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October 19, 1939.
BRITISH WARSHIP PLANS
SAVED FROM GERMANS ALHAMBRA
HOW GERMANY NEARLY SECURED AN
OFFICIAL SET OF THE PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS OF BRITISH WARSHIPS NOW BEING BUILT WAS RECENTLY RE- VEALED.
The story of the plans is the story of the 11 Mon of Mystery who landed at Croydon at the height of the Czech crisis last March.
These 11 men were hurried through the Customis at Croydon and taken to a West End hotel. Special Branch men from Scotland Yard prevented anyone. from speaking to them.
To all inquiries the answer was that they were "just refugees."
A few days later they left the hotel. No addresses were left. The public has not heard a word about them from that day to this.
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News In Brief
ANY person committing rob- bery, larceny or violence under the cover of a black-out for an air rakt warning will be liable to sentencos ranging from 15 years to life imprisonment or to the death penalty under a deeree pullished by the Minis- terial Counell for the Reich De. fence..
Orders have been given to German Jews to report immediately for ser- vice in civil nit defence, according to the the Berlin Correspondent of
Danish "Berlingske Tidende."
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According to the German official SATURDAY wireless the Relchsbank has taken over the Bank of Danzig
Here is the inner story of the Admiralty plans and the 11 announces that Secretary of State Dr.
The offiein! German news agency Stuckart has been appointed by Hitler Chlef of the Bureau for the
At the beginning of this year every British armament works feincorporation of Danzig Into the was so busy that to avoid delay the Admiralty decided to order Rech. certain vital material for new warships, including armour plat-! Ing, from the famous Skoda factory in Czecho-Slovakia.
At that time it was never believed in London that would march in.
To ensure that the order was! executed exactly, a high official of the Admiralty went to Czecho Slovakia, taking with him thej plans and specifications.
Then in March the crisis come to a head. German troops 'crossed the border,
SECRET ORDERS
Secrel orders were sent on March 14 to the Adiniralty official.
During technical discussions, he had shown the plans and specifica- and Itons to 10 high cxecutives technielans of Skoda's.
On receiving the orders-it was on March 14-he managed to charter n special 'plane at Prague Airport-a Dulch air liner, He told the pilot to stand by to take off at a moment's notice.
The offlelal then asked each of the Skoda men who had seen the plans to accompany him' to England. FEAR OF NAZIS
It was feared with Nazi methods of interrogation they might be forced to reveal what they knew. Each agrel to go that night.
Within a few hours he was on his! way to Prague Airport with the plans, and the men who were Inmar with them. The plane was flown direct to Croydon.
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The Skod technicians are working in British armament fac- lories,
More Troops For Tanganyika
DAR ES SALAAM.
The redistribution of the units of
the Southern Brigade in Tanganyika, !
well under way,
An official communique states that in accordance with e pulicy of strengthening the defences of Tan- tu meet any emergency. ganya headquarters and two companies of King's The 2nd-Nyasaland-Bn. African Rifles have arrived in Fun- Kanyika from Zomlin, Nyasaland.
The 2nd Battalion is commanded ****** | by Majur N. R. G. Tucker, who
year commanded the 1st Bn. King's Airlean Riftes, at Tabora, Tan fanyika.
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The 2nd Battalion is returning to Tanganyika after six years.
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Some Parks sction!, upined rezent- ly, but parents whose children have Hitler Aven tvacuated are advised to place them in tebouls in picres where they are am reskiont,
Lord Lothian, new British Ambassador to United States, defies superstition by pelting a black cat after he presented his credentials to President Roosevelt Reporter named the purring.feline, "Crisis.”
U-Boat Prisoners Go First-Class
IVE British soldiers travelled recently in reserved first-class carriages with thirleen Nazi U-boat men, taking them to join more than fifly compatriots who are in a gaunt five-storey cotton mill with a thousand windows patrolled by veteran guards of the National Defence Companies with bayonets.
Some of the men, whose average; jersey, sports coat witli patel and age is about twenty-three, had slight white "pumps."
A crowd of women and, children wouts. Their hands were soft and swollen with being in sen water.avalked to the copse flanking the mill to watch the prisoners play football The youngest is only sixteen.
A number of them had been in on the fat milt root.
a submarine which was blown to
But offieers denied stories that
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the surface by depth charges from they were having a luxury diet of a destroyer. To the armed guards and who
escorted them they sald, Their food is similar to that of sol-
diers. "We are lucky to be alive."
They had been brought south to be interrogated before being taken to internment. Their officers have been sent to another prison camp.
the soldiers On the journey landed thoir elgoreller to the Ger- mans and shared their bread-und-
of cheese
They do fatigues under armed guards and are allowed to smoke. Their tobacco.comes from the when the third soldiers, because batch of thirteen prisoners arrived mirks twenty they had only among themn. Later they will be taken to quiet They work as sandwiches. One
the spots for exercise, prisoners glanced at English many hours as soldiers on ordinary newspaper, smiled when he saw plc-duty, filling sandbags, sawing timber, tures of the King and Queen.
muking A.R.P. shelters.
"They work well, a guard said, and seem decen: sorts."
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Some of the men had more than
ENGINEER WANTED
An advertisement Inserted by the a month's growth of beard. Their Crown Agents for the. Colonies in a hair was like a poet's. It was so London paper recently calla for op long." an onlooker said. The n-plicants for the post of engineer in Арм Jority were wearing trousers of the Hongkong Government. material like chamois, leather.
plicants must be unmarried, Cor- Their train steamed to a aiding porate Members of the Institution of
the inili. The prisoners Civil Engineers or hold an englater marched smurtly to receptioning degree recognized as granting room, slood at attention when ad-exemption from sections A and B of dressed by the officers. Some gave the A.MI.C.E. examination, and have a half-hearted. Nazi saluta.
had not less than two years practical experience.
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JAMIESON RESIGNING
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It is reliably understood that Mr. were received by British officers and E. G. Jamieson, the British Consul- N.C.O.L
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