Wednesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
February
19, 1941.
5
SCOTLAND YARD SHIFTS SPIES
Dossiers Recall Old Cases
They 'shifted the spies in Scotland Yard recently. They did them up in bundles and carried them down the stairs and along the corridors and through a covered passage to the new ten-storey Yard headquarters beside the old one on the Thames Embankment.
The Special Branch, men were moving out of the building they have worked in since the section was formed in 1883 to guard Cabinet Ministers from Irish American Dynamiters.
INFLATION
Businessmen
In 57 years you accumulate} quite a few records and other mementon if your work has been the tracking of many thousand | suspiciously occupied foreigners, from Irish Americans to 1914 spies and 1940 fifth columnists.
District Assistant Albert Canning, head of the Special Branch, and Superintendent Albert
LONDON, Feb. 18 (Reuter).-The Foster, spy tracker in two world war, simply had to walk across and hang Government's intention to pry the their bowler hats on new pegs, but the shifting of the spies took many
hours.
Commissioner Express
Concern
dangers of inflation was again ema- phasised in Parliament, to-day.
Ste Patrick Hannon, who is a director, asked whether the Premier had considered the letter from the President of the Association of British Chambers of Commerce, "emphasising towards inflation owing to wage in- crenses being followed by a rise in commodity lees,"
One set of illes, shit into place inminent Company their new cabinet, gave Supt. Foster's memory a jolt. it took him back 20 years to the day when he arrested Carl Lody, German spy, at the begiu- ping of the last war, and brought him into the Yard.
Kopt Chair
Laly was a brave mun. He faced the ring and with great courage on Tower Hill. Supt. Faster kept the chair he sat in and had it shifted to the new office yesterday.
A pollieman docan't like to lose sight of a thing whleh reminds him of a job which helped his carece much as the unmasking of the Lody plet old at the age of 25,
the drift
Mr Clement Attlee, Lord Privy Seal, replied that the Prime Minister had received the letter to which Sir | Patrick referred and had arranged that the Association of British Cham- bers of Commerce would have the opportunity of stating their more fully to the ministers concern- ed.
Government Impressed
views
And there, trundled along. were
The Government were impressed the dossiers of Brechow and Vieyra and Hagh and Franz Muller, all of with the dangers of inflation and them sentenced to death during the since the outbreak of war had taken Just war, after giving quite a lot of action in a variety of ways to prevent any uncontrolled rise of hasle prices, trouble.
But who even remembers their It would be quite wrong to
10 regard names now. except Canning and every increase in prices, whatever Foster? Not that all the files were its nature and scope, us potentially important. There were inflationary but close attention was pathetic sples as well as clever ones. paid to all significant movements of There were dozens and dozens of prices with the view to applying up- little dossiers of enemy agents just propriate checks in good time if us ineffective. When war broke out dangerous tendency developed.
fot
or
in 1014 they put 1,500 people who were trying to send information to
Germany out of action at one round- LATEST SAIGON
up.
One of them was arrested at his first attempt to pass secrets to the enemy, He had hopefully written two letters in Invisible ink on music paper.
Arcos Raid
RESTRICTIONS
a
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" -SAIGON, Feb. 18 (UP)-All_rive and rubber export permits have been
temporarily. but
A queer jumble of oddities follow-cancelled
the
ed each other through the covered | Japanese are excluded from the bon. passage from ok buliding to new-
Clarification of the export situa-
that care of the secret documents Con, which is causing dissatisfaction stolen from the Admiralty 14 years ago, and found in a suitense left by
a visitor at a Southport hotel; the
amongst foreign firms, is not expect- The economic
ed until after the peace negotiations
concluded. are
THIS IS LONDON-One of the first radio pictures showing the aftermath of bomb- ing in London on Dec. 29. Picture taken from St Paul's Cathedral, looking toward Old Bailey, criminal court building (domed). The section is in and about Paternoster Row. The Old Bailey is familiar to readers of Dickens. Overburdened radio facilities caused a 10-day delay in the transmission of this picture.
Boy "Jehovah
To Sing
Witness" Refuses "God Save The King"
ALL Canada is awaiting the outcome of a test case in the Hamilton Juvenile
great mass of Aeros rald papers; the negotiations are at present being Court in which a fifteen-years-old boy was charged with delinquency for refusing to facts about Dr Hermann Goettz, who pushed into the background.
got four years' penal servitude for
making a plan of an R.A.F. station;
all the hundreds of letters people
write when they think they've seen ar
heard "something suspicious."
