TUESDAY, JULY 26, 1932,
MAN HE BEFRIENDED
THE CHINA MAIL.
ROBS GRAND DUKE. Wartime "Bad Blood"
Jewellery Valued At
Over £1,000.
SERVANT VANISHES.
Paris, July 6.
This is the story of a compas- sionate Grand Duke, a Russian "refugee," and a diamond brooch, which once belonged to the Czar's sister.
Clad in rage, a man arrived at the Villa of the Grand Duke Boris of Russia at Bellevue, near Paris. He told a pitiful story of having escaped after much auf, fering from Soviet Russia; 、--
The Grand Duke engaged him as a gardener's assistant.
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Worried Leaders
"Papa" Joffres Memoirs Tell Of Troubles
·TRAGIC MISUNDERSTANDINGS
BISHOP OF SHANTUNG
IS HONOURED.
Tiffin At Chefoo Largely Attended.
YEARS IN FAR EAST.
A tiffin in honour of the 25th anniversary of His Excellency, the Right Reverend Adeophat Wittner, Q.F.M., as Bishop of held at Chefoo Shantung, was
In addition to the recently. Paris, June 11, their movements to those of neigh-American, British and Japanese Dissensions between the British bouring troops.
Consuls, Commissioner of Cus- British Complaints. and French High Commands at the
toms and other prominent off- While this conversation was pro-cials of the port, there were pre- are beginning of the Great War
on ceeding, Sir John French entered sent many notable members of among the historic which much light in thrown by the with Sir Archibald Murray, his the Catholic clergy in China, in- Chief of Staff. Joffre, who expect- cluding Bishop Jarre Cyrillus of memoirs of Marshal Joffre.
Extracts from these memoirsed to find the same calm French Tsinan. Bishop Weig Georges of
events
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Three days later, the man ask-have been published by the Illus of their last interview, was taken Tsingtao, Bishop Pingor Ambro- Calves' Head & Feet ed for employment in the house tration although they will not ap- aback by his bitter complaints sius of Changtien. Bishop Hon. Mutton Chop on the pretext of poor health. pear in book form for some time, that, owing to the precipitate re- Gaspard of Teining, and the pro- The vitally important five days treat of the 5th French Army on curators of the missions in His request was granted.
are his right, his troops had been ex- Shanghai and Peiping, Now the man has disappeared from August 25 to 29, 1914,
to the most violent enemy A gold chalice suitably inscrib-Pig's Chittings --and with him the brooch and dealt with in the first instalment. posed
from greatly superior ed and an altar rug were present- other jewellery valued at over During these days the Marshal attacks
ed by Mr. Leroy Webber, Ameri- £1,000. The brooch bore the for- was making supreme efforts to re-forces.
Joffre answered that the whole can Consul, on behalf of the for- mer owner's initials in diamonds group his forces on a new strate- surmounted by the Imperial Rus-gical plan, which should have allied force had been subjected to eign community of Chatoo. The given the Allies the opportunity of a violent, offensive and begged him latter, in a few well chosen re- sian Crown.
The thief was seen leaving the launching the counter-attack now to believe that the British had no marks, voiced the deep appre
respect. He ciation of everyone' in Chefoo for house by the Grand Duke's niece, known to history as the Battle of monopoly in this
went on, he says in his book, to the splendid-services rendered by Pork Chop after breaking open the desk in the Marne.
There are constant references to urge the necessity, since the orf- Bishop Wittner and that the which the jewellery was kept.
the British Army, to the "bad re-ginal plan had proved a failure, of gift, by members of all denomina- lations" between Sir John French instantly putting into execution ations and different faiths, was a Fat or Lard and General Lanrèzac, command-new one on the lines of the gen-fitting testimonial of the high Sheep's Head & Feet Ing the 5th French Army on the eral order when Sir John French esteem in which Bishop Wittner! British right, and to the alleged had received the day before. is held in the district. The pre- difficulty of getting Sir John to From his blank expression sentation speech was followed by agree to common action and to Jeffre realised that French had those of the Chinese, French, Sacking Pige, to order grasp the importance of the strate-
knowledge of this general German, Spanish, Italian, Ameriquet, Beer gical plan then being evolved. order, and discovered that this can and Canadian clergy; each
Joffre attached great importance most important document had not member speaking in his native v to the interview which he had ar-been passed on to him. The plan tongue. The speeches of the Sausages ranged with French and Lanrezac which it embodied consisted prin- guests were followed by an ap- for the 26th at St. Quentin. Lan- cipally in the transfer of forces propriate reply by Bishop Witt- rezac, who joined Joffre on his ar from the French centre to the ex-ner.
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of a larger force," paid but little raidly advancing. German right grams of congratulation from Barbel To give time, for this all parts of the world were read. Bream manoeuvre it was essential that the British force should not re- treat too rapidly.
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The battle of Le Cateau which was fought the next day seemed to dash Joffre's last hopes in this respect. He says that Colonel Huguet, French Haison officer at |British G.H.Q., reported to him that the British forces seemed to have lost all cohesion.
THE MEANING OF CAP
FASCISM.
Signor Mussolin's Own Definition.
"A REALISTIC DOCTRINE.”
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his doctrine to writing in Sir John French, that a telegram should be sent thanking the Bri-12,000 word article. tish Army for the great sacrifice; He argues that Fascism is not they had made for the French in fact a doctrine, but "a man- Shark
ner of living," and he asserta Sir John French had urged the that "Fascism conceives life as advisability of such a massage be-lof the individual man first to a struggle in which it is the duty ing sent, as should it become conquer himself and Bo
make known in England under what con-himself a worthy instrument for Tench ditions the British Army had been service to himself, the nation, Turtles, small fr. wate condemned to fight, the resulting and humanity." bitterness of feeling might have had the most far-reaching effects.
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Ballfe Armstrong, in a brief||
order to gain the necessary time tic doctrine and aspires to solve for the force which was being mov on a practical basis all problems ed, to the left to come into action. that arise, For the Fascist all is
Sir John refused to co-operate in the State, and nothing human speed in shorthand and typewriting speech, expressed amazement at the and was seconded by Sir Archibald or spiritual exists or has value and of typing to popular airs was excellence of all he had witnessed Murray, whom Joffre observed outside the State. We strikingly evidenced at Skerry's and high appreciation of the great secretly pulling at the skirts of "In this tense Fascism is totali prize-giving when 500 studente, work which the College was doing. his chief's service jacket, to con-tarian, and interpreta the whole parents, and friends enthusiastical- frm him in his decision.
life of the natión:
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The people] ly acclaimed the kecomplishments Motoring back through Rheims form the State as a people, and of teams of the Collegs trafñees. in the worst of humeurs and # not as a majority of individuals. -- In the course of time-testa check. fealing of general despair, General For this reason. Fascism is ed by a stop-watch, Miss Mary Joffre discovered. General /. (Sir against Democracy, which equal Wale wrote in Pitman's shorthand Another successful whilt drive Henry) Wilsor pacing up and ises people on the lower level of an unfamiliar passage from a com- was held at the European down in front of the statue of the majority and conceive peo Joan of Arc before the Cat dral quantitatively and qualitativ Heroined him and ma
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