DAB and FLOUNDER
Amby WALTER
BE
SUMMON
BREACH OF
PROMISE
BE MINE
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1949.
The story of four British Secret Service women
PARACHUTISTS DID NOT RETURN
By MARGARET LANE
S methods of warfare
A change, to each now what
conflict brings forth its terrible now heroisms.
The facts, now available, show:
courage and resolution atrocious that the possessors of were demanded of them; how
these herole virtues” should havo. come so often to sordid and hu-
What more appalling and miliating ends! unlikely, until our
own
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women-Denise Borrell and
Section Omeer
time, has befallen women than to be dropped by
behind parachute
enemy THE deaths of four lines, to be betrayed, arrest- cd; tortured, put to death? Vern Leigh, of the FANY, Little in generally known, of the WAAF, and one un- Diana Rowden, even now, about the secret known-were the subject of one work done by British Sér. of the war crimes trials in 1943, vice women during the Ger- when nine various officials of Natzweller Camp wore the man occupation of France.
accused.
The most masculine courago
record of the
triat
DENISE BORRELL
VERA LEIGH,
DIANA ROWDEN
Few who were dropped by parachute ever returned. Many falls at the detalls which park passed for Frenchwomen while there comes a point when one died the spy's death; come dis- the appeared without trace.
Some They are of a horror unrelieved they carried on their work with wonders what, precisely, the were ignominiously done away by any dignity. They stink with the naguta and acted as nine officials were tried for and with in concentration camps.
that blend of terror and sordid couriera One. Denise Borrell it is here, following the case news pecullar to the concentra-ad been working. In this way for the prosecution, that the lay tion camp.
for more than a year when the mind is apt to become confused Dione non dan and to feel that the thing hay was arrested: had nll been and Vera Leigh were caught somehow lost touch with reality, dropped by parachute and had after five months.
• The Notzweiler Trial. War Crimes Trials, Vol. 5. William Hodge and Co. 183,
FROM HERE AND THERE:
The wonica
The bobby-soxers take
cowboy suits
to
NEW YORK; The most popu- the southern Sudan, All wer for school unifonn In Ainerica caught with less00, and the next term will be the cowboy sult. Nearly 200 manufacturers report that they are turning them out as fast as they can. "They are also making acces, sories which can be used to turn traditional suits Wild Western fringes, beads and spangles, slanted pockets, spurs and ten- gallon hats. Reason for the trend, they said, is that Ameri- can youth spends most of its leisure before television sets, and stations are showing all the Fold Wild West Alms."
Suicide Unlimited ROME: The Bridge of
Deal
'zaro,
hunter had a five-minute hand- to-hand struggle with one thing before hog-lying For per mission to buat rhinos, Hartley greed to share his bag equally with the Sudan government. Only one other white rhino has ever been in captivity and each animal is worth £5,000. It is expected American zoos will buy for dollars. Hartley slood to lose £250 for every rhino killed In self defence. He killed none.
Volcanic Rivalry
Bergman he changed his mind. Magnani's new venturo is con- sidered to be a kind of artistic and sentimental vendetta.
Hords Threatened JOHANNESBURG: Johan- nesburg and Pretoria may be without dairy milk in one or two years if the dread discuss of
cpivaginitie (contagiour sterility) is not 'halted, said an officer of South Africa's state veterinary research, station at Onderstepoort, Pretoria. The disease was spreading because when farmer discovered that their cattle were Infected they immediately put them in dis persal sales. The only known method of preventing the spread of the disease is artif- cial insemination.
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woru ofI sent to THEY
Karlsruhe. Prison, where with Ave other women, they were kept for nearly a year | without trial,
onc
肆
that night by one to
The prosecution rests in fact, upon two contentions-first, that the women were put to death without trial of sentence and recond, that the men concerned in the killing must have known that there ind been no trial, and should therefore have re- fused to carry out the order.
The first of these charges
ter way than to be shot In the quarry or hanged from a hook after sentence; but the prose- cution maintained that to die in
ignoraitce, unaware, deprives one of the opportunity of appeal. So would it, then, have crossed one's mind that a legal appeal against the death sentence was the sort of thing that could be mado in Nalzweiler?
