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April 28, 1939.

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SPIES TRY TO JOIN THE B.B.C. After 5 Years

Stop Radio Chimes- Plea From Germany

THE B.B.C., who in the past few weeks have been interviewing refugees applying for work at translating English news-bulletins into German, have been warned through unofficial channels by the British Secret Service in Germany that among the applicants are Nazi agents. As a result of this warning several applications from alleged refugees have recently been turned down at Broadensting House. No reasons were given.

Tho B.B.C. take a serious view of the situation. They realise that if a Nazi spy found a position on the staff he could do irreparable damage in a national emergency by distorting or falsifying news.

The Nazis tried the same tuettes in Vienna and Pragtto-and succeeded. The BBC. ure determined that "it shan't happen here,"

INVESTIGATIONS

arriving in Englund have written to the B.B.C. Importing them on behalf of their fellows still in Germany to do away with the "interval-signal" of the bellchimes that always precede on the Regional An officlat ut Broadcasting House the German nowa said: "It is a situation that might programme, very easily arise. But the routine The chimes, they say, can be heard | investigations that the B.B.C. nske easily in the street und are re- concerning every,

would cognisable by members of the

applicant

Anally show up any impostors." Gestapo, who promptly arrest the

A great many refugees since owner of the set,

Valued Dead Or Alive

MONTEREY, Cal.

Sharks have the double advantage

of being just as valuable dead' 5s

Mujor Henry Muir, retired British officer, proposes to loose in time of war flocks of balloons Timing with bombs attached. device would burst the ballcons and allow the bombs to drop over wide area. Balloon above Is one-quarter Inflated.

they are alive, according to Al Meyer, Raid Wardens!

expert on the Pacific const Ashing industry. His statistics show that

1.300,000 sharks are being used in Must Not Tell

the shark reduction industry In the United States. However, before they are equally they are caught,

BECAUSE a woman questioned a

valuable in protecting sardines by Hampstead air raid warden as to eating the larger fish that prey private information he had gained -in-the-course of his visits...n_special]

warning has been issued,

sardines

Michel

THE ALL-DAY LIPSTICK

THE

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Frau Scholtz-Klink, left, head of the Nazi women's organisa-

tion, the Freundschaft, greeled on a visit to London by Frau Direksen, wife of the German envoy.

She Knows No English

DETTE Lasserre, a 13-year-old

French tvoman, who cannot speak a word of English although she has been In England since October, 1933, was at Hove recently fined £ for being in this country without leave.

Lasserre pleaded guilty through, an interpreter, and said that an Englishman brought her to England to be married.

། WAITED AND WAITED" "He promised to get a divorce and me immediately," she said. * writed and waited, and then he

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left me."

Mr. J. E. Stevens, prosecuting, anid Lasserre landed with a permit valid for two months. She had not re- ported to the police until last month, when a woman friend brought her.

A French woman, with whom Lns- Herre and the man had stayed in Hove, said she understood then that they were married.

Stic sald: "I gather that the man did not want Lasserre to learn Eng- Msh as she might have tearned too much about his affairs."

The magistrates made no order as ito deportation.

Why So Few Women NAVY CHILDREN'S

Barristers?

FOUR leading French women ALLOWANCES CUT

barristers, ardent feminists.

who arrived in London recently as guests of British women barristers, are puzzled,

They cannot understand why, although there is woman's suffrage in! Britain but not in France, there are about eight times as many women practising at the Bar In France as there are in this country.

EVE

VERY naval rating who has children to support is having his allowances cut. A rating with one child will lose 6d. a week, with two or three children 1s., and with four children and more 18. éd.'

The reduction Is officially described as being due to the fall in the cost of living index figure, There will be no cut in the allowance for a wife, no cut for single men, and no cut for married men without children.

"In France," sald Maitre Odette Simon-Bideaux, "there are more then 400 women barristers. and nearly all of them are practising. In Britain, while some 250 women have been called to the Bar since 1922, The allowances for officers' only about 50 of them are in prac-children are unaltered.

tice.

