1941-02-19 — Page 5

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

February 19,

1941.

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SCOTLAND YARD SHIFTS SPIES

Dossiers Recall Old Cases

They shifted the sples in Scotland Yard recently. They did them up in bundles and carried them down the stairs and along the corridors and through a covered passage to the new ten-storey Yard headquarters beside the old one on the Thames Embankment.

The Special Branch men were moving out of the building they have worked in since the section was formed in 1883 to. guard Cabinet Ministers from Irish American Dynamiters.

In 57 years you accumulate | quite a few records and other mementes if your work has been the tracking of many thousand suspiciously occupied foreigners, from Irish Americans to 1914 spies and 1940 fifth columnists.

District Assistant Commissioner Albert Canning, head of the Special Iranch, and Superintendent Albert Foster, spy tracker in two world wars, simply had to walk across and hang their bowler hals on new pets, but the shifting of the sples took inany

hours.

One set of files, slid into place in their new cabinet, gave Supt. Foster's memory a jolt. It took Jilm back 20 years to the day when he arrested Car: Lady, German spy, at the begin- ning of the last war, and brought him into the Yard,

Kept Chair

Lody was a brave inan, He faced the firing sund with great courage on Tower Hil Supt. Foster kept the chair he sat in and had it shifted to the new office yesterday.

A policeman doesn't like to lose sight of a thing which reminds him of a job which helped his career as much as the unmasking of the Lady plot did at the age

25.

And there, trundled along. were the dossiers of Brechow and Vieyra and Hag and Franz Muller, all of them sentenced to death during the jast war, after giving quite a lot of

trouble.

But who even remembers their names now. except Canning and Foster? Not that all the Ales were Jat

important. There were pathetic spies as well as clever ones. There were dozens and dozens of little dossiers of enemy agents just

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INFLATION

British

Businessmen

Express Concern

LONDON, Feb. 18 (Reuter),--The Government's intention to purry the dangers of nation was again om- phasised in Parliament to-day.

Sir Patrick Hannon, who Is a preminent Compuny director, asked whether the Premier had considered the letter from the President of the Association of British Chambers of Commerce,

drift towards infphasising

cwing to wage in- creases being followed by a rise in comdity prices."

Mr Clement Attlee, Lord Privy Seal, replied that the Prime Minister had received the letter to which Sir Patrick referred and had arranged that the Association of British Cham- bers of Commerce would have opportunity of stating their

the views more fully to the ministers concern- ed.

Government Impressed

The Government were impressed with the dangers of inflation and since the outbreak of war had taken netion in a variety of ways to prevent any uncontrolled rise of basic

prices, It would be quite wrong to regard every Increase in prices, whatever its nature and scope, as potentially inflationary but close attention was paid to all significant movements of prices with the view to applying op-

as ineffective. When war broke outpropriate checks in good time fr a

In 1914 they put 1,500 people who were trying to send information to Germany out of action at une round-

up.

One

them was arrested at bis first attempt to pass secrets to the enemy. He had hopefully written two letters in invisible Ink on musie paper.

Arcos Raid

dangerous tendency developed.

LATEST SAIGON RESTRICTIONS

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" SAIGON, Feb. 18 (UP).—All rice and rubber export permits have been

temporarily, but cancelled Japanese are excluded from the ban,

the

A queer jumble of oddities follow ed each other through the covered passage from old buliding to new that case of the secret documents Clarification of the export situa- stolen from the Admiralty 14 years tion, which is causing dissatisfaction ape, and found in a suitense left by amongst foreign firms, is not expect-

visitor at

ed until after the peace negotiations Southport

hotel; the great mass of Acros rald

arc the

concluded. papers;

The economic facts about Dr Ilermann Coetiz, who negotiations are at present being got four years' penal servitude for pushed into the background.

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making a plan of an R.A.F, station: all the hundreds of

of letters people

write when they think they've seen or

heard something suspicious."

$1,300,000,000

THIS IS LONDON-One of the first radio pictures showing the aftermath of bomb. ing in London on Dec. 29. Picture taken from St Paul's Cathedral, looking toward Old Bailey, criminal court building (domed). The section is in and about Paternoster Row. The Old Bailey is familiar to readers of Dickens. Overburdened radio facilities caused a 10-day delay in the transmission of this pictura.