As to the charge that the commandant doctor,
medicat orderly, stoker and all соп- cerned should have known that there had been no trial and should therefore have- refused to carry out the order-here I seems the trial in on dreamlike ground.
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I CAPTURE THE CASTLE. By Dodio Smith. Heine
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Americans
list girl to lead 'a hard- working, immoral life.
Then there is Carsan- dra, the plain one, or as the vicar puts it-Ingl dious, Jane Eyre, with touch of Becky Sharp." This vicar is a wit
1 do not bellevo that prisoner- stokers, or even military doc tors, often refused to carry out course, did, and for their sort orders from. Berlin. Some, of
and cre- concentration camps matoriums were specially pro- vided. There is even a prob- ability that the camp doctor was speaking the truth when he said
DICH that, since the women obviously to the rescue of must die, he regarded lethal Impoverished and im- Injection as more merciful, thun the ring squad or the hool provident British! With this familiar theme, Dodie Smith makes appeal to THESE are the sort of inner what is worst in
arguments that make many both nations. people feel that trials for war crimes - expressions though The Mortmains they are of anguished protest- (British
DODIE ΠΗ thoir arc rituals without purpose.
SMITH namol) dwell in an old Suffolk castle, 80 draughty and Insanitary less home, dmwn by Dodio
mand for the artful-nrtless,;
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Into
As an economic pro- position, Cassandra rates ven below Rose. She sits on the draining- board, keeping the fami- ly's diary, in _short- hand, Uko Bernard Show.
this whimsically penal-
Then at 4 o'clock one morn- Ing in July,
1044, they were awakened
They In their cells and appears to ine to be tragi
expresa a desperate taken by lorry to Natzwellen though the fair trial of spies tolal
cally meaningless because, al desire for some sort of order in concentration camp for men.
war, some rules were locked into is, of course, desirable, a trial behaviour which everyone will set for a film of Hamlet. imupt the Caltons. American
of that it might serve as the Smith with all her pert com Here they taken separate cells, and
is worth having only where observe. But what is the value
How would of rules that cannot be enforced? They are a typical upper and well-to-do. the then is justice.
For practical crematorium block.
the loathsome proceedings have What is the Hague Convention class family of contem- purposes, they consist of two been improved by any cynical to a country, that ignores it?
porary fiction. Mother is ons, Nell and Simon-and the force of trial before execution? building contained cement chamber with an oven The women could be classed as
thought that has just occurred washing up the dishes and to you occurred a shade more and for hooks from which spies, and any caught spy would prisoners could conveniently be
have been shot or hanged, with hanged: also a room with eight or without trial. To the Nazis beds, a cell for stokers, a cellar trial was only the slowest and and the lavatories,
most expensive way. of putting anyone la' death.
This
A
It must also have had a gos chamber, since it appeared from the evidence that BO Jewish women had on ane occasion ghastly been gassed there; and this Natzweller camp as typical of building marks the
the Nazis' special contribution rate degrading of death. to the horrors of war-a delibe-
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GAIN, the prosecution made never told they were to dic.
much of the fact they were
Total war is on a different nobody is level. It is nut concerned with money. ethics or rules or convention: it is not a game:
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In
this!
carning
case,
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any quickly to Rose!
The only trouble is that Simon has the money and Rose falls In love with Nell. Does this stand between the girl and tune hunter? By no means! her manifest destiny as a for-,
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What is most painful in tead-"Mother" is not mother at all. however, ing the war trints is the night but Topaz, father's second wife, mare feeling that a right fuss is beautiful artists' model. She being made for the Wrong site (according to father) to reasona. The tragedy is not in men who paint her body and
Cassandro (who has fallen In the non-observance of rules in think of their job, and to Mr love with Simon) wonders it a horrible situation, but in the Mnemorris who paints her head her sister has given any, thought fact that the horrible situation and thinks of her body. Is it to the real facts of marriage. exists.
significant that Macmorris's por Cassandra knows all about them trait of Topor gets into the and doesn't think much Tate? (No doubt under the them. Chantrey Bequest.)
