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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1947,
IS MARTIN BORMANN
STILL ALIVE?
Nearly two years after the touring, having been sighted in shooting war, Allled Intelligence southern Spain. Again the story officers are sill truubled by one dissolved into thin" str. top-flight Nozl and the poemingly unanswerable question about hini -where la Martin Bormann?
All efforts to dig
Sweden The much-travelled Bormann was lost reported in Malmo, from where he assertedly a hole for hended for South America to keep | Hider's right-hand" man and the Nazi spirit alive and ready for convincingly ¦ resurgence.
shove him nto it
have falled as perlodle roports of Donnann's appearance at various corters of the globe continue to Alter in.
served many, months in Berlin, though; admitting his belief is that of a minority of intelligence men, is sure Bormann is alive. ・ “Just let them try to have him declared legally dend and settle his estate under present condi- tions," he challenged.
"There's no reason to bellove that he could not be one of thousands who turned up around the end of the war without any papers, nor is there any reason to believe he could not have gone *"Until some farmer digs under his backyard manure pile and finds Bormann there, I am not convinced."
Death Warrant For five months, Bormann has been living, If at all, with a Many intelligence specialists death warrant signed and ready claim there tales are ridiculous, for him. The first Nuremberg for away. that the whole
atribunni, convleting him in absen- thetoric since the Nazi chieftain tin, handed down a "d.ath by is dead and buried. Their
ion runn like this:
verhanging" sentence.
question
One Allled investigator who
Remarkable Alexander Dumas Find
•
Parin, Apr. 2..
It was a thousand-to-one what
The surprising thing about the objection ut police officers' wives
Barmanin cacoped froth tho against the accommodation al-chancellory bunker where Hitler anil latted to them on their arrival in and his long-time mistress
last-minute wife, Eva Braun. the "Strathmore" is not that it died. But he was slaughtered bould have been made, but that when the tank in which he was there are not more outeries of a fleeing was ripped by Russian similar nature. They were, it is fire and went up in dantes.
This story leks one essential true, a little more unfortunate
the corpus delicti. Untų it. than some others inasmuch as the turns up, Bermain will probably interval between the departure of remain a world traveller, report
A two-year-old discovery of a because check at the British the previous occupants and thei ed seen anywhere south of the
musty.. unknown Alexander Museum in London showed the wn arrival, did not give the Arctic circle.
the only known the past
Itler's Dumas manuscript year
has involved mustum had management of the Hotel Cecil strong-arm non has allegedly apiterary experts here recently in copy of the book in English.
Оп reasonable time in which to com peared lu
the following research job that has extended
Arst examination, "The Count of Moret appeared to 1 plete the task of preparing the places: (in each instance Aineri- to three continents.
G-2 officers, Fun
particularly, What they have found has ane and the same ng "The fted premises for their reception. Ear have ridiculed the reports and baled authorities on Dumas frem Sphinx." The opening chapters !} impressions were inevitably have been proven right as the Paris, Loudon and New York to were similar although the word. disagreeable in some cases through |rumzurs were shown to be Just Buenos Aires. such ground for complaint as that). may have been justified on their first entry have since been re- moved. Circumstances dictated
In
Several Times
- A
Among the items was the
ut no one but Dumas himself.
ing was not identical. Thereafter, the two stories differed consider jably in detail.
*The Count of Moret" had been published in Philadelphia about 1888 the cxnet date being un-
CARNIVAL
By Dick Turner
(104)
COPI, TEJE BY HITA BEHNICY, (NS, Y. LA RED-N-G-FAT, CIT.
MAN IN THE
STREET
11-24
"No, I don't approve of female bosses! I couldn't Jake orders from a wommikulia) idoutside the home!"
Is Frozen
Antarctica Warming Up
In 1944. Pierre Angel, a short, nervous little Left Banks back collector bought a number of add
and memoirs
from popers Jormer Russian princess in Paris any initial disconfort they may occupied Gerinmy-This has revolution.
