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REPLY TO NEW NAZI CANARD · Germans Detained In British Prison

Allegations made by the German radio that certain Nazis who, it was elained, were consular ofleats, had been 1-treated in a Scottish prison camp, were refuted und described as absolutely untrue" oficial quar- ters in London recently,

The people concerned were Herr Liebski, Herr Apfelstaet, and Frau- lein Wagner, all of whom lived in Glasgow. They were known to the

FRONT

BRISTLES WITH

GUNS: MEN ALL READY

WOMEN WILL BEAR ARMS

-Says Judge

TACOMA. - Women

secking

- United States citizenship were to-

By DOUGLAS WILLIAMS,

"Daily Telegraph" Special War Correspondent With the B.E.F. in France

There are plenty of guns along the British front, but so cleverly are they hidden in barns, villages, and fields that the passer-by gets no hint of their presence.

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None has yet been fired, except one that went off structed by Federal Judge Lloyd accidentally the other day, to the great humiliation of

Block that in event of war they "would have to bear arms, Just Hke men,"

Conducting a citizenship exami- nation, Judge Black said:

In the past, when women have been asked if they would take up arms, many of them have said they would nably because they fell there was not the slightest chance

they would ever have to do such thing. Times have suddenly changed,"

authorities in London to be notori- Hitler's Film Star

members of the Nazl

Friend Arrested

the battery concerned.

But if and when it becomes needed there is artillery in sufficiency to support|~~~~

and protect the troops at munitioned. Officers und men alike, present manning the front trained and enger for the chance to line positions..

all regulars, are keen and highly

register their pieces.

Cheerful Londonors

The mud of the last few days resulting from the heavy rains

Of the new 25 pdrs. there are a has to some extent slowed down great many batterics, many of them manned by ex-Territorials. A cross the process of getting the guns between the old 18 pár, and a light

into position, but excellent pro- howitzer, il ares at a rapid rate and

gress has been made and the with extreme accuracy. The range tractors and four-wheel drive is far superior to the 18 pdr., which lorries used to haul artillery It has cupplanted. It is light und

easily handled. have proved fully capable of standing up to the mud of One such battery which I visited to-day was engaged in preparing gun Flanders.

pits. The men were all Londoners, The art of camouflage has im-and only a few weeks ago many Fraulein Riefenstahl was chosen by proved a great deal in the last 20 were engaged in their peacetime purs Hitler to produce the official film of years, and factors of colouring Results an clerks, as arsenol workers,

Leni Riefenstahl, the German in stor and friend of Hitler, has been urrested by the Gestapo, says B.U.P., quoting a Paris wireless report.

to take mencures under the Allens

She is an old member of the Nazi Order, whieh enables the Home Auw Pil Beng's Trading Co., Ltd, Sceretary to íssuc a deportation party and has been described as GNE

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order against any allen if it is con- of the few women to possess Hiller's sidered desirable. The three people confidence. Once she said that she were taken to a remand prison. "grew up with the party leaders in where they were treated as remand their great ideals." prisoners that

45 prisoners awaiting trial. The German wire-

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ously active party,

und

a day or two before the war it was considered by the authori ties that I was necessary In the public Interests that they should be It was not placed under detention. then known, that there was any claim that these three people were consular offelals. The Foreign Of- fier had not been notified that they had consular status,

The authorities therefore decided the Olymple Games which took placej graphical background and light and|69 gas company employees, as factory

shade are taken into account nown- hunds. in Gerniany in 1938.

days with far more technical know- ledge then was the case in the last Already, though after lite more)

than a fortuight at the front, they war.

Camouflage nets, many of them I have, it seemed me, acquired the understand woven by Scotch fisher poise of old soldiers. Ench gun de girls, are of excellent quality and tachment, led by its sergeant, pushed afford fine protection.

and pulled with cheerfulness and vast One heavy battery with long-range enerity as they dragged the two-ton was pieces through the boggy soit into less alleged that while they avere that Dr. Werner Gregor, the German Euns which I visited to-day

scattered around a group of farm-the gravel surface pits from which this prison they were subjected to Consul in Glasgow, left the city two houses, but so well were the guns they will fire. Indignities, and had to wear prison months before the outbreak of war: concealed that it was not until I was clothing and work like canvicis, "The excuse given for his departure," atmost, on top of them that their pre- The farmer, a ne old man of 70,

These allegations, it was stated said Mr. Dollan, "was that he was sence became noticeable,

was giving a helping hand yesterday. were absolutely untrue. returning to complete his military Around the battery the ordinary wheel. His farm, he told me, had The three persons

in service, but many of us suspected life of the village was going on as been

fact,

German officers' mess all given every possible consideration. that he was going back with

usual. Farm carts laden with crops through the last war and his son had Germany made representations to dossier

regarding the effect that they possessed con- commercial and industrial activities creaked in and out of the courtyard been killed fighting with the French

while dogs and children played with army In Verdun. sular status of some kind. The For-in Glasgow and the West of Scot-the gunners or accepted scraps from

In Fino Fettle eign Office looked into the matter, land.

midday meal. and, although the German contention

Some guns were placed in orchards. was never accepted, the three Ger: Provost, "run at least three classes it may become necessary to evacuate mans were released from prison. All for the presumed study of the Ger- some of the local residents lest the others along souds, and three, it is understood, have now roman language, but really for Nazi force of the explosion damage sur-laged. Much digging has been neers- turned to Germany.

break glasssary to get rid of the rainwater, and propaganda, and he was probably rounding buildings or

in some cases gunners worked in the only consul in the city who con- windows; A Suspect Consul

travened the diplomatic rules by Of the heavy artillery it is perhaps vests and trousers draining trenches emptying sumphotes. Every- to say little except that it is ond

and Commenting on the allegations, engaging in active political pro-wise

sufficiently provided and well am-where was a bustle of activity Lord Provost Dollan said recently paganda."

successful achievement.

Back later in the village where I went to have a cup of tea with the

were offteers we passed crews who preparing an evening meal, Over one door leading to a hay-loft I saw acrawled in chalk, Ritz Hotel, wipe your feel." Over another, "Hurry's Bar, beer on draught.”

were,

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"Dr. Gregor," added

the Lord

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The fear of everything German that grips the Czechs is illustrated to-night by a despatch from the Prague correspondent of the Amster- dun Telegraaf."

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Crowds of frightened mothers have in the last few days patrolled corridors of Czech schools where the children were to be inoculated by German doctors against diphtheria, Nothing could be done to calm them. The Czech Minister of Health iasqed a statement that, the serum used was not a German product, but came from the State health institute. Results had been excellent in Le cases of 350,000 children.

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