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Tum prode "szert to the Telegraph" in need by the Ifongkong Telegraph Indiente news which to strictly copyright under the proridians of the Telecommani- caltoma thedinance. 1916 Anch news as heare the Indication 1*3" }♥ Freeterd in Monchang on the date of publication by the United Pren Associations, whe Fr. er rights and forblå republication ether wholly or in part without previews
Aringement
Britain and France
The point was raised in Satur- day's report of the speech of the Foreign Minister of the Govern ment of Vichy as to what the
Thousands of Channel Islanders have been brought across to the mainland, many of them herded like cattle in carga boats. ! potato boats, and coal boats, and bringing with them no more of their possessions than they could carry in a suitense,
Everything else-homes, nesses and setting up the ancient cry;
"Harol Mary' Baro' farms, businesses, and the re-
A Taktr, tron priner Ch 7125 falt for{" (laro! mainder of this year's crops of
Hare! Horo! Help me, my prince. tomatoes and potatoes has I am being wronged"), followed by a fallen into the hands of the revital of the Lord's Prayer enemy. The majority of these Fat from being un obsolete and unfortunate people are destitute menginglese tigmarile, this privilege and dependent upon us for the has twice been exercised in crvent necessities of life.
month by islanders who unagined They had n grievance requiring i-
Land. treasure owl I vettes
Moreover, they are Britons, petale intress our own people, who have sent thousands of volunteers to join Ca vergee Je equivalent the fighting forces and con- 4.9th of an neze). tributed relatively large sums into Nets under the control of zeig of money to further the Allied neury, who pay rent to the King, or
cause.
Duke as the monarch
culfed in the islands
E divided
generally
非常 with
Cupbeater
It is true that French bloon
These payments, however, I flows in their veins, that they sometimes purely nominal,
queer Anglo-Norman the eigneur who in required to pres speak a
unintelligible longue
beyond sent his royal master with a pau of their own shores, and that Jer. golden spurs whenever he happens sey, Guernsey, and Sark each to ond on island ell, and with on-
other wh must out Parliament of its own during such a visit. has a But these are largely survivals from a long and stirring history, And the Channel Islander of 10 day is as much a countryman of the British Isles as the Welsh man or the Scot, and quite as proud of it.
These obligations Weir Faithfully Fried It when The late King Genge V visted the islands in 1924
The firee-tale long jeland of Sark, the hyphen between Jersey RE71 Guernsey." A Cym TWITC separate on tenditional than the sister istes. In that pencetul sanctuary, out of fruen the worki big ramparts of cha
swirting seas, *** hundred
There'll always be an England..
SECRET EYES
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OF BRITAIN
exasperaltatr
was notifed.
brought results.
VAST subterraneon war of Venetion. Ambassador. Sagredor- nerve and brain is sweep wily old diplomat-reports home in *** government un ing through the world, or earth discloses its own pets less, and ganised espionage on a scale knows those of others more precisely, unknown in the annals of man, than that of England."
And the system The day of the humble spy Is The Parlton agent in Jamalca re- gone. In his place are ranged ported the impending departure of trained and picked specialists the Spanish plate feet tempting Raboteurs prepared to blow up monei. Admiral Blake, the same an arma factory or poison civili- gentleman who swept Van Tromp an water supply; propagandist and his broom from the Channel. experts, who can fake voices, For six months the English bull- pictures and news; agents-pro- dogs were on the trail. At last they roenteurs, whose main job is pounced, off Teneriffe, and a year's double crossing; Intelligence labour in the Spanish gold and silver
mines
enriched agents, who must be highly England's cofféra.
of South America attitude of Britain to the new
skilled linguists, technicians,
The eighteenth century saw France is to be 'The note of At the same time, while the souls still requinte their lives avcord-
military scientists, so that they foundations of the British Empire bitterness in M. Paul Baudoin's { people acknowledge an unswerving to be trudal system
can swiftly grasp the signi- firmly luid. The famous Seven tenacious swept the renuirks found their root in the ing loyalty to the Crown they
ficance of anything. from a com- Mudor-cope are forbidden and, ht
plicated plan to a movement of French out of India and Arteri- refusal of Britain to raise the have always been fiercely an. cording to laws which have remained
Elder Pitt, whose adminis troops; combatant co-operators, trative genius led is to victory blockade against France, thereby tagonistic To any attempt to unchanged since the first Seigneur of
who assist attacks by working boasted;
դ Not gun shall be fred foodstuffs from interfere with the privileges Elizabeth, nobody but the ruler may
inside the enemy's territory; throughout the world but Britain defentest country. | vouchsafed them by royal chat keep a The Minister found time also to] ters in bygone days, attack Mr Churchill's speech on the French war effort and to cast
| preventing
cra hin
Ancient Rights
Sark received the island frun Queen
pigeon of a fetunde dog
Taxes are still jord in kind, and Insist They
07 governing Mrs by Hathaway, the pterent themselves in their own way in Date de Serg, who has decided to
part of the blame for that failure dependently of the statutes of slay with her people during the Get- an inadequate support afforded by Britain.