The Black Forest of French-whe fled Hussia following the 1917known. have felt, not design. What does curred several times, especially
No Record not come under the heading of at the time of
the American manuscript of a navel which
Queries to the Congressional mischance is the failure of the Army's "Operation Nursery," "Angel quickly recognized as a Library in Washington and the
of
underground Government, in the last eighteen clean-up
possible Dumus original work.
New York Public Library brought headed by Arthur Asmann, months, to make any obvious at Buldur von Schirach's successor was hand written and signed in Count of Marel." Neither Bbrary The novel, "The Red Sphinx, no additional information on "The tempt to tackle the acute housing as Hitler youth boss.
three Ecparate
Red places by the hall any record of "The shortage in the Colony and thus The Bavariat “Alps-gangs of 4ither. A check with the Dumas Sphinx."
Is the vast frozen "dead Con-/ delinquents, calling heirs living in France today - In the meantime, a
of Antarctica Chilean inent" put themselves into a position - youthful
slowly fering, less cause for dissatisfac- themselves "Edelweiss Pirates, sund Ange) it could be the work correspondent in Paris thought he warming up again toward life?
have sworn after capture that
been' tion. In one sense, the Quarter they had
American scientists have remembered reading "The Count been in radio contact: To, make certain it had never of Maret" in Spanish. He cabled pandering that question since ré- ing Authority deserves. warm Bormann "somewhere
before been published, Angel friends in Buents Aires for veri cent news dispatches desertbeil congratulation on his achievement mountains.".
the mild weather encountered by in meeting the immediate require-
Munich Cailed by the Nazis, secured the help of Andre Lang.nication.
literary editor if a Paris paper Sure enough, The Couns of Admiral Richard E. Byrd's US "capital of the movement"
been published in Navy expedition at the bottom of ments of the large Strathmore in Munich has been the hot-bed of and well-known eritic.
Lang, together with Angel and Buenos Aires in 1930 in Spanish. the
world. ilus. Mr. Paterson must have Bermann rumours throughout'
Several times an assistant, made an exhaustive Curiously, the book contained a had many moments in the last the occupation. fortnight when he himself shared the party boss has been reported arch of all Dumas' works in the leng preface explaining the pub-
French National Librags.
Fishers were offering a literary "The Red Sphinx," a story of curiosity because it was the general feeling, wondering strolling the streets of his home-
Dumar how it was to be done. In the Spain-The swarthy Nazi hashe intrigues of Cardinal Riche-novel which had never been pub-
cu and Louis XIII, was not to be lished in France...
Just how "The Count of in view of the centuries-old Moret" was published in America French law requiring every author and not in France, no one seems to deposit two copies of his bróks to know.... in the library on publication, bath' Lang and Angel were convinced it had never before been publish- od..
one
art of squeezing a quart into a pint pot, the performance efial- lenges claim to a higher degree of dexterity. It does not, low- ever, follow from the successful accomplishment of a trick almost of Ipperdemain that the effective result is satisfactory. One-room billets under conditions that in- clude, for instance, ten rooms to bathroom - $ ini establishment ill Kowloont- represent the surt of accommo- dation that none finds intolerable for a short while, but is obviously a situation calculated progressively in fray nerves and tempers? - As we have insisted and stressed over and over again, the Government takes its responsibilities too light- ly when it projects a family of four into a single room, however well appointed, and considers its work done. Yet, with variations, this is the position adopted in re- lation to, we would estimate, half the European population of the Colony today. The policy of leav
town.
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the
reputedly done some international
"CORINTHIA” ON FIRE
The
cargo
Liverpool, Apr. 2. second fire within three months broke out today aboard the newly-completed Britint
liner "Cor- inthin" as it was undergoing Anni repairs prior to its cheduled mailen voyage within the, next few weeks.
Sparks from " 'worker's welding set started the blaze brought today, but it was
before struc- sender enutrul
nik tural damage was caused without the aid of the aven fre cominica anoner.
Several werks ape, 160 fire- en fought for 24 houra to bring the first fire under con- trol in the 15,000-ton shĪZimme United Press.
found.
