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Malta.

STILL GOING STRONG.

Sole Agents:

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Telephone 20076.

HERE, THERE

and

EVERYWHERE

An Eton Bid For Harrow

The reported offer of King Prajadhipok of Siam of £2,000 for the body of his recalcitrant Harro- vian cousin recalls similar exam. ple of his Majesty's lavishness in his youthful days.

At Eton, where he was a fag, and. later, a fag-master, he was extreme- ly popular. On one occasion haj sent a fag to fetch his boots from the local bootmaker.

The fag returned in 20 minutes] with the boots. "They have been very well mended," said Prines Frajadhipok. "How much do 1

awe

"Seven-and-six," was the reply. The royal fag-master then pro duced a £5 note.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1933.

My Fellow Prisoners In Munich-II.

NAZIS' POLITICAL PRISONERS

NEW LIGHT ON HITLER'S

PUTSCH

SECRETS FROM MUNICH

(By Noel Panter.)

GAOL

[Mr. Panter, Munich Corres-of Munich. There he was obliged any pondent of the London Daily to paste paper-bags like Telegraph, who was imprisoned criminal. He told he that he glad- in a Nazi paol for 3 days before ly did so in order to be released being expelled from Germany, from the soul-reading monotony of makes further revelations con-solitary confinement. cerning the political prisonera in my article in yesterday's inau kept without trial, in cases for of The Daily Telegraph I referred many months, in the Elfstrasse to an aristocrat of the old school "Sorry." said the Ing.

who, on the night of my arrest, pre- prison in Munich.]

sented me with a pencil-his most can't change that." The Prince "Never

possession. It shoulders shrugged his

It was in the dim light of the treasured mind." he said. "You can keep the prison lobby, on the evening of Baron Aretin, a friend and jchange."

October 25, that I heard from Herrjfident of Crown Prince Rupprecht, After this there was a keen de- Walter Tschuppik the story of his the heir to the Ravarian Throne.

who is now King of Siam.

"I

mand to fag for the young man arrest and confinement. We had "POLITICALLY DANGEROUS"

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2

Wellsian Film

In

he has

Seven Months In Goal

war

COM-

Owing to his monarchist pre- dilections he was rogarded by the Hitlerites as "politically danger-

been released from 'our cella for a half-hour's exercise.

short staccato sentences, Mr. H. G. Wells has been invited, while walking briskly up and down passage, Herr and has agreed, to write a story the long, narrow

of the ous," and was cast into prison. For has aeven and a half months he specially for the British screen. It Tschuppik informed me

now lingered in the Ettstrasse, and will be produced by Mr. Alexan-facts. Whenever we approached a

warder he paused in his narrative he sees no immediate prospect of der Korda.

The story will depict the future and he took special care that no release. A man up in years, the fof the world. Although the idea Nazi prisoner should overhear us.

confinement has told on him severe- Though the original charge 117. was Inspired by Mr. Wells'a "The

Two separate charges of High Shape of Things to Come," his film against him-one of High Treason

Treason were preferred against story will not follow the book, but was dropped long ago,

in prison for eight him. But there was no evidence to will be entirely new both in treat been kept

months. The reason is that, in the support them, and the tragedy of ment and in narrative.

"H. G." is preparing for this new Ettstrasse, he has seen and heard his case is as great as that of Herr

Tschuppik. was venture with his usual thorough- too much, and the Nazis are afraid

Of all the political prisoners He is now studying the tech- to let him go. A Czechoslovak sub- the clergy into what was purely nique of film-making at the studios. ject, he has lived in Munich for whom I met in the Ettstrasse, the a temporal affair; for, as

about eight years, and formerly one who most aroused my sympathy edited the "Sueddeutsche Sonntags-Was Baron Godin, who was in- DOBL."

carcerated merely because he did he duty. He was in command pl the Government forces at the Feld- Lerenhalle, in Munich, during the abortive Hitler patech in 1923. The were then revolution- One the night of March 9 Storm Hitlerites Troopers roused him from his bed. aries. They escorted kim the HERR HITLER'S PUTSCH Ettstrasse.

imprisoned

down to the question of language. Unfortunately, the matter embittered by the intrusion

ofness.

the

Maltese are Roman Catholics, the Your Daily Smile

Nationalist party. deliberately

identifying Catholicism with

Great Britain has for laimed

at the development of the Church. Matters came to al

of long Italianism, enlisted the aid

NEAT

He: "Would it be wrong for me

political, economie. and cultural head in 1920, when the Prime to klas your hand?"

