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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 26, 1989;

G-Man Reveals M.I.5's Swoop

On Nazi

Nazi Spy Ring

DEATH THREATS IN ROUND-UP.

London, June 11.

The G-Man who smashed the Nazi spy ring told me yesterday how British secret agents, at- tached to the famous M.1-5., unravelled a plot which led to scores of arrests in the British Isles and the U.S.A.

He is Mr. Leo G. Turrou, now in London. Had it not been for an observant Dundee postman who noticed that a surprising amount of foreign mail dame to a hair dresser's shop, Mr. Turrou would never have brought off the greatest scoop of his

career.

That observant postman, whose 'America. name has never been given, start-

gan. ed something.

His

False Names

investigations be-

1.R.0. LINK-UP

WITH NAZIS

London, To-day.

Definite information is in the hands of Scotland Yard that there has been a financial tie-up *between certain L.R.A. leaders and extremists of the Nazi Party.

Difficulty, officials are faced with is to pin facts on suspects.

Our Own Correspondent..

formation which we had unearthed about Nazi espionage activities in

Canaria."

6-YEAR-OLD MOTHER MISSED INFANCY

LINA MEDINA, THE PERU- VIAN INDIAN GIRL WHO STARTLED THE WORLD BY GIVING BIRTH TO A SON WHILE LESS THAN SIX YEARS OLD IS "A PERSON WHO HAS MISS- ED INFANCY ENTIRELY.”

This explanation is given by Dr. Eugene MacCornack, noted mem- ber of the American College

of Surgeons, who is in practice in

Mr. Turrou, after handling about Lima.

2,500 cases, including the Lind-

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"There is no question that Lina bergh baby kidnapping, recently re-is less than six years old," Dr. Mac- tired from the G-man service to Cornack said tfter examining Lina. become an author and film scenario"That is borne out by the milk writer.

teeth and the length and size of her bones. So far as I know the case is without precedent."

ed hundreds of letters with threats

But he knows that he is still a marked man. Since bringing the He mentioned his suspicious "Among the names mentioned in to his superiors, who got in touch the documents were 'Crown,' 'Spiel-Nazi spies to justice he has receiv-

"he continued. with M.I.5, the military intelli- man' and 'Sanders,' gence department of the War "They were obviously false names, against his life. Office

but we began to put two and two together.

In May last year Mrs. Jessie Jordan, plump, blonde, 51-year-old Dundee hairdresser, was sentenced to four years' penal servitude for espionage.

of

"Among the large number people who were later indicted for espionage was Mrs. Jordan.

"She was then serving her sen- Mr. Turrou told me: "If it had tence in a Scottish prison, but the not been for the information trans- indictment still stands against her, mitted to us from Scotland Yard, and would be operative if she ever the Nazi agents in the US.A, might|| went to America. never have been brought to justice. |

A Marked Man

"We in America owe a deep One of the men whom Mr. Tur- debt of gratitude for the part play-rou saw last week was a high official ed by M.I.5. This is a splendid of M.I.5. organisation which the Federal "Thia official, whose name I can- Bureau of Investigation of the not divulge, came over to America United States Department of Jus- to help us in the link-up between tice is now copying."

the Mrs. Jordan case and our Nazi spy investigations," he said.

Mr. Turrou described how photo- the graphs of the documents in Mrs. Jordan. case were sent to

OFF THE RECORD

"I was able to reciprocate to some degree by giving him in-

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Excess of calcium in the `girl's body had enabled her to bear normal baby, and the girl was nor- mal in all respects, he added. The child was delivered by a Caesarian

COLONY'S OLDEST operation. Lina does not nurse the

RESIDENT PASSES

The

child. It is nursed by a woman who had a baby the same day.

Offers have been made

ap-

for

the girl to pear with her son at the World's Fair, but it is hoped that the State will intervene to prevent exploita- tion, as the Ontario Government did Colony's oldest resident, in the case of the Dionne quintu- Mr. George Philip Lammert, pass-plets. ed away at the Kowloon Hospital

after yesterday morning

a five weeks' illness due to blood poison- ing. He was 77 years of age.

JAPANESE SWORD FOR HITLER

Tokyo, To-day.

The late Mr. Lammert is surviv- ed by a daughter, Mrs. Phyllis Gray and a grand-daughter, Ursula, in India; two sons, Edwin, in Ma- laya, and.. Geoffrey, in Australia; a A sword made by the famous sister, Mrs. M. S. Mitchell, in Japanese swordsmith, Kazamawa, Scotland, and three brothers, was presented. to the German Âm- Charles, Bertie and Lionel, in Hong bassador, General von Ott, as а Kong.

present from Tokyo University to The late Mr. Lammert was one Hitler.-Trans-Ocean.

of the most popular as well as the oldest resident of Hong Kong

He was connected with many local COUNT CIANO

activities, including the Masons, the Volunteer Corps, the A.D.C. and the Choral Society. He was also an expert athlete in his young- er days,

The funeral will pass the Monur ment at 5.30 this afternoon.

Madrid, To-day.

The Italian Foreign Minister, Count Ciano, will arrive in Barce- lona on a visit to Spain, on July 10,

-Trans-Ocean.

Soviet Aid To China To Be Increased

MOSCOW, TO-DAY.. [sary, arrived in Moscow, while THE SECRECY WHICH EN- the announcement of the conclu- VELOPED THE CONCLUSION sion of the treaty was postponed OF THE SINO-RUSSIAN COM- until a moment when the pact MERCIAL TREATY FROM THE negotiations with Britain and BEGINNING CAUSES SOME France reached their present SPECULATION IN DIPLOMA deadlock. TIC CIRCLES HERE.

10

It is expected that Soviet arms-

It is pointed out that Dr. Sun deliveries to Chim will be increas Fo, the Chinese delegate, has ed as a consequence of the been in Moscow, for as long as Treaty,

three months; and was,

also by M. Stalin; up to the

| sent, this has been complet

passed over by the Soviet

- It is also noteworthy tha

conclusion of the treaty

Just at the date when Mr. Wil liam Strang, the British Emis

believed in par-

the condition of the leading via Soviet Asia and Sinisig- to China has in the mean-

8o. considerably im that

be used for

cale motor lorry traffic