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HONGKONG TELEGRAPHS

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May 31, 1940.

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Hitler's Secret Soldiers GRIN AND BEAR IT

are

on

the job in

Bucharest

BUCHAREST.

IF you had been

on

Bucharest station this morning when the train from Hungary came in you would have seen four. young Germans get out of it carrying military kit boxes with them.

another

They were just little squad of Hitler's S.S. -soldiers-seni-to-join-those-al... ready here. Their job is to be ready to take Bucharest Trojan-horse fashion from the inside it Hitler gives the signal.

They had made little at- tempt to disguise their mili-. tary origin. Only the rc- gimental numbers have been painted out from their kit boxes. Their own names and identity numbers stand.

Dressed they were in a kind of pattern which I have found to be fise uniform of these musquerad- ing subotage units of the German Army waterproof jacket, sports coat of German tweed. n little shrunken-looking sometimes Us though its owner had filed out a bit in military service, tough cord breeches, heavy boots, and grey- green pork-ple hats of the kind the ex-soldiers' societies tised to wear in past Germany and Bohe- mia.

IN fact they looked just like the young men I saw in Danzig before they put on their military uni-

Sudetenland. forms. and in the when they were leading Henlein's free corps.

These groups of young Germans have been arriving at intervals for the last few weeks. Last night there were forty on the Budapest train. Many hre coming in in barges...

This morning's lot of four went on In a taxi to restaurant which "is known as the depot where newly arrived 4.5. meir report After that they vanished. Probably they were taken

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THE WHOLE

TRUTH ABOUT.

THE BALKANS|

Second article - from SEFTON DELMER

tells how the

to

Nazis plan take Rumania

'from the inside'

THE police, i know, have re- inarked the significant increase, to the unprecedented number of 28,- 000, of residents with German passport in Bucharest, and they know that although not

all these persons, -of-course-belong-to-the- subterranean movement, 18,000 of them have been organised in the Nazi Party organisation of which the gouleiter for Rumunia Konradi, the sinister little com- mercial chancellor in the German Legation here.

They know that Konrudi and his lieutenants, have seen to it that these men In the organisation have orders and know what to do in "a case of emergency."

Almost as important as the Nazi organisation of Reich Germans for Hitler's plans in Rumania is the Union of Germans in Rumonia, another Nazi organisation, which takes in most of the 800,000 Ger- man-speaking population à colony of Rhineland peasants who emi- grated to Transylvania as long ngo ny: the thirteenth-century-Never-- theless, they maintain tional and ethnical huleperdence.

The union has its own German. language youth newspaper, which, the Rumanian censorship. takes an outspokenly anti-Allied, pro-German, pro-Nazi Inc. It is typical organisation In units from the territorial gnu down to the cell in the villages.

despite to one of those big houses or factory buildings of which the Germans have rented a surprising number ever since the war began.

