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Escaped Nazis Found Up A Tree

......

"IS the war finished yet?" was the first question an escap ing German prisoner asked when he was recaptured.

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SPOTLIGHT

CON

GERMANY

HITLER LEARNS STRATEGY

Hitler is taking lessons in strategy. according to a French broadcast for Austrians

"He decided to do so after his recent discussions with the German

January 30, 1940..

New Car May Revolutionize Transport

60 m.p.g. ON GEARLESS CLUTCHLESS MOTOR

Uy. A Special Correspondent MR. LEONARD MUR-

General Staff had revealed his com-PHY, once Edison's chief SPOTLIGHT ON GERMANY

plete ignorance of military science," the French announcer said.

technician in Britain, recent-

Death For Undermining Morslo ly drove me in a car of his "Bomb"

Gen. Keitel, Chief of the German own design which has no General Staff, has red decree Im posing the dead pensily under mill-clutch, no gearbox, and re- try law for attempts to undermine duces petrol consumption by the soldiers' morale, desertion and at least half, says a corrc-

looting.

Son Sonds Mother To Gaol

سجد

The

spondent.

The

"Bomb" Plot Threat To Goring in Prague

BELGRADE.

ANOTHER German "bomb" plot has been revented—this tinie

against Nazi No. 2, Field-Marshal Goring.

He was warned by the Czech police. They told him that early in the New Year.

attempt would be made on his life when he visited Pragur

He was one of four who fled from

Scottish Internment

camp by scaling a barbed wire fence.

Within an hour 2,000 soldiers and police were searching for them.

A gamekeeper found two of tho Germans, George Sluzalex, aged 24,

This car, which he is confident and Franz Feliens, aged 22, Bear a

A young Nazi arrested in mother stream on a private estate.

One of them was washing his teeth.for ultering derogatory remarks about may revolutionise road trans "I told them to go back to the Hiller. His action was described in port, is driven by a combination camp," he said to the Daily Herald," an incident quoted in a broadcast to of electric and internal combus-an

Austrians abroad over the French tion engines." "but they replied, 'No! No!'

car weight twenty-seven)

So the visit has been post- "Then I took both of them by the radio. shoulder and made them march."

wife of a German workman, at hundredweight; It was originally a Krefeld, Western Germany, returning sixteen h.. model. With three up. poned, and both Czech and Nazi Broke Away

home after Fa vala tour of the we drove at a steady thirty miles an police are making inquiries.

shops, expressed

occasionally accelerating to

I understand from Czech elteles in Before they had gone 100 yards, provision

miles an hour. Our petrol) and opinion of the Fuehrer in somewhat broke the Germans

nway

strong language, accusing him of

enuse the Czechs feared escaped.

Kot in The gamekeeper at once

Her son immediately left the flat

Mr. Murphy has removed the car's prisals and touch with the police.

An inspector and sergeant were put and, returning with other S.S. men,

It with a 7 hp, engine. He has add- on the trail by discovering two small placed his mother under arrest. The original 10 hp. engine and replaced says a correspondent. pieces of red silk on the ground-the next day, the account added, she wased a 314 h.p. dynamotor of his own KONG TRAMWAYS LIMITED will identity patches sewn on the cloth sentenced to five months' imprisen Vesign and a set of batteries.

all Internees. ing of

the frat trees they reached One of was a tall yewi.

branches they High up in the spotted the two men, one crouching on a branch about 15ft. from the another ground and the other branch five feet higher up,

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on

Both men appeared to be frighten- ed. They scrambled to the ground and surrendered.

One of them was wearing seafar ing clothes, including a dark blue jacket, a blue jersey and a heavy Bannel shirt, but the other was at- tired in ordinary civilian clothes.

Some hours after their caplure. It was learned that their two comrades had asked for tea at a house five miles

away.

They were given it by a woman the who afterwards telephoned to police.

Missing Men

hoon was

sixty miles to the Belgrade that Goring was warned be-)

responsibility for the food shortage, gallon.

ment.

The incident was quoted by the broadcaster as symptomatic of the de- moralising influence of Nazism on family life.

60,000 Czech Hostages

Sixty thousand Czech hostages are being held in Germany, according to Paris "Solr." The artisans and work- men among them are living in condi- tions similar to Imprisonment with hard labour.

All of them have been told that

they will be made to suffer for all nets of disaffection on the part of the people at home.

Great Economy

The car is started on the batteries. Once it is in motion, the petrol en- gine takes up the drive and maintains the speed. The electric motor, now operating as a dyname, is replacing the energy used in starting.

