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THE proix "Special to the Telegraph"

5th COLUMN TECHNIQUE*

SINCE the

Blitzkrieg the countries to which they are ne-

started even those

governments

which had

credited.

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FOR the Nazis this law has no validity. Many of their most hitherto buried their heads important diplomatic posts have most persistently in the been held by men whose, most conspicuous quality was their sand, have resolved upon talent for espionage and under-

ground conspiracy.

measures against the "Quis- lings" and "Fifth Columns" in their midst.

Nevertheless, discussion this thorny problem all the world over shows that not all countries

Indeed, the Nazia have given on entirely new meaning to the term

Diplomatic Corps,

to

They conter diplomatic status upon apies and terrorists, especially upon of so-called "Journalists", attaching

their legations and embassies men who have nothing whatever to do with diplomacy. Such the heads of travelling agencies and men include yet realise the enormous scale of representatives of business firms.

Commercial travellers become over- this "attack from within."

night "Delegates for commercial questions." Many newspapers are still

before in history have there Never asking how it could happen that, General as there are te-day; it is an been so many German Consuls-

in a country where to all ap- open secret that very many of these officials are abusing their diplomatic pearance Nazi supporters were privileges by activities that are de extremely few, a whole number finitely injurious to the state in which

they reside. of leading per-

song, holding

key positions in

the state, were

by

ready to per E. LENNHOFF

forni acts of treachery on bel half of the

By Abner Dean

SCHOOL

FOR

LIR STEWARDESSES

DEAN

"But they forgot to teach us the most important thing

how do you tell married men from singlo ones!”

Eye-witness in

POLAND

In almost every country German residents have been allowed 10 maintain local branches of their ! ***** German party or- ganisations, Every- where there are "strong points," such as German The question can only be tiations, Iitler Youth movements, Labour Front groups, Women's asso- answered by those who have German students' clubs and, in many made a study of the technique of countries, semi-military SA. and S.S. this Nazi "internal offensive."

unila. To these must be added "social" organisations of every kind.

German invaders.

EVERY war has had its spies

is used by the longkong Telegraph to and traitors, but never before the indicate news which is strictly copyright days of Nazism did a under the provisions of the Telecommument in time of peace altempt free man, but must be a

govern-

cations Qrdinance, 1834. Such nowa

Despite all the warnings of recent years, it is still insufficiently known that every German living abroad who belongs to these associations, is not a blindly

bears the indication “UP” is received in systematically and with the aid obedient instrument

Hongkong on the date of publication by

serve all rights and forħid republication,

arrangement,

of the Nazi

the United Press Associations, who re of gigantic machinery, to under- regime, lie is a servant of the either wholly or in part without previousmine the stability of every other "Auslandsorganisation" of Herr Bohle, country without exception. Yet Secretary of State, and Himmler's this is what the Nazi regime has closest associate, unremittingly been doing since

The Press

SOME of the functions of the Press

denied the people of the Colonics

1933.

THROUGH this organisation

The "German Secret Service," every German living abroad, who which hires these Quislings and has not broken with Nazism, sets these Fifth Columns to automatically becomes an agent work, comprises more than Herr of the German Secret service. Himmler and his Gestapo."

He is required not only to perform

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of

in the Colonial Empire are of greater Importance, perhaps, then is the case with Fleet Street Journals. Articu- tation except through the columnus of the local newspapers is more or less

No doubt, Himmler and his assis- all sorts of secret espionage, but, if at who, unlike self-governing States, tants play a very big part in the all qualified, to help in recruiting have no political representatives to undermining of olher

In countries, Quislings, and so-called pro- whom they can air their grievances. Himmler is continually sending out paganda among the subjects of other Although the primary function of

of armies of spies, agents, terrorists and nations. newspapers throughout the British wireless operatora, concealed in every It is no chance that Empire is, unlike the newspapers in imaginable disguise.

these "Aus- landsorganisations etc., as well Totalitarian-governed countries, 'to

He works in closest touch with the Dr. Gocbbets and the Ministry without fear or Secret service army; General Nicolai Propaganda, are flooding the world disseminate the news favour, subject in war-time only to

and Admiral Canaris, who, as in the with shiploads of propaganda ma- official and self-imposed censorship last war, are again in charge of mill- terial, This material is when necessity of

of State arises, there

Lary

concerned espionage, receive all important far less with translating Nazi idens are other and equally ant Instructions from the head of the into the native idiom than with pre- functions in the Colonies. A

Gestapo.

paring

the sign of the fact that a democratic and The free-Press-exists in Hongkong is Beli Ministry for Foreign Affairs.in activities.

also supports destructive mea- given by the

columns correspondence

The German "Auslandsorganisa- sures against countries with which it of our well-known morning con has concluded treatles of friendship tion" tends to foreign countries men temporary and, to a lesser (but no and non-aggression, and this, in a

and women of birth and position, to less important) exte

extent, in the two

manner without parallel in history, gage in drawing-room propaganda, afternoon

newspapers. In

these

It is an unwritten law that the heads the sole purpose of which is to sap columns, rickshaw

coolfes

and of embassies and legations shall the defensive and offensive spirit of millonaires have alred their griev

other countries. abstain from all illegal activities in iances; reprieves have been demanded and obtained for condemned men; government has deterred to public opinion; scandals have been remedied, In other words, the people have, through the medium of their free Press, become articulate.

