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Thursday,

HÒNGKONG TELEGRAPH

July 18, 1940.

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BRITONS WORKING TOO LONG IN WAR FACTORIES

LONDON, July 17 (Reuler),-The Labour Minister, Mr. Ernest Bevin, in a speech in London to-day, deplored the serious loss to the nation during the war caused by continual neglect during the past years of skilled men and women.

He estimated that if sufficient skilled workers had been avai able, he could have placed another 250,000 women into work very quickly:

Overworking

The

NEW VAUXHALL

.TWELVE-FOUR

THIS SUPER TWELVE-FOUR

I ESCAPED

FROM

GERMANY

MY heart thumped as I

lay in my sleeping-com- partment on the Berlin- Rome express.

It was midnight. In a few minutes. we should steam out of the Brenner station over the border into Italy.

Karl Stepanek, one of

Germany's most popular. actors, recently escaped to Britain from Berlin and is telling the full story of war- time Germany.

Stepanek is a Czech by birth, and lived in Germany for ten years. He was often a personal guest of Hitler's,

To-day he tells the thrilling story of his journey to Lon-

In a few minutes I should be don

CAR INVITES YOUR INSPEC-free.. TION.,

We shall be glad

to demonstrato.

HONGKONG HOTEL

GARAGE

My journey was being made gave me a, certificate stating that I openly. The Nazis believed that ought to go abroad for a cure. I was going to Italy to make a film there.

When I presented all these creden tinls in order to get an exit-permit, I was politely told that there were plenty of spas inside Germany.

**

*

I could be allowed to leave

Only I and a few men who had helped me in Berlin knew that, once across the frontler, I would never return; that I was escaping to join in the fight Germany, I was told, only if I against the oppressors of my had a contract to make films in Czech fatherland,

a neutral country.

Then the trip would be "in the in-

Still, the Gestapo has long cars

Stubbs Road...Phone: 27778-9. and sometimes it likes to play with terests of the State. The money I

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Hongkong Telegraph.

Thursday, July 18, 1940,

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Looking Backward

Historians make us acquainted with stirring scenes and events of former times in which famous men played their parts. Ima gination invests such episodes with an atmosphere like that which the dramatist contrives

Its prey. Many

last minute arrests

are made on the; frontiera.

1

tried not to

by

KARL STEPANEK

think of these or Gormany's Greatest

I lay and waited.

Customs The Inspector and eur

Movie Star

carried abrønd

could be used by the Jelchshank, which desperately needed foreign currency. It would be a patrio tic undertaking.

I went away and

ER PLAT

EMARNE

WATERLO

AFALGA

Room for More

The Yanks'

a

have

word for it

HE jargon of the American

tells the complete story. He says: “I

discovered and had to run, but I

got fifty dollars."

A criminal has almost

und

slang, cant and argot used with rency officials had passed my com- pulled more strings, finally obtaining out any conscious adherence to

marily a language of expedience leaving: to take it on the lam, to partment without stopping. Double in other from an Italian ilin company grammatical rules, and is pri- words used to describe the merable characterised by terseness of scram, to screw, to blow, to mope, less they knew me as an actor, well to make a picture in Rome.

I said goodbye to my Berlin Hat, phrase and simplicity of de- breeze--to mention a few. liked in Berlin. Belter not annoy

looked wistfully at the handsome

The show-up, where suspects are any friend of the leaders!

tatal in my bank-book, gave a last scription. It is a strange ac- displayed and paraded for identifies- Voices outside, began to shout that thought to bungalow on the cumulation of words borrowedlon by victims, is the

Fankee Lake in Carinthia. All these from every social group in every Hollywood, from the brilliant spot- everything was ready for departure. possessions, won by years of hard geographical area of the Eng one is pointed out by a victim he

lights and raised platform. When Surely it was all right now?

Then I heard my name called

lish-speaking world.

the corridor.

in

ות

work, I had to leave behind for the Nazis to seize us soon as they learned

the truth about me.

stage, or

one

sense

said to get the finger, and if he Major contributors to the vocabul- {not gulity, to get a bum linger, ary are the tramp, the gunman, the The word cop in On the other hand, I had the hoodlum, and the bootlegger, nl-originally meant to

steal, but has "Herr Stepanck! Where is Here satisfaction of knowing that my flight though cireus troupers, loggers, enttle more recently come to mean get or Stepanck?"

would cost the Nazi propaganda men and railroad workers have sup- procure, as in such phrases us COP machine four million marks-theplied necessary and useful words. a plea (plead guilty), cop a mope price of a bombing squadron. That,

"In there," said the conductor. A knock at the door.

