Unions' Secret
War On Nazis
COURIERS
SMUGGLE MONEY TO GERMANY
Morecambe, June 24.
BEHIND the revelations of
Mr. J. C. Little int the Engineers Conference at More- cumbe yesterday that a group of 'German trade unionists were planning the overthrow of Hiller, lles a fascinating story of n new International secret service.
The full story was told ex- clusively to-night by Mr. Little, | who, in addition to being presi- dent of tho Amalgamated En- gineering Union, is chairman of the International Metal Workers' Fedoration.
Mr. Little explained "how, a you b. this secret service was formed. Whim former Gernian trade union leaders began their recoupment, only trusted members of works committees, corresponding to shop stewards in the English inderstrbil
system, we
were selected, Bach WICH
esigned a hiümber.
The organisern have to guard
1886-1936: Fifty years
Above... A recent photograph of the new N.D.L. laer Potsdam, now on the Far Eastern Service. ́. Right- The first N.D.L. liner to visit Hong- kong. The steamer Oder arrived here In 1880,
TH
THE existence of the N.D.L. goes back as far as 1857, when enterprising Bremen merchants, after
against the German authorities as small beginnings in river-
resting one of the workers in the international service, torturing him and extracting confessions in- criminating others," remarked
• Little.
COLLECTING FUNDS
Mr.
"Two international collecting con- mittees have been formed. One his headquarters in Paris, and tre øllier. In New York. In Paris tha gom- mitter Includes nine or teri Gerinios, two Frenchmen, and un. Anierican.
"Funds collected from trade unions) and individual subscribers in many countries, including Great Britain, France, United States, Italy, and Spain are forwarded So the dis- tributing committee,
handsi
over
"This compittre large sums of moneys to two couriers, who ammuggle the funds Into Germany, and then link up with numbered agent in the ter- 1in chain.
"The German quthorities," added "know that £15,000 wILS
e among supporters In Ber- In alone Ipst Christmas.
"Arrangements are being made to: extend the operations of these agents, outside Berlin.
"The frantle efforts of the Ger- man authorities to stamp but this secret service," declared Mr. Little, "is Indiented by the arrest of 600 persons In one Berlin suburb.”
shipping on the Weser, founded the NDL as over- sea shipping.company ply ing between Europe and America.
During the first thirty years of the development, when many a setback had to be overcome, the N.D.L. already extended its services—especially to America.
of shipping
in the Far
East
shipping.
most important routes. The For
Ny
As early as 1878 the first ex entrusted Fuerst Bismarck to Co., China, and Messrs. Ahrens all, only in home const press steamers--which at that arrive at agreement with a & Co., Japan.
Gradually
the fleet could be - time had still to be built in German shipping line for
creased by smaller new វា The four vessels of the
constriic- England were put into opera- regular Imperial mailstamer- "Oder" type wore, after some German stilps, angt with these the tions and re-purchases of former tion, vessels, which in those years were ranking in the first service to the Far East and years, followed by the three sis- services were taken up again on the Australia. The agreement en- ter-ships "Preussen," "Bayern mast service was inaugurated again place of international shipping. tered into with the N.D.L. was and Sachsen" each of about in March 1922 by the
In 1882 the N.D.L., could look at that time--to hold good 5,000 B.R.T. and 4,000 II.P., "Westfalen," which was follteed be freighter On June 30th while the smaller vessels "Stat further monthly sailings. Beginning back on 25 years, of existence, for 15 years. when their fleet consisted of 1886 the first Imperial mail- tin," "Lucheck" and "Danzig" in January of the following year, "Oder" (see picture) served as on carriers in the Far vice was opened with the s.s."Weser"
#11 * interlin passenger-freight ser almost hundred vessels totalling steamer
was commissioned for the Far East. 100,000 B.R.T, '
and "Werra. which in 1983 were East, leaving from Bremer- In 1892 the service was fur- joined by the ૧ vessels of the New prospects for a consider haven, in the presence of many ther supplemented by the 5.8 "Saarbruceken" type
and the
111°C able extension of its shipping Government officials and de- "Prinz Heinrich" and "Prinz war
war mall stramer "Dertlinger." lines arose in the middle of the puties of merchants and indus- Regent Luitpold."
In addition to the existing forl- Vessels of nightly mail steamer sevier with eighties, when the Reichster irialists. The 8.8. "Oder," al- the "Weimer" Type were ocen- passenger vessels, a regular 'Treight though a ship of relative small sionally also engaged on the Far service already in 1914 was taken, size, judged by modern stan- Eastern run, dards, received not only
THE
HONGKONG
PENINSULA HOTEL:
HONGKONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY
PLAY..LATE
&
SHANGHAI
cordial welcome at the Fur Eastern ports she visited but
*.*
Pontyis
that
up, and it is for dis reasoni after the war the main attention was directed to the freight service, first of all owing to the fact that sult- able vessels for the passenger trade were then not available. Üntil the
was, moreover, an object of IN the beginning the 20th beginning of 1028 freight, vessels of rather particular interests, see-
vices was only an elderly, type were on th HOTEL;ing that she wog the bed operated by the vessels of the war, Fast, hhaque Beismanrir ne & Fastern run to have "Feldher" type such as s. that year the type of the freighters what was at that time some "Zieten," "Seydlitz," "foon" @vas eonsiderably improved by in- thing very much out of the and "Scharnhorst," which later "Lain."
auguration of the express-freighter.
ASTOR HOUSE; PALACE HOTEL;
HOTELS
LIMITED
Another ten steamers and, ordinary-the electric light.
on were followed by a somewhat ce motur-vessels of this type we The then following new Far bigger type such as the 8.5. the course of the next years, and addled to the Far Eastern feet in East steamers were some of the "Buchow," "Gochen" "Yorck," all, these vessels have proven to be first larger vessels ever to be "Luetzow"
and. Derflinger." trent success, built in Germany.
