1939-11-07 — Page 3

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By MADAME TABOUIS

To The Gas-Mask

ALL reports I have received point to the fact that the Allies have to contend with a Germany even now in the position in which she found herself during 1917-and 1918. We are not dealing with the Germany of 1914.

Despite Nazi successes in Poland the war is funda- imentally unpopular in Germany.

The food position is already worse than in 1917, when it was desperate through the British blockade.

The position is bad in industrial Germany, too. The wear and tear on factory machinery in recent months has been so serious that technicians are finding it impossible to maintain a raté of war material production that would give Germany a superiority in armaments.

M. Daladier, the French Premier, considers and all the Allied war chiefs share his opinion-that the blockade of Ger- many will bring about the collapse of the Nazi system-and more quickly.than is generally thought.

Waltz

DANCERS

at Cricklewood

ene night recently went round with their gas maska slung from their shoulders.

Those who came without their masks were turned away at the door,

It was the first pabilo dance held in London since the black- out came into force.

Mr. C. Taylor, manager of the Cricklewood Dance Hall, got per- mission for the dance only after he had undertaken to enforce A.R.P. regulations.

One of the rules was that gas masks must not be put in the cloakroom and noi left lying round.

Ponies In War Paint

The blockude

has completely

ALL wild ponies in the New Forest changed the position of Germany, Schacht has been directed to put into on to prevent them being run over! Under is scheme, which Dr. may soon have white stripes painted and the desperate efforts nhe is mak-operation ing to remedy this position show how whole of Germany's economic system on roads at night.

within six weeks, the heavily she has been hit.

Gone are the days of the last war when neutral countries enriched themselves undisturbed while exported food to Germany.

they

In 1939 the Allies idea of a blockade is to make all countries line

up on one side or the other,

In this connection it a significant)

to read that Denmark has asked

Defence

is to be placed on a barter basis. The action was suggested by the

Workmen will receive work" bonds instead of wages.

"value of New Forest Commoners'

The Association, which pointed out that bunds wil be exchangeable for food there, had been many casualties and clothing, and firms will be com-motorists could not see them in the pelled to accept them in payment, bluck-out. Ultimatum To Tho

Neutrals

The Allied diplomats are preparing

Britain to organise a convoy system to meet equally drastle moves by

for Danish ships carrying cargars to England,

Money For Six Weeks

Of Warfare:

As regards Germany's wartime measures at home it must be ad- mitted that her leaders are showing unrivalled imagination.

Germany in diplomatke fields.

It is considered possibic What If Hitler takes Warsaw he will send notes in the form of ultimatums to various countries.

Australian Pounds

HOW POLAND WAS BETRAYED

Doomed

When

Army Chiefs Fled To Safety

By

a Correspondent who escaped from Warsaw In

the last grim hours.

IJOWEVER Treat the sufferingsmanaged to leave Poland is a Polish of newly and brutally can-worker or peasant, unless he hap- quered Poland at this dark hour pened to be accompanying some high of her great history, millions of offelal. Poles are simply stunned by the rapid defeat of the Polish army.

It was not the Polish people, not How was it-Poles ask ta des lost the war. The Regime lost it. the Polish pensants and workers who pair that the army which they The Regime's foreign policy of mak- j trusted and adered more than ing friends with the Nazis was the anything else was left to Brht ruin of Poland,

Instead

when its leaders escaped abroad? Was it the army or the army lead-Nazi, instead of keeping the nation's making Poland anti- cra that lost the war? Was the spirit and efforts up in constant vigi- prople or the Regime that suffered lance against German aggression, it defeat?

tried to make the Poles anti-Russian.

The reply, invariably offered by Palish rofugees who can now speak

Wonderful Mayor Of all the members of the Re-i openly is, that the army never lost glme, only, a few rose to the occasion. fought till the last while the Regime Warsaw, Stefan Starzynski, whose the war. The army and the people Among them was the Lord Mayor of used. The Regime was the misfor-name will shine out from the annals

tune of Poland.

of Poland's glorious history.

