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"BIT OF A NUISANCE” SAYS IRONSIDE

COURT MARTIAL ENDS

ON MAJOR

IN

TOWER

THE COURT-MARTIAL OF MAJOR ALFRED DANIEL WINTLE, M.C., THE OFFICER WAS BEEN UNDER ARREST IN THE POWER OF LONDON SINCE JUNE 22, HAS CONCLUDED AT THE DUKE OF YORK'S HEADQUARTERS, CHELSEA.

After retiring for 15 minutes to consider their findings, the Judge-Advocate announced that the Court found Major Wintle Not Guilty on the first charge, in which it was alleged that he feigned infirmity when on active service, and Not Guilty on the third charge, which accused him of conduct contrary to good order and military discipline.

On the second charge that "When on active service you committed a civil offence --that is to say, that you in London on June 17 assaulted Air Commodore A. R. Boyle, C.M.G., O.B.E., M.C., R.A.F," it was announced that the findings of the Court would

Jbe promulgated.

medical board, my reason being that for 20 years I had been making every After evidence of Major Win-effort and sacrifice to be allowed to itle's record had been put in the serve in a combatant capacity.

Judge-Advocate said to Mr. J. D.†

When I was told that I was to be Casswell, K.C., for the defence: a draft conducting offieer I considered "The Court has now to decide myself so insulted that I felt I would what is the proper punishment disclose how bad my eye-sight was in order that I might be invalided to be passed in respect of the out of the Service." He denied that churge on which no finding has he limited his vision at the first medi-

cal bourd examination. ¡been announced."

CAPTURED GERMAN AIR MAN -Reporter Helped

Addressing the Court, Mr. Casswell | sald: "I feel sure you will realize

FRENCH WORKERS WORKERS

RESIST

Will Not Assist Nazis

The attitude of the workers and peasants in occupied France is causing grave concern to the Germans, though nothing has been allowed to leak out in the Press and attempts to enforce a "labour front" on the same lines

as that run by Dr. Ley in the Reich still continue to be Luxurious

made.

. A smothered battle is in full| swing, much of It literally be- low the surface—in the coal mines of the North, at Lens, Bethune and elsewhere. The

Ministry Of

mingrs of the departments of Information

Nord and Pas-de-Calais form

part of a population which is Not to Blame

basically friendly towards Britain, and by their side there work scores of thousands of

News, Hold-Up

l'oles, who are implacably anti-of Information in general, have The censors and the Ministry

German.

These men will not be slaves ofthat the real hold up of news is often replied to newspaper critics

Hitler and Ley,

Reports of riots in various towns to be located in the various Ser- are not confirmed with certainty, vice departments who handle but what is really known to be hope this business. pening la far more serious than

There is justification for this view, transient and sporadie troubles pro- bably traceable to bad conditions which was first impressed by Lord his sojourn at the reCamrose during which the German will try to re- Ministry.

What they cannot remedy and are closes detalls of the "double censor- The Tunes Air Correspondent dis- now ruthlessly attempting to up- press is a far more serious thing, nanely

the obstinate refusal, on political and patriotic pounds, to work for Germany.

medy. incay

Guarded Mines

The mines of the North of France were "officially opened within few weeks of their being overrun, and the German radio "spläshed" the news. Now the conqueror is already obliged to keep In every mine and every sleet-works armed men of the emergency section (Bereitschafts- dienst) of the Black Guard, ready, if

need be, to shoot.

THE

ship" whereby the Ale Ministry de- ournalists who have visited air force partment called A.1.6 imposes on stations its own particular view of what is "uitable" to publish. This has nothing to do with what is un- destrable to publish from the point of view of conveying information to the enemy.

At the Ministry of information I is felt that it would be more to the point If instead of there being more offlcers in the Service departments advising, what was good taste in news there were nore journalists there advising what was good news.

Friend At Court

There have been strikes at various

The Services themselves are well points, unaccompanied by violence, for that, of course, would lend to represented at the Ministry of Infor-

slaughter. They were nation. followed by en canny tarties, more aimelt to meet.

