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December 18, 1940.

By Ernie Bushmiller

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NAZI

SECRET IS MISLAID

CAPTAIN EBERHARD SPILLER; Assistant German. Air Attache up, to the outbreak of war, has been killed in air fighting over Britain. It is now possible to disclose that Spiller, really n spy before the war, committed one of those blunders which are occasionally characteristic of German agents,

He had a house in Hampstead. Į In it ho had hidden certain papers concerning a device at that time considered to be Gor- many's secret weapon.

When war was inminent Spiller hurr.edly cleared out his house, but in his haste could not find these papers, which were later found. They had fallen down the back of u drawer in a large chest

Britain Gets Te

Thus Britain was able to oblain

Broadcasts Upset Czech Fascists

News has reached London that first-hand knowledge of Germany's that Vlajka Organisation (Cze advanced plans for this weapon, choslovakian Fascists) has re- Spiller fied to The Hague, in fol- ceived 3.000.000 Czech crowns land, and was engaged in esploroge from the Nazi authorities in there until the invasion. He was a close associate of Baron von Rhein Prague fo. fight. against, the baben, a very notorious member of Czech Protectorate Government the German Secret Service.

and the National Unity Party,

But the Czech broadcasts from

Did Not Pay Debts

He was among the members of the Lendon concerning the organisa- German Embassy staff who failed to tion are having such an effect pay their debts before returning Germany. His victims included many that members are leaving the West End tradesmen, hotels and party, fearing the consequences restaurants.

of their membership.

He even persuaded an attache of It is learned that the Nazi authori a neutral Embassy to cash a dud ties forbade the Czecho-slovaklan cheque the day before his departure. nation to celebrate the third anni- Clubmen suspected him of card-versary of the death of its first sharping, and he was therefore President, T. G. Masaryk, and that avoided by the majority of the Corps those closely connected with him Diplomatique.

were not allowed to leave Their homes on that day.

RECRUITS RUSH TO JOIN DE GAULLE'S ARMY

Larger recruiting offices for

General de Gaule's Armies of

All Free Frenchmen were onered In London recently to dent with the Increasing numbers of volun-{ teers.

Barred From Tomb People were even forbidden to visit, Masaryk's tomb in Lany,

More Czechoslovak patriots, in- Icluding many Catholics, have been

arrested.

Bust Of King Leopold

UFS

DUG FROM BUILDING — After Nazi bombers wrecked this building in London, air raid wardens work frantically to rescuÒ1 woman buried in debris. She is being removed from wreckage, at right.

Blowing Britain's Trumpets

Tiger Standish, Ace Of British Agents

(Continued from Page 3.)

Why, of course?!!

"Well, what happened was this! Otto Welas, the fellow who hus.made

1 practice since, this wor started of masquerading as some kind or other of British officer-this time he was posing, as a captain of the Tank Corps pulled up to the fair Blanca on board the Channel steamer, asked her to have a drink, dropped some- hing in her coffee, and then when he collapsed, claimed that she waS his sister, who was subject to fainting Ats,

and had her removed to a private enbin. There, with n lite aid from

stewardess,

In the Nazi pay also (the name she goes under, by the way, is Annie Higgins-but she won't do any more Annie liggins-ing!), he urned a girl of 19 into a woman of

00

"What about possports?"

"You don't think a little thing like that would stop Otto Welss and con- iny, to you? Haven't 1 told you that the Germans are very efficient?"

"Go and boll your head!

I've

of the most extraordinary

eard of since the war starte

Extraordinary, but irun. The girl |- dfd have the plans but the got the wind up-and who can wonder at it after what she went through in Sermany? to the popped them into

bank at Bade."

"Good God!"

"It's all right, B.-i wired Y.38 and he's on his way here now."

"With the plans?"

"Of course, you old fathead! Can get through. with my yarn?" Bellamy growled assent. He didn't

sure for authority to be taken out of

hunds. This hun "I

forgot to tell you that I read the Countess of Mittenden-what a hagl

Or

quite a lecture on moral behaviour.. should say knmoral behaviour? Thanks to your staff work, she ac cepted me without quibble as the new outer and 30. liked my

manly beauty, it seems, that she invited me to share her bed the very first night! I told her that in my capacity, as a super-official of the Gestapo, a kind uf travelling superintendent,

that When, to the blare of trumpets, the German troops march-had to keep my Aryan Ideals un

I ed into Paris, the chances are ten to one that the trumpels to prevent her from spilling the sullled. That was why I was able themselves were made in Britain. Britain rules that particular beans to Otto Weiss when he called," The recruiting offices have now The marble bust of King world market.

"How did you manage to convince been, transferred to 25, Gordon, Leopold has been restored to the "The export trade in British trumpets, cornets, trombones her about that?" square, Bloomsbury, W.C.1, and Belgian Pavilion in the World's and band instruments in general is showing a tremendous-in-tended it was a Gestapo badge,

"Well, I Anshed a coln and pre- these will be open every day, Fair, after its removal, as a re crense, atates Mr. C. E. Timms, Secretary of the Association of including Sundays.

sult of his capitulation to Ger. Musical Instrument Makers of Britain. "The Engllah concertina,

spoke German; I I was very rude and Recruits have been enrolled from many.

helled'

Hitler. I tell you like the trumpet, is to be found in every country in the world. as far away as Brazil, United States,

swallowed it whole. At that time, the Belgion Refugee Music strings come into the same category. The best guitars and Canada, Martinique, and French, Government instructed the Belgian in South America have British strings."

