1941-02-12 — Page 21

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

February 12, 1941.

TwoGerman 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 German named Jose Waldberg and a 24-year-old Dutchman of German origin, Karl Moler. ·

An omeer 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.

brought iron rations and considerable cums of English money," he, aald.

They also carried a wireless tran- mitter with which they could com- municate direct with the hend- quarter of the German Service.

Secret!

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

had a well-prepared story to tell of their "escape" from the Nazis.

handed, they could not explain away 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 (1940) at the Central Criminal Court.

Mr Justice Wrollesley presided over the trial, which was one of the most secret ever held at the Old Bolley

A K.C. defended Waldberg and Meler.

Only sentence of death by hang; Ing could be passed in the Central Criminal Court

Small Set

DIAMOND

LAWSUIT SETTLED

President Vargas diamond has The owner of the $1,000,000 announced that liigation in- volving the largest uncut-din- mond in existence had settled amicably and that the stone would be cleft into a dozen or more pieces, says a New York message.

been

Through his attorneys, Harry Win ston, Fifth Avenue gem dealer, sald "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 They planned to spend the nights trial was the titra short-wave transcontract in the purchase of the 726- hlding in woods and quarries or iúmitting set carried by Waldberg and carat stone, uninhabited buildings.

Meler.

"At dusk they would have erected their wireless serials and transmitted enery valuable information to tho which they had obtained during the day.

"In the morning they would have emerged from their hiding, leaving their equipment concealed in soene conventent spot.

It was contained in two black leather cases with sling shoulder straps.

Mr Winston's office said the litiga- tlon was concerned with matters of commissions and

arose when lie London Arm of Albert Tricfus ant! Brothers misunderstood a cable.

One case was about 8 inches high by inches brand. The other was 12 inches by inches.

The New York dealer has had ex- perts studying the stone for 10 mitler with its

The smaller case held the trans-months in preparation for the tedious

"They were to. observe and reporting about, together weigh-usk of cleaving it into 12 and

un all important military objectives such as aerodromes, concentrations of troops, gun emplacements, and am- munition dumps."

Heard In Sacret

voll batteries, and a morse tapper In the larger case were three 90 specially designed for slow sending,

It is 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,

possibly 15 pieces.

De Gaulle Chides His

Peasant Girl Heroine Countrymen Honoured For Bravery

GEORGETTE CARGILL, AN EIGHTEEN-YEARS-OLD FRENCH GIRL, LIVING IN A PEASANTS HUT ON THE PLACETTE PASS IN THE ALPS, ABOVE POIRON, HAS BEEN AWARDED THE KNIGHT GRAND CROSS OF THE LEGION OF HONOUR FOR BRAVERY IN NURSING UNDER FIRE OF ITALIAN MACHINE GUNS.

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

which was conferred by a special

Orders To Canton Landlords

TO WORRY ITALIANS — British cruisor tank, one of many to arrive, unloaded from transport at unnamed Egyptian port. Thaso probably were used in driving Italians across wastern Egyptian dosort.

Child

Refugee Hollywood Film

Gets Job

LONDON, Feb. 11 (Reuter).

FIRST of England's child refugees in America to get a good -General de Gaulle, leader of

chance in the talkies is 12-year-old Roddy McDowall, who crossed the Free French Forces, broad-assigned the leading role of Huw in the picture, "How Green the Atlantic amid bombings on the Scythia. Roddy has been casting in French to-night, said: Was My Valley.”

"Intrigues, disputes and changes at Vichy have their terrible consequences because the enemy has part in them. That is more harm- Vichy which keeps the French Medi- ful than equivocation in obedience in

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

for

Th

troops,

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 Jerrics began dropping too many bombs-bombs that shat- 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,

The Jerrics wouldn't

That is

why the Free French are at present redoubling their efforts in

At the time Mr McDowall de- citation signed by General Wey-

order to make up as far as possiblecided that his family seek a re- gand after she had already re-

the deficiency on the part of fuge, Roddy was making "This coived the Croix de Guerre.

CANTON, Feb. 11. (Wah Klu Yat France to help bring about a victory.England" at the Elstree studios

"At this very moment our During an engagement between Po)-It is announced here that land French and Italian troops near her lords of houses in Wangsha, Cham Supported by our air force, are vic with Constance Cummings. For home, more than half of the French Muk Lan, Hing Lung Road, Ching toriously engaged in battle in the Bix weeks straight he never went

Yun Road, San

Tal Hong Road 600 miles from the frontier of Chad received orders to hold the pass at and Tung Tak Road, which were de-from which they set out."

molished or burnt during the

Jopan- to rebuild them within a certain me.

entry into Canton, were notified:

after the time limit has elapsed, the If the request is not complied with

Canton Government will confiscale

detachment fell under fire, having Road, Wel Sun Road Hong, Yat Tak/Prea of Koutra Oasis in Itällan Libya, to bed.

all costs.

Captured

Georgette ran from her home, and tearing some cloth into strips, bound up the wounds of the men, enabling

some to return to action.

ese

Once he was captured, but was the land and will rebuild the houses set free again, and continued her with commandeered labour.

task of tending the wounded men.

