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HONG KONG DAILY "PRESS TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1934.
GANG OF SPIES WITH
WORLD AGENCIES
G.H.Q. Moved from Land
to Land
(Special Air-Mall Service)
London. January 2 ascribe to him a genius for con- Eighteen men and women have, trelling a complicated and delicate been charged in Paris in connec-
organisation. tion with the great spy organisa- tion which has been discovered by the French police. Their examina- tion will begin immediately. They will be allowed counsel,
The examination of the docu- ments already seized is expected to last until February.
It is said that the organisation. had at least forty agencies in "Europe, and that these were only one section of an even wider com cination spreading all over the
world.
Inquiries were being made by
His wife Tilley, born in New York of an English father and a Swiss mother, has complementary talents of an even more remark- able character. During their at-
tempts to keep them in sight the police realised that she has an aimost faultness' knowledge of the i:numerable labyrinths and war- Tens of this city.
OMISHAN
LITIGATION OVER THE WONDERS OF
CHURCHES
Unsatisfactory De- cision Reported
[Special to the "Hong Kong Dally Press (Copyright,}]
Warsaw, Jun, 22,
Litigation over the ownership of 724 Churches that had gone on for over five years whereby the Roman Catholic Episcopate tried to obtain return of this property from the Greek
Dr. Reichelt's Talk On "Buddhism"
Continuing his series of lectures
SUPPLEMENT NO. 292
I.C.I. OFFER TO SHAREHOLDERS
(Special Air-Mail Service)
London, December 27. Imperial Chemical Industries have made an offer to the share- on "Buddhism." the Rev. Dr. K. L Company to acquire the whole of holders of the Broughton Copper Reichelt speaking to a large audlence at the Cathedral Hall
the issued share capital of that company. The Broughton Copper last night, gave a most picturesque
Company has an issued capital of description of Oml-Shan in the £475,000. Orihardax Church ended
divided into Western corner of Szechuen pro- Seven-and-a-Half per Cent Pre- 212,500 recently as reported in Transocean vince.
ference shares of E1 each and in an unsatisfactory decision of
The Golden Summit of Omt-282,500 Ordinary shares of El the supreme court at Warsaw to
Shan as seen from the plain below,
each, all fully paid. The termS the effect the civil court is in sald the speaker, was a sight that offered competent deal with the cage could never be forgotten, but the for each Preference share and 10s. I.C.I. are 20s, in cash
This means that the Roman Catho-
view from the top (11.500 feet up)
in cash of each Ordinary share, lic Episcopate is unable to obtain
was even more inspiring.
the prospective purchasers reserv- any redress for alleged wrongs from civil" authorities. As the National
It is from Klatin, the greating the right to withdraw their offer if it is not accepted by 90 per centre in the Western corner of newspaper Democratic
* ABC "
cent. In value of the shareholders learns the Roman Catholic Epis- Szechuen, that one gets the first copate now intends approaching impression of Mount Gmii. Klatin of each class within a period of
rather picturesque, "four weeks. The Broughton Cop the Administrative authorities of second door leading on to a street, the Greek Orthodox Church to en-
situated on the rich and fertile per Company, which Owns the deavour to recover by, consent plain where the three main rivers, whole of the share capital of John church furniture and decoration Yangtze (the Tong, the Fo and carries on business as copper smel- Found Studying Chinese
ters and inufacturers, with works the Ya) in dispute. This step follows as
meets in the whirling waters of the Mingho. It is said
at Manchester. Ditton, and Gar- Strangest of all the figures said a logical consequence of the supre- to be involved in this complex me decision and its accompanying that Kiatin is the most buddhistic ston. drama is that of Lydia Stahl, who recommendation. Transocean Kuc of all the cities in the deeply bhuddhistic province of Szechuen, was born at Rostov, on, the Don, Min. and whose maider.
The reason for this is not difficult name Was Chekaloft. When the police burst
to find. Just opposite Kiatin, we
monastries in Szechuen, the Tafusi and the Qu-fusi,
Repeatedly when they were on her track she dived into a build- ing through which she hoped to
through
escape unobserved
is in itself
Scotland Yard in Chelsea recently distant from that which she na places of worship and objects of of the Western tributaries to the Bibby, Sons, and Co. (Garston),
with regard to a young American couple who are among those at- rested in Paris.
- STRANGE FIGURES
Woman's Knowledge Of City's Warrens
extered.
Supreme control of the great spy | in on this woman. they were "DE HAVILLAND AIRCRAFT find two of the most beautiful
crganisation, said to have been amazed to And her tracing Chinese unearthed here, is believed to have characters in a polyglot. library been exercised, by nomadic head-worthy of a wealthy savant. of quarters, which moved from capi- profound learning and exquaite tal to capital as interests or risks taste in book bindings. diulated, but which made its most frequent und longest stays at Moscow.
