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Seld-tryled "No. 1 Naxi roldier," German Fuchrer Hitler, lower Teft, draws his rations from a fletc kitchen' at a German base camp. Picture is, of course, given as "Somewhere in Poland.”
Spies Arrested
On Dutch Boat
Major General Sir Extmund Ironside, chief of Britain's Im- perial Defence Staff, carries a gas mask and tin derby, as he hurries to a war conference in Lendon: He was appointed to the defence post when Britain
antered, tho' war.
officers arrested several sus- pected German spies while searching the crück Dutch liner Nieuw-Antslerdum. - for contraband.
BRITISH naval
This was revealed by passen- gork on the liner after they had innded in Holland.
One of the suspects, it is stated, tried to commit suicide by slashing ls throat with a razor. Only prompt work by doctors saved his life.
He had been definitely linked with the Nazi spy-ring after on Austrian woman passenger had given informa- sion against him.
Another suspect was arrested as he irled to hide important documents in
a broken waterpipe.
A third, who posed as a German- Jewish refugee, turned out to be the
HITLER'S HEADACHE
"Achtung! Achtung! Hier spricht, der Deutsche Freiheitsrender!”
TIGHT after night that voice
NIGE
comes over the ether to German radio listeners. It is calling on them to revolt against
The Story of the German "Freedom Party"
to milk bottles and the milkman did the delivery. Pamphlets were placed in the directorles in public tele- phones boxes, Gramophone records, starting with an innocent song, sud- denly launched into an exposure of Hiller polley. It was claimed that ja millón coples' of one manlleslo
In its manifesto of April, 1037-were distributed in three days. •
the mad dictatorship that 18 which Nazi postmen unwittingly de- bringing hunger, misery and livered to countless homes in Berlin Then the "Freedom -Itadlo" began death to their homes. It urges the party claimed to represent altto get busy. the soldiers not to fight, thetical parties, including Cermongress of the entire German oppost- religions ond former At the beginning of 1938 "a con- workers to sabotage their factor-1 Nationalists. Democrath, Socialists ilon" vas held in Berlin under the ies. It exposes the Nazi lies and even National Socialists. "Its very noses of the Government. and proclaims the truth: "We sole aim is to help the German cannot win this war."
lilmmler's men worked feverishly
people and to fight for freedom." to track the party down, but it was Įnot until October, 1937, that any The clrcular protested against pubile reference to it was made by German trade and industry being a Nazi leader. Then Hitler spoke at delivered into the hands of great the Freedom Party as foreign in- trusts and demanded room for thevention, born from "a longing to see small business man. It demanded a split in our national unity." freedom of religion, just laws, un- AB
find blased courts of justice and the right March we site, by the following official etreles nd- of free speech and writing.'
mitting the arrest of "three or four
It is voice that gives Hitler a headache, but it is one that he can-: not silence It gives an even bigger headache to Herr Heinrich Himmler, chlef
of the Secret Police, whose sples have been tolling night and day to track down the men (and women) who dare to tell Germans the truth, Sometimes they have thought the "phantum" station was within their "To-day there are only a few who lividuals" on charges of treason- grasp. They have thrown a cordonere with us in every town. Soonable activity. Ollier sources put the Found the area... closed in
there will be thousands, and later number of arrests as high as 46. In- anet found-nothing.
(cluding two editors, a former Reich- millions.
The radio volge mocks at them
from miles away and goes relent tessly on with its message.
It was in April, 1937, Ut the German Freedom Party first startled the Nazis by circulating a manifesta in Berlin. But long before that the foundations were being fald.
that his
·
they pretended not
The Notis were alarmed, thoughting deputy and saine civil servants.
to be. They
Early this year, necording to the were printed alleged the circulars
abroad. But the en-Geneva Research Centre in Switzer- and pasted
land, Ernst Niekisch and 20 of his velopes bore the Berlin post-mark!
There was weeks of silence.comrades were tried for high treason Then the Freedom Party spoke again for operating the tilegal Freedom Bul in March its volce was this time appealing to the Army Radio.
and now almost thiefs, "of when we are proud and on the nir again in whom we trust."
rightly it broadcasts is aecusations from "Somewhere in Germany": Is The pre-
A young Relchswehr captalu who, fted from Germany before the Army purge of February, 1938, has re-l "Can you and will you look on vealed that an early as 1935 he was, passively at this mod gamble with "National Socialism leader of a Freedom Party "eel!" In Germany's future?" they were asked. Chemy of the German people.
"Freedom" virculars began
to Only. Its overthrow will bring free- his own regiment, and General-later arrested in the appear in Germans' teller-boxes at dom and peace... Down with Hil-
Jert must have in- "purge"-gave bla silent support. frequent intervals.
The members of the party are well The chief of the party, according furiated the Nasi iraders to think to this captain, lived in Berlin's most that their own State postmen were aware that discovery means certain
have been- Fashionable quarter, leading the life the means of distributing such litera-death. Their casualties
heavy. But others carry on. These of a gentleman of means, apparently turc. not interested in polites. His name
too. are the real heroes of Nüz! Germany.
There
were
other tricks.
was respected even In Nazi ciretes. Sometimes small leadels were stuck
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Everything is ready for the re- ception of the entire royal hou
house- bold, numbering more than 100.