Never Published
ils While Long arranged for serialization in his paper; Angel proceeded with plans for publish- ing it in book form in Franco.
In the meantime, Angel sold the book, mingazine and movie rights utside of France to an Anieri- can agent in Paris.
The agent sent the manuscript to the London office of un Ameri- can movie arm for examination beforg forwarding it to York.
甫
Moret" had
- But from a study of Dumas' lost years Angel thinks he has a pretty good liten.
Pending the return of Admiral Byrd with factual data, Washing ton sciontista enutiously avokl making any flat, predictions that the great: frozen wastes may be thawing toward- D. Blow awakening of life.
ald
NO PRECEDENCE
Brip, Lincolnshire, 'Apr. 2. « Life in a constitutional de- mocracy: After, housewife Mrk, 1. Cowkwgil wrote to
accking her aid to find a house, Queen Elizabeth had a representative urge the Brigg Corneil to help Mr. Cawk-
Tomll.
The Comel replied respect- fully that the case "cannot be. piven precedence over other urgent cases."-United Presz.
Britain's Postwar Humour
The man's here with the coal, Madant: Whore shall 'T' tell him to put it?"
the
coul
Charles Hubbard, noted Arctic explorer, now attached to the "Oh. tell him to dump it 1.8. weather bureau, told a ro straight on the fire." porter he had experienced tem- foud and prolonged laughter peraturesnes, higih, akaja klódíus, folmped--although, three sof above zero (takrenheit) with four men present when the story During those years Dumas, ac rain and slush" near the North
North was told had not`a
alumin, of co cording to Angel, frequently gave | Pole.
In their own homes, manuscripts to women admirers But of course the Norte rarket Lambs were falling, the Fol As they did when the.German ns a token of his admiration.
warmer because it's ford pressed financially, he had level, while the South Pole is on British people laugh hardest t Hittle else to give them.
10.000-foot plateau whipped by their own tribulations during the 100-mile an hour winds," he said. i postwar struggle for réconstruc-
Lion. J. Glenn Dyer, who accompanShortages are the A Mistress
No 1, tapic Dumas is known to have haded Byrd as a cartologist on the an American mistress
that of comedians, both amateur atýl who re- Antarctic expedition, turned to the United States abou: during his atov In the South Poles Professional A Joke, however
or Teeble, that hangs on the lack of e the time "The Count of Moret" region "we had only three was published
four days. of bright sunshine, food, fuel, and
gate an in- 1. with the temperature at 30 to 32, stantaneous laugh
This alte is from the music abova zem."
"If the South Pole is warming hall stage: up," he added, "it will take many, What do you feed your eat many years. These things do not, nowadays?"
rat's meat, if we can get Dumas went to happen overnight.”~ Russia where he finished the Long ago-perhaps 100 million Otherwise he has to make do with novel. On leaving he is believed years in the prehistoric past-the what we eat ourselves.”
Cabinet Ministers such as John to have presented the completed South Polar regions flourished in work to a Russia friend.
and Emanuel warm and possibly even tropical Strachey (food)..
Shinwell (fael) are a close second As for the Spanish version of weather)
to the shortages. on targets. för "The Count of Moret," which ap- Planty and trees. Including a peared in Buenos Aires, Angel species like the California Sequoia, humour-even among those who odmits he is stumped.
thrived in the warm Polar sun-strongly support the Labour Gov- Meanwhile, readers of such shine and left their heritage in crament.
Angel thinks Dumes gave her what probably amounted to n New rough draft of "The Red Sphinx" before he had decided on a litle for it.
