DONALD DUCK
YOU'RE GOOD WHEN YA CAN MAKE A SHADOW PICTURE LIKE THIS ONE!
(Gong 1939, San Danny
Arriving at House of Commotus, Landmx, is Bir John Anderson, British Air Brid Procurious Minister. Like all Londoners he carries his
gay mask.
TORTURER OF GIRLS TO DIE
Cochran
THOMAS Cochran, who posed A few hours later
was to be secretly as a Hollywood talent scout arrested and had
moved to another prison to avoid in order to lure two girls to n Florida swamp, has been senary crowds seeking to lynch him,
tenced to die in the electric chair.
them.
17-years-old
The eccond girl, Joan Colton, a
night club dancer, he released.
Lynching Fears
£20,000,000 A Day
Additional war costs in losses of ropes cannot be computed at this property, arms and commercial re-
time.
The war cost estimate may be too high while on the other hand the She arrived hysterical and in a costs may rise further it and when state of collapse at a neighbouring wholesale destruction of men, guns,
fortifications and ships begius, village and gave the aların.
Thursday,
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UNCA DONALD
December 7, 1939.
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Plane Landed Crew, Sank Ship, Then Dodged
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DINGLE (Co. Kerry).-Before landing a Greek crew on the coast of Eire, the German submarine commander who sank their steamer, the Diamantis, told the sailors that he knew the exact time the ship left her South African port, her speed, the nature of her cargo and its destination.
Prisoners
Questioned
The Diamantis. (4,090 tons), smail German bont made seven PARIS-Two fair-haired was sunk 60 miles south of journeys between the submarine and Land's End. After 30 hours the shore. Each time the same Ger- young German airmen were
man sailor dild the rowing.
taken before the Deuxieme aboard the submarine, which "As cach party arrived I sent them Bureau (Intelligence) offi dived on the appearance of a back to the farm with a boy and a British plane, the crew of 28 gulde
cers at a French Army head- Bridgel's sister, said! were landed on the rocks at when Thomas brought the captain quarters one day recently. Ballymore, a village three miles and three sailors to the farm I asked west of Dingle, on the south- them if they would like a nice hot west coast of Eire.
cup of tea and some coke and bread The submarine came within 40 and butter. yards of the rocks. Then the Ger- mans lowered a small boat and fouri
rowed to the rocks.
"Old Irish Custom" "The captain said they would love
Their big black Messerschmitt plano was one of the 12 brought down by French fighters in the biggest air battle of the war. and they were taken prisoner
members of the Greek crew were 11, and in about half an hour the after jumping in parachutes whole crew of 28" were packed in the from 15,000ft. Now they were They landed, and the litle boat living room.
facing the usual interrogation. pulled back to the submarine and "Some of them said they were The first to enter the simply fur- repeated the process seven times. sorry to leave the submarine.
nished question room was obviously until all the Greeks were miely "When they left those who could nervous. ashore.
speak English sald they would never Polat by point, the French officer These operations were watched by forget how find we had been. We dealt with his military career and Irish then said to him: “You fought in about 30 villagers, who had been cald hospitality was an old
Poland, didn't you?". attracted by the sight of a strange custom. craft entering the harbour.
י
Superintendent O'Leary
saki
The young officer blushed a deep Just after the last of the Greek that as soon as he heard about the red and nodded his head. He did not crew had been landed, Superinten- submarine he and a party of Civle seem anxious to admit that he had dent O'Leary, a sergeant and two Guards rushed by car to the scene. laken part in a campaign such as that civic guards arrived on the scene, in "When we arrived," he said, "the carried out by the German Air Force time to see the submarine go slowly submarine was slowly leaving. It in Poland. out of the harbour, until it was disappeared in the mist." enveloped in 'mist.
Waved Farewell
"The Greek crew," he said, "waved to the crew of the submarine before it left, and the submarine crew! waved back."
Members of the crew described
Dublin.
Greece. They called;
HITLER'S DILEMMA UNDER PRESSURE
(Continued from Page 4.)
years,
Refused To Spoak
Then a sergeant-major brought up voice-recording, apparatus and handed the prisoner a microphone,
He refused to speak into it until it was explained to him that his state-; ment would make it possible to con-i vey, the fact that he was solo to his family in Germany. Then he quickly teok the microphone.
Cochran was convicted at Miami,
how the submarine came alongside potent factor which compels Hitler
Next came a young sub-lieutenant. Florida, of the nurder of one of the
and the commander ordered them to to seek by all means to stop the war. girls, Ruth Dunn, a
take to their boats. They attempted here are others, both external and Unlike the first prisoner, his face re-
internal.
vealed no anxiety. Smilingly he ac WASHINGTON. to do so, but one of their two boats!!
cepted a chair which was offered him. dancer,-whom he-bound-naked.to_a
Europe's present war is costing the was smashed against the side of their YNDER the Italo-German military After doing manual work of dit- tree and stabbed to death,
British-French-Gerinan belligerents vessel.
alliance of last March Italy ferent kinds I joined the German Air Saying he wanted to give the two possibly £20,000,000 daily in current When they were all safely aboard! arls à Alm test, Cochran lured them cash outlay alone. The gure is the submarine their own vessel was acquired the right to be consulted Force," he said. "I have been an by Germany on future operations to officer in the Air Force for six years, to a lonely cottage.
neither offcial nor exact but merely sunk.
