RINTELEN GERMAN EX-SPY, HELD Trapped By Britain, He Asked To Be British
MORE FASCISTS TAKEN:
SWOOP ON I.R.A.
London, May 25.
CAPTAIN FRANZ VON RINTELEN, Germany's chief spy in America in the last war, author of "Dark Invader," the secret-telling spy book, was detained in London yester- day. He was taken to an internment camp in the West Coun- try.
Twenty-five more British Fascists, four of them women, were arrested yesterday. Some were roused from bed to be taken to prison. The number now interned is 60, of whom 42 were taken in London.
In Northern Ireland a swift police | good-bye to a number of friends at swoop rounded up 70 members of the the club, he was driven back to Bow- I.R.A. They went to gaol.
street with the allens officer, and later
The detention of Captain von Rin-set off under escort to an internment telen followed his appearance at Bow-camp.
street yesterday before the London Mr. Mulliner said: Regional Aliens Committee,
"Capt. von Rintelen took the com-
He
He is a professed anti-Nazi, hadmittee's decision philosophically. applied for British naturalisation, told me that as there was a round-up had publicly declared his detestation of all Germans, it was, perhaps, only of Hitler and the Nazi regine.
right that he should be interned.
"He took away all his papers with
When he appeared last October be- fore an allens tribunal he was grant-him, saying that he was going to con- ed his freedom.
UNDER ESCORT
After evidence had been given yes- terday on behalf of the police and of von Rintelen, the chairman, Mr. Ro- land Burrows, K.C., announced that the committee had decided that von Rintelen should be interned.
He returned to the Hampden Re- sidential Club, King's Cross, where he had been living, accompanied by an aliens branch officer and Mr. E. B. Mulliner, the manager of the club, who had spoken for him before the
committee.
After packing his bags and saying
NAZI TANK FIGHTS NAZI TANK
Germany's lightning advance has reacted in many cases unfavourably on her own forces.
Returning officers re- veal that scores of Nazi tanks veering or return- ing from swift raids were attacked and put out of action by following Nazi tanks that mistook them for enemy.
Some, wandering far ahead of other German forces, have at dawn and dusk been bombed by Nazi 'planes.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
LESSON SERMON
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BUBJECT "GOD THE ONLY 'CAUSE AND CREATOR."
The subject of the Lesson Sermon: in all Christian Science Churches to- morrow, June 9th, will be:-"God the Only Cause and Creator."
The Golden Text will be:- "Ah Lord God" behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee." (Jere». miah 32:17).
tinue his writing during his intern- ment. I understand that he will be allowed special privileges in intern- ment."
SERVED FOUR YEARS
One of von Rintelen's best friends in England was Admiral Sir Reginald Häll, ex-Director of Naval Intelligen- ce, who tricked him into captivity in 1915.
By a false cable of recall to Ger- many Sir Reginald led him to book The ship passage in a Dutch ship. was stopped in the Downs and the then spy seized.
He was sent back to America, served four years in prison for his part in the sabotage campaign in which Ger- man spies secreted "cigars" in ships. The "cigars" in a few days burst into flames.
He's "her man!" Tyrone Power and Allco Faye are romantic stars again in "Rose of Washington Square," the 20th Century-Fox produc- tion of the King's Theatre, in which Al Jolson helps them sing back the song hits of to-day."
PRO-NAZI TRIED FOR JOB AS CENSOR
Stated to. have pro-Nazi sympathies and to have offered his services to
BANDSTANDS IN LONDON TO GO
Hundreds of tons of first-class me- tal will go for war uses by the scrap- ping of old bandstands and park rail- ings in London.
Battersea Park has already given up 1500 iron hurdles, and railings and shin rails and hurdles are to go from Kennington Triangle, Stangate Trian- gle, near the County Hall, Victoria Park, Hackney Downs and Milfeld
Britain as a censor or war correspon- | Park. dent. Charles Max Sakritz, aged thirty, Margery
The bandstands in Temple Gardens Park-road, Forest and Victoria Park are to be scrapped. Gate, London, E., was sent to gaol at West Ham. He was charged with damaging ä Government poster, and was sentenced to a month's hard labour and fined £10, or a second month's imprisonment.
He agreed that he tore a piece off the poster, but contended that it look-
Von Rintelen had been ten years in Britain, had refused Hitler's offer to become German Ambassador in London "History might have been different if I had accepted"-and haded untidy. offered to fight for England in the humblest capacity.
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Sakritz, it was stated, was a British subject, being born in Britain of
an
was
Englishwoman. His father German and now in Germany.
He lived in Germany from the age of seven till he was twenty- two.
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In his rooms were found a large map of Central Europe, several pro- Nazi political cartoons, and Fascist and Nazi signs cut from cardboard.
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