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HITLER LEARNS

STRATEGY

Hitler is taking lessons in strategy› according to a French brondenst 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

By A Special Correspondent MR. LEONARD MUR-

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

the French announcer said,

plete Ignorance of military sclence,"

he ate for Undererning Moralo ly drove me in a car of his technician in Britain, recent-

General Staff, has issued n deeree im-

Ben. Keitel, Chief of the Germantown design which has no posing the death penalty under mill-clutch, no gearbox, and re- they for attempts to undermine duces petrol consumption by at least half, says a corre- spondent.

the soldiers' morale, desertion and looting.

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"Bomb" Plot Threat To Goring in Prague

BELGRADE. ANOTHER German "bomb" plot has been revealed this time

against Nazi No. 2, Field-Marshal Goring.

This car, which he is confident may revolutionise road trans- port, is driven by a combination of electric and internal combus-an tion engines.

He was warned by the Czech police. They told him that attempt would be made on his life when he visited Prague early in the New Year,

So the visit has been post-

Krefeld, Western Germany, returning sixteen h.p, model. With three up, poned, and both Czech and Nazi Father Must

A young Naal arrested his mother for uttering derogatory remarks about Hitler. His action was described in an incident quoted in a broadcast 10 Austrians abroad over the French radio.

The cor weighs twenty-seven The wife of a German workman at hundredweight; it was originally a

home After 4 voin tour of tho

steady thirty miles an police are making inquiries. drove at chops, expressed provision

er hour, occasionally accelerating I understand from Czech circles in opinion of the Fuehrer. in somewhat forty-five miles an hour. Our petrol strong language, accusing him of consumption was sixty miles to the Belgrade that Goring was warned be- cause the Czechs feared mass re-

ment.

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

60,000 Czech Hostages

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Great Economy

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responsibility for the food shortage,

Her son immediately left the dati

Jerror, Mr. Murphy has removed the car's prisols and n new reign An inspector and sergeant were put and, returning with other S.S. men, original 18 hp engine and replaced says correspondent.

The Czech Fascist organisation are on the trail by discovering two smell placed his mother under arrest. The It with a 7 h.p. engine. He has add-

plot pieces of red silk on the ground-the next day, the account added, she wased a 3% .D. dynamotor of his own said to have been behind the

Whether it was to have been a real icdentity patches sewn on the cloth-sentenced to five months' imprisonedesign and a set of batteries, ing of all internees.

or fake attempt, as was suspected In the case of the beer cellar, Incident One of the first trees they reached was a tall yew.

The car is started on the batteries. at Munich, is not known. Once it is in motion, the petrol en- gine takes up the drive and maintains PLANS are afoot in Germany

pay "part of the wages of motor, now workers in the form of promissory. the speed. The electric operating as a dynamo, is replacing notes." It is revealed by the Schwarze the energy used in

in starting.

Korps. The great economy of peirol is caused by the petrol engine run- ning at constant throttic. It has heavy work to do as "Since we have had no unemploy- going up-hill-the electric motor ment for a long time, and since we automatically come to its help. have already ulilised the possibilities Wills no clutch or rear-box to of rationalisation for the time being, operate, driving is singler than our rising war production can only in a normal car.

be continued if we apply less labour to the satisfaction of private needs."

ground and the other

another un

Sixty thousand Czech hostages are being held in Germany, according to Paris "Soir." The artisans and work- Both men appeared to be frighten-men among them are living in condi- lions similar to imprisonment with ed. They scrambled to the ground hard labour. and surrendered.

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One of them was wearing sentar- ing clothes, including a dark blue jacket, a blue jersey and a heavy tired in ordinary civilian clothes,

Some hours after their capture it; we learned that their two comrades had asked for tea at a house live miles

away.

They were given it by a woman who ofterwards telephuned to police.

Missing Men

grey

the

The men still at iberty are de- scribed as: Eberhord Rolf Fischer, aged 23, 5ft. 2in., brown hair, blue cyes, fresh

weight complexion, 101st.; and Max Waderthui, aged 30, rt. in., fair hair, eyes. weight 1st.

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

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

Rome, The Axis and

All of them have been told that they will be made to suffer for all nets of disaffection the part of the people at home.

The food position in the former Czecho-Slovak territory is becoming increasingly worse. Meat, sugar, coal and even bread are obtainable only in small quantilles,

Steel Wedding Rings

Wedding rings are now being manufactured of steel, and the Preas has been instructed to describe them as having a "fine and noble effect."

Germany's 12,000 jewellers and goldsmiths may only sell gold and Jewellery if the customer surrenders old gold of an equal weight, Tricks Get Food

Germans who found the food ration doled out by the Naris insufficient and unsatisfactory have recently had re- course to a simple ruse to obtala extra supplies. They "fell !" and called in a doctor, who prescribed more and belter food, allowed only

i

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

"I'm fly-six," Mr. Murphy said, and I've done a lot of engineering, I've designed this car not because 1 want to make a fortime, but simply in the belief that it's right,

*

NUMBER of passenger trains, including several expresses, have been withdrawn from the Germans dual-railways, according to the German

wireless.

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

Secret Blackout

Flags In Berlin

Pay £1,500 To Daughter

A GIRL aged 14 was awarded £1,000 damages against her father at Not- tinghamshire Assizes last months. She is to spend £200 of the money on an operation for the removal of a scar from her face.

The operation will be performed by Sir Harold Gillies, the plastic sur- Beon.