After all the Government had left Warsaw, he alone organised the de- Warsaw with its noble Lord Mayor fence of the Polish capital, and for was still resisting the enemy when over three weries held out against leading members of the Regime were brutal German bombardment and nearing the Rumanian border to killing. He stayed at his post till erous Into safety. ,,

the very last.

Travellers from Australia are ind- ing it almost Impossible to obtain Rumania, for. Instance,

Hongkong currency in exchange for called upon peremptorily to execute would be

Australian money. Neither banks fully all the clauses of her economic nor money changers will take Aus- treaty with Germany and submit to tralian notes.

than Russia-Japan Peace Move

.

Cabinet Got Away

The workers of the Warsaw fac- In a little Rumanian township. tories, their wives and children were listening to the Warsaw radio send- Polish refugees were sitting and bleeding in defence of the Polishing out its last communiques describ- capital and in Cefence of Polish

our when the Government burn the herole defence of the Polish Dniester River ried through the bridge over

capital. thei Rumania.

from Poland intoj

the

Among the listeners, was also, a former governor of Warsaw. When he heard the Lord Mayor's voice All the meinbers of Soon after the...outbreak-of-werdetachments of certain of her mining

the Polish appealing to the people, to keep arm, In partial occupation by Reichswehr A banker yesterday said the reason, good time. Many of them with the place should have been beside him Cabinet managed to leave Poland-In he burst into tears," and "guld!"My Hitler was informed by his economic advisers that to carry on the war on and industrial centres,

was because the Australian Govern- wives, children. even with servants and not here." But it was too late.. both fronts would cost more

ment had placed a ban on the ex- comfortable exile. Some members of and drivers accompanying them into £20,000,000 a month.

port of currency and Hongkong bunks the Regime fled even Hitler was also told that if the)

before were unable to remit Australian notes Russians began sending in troops Into; funds of all savings.banks and in-

to Australia unless they could prove Poland. surance companies were mobilised; } The French Government has also that the notes were exported from: tox bonds were issued and an internal Sxpected this agreement between Australia prior to the imposition of led in Rumania too, left at u very

Murshal Smigly Rydz, now intern-: loan launched, together they would; Russia and Japan regarding the Mbr-the ban.. This the banks were nn- curly and convenient date. only provide enough money for six Hollan frontler dispute, which may turally unable to do in the case of soldiers in the Hela and Modlin for- Polish weeks of warfare.

for a time case the tension between notes handed over, the counter by the German hordes, Polish officers. the two countries.

tresses were still heroically fighting "Value Of Work' Bonds

were being killed in hundreda when;

To Be Issued

Hitler then ordered them

plement his latest project, economics without money."

Was Expected

A sudden move by Russia home would not surprise Paris.

netrer

travellers.

NAZIS GIVE

DUTCH

A BIG LAUGH

GERMAN

AMSTERDAM: the Supreme Commander departed Holland is being carried out in Australians caving the Common- from the country he was sworn to two spheres-propagandist and "penetration", in

In regard to the big offensive on with them only £25. How they cun for years ordered to trust him blind-commercial:

wealth are now permitted to take defend, from the country that was "Wor tien suggesting that Hitler may turn entirely to their own ingenuity. In to im-the Western Front, I have informa-cash even these is, presumably left ly.

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On the nccept a very low rate of exchange

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In the Home Office files, under the heading "enemy aliens," appear the names of 50,000 Germans at present enjoying complete freedom of movement throughout Britain. Of these, 24,000 are in London-one German to 370 Britons.

round-the-clock shifta checking up on every German known to be Since the war started Home Office officials have been working

in Britain.

Within the next few days everyone on the list will receive an official letter saying: "Will you please present yourself at --to answer questions that will be put to you by special tribunal 7"

That the British way.

Wcoping Officers

Dutch Arms, for instance, are re- celving more and more visits from German commercial travellers.