The in
They learned that the owner was endowed with what is described as "a prodigious intelligence." It is Apparently the information col-even suggested that her expensive manis supplled the lected was not monopolised by any bibliophile
motive for her mixing herself up single Power, but was distributed to "several different clients.
the dangerous work of French Press states that both the espionage.
Those who know her say that Russian and the German Govern- ment were among those supplied. Mme. Stahl is quite at home in
at least ten languages.
Languages appear to have been the first link between Mme. Stahl and Prof. Martin, the translator and interpreter of the French Ministry of Marine, who is also in custody. As a linguist the profes-
Most of the information ac- cumulated in. France seems to have been of a military or naval character. But the agents also covered economic facts bearing on | the Republic's powers of resistance
in case of war,
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Sharp Increase In Profits And Dividend
The first mentioned has its name from the enormous buddha- statue carved into the magnificent rock 370 feet high. The whole rock has been transformed into a wonderful plece of sculpture, gly- ing the head, the arms and breast
POPULATION OF ROME
[Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Press" (Copyright.')]
Rome, January. 22:
The population of Rome has in-
(Special Air-Mall Service)
London, December 27. The full report of the De Havil- of a gigantic buddha in well pro-creased by forty-one thousand in land Aircraft Company, Ltd., for portioned and symetric lines, show-one year, and at the end of 1933 the year ended September 30 lasting, the well-known countenance the gure stood at states that the net profit amount- of Sakyamuni with its striking Transocean Kuo Min. brought forward gives £66,287. A
£63,439, which with £2847 features of harmony, wisdom and
mercy. sum of £5000 has been applied
ed
No espionage romance ever pre-sor beats not only Mme. Stahl, but sented to its readers a more re-even Mezzofauti himself, for he is markable character role than is credited with speaking no tewer by the men and than 68 different languages or constituted women arrested here during the dialects, as compared with the 58 past few days in connection with of the famous Italian polyglat. sum will be available towards the this affair..
But if the professor's pheno-cost of removal to and erection of menal attainments were the cause new buildings at Hatfield.
Apparent Life. Of "Ease ̧· Compared with several of his coadjutors, the alleged head of at any rate the French section of the undertaking, the Canadianised Roumanian Benjamin Bercovitz, Is comparatively conventional figure. With his wife Clara he occupied a comfortable suite of rooms in a hotel in the Rue Saint Beuve.
Tall, well built and carefully groomed, he bore himself with the plomb and assurance of a leisured man of the world.
The
strenuous and dangerous
of his friendship with the lady, For the previous year the trad- they were also, in the opinion of ing profit was £42,298, and a the police, his undoing..
dividend of 24 per cent, was paid. For his associatiori "with
her eventually assumed a more tender
Certainly a most appropriate in-
and "Nos. 2
3.
1,090,000,--s
in writting down investments introduction into the realm of the top is remarkable, the lungs and subsidiary companies, £25,000 is most unique mountain range of
heart work to full capacity at transferred to reserve, and £30,000 Bhuddism in the East of Asia, is
11,500 feet up. From the top of has been used in payment of a
the Golden Summit the famous the Light-mountain of Omi dividend of 7 per cent., less tax.. This Tafusi is so intimately
light phenomena of Mount Omi leaving
£6287 to be forward.
carried woven into the life of the Klatin may be seen in their full grandio- people that it is a common destresity. No one who has been to the The directors state that a con of everyone to be buried in such top and spent a night there will tract has been entered into for the a way that the grave faces the forget the experience. sale of the greater part of Stag buddha rock.
The "buddha lamp" may be Lane aerodrome for a sum of
seer in the dark summer nights approximately £105,000, which
as a flickering light-manifestation It takes the whole day to pass of some strange greenish colour, over the 75 1 long plain from sweeping up and down along the Klatin to the little hamlet of Omi, slopes as flashlights or hundreds situated near the foot of the of lamps, arrayed for festivala. mountain. On the way over the Scientists do not agree as to the plain the pilgrim again and again | reason for this strange pheno- will lift up his head trying to get 'mena. Most of them, think that it. a frst' glimpse of the big Omi with may be effected by some decaying. character, and it is alleged that was a Yale man But the univer- its famous Golden Summit, wrap- vegetation or by gasses streaming Mme. Stahl, though inferior insity directory does not include his bed in a solemn garment of clouds out from the many mysterious crudition, was his superior in force name among graduates or con- and fog. The pilgrim will see the caves which are to be found on of character, and eventually ac graduates, though it .. gives his outer ranges or Omi number two the Omt. For, the buddhist, de- quired such an influence over him
brothers name. One brother is a and number three to the left, votee the whole thing is explained that he could refuse her nothing. chemist, and another works for which like gigantic satellites sur by the name "fuh-tend" ("buddha-
Only under her prompting. it is brokerage firm. said, did he begin to tamper with
round the real Omi. But her lamps"). manifestation of the majesty will not throw off her veil innumeral hosts of buddhas, who If you do not wait patiently. In readily flock together on this a most unexpected moment the sacred place to assist the pilgrims vell is rent asunder hair or fully groping In darkriess and yearning and the pilgrim gets his first and for enlightenment and peace. never-to-be-forgotten" impression of the sublime, fearful and won- derfully clear-cut contours of the. tremendous granite cone. Breath- Inquiries were being made in Icssly be gazes up against the Chelsea yesterday by Scotland | panorama so perfectly different Yard officers in connection with from anything he had seen before, the detention of a young Americanso escteric and celestial, so lofty The Paris arrest of Mr. and Mrs. couple-Mr. and Mrs. Switz-by and serene in its remote splendour Switz in connection with the spy the French police in the course of and awe. sensation is greatly puzzling rela-their inquiries respecting a sup-
posed internatinoal spy gang. tion and friends of the couple.....
