WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1933.
ALLEGED SPIES IN
PARIS ROUND-UP
Arrested Americans Protest Innocence.
DECLARE PLOT FRAMED
BY FRENCH POLICE
Paris.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Switz, American eltizens who were arrest-) ed by the French police on charge of espionage, with night other persons, in a big round up were examined by the magistrate.
They professed their entire in- nocence of the charges and déclar-j ed that they were the victims of a police frame-up. They were taken into custody, presumably because of their too close association with persons who were said to be known by the police to be actively engaged in explonage.
The police, upon making the ar rests, stated that they had carried out the biggest anti-spy coup since. the outbreak of the World War, and subsequently stated that the raml-1 acations of the threads of espion- age pointed back to Berlin.
CHRISTMAS DAY ON U.S. FLAGSHIP.
Santa Claus Visits The Mindanao.
MERRY PARTY GIVEN ON
CHRISTMAS MORNING. Christmas celebrations on board the US.S. Mindanao, flagship of the South China Patrol of the American Navy. were of an un. usually elaborate character, a big party being held on board in the morning at which Santa Claus, who came on board by sampan, appear- ed laden with gifts for the chil dren. A splendid Christmas tree was arranged on deck.
The celebration opened with short religious service, A carol "Merry Christmas to you, All,” be-
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FUKIEN READY TO ATTACK
(Continued from Page 1
The military authorities here, however, believe that no major war is expected before an order for a general offensive is issued.
SOUTHERN LEADERS AND NANKING.
Demand Government
Reorganisation.
IMPORTANT MEETING IN CAPITAL TO-DAY.
Nanking, To-day.
N. C. O. DISMISSED FROM ARMY
Local Court Martial's Stern Sentence.
G.O.C. REDUCES GAOL TERM
THE CHINA
To-day's Short Story.
WHEN I
WAS IN
AFRICA
It happened many years ago in the town of Casablanca.
By Massimo Bontempelli.
One night he told me, as usual: "This night I had bad luck."
Sentence of one year's hard NEVER had any real Inclina labour, reduction to the ranks,tion for murder. In fact, and discharge with ignominy have killed up to now — only my
We went away. But we had from His Majesty's service, has friend Amilcare and when I scarcely moved a step and were still been passed on Sergeant William consider this deed now that a on the threshold of the play room, John Thomas, 2nd Battery, long time has elapsed it seems to when he, putting a hand into his R.H.K.S.R.A., for the misappro- me that it was not a bad idea, pocket to take out his cigarettes,
found he had still one franc left. [priation of mess' funds.
after all. Six months of the prison sen
"By Jove!" he said, "I have not tence, decided by the District
lost all I will go and stake it. I Court Martial, last week, has, I had gone to Casablanca to will soon be back." however, been remitted by His recover from a love trouble, caused He had already nearly approach Excellency the G.O.C. Major by an American girl, who had fol-ed the roulette when he came again General O. C. Borrett.
lowed me from Europe to Asia, and towards me. Five charges, involving a sum had forsaken me there. As I |of $284.83, payable to Messrs. naturally began to hate. Europe, Abbas Khan, army contractors, Asia and America, I decided to live jwere preferred. At the trial for a certain time in Africa-seeing the accused denied the misappro-that Australia is too far away, priation, and described the allega-This is why I was at Casablanca tions as a conspiracy.
which, as some people know, is just in Africa, on the Atlantic.
TAMAR CHRISTMAS TRAGEDY Signalman Sullivan Buried Yesterday.
FULL NAVAL HONOURS '
ACCORDED
He was a Portuguese born in
an easy-
"Where shall I put it?" he asked. "Where you like. Be quick.” "No," he insisted, "tell me on what number I have to stake it.".
“Well, on the 45."
"But there is no 45," he cried in a dejected tone, "there are only 36 numbers."
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be "The Mai Of 81, Maurice," by Michael Kent.
I was bored. Just to make an end of It:
"Leave all on the 36," I replied. "Be......really?" he stammered. I was imperative and pitiless. "Leave all there."
