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The Lie Factory EVERY day produces fresh

instances of the unscrupulous use the Germans are making of wireless in the war.

Their leading radio enterprise at the present time is to try for disunity between France and Britain and a powerful trans- mitter has been set up at Saar- bruceken for the purpose of hurl- ing propaganda at the French people.

The case of the Athenia, oc- cupies a place of its own in the black record of falsehood that the Nazi radio stations have

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too faithfully they are living up to the principle of their Leader that any lie is justifiable so long as it serves the purpose of its author.

The German broadcasters have announced so often that the Athenia was sunk by the British that they must by this time have begun to believe it. In a message to American listeners they have told the latter not to sympathise any longer with the British, who deliberately de- Doubtless liner. troyed the Americans are well able to form their own conclusions about that, and have at their disposal mass of evidence much more trustworthy than that of the servile parrots who speak on the Nazi radio.

As a wireless speaker said re- cently, hate and humbug do not broadcast well. The Germans' campaign of mendacity defeats itself. It lacks subtlety. It would not deceive a child. They never were skilled at under- standing the psychology of other peoples.

Mrs. Hitler's Electric Light Bill

"B. E. Hitler" called the warrant oMeer at Highgate (London) Police Court.

B. E. Hitler was identified as Mrs. Bridget E. Hitler, the wife of Her Hitler's half-brother, and she was summoned for the non-payment of a charge of £1 03. 10. for electric, lightë

It was stated that the summons had not been served.

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NORTH

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TO WORK

BRITAIN'S hidden ally

by

WILLI FRISCHAUER

HE British Government has made it quite clear that we cannot expect Nazi Germany to "crack up one of these days." It would dennitely be wrong to assume that after a short time of war-

Hitler faro

and

Nazi -his satellites will disappear.

This is going to be a long war. It has only just started. And though we know that behind all the Nazi truculence, behind the war fever and the magle faith in Hiller, there looms The Other Germany, we are not likely to hear of it for some time.

That Other Germany, the Ger- many of Thomas Mann and Albert Einstein, is under the control of Himmler and his black guards. The mass of the German Socialists, trade unionists, intellectuals and scientists, cannot yet raise their voice.

But those of us who know Ger- 'many well have faith in The Other

Germany.

Has Hitler in six and a half years stamped out that Germany altogether? Has a whole nation changed?

Think back to the circumstances of Hitler's rise to power. He was never the people's choice,

At the last free election to be held in Germany, in November, 1932, the Nazis got only 33 per cent. of the votes.

Then in January, 1933, Hitler be- came Chancellor with the support of the Nationalists, but without a malprity. President Hindenburg ict him rule. by decree,

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NAZIS secretly set fire to the Reichstag, threw the blame on the Cam- raunists and started a great scare.

"Red

New elections were held, this time in true Nazi style. All the Communist İcaders and many of the Socialst leaders were put in jail. The opposl tion parties had their newspapers banned, were forbidden to issue leaflets or to hold processions.

The election was a mockery. Volera were intimidated at the polis by brownahir: guards. But still Hitler

did not get his majority. He got less than 44 per cent, of the votes.

Only by arresting every single one of the Commuaki M.Ps was he able to get a majority when the new Reichstag mot.

What has happened since to those millions of Boclaints, Communists an Catholics who made up half the nation and who to the bitter end refused to vote for Hitler?

Many of them have in the last six years been swept dong on the Hitler ilde. Not all of them have been heroes. Not all of them have been able to see through Nazi propagande That is no reflection on them. It is only to be expected.

Most of them withdrew altogether from German politics and succumbed to the spirit of discipline that has always been strong among the German people.

AFTER all, most of them had families to provide for. They lived in deadly Fear of the sack, the concentration camp and, even, the executioner's axe. Out of the sixty million Germana who in 1933 were snitten by the Nazi plague only a handful continued to fight it.

These fighters were a splendid lot. They devoted their lives to their ideals,

A constant stream of anti-Nazi -propaganda fowed into Germany, from......... abroad. These fighters directed it in. to the homes of the German people.

