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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

February 2, 1940.

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TWO CAN ENCIRCLE Widows"

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ROME.

BERTHE SCHANITZ, ・ who did not even reach up to my first waistcoat button, tearfully told me to-day one of the Bad- dest sagns of the war, `says correspondent.

She and nine other midgets have been widowed "for the duration" by the doubtful zeal of a French control officer, who boarded the Atlantle liner Saturnila, bound from New York to Genoa.

All on board passed muster except

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ISTANBUL. to appoint Press Altache al Jer Embassy In Berlin.

The appointment is a reply to propaganda by the German Em- bassy In Ankara.

For some time, the Germans have been distributing leaflets in Turkey,

A Turkish spokesman said thai the appointment might bo regard- ed as a reprisal.

the midgets, who were retuning | ++++++TTTT from the World's Fair to Germany,

"Intern Us"! Ploa

"We pleaded with the officers but they took our men," Berthe fold me.

"What do they think my Helmut can do? Io could not lift a pistol, let alone a rifle."

"It is a terrible thing being alone, when there are so few of you in the world. When a midget faila in love and gets married it's the reallest thing!" she added wistfully.

Berthe's sister, who is an inch shorter, complained: "We asked them to intern us, too, as we would be near our snen, but they just wouldn't, "We are going to write to the French midgets about it--we have a - sort

of international freemasonry nukt you see and get them to Daladier to let us go to them, or let them Join us."

Red Cross Asked

Berthe, who was sitting on her trunk, just a little bit larger than an attache case, asked me when the wat; was going to end.

"None of us Germany wants it, I can tell you. We like England."

The nine tiny ladies do not mean

to be separated from their men with- out a fight.

They are appealing to the Inter- national Red Cross to evacuate their husbands.

ISTANBUL

GERMANY'S brazenness in denying her arms de- liveries to Finland is astounding diplomats in Turkey, in view of the évidence daily accumulating here of her intrigues against her Soviet "ally."

My disclosure of the German agreement to fortify the Iranian (Persian) frontier with Russia has just re- ceived fresh confirmation, says a correspondent.

A second party of German engineers has passed through

Istanbul on its way to Iran.

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She Is waging a desperate light ngainst Soviet influence in King Boris capital, on the lines that Russia is the main danger for the Balkans and that Germany in will- ing to defend the peninsula against a Red army Invasion.

A preliminary success at least has been gained.

Bulgaria has been induced to buy n consignment of German arms which Turkey originally ordered, but refused to take when payment was required in Turkish chromium ore.

Twelve thousand heavy and 5,000 light machine-guns, which had been already boxed for delivery to Tur-, key, were hastily redirected to Bul- garla.

I understand that they have just nrrived in Sofia.

Papen In Petit

So Germony is, bit by bit, com- pleting her encirclement of Russia.

But it is extremely doubtful whe- ther Herr von Papen, the driving force behind the campaign, will be allowed to carry it to a conclusion.

It is not simply that Turkey is revolting oquinst the German Em- bossy's clumsy anti-Turkish propa- ganda.

Papen, the arch-Intriguer, is now himself the victim of a private Intrigue.

It is being hatched in the German community here, and its principal figure is said to be Frau Jenke, sister of Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop.

Her motive is alleged to be the desire to start her husband in D diplomatic career.

And she is alleged be using all her influence with her brother to have Papen ousted as Ambassador to Turkey in Herr Jenke's favour.

£180 For Fatal Mosquito Bite

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HANDS UP - Seltebello (Italian)

General: And have you found out anything new?

wife of the Spy: The

enemy General is wearing a wonderful new evening dress.

- Settebello,

He warned Hitler of Britain's awakening

NAZIS MUST END WAR THIS YEAR

THE whole Nazi conduct of the war is now dominated by the idea that it must be ended this year,

As to how it is to be ended there is division, of opinion.

Ono school, still dominant, believes in the possibility of a military victory in the spring and

summer.

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TWINS

The other, perhaps slightly in- creaalng, thinks of stalemate and a negotiated peace.

Both agree in basing all policy on short-term calculations.

Significant

The Immediate and desperately urgent problem is to counter the effect of the blockade.

The measures taken are exceeding- ly significant.

