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Tuesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
February 20,
1940.
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Allied I am prisoner Watch in castle: wild
boars guard me
me?
On Syria
By RALPH HEINZEN (UNITED PRESS STAFF
CORRESPONDENT)
PARIS, (UP).-By Alr Ex- press-The
Allies, primarily under French initiative, are re- ported to have established a "pool" of powerful reserve mill- tary forces in Syria which they hope will be sufficiently impres- sive to maintain the status quo in the Near East without beingį called into action.
Daily Express Staff Reporter
THIS JOKE IS
NO CHICKEN
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 Although the European con- look for a submarine which was flict has not spread to this arce, supposed to have sunk one of Allied officers emphasize its
our merchant ships. I could strategic Importance. The not find it, so started back. French mandated Syria, at the "My observer suddenly shout- eastern end of the Mediterraneed, There's a merchant ship on an, could serve as military actions which might be the horizon. Let's look at it.' necessary to preserve Allied control When we were almost on it my also could chap said, 'Go low so that I can uf the Suez Canal. It serve as a base for possible actions see its name. in the Balkans or for movements to protect Allied colonial interests.
A base for
of
Therefore, any thousands troops have been concentrated into a most powerful colonial army in this area. The French hope that this dis-
"So I went to sea level and slowed down. Just as I got alongside I the far spotted the submarine on side of the ship.
Took A Chanco
"Up I went, but the U-boat had play of force and knowledge that already got half-submerged, leaving these troopit are ready to move on a me no time to get to a safe height minute's notice will preserve peace to bamb from. So I took a chance! in southeastern Europe and the Near and bombed from a low height in Eart.
order 'to' hit.
New Army Camps
Early in the war, France started moving to Syria troops which could north African be spared-from. culonial camps and other Afrienn de- fence positions. Almost overnight
modern ariny great, new sprang up in the satids of Syria.
сатря
y frat bomb missed by about twenty feet and I hit the ses at 200 m.ph, at a steep dive. straight down without stopping.
I went
LONDON. We 'were. billeted in a coltage.
One day the sergeant passed and looked in.
"Nice smell in here, my lads", said be, "What is it?"
"Roast chicken sir.”
"Roast chicken and where on earth did you get it I'd like to ask."
"Well, you see sir it just walked in ere and gave itself up."
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|CAPTAIN TELLS OF LINER LOSS
Officer Collapses As
Sees Saved
Wife
Man Bites Dog the whole cowardly brutality of Hitler's war, says a Homeside
"WHEN a dog bites a man, that's nothing, but when a man biles a dor, that's NEWS," is a newspaper adage,
So 47-year-old Terence O'llab- Joran with whom this story is concerned, 13 most certainly.
new
Terence belongs to Newcastle, New South Wales. He toll of its explait when he sought treat- ment for a blie on the leg.
"I was going into a house when the dog bit na,” he said. '
"I caught it and bit half its car off I wanted to show it that I could dito, too."
Petsamo
In
Many
NEW GLASS TO BEAT
BOMBERS
Taken Wars
IN the lounge of the London hotel which has already seen the tragedy of the Simon Bolivar I witnessed a scene which epitomised
Reporter.
The first to enter the lounge at the head of the 27 passengers from the 12,000-ton crack Japanese liner Torukuni Maru, blown up off the East Coast when within three hours' of safety after a 60-day voyage, came Mrs. K. Swailes, of Hongkong.
naval British Her husband, a officer, had been waiting many hours for news.
His face lit up incredulously as he saw his wife standing here unharm- ed, and he flung his arms round her with cry:Thank God! Thank God!
Mrs. Salles, clmost supporting her husband, patted his shoulder like; a mother with a hurt child.
HITLER AN
"EXALTED"
MYSTIC
AMERICAN OPINION
to
Newspapers Alloge Norway Guilty
New York, Feb. 19.
The failure of the Bergen officials
discover or even suspect the pre-
sence of more than 300 prisoners who declared they had howied, yelled and beaten on the hatch covers accros in- credible, declares the New York
Times.
The Herald-Tribune states that it scema the Norwegian authorities fall- ed in their duty of defending their neutrality when they overlooked the presence of the prisoners-Reuter Bulletin,"
Sovero-Criticium
New York, Feb. 19. The
New York Times says that severe criticism of Norway for having Altmark is voiced by three American authorities on international
PARIS, (UP).
). Describing failed to determine the true status of
"There, there!" she said softly. Adolf "I'm quite all right."
She had been in China for 2 years and he was waiting to meet her when he heard that the great ship had been blown up.
