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May 30, 1940.

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BUCHAREST.

LUNCH in Bucharest is quite

something if you go to the right place. To begin with, there is the world's finest caviar. Then there is grilled sturgeon. Best of all, there is the Gestapo.

Not just the small fry you see around in all the Balkan capitals. But big, shots.

For lunch to-day I had a magnificent profile view of a Wiener schnitzel being masticated by Dr. Guido Schunk, the man. who

sold Schuschnigg to Hitler. He is here in Bucharest in his capacity of sales chief of the Hermann Goering works, which, as you probably know, have taken over the Skoda factories and are trading for all to the Rumanlans such arms and as the Gerinan High Command believes munitions as the German High Command would not seriously impede a German ad- vance into Rumania.

At a table of the other end of

the room sat a man and a woman. She, a fading blonde. Blue eyes of ravenous curiosity contrasting

with an attitude of resigned non- resistance. He, a

sleek go-getter

of forty with iron grey hair, sliked back

with brillantine, binck.

toothbrush moustache, and nu

1lvated Machiavellian smile.

I had often seen him in Berlin the old days. I and Munich in also saw him in Prague at the time of the Czech crisis. Omenlly he is here as delegate of the Reich Ministry of Transport. He name is Alfred Schonimer,

Here is Edith von Kohler. They say she is a cousin of Himmler. Undoubtedly she is some kind of a connection of the Gestapo chief, but whether by blood or merely by profession I have not yet found

aul.

OFFICIALLY

Edith von Kohler's job is news- paper reporting. She reports for the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. Her reports, however, go else- where, and they are not published. Her chief job is feeding and firt- -ing- -with-Bucharest socialites and Goebbels gospel spreading the

and anooping. She among them looks as though she should be good at it. Ample funds are at her dis- posal.

Schommer's task is the tougher of the, two. He is here as trans- port expert to step up the rate of Rumanian supplies to Germany, to arrange new oil pumping sta- tions for reservoirs, shipping fact-

lies the doubling-of-essential. rail tracks und so forth. He has about 10,000 Germans working for him. Among them are many S.S.. veterans, who are accustomed to soldier work in civilian gulse from past campaigns in Austria, Sude- tenland, and Poland.

Schommer's main job is to sec that his men are so distributed that in the event of Hitler doing a Denmark on Rumania they are ready to seize by force Rumania's industrial and strategie keypoints and hold them until Germna troops urrive.

So far Schommer has been con- alderably more successful in dis- tributing the S.S. squads and esta- blishing armed arsenals one is in the Brown House in Bucharest than in improving supplies and transport. The long winter freeze- up of the Danube, the subsequent floods which now once more have stopped all Danube traffic, the re- luctance of Danube pliots and bargees to engage in ships bound for Germany when they can get much higher wages from non- German firms all that has rather handicapped Herr Schommer.

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Hitler Rumania

SEFTON DELMER

has made a three-week tour of the Balkans and

the Black Sea. He knows what the Nazis want

and what they are getting. To-day, in the first of three authoritative articles he tells how-▬▬▬▬▬ HIMMLER'S COUSIN EDITH TRIED TO SELL ME A STORY HERR SCHOMMER IS NOT GETTING ENOUGH OIL FOR HITLER HOW NAZI FIFTH COLUMN WORKS

are

und

track, largely single Rumanian Army transport trains crowd the lines over which Herr, Schommer would like to send his freight

trains to Germany. Ils German trucks break down, and the Rumanians are not onxious io lend him theirs,

Hy

How unsuccessful Schommer has been a transport expert is shown by figures for oil deliveries. I can give you the exact statistics for oil exports Germany, Bale- mia, and Moravia and Slovalda. They work out at an average of 50,099 tons month during the

Arst seven months of the war-less than half of the quota of 130,000 tons per month reluctantly ac- Germans as their cepted by the share of Rumaninn oli exports.

River figures month by month will show you how weather affects delivery.

are:-Sep- Here they tember 64,005 tons, October 50,281 tons, November 66,807 tons, De cember 19,027-rong, January 1663 ions, February nil, March 0,941 tons.

Exports by rail in tank cars up to March 15 of this year totalled 130,108 tons. Add 18,844 tons, which was the amount shipped in "the first half of March,-us-the ap

proximate

amute Auure for

the second half, and you get a total of 413,595 tons for the first seven months the war. The first part of April doesn't look any more promising. The river exports for the first

nine days work out at 1,867 tons a day, They are now stopped altogether. So it doesn't look as if in April Germany can hope to get than 80,000 tons either.

more

BET all this is making. Hitler think hard, and I

can guess which way he is think- Ing. Accordingly I have confront- ed experts on the advantages which control of Rumania. would give as for as oil is concerned. Germany

They told me Rumanian oil pro- duction, al present on the decrease, could be shot up to 8,000,000 tons instead of the 6,000,000

expected

this year. Furthermore, they think that if Germany managed to lay her ruthless hand on the rall and river transport of Rumania the oll bo to Germany could exports .bumped up to somewhere between four and five million tons a year.

