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May 31, 1940.

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MAGAZINE

Secret

Hitler's

Soldiers

are . on the job in

Bucharest

BUCHAREST. THE WHOLE)

IF you had

on

been 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.

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

They had made little ut- tempt to disguise their mili- tary origin. Only the re- 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 the uniform of these masquerad- ing sabotage units of the German Army waterproof Jacket, sports coat of German tweed, a little shrunken-looking

sometimes Ax

though its owner had filled out a bit in military service, tough cord breeches, heavy boots, and grey- green pork-ple hats of the kind the ex-soldiers' societies used 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- forms, and in the Sudetenland when they were lending Henlein's free corps.

These groups of young Germans have been arriving ut intervals for the last few weeks. Last night there were forty on the Budapest troin. Many are coming in In barges.~~

This morning's lot of four went on in a taxi to a restaurant which

is known as the depot where newly arrived 5.5, men report. After that they vanished. Probably they were taken to one of those big houses or factory buildings of which the Germans have rented a surprising number ever since the war began.

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owned factory building which has been turned into a regular bar- racks.

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They have everything there from

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 it Ino- ment when I heard it. They have got Rumanian police uniforms. Not that I ought to have been sur- prised, as the Germans had already. employed the police-force uniform technique in Austria.

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

I doubt whether there are many details left for the Germans to pre- pare. Though they are still send- ing fresh detachments Into the country following their activi- everything ties, they have now ready for netion should it be com- manded.

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PESSIMISTS accordingly think that Bucharest may wake up one morning to find its pubile build- ings, rallway station and other strategic points occupied by the Germans, with murder squads around the town arresting ony one they have believed dangerous German domination of Rumania.

Other such troops would have been dent to оссиру such points as Brasay (strong German-Rumanian population). Pioesti (ollwells, pipe line and vital rail junction), Guir- gua (Danube port for all ship- ments) and other centres which are known to have SS. detach- ments hidden away in them.

The Getman Army in the mean- time would be striking at the Ru- Other manian frontier defences. troops would be landing reinforce- ments for the German pulsch.

A gloomy plcture all this. But

I do not think the true prospects

эге ла black as

as that,

I do not see German capturing Rumanin with n pulsel, even though I am sure that is what they aim at doing it they do anything. For one thing the Rumanians aro well aware of what the Germans are up to. They are taking strong measures.

all

To-day's decree ordering males between the ages of fifteen and sixty living in specially de- fined milllery zones, to be re- gistered, and providing for their, posible expulsion from these zones It their presence is considered pre- Judicial, shows what the Rumanian authorities have. In mind.

TRUTH ABOUT

THE BALKANS

Second article

from

SEFTON

DELMER

tells

how the

Nazis plan to take Rumania

'from the inside'

THE police, I know, have re- marked the significant increase, to the unprecedented number of 28,- 400, of residents with German passport in Bucharest, and they know that although not all these persons, of enurse, belong to the subterranean movement, 10,000 of them

have been organized in the Nazi Party organisation of which the gouleiter for Rumania is Konradi, the sinister Rifle com- mercial chancellor in the German Legation here.

They know that Konrad and his lieutenants have seen to it that these men in their 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 Rumania, another Nazi organisation which takes in most of the 800,000 Ger- man-speaking population, a'colony of Rhineland peasants who cini- grated in Transylvania as long ago as the thirteenth century. Never- theless, they inaintaln tional and ethnical Independence.

their na

The union has its own German language youth newspaper, which, despite the Rumanian censorship. takes an outspokenly anli-Allled, pro-German, pro-Nazi line. It is a typical organisation In units from the territorial gau down to the cell in the villages.

You can be sure that the S.S. leader and the Gestapo agents spending

успіх

In the country studying the Gerinan-Rumanini position have collected a number of these men for espionage activi- ties, sabotage work and co-opera- tion with the German Army it it crosses into Rumanin.

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

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These German Rumanins make particularly valuable allies to the German spies. Many of them are working in key positions Rumanian industries and the oil- fells. Some of them are doméstic servants in Bucharest cinbassles and legations.

NOT all the German Rumanians have allowed themselves to be per- suaded or blackmailed into the Nuzl Parly

organisation.

THE

Many

EMPIRE IN ARM

· GRENADA

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

·South America.)

