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While blood is being spilled in the Ethiopian wilderness, rivalry among the great naval Powers on the seven seas is growing and casting a shadow of coming conflicts, by com- parison with which the East African war will appear as a Even in the minor fracas.
Ethiopian dispute, Italy's chal-
Meet Cowan and Balley, top-notch who hend the bill at the Roof Garden of the Hongkong Hotel to night. The two boys, popular here last year, are, making their first 1935 appearance this evening.
lenge to British supremacy in 118 WRITS FOR LIBEL! ART OR
That A
Paris, Nov. 28.
young and Pretty Parisian INDECENCY?
the Mediterranean has turned attention to the struggle_for naval predominance. struggle involves every con-woman barrister's honeymoon trip tinent and nearly all peoples. has led to her being sued for libel and dan- by 118 wurders of the French Its ramifications
gers will be brought home "to penal settlement in Gun, better NUDE REVUE the little man in the street" known in England as Devil's Is. when the naval conference
Innd.
Mme. Mireille Maroger, the MAY BE SHOWN
starts on Monday in London. blonde barrister in question, visited
The Telegraph herewith pub- the penal settlement, and on her IN COURT TO
lishes the first of a series of return to Paris published a series
Devil's Island
six articles, revealing the clash of articles in which she said many SAVE 5 GIRLS. of empires in, their race for things about the mastery of the seas and for the warders.
They have now signed a petition. markets to which control of asking for heavy damages, and
blocks! or the oceans givés
Mme. Maroger has been summoned to appear before the Paris courts.
access.
London, Dec. 6. WHAT has been described
as
the conference to bury naval limitation will open here on Monday with the United States, Britain, BOMBAY Japan, France and Italy as
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Germany and Russia will not be