A group captain guards the in- terests of the Air Force; a general looks after the Navy; a staff entonel is on duty for the Army.

The Germans have, however, de vised a system which consists, each pay day, of conveying practically all the workers of a given undertaking is to another district. In this way the

I should explain that the general

** general of Marines.

All these officers are on good terms:

hope to confuse the minds of the men with the journalists who labour in and also to induce the women-folk the Ministry. But the very

best

to make them change their attitude.friend of the newspapers is an ad- Simultaneously assurances Areniral. He is the Director of Censor- given that the coal extracted Is in-ship, Rear Admiral G. P. Thomson.

ended solely for French needs and

Depth Charges Admiral Thomson spent almost the that Germany has more coal than she ran possibly need. The miners, how-whole of the last war in submarines. ever, see where the coal goes," and But he will not adgilt to encounter- are well aware of Germany's obliga-ing anything to equal the explosive tion to supply Italy with 10,000,000 | rovce of Journalistic depth charges tons year.

that have dropped on him at the Ministry of information in the pre- sent war.

to

He was for about a quarter of a the submarine service.

Poland.

Importing German Miners Now the Nazis ore trying the ex- periment of importing German miners to mix with the less reentci-They w

he was in Australia as second trant of the French ones. It will haval member of the equivalent of Order For Acroplane hardly succeed either in France or in four Admiralty, retiring only a few Belgium, where the same conditions months befort Germany invaded Major Wille Inter said that 011 By A Special Correspondent

(although This offices is guilty of as-)

apply. To-day I had the unusual ex-1squit the state of mind in which he June 17, when he heard of the ap-

The French peasantry, though not;

Ever Open Door perience for a reporter on duty was at the line. You will probably pointment of Marshal Petain, he made all the townsmen-have-now

learned that a considerable propor-slight, energetle adiniral imperiis his In his censorship Job this idle, of taking part in the capture of me to the conclusion that what help his mind that if he could see a

did was dous misguidedly perhaps high French Air Force officer that tion of their produce is

earmarked a raiding Nazi pilot. Ile Was the benefit of his country." day before anything could possibly be for Germany.

health by working as long and late It has come to

to their chern shot down in his twin-engined

decided, he could quite possibly in knowledge through the local mayors, He, abhors red tape. He procinims as he can be of service to anyone. Counsel asked them to remember fuence that offer to do something who have been obliged to supply that his is an ever open door, and Messerschmitt by a Hurricane

when considering any penalty and get from him plan to bring a particulars for a general census of through it journalists pass all day during a big air battle over Kent. Major Wintle had passed a number part of the Air Force over here. food requirements. When this hud

The bombers--some 20 of them, of days in solitary confinement and

Major Wintle said that he intended been completed they were instructed long with grievances and problems.

He is described in the Felist us an "author and Y. He, stair with a protective screen of 40 nighterssted that he had already suffered

Indiscretion and to make for Bordeaux, and he did the

have about one-third of the nreu jenough for the →were hemmed in by A:A. fire once breach of discipline of which the very best he could to get an aero-

under

cultivation

for the reserved

wrote a little in Australia, and has they crossed the coast. A score of Court had found him guilty.. plane. Ringing up an aerodrome in occupying authorities. illes inland where I was motoring,

London, he told them that he was Naturally, the growers have sul-reviewed books for Service pupers. with the Dorniers in Vesinage squad- Colonel J. G. Edwards, command-speaking fron

they were ling the Coldstream Gaurds, presided which was untrue,

the Air Ministry,tenly decided to grow what they need But literary work has been

much a skleline. and he gaVE. suddenly attacked by something less over the Court, with Mr, C. L. Stir-dircel order in the approved way, naindler-If, indeed, there is any, for

a squadron of Hurricanes.

ings as Deputy Judge Advocate-with which he was familiar. The British Oghters, tiny by cum-Generat.

As to his interview with Air Com-and machinery are still considerable, stories that Great Britain is starving parison with the big black Dorniers,,

The German-controlled Press and France. Earlier in the day Major Wintle modore Boyle. Major Wintle sald he

Politically a big battle was and betwe

lost wenved in and out abort itties kave evidence of his military career thought it might impress the air propaganda is addressing treff more

the workers and peasants the bombers were broken and dind of service in the last Wir when more if he realized that there und more to the middle-class town when

The was wounded in the left

still believe learned the truth. ere were people in existence who were population who may persed.