The shelters have been con- structed out of deep tunnellings In the rock on which the castle is ball-anclent rooms that were originally dungeons and vanila.
There is also a special under-
At ground shelter
Buckingham Palace, blast and splinter proat, from which the King could, ff necessary, conduct State business in safely.
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And it is working fast. Air Commodore (formerly- Brigadier-General) A. C. Critchley, now in charge of the initial training units, says that he can produce at least 3,000 young pilots a month.
Back in 1910, Britain's average discipline, flight theory, navigallon, monthly output of trained plicis gunnery and bombing under the most
pleasant conditions. was 1,200.
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The morning is spent at lectures. Since the war started, the pilot and crew-training organisation of the In the afternoon there is swimming RAF. Volunteer Reserve has been and games. In one centre there is enlarged and the method changed to boxing under Len Harvey, now a and Corporal reduce the time spent under instruc- sergeant instructor.
Eddie Phillips.
In addition to lectures, pupil plots LIKE SCHOOLBOYS Most important innovation is there given basic dying instruction in the Link Trainer, a patent model establishment at various places of a series of initin! training wings where neroplane, mounted on a pedestal The student pilots before they are taught to nylalts in a regulation aircraft cockpit and to crew members before being with the usual controls and Instru- sent to specialised centres to be ments. He is covered in.
and the trained as observers, ale gunners and chinery is set working
[student files the model as he would making radio operators. further progress towards normality. Previously young men necepted as an actual aeroplane. Earphones carry Ho had spent the Voyage Recently the first international relay pilots began their service career by the voice of the instructor to the
since war began was given in the leaming to dy at civil flying schools student. ostentatiously singing the Brilish
Under the new system training of and French National Anthems form of a light orchestral concert before being handed over to the and announcing that he wanted relayed from Turin, by courtesy of RAF. for advanced training. It is pilots, observers and other to join the Royal Air Force. the Italian Broadcasting organisation now claimed that initial ground In-members falls into three stages. First In addition to those detained as This relay was arranged some time struation will make ying training is the holiday, where the physically ft student may be rejected if he is suspected spics, thirty-four German age and no dimculty was experi- cosier and quicker. stewards were also interned.
enced over obtaining the land-line. These men, who come from factory, found wanting In practical ability, The thoroughness of the Navy's In addition to die home service, school, office and shop, are atting Young plots are then sent to an elementary flying school and taught contraband measures can be judged which runs for 10 hours a day, with into their new life with the zest of to fly. from the passengers' reports that further periods in the early morning schoolboys. They are being taught there were at least fifty other ships if there is any vital news, there la being searched at the same nnchorage) a short-wave service to the whole as the Nieuw Amsterdam,
But strangest of all those who were led off the ship under guard was a swarthy gentlemnau of un- known nationality.
B.B.C.
Brogrammes
arc
crew
The third and final stage begins when they are passed on to the ser- vice Dying training school.
On the way down from Landon officers told of their pride in the
FORTY KILLED world working for 22 hours a day. The liner was detained for three The languages used are" English, days, and every inch of the vessel from the crew's quarters to the state- rooms was carefully examined,
Some of the British boarding officers, said the passenger, were not yet in uniform, but all carried automatic pistols, and were so- companied by blue-Jackets carry- ing rifles with bayonets fixed,
French (for Canada), Afrikaans, Gasolene Tanks Explode nne type at young man who has
Arabic, German, Italian, Spanish (for Spain as well as South America) and Portuguese, Magyar has re- cently been added, and other Inngu-
In Railway Mishap
Vera Cruz, Oct. 23,
ages are to be hitroduced shortly. Forty persons are believed to have from England to the United States, in the explosion of two Baking
American broadcasters, speaking been killed on Saturday afternoon
Lucrecia
are using B.B.C. studios night and tank cars between Santa
and Matias Romero in-the State of
The decks were also heavily guard-¦ day.
ed to prevent anyone from [rying to] Sult more live materiál is being Chiapas.
wim ashore, and from 7 pm. the introduced into the programmes to Two cars in the freight train were liner had to maintain a complete)
recordings. Next) álled with railway Inbourers supplement the
ond black-out.
week "Band Waggon," the successful their families. The tank cars over- Eventually the Nieuw Amsterdam, variety programme, is being revived, tumed point where the work- was allowed to sall for Rotterdam on with Arthur Arkey and Richardi men had left fres used for cooking a course charted by the Admiralty. Murdoch.
and this caused an almost immediate explosion-United Press.
"Where's My Collar Stud?" Chimpanzee
-cried worried Militiamen trying on new uniforms at Wel-Difficult Patient lington Barracks, Bury, Lancashire, recently.
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Tunics, trousers, berets, flannels, shirts, collars and ties, had all been provided, but no studs.
Boon afterwards a local tradesman got a shock when confronted with the order, “150 collar studs, please."
ART EXHIBITION". Mc. K. K. Lim, well-known painter of Kulangsu, is to give an exhibition of his work under the patronage of Lady Northcote,... al St. John's Half a dozen injections of mor- Cathedral Hall on November 14 and phine, a dosa strong enough to kill 15. commencing at. 9 0.m, each day,
CAIRO, EgypL
Red Cross
a mari, falled to put to sleep a chim- | Half of the proceeds will be donated
International panzed at the Cairo too. The chim- the panzee had to undergo an operation. Society.
volunteered the the RAF.
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