*

I took a grip on myself, hoped that my trembling hands would

was the cost of the film 1 completed the almost impossible to locate (make a get-away, and cop an aut

actual source of slang or cant(procure an alibi), just before leaving Berl. It was after many weeks have clapsed, The police car used to transport the first German colour fim. Now since the language is seldom written, prisoners within city boundaries is Dr. Goebbels will have to scrap it. and new words may be current in known as a paddy wagon (from the he cannot have a "renegade" netoriralated groups long before they and typical Irish-American policemen) starring in his cinemas,

wide acceptance and notice,

The place is bugged so Micky and Apart from my midnight stint Decne case the ins while Jerry gan

The skipper's Greased so the was uneventful. As soon as I found play is safe. The saps trip a bug A few of them are cop, buli or har- a quiet hotel, Isdug my Czech pass and the dinger blows so Jerry mopes ness bull (uniformed officer). port from its hiding place in one of *****

or the Black Maria.

Many words have been provided

to eliminate the necessity for eating. a policeman by

to surround the lifelike presenta not be noticed, und opened the the frontier, my journey to Rome] door the caller was a uniformed Nazi frontier guard.

"I am sorry to disturb you, but I my trunks, and, armed with it, called heat for him! The cops tried (from the Hebrew), buttons, juz

tions of the stage. The present confers a romantic and dramatic quality upon the picturesque transactions of the past, and future generations will read with keen interest the story of the critical days through which we are now passing. The historians of a generation hence will be able to look at these events in perspective that is denied to us at the moment and estimate their significance with a better sense of proportion.

A

or

Some fature Gibbon Macaulay will comment upon the mental and moral aberrations for

many Alms. have seen you in su Would you please give me an auto- graph?"

shamus

韭

to swamp them and they're fogged and skipper (district captain). A at the British Embassy.

on the breeze. It was curtains for police detective is

a nose, allm, a Deeno. Micky pulled through and d snoop, a tall, a shagger, a soft heel, drew a 1 to 20 rap, I discovered from German

an eye, an elbow (from their method translated, this means: of Literally

making headway through friends in Roma that the The place

is equipped with a crowd), dick, or if particularly Gestapo kept a constant watch burglar alarm, an Micky and Denno noted for a receptive memory for on the British and French Em-study a method of entrance while faces, a camera eye, Soon after the occupation of bassies, and on the offices of Jerry remains on the look-out. The Czecho-Slovakia, the subject of my Allied firms. All callers were district police officer has been bribed, "TAKE IT ON THE rationality began to Interest ometals investigated.""

We were well into Italy before my nerves were under control again.

in Berlin,

I was followed every day until 1 of Goebbels' received my British viso after being Dr. Proschke, one aides, was apparently deputed to vouched for by good Czech friends in London. On my last evening. I talk to me about it.

returned to my hotel to find an Italian detective waiting for me. The "You ought to take out a German detective questioned me thoroughly. passport," he told me one day at the alternately friendly and threatening, Ufa studios. You speak the German he wanted to know exactly what language as if it were your own, was doing in Italy, and when I in- You have made your name in Ger- tended to return to Germany.

"I'm staying in Rome for some are plays and Mms. You

time."

I lled. "See I'll hand you man

even if I want to.

and the accomplishment of their tork should not involve danger. The HAM" two clumsily set off an alarm, and when the bell rings Jerry leaves: no olice for him! trouble with the police

Intimidation and

bealing of a The pollee tried to surround and criminal in an effort to obtain a con- arrest Micky and Deeno, and shot ferslon or Information is well known to the American public as the third them when they tried to excape. Deeno was killed, but Micky re- degree. To the criminal it is the kick, a jacking (from block-jack), a covered and was convicted, with an in indeterminate sentence of trom one hosing (from soft rubber hose used to prevent bruising), Coney Island to twenty years in prison.

(from the queer methods of eliciting THE THIRD DEGREE Information), and the more obvious

phrase, a

injects a note of

In such an example the language

The crimf storm.

I which the German people had popular with the German public. my passport so that I cannot leave is relatively casual and intelligible, humour into many of his cant words.

Think it over."

