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·THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 9, 1941.

NAZI PROPAGANDA WEB IN MOSLEM COUNTRIES

(This article, written by a special correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph," last month, throws a vivid light on Germaqu propaganda efforts in the Mosiem countries. It is especially inter-

estup in views of the developments in Iraq).

AXIS PROPAGANDISTS are to-day spinning a cunning underground web of after-the-war promises through the Moslem world, redoubling their efforts to make friends in the oil lands.

It is a question that becomes daily more urgent for Britain as Hitler thrusts south-east through Europe towards Iran and the Arab countries. Be- neath their barren soil lies the prize be so badly needs, oil to drive his mechanised forces.

Ham could satisfy both Ger, mysterious figure called El Kor- many's and Rady's peace-time kam He is an exiled Libyan, ræeds and have some left over and therefore presumably hates Iraq could more than supply Italans, but in 1939 he went to Berlin to buy rifles and had 2 two hours' interview with Hitler. he quite knows where but. No the Mands

Italy

Outside Tran, Germany cannot openly spread propaganda, paid whisperers ate busy in

bazaars of Carro and Baghdad Syria is not an oil country, but Boatmen and beggars spread mis important because the

dious talk through the villages as and Italians

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of the Euphrates Valley, while 100.000 loud-speakers Near East spull the poison Bari and Berlin radios.

The Promises

of

Gere already installed there. 1 is true that thean Italian disarmament commus- Sion fidled dismally, but now the German envoy. Gen, von Hintig, has travelled to Ankara from Beirut to tell Von Papen, the Nazi Ambassador to Turkey, that he has already got the local pro- paganda machine working.

This is what the Germans are promising:

Jews will be driven out Palestine;

of

The French will be driven out of Syria:

To-day German agents aire promising Syria to the Syrians

BARE LEGS AND HELP THE WAR

PAINTED LEGS

Gir!

workers in Government offices at Wellington, New Zeo- land, have responded to the Government's appeal to buy fewer silk stockings in war- time by asking per- mission to appear at work with bare legs and sandals.

They intend to buy woollen stockings for the winter.

Women who are saving their hosiery ore now seen in the streets with painted legs.

Special silk-finish paint is being demon- strated by manne- quins in some of the city stores. -Reuter.

ON TRAMP

TO DODGE

ARMY

and markets to Damascus and Sooner than face mili- Aleppo. A whispering campaign tary service, many single becoming!

is magnifying mistakes that the The Pasha class will lose

French made and hinting that men are power in Egypt in favour of the Turkey wants all Syria. Fellaheen;

Germany will sponsor a Dro. Arab Federation.

Germany has only one Minister in the Near East. but she is making the most of his services, In the swollen Teheran Legation the staff, running into hundreds, is organising this vast under- ground propaganda machine.

The sinister figure of Grobba, who was German Minister 121 Baghdad when

oil refinery,

Berlin has gathered together tramps. Some of them

dozens of exiled Syrian agitators | Come from comfortable to help spread the rumours, homes and have held good|

positions.

76, STILL SERVING

out.! war broke

Villagers (>1 Belton. Suffolk fits constantly across the scene claim that their oldest inhabitant in Iran.

He was just reported at is also the oldest Briton on active Abandau, where there is # big service.

He is seventy-six-year-old Wit- liam Horne, a seaman for sixty years, and now serving in a For years the Nazis have been going ballon barrage wooing Iran, the world's third greatest mi country.

Wooing Iran

The Shah and his Government were inclined to encourage Germany because they feared the Russians on their northern frontier.

To-day even the French news- paper published in Teheran gets nearly all its news from the official German news agency, only Teheran is said to be the important capital in Asia without

a daily English newspaper. Everywhere in the Near

East

deckhand.

Police are being notified whenever these young wander. ers enter an institution. Councillor E. G. King. vice- chairman of Newcastle P.A.C.. told the "Daily Mirror":

"We hope to put the facts before the Ministry of Health and see if we cannot do something to stop these men evading their res- ponsibilities tu the nation by

dodging military service."

The staff of Newcastle poor law sea-institution are also helping.

unit 45)

Women of Belton have knitted him a blanket of sixty-three co- loured squares.

During the last war William served in the Royal Naval Traw- ler Reserve. His youngest son, Lewis is in the Navy.

IRON CROSS-CASH VALUE

Arabs tune in their sets to listen THE OTHER DAY WHEN HIT- to Yunis Bahri broadcasting from LER WAS VISITING A CASUAL- Berlin This is not herause they TY STATION IN NORTHERN sympathise with Hitler, but because Bahri is bawdy, funny and exciting, while the London BEDSIDE OF A HEAVILY BAN-

DAGED AIRMAN,

FRANCE HE STOPPED BY THE

broadcasts, Arabs say, ure refined, sensible and dull.

To mark his appreciation of the exploits of the stricken Bahri

aviator is an Iraqi, and ut Baghdad he has been condemned Hitler offered him the Iron Cross

or 1.000 Reichsmarks,

to death in his absence. He is "Mein Fuehrer." muttered the a fine propagandist. The British could have had his services, but wounded man "how much is the

war

move in the

they turned his offer down.

Iraq's last open

was a refusal to break off diplomatic relations with Italy Jast June. Italy's stock has slumned heavily in the past three months. for decds stilf speak stronger than words, however good the propaganda,

Saudi Arabia Mystery Man

Germany is still undefeated

Iron Cross worth?" "About 10 marks" replied Hitler.

Cross and 990 marks?"

"May I please then have the

BRITAIN ENDS A LEGEND

M. CAMILLE HUYSMANS, A FORMER MAYOR OF ANTWERP AND EX-PRESIDENT OF THE

and nearer Iraq than ever, SO BELGIAN CHAMBER OF DE-

Baghdad is waiting and seeing.

PUTIES. PAID THIS TRIBUTE

In Saudi Arabia, where Ibn TO. BRITAIN. Saud rules a people who

have "You have finished the legend

no daily newspaper and whose of German invincibility even in

e weaker,

: current coinage is British gold their own minds, and you have sovereigns, German influence is given us more than a promise

the certitude that we shall live in Most Saudi Arabians will tell peace. you that Britain is the nation "Great Britain is to-day no closest to Islam and they desire more alone. It is Germany who sher victory.

is alone, enclosed by the hate of

Ibn Saud is invariably, correct occupied nations who are await- and friendly in his dealings with ing the moment it may be pos- Britain, but his close adviser is a sible to resist and. revolt."

"All our staff are on the look- out for these dodging vagrants," said an official of the institution.

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