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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 31, 1940.

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Hitler's

Secret are on the

Bucharest

IF you

BUCHAREST. THE WHOLE

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.

They were just another little squad of Hitler's S.S. soldiers sent to join Ihose nl. 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 at- tempt to disguise their mili- tary origin. Only the re- gimental numbers have been printed out from their kit boxes. Their own names and identity numbers stand.

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Dressed they were in a kind of pattern which I have found to be the uniform of these masquernd- ing sabotuge units of the German "Army-i-waterproof Jacket; -sports

coat of German tweed, པ"

a little shrunken-looking sometimes though its owner had Alled out a bit in military service, tough cord breeches, heavy boots, and Rrey- green pork-pie hats of the kind the ex-soldiers' societies used to wear in past Germany and Buhe- mia.

IN fact they looked just like the young men I saw in Danzig before they put on their military unl- fornw, and in the Sudetenland when they were leading Hentein'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 are coming in in barges.

This morning's lot of four went on in a taxi to a restaurant which is known as the deput where newly arrived S.S. men report. After That they vanished, "Probably" "they to one of those big

were taken

houses or factory buildings of which the Germans have rented a surprising number ever since the war begon.

news of one German- I have "owned"factory“ building which“ has“ been turned into a regular bar- racks.

They have everything there from posse of coal delivery vons- Useful for secret transport-to army unitions and uniforms.

And what kind of talforms dh you think they have chosen? Well, I was surprised myself for a mo ment when I heard it. They have Rot Rumanian

police uniforms. Net

Us

TRUTH · ABOUT THE BALKANS

Second article from SEFTON

DELMER

tells

how the Nazis plan to také Rumania 'from the inside'

Soldiers job in

are just peace-loving citizens, loyal to Rumanla.

It is the resistance which Hitler can expect from these loyal Ger- man_Rumanians and the vast body

Rumanian people and their leaders which will innke him hesl- into 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 dickflen from Germany. They have greatly Improved all thelr

defences during military these months of war, and they_feel much safer thos they did Inst Sep- tember.

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GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

22,1

PEERLESS UKINTY

of

PLEASE

USE

・DE LATES

decree stepping the sale any fresh supplies of cereals, beans and seeds is a gesture of Indepen- |-----·dence - from German-economle-de- mination. This is not so important us it looks at first hand. The amount available

in for export these products was of the smallest. But it is certainly step in the right direction.

THE police, I know, have re- marked the significant increase, te the unprecedented number of 28,- 000, of residents with German passport in Bucharest, and they know that withough not all these persons, of course, belong to the subterranean movement, 16,000 of them have been organised in the Nazi Party organisation of which the gouleiter for Rumania is Konradi, the sinister little com- mercial chancellor in the Gerinan Legation here.

They know that Konradi and his lieutenants have seen to it that these men In their organisation have orders and low what to do in "a case of emergency,”

Almost as important as the Nazi organisation of Reich Germans for Hitler's plans in Rumania In 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 emi- grated to Transylvania us long ngo _ns_the_thirteenlit_century. Never

theless, they maintain their na- tional and ethical independence.

The union has its own German Hangings-Youth-newspaper,which, despite the Rumanian censorship, takes an outspokenly unti-Allleil, pro-German, pro-Nuzi ling. It la a typical organisation in units from the territorial gnu down to the cell in the villages.

_You_can_be_sure that the SS... leaders und the Gestapo agents country spending years In the studying the German-Rumaalin position have collected a number of these men for espionage setivi- 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 German minority Poles were organised to -evlluborite-avith-the-invading-Ger~~

that ought to have been sur- prised,

man Army. the Germans had already employed the police-terre uniform technique in Austria.

Noz 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 rently for artion should I be com manded.

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

Other such troops would have been sent to occupy such points as Brasov (strong German-Rumanian population). Ploesti (ollwells,

line and vital rail Juncilon), Guir- for oil ship- port gua (Danube inents) and other centres which are known to have 8.8. detach- ments hidden away It them.

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

A gloomy plcture all this. But

I do not think the true prospects

are as black as that,

even

I do not see German capturing Rumania with putsch, though I am sure that is what they um 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

MERKUṛos,

To-day's decree ordering all males between the ages of fifteen and sixty, living in specially de- fined militory zones, lo be re- gistered, and providing for their possible expulsion from these zones it the presence is considered pre- ! Judicial, shows what the Rumanlan authorities have in mind.

