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April 16, 1940, Ernie 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 0.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:
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 battleship Blucher In
1015. One Instance of carelessness with confidential papers put German code books into our possession and enabled us to decipher messages of the German Government and High Command throughout the war, EVERY-ONE-OF-US-MUST-PUT-A BRIDLE ON HIS TONGUE, AND PADLOCK 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 Scot, 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 war Is over there will be much to tell. Meanwhile, one can at least feel that it is useful in a quiet way."
New Menace RUMANIAN
To Health In Hongkong Cigarette Stubs Found
WHEAT BAN Exports To EndTM
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH' BUCHAREST, April 16. To Be Germ Carriers (UP). The Rumanian Govern- Do cigarette smokers in Hongkong ment has officially announced realise that they are daily uncon-that the export of wheat will be
Increase of banned in future. sciously adding to the
The ban does not affect wheat for disease in the Colony? "Nonsense," one may say, but according to the which contracts have already been Government analysi It is true.
made. thought of Have smokers ever
Petrol Conservation what happens to the cigarette stubs SPECIAL TO THE TELEGRAPH" throw into the street or gutter. BUCHAREST, April 10, (UP)
BIGGEST LINER
THE Cunnard-White Star liner Queen Elizabeth as sho steamed into New York harbour at the end of the strangest maiden voyage any ship has made.
Has Big Ship In Tow
American Liner En Route To Hongkong
Information has been received
in Hongkong that the former Baltimore Mail liner, City of Los Angeles, now under charter
It has been suggested that the sinking of the Sultan Star the other They remain there gathering dust The Rumanian Government oficial, to the American President Lines
day was the direct result of careless chatter by members of the pubila wito had Inside informaiton,,
At Plymouth last week Lady Astor sald: "Suppose that through some carelessness the Germans had got to know the exnet time that the Exeter was coming. I have heard from people, same distance from Plymouth, who knew two days before that the Exeter 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 ngents who could not keep their mouths shut.
For example, there was the sinking of the Blucher.
TALK PICKED UP IN GERMANY BY BRITISH SECRET AGENTS GAVE THE FIRST HINT THAT THE GERMAN FLEET WAS ABOUT TO MOVE.
Intercepted wireless messages confirmed the gossip which the agents hind reported. By these two means my father in Room 10 O.B. was able to plot the movements of the German ships.
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Plot Exposed
and
into
A multitude of germs until some announces that important stocks of
be held at strategic and bound for Hongkong is Chinese pick them up and dumps petrol are to
containing them
a tin
other points throughout Rumanta for mill-towing the 5.428-ton West Cus- filthy
cigarettes retrieved
from tary purposes. garbage cans,. doorsteps, between
from stated
In this connection, it was recently seta to Yokohama.
thnt Germany Informed No information is available as to crevices of tram lines, and
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Watch this man and you may see him go to some pavement, sit down. and with empty cigarette packets
of petrol would be regarded as an breakdown. The City of Los Angeles,
unfriendly, act."
which is on her first trip to Hong- Manila and kong, was bound for would not have normally proceeded
close by start making cigarettes for RUSSIA TO PAY Yokohama.
salo from the tobacco from gathered stubs.
Coolies and the poorer classes of Chinese are their customers, and there must be money to be made from this type of business, for this soclul evil is carried out on a lurge scale in Hongkong and Kowloon.
INDEMNITY
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" STOCKHOLM. Apr. 15 (UP)— The spokesman of the Swedish_For- Soviet thot eign Offee announces
Mr. Winston Churchill read the deciphered messages. Orders were Bashed immediately to Admiral bacteria cholerald, bacteria diphthe~| Under the agreement, Russia will
Her arrival at Hongkong has been delayed by the tow and she is not expected until the middle of next week.
Roosevelt Grave When He Spoke
WASHINGTON, Apr. 10 (Router). Swedish-President Roosevelt's demeanour in delivering his speech to the Pan- American Conference was grave.
Cholers And Diphtheria Russia and Sweden have reached an may not know it, but they
The people buying these cigarettes agreement regarding the bombing of aro the Swedish village of Pajala during actually smoking tobacco containing the Russo-Finnish War, Jellicoe with the Grand Fleet, to rirold, and many other germs, pay an indemnity of 49,000 Admiral Beatty with the battle-
This was proved when, following kroner to Sweden. cruisers, to Commodore Tyrwhitt the arrest of
street cigarette with the light cruisers and destroyers. manufacturer recently, the Police
The result was the victory of the mentine cigaretes seized to the NAZI WOMAN IS which included the diplomatic re- Dogger Bank!
Government analyst and the report Careless inlle brought America into returned actu
actually showed that the the war on the side of the Allies...
elgarettes contained diphtheria and In this way.
cholera germs.
The German Minister in Mexico
this
CAPTURED
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
Innd to-day.
Equally grave was his audience, presentatives of Britalo, France, China, Australia, Finland and the 21 American republies,
The nations not represented in- Russia, Japan,
tands and Denmark.
This fack was mentioned by Ser- · LONDON, Apr. 15 (UP)-The Arst had a chat with the Swedish Minis-geant W. Hewitt to Mr. T. J. Houston known, German woman emptive was eluded Germany,
the ter in that country. There was much at Central Magistracy talk of high poliiles .. and the morning
when two men were fined landed at an east coast port in Scot- Italy, Norway, Sweden, the Nether Swedish Minister was promised a $25 or a month's hard Jabour for The girl, who was a blonde of German order. But somebody else manufacturing cigarettes in the Wan- about 25 years of age, was entrained heard about that..
chai district without a licence. This leakage of Information led to
The Police are doing all they can for an unknown destination under a
military guard. further examination of the German to check this health impairing busi- No other details have been re- Minister's activities. Gossip led to ness, and the Public can help too leased.
by destroying all discarded cigarette suspicion and investigation.
rtubs,
A German plot was exposed.
Germany was making an offer
Women Poisoned
to Mexico for at allance against Presents Credentials Yik Suk-ht and Ng Kwan-liin, both
the Blaifs,
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Appearing on remand before Mr. Himsworth at the Kowloon Magis- tracy this morning, Lam Muk, 25, of the Water Police, who was accused of being a member of the "Trind" society, which is on unlawful or mui-tzais, living at 16, Yin Po Songganisation, was discharged. LONDON, Apr. 18 (Reuter)-Mr. Street, have been admitted to hosp Inspector A. E. Carey said he was covery and American opinion, swayed by indignation and fury, Gray, the new United States Minis-tal suffering from the effects of instructed to withdraw the charge Hong Kong. Depot, swept that country into the war ter to Eire, presented his credentials polsoning, believed to have been self- against Lam as there was insuficient ook Depot, administered. to Mr. Eamon de Valera to-day. against Germany.
Room 40 OB. published its dis-)
evidence.
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