The girl. Joyce Tonks, of West Bridg- ford, Nottingham, vas a passenger in car, driven by her father, George Tonks, which came in colli- sion with a lorry on May 27. was then that she received the sear cyce sued through her mother. Judgment was given for the owners of the lorry, who were joint de- fendants.

When Mr. Justice Singleton' said he saw from Ste Harold's report thri he thought he could get improve- inent up to 80 per cent, counsel replied, "Certainly. At the worst, 60 per cent."

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

The measure, it was stated, “is due to the necessity of freeing Iccomotives and locomotive personack for carry-The judge, described it as a very wise ing vital industrial supplies and to the dimculties caused by the cold weather."

settlement,

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

TAILIJECE; Letters sent from Get-

OWING to the shortage of leather, and even of ersatz leather, a Thousands of tiny buttonhole flags bearing the words, Better a king by decree has been issued In Germany many, to neutral countries bear a in stamp inviting tourists to "visit the God's will than

a pig from Ber-that shoes can only be mended ehtesgaden," are being distributed pairs and not singly. If one sole only joyful Germany." secretly

during Berlin's nightly black-out.

A Dutch visitor had four pinned on

the lapel of his overront during an

on a medical certificate.

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

room.

Restaurant keepers have adopted the trick of keeping their best bits of beef for old customers. An order has been issued forbidding the practice.

The Future Beheadings-Daily-

By Diplomatic Correspondent TUERE is considerable speculation In some quarters on the directloa Italian policy may take in the next few months.

there hns been Oflichilly evidence of any change in Haly's attitude of "non-belligereney" as de- fined by Count Ciano in his speech to

the Fascist Grand Courell.

no

rence.

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

Schleswig Danes Called Up

THE FRAU PROFITEER

10 Years' Jail "As Warning" FRAU MARTHA KRAUSE, a Large numbers of the Danish Berlin shopkeeper, was sentenc- 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 Army, states the North Schleswig without ration cards. newspaper "Danskeren."

Although Count Ciano is reported to have lost much of his enthusiasm for the Axis since his meeting with Herr Hitler at Berchtesgaden lasten, one of the leaders of the Danish August, it is believed that Signor Minority party in South Jutland, Mussolini still adhere to it in prin- Cholera In Warsaw cipic.

Vatican Activity

Recent diplomatic events in Rome have given no clue to any further de- velopments, though the meetings be- tween the Pope and the King of Italy. and

the continuous diplomatie activity of the Vatican in both Rome and Berlin undoubtedly are of politicat significance,

mer-

She persunied wholesale Among them is M. Frederick Peter

chants, says B.U.P., la give her extra supplies which, according to the authorities, she sold at higher prices. "This is a serious warning to those who believe they can circumvent the! ration-card system," says the Vool- kischer Beobachter.

According to a Danish traveller re- turning to Copenhagen from Germany it is admitted there that there were .cases of cholera in Warsaw,

The Pope Receives

Paris Nuncio

ROME-The Pope recently re-

Gifts To The Crew Of H.M.S. Malaya

LONDON-The Association of Bri-

It has been thought that these were ceived Mgr. Valeri, the Papal Nuncio tsh Malaya is making good progress, connected with possible peace moves, in Paris. He came here report to with the fund to provide comforts but it is equally possible that they him and also for a holiday. The for the crew of H.M.S. Malaya, the may signify an Italian attempt at audience lasted over an hour, The battleship presented by the people, conciliation between the Vatican and Pope also received Senator Besnard, a of the FMS, during the last war.

The Secretary, Mr. Oliver. Marks, Berlin to remove difficulties in the former French Ambassador to the way of Axis co-operation.

Quirinal, who is now French Com-is appealing for Abscriptions and woollen garments and missioner to the 1942 Italian World gifts of Fair.

cigarettes.

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

U.S.

Alleged

Have Irish

Rebels Names

There is no doubt that Hitler would

NEW YORK-Or the 18 members famong the crew of the German liner like to see a strengthening of Axis

called "the Columbus which scuttled herself last ties, remains to be seen whether of απ organization in the present political manoeuvring, Christian Front" arrested by Federal month. Mussolini will try to heal the breach Bureau ngents, seven are stated to between the Vatican and Berlin, or havo Trishnarnes, reports Reuter,

will allow it to become oven wider, The men were arrested on charges Germany Is Going To Be

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 be the determining factor,

pe Government and establish a dictator-6 There is no appreciable, outwardship. aign of any lessening of the Fascist "ease" against the so-called Western plutocicles, ns Count Ciano's Intest speeck showed,

Cut In Phone Books Post Office telephone directories, which utilise about 12,000 tons of paper every year, will be issued at less frequent intervals during the

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Beaten Again”.

AM very much afraid Germunty is going to be beaten, again." Dr. Gerhardt Beger, former member, of; the Iteichstag and German airman in the last war, told members of the Canadian Club at, Montreal,

The Christian Front is said to have planned a reign of terror.

According to a Detrolt dispatch, Father Coughlin, the "radlo priest," declared that the Christian Front used "Thla however, seems on historical his name without his authority. necessity in order to re-establish a Meanwhile, it is announced that free and peaceful Germany in a Kart Schlugter, one of the Nazi secret unlled continent of Europe," he service agents who fled from the added,

Dr. Seger sold that In his opinion United States in October, 1030, at the time of the New York spy trial, is now Hitler was, "slipping." and made his in the hands of the American pollee, first Ulg,mistake;by signing up with

He was found working as a steward Russia.

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