to

To this extent the Press is un- feltered. It can make known Government the wishes and desires of the people. Government, unfor- lunately, does not reciprocate. The VERY TREDJE SER VILA Press does not desire to become the instrument of Government we can leave that to the Nazis and the Fas- cisis-but it should be

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In free countries it is not and can-

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for

trepsonable

These are the false prophets who

men to veil the statue of Liberty, and before the war spread the gospel of to mutter some formulary of dis-Hutler's love of peace and formed in- ingenuous acquiescence tu foreign ternational socielies for "promoting wrongs, dictated by their fears friendship between the nations," and rather than by their convictions; but "averting the danger of war." we prefer to await for our justlitea-! tion the day when the entombed and oppressed Ilberties of Europe shali to pacifist and other idealist etrcles, once more start into life and array who come honestly to belleve that co- themselves under the standard to

They sought and obtained

access

which we cling. For to what, after operation with Nazism meant peace, all, are the statesmen of England to and European solidarity. look for strength und national power,

it injuries and offences rise against

German agents, however, are at

11, but to the enlightened resolution work, not only in society, but among

of the people of England to uphold all classes. They come in flocks as

sounded?"

are

the principles on which our own "tourists" (these make friends with polity and Independence

the peasants, as "workmen", "re

workers". scorch

or "travelling According to circums more tances, they preach moderate

Socialism, Communtem or Fascism.

It is hard to realise that the Wickham Steed once point-Times" asked that question ninety students."

forcibly to-day."-

in Hongkong the desire

of the

ogitation

ed out, the business of newspapers years ago. It applies even merely to echo the views of a Govern- ment or to observe the reticence which officials Impost upon them- selves or belleves to be due to the must, in wartime and it applies also crulls (that is to say aples, agents and Press to be free and untrammelled A favourite method of gaining re- positions they hold,

In a famous Editorial of 00 years

Is to London newspapers be dictated terrorists)

by anti-Semitic ago that has become a classical de-by circumstances which would not finition of the relations between the the public, even in war, has a

arise in times of peace. Nevertheless, Press and the State, the London to certain information which is some- some where the Jews

IN many countries, including o right "Times" said:

times held "The first duty of the Press is to

To-day, the one subject neither numerically strong nor obtain the earliest and most correct upon which light should shed is the in possession of important posts, intelligence of the events of the time, Evacuation. and Instantly, by disclosing them, to

German

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were

The Press realises the difruities these envoys of the make them the common property of with which the authorities in Hong-Secret Service have been able the people. The statesmen collects kong are faced. But the people are solely by the use of anti-Jewish his information secretly and by secret faced with equal difficulties which slogans, to manufacture those means; he keeps back even the cur rent intelligence of the day with can be alleviated to some extent by "national" Fascist movements ludicrous precautions. The Press frankness.

lives by disclosures; whatever passES Unlike the Army and Navy, who from which Quislings are bred. into its keeping becomes a part of have Press Halson officers in Hong-Not, of course, without financial the knowledge and the history of kang, there is no person to whom the assistance. our times; tis dally, and forever newspapers can turn for information appealing to the enlightened force of public opinion. The statesman.

from the Government except the To all this must be added the whole enutiously guards from the public's Heada of Department, who eye the information by which his unnaturally display reluctance to Goebbels lle regardless of cost and not vast machinery of propaganda-Dr. actions and opinions are regulated speak for fear

"For us, with whara publicity, and step

that they over-with the use of every conceivable truth are the air and light of exist- upon

the limitations imposed

sed method. In many countries this pro- enco, there can be no case a desire to publish Information that fruitful because most governments in them. The Press has no paganda fell upon soll all the more grace than to recoll from the frank and accurate disclosure of facts as may embarrass the they are. We are bound to tell the but to whom can turn for guld-propaganda, nor even any propaganda truth as we find it, without fear of ance? Who is to say what is or is of their own at all. They relied upon consequences to lend no convenient not judicious? Who is to give warn the common-sense of their shelter to acts of injustice and op: Ing that an innocent paragraph may forgetting that in our day there are people, pression. but to consign them at once to the Judgment of the world, not contain enough dynamite to unfortunately not only many politi- The Press of England, standing as it wreck plans that have taken weeks enlly diseased minds, but an even now dues, alone in the enjoyment of and months to mature? Hongkong larger number of feeble intellects, entire freedom, would grievously newspapers do not betray the con- which, In the absence of an effective neglect ita exalted privileges if it fidences of the Army and the Navy, antidote, succumb only too easily to falled to recollect how much is due All they desire is equal confidence steady doses of German propaganda to the common interest of Europe from the Goverment. It may suit the purposes of states-

poison.

