DEFEATIST TALK

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 7, 2 September 1940, Page 7

DEFEATIST TALK

MAN CHARGED WITH TELLING SOLDIERS TO LET HITLER WIN SUSPICIOUSLY IN FUNDS A man who was alleged to have told British soldiers that they were fighting in vain, and that he hoppd Hitler would get this country, was charged under the Defence Regulations at Preston. The man, Llewellyn Cadwallader, aged 51, a pictorial artist, of Brook Street, Preston, was again remanded in custody along with his nephew, Thomas George Jackson. The. prosceution stated that both men had often been seen in the refreshment rooms at Preston Railway Station talking to soldiers. The only travelling they did was from one refreshment room to another from about 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. "Not a Bad Boss." They were spending something 'like from 5s to 10s a night on refreshments and the magistrate might wonder whether this was their own money or some one else's, since Jack son earned onlj 7 30s a week. Second-Lieutenant Davies of the R.A.S C., said he saw the two men in a refreshment room. Cadwallader said to him: "It Avould not have been a bad job if instead! of losing life we had allowed Hitler to take what he wanted. He would not have made a bad boss."' Sergeant Mooney, of an Irish regiment, said that he and another soldier were in a refreshment room when Cadwallader, referring to the -lews that German troops had cni tered Paris, safe!; "The best bit of news 1 have heard for a week. - 1 hope Hitler gets here." Cadwallader told them he could rpeak German and Italian and then said: "You can't afford to buy drinks on the money you get. Is it worth fighting for? You are lighting in vain." Cadwallader also said he was in Germany three months ago and ".f Sergeant Mooney was still in Preston the next day he would introduce him to a German friend. Ready to Serve. Detective-Sergeant Wilson repeated his evidence, given a week ago, when he described the arrest and the discovery of British Union of Fascist material, including a membership card belonging to Jackson, badges, photographs of Hitler, books showing subscriptions and other items, at the houses of the two men. Cadwallader said he was not a member of the British Union of Fascists, that he served 12 months in the Army, and was ready to serve again. He did not like Fascism and h? Nazi Government.