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THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 25, 1940.

M.P.s EXPOSE 5TH COLUMN WORK IN

ENGLAND

RESULTS OF AN INDEPENDENT INVESTI GATION INTO FIFTH COLUMN ACTIVITIES IN ́BRITAIN ARE BEING PRESENTED BY A PARLIA-

MENTARY COMMITTEE TO THE HOME SECRE=: TARY..

"Mr. John Parker, M.P. for Romford, who pre-- sided over the Committee, told the "Sunday Chronicle" some of the exposures his Committee have made. Already the Committee's findings have led to scores of arrests, including some Army officers and men on the fringe of big politics, as well as aliens.

"There is a very widespread mittee reveal, being manipulated

in

Fifth Column at work

this by conscious, Nazi-minded direc- country," Mr. Parker said. "When tives. They are, deliberately, u only 800 of the 5,000 most ac- unwittingly, operating under the tive members of the British Un- control of German-inspired trea- ion of Fascists have been detain- chery. cd, the margin of danger is still Mr. left very wide.

many Bome

Parker quoted

Publication proofs.

of defeat the Committee's "Not all the detained Fascists would have been arrested. Many

Here are others;- of object. them have been allowed to go ĺ "Although the British Secret that free again. Among them are Service must have advised some of the 'Gauleiters',appoint- Italy was about to enter the war," ed for different parts of London he said, "why was it possible and the Provinces in readiness for many young Italians of mill- for a Nazi victory.

country tary age to leave this for Italy a few days before Mus- in solini declared war?·

"There are four kinds of trai- tors at work. They, operate different ways and for different "Some cases of signalling to reasons. But they are all Fifth Nazi bombers have been investi- Columnists-either potent or gated. In one case, signals were

potential.

"There arc,

shot into the air while raiders first, definite were over the Thames Valley, Gestapo agents at work here, and bombing of a vitally im- They are not foreigners, but portant works immediately fol- British men and women will lowed. ing to take German money, put Into British banking accounts 'the of British citizens before

war.

·

Using Air Mail their They are selling

"Suspicious actions in the inva- own country.

'sion area along the South, coast "Then there are certain paci- have been investigated. These fist bodies, both political and included childish-looking scribbf- ethical, whose anxiety to prevent ing on walls, stating where am-

CHILDREN'S

GALA BOMBED

A number of peo- ple were killed, in- cluding five children, and many more in- jured, some of them seriously, when a sing- le German (plane'div- ed out of the clouds over a North-western town and bombed and wrecked a pavilion where a children's held gala was being

in aid of the local Spitfire fund.

One bomb which fell on open ground near the pavilion exploded while civil defence :workers were still searching the wreck- age. This bomb broke windows in a work- "shop, but caused no casualties apart from two cases of shock, 1000000000000000000

NEW VALVE GUARDS

war is exploited by the Nazi- munition dumps were and GAS

the

minded for the bencfit of Hitlerism route to take to avoid military and to the hurt of democracy. obstructions,"

"Another member of the Committee said that they had

SUPPLY

been able to provide the Home Britain is to have a nev

Office with evidence that en-

South Coast Spies

"The third

group of Fifth Columnists is made up of cer- tain types of business, magnates and big property owners who These cases included: A book-counteract the destruc- are not. consciously unpatrio- seller in a seaport town aroused tion and supply delays tic, but are concerned at the loss the suspicion of a neighbour by caused by bombs on gas

order of .the of trade and property resulting rearranging the from the intensive air war Hit-. books in his window every morn ler is waging.

abled the police to make ar gas system which will rests

ing.

the

mains.

a

Since the war began experts "Finally, there are few The neighbour reported to the have been trying to evolve

a Fifth-Columnists in political committee who advised the police method of preventing wholesale. circles whose frame of mind ls, The Special Branch raided similar to that of the Petainists place and found that the books damage by raiders to the coun-

try's vital gas resources. who betrayed France."

were arranged to conform to a "Our experimental engineers These various groups of active code, and that

had think they have found the answer propagandists are, the investiga- been a member of the British to our troubles at last" Mr. tions of the Parliamentary Com- Union of Fascists, but "resigned" Shann, of the Gas Light and just before the war under in Coke Company, told the "Sun-

LEIPZIG FAIR A FAILURE

structions.

the man

Mr. Parker said: "We have evidence that Fifth Columnists have been at work in readiness for an expected invasion on simi-

day Chronicle".