Crest above tells the island's early story, Christopher Colum bus discovered it in 1498-his ship is heading in full sail for land.

mollo reade The "Brighter out of the darkness, refers to Grenads's - plicja post- tion outside the hurricane line.

frequently éhanging

Aller

· lands- botwock. Brillil and Franco, Grenzain was finally con- firmed as a Beltlali possession": In 1783. Cocoa, spices, potion, LAZE grown for: England:

ace just pente-loving citizens, loyal tu Rumanin..

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

The Governinent, too, are mak- Ing it clear that they are accopt- ing no dictation from Germany. They have greatly improved all their military defences during these months of war, and they feel much safer than they did Inst Sep- tember.

A decree stopping the sale of any fresh supplies of cereals, beans and seeds is a gesture of Indepen- dence from Gerinan economic do- imination. This is not so important Лу It looks ut first hand. The amount available for export in these products was of the smallest. But it is certainly step in the right direction.

Although there has been no of- Belal decree banning oil exports, the Government have given the oil companies to understand that they will need larger amounts for the army.

This will inve much the same effect and make it even more dimeult for the Germans to get the amount of all they require from Rumania.

HITLER

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211

PEERLESS COUNTY COURTHOUSE

JUSTICE LOF FEACH NOTARY

ORDE

Fifteon dollars fine fur spoedin!, Loman......with. tho. $15

you owe me from poker last month, it adds up to $30 or 30 days!””

NEEDS A

FLEET

TO INVADE ENGLAND

GERMANY

CAPITAL SHIPS

Tons

(15.009

AIRCRAFT CARRIERS

35,000

CRUISERS

10,000

LIGHT

CRUISERS

23,000

DESTROYERS

SUBMARINES

OTHER CRA

35.000

20.000

€8,000

BRITAIN

Tous 430.000

126 600

£45,000

250,000

250.000

16,000

£$3.009

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

The most important addīčlons being made to the fleets are tho`new battleships. The Germans started a year ahead of us with a programme of four. They laid down the Blamarek and the Tirpitz in 1936 and launched the first in February of last year, and the second in Aprit of last year. Both are 35,000 tons,

A third ship was laid down in 1937 and it is reported, was launched his year. No Information has been 'given about a fourth ship which was laid in 1938; some reports state that the third and fourth ships 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 skips, asuming 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, since we can bulld faster than the enemy.

----- London, May-21---

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

nre

. "Would you like some butler?" she asked. "My sister-in-law in South Africn has sent us twelve pounds,

and

two hans. She thinks we're starving! Of course, we.re terribly grateful and alt that. But the children school. Reggle has luncheon at the office, and we've only a small refrigerator. I've been giving away presents all the morning."

These little British islands, with their

population of alty million people, must get most of their food from abroad,

odd

"For the bread that you cat and

the biscuits you nibble, The mocels that you suck and

the joints that you carue, They are brought to you dally by

all us Big Steamers-- And if anyone hinders our com-

ing you'll sterve!"

So wrote Rudyard Kipling, dur- ing the last war. Towards the end of that war German sub- marines did, to a great exient, hinder" the big steamers "com- Ing". Britain might almost have starved. But the British people. have been masters of the western for more than a thousand БСОВ years...

and Britain didn't! 1014-10 won a long and terrible 'dress rehearsal for the war of to- day. Those in control of things have ensured that this time food was introduced early; a precau tlon, not a neccally. The sub-

Leaves from a

Correspondent's Note Book

·by

Kathleen. Greene

small losses and to replacements, almost as large as when war be- Kan. But

tonnage is needed to bring us, men and munitions, as well as food: Foreign foods have to be bought with foreign cur rency. Air raids might hold up food distribution. If there should be a scarcity, and prices should go up, it is important that the rich adeng- household should have no tage over the poor one, ་་

Hence our ration cards.

•

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

customers. The Food Controller knows how much essen

Broad-

be varled. The first butter ration of a quarter of a pound a week per person was later raised to, kaй a It is the same for every- pound:

Plumpman for Alderman One Guzzler and for Mr. Leon. Margarine the British casting Corporation speakers give if a refined hard G, but the public know it as 'marges unrationed, The plentiful, good and cheap.

ration of three quarters of sugar 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.

according to

Meat in rationed price, not weight. Those parts of the animal with the unlovely -des- cription of edible offals-kidney, sweetbreads and the like are un rationed. No olher 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.

So far it has This is the system, worked well. Of course there are grumbles Grumbling is a national

#marino...campaign; "hân; est. tial Imported food is needed in pastime, and a‘Government - De--

proved one of Germany's disappointments. ROK After eight. months of War Bri thin's merchant fleet is, thanks to

every part of Great Britain

Rationing

means fair, diatriba

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