The great economy of petrol in caused by the petrol engine run- ning at constant throttle.

mass re- of terror, new reign

The Czech Fascist organisation are

Whether it was to have been a real or fake attempt, as was suspected in the case of the beer cellar incident; at Munich, is not known,

pay "part of the PLANS are afoot in Germany to workers in the form of promissory notes," it is revealed by the Schwarze Korps.

said to have been behind the plot

Wagos

of

An article headed "Work more- When consume less" says:

"Since we have had no unemploy- it has heavy, work to do was in going up-hill-the electric motor ment for a long time, and since we automatically come to its help. have already utilised the possibilities With no clutch or gear-box to of rationalisation for the time being.

simpler operate, driving

than our rising war production can only be continued it we apply less labour in a normal car. The food position In the former

"I'm Ofty-six," Mr. Murphy mild, to the satisfaction of private needs"

* Czecho-Slovak territory is becoming increasingly worse. Meat, sugar, cont"and I've done a lot of engineering.

NUMBER of passenger trains,. and even bread are obtainable only in I've designed this car not because i

want to make a fortune, but simply A Including severnl expresses, have small quantities.

in the belief that it's right.

**I call my Jalest baby power because the car drives from either or both of two sources off energy."

Steel Wedding Rings

Germany's 12,000 jewellery and

Wedding rings are now being manufactured of steel, and the Press has been instructed to describe them The men still at liberty are de-as having a "Ace and noble effect." scribed as: Eberhord Rolf Fischer, aged 23, 5ft. 2in., brown hair, blue

fresh

complexion, weight 101⁄2st. and Max Waderthul, aged eyes, 38, 5ft 9in, fair hair, grey | weight 11st.

It was from the same internment camp that three escaped recently.

суся,

German youths

could speak None of the three English. They were quickly recap- tured,

Rome, The Axis and The Future

.....

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āmg = Poit” Building "yndham Street ar

there has been

no

evidence of any change in Italy attitude of "non-belligerency" as de- fined by Count Ciano in his speech to the Fascist Grand Council.

goldsmitha may only sell gold and Jewellery If the customer surrenders old gold of an equal weight, Tricks Get Food"

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been withdrawn from the Gerninn 'dusi railways, according to the German

wireless.

Flags In Berlin

The measure, it was stated, "Is due to the necessity of freeing locomotives and locomotive personnel for carry- ing vital industrial supplies and to the difficulties caused by the cold weather,"

Father Must

Pay £1,500 To Daughter

A GIRL aged 14 was awarded £1,500 damages against her father at Not- Unghamshire Assizes last month, She la to spend £250 of the money on an operation for the removal

scar from her face.

of

The operation will be performed by Sir Harold Cillles, the plaste sur- gcon,

The girl, Joyce Tanks, of West Bridg- ford, Nottingham, was a passenger in a car, driven by her father, George Tonks, which came in colli- sion with a lorry on May 27.

It was then that she received the scar. Joyce sued through her mother.

of, the lorry, who were joint de Judgment was given for the owners

fendants.

When Mr. Justice Singleton sald he

saw from Sir Harold's report that he thought he could get improve- ment up to 10 per cent, counsel replied, "Certainty. At the worst. 60 per cent."

Mrs. Tonks agreed that the remain- ing £1,250 should be invested for her daughter.

The judge described it as a very wise

settlement.

sworn, the owner must wait until both are in the same condition.

even of ersatz leather, a

OWING to the shortage of leather, TAILPIECE: Letters sent from Ger- Thousands of tiny buttonhole flags Germans who found the food ration bearing the words, "Better a king by decree has been issued in Germany many, to neutral countries bear a doled out by the Nazis Insufficient and God's will than a pig from Ber-that shoes can only be mended in stomp inviting tourists to visit the unsatisfactory have recently had rechtesgaden," are being distributed pairs and not singly. If one sole only joyful Germany."

during Berlin's nightly secretly course to a simple ruse to oblain extra suppiles. They "fell " and black-out. called in a doctor, who prescribed

A Dutch visitor had four pinned on more and better food, allowed only the lapel of his overcast during an on a medical cerilfeste.

The "Voelkischer Beobachter" now eight minutes' walk from the station to his hotel, but, says Reuter, he waras Germans that "discipline must could not see who the people were, be preserved even in the consultips for they made off in a hurry.

room."

