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February 2, 1940.
10 Midgets HITLER'S NEW STEP:
TWO CAN ENCIRCLE
Are "War Widows"
ROME.
BERTHE SCHANITZ, who did not even reach up to my first waistcoat button, tearfully told me to-day one of the sad- dest sugas of the war, sауж· correspondent.
She and nine other midgets lave- been widowed "for the duration" by the doubtful zeal of n French control ofcer, who boarded the Atlantic liner Saturnia, bound from New York to Genoa.
All on board passed muster except) the midgets, who were returning from the World's Fair to Germany,
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"We pleaded with the officers, but they took our men," Berthe told me.
What do they think my Helmut He could not lift a pistol, can do? let alone a rifle,"
"It is a terrible thing being alone, when there ure so few of you in the world, When a midget falls in love and gels married it's the reullest thing," she added wistfully,
Berthe's sister, who is na inch shorter, complained: "We asked them to Intern un, too, as we would be neur our men, but they just wouldn't. "We are going to write to the French midgets about it-we have n sort of International freemasonry nok you see and got them to Daladier to let us go to them, or let them join us."
Red Cross Asked
Berthe, who was sitting on her trunk, just a little bit larger than an attacha case, asked me when the war was going to end.
"None of un Germana wants it, can tell you. We like England."
The nine tiny ladies do not mean
to be separated from their men with- out a fight.
They are appealing to the Inter- national Red Cross to evacuate their husbands.
PLAY-
ISTANBUL.
TURKEY La to appoint Press Attache at her Embassy in Berlin.
The appointment is a reply to propaganda by the German Em- bassy in Ankara.
For some time the Germans have been distributing leafinis in Turkey..
A Turkish spokesman said that the appointment might be regard- ed as a reprisal.
SOVIET ALLY
ISTANBUL
GERMANY'S brazenness in denying her arms de- liveries to Finland is astounding diplomats in Turkey, in view of the evidence daily accumulating here of her Intrigues against her Soviet "ally."
My disclosure of the German agreement to fortify the Iranian (Persian) frontier with Russia has just re- ceived fresh confirmation, says a correspondent.
A second party of German engineers has passed through
Istanbul on its way to Iran.
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Germany's newest base of attack against Russin, however, is Bulgaria, the "ndd man out" of the Balkan States.
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which Turkey originally ordered, but refused to take when payment was
And have You foundl required in Turkish chromium ore. out anything new?
Spy: The
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wife
the cremy light machine-guns, which had been General is wearing a wonderful new already boxed for delivery to Tur-evening dress.
- Settebello. key, were hastily redirected to Bul- garia.
I understand that they have just arrived in Sofia..
Papen In Peril
So Germany Is, bit by bit. com- pleting her encirclement of Russia,
But in extremely doubtful whe- ther Herr von Papen, the driving force behind Qre campaign, will be allowed to carry it to a conclusion.
It in not simply that Turkey is revolting against the German Em- bassy's clumsy anti-Turkish propa- ganda.
Papen, the arch-intriguer, is now himself the victim of private intrigue
He warned Hitler of Britain's awakening
NAZIS MUST END WAR THIS YEAR
THE whole Nazi conduct of the war is now dominated by the idea that it must be ended this year,
As to how It is to be ended there is division of opinion.
Ono school, still dominant, believes in the possibility of a military victory in the spring and
summer,
THE HAIG
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TWINS
The other, perhapa slightly in- creasing, thinks of stalemate and a negotiated pente,
Both agrea in busing all policy: on short-term calculations,
Significant
The Immediate and
desperately urgent problem is to counter the effect of the blockade.
The mensures taken are exceeding ly significant.
Absent From Their ing at once into the struggle practi-
Own 21st Party
For they consist largely in throw- cally the whole of the Reich's avail- able economic reserves.
In particular "German Foland“ and the two "Protectorates" are be-
DAVID and Douglas Crook, of Uverdale-road,dered of machinery, of metals, of Chelsea, SW, twin sol- diers, serving in the same regiment "somewhere in England," had arranged to attend their twenty- first birthday party at home.
ing systematically and swiftly plun-
timber, of stocks of raw material, of everything that can be transported to Germany and used, for her war economy.
The significance of that is that you can do it once, but not twice.
The Germans are killing their con- quest-cowe, not mliking them.
