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Allied I am prisoner
Watch Om Syria
By RALPH HEINZEN (UNITED PRESS STAFF
CORRESPONDENT) PARIS, (UP).-By Air Ex-¡ press The
Allies, primarily
under French initiative, are re- ported to have established a "pool" of powerful reserve mili- tary forces in Syria which they hope will be sufficiently impres sive to maintain the status quo in the Near East without being: called into action.
Although the European con- flict has not spread to this area, Allied officers emphasize its importance. The strategic French mandated Syrin, at the
im castle: wild boars guard
Daily Express Staff Reporter
me
THE parents of a young naval airman who had mourned him as dead for nearly two months have just heard that he was captured by a U-boat he tried to bomb, and kept prisoner
on board the U-boat for a fortnight. He is now in a German castle, and he writes from there: "The castle moat is filled with wild boars to pre- vent prisoners escaping.
"I went out in my machine to look for a submarine which was supposed to have sunk one of our merchant ships. I could not find it, so started back.
"My observer suddenly shout- ed, "There's a merchant ship on the horizon. Let's look at it. When we were almost on it my chap said, 'Go low so that I can see its name."
"So I went to sen level and slowed down. Just as I got alongside I spotted the submarine, on the for side of the ship.
THIS JOKE IS NO-CHICKEN
LONDON.We were billeted in a
[cottage.
One day the sergeant passed and looked in.
"Nice smell in here, my lads" said he, "What is it?"
Roast chicken sir."
"Roast chicken and where on earth did you get it I'd like to usk."
"Well, you see sir it just walked inere and gave itself u1**
Petsamo
In
BEWARE
OF THE
000MAN
Man Bites Dog
"WHEN a dog bites a man. that's nothing, but when a man biles a dog. that's NEWS," is a newspaper adage.
So 47-year-old Terence O'ital- foran, with whom this story, is concerned, 1x 10 certainly
news.
Terence belongs to Newcastle. New South Wales. He told of his exploit when he sought treat- ment for a bite on the leg.
#1 was going Infb a house when the dog blt me," he said.
"I caught it and bit half its ear of I wanted to show it that I could bite, too."
Many
Taken Wars
CAPTAIN TELLS OF LINER LOSS Officer Collapses As Sees Saved Wife
IN the lounge of the London hotel which has already seen the tragedy of the Simon Bolivar I witnessed a scene which epitomised the whole cowardly brutality of Hitler's war, says a Homeside Reporter,
The first to enter the lounge at the head of the 27 passengers from the 12,000-ton crack Japanese liner Terukuni Maru, blown up off the East Coast when within three hours of safety after a 60-day voyage, came Mra, K. Swailes, of Hongkong.
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Her husband, a British naval offleer, had been waiting many hours) for news.
His face lit up Incredulously as he saw his wife standing there unbarm- ed, and he flung his arms round her with a cry:Thank God! Thank God!"
Mrs. Swailes, almost supporting her husband, patted his shoulder like
mother with a hurt child.
Captain's Story
AMERICAN OPINION
Newspapers Allege Norway Guilty
New York, Feb. 10. The failure of the Bergen officials
to discover or even suspect the pre- sence of more than 300 prisoners who declared they had howled, yelled and beaten on the hatch covers seems in- credible, declares the New York Times.
The Herald-Tribune states that it zeemu the Norweglan authorities fall- ed in their duty of defending their
presence of the prisoners.----Reuter Bulletin.
HITLER AN neutrality when they overlooked the
“EXALTED"
MYSTIC
PARIS
an
Severo Criticism.
New York, Feb. 10. The New York Times says that severe criticism of Norway for having failed to determine the true status of the Altmark is voiced by three American authorities on international
Mr. Frederic Coudert, who was
that Britain is
Embassy.
belleves
Mr. James Gerard, American Am-.
eastern end of the Mediterrane- an, could serve as a base for milltary actions which might bts necessary to preserve Allled control of the Suez Canal. It also could serve as a bare, for possible actions in the Balkans or for movements to protect Allied colonial Interesis.
Therefore,
thousands of muny
WASHINGTON, (UP).-News dispatches from the have been a dating one because I group avowedly determined to rid mans
taken off the prisoners. The Ger- Troops have been concentrated into a
Arctic war front describing, the battle between the Rus-watch for such things. most powerful colonini army in this area. The French hope that this dis-
"Up I went, but the U-boat had sians and the Finns recall the turbulent history of the play of forca
and knowledge that already got half-submerged, leaving main point of conflict-the Petsamo seaport. These troops are ready to move on a me no-time to get to a safe height minute'n notice will preserve peace to bomb from. So I took a chance in southeastern Europe and the Neer and bombed from a low height in East.
order to hit.
"My first bomb missed by about twenty feet and
hit the sea at 200 m.p.h. at a sleep dive. I went straight down without stopping.