FUNNY SIDE UP

By Abner Dean

I offered him the German passport in the heat of action, words replace A look-out, for instance, is a gander; long been noted. He will trace

sentences and signals are curt and anything or anyone sought after by A few weeks later he repeated the I hoped I would never need again. the steps by which they became

suggestion, much more insistently. He hesitated--but accepted it. 1 concise. A description of a stick-up the police is hot (hot-car, hot-money, or hold-up as related by a gunman &c.): a lawyer is a mouthpiece or the victims of domestic regi-When I still did nothing Herr Hinkel, promised to call at the station for it

Is less easy to understand. "Histlip: a reformatory is a school, or mentation and later on the the Nazi Commissar for Culture, next day.

Within an hour I had picked, and glom-rank and fam: half a C."ÍTurn to Page 2, Fourth Column slavish tools of ambitious mili- tried his powers of persuasion, upon checked out at the hotel, and caughi

a train northwards. tary leaders. He will tell how me.

On the way I changed as unob- these adventurers proclaiming

Somehow the talk was led around trusively as I could to a fast train themselves the divinely appoint- to concentration camps. I was told, for France, My Czech passport saw over the frontier at casually, just how many Czechs had me

Mod Safely ed guides and rulers of the been imprisoned since the Occupa Modane, and, more dead than alive by this time, I arrived finally at "peerless" German race, ex-

Calais. tinguished the spirit. of liberty in that country.. He will give a vivid account of the long series

of

tion.

☆ *

But still one great adventure lay ahead of me. For many months Nozi propaganda had hammered into

It was a dilemma from which No

outrages inflicted by German, I could extricate myself only by all Germans detalls of the terrifying.

upon her neighbours, of the unavailing efforts of the Western Powers in the interest of peace and international justice, and of their decision to take up arma in defence of civilization. All this will be by way of preface or introduction to the historian's pen-picture describing the course of the great conflict.

dangern of the voyage to England. dangerous moves. It meant Who travels to England travels into bribing Nazi officials and, al death, they told us. The U-boats though bribery is rife in Berlin sink nearly every ship approaching rest. Neutral scamen muliny when to-day, I could not be sure that Britain. Mines and bombs get the the corrupt Nazis who took my asked to sall for Britain. money would not immediately betray me,

I

So I boarded the Channel boat at Calala with considerable trepidation. was surprised at the number of my fellow-travellers, and at their non- I was amazed when, hearing their conversation, I found that they were not all British, but

I do not want the men who helped me to be sent to a concentration chalance. camp. I finally contacted a high police ofeial and, step by step, care-

fully tested his feelings,

Dardanelles: No Soviet Proposals LONDON, July 17 (Reuter)"As

men and women of half a dozen nationalities. Ho added, however, that the far is Lord Halifax is aware, no Government intended to utilise the proposals have been made by the

And, out, in the Channel, I was The historical records to be him a German passport and 1 si

Two days later, I received from

amazed to again services of both men and women to Soviet Union. to the Turkish Govern-

see that not a ment regarding control of the the utmost extent,

Dardanelles, declares Mr. R. A written after the clash of arms retained my Czech papers.

single worship was convoying us Butler, Under-Secretary for Foreign has ceased and the smoke of

I found a Nazi doctor who con- Bcross the "sea of death,"

There were freighters steaming in Mr. Bevin said his appeal to the Affairs, in a written sawer to a battle has cleared away will armed that my health was bad. He several direction, apparently undls- workers had had a remarkable, Parliamentary question.

turbed by U-boats and mines; but response. Young people were work-

not single warship. ing 70 a week,

When I landed at Dover, I realised it is now evident that they had Liquidating Agents the accession to power of Mr. and manly frankness of Mr. been working too long and produc- LONDON, July 17 (Reuter) Winston Churchill. The future Chamberlain, and the gravity something of the extent to which the German people are being duped by flos consequently I declining. I "Reuter's" diplomatic correspondent historian will do full justice to and courage with which Mr the Nazis. I realised, too, that Bri was, therefore, intended to restore the learns that M. Paul Morand, Minister Factory Acts, regulating the bour la Plenipotentiary, has been appointed the parts played by Mr. Attlee Churchill undertook his formid-tain all rules the waves. TO-MORROW: order to get maximum production agent for the liquidation of French and the veteran Mr. Lloydable task in a situation of peril, without injuring the health of the economic and commercial affairs in George, and will not fail to us sold by Mr. Lloyd George, trade in British leaflets-Risk-

Air-raid fears in Berlin workers, INA

He concluded that our first great The British Government will object la to win the war and we are similarly appoint an agent to the record the approval by their without any parallel in our long ng prison to hear the B.B.C

fellow.countrymen of the dignity history.

broadcasts A Friend in danger. sing to win 17%

Britain."

French Government,

narrate the ovents that led to

DEAN

told the chef what you said, sir???-

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