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The auniversary of Colonel Blood's attempt to steal the Crown! Jewels was celebrated on May 9. The story has been told often en- ough, but comparatively few nc- counts record the sequel that the unsuccessful effort brought to Blood! not disgrace and Imprisonment, but Royal favour and mended fortunes.
Colonel Blood was an Irish adven formerly Governor of Bombay and High Commissioner for Egypt and {turer, who gained his military rank the Sudan.
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By Lord Lloyd,
London, May 25. upon the principle of not being un- don as a physician that he conceived
Since August 1914 itself there duly hard on the defeated country, the idea of stealing the jewels from have been few if any politicial oc-bat on placing strong powers over the Tower.
casions when all Europe has been the frontiers to prevent the van- He first of all disguised himself as
so profoundly mirred, we brid its quished from arising again to dis- a parson and struck up a friendship breath so tensely, as during the last turb the peace. |with the keeper, In due course he few weeks.
At Versailles, on the other hand, proposed a marriage between the
Even now, although the situation while fairly rigorous terma него keeper's daughter and a supposed is not so critical as it was, it is, imposed upon Germany, she wal well-to-do nephew of his. A meet nevertheless, obvious that the real surrounded not with strong guards. ing between the young people was ground for apprehension is only but with a series of newly fashion- arranged for the romantic hour of allayed, but in no way removed. - ed and vulnerable States, whose ex 72.m.
What adds to the real, disquiet in jistence was only a temptation to fur
At the appointed time Blood apall our minds is the fact that Ger- ther aggression. peared without his "nephew," but many's recent behaviour bears an One of the chief reasons for the with three swordsmen. They as-uncomfortably close resemblance to near failure of the Four-Power saulted. the keeper and get away Her pre-war attitude. I am not Pact was clearly the alarm of the with the Crown and the orb, but had thinking, in this regard, so smaller States who appear still to leave the sceptre, which they much about Kaiser telegrams or of blind to the fact that it is only had begun to file into two so that it definite explosions like Agadir, of behind the screen of force-and could be packed handily.
the Madeira incident, or even of not in the parlours of Geneva only Persian Gulf raids.
that, the revisions, whose needs The resemblance les more in the they themselves recognise, can be
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The Successful Failure.
I was only the fortuitous arrival general sabre rattling, in the clear undertaken.
of a son of the keeper from Flan-revival of the "Deutschland uber In this respect again German po ders with a military companion that Alles" spirit, and particularly in the icy has blundered. enabled the jewels to be recovered. fact that Germany speaks now—as The robbers were overtaken and she used so frequently then to speak captured.
with two voices.
the same.
Fire-Eaters
Alarmed
It is no use disguising the fact that Germany has defeated its own
Blood put an impudent front to
jends in arousing the alarm of all the an agreement can ever be said with certainty the general public indignation. He
We were accustomed in old days smaller Powere. "As flattered Charles II by, telling him' is that in South Africa, as else that he had lain in the reeds at Bat- to an inflammatory speech from the with them is ultimately essential, where, an influx of women voters
telsea as the King's barge passed Kaiser and equally accustomed to Herr Hitler's Government would Hong Kong, Monday, June 19, 1935. can have only one visible effect with his carbine levelled at the the sequence of the soothing declara-be wise to act towards these States che swelling of the totals on Royal head, but that his "heart was tion from von Bulow. It was com-in a reassuring rather than in an both sides. It is idle to imagine checked by an awe of majesty," mon form.
over-bearing manner.
A continuance, indeed, of the In just the same way we have had South African Elections. that women will vote in mass, and he lowered his weapon and com-
lany more than men. The new Government will find, for all the pelled bis fellow-conspirators to do in the last few weeks the roar from alarms and excursions of the past "Coalitions," it has been said, strength of the mandate it has
¡von Papen followed by the pacific month would, if 'continued, fatally prejudice, any chance of the success "are only possible for a very received, that when it resumes alleging that he was bound by oath,
He also frightened the King by assurances of Hitler
The experienced onlooker, of of a. Four-Power Conference as sug- short time and during a special the work of legislation, the same with hundreds of other adherents of course, has no dificulty in conclud-gested by Mussolini, or of any other emergency.". That, undeniably, problems which confronted its the discontented parties in the ing that von Papen's utterance was conference with
predecessor remain to be grap-State, to commit deeds of violence, for internal and Herr Hitler's for in view has ofter been exemplified pled. Greatest of these, perhaps. A free pardon, he suggested might external consumption none the less, If Germany wants in Whether it will prove true once is the question of native turn potential rebels into loyal sup-no one really knows which voice to Europe as to her intentions she more in the case of South Africa policy, on which the parties were porters. remains to be seen, for the coali- sharply divided. The Hertzog
Blood was pardoned, received into tion formed there is still in its policy of partial segregation had Court and granted an estate
met with bitter opposition, both Ireland.
and infancy, and has just recently on practical
theoretical
made its first appeal, a success grounds; and in the end, when! Your Daily Smile
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was formed, there ful one, to the electors. It has the fusion
was in this regard no decision scarcely yet run the "very short but only a postponement, in Beginnings That Tell All The
Story, time" necessary for serious test-definite as to date. The knotty
"Working late again, I suppose. ing. In fact, the whole crisis to problem of Natal's discontent, which it owes its formation, and both with her own position and therefore with the whole system hence its triumph, is but of re-lof provincial government, was cent date. Less than six months believed to have been solved, have passed since the first was largely, if not entirely, by the
"Once upon a time.......... "I'm only your wife "Notice is hereby given..
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believe: the bellicose voice of the must henceforward-abstain from Prussian or the calmer voice of the foreign adventures. ¡South German.
