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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

January 16, 1940.

HITLER SPIES AS 'DUTCH POLICE'

AMSTERDAM.

. A WIDESPREAD plot to smuggle into Nazis Execute

Holland n number of German spies, dressed

in Dutch uniforms, has been unearthed here following the arrest of a young Dutch Nazi.

The man, named Albrink, was stopped by Customs officials at Rammelbeck, on the German frontier.

The car he was driving was searched and in it were found trunte leads of Dulch uniforms-those of military police, ordinary police, rail-: way guards and postmen."

Inside Frontier Albrink, whose home was in the Dutch frontier town of Denekamp, worked for Kurage proprietor In Nordhorn, just inside Germany.

As he was thus constantly crossing the frontier, he apparently thought he would not be challenged by the

Customs.

Bat he had been watched by the authorities for some time and they struck just as his plan neared fruition.

It is supposed that Albrink, noting) en instructions, bought the uniforms from securelhand clothes dealers in

To Be Copied

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Be was taking them to Germany so that they might be copied.

Nazi spies would thus have been enabled to cross the frontier in Dutch disquiers and, when they arrived, have a greater freedom of movement than erinary peuple.

Bath Albrink and his father are members of the Dutch Nazl Party.

NOVELIST SUES. FILM COMPANY

Declares Book Was Plagiarised

"Malcontent" Soldiers

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A NUMBER, of German soldiers have been executed at Lorrach, near the Rhine, states the. Daily Mail Bale Correspon- dent.

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ly been used by the Nazis for: the execution of malcontents. Three Beheaded

wild

MEN who between 1914 and 1918 fought aerial battles over the Germna lines are now help- ing, to fight aerial battles from THREE men who had been sel~ | the ground. Aerial combat is a tenced to death for high treason by

were headed recently. They young man's job, and they are the People's Court in Berlin were be too old to take to the air again. to have supplied information to a

Mony are members of the stat "foreign intelligence service." organisation that directs the present One of their hecomplices, states the generation of fighter pilots of the ocial German News Agency, was R.A.F. to accessful action. Som executed some time ago. ure in ground Jobs at Fighter Com- mand stations. Others again are at Vernichtungsieg! the Alr Minstry.

These men were among the frnt

AFTER the long-promised German

to respond when the R.A.F. was ex- "Blitzkeleg" (Lightning war) comes panded on a war basis. They still the Vernichtungsleg." This means carry pilot's wings on their tunics,Victory based on complete annihila- but the only flying mest of them da tion of the entire armed forces of the la in communication aircraft, just cherny is the main strategie object of burinesa men use a car in the day's warir.

successful war in the West, accord-

Ing to a book by General Erfurt, who coined the term "Blitzkrieg."

Ribbons Tell History

An ordinary victory may enable Their story is told by rows of

A veteran of four the enemy to retreat, says General medal ribbons. wars won his first decoration in the Erfurt. So the slogan of the German Matabele campaign, long before the Army must be "Vernichtungsleg!" irst aircraft left the ground. At the

ame RAF stution is a liaison effcer Tallest Soldier

who wears the uniform of the Navy. LEO GRABOWSKY, said to be the fu won the Distinguished Flying tallest soldier in the Polish Army, Cross in the last war for sinking who was taken prisoner by the Rus- submarine froní an airship.

Brought Down 17

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the "Richtofeniens, has been sent back to Germany "Circus" which become almost as it was discovered that he was a egend on the Western Front. One, German. Grabowsky is 7ft. high. who served with the French Afr slates the flamburger Fremdenblatt.

He has become quite a celebrity In A dispute over alleged re-Force, was already a veteran in the

papery as semblances between a film, "The War. He is one of the R.A.F. Germany and has joined the Army. Man who Changed his Mind."dest serving officers, but has been He is described by the

fying "dua" on a communication air.being among the "trophies" of the

Polish campaign. and a novel. The Man who raft.

lad Sold his Brain," came be-

Million Will Move fore Mr. Justice Lewis in. the

A grey-haired pilot who wears the

AGREEMENT has been reached King's Bench Division in London ribbon and bar of the Distinguished

Cross

officially between Berlin and Moscow on the Flying

and last month...

George Vicomte de Mauduit zredited with having brought down 17 exchange of minurities in Poland.

According to Germon estimates, German aircraft is delighted to be sued Gaumont British Picture gun lying Service aircraft, after 21 115,000 pensants of German nation- ality and 1,000,000 Russians, Uk- Corporation Ltd., claiming dam-years' interval,

ranians and Ruthenians will be trans-

An MGM Picture Camels.ferred. ages for infringement of the copyright in his book, alleging "Grand machines he

Many Polish Jews are expected to that the film was a plagiarism.but he is still young enough to ser take advantage of the more liberal The defence was a denial of the both sides of a question. "We had Soviet views on nationality to declare

no parachutes," he says, "and engine themselves Russians or Ukranings. allegations.

fallure was all too common, but the

whs

flew In those days he

found them,

Mr. G. P. Eddy, K.C., for the machines were slow, could be landed "Mother Modals" Vienmte, said that since 1920 he had 'n almost shy field. With the modern |