HIGHEST TITLE

The rute for the

ratings with Briton On

one child is reduced from 5s, ed, to

"In Britain, it seems, the degree of Su.; for two children, from 95. 10 68.: Nazi Radio-

barrister-at-law is regarded by many for three, from 11s. to 10s: for four

as an academic, or even a social dis- from 12s. 6d. to 116.; and for five tinction, sometimes merely BS on from 13. Od. to 12s.

additional qualification for appoint- A year ago the married allowances ments in the public services. In for naval ratings and other ranks of France the title of Maitre is perhaps the Royal Marines were substantially the highest rank 11 woman can increased. The wife allowance was nchieve."

increased by 7s., and u man with a

To understand niore fully the wife and one child got an increase struggle for woman's suffrage in from 15s. to 22s. 6d. week. Great Britain, the French women bar- It was stated of, the Admiralty risters are meeting leading feminists that all chief petty officers, petty in Britain and will visit Holloway oflcers and ratings, except Muftese. Gaol, scene of hunger strikes by were affected, and that the reduced suffragettes..

rates would continue to apply until April 1940.

BEAUTY AND BRAVE

Madame Colette Anjubault

of

"I May Seem A Traitor"

THE voice of 41 Englishman,

and criticising England

proising

heroine de regarded as a national

party, and Bolsac, secretary of the Association France-is one of the who, for her obstructive attitude to Madame Germaine Sellier, famed for tier, was broadcast to Britain from the German occupation of Lille, is her beauty, another member,

Singapore

Defences

Completed This Year

Berlin shortwave station recently

Englishmen.

constantly

on

u wavelength of thirty-one matres.

The introduction of the broadcast was not heard, but the mystery speaker began his talk-which was on the lines of a Hitler speech-with some I may seem a the words: trailor, but hear me out."

He

referred to "we and our country." After a

a reference to Mr. Eden as 4171 "prch-Bolshevist," the speaker said: "At no time in history has Bri- tain had such weak leaders, or more need of strong ones." while checking up on the issue of

"BOMBING ARAES" gas masks must be regarded as con- defences, will be completed and ready to operate at full capacity

Germany, he continued, had always this year. Then the dockyard, most modern in the world, will be "Private inquiry agents, especially in a condition to maintain a full battle fleet. Every protective wanted peace with Britain, who had it in search of divorce evidence, gun will be in position and the big air base beside the naval "forno right to talk of aggression, since might not hesitate to try to pumptress" will be in full commission, with a chain of outlying bases the Empire had been built on aggres- a warden," Mr. W, P. Essex, Assistant to guard the base. Air Raid Precautions Officer to the borough, said.

Wurdens have been reminded by Hampstead Counell authorities that particulars

Adentiul.

Singapore.

of Indivduals obtained THE great naval base of Singapore, key of British Empire

"A warden might innocently give away Information which could cause in great deal of trouble."

The warning signed by the Town) Clerk, Mr. T. 1. Harrold, says:

base

are

[ድ

slon.

Poland was

Arabs in

by

Britain was bombing

the The strength of

is,000,000, naval works alone having Palestine, but Hitler did not "try to

tell us our business

The Central European democracies terrific, being constructed on the cost £11,500,000. presumption that it might have 10 The heaviest guns in existence, starkt a siege until naval reinforce in well-camouflaged emplacements, were condemned as having nothing ments could be rushed to the scene. guard the unse, and the anti-aircraft in common with Britain, and being

described

un-"In the hands of

of Jewish Bolshevists." Although no ceremony has yet defences

country run been planned for the absolute com- paralleled.

Were Englishmen pletion of the whole base, people-of Up till now Britain could not have feudal landlords. "It is possible that the incident may Singapore are already expressing operated her heaviest units in East-going to fight for them?

When the

an be repeated.... I would like to warn the hope that the Duke and Duchess ern waters because of the lack of wardens against being drawn into or tent migt te and Duchess onse for maintenones. Now owner who upusty brodiensts news disclosing information which might|pore on their way to Australla. the British Navy can operate with in English said, "This is Berlin

He then gave | COSTLY UNDERTAKING as great safety and in us great short-wave stalion." The base has taken afteen years strength in the East as in home the details of a concert by the

station orchestra. to build and has cost about £20,- waters.

undermine the confidence that the

public are beginning to place in the wardens' service,"

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