On arrival in Dublin on their way be undertaken by the Axis. Though I have done more than 1,000 nying There he forced the girls to strip, an estimate made here to-day from
to London, Captain Pungas and his late in the day, she managed to as-hours"
The French officer began discussing| bound them to trees, and tortured the best available information.
crew found waiting to treet themsert this right in July,
Wearted and exhausted by two certain military matters, but the which by a coincidence is at present campaigns, within the past heut able to reply to these questions."
four officer replied: "I'm sorry, I am un- sailors of the sister ship Pantelis,
lying in the port
the means for embarking on He was at a loss to explain Hitler's Both crews came from the port of nor
fresh adventures. Nor could she reason for fighting. He could not Oinoussai In
to fight Poland when he could have' out Christian names, embracing and identify herself with a campaign explain why his Fuchrer had decided against a friendly country, pre- clasing as they met.
dominantly Catholic. In pursult of achieved convincing results by main- Dodged Plane
purely German objectives. Her teloing pence.
Italian objections,
After he had made a statement into In excited voices the crew of the brushed aside all
the Axis the microphone he bowed to the suniten steamer told of other experi-demanding support for
His call was disregarded. Again, French officer and said: "I thank They said that after the ship had recently he called for a demonstrn- sunk, and while the submarine was tion of Axis solidarity by the propo
has divided the country still on the surface, a Belilsh plane sal, or public support, of "a pence hellef
these dissident appeared and the submarine dived plan," and was, it is said, politely against itself. To
but firmly informed that there could elements within the frontiers of the Immediately.
Fletch proper Hitler has now added She did not again come to thelbe no such demonstration.
The
unti-Communist Axis had great. blocks of population in Aus- surface until she appeared of the
been shattered by its own chief, triu, Czechoslovakia and Poland.. Irish const.
Considerable armies, both military Captain Panagos said of the U-bont architect.
Even Cen. Franco's known ad- and. police, must be subtracted from commander and his crew;
"When they ate we ate, and what miration for Germany was profound, the German military striking force they had they gave us. We got plenty ly shaken by the new alignment of to prevent insurrection in many of of cheese, mille and dgarettes. Some Nazi policy. Since Portugal is pur- these areas..
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of the crew had got their clothes wet, suing a policy of neutrality in com- Hitter boosts that he confronts the plete agreement with her old ally, world with $2,000,000. Germans. and they were bunks to in while their clothes were drying, Britain, Germany can look for no When the Central Povera went to wur in 1014. their populations ex- "Very young, very nico," was the further help from the Peninsula.
On her frontiers which march corded 90,000,000. Behind them tribute to the
commander submarine paid by another member of the crew with neutral States Germany is con- was a record of plenty and prosperi- fronted by considerable armies, all ty. Their armies were trained from who talked broken English
It is authoritatively learned in intent on defending their neutrality. top to bottom. Their equipment Dublin that the, incursion
of the Where, then, is the impressive vic- was of the finest material. Yet they nan submarine into Irish ter-tory to be won?
German
were defeated.
ritorial waters, being exclusively for
Hitler told the ship-So far Hitler has falled to secure N. Jon.. 30 last the purpose of Innding a
those additional sources of wood Felcastog that, Germany must wrecked erew, is not in contraven- tion of international law and usage, and wheat, oil and fron which he so export or die.. How are these ex- urgently needs. In these circum- ports to be maintained during war, Girls - Helped
stances it is understandable that the and where are the countries, ready feel to accept German manufactured The Greek allers will long remem- Scandinavian countries should ber the kindness of two Irish giris, that the predatory German eye has goods whose quality, even before Bridget Cleary (25) and her sister, been turned upon them; may even war broke out, had so deteriorated
have
wondered whether Germany as to be losing Germany her max- Eileen (27), of Coursham Farmhouse, was not seeking to pick a quarrel kels all over the world? Ballymore.
How is she now to replace the Bridget said: "My brother Owen with them. From the development rushed in to say that there was a of events in Scandinavia it should be worn-out capital equipment in the submarine in Ventry Harbour. possible. to judge more accurately factories from which these inferior "With Thomas, another brother, how far there exists between Berlin products were being turned out? ron across the folds and climbed and Moscow any agreement to work The problem becomes increasingly
In concert for exploitation of neu- serious for her, m down to the rocks.
"The submarine was only a little tral States. Dut, here agalis Hitler All expert opinion, both military doubts when he and economie, in Germany has long way out, and as we arrived a small must have grave.
the role of his new been agreed that the Germany of boat containing. Ove men was np-contemplates
partner.
to-day could not face a long war. proaching the rock.
Finally, he must take into account Can she win a short one? That "One of the men threw.......n. Trope.
we the state of affairs on the home must be the first burning question Owen caught it, and together
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