After some of the latter vessels were passed on to the Australion service, they were substituted
Im- In association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, PekingTHE problem which the
perial Mail Service to the Far East-and with it a similar
RUNNYMEDE HOTEL, LTD., PENANG.
CRAG HOTEL,
Penang Is
(2,400 feet above sealevel.)
Refreshment Rooms. (near summit slation) Hill Raliway.
"THE ISLAND'S MOST EFFICIENT SERVICE.”
RUNNYMEDE HOTEL
On Sea Front,
Private Cars for Excursions Anywhere.
Caterers etc. to Imperial Airways.
Meals are Interchangeable, na ezize cost, whatever you have your breakfast, luncheon, tem, or dinner.
Booms of both hotels here private ballrooms and modera, multation. At the Funnymede sneh, roomt has its own public telephone.
The Runnymeda Restaurant has undeniably pride of place among hotwa of the East with its culiine, and justy claims by the uciation to offer the traveller such a leal to be found elsewhere.
by s.s. "Prinzess Alice," "Prinz QINCE_everything-necreamy--for- Eitel Friedrich" and "Prinz the modernisation of the freight Ludwig."
service had been done by putting Besides the Far East Muilsteamer these vessels into commission, the service which developed in the out-of-date type of the "Star-
to its meantime
service to Australie-set the ND.L. had succeedel to build up as the passenger trade and means
full extent, the bruecken" class was felt to hamper
hod
Norddeutscher Lloyd, was by no wide net of coastal services in Fur to be found to build new
Hips, means a simple one, since it Eastern waters, which at its height which would meet present-day called upon them to einbody, in cumployed no less than 53 const-and requirements of first class passenger their service two parts of the river-essels.
vessels. Years went by without my None of these coastal services was, results in this respect and only with earth, with which they had not however, taken up again after the the prospering of Germany undes maintained regular connections war with the exception of a monthly the National Socialist Regime It was prior to the year 1886, How- service from Hongkong, to the South possible to bring up new initiative
Islands by the ever, thanks to the help of a Sca
steamers and courage resulting in the three "Bremerhaven" ond "Friderun" of express liners "Scharnhorst," "Polz number of their Agencies abroad " which the former made her first dam" and "Gneisenau," which are they succeeded in doing so, and voyage from the Colony in May already well known and very
it is interesting to know that of 1020 while the latter Joined her in popular amongst passengers as well those very Agencies four are October 1932.
still in existence, after serving
the Company for fifty years:
they are the following; Messra.
clitte
as shippers. These vessels represent a type which will for a long time answer all requirements of 'up-to- passenger and freight trafic between the Far East and Europe. Freudenberg & Co. (The Han- THROUGH the war and the dictate
The Celebrations of the Jubiley of Versailles, Germany lost all of the ND.J... Bremen, are shared seatic Trading Co.), of Ceylon; her sen-going ships, and not earlier by Afelehers & Co., Chine, who have Messrs. Behn, Meyer & Co., of than 1921 a start could again be been Agents for the Line since the Singapore: Messrs. Mulchers & made on a very small scale, first of last 50 years.
SALESMAN SAM
Stretching A Point
LEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JUNE 80, 1986.
EVERYBODY'S favourites ON
REX RECORDS.
8773-Gloomy Sunday. Maurice Elwin.
Solitudo.
8704-Salut D'Amour.
Barcarollo "Tales of Hoffman."
Musical Dawson's Famous CHOIR OF CANARIES..
8711-Sunset Trail.
Maid of Brazil.
8719-Music Goes Round & Around.
There's a Song they Sing in Sing Song.
Primo Scala's Accordeon Band.
8715-Animal Crackers in My Soup.
When I Grow Up.
8636-Trees.
Baby Durctic Alexander.
"Smiling Through.
Gracio Fields..
8604 Confessions of a Cheeky Chappy,
Max Miller.
8041-Sandy the Film Star.
8362-What the Stars Forctell.
8578-Sandy The Dontist.
8387-Sandy joins The Nudists.
8024-Sandy The Burglar,
8114-Sandy on a South Sea Isle.
Sandy Powell Famous Humourist).
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This pen is worth a sovereign, Tank liquid nourishment and had 8 row,
JI Quite a short introduction.
12 It stands high the day before
the balance.
14 Pronoun (rev.).
To Surely these islands are Bus- named? Whales have no legs!
16 Roguish? Well, scarcely, yet
why not?
18 More than tiresome, but to some
extent, only partly.
21 Keep this; seems finished, Jack. 22 Associated with Eve and Paris. 24 Added to the Prussian Empiro
by Frederick the Great.
27 The fringes of a nice. piece. 28 It requires a good number to destroy the Ind of the moment. 29 Here is nothing with vacancy, but it is remarkably like an cge, all the same.
30 Au ton chemists took theno
•punishments you ought easily to guess this word.
DOWN
2 A moming castom, please. 3 Egg may.
4 No, this is not the Biblical name
for bees.
5 You will need a rest. before you this is begin to acknowledgo build up again.
6 European republic.
7 What I am but do when angry
like this.
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8 Nien man, Pedro (anag).
10 Just notice bow kid hem ent in
among certain of the household ataff.
13 Tears that are taxed,
17 Fashion.
10 Can these deal with salmon?
Yes, if tinned.
20 Does Elle go short in the.end? On the contrary, it is a man of the East.
21 The seaside allment.
23 Fruit of the type a Chinese likes. 26 Alalay nothing in it, but it's not
tight.
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