They operated secret printing pressca and gavo out bulletins from legal wireless stations

They were supported by Russian and other diplomats who put thele diplo- matic bags at their disposal. In this way they were able to currespond with the thousands of Germans living in exile.

One day the full story of this under- ground struggio against Hitler will be told. and then the men who waged it will become the true heroes of this tragic century.

Their work has had its successes. Many Germans have told me how when first illegal leadota and books were put into their hands by ingenious means they used to throw them hur riestly and disgustedly away,

But they told me how some time later they began to be curious about these strange papers. They would peep nt them timidly before destroying tiem. Neighbours would catch one another's eyes and each would know that the other had been reading.

In the secrecy of their homes, they

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discussed these things a bit. But they never really knew which told the truth the legal leaficts, or Dr. Goebbels. Germany became afflicted with new craving-curiosity, a longing to know the real truth,

People began to hunger for these lennels and for the an-Nazi broad- casts. They would indulge in these illegalities Becretly. They dared not tell even other members of their family, least of all the children. all of whom were taught to repent to the authorities any subversive talk by their parents.

Often they did not trust the foreign accounts. Yet again and again these accounts showed contradictions in Hitler's statements, told of facts whose truth could hardly be questioned,-

Utter dialiusionment with Nazism wan not always an easy thing to in- culcate into Germans by these under- ground means. But doubts could be inculcated and were.

A Look Through The Telegraph".

50 YEARS AGO

Nov. 4, 1889. A man tried to sneak off yesterday with an umbrella belonging to Polles Sergeant Witchell, but was caught by the Bergeant's "boy". As there bad been a previous conviction last month against the same party for stealing A ilk jacket in the armo way, Mr. Wode house ordered the man to giro is manual services to Government for three months,

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The Society for the Tetting of Sol dlers hae commenced lis annual crusade early thi Kanton. Lecturon by Dr. Canillo And Bishop Burdon HAVE already been elven, in the Garrison Theatre, and last night Mr. Bateman improved the shining hour. His sub- ject was the novel one of a "Trip to Japan". Even long-suffering Tommy Atkins fa getting fed-up with these backneyed narratives of peddling little excursions how the lecturer likod. the voyage, and how much riskahs coolles charge, and so on, and the Theatre wAS very comfortably empty. The Rev. Douglas Hamilion presided and, after aelting Br. Bateman going, eat with n pained expression on his clerical coun- tenance until the end of the diatribe. Mfr. Datoman followed the usual line good ship-IT-Dying Ash-banut)fut moon-Japan, land of Chrysanthemum- hotel-couldn't find one-expense-mep of the placo-chow-bath-tarifin vestigation to mixed bathing-dia- appointed-passports- pries church. Finishod up with a sinb out of a book. The "mer. Bateman's, phrase- neonted highly edified, and sang 'a bit of the National Anthem at the end with great lassitude.

25 YEARS AGO

Nov. 6, 1014. An Anglo-French Squadron bombarded the Dardanelles at long range xt day.

·break on Tuesday,

The forts replied. No ship wore hit. A large explosion, with volumen of anoke, occurred at fiollos Fort.

10 YEARS AGO

Nov. 6, 1028, British policy in regard to usin will be fully debated in the House of Commons today, when the Government sroke the assent of Parliament to its plan for the resumption of full diplo- mantic relations between the two caun. trira.

5 YEARS AGO

Nov. 6, 1934. One of the larger China Merchants 9. N. Company's ships, the Kaho, han heen pirated and taken to Somat Point, In long flat Bay, about sixty miles north of Hongkong,

Germans Told 'You Thrive on Rations'

· RATIONING is fun in At least, one would imagine after listen- ing to a broadcast over the German radio.

Letters I have been receiving from Germany. Germany for some years prove it.

Some of Hitler's greatest triumphs have helped to expose him to his people as a fraud.

