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Arriving at House of Commons, London, is Sir John Anderson, left, British Air Raid Precautions Minister. Like all Londoners he carries his

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Thursday,

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December 7, 1939,

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Plane Landed Crew, Sank Ship, Then Dodged

U-BOAT KNEW ALL ABOUT VOYAGE

DINGLE (Co. Kerry). Before landing a Greek crew on the coast of Eire, the German submarine commander who sunk their steamer, the Diamantis, told the sailors that he knew the exact time the ship left her South African port, her speed, the nature of her cargo and its destination,

made

Prisoners

Questioned

seven PARIS-Two fair-haired

The Diamantis (1,990 tons), small German boat was aunk 60 miles south of journeys between the submarine and Land's End.

After 30 hours the shore. Each time the same Ger-Young German airmen were taken before the Deuxieme man sailor did the rowing. aboard the aubmarine, which "As each party arrived I sent them Bureau (Intelligence) offi- dived on the appearance of a back to the form with a boy and a

cers at a French Army head- British plane; the crew of 28 gulde."

Elleen, Bridget's sister, said: were landed on the rocks aten, Thomas brought the captain quarters one day recently. Ballymore, a village three miles and three sailors to the farm I asked

Their big black Messerschmitt west of Dingle," on the, south- them if they would like a nice hot plasie was one of the 12 brought west coast of Eire.

cup of tea and some coke and bread down by French fighters in the The submarine came within 40 and butter.

biggest air battle of the war, "Old Irish Custom". yards of the rocks. Then the Ger-

and they were taken prisoner "The captain said they would love after jumping in parachutes mans lowered a small boat and four members of the Greek crew were it, and in about half an hour the from 15,000ft. Now they were whole crew of 28' were packed in the

facing the usual interrogation. They landed, and the little boat living room. pulled back to the submarine and "Some of them said they were The first to enter the simply fur

nished question room was obviously repeated the process seven times, cerry to leave the submarine. until all the Greeks were safely "When they left those who could nervous, ashore.

speak English said they would never Point by point the French officer forget how kind we had been. We dealt with his military career and old Irish then said to him: "You fought in

Foland, didn't you?" said hospitality was an custar."

Superintendent O'Leary Gold The young officer blushed a deep that an soon as be heard about the red and nodded his head. He did not submarine he, and a party of Civic stem anxious to admit that he had teken part in a campaign such as that Guards rushed by car to the scene."

"When we arrived, he said, "the carried out by the German Air Force submarine was slowly leaving. It in Poland. disappeared in the mist."

rowed to the rocks.

These operations were watched by about 30 villagers who had been attracted by the sight of a strange craft entering the harbour.

TORTURER OF GIRLS TO DIE civic guards arrived on the scene, In

as

THOMAS Cochran, who posed] A few hours Inter

a Hollywood talent scout

Cochran was to be secretly moved to another prison to avoid

arrested and had

In order to lure two girls to angry crowds seeking to lynch him.

Florida swamp, has been sen- tenced to die in the electric chair.

Cochran was convicted at Miami,) Florida, of the murder of one of the 17-years-old girls, Ruth Dunn, á dancer, whom he bound naked to a tree and stabbed to death.

Saying he

wanted to give the two girls a film test, Cochran lured them to a lonely cottage.

There he forced the girls to strip, bound them to trees, and tortured

them.

The second girl, Jean Colton, a night club dancer, he released."

Lynching Foars

She arrived hysterical and in at

at a neighbouring state of collapse village and gave the alarm.

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Just after the last of the Greek crew had been landed, Superlaten- dent O'Leary, a sergeant and two Ume to see the submarine go slowly out of the harbour, until it was enveloped in mist.

Waved Farewell

"The Greek crew," he said, "waved

to the crew of the submarinic before)

it left, and the submarine crow waved back."

Members of the crew describedt

HITLER'S DILEMMA UNDER PRESSURE

(Continued from Page 4.) :

how the submarine came alongside potent facter which compels Hitler and the commander ordered them to to seek by all means to stop the war. take to their boats. They attempted: There are others, both external and WASHINGTON. ·

to do so, but one of their two boats, internal. Europe's present war is costing the was smashed against the side of their British-French-German belligerents vessel.

Refused To Speak

Then a sergeant-major brought up voice-recording apparatus and handed the prisoner

microphone.

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1o London, Captain Panagos and his late in the day, she managed to us-hours. French oicer began discussing

the

Next came a young sub-lieutenant. yealed no anxiety. Smilingly he ne Unlike the first prisoner, his face re- cepted a chair which was offered him. "After doing manual work of dif- UNDER the Italo-German military

plliance of last March. Italy ferent kinds I joined the German Air possibly £20,000,000 daily in current | When they were all safely aboard cash outlay alone. The figure is the submarine their own vessel was acquired the right to be consulted Force," he said. "I have been an by Germany on future operations to officer in the Air Force for six years. neither official nor exact but merely sunk.

