THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 24, 1937.
AUSTRO-ITALIAN PARLEY
Mussolini's Stress On Rome-Berlin Axis
ACTRESS AND HER LETTERS
Blackmail Plan Alleged
“IN THE HANDS OF A DANGEROUS MAN”
Letters said to have been written to an actress by a man "of some position" were mentioned at Marl- borough-street police-court. The actress was referred to as Miss “X” and the man as Mr. "Y."
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Harold Armitage, a labourer, charged on remand with demanding sums of £2 and £3 from Miss "X, with intent to steal, gave evidence in his defence.
He said that he came from Hud- dersfield eight days before the al- leged offence. In London he met a man named Robinson, who asked him if he wanted to make some money easily.
Robinson, Armitage alleged, said:
Military Control On
N.W. Frontier:
Simla, To-day.
Under orders of the Govern ment of India, General Sir John Coleridge, General Officer Com- manding, Northern Command, will assume political control, as from to-day in Waziristan and the tribal areas in Waziristan on the border which have been under the control of the deputy commissioner of the Bannu and Deraismail Khan districts. Reuter.
HU KIANG-TANG TO SEE CHIANG
More Responsible Post Reported Likely
Lieutenant-General
Hu Kiang-
Dr. Schuschnigg Urges Claim To Neutrality
Venice, To-day. Unofficial Austrian cries here were surpris- ed, sceptical and puzzled when they learned last night that Signor Gayda, the Duce's mouth- piece, had telephoned to his newspaper in Rome stating that as a sequel to the Mussolini-Schusch- nigg meeting, Nazis would soon be admitted to the Austrian Government.
SIGNOR GAYDA ALSO TOLD HIS PAPER, THE "GIOR- NALE D'ITALIA," THAT ITALY IS STILL PREPARED TO GUARANTEE AUSTRIAN INDEPENDENCE AS IN 1934, WHEN SHE RUSHED ARMY DIVISIONS TO THE BORDER AFTER THE MURDER OF CHANCELLOR DOLLFUSS.
"I know a film actress in the West tang, Chief of Staff to General Yu Berlin axis is the dominant. in-jat Venice, the "Paris Soir" pub-
who was maid to the actress, been wrongly accused.
had
the
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The report has strengthened have not yet commented upon the
the the feeling that
Rome-Mussolini-Schuschnigg conversations
Han-mau, Pacification Commission- End who has just got my wife sen-
fluence in Italy's foreign policy. lishes a despatch from its special. er for Kwangtung, left Hong Kong
SCHMUSCHNIGG (2) tenced to six month, and I intend to
correspondent giving another view- While the official communique point of the talks. get my own back on her somehow." for Shanghai last night in
stresses the identity of Italo-Aug- The correspondent
says it is Robinson explained that his wife, President Jefferson.
It is reliably stated that General trian views, it is worthy of note already apparent that Austria will Hu has been summoned by Generalis- that there have. recently been di-continue to remain loyal "Easy To Get Money From"
simo Chiang Kai-shek to a personal vergencies between Italy and Aus letter of the Rome Protocols. Armitage declared that Robinson interview and that he is likely to tria, and many Austrians fear they
Austria, however, strongly re- said Miss "X" was an "easy woman be given a more responsible posi-are being "handed
the fuses to be drawn into any sort of to get money from." He produced tion in Kwangtung.
agreement with Germany, though she two letters bearing the address of General Hu is at the same time
is just as strongly opposed to close Miss "X," and said they were given carrying General Yu's inquiries re-
alliance with the democratic group. to him by his wife, and would de-garding the health of the Generalis-
Trans-Ocean. mand and amount of money.
simo.
Robinson gave him a key which
I
he said would open both doors at who may cause a lot of trouble.' Miss "X's" flat, and also details of told her I would do my level best to where Miss “X” kept her money and get the letters, and she said it was jewellery. He suggested that Armi- very kind of me.”
** tage should enter the flat after mid- night and “turn it over.”
Armitage said that Miss gave him $2 to get his best suit out Armitage said that he and Robin-of pawn, and urged him to do his son went to the flat. Armitage saw best to get the letters for Miss "X," who said she knew Ro-her. Robinson suggested that he binson only through his wife.
should share the money and he gave "I told Miss 'X,' Armitage con-Robinson £1. tinued, "that Robinson had sug-
Robinson, Armitage added, then gested to me that I should black-said: "We will leave her alone for mail her, but that I had no inten- a few days now. We will slip out
›"Armi-
tion of doing anything of the kind, of London and see Mr. Y?'
"I told her about the two letters tage said he declined to go. Robinson had shown me and said: Armitage was committed for trial 'If those letters are yours, they are at the Old Bailey, bail not being in the hands of a dangerous man, allowed.
Nazis."
over to
AUSTRIA'S DESIRE
The Italians, on the other hand, have felt that France and Czecho- Slovakia are trying to drag Austria into the bloc hostile to Germany. MARRIAGELESS
Austrian circles declare that GIRLS
Austria will not enter either the
anti-German pro-or
bloc but PREFERENCE stands for unfettered independence and neutrality in similarity to Bel- gium.-Reuter.
MUSSOLINI LEAVES
Venice, To-day.
to the
Pensions Before Clothes
Endowment insurance policies Signor Mussolini left Venice yes-are taking the place of the bottom terday afternoon for: Rome in his drawer among working girls of triple-engined plane which he pilot-Stanley and Consett, Co. Durham, ed himself. He was seen off at the to whom marriage has become only arodrome by the Austrian Chancel-a remote prospect... lor-Trans-Ocean.
FRENCH COMMENT
Paris, To-day. Although the Paris newspapers
A Spanish barricade after a battle on the Basque front, Bullet riddled sandbag "dence of the fierceness of the fighting.
mute evi
a
Girls who have been either cross- ed in love, or have never had sweetheart, when they turn thirty now begin to think of the future.
Numbers at work in offices, shops and factories are denying themsel- ves pleasure and clothes in order to pay half crown and five shillings premiums to provide a pensión in the days when they will have to de- pend on their own resources.
The local Registrar, Mr. William Armstrong, said that - during the past twelve months -marriages at Stanley have dropped 40 per cent., and an insurance agent said during that period scores of girls" : "had taken out endowment policies.-
The reason for it all is that since January, 1936, over 400 young men, unable to get work, have left for other parts of the country.
CHINESE CHRISTIAN
FELLOWSHIP
4. The last meeting of the Fellow- ship will be held to-morrow St. Paul's Church Social Hall at 8.00 p.m. The speaker will be Mr. Tom Moore...
All are welcome.