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He Hated Coffee, So Prison Plot Failed
NEW YORK.
TIE fact that a prison guard did not like caffes folled a daring attempt by convicts to escape from the pensientiary at Joliet, linols.
The story was told recently by Mr. J. E. Regan, warden of the prison. where 48 prisoners are in soiltary confinement, charged with publicity. In the plot.
Mr. Regan said that a number of "trustles" (privileged prisoners) delivered to each of the 12 watch-tower guards their usual locked lunch cans containing food and coffee-but the coffee had been drugged.
Eleven Ruards drank the liquid, and fell unconscious at their posts. A few minutes later ree convicted murderers dashed to the 30ft. prison wall and tried to scale it with an improvised fadder. But the 12th guard, who had given his coffee to a "trusty," saw the fugitives and tele- phoned to the other watch-towers, When he received no answer he sounded the general alarm, and the three prisoners were captured by other armed guards.
GERMAN KIDDIES
FED ON HITLERISM
so much as the foreign tourist. They
SAFT-22
Madame Tabouis, Noted French Writer, Says-
HITLER WAS DOOMED
BY VON RIBBENTROP
ALL FRANCE NOW
FEELS THAT HITLER
IS AT BAY. THIS FEEL- ING HAS BEEN GROW- ING EVER SINCE THE FAILURE OF RIBBEN- TROP'S SECOND VISIT TO MOSCOW.
It is realised that Hitler will be beaten because he has virtually no military re- serves to set against those
And even had Ribbentrop
of the Allies.
IT is difficult to gather a true, The Germans do not notice the de-been able to obtain for his picture of life in Germany to terioration in the quality of their food master a military alliance day, but here is a careful survey have got used to an utly sort of butter. With Russia, Hitler would compiled by an expert observer to bread like sawdust, to a chemical still have faced eventual over the three months preced-tuste in pastry, biscuits and sweets, defeat. But he could then ing the war,
A doctor reported that cancer was at least have attempted--| "Germany has now become prevalent among young people us u
with some chance of tempor- powerful enough to throw dirt result of eating chemical food. at the greatest Power in the bave had their effect in many cities.ary success-a large-scale world."
Food shortage and adulteration
In Hamburg, for instance, I was told offensive in the West.
Ribbentrop's failure is chiefly This was the comment of a young that anyone entering a shop will n
Fritz Thyssen, head of huge Ruhr steal combine, who fled from Germany to Switzerland. Wealthiest man in Germany, he formerly Was one of Hitler's teading supporters.
not give him the slightest satisfac- a superior to a subordinate. He did
Nazi Party leader with whom i dis-"Hell Hiller" was sure to get less responsible for the optimism on ever in the smallest deal.
cussed the European problem.
attention.
It was the undoubted effect of the One woman said that she could not campaign against British Imperialism go shopping with her husband be
that is spreading like wildfire throughout France, from the
a campaign conducted in ull coun-cause he were a Nazi badge. Invar-humblest farmhouse, the usually tries, and the most popular the Nazi ably she was told that there were Propaganda Department has staged eggs, margarine, potatoes, or coffee.
Austria too, it the time of my visit
for a long time.
Au
a shortage of It expining, Leo, much that is re- was suffering from garded as inexplicable in the Russo-essential foodstuffs. There was Germin pacts. The average German end to the grumbling in Vienna stores, felt that Moscow, like Berlin, seemed and in the market 1 was told of a
housewives revolt. to be able to snuff the British lon.
He might not favour the idea of Finding their shopping baskets he was empty after many hours' search for relations with Rush, but ready to agree that a war with the goods, they shouted: "Look at them! Western Powers would not be nearly Emply, thanks to our Fachrer." Ko unpopular 03 fighting against
·Russla
Police vans were sent along, and the_women.bundled into them. They
sceptical bourgeois circles, to the always anxious financiers, and, amazingly enough, to Parliamentarians.
Before Ribbentrop's last visit to Moscow, French political observers were almost certain that the Soviet would not give the Reich military
against the support
democracies, This they gathered from repeated visits which the Russian Ambassador matte to the Quai d'Orsay,
But proof of the Soviet's altitude German conversation in the Kremlia the night of September 27 Extraordinary precautions were taken guard the ancient that night to
War Does Not Stop Book Reading
looks of all kinds, whether for recreation or Information, continue in great demand in spite of war, According to Mr. W. C. Berwick Sayers, Chief Librarlon of Croy-
don,
In the last war. Mr. Suyers naints out in his annual report, the demand for books inercased the longer the conflict lasted.
inore
The reference library is sensitive 10 current events. Dur- ing the September crisis Inst year serius study a the Croydon Library practically ceased, but the mood passed quickly and was fol- lowed by a greatly increased Inter- est in technical and other informa- five books.
