Val, absolutely fascinating stuff. I've maintained your email in full so those
who missed it can read it. Another Goanetter sent me some of this riverting
information in private email and I'm getting his permission to share that email
with Goanet.
I can confirm from my own research the British counsel, who incidentally lived
a few minutes walk from the German Counsel's house, also had in his pockets a
few Goan spies who kept him informed. It would indeed be interesting to know
who these "Goan spies" were for the British. Minor stuff though. Nothing earth
shattering.
Since we are naming names, (I went back to my notes and checked this) I can
confirm the Goan who was considered pro-Nazi in Goa and kept under minor
surveillance by the British was a doctor Victor Dias brother of Anton Dias. He
might have been from your neck of the woods Val, because allegedly he was
suspended from the Margao hostipal (for another reason altogether which I will
not say).
Now, now, Val, don't make me share any more. You have to buy the....:-))
How old is Mario Cabral to have been around during this time?
Best,
selma
--- On Sat, 11/14/09, Valmiki Faleiro <valmi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Valmiki Faleiro <valmi...@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Goanet] Goan veterans
> To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <goanet@lists.goanet.org>
> Date: Saturday, November 14, 2009, 8:13 AM
> Dear FN and Selma,
>
> Surprised no Goanetter threw more light on Selma's initial
> comments
> on this thread.
>
> The German frigates that sought shelter at Mormugao -- then
> part of
> "neutral" Portugal -- for espionage purposes on the British
> sea-lane to
> India, had powerful radio transmitters. Their messages back
> to Berlin
> were intercepted and decoded by British intelligence in
> Bombay. The
> story of how retired British army personnel -- some with
> dentures and
> even with an artificial eye -- were sent in a rusting barge
> all the way from Calcutta, to handle the German frigates
> docked at Mormugao,
> is the subject of the book titled "The Boarding Party."
>
> The book was converted into a film called the "Sea Wolves"
> -- partly
> filmed in Goa -- less than 30 years ago.
>
> In those cloak-and-dagger days on the hillslopes of
> Altinho-Panjim,
> the German Consul's wife kept local Portuguese intelligence
> men
> happy -- tossing "Crocodile condoms" from the veranda of
> her residence at Altinho ... until a Bombay-based
> intelligence party
> kidnapped key people from Panjim to British India ... and
> the Boarding Party that had sailed all the way from Calcutta
> mined the
> German frigates at Mormugao, while the German sailors were
> merrily partying in Panjim on that Carnaval night.
>
> All this is rather well documented. For finer details,
> Selma must get
> in touch with Mario Cabral e Sa ... he was around when this
> happened
> (I was not yet born then) and was the local organizer for
> the filming
> party of Sea Wolves.
>
> Frederick, remember Dr. Juliao Menezes from Assolna also
> studied
> medicine in Germany. He was in the company of Dr. Ram
> Manohar
> Lohia and both were friends there. When the two returned to
> India,
> Juliao practiced med. from a building opp. St. Xavier's
> College at
> Dhobitalao-Mumbai, while Lohia plunged headlong into the
> freedom
> movement. In fact, in 1946, when Lohia, weak in health, was
> released
> from jail by British authorities in India, Juliao invited
> him to recuperate
> at his mansion in Assolna. That resulted in June 18, 1946
> at Margao --
> at the place now known as Lohia Maidan in downtown Margao.
>
> Regards, v
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frederick Noronha"
> <fredericknoro...@gmail.com>
> To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <goanet@lists.goanet.org>
> Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2009 7:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [Goanet] Goan veterans
>
>
> >
> >
> > Interestingly, there were Goans studying ophthalmology
> and other
> > sciences (mainly) in the Berlin of the 1920s! I think
> Dr Gama Pinto is
> > one such example.
>