Absent From Their ing at once into the struggle practi-

Own 21st Party

DAVID and Douglas Crook, of Uverdale-road, Chelsea, S.W., twin sol- diers, serving in the same regiment "somewhere in England," had arranged to attend their twenty- first birthday party at home.

For they consist largely ly throw- cally the whole of the Reich's avall- abic economic reserves,

In particulor "Germun Poland" and the two "Protectorates" are be- ing systematically and swiftly plun- dered of machinery, of melala, of timber, of stocks of raw material, of everything that can be transported to Germany and used for her war economy,

The significance of that: Is that you can do it once, but not twice. quest-cows, not milking them.

The Germans are killing their con-.

A Gamblo

At the last moment their will be able to draw exceedingly By this time next year the' Rolch leave was cancelled, and their little from the conquered countries. sixty-year-old mother, sixty- It is a gamble. The Nazis reckon five-year-old father, their brides that, if they use their plunder to-be and twenty guests were the war or force a favourable draw,

swiftly and recltlessly, they may win all disappointed.

Douglas and David were born a week after the Armistice in 1918, and were named after Earl Haig and Earl Beatty.

They are staking their capital on the chance.

And if they are to avert ruin they must have the war over by the end of next year.

That means that we may be faced in spring ond summer with some very desperate moves.

New German Planes For the stringency will be worse

Better

By Aa Alr Correspondent AT the end of July, when

GERMAN warplanes are becoming he was preparing to invade an increasingly tough proposition. Poland, Hitler received a long letter.

and the time available will be get- ting very short.

Germany's other method of coun- tering the blockade is to bully a9 many of her neighboura as possible into supplying her with goods on credit, since she can no longer pay Britain's air defenders are meeting sufficiently either in goods or in with more difeulties than they ex-currency. It was a warning from a man who, pected in bringing them down.

Nevertheless, when Germany. starts accounts to most of her neighbours." Already she, is in debt on clearing in the last five years, had done much to get Britain rearmed in the air. the R.A.F. is satisfied that it can stop made to most of them quite frankly her much-heralded "total" air war, But the suggestion is now being

This is how the letter ended: ----

"Just us in 1014 the divisions on it in a short time by the casualties that if they want to stay peaceful home political questions disappear-which we would inflict on the enemy. and neutral they had better let Ger- ed in the twinkling of an eye, so now all the juvenile antics-de- signed to shock the elders such as resolutions not to fight for King and Country, have been instantly forgotten...

That message was sent by Lord Rothermere. He tells the story in "My Fight to Rearm Britain" (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 55.).

The British Breed

This would not be done before many run up a few more bad debts,

sell the civil population of Britain had│95,

to her at artificially low suffered extensive casualties, and prices. Josses in bulustrial output, as a re- ault of the raids,

Self-Sealing Tank Scif-satisfaction with the present

immunity from air attack is regarded as the greatest danger the country

has to face as far as the air is con- cerned.

Better lose a few mon pounds than be Invaded, in the argument now being used.

Le And

is proving not unper" suasive. ported, is being subjected to strong Even Italy, as I have already re- pressure, says a correspondent. All through July Lord Rothermere

of the results of German re- One was writing and telegraphing to von

presentations in Rome is a marked It is held to be essential that we land rapid decline in open expression. Ribbentrop, Hess (Hitler's "deputy>

strain every

to norve keep the of Italian sympathy for Finland. and Weidemann (Hitler's adjutant).

There is no more talk of scores of Referring to his final letter to technical advantages we now have,

These advantages are being main- Italian veroplanes in, or on their way Hitler, Lord Rothermere says:

ay have no

means of knowing tained, but the Germans also are fm to Finland. IF a seaman is bitten by a whether or not Herr Hutter absorbed proving their machines.

One of the German, improvements mosquito while on a voyages picture of the British breed, but is a self-sealing petrol tank, which

and dies of yellow fever, is that an accident within the meaning of the Workmen's Compensation Act?

Yes, declared the Low Lords in a Judgment.

Their answer means that Mrs. Isabella Craig, of South Shields, will get £180 compensation, with costs, in respect of the death of her son.

When the case was heard in the

court county

the judge decided against the claim.

With the aid of the National Union. of Seamen the case was taken to the Court of Appeal, which reversed that judgment.

Against this award the employers. the Dover Navigation Co., appealed

to the House of Lords.

