AGENTS FOR JAPANESE

Evening Star, Issue 24293, 7 September 1942, Page 4

AGENTS FOR JAPANESE

PROMINENT AMERICANS ARRESTED (Rec. 12,15 p.m.) WASHINGTON, September 6. A sensation lias been caused by tbe arrest of three prominent Americans on charges of acting as Japanese agents. Mr Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, disclosed that Walker Grey Matheson, former news analyst in the offices of the Co-ordinator of Interaiperican Affairs, Joseph Hilton Smyth, publisher and editor-in-chief of the magazine, ‘ The Living Age,’ and Irvine Harvey Williams, had been arrested. Mr Hoover said Smyth and Matheson bought ‘ The Living Ago ’ in 1938 with 15,000 dollars received fiom the Japanese Consul on the understanding that one pro-Japanese article would be published in each issue. They received a monthly subsidy of 25,000 dollars from the Japanese Consulate until August, 1941. Smyth was public relations counsel to the Japanese Consulate until after the Pearl Harbour attack, and conducted an investigation into the activities of Communists for the Japanese Consul.

ENGAGEMENT AT SEA EXPLOSIONS FELT IN PORTUGAL VICHY, September 6. It is reported from Lisbon that an engagement occurred on September 5 off Sines between British ships and U-boats and British and German planes. Heavy explosions shook the coast. LARGE-SCALE BATTLE (Rec. 11.35 a.m.) LONDON, September 6. The Vichy radio, quoting a Lisbon message, says the naval engagement off the coast is continuing. It is a largescale affair. A number of 'British warships are engaged, also a large number of planes. NURSES' BRAVE CONDUCT CANBERRA, September 5. A tribute to the work of the A.I.F. and New Zeland nurses in the Middle East was paid by the Australian Minister of the Army, Mr F. M. Forde. “ Their conduct in the most trying ordeals was an inspiration,” the Minister said. When the nurses were travelling to their evacuation point in Greece, Mr Ford added, the convoy of lorries was heavily bombed. One lorry was overturned, and four New Zealand nurses were severely injured. All the nurses took shelter in a nearby cemetery, where they crouched among the tombstones for the rest of the day. JEWS IN FRANCE BRUTAL GERMAN ROUND-UP (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 5. Details of the round-up of Jews in France, which.are now reaching Britain, show that 28,000 men, women, and children were herded together, many being dragged from their homes, and even hospitals. Three hundred suicides were reported in Paris. Women threw children from sixth-floor windows and then jumped to death. Three hundred police were dismissed for Jewish sympathies, and eight high officials who resigned had their papers stamped “ Jewish sympathisers.” Ten thousand Jews have already been deported to Germany.

VIGOROUS AMERICAN PROTESTS WASHINGTON, September 5. The American Embassy at Yicliy made vigorous protests to a high French authority regarding the recent mass deportations of Jewish refugees from unoccupied France. It was reported that 11),000 Jews were loaded on trains under brutal and heart-breaking conditions and sent to Eastern Europe, where they are forced to live under wretched conditions, and in many cases have become the victims of mass murders. Although the Nazis have long been deporting Jews from, Germany, this is the first time they have applied the policy in a country which they have not occupied and with which the United States maintained diplomatic relations. " LIDICE SHALL LIVE " STAFFORDSHIRE TOWN'S INITIATIVE (British Official Wireless.) (Rec. 10.40 a.m.) . RUGBY, September 6. The President of Czecho-Slovakia (Dr Benes) and the president of the Mine Workers’ Federation (Mr Lawther) wore among the speakers at a meeting in the Staffordshire town of Hanley, officially inaugurating a movement entitled “Lidice shall live,” aiming to raise £1,000.000 to rebuild the Czech village of Lidice which was razed by the Nazis. SANK AFTER COLLISION STOCKHOLM, Sept. 5. The Swedish submarine Sjobjprnen sank after a collision with a cargo ship.