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Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 30, 1940.

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WHY

wants

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.

Who sold Schuschnittg

Hitler

Ruma

SEFT ON 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

For lunch to-day I had a magnificent proble view of a Wiener schnitzel being masticated by Dr. Guido Selankit, the man to Biler. He is here in Bucharest in his capacity of sales chlef of the Hermann Ghering works, which, as you probably knowy, have taken over the Skoda fetories and are trading for oil to the Rumanians such arms anci Is the Gerinan Hh Commistic believes munitions as the German High Cominand would not seriously impede a German new vance Into Raraania.

At a table at the other end of

the room at a man and a woman.

She, fading blonde. Blue eyes

of ravenous curiosity contracting

with an altitude of resigned non- resistance. He, u

sleek go-getter

of forty with iron grey hair, silked

with brilliantine,

back will nonstic, and

tivated Machiavellian sinile.

black

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"We shall remain strictly tidural and defend our territorial integrity at all costs."

GETTING ENOUGH OIL FOR HITLER

rumours of the same kind, all de-

signed,

HOW NAZI FIFTH COLUMN WORKS among other things, to al-

and track, single are largely

tronsport trains I had often seen him in Berlin

Rumanian Army the old days. }

over which Herr and Munich in

crowd the lines Schommer would like to send his also saw him in Prague at the time Omcially he of the Czech crisis.

freight trains to Germany. His trucks break down, and German the Rumanians are not anxious to lend him theirs.

is here us delegate of the Relch Ministry of Transport. His name is Alfred Schommer.

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

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Edith OFFICIALLY

Kohler's job is news- puper 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 flirt- Ing with Bucharest sociallies and spreading-the--Goebbels guspel among them and snooping. She 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- to step up the rate port expert of Rumanian supplies to Germony, to arrange new oll pumping sta- flons for reservoirs, shipping faci lities, the doubling of essential rall tracks and so faith. He has about 10,000-Germans working for him. Among them are hany

accustomed to veterans, who are solglier work in civilian gulse frum post campaigns in Austria, Sude- tenland, and Poland.

Job is to see Schommer's main

are so distributed that his men that in the event of Hitler doing -a Denmark on Rumania they are rendy to seize by force Bumonia's. industrial and strategle keypoints and hold then until Germno troops arrive,

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

DAIL

not problem. For

non-

communication has easier proved in the railways here

WEAKNESS

AFTER FEVER

When your temperature begins to fall and you feel you're getting better, then is the time to start to rebuild your wasted nerve and muscio tissues.

Doctors have proved time and time again that Horlicks is not only easily digested but also stimulates your faded appetlic and rebuilds your exhausted body. You gain You weight almost at once

of strength and feel full vitality. Get Horlicks to-day at your store.

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Huw unsuccessful Schommer hus transport expert is been shown by figures for all deliveries. I am give you the exact statistics for all exports to Germany, Bohr- mia, and Moravia and Slovakia. the They work out at an average of

a month during 59,009 tons first seven months of the war-less then half of the quot of 130,000 month reluctantly, ac- tons per

Germans as their cepted by the share of Rumanian oll exports.

River figures munth by month -will show you how weather affects

delivery.

Here

active. The very in. Both are Selommer boys are getting them- selves ready, in key positions.

away from 1 myself, cuming lunch, was a target for the Edill propaganda. One of her Rumani- an agents eine u to me in the Tabby.

"The Germans это very de- pressed," he sald--very worried Indeed."

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

"No, it is not Norway," he said: ifrald "It Is Russia. They they can't stop Russia from coming into Rumania."

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lot more Bessura-

And he gave me about Russian troops in bia, about the evacuation of the they are:-Sep-population from the former Polish tember 64,685 tons, October 59,281 tons, November 60,807 tons, De- cember 49,627 tons, January 1,552 tons, February nit, starch, 6,041

tons.