with aufficwent submission
Westminster, issue
currency
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One of the saddest sequels to this war to the death, as both so
แ rate that tobacco, Four "Peoples" istles are agreed that it must be, ¦ wines, spirita, and perfumes are
the re-alignment of a former on sale in the shops at prices torical trends which unite the prople ally on the side of the enemy that incline visitors to the he. a keen valry between the Islands, not voluntarily it is true, but lief that they have unwittingly mewint akm to
to stumbled on a modern Utopia. Yorkshire, is evident in their devlings make the act abject rathan than Victor Hugo, writing in the with each other compelled. As the Premier has middle of the last century from A
an opportunity pointed out this is no time for Hauteville House, perched high person, rarely loses recrimination but rather for re-above the quaint hillside town of urging the superior merits of tils construction and, leaving the of St. Peter Port and command. atire island over those of Jersey, home of the Caerarians, or of Aker- fate of the former French leadersing a superb view of the Eng- Rey, whose inhabitants
behoves lish
described the totally as Riddumians. Channel, to their successors, it Britain to maintain that stern islands as "bits broken off from
Conversely, the people and unrelenting aspect towards France," and even today the islands tend to look down their notes
country is at their neighbours, and only concessions, however humani-influence of that
The older, Sarquese ·remain outside te aceta tarian they may appear, that strongly marked.
fur- of friendly dispute. For them Sark are will give succour to the foc. In granite-built houses releasing supplies to Germany'anished in the Continental style conquered territory. Britain is with outside shutters at their
windows. merely supporting the illegitt- mate offspring of an unnatural union so that the parent may go ahend and reproduce at leisure and unhindered.
the
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these
the
by far the most beautiful-is suffi cent, and what goes on in the great
world outside, they think, is none of their business at all.
The judicial system, too, has its
To-day the people of the four origin in the days when the archipe islands are united in the face of an Duchy of Normandy, and a course at thein.
ancient adversity that has swept down upon lage formed part of
Their exquisite, sleepy clvill the University of Caen, in Normandy, sation has been brought crumbling about their cars by sudden machine" The French people, as well as has always been regarded
integral part of the training for a
gun fire, the erash of falling bombs, the inhabitants of other con legal career in any of the Chounel and by the echo of German jackboots quered lands, must and do realise Istes.
tramping their deserted streets. that issue but and it is purely
Centuries of virtual isolation from
Never in all its history has "this routine
that their Ministers the main currents of European his noble little people of the sea" been plead for concessions that they tory have led to the survival of in- called upon to face so overwhelming know must contribute eventually numerable customs of feudal origin. catastrophe, but it has answered to their own undoing. No one The most remarkable of these is the arrogance of brute force
courage and un unswerving, con- will quarrel with that desire on probably the Clameur de llaro, an adence that a day of restitution lles their part to obtain the best unwritten law which gives to every ahead. terms possible from friend and island-born person, the right to sum- mary justice by going down on his foe alike but sentimentality, one knees in the presence of two wit- of the most vulnerable spots in
with
and
Years War
сп.
The
a miscellaneous crowd of shall know the reason why." extras, from cryptogram experts. to fifth-column agitators.
the
Hundreds of secret eyes made this No fewer than 27 empty boast. volumes, headed "Intercepted Des- The Czechs, the Austrians, patcher" Ite to-day In the British the years 1756-
the Poles, the Danes-were all Record Office for
1763 hypnotised before
the viper
AT the outbreak of that world- struck.
wirte war, the French drew up a What, may we ask, was our secret plan regarding their all-im- own Secret Service doing?
portant naval strategy. Full Dar- The Secret Service is a secret culars of this soon reached Lon- don, vin Sweden! Exactly how is service. But if the lesson of not completely certain. the British Intelligence Service 11 is sufficient to state that the is any pointer of the present, French were angling for a Swedish The Swedish representa- you need have no qualms about alliance.
five in Paris was a man called Bunge Bunge sent the information to Stockholm,
The maller.
