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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

February 12, 1941.

Two German Spies Hanged; Had Posed As Refugees

TWO spies executed in Pentonville Prison recently believed their task would be a short one, and that they would soon be relieved by Nazi troops.

The first of their beliefs came true. They were caught soon after they started "business." They posed as refugees, but before they died they confessed to the real purposes of their visit here.

The men were a 25-year-old had a well-prepared story to tell of German named Joso Waldberg their "escape" from the Nazis, and a 24-year-old Dutchman of ⚫ German origin, Karl Meler.. '

An officer who was concerned in this spy case, the first of the war for which the death sentence was passed,

told of their actions, since arriving, here.

"They brought Iron rations and considerable sums of English money," he said.

handed, they could not explain awny. But when they were caught, red-

the wireless set they had with them.

They were taken to Bow-street police court, and were convicted under the Treachery Act (1040) at

the Central Criminal Court.

Mr Justice Wrottesley presided aver the trial, which was one of the held at the Old

must secret ever.

They also carried a wireless tran- | Bolley, altter with which they could com- A K.C. defended Waldberg and municate direct with the head-eler. quarters

Germon of the Service:

Secret

Hid At Night "They had been promised that they would be quickly rescued by the Ger- man invasion forces,

"They planned to spend the nights hiding in woods and quarries or in uninhabited buildings.

"At dusk they would have erected their wireless aerials and transmitted to the enemy valuable information which they had obtained during the

dain the morning they would have

emerged from their hiding, leaving their equipment concealed in some

convenient spot.

"They were to observe and report on all important military objectives such as aerodromes, concentrations of troops, gun emplacements, and am- munition dumpa."

►

"Only sentence of death by hang- Ing could be passed in the Central

Criminal Court.

Small Set

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DIAMOND

LAWSUIT SETTLED

The owner of the $1,000,000 President Vargas diamond has announced that litigation In- volving the largest uncut dia mond in existence had been Bottled amicably and that the stone would be cleft into a dozen or more picces, says a New York message.

Through his attorneys, Harry Win- ston, Fifth Avenue gem. dealer, said a satisfactory agreement" had been reached in a suit brought by a Lon- * The most important exhibit at the don firm on a charge of breach of trial was the ultra short-wave trans-contract in the purchase of the 720- miting set carried by Waldberg and caral stone.

Meler.

It was contained in iwo black lepili leallier cases with

sling shoulder straps.

One case was about 8 inches high by inches broad.

12 inches by 0 Inches.

The other was

Mr Winston's office said the litign- tion was epncerned with matters of commissions and arose when the London 'firm of Albert Tricfus and Brothers misunderstood a cable.

The New York dealer has had ex- perts studying the stone for 10 The smaller case held the trans-months in preparation for the tedious mitter with its valve, together weigh task of cleaving it into 12 and ing about a pound.

possibly 15 pieces.

In the larger case were three 20 voll, batteries, and a morse tapper specially designed for slow sending.

I do not yet possible to tell the full story of the unmasking of these two men., Witnesses at their trial Both spoke English well, and they have been sworn to secrecy.

Heard In Secret

De Gaulle Chides His

Peasant Girl Heroine Countrymen Honoured For Bravery

UFS

TO WORRY ITALIANS. British cruiser tank, one of many to arrivo, unloaded from transport at unnamed Egyptian port. Thoso probably were used in driving Italians across wastern Egyptian dosart.

Child Refugee Hollywood Film

Gets Job

FIRST of England's child refugees in America to get a good LONDON, Feb. 11 (Reuter): chance in the talkies-is 12-year-old Roddy McDowall, who crossed -General de Gaulle, leader of the Atlantic amid bombings on the Scythia. Roddy has been the Free French Forces, broad-assigned the leading role of Huw in the picture, "How Green casting in French to-night, said: Was My Valley." GEORGETTE CARGILL, AN EIGHTEEN-YEARS-OLD "Intrigues, disputes and changes FRENCH GIRĖ, LIVING IN A PEASANTS HUT ON THEnt Viehy have

their terrible PLACETTE PASS IN THE ALF'S, ABOVE POIRON, HAS BEEN consequences because the enemy has AWARDED THE KNIGHT GRAND CROSS OF THE LEGION part in them. That is more harm- ful than equivocation in obedience in OF HONOUR FOR BRAVERY IN NURSING UNDER FIRE OF Vichy which keeps the French Medi- ITALIAN MACHINE GUNS.

terranean forces away from any netlon in the full battle of the Medi- terranean.

