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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 13, 1941.

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HOME OF SPY STUDEBAKER TRUCKS RING SUSPECT

SIX PISTOLS, nine rifles, one shotgun, 100,000 cartridges and a quantity of other ammunition all presumably for use in "target shooting," were seized the other day by Nassau County police at the Mer- rick (L. L.) home of Everett Minster Roeder, one of twenty-nine persons who were arrested over the week-end of June 29 by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and charged with being agents of a foreign government.

DAKAR A MENACE

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that well-handlet air power, even in small quantities, could turn the tables in favour of any landing operations carried out in connec- tion with naval bombardment. Nazis' Stumbling Block

The seizure was made under the direction of Inspector Harold R. King, Lieutenant Albert V. Pitt, head of the Nassau Police Safety Bureau, and Detective John Meln- tosh, following cancellation of town and Slate permits for possession of the powder and a cartridge-flling machine.

Lieutenant Pitt revealed that the permits were issued to Mr. Roeder, an American-born citizen, less than a year ago. He said that there were "quite a few" such permits outstanding among private citizens in the county.

"At the time we investigated Roeder's applications," Lieutenant Pitt explained, "he was one of the most respected citizens of Merrick, chief engineer of the Sperry Com- pany, making bomb sights for Immediate utilisation of Dakar, the government, a member of for military operations against the several rifle clubs in the county Western Hemisphere by the Nazis, and of the National Rifle Associa- would depend upon e imination f tion,"

the British fleet, which would per- Neither Nassau County police mit movement of men and supplies nor the FBI would comment on down the African coast.

the reasons for allowing the per-

Visualisation of future possibili-mits to remain in force and the ties, however, is most bnportant

powder and guns untouched for Given access to Algeria and days after Roeder's arrest, but Morocco, there is no reason why it was assumed, without contra- Nazi Germany cannot develop

diction, that they had been hope- Dakar and provide land com-

ful some one would attempt to munication direct. Let us see what

remove it and furnish 2 new this would entail. For a long time

avenue of investigation, France has had under considera- tjot 10 trans-Saharan railway penetrating her Vast African domain. The well-developed Al-

Most of the guns seized were of a small calibre such as might be in the arsenal of

ony small- arms fan, of whom there are thou-

NAZIS THREATEN BISHOP'S WIFE

gerian rail system, parallelling the sands in the country. Mediterranean const and thoning the ports of Oran, Algiers, Philip- peville, Bone. Biserta and Tunis. links southward with a line run- ning to Touggourt. Thence the way has been projected through the desert, via the outposts of Forts Flatters and Laperrine,

The Germans in Norway con- to Timbuctoo, thence down the Niger | finue to take extraordinary mea- River to Koulikoro, where rures to prevent the nublicațion existing railway runs to Dakar. of the pastoral letter of the Nor- Motor travel by this route is already practicable, though it is very tough going.

Unlimited Manpower

Needed

an

The gun to be bridged by rail is some 2.000 miles. The total dis- tance is roughly 2,600. Given German efficiency and engineering ability, plus unlimited use of man power both in the shape of native and, if necessary, prisoner-of-war and slave labour from the nanula- tions of occupied Europe, the pro- ject is quite feasible.

wegian bishops, in which they criticise the Quisling administra- ton, says the Norweglan Tele- graph Agency.

The wife of the Bishop

of Tromso

was threatened with arrest by German military police If the bishop read the letter while preaching recently in Tromso. The Germans marched into the church and took her outside.

When she stated that she did not know whether the letter would be read or not they al- lowed her to reenter the church and went in themselves to take note of what the bishop said.

the.

Another route might well be from Columb Bechar, end of steel southern Mediterranean littoral in in southwestern Algeria, down the sufficient strength to occupy Wadi Draa to the Rio de Oro bor-place, Admitting this possibility, der, then southwest along the it can be seen that possession of desert to the coast and St. Louls. Dakar shifts from an

motor

U.S. WOMEN

RAID VICTIMS

The American Am. bulance Corps suffer- ed their first fatalities when two drivers, Mrs. M. Butler and Mrs. H. M. Richardson, were killed recently in a night raid.

Mrs. Butler joined the Service in October.

GOEBBELS TELLS

Germany's air raid pre- cautions to-day are no longer a matter to joke! about, but one of "bloody seriousness" as protection! against the attacks of the enemy.

Goebbels gave this warning re- cently at a reception in Berlin to ARP. delegates from all over the country. It was broadcast by all German stations.

Goebbels protested against U.S. opinion that the English are of harder stuff than the Germans. "W" sacrificed," he said, "two million dend and several hundred thousand children who starved to death during the war."

But he admitted: "It stiil re- mains to be seen what eacrifice the German people will be able to bear under ite leadership of to-day.

"We have all reason to be proud of the altitude of the German people. Many of you have been

and

bear decorated

the many sears received in air raids.

"Suffered Heavily"

"Some of our districts have so far been spared or suffered anly slightly, but others again have suffered heavily.

"It may to-day be more com- fortable to live in one of the dis- tricts which were not touched, but after the war it will be an which was in the middle of the honour to have lived in a district

attack.

non-existent.

"We used to differentiate be- academic tween the front and the home thence by rail to Dakar. Good question to one of self-preserva-land. To-day the boundaries be- roads through French tion, when viewed by anti-Axis tween these two zones are often Morocco, via the oasis of Taflelt eyes. to Columb Bechar, exist, It is possible to motor to-day from to the necessity that Dakar remain Tafilelt to St. Louis; it is far from a pleasure jaunt, of course, but it can be done.

Which brings us sharply back

either in the hands of French forces, which will not only main- tain neutrality, but can protect The important point in all this that neutrality, or that it come into speculation is that, given French "protective custody" of the British acquiescence, a Nazi motorised or Empire or its allies. It is a ques- mechanised column could march tion of vital interest to both the overland to Dakar from the United States and Britain, --

"How will it be possible to

Bremen speak of Kiel,

and Hamburg? They are in the vang midst of the front.

"During the heavy air attacks you are always risking your life, your property and your family: like the soldiers."

AGAIN SHE DARES SEA TO WED

Undaunted by a mid- in boat. Then she was all over again, so, I'm taking a ocean escape from a U- Engedd brought back to second batch with me. But this England. Immediately she decid-time I'll buy, my trousseau when boat sinking when o on her ed to start all over again, I get there.

She cabled hor flance saying, Lavina is a Liverpool, qurso, way to wed

she would be coming out for the and she is, to wed. Mr. Hermann: wodding on the first available G. Van Den Berg, Liverpool boat.

footballer, In South Africa, Wearing her sister's frock, her face still tanned from the fierce sun during her twenty-

Africa, Lavin South

Ainley, 21, is making plans to sail again.

senu

my More Presents ––

Her first ship was torpedoed. and ” shelled in the Atlantic..{ "And I mean that," she one hours in a lifeboat, she told Lavina's -- wedding dress, trous-said, “although my family a reporter: "I became engaged to and presents - including: are begging me not to risic. the Hermann a year ago." When he glass and silver went down voyage, a second time,

roturned home to join the South. with it.

"Some of my friends are insist-African Air Force I promised to Lavina spent twenty-one hours ing on giving me their presents follow him in May."

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