GERMAN mothers who have had lived in England, and had been ex-Service machine you have a para-:

given ployed with engineering-Grms.le chute that really works, and there four or more chlidren are retired in 1929 and had since done a are many aerodromes; but you aka special medals with the compliments good deal of literary work. In 1930 nave high landing speeds and three of the Fibrer." In Mun.ch alone, Be completed the novel and had about or four times as many controls to according to the Neuste Muencher 40 copies of the manuscript made for operate." His nixteen year old son. 4.000 were distributed in the Jcirculation ameng literary agents, is an expert inailplane pilot. "I left past six months in women aged he-

publishers and friends.

school to get into the R.A.F." his tween 60 and 70. There will be u He did not succeed in gelling the father says, "now my boy is hoping new distribution next month book published, but in January, 1936. against hope that he will

pet his

"ers

4,000.

he negotiated with agents for thehance. I dare not try and put him sale of the Alm rights. In April off-and i don't think I want tu" 1936, the Vicomte saw an evening newspaper announcement that

kn. The Man Who Changed His Mind," was in production. The film was screened in October, 1936.

The

Mr. Eddy raid the Vicomte alleged that there were 53 similarities be- tween his book and the film. Playing the lead in the film was Heris Karloff, the very artist whom be had in mind for the leading role.

Scientists' Experiments

In both Blm and book, continued

Mr. Eddy, the chief character was a foreign relentist, and the basic iden was the transfer of the brain between two Individuals. In both, a lecture

by the scientist created an uproar in

fur

number upted 50. They arty per cent. of ali medals are given to inothers with eight or more children, says the paper.

LATE NEWS "Destroy Hitler"

Buried Alive

22 Hours, Two

Men Rescued

A MANIFESTO to the German people demanding the destruction of read on the a Free Germany was Germon Free Radlo,

The announcer said that after the Munich bomb explosion the lenders of the German Socialist Freedom Party met somewhere in Germany and issued the manifestp.

"The struggle is not waged by foreign countries or foreign agents, but by millions of German workers,

"The third, sald the broadcast. FRANTIC EFFORTS to save fourth, or afth blow will strike dows

We are

In the medical profession, and there the lives of two brothers who Hitler. But we want more.

with electrical were experiments

an aban-not satisfied with the destruction of apparatus, part of which was a chair. Were buried alive in

at Shing MuaHitler and his party. We want a im-doned tunnel in which prisoned.

succeeded last night, after the Free Germany." Vicomte de Mauduit, in evidence,men had been buried for 22 sald that, as far as he knew, when

a person

could be

he conceived the idea of the novel hours.

Although in a state of col All Ears For

in 1928 it was original. In 1920 he

nd made a fortune of £110,000, but lapse owing to lack of fresh air

lost practically all in a arancini and food, the two men escaped

crash.

Mr. Beyfus, cross-examining:

Do

you suggest you have a monopoly of

with only minor injuries.

The brothers were Wong Sau, aged

the iden of writing a film or a play 3, and Wong Chol, nged 25, bain re

sidents cf Yuen In. Hal village, N.T. the ubondoned They entered

perimented with a young girl.

Hore-Belisha

Commons Statement Eagerly Awaited on this theme? I don't,

Vicomte de Mauduit agreed that the same idea had been used in a tunnel, which had been construcleef with work on the

LONDON, Jan. 16 (Reuter). different way by H. G. Wells, Mr.in connection Beyfus also wungested that it was Jubilee Reservoir, nt 2 p.m. on Sun---Although there is widespread interest in the personal state- Heed by Barry Pain in "Exchange of day.

"We had only walked about twelve Souls." In that book a selentist ex-\feot tuhth the roof of the tunnel sud- ment which Mr. Leslie Hore- denly collapsed behind us," one of Belisha, the former War Minis- the brothers said.

Įter, will make in the House of The two men walked on through Commons to-morrow, there is the tunnel witch, however, came to D dead end in the heart of the moun-always the possibility that the {tain.

much-heralded debate may come Some hours after they had been to nothing, says "Router's" Lob- buried other villagers, alarmed at LONDON. Jan. 11 (Reuter) their absence, commenced a search. by correspondent. While the German radio. on Sunday The brothers were able to make May Avold Controversy

large It is considered possible that fic announced the abandonment of Ger- their plight known and a many's export motor car trade ne a number of miners from the nearby many take the line that no unnecessary resuit of the Allied blockade, the workings were enlisted to commence controversy should be oruuscunt export of British cars Australia, tunnelling operations. India. Burmn. Portuent and Uruguny

BRITAIN'S CAR. TRADE BOOMS

for the first three months of the war Sunday and were finally able to reach the exhausted men at noon yesterday reached record floures.

The Society of Car Manufacturern lwentytwo hours after they had states that there were also increases been burled.

present.

The miners worked throughout Mr. Hore-Bellala's statement in ilkely to begin between 3.15 pm, and 3.30 p.m. Mr. Chamberlain is dúo to make his review of the progress of the war immediately afterwards.

The Prime Minister probably will preface his statement with comments Jon Mr. Horo-Delisha's speech."

In the number of pars aliipred to It is believed that the cave-In was West Indies. That, Eiro, Malaya, caused by a wolf trop set by some Canada and South Africa,

other villagers.

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