanghai Waterfront Strike
that They
rellable quarters
the 30,000-strong
the
bomber.
-We
want
Dast
they can use them.
"Aborigines should be allowed to stay on reserves and be given A certain amount could pensions. be paid to the reserve controller and the rest to the native him- Thus, by the time a bomber is part in the improvement and up- keep of technical equipment. Re-
Feeding trials with poultry at self. Old-age pensions for blacks, 1940 as well as whites, should be given located by this method, it will al-pair and maintenance of these de- the school of agriculture in | ready have Bown some miles from vices are a task of the highest im dealt with economy mashes de-and raised to a level just below the located spot Radio waves, ma the other hand, travel at 188,000 miles per second.
While these principles are gener --
portance.
"I appeal to you to come and belp us. You who are technicians and who have experience in radio and electrical devices. You who
taxable mcome."
to
of signed to meet the shortage padi and animal protein due the war
Rations pased on broken and vegetable protein gave
|—(Malaya Tribune).
natives Mrs. Kelly added that have little property senie. Family riceties are more important to them.
the
(Mr. Prime Minister as Even
abori
ginal Communism.
had been in the country for a long time. Dunning had beened me the passport. I thumbed | there for more than 25 years.
all- Those were bad nights. If they important exit-visa was there. I picked up men like Dunning, what don't believe I've ever seen a more The Shanghai Waterfront is tense ally current among technical men
SHANGHAI, Aug. 24 (Reuter)- were they going to do about me? beautiful stamp. One night, I gave up completely
British threw a farewell as That was the night a
reported of all nations, the development of have enthusiasm for wireless de. good results as could be expected Mènsies) could not fault German party for me that night. friend of mine, who was more or gave Berlin the heaviest bombing Coolles Union is plannmg to lodge ating tubes and sensitive yet rug-line of human knowledge, where
Wharf the appropriate microwave-genev- less In the know, confidentially of the war. They even blew up new demands with the manage-ged devices for their reception' re- told me he didn't think I was the opera house and they damn ment of the Shanghal and Hong-presents a recent research achieve-known. I call you to bring your Saturday going to get the exit permission near made me miss my plane-kew Wharf ag an aftermath of the ment. This achievement la em- In fact, he didn't think they were (Malaya Tribune). going to let any Americans out of Berlin at all.
That night I sat up in the Adloni
lobby drinking bottled beer untli 2
in the morning with a man who)
had been a virtual prisoner in Ber-1 lin for more than three months,
Sabotage In Europe
LONDON, Aug. 24 (Reuter)
He had lived in the United States Reports continue to be received for years but bad never .got in London of disturbances. In around to taking out his citizen-various parts of Europe.. ship papers because he was con-
In Norway a big demonstration stantly travelling between Norway was held following the
German
dismissal
radio
in Britain's new
DISCOVERER OF DEVICE
Hasth on Thursday between abodied small party of pollee and strikers locator. when one Chinese lost his life. four others were shot and two
In a talk that was tantalising for police were injured;
what it did not tell the inter- Representatives of the striking ests of maintaining military secrets Shanghai and Hongkew Wharf-Air Marshal Joubert said that coolles are reported to have sent the instrument had been "born in! a petition to the Ministry of Social a rather ancient lorry on a fine! Welfare at Nanking asking for Merch morning in 1985 on a road! support in their strike against the Daventry." The discoverer ap- management.
parently was Robert Alexander A meeting is said to have been Watson Watt, who is adviser on
course of Ministry. A team of brilliant
and New York. The New York, of a popular country sheriff held at headquarters of the Union telecommunications for the Air office had decided to send him to Nazi S.S, guards standing nearby in Pootung, in the Oslo.
consular author-judged it advisable not to inter- which the decision was reached Betentists worked on the device in ties nad told him he would have fere.
to demand from the management secrecy until after the war had taken to payment
indemnities to the started. families of the killed worker and а
no trouble at all by going by way Hostages have been
of
of Berlin--the only pratical way to Germany from Stavanger as go. It would mean, they said, only warning against further sabotage. the four wounded when the small a part in the later development of
In Athens, municipal officials police contingent
A few day's delay at most.
EVEN CHANUK
After finishing the beer, we went allegiance to the occupation au-
up to his room and started in on thorities. a bottle of brands. We weren't
drunk.
drunk.
were in New Jersey.
