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August 28, 1939.
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Jewish Army Smuggled In Slave Ships
Secretly Picked To Fight Britain
thip was wearing the Greek dag at her masthead.
To-day the Pamana ensign es at the math. The only Briton in her crew of many' nationalities, including; one or two dortles is a Cantiff radio; operator.
The captain of this 3,000-ton teamer, bullt forty-eight years ago. showed the battle sears which the
lurchments of Barcelona.
He then showed the accommoda~~ tion which had been arranged for his tefugees.
AT CONSTANZA HARBOUR, on the Black hip had received during the bom Sea, Rumania's chief oil exporting port, stands a long train of third-class steel coaches, says a London.correspondent. This train has been there for ten days or more. Soldiers with fixed bryonets guard it day and night. Every carriage
door is locked.
This train, says a London correspondent, is one of the many refugee trains being used for the illegal entry of Jewes in Palestine. In this one there were 800 Jewish refugees awaiting a boat for Pales- tine. They came from Rumania, Germany, Poland and Bulgaria.
The holds, normally for cargo. had been cleared and scaffolding erected. Tiers and tiers of bunks had been built.
Each bunk was just a platform of wooden boards to hold at least three people.
LIKE SLAVE SHIPS Dee zip rewind COL tures of the old slave ships. More of pic- than thousand passengers were to be accommodated in this tiny vessel though the heat of the sea of Mar mor and the Dardanelles.
Lifeboat arrangements consisted) of only two hats and a raft capable of holding only fifty peoples at al
But these so-called refugees are not the usual sad-pech. looking refugees. They are all young men and women under the age of thirty and unaccompanied by children. They are clean and athletic in appearance. Each one has a green kit bag.
Even after ten days in a hot panel Engle a policemen. They are train, eight in a compartment, the mgomy of tract organised in Central Bay Ope Few of this army they look cheerful. The local organisation has fed them well.!
jave in tot bona-fde sefugees, The purpose of the organisation i In the railway carnages at Com
The owners of these stlps re- ceive for running the gauntlet of Britia destroyer on the Palestine roast £20 per passen- ድሮ
Twenty Chostsand pounds, therefore, is them revived
for one Journey. Possible loss of the ship is taken into account in
1 figure. Most of the ships are fewkh owned,
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is to break up the British White fonda then await the arrival of ps The hipe are worth 12,000 paper policy its Palestine and to luje ligh
độ them throughdet Massy are forging for the ray Freonquer the Holy Land for the olde B British deel of yard Jews. That is why the organisa», P. Jestin
tion will consider any Voting. C selive Jews under the age of thirty for legal immigration.
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The vagin *14+ Leird by tw tor heep which fewnews that if they are puried by t 1 1ate 17 room has British destroyers and capture seenis heen
Lette when entering | jevitable, they are either The Briti-b White-gen er
Linssits Brooxodons many times chiritag: the there hips ashore on the Palestine Jewish immigration de Palestine fo' Spam
aledumu he Francniront on ret thuren on he or sink portfol
them But whatever happens the 15 days The New-The Basted British whips must be made to protection.pick up the refugees. This has Bajas war this pened a number of times already.
Most of the refugees {hiv¥c 1wfrD selected because they are good win mer.
75,000 for the next five yine
THE NEW ARMY
There refugees in Vonstanza ang tag 1 little extra marlitant. They will fight both Asal“ Betere the Spam, d
New Cooler Operates On An
Old-Fashioned Principle
Lately, ar or two of the steamers
Which have left Constanza have
| been oruipped with speed houts with which to run their passengers ashore at night. Already more than 15,000 lews have illegally entered Palestine
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Employes of Standard Telephones and Cables, Ltd., clear building in air raid dell and march to concrete shelters erected just mutside buikding at New Southgate, London, Shelters are designed to hold 4,000,
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Spies Pose as Society Girls: Nazi Plot
ULTURED German women have been sent to Britain to mix with influential Society people Trains from Poland are bringing in the hope of gaining "contacts."
