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April 16, 1940. Bushmiller
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Careless Gossip May Have Sealed Fate of the Sultan Star
The Enemy Inside Britain Nazi Ears Wide Open for Secrets WORLD'S
Revealed in Casual Chatter
THE ENEMY inside Britain is on the alert with. wide-open cars for secrets revealed in careless gossip. The Government has warned the nation of the dangers of what might be serious leakages of vital information.
Here, Alfred W. Ewing, son of Sir Alfred Ewing, famous chief of Room 40 O.B. (the Admir- alty's secret deciphering department in the last war, tells how a chance remark can change the whole course of a war.
By ALFRED W. EWING
THOUSANDS of loyal British men and women are, doing their best to help Germany win the war.
They are not deliberate traitors. They are the care- less talkers, the gossipers who prattle in public of official secrets. They talk openly because they think there is no danger in this country.
But the most dangerous of all Nazi arms is right here in Britain. It is the "Fifth Column" of Nazi sympathisers, of secret agents, of paid and unpaid helpers of Germany and Russia.
What Gossip Cost Germany
If you think a few careless words do not matter, and that too much fuss is being made of the anti-gossip campaign organised by the Government, just consider these tremendous events of the last war:
1015.
A casual word led to the discovery of a gigantle plot which brought
· America into the war. Indiscretion by one or two Germans cost them the bailleship Blucherfin One Instance of carelessness with confidential papers put German code books into our possession and enabled us to decipher messages of the German Governnient and High Command throughout the war. EVERY ONE OF US MUST PUT A BRIDLE ON HIS TONGUE AND TADLOCK HIS LIPS. EVERY TITTLE OF-NEWS-ABOUT-MEN. TROOPS, FACTORIES, SHIPS, TIMES OF SAILING, UNITS, PRICES, TYPES OF EQUIPMENT IS VALUABLE TO THE ENEMY.
A Scot Who Kept Mum
My father, a shrewd Scol, well knew the importance of keeping a secret.
He even kept the nature of his work secret from me, his son.
Not until 1925, seven years after the Armistice, was it publicly revealed that he was the man in charge of Room 40 O.B.
Not by so much as a hint did he tell me what he was doing at the Admiralty. While I was on active service he once wrote to me:
"I can't tell you anything about my work just now.
When the wor
in over there will be much to tell. Meanwhile, one can at least feel that
it is useful in a quiet way."
ham been suggested that the sinking of the Sultan Star the other day was the direct result of careless chatter by members of the public who had inside information.
Plymouth last week Lady Astor said: AL "Suppose
that through some carelessness the Germans had got to know the exact me that the Exeter was coming. I have heard from people, some distance from Plymouth, who knew two days before that the Exeler was coming. I think it is criminal.",
It was criminal. Just how criminal and dangerous may be judged by the experience of my father.
He was in charge of the secret deciphering department at the Admir alty. His main work was the decoding of wireless messages. His greatest helpers were the Germans and the German agents who could not keep
their mouths shut.
For example, there was the sinking of the Blucher.
TALK PICKED UP IN GERMANŸ BY BRITISH SECRET AGENTS GAVE THE FIRST HINT THAT THE GERMAN FLEET WAS ABOUT TO MOVE
Intercepted wireless messages conarmed the gossip which the agents had reported. By these two means my father in Room 40 Q.B, was able to plot the movements of the German ships.
NEW VITALITY
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HE
His Brother: Then-
INVENTED THE THEATRE QUEUE
SEVENTYSEVEN-YEAR-OLD Mr. Charles Ingle- brother of the great Albert Chevalier and the man who invented the theatre queue and composed the music-hall star's songs-has died at his home at Pinner, Middlesex. Mr. Ingle, whose real name was August Chevalier, wrote the music of "My Old Dutch" and "Knocked 'Em in the Old Kent Road."
He used to recall how, when his brother sang "My Old Dutch,” husband and wives in the audience would put their arms around one another, so affected were they by the sentiments of the song.
Albert Chevaller made his first hit
THREE
ARMY
BIGGEST LINER
THE Cunnard-White Star finer Queen Elizabeth as she steamed into New York harbour at the end of the strangest maiden voyage any. ship has made.
BIG HOLLYWOOD FORTUNES FOR FILM AUTHORS
Film companies pald Over £182,000 to authors for screen rights to published novels in 1939, according to a Hollywood studio estimate.
The Grapes of Wrath" drew £17,500 for its author, John Steinbeck, Two other books. "Escape" and "Tree of Liberty," netted £15,000 and £13,750 Tes- nectively for their creators.
Daphne du Maurier's "Rebec- ca" was said to have cost £12.- 500 to the studio. So, also, did "All This and Heaven, Too" and "Disputed Passage,"
But noue of them can touch the M.G.M. deal for General Lew Wallace's "Ben Hur." The stu- dlo bought this story on a deal allowing the copyright owner 50 per cent of the fim's gross tak- ings. It brought them nearly £500,000.
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Her Home Is Saved
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A WOMAN carrying a baby walked into Swansea County
in 1801, and from 1803 to 1014, with Mr. Ingle as his manager, he covered the whole of the country in six-month tours of one-night shows, giving re- citals in
towns and villages. Mr. Winston Churchill read the
In A Lino" deciphered messages. Orders were This is how Mr. Ingle invented the flashed Immediately to Admiral theatre queue. Great crowds always! Jellege with the Grand Fleet, to flocked to see Albert Chevalier, and at Admiral Beatty with the batue- Cardif Mr. Ingie asked the police to cruisers, to Commodore Tyrwhitt get the crowd to "stand in a line" with the light cruisers and destroyers. and take their turn. The police lined Court recently.
The result was the victory of the them in a three-abreast queue. Dogger Bank!
That was after, an experience in Careless talk brought America into Edinburgh where, In the largest hall, the war on the side of the Allies... about 7,000 people stormed the doors, knocking the police down and smash- The German Minister in Mexico ing glass panels. Hats, stockings,sought by Swansea had a chat with the Swedish Minis- coats and shirts were torn off in the Horlicks supplies the nutritiveier in that country. There was much struggle.
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further examination of the German
This leakage of information led to WOODEN PLANES Minister's activities. Gossip Ted to ARE ON ORDER
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A German plot was exposed. Germany was making an offer
to Mexico for an alliance against the United States,
Room 40 O., published its dis- .. and American opinion, covery swayed by Indignation and fury, swept that country Into the war
against Germany.
She was late, and it was explained to her that an order for possession of her house in 28 days had been made in default.
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