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LET us go back to the daysaster of Europe he shut the Con-
Napoleon When
made himself of Queen Elizabeth, not less timental ports to British trade and clever and unscrupulous that by this land blockade hoped to ruin her famous father. Phillp of perfidious Albion" and her race of Spain had exhausted his pa shopkeepers. Now, more than ever, with Information. Gold advisers, Burleigh and Walsing was distributed lavishly, and ably ham, had tricked him time and backed by brain and courage. again. It was high time that Many messages reached London.
tience. Elizabeth and her wily blockutte
Brlilsh agents had to break the
Pirate Drake and his bucenneer jean's
Many were Intercepted by Napo
excellent espionage system. ing confederates awung from one message, found in the wallet their own yard-arms.
of a suspect, ran thus: "Wash the So Philip sent his agents to linen 1 gm sending you before you it, in order to get rid of the report on England's man power, s
stickiness. Search brought to light naval strength and coast de- ***
report transcribed in chemical Ink fences, while his shipwrights on the hem of a petticoat. A hun- began work on his Armada, dred years later, during the Great But not secretly. Two years War, a woman spy tried the same before the Armada sailed, Wal- trick. It was then held to be ori-
ginal and unique, singham, chief of the English THE Great War proved the British Secret Service, knew all about Intelligence Service second to none it. A certain Richard Gibbes, in the world. Informallon, carefully pretending to be a Scotsman and garnered before the outbreak of hos- therefore a sworn foe of all tilities, enabled our Navy to strike
immediately. things English, did useful tour
We knew exactly how the Ger- of the Spanish ports. Metho- man submarines and destroyers were dieally he counted some 160 distributed. We knew, and nipped warships and "heard talk of 300, in the bud, the German scheme for gallics."
briny In a navy not possible by Grainage as we were before the
trade routes. Furthermore, he willingly allowed Many other things we knew. So himself to be "pumped" by Inquisi- much so that the German naval at- tive Dous.
No, he knew very tache once actually asserted, almost little about the "good harbours and publicly, that for sound Intelligence rivers" on the West Coast of Scot- work one British man was worth ten land, but was quite sure that the Germans. Yet the Germans were money River Thames was a very ill river, spending six times as much full of eands within and without on
Wer. And our unknown sight of land,
were brain-sloggers Many thousands of island folk,
often cold- defying the certainty of poverty and Time moves on 50 years, and Dic-shouldered especially when medals the oppression of a ruthless enemy, tator Cromwell rules England with and rewards were to be had." have refused to leave their. Kames. the Bible and the sword-plus the The Treaty of Versailles 1919, let Those who have reached our shores
an orgy of Anest espionage system in Europe, loose upon the world Chief of Cromwell's secret service espionage such as the world had children and men of military age was John Thurloe-inscrutable, ruth never known. During 1933-34 some
less, fanatical Puritan.
six hundred spies were captured. In Europe alone, and many were shot those contributing actively to stroy the barbarian hammering at
the first time spies had been 'shot were in every foreign in peace-ume for 160 years. AGENTS were that cause rather than engage in the gates.
court, and £70,000 was spent an And for all the novelists may. Let us welcome them within the Ruthlessness must be met by maudlin exchanges; with the
nually on their up-keep. Jews and writer. British agent bus never fortress, ¡ibese unfortunate ones who Puritan divines alike were employed. been caught during peace-time in ruthlessness; Britain must risk dubious representatives of supine once a thousand years ago fought
Absolute efficiency, secrecy
and Germany. No other country has a the anger of her former Allies Powers beneath the heel of with Duke William at Benlar, but are obedience were demanded.
•2 | quirkeathots-in-arms in-the-war of to achieve her single-minded Heriam,
[to-day.
the armour of Britain, must be
congealed over with the blood of object. We must concentrate all are for the most part women and those Allies who have already our resources for the benefit of atted with a desperate desire to de-
died for a great cause.
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*** At least once a week, they had to record comparable with this, “communicate' with London. The
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