PORTALES, N. M. (UP)----Hard-j stool hair. A CORVOIS Y poruuvia ConstanzIŁ htten old-timers sniff contemptuotis-eking is stretched over the con- ly when they hear of modern refri-lient frame and tretched #terutiun methors, and elerdine "desert lee by their idea ideal tourist rend pieser qu
whose
new invention.
taught.|ase and more of these young res They After remanvation 14 made for 123 ugees every week. thelopening to the how, and shelves lauvel
been installed, the frame orok covers mut are dormed in water,
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The Rumanian authorities are doing their best to stop it, but their chief dilliculty is that most Next a water-ed basket
of the refugees have legal iran. right for modern horn: „" they exd
sit visus for China. pled on the chale or stool at the plained, but for tourist and canto, pametored by several holes to ers, nothing can beat the draw the liquid to trickle down lite subveribed principally in
Money for these enterprises is box."
England! levering. Slow eyoporation and a and America.
The old-fashioned but practical resulting cooling effect enn be obtaan- The Germans, too, are said to help
This was one of the revelations when Secret Service men in Britain and France recently made the first move towards smashing the Nazi plan to flood democratic countries with propaganda.
Religious movements and by German maidservants, were, even sewing meetings, allenderl
discovered by the anti-spy squads to be part of the ring.
enter is operated on the evaporded intenitely by replenishing the the project, because every new Jew, N.C.O. Accused Of
tion rory.
Constracted of a pine; water supply, the desert men mabis in Palestine means more trouble for
box, the chest is surmounted by 'tain.
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Double Murder
Sergt. Raymond Smith, 34, of the Loyal Regiment, was com mitted for trial when charged at Preston recently with the! murder of his wife Elizabeth,¦ 35, and his five-year-old daugh- ter Joan. The mother and child' were found shot in the married quarters at the Fulwood Bar;
racks.
A special watch is beltg kepi on Clydeside, hive of the arm- ments Industry. for unsus- plelous-looking agents such as Mrs. Jessie Jordan, the Seuls beauty specialisi.
Mrs. Jordan's arrest and sen fence last year brought to light a world-wide system of Nazl
espionage.
M.1.5 (the military intelligence Mr. B. G. Robey, prosecuting, said department) belleve that a number that at 12 50 mm. on July 10, Smith of foreign agents are engaged in went to the gard room at the bar- obtaining recret details of our latest marks and telephoned the police. Hel armaments at factories all over the produced a live cartridge and sald; This was meant for myself." He was also aligned to have said he did it because he did not want to be parted from his wife and child.
country.
Big Admiralty contracts are being carried out at John Brown's und Fairfield's on Clydeside, and it is believed that spies have been arriv When the police van arrived Smithing from Ireland-no passport is rushed out and said: "Here I un. I needed to ferrel out secrets. have done my wife and child in
am not insane. I have committed murder and am ready to 'swing."
"COULD NOT REACH TRIGGER"
One suspect rame and left again
in two days, and now a specini vigil
is being kept on all boats from tre-
d.
Mr. Roney said that Smith Jateri made a statement that after his wife) In Paris, Chief Inspector Bonny, had gone to bed he stayed up and who uncovered the Stavinsky rase worked on a book. The alleged In 1934, has been put in charge of slutement continued:
the alleged Nuzl Press bribery scandal.
I decided to commit suicide, and take my family with me. I loaded
any rifle, walked into the bedroom,
and shot my wife and daughter. who had been at Fulwood for two Mr. Robey suggested that Smith. then tried to commult suletde by years, might have expected soon to placing the muzzle of the rifle near be drafted abroad.
iny head and pulling the trigger.
I could not reach the trigger, and His wife would probably have not after several unsuccessful attempts been allowed to go with him as she I unloaded the rise.
was expecting a baby.
I then thought of the gas oven, Mr. II. Faznékerley, tor Sinith. turned the gas full on anal pinevdfsaid that within two hours of the my head in the oven.
tragedy, Smith and his wife were an Realising that the noise of the affectionate loving couple.
There shots would have awakened the Was Do motive. Smith was tom neighbours. I knew I would not between hils sense of duty to his have time to commit suleide by gan country and his affection for his poisoning. I therefore walked to family. Some overwhelming force the guard room, and telephonedswept across bis brain at the time of the police.
the tragedy.
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