There must be no more Olysseys Herein, however, lies not only the of fire-eating orators to Vienna or abiding source of anxiety but of of storm detachments to Danzig! that actual fear that holds all Nor can the Nazi Government real- Europe in its grip, and wrecks Dis-ly suppose for a moment that its jarmament Conferences.
propaganda in North Slesvig passes
No wonder France is anxious. No completely unnoticed! wonder that Roosevelt's speech)
Policies of this kind, if permitted from afar is drowned in the zoles-even if not deliberately organised by the Government are likely to (so near at hand.
It is also already, clear, and not lead to something akin to a Jameson unnaturally clear, that not only Raid, whether in the north or in the French but European opinion in east.
(Continued on Page 10.) general is disappointed in the fact The little daughter of the house shown no sign of making any ef- that President Roosevelt has as yet the seemingly solid party of sides. Nevertheless, the last has had just played her piece, and her fective subscription to European
mother was beaming. Nationalists led by General Hert not been heard of those who de-
peace, such as would be afforded, "Don't you think my daughter has by a definite American guarantee off zog, threats which were followed sire to remould the Union on a talent 7" she said to her visitor.security.
federalistic basis. At least one If you have a special wish, just by rapid and numerous re Natal representative who stood name it. shuffings Mr. Tielman Roos's fast by the old demand has been she likes with the plane.
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So long as America's contribution is confined to a suggestion of a new pact of non-aggression, the situation FRENCH SKIPPERS DECORATED is not likely to improve. For it is jevident that either the Kellogg Pact
Paris.
Heroic rescues effected in con-
appearance as a crusader for ra- returned, and others, if less un-
"Er-could she shut it?" asked cial unity set forces in motion compromising, are not likely to the visitor
forget it entirely. Allowing for which speedily showed their these things, and also remember- effects. He had two objecta — toling that in this alliance there
A rich uncle sent McTavish five means something, in which case a forma a coalition between his own was, as always, a certain mea pounds for a week a holiday, as he new pact of non-aggression is su- nection with a number of terribla somewhat nebulons group and fact still emerges that South later one of the sons presented him at all, in which case yet another new at a solemn munting, sation for sere of political expediency: the had never seen them a few days perfluous; or that it means nothing catastrophies were recalled when, the South African party of Gen- Africa has achieved a noteworthy self at the uncle's house and hand-pact la futile.
Jed by the National Federation eral Smuts, and to force South feat. Here we have a countryed him a note.
If one thing has been proved in Devoted Service were distributed. Africa off the gold standard. In which is feeling, like others, the "Dear Uncle," "
i read, "here"
"here's the past 15 years it is surely that Major Depesseville, of the Firet the second of these he succeeded which knows as painfully as any anither as twe peas, so I didna think possession of the peacefully-mind-stepped forward to receive the effects of the depression, and Donal; Sandy and him are as like vin past, unbuttressed by force In Regiment of the Foreign Legion, with unexpected swiftness, but in the world the sufferings caus- it was worth the expense to send ed, are not only useless but of post-medal awarded the Regiment for the coalition which he advocated ed by drought and natural pests, the two"
Live danger in the illusion they its herole conduct when a troop train crashed down an embankment afford... It is inhabited by three races,
The world by now has learnt into a ravine in Algeria, Prince Axel of Denmark, an outstanding enough through its past mistaken figure in the Foreign Legion, was to recognise the only roads that can also awarded a gold medal, which lead to peace These roads are 'se- curity on the one hand, and justice was handed to the Danish consul-
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Single Smuts, with himself left outside. more than once waged war Customer: “I suppose you are All but the extreme Nationalists, against each other. The third, own boss?”- such as Dr. Malan, were quickly, a virile black stock warlike by Barber: "No, sir. I'd give any
instinct and tradition, is still at thing to be single again." converted to the wisdom of a times restless. What country
Major Rossignol, of the Lyons union which formerly they had stands in plainer need of unity Facts You Did Not
Fire Brigade, received both bin refected when put forward by and peace to prepare the way of
own gold medal, and one for M Know. the official Opposition, under cir-Prosperity ? It took stern neces
We all know at long last that real Herriot, as mayor of Lyons, ja sity, felt through many years, to cumstances which threatened no bring the simple truth home to Chinese banks, exchanges and treaty revision, nor can revisión be both, took in dealing with the peace can never be obtained without connection with the netive part danger. The agreement to end the hearts of the leaders, But commercial firms have discontinuattempted without security. It was collop of a block of flats at political strife was hailed by the those who are inclined to sneered the use of the tacl unit of value, therefore, in the clear recognition of Sea disasters, were also recalled.
Caluire, a suburb of Lyons,,70 majority of South Africans, and at that fact might pause to re-using only the yuan, the new stan- these truths that lay the great hope Gold medals were awarded both flect that the world has many dard silver dollar and the official of the Four-Power Fact to Captain Schools of the was then endorsed at the polls. other leaders who have failed to monetary unit:
In that policy Germany was to Atlantique, and Captain Vicg, of A win for the Govertiment was a read that lesson even yet. Made
have been invited on equal terms the Georgen Philippar for their foregone conclusion, and the wise, and before the eleventh An American aviation company with France, Italy and Great Bri- conduct when their vesson were hour, the whites of South Africa recently completed 50,000,000 miler tain to erect a screen of security he destroyed by fire. The loctor of main interest of the contest was have agreed to come together Lot of flying more than 23,000,000 bind which the injustices of the the Atlantique won a special prize, therefore to be sought in side their own salvation,
and the
of which was done at night (Versailles Treaty could be examined Admiral Herr stepped forward to isques and local
incidents. troth this piffabed in their name more than that done in eight Euro-and remedied Women voted for the first time, has been honoured at
nations combined."" and speculation had been active There is a moral
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