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THE preß Special to the Telegraph" is ured by the Hongkong Telegraph" to indicate paws which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni« cations Ordinance, 1916. Such nowH AS bears the indication "U" is received in Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who re- servo all rights and forbid republication, aither wholly or in part without previous arrangement.

The Evacuation

Nazi system of calling up men' for the Army.

German

Army

PLAIN SOLDIERS DISLIKE.....

NAZIS

soon established that this was missions. If he falls in action, not the case.

be will be transformed from a Then we tried the theory that possible enemy of Hitleriam Into

Still, menibers of the Party do men were called up according to.

a martyr to the cause...

not always consider themselves the districts in which they lived. The Gestapo also advises the lucky because they are spared. This failed, too.

military authorities whether to the dangers of front-line war.

In the end, wo discovered recruit men from, say Stuttgart, the driving force behind the in one regiment, or whether to call-ups. It was the Gestapo, spread them as the "doubtful" Germany's Secret Police.

Austrians were spread over a number of regiments.

Lists of all men available for the three fighting services began, it persuaded the Govern

Further, soon after the war'

It picks, in the same group, men of 20 and men of 42. It is not the French "echelon" sys- tem, under which a certain number of men of cach nge. It may decree, for example, was stated, was on the home group are called up at the same that a good worker of military front. time, nor does it seem to obey age should be kept on the home Indeed, people. in Berlin used any other set rules.

are first of all submitted to the Gestapo, which, from its ment to forbid all Nazi func

tlonaries to join up. private dossiers, decides their fate.

The place of these loyalists, it

Some of them are convinced that the home front is by no means free from dangers. Some, even, feel uneasy be .cause of their prominent post- tion in the Party. Yes, al- ready.

The plain soldiers, too, dislike.... the Nazis, and are not altogether misled by Goebbels' propaganda. Not long ago, for instance, I talked to a young officer. who was home on leave from the "What are your men thinking out there?" I asked them. For publicity's sake, a few "Oh," he said, "they have well-known Nazis were excluded adopted a rather popular slogan. same age, healthy and strong, FROM ENEMY INTO MARTYR from the ban and transferred to They all say: We want to go and not in any reserved occupa-.

the fighting services.

home to the Reich' the words. tion--was still a civilian when I If his political views are un- Only one of them has been which Hitler put into the mouth left Germany.

reliable, he will be earmarked killed-a man named Mayer of the Austrian, Czech and Some of my friends and I tried for the front line after a Quadde, an "old fighter." He Polish Germans." to solve this mystery. We sua- minimum period of training. was known as an outspoken This young man was an old friend. pected at first that men were There, more likely than not, opponent of the pact with Soviet of mine, I am sure he told me the called up alphabetically, but we he will be sent out on dangerous Russia.

front. Or that a man should be to say that Germany's home Western Front. For example, a young friend sent to one of the neutral coun- front was better guarded than of mine, aged 22, was called up tries as a "civilian soldier." Or the West Wall, immediately after the outbreak that he ought to go into the of war. His schoolmate the Infantry.

The Crown Jewels

are

By H. V.

evacuated

MORTON faces! Still they soon' cheered up,"

TT was with led the into

truth. And from what he said emerged the fact that the spirit of the German troops is not what the Nazis make it out to be.

Before everything-they all want to go home.

I have other evidence that the re- ports about the excellent spirits of the Nazl troops are untrue.

Of course, they will not rise in

mutiny. Ofer

Of course, they will fight bravely when commanded to do so. Nevertheless, their morale does not.

1014.

word, you should have seen their compare with that of the German

Army of WAS reminded of a story

Then German soldiers were con- which that

Iment that in 1914 Lastnieks the White Tower and ssive day ate tells in his boo Captain von Rinteln vince cat they were fighting to de-

ever

some

him with:

"Never mind, sir, five of our Queens have been executed in the Tower!"

with

saw the Tower of London come cloak in which Wolfe died on the Tower in 1916, a Tommy consoled propaganda, however powerful it has case which once contained the brownWhen he was imprisoned bi the day, they are suspicious of Goebbels' suddenly to life. Its air of heights of Abraham. The different Impressions gained by drowsy benevolence departed,

proved on the home front. the several "Telegraph" reporters and it became a prison for spies.

"Evncunted," he said.