Now the experts consider, allow- ing 4 million tons for river ex- port and one million tons be left a margin of potential expansion which is rather better than the which Hitler mere 1,000,000 tons could expect this year at the pre- sent rate of transport instead of the 2 million tons expansion he bad..counted on.

Of course, for these barges to be used exclusively for oil will mean that whent, barley, and other ex- ports upon which Germany relies from Itumanla will-have-to-be-cut- Bccordingly.

But that would still be better. than the mere million tons extra oll which Hitler expected to get this year.

All of which makes me believe that Rumenin may be becoming dangerously tempting to Hitler. Especially now that he has moved Into nctive war, using up far greater quantities of oll and petrol.

FROM the German point

the of vlow

greatest objection to any project for tok- ing Rumania by violence is still the fear that military action down here would set the whole of south- cast Europe alight and destroy in its train Germany's most valuable purveyors of raw materials,

That lowliers Edith von Kohler and the Schommer brigado come

"We shall remain strictly Helitral and defend our territórtal integrity at all costs."

in. Both are

active, The very Schommer boys are getting them- selves ready, In key positions.

I myself, coming away from lunch, was a target for the Edith propaganda. One of her tumanl-

an agents came up to me in the lobby.

"The Germans are very de- pressed," he said "very worried Indeed."

"Oh," I said, "don't they like their salt-water cure in Norway?"

"No, it is not Norway," he said; "It is Russin. They are afraid they can't stop Russia from coming Into Rumanla."

And he gave nie

lot more about Russian troops in Bessarn- bla, about the evacuation of the population from the former Polish border of Rumania, the massing of German troops in Slovakia, the issue of fresh ammunition to Ger man troops in Poland, and more

rumours of the same kind, all de- signed, among other things, to at-

tack the Rumanlar lel and Ru- manian stock, and help Germany's Dr. Clodius in his blackmall for higher prices for German deliver- ies and lower ones for Rumanian exports to Germany,

It would have been a fine thing for Edith if I could have been in- duced by her ngent to co-operate unwittingly in her campaign. Ever the German Minister, Dr. Fabri- cius, is drilling into the Rumanians day after day that it is only Ger- many's Intervention. In Moscow which has so far stopped the Rus- sians from coming into Bessarabia and Czerniuti.

or

DI

PRUDENT and grate- ful Rumania (they ar gue) should, in recognition Germany's benevolent protection, ict the Germans police. the

ube,

man the rallways, their Industry Should, In fact, comply with all those well- known Nazi demands which, while preserving a semblance of sovereignty, give Germany control of the country, chabung her to swallow it whole nt her leisure.

Things a man expects from a

that she shall.. possess

those charms that thrill him, and yet that her presence may still

THE

EMPIRE IN

EIN ARM

FIJI

THIS coat of arms was granted

in 1908. Sugarcane, a coodnut palm, bananas, a dove bearing an olive branch and a golden Hon holding a while cocoapod nrẹ in- cluded in the design.

The crest is a Fijian out-rigger: the supporters, Filans. The maito "Fear God and honour the

rexdl,

group

The sovereignly of the Fiji was ceded to Britain in 1874. Fijians retain a jarro share of self-government.

Thero are about 250 islands. The Governor, who resides al Suva, le also High Commissioner for the Western Pacifio.

· Bananas, Pineapples," COCO" 'nuls and'atigar are among the principal exports.

woman

be soothing when he is red or worried.

that she shall put her point of view with charm Instead of nagging.

that she shall look an angel on nothing at all and never produce unpaid bills when ho's broke.

that she'll get on marvel- tously with all his family and will keep his relations away from him, as well as her own.

thai all his friends will admire her and envy him, but

"Surely you realise that I'm only here to protect you from St. George."

The Tank Is 24

TT is just about 24 years ago that

tanks were first used in war- fare. In this connection It is In- teresting to recall the impression they made on the German troops.

During the battle of the Som- me, when a few tanks were used, the Germans were absolu- tely paralysed with astonish- ment. One of the tanks attacked the village of Gueudecourt, and 400 Germans surrendered ot once. The tank continued 10 move forward, and soon 308 Ger- mans lay dead and wounded in its wake. They had attacked it with their bayonets and with the bulls of their rifles, striving des- perately to hall its relentless progress. A prisoner unid:

"When we first saw them we

thought they were threshing machines. Then suddenly their machine-guns began to spray us. The impression these fantastic devil-chariots made upon us AVGS one of fear and panic. There seemed nothing we could do to slop them."

After the first shock and sur- prise the German High Com- mand attempted to reassure the

troops. They issued bulle- tias, describing the tanks as English military tops," which were not to be taken too serious- ly. One such bulletin declared: "We can safely leave the Eng- 11sh to play with their toys un- til German selence and ingenuity devises a counter-weapon which will smash them completely."

that her.. favours and her smile will never be too warm for an- other man.

.. that she'll nover make him look or feel self-consclous by her stupidity, and yet never embarrass him with too much in- telligence.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

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