"I left her thinking hard. You possessions in the Far East.

vee, I recited from memory that Commission at the World's Fair that

assage from Dr. Hermann Rausch- sing's book, 'Hitler Speaks-you know the one; it runs like this:

Restoration of the

King.

The trumpets of England and

the

So great has been the response to Leopold was no longer was accom-the English concertina have to- General de Gaulle's call to All Free: Frenchmen centres have had to be opened in the surrender, by the Speaker of the Rolls-Royce engine has in the

that special information pauled by an official explanation of day the same prestige as New York, Canada, the Argentine, former Belgian Parliament (M, Cau- Brazil, Uruguay, Chile, Venezuela.

Peru, and welaert), whose version of the cir- motor world. Even in the home cumstances surrounding the capitula, of the dance band, the United tion has apparently profoundly im States, trumpet, cornet pressed the Belgion Commissioners. trombone players prefer

British instrument.

Britain is also now making 'its own mouth-organs and soon will be exporting them too.

British Museum Opens Reading Room

The famous reading room at the] British Museum,

with its great

clrcular glass roof, closed

since

September 23. during the intensive bombing of London, has reopened.

"Prolective measures taken," Sir

Forsdyke, principal librarian

John

STAPHYLINIDAE

LOSE THEIR GOOD NAME The Staphylinidno, or

rove-

have not been for the room beatle (there are about 800 but in safeguard the books. They have been moved to a spot varieties in the British Isles) has

where there is more adeausto pro-lost its good name. tection

Until now it has been regard-

and

BOMBED AS THEY SAW IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU”

ISLANDERS STAY PUT

There is no question of aban doning the Scilly Isles as the Channel Isles were abandoned, and the people there will "atay put."

:

Sir Geoffrey Peto, South Western Regional Commissioner, gave this assurance to the pressj recently,

He had just returned from visiting | the islands by air after hearing that the Istonders had been machine-gun- ned and bombed by Nazi planca.

some 200 people who left the Of Jsland, out of a population of 1,700 "Three hundred women and jobout 70 per cent, were women und

children.

It is hoped that a number of these

All remaining manuscripts haveed as harmless in spite of being children sat in a Brighton also been moved. The manuscripts reading rooms will remain clased known as the "devil's coach-cinema watching the film "It will return.

Professor P. A. H. fuschamp aid Could Happen' to You."

until the danger of air attack is horse." passad

Watch your complexion

Healthy complexions come from healthy systems. Free your body. of waste with Feen-a-mint, 'the dependablechewing laxative, More

effective because you chew it.

It was harthless at an inquest at)

Overheid a German bomber, chat-

Leicester on five-year-old Anthony ed by a Spitefre, jettisoned Its Brian Bancroft. Anthony died of

blodd poisoning after having been bitten by a rove-beetle.

bombs.

Two high explosive bombs crash d audience,

LLOYD'S GOES UNDERGROUND

The

I am having a comprehensive card Index ccmpiled of every in- fluential perion in the world. The cords contain every detall of im- portance. Will he take money? Can he be bought in any other way? Is he vain? Is he sexual? In what way? Is he hemosexual? That

is of the utmost value,

be- cause it provides close associations. that can never be escaped from. Has he anything in his past to conceal? Can he be subjected to pressure? It is on the strength of these reports that I choose my men. That really is politics."

"And I told her that what applied to men, applies with equal force to women," Tiger wound up. "She ad- mitted then that she had been forced to give cellar-room to the captive Blanca,"

"And what did you any?”

"I said: "Thank you, sint" You should have seen her face--that is,

If you enn call it a facel"

On Saturday In the "Tele- graph," there will be another Sidney Horler story, continuing Lloyd's underground underwriting the series, "Tiger Standish On In this esse, the professor said, the through the cinema root into the room is now operating during: nith

raids in the long corridors flanking, The Warpath,” beetle had, apparently been in con- tact with some poisonous matter.

That was on a Saturday afternoon, the main shelter in the lower baze- "I would rather be bitten by n

next day, after police, air raidment. The names of underwriters have been polated on the walls. thousand of these beetles than by one wardens and ambulance workers had by torchlight throughout the tolled

underwriter taker. he said. He explained that the night to bring out dead and wounded, underneath his name.10 minutes after up his stand "devil's couchhorzo" was, so named

By order of the King the grapes because it raised its tall when alarm-number of bodies in the wreckage other inhabitants of Lloyd's buildings country, are being sent to war from it was belleved there were still a warning has been sounded.. from the royal vine at Cumberland ed."

The delay of 10 minutes allows Lodge, Windsor, the oldest in the Workers houses, residential pro- A verdict of death by misadventure perty and shops were also demolish to proceed, through the corridors to pitals and ovacuated children from

ed in this, Brighton's biggest disaster, the main shelter.

was recorded.

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