"I TELL YOU IT WAS who

the covered

evacuation of

Sent away?" ↑

suggested,

CHASTLY" women and children was illustrated. Such a reversion to type was sur-

a lot of the relfes have been

Certainly there was no enthusiasmi in our Final Edition yesterday. Sub-prising. Then staries were told of evacuated," he persisted, "but some Beneath the windows of the pri-among the soldiers over their success sequent perusal of the reports would firing parties at dawn and-death. of them are too heavy, so they've got soners house is a long, low shed in Poland. I talked to many of

to take their chance." Indicate that pveremphails was given For the first time for many a long

1a corrugated iron roof.

them, and found some even a little to the story of one reporter whose century, the word "Tower" carried

INTERING the basement of miniature rifle range.

That," said my guide, "is the ashamed of the part they had played friends or relatives, apparently, drew with it into London a thrill of horror.

That's where in the the White Tower, we looked pies were shot in the last war." Possibly in an "unlucky marble" as regarding

the invasion. in revenge for those Ger

I was amazed to observe the con- of the heavy objects; Berthage.

man apics executed tiere, or from a enormous culverins and old-fashioned

"Was Lody shot there?"

trast between the way in which the Let it be emphasised at this junc-mistaken notion of its militaine cannon which the tender regard of shot in the Tower, and the only de- Goebbels and the reaction of German "Yes, he was the first spy ever Polish victory was explaited by ture that the Telegraph", together portance, the Zeppelins bombed the the Master of the Armouries has cent one with the staff of reporters who ower during the last war, but the caused to be encased in protective

of the bunch."

soldiers who listened listlessly to the Lieutenant Carl Hans Lody was a Nazi wireless talks about their own covered the evacuation, have nothing only casualties were one pigeon and ack

sacking.

German naval officer who was sent heroism. but the highest praise for the civilian a small window at the entrance to

We went into the Jewel House. to London as a spy in August or committee which handied the evacua-

the Wakefield Tower.

I What a tion. The work of all offelals is

sooner was the war over Bash and the ripping fire of diamonds be an American tourist and went to me when I asked him about the a dreary spot! Instead of the September, 1814. He pretended to ly" can only tell you it was ghast- No

a member of a tank's crew serving of the highest pralec.

What

than the Tower again took that once inct the gaze of every under the name of Charles A. Inglis. could well have been chaos and con- Its place among the sights of Lon-holder of a sixpenny ticket, there

attack on Lodz. Не fusion became, under skilful and don; and more people thon

He was arrested at Killarney. Maybe this attitude of the soldiers are only plate-glass cases whose was court martialled at the Middlesex who returned from Poland is respon emelent handling, order and colm. went to see it.

tremendous fortifications protect Guildhall, opposite Westminster Ab-sible for the comparative Inllure of From the time ladies and children

It is visited chiefly because of its nothing. The Jewel House to-day bey, and was sentenced to be shot. Goebbels' propaganda efforts to instil ported to the various centres on the gruesome memories. It is a genuine looks like "the scene of a robbery." island and mainland until they were Chamber of Horrors. If all its as- in their allotted berths aboard the sociations were happy ones of love-mented my evacuated," com-uring the time between his sen-confdence into the German people.

"Crown Jewels

tence and execution he impressed They know and they told their two liners, the evacuation proceed- making, junketing and merriment, We then took a walk round the by his And_bravery

the officers and soldiers at the Tower friends the truth about war. They ings-worked-with-the-smoothness of no one would ever go there, except Outer" "Ward and came 15 the Case- "The

hate well-oiled machine. The officials maybe students of military architec-ments. Hiere I saw a dignified old my guide, "was that his eyes should tinction. The men of Goering's air

favour he asked," said

I must,

however, make bne dis responsible for the organisation, to

to-ture.

house wreathed and garlanded with be bandaged." gether with their assistants, deserve

force. I should say that they come But what makes. KM, the whole-hearted thanks of the com- famous

Tower barbed wire.

