1940-03-26 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 26, 1940

PREPARING DUTCH KEEP

THE NAZI INVASION

(Continued from Page 10) fend the German minorities in Po- land.

"During the last days of August 1939, orders were given for violent proceedings. The Gestapo agents

WATCH ON NAZI PLANES

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") Amsterdam, To-day.

A direct Amsterdam/Ber- lin air service has now been were instructed to destroy various in operation for several days public buildings by explosion, to and planes are operating on wreck railway lines, telephone and telegraph cables. This plan, led to a daily schedule transporting certain results. At Katovice and Tar- | now, the station buildings were dam- aged; in other localities, the telephone and telegraph lines suffered. Several attempts failed owing to the apprehen- sion of the German minorities."

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The speaker further informed that this campaign had enabled Polish authorities to discover the seat of the conspiracy. "Several Nazi agents were unmasked, other centres, unknown till then, were discovered."

And Warsaw finally decided to dis- band this association of saboteurs, but only at the eleventh hour, that is, dur- ing the last days of August 1939,

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"The provincial authorities received instructions from Warsaw to arrest and intern the Gestapo leaders and agents in concentration camps but ." Here the Prefect's gesture showed that all this had been useless, "These measures, unfortunately, came too late, for at that very mo- ment the German tanks and planes had already crossed the Polish fron- tier."

Meanwhile the orders had been car- ried out, but the Gestapo agents had succeeded in getting away and in gaining the larger towns, already in- vaded by the German troops, where they met other colleagues, with whom they were to continue their infernal tactics.

"Together with the German army, groups of Gestapo saboteurs entered Poland. Their first action was to creat a panic in the occupied towns, to cause the inhabitants to flee and thus to organise a traffic jam which handicapped the movements of the Polish troops.

freight,

In contrast to Britain, which admit- ted joint Dutch and British operation of the Amsterdam/London line,; Ger- many requested that the line be opera- ated by German 'planes and pilots only.

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The Dutch acceded to the claim but imposed important restrictions:-

'Planes flying over Dutch territory must be of a certain fixed type and follow a carefully drawn route.

Furthermore, all air finers must be operated by permanent crews, the names of whom must be submitted to the Dutch Government for approval.

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The sternness of the Dutch con- trol is emphasized by the fact that a German 'plane put on the Am- sterdam line but not conforming the fixed type had to return to Ger- many after warning shots were fired at it by Dutch anti-aircraft batteries. -Havas.

U.S. AIRCRAFT

EXPORTS

(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL") Washington, To-day.

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The United States Department of Commerce announced that aeronau- tical exports during January valued at $25,480,817 the second largest monthly total ever recorded. it was only 10% under the record total in December 1939. The principal markets for American aeroplanes in January were the Allies, with France "In the villages near the great cl-leading the list with $12,053,978 and ties and in the country itself, it was the United Kingdom next with $4,040,- possible to meet men. in army or po- | 912. Australia bought $2,733,149 and lice uniforms ordering the inhabitants Canada $1,512,536: to leave their homes. In several cases, the sub-prefects had false in- structions to compel the peasants to flee to the interior. These instruc- tions applied both. to the authorities and to the population."

Here the Prefect quoted the case of a false police agent who had given orders on circulars stolen from

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own office. And this was not the worst. In a short time from then there were intrigues which bordered upon the diabolical, namely:

The State broadcasting stations be gan to launch news designed to create panic. This could only have been done thanks to a methodical preparation with the aid of records reproducing the voices of the real speakers.

Others listed were: Turkey $1,116,- 641; Sweden $1,113,871; Finland $1,- 047,651; China $497,993; Brazil 233,743, and Japan at the bottom of the list with $200,152.

Aircraft exported during · · January totalled 233 units valued at $17,574,- 469. Of these, 205 were complete land 'planes valued at $15,877,784. 27 land planes were exported without engines.

China's main purchase was aero- plane engines, of which she took 34' valued at $372,752. Havas.

INFANTRY FIRE ON THE RHINE

This was devilish and only the Germans would have been capable of

London, To-day. such methods. It is possible that Last night's French official com- some people might describe this as munique states: "Local artillery ac- ingenious propaganda. -Eut the use of tions on various points of the front. these records achieved it's object | Infantry fire along the Rhine. Ac- namely, panic.

tivity of both aviations."-British

The population of the Polish-Ger- | Wireless. man frontier left for the interior of country, taking with it what it could,

also its cattle; this caused an extra-remained perfectly quiet; but, on the ordinary jam on all the routes. Also moonlit nights succeeding the violent the Polish troops were unable to re-bomb raids of the day, their presence group themselves whereas the German was manifested in an unusual way; troops advanced in the deserted re- from time to time, it was possible to gions. The enemy advance was note the passing gleam of electric therefore favoured by this exodus of lamps on certain chimney stacks. the population, and it was possible to These were signals for the enemy re- carry out the plans of the German connoitringį planes.

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General Staff. In the fleeing mass of "These German agents remained in the refugees there were Germans, hiding until the most critical moment disguised as soldiers, policemen or for the Polish army; then they began civilians, and in their cars, among their sabotage, They also succeeded their goods and chattels, they trans-in provoking street battles. Some had ported light machine-guns of the even received orders to incite to ac- same type as those used by the Ger tual Insurrection in cities, where this man army.

attempt was futile owing to the good sense of the Polish population.”

"These false refugees, having cross- ed the Polish lines, were able to reach The object of these premediated the centre of Poland and to take up tactics was to justify : German quarters with Germans whose address prisals during and after the war. had been procured beforehand.

MITà be Continued) During the first weeks of their stay, (World copyright 1949. Reproduction they have dgna" of "'hetivity na Iin whole or part strictly forbidden)

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