A Gamble
By this Ume next year the Reich At the last moment their will be able to draw exceedingly leave was cancelled, and their little from the conquered countries. sixty-year-old mother, sixty- five-year-old father, their brides- that. If they use their plunder to-be and twenty guests were ¡all disappointed.
Douglas and David were born la week after the Armistice In 1918, and were named after Earl Haig, and Earl Beatty.
It is a gamble. The Nazis reckon
swiftly and recklessly, they may win the war or force a favourable draw.
They are staking their capital on the chance.
And if they are to avert ruin they must have the war over by the end of next year.
That means that we may be faced in spring and summer with some very desperate moves.
New German Planes For the stringenty will be worse
Better
By An Ale Correspondent
and the time available will be get- ting very short
Foods or in '
Germany's other method of coun- It is being hatched in the German
tering the blockade is to bully as community here, and its principal
AT the end of July, when
many of her neighbours as possible GERMAN warplanes are becoming into supplying her with goods on figure is said to be Frau Jenke, sister he was preparing to invade an increasingly tough proposition. credit, since she can no longer pay of Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop. Poland, Hitler received a long Britain's air defenders are meeting suficiently either in
Her motive is alleged to be the
letter.
with more difficulties then they ex-currency, desire to start her husband in a diplomatic career.
It was a waming from a man who,pected in bringing them down.
Already she is in debt on clearing Nevertheless, when Germany starts accounts to most of her neighbours. And she is alleged to be using all in the last five years, had done much her much-heralded "total" air war, her influence with her brother to to get Britain rearmed in the air. the R.A.F. is satisfied that it can stop made to most of them quite frankly But the suggestion is now being have Papen ousted as Ambassador to This is news in 1014 the divisions one would indict on the enemy, and neutral they had better let Ger- it in a short time by the casualties that they want to stay peaceful Turkey in Herr Jenke's favour.
£180 For
Fatal Mosquito Bite
IF a seaman is bitten by a mosquito while on a voyage
the letter ended;.
"Just as
home political questions disappear. ed in the twinkling of an eye, to now all the juvenile antles-de- signed to shock the elders such as resolutions not to fight for King and Country, have been instantly forgotten.
That message was sent by Lord Rothermere. Ho tells the story in
"My Fight to Renrin Britain" (Eyre
and Spotswoode, 5s.),
The British. Breed.
This would not be done before many run up a few more bad debts, the civil population of Britain had or sell suffered extensive casualties, and prices. losses in industrial output, as sult of the raids,
Self-Scaling Tank Self-satisfaction with the present
to her
tow at artificially
Better lose a few million pounds than be invaded, is the argument now being used.
And it is proving not unper- zuasive.
immunity from air attack is regarded ported, is being subjected to strong Even Italy, as I have already re- as the greatest danger the country pressure, says a correspondent. has-to-faco-as-far-as-the air-la-LON~
cerned.
All through July Lord Rothermere was writing and telegraphing to von Ribbentrop, Hess (Hiller's deputy) and Weidemann (Hitler's adjutant). strain every
Referring to
to his final letter to Hitler, Lord Rothermere says:-
It is held to be essential that we nerve to keep the technical advantages we now have.
These advantages are being main-
"One of the results of German" re- presentations in Rome is a marked and rapid decline in open expression of Italian sympathy for Finland,
There is no more talk of scores of Italian aeroplanes, in, or on their way to Finland.
Indeed, it is now officially declared that there are none at all there...or,
"I have no means of knowing tainn, but the Germans also are im whether or not Herr Hitler absorbed proving their innchines,
One of the German Improvements til pic, as with Herr von Ribben is a self-sealing petrol tank, which this picture of the British breed, but and dies of yellow fever, is trop, I had done my best to 'dispal will close up after being holed by on their way, in parts, before the that an accident within the any ilusions as to Britain's deter-large numbers of bullets.
Although a German machine may meaning of the Workmen's mination to resist further aggression, be badly shot up over Britain, it can picco Compensation Act?
Yes, declared the Law Lords in a judgment,
Their answer means that Mrs. Isabella Craig, of South Shields, will get £180 compensation, with costs, In respect of the death of her son.
When the case was heard in the judge decided county court the against the claim,
With
With the aid of the National Union of Seamen the carc was taken to the Court of Appent, which reverted that judgment.
