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Wednesday,

NANCY

SO THAT'S THE ESTATE I INHERITED.A SWAMP AND A

· SHACK!

BUT IT'S A GOOD STRONG LITTLE HOUSE--AND IT'S ONLY A STONE'S THROW FROM THE

SHORE

STONE'S THROW ??

I WONDER IF DAT'S REALLY

TRUE!

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

March 19, 1941.

By Ernie Bushmiller

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HERE is

an R.A.F.. picture of battered warships at Kiel, which has been kept secret from the Nazis since the over summer, when it was taken.

It has not been published before because the author- tles did not want the Ger- mans to know that we had such conclusive evidence of the condition and where- abouts of German warships. Kiet is probably the most strongly defended war centre in the

whole of Gemiany.

Yet our airmen, in face of balloon barrage, A.A. Bre, and possible interception from fighters, were able to go over Kiel in daylight to take a series of remarkable photographs.

Tell-Tale Oil

At the time they were Inken nearly every were of water in the spacious harbour was alrenked with of, as the picture on the left, which is made up of three of the photograpti plainly

allowe.

Not long before the day on which the pictures were obtained the RAF. had carried out a heavy night rald on Klel, and our pilots then reported particularly large Arcs.

The tell-tale streaks of oil in the pleture almost certainly prove that oil instalintions were badly hit during the rald. Well-known German warships. battered in various degrees, are seca undergeing repair. They include the Scharnhorst, 20,000-tons battle-cruiser, lying helpless in a floating dock, show- Ing unmistakable aigns of bomb havos, and the pocket battleshijj Lutzow (formerly the Deutseti- land) in dry dock with severe damage to the stern following a torpedo attack by a Britishi submarine.

Badly Mauled Stereoscople pictures clearly indi- cate how badly mauled was this ex-Deutschlanü,

As she lica in the dry dock it can be seen that her stern is stripped to the kool. The Grat Zeppelin, 19,250 tona aircraft carrier, which ni the time the pictures were taken was being completed at Klet, had Been moved from her berth when further photographs were obtained a few days later. Apparently the Nazis had taken to heart the lesson of the Schark. horst which, there is every reason

to believe, had been hit by bombs as ale lay in the fonting dock at Kiel, and had thereby suffered damago over and above that received "while she was at

sen.

The Nazis evidently decided to gat such a large target an thờ Ciraf "Zeppelin out of Klot harbour se quickly (ma "posalble.

NAZI SOLDIERS TOLD

HER OF

THEIR FEARS

"It will be just like the other war.. How can we defeat England without invading it—how can we invade England-without-being-defeated?"That_was_how German officers in occupied France talked to the wife of M. Pierre Krier, Luxem- bourg's Minister of Labour, who had to spend nearly six months in the Nazi-con- trolled territory.

M. Krier, veteran trade unionist and Socialist leader of the "pocket Grand Duchy," who recently reached London, told a “Daily Herald" of his wife's experiences. He told, too, of bitter rivalry between the regular German army and the picked Nazi S.S. forma- tions.

I

Snubbed S.S. Men They openly talted about it to the

When his country was invaded by the Germans in May-for the second time within 25 years! French people, "We are Germans," they said, "but these men are Nazis." -M. Krier first settled, with his staff. in Dijon. Burgundy,

Second Flight

But within one month he had to escape again. He arrived in Lisbon during the autumn.

Part of the Luxembourg Cabinet, with the Grand Duchess and her family, went to Canada.

It was decided that the Foreign Minister, M. Bech, and the Minister of Labour should go to London and with the British keep in touch Government.

GRETNA BRIDE SHOT DEAD Husband Is Acquitted

A 24-YEAR-OLD soldier shot the girl he married at Gretna Green three years ago.

At Birmingham Assizes re-i

Advised C.0.scently, the soldier, Ralph Gordon

To Disobey

Army Orders

Barstow, of Pleasant-street, Preston, was on trial for murder. Suddenly, on a gun expert's evidence, the case against him collapsed and he left the court

free man.

The shot was fired in a bed- They also complained alnut the

While denying that the Peace room in Birmingham on Novem- higher pay of the S.S.--who were never sent into the battle-and could Pledge Union was in any way her 14, said Mr Maurice Healy. afford champagne and better wines concerned with helping men to K.C., for the prosecution.

would buy avoid military and food than army puy.

service, Mr "Olten German ofBeers or

Or soldiers sitting in restaurants and cafes would Richard L. Bishop, chairman of

For Bombers Barstow told the police that, as estentatiously leave as soon as 6.S. the Union in Wales, stated re- he could see that bombers had been men stepped in." declared M. Krier. cently that it sometimes advised coming over every night, he loaded

"My wife had to get permission In

over."

the little Burgandy town where she conscientious objectors to join his rifle was caught by the invasion, to leave up and then refuse to obey for Paris in order to get away from orders. France.

