PZ 7715/39 'Middle East Intelligence Centre: Anglo Egyptian Censorship; information summaries' [‎5r] (9/38)

CONDITIONS IN NTUTRAL COUNTHITS.
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Nor serious political reasons, our inr 0 Heinrich Thiessen, who is
an Ssfonian subject, has decided to join the migrants and move over
to Germany . Y/e wild liquidate our firm in Estonia on the 31st
December, 193S .
We are very sorry to leave Estonia, where we have spent
more than 30 happy years, and to leave behind all our local friends
and connections. May be, we shall write you in a few days and
recommend you a firm which would be ready to take ever your agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
in Estonia.
We intend to continue our business somewhere in Posen
(Germany), or even in Lodz, and in case that you could entrust us
with your agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. for Poland (Lodz), we would be very pleased
inde ea . "
A lady belonging to one of the old Baltic Baron families
writes from Tallinn, on 8 October, saying that all Germans have to
be evacuated from Esthcnia. She goes on to say, "We have to
leave our houses, cur furniture, our silver, our laundry. With
our lives and one bag i n cur
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7. I taly .
jri Croat, writing from Ruse (Yugoslavia) shows a bitter
hatred of Italy and things Italian. He relates "around Trieste
there is a large minority population, almost a million people who
under Italian ’protection’ have neither schools nor even the right
to live. Strangely enough they are pro-Hitlerites, at least
they are anti-Easeists and anti-Mussolini to the mari ow of their
bones. Your Uncle Micek has recently returned from Trieste.
He is very pessimistic about the war and thinks it will last for
three years. He says that in these days it is difficult to dis
tinguish between friends and foes. They say that in Germany
it is forbidden to weep for those who have fallen in the war, or
even to wear mourning."
8 . Ital ian East A f rica .
a Greek press correspondent, who appears to be in the
Customs Service at Jibuti reports on 20 October that the situation
in Abyssinia, "is very bad for the Italians". He says that
"iibeba" has performed miracles and that he should be recognised
as the Abyssinian "Saint". Three times has he been called upon
to surrender, but he replies ’’leave me alone". It is said he
will wait for the external situation to become more clear, "^beba’s
ful-l^n-rme is -iibeba ivregad • arid‘ he' ie one - of the principal rebel c •
1 e a d-e rs i h N or the rn ^by s s a n i a .
/ a Greek