(UP). — Describing "There, there!" she said softly. Adolf Hitler as exalted "I'm quite all right."
mystic and a "bloodthirsty som law. She had been in Chinu for 24 nambulist," subject to attacks of years and he was waiting to meet hysteria, Otto Strasser, writing formerly legal adviser to the British her when he heard that the great in the newspaper "Le Journal," ship had been blown up.
recounted the carly days of the entirely justified because Norway was Socialist-Patriot Party which clearly guilty of an altogether un- Captain B. Matukura, master of the turned into the Nazi organiza-neutral act in permitting the Altmark liner, told me his story while still|lion.
to harbour British prisoners in her waters. wearing his thick seaman's coat with a furned collar and his binoculars Stresser was a close friend of Hitler dangling round his neck.
during the carly days of the party, basandor to Germany before the "We had been cleared from the but withdrew later and became an United States entered the last war, British contraband control and had
the Norwegian !sbid At
Government taken on the pilot. It was lunch time arch-enemy of the Fuchrer.
should have inspected the vessel and when we struck the mine. It must present he is an exile, heading' a
had no more right to take had five men posted forward to Germany of Hitler and Nazism, prisoners through Norwegian waters than to take them by train from New "The concussion sent the ship high "The publicity Hitler gave me on York to San Francisco, back again, rolling slightly, and began last month, proves how little he really Mr. James Ryan, Chairman of the The seaport, less than 20 miles
"British warships appeared from knows the mentality of the German mittee on protecting American pro-, from the present border of the everywhere, but I had had eight of people," "Strasser wrote,
Bomb By Gestapo portant in the current struggle, into the engine room minutes from was put in the beer cellar by the "For if it is certain that the bomb as it is ice-free the year round, "It was less than 45
New Army Camps
Early in the war, France started moving to Syrla troops which could be spared from north African colonial camps and other African de- fence positibns. Almost overnight great, - now modem army camps sprang up in the sands of Syria.
One of France's most able generals -and-na-expert-on-Near-Eastern strategy, Gen. Maxine Weygand, who now is retired from active ser- vier at 72. supervised creation of this troop pool.
restrictions
Took A Chance
"I tried to get out of the cock- pit, but was jammed in with u stuck roof. When I was almost out of breath I managed to prenk free and come to the surface.
GLASS
NEW
TO BEAT BOMBERS
-STOCKHOLM.
are
out of the water. Then she settled the occasion of the Munich bombing
to settle on the starboard side.
Russian Kola Peninsula, is im- reached me. The water was pouring the eboats lowered before they
·
between
called
"cominon
.American Bar Association's com-
perty in foreign countries and the, high scns, declared that it was the duty of Norway to determine the true. the vessel to proceed in ons decable status of the Allmark before allowing. He thought there was considerable
upon
while harbours, as far as 1,000 the first shock of the explosion to, Gestapo, and if persons outside Ger- miles to the south are frozen when the ship went down. By that many regard the explosion as simply justification for the British action. over for several months.
time the whole of the ship's company another Reichstag outrage, then the
The Washington · correspondent of 177 crew, 27 passengers and the thought that 'Otto and his Black Front The National Geographic Society pilot-were safe away from her
are active must come as a ray of the. New York Times says that per- "My observer must have been
Texplains that the Gulf Stream flow- Only three passengers were slightlyaspe to thousands of German carts.sons in Washington familiar with the -killed-at-once. I never saw him
Ing nearby is the cause of warm air. injured and a few of-the-crew-The "In fact, for Hitlerio pronatined opinion privately that Britain had Hague Convention expressed the again. I looked for him. but with SWEDEN'S wood pulp and centuries
The region has been contested for passengers were cut about the face my name shows: he still does not tenable grounds in international law no luck
cellulose industry
Flans, Swedes, by plates leaping from the dining realize what it implies, that he does to support her. now Norwegians and Russions. "I then found I was nearly a mile carrying out intensive research is ownership has been so confused
At times tables. away from the merchant ship, in
Her Souvenir
sot yet comprehend the strength' of
State Department circles feel that our revolutionary organization or of Censorship
very cold water, with flying clothes to provide a transparent sub-that it was once prevent on and not a little knocked about stitute for glass which will be taxes to as many as three govern-youngest passenger, stepped on the he ring of iron they are forming that the outcome of the controversy
land" and inhabitants were paying mention of specific units and places. Somehow I got there, and clambered sufficiently elastic to resist blustments.
