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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1949.

QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

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An explosive story of violent lives...

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JENNIFER JONES JOHN GARFIELD

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WE WERE STRANGERS

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The Three Musketeers

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Red Germany's New

Undercover Army

BERLIN.

AY back in 1937, when I was in Madrid reporting the Spanish civil war,

I once travelled 200 miles to meet a certain General Gomez,

1 hitch-hiked in army lorries all the way down to Albacete to see him.

was the man who General Gomez

built, trained, organised, and

For

had

equipped

the

the famous International Brigado, only efficient fighting force in the Spanish Red Army.

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officer.

This man first knew as 'General Gomez' appears again as 'Zaisser - but it's still the same place his instructions come from...

Sefton Delmer's NEWSMAP

under the rank as

Criminalrat (roughly

strength of 1,250. Some of them are still a little under this. They Ger- are stationed in former

barracks vacated man Army for them by the Soviet Army.

Each unit of 1,250 consists of

five companies, each company

I had five minutes only But they were with him. worth while. They revealed Gomez not as a Spaniard, as

He is doing his name suggested, but as

Russlans, equivalent to police inspector), Prussian direct orders of the hard-mouthed

whose purpose is to prepare a and the factory is now produc- Gorman Ree Army which (1) Ing weapons exclusively for the Gomez had served in the can replace the Soviet forces if Zaisser S8.

they withdraw; (2) could, in Kaiser's army during the the event of a crisis in Western 1914-18 war. turned Communist, part in a number of abor- tive Red risings in Ger- many, and fled to Moscow.

Then

intervene there in he Germany,

of took the name

German unity without involving the Russlana,

Despite his Red Army training and ideological in- doctrination he had lost none of the mannerisms of his caste. He spoke to me with a curt voice of com- mand. As he talked, his eyes fixed me as though I were a private before him on a charge.

I am now in And here Berlin, 12 years later, and once more I am trying to Bee General Gomez.

But this time he is longer called Gomez.

HIS TARGET ZAISSER is doing his work

well. In the last four increased this months he has force from 10,000 to 40.000 men. I understand

intends he

to

reach a strength of 60,000 by next spring.

IF

HIS ARMY

of four platoons, each platoon of four sections. Two sections: are armed with rifles, one with machine

опе with guns, machine pistols.

ot-

I were ДП intelligence A political commissar officer reporting on th tached to each section has te Zalsser SS my despatch would check that the men ore

politically rellable.

run roughly as follows:-

HISTORY: Plans for the formation of this Red SS. were drawn up by the Soviet Mary Administration in July 1948, The German adminis- tration of the interior was told to carry them out,

OTHER

anti-

No more shoving off the pavement

"Be polite” order goes

out to Egyptians

FRANK GOLDSWORTHY, Daily Express reporter recently in Hongkong, gots home with the story of the end of one cold war

A

ler's

3 the airliner lifted When I left it appeared I from the sandy trim- should have declared my travel. cheques with my other ness of Cairo's airport, currency on entry. "No import- a British business-man- be- nnce," said the Customis man

said: sido me

"Do you with a smile! "But please re- tember next time know, they were positively obliging there this time."

The cable bitce clerk said: "Thank you very much "Indeed air," when I handed in a cable. Said a British resident; "Bix

To most Britons who have visited post-war Egypt that is months ago it took ma half NEWS in capital letters

hour to catch that clerk's eye when he spotted 1 was British. But everyone is different now."

Six months ago it took halt an hour's extreme restraint to

suspicious ques

And that is the way of things vercome the Jonings of an Egyptian consul in Egypt now. With the big who very reluctantly gave me a tourist hotels empty and DO transit visa to Hongkong.

customers at the luxury-Olled Returning 1 mndo a three- shop counters, Egypt has sud day stop-over in Egypt on a denly realised that she is well transit visa. Said those who down the list in a buyers' tree= know: "They will probably ket.

Impound your passport and re-

strict your movements." They Old order

did not,

1 carried a camera over my

i

shoulder. Sald a fellow pas cials are in a great hurry to live On orders from above, off-

Benger:

that.

"Watch yourself with

down their reputatión for

have cooled

They are pretty sticky hostility to Western visitors.

here."

I showed the camera to the 'olitical tempera security officer. He waved me and there is less tanning of the flames of hallonalism and anti- through, saying: "Quite all

foreign sentiment, right. Hope you get some good picturea."

New order

Even the hooligana seem to have forgone the local sport of crowding Westerners of the pavemerita, British women who rarely went out unescorted now shop in com.

In one bag I had concentrated not long ago my gifle from China, mostly dutiable

Sald an abrline off- fort, clal: "You might escape duty if you put the case in bord." explained to the Customs man He said; "If they are all your personat property, declare them as personal effecia."

of

1. began to read the definition personal effects on the back of the form. He waved de precatingly: "The form is out of dato. Just write

personal

effects." He put the magio chalk scribble on all three cases without opening them.

But the hotels are still empty of tourists. All over the world ย men and women whose memories of Egypt are those of the immediate post-war years. It will take more than travel posters to

again a Mecca for tourists.

make Egypt once

Meanwhile repented bud manners will cost Egypt mit. Lions in much-needed foreign currency. Perhaps there is n moral here?

-(London Express Service)

C.V.R. Thompson Reports The American Scene

NEW YORK. OR a change the tax-

FOR

man.

