Wednesday,
NANCY
SO THAT'S THE ESTATE T INHERITED -- A SWAMP AND A
SHACK!
BUT IT'S A GOOD STRONG LITTLE HOUSE--AND IT'S ONLY A STONE'S THROW FROM THE
SHORE
STONE'S THROW ??
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
March 19, 1941;
By Ernie Bushmiller
I WONDER IF DAT'S REALLY
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HERE is an R.A.F.
picture of battered warships at Kiol, which has been kept secret from the Nazis ever since the summer, when it was taken.
It has not been published before beenuse the authori- ties did not want the Ger- -mans-to-know-that-we-had- such conclusive evidence of the condition and where- abouts of German waraliins. Klei in probably the most strongly defended war centre in the whole of Germany..
Yet our airmen, in face of balloon barrage, A.A. Are, and possible interception from fighters, were able to go over Kiel in daylight to take a series of remarkable photographs.
Tell-Tale Oil
At the time they were taken nearly every nere of water in the spacious barbour was streaked with dil, as the picture on the left, which is made up of three of the photographs, plainly shows.
Net long before the day on which the pictures were obtained the RAF. had carried out a heavy night raid on Kiel, and our pilots then reported particularly targe Arcs.
The tell-tale atrenks of off in the picture abost certainly prove int cil installations were badly hit during the rakt- Well-known German warships. battered in various degrees, or even undergoing repair.
ey include the Scharnhorst, 20,000-tons battle-cralser, lying helples in a floating dock, show- ing urumistakable signs of bomb havoc, and the pocket battleship, Lutzow (formerly the Deutsch- land) in dry dock with severe damage to the stern following a torpedo attack by u British submarine.
Badly Mauled
Biereascopic pictures clearly indi
cate how badly mauted was this ex-Deutschland.
As she lles in the dry dock it can be seen that her stern is stripped to the keel,
The Graf Zeppelin, 19,200 tons reraft carrier, which at the time the pictures were taken was being completed at Kic), hind been moved from her berth when further photographin кето obtained a few days later. Apparently the Nazla had taken to Heart the lesson of the Scharn- horst which, there is every reason to bellove, had been hit by bomba na she lay in the fonting dock at Kiel, and had thereby kuffered damage over and above that received while she was at
sen,
The Naals orkiently decided to get nich a largo target as the Craf Zeppelin out of Kiel harbour as guickty na possible,
NAZI SOLDIERS TOLD
HER OF THEIR FEARS
"It will be just like the other war.. How can we defeat England without invading it how can we invade England without being defeated?" That was how German_officers_in_occupied-Franco-talked-to-the-wife-of-M.-Pierre-Krier,-Luxem-- bourg's Minister of Labour, who had to spend nearly six months in the Nazi-con- trolled territory.
M. Krier, veteran trade unionist and Socialist leader of the "pocket Grand Duchy," who recently reached London, told a "Daily.
GRETNA BRIDE SHOT DEAD Husband Is Acquitted
A 24-YEAR-OLD soldier shot the girl he married at Gretna Green three years ago.
Herald" of his wife's experiences. He told, too, of bitter rivalry. Advised C.O.sently, the soldier, Ralph Gordon
between the regular German army and the picked Nazi S.S, forma. tions.
When his country was invaded | by the Germans in May-for the second time within 25 years M. Krier first settled, with his staff, in Dijon. Burgundy,
Second Flight
Snubbed S.S. Men They openly talked about it to the French people. "We are Germanis," they said, "but these men are Nazis."
They also complained about the higher pay of the S.S.-who were
"Often German öfficers or soldiers
never sent into the battle and could afford champagne and better wines But within one month he had to and food than army pay would buy escape again. He arrived in Lisbon during the autumn.
sitting in restaurants and cafes would Part of the Luxembourg Cabinet. ostentatiously leave as soon as S.S. men stepped in." declared M. Krier. "My wife had to get permission in the little Burgandy town where she was caught by the invasion. to leave for Paris in order to get away from France.
with the Grand Duchess and her family, went to Canada.
It was decided that the Foreign Minister, M. Bech, and the Minister of Labour should go to London and keep in touch with the British Government.
"So she had frequently to talk at
To Disobey
At Birmingham Assizes re-
Barstow, of Pleasant-street, Preston, was on trial for murder.
Suddenly, on a gun expert's; evidence, the case ngainst him
Army Orders collapsed and he left the court
a free man.