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The boy told the Court that he was one of the "Jehovah Witnesses," and that Some of the dossiers fated to light FOR WAR EFFORT his religion forbade him to sing the National Anthem or salute the flag. Judgment of
the Court was deferred.
up the memories even of Messrs Canziligand-Foster
—OTTAWA,–Feb. 18-(Router).—Mr.
-There are six-similar--cases-before the court, and all the Who was Fritz Svanrs, for instance, J. L. Ilsley, Canada's Finance Minis- and Jacob Vogel? Forgotten They ter, will ask for $1,300,000,000 for juveniles who are charged have been dismissed from Hamilton kcept you lively for some days once. the prosecution of the war during schools for their refusal to sing the National Anthem.or salute It took a long time, and a great the seal year of 1941-12, compared flag. Other cities throughout the country are puzzled about many sakilers and police, under the with $700,000,000 during the preced-the stand that they should take with "Jehovah Witnesses" in
guidance of Mr Churchill, to killing your. them and Peter the Painter in the Battle of Sidney Street in January. 1011.
Cinema's Greatest Contributors
THE British Film Institute has selected 12 "stars" as those who have made the greatest contribution to the cinema.
This sum. plus the $443,000,000 which Mr Daley estimated to be necessary to cover all requirements except air, brings the total expendi- ture for 1941-42 to $1,743,000,000.
Fire Damage In Santander
MADRID, Feb. 18 (Reuter)-The fire which devastated Santander is. now under control.
their schools.
At the same time, the laws compel all children to attend school or receive expert tuition in some other way,
New Zealand, Too!
The "Sunday Chronicle" has ul- ready reported the anti-British ac- tivities of the organisation operating in Britain and the Empire under the direction of the American Judge Rutherford,
HITLER AND
"HOW TO SWIM”
THE story is being circulated throughout Nazi-occupied Eu- rope of a leading bookseller at
Shilling Stamp The Itague who aroused Nazi
:
Forgery
Fetches £9 At Sale
A very fine impression of a counterfeit 1867-80 Great Bri- tain shilling stamp, deep green (plate 6), known as the "Stockt In these, Judge Rutherford sets Exchange Forgery," was sold
His books attacking the Empire are Jehovah's Witnesses." still being sold from door to door by
ire by showing a portrait of Queen Wilhelmina in his shop window.
He was ordered to take the offend- Ing photograph out.
Then, to show his loyalty to the "new order in Europe," he replaced the royal picture with a full-length But the gesture had a two-way portrait of Hitler.
interpretation, as a book by Frau Braun to Swim".
They are Theda Bara, Charlie
The first estimates place the dam Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Greta Garbo, Mary Pickford, Rudolph age at £6,250,000.
The Bank of Spain building, al- Valentino, Fred Astaire, Spencer Tracy. Tom Mix, Harold Lloyd, though in the middle of the fire area. Government," which his followers recently at H. R. Harmer's New "How Marle Dressler and Shirley Temple. was undamaged.
U.S. Pressmen And British Censorship
British censorship is once again being discussed in America, and it is reported that recent messages from American corres- pondents in London have contained complaints. -
out his doctrine of a "Theocratic
are taught to regard as superior to Bond-street sale rooms for £9. the Government of their own coun-
try.
in an
the Dutch Woman coach, placed 1224 equally prominent position!
At The Games This fraud was made possible
Only woman coach in the world an international reputation, Some weeks ago the New Zealand when, in 1870, the control of the with Government declared "Jehovah's telegraphs passed from the private "Ma" Braun dropped a few bombs Witnesses" to be a subversive or companies to the Post Office. Alon Nazi plans at the Berlin Games.
The Germans had banked on Cisela ganisation and prohibited all their minimum rate of 1s. was then intro-
duced for telegrams, which resulted Archdt to win the 100 metres, but activities.
In an increase from 0% to about 17 the presumed certainty was roundly trounced by the Rotterdam girl, Rie Mastenbrocck.
Sentence Quashed
In 1918 it was reported that Judge million telegrams a year. Rutherford had been sentenced to 20 Taking advantage of the enormous years for obstructing recruiting and demand for 18. stamps some persons uitered these causing Insubordination and disloyal-unitnown made and
In private trials the German wo- men were beating the Olymple, 400 metres relay record, but they skidded In to defeat when "Mu" Braun's quar
lelle won by a good yard.
ty in the American Army and Navy: forgerles, which were passed
his According to International large numbers through the Stock tain, that sentence was quushed by 1872 and 1873. the Appeal Court of the U.S.A.