Mr. Switz, lived i New York In June this year Mr. and Mrs. until a year ago, and was known switz rented a two-roomed furni
the confidential
теп....
documents to
which he had access in the Naval machinations which he is believedMinistry and thus involve himself to have carried on were disguised his present unpleasant predica by the pretence of a life of self- indulgent Idleness, His frequent appearances in the bars and danc ing saloons or Montparnasse may have been only camouflage for what are said to have been his
real interests.
According to the police, it has still to be proved whether he was
the actual head of the entire or ganisation, or merely the local "manager of a Russian who fled from France when he noticed that
he was under observation.
"The Aviator"
The daughter, of a retired French Felice Commissioner, who was rested, has now been released. Her husband, a Serbian, journalist is, however, still in custody.
"Madcap Adventurer"
and worked as
Mrs. Switz is a daughter of John Tilley, who was born in England, a chauffeur in America, and Mrs. Bertha Tilley, a native of Switzerland. She in June, 1932. garduated from Vassar University
Inquiries in Chelsea
Munkies
Then there is the meeting with оде of the colony of monkies roaming around the mountain slopes. It seems that these mon- keys originally were linked up with some of the bigger monasteries, because up to this day they come As long as we look up to the fairly regularly and pay a visit to Omi from the plane, we have the certain temples, getting food and advantage of seeing the whole being fed by the monks and the panorama. When we start to pilgrims.
of the temples and monasteries to
in Greenwich Village-the Latin shed at at Swan- court, a block climb the mountain we will get. The speaker then described some quarter of the city-as a "madcap of newly-built flats near Chelsea more into the details. However, More interesting as character adventurer." He belongs to a Town Hall. They stated that they we will soon and that the details
be found on. Omi-shan and con- studies are the young American family, now living in East Orange, wanted the flat for about six are just as beautiful and interest- cluded by saying: Shut up in Switz and his wife, especially the New Jersey, of good means and months, but they left at the ending. The climb to the top may lonely cells some very good re- latter. Switz is supposed to have position. One of three sons, his of three months. An employee at
take four to six days and depends ilgious and learned monks may be To comply with the General Bondod been the only connecting link be-parents
entirely on the time, spent on found. And yearly an increasing we were ? naturalised) Swan-court said:" Warehouse Regulations consignees tween Bercovitz and all the other Americans, his father having been "Mrs. Switz spoke with a pro- sightseeing, and on the study of number of highly educated and must have a Revenue Officer in atten-members of the organisation in born in Russia and his mother in nounced American accent.
She the flora and the astonishing really religious buddhists lay dance when damaged dütiable goods this country. He was generally Canada,
rarely had any callers. She and variety of butterfies and other in known among his associates as He was interested in aviation, her husband were only in occupas sects. The road winds its way up Aviator" and the United and obtained an American flying tion of the fat a day or two at a through fragrant bamboo groves, States police have confrmed that licence on June 4, 1930. An omcial time. Mr. Switz once told me that deep valleys and along suvery man of his name took out of a firm of aeroplane instrument he had come to England in connec-streams and over plateaus from clyHan's filer's licence a couple of manufacturers said that Mr. Switz tion with aviation. I do not think which we get glimpses of unique years ago,
was European representative for I saw him on more than three sceneries. the company, but never made any occasions. People living hear the flat occipled by Mr. and Mrs. Switz Despatches from Paris state that were unable to help the police in Mr. Bwitz told the authorities he sheir inquiries."
are examined. *
All broken, chafed and damaged Gooda are to be left in the Godowns, whore they will be examined on the 25th Jan, 25.104 by bears. Goddard Douglas
No Fire Insurance has been affected. Bills of lading will be countersigned by GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co., Lra, Agente Hade Kong, 18th Jan., 1994, [2191
"the
figure, he might be taken as
A good-looking youth of athletic
typical sporting graduate of "an American university, but the police
sales.
people come to Mount Oml for re- treats and private meditation. We have therefore reason to hope that the new spirit of devotion which characterises this new and ener getic circles may Kindle the religious Are of the local monks, so that Mount” Omi-may be able to preserve its character as “one of The change in temperature from the strongest religious centres in the bottom of the mountain to the the Far East.
"Buddha Lamp”.