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Nazi Arithmetic

September 9, 1940.

ROOSEVELT'S

OBSERVERS THINK

FAIL

BLITZKRIEG MUST

By FREDERICK KUH ›

(United Press Staff Correspondent)

LONDON, Sept. 1 (UP),-Reliable quarters revealed to-day that the United Statos military and naval mission recently dispatched by Presi- dont Roosevelt to observe the Battle of Britain has reached the conclusion that British prepared- noss has now roached a stage where any German invasion of the islands could be resisted success fully.

IT was understood that the Winston

Churchill TO

'out. An incendiary bullet struck 20 yards from their vantage point and a one-pound shell from an airplane cannon exploded near them.

was understood the mis- slon's report would probably emphasize that rocks and swamps render about two-thirds of Britain's coast unsuitable for a German landing, while the re- maining third has been rendered almost impregnable since mid-

Dover. August.

Barring the sudden appearance

ROOSEVELT

continuance of every-day

mission believed that only six While Churchill was aboard a weeks more remain in which an warship in the channel, members Invasion could be launched, after of the mission stood on top of a of some unconceived weapon or normal which increasing fog will make hill watching a withering aerial undreamt of combination of life in the teeth of the Intensified this impossible.

dog-fight.

weapons a successful German bombing. The mission last Wednesday They saw German planes shot overwhelming of Britain. In their accompanied Prime Minister down, and one German pilot bale reported opinion, is already im-

★ ☆ probable if not actually excluded. Reliable quarters said the mission As

As a result of their tours of Bri anticipated that Hitler's activity effort and conversations with Chur

tain's leading centres of military against Britain during the coming chill, War Secretary Anthony Eden, winter

would hardly

exceed First Lord of the "Admiralty A. V. "nuisance raids,"

Alexander and chiefs-of-staff, as well as soldiers, members, of the mission have collected

ted information expected

I know this fifth

·COLUMN

By HEINRICH LOWE

(Former Attache at the German Embassy in Bucarest)

I

I KNOW the German Fifth Columnists.

saw the building up of the German Fifth Column in Europe. I know how it works.

THE German word for Fifth handsome, monocled "mystery

Columnist is simple: it is man." who spoke English, "spion," and that means "spy." French, Polish and Italian, flew 1 can tell you how the Fifth a plane, and drove a fast car. Column was being organised in Britain before this war started. He threw a champagne party

In #1 Mount-street (Mayfair)

ton,

I paid a visit to Britain, be- flat, rented for the night. Many fore the War, as guest of Baron of the Mayfair snobs thought von Lahrmann, known in Liver- he lived there, but his German pool simply as "Mr. Larman," salary did not run to auch Those who listen to Shanghal Column set-up in Liverpool,

We had a nice little Fifth things. He lived in a Tuch

more modest hotel in Kensing-, Baron Ernst von Lahrmana Labour Front. He got 48-hours entertained eight of the biggest was district lender of the Naz! At that champagne party we notice from M.1.5 to leave Bri. friends of Germany in Britain. tain--and just handed the whole One was a Member of Parlia "works" over to Herr Walther ment. They have all been taken Reinhardt, the Consul-General. into custody since.

or Manila radio commentators on the war news know how they record the rival claims made by

British and German official com- muniques affecting losses. Then these commentators say they do not know who is to be believed, and since that is the case the value of what they have to say on happenings of the

war be- comes so much the more useless since it is obvious that they cannol discern its trend. In England a record has been kept of German official reports dent. ing with naval losses. The com

ance

pllation would indicate that the British Navy has been more than wiped out, that capital ships have been destroyed that never existed, and, to make the assur

of enemy propaganda doubly sure, some vessels have been sunk over and over again.

Since April 9 and to

up August 15, the German and Italian communiques lay claim to have sunk or damaged British men-of-war as follows:

Capital ships Aircraft carriers

Cruisers

Destroyers

Submarines

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He in turn was asked to go, THEY were all fools, but not, I and the new Fifth Column Gauleiter for Merseyside was They had grand ideas about the think, very dangerous fools. Herr Egon Harnisch, another "cleanliness" of Nazi ideology member of the Consulate staff.

When we got tipped off that compared with the "dirt" of Harnisch

Capitalism. Many of us had WDH On the M.1.5

ideas like that once. black-list. 11 young German master at a grammar school, was put in charge.

Chief of all German Fifth Columnists is Col. Wilhelin von. Nicolai.

I first met him at # Becret by parachute troops.

QUITE openly he held "tea-

parties" in Liverpool, to demonstration which all sorts of labour-chiefs, cranks, social welfare-ites and others were invited.

At that demonstration gather- ed the first band of German Local police thought we were Fifth Columnists, who were to just a nuisance, but behind the scenes we were checking on all prepare Europe for German con-

quest. people who might be useful on the "E.1. schedule"-the Nazi invasion plans.