She is the youngest woman over to have received the honour,

which was conferred by a special Chinese Born

citation signed by General Wey- gand after she had already re- ceived the Croix de Guerre.

During an engagement between French and Italian troops near her home, more than half of the French detachment fell under fire, having received orders to hold the pass at

all costs.

Captured

In P. I. Are Readmitted

Relterating the doctrine that the right of immigrants to re- enter the Philippines does not depend upon their citizenship but upon their birth in the coun- try, the court of appeals has allowed the entry into the| Once he was captured, but w Philippines of Maxima. Tau, Bot free again, and continued her Cesaria Tan and Juanita Tan, task of tending the wounded men. minor daughters of a

Georgette ran from her home, and tearing some cloth Into stripa, bound -up-the-wounds-of-the-men, enabling some to return to action.

All the time she was exposed to Chinese resident. machine-gun fire from the Italians,

her pink dress and ribbons

her conspicuous.

making

But she continued

end of the battle. When all

dead.

Cebu

Master Roddy was born in London, and he's lived there all of his 12 years, in a big, comfortable house, near the Croydon airport. That is, he lived there until a few weeks ago, when the Jerries began dropping too many bombs-bombs that shal tered all the windows and let the wind come right in and cut a hole through the roof so that Master Roddy couldn't go upstairs to take a bath.

"That is why thie Free French are At the time Mr McDowali do-

present redoubling their efforts in order to make up as far as possiblecided that his family soek a re- for the deficiency on the part of fuge, Roddy was making "This France ta help bring about a victory. England" at the Elstree studios.

"At this very moment our troops, with Constance Cummings. For supported by our air force, are vic-

six weeks straight he never went toriously engaged in battle In area of Koufra Oasis in Itailan Libya, to bed. The Jerries wouldn't He dozed in an arin 000 miles from the frontier of Chad let him. from which they set out."

Chinese Currencies Question

the

LONDON, Feb. 11 (Reuter). Admission of the immigrants In the House of Commons to- to care for the wounded until he was turned down by the Cebu day, Sir John Wardlaw-Milne over, she helped bury the d was immigration authorities on the invited a statement on the im- ' ground that they failed to estab-plications to trade of the four Her younger sister, Lucette, whe lish sufficiently their birth in the conflicting currencies in Shang- aided her by running several times country. The immigrants re thai and the Yangtso basin. from their hut to the scene of the turned to Cebu on October 28,

Mr R A. Butler, Under-Secretary battle, received a personal letter of congratulation from General Wey-1988, following a prolonged stay for Foreign Affairs, replied that it gond,

in Amoy, China.

was too early to forecast the effect which the Nanking Reserve Bank nutes will have on trade and currency, but said that every attempt to sup The appellate tribunal, however, plant the national currency of China The annual general meeting and was satisfied with the petitioners cannot but do further harm to the election of officers of the Hongkong claim that they were born in the interests of all countries trading with Chinese Medical Association was held country, noting that they speak the China, at the St Francis Hotel recently, when local dialect-Maxima even testi-

Local Chinese Doctors

Spoke Local Dialect

consul in Amoy

passed

a

the following officers were elected for ying before the immigration authPUNJAB PRAISES the coming year:

ties in the Cebu dialect. The President, Dr Edward W. J. Sun: bunal observed that the "fact that

ARMY OF NILE the American Vice-President, Dr Lee Hah-liong Hon. Secretary-Treasurer. Dr H. C. secured the passage of the applicants LAHORE, Feb. 11 (Reuter)--The Chan: Council Member, Dr. Li Shu- and their mother for the Philippines Punjab Assembly has pul, Dr Poon Seck-wah, Dr Tseung and advanced part of their expendi-resolution to send the warmest Fitt-im, Dr D. K. Sany, Dr Douglas lures for the trip adds force to the congratulations to General Sir Archi- Laing, Dr N, K. Law, Dr K. D. Ling, petlilomers' claim of Philippine bald Wavell and the Army of the

birth,"

Nile and sister services on the magni- icent victory of Benghazi,

The resolution reiterated the assur- ance that Punjab ""will continue to give the best men and material for achievement of the Anal victory."

