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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 23, 1941

THOUSANDS OF FRENCH

SENT

TO GERMANY

SOME PARTICULARS have now appeared in the German Press regarding Nazi economic aims in France and the machinery for accomplishing them. The German purpose is described as the revival of French economic life in cooperation with the in- terests of the Reich and under German direction. This is to be undertaken by a special economic staff attached to the headquarters of the German High Command in Paris.

The size of this staff may be estimated by the fact that it has been found necessary to take over the whole of the Hotel Majestic, which was used in the early part of the war as the French Ministry of Armaments.

It is sub-divided into a large number of departments, which pass on to certain newly created

STORY OF

MAJOR'S

FRAUDS

Forty-six fraud charges, French bodies the task of carrying involving nearly £400,

out German orders. These, too, are

to be pervaded by what is called were denied at a general the German spirit of organisation court-martial in Leeds by

and order.

A "Central Office for the Dis- Major John Vernon Gib- tribution of Industrial Products" son, commanding officer

has been set up. It is sub-divided

into 12 sections. It deals with all of a northern technical raw materials of importance to training group.

French industry. This form of Captain M. Rogers, prosecuting, organisation is entirely modelled on the German pattern.

said:

"Major Gibson entered into con- From this body a number of tracts with catering firms for sup- "organisation committees," each

at a few plying midday meals representing a separate branch of

coppers less than the Army allow- industry, will derive their raw

ance of 1s. 2d. per head. materials and distribute orders "He then paid the firm at the among their members. It is hint-lower rate by cheque drawn from ed that the French manufacturers his private account,'

continued did not take kindly to this new Captain Rogers. organisation which will put an end to the constitution of trade groups based on private interests. Contrast in Methods

"Then he forged the receipts

NAZI AIRMAN SWINGING FROM PYLON

At dawn Home Guards found one of the crew of a shot down German bomber suspended by his parachute harness from a pylon near a north-easter town.

He

was released unhurt from his perilous position.

Four others of the crew also came down by parachute and were caught.

A GIRL CAME

OUT ALIVE

Only person to come out alive from the shelter in which Lord Stamp, his at the regulation rate of 18, 2d, wife and his heir were and put the balance, in his own killed, was an eighteen- ́

year-old housemaid, who "Staff's Rake Off" was dug out severely in- The second group of charges jured and taken to hos-

pocket."

While the German economists attached to the General Staff in Paris are using velvet gloves with their dealings with the industrial-referred to travelling claims. In

ists, they treat with a mailed fist this case it was alleged men who

members of the big pool of French were entitled to receive about 1s. unemployed. These are estimated 6d. a month were paid 2s. 6d. to at 300,000, composed of workers 10s. and signed receipts for the formerly engaged in industries lesser sum. that the Germans now regard as of no interest to the war effort of the Reich.

unemployment To qualify for relief a man has to appear before the Military command, where he is at once offered work in Ger- many.

If he will not accept this he

Captain Rogers said that one who was asked to “doctor" these travelling allowances forms be gan to wonder why he should not have a "cut off the joint."

Arrangements werd then made for the rest of the staff to benefit to the extent of one- third of the frauds. The total of the first share-out

is refused the dole. A day or in September was £24, 10s.

two later the police appear at his house. He le ordered to pack a bag and is taken off to the rallway station to join a speciál train carrying workers to Ger- many.

This information was given by a Frenchman who has arrived in Britain from Paris. He estimated that about 100,000 workmen hat been treated in this way. Unem- ployment, he said, together with

the food shortage, was the greatest

problem in the occupied territory.

Hostile To Germans Giving a picture of life in Paris,

The hearing was adjourned,

A LAW

GERMANY

RESPECTS

One kind of interna- tional law is still honour- ed by Germany.

Treaties, pacts. commercial he emphasised the growing hostil agreements, Red Cross conven- ity to the Germans. Instead of tions may be torn up or ignored gradually accepting the idea of when convenient,

but patent collaboration, the ordinaryman rights are still generally respected. was becoming more and more Germans are periodically remit hostile to it. Të

ting sums to Britain to keep their The overwhelming majority of patent rights alive. Reciprocally, people were in favour of Gen. de British subjects are allowed by Gaulle. Of late his more active the Board of Trade to remit to supporters had taken to painting Germany, by way of Portugal and their inscriptions in red lettering Switzerland, the renewal fees for which, even when scraped off, left the patents they own in Germany. legible. white marks.

But reports that royalties, pay

;

Of the newspapers, “Lo Matin" ments for the privilege of making is regarded as an official Geruse of German patents. In Britain, man organ and is hardly read at are being remitted to Germany are all. "Parle-Soir" de bought for not true. Such royalties and Its rictures alone.

licence fees have to be sent when

pital.

All that was left of the house timber was a mass of bricks, and glass. It was hit in a heavy rald on the London area,

The dead include, It is believed, three members of the staff.

The heir was the Hon. Wilfrid Carlyle Stamp.

Dr. Trevor Stamp, the second of four sons, is the new Lord Stamp. He has a practice at Epsom. He arrived at the house early and in the hope that his father, mother and brother were still alive, he stayed all day until a rescue party had dug their bodies out of the debris,

Three bombs came down almost simultaneously.“

It is understood that the house collapsed on a shelter, in which the seven persons: in"the" "house were taking refuge.

Three years ago Lord Stamp was one of Hitler's questa at the Nuremberg Nazi Party Coonter- ence.

"Lord" Stamp, who was chief economic adviser to the Govern- ment, was one of Britain's chief fndustrialists and economists. He was sixty-one.

He managed Nobel Industries and was L.M.S. chairman.

Other 'deaths in the same raid were those of Lord Auckland, pilot and animal tamer, and A1 Bowlly, crooner.

VICTIMS ENRAGED

the city

eing

This paper is still being run by due to the Custodian of Enemy Strong condemnation of sight- the ex-liftboy Schiessle, who, as Property, Sir Ernest Fass, There seers who ride round

viewing raid · damage a Fifth Columnist, threw open the is a similar arrangement in Ger- office to the Germans and explain many, the intention being that made by Bristol people.

We have had a procession of ed the general working of the after the war one fund can be set printing and distributing machin off against the other and all cars and taxis along our street bergto-day," said a man who has had ery. The Paris edition is quite patent-owners' claims met. separate from the edition publish- This reciprocal - agreement the front of his house ed in Lyons. Var

worked satisfactorily in the last away,"

treme unpopularity of the Navy to fear that it will not be carried get our furniture out of the wreckage, those blitzgazers, drovő: which is blamed for cooperating out again,g

slowly by and looked latausas animals in the

A new development is the ex-war, and so far, there is no cause "While we were swe Wr

with Germany and profiting... by

the French defeat to get good jobs, Parisians have a new catch-though we were

This feeling goes so far that phrase: "Parla is occupied by the 200, 015

conversation stops when naval Germans, but

officers or ratings enter cafes. The by the Navy,

作

is occupied. If they go on doing that there

will be trouble."