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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

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.

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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 Customs 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- violence bery, larceny or under the cover of a black-out or an air raid warning will be liable to sentences ranging from 15 years to life imprisonment or to the death penalty under a deeree published by the Minis- terial Coumeil for the Reich De- fence.

Orders have been given Jo Griman Jaws to report immediately for wer- vier in civil air defence, uecarding to The the Berlin Correspondent of Danish Berlingske Tidende."

According to the German official wirries the Reichsbank has tuiten over the Bank of Danzig..

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

The oflen Germon news agency Stuckart hins ben appointed by Hitler Chief of the Burenu for the

At the beginning of this year every British armament works Reincorporation of Danzig into the was so busy that to avoid delay the Admiralty decided to prder, Reich. certain vital material for new warships, including armour plat- ing, from the famous Skoda factory in Czecho-Slovakia,

Some Paris gélunke opined recent-

ls but parents whose children have

At that time it was never believed in London that Hitlerbeen evacuated are advixaf to place them in schools in prees wisere they a nas resident. would march in.

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

Then in March the crisis came to ahend. German troops crossed the

Printed and Publlated for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN

and 3, Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria, Hongkong...

border.

SECRET ORDERS

Secret orders were rent on Murch 14 to the Admiralty ofeld).

During technical discussions, he had shown the plans and specifics- executives and tions to 10 high technicians of Skoda's,

On receiving the orders-it was on March 14-e managed to charter a special plane at Prague Airport-a Dutch ale liner. He told the plot to stand by to take off at a moment's nolice.

The offelul 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 agred to go that night.

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

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The Skoda, technicians are working in British armament fae- torics.

More Troops For Tanganyika

DAR ES SALAAM.

The redistribution of the units of the Southern Brigade in Tanganyika, is well under way.

An official communique states that the policy of In accordance with

strengthening the defences of Tan- any emergency. Kanyika to meet headquarters and two companies of King's the 2nd-Nyasaland-Bn.

African Rifles have arrived in Tan-

ganyika from Zomba, Nyasaland.

The 2nd Battalion is commanded

¡UFS

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

U-Boat Prisoners Go First-Class

by Major N. R. G. Tucker, who fest FIVE British soldiers travelled recently in reserved first-class

carriages with thirteen Nazi U-boat men, taking them to

at Tabora, Tonjoin more than lifty compatriots who are in a gaunt five-storey

year commanded the 1st Bn. King's African Kines, ganyika, Tanganyika after six years.

The 2nd Battalion is returning to 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 with patch and age le about twenty-three, had slight white "pumps." wounds. Their hands were soft and [swollen with being in sca

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A crowd of women and children water.walked to the copse flanking the mill

The youngest is only sixteen.

to watch the prisoners play football

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A number of them had been in on the flat mill roof.

a submarine which was blown to

But officers denied stories that

bacon, steak and chips. the surface by depth charges from they were having a luxury diet of

eggs and destroyer. To the armed guards Their food is similar to that of sol

them who escorted

they said, "We are lucky to be alive."

They had been brought south to be interrogated before being taken! to internment. Their officers have

another prison camp. been sent

the

the Journey

soldiers On handed their cigarettes to the Ger- mans and shared their bread-and-

diers.

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

the spots for exercise. prisoners glanced at on English many hours os soldiers on ordinary newspaper, stalled when he saw pic-duty, filling candbags, sawing timber,

tures of the King and Queen.

"O.K.." he said,

He scowled when he noticed photographs of Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Churchill, shook his head and flung the paper away.

making A.R.P. shelters.

"They work well," guard sald, and seem decent sorta.”

ENGINEER WANTED

An advertisement inserted, by the Some of the men had more thon In month's growth of beard. Thoir Crown Agents for the Colonies in a hair was like a poet's, It was so London paper recently calls for ap- long." an onlooker said. The ma-pilcants for the post of engineer in Ap- Jorily were wearing trousers of a the Hongkong Government.

plicants must be unmarried, Cor- malerial like chamois leather.

Their train stemmed inte, a siding pornte Members of the Institution of

the near

mill. The prisoners Civil Engineers or hold an engineer- is granting smartly to B marched

reception Ing degree recognised room, stood at attention when ad- exemption from sections A and B of dressed by, the officers. Some gave the AMICE. examination, and have

had not less than two years practical! a half-hearted Nazi salute.

experience. SURPRISED

JAMIESON RESIGNING

Tientsin, Oct. 18.

They marched between a double barrier of 10ft, barbed wire enton– glements encircling the mill. They

-It is rellably understood that Mr. seemed surprised at the way they were received by British officers and E. G. Jamieson, the British Consul- General here, is shortly resigning on IN.C.O..

Each was given a pair of grey the ground of ill health and leaving annel trousers, with light-coloured for home.. circular cloth patches on the knees

tle will be kucceeded by Mr. Oswald

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