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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

MR. ANTHONY EDEN'S "GES

FUTURE

YOUNG MAN DESTINED

FOR BIG THINGS

TO

SATURDAY

JANUARY 15

1985

DREAD WORD ANTI-NAZIS

HITLER'S SECRET AGENTS ACTIVE

BY MILTON BRONNER

"Gestapo"the very name makes Germans shudder. I le the people's term for the Gehelm Staats Polizei-the State Secret Police.

It is purely a Nazi creation. So secret aro its workings that few facts are known about it, but legend is rapidly accumulating. --If the stories that seep out of Ger many are to be believed, the Gesta- po is the most feared of all secret police organizations, and. Europe, In its time, has known quite a few.

In the early days of the 19th the century, Joseph Fouche was French Minister of Police until Napoleon dismissed him. It was said that Fouche and his spica heard all, saw all know all. At the same time in distant Austria, Napoleon's most stendfast enemy, Prince Metternich, Austrian Chan- cellor, likewise had a far-flung net of necret police and apies. Under the Russian Czars the Okrana was dreaded by all the people and-to- day, under the Russian Soviets, the Orpu is a dread name.

RECENT NAZI DEVELOPMENT

The Gestapo in a thing of com- paratively recent growth. At first, when Adolf Hitler was not sure ar to the reliability of his brown- shirted troopers, the S. A, be formed the S. S., dresed in, sombre black and, as that body grew, it was placed in charge of Heinrich Himmler. When the Nazis came to power, ilimmler was made pro- feet of police in Munich. General and took first class honours in the Goering. head of the Prussian

subject.

Capt. Anthony Eden, Lord Privy Sexl

By British Central Presi Onco again. Captain Anthony Eden, lord privy seal and member of parliament, has shown his adept hand in International affaire.

This time he was instrumental in formulating the resolution which onded, for the time being at least, danger of war in the Balkans.

- Sir Austen Chamberlain, once British foreign minister, said of Captain Eden, when that young man had been commissioned to make a tour of European capitala fn the interesis of disarmament: "There is no one to whom I would

In 1923 he entered politics and won his Conservative meat for War- wick and Leamington. He has re- tained it over since.

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government, formed his Prussian Gestapo. Hitler named Immier as head of the Gestapo in' the other German states. Later, Himmler was promoted to chieftainship of all the Gestapo in the Relch. He then transferred his headquarters from Munich to Berlin. Some of the chief jobs of his thousands of accret

EVERYWHERE

Heinrich Himmler ,120 per

cent. Hitler man.

3. Since the blood purge of last June, to keep tab on all Nazl leaders, big and little, lest another web of intrigue against Hitler. be woven inside the ranks of his own organization.

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Nobody knows who the accret police are. They don't wear uni- forms. They seem ordinary citi zens. They work under cover. And what makes all Germans shudder is that it is a swift trangi- tion from being seized by the se- cret polica to. being haled before the Eo-called "People's Courts," likewise recently instituted by the Nazi regime. These courts try all political and treasonable offences. There are threo Senales, each with five judges. Only two on each panel have legal training. The balance are army, offleurs and Na- zis. Trials mainly are held in secret and there is no appeal. It is possible, upon the accusations of the secret police, to be swiftly rail- roaded to the firing squad or the headman's axe.. FEAR TO TALK EVEN IN PUBLIC.

more. For it is hinted that there is a microphone under every table and every chair. It is also claimed that the telephonic conversations of foreign correspondents with their home papers are also heard by the police.

Little, if anything, is over allow. ed to be printed in German papera about the activities of the Gestapo. But occasionally some bald an- nouncement reveals Its activities. Thus, the other day it was, an- nounced a number of people, con- victed of espionage for a foreign power, had been condemned to death. Foreign papers were a bit more informative. They told how the secret polles arrived evening while a party was going on. In the Berlin home of n Polish nobleman and all there present taken to Gestapo headquarters. Some, of them were never again.

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Another deals with the fate of a workman at an electrical factory at Spandau. Those workers are not supposed to reveal to anybody In what department they labour. One day recently a workman's wife came to the gateway of the factory. with her husband's lunch basket. To the watchman she explained her man worked in the grenade depart- ment. The unfortunate husband was promptly and severely punish- ed for sedition.

EVEN GOERING CAN'T ESCAPE

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NAVAL TONNAGE COMPARISONS

FIGURES OF BRITAIN, U.S. AND JAPAN

TONNAGE BUILT

967,019

BRITISH EMPIRE

BEING BUILT OR APPROPRIATED FOR

130,195

UNITED STATES

708,550

222,060

JAPAN

656,125

103,626

Shaded areas of the vastels give an idea of the total fonnage appropriated for the United States. Great Britain and Japanese navios. Black areas thow the tonnage of the "big thres” at the present time, Japan demande aqualization.