Just to calm my embittered mind, I remained shut up in my room all day long, writing a life of Ruggero Bonghi, with the help of documents I had gathered in my travels At! night I used to go out and take a modest mozagran in one of the two hundred tabarins which flourished in that noble colony. It was in one of these resorts that I made the
"All right, then, put it on the 86," acquaintance-1 should really AAY
He hurried to the roulette. A The funeral of Signalman John the friendship of a modest and minute later I heard the herald- man whose name was like voice of the croupier announce: The Nanking Government claims Augustine Sullivan, who was fatal- passionate
Amikare.
"Trente-siz_rouge, pair et passe,” The recapture of Pingnan from thely injured on Monday afternoon on
A the trembling back' of] rebels after a six-hour engagement board H. M. S. Tamar as a result Įthere.-Central News Agency.
of a fall into the midship hatchway, Brazil, who sold carpets from a Amilcare, and his hands stretching took place this morning at the great stock which he had brought out towards the ave-frane coins every which were heaped by the side of Roman Catholic Cemetery, Happy with him. He would come Valley, with full Naval honours. night to that tabarin to garable at his franc. Meanwhile, he half turn-
lose all he had The Rev. T. A. Giles, Chaplain to the roulette and
Jed his head towards me, asking, H.MS. Medway, officiated, H.M.S. been able to earn during the day. with choked voice:
I did not gamble, for I had noticed Tamar supplying the firing party.
"Tell me, quick, quick: where shell The coffin draped with the Union several times that I was unlucky. I stake these 86 franca?" Jack, was conveyed from the Royal but stretched myself' on Naval Hospital on a gun carriage chair to wait for him. drawn by a gun's crew from H.M.S. Happily it never took more than Berwick, the cortege including Com-Jan hour for Amilcare to lose all be modore Frank Elliott, Cdr. C. H. had. Therefore, towards midnight, from my Heath-Caldwell, D.S.O., H.M.S. Ta-lhe came to remove me Ing rendered, followed by the The Central Political Council of mar, Lieut. Cdr. R. G. Chichester, easy-chair, saying: Lords Prayer and the hymn the Nanking Government is holding H.M.S. Tamar, Surg. Lieut. J. Cor- "This night I had bad luck"
And the Herald Angels Sing" an important meeting this morning bett. H.M.S. Tamar, and Lieut. W.
we went home together, Next instrumental selections were to discuss the situation arising out E. C. Lowndes, BM.S. Cornflower, under the heavy tropical stars, rendered by the Mindanao of the demand of the Southern messmates from H.M.S. Tamar, Minstrels, and another caral, leaders for the reorganisation of firing party from H.M.S. Berwick.
Ithe Central Government. "Silent Night," followed:""
Royal Marines, a band from H.M.S. At the meeting, the Peace Dele Berwick, and a large number of Next came the Christmas tree
A cry of astonishment was utter. festival and distribution of gifts, station is expected to submit a re- Petty Officers and ratings.
fed by two or three people. The and two more songe "Don't Say port on the results of their visit to
croupier was already counting out Aloha
inside the Caroland formed al Plane Used To Survey with indifference the sum of money When I'm Gone" and Canton and Kwangtung. "America" brought a
Dr. H. H. Kung, the Finance guard of honour.
Ito Amilcare. Minister, arrived here from Shang- Wreaths were from Commodore
"And now?" he asked with a volče thorning to a close.
hal this morning in time to attend and Mrs. Frank Elliott, H.M.S. Aboard Byrd's Flagship in the which seemed that of a ghost. DIRIGIBLES TO SPAN PACIFIC the meeting.-Central News Agen-Tamar; Ward Room Officers, H.M.Antarctic-A fight over the un-
“And now,” I said imperatively,| 8. Tamar; Eng. Cmdr. P. H. Mc-charted vastness of the Rosa Sea has "home!"
He was so full of humble admira- Cartan, and Engine Room Staff, convinced Admiral Richard -.. Byrd HLM.S. Tamar; Chief, P.0.8 and that he will be able to push his ship tion- for me that he did not dare He spread his P.S.A, H.M.S. Tamar: Communica-much further toward Little Ameri- to object a word. tions Staff, H.M.S. Tamar; Chief ca than he expected.i.
one thousand two hundred and Yeomen and Yeomen, H.M.S. When the flagship, ploughing ninety-six franca in all his pocketā Tamar; St. Patrick's Club; Q.M.' down along the 150th meridian, en-and, like a docile dog, like a women Mess, HMS. Tamar; P.O.s' Mess, countered a seemingly impenetrable in love, followed me without speak. H.M.S. Tamar; Royal Marines, H. Ice pack, Byrd, with a crew of four, ing.