The shot was fired in a bed- While denying that the Peace Pledge Union was in any way ber 14, said Mr Maurice Healy, room in Birmingham on Novem- concerned with helping men to KC., for the prosecution. avoid
military service, Mr Richard L. Bishop, chairman of
For Bombers the Union in Wales, stated re- he could see that bombers had been Barstow told the police that, as cently that it sometimes advised coming over every night, he loaded conscientious objectors to join his rifle to have a shot if they "came
[over up and then refuse to obey was unloading my rifle," he said, orders.
"ghen it went off." Mr Bishop
Mr Healy said Barstow's wife had was giving evi-
fallen in love with him when she was 10.
During the invasion of France.. M.
the focal Kommandantur with the dence, at a field general court Krier was separated from his wife, army officers in charge of the travel-martial, at, Liverpool, in favour Madame Lily Krier-Becker, well-ling pornits.
knawn in the International Soclufist movement.
For nearly six months she had to stay in the German occupied zone,
It was only in December that she managed to get out of France and w her husband again in Lisbon. Then she went across to Canada,
She speaks German fluently, and It was of her experiences, first in a Hille town in Burgundy and Inter de Paris, that M. Krler spoke.
:
Polite Opening
That was in August.
They Saw Defeat
pessimism.
"The officers-mostly elderly men, reserve officers who had fought in the last war-were outspoken in their "They often said to my wife:- "It will happen exactly like in the other
war-one success other, then we lose the whole war!'
after an "My wife arrived in Paris in the first days of September.
"She observed the same signs of antagonism between, the army and
In the early part et 1037, banns
of a conscientious objector accus-were put up, but the project was Jed of disobeying an order.
called off when the parents found out. The accused was Private Reginald through a form of marriage at Gretna In September of that year they went Gordon Jenkins, of the non-combat- Green. ant corps, attacked Corps, who pleaded guilty to refusing April his wife become familiar with to the Pioneer When Barstow was called up lasi to lay out his kit for Inspection when men.: urdered to do so.
A gun expert demonstrated to Mr A manber of other members of the Justice Ogiver the angle at which non-combatant corps, all conscienti- Use gun must have been held when- our objectors, were charged with the fatal shot was fired, and the angle similar offences. Sentences were to at which it would be held to be un- be promulgated.
loaded.
K.C. "Disturbed” Replying to Mr A. J. Long, defend-
"She even heard 5.5. men arum- Nazis Now Modifying, he said it was possible that the
"In the first week of the invasion." | the S.S. hennid, "everybody In France was agreeably surprised by the politeness of the Gennan troops."
came the mastera.
"The German army
The Marching Men
bling about some of their own officers, bays of 22 or 23 who had secured "But the feeling of relief FOOD
promotion through recommendation vanished when the fighting troops by some Party boss, were followed by the black-uni-
officers and famed SS, detachments, which be- men in Paris had enjoyed life for more than two months--with much "These men were rude, ruthless, aughty. They did all the dirty money to spend on drinks and food. work of arresting, searching, quen- flonlug and requisitioning which the people lind feared.
Les Quarante-Quatre, volla les mechants.
(The forly-Fours- those are the wicked men') became a current phrase among the French."
It referred to the special S.S. badge on armlets and enps, a "lightning" symbol which recalls the figure farty four,
The officers and men of the regu lar army did not concent their dis gurt and hatred for the 95. sald M. Krier.
"One day the Parisians saw long military columns marching to the Gare du Nord.
"Everybody was struck by the com-
stanoliko men
Colonial Claims
un might be fired accidentally while being held in the unloading position. Mr Henly then said he was very disturbed by the reply the gun ex- The possibility that the Nazis are pert had given to Mr Long's ques- preparing the German public for a tlon. disappointment h connexion with their often repeated colonial claims returned a verdict of not guilty."
Without leaving the box the jury
emerges from an "Schwarze Korps",
article In
the
pa which declares
tunt Nurile peoples are not capable of supporting the climate of
"Portugal Intends To Remain Neutral”
Portugal Intends to remain neutral
there is no possibility of her be poldo Danilo Dareiros, Macao cor- swayed by Hitler, Senor Leo- respondent of the Portuguese newspaper Dlaro de Noticias, recently
German must therefore at all costs rid themselves of the "African pleto change in these men overnight, coloninl mirage, tho paper declares, faces of They marched like automata, with adding that in any case the Relch's who European territory amply fulfils her realised that their merry life had been requirements regarding living space. only last respite before certain The "Muenchener Neueste Nachrich death.
ten" declares that the centre of declared. gravity of military, operailens cannot Senor Bareiros spent inat year in be removed to the Mediterranean or Lisbon as a representative of Macao to the East but that it remains con- at Portugal's annual celebration of centrated around, Great Britain.
her foundation and independence.
These were the troops bound for the North of France as the invasion army against Britain. They knew what "It "meant for them.”
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