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For example, he refused to draw up a Busso-German protocol for the authorisation by Russia to Germany the area around Warsaw which is following to the flangkong Benevolent eventually to be a so-called ind- Society in mentors ning he event
to occupy milltarily for `come thine'
pendent territory.
BENEVOLENT SOCIETY The . C. M. Post has received
Whic. S. Gibson #3.
the
·EMERGENCY NEPUOKE COUNCIL
the REFUSED TO SIGN
The S. C. M. Port has received following donation to the Emergency He declared that documents were Refusce Council. Sympathisern $10, superfluous, and that in ony case
DONATIONS WAITING Russia would hand over to the Ger-
Donations for the following argonsino- mans in that region of Europe all fans avait collection at the office of the
South China Morning Part. Ltd. the territory which the Soviet would¦ Po Leung Kok, - Dog's Ilame, Talpo not need or any longer nected for Orphanage. Bucet Bleepers Society, Sal carrying out its international policy."vation Army. Emergency Refugee Cour.
Stalin and Molotov refused to sign
Mr. Ea Tond-ren any.defalie.convention with ac tung $1,000, Mr. Tal-King-kwan $20, Mr. Minister. Nor was Chon Tze-muk, 120, Mr. Leung Tio-he Ribbentrop able to reply regarding the military alliance, then NC. $2,000, and he was obliged to ask the Ger- man Ambassador to send a written question regarding this to the Soviet Fercign Commissar.
REFUGEE SCHOOLS
11,000. Sir Robert Bo-
Yet the fact remains that fear of were driven about 10 miles into the was not obtained i!l!~ the Russo- fteich Foreign in obtain a definite $20, Mr. So Li-ping $20, General Wu Te
overshadowed
every
other
country, pushed out Into the road, war problem.
and their money taken from them. During my tour of Germany 1 met Then the vans drove off, leaving only two people who were in favour the poor creatures to make their way of wor says Homeside reporter., homeward without a penny. Both, significantly, were well over milliary age.
E nationalisation of industry has One, a doctor, explained that con- produced some strange results in ditions were very favourable for Ger- Germany. It is not unusual for de-} many. America, he argued, was livery of new motor-cars to be made turning anti-Semitic. She would two years after the order had been make war ou England because Eng-placed. land was governed by the Jews. Nearly all German workers are tied "Then we shall use the opportunity to to settle our accounts." he added giec fully.
on
citadel of the Czars,
5-HOUR MONOLOGUE Captain Pieloukof, of the Ogpu,
Molotov, in his reply, sent a few was in charge of arrangements. hours later, emphasized that so lung the sky in- as the Democracies did no1 in (1 Searchlights swept
olicial text inform the Soviet Gov. cessantly.
Ribbentrop, accompanied by Count ernment that they intended to take: von Schulenberg, German Ambass-back White Russin and the Ukraine their Jobs. They cannot leave dor, arrived at 10 o'clock to begin in order to restore them to Poland,
future reconstructed by a without the consent of their employ- the heavy task with which he had ers and the labour exchanges. It been charged. The conversation" treaty, Moscow would observe strict
neutrality. they refuse to take work when and consisted mainly of a monologue by are Ribbentrop Insting nearly five hours, where it is offered them they
In the course of which he coldly able to six months' imprisonment.
One result of this forced labour is and severely criticised the Soviet berriro hnd ever received
Government for several Infringe- all be set out for without war. Why that production is slowed down, therefore, hould it be necessary to A visit to Austria revealed howments of agreements reached during diplomatie career.
deeply the people resent the Prussian his first visit.
BUT
•
DUT among the middle-aged and younger men there was no enthu- slaam. Hitler, they said, had gained,
fight, England now?
War
Ribbentrop pointed out that Stalin In striking contrast was the mill-rule. tary ardour and avid curiosity of the They lack the pride in Germany's had promised the Fuhrer he would younger generation. While they are power and greatness which all Ger- we only 25 Red divisions for the While the latter feel occupation of Poland, but the Ger- at school the children seem to be mans share. fairly keen Nazis, invariably their that, to some extent at least, they man forces had been faced by 104, thoughts turn to the
machine. have been released from the "shackles as well as by 18 of the best armoured Anything to do with mechanie-guns, of Versailles," the Austrians say that divisions in all Russia.