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PARLOPHONE

RADIO'S FAVOURITES Richard Tauber, (Tenor)

At first the Poles would not even

These often offer to supply goods so much as believe that the Mar- shal, the President and Uie Cabinet which are unobtainable by the Ger- had teft. All talk about the Mar. But the function of the commercial

Iman people themselves. shal departing and leaving the traveller is not merely commercial. army to fight alone were discarded). A fortnight ago.one of thom visited RO20431-One day when we were young.

hlasphemy. And when the friend of mine, anya a correspon~ truth tesked through many Poles dent -burst into tears.

as

....

A few days later my friend received

кору

I'm in love with Vienna RO20437 Waltz of my Heart

Sweethearts

The conviction everywhere was a that had the Marshal stayed on, hnd "Deutsche,

of the German paper. RO20382-Rosalle

Allgemeine Zellung," the Government kept an, the blow which he had not ordered. would not have been so rapid, no bit-! ter, so deep and so ruthless.

Russin might not have made her In

advance on Poland had the army made them laugh.

But Nazi propaganda is.too, clumsy. to convince the average Dutchman. fact, the latest specimen just. tenders kept on and together.

Today German papers, fox: Ins for the proper orderly evacuation of

No plans were ever really made to be rationed in Holland, ERST

lance, contain a list of goods alleged warsaw. No, plans appeared to be ly say, are necessary because of the Polish women and children, frem These rations, the Germans solemn».; ready for the evacuation of hospitale. British blockade.

But every Dutchman knows that Nothing was done to clear Lwow and save thousands from the mur-nothing has so far been rationed in derous shelling of German bombers.

Holland. Yet all the high. Civil Servants, to-

gether with their families, many off. THESE MEN NEVER

the high oflcers and their compan- ions were evacuated in proper time.

-Nazi Friendship Ruin

SEE THE SKY

(Continued from Page 4.)

The people were left to fight on. Whole areas along the Rumanian to share in this duty of watch-and- In group two will be found many frontier, places ke Borszczow, ward on Franco's eastern frontier. A Home, Office official states it is hundreds of Germans, with near Jeriorany, Zaleszczyki, Kuty, and

The forts are so dependent on quite posible that out of the 50,000 relatives in the Nazi Party or in the others were set aside for evacuated mechanism that a large number of Germans In England, fewer than 3,000 Gerinen fighting services.

members of the Regine and their N.C.Os and also long-service men, will be interned.

Fiva-Milgs Limit.

families, so that they might cross into with a knowledge of electricity and They will be told they must not Rumania casily.

machinery, atters and engineers, have The Germans who will go before

But no means of to be employed, and they receive the 100 tribunals in London and the move, more than five miles away from escape were prepared for the work- high rates of PRY. provinces within the next few days The Yard will watch them, but pro-nt this terrible hour of their greatest extra facilities for leave and every

their homes without special passes, ers,1

ers, for the ordinary people deserted.

They also have, in normal times, have nothing to fear-if they canviding they obey the rules. they will misfortune. snUafy their judges on their reasons entoy comparative freedom.

'carò 'har' been taken to instil Inta for being in England.

Between five and ten thousand the minds of ranic and file that they A careful Inquiry will be made of Poles were able to leave the country are specially honoured units with a These Germans (and Austrians) close three, which includes thousands and rench safety abroad, in the first special trust. will be divided into three categories: of German refugees, some, of whom place, In, Rumania. More than. 90.

Dehind all this organisation are tho

(1) Pro-Nazis, (2) Suspects because might be Nazi sples. Those who per cent of them are members of air formation, which directly co- of connections in Germany, (3) Anti-antisfy the iribunal will be given the Colonels, and Generals Hegime. opprata with the Maginot Line and Nazis.

complete freedom.

that ruled the country ainen Plindski, which ure to not as eyes und protees

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Viennese Dance No, 2

Imro Magyar! and His Hungarian Gypsy Orch. R847-Hongarian Rhapsody No. 2. (Linxi). RZ247-Memories of Herkulesbad.

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K2253--Hungarian: Czardas Quick «Dancea." 12313-Cockshafer, Yellow Cockshafer.

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