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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 14, 1940

MOVING SCENE

IN HOUSE OF LORDS

LORD PORTSÉA, one of Britain's oldest peers, rose in the House of Lords to plead and to offer his life for the Channel Isles, home of his boyhood, now abandoned to the Germans.

He denounced the evacuation as cowardly and the arguments in favour of it as "Petain-like." He urged that something be done to get them back.

Then this eighty-year-old peer concluded, in a slow, clear voice:

of "I am an old man. The sands EX-ZBW

few sands left are hoarded with miserly care.

"But I say to, this House with all honesty that if I could go to- morrow and submit to bombard-

ARTIST IN

ment with any chance whatever SHANGHAI

of recovering those islands, I would go. I would go to-day!

"There are some things that|

DUCHESS OF WINDSOR OPERATION

Close friends of the "Duchess of Windsor said that she had re- served rooms at the Wickersham Hospital, New York, to undergo a plastic operation on the face..

The operation will probably be perform- ed on the nose or for the removal of moles.

Radio station XCDN in Shang MAKE THE

are, more than life Itself, and hai a few days ago broadcast a among them the greatest of all farewell musical programme ́by

is honour.

a member

"In honour's name I call upon Peter Gracey who as the Government to do something of the British Military Forces, is] for my fellow-countrymen.”.

shartly leaving Shanghai,

Lord Portsea had told the House that he was in Jersey during

June.

Smell Of Cowardice

+

Lieut. Gracey has been work-

ing as a volunteer for XCDN since

ITALIANS FIGHT

The hope that the British Navy

the station first went on the air would compel the Italian Navy

"The reasons given to the pub-over four months ago and lic for the abandonment, of this been responsible for a number

of

to fight was expressed by Lord

possession do not appeal to any successful arrangements of re- the reluctant Italian war vessels

one. There is a smell of cow- ardice about them."

cordings for, broadcasting Referring to a statement in the symphony concerts and for

of talks Commons (by Mr. O. Peake, Home fortnightly series

Under-Secretary) that the island- "The Architecture of Music," Fascist spokesman,

ers had been spared the horrors

has Addison in the House of Lords.

He said he expected the Navy to discover means of inducing, as to take to sea from the places. skulking iri the where they were

on safety.

Meanwhile, Signor Gayda, the threatened Italian Navy would piano and by soon be in action against Bri-

tain. He first started

Italy would strike at Britain land and in four places on would harass British shipping in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, Red Sea and Indian Ocean, 23, large

of modern warfare, Lord Portsea talks that he wrote and illustrat-that the said scornfully: "That is the argued both at the ment of Petain."

recordings.

He urged the Government to let the R.A.F. drop leaflets on the broadcasting for the Hong Kong ago Channel Islands, giving them station ZBW about a year news of the war and news of the and his departure from Shanghal safety of relatives now in this will be a great loss to XCDN; not country,

well as immobilising 2 only on account of his musical

part of the British Flest The Duke of Devonshire replied ability, but also because of his

the Mediterranean, He thorough knowledge of the tech- briefly for the Government.

The land objectives, he said,

Sudan, Kenya and Somaliland.

said it was the policy of the Gov-nical side of radio work. Lieut. ernment to give. all possible: In-Gracey is in the Royal Corps of were Egypt, the Anglo-Egyptian formation to the inhabitants of the Signals. Channel Islands; both as to the progress of the war and the safety and welfare of their evacuated Irelatives. The suggestion of drop- ping leaflets would be carefully considered.

Lord Portsea, most courteous, of nien, listened in silence. Then he rose, looked slowly round the place to which-for thirty years in the Lords and in the; Commons he had devoted his life, and left.

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GESTAPO TIGHTENING SCREWS IN HOLLAND

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WHEN THE GERMANS took over administra tive control in the occupied area of the Netherlands, Seyss-Inquart, the Reich Commissioner, gave it to be understood that Dutch law would be maintained as prescribed in the Dutch Constitution. Few per- sons can have believed that this promise would be kept. By a simple decree introduced by him the Dutch Constitution has now been violated.

An assurance that war prison- ers in Britain were well treated German criminal law has been introduced for cafes and cinemas. was given by Mr. Anthony Eden, introduced into the Netherlands, When the crowds refused to move War Minister, in the House of and the Gestapo will hold un-and clashes occurred with patrols. hindered sway. The "seat of of German "soldiers; and, Dutch, Commons. :

the justice," as: the organ of injustice Nazis the police were ordered to He said he had asked Parliamentary Under-Secretary is called in the decree, will be The charge and German aeroplanes for War to make a full investi- Hague, and the court will-func-roared' overhead with the object gation Into interniment camps tion to the exclusion of Dutch of terrorising the population. As To far as they affected the War law in the prosecution and sen-a result of these riots, in which a tencing of offenders who commit number of lives, were lost, Mr. de Office.

against the Geiman Monchy, the Mayor of The Hague,' Deficiencies which existed were offences

was summarily dismissed... of Reich. due to the recent big Intake internees, but every effort was 'It is clear that the continuous being made to effect improve-resistance and resentful opposi- tion of the Dutch to the foreign ments:

He was confident he could give oppressor have led the Germans that conditions to tighten the screws of the vice an assurance should not fall below the stand-in which the subjugated and un- fards laid down, by the Interna-fortunate people are held. Some connected' with the Dutch col tional Prisoners of War Conven-days ago the chiefs of police at tion.