SEA SERPENT STORY

CANADIAN MONSTER PROVES TO BE ONLY A BASKING SHARK

By British Central Pract

There is a reason for this. The French claim that German muni- ion and aviation factories aro working over-time re-arming Ger- many. There is always a danger that some workman, not a paid spy, may innocently gossip. But the Nazi regime does not consider thie Rs innocence. Such talk is treach- ery,

It is revealing secrets to the enemy. It is punishable by death. It is claimed there is no restau- "Maul halten"-shut your mouth rant, cafe or hotel which is not that is the order of the day. surveyed by the Gestapo. The

Amid all these grim things,

Prince Rupert, Canada. microphone la freely used. The Gestapo has a tiny one, casily hid there is one laughable incident, and of immense carrying which, true or otherwise, has been

Here's the Prince Rupert sen ser- power. It is whispered that all the gossipped about in European pa- conversations of persons on the pers. It is said that General Goer- pont which caused quite_n_stir in Black List are listened to, even in ing has bitterly complained that the marine and scientific world

The sea serpent was discovered- their homes. Moreover, the con- every time he goes out with a prot- so that the Judges-if cases bo served by the Gestapo. Whether

was a basking shark, a fish which by Iugo Sandstrum, a Prince brought may have no doubt as to true or not, It reveals one kernel of the authenticity of the evidence.

fact; Heinrich Himmler is 120 per grows nearly 40 feet in length at Rupert fisherman, who was cutting wood on the island and was at- cent. a Hitler man. He is super times.

tracted by the cries of the gulls. It used to be common thing for loyal to his chief. So he watches Germana to make a rendezvous in everybody. There will be no more the lounges of the better-known Roehm conspiracles if he can help hotels. This rarely takes place any it.

Ills work in the office of Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon first be came prominent a few years ago when Sir John initiated him to the rigors and perils of League of Na-police and apies are as follows: tions debate. Always an expert debater and clever speaker, Eden Socialist literature that is smuggl-den,

1. To seize all Communistic and full naturally into such a positioned into Germany by various means and when pressure-of-affaire-at-

and to arrest, if possible, those in home made it impossible for Sirside Germany actively concerned in

captain took over the full dutica.

with more confidence intrust such John to leave his post, the young distributing the subversive leafletsversations are electrically recordedty woman, his movements are ob-until experts-finally-decided-that-it-

a mission."

That opinion is held by most members of England's diplomatic

corps.

"Antony," is he is called by his colleagues, is a very young man for such a game as international polities. He is but 36 years of age.

At the forming of the National government, Eden became parlia mentary undersecretary for foreign affairs. It was characteristic of him that he made more of the job than any of his predecessors.

In January of this year, he was appointed ford privy seal, in order, it was announced, to strengthen the Only 17 when war broke out, | political, representation of the Eden went to the front in 1915. be- British foreign office. The post of came a captain and won the Mili-lord privy seal is an ancient office tary Cross.

Most of the action he which, in itself, carries merely saw was on the Near Eastern front nominal duties, but the lord privy where he became Interested incal has often been entrusted with Oriental languages,

the discharge of important work for which for any special reason re- quires the attention of, a minister

Back to Oxford after the war, Captain Eden studied languages

and pamphlets.

2. To keep a watch on all persons on the Nazi Black List. These are people suspected of active antagon- ism to the Hitler regime, or of re- vealing state or military secrets.

in parliament.

As a politican and a diplomat, Captain Eden is earning a brilliant reputation in European circles. He is described na a patiet, Imper turbable negotiator, a friendly and Informal mixer and a master of European languagee.

Of the man himself it is said that his success has not in the least One of degree turned his head.

were intact and huge flippers were attached about five feet below. the heart. There were smaller fins near the tail.

Unlike the famous Loch Ness He recognized that the discovery' "monster" of Scotland, this "ser- was something unusual, to say the pent" was once a living creature, | least, and summoned Dr. Neal Car ler, head of the Asheries export- !England's best-dressed diplomats.knighthood in the New Year's not half-submerged wreckage.

mental station at Prince Rupert. he presents a trim figure, smallish, honour lists. but well-proportioned. He is dark- haired and wears a not-too-closely- trimmed moustache.

Early this year he became known a "roving disurmament ambassa- dor" and it was freely predicted that he would one day succeed Sir John Simon as foreign secretary. Now it is thought that he will be honoured by the King with a

Found on the shore of Henry- As reporter for the Council of the League of Nations, Captain Island, near Prince Rupert, where

Eden

Dr. Carter supervised removal of found the formula that it had apparently been stranded by the remains to Prince Rupert. The settled, temporarily at least, the crisis which had arisen in the low tides behind a rocky barrier, vertebrae were cut into six-foot soc- Balkans beween Jugoslavia and the sea serpent was badly decom-tions and transported by boat and Hungary. His resolution was ac copted by all parties involved in the posed and its flesh had been large- the creature reassembled on the dispute and constitutes a brilliantly caten away by gulls. The 30 Prince Rupert dock where it st

foot long vertebras, pictured above, tracted thousands of visitors. piece of diplomacy.

Britain And United States To Operate

States To Operate Eight-Day Round-The-World Air Service

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Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith,

Routes Charted For Trani Oceanic Service

The development of Empire avi- States working hand in hand. | the Pan-American Airways of the the map indicates. Two routes bo most used will be vin southern Itralian aes, and ation recently has given the neces- This tremendous new undertaking United States. Regular passenger have been established, one a Atlantic, across United States and Lindberg

s the southern Pacific Two out sary Impetus to the establishment brings together the world's two and air mail service is soon to be northerly passage, across North across of a round-the-world air service route service which will find greatest air corporations, the Im started from London and New York Atlantic and Cannda to the Far of the world's outstanding fillers, Great Britain; and the United portal-Airways, of England, and to the other side of the world, as East. The other passage, Ilkely to Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, Aus-