The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-07-24
Berlin Fools r. A. F.
By Planting Trees
Minister To Greece Says
New Trees Cover Import
ant Capital Buildings

New York.-Extensive camouflag-
ing is being carried out in Berlin, with
trees planted atop conspicuous build
ings to shield them from the view of
British bombers. Lincoln MacVeagh,
United States Minister to Greece, re-
ported on his return here yesterday.
i Mr.. MacVeagh arrived on the
American Export liner Exeter, which
| brought 2l3 passengers, including
sixty-eight United States citizens,
from Lisbon to Pier F, Jersey City.
He was accompanied by his wife and
their daughter, Miss Margaret Mac
Veagh.
Describing the safeguards being
taken in the German capital, Mr.. Mac
Veagh declared:
Evidently they are expecting
something big. Along the bicycle
roads to Potsdam and such places
everybody uses bicycles and the track
is as wide as a room. The tracks,
which were white, are now being
painted green.
"On the outside Of Berlin the ponds
and sheets of water are being cover
ed with reeds so that they will look
green. On the tops of conspicuous
buildings like the Stadium, where
they hold the flower show, they are
planting live trees"
Referring to the feelings of the ma
tives Of Berlin, Mr.. MacVeagh said:
"On the Sunday that the Russian
war broke out there was no enthu-
siasm shown by the people. They ap-
parently had expected Russia to come
to some sort of agreement at the time
Turkey did. But when the Russians
did not the Germans expected that
war would come"
Mr. Mac Veagh and his wife and
daughter were in Athens while the
Nazis made ready for their invasion
of Crete. Preparations for this cam
paign began Immediately after Greece
fell, he said. The MacVeaghs left
Athens on June 5, went to Berlin,
proceeded to Basle, Switzerland, from
the German capital, continued to Bar
celona and then to Lisbon. They
made the overland journey by train
and automobile.
He described the food situation in
Greece as "a progression toward fam
ine." Disruption of communications
also had upset the country, he added.
Characterizing the Greek spirit,
even in defeat, as "magnifcent," he
declared:
'I'm proud of that country. They
are not whimpering a bit. They are
defeated but unconquered."
During British air raids over
Greece at night, he disclosed, the
Greek people cheered the R. A. F.
from streets and rooftops, despite
Nazi admonitions that such demon
strations would lead to arrest.
Another passenger, Michael Gut,
United States citizen, who worked in
Gdynia, Poland, since 1922, disclosed
that that port was used as naval
base by the Nazis. He said he had
seen forty German submarines there
six months ago, and added that the
German liners Deutschland and Cap
Arcona were among the ships moored
in the harbor.
Mr.. Gut left Gdynia in May. He
was removed from the American Ex-
port liner Excalibur three weeks ago
by British authorities at Bermuda.
They questioned him at length, he
said. but treated him well. He plans
to live with a brother in Olyphant,
Pa.
Miss Josephine Porter Winter, rs,
of St. Louis, Mo-, student at the
Sorbonne in Paris, who left her stud
les in literature to become an Ameri-
can volunteer ambulance driver in
France, was another arrival.
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