Restaurant keepers have adoptedl the trick of keeping their best bits of beef-for-old customers. An order hagi been issued forbidding the practice. Beheadings Daily

Beheadings are now a dally occur- rence. The latest is that of a Ger- man, Frank Blawak, 27 who was convicted in Berlin of stealing a woman's handung,

THE FRAU PROFITEER

10 Years' jail "As Warning" FRAU MARTHA KRAUSE, a Schleswig Danes Called Up

the Danish Berlin shopkeeper, was sentenc numbers of Large minority living on the German side of ed to ten years in the peniten- the Schleswig frontier are being call- tiary because she sold meat, but- ed up for service with the German ter and textiles to customers newspaper "Danskeren."

Although Count Ciano is reported Army, states the North Schleswig without ration carda.

to have lost much of his enthusiasm for the Axls since his meeting with Herr Hiller at Berchtesgaden Inst August, it is believed that Signor Mussolini still adhere, to it in prin- clple.

Among them is M, Frederick Peter- sen, one of the leaders of the Danish Minority party in South Jutland. Cholera In Warkaw

mer-

She persuaded wholesale

the chants, says B.UP., to give her extra supplies which, according to authorities, she sold at higher prices. This is a serious warning to those According to a Danish traveller re-who believe they can circumvent the turning to Copenhagen from Germany ration-card system," says the Voel- Recent diplomatic events in Rome it is admitted there that there were kischer Beobachter, have given no clue to any further de-cases of cholera in Warsaw. velopments, though the meetings be- tween the Pope and the King of Italy,

Vatican Activity

and the continuous diplomatic activity The Pope Receives

of the Vatican in both Home and Berlin undoubtedly are of political kignificance.

Paris Nuncio

ROME-The Pope recently

ro-

The

Gifts To The Crew

Of H.M.S. Malaya

LONDON-The Association of Bri

It has been thought that these were

ceived Mgr. Valert, the Fopal Nuncio tish Malaya is making good progress connected with possible peace moves, in Paris. He came here to report to with the fund to provide comforts for the crew of H.MS. Malays; the but it is equally possible that they him and also for a holiday. may signify an Italian attempt at res audience lasted over an hour: The battleship presented by the people concillation between the Vatican and Pope also received Senator Beanard, a of the FM.S. during the last war.

The Secretary, Mr. Oliver Marks, Berlin to remove difficulties in the former French Ambassador to the

garments and Quirinal, who is now French Com-is appealing for subscriptions and way of Axis co-operation,

missioner to the 1942 Italian World gifts of woollen

cigarettes. Fair.

Russo-Gorman Problem-

On the other hand, all shades of Catholic opinion have always been strongly anti-Bolshevist and the Russo-German pact and the German treatment of Poland-a predominani- ly Catholle.country-have intensified. Cathalle feeling against the Nazis. Which is a reason for believing that popular Italian sentiment may be in- creasingly anti-Nazi.

Alleged

U.S. Rebels

Names

Have Irish

There is no doubt that Hiller would like to see a strengthening of Axle ties. It remains to be seen whether of an organization called the Columbus which scuttled herself lost in the present political mandeuvring, Christian Front" arrested by Federal month. Mussolini will try to heal the breach Bureau agents, aseven are stated to

NEW YORK-Of the 18 members among the crew of the German liner

Germany Is Going To Be

Beaten Again....

AM very much afraid Germany is going to be beaten, again.". Dr. Gerhardt Beger, former member of the Reichstag and German airmon in the last war old members of, the Canadian Club at Montreal,

between the Valicon and, Berlin, or have Irish names, reports Reuter,

The meh wire arrested on charges will allow it to become even wider,

Here again, the true strength of the of conspiracy to create a revolution in Russo-German tie-up will probably the United States, to overthrow the

Government and establish a dictator-6 be the determining factor.

There is no appreciable outward ship.

The Christian Front is said to have | sign of any lessening of the Fascist

"ease" against the so-called Westernplanned a reign of terror,

According to a Detroit dispatch, plutocracles, as. Count Ciano's latest

Father Coughlin, the radio pries

This however, seems an historical speech showed.

declared that the Christian Front used

necessity in order to re-establish a his name without his authority,

Meanwhile, it is announced, that treo and peaceful Germany in Cut In Phone Books .......

Karl Schlueter, one of the Nazi secret united continent of Europe," he Post Omer telephone directories, servico bgehts who ned from the added, ganz best which utilise about, 19,000 tons United States in October, 1038, at the Dr. Soger said that In his optrilón paper, every year, will be issued at time of the New York spy trial; is now iftier was "ellpping" had made his less frequent intervals during the in the hands of the American police, first big mištake by algning up with

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