The measure is believed to be

All the time she was exposed to merely to increase the revenue of the machine-gun are from the Italians, municipal government.

her pink dress and ribbons making

conspicuous.

continued

here for the wounded until the Another President

end of the battle. When all was

over,

she helped bury

the

Chinese Currencies Question

In the House of Commons to

LONDON, Feb. 11 (Reuter),

Liner Launched dead.

Her younger sister, Lucette, who

congratulation from gond.

LOCAL ESTATE

let him. He dozed in an arm chair at home between raids and would sleep when he could every day on the sets,

Newspaper Calls B.B.C. 'Big Flop'

"THE B.B.C. is the biggest

The McDowalls arrived in Newlop of the war," says the Sun- York City with the grand total of 42 day Pictorial, in a two-page story dollars. British law resticts the attacking the Corporation. umount of money that may_be_taken. | from the country.

Roddy, his sister Virginia, and Mrs McDowall made the rounds of the motion picture companies' New York omces.

The war gave

our broad- casters their biggest oppor- tunity, but that's what has hap pened," the paper adds.

"This year the B.B.C. had £4,500,000 of your money from radio licences.

"What's the position of broad- casting in this country?

"On every side it is criticised, laughed at, ridiculed by public figures and ordinary-men and

Roddy Saved The Day

IT was then that, just like in the movies, Roddy saved the day for the McDowalls, Twentieth Century-Fox had been hunting for four months for a youngster to play one of the leading roles in Darryl F. Zanugk's produe- Lion of "How Green Was My Valley." The part was that of Huw in the Richard Llewellyn'best seller.

"Its programmes are neither up. lifting nor entertaining, but con- Twentieth Century-Fox to Hollywood where William Wyler, repeated blunders of the worst psy-

tested sistently dull. Roddy New York and flew the dim "Even its dullness is marred by My Valley," telephoned Mrs Mc- who was directing "How Green Waschological kind. Dowall to take the first train Hollywood.

day, Sir John Wardlaw-Milne invited a statement on the im- ,atded her by running several times The President Adams, fifth in the from their hut to the scene of the series of seven new vessels built at plications to trade of the four battle, received a personal letter of Newport News, Virginia, for American conflicting currencies in Shang-

General Wey-President Lines, was launched on hai and the Yangtse basin,

January 31 with Mrs Robert H, Jack- Mr R. A. Butler, Under-Secretary son, wife of the United States Attor-for Foreign Affairs, replied that it Iney General acting as sponsor.

women, was too early to forecast the effect Of the four ships already launched, which the Nanking Reserve Bank two are now in service, on their notes will have on trade and currency, Hongkong estate valued at $5,500 maiden voyages around the world, but said that every attempt to sup- was left by the late Rev. James They are the Presidents Jackson and plant the national currency of China Cunningham Mackay, some

time Monroc. The .third Minister of the Farish of Kirk-vessels, the Presidents Hayes and interests of all countries trading with and. fourth cannot but do further harm to the and formerly of Garfield, are rapidly nearing com- China. 35 Gillesplé died on January 3, 1940. An appli-dent Hayes will be ready for the catlon by Mr G. G. N. Tinson, the trials about March 1. lawful attorney, for sealing confirma-

michael, Perth, Edinburgh, whofpletion at the yards, and the Presi-

PUNJAB PRAISES

tion of executor, has been granted. Turks In Afghanistan ARMY OF NILE

Willkie,

PESHAWAR, Feb. 11 (Reuter)—

to

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

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д

No "Discovery"

"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 micro- phone.

"J, B. Priestley, the novelist, is "discovery." He is instead a veteran most popular radio commentator, and RODDY, though, is ΠΟ movie case in polat, He was easily the at the age of 12, with 16 aims to his the B.B.C, let hima resign. eredit, all of them photographed in England.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 (UP).—

LAHORE, Feb. 11 (Reuter) The President Roosevelt has a slight cold Three officers of the Turkish General Punjab Assembly has passed and has been ordered by his physician Stoff have gone to Kabul as the new resolution to send the warmest to keep only a few appointments-members of the Turkish Military congratulations to General Sir Archi- one of which is with Mr Wendell Mission imparting military education bald Wavell and the Army of the

Lo Afghan youth.

Nile

and sister services on the magn ficent: victory of Benghazi,

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

Calcutta Celebrates CALCUTTA, Feb. 11 (Reuter) Schools and colleges in Bengal will bc.closed on February 12 in celebra-pletures followed, such as "You Will B.B.C.'s six chiefs can't do something Ition of the victory at Benghazi,

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 France

3. Bombs over Europe

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U.S. Canadian Defences

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

This was told to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by Mayor La Guardia, Chairman of the American members of the United States-Canada Defence Board.

"Then came the Air Ministry's Haison officer (Air Vice-Marshal Sir He first went before the camera at voice and great knowledge, who Philip Joubert), with his friendly the ripe old age of eight in "Murder could really bring home to you the In the Family. At Parker, at one wonderful exploits of the R.AF. time a director for 20th Century-Fox, directed it, and Parker remains ono of Roddy's closest friends. Other Remember," with Robert Morley,

too has vanished from the air, really knows just why." The paper suggests that if the

bhe

The Outsider," with George Sanders about the situation, they should walk "Just Willlam" and "Hey, Hey, out in a body. U.S.A."

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

Doris Duke's Separation

Mra Doris Duke Cromwell, the "world's richest girl," is separat- ed permanently from hor hus- band, Mr James., R. Cromwell,

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