The favourite German policy of taking hostages and commit- ting reprisals goes side by side with their system of terror and Intimidatlon. A number of Dutch citizens, most of them

onial-administration; have been arrested as a reprisal for the temarity of the Netherlands East. Indies Government in interning: Germans in oversea territories. Seyss-Inquart has now dismiss-

Amsterdam and The Hague issued proclamations to the inhabitants Our GoodName

of those cities warning, them. of "undesirable consequences" in]· anxious ...He was

that there case of further disturbances of should be no doubt that we are order. Reliable information has ed the entire council of the Dutch. doing all we could and should been received that riots took place Socialist Party, which represents in this matter.

at Amsterdam and The Hegue and 25 per cent. of the Dutch people. Mr. Graham White suggested in other cities on the occasion of He has also ordered the Dutch that mortal injury, was being the birthday of Prince Bernhard. Nazis, representing about ✅ per. done to our good name in this PREGN connection.

Mr. Eden: I hope, no injury Loyalty To Royal will, be done to our good namere Family de by rumour. lam trying to as

cent of the population, to take over the party organisation, its accumulated wealth created by 30 years of contributions by the: So- chailsts, and their organ, the daily newspaper "Het Volk.”

certain the facts, and can Great crowds, wearing orange give my personal assurance cockades or Prince Bernhard's

ARRESTED BY that everything possible will favourite white carnation in their be done to put the situation buttonhole, took part in demon-

LD.V. – GAOL strations of loyalty to the Dutch right. Mr. Wedgwood suggested that Royal Family in front of the

Arrested by the. L.D.V, because lurid accounts had appeared. In Palaces at Amsterdam and The the American Press about the Hague which lasted for several he could not establish his ident conditions in the women Inter-hours. At last the Germans cleurity, a man described as Jack" nees' camps./NA

pated the streets by force threatening Johnson, alias Rex Conrád Lock, Mr. Eden explained that there the public with - machine-guns, aged; twenty-one, was sentenced, were in charge of the Home Office Masses of flowers laid at the foot at Christchurch, Hants, to threa and the Home Secretary was not of statues of members of the months? hard labour, for being aware of any complaints so far House of Orange were removed in possession of a revolver with hus the vomen wore concerned by Dutch Nuzis, hali a outfew was out. Afo@fincare.

THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 14, 1940 GERMANÝ FINDS A NEW MATA HARI

A

THIS GERMAN WOMAN IS DANGER

GERMANY'S MOST dangerous spy is a woman. She is tall, dark, strikingly handsome: she is cultur- ed, poised and attractive. In fact she is as beauti- ful and sinister as the most famous spies of fiction. But this woman is real and she is dangerous.

'Her name is Edith von Kohler.

There is little about her to suggest danger. To the casual observer she is merely a well-paid, intel- ligent and responsible executive in the Bucharest branch of the Baf Bavary brewery, makers of one of the most popular brands of Nazi beer, writes Hein- rich Lowe, former attache to the German Legation at Budapest.

With chauffeur and secretary a visit from the "so enchanting she travels around in an elegant Fraulein von Kohler." She play- Horch Straight-8 seeminglyjed on simple men and brought the perfect business woman, using a little welcome colour into the her sex appeal and personality, stereotyped routine of thei for no more dangerous purpose business lives. than peddling beer.

But I know differently. know, for instance, that she is Himmler's cousin. I know, too, that the firm for which she works is really a trading con- cern which is a cover-up for Fifth Column activities In Den- mark, France, Belglum and Rumania.

to

Three months ago she was ar rested and taken to local policej headquarters. Sh: was thei first foreigner In Rumania fall victim to the regulation which insisted on foreigners using a special pass to gair

vor

transit on Rumanian roads. The charming Fraulein Kohler was arrested, Of course, With her soft tongue, frank an absurd mistake! The German eyes and unscrupulous brain she Minister in Bucharest intervened is responsible for much of the and vouched for her respect- poison which seeps into the every-ability, and she was released. day life of these countries.

Released to continue her work of A year or so ago Edith was stirring up trouble in the Balkans. genuinely helping to build up a prosperous German beer business în Rumania-but Himmler was

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Escaped Bombs And Torpedoes

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at work. He did not fail to For it is not part of Edith von use the attractive woman for Kohler's policy to take risks. The more important work. Edith's slim spy is too far up in the Nazi secretary was Magda Raubel, now spy-ring to take the rap... one of the secretaries in Schacht's Instead, there is a little tubby Finance Ministry.

man named Herr Alfred 'Schom- Magda's job was to keep Edith mer, a prominent German spy, in touch with the High Finance who is liable to come unstuck of the Deutsche Iron and Steel 'hrough Edith's activities. Hér When French Government off- Trust, the Turkish tobacco im-job is to spread the poison; his cals boarded a British merchant ports, the B.M.W; car firm .... to take any possible consequen-ship at Marseilles during the all were pushing stuff at absurd ces.

evacuation, they were surprised prices into countries like Ru- Schommer is the clever to find a woman among the ship's mania and Holland in exchange ruthless type of man who shields for "free" and stable currency, Edith von Kohler. But he is not in order to secure some real nearly so dangerous as Edith her-

Five hundred thousand pounds

She is as deadly as Mata Hari. a week often passed through greatest of women spies. And Edith's capable fingers-enough she has one great advantage. of to attract the attention of Cousin Mata Hari... she has not yet Heinrich Himmler.

cash.

A little flattery, a promise of greater rewards (and à vista of

self.

been caught.

officers.