Against this award the employers, the Dover Navigation Co., appealed
to the House of Lords.
Employment Risk
In view of the importance of the issue, the Trades Union Congress Fave Its hacking to the union in Sighting the case in this final tribunal.
by force if necessary!"
DODGED SOVIET BOMBERS
COPENHAGEN. MME, SANDLER, wife of the Swedish Foreign Minister, had to dodge Soviet bombers when she flew to Aabo, Finland..
While her plane was crossing the Gulf of Bothnia a report was re- calved that Aabo was being bombed{ by Russian war-planes.
at the most, two, which were well Northern war began.
Whether the whole story was a pices of bombast or n "snow-on-
make its escape at least out to sea their-boots rumour, or whether the before shortage of petrol brings it planes are really here, but are to be duwn. A German machine at the hushed up for diplomatic reasons, is bottom of the sea takes its secrets an enigma to which, as yet, I do not down with it.
know the answer,
They
Plan To
Split Reich
By Willi
Frischauer
GESTAPO agents and S.S. Black, pass the memorial omitting: the Nazi
sent to Munich following reports that Only a small percentage of the
The county court Judge had held The plane returned to Sweden, but; that the risk of bile from a yellow Mme. Sandler was able to completa Guards in large numbers have been salute debantly. fever mosquito was common, to all the journey some hours later. Inhabitants in West Africa (where She had gone to Finland as a Bavarian Catholles were planning to Munich population belongs to Class the seaman was bitten), and was not leader of Sweden's. Finish Aid one that arose directly from the sea-Committee. man's employment.
Her husband is not included in the new Sweden Coalition Cabinet.
realise an old political dream.
of
It is none other than the splitting Germany Into a northern Protest- ant and a southern Catholle part.
The Protestant block, under the plan, would include Prussia and Saxony, Bavaria, Wurtemberg, Baden and Austria would form units in the
Оле.
NAZI authorities in the evacuated areas of Western Germany are wor- Lord Aikin held recently, how-
fried about the increasing number of ever, that this particular risk of in-
I leam that he resigned because he quiry was inherent in the nature of, wants more active help for Finland
burglaries from evacuated houses.
The recent lull has brought many the employment.
than Premier Hansson is prepared
evacuees home for a feur days to to give.
sallle their affairs, -as they were The Finnish Trade Union Council Catholle block,
originally rubed away at a few It seemed to him Irrelevant that sent a message of encouragement to
IN Munich some of the Gestapo hours' notice, other persons were exposed to the the Finnish trade union organisation,
agents took. up
the posts near
Hundreds of evacuees have foursă samo riak.
memorial to victims of the November, their houses ransacked MESSAGE TO MAORIS 1023, Hitter putsch, in order to test The local authorities have
Irrofovant
He found it difficult to conceive a
risis more truly arising out of the employment than the rink incurred
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the Nazi sentiments of the popula-affirmed the death penalty for plur
dering, but hardly any of the lealers by scamen who were sent to work in Pope's Broadcast to New tlon.
They discovered that many of have been caught. Zealand for Congress Munich's inhabitants avoid passing the memorial, and prefer walking London, Feb. 1.
narrow street which a The Pope, speaking from his study through a
a fover-infested place obrond.
Lord Maugham, Lord Wright and Lord Russell agreed that the appeal should be dismissed and compensa- tion be payablo.
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In the Vatican, broadcast a messago local wit has christenul "Dodger's
This enables them to avoid giving
to Roman Catholica attending the Road." Eucharistic Congress at Wellington
on the occasion of the centenary the memorial the Nazi malute, celebration of New Zealand.
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Holiness rent, a special message to
Thirty-Four Words Of Comfort
Thou shalt not be afraid for
THE Gestapo observers have now the terror by night; nor for the the Maoris, wishing them God's classified the poople of Munich in arrow that dieth by day; hig . Nor for the pestilence that pence in their common to and de-four classes on this basis. liverance from confilet.
Class Ono greet the memorial with Pontificial High Mass was cele an enthusiastic Nazi salute. Class Waiketh in darkness; nor for brated this morning in the grounds Two raise their hands in a dutifs the destruction that wasteth at
walkthrough noonday, of St. Patrick's College; Wellington Alpy Class-Three
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