Austrians and Czechs have looked at Germany from the outside. They

An expert was brought to know what the world has known. And when they have mixed with Germans the microphone to explain that, they have told them things that Cer following the discovery of a mans have never before been told

scientific way of mensuring Austrian-workers who went.ona. Btrength through Joy" tour in Ger- food, there was no need for many were interned because they were | Germans to rely on telling people that Hitler was bring petites. ing Europe towards war and that Cler mana would soon be in the trenches again.

Do not think of the Ger- man people as if they were all brown-shirted storm-troopers commanded to chces

Liels leader.

The real German people is made up of sold, stolid crdinary people who have never worried much about pell ties and are only learning by bitter experience how important palliles can

bc.

Now they are beginning to wake up. The housewife who cannot get enough food even with the help of her rattan eards. The trader with nothing to sell. The worker whose wages are cut. who has first been forcibly removed to sonte new place of employment, and has now been sent to the battle-front. All of them are to-day doubtful, half- hearted, depressed.

When a woman says good-bye to her son as he goes to war, she stops to think. The German people loathe war. They seo now that the glorious Kitler who came to lead Germany back to dig nity and prosperity has brought her way to agony and pentury.

their ap

docs not "The amount of food

the matter so long as

necessary amount of albumen, fats, and vita- mins are assured," he said.

When the expert had said his piece the announcer asked his audience lo examine the question from a different angle.

"Railon cords help enormously to draw people nearer to each other," he said.

"For example, when we wanted a shave we used to go to the barber or shave ourselves. Now we have Arst to approach the mayor to gel a ticket allowing us to buy shaving

cream.

"You see, people are interested in us nowadays. Even the State takes on Interest in the growth of our beard!"

SOAPLESS NATION SOAP. That is what the Germans are most in need of. Toilet soap is a thing of pre-rationing days. It has all been commandeered for use in hospitals.

Instead, the authorities have pro- mised a special "war poap." but i has not yet appeared,

Only one plece or tube of shaving

Sure enough the German soldiers have marched forward at the word of command. They are gliling bravely soap may be bought in two and a But back home in the cart of Cer many the mass of the people thinks and suffers.

half months.

HARVEST CLAIMS

GERMANY claims that her har- REMEMBER that for vest will amount to 27,000,000 tons, four years the Germans compared with a normal yearly con have lived under war sumption of 20,000,000 to 20,000,000 conditions. Rationing and food short- tons, thus leaving her accumulated age are nothing new to them. They

stocks intact.

are an extausted now as they werd Shortage of Jabour, it is stated, is after two or three years of the last, being overcome by recruiting labour from newly conquered Polish terri-

war,

Do you remember the day when lory. hunger and despair roused the German people at the end of tho just war?. When starving women, carrying emaci- nted children in their arms, dolled the guns of the polica?

AIR RAID FEAR INCREASING fear in Germany of British and French air raids is re-. flected in the lightening up of black- out regulations, especially in western Germany. Forty-five prosecutions in one day at Kolscheld, near Aix-la-

the German Press.

Not for nothing does Hitler intend to keep over half a million of his crack party troops, the 8.8. black guarda, to police the home front. That la a Chappelle (Aachen), are reported In measure of the internal opposition to

Nazism.

Tlicso black mards are there to keep down the other. Germany, the Ger- many of the trade unions and, the Socialiste, the Oatholics and the Liberals, the scientists, poeia and thinkers

The people of Gonmany are for the time being weaker than", their rulers. But many Germans, perhaps most Germans, "hate Nazları"na much n Englislinien do. This war is for their freedoni as much na Britain's.

They will prove Britain's strongest

pily.

continued

war

BRITAIN ATTACKED GERMAN newspaper their propaganda drive against Britain. The Borgen Zeitung stated, "Britain destroys peace, For two years she has prepared

Deutsche All- against Germany." gometna Zeltung: "Britain is waging. war against Germany's women and children. While other nations have to give their blood. British strate. | gists stay at home organising econo-

mic warfare."