"It was
room,"
Hitler as an exalted the
Mr. Frederic Coudert, who was
that Britain is
mystic and a "bloodthirsty som- inw. nambulist," subject to attacks of hysteria. Otto Strasser, writing formerly legal adviser to the British in the newspaper "Le Journal," Embassy, believes recounted the early days of the entirely justided because Norway was Socialist-Patriot. Party which clearly guilty of an altogether un- neutral act bi permitting the Altmark turned into the Nazi organiza-in harbour British prisonera in her
waters. tion.
་ ་ ་
Mr. James Gerard, American Am- to Germany before the bassader
the United States entered the last war, said
*Norwegian Government should have inspected the vessel and taken off the prisoners. The Ger- prisoners through Norwegian waters mons, had no more sight to take than to take them by train from New York to San Francisco,
com-
Mr. James Ryan, Chairman of the American Bar Association's milice on protecting American pro- perty in forelyn countries and the high scas, declared that it was the duty of Norway to determine the true
Captain's Story Captain B. Məlukura, master of the liner, told me his story while still wearing his thick seaman's coat with
Stresser was a close friend of Hitler a furlined collar and his binoculars) dongling round his neck.
during the early days of the party, "We had been cleared from the but withdrew later and became an
the Fuchrer. .At British contraband control, and had; taken on the pilot. It was lunch time arch-enemy of when we struck the mine. It must, present he is an exile, hending WASHINGTON, (UF)-News dispatches from the have been a floating one because I group avowedly determined to rid
had five men posted forward to Germany of Hitler and Nazism. Arctic war front describing the battle between the Rus-watch for such things.
"The publicity Hitler gave me on "The concussion sent the ship bìgh the turbule sians and the Finns recall the turbulent history of the out of the water. Then she settled the occasion of the Munich bombing back again, rolling slightly, and began last month proves how little he really main point of conflict-the Petsamo seaport.
to settle on the starboard side.
knows the mentality of the German "British warships appeared from The seaport, less than 20 miles from the present border of the everywhere, but I had had eight of people," Strasser wrote.
Bomb By Gestapo lifeboots lowered before they the Russian Koln Peninsula, is im-reached me. The water was pouring "For if it is certain that the bomb status of the Allmark before allowing portant in the current struggle, into the engine
I was put in the beer cellar by the the vessel to proceed in her waters. less. thin 45 minutes from as it is ice-free the year round, while harbours as far as 1,000 the first shock of the explosion to Gestapo, and if persons outside Cer-He thought there was considerable
when the ship want down. By that many regard the explosion as simply justification for the British action,
another Reichstag outrage, then the
The Washington, correspondent of "I tried to get out of the cock-
miles to the south are frozen time the whole of the ship's company thought that 'Otto and his Black Front pit, but was jammed in with o
over for several months.
--177 crew, 27 passengers and the stuck root, When I was almost
Haguo Convention expressed the The National Geographic Society pilot-were safe away from her." oro active must come as a ray of the New York Times says that per- out of breath 1 managed to areak free and came to the surface,
explains that the Gulf Stream flow. Only three passengers were alightlype to thousands of Germati hearts. sons in Washington famlilar with the "In fact, for: Hitler to pronounce opinion privately that Britain had "My observer must have been
-STOCKHOLMing nearby is the cause of waren air, Injured and a few of the crew. The "One of France's most-able-generals
--The-region-has-been contested, for passengers were cut about the face my name shows he still does not enable grounds in International low I never saw him klited at once, and an expert on Near Eastern
again. I looked for him.' but with SWEDEN'S wood pulp and centuries between Finns, Swedes, by plates. icaping from the dining realize what it implice, that he does to support her.------
not yet comprehend the strength of Stato Department circles feel that Strategy, Gen. Maxime Weygand.
cellulose industry no luck.
re now Norwegians find Russians. At times tables.
Her Souvenir ----
our revolutionary organization or of who now ta retired from active ser-
"I then found I was nearly n mlle
the view |that I was once vice at 72. supervised creation of this.
away from the merchant ship, in carrying out intensive research its ownership has been so confused
When 13-year-old Jean Marks, the the hate which the first renuine comment is inadvisable but unoficial
National Socialists bear for him and observers have expressed troop pool,
very cold water. with flying clother to provide a transparent sub-land" and inhabitants were paying
make with Norway might hinge upon restrictions 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 the ring of iren they are forming that the outcome of the controversy
platform in London she shouted around him-determined to mention of specific units and places, Somehow I got there, and clambered; sufficiently elastic to resist blast ments, a
Look what I've got as a souvenir!" Narrow. Strip.