Government, peace-time conducted no counter-

The following article is ponned by an American woman who set herself the task of observing European events in- dependently. Her observations differ in two respects from the usual newspaper reports. Neither battles nor important diplomatic and economic activities form the objects of her observations; her concern is with the fate of single in- dividuals. "I don't belong to any political party," declares Virginia N. Matthews, "but I belong to the world party of women and mothers, I am their envoy. To them above all my reports are addressed."

Only when the war is over and the world returns to normal conditions again will it be possible to reveal parti- culars of the life of the courageous woman who gave up an established position in the U.S.A. and placed herself at the disposal of an international charitable organisation engaged in welfare work for sufferers and persecuted people in Europe. She will send reports to her fellow country-women under the above nom de guerre. Virginia N. Matthews' voice is not that of an individual woman: it is the eternal. motherly instinct for truth and justice which cries out from

her words.

IN certain parts of Europe it is not enough to possess a passport and a visa in order to enter a particular country and be allowed to move freely about.

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arc

*Visitors from neutral countries in Germany must obtain a special -permit-io-enter-the--"Protectorate"- of Czechoslovakia or conquered Poland, And within Poland there is a district which is as Inaccessible

if it

were surrounded by o Chinese

wall: the Jewish reserva- tion of Lublin..

Even international social workers often refused permission to visit, Lublin without any ground for such refusal being given. After filing in Innumerable forms, and close questioning by officials in Warsaw,

my application for a per- to travel to Lublin was, after two attempts, finally granted. It was accompanied by a warning from

doctor, but the news of typhold and dysentery in Lublin was not altogether new to me.

In normal times the hundred miles to Lublin, which lies south- cast from Warsaw, may be covered in two hours. Travelling in our small car over had roads, and fre- quently being stopped by police officials, it took us ten Fours to rench our destination.

IT was already dark when we arrived in the old city of Lublin, going through the nar row crooked streets in a death- like stillness.

For the three of us a small room ready in a shabby hotel. Evidently with one bed and a deck-choir was

We were to be well looked after for in present day Lublin many people are usually crowded togetlier in ☐ bed. one room, often without. Families live in old railway car- riages, or in hastily erected buts built of wood and cardboard, or in tents. The National Socialist Government declared Lublin (that is to say the city and a part of the

former province of the same name)

from Germany increased the need in Lublin.

The Red Cross and other inter- national charitable organisations distribute medicines, and clothing, but even this help is quite insum- etent. We had hardly arrived in Lublin when the news came of the arrival of a new trainload of people from Stettin in Pinski, near Lublin We were ordered to meet this train, and it was in this way that I came to know Renate Alexander.

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Ago in

RENATE ALEXANDER was born five years the small town stefn in Pomerania.

of Hammer-

Her father was a prosperous tradesman whose ancestors had Jiv ed for many generations in Pom- erenia. Under the Nazi Govern- ment her family shared the fate of other people of

of Jewish persuasion. the house was searched on several

occasions, valuable.

able objects were confiscated, and her father was im- prisoned for several weeks. At the beginning of March 1940 rumours of an impending pogrom circulated. Hammerstein. Renato's parents decided

send their only daughter. to their relations in Stettin as thought that in a big city she would they be more secure. The litte girl was put alone into the train, and a label with the address of her relations in Stettin, with the request. fellow-travellers to take care her, was hung round her neck. Her uncle and aunt met her at the station in Stettin and when she went and called for her mother, her uncle said: "We are going to show you "all sorts of nice new things here."

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ON the day following Renate's arrival in Settin two Gestapo men appeared in her relations fint.

"In twenty-four hours you all have to leave for Lublin" was the order against which there was no appeal.

Twenty-four hours after her ar-

in Stettin the five-year old Renate found herself among twelve hundred despairing people who, cattle-trucks, eleven rolled eastwards. After seven days"

a Jewish reservation, and sends Jewish men, women and children to it from

nocked in western Poland, and from Germany, Austria and Cze choslovakia.

Apart from a fow prosperous tex- tile manufacturers, great poverty reigns in the district which even in former times was thickly popu- lated. Jews have always förned a great percentage of the popula tion in this part of Poland. They were engaged in the grain and cat- tle trade and live for the most part in penury. The war and the enor mous increase in population by several hundred thousand people has increased poverty to an un- Imaginable, degree. Whoever con- trived to get a ment of potatoes ar beetroot was lucky. Each " train- load of human beings arriving

journey two, hundred and thirty people were dead.

Whoever came near the door while the train stopped at a station or asked too Insistently for drinking: water was shot by the SA. guards, Those who complained or grumbled were beaten with the butts of rifles. Some of thote unfortunates suc-- ceeded in cutting the reins of their wrists.

Seventy-two people, owing to hunger, thirst," cold and fright, were reduced to such a state of ex- haustion that they were left, when the trucks had to be changed, lying on adnow-covered" fléld. Little Turn to Page 3, Fifth Column:

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