THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 23, 1937.
THE
WORLD
GOES BY
THIS are apparently
monkey business in Spain,
more foreigners
fighting than
NAVAT MANOEUVRES OFF
GIBRALTAR
Mediterranean And Home Fleets In Co-operation
LONDON, TO-DAY. THE ANNUAL JOINT MAN- OEUVRES OF THE HOME AND MEDITERRANEAN FLEETS WILL BEGIN OFF- GIBRALTAR ON MARCH 1 AND WILL LAST FIVE DAYS.
Spaniards. is causing we gentle- men (so-called) of the press a lot of hefty and laborious thinking. So much, in fact, have I thought about it that the other night I had
This is announced by the "Daily a nightmare. It was ghastly. From
adds that the Spain, where Frenchmen in spiked Telegraph,” which helmets were fighting side by side exercises will be relatively restrict- with Germans wearing kilts. and led in scope in view of the necessity ducky General Franco was riding for economising in fuel supplies, a white horse like a modern Maid since the patrol activities of the of Orleans gone mad. I travelled (British fleet on the Spanish coast to is already consuming an extraor- (in the aforesaid nightmare) Papua, where native
dinary amount of fuel repelling an invasion mounted
vaks. again too much for
On
houris were of Eskimos
Altogether 88 units, including This was nine large battleships, will parti- me, even (cipate in the manoeuvres-Trans- Fo a nightmare, and I switch- Ocean.
ed to the
Australian
bush,
where surely, I thought, there
would be peace. But no.
Here
a battalion of Guards, formed up
GUNPOWDER IN TANKS
in a good old Wellingtonian square, Customs officers carrying out a was surrounded by medieval Cru-routine examination of a Portu-
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saders, while Dervishes and bersa- guese steamer at Barry (Glamor LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY® |
glieri cheered on the sidelines. The gan) found a case of gunpowder referee was a Dutch burgher. This in tins in the fresh-water tanks of was again too much and I went on the steamer. It is estimated that again, to Persia, where I found athere were 771b in the tins. The French alpine battalion and Eng-chief officer stated that the vessel lish yeomanry opposed to savages had been to the Guianas and sug- from Terra del Fuego. In Terra gested that members of the crew del Fuego had appeared a Japanese stowed away the powder to sell it landing party while in the fields of to natives there for hunting. Kent wild Afridi tribesmen were sniping the U. S. Marines. I draw all this to the attention of the League or the non-intervention committee, or even the Hong Kong Government. Something must be done about it.
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of
Here is the first instalment another of those serial stories. It is a drama (or I hope it will turn out to be one) of polítics, war and what have you.
The crew has been interrogated and the facts reported to the Por tuguese Consul in Cardiff, who will communicate with the authorities at Lisbon. The gunpowder was confiscated.
EMPRESS OF BRITAIN
The RMS. "Empress of Britain,” on her round the world cruise, ar-- rived at Colombo yesterday, leaves on Friday, is due at Penang on Monday, March 1, and is due at Hong Kong on March 21 at 3 p.m.
It was a typical November day in London. It was also a typical day in the Foreign Office. That is to say, the Under Secretaries, the Under-Under-Secretaries, ordinary secretaries, clerks, typists, book- keepers, commissionaires and charretary, never at a loss for a witty women, all slumbered gently in the luxurious chairs provided by a paternal government for the com- fort of its faithful servants. -
repartee.
The foreign envoy was about fo speak when he suddenly fell for ward across the desk-dead. "Out- side, the window cleaner chuckled sardonically and vanished in a puff of smoke.
Only in the Foreign Secretary's room was there any sign of activity. Here the suave Mr. Percival Fitz
"Hush!" whispered a low voice. Allan (one of the Leicestershire FitzAllans), His Majesty's princi-It was La Carioca! La Carioca, who pal Secretary of State, was seated knew the secrets of every country behind a vast mahogany desk. In in Europe. La Carioca, the too in- another chair in front of him timate friend of every head of lounged Bruno Ivanitch, the Bel-State. gravian Ambassador, a sinister figure feared in all the Chancellor- ies of Europe.
The British Foreign Secretary turned pale.
Meanwhile in far away Iceland another sinister drama was being Swaying gently on a plank out- side the open window was a wenacted Documents of the utmost dow cleaner. An observant wat importance had disappeared from cher would have seen the sub-the Icelandic Premier's residence, machine gun (fitted with a silen and a large-scale man-hunt was on, led by the French and British cer) and the sawn-off -
military attaches. (also fitted with a silencer) which protruded from his pocket. neither of the two distinguished statesmen was observant.
The Belgravian Government mand the immediate payment indemnity of £500,000 2 Br Ivanitch was saying.
"And so I bid five diamonds murmured the British Foreign Se
What has La Carioca to do with his sensational turn to the inter-
ional situation Who
will be Bill Smith, of Clapham? Why did the Foreign
furu pale? Further startling revelations
sed to-morTOW.
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