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NATURALISED BRITONS--
THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 27, 1989.
TERRORISED INTO BEING
NAZI SPIES
London, June 11.
Many Germans who have become naturalised British subjects and who have grown to love the land that has granted them refuge from the Nazi terror, are faced with a terrible dilemma.
They have been approached by Nazi secret agents and told to find out certain information of interest to the Fatherland.
"Find out what we want to know," they are told, "or else.
"
"Or else" is a gentle hint that have renounced their nationality unless they obey the commands of are being forced to act as past- the Nazi "high-ups," relatives in time secret agents,” he said. their home country may feel the pressure of the iron heel.
This was revealed to me yester day by grave-faced Leon Turrou, U. S. G-Man who unmasked the Nazi "spy .ring” in America, and who probably knows more behind- the-scenes stories of the Third Reich Secret Service than any other
men,
During the great American round-up, G-Man Turrou learned that dozens of Germans who had become loyal U. S. citizens had been approached with similar de- mands.
"They say that friends and re- latives in Britain are faced with the same dilemma,” he had told me in London yesterday.
THEN THEY “TURN ON THE HEAT!. "First of all the Nazi agents appeal to their patriotism. If this fails, they turn on the heat.”” -
During the American clear-up, Mr. Turrou learned a great deal about the methods of Nazi spies in the European democracies.
“In almost everl country of the world German men and women who
OFF THE RECORD
"Germany has the largest, though not the most efficient, spy system in the world.
"Nazi agents enter countries by signing on as members of the crew of German shipë..
"When the vessels reach port these men fall sick, and in many cases they are able to land.
"Many of the secret agents who gain admittance to a country iņ this manner are members of the Gestapo, the German secret police. "Their main task is to check up on their fellow countrymen.
"For instance, it is the custom for Germany to sell secrets about the democracies, to Japan at a price three times as great as she pays for them.
"But recently Nazi spies have been dealing direct with Japan, and this has aroused the disapproval of the Fatherland.
"Consequently a purge of Ger- many's spies is expected in the near future.
· EFFICIENT
LEYLAND GIVES PINT OF BLOOD
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Maurice Leyland, the Yorkshire cricketer, was engaged on an er- rand of mercy recently.
For some time now his wife's father has been gravely ill in a nursing home. Maurice went to visit him and gave a pint of his blood in a transfusion.
He was acting as twelfth man in Yorkshire's game at Old Traf- ford. He showed not the slight- est effect.
a huge organisation with agents in every country of the world it is not as efficient as it might be.
"In many
adopted are so clumsy as to be al instances methods
most laughable," he said.
"For instance, one woman who was caught possessed many code messages which might have been very difficult to decipher. But when her room was searched the code key was found in a bottom draw.
"Though German spies, on the whole, are not as cunning as they might be, they are relentless in their search for information.
"If they have an objective, they do not care what happens so long as they attain it.
"Spies employed by most foreign countries are lone hands and, if they are caught, receive little help from officialdom.
German Troops For Italy In War
IT IS LEARNT FROM A DIPLOMATIC SOURCE THAT LATELY SOME RESERVISTS IN MUNICH WHO RECEIVED THEIR MOBILISATION ORDERS WERE SURPRISED TO READ THAT IN CASE OF WAR THEIR DESTINA- TION WOULD BE IN ITALY, ONE OF THEM WAS INSTRUCT- TO TURIN AND A THIRD TO |ED TO GO TO MILAN, ANOTHER
TRIESTE.
This fact makes it clear that,
boast that Germany and Italy when Nazi and Fascist statesmen
would be fused in war-time into a single military and economic body, their words ⚫are to be taken literally.
Article 3 of the Italo-German pact, Special importance is attached to
under which Germany and Italy are bound to assist each other by if one of them finds arms, even herself at war with a single Power.
The implication of this clause, it is surmised is a clear warning to Poland that she cannot expect Italy to exert a moderating influ- ence on Germany so far as Polish affairs are concerned.
It is considered, moreover, that, being so closely bound to Germany, Italy in future can hardly afford to continue her special agreement with Great Britain.
"But in the German Secret Ser. vice it is different. Germany does everything she can to release her agents who are imprisoned.
"During the great spy trial in from Britain that German agents America many witnesses-na-were operating in our country, we turalised Americans, some of them did not dream that there were so many spies in our midst," he add-
SERVICE BIG BUT NOT G-Man Turrou believes. that were abducted and taken back to though. the Nazi Secret Service is
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Mr. Turrou believes that the de- mocracies are awake to the Nazi
spy menace.
"Until we received information
ed.
"But now we are spy conscious and, altogether, 750 cases are being investigated or are due for court action."
Cape Is Clue To Girl's Murderer
LEEDS, JUNE 13.
A MAN'S TATTERED MACKINTOSH CAPE MAY PROVIDE A CLUE TO THE MURDER OF ETHEL WRAITHMELL, 20, YEARS-OLD. LEEDS GIRL.
The cape was found to-day by the afternoon, Neither mentioned it Leeds police beside the torso of the until to-day; when one told his Leeds girl in Low Wood, Wellington Hill, employer. Wetherby road, Leeds. This is
The police: were informed, and the three miles from Scholes, where, boy guided them to the wood. late on Saturday, other parts of the girl's body were found,
It was established to-day that Ethel Wraithmell was seen shortly Woman's clothing and A news-before midnight on Wednesday last paper dated June 3 were also in Leeds. found.
Dr. P. E. Sutherland, West Riding The place where the discovery police pathologist, has confirmed the was made is a four-feet deep cul- theory that death was due to etran- vert about 200 yards from the gulation, and occurred not more Leeds-Wetherby main road, and is than 48 hours before, Saturday's about a mile inside the Leeds city discovery of the murder: boundary. There is a rough road leading past the culvert along which
ght be driven.
To-day find strengthens the police theory that the bodyis
Bred in Leeds and taken
city by motor-car
of
Mr.
Statements were taken, to-day from two brotherà and two sisters of the girl who live in the Batley
districts.
A Jonsried sister, Mrs. G. Fraser, Frbed, Batley, told me: mother died when Ethel wBB' "Swaby, Chief Constable of ni ad father died five years ago. to-night that a par Ethel had worked as a servant and as seen by two boys who walk in a woollen inill I had seen little
ugh the wood on Saturday of her lately."
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