their no-

You can be sure thint the 5:s.

~~~~~~~~five-news-of-one-German

owned factory building which has been arred into a regular baleaders-und-the Gestapo agents

racks.

They have everything there from a posse of coal delivery vans useful for secret transport-to army munitions and uniforms.

And what kind of uniforms do you think they have chosen? Well, I was surprised myself for a mo- ment when I heard it. They have -got-Rumanian police uniforms. Not that ought to have been sur- prised, as the Germans had already employed the police-force uniform technique in Austria,

Nazi stormtroopers dressed Viennese police troops entered the chancellery and murdered Dollfuss,

I doubt whether there are many detulis left for the Germans to pre-. pure. Though they are still send- ing fresh detachments Into the country following their activi tles, they

everything hove now ready for action should it be com manded.

with

☆

✩ ✩ PESSIMISTS accordingly think that Bucharest may wake up one, morning to find its publle build- ings, railway station and other strategle points occupied by the Germans,

murder squads around the town arresting any one they have believed dangerous to German domination of Rumania.

Other such troops wou

would have been sent to occupy such p

-points as Brasov (strong Gorman-Rumanian. population). Ploest! (ollwells, pipe line and vital rail junction), Gulr- gua (Danube port for all ship- ments) and other contres which are known to have S.S. detach- ments hidden away in them.

The German Army In the mean- time, would be striking at the Bu- manian fronter defences. Other troops would be landing reinforce- ments for the German putsch.

A gloomy picture. all this. But

I do not think the true prospects are as black as that.

I do not see German capturing Rumania with a

putach, even though I am sure that is what they aim at doing if they do anything. For one thing! the Rumanians are well aware of what the Germans are up to. They are taking strong MELUYCA.

To-day's decree ordering all males between the ages of fifteen and sixty, living in specially do- Aned military zones, to be ra- gilered, and providing for their postibia expulsion from Biese ZONOS If their presence is considered pre- Judicial, shows what the Rumanian. authorities have in mind.

spending years in the country studying

German-Rumanian position have collected a number of these men for espionage activi- ties, sabotage work and co-opera- tion with the German Army if it crosses into Rumania,

This is done on the same lines as in Poland, where the Gefinab minority Putes were organised to collaborate with the invading Ger- man Army.

In

These German Runanians make particularly valuable alles to the German spics, Many of them are working In key positions Rumanian Industries and the all- flelds, Some of them are domestic servants in Bucharest embassies and legations.

NOT all the German Rumanians have allowed themselves to be per- suaded or blackmailed into the Many Naz! Party organisation.

THE

EMPIRE

IN

ARMS

GRENADA

(Administrative centre of the Windward Isles, in the Carib- and bean Sea, between North

· South America.)

Crest above tells the island's carly story., Christopher Colum bus discovered 1 in 1498—his ship is heading in full sail for land. "'The motio reads, "Brighter out of the darkness," refers to Grenada's placid post- tion outside the hurricane Üne. Alter frequently changing

| hands betiveen Britain, and France, Grenade was finally con- Ármed as selfish posscon in 1783. Cocoa, spices, cotton, are, grown for England.

are just pence-loving ellizens, loyal to Rumania.

It is the resistance which Hitler can expect from these loyal Ger- man Rumanians and the vast body of Rumanian people and their leaders which will make him hesl- tate before exposing himself to another defeat of the kind he has met with in Norway.

The Government, too, are mak- Ing it clear that they are accept- Ing no dletation from Germany. "They have greatly improved all their milltary defences during these months of war, and they feel much safer than they did last Sep- tember.

A degree stopping the sale of any fresh supplies of cereals, benns, and seeds is" i gesture of indepen- dence from German-economic do-- mination. This is not so important 11.5 It looks at first hand. The amount avaliable for export in these products was of the smallest. But it is

certainly alop in the right direction.

Although there has been no of lelal decree banning oil exports, The Government have given the oil companies to understand that they will need larger amounts for the army. This will have much the same effect and make it even more _dimcult_for_the_Germans to get the amount of oil they require from Rumania,

HITLER

221

NOTARY

PLEASE

UCE

GOBOR

·ORDE

By Lichty

"Fifteen dollars fine fur speedin', Lem, an' with the $15 you owo me from pokor last month, it adds up to $30 or 30 days!"

NEEDS A FLEET

TO INVADE ENGLAND

GERMANY

CAPITAL SHIPS

Tens

£16,000

ALRCRAFT CARRIERS

36,000

CRUISERS

20,000

LIGHT CRUISERS

DESTROYERS