Exports by rail in tank cars up to March 15 of this year totalleci tons, 138,108 tons. Add 18,044

which was the amount shipped in the first half of March, as the ap. proximate-gure_for_the_serand half, and you get a total of 413,695- tons for the first seven months-of the war. The first purt of April duesn'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 us if in April Germany can hope to get than 60,000 tons either.

more

BET all-this-is-making Hitier think hard, and I can guess which way he is think- ing. Accordingly i have confront- ed experts on the advaninges which control of Rumania would give

far

as of a concerned. Germany as

They told me Rumanian oil pro- duction, at 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 Cermany managed to lay her ruthless hand on the rail and river transport of Rumania the oil be exports 10 Germany could bumped up to somewhere between four and five million tons a year. Now the experts consuler, allow ing 4% million tons for river ex- port and one million tons be left of potential expansion a margin which is rather better than the mere 1,000,000 tons which Hitler could expect this year at the pre- sent rate of transport instead of the 2 million tons expansion he had counted on.

Of course, for these barges to be used exclusively for oil will mean that wheat, barley, and other ex- porls upon which Germany relics from Rumanla will have to be cut accordingly

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

All of which makes me belleve that Rumeniu may be becoming dangerously tempting to Hitler.. Especially now that he has moved Inta nctive war, using up for of ail and greater quantities petrol.

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FROM the German greatest

of view the objection to any project for tak Ing Rumania by violence is still the fear that military action donya here would sel the whole of south. east Europe alight and destroy in its train Germany's most valuable purveyors of raw materials.

That is where Edith von Kohler and the. Schommer brigade come

border of Rumania, the massing of German troops in Slovakia, the issue of fresh ammunition to Ger- man troops in Poland, and more

manian stock and help Germany's Dr. Clodius In his bluckmail for higher prices for German deliver. les and lower ones for Rumanion exports to Germany.

It would have been a line thing for Edith if I could have been in- duced by her agent to co-operate unwittingly in her campaign. Even the German Minister, Dr. Fabri- clus, is drilling into the Rumanians day after day that it is only Ger- Moscow many's intervention in which lens so far stepped the Rus- sians from coming into Bessarabla and Czerniuli.

man their

PRUDENT and grate- ful Rumanla (they ur- Ktie) should, in recognition of Germany's benevolent protection, the Germans police Jet the

the railways, or- Danube, ganise

industry. Should, In fact, comply with all those well- known Nazi demands which, while

semblance-of- preserving Sovereignty, give Germany control of the country. enabling her to swallow it whole at her Jelsure.

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Things a man expects from a

that she shall possess

those charms that thrill him, and

Fel that her presence-may-stiil.

EMPIRE IN

FIJI

ARME

THI18 coat of arms was granted

In 1908. Sugarcane, a coconut palm, bananas, a dove, bearing an olive branch and a golden lion holding a white cocoaped are in- cluded in the design.

The erest is a Fijian out-rigger: the supporters, Filans. The mollo reads: "Fear God and honour the King,"

of the Fi The sovereignty

to Britain in was ceded group 1874. Fijians retain a large share of self-government.

There are about 250 belands. Tie Governor, who resides at Suva, is also High Commissioner for the Western Pacific.

Placappies,

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Bananas, nuta and sugar principal exparts,

woman

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be soothing when he is ̋ttred-or- worried.

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

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

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

. that all his friends will admire her and envy him, but

"Sinely you realise that I'm only kere to protect you from St. George.“

The Tank Is 24

IT 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- were lew tanks when a tያነር, used, the Germans were absolu- ostonishi- tely paralysed with ment. One of the tanks attacked the village of Gueudecourt, and Germans surrendered at onet. The tank continued to move forward, and soon 300 Ger- mans lay dead and wounded In Its wake. They had attacked it with their bayonets and with the butts of their rifles, striving des- relentless perately to halt its progress. A prisoner sald:

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"When we first saw them we were threshing thought iley machines. Then suddenly their machine-guns began to spray us. these fantastle The impression devil-chariota mude upon us was one of fear and panic. There seemned nothing we could do to stop them."

After the first shock and sur- High Coin- prise the German

attempted to reassure mand

They issued bulle- the troops.

the tanks as tins, describing English military tops," which were nut to be taken too serious- 13. One such bulletin declared: "We can safely leave the Eng- Ish to play with their, toys un- til Germiah selenee and ingenuity devises a counter-weapon which will smash them completely."

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