Boy "Jehovah Witness" Refuses To Sing "God

"God Save The

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King"

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The boy told the Court that he was one of the "Jehovah Witnesses," and that

up then the fossiers failed to light FOR WAR EFFORT his religion forbade him to sing the National Anthem or salute the flag. Judgment of

Canning and Foster.

even of

Who was Fritz Svaars, for instance, OTTAWA, Feb. 18 (Reuter).--Mr and Jacob Vogel? Forgotten They J. L. Ilsley, Canada's Finance Minis- ter, will ask for $1,300,000,000 for kept you lively for some days once.

It look a long time, and a great the prosecution of the war during many soldiers and police, under the the fiscal year of 1941-42, compared guidance of Mr Churchill, to kill with $700,000,000 during the preced

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the Court was deferred.

There are six similar cases before the court, and all the juveniles who are charged have been dismissed from Hamilton schools for their refusal to sing the National Anthem or salute the-flag-Other-cities throughout the country are puzzled about the stand that they should take with "Jehovah Witnesses" in their schools.

This sum, plus the $443,000,000 which Mr Haley estimated to be

At the same time, the laws necessary to cover all requirements compel all children to attend except air, brings the total expendi- school or receive expert tuition

In some other way.

ture for 1941-42 to $1,743,000,000.

Fire Damage In Santander

New Zealand, Tool The "Sunday Chronlele" has al- ready reported the anti-British ne- tivities of the organisation operating In Britain and the Empire under the direction of the American Judge Rutherford,

Shilling Stamp Forgery

Fetches £9 At Sale

HITLER AND

"HOW TO SWIM”-

THE story is being circulated throughout Nazi-occupied Eu- rope of a leading bookseller at The Hague who aroused Nazi jire by showing a portrait of Queen Wilhelmina in his shop window.

He was ordered to take the offend- Ing_photograph out.

A very fine impression of a Then, to show his loyally to the counterfeit 1867-80 Great Bri-new order in Europe," he replaced the royal picture with a full-length tain shilling stamp, deep green portrait of Hitler. (plate 6), known as the "Stock interpretation, as a book by Frau Exchange Forgery," was sold Braun, recently at H. R. Harmer's New "How

in an equally prominent position!

MADRID, Feb. 18 (Reuter)The fre which devastated Santander is

His books attacking the Empire are They are Theda Bira, Charlie now under control. Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Grela The Brst estimates place the dam-still being sold from door to door by

"Jehovah's Witnesses." Garbo, Mary Pickford, Rudolph age at £6,250,000.

In these, Judge Rutherford sets Valentino, Fred Astaire, Spencer The Bank of Spain building, al-out his doctrine of a "Theocratie

ព Tracy, Tom Mix, Harold Lloyd, though in the middle of the fire area, Government, which his followers Marie Dressler und Shirley Temple. ¡was undamaged.

are taught to regard as superior to Bond-street sale rooms for £9. the Government of their own coun- try.

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U.S. Pressmen And British Censorship

British censorship is once again being discussed in America, and it is reported that recent messages from American corres- pondents in London have contained complaints.

Some weeks ago the New Zealand Government declared "Jehovah's Wilnessca" to be a subversive or ganisation and prohibited all their activilles.

Sentence Quashed

But the gesture had a two-way

Woman the Dutch to 8win," Was placed

coach

At The Games This fraud was made possible

Only woman coach in the world when, in 1870, the control of the with an international reputation, telegraphs passed from the private" Braun Gropped a few bombs companies to the Post Office. on Nazi plans at the Berlin Games, minimum rate of 1s was then intro- The Germans had banked on Gisela duced for telegrams, which resulted Arendt to win the 100 metres, but In an increase from 6 to about 171⁄2 the presumed certainty was soundly trounced by the Rotterdam girl, Ric In 1918 it was reported that Judge million telegrams a year.

Mastenbroeck, Rutherford had been sentenced to 20 Taking advantage of the enormous In private trials the German wo- years for obstructing recruiting and demand for 1s. stamps some persons causing insubordination and disloyal-unknown, made and uttered these men were beating the Olymple 400 metres relay record, but they skidded ty in the American Army and Navy, forgeries, which were passed into defeat when "Ma" Braun's quar-

According to his International large numbers through the Stock tette, won by a good yard. Raymond Daniell, of the "New Hing damage and is in need of help Bible Students' Association in Bri-Exchange Telegraph Office, E.C., in

tain, that sentence was quashed by 1872 and 1873. York Times," has just informed is harmful,