He pointed out also that the Soviet acroplanes, funks-arouTO their inthe shackles were fastened on them
in March, 1038, when Killer murched occupied much, more territory than terest.
had been agreed upon, and without The elder chlidren Idollso Hitler.on Vienna.
Footnote. There was a great lack previous notice. Then he handed One 18-year-old girl complained that
Molotov a voluminous if war broke out she would be un-of doctors in Vienna. I was told that Stalin and
on New Year's Night a number of bundle of memoranda and decreez
wished able to join up.
them to women and babies in the maternity which the Fuhrer ward died because the doctors were sign. druula
"Just think of it." she cried, "The Fuehrer will be in the front line, and I shall not be there to protect him with my own body,"
The exploits of German troops and airmen in the Spanish civil war, of which glowing descriptions appeared in the Nazi pres, failed to arouse
• among enthusiasm
Germa the people.
They had been told how Hitler hnd tricked the London Non-Intervention Commlites, and they gloated over the way in which Britain and France had been "done In."
But when the Condor Legion-pick- ed Nazi troops sent out to fight for Franco-returned home, their wel- come was more polite than enthusias- tic. What interest they had in that war had evaporated.
MONG close personal friends one heard many criticisms of Hitler and the Nazi regime.. A Journalist' closely associated with public affairs said that the Nazis would never Introduce a müder system of gover- ment or one which was prepared to give more personal Überty to the in- dividual;
She Danced In Her Pantry
Fifteen-year-old Betty Stewart, stownrd-room maid, was dancing in the service pantry at an hotel in the Isle of Wight when a visitor walking through the kitchen said: "How would you like to do that in cabaret?
The visitor was Captain W. H Scott, compere for the night of the hotel cabaret.
So later Belty appeared with professional artists in dresses she had made herself.
During her four months at the hotel she saw many famous dan- cers at the cabaret and in her spare time took dancing lessons, practising her act in the service pantry.
Y'S MEN'S SPEAKER
RIBBENTROP'S ARGUMENTS The documents included agree. ments renewing those previously concluded and new agreements for future industrial collaboration be- tween the two countrica, also numer- vas texts, all tending tacitly to make the Soviet consider herself more or bound to the lesa automatically
democracles In Reich against the case these refused the prace offer.
pence
HEAVIEST BLOW That was the heaviest blow Rib- In his
In view of the present Isolation of the Relch, this written reply from the Russlan Government to the German Ambassador must have sounded like a death knell to the Wilhelmstrasse. On his return to Berlin Ribbentrop the had a
violent dispute with Fuhrer, who held him responsible for the failure of his mission. Some people now hold that Ribbentrop's
twilight" has already begun,
In any case Hitler is now isplated und he can have no doubt about the real intentions of Stalin.
tho All the measures taken by Krumlin regarding the Baltic conn
that the Savlat han tries show acquired the necessary means of de- ferico on land and sea and in the air to prevent any German interference In that region.
Memei harbour even is now within Moreover. range of Russian guns. the Soviet has cut Germany out of the Black Sea, Rumunia, and the Balkans.
That is why the Fuhrer, who is in a state of great nervousness and great Hibbentrop pointed out that one of anxiety, signed a military decree come into force on the war aims of the democracies- which is to the reconstruction of Poland--was December 15, Just as much a menace to Russin os
This concerns the military occupa-
to the Relch, and therefore the tion of Poland, which is to be ensured Kremin was just as interested as the Wilhelmstrasse in crushing the democracies and ending the war as Eoon as possible.
PROPOSALS REJECTED. Stalin and Molotov presented the Russian case the next day. They re- fused, first, to entertain Hiller's plon to have peace negotiations started by Faris the Russian ambassadors in and London.
They rejected all Germany's pro- If the present tension eased, he said, the whole Nazi structure would Mr. Dang Kam-fal, leader of the posals for a joint German-Russian collepie. It would collapse anyhow YMCA, Service Unit at the Front, declaration, including strong threats unless the Nazis managed to score will relate some of his experiences to of a Soviet-Nazi alliance should the another.
viatory over Germany's tho Y's Men's Club at tifin on Thurs-democracies refect the peace offer.
Molotov spoke to Ribbentrop like day. enemies,
by an extraordinarily large German armoured force comprising two
regulor
infantry divisions, nine divisions, elight divisions now being trained, 23,000 S.S., 25.000 SA, two divisions for Danzig and the Corridor, The last named arc, i appears, to and 75,000 men of the Landsturm. "carry out the economie exploitation of Poland by the Reich,"
SPEAKER AT ROTARY Mr. Ellery Denison will be the speaker at to-morrow's meeting of the Rotary Club. llls subject is "Chinese Air Post".
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