of
ROME:
What movie circles currently describe as 4 "batte
This And That at Siano, near Catan of volcanos" began when Anna NEW YORK: Most of man's South Italy, reaped Magnant of Rome "Open City health troubles, according to a if tenth victim recently, landed in Vulcano Island, only well-known doctor, occur be when 17-year-old Aldo Bell a few miles away from Strom- jumped from It and was killed, poll island, where her former was supposed to-on four legs cause he does not walks as he have committed suicide by jumping from this director and friend Roberto like Д horse.....The boarded bridge lately. There is another Rossellini is shooting a pleture' up 40-roam New Yorit mansion dignity. It was just something were to be injected for typhold. shima
with Ingrid Bergman, Mag- four nani la.going to make her own the Wind and part of Rebecca the same black as the latrines she' was told, bared her arm, deed, of these long-drawn retri-Arst wife with the cake-knite tures the right. 'American.19
It was here that the four and was given an Intravenous
were given lethal Injection of Evipan or phenol.
Immediately
Ten
people
In Natzweller death had no wave of suicides at Potenza, also
in which part of Gone With that went on all the time, in in South Italy, where people have committed suicide fint on Vulcano Island under
was filmed, is to be broken up recently,
tho direction of William into flats....Questionnaires sent women Dieterle. The Italian star was out to American women report injections take the ed that most of them would cremated. a professional hunter in Kenya, leading role under Rossellini's prefer men to stop right out of caught four white rhinocerl direction in the Stromboli plc- the lift or underground Instead Juring a month's expedition in ture, but after Rossellini met
uf "ladies Arst."
Catching 'Em Alive KHARTOUM:. Carr Harley, originally
meant to
and
When the Imagination has sickened OVCT the evidence
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
IN MANY CASES NOTHING CAN BE- DONE WITH THE HANDS... JUST HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL HE GROWS UP TO FIT THEM.
They were taken one at a time into the room with eight beds and told by the doctor that they Each girl in turn, lay down as
One might think, if one had to endure death at the hands of the enemy, that this was a bet-
No trial can right the wrongs of the dead in concentration camps nor
But if tor a time, lines are the dead. In Hiro-
Father, once, a best-seller in or Hamburg.
badly snarled, in the end, after nor
in America, has done no honest Coventry. The sole value, in- work since he went after his plausible, amusing adven- butive proceedings may be that and was sent to prison.
hitched to the right English. they are the only
And father takes to work. effective method
Rose, the of recording miseries
pretty daughter, and horrors which the rest of streets. If somebody will kindly many
contemplates going on the Dodle Smith is going to find. us could too readily forget.
customers here for a lend her the fare to London. novel which is light-weight but
- -{London Express Service}.¦ Topuz points out that she is the good value.
What to Do With the Hands
3 SOAP ETC
BY, KEMP, STARRETT
| Leiger
SOMEONE ONCE TOLD TER SIE HAD BEAUTIFUL. HANDEL AND THEY'VE BEEN ON EXHIBITION EVER SINCE,
WHY ROT TRY WASING
THEM F
SOME FOLKS CAN'T SEE A FAMILIAR BACK, ESPECIALLY A BARE, ONE, WITHOUT GETTING THE URGE TO SHACK IT. THIS K'A CASE IN WAICK HANDS IN THE POCKETS IS ALMOST COMPULSORY
WHATS AGAINS
TO HER
EAST DESPERATE ORT OF COURCE
WIEN IN DOUBT ABOUT WHAT TO DO WITH THE HAN FJECT TOY WITH RE HOSTS BEST KNICKARTTACKS, TIDAP ONTRE NEAREST WARD POLICIED SURFACE COK
3 for
THEN THERE ARE THE GALS WHO JUCT CANT ABIDE IDLE HANDS OR A SPECK OF LINT... ESPECIALLY IN ITS ON YOU.
YOU KEEP YOUR HANDS
Off
LET ME: GIVE YOU A
KAIR-DO/IT
MIGHT BE
BETTER.
THE ONES VIO
| HAVE TO ACCENT - EVERYTHING THEY | SAY WITH A POKE
IN THE RIBS, A AODGE. OR A TRUMP IN THE
STOMACI
I'VE SEEN BETTER HAIR- DOS ON A
COCOANIT