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THE MARCH OF TIME presents

"INSIDE NAZI GERMANY"

The inside Workings of Hitler's Gigantic Propaganda Machine !

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October 19, 1939.

BRITISH WARSHIP PLANS

SAVED FROM GERMANS ALHAMBRA

HOW GERMANY NEARLY SECURED AN

OFFICIAL SET OF THE PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS OF BRITISH WARSHIPS NOW BEING BUILT WAS RECENTLY RE- VEALED.

The story of the plans is the story of the 11 Mon of Mystery who landed at Croydon at the height of the Czech crisis last March.

These 11 men were hurried through the Customis at Croydon and taken to a West End hotel. Special Branch men from Scotland Yard prevented anyone. from speaking to them.

To all inquiries the answer was that they were "just refugees."

A few days later they left the hotel. No addresses were left. The public has not heard a word about them from that day to this.

Armour Plating

men.

News In Brief

ANY person committing rob- bery, larceny or violence under the cover of a black-out for an air rakt warning will be liable to sentencos ranging from 15 years to life imprisonment or to the death penalty under a deeree pullished by the Minis- terial Counell for the Reich De. fence..

Orders have been given to German Jews to report immediately for ser- vice in civil nit defence, according to the the Berlin Correspondent of

Danish "Berlingske Tidende."

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INSIDE

STORY

According to the German official SATURDAY wireless the Relchsbank has taken over the Bank of Danzig

Here is the inner story of the Admiralty plans and the 11 announces that Secretary of State Dr.

The offiein! German news agency Stuckart has been appointed by Hitler Chlef of the Bureau for the

At the beginning of this year every British armament works feincorporation of Danzig Into the was so busy that to avoid delay the Admiralty decided to order Rech. certain vital material for new warships, including armour plat-! Ing, from the famous Skoda factory in Czecho-Slovakia.

At that time it was never believed in London that would march in.

To ensure that the order was! executed exactly, a high official of the Admiralty went to Czecho Slovakia, taking with him thej plans and specifications.

Then in March the crisis come to a head. German troops 'crossed the border,

SECRET ORDERS

Secrel orders were sent on March 14 to the Adiniralty official.

During technical discussions, he had shown the plans and specifica- and Itons to 10 high cxecutives technielans of Skoda's.

On receiving the orders-it was on March 14-he managed to charter n special 'plane at Prague Airport-a Dulch air liner, He told the pilot to stand by to take off at a moment's notice.

The offlelal then asked each of the Skoda men who had seen the plans to accompany him' to England. FEAR OF NAZIS

It was feared with Nazi methods of interrogation they might be forced to reveal what they knew. Each agrel to go that night.

Within a few hours he was on his! way to Prague Airport with the plans, and the men who were Inmar with them. The plane was flown direct to Croydon.

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The Skod technicians are working in British armament fac- lories,

More Troops For Tanganyika

DAR ES SALAAM.

The redistribution of the units of

the Southern Brigade in Tanganyika, !

well under way,

An official communique states that in accordance with e pulicy of strengthening the defences of Tan- tu meet any emergency. ganya headquarters and two companies of King's The 2nd-Nyasaland-Bn. African Rifles have arrived in Fun- Kanyika from Zomlin, Nyasaland.

The 2nd Battalion is commanded ****** | by Majur N. R. G. Tucker, who

year commanded the 1st Bn. King's Airlean Riftes, at Tabora, Tan fanyika.

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LORETTA YOUNG 66KENTUCKY”

RICHARD GREEN in

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The 2nd Battalion is returning to Tanganyika after six years.

LATE NEWS

Some Parks sction!, upined rezent- ly, but parents whose children have Hitler Aven tvacuated are advised to place them in tebouls in picres where they are am reskiont,

Lord Lothian, new British Ambassador to United States, defies superstition by pelting a black cat after he presented his credentials to President Roosevelt Reporter named the purring.feline, "Crisis.”

U-Boat Prisoners Go First-Class

IVE British soldiers travelled recently in reserved first-class carriages with thirleen Nazi U-boat men, taking them to join more than fifly compatriots who are in a gaunt five-storey cotton mill with a thousand windows patrolled by veteran guards of the National Defence Companies with bayonets.

Some of the men, whose average; jersey, sports coat witli patel and age is about twenty-three, had slight white "pumps."

A crowd of women and, children wouts. Their hands were soft and swollen with being in sen water.avalked to the copse flanking the mill to watch the prisoners play football The youngest is only sixteen.

A number of them had been in on the fat milt root.

a submarine which was blown to

But offieers denied stories that

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the surface by depth charges from they were having a luxury diet of a destroyer. To the armed guards and who

escorted them they sald, Their food is similar to that of sol-

diers. "We are lucky to be alive."

They had been brought south to be interrogated before being taken to internment. Their officers have been sent to another prison camp.

the soldiers On the journey landed thoir elgoreller to the Ger- mans and shared their bread-und-

of cheese

They do fatigues under armed guards and are allowed to smoke. Their tobacco.comes from the when the third soldiers, because batch of thirteen prisoners arrived mirks twenty they had only among themn. Later they will be taken to quiet They work as sandwiches. One

the spots for exercise, prisoners glanced at English many hours as soldiers on ordinary newspaper, smiled when he saw plc-duty, filling sandbags, sawing timber, tures of the King and Queen.

muking A.R.P. shelters.

"They work well, a guard said, and seem decen: sorts."

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sald. "O.K.," he

when hc He scowled

noticed photographs of Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Churchill, shook his head and Aung the paper away.

Some of the men had more than

ENGINEER WANTED

An advertisement Inserted by the a month's growth of beard. Their Crown Agents for the. Colonies in a hair was like a poet's. It was so London paper recently calla for op long." an onlooker said. The n-plicants for the post of engineer in Арм Jority were wearing trousers of the Hongkong Government. material like chamois, leather.

plicants must be unmarried, Cor- Their train steamed to a aiding porate Members of the Institution of

the inili. The prisoners Civil Engineers or hold an englater marched smurtly to receptioning degree recognized as granting room, slood at attention when ad-exemption from sections A and B of dressed by the officers. Some gave the A.MI.C.E. examination, and have a half-hearted. Nazi saluta.

had not less than two years practical experience.

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They marched bolween a double burrier of 10ft, barbed wire entan- glements encireling the mill. They seemed surprised at the way they

:

JAMIESON RESIGNING

Tientsin, Oct. 18.

It is reliably understood that Mr. were received by British officers and E. G. Jamieson, the British Consul- N.C.O.L

General hore, is shortly resigning on Each was given a pair of grey the ground of ill health and leaving flannel trousers, with light-coloured for home," circular cloth patches on the knees. He will be succeeded by Mr. Oswald and at the back for identification While, at prosent Consul-General at purposes. They also had a blue Mukden. -Dome.

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