FEMININE "SCARLET PIMPERNEL”

Evening Star, Issue 23695, 1 October 1940, Page 6

FEMININE "SCARLET PIMPERNEL”

CORRESPONDENT OF RRITISH PAPER ORDERED TO LEAVE RUMANIA BUCHAREST, September 30. (Received October 1, at 11 a.m.) It is understood that Miss Claire Hollingworth, correspondent of the ‘Daily Express, ’ has been ordered to leave Rumania within eight days. She is known as a feminine “ Scarlet Pimpernel ” for helping thousands of Czechs to flee to Poland before the outbreak of the war. She disguised the refugees in peasant costumes and made them carry bundles on their backs and chickens under their arimn The Gestapo was continually searching for her, hut she threw them off. AMERICAN WARSHIPS IN CALIFORNIAN WATERS SAN PEDRO, September 30. (Received October 1, at 11.30 a.m.) Four United States destroyers arrived from Hawaii, preceding oyer a dozen other warships, which will be sent to the mainland for a fortnight’s leave. Other warships, including cruisers and destroyer’s, are expected at San Diego later. LIUKWANG ISLANDS BRITAIN’S LEASE OF PORT FACILITIES SHANGHAI, September 30. (Received October 1, at 11.5 a.m.) The Japanese-dominated Nanking Government has announced that it is not renewing Britain’s 10 years’ lease of port facilities in the Liukwang Islands, near Weihaiwei, expiring today, hut Chiang Kai-shek’s Government announced a 10-year renewal of the British China Squadron’s use of the islands for a summer station. VISIT TO AUSTRALIA LIKELY (By Radio.) DAVENTRY, October 1. Australia may soon have a visit from 'American warships. This, item of information was announced by Mr Cordell Hull in Washington. CANADIAN WAR SUPPLIES REMARKABLE INCREASE IN PRODUCTION (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 29. A picture of the ever-increasing Canadian contribution to war supplies is contained in the letter of a wellknown Canadian, who states: “We are well on the way to manufacturing tanks and we are already turning out machine guns and field artillery. We are tuning up for the manufacture of rifles and naval guns. We are turning out prodigious quantities of explosives and shells, and our aircraft plants have taken over most of the burden of supplying training planes for the Commonwealth air training scheme.” The Canadian Ford and General Motors plants, he adds, are turning out about 600 units a day, and Canada is at the present time the world’s largest producer of army vehicles. The air training scheme already has several thousand pilots in training, and he describes it as “ a prodigious undertaking,” which is “ changing the face of the Canadian landscape.” RUMANIAN ARRESTS BRITAIN DEMANDS EXPLANATION (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 29. Lord Halifax summoned the Rumanian Charge D’Affaires, M. Radio Florescu, for an explanation of the arrest and brutal ill-treatment of five British subjects in Rumania, including a Canadian mining engineer named Tracey and his wife, and an assistant named Anderson. The British Consul in Bucharest succeeded in seeing the men after experiencing obstruction, and found that they were apparently subjected to severe manhandling. Attempts to; see Mrs Tracey and again visit the men failed. BRITONS IN TOKIO TEN INDICTED BY JAPANESE TOKIO, September 30. (Received October 1, at 1.15 p.m.) Ten Britons who have been under arrest since September 27 have been indicted on charges of violation of the military secrets protection law and the naval and criminal codes of the military resources protection law, while several others are being examined. One Japanese has been indicted and 50 others warned on account of their proBritish activities. The indicted Britons include Captain Charles H. James and Messrs George A. James, Ernest W. James, Michael Linger, Hamish M'Naughton, Henry Blyth, John Drummond, William T. Charles, end T. 8,. Willey.