For a time he was completely blind,Prepared to shed blood as freely as

13: went hurtling

but he recovered the right of his right; | volumes of dense black moke, ad

Jeye.

"I produced my revolver," added I was about to make in the direction'

From 1931 to 195 he was an ins-je major, “and I said, 'If it will help of one of them when a Hurricane he- gan to speed all round a twin-engined structor at the French Staff College at to realize that I am perfectly

soriaus

you have only to say, the Messerschmitt 110 in ever decreiam: Paris, and the solvers he met for word and I will blow this stump of ranged from subalterns to majors, rome of whom had since become my finger off." He went on to des- Chase Through Lanes bentor ofirers of the French Air tribe how he walked across to Com- As I watched through field glasses (Force. The Hurricane "sat" on the tail of the Messerschinili. There was #briel

ron booming overhoud,

viretes.

.

Anxiety About French Army sparkle as a burst of inchine-gun At the beginning of the war his left are runtled and a manent tate oye began give trouble. "I had the plist jumped.

la considerable amount of strain as 1 "As his parachute belifed out I be- jama engaged in studying

out.

maps.

1 chase through the shady Ken- While at the Air Ministry I prepared tish lunes which soon brought me to an index of towns and villages in a field where the parachute was on Germany. the point of landing. Simultaneously soldiers and police were elimbing Into the field from other directions, and I paced across the field at the heels of a burly sergeant-major.

Major Wintle further stated that when he paid a second visit to France

in December. 1939, he met a dozen

TL for themselves and hide the rc-

motore Boyle's uble and tried to get [him to agree to let him make the effort to go to France, "I like him, and I should never wish to shoot him

be subordinate in any way," he declared

Bit Of A Nuisance Evilence as to Major Wintle's character was given by Brigadier W. D. Morgan, D.S.O., M.C., Captain F. Hitchcock, Lieutenant-Colonel R. Mun, and Fleid-Marshal Sir Edmund Ironside.

Air Force reserve officers and he had! Sir Edmund said he met Major lunch with various officers at General The Nazi airman, a corporal pilet Camelin's Headquarters, including the Wille last December through the in- of-22 years, was assisted to his feel. General himself. That visit and the troduction of Lord Birdwood. Major Wintle reported to him the result of

He appeared extremely apprehensive conversations he had greally nere his meetings with various French af first, but soon recovered his poise ed his anxiety about the French generats and oneers and seemed per- after e cooling drink of water and surotle from one of the soidlers.

"Army", cly-rolle

"I was very disturbed as a result turbed about certain The corporal plict told me in all of my conversations in France, and France.

things in

ing French that this was his fifth on my return I met Lord Birdwood "He become a little bit of a flight over England. Asked which and obtained an interview with Field-nuisance, like many people with guts typo of British fighter he ruted most Marshal Sir Edmund Ironside, Subse- who want to go and fight. It la riot highly-the Spitures or the Hurri-quently, when I went to Edinburgh easy to find jobs for people of that canes he replied: "I cannot select, as an officer in The Royals, I found rank and I will put it quits plainly Both are very good,”

that I was wanted to act as a draft he became a nuisance because he conducting officer.

Nasi Translates it

While we were waiting for the

lorry which took the prisoner away

I was very alsoppointed with that order and i made application for

a

wanted to go and fight."

Mr. Charles Peake, Counsellor to

his Majesty's Diplomatie Corps, spoko

Jat his acquaintance with Major Wintie

a woman from a neighbouring village thought the Nazl pilot might be able since 1933, when he met him in produced a letter written in German. to help her,

appeared that her son, who was). wounded and a prisoner in Germany, letter, which said that the soldier was las cireless

The

France, and said that the major was

French m

pilot translated the held in high esteem in French.mill-

had persuaded a German woman to recovering tind being kindly treated, The findings of the Court were

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