23,000

SUBMARINES

OTHER CRAFT

35.000

.

20,000

45.009

BRITAIN

Tons 530,000

126 090

115,000

* 200,000

250.000

16,000

133,090

This comparison of relative strengths of the British and German navles includes ships built before the war and ships whose construction was sufficiently advanced when war broke out to bring them into The tonnage service at an early date, Ships sunk during the war have been omitted from the calculation. of German submarines is an estimate.

The most important addillons being made to the fleets are the new battleships. The Germans started a year ahead of us with a programme of four. They laid down the Bismarck and the Tirpitz in 1930 and launched the first in February of last year, and the second in April of last year. Both are of 35,000 tons. —————third-ship was laid down in 1937 and it is reported, was launched this year. No information has been given about a fourth ship which was laid in 1938; some reports state that the third and foutiliTMwliips are of

40,000 tons,

The British programme is of five ships of 35.000 tons. They were all laid down in 1937, and the first two, King George V, and Prince of Wales, were launched about the same time as the first two German ships. The other three have been launched since the beginning of the war.

The table above Includes two of the British and two of the new German ships, assuming that they are now in service or will be in service at an early date.

The five British are likely to be completed before the four German ships, alnce we can bulld faster than the enemy.

London, May. 21.

I met Mrs: Flathome, wait- ing at a London street corner for a bus.

"Would you like some butler?" she asked. "My sister-in-low in South Africa has sent us twelve pounds, and two harms. She thinks we're starving! Of course, we.re terribly grateful and all that. But the

been

Bre

at

children school. Reggle has luncheon at the office, and we've only a small refrigerator. I've

giving away presents all the morning." ---These little British-falanda, with. their population of fifty odd million people, must get most of their food from abroad.

For the bread that you eat and the biscuits you-nibble, The sweets that you suck and

the joints that you carve, They are brought to you daily by

all us Big Steamers And if anyone hinders our con-.

ing you'll starve!"

ing".

So wrote Rudyard Kipling, dur ing the last war. Towards the end of that war German sub- great extent, marines did, to "hinder" the big, steamers "com- Britain might almost have starved. But

people the British have been masters of the western -COS for more than a thousand years. and Britain didn't!

1914-10 was a long and terrible dress rehearsal for the war of to- duy. Those in control of things have ensured that this time food-

a precau

Leaves from a

Correspondent's NoteBook

by

Kathleen Greene

amall losses and to replacements, almost as large as when wor be. gan. But tonnage is needed to bring us men and munitions, as well as food. Foreign foods have

with foreign cur to be bought rency. Air raids might hold up food distribution. If there should bo a scarcity, and prices should go up, it is important, that the rich household should have no advan tage over the poor one.

Hence our ration cards.

THESE lttle books of cards, each marked for a particular food. siuff, were given to us in October. We registered our names with re-. tall dealers in butter, sugar, meat dealers sent to and bacon. The headquarters the number of their

be varied. The first butter ration of a quarter of a pound a week per person was later raised to half-a pound. It is the same for every- for Alderman Plumpman one, Guzzler and for Mr. Lean.

Margarine-the British Broad- casting Corporation speakers give it a refined hard G, but the public know it as "margo" is unrationed, The plentiful, good and cheap. sugar ration of three quarters of a pound a week is enough even for the

sweet

tooth. Bacon rationing covers only ham and rasher bacon. The rest of the pig can be bought without. coupons.

Meat is rationed according to of price, not weight. Those parts the animal with the unlovely dea-

of cription

edible offale kidney, sweetbreads and the like-are un- rationed. No other foodstuffs are rationed at all, nor is there any shortage, except in the matter of vegetables, and here the winter and not, the war is the reason.

This is the system. So far it has

was introduced · cart. The sub- registered・・ customers. The Food worked well. Of course there are

tar

tion, not n necessity). marine campaign has 30 proved one of Germany's "greateak: “CALHUISTAALTINTAG"

After eight months of war Eri- tain's merchant fleet is, thanks to

Controller: knows how much essen- fint imported food is nooded-in -every-part-of-Great Britain.

means fair distribu- ftationing tion. The amount of a portion con

grumbles! Grumbling is a national' postime, and a Government De- partment B sate Aunt Sally to throw at. But the most emphatic PLEASE Turn To Pago 4.

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