Dr T. J. Hua.

ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH HALL

NATHAN ROAD, KOWLOON..

MOVIE EVENING

1. Impressions of South Africa

(Running Commentary by Dr. J. H. Montgomery)

2. Battle of Franco

3. Bombs over Europe

4. Graf Spee

THURSDAY, 20th FEBRUARY

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Calcutta Celebrates CALCUTTA, Feb. 11 (Reuter) Schools and colleges in Bengal will be closed on February 12 in celebra- tion of the victory at Benghazi.

U.S. Canadian

··· Defences.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 11 (Reuter). Complete plans now exist for the toint defence of the United States and Canada.

Tila - wng (old to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by Mayor La Guardiá, Chairman of the American members of the United Slates Canada Defence Board.

FALSE ALARM

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The McDowalls arrived in Newlop of the war," says the Sun-te......... York City with the grand total of 42 day Pictorial, in a two-page story

British law resticts the attacking the Corporation. -amount-of-mones-that-may-be-laken

dollars.

from the country.

Roddy, his sister Virginia, und Mrs

"The war geve our broad- casters their biggest oppor-

McDowall made the rounds of the tunity, but that's what has hap- motion picture companies' New York|pened," the paper adds.

Mees.

"This year

the B.B.C. had £1,500,000 of your money from radio licénces.

Roddy Saved The Day

IT was then that, just like In the movies, Roddy saved the day for the

casting i. his country?

"What's the position of broad-

McDowalls, Twentieth Century-Fax had been hunting for four months for "On every side. it is criticised, a youngster to play one of the leading laughed at, ridiculed by public

on of "How Green Was My Vailey.figures and ordinary men roles in Darryl F. Zanuck's

The part was that of Huw in the women. Richard Llewellyn best seller.

produc

Twentieth Century-Fox tested Roddy in New York and few the film to Hollywood where William Wyler, why was directing "How Green Wax My Valley telephoned Mrs Mc- Dowell to take the first train to Hollywood.

More tests followed and then Roddy and his mother signed a long-term contract, covering seven years.

and

"Its programmes are neither up- tung nor entertaining, bul con sistently dull.

repeated blunders of the worst psy- "Even its dullness is marred by chological kind.

"Popular Men Vanish”

"Directly a man makes a really big mark in broadcasting, and real dis- coveries have been few enough, he quickly vanishes from the micre- phone.

No "Discovery"s

"J. B. Priestley, the novelist, is a RODDY, though, is "discovery." He is instead a veleron most popular radio commentator, and no movie case in point. He was caully the at the age of 12, with 16 aims to his the B.B.C. let him resign. credit, all of them photographed in Then came the Air Ministry's Englund.

Haison officer (Air Vice-Marshal Str „Philip Joubert), with his friendly, He first went before the camera at voice and great knowledge, who the ripe old age of eight in "Murder could really bring, home to you, the in the Family. Al Parker, at one wonderful exploits of the R.A.F. time, a director for 20th Century-Fox,

"He, too has vanished from the air. directed I, and Parker remains one but nobody really knows just why." of Roddy's closest friends." Ollier ! pictures followed, such as "You Will B.B.C.'s six chiefs can't do something The paper suggests thai it the Remember," with Robert Morley, about the situation, they should "The Outsider," with George Sanders out in a body.

walk "Just Willlom and "Hey, Hey, U.S.A."

"And take with them every Oxford accent about the place," it adds."

Doris Duke's Separation

Mrs Doris Duke Cromwall, the "world's richest girl," is separat- ed permanently from her hus band, Mr James I. Cromwell,

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