WAIS
Though all three services played
attacked radio location," said Air Marshal
velopment. I call you to the front
men push forward into the un A Vichy military court on The total of the Duke of Glou
sentenced to death incester's Red Cross and St. John insight and vision to the battle for their absence five French officers Fund is now £6,042,671, This dgure the future world."(Malaya Tri-who have joined General de Includes some flag day receipta. but bunel,
Gaulle's forces.--Reuter,
many returns are not yet in,
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have refused to take the oath of and forced to fire on a numerical-Joubert, "the Royal Air Force, can
NEW COMMERCIAL CLASSES ly superior mob.
legitimately take credit for its in- begin September Well-informed labour quarters tial. development. It know what Shorthand,
3. Subjects: Typewriting, Book- We
In Hungary many arrests have also reported that the Union plans it wanted and was prepared to were too low to get been atade for sabotage. He showed me the pictures
to take up an action in the Court back scientists who thought they keeping, Business English, Business Nazi newspapers in Poland nub. of Consuls against, the police for could give it by adapting certain ring, Business Mathematics, Busi
Correspondence, Card-Indexing & of his wife and two children who ush many death notices of assu- the shooting and the subsequent principles."
pation troops which are described injury inflicted on the coolies, Radio location has been more ofness Organization Business Ma- Meanwhile the Luton is report-a development than an invention chines & Appliances, Business Ad- ed to have
placed pickets at in the sense that it was not dis ministration Elementary Economics, & Mercantile Law. Inclusive fees for pathy" strikes for the Shanghai
tuition and, textboks, Registration and Hongkew. Wharf men.
from today. School of Accoun- Minor brawls are reported to
Commerce, tancy & occurred between pickets
Telephone: 50855,
I think that night, if we had an as "accidents." even chance of getting across a
In Paris, the police made over
border somewhere, we would have 1,000 arrests on Friday night near various local wharfs urging "sym-
made a break
for it. But you the Champs Mysees. couldn't go anywhere in Europe
now, except possibly Switzerland or
Portugal, where the Nazis weren't GERMAN CLAIMS bave
in control. We knew it was idiotic
even to think of getting outside
the Berlin city limits without off!'
cial poltee permisston but we talk
ed about it, anyway. It was some-
thing to pass the time away.
TWENTY HOURS LEEWAY
ODESSA NOW ENCIRCLED
LONDON, Aug. 24
(Reuter
The defence of Odessa "at all
On April 2 1 made my fourth costs" by the Soviet command was reservation, for Tuesday, April 10, mentioned in a communique from After that, the Lufthansa was German Rumanian headquarters booked solid until May 1 unless yesterday,
and workers all along the Shang- ha! waterfront,
ANOTHER JAP.
RAID ON CHỦNG KING
Kowloon.
CHUNGKING, Aug. 24 (Reuter) FOR SALE-Robinson Plano, in. -At least 108 Japanese aircraft
VICHY RAILWAY participated in raids on Szechuen excellent condition and tone, Any
ACCIDENT
province yesterday, three waves. reasonable offer accepted. For full The first wave of 27 machines particulars, apply Box 398, H.K.D.P. heavily bombed the western out-
WANTED TO BUY
WE PAY HIGH PRICES
VICHY, Aug. 24 (Router)--Thirtyskirts of Chungking, where, on mtners were injured on Friday Friday the Japanese badly dam- a cancellation should be made in "Ballora workmen arid men of afternoon when a special miners aged the Central University and the meantime. It looked like my all ages" have been hastily form train ran off the rails Just before Chungking University and set last chance to get out.
ed into units and thrown into the entering the Valdonno Tunnel, fire to a Chinese hed Cross hos- On the morning of April 9, 20 fight "to hold up the attack it near Marselles, between Cressque pitat hours before the plane WAR BOTH
and St. Savourin, states the Vichi, A second wave of 64 aircraft for all gold and silver articles, scheduled to take of from Tem- The communique claims that news agency, pelhof, I was told that my exit visa the town is now completely en A number of waggons wver- yesterday proceeded westward Jude, diamonds, jewela, watches, was ready. I was to call with my circled within a radius of nine turnea.
after passing Chungking in the fountain pons. Apply Far East paport at one of the many officos miles after heavy fighting with This is the third Fronch rattway direction of Chengtu
Diamond and Gold Refining Jo grout bloodshed, in which the acdifient liftsclosed this week. It was disclosed that 136 Japan Room 621, China Building, 6th I was there at 10 in the morn-principat enemy defence line webtage on the French railways one aircraft took part in Belday's floor. Bundays and Folidare dog but I wam't hoping too hard, broken.
has been admitted in Vichy and raids of "which" 01 bombed the
of the secret police.
und a third wave of 27 aircraft
I had given up hoping. A young. "We captured considerable war an appeal nas bem made to western outskirts of Chungking open.
fah man with heavy-lensed glasses mitorial and several thousand railwaymen to co-operate to stop while the others bombed places.
lanced briefly at my passport, prlaphers,
| in the- vioinits of Chengtu,
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