Hitler disappear along with the Inst whether the Allmark could be classed but it now is possible to confirm thot aboard.
as a warship or naval auxillary from air bombs.
holding up a blanket with the ship's vestiges of Hitlerim.
Reuter. it includes troops from all of France's "Some of the submarine's crew
The Petsamo aegion is a narrow name sewn on it: colonial empire and from all her were collecting the ship's papers, and Air defence and technical chiefs of
strip of land between Norway and Grey-haired Mrs. Huntly, of New- "If I entered the party in the early nos famous colonial regiments, in- I was taken prisoner. A few min-fire brigades who have returned from Russia that covers more than 4,000 castic, exhausted from anxiety and days it was with the hope of o cluding the Foreign Legion.
utes later up came the submarine, the
betrayed the cause of Germany- There are Algerian, Moroccan andj 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 goneroting Germany. But Hitler has
troops or Tirail- and once more I was submerged. the most serious problems for a coun-only estimated at: 3,400, including of the Japanese steward.
"He had walted on me at table betrayed his friends and the social Tunisian colonial
also had to swim to the submariné.
try like Sweden, exposed for many few Russims.
Between Algerian and
the 18th and 19th cen- during the voyage," she said. "He revolution from the beginning." leurs. There
months to the rigours of the Arctic Moroccan Spahis with their high
Swam A Mile
turies the entire Petsamo region came running "to me immediately was the scene of frequent, frontier after the explosion. He was very strung Arab horses. There are elite regiments of Souaves, big, black marine before it returned to Ger The depressing effect on the Fin-disputes and unofficial warfare be- cool and guided me to the boat Senegalese infantry, Malgash infan many. I was then lodged at the nish civil population of living and tween northern neighbours. At one station and came back twice to see try from Madagascar,, und Annames, local Jall for a fortnight, followed by Tonkinese and Indo-Chinese from a fortnight elsewhere,
light behind time it was divided between Norway that I was safe," and then working in artificial
and Russia, but later the port and the great colony to the Enst.
moved to this place."
adjacent territory went to "Norway when the rest of Finland was ceded to Russia.
Censorship
nte
Riwalling The Legion
there
wiite And
French arc colonie) regiments which rival the Legion in their records.
from the
cavalry. artillery, aviation engineers are represented.
"I spent a fortnight in that sub-winter..
boarded windows is stressed.
called "common
24.
In another letter the officer tells
Dolayed Explosion his father that a wrist-watch re- cently given him by his uncle was
Torsten Mohlin, technical officer of
Occupied By. B.E.F. forced right into his wrist by the Impact when he struck the water Stockholm's fire depot, has many
|observations In his machine.
on thenew: Russlon During the Russian revolutiona Syria and Lebanon are a military
When he found he had to swim a methods of incendiary bombing be British expeditionary force occupied extends
the part of Fetsomos and Finnish camp which Turkish to the Palestine border. lie to reach the merchant ship fore the authorities. Extensive we troops made an unsuccessful attempt All branches of the ormy-Infantry, thought," he said, "of the many ba of wood, particularly in villages, forto, take the city. Finally in 1020.
and motor-bike smashes I had had at
home, and said to myself, "This can- all forms of building adds point to following the establishment of Fl
lund es un independent nation, a hip, observations. not be the end."
trenty with Soviet Russia" oguln With such forces, French military Although his bomb had missed the.
The Russians, he says, are now opened up the region to the Arctic, valetals are confident they can pro-submarine which captured him, it using a much heavier type of ther-giving-the-smhller country control of
Ailed interests the Near East.
in the
was so badly, shaken that during the mile bomb erenting an intense lieat the Detramo portel specific interest are the two greut fortnight he was aboard the com- 100 great to be overcome by ordinelist cat will sele pipelines, one French and the other mander carefully avoided battle. British, which carry oll from the Mosul holds in Asiatic Turkey west- Beirut of ward to the French port and the British port of Haila.
Likewise in Europe, French 'mili- tary leaders have extensive defence preparations in addition to the Mn- ginot Line, BUT
tect
of
300-Milo "White" Front
A nilot, 300-mile white trón!" extends from the southern extremity
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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 toplistchurch 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 tie church burst into flames.
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American ́ ́Admiration
Washington, Feb. 10. With the full story of the Altmark now known, doubts at first felt with regard to the propelety of the British action have disappeared, only admiration for the daring ex- ploft and a feeling that it was com- plotely Justified. Reuter,
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