Steward Falls Overboard
Arabia Maru Incident WHEN
WOR
Detected 28 Years After
"
Japanese Baby Bonus Plan
Japanese
It has been estimated that these counterfeits were used at this one
A SCHEME to increase Japan's office at the rate of about £15.000 birthrate was launched recently,
One hundred young year, but the fraud was not discover- el until May, 1898, when some of the couples were selected by the Welfare forgeries
delected Mr Ministry for a new baby bonus ex- Charles Nissen, the well-known experiment. pert of the postage stamps of Greal! Ench couple gets a loan of about $600 on which they have to pay in- Subsequent researches, us disclosed terest.
were
by
In the late Mr Fred. J. Melville's
· Raymond Daniell, of the "New ing damage and is in need of help Bible Students' Association in Bri- Exchange Telegraph Office, L.C., in York Times," has just informed is harmful.
Over Optimism his readers that the Press ecns-
There was a time, notably in June orship is "becoming as ominous and July last year, when many ly oppressive as that of France Americans shocked by the fall of was before the people suddenly France, and anxious, over their own found the enemy unexpectedly to the belief that it was too late to lack of preparedness, were inclined save Britain, int marching under the Arc dedo anything to Triomphi."
planes, munitions and ships had Itobert J. Casey, of the Chicago better be kept at home.
But that time has passed. Indeed, Daily News, recently cabled an ironic
"An undetermined there is a case to be made out for
the homeward bound Britain. plece beginning:
Arabia Maru Vessel O.S.K.
Three months before a child is ex- number of bombers came over an un-the belief that the swing has geno
seven days out of Cape Town on her Identified portion of an unmentioned too far in the other direction.
The principal is reduced 20 per European country on an unstated day
A certain amount of straight talk Which Is sharply distinct from way to Singapore recently, one of The Mystery of the Shilling Green,"nected the interest is cancelled,
overboard.
cent, with each child born. prove the elaborate extent of the heard.
For the stewards fell being defeatism-is
Five children would wipe off the The man overboard" signal, given counterfeit, which has been The Public Can See
example, there was a speech in New York by another newspaper man, almost immediately, was promptly printed from two plates and in British people, reports Drew Mid-William Stoneman, of the "Chicago obeyed, but the ship was going full ninely-eight varieties.
speed ahend and had to slow down
FEW CHANGES IN dleton, of Associated Press, are "far Daily News", who said that it was a
NEW CAR MODELS more ready to face the brutal truth "catastrophie misconception" to think and turn,
Stater
could help While passengers caught sight of
The stamp now sold came from the
THE United States 1941 autuma than the newspapers and the 1.B.C.," that the United and "grow Rarcastle about headlines Britain more by staying out of the the bobbing head of 20-year-old
Shishido, struggling in the swell of celebrated "Patlisson" collection of and communiques that tell of slight war than by entering the war.
the damage when they can sen
He said he was not suggesting that the ocean and in fear of the possible the postage stamps of Great Britain, motor show has been cancelled be- America should go into the war, but appearance of sharks, a lifeboat put which also included an example of cause there will be few changes in the forged 1911-12 £1 green, com- 1942 models. The automobile in- wreckage with their own eyes."
Americas say the most urgent Press merely that Britain would need "tens out,
The man was saved and after plote with postmark, which was per-dustry is concentrating on plane pro- noed is for a re-examination by the of thousands of aircraft, hundreds of
tor. It changed hand at £7 52 lotalling £312,000,000. censorship of the theory that any-destroyers, and millions of tons of some rest carried on his duties as petrated to defraud only the collec-duction. It has aeroplano contracts thing suggesting that Britain is suffer-fresh-shipping" to win...
"Pattison" Collection
found
lonn.
Queen's Bldg.
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Fewer Refugees
In Hongkong
Following are the figures, supplied
on
Still More Planes For Britain
A now aircraft factory for the
by the Director of Medical Services, Curtiss Wright Corporation has chowing the number of refugees and been begun at Buffalo, New York destitutes accommodated in Govern State. ment Camps In Hongkong February 15. The figures in brackets are those for February 0:
King's Park 1,202 (1,292); Matau chung
1,444 Morrison Bill 553 North Point 1,450 (1,461); (533) Tal lang squatters
This will increase the production jor P40 pursuit planes for Briinin
from the present rate of eight planes) daily to 80 or 70 dolly.
At present the entire output of the Curtiss Company, now working 2,537 (2,057); Ngau Tau Kok squat the highest rate in the States,
going to Britain. ters camp 700 (708).
Kam Tin 1,793 (1,850); Fanling was 10,204, as compared with 10,218 Children's camp 328 (207).
on February 8, showing a decrease The grand fotal for February 10 or 14.
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