"If it were necessary for the German Army to occupy enemy, It is obvious that M.1.5 were territory," Col. Wilhelm von not such fools as

A

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to prove of notable value to Ünited States rearmament. Their observa- CCORDING to Information reach- tions range from the most desirable

ing the mission, it was under- types of tonks and guns to details on stood, the German air attacks have anti-gos equipment. proved utterly indecisive, never put-

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ting more than two or three of the After their departure Boom, estimated 200 to 300 nieports out of steady trickle of United States

army, commission at any one time. The navy and air force officers is expect- damaged airdromes have nisg been ed to flow Into Britain for purposes repaired in one or two days.

of continued constant observation.

Two United States air officers, Col. The mission was sold to have been Carl Spantz and Col. Frank Hunter, impressed by the uninterrupted in- after two months of investigation, dustrial activity, the unhampered are winding up their work and pre- transport, telephone, telegraph and paring to return home shortly to mail service. and the generally report.

FUNNY SIDE UP

By Abner Dean.

DEAN!

"It's my new headlight

when wo pass a girl it winks!”

Not one of my former friends would occupy strategic points is now at liberty. Three, in by parachute. fact, went down in the "Aran-

we thought. Nicolai told us, "our troops U.S. Pilots

Find a

Way to Join the R.A.F.

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The attitude of "Official America" to the British in- vitation to American fliers to join the R.A.F. "is one of discreet and, presumably, benevolent silence.

They would occupy power-| dora Star." The whole of that stations, water pumping sta- Fifth Column net-work on tions, telephone exchanges, Mersey-side was broken up. newspaper offices, Radio trans- Baron von Lahrmann, typical mitters and studios, all detailed of the many titled Nazis in the on this schedule EM15. They The foregoing figures indicate, Fifth Column, had a very good will be a suicide squad! both in the case of capital ships run for his money, and so did "But whether they live and and cruisers, numbers in excess another German Baron, who are successful, die in glory or of what Great Britain possessed managed to run his job of be- are massacred and unsuccess- That such volunteers would, Trained wireless operators for non- at the outbreak of the war. ing contact man at the German ful depends not on them but on not lose their American citizen- commissioned duties in the air and Also the claim is that the entire "Braunhaus" in London, though you the secret agents." aircraft strength of the British well known 1.9

ship seems to be indicated by on the ground are also wanted. а friend of Germany realised years ago the law which forbids United medical examiniation are provided at Facilities for selection and for Ribbentrop. Navy has been either sunk or

that even the most powerfully-States citizens to take the oath stations of the Royal Canadian Air damaged. It is true that the

atmed paratroops would be use of allegiance to any foreign Force. enemy claims to have "sunk or

without efficient Fifth

The Government will take no Power difficulty which 18 action contrary to US law. Ameri- damaged," not to have destroy-

apparently being overcome by can citizens must enlist on British ed all these ships, but the reports

instituting merely an oath of soll. in this respect are so fantastic!

allegiance to the R.A.F. as to be beyond all reason, for if they were true the Royal Navy would have been shattered almost beyond recognition.

These reports, obviously design- ed to impress the German people | and neutral countries, are accom- panied by others which say that the tonnage of British merchant shipping sunk up to the end of June was 4,829,213. This is four times in excess of the actual loss from enemy action, and, as a matter of fact, the Germans and Itilians, by capture, sinking and scuttling, have had as heavy a loss in merchantton- nage as they have been able: to Inflict on Great Britain.

HUS man was the real Oppen- less

heim idea of a spy-tall, Columnists.

It Is Said of Knowledge

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it- Confucius,

Knowledge is a treasure but practice is the key to it. Old proverb.

Whatever 1 did not know, I was not ashamed to inquire about, so 1 acquired knowledge Persian Philosopher..

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candle at our lamp, without depriving ourselves of any flame.--Jane Porter penam

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do -- Disraeli,

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.-Baconda Sa

he in inclined to be

The more a man knows, the more he is modest, Fielding.

I envy no man that knows more than myself but, pity them that know. less. Sir Thomas Browne.

Five hundred Americans have already enlisted in the Canadian Alx Force, and transfers are open for the qualified pilots desired by the RAF, Officials in Canada hesitate to com- ment

on Britain's invitation to American pilots because the delicate question of relations with the United States is involved.

Four Years For

Bank Manager £10,000 Unaccounted For

Sentence of four years' ponat. servitude was passed by Nottingham Assizes on Percy Henry Towlson, United States Neutrality Lav for- | aged sixty, a former mannger of the blis the enlistment of Americans for Eastwood, branch of the Midland Bank, for forgery and theft-involving foreign_service, nat

Change

Of Address

Since the war started Americans have been able to join many branches of the Canadian service by furnishing à Canadian address, 20

In London, meanwhile, it is pojaled out that there is a long waiting list of British applicants for training 'as RAF, "pllots-far i more than: can Immediately be absorbed by the RA, B's training organization.

But trained pilots are needed.

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total of

of about £10,000, Passing

Justice

Croom-John Sentence: Mr.J

cald "You must hav

have known that. the day of reckoning would come and that you would never have the smallest chance of making restitu- tion

Mr. Norman Winning (defending) said that owlson attributed - his position to living above his income. Ho also lent money.

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