"Bagging" The Leaks

lar lines to those employed in men responsible for the instal-

Holland.

"Empty beer-bottles to h

the

Mr. Shann, who is one of the

ation of the new system, said: Throughout the country special in ditches with maps

gangs of workmen are toiling underside of the labels. Lists of ceaselessly to complete the

al- A sidelight on conditions pre-local residents who are to be asterations to our maing as speedi- vailing at the Leipzig Fair is sassinated because they are fiercely as possible given by a Rumanian lawyer wholy-anti-Nazi were also secreted. "The new.idea Lahich we call has just returned from Germany. "In the Lobbies and smoking bagging, will end all this. It is He was always credited with 20oom of the House of Commons similar to the principle employ- having Nazi sympathies; certainly one or two MPs have been hearded in ships watertight compart- the has no pro-British leanings, expressing unpatriotic sentiments,

ments.

and this is what he said to friends; There is at least one M.P. who "When one part of the ship

"I spent four days at Leipzig merits the Tower."" Fair, but for the best part of three

AN

COURT

is holed, the, affected section. Is isolated by buicheads which and allow the ship to travel, on prevent the spread of damage,

to safety.

'Remote Control'

"Instead

of ; bulkheads, we These are using a new valve. valves caro, now being fitted to gas malna at spots which sour enginders have spécially chosen.

of them I was forced to seek refuge in shelters and cellars. On AT.S. VOLUNTEERS arrival at the German frontier I was served out with ration cards for my, stay. I quickly found that

Two A.T.S.Volunteers, Narine even at the favourable travellers Mary Berti, 29, and Elizabeth Reichsmark rate each meal cost May Wiggins, 25, were remanded the equivalent of 10s.

Fin custody at a Kent police court The food was of the scantiest, charged with stealing two port- and similar food, even if offered in able gramophones from damaged any other country, which is most premises in an area which had doubtful, would hardly cost over been subjected to attack by The final result will be that 29. 6d. Prices in Germany since I jeremyaircraft. Detective, Pal-if a small aren is bombed and Last visited the country a fewmer said that when arrested Berti mains damaged, we can, from months ago have rocketed up-replied: "We are both as bad a central control room, aclog one the emergency valves of the Toreign visitors were most dis as one another. I took contented with Leipzig, and all felt first" Wiggins said:"Yes, I'm affected roads, cutting them off that their Journeys had been a guilty,"

wards.

ESCAPE FOR ST. MARTIN'S

It

completely from the rest of the district"UN

Work has just been completed on many of the principal mains; but outlying districts and ather areas will have to take their turn. SAVED SWEDISH CHILD

waste of time, and that the Fals had only been opened for propa- ganda purposes within Germany.

"I met a friend who had just arrivéa from Switzerland. He An anti-aircraft shell recently told me that a recent journey came through the wall of St from Dusseldorf to. Busle, by the Martin-in-the-Fields church. fastest express triin available had pierced the 21t. wall, made an taken him nearly 40 hours, hole in the ceiling of the por-

"They were delayed in sidings tico, struck the pavement, and Diving into a whirlpool," "Mr. for several hours, and at times, then bounced back into the middle Ossian Goulding, a British jour- lowing to dislocation due to bomb- of the portico; where fremen nalist in Sweden, saved the life ings, it was necessary to detrain retrieved it. The portico damage of a two-year-old girl at Byda- dwalk for half an hour and was small and has now been len; "near." Oestersund,. · Centraf board another train.”

Trepaired.

Sweden.