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THE CHINA MAIL, MẤY 9, 1941.
NAZI PROPAGANDA WEB IN MOSLEM COUNTRIES
This article, written by a special correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph," last month, thretes a vivid light on Germatt propaganda efforts in the Moslem countries. It is especially inter- esting in view 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 he so badly needs, oil to drive his mechanised forces.
Iran could satisfy both fier. many's and Italy peace-time needs and have some left over Iraq could more than supply Italy
Chitrade ham, Germany cannot but opetly spical propaganda, paid whisperers are busy on the bazaars of Cairo and Baghdad Boatmen and beggars spread m sidious talk through the villages of the Euphrates Valley. While 100.000 loud speakers
In
Near East spill the DORSET Bar and Berlin radios.
The Promises
the
This is what the Germans aro promising
Jews will be driven out Palestine;
of
The French will be driven out of Syria:
The Pasha class will lose power in Egypt in favour of the Fellaheen;
Germany will sponsor oro. Arab Federation,
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MOTORCAR SALES TAX URGED
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board Eccles has joined Defence Price
Administrator Henderson in urging o 20 per cent. sales tax on automobiles and criticising Secre- tary of
Treasury Morgenthau's
pro-
posals to boost excise levies on commodities which do not compete with defence produc- tion. International News Service.
STUDENT'S STORY OF NOCTURNAL ADVENTURE
A "ROMANTIC“ DEFENCE was put up by a well-dressed Chinese youth who was charged before Mr. D. J. N. Anderson at Kowloon this morning with unlawfully entering a dwelling with intent to com- mit a felony.
Accused, Lam Long, 23, who claimed to be a student, residing at No. 234, Shanghai Street, was remanded 24 hours for further enquiries, on pleading not guilty.
refused.
Germany has only one Minister
Accused stated that at 9 p.m. on and jumped to the ground. He in the Near East. but she is
April 24 he went to Kowloon | received injuries and sat on the making the most of his services Skating Rink, where he remained pavement near the house until he In the swollen Teheran Legation
until 11 p.m. when he left the was caught and sent to hospital, the staff, running into hundreds, Rink with a girl friend, to whom where he stayed until yesterday.
vast under- is organising this
he proposed that they should go ground propaganda machine
According to Del-Sg. Bethell, The sinister figure of Grobba, to a boarding house, but the girl
prosecuting, Mr. J. Gaan, whe Minister who was German
resided on the first floor of No. 10. Baghdad when war broke out.
They walked along Chatham Observatory Road, was awakened fits constantly across the scele
Road and sat on bench until by his wife at 4.30 am, when she in Iran. He was last reported at
a.in when the girl departed. Be-shouted that she had seen a man Abandan, where there is ** big fore departing, accused said. the in her bedroom, Mr. Gaan went to girl pointed out No. 10, Observa-the window and saw accused sit- Everywhere in the Near East
pavement about Arabs tune in their sets to listentory Road to him, stating that she ting on the
was staying there and telling him yards away from the house. to Yunis Bahri broadcasting from elap his hands three times after Mr. Guan said that a clock was Berlin This is not because they sympathise with Hitler, but because Bahri is bawdy, funny and exciting, while the London broadcasts. Arabs say, are refined, sensible and dull.
oil refinery.
the door for him.
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a few hours and she would open found on the window and a cigar- ette case on the verandah, both of which were inside the room before At about 4.30 am.. he went the was awakened by his wife. the house and clapped three times but met with no response. So he| decided to climb a drain pipe and went into the house. There he noticed a woman sleeping and he. thinking she was his girl friend.
Bahri IN in Iraqi, and Baghdad he has been condemned to death in his absence. He is a fine propagandist. The British could have had his services, but touched her hair. they turned his offer down.
Saudi Arabia
Mystery Man
Injured In Fall
However, the woman screamed In Saudi Arabia, where Ibn and he dashed to the
window, Saud rules a people who have no daily newspaper and whose current coinage is British go'd! sovereigns, German jufluence Is ! weaker,
Most Saudi Arabians will tel! you that Britain is the nation closest to Islam and they desire her victory.
Ibn Saud is invariably correct and friendly in his dealings with Britain, but his close adviser is a mysterious figure called El Kor- kani. He is an exiled Libyan, and therefore presumably hales! Italians, but in 1939 he went to Berlin to buy rifles and had a two hours' interview with Hitler.
OFFER BY
HAILE
SELASSIE
No one quite knows where he The Emperor of Abys-
stands.
Syria is not an oil country, but sinia has offered the
is important because the Ger- British Government the mans and Italians are already installed there. It is true that use of his forces for any]
an Italian disarmament commis- front required.
sion failed dismally, but now the German envoy, Gen. von Hintig,
has travelled to
This was revealed by Haile Ankara from Selassie himself in the first inter- view he has given since his re- turn
to his capital after years of exile.
Beirut to tell von Papen, the Nazi Ambassador to Turkey, that he has already got the local pro- paganda machine working.
CHOLERA CASES
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Outlining hle home pro- gramme the Emperor said he was determined to re-establish Six cases of cholera-two each Christian ethics in government. from Kowloon and rural Hong Intensive educational, agricul- Kong and one... each from tural, social and development Shaukiwan and the Harbour -schemes would be inaugurated. 26 cases of tuberculosis, eight of He hoped the British Govern- enteric fever, three of measles ment would grant a loan to carry and one of diphtheria were out the plans, The loan would notified yesterday to the Health be repaid from the mining of Authorities.
gold. Reuter.
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