On his arrivg, Montgomery admitted to me that for all his

1

payer has aued the tax preparation he is not ready for this battle. Sald hot "T's the mcat compilealed spart I'vo ever Ever since the United looked into. I couldn't under- ARMAMENT:

States Government adopted stand any of the rules," Includes anti-tank rifles and PAYE,

க hot-tempered Russian-woman anti-tank guns. 360

industrialist, Miss PETTING ODD9- that there type T.34 tanks, 120

Joseph Vivien Kellems, has refused wil be an atom-bomb at Stalin tanks 500 8.8cm. to deduct taxes from her United States (as worked out by tack against anywhere in the aircraft guns.

employees' salarles.

Atomic Energy Committeeman If she does that, she has ar- Senator Edwin Johnson)—1,000 Apart from

gued, she is a tax collector, and to one-against, basle military training and the Government has never ap-

members pointed fraining,

or paid her as a tax anti-tank

EOLOGISTS tvarned have course in partizan and collector.

Umany Americans wit not be Commando tactics

The Government is afraid that able to get water soon if they A the Soviet Military Armints- tion training school in Erfurt under the law she may be right, are to extravagant with it.

B Treasury boss John survey published recently shows and Major-General tration,

ОМсств have 10 poco Snyder hus avoided legal actions that excessive use, expecially for Gorochov, head of the Soviet Klotzsche.

Military

artificial irrigation and for air Administration De politient examination at the end against her. partment for Internal Affairs. of their course.

conditioning, is depleting the

formed in

He has formed a small naval force

with equipped

motor boats, minesweepers, torpedo and minelayers.

He plans to form an

force.

One report, which comes to me from a source I have learn- el to respect, says that form

are already Luftwaffe pilots being trained as instructors on no Soviet aircraft at

near Dresden.

HIS JOB HERE in Berlin his name

is Wilhelm Zaisser. And this time, furthermore, I have not even been able to get five minutes with him. I have made repeated calls at his headquarters in the of Wil- Berlin suburb helmsruh. Without suc-

They, in turn, are to train Communist German Youth Organisation as pilots for the new German Red

recruits from the

(1) THAT former Luftwaffe recruited 10 pilots have been Zalsser's army and have been carefully registered as pilots:

(2) THAT the Russians have a number recently evacuated of airflelds which aro to be handed over to the Zaisser force,.

were

A spectul committee was not up to which

appointed Russions, apart from two Znisser and his titular boss, the Communist police chief Fischer. The names of the Russians Colonel Kobanov, deputy chief

First units wore

September 1940. They were recruited largely from German prisoners-of-war who had just

High-ranking German officer at the same resoners were time anpointed as technical Instructors and organisers under Zeisser.

TRAINING:

at the par-

and

But recently he sent agents to her bank and ordered it to hand over from her privato funds a "fine" equal to the amount her employees had paid in taxes direct to the tax authorities.

Misa Kellems has filed suit to day to regain that num.

nation's reserves.

Hfrom

that.

ren 501s

Co-ordination, and integration with Soviet Army units is on the staff training schedule. All

TOPES that box office receipts officers are taught Russian.

American cinemas Air Force.

would go up this year wil, not arrived in Germany after hav-

be fulfiled. According to trade pelected, Whether or not this is true, ing been specially

The Bereitschaften took part trained, and Indoctrinated in in the last Soviet manoeuvres

estimates just published, the 1940 there is no doubt-

Russia.

In Saxony and Thuringia.

Said Miss Keleme: "In the totes will be down for the third

running. tradition of the boldest bank

Some given by exhibitors too much robber the Government walks HIS SECRET

good weather; too few good Into the bank in broad daylight ims, Another and stents. The only difference stay at home either to watch reason-people is getremely between Mr Snyder is that TV, or to save money to pay the DISCIPLINE

Jesse James (the outlaw) is that next instalment on their TV set. severe. Zaiser's men are in- Mr James used a ORGANISATION: The "polico formed that they are subject to

Bun," Misa Kellems confidently ex-. schools." which is the pre-

that pects that her cult wil force the ITUATIONS vacant:

Ghost I am not surprised.

sent harmless cover title of the Soviet miliary Inw and

writer to the President. Most significant. nows of all Red SS. are entirely separate if a man deserts his family will courts to rule if PAYE is con-

stitutional or not.

Salary £7 150 a The job that Zaisser is is that the Russians have now from the regular German police, be punished.

year. Clark Clifford, boss of doing here in Soviet Ger- given up at least one of the But they come directly under

Incentives are given by wayTVEN IN `PLAY, Field-Mar- the White Houss "kitchen is hedged in with Thuringian arms and munition the same police chief, old-time

and the factories which have been, Communist Fischer.

of compensation. Special food, shal Montgomery does not cabine"," even greater secrecy than working on

the earthy speeches Red Army

facilities trop his custom of preparing to who wrote that which "Gomez"

which made President Truman The force constitutes a cadre clothing and housing

the ful before the battle. Before W of oille troops which could for men's families are offered.

sailing for America, he doing in Red Spain.

so populur, is resigning. Reason This factory, the Meiningen easily be expanded into a inuch Under cover of organising steelworks, has been designated larger force in the hour of need. So far there have been very out he would visit the Army he wants to make some real the footbal battle money. He expects to earn up to and training special security officially 'os property

few desertions. I am not sur- Navy game, of the

of the year. And so he summon- £30,000 a year as a private law squads inside the German German police force. Its Com- It consists of 35 units called

prised. ollec. ho la building

ed experts. "All right," he said, yer. up a munist manager, Herr Brinck. Bereitschaften (preparedness Red SS.

mann, has boen given police squads). Each unif has a paper

"explain the game to me."

-(London Express Servios)

cess.

many

Was trets since the war.

-103

--(Londen Exprgas Service)

found

man

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