Employment Risk

von Ribben-

with him, as with Herr trop, I had done my best to dispel any illusions ns to Britain's deter mination to resist further aggression, by force If necessary.""

DODGED SOVIET

Indeed, it is now officially declared that there are none at all there—or,

at the most, two, which were well will close up after being holed by on their way, in parts, before the

Northern war began. large numbers of bullets. be badly shot up over Britain, it can piece of bombast or

Although a German machine may Whether the whole story was a "show-on- make its escape at least out to sea their-boots" rumour, or whether the before shortage of petrol brings it planes are really here, but are to be dun. A German machine at the hushed up for diplomalle reasons, is bottom of the sea takes its secrets an enigmá to which, as yet, I do not down with it.

Įknow the answer.

BOMBERS They Plan To

COPENHAGEN.

MME. SANDLER, wife of tho Swedish Foreign Minister, had

to dodge Soviet bombers when she flew to Aabo, Finland.

While her plane was crossing the Gulf of Bothnia a report was re-

by Russian war-planes.

Split

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By Willi Frischauer

GESTAPO agents and SS. Black, pass the memorial omitting the Nazi The plane returned to Sweden, but Guards in large numbers have been salute dedantly. Mme. Sandler was able to complete sent to Munich following reports that Only a small percentage of the the journey some hours later.

In view of the Importance of the Issue, the Trades Union Congress gave its backing to the union inceived that Aabo was being bombed Agiting the case in this final tribunal, The county court judge had held that the risk of a bite from a yellow fever mosquito was common to all inhabitants in West Africa (where the seaman was bitten), and was not one that arose directly from the sea-Committee. man's employment.

Lord Aikia held recently, how- ever, that this particular risk of in- quiry was inherent in the nature of, the employment.

Irrelevant

She hng gone to Finland as a leader of Sweden's Finnish Ald

Her husband is not included in the new Sweden Coalition Cabinet.

Bavarian Catholles were planning to Munich population belongs to Class realise an old politient dream.

One.

It is none other than the splitting

NAZI authorles in the evacuated

of Germany Into a northern Protest- ant and a southern Catholic part, areas of Western Germany, are wor- The Protestant block, under the iried about the increasing number of I learn that he resigned because he

Prussia and | burglaries from evacuated houses. wants more active help for Finland plan, would include

The recent Iuil kas brought many Saxony, Bavaria, Wurtemberg, Boden than Premier Hansson is prepared and Austria would form unit in the evacuees home for a few days to settle their affairs, as they, were originally rushed away at a fow hours' notice.

to give.

The Finnish Trade Union Council Catholic block. It seemed to him irrelevant that cent a message of encouragement to IN Munich some of the Gestapo other persons

were exposed to the the Finnish trade union organisation.

agents took up posts near the same risk.

memorial to victims of the November, He found it difficult to conceive a

risk more truly arising out of the MESSAGE TO MAORIS 1923, Hitler pulsch, in order to test

employment than the risk Incurred by seamen who were sent to work in

a fever-infested place abrond.

Lord Maugham, Lord Wright and Lord Russell agreed that the appeal should be dismissed and compensa- tlon be payable.

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Hundreds of evacuees have found their houses ransacked.

The local authorities have re- the Nazi sentiments of the popula- affirmed the death penalty for plun- dering, but hardly any of the looters Pope's Broadcast to Newton.

They discovered that many of have been caught... Zealand for Congress Munich's inhabitants avold passing the memorial, and prefer walking The Pope, speaking from his study through ́a

London, Feb, 1.

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street which Thirty-Four

In the Vatican, broadcast a message local wit has christened "Dodger's to Roman Catholics attending the Rond." Eucharistic Congress at, Wellington

This enables them to avoid giving centenary the memorial the Nazi salute.

His

on the occasion of the celebration of New Zealand. Holiness sent a special message to

Words

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Thou shalt not bo afraid for

THE Gealapo observers have now the terror by night; nor for the the Maoris, wishing them God's classifed the people of Munich in arrow that flieth by day;

Nor for the pestilence that peace in their common to and do- four classen on this busis,'

Class One greet the memorial with walketh in darkness; nor for ilverance from conflict.

Mass was' cole- an enthusiastia Naxi anluto. Clans brated this morning in the grounds Two raise their hands in a dutiful the destruction that wasteth at

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