Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-07
Out of the Night

communism on ships under the
flags of Balkan countries.
During the day Popovics
slept on a cot in the lower
hold of the Bochum. At night
he m a d. the clandestine
presses thump. He was calm,
without fear. Duty was the
breath of his life. He be-
longed to the type who would
rather hang himself or cut
his veins than betray trust.
The first material which
flew off the presses under
Popovics' expert hands was a
fiery manifesto the text of
which had been forwarded TO
all organizations by the Berlin
central committee. II had
been written in a language of
which Ernst Wollweber was
master and ended with the
call:
"Disarm the Storm Troops
Arms into the Hands of the
Workers."
Communists on ships enter
ing Hamburg from Dutch and
Belgian ports brought with
them consignments of fire.
arms for the Red Front
Fighters League. To my
Apparat fell the task of carry
ing the guns safely ashore, TO
be handed over TO the courierS
of Edgar Andree, the chief of
the partys military forma-
tons.
l saw much OF the Red
Front Fighters in these days.
Pay roll robberies to obtain
money for arms, raids on
arms stores, organized plum
dering of food shops, am
bushes with intent to kill, and
terroriZation of policemen in
outlying districts formed the
bulk of their current tasks.
The sounds of shooting from
tenement roofs were heard in
the city every night. AS yet,
not many of the snipers were
apprehended.
FINDS ANDREE
Coming home late one night
found Edgar Andree in my
apartment. Andree liked
Firelei. She had at times de-
signed new insignia for his
armed columns, and had often
painStakingly copied plans of
police stations, Reichwehr
barracks, railway yards and
the like at his request.
This time l beheld strange
scene: Edgar Andree lay back
in corner of a chaise
Tongue, his powerful frame re-
Taxed, slipping coffee with the
usual vaguely humorous ex-
preston on his bold dusky
features. In front of him
Firelei paraded. She wore
bathing suit. Above her
knees. strapped with strong
rubber bands, were several
small automatic pistols of
Belgian make.
! laughed.
What's this -" I said.
Andree chuckled.
II am experimenting. Since
our boys have started TO re-
lieve careless Brownshirts OF
their guns, the Nazis have
started something new. The
storm troopers promenade
around trying to look love-
sick. and close by walk the
Nazi girls with guns strapped
TO their thighs. It's easy TO
search Fascist. Not every
one of the comrades has the
nerve to paw strange
woman. Clever"
And nOw?"
For the first time Com
rade Edgar steals an idea
from the Nazis," Firelei said.
why shouldn't our girls
learn the technique? Police
men. too, hesitate to search
women on the open street"
Truth is," said Edgar
Andree. II came here for a
peaceful cup Of coffee"
GETS GUNS FROM GIRLS
A few days later the new
technique was used by
Andree'S guards in an assault
on a storm trooper strong
hold, the Adler Hotel near
the Central Station. The
troopers. finding the unknown
men who lounged in nearby
doorwayS unarmed, feare
nothing.
The girls, who came later,
were not molested. At the
shrill of whistle, they handed
the pistols they carried TO the
Red Front guards. An in
slant later deadly fuSillade
was under way. The Adler
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