"So she had frequently to talk at

Mr Bishop

was giving evi- the local Kommandantur with the dence, at a field general court During the invasion of France, M. Krier was separated from his wife, army oficers in charge of the travel-martial, at Liverpool, in favour Madame Lily Krier-Becker, well-ling permits. known in the International Socialist movement.

For

nearly six months she had to stay in the German occupied zone.

It was only in December that she managed to get out of France and her husband again in Lisbon. say Then she went across to Canada.

She speaks German. fluently, and It was of her experiences, first in Ittle town in Burgundy and Inter in Paris, that M. Krier spoke.

Polite Opening

"In the first week of the invasion," he said, "everybody in France was agreeably surprised by the politeness of the German troops."

"That was in August.

They Saw Defeat

"The officers-mostly elderly men, reserve officers who had fought the last war-were outspoken in their

Desskmism.

of a conscientious objector accus. led of disobeying an order.

have a shot if they "game

"I was unloading my rifle," he said. "when it went off."

Mr Healy said Barstow's wife had fallen in love with him when she was 16.

In the early part of 1037, banns were, put up, but the project was called off when the parents found out. In September of that year, they went through a form of marriage at Greina Green.

The accused was Private Reginald Gordon Jenkins, of the non-combat-

When Barslow was called up Inst ant corps, attached to the Pioneer Corps, who pleaded guilty to refusing April his wife became familiar with to thy out his kit for Inspection when men.

A gun expert demonstrated to Mr ordered to do so. "They often said to my wife-

A number of other members of the Justice Ogiver the angle at which will happen exactly like in the why-one success alier an-

non-combatant eorps, all conscienti- the gun must have been held when other, then we lose the whole warfous objectors, were charged with the fatal shot was fired, and the augle "My wife arrived in Paris in the similar offences. Sentences were to at which it would be held to be un-

londed, first days of September.

be promulgated.

other

"She observed the enne signs of antagonism between the army and the S.S.

The Marching Men

K.C. "Disturbed" · Replying to Mr A. J. Long, defend-

Nazis Now Modifying, he said it was possible that the

Colonial Claims

which "One day the Parisians saw long that Norlike peoples are not capable "Portugal Intends To

of

"She even heard 8.8. men grum

might be fired accidentally while being held in the unloading position. bling about some of their own officers,

Mr Healy then Bald he was very baya nf 22 or 23, who had secured

disturbed by the reply the gun ex-. "But the feeling of relief sour

promotion througli 'recommendation

The possibilty that the Nazis are pert had given to Mr Long'a ques- fighting troops by some Party boss' vanished when the

the black-unit- The German Army officers and preparing the German publie for Ation. were followed by

with:

Without leaving the box the jury had enjoyed lite for disappointment in connexion men in Paris forned $5. detachments, which bo

more than two months with much their often repeated coloniat claims returned a verdict of not guilty, came the masters.

"These men were rude, ruthless money to spend on drinks and food.

emerges from article in the the dirty

"Schwarze Korpa", which declaros haughty. They did alt work of arresting, searching', quea-

tloning and requisitioning the people had feared.

"Len Quarante-Quatre, volls les

"Everybody was struck by the com- mechants.

("The forty-Fours those are the wicked men') became a plete change in these men overnight. They marched like automats, with current phrase among the French."

of stone'--llko mon whe it referred to the special S.S. badge 'facom symbol which recalls the figure forty-only a last respite before certain

death. four.

The officers and men.of the regu- These were the troops bound for lar army did not conceal their dis- the North of France, as the invasion gust-and-hatred for the SS said M. army against Britain. They knew

what it meant for them.' Krler.

military columns marching to the Gare du Nord,

supporting the climate of Africa. German must therefore at all Remain Neutral” costs rid themselves of the "African

Portugal intends to remain neutral colonial mirage," the paper declares, and there is no possibility of her be- adding that in any case the Reich's ing "swayed" by Hiller, Senor Leo- European territory amply fulls her poido Danilo Bareiros, Macao cor-

of living space. respondent

the Portuguese regarding

that the centre of declared, ton" declarea

Senor Bareiros spent last year in gravity of military operations cannot be removed to the Mediterranean or Lisbon as a representative of Macao to the East but that it remains con- at Portugal's annual celebration of centrated-around Great Britain. her foundation and independence.

on armlets and expi, a "Highinkig" i realised that their merry life had been requenchener Neueste Nachrich nowspaper Dlaro de Notlefas, recently i

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