On the following day I no longer Rizal Day will be celebrated by M.S. Tamar; Mac, Jerry, Niger, struck out in the seaplane on Decem for a year or two, and thereafter the Filipino community of
Hong John and
O'Connor; Shipmates. ber 22 over the uniqown spaces thought of all this, of course, and was busy about Ruggero Bonghi. the service would be extended to Kong on Saturday, December 30. AH.M.S. Tamar; V/S Dept., H.MS ahead.. the Philippines.
They returned to report that there Amikare came to my house in the He said A type of dirigible similar to the tin will be held at Lane, Craw Wren; Ocers and Ship's Com
fords, and will be followed by music, pan, H.M.S. Tarantula; Communt was no heavy loo pack ahead. It evening to take me out. songs and dancing. Judge A. R. cations Staff, H.M.B. Keppel; Com-had first been supposed that the nothing, only he proposed with in- Teodoro, of the Philippine Islands, munications Staff, H.M.S. Berwick; pack was impenetrable, extending difference:
Stonecutters W/T Station;
far across the Ross Sea and backed "Shall we go to the "Flam- will take the chair.
"Hurk
delightful
(Continued from Page 1). Litchfield said that his com- pany contemplates establishing six-day dirigible service be- tween California and the Phi- Uppines,
The first step would be the opera tion of a line between Hawaii and California on an experimental basla
Davy's present Macon would be em- ployed, Litchfield indicated.
The Goodyear people hope to ob- tain an air-mail subsidy amounting to $5,000,000 for service to Hawaii and a greater amount to support the service to the Philippines.
Legislation to enable the grant- ing of such contracts is awaited.
Ships for such a commercial ser- vice have already been designed. with 7,500,000 cubic foot hellum ca pacity, capable of carrying 100 pas- sengers, and 10,000 pounds of mail and freight.
Glass enclosed promenade decks! along the bottoms of the akipe,} smoking rooms, dining quarters and shower baths are called for in the blueprints.
Two such dirigibles would be con- templated for the Pacific service af first, Development from then on would depend on traffic in prospect. The Goodyear people anticipate that such a line would have patron age because of the shorter time ft would take to cross the Pacific by that route.
...! The fastest service. by ocean] liners between the Philippines and the United States in 20 or 21 days,
Litchfield indicated that if the next session of congress would clear the way for such a programme, the dirigibles could be bulit and in operation by IDÉS...
The service would connect Hono lulu with Bán Francisco In 38 hours, Emergency landing equipment ould be established in Guam be- ween the Philippines and Honolulu.
The Hon.
of the Aslatio
(South China) rived. bäck from': Manila,; this
cy.
CELEBRATIONS FOR RIZAL DAY.
Filipino Community To Hold Function.
Tickets for the function may be
and had from Mr. R. Base Atienza.
Outside Catholic Cemetery the
BYRD EXPEDITION IN ROSS SEA.
Heavy Ice Pack.
As obedient as a dog, he left the money on that number. He turned a humble glance to me, upwards, and a glance of fear to the whirling roulette. Then the turning thing slacked down, stopped:
Trente-siz rouge pair et passe.
All warships in harbour. flew by a mass of land like an archipe-boyant'?" (This was the name of Dr. their colours at half-mast from lago. After his flight Byrd was not the tabarin). When we arrived
19.15 an, until 10.16 a.m.
[sure of this-Associated Press. there and I was going to lie down in' my easy chair, he asked with dis- cretion:
As British Quelled Turmoil in Holy Land
"Why do you not come for minute near me? Are you not go- ing to tell me a number?"
I hesitated for a moment, then consented.
Stake on 5.
The 5 won. ""And now?"""
"Stake on 18."
The 18 won, "And" now?”.
Amilcare was not surprised at all. The other players were, instead, and looked at me with a sort of fear, I felt embarrassed, I told him - Im- patiently:7%
“I do not know; do what you like,” I turned my shoulder on him and took refuge in my big leather, easy- chale. But he soon stood before me, calm, and
e “If you do not know, it means that must stop a little.”
|He stood" "just" "thäre, on his feet, looking at me like one who ‚in wait- ing for the doctor to speak while he is looking at the thermometer): or
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