Over-Optimism

the Appeal Court of the USA.· his readers that the Press cens-

There was a time, notably in June orship is "becoming as ominous and July last year, when many ly oppressive as that of France Americans shocked by the fall of was before the people suddenly France, and anxious over their own found the enemy unexpectedly lack of preparedness, were inclined to the belief that it was too late to marching under the Are de do anything to save Britain, that Triomph."

planes, munitions and ships had

Steward Falls Overboard

Arabia Maru Incident WHEN the homeward bound O.S.K. versel Arabia Maru was

Detected 28 Years After

Japanese Baby Bonus Plan

It has been estimated that these counterfeits were used at this one-

A SCHEME to increase Japan's office at the rate of about £15.000 a birthrate was launched recently, year, but the fraud was not discover-

young One hundred

Japanese ed until Moy, 1898, when some of the couples were selected by the Welfare forgeries were detected by Mr Ministry for a new baby bonus ex- Charles Nissen, the well-known experiment. port of the postage stamps of Greati Britain.

Subsequent researches, as disclosed terest."

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In aid of the S.C.M. Post

BOMBER FUND

Admission $1.00 Reserve this date!

Fewer Refugees

In Hongkong

Following are the gures, supplied

Still More Planes For Britain

Robert J. Casey, of the Chicago better be kept at home. Daily News, recently cabled an ironic But that time has passed. Indeed,

Each couple gels n loan of about $600 on which they have to pay in- piece beginning: "An undetermined there is a case to be made out for number of bombers came over an un- the belief that the swing has gone

Three months before a child is ex-

A new aircraft factory for the Identified portion of an unmentioned too far in the other direction. European country on an unstated day A certain amount of straight talk seven days out of Cape Town on her in the late Mr Fred 3.

by the Director of Medical Services, Curtiss Wright Corporation has which is sharply distinct from way to Singapore recently, one of "The Mystery of the Slulling Green," pected the interest is cancelled.

The principal is reduced 20 per

showing the number of refugees and been begun at Buffalo, New York prove the claborate extent of thio For the stewards fell overboard, defentiam-ls being heard. The Public Can See

The man overboard" signal, given counterfell, which has been found cent, with each child born.

destitutes accommodated in Governs State. Five children would wipe off the

ment Camps In example, there was a speech in New

Hongkong on almost immediately, was promptly printed from two plates and in loan.

This will increase the production York by another newspaper

February 15. The figures in brackeis

of P40 pursuit planes for Britain British people, reports Drew Mid-William Stoneman, of the Chicago obeyed, but the ship was going full ninety-eight varieties.

are those for February 8:

from the present rate of eight planes dleton, of Associated Press, are "Tar Daily News", who said that it was a speed ahead and had to slow down

FEW CHANGES IN

King's Park 1,202 (1,202): Malau daily to 60 or 70 daily. more ready to face the brutal truth "catastrophic misconception to think

NEW CAR MODELS Trung Li

At present the entire output of the than the newspapers and the BBC.."

that

the United States could help While passengers caught sight of

The stamp now sold came from the

Morrison Hill 638 Curtiss Company, now working at and "grow mrcastle about headlines Britain more by staying out of the the bobbing head of 20-year-old

THE United States 1941 autumn 1,450 (1,401);

(633); Tat Hang squ

squatters camp and communiques that teil of slight war

Shishido, struggling in the swell of celebrated "Patiisson" collection of by entering the war. damage when they can aco the

He said he was not suggesting that the ocean and In fear of the possible the postage stamps of Great Britain, motor show has been cancelled be wreckage wlih their own BY CH

America should go into the war, but appearance of sharks, a lifeboat put which also included an example of cause there will be few changes in the forged 1911-12 C1 green, com-1942 models. The automobile In- Americas gay the most urgent Press merely that Britain would need "tons out.

The man was saved and after plein with postmark, which was per-dustry is concentrating on plane pro- need is for a re-examination by the of thousands of aircraft, hundreds of connorship of the theory that any destroyers, and millions of tons of some rest carried on his duties as petrated to defraud only the collec duction. It has aeroplane contracts

tor, It changed hand at £7 58. totalling-£312,500,000. thing suggesting that Britain is suffer-fresh shipping" to win.

thon

and turn.

usupi.

"Pattisson" Collection

North Polit

ia

2,067 (2,557): Ngau Tau Kok squat the highest rate in the States,

going to Britain, ters

camp 708 (708). Kam Tin 1,703 (1,050); Fanling was 10,204, as compared with 10,218 Children's camp 328 (207).

on February 8, showing a decrease

The grand total for February 18 of 14.

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