"Were you there?"

nearest to what Hitier considera to and irresistible

the "During the first months of the "Yes, I munity and especially of the people dreadful stories of prisoners tan- war," I was told, "all the German chair at the end of the range. Be-

was. He was tied to a be the true Nazi spirit. whose loved-ones participated in this

They told stories of the "great fun" dungeons, of submarine prisoners were brought fore they bandaged his eyes he said which they had in machine-gunning uprooting of families which is unique men and women spending their last here before being sent away to the to the Assistant Provost Marshal, helpless fugitives.

guishing in its dark in the history of the Colony.

night before execution in this or prisoners of war camps. They lived who had to be present: 'I suppose It is true that, qboard, the ships,

They are all gangsters brought up that

of murderers

rderers passing silent-in that house. Funny to be picked you won't shake hands will a spy? and trained to enjoy the mass- accommodation for some of the ladies ly up spiral stairs to do their work, up in the North Sea and to find The officer went up to him and put murder which they perpetrate. They

children appears to have been and of fair women and hrave men yourself in the Tower of London! out his hand. 'I'll shake hands with are the real Nazis. not altogether as adequate as recent placing their bends upon the block Out of blinkin

frying pan into a brave man,' he said.

All the same, of course, the Ger=. amelal statements indicated. But we on nearby Tower Hill.

blinkin' fire, as you might say, "But there weren't many ples man people as a whole still cling to Most Germans captured by us like Lady. He was a gentleman. the official reports of Nazi “in- seem to think that they're going to The rest were mostly rats doing it vincibility." They do so if only to be tortured first and then put up for money. Neutrals some of them break their own deep-rooted pes- against the wall. They are nervous were, too. when they first come in. When We returned to the wicket gate. some locked out of the window on "Good-bye; when shall we be able their first mersing and naked where to come and see the Tower again?" they were, and learned that they "When Hiller has got what's com- were in the Tower of London-ying to him. Good-bye."

and

cell, of

are

belleve that the Hongkong publie For horror the Tower beats all has cause to be thankful that, the the Sunday papem, the "horride" situation was not worse. We reveal Blms and most thrillers; and it is no secret when we state that the all true, original evacuation plan contemplat-

·

ed the transference of women and

O-DAY, after twenty-two children earlier this week in small

years of peace and photo vessels which, under ordinary cir-graphy, the Tower

London, cumstances, have space for a frac-awakening once again, has become a tion of the number who can be ac- sinister fortress, Its gates have been commodated in the Empress liners. shut. What goes on there in war Thanks to the initiative of the Hong-time is one of the mysteries of Løn- kong authorities the Use of the don. smaller vessels become unnecessary,

In order to find out, I had to oblain and the comfort and welfare of al- the permission of the War Office, most all the women and children who and, having passed beyond the are now upon the high seas has been wicket gate where a young soldier ussured. That some wameh and child-in khaki was standing with rifle and ren have had to be accommodated in bayonet, I presented my credentials bed spaces and have not been able to at the guardhouse. obtain cabin berths is unfortunate I was taken round by one of the but unavoidable. We feel assured

that there has been no discrimination his story deserved. Again, duc 10 in this respect and are led to under- the difficulty experienced in obtain stand, in fact, that some method of ing permission to board the vessel, drawing lots for berths was employ-the stories

from the other two

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FUNNY SIDE UP

| 177

By Abner Doan

can't understand it, John. I've been using the budgat

for two months and we still have expansos!'

simism, which comes from the know- time their rulers challenged the ledge that they were beaten the last Western powers.

NAZISM - "HORROR WITHOUT END"

They try to read something be- tween the lines of the carefully supervised Nazi Press. If they can And nothing, they ask everybody who might have "Inside information." Then rumours sweep Berlin,"

In some instances I have seen how nerves of the Gennan people Ilable to give way under the strain of waiting without news. At such times I have heard whispered (a popular German saying: "Rather an end with horror than a horror. without end."

the are

It is difficult, of course, to estimate the percentage of people who think like that. Nevertheless, I know that Uey are strongly represented in the so-called intellectual circles in which I moved.

I can wall understand that opinions about the prevalling mood of the German, people are divided outside of Germany.

Even

for me, after ten years among the Germans, it is dificult to pro-

nounce à definite opinion.

Soven years of Nazism-seven years of ruthless: suppression of in- dividuál thought-seven years of opportunities only for those who pro- fessed Nazi sympathics, have made a uniion: of hypocrites out of the Get- man people.

For fear of the Gestapo and the. concentration camp, people hide their true feelings. They are careful not to give themselves away. They consider every word before they speak. They are all utterly dis honest,

How, in the wake

circumstances, one discover the inner truth?

All I can say. Is that at least two persona but of three in Berlin to-day will express criticism of the Nazis once they are absolutely certain that their hearers are not Nazi, st