On arrival in Dublin on their way be undertaken by the Axls. Though have done more than 1,000 dying an estimate made here to-day from

The the best available information.

crew found wolling to greet them ser! this right in July.

military maliers, but Wearied and exhausted by two certain

within the past four

offeer replied: "I'm sorry, I am un- sailors of the sister ship Pantelis,

these questions." which by a coincidence is at present campaigns

years, Italy had neither the heart able to reply

He was at a loss to explain Hitler's lying in the port of Dublin.

nor the means for

embarking on Both crews came from the port of fresh adventures. Nor could she reason for Bighting. He could not explain why his Fuchrer had decided Oinoussai In Greece. They called

with n compaign

to fight Poland when he could have friendly country, against a

DNO- out Christian nomes, embracing and identify herself kissing as they met.

dominantly Catholic, in pursuit of achieved convincing results by main- Dodged Plane

purely German objectives, Hitler taining peace.

After he had made a statement into In excited voices the crew of the brushed aside all tallan objections, the microphone he bowed to the

the AxIE.

French. oficer and sold: "I thank sunken steamer told of other experi- demanding support for

His call was disregarded. Again,

"Additional war. costs in losses of property, arms and commercial re venues cannot be computed at this time

e war cost estimate may be too while on the other hand the may rise further it and when wholesale destruction of men, guns, fortifications and ships begins.

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They said that after the ship had recently he called for a demonstra-you," sunk, and while the subinarine was tion of Axis solidarity by the propo

divided the country still on the surface, a British plane, xal, or public support, of "a prace belief bus

these dissident appeared and the submarine dived plan," and was, it is said, politely against itself. To

But firmly informed that there could elements within the frontlers of the immediately.

Reich proper Hitler has now added She did not again come to the be no such demonstration.

The anti-Communist Axis had great blocks of population in Aus- surface until she appeared of the,

been shattered by its own chiet, iria, Czechoslovakia and Poland. Irish coast.

Considerable armies, both military Captain Panagos said of the U-boat architect,

Even. Gen. France's known ad- and police, must be subtracted from commander and his crew:

"When they ate we ate, and what miration for Germany was profound- the German military striking force they had they gave us. We got plenty ly shaken by the new alignment of to prevent Insurrection In many of of cheese, milk and cigarettes. Some Nazi polley. Since: Portugal is pur- these areas.

Hitler Ubasts that he confronts the of the crew had got their clothes wet, suing a policy of neutrality in com and they were given bunks to sleep plete agreement with her old ally; world with 62,000,000 Germans. can look for no When the Central, Powers went to In while their clothes were drying." Britain, Germany.

War in 1914 their populations ex- "Very young, very nice," was the further help from the Peninsula.

On her frontiers which match ceeded 80,000,000. Behind them tribute to the submarine commander pold by another member of the crew with neutral States Germany is con- was a record of plenty and prosperi- fronted by considerable, armies; all ty. Their armles were trained from who talked broken English..

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ritorial waters, being exclusively for for Hitler has falled to secure Jan. 30 list ours told must the purpose of landing a ship- those additional sources of wood Reichstag that Germany wrecked crew. Is not in contraven and wheat, oil and iron which he so export or die: How are these ex- urgently needs. In these circuni-ports to be maintained during wor, .. stances it is understandable that the and where are the countries ready The Greek sailors will long remem- Scandinavian countries should feel to accept Germna manufactured ber the kindness of two Irish girls, that the predatory German eye has goods whose quality, even before Bridget Cleary (25) and her, sister, been turned upon them; may even war broke out, had so deteriorated MARINA HOUSE, Eileen (27), of Coursham Farmhouse, have wondered whether Germany as to be losing Germuny her mar-

was not seeking to pick a quarrel kos all over the world? Ballymore.

How Is she now to replace the Bridget sald: "My brother Owen with them. From the development rushed in to say that there wasd of events in Scandinavia It should be worn-out capital equipment in the possible to judge more accurately factories from which these inferior submarine in Ventry Harbour.

"With Thoma), anollier brother, I how far there exists between Berlin products were being turned out? ran across the fields and climbed and Moscow any agreement to work The problem becomes Increasingly.

in concert for exploitation of nou serious for her. down to the rocks.

All expert opinion, hotit military "The submarine was only a little tral States. But here again. Ilitler way out, and as we arrived a mall must have grave doubts when ho and economie, in Germany has long contemplates the role of his now been agreed that the Germany of

to-day could not inco a long boat containing Ave men was!

wir partner. proaching the rock.

a short one? That Finally he must take into account Can the win "One of the men threw

rope,

state of aftales on the home inust be the Brat burning question Owen caught it, and together we the

people for which confronts her leaders. Should pulled the boat in. The first man to front. The German

(yours have been over she fall mid-way between the two, climb cut said he was the captain of several a Greek steamer, and that his ship worked, under-paid and under-fed with National Boctalism always up- EMPIRE SALES

BUY TELEPHONE 31261 M. B. KING Repression by the Gestapo has in- proximating more closely to Nn-*· had been sulik by the submarine.

-marked lethargy. - Thou- tional Bolshevism, who will be the Thomas took the captain and duced.

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