Someone in London thought the story was familiar. They remem- bered vaguely on almost unknown Dunas book called, "The Count of Maret or Richelieu and Laty Rivals."
ing housing rehabilitation to pri- BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
vate enterprise has failed distally
de-
to secure the rapid improvement in housing accommodation manded by Hong Kong's mini- mum essential needs, One or two wealthy firms have succeeded by the expenditure of large sums in securing fairly adequate premises: for members of their own staffs,; but there remains a formidable residue which seems doomed to be without home indefinitely unless Government admits the case for
By Shopard Barclay "The Authority on Authorities”
AN AID TO
DISCOVERY
went on the same excepting that South passed the -Hearts bid: 12 tricks His excure, when the had been taken, was that "I didn't which Columbus didn't need any gad- have a strong hand, one gets like the Bluckisood conven- looked like 4 alam. Of course he tion to aid him in his discoveries. didn't have a strong hand, but he Neither do some of the ablest did have one which was relatively a publicly-financed building or natural bidders. But plenty of strong, considering that North average bidders find it invaluable could jump that way on his first to them as an aid to finding out rebid, and then carry him all the whether or not-it is advisable to way to five-add when he heard hoarts for the first Any reach out for slam. Its bain
building restoration programme.
Meanwhile,
Dumas thrillers as "The Count coal deposits. now tocked deep. Who would be saved if the
of Monte Crists," and "The Three beneath the 1,000,000
Minister, Strachey and Musketeers."
quare-mile] F÷00"
Shihwell jumped out of an air- impatiently wilderness of snow and lee are nwalling "The Red Sphinx," re- Then something happened.Ajaheat 30,000 feet without gardless of its strange connection convolution of nature Rent 10,000- Barpchutes" with the little-known "Count of foot mountains ling from tip: Moret."United Press.
Christianity Became Disfigured
New Delhi, Apr. 2.
"England'
lowlands ah Transformed it inst Englishmen are fascinat- the highest and coldest continent vary the United States and the on ourther:
soldier usually in the formn way those of the remembered American mountains,"
says
Vilmjalmur soldier, figures in many a quip, Stefansson, famed Polar expics in the north country who was In id you hear about the wOIDED
er, that gathered the snow
which buried the vegetation, kaiacked by wolvest ed the animals and made thaeris Really? I thought a continent the most nearly deadlin, hach kone the world."
all: the GI's
--some-
Mahatma Gandhi told Polar: to cap is, slowly maiding barn, but In British postwar
Scientists know that the Settings excepted--plays relatively It would be both a sound invest
Bir Three fokos ment and a boon to people who
following, papecially an ice age at present and Afho point to rivalry between rightly feel themselves not a little operation consists in keeping thom post-graduate bidder should have the Pan-Asian Confer- since the earth in at the end of a
out of a small slam when the taken the chance, especially since ence delegates today: Twelve years BRD. retu ill-used, and Government's per-
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lacked not more than two top the message of
was "slightly warmer on Hel tricks and that he expected te preached by the Wise average than during his that Ch th furnish enough trick-takers afte South got the lead.
Men of Asia — Buddha, in 10g3-29, This deal, however, weh illus- trates how the stronger and more experienced player should defer to
visit with Lie mercuty reaching - 19endon): Apr. 2. laig partner. South had wanted to phitheatre on a white mattress 35 abové žeraanlygonco. On the hang ngabour Party, today use the Blackwood convention, but/set on a platform,' Gandhi, who next trip, he found the men claimed, a bet, gain, 61:50 agate
clasör ta zero and
Byrd recorded an average Forecasts Jesus and Mohamed." 12 degrees below zero on the first
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North refused. He would have as had 20,000 listeners, deciated temperature was a few degrees
several times, districts where Council oloc- South If he had done what the to be learned from Europe. Dispatches
from
Alton 4 L. tibns were held yesterday, h erser player wished which gen Christianity became disfigured | Blakesles: "Associata. Pross, cor- 31 Party headquarters daimond erally pays.
when it wont westwards. The respondent with the present exit Had Won 107 now sexts on 68 East must conquer the West pedition, have cited regrated, tema Council, loat 67 seals on Any average player knows that with the message of Truth Peratures alightly above the discard b12 higher spot and want to give ames halt above zero-and quoted Ad had shown na change, chine
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atombomba, because the! In a single day, Blakesleo akk
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