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December 13, 1939,
Camouflage Hides Batteries from The Germans
HIDDEN
REPLY TO NEW NAZI CANARD
Germans Detained In British Prison
Allegations made by the German radlo that certain Nazis who, it was elained, were consular offelals, bud been ill-trented in a Scottish prison cant, were refuted and described as absolutely untrue" in official quar- ters in London
1 recently..
The people concerned were Hørr Lieliski, Herr Apfelstact, and Frau- lein Wagner, all of whom lived in Glasgow. They were known to the བས་་་
FRONT BRISTLES GUNS: MEN ALL
WOMEN WILL BEAR ARMS
-Says Judge
secking
TACOMA. - Women United States citizenship were in- structed by Federal. Judge Lloyd Black that in event of war they "would have to bear
Just like men."
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Conducting a citizenship exami- nation, Judge Black sald:
"In Bie past, when women have been asked if they would take up arms, many of them have said they would mainly because they felt there was not the slightest chance they would ever have to do such a thing. Times have suddenly changed."
nuthorities in London to be notori Hitler's Film Star ously active members of the Nazi
parly, and a day or two before the war it was considered by the authorl- ties that it was necessary in the publle Interests that they should be It was not placed under detention. then known that there was any claim that these three people were consular officials. The Foreign Of flee had not been notified that they had consular status.
Friend Arrested
Cure
WITH That SORE
THROAT READY
By DOUGLAS WILLIAMS,
"Daily Telegraph" Special War Correspondent
With the B.E.F. in Franco
There are plenty of guns along the British front, but so cleverly are they hidden in barns, villages, and fields that the passer-by gets no hint of their presence.
None has yet been fired, except one that went off accidentally the other day, to the great humiliation of the battery concerned.
But if and when it becomes needed there is artillery in sufficiency to support|
and protect the troops at munitioned. Officers and men alike. present manning the front trained and cager for the chance to {ali regulars, -are keen and highly line positions.
register their pieces.
Cheerful Londonars
The mud of the last few days; resulting from the heavy rains
of the new. 25 pars, there are a has to some extent slowed down great many batteries, many of them the process of getting the guns between the old.18 pdr. and a light manned by ex-Territorials. A cross
into position, but excellent pro- howitzer, it fires at a rapid rate and gress has been made and the with extreme necuracy, The range tractors and four-wheel drive is far superior to the 18 pdr., which
lorries used to haul artillery it has supplanted. It is light and have proved fully capable of early handled. standing up to the mud of
The authorities therefore decided to take measures under the Allens Order. which enables the Home Secretary, to
She is an old member of the Nazi days with far more technical know-hunds. issuc
n deportation party and has been described as one, ledge than won the case In the last order against any alien if it is con- of the few women
possess Hiller's War. sidered desirable. The three people confidence. Once she said that she
Camouflage nels, many of them I were taken to remand prison, "grew up with the party leaders in understand woven by Scotch fisher where they were treated as remand their great ideals."
girls, are of excellent quality and prisoners that
afford fine protection. ns prisoners) awaiting trial. The German wire-
Leni Riefenstahl, the German Alm star and friend of Hitler, has been
One such battery which i visited arrested by the Gestapo, mys B.U.P.,
to-day was engaged in preparing gun Flanders. quoting n Paris wireless report.
The art of camouflage has im and only a few
pits. The men were all. Londoners, Hitler to produce the official Alm of years, and factors of colouring geo-suits as clerics, as arsenal
Fraulein Riefenstahl was chosen by proved a great deal in the last 20 were engaged in their peacetime pur- weeks ago many
In Germany in 1830. the Olympic Games which took place graphical background and light and as gas company employees, as factory workers, shade are taken into account nowA-
Kuns
Already, though after little more than a fortnight at the front, they have, it seemed to ine, acquired the poise of old soldiers. Each gun de tachment, led by its sergeant, pushed and pulled with cheerfulness and vast One heavy battery with long-range energy as they dragged the two-tor less alleged that while they were in that Dr. Werner Gregor, the German Euns which I visited to-day was pleces through the baggy soil into this prison they were subjected to Consul in Glasgow, left the city two houses, but so well were the
scattered around a group Indignities, and had to wear prison months before the outbreak of war, conected that it was not until I was they will fire..
of farm the gravel, surface pits from which clothing and work like convicts, "The excuse given for his departure,"
These allegations, it was stated sald Mr. Dofian, "was that he was almost on top of them that their pre- The former, o fine old' man of 70, yesterday, were absolutely untrue. returning to complete his
vence became noticeable.
was giving a helping hand at the military In fact, service, but many of us suspectedure of the village was going on as The three persons were,
Around the battery the ordinary wheel. His farm, he told
me, had! given every possible consideration. that he was
mess been a German officera'
all going back with A Germany made representations to dossier of Information
usual. Form carts laden with crops through the last war and his son had regarding the effect that they possessed con-commercial and industrial activities caked in and out of the courtyard, been killed fighting with the French sular status of some kind. The For-In Glasgow and the West of Scot- while dogs and children played with army in Verdun. elgn Ofee looked into the matter, Innd.
the gunners or accepted scraps from and, although the German contention
midday meal. was never accepted, the three Ger- runns were released from prison. All three, it is understood, have now re- turned to Germany.
A Suspect Consul Commenting on the allegations, Lord Provost. Dollan said recently
Give a
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In Fino Fottle Some guns were placed in orchards,
"Dr. Gregor," added the Lord Provost, "ran at least three classes It may become necessary to evacuate But when the battery starts to fre for the presumed study of the Ger- some of the local residents lest the other one digging ha all chou~ man language, but really for Nazi force of the explosion damage sur-laged. Much digging has been neces- propaganda, and he was probably rounding buildings or break glasssary to get rid of the rainwater, and the only consul in the city who con- windows.
in some cases funners worked in travened the diplomatic rules by Of the heavy artillery it is perhaps Vests and trousers droining trenches engaging in selive politicnt pro-wise to say little except that It and emptying sumpholes. paganda."
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successful achievement.
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The gunners with the British Ex- peditionary force are in fine feltle.
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