When 13-year-old Jean Marks, the the hote which the first genuine comment is Inadvisable but unometal National Socialists bear for him and observers have expressed the view but It now is possible to confirm. that aboard.
platform in London she shouted: it includes troops from all of France's
from air bombs.
around him-determined to make with Norway might hinge Narrow Strip submarine's colonial empire and from all her were collecting the ship's papers, and
"Look what I've got as a souvenir!" Hitler diappear along with the last whether the Altmark could be classed holding up a blanket with the ship's vestiges of Hitlerism. most famous colonial regimenis, in- I was taken prisoner. A few min-fre brigades who have returned from Russia that covers more than 4,000 castle, exhausted from anxiety and days it was. with the hope of re-
Air defence and technical chiefs of The Petsamo region is a narrow name sown on it.
sawarship or naval auxiliary. Reuter. cluding the Foreign Legion,
strip of land between Norway and uter Inter up came the submarine, the
Grey-haired Mrs. Huntly, of New-) "If I entered the party in the early) There are Algerian, Moroccan and ship was torpedoed almost at once, Finland point out that this is one of square miles, yet its population is fatigue, paid tribute to the coolness generating Germany. But Hitler has Tunision colonial troops or Tirail-und once more I was submerged. the most serious problems for a coun-only estimated at 3,400, including njof the Japanese steward, leurs. There
Algerian are
and also had to swim to the submarine. try like Sweden, exposed for many few Russians.
betrayed the cause of Germany-- Moroccan Spahis with their high
"He had waited on me at table betrayed his friends and the social Swam A Mile
months to the rigours of the Arctic Between the 16th and 19th cen- during the voyage," she said. "He revolution from the beginning" strung Arab horses. There are elite
"I spent a fortnight in that sub-winter.
the entire Pelsumo regiments of Souaves, big, black
region came running to me immediately marine before It returned to Ger- | Senegalese infantry, Matgosh infan-many. I was then lodged at the
of frequent frontier after the explosion. He was very The depressing effect on the Fin-disputes and unofficial warfare be cool and guided me to the boat. iry from Madagascar, and Annamites. local jail for a fortnight, followed by nih civil population of living and tween northern neighbours, Al one station and came back twice to see Tonkinese and Indo-Chinese from
then working in artificial light behind me it was divided between Norway that I was safe." the great colony to the. Enst.
Rivalling Tho Legion
And there are French white colorial regiments which rival the Lotion in their recorda,
Syria and Lebanon are a military cump which extends from
the
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and
"Some of the
elsewhere, and
fortnight moved to this place."
crew
boarded windows is stressed.
Dolayed Explosion
In another letter the officer tells his father that a wrist-watch re- cently given him by his uncle was forced right into his wrist by the Torsten Mohlin, technical officer of impact when he struck the water Stockholm's fire dopot, hus in his machine.
Jobservations on the new
many Russian
turies
war the scene
and Russia, but later the port and } adjacent territory went to Norway when the rest of Finland was ceded to Russia..
Occupied By B.E.F.
During the Russian revolution a When he found he had to swim a methods of incendiary bombing be the port of Petsamo and Finnish Turkish to the Palestine border. mile to reach the merchant ship, "fore the authorities. Extensive use troops made an unsuccessful attempt British expéditionary force occupied All branches of the army infantry thought he said, "of the many bad cavalry, nrtillery. aviation
motor-like smashes I had had at of wood, particularly in villages, for to take the city. Finally in 1920, engineers are represented.
home, und said to myself. This cun-all forms of building adds point to following the establishment of Fin- not be the end.
his observations..
land as an Independent nation, a such" forces, French military
Although his bomb had missed the omeints are confident they can pro-submarine which captured him, It
The Russians, he say are
trenty with Sovict Russia again tect Allled interests in the Near East, was so badly shaken that during the using a much heavier type of ther-giving the smaller country control of now opened up the region to the Arctic, Of speelfle interest are the two great fortnight he was aboard the com too great to be overcome by urdin-
mile bomb creating an intense heat the Petsamo port: pipelines, one French and the other mander carefully avoided battle. British, which carry oll from the
iary A.R.P. routine methods. Mosul folds in Asiatic Turkey west- ward, to the French port of Belrut and the British port of Haifa.
Likewise in Europe, French mill- tary Icaders have extensive defence preparations in addition to the Ma-
Inôt Line,
300-Milc "White" Front
A quiet, 300-mile "while fron!" extends from the southern extremity
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POLES IN
NAZI ARMY
VERMANY has added yet again to the mounting list of, her breaches of International law in Poland by incorporaŝina" largo numbers of Polish "prisoners of war in her own armë.
Japan Wants Air Line To
Australia
THE Japanese Consul-General In Singapore, Dir. Karu Toyoda told The Sunday Times yesterday that he had no information of Any plans to extend the Toklo- Bangkok sir" service ́through Singapore to tho Netherlands Indies and Australia.
A
1
Two Airmen Trapped In Wreckage
AN RAF. bomber, thought to have been trying to make a landing- In a recreation ground, hurtled into the side of a Baptist church at the colliery village of North Broomhili, 'near Morpeth, Northumberland,
One airman, Sergt. Edward Mur- shall, was rescued from the debris Just before. the machine caught fire. Within a few minutes the church burst into flames.
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American Admiration
Washington, Feb. 1th With the full story of the Altmark now known, doubts at fist felt with regard to the propriety of the British action have disappeared, leaving only admiration for the daring ex- ploit and a feeling that it was.com- pletely justified. Reuter.
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A witness of the crash said: "I saw, sheels of flame and clouds
There were three explosions.
pare months ago to carry of smoke enveloping the church.
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