In

. These German Rumanians nake particularly valuable ullies to the German spies. Muny of them are working in key positions Rumanian Industries and the all- flelds. Some of them are domestle servants In Bucharest embassies and legations.

NOT all the German Rumunions" have allowed themselves to be per- suaded or blockmufted Nazl Party organisation. Many

into the

THE EMPIRE IN ARMS

GRENADA

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

telin the Island's Crest above early story. Christopher Colum- It in 1498-bis bus discovered ship is heading in fall sail for

moito land.

renda, The "Brighter out of the darkness,” refers to Grenada's placid post- ilan outside the hurricane line.

Alter frequently changing hands between Britain -- and France, Grenada was finally con- "firmed"""""*" "KTİSİN"Possessiom In 1753. Cocoa, spices, cotton, are grown for England.

Although there lins been no of- Acial decree bonning oll exports, the Government have given the oil comparties to understand that they will need larger amounts for the Braty. This will have much the rame effect and make it even more difficult for the Germans to get the amount of oil they require from Romanis.

HITLER

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

NEEDS

A

FLEET

TO INVADE ENGLAND

GERMANY CAPITAL SHIP3

Tens £16,000

ALRCRAFT CARRIERS

38,000

CRUISERS

$0.000

LIGHT CRUISERS

23,000

DESTROYERS.

SUBMARINES

OTHER CRAFT

36,000

20,000

48,000

BRITAIN

Tans $30.000

176 000

145,000

230,000

250,000

16,000

133,000

This comparison of relative strengths of the British and German navies includes ships bullt before the war and ships whose construction was aufficiently 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 submarines is an estimate.

The most important additions 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 1936 and launched the first in February of last year, and the second In April of last year. Both are of 35,000 tons. A third ship was laid down in 1937 and li is reported, was faunched this year. No information has been given about a fourth ship witch was laid in 1838; some ̄reporta ̈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 lald 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, 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, since we can build faster than the enemy.

London, May 21.

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

We,re

"Would you like some butter?" she asked. "My, sister-in-law. In South Africa has sent us twelve pounds, and

hams. two

She thinks we're slarving! Of course, ali terribly grateful and that. But the children are al school. Reggle has luncheon at the office, and we've only a small refrigerator. I've Бесп

giving away presents all the morning."

These lo-British Islands, with their population of fly odd million people, must get most of their food from abroad.

"For the bread that you eat and

the biscuits you nibble. The sweet that you suck and

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

all Big Steamers- And if anyone hinders our coni-

ing you'll starve

So wrote Rudyard Kipling, dur- the Towards ing the last war.

German

sub- end of that wor marines did, to a great extent, "hinder" the big steamers "com- ing". Britain might almost have starved. But the British people have been masters of the western a thousand BCAS for more than years

and Britain didn't! 1014-10 was a long and terrible dress rehearsal for the war of to- day. Those control of things have ensured that this time food was Introduced early; a precau- tion, not a necessity. The sub- far, marine campaign has, 80 proved one of Germany's greatest "disappointmentų:

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

Leaves from a

Correspondent's NoteBook

by

Kathleen Greene

small losses and to replacements, almost as large as when war be gan. But tommage is needed to bring us men and munitions, a well as food. Foreign foods have to be bought with foreign cur rency. Air raids might hold up food distribulion. If there should be 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, .

•

cards, THESE little books of ench marked for a particular food- stuff. were given to us in October. We registered our names with re- tail dealers in butter, sugar, meat and bacon. The dealers sent lo headquarters the number of their Food registered customers. The Controller knows how much essen- tlal Imported food is needed in -every-part-of Great Briiniz.:

Rationing means fair distribu- tion. The amount of a portion can

be vorled. The first butter railon LoLa quailer 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.

Margurine-the British Broad- casting Corporation speakers give G, but the public It a

refined hard know it as "marge"-is unrationed, The plentiful, good and cheap,

sugar rallon of three quarters of a pound a week is enough even for the sweet tooth. Bacon rationing covers only ham and rasher bacori. The rest of the pig can be bought without coupons.

Meal is rationed according to price, not weight. Thoso part of the animal with the unlovely des- edible offala-kidney, cription of sweetbreads and the like-are un- rationed. No other foodstuffs are rationed at ali, nor is there any ahortage, 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 worked well. Of course there are grumbles Grumbling is a national pastime, and a Government De- partment is a safe Aunt Sally to throw at. But the_most_empliatie PLEASE Turn To Pago 4.

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