She: "Well, it would be out of autonomy, so far as is consistent Minister. Lord Strickland, some-

place." refused to with an imperial policy, in every what impulsively part of her far-flung Empire. allow a priest, a British subject, to Sicily The gradual reconciliation of the to be transferred jextraordinarily diverse racial.. re- against his will by the order of

ligious, economic, and cultural his Italian superior; asserting Farmer Beeton

the transference was elements, however, found there-that

Great Success AB MODD BY tea was

finished

Prior to Hitler's advent to power he had freely criticised the Nazis. NO CASE-OR RELEASE Embassy's Transfer

When

He

WEA

to

there for several weeks without A Memory Of 1923 announced to his

The putsch was an ignominious not household that he was so tired of knowing the reason for his arrest. Ifailure. Herr Hitler and many of the charge of High his lieutenants fed, and the blood Treason had been formulated by of the dead and dying flowed on the the Secret Police, the papers Odeonsplatz, where now the stand- were sent to the Public Prosecuards of Hitler proudly wave.

in continually presents extreme for disciplinary reasons as stat-eating badly-made brend that he difficulties. Serious conflicts ofled, but because the priest in ques- would make the next day's supply

himself. interests, prejudices, and loyal-tion had supported him during

"Good Idea," Immediate- ties are inevitable; but, fortun-the 1927 elections.

agreed a visitor, ately. They seldom necessitate ly feeling ran high, and the Mal-"Til lend you a hand, if you like."

Together they departed kitchen- drustic disciplinary mea tese Parliament requested Britain

such

sures

as the suspension of the to invite the Vatican to inves-Wards, one hearing a bag of four, Constitution, as in the case of tigate the matter. The British the other a drum of yeast.

It was past midnight and still the the present crisis in Malta. Cur Government thereupon asked rent events there are not a spas- that the whole question of the amateur bakers were hard at work modic episode, but constitute an relations between the ecclesiasti-The farmer's wife ventured to ask incident in a long struggle for cal authorities and the Malteself the bread was in the oven.

"In the oven?" cried Becton supremacy between two opposing Government be gone into. but enitures, with which has come to after holding an inquiry the Va-We can't keep it in the kitchen,

let alone the oven." a clash between tican refused to publish its be associated

State; while Church and

the port, declaring Lord Strickland a

the peculiar geographical post-Roman Catholic, and rejecting Magistrate: "Have Lion of the island. Situated all attempts at a concordat. been up before me?" practically in the centre of the Meanwhile, the Maltese bishops| Prisoner: "I don't know, Mediterranean Sea, Malta pos in a pastoral letter enjoined the what time do you get up?" sesses a unique strategic value, electorate, under pain of mortal recognised already in ancient sin nat to vote for Lord Strick-

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IN THE SAMUEL GOLDWYN Production

THE MASQUERADER.

with ELISSA LANDE® Directed by RICHARD WALLACE

CLEVERER

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tor at the Supreme Court in Lel- pzig. As in my case, this au- thority quickly decided that the charge could not be sub. stantiated.

Because ten years aga he gave the word of command to fire on the revolutionary troops, Baron Godin was arrested soon after the Nazis seized power, He has now been in prison for five and a half months.

Despite the frequent representa- lons of the Czechoslovak EmbassY in Berlin and of the Consul in

Among the women prisoners in Munich, the Nazis have refused to

the Ettstrasse there are many who berate Herr Tschuppik. They

are being confined merely be- have promised to do so

CRUSC they acted 85 secret- occasions, but always some excuse arles ta former Social De- was found to detain him. Since mocrats who are themselves in pri- my release I have received

son or who have fled the country.

son.

Os many

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ever pathetic yet objectively written In these two articles on "My letter from Mrs. Tschuppik, who is Fellow Prisoners in Munich" I sir. not aware that I had the good for-have striven to give simply yet tune to meet her husband in pri-clearly an account of what I saw and heard during my nine days in In one of her closing sentences the Etistrasse. I saw no acts of she sums up the situation admir violence perpetrated, and I learned The schoolmaster held up box ably. "It is my husband's pen,"

from fellow-prisoners that thesa; she states, "that the Nazis fear,"

the most disgraceful features of the Nazi regime, ceased about the PRISON FOR CRIMINALS

middle of May.

