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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

October 19, 1939.

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BRITISH WARSHIP PLANS SAVED FROM GERMANS

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 Mystory 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.

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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.

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Here is the inner story of the Admiralty plans--and the 11

News In Brief

ANY person committing rob

bery, larceny or violence under the cover of a black-out or an air raid warning will be Ilable to sentences ranging from 15 years to life Imprisonment or to the death penalty under a decree published by the Minis- torial Counell for the Reich De fence.

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

The official German news agency announces that Secretary of State Dr. Stuckart has been appointed by: Hitler Chief of the Burcu 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 order netch. 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 the plane and specifications.

Then in March the crisis came to a head. German troops crossed the border.

JECRET ORDERS

Secret orders were sent on March 14 to the Admiralty oficial.

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

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

The oficial then asked each of the Skoda men who had seen the plans lo 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 agreed to go that night.

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

now

The Skoda technicians are working in British armament fue- torles.

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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 in accordance with the policy of atrengthening the defences of Ton- ganyika to meet any emergency, headquarters and two companies of King's the 2nd-Nyasaland-Bn. African Rines have arrived in Tan- ganyika from Zomba, Nyasaland.

The 2nd Battalion is commanded

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Seine Paris schools opened recent- ly, but parents whore children have Hitlerbeen evacuated are rdvised to place them in schools in places where they are now resident.

UFS

Lord Lothian, new British Ambassador to United States, deßles 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 intIVE British soldiers travelled recently in reserved first-class

year commanded the 1st Bn. King's African Rifes, at Tabora, tanyika.

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

To join more than fifty 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,...

The 2nd Battalion is returning to

Tanganyika after six years.

LATE NEWS

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

A crowd of women and children wounds, Their, hands were soft and swollen with being in sea water. walked to the copse flanking the mill The youngest is only sixteen.

to watch the prisoners play football

A number of them had been in on the tot mili roof.

In submarine which was blown to

But officers denied stories that

the surface by depth charges from they were having a luxury diet of bacon, steak and chips. A destroyer. To the armed guards and who escorted them they said, Their food is similar to that of sol-

(diers. "We are lucky to be alive."

They do fatigues under armed guards and are allowed to smoke. Their tobacco comes from the soldiers, because when the third batch of thirteen prisoners arrived they had only twenty marks among them.

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

the soldlers 011 the Journey handed their elgarettes to the Ger

Later they will be taken to quiet mans and shared their bread-and-

ot

They work s the spots for exercise. cheese sandwiches. One

English many hours as soldiers on ordinary prisoners glanced at an newspaper, smiled when he saw ple-duty, Alling sandbags, sawing timber, tures of the King and Queen.

"OK." he said.

making AR.P, hellers.

"They work well," a guard said,

Ile scowled, when he noticed"and seem decent sorts." photographs of Mr. Chamberlain and

Mr. Churchill, shook his head and

Rung the paper, away.

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Some of the men had more than

a month's growth of beard. "The

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holr was like a poets, it was so London paper recently calls for up- long." an onlooker said. The ma-plicants for the post of engineer in 1ority were wearing trousers of a the Hongkong Government material like chamois leather. plicants must be unmarried, Cor- Their train steamed into a siding pornte Members of the Insitution of prisoners Civil Engineers or hold an engineer- near

the mill. The

as granting receptioning degres recognised marched artly to room, stood at attention when ad-exemption from sections A and B of dressed by the officers. Some gave the A.MICE. examination, and have) a half-henried Nazi salute.

bad not less than two years practical experience. SURPRISED

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They marched between a doublo barrier of 10ft, barbed wire enton- glements encircling the mill. They seemed surprised at the way they

N.C.O.1

JAMIESON RESIGNING

Tientsin, Oct. 18.

It is rellably, understood that Mr.

were received by British officers and E. G. Jamieson, the Brush Consul

General hero, is shortly resigning on Each was given a pair of groy the ground of ill health; and leaving flannel. trousers, with light-coloured for home,

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