During the three preceding months

times when it was colonised by land or his supporters in the Oh, Cleopstral

the Phoenicians, the ancestors of forthcoming elections; a dead-

the bulk of the present inhabi-lock quickly developed, and the inlaid with a figure of the Sphinx tants. Today it is an important British Government, in protest "Now, boys," he said to the class; port, and as Mediterranean base against the interference of the "what country does this box remind of the British Navy, one of the clergy in purely political affairs, you of ""

"I know, sir," said Little Freddie bulwarks of Empire defence. suspended the Constitution in

brightly, "Egypt." Prior to its acquisition by Great Jurie, 1980 empowered the "Correct, Freddie," said the man Britain in 1814 by the Treaty of Governor to carry on, and apter. And why does it remind you Paris, it was ruled by the Knights pointed a Royal Commission to of the land of Cleopatra ?” of St. John of Jerusalem, whose investigate thoroughly. In March, headquarters it had been since 1932, on the Commission's "Because there's a picture of the sixteenth century. Britain's commendation, the Constitution task of adjusting the interests of was restored, but it was ordered the Knights, members of noble that English and Maltese only} Norman, Spanish, and Italian were to be taught in clementary families, about 24 families of schools, Italian being confined whom still exist, and those of to

secondary schools. Lord

minx on it," replied the boy.

a

A

common

occurrance

A Journalist's Transfer

My own impression of Herr {Tachuppik is that he is far too con-it Was

scientious a journalist to write vin- for prisoners to be taken from dictively, and that, if they release their cells at night and beaten un- him, the Nazis have far less to fear mercifully into making, "confes- than if they continue to keep him sions. The prisoners' whom I unjustly in prison. At present he have mentioned in this article as- wears the haunted look of a massured me that they had never suf- Facts You Did Not..who has been subjected to a parti-fered in this fashion, and they cularly, insidious form of persecu-were reluctant to discuss the sub- Know.

tlon,

Ject. From other sources, how For one fiul week he was trans- ever. facts have come to my know Latin America is estimated to ferred from the Ettstrasse to the ledge which, some day, it may be the Maltese, became increasingly Strickland thereupon apologised contain $80,000 miles of roads, of Stadelheim prison on the outskirts

(Continued on Page 11). difficult when the revolutionary for his opposition to the authori-which only 14.600 miles are maca- troubles in Italy in 1848 led to ty of the Church, and the bis dam or macadam surface treated. the influx of many Italian re- hope pastoral letter was with

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fugees. Gradually, two parties drawn. At, elections in June Pressing a button on the end of grew up, which have to-day be-1931, however, the Nationalist

a handle operates tongs that have Come the Constitutional party, party was returned with a large been invented to handle foe cubes or Jed by Lord Strickland, on the majority, and it quickly became lump sugar on dining tables. one hand, aiming at the develop apparent that the new Govern ment of Maltese nationality along ment was deliberately abusing

Experts have estimated Man

lines of British citizenship, stan-its power by evading the lang churia fron ore deposite to Cun darda, and ideals; and on the uage conditions under which the

other hand, the Nationalist Constitution had been restored, tain 788,000,000 metric tons with party, led by Mizzi and Mifsud, although these had been ratified an iron content of 280,000,000 tons. representing the Italian element, by the Maltese Parliament; while|

Except for certain reserved mat an attitude was adopted dotri Its inventor claims that his ters, such as defence, foreign mental to British interests. This weight to be attached to golf club affairs, emigration, and external together with the Incapacity, heads for practice teaches a player trade, self-government was grant particularly financial, displayed how to swing his clube correctly. ed in 1921, with' English and by the Government led to repeat- Italian as the official languages, ed warnings, which have ', been although "Maltese, a Levantine disregarded.. - Accordingly," the of dialect, i was - "the language of Constitution has again been aus. Government has shown declaiye- shout. 66 per cent, of the popular pended and a state of emergency ly, that, nothing can be permitted tion. The

the conflict,

for these to endanger, the safety of such a thereford came

cond time, in spits of the delicacy vital. Empirï link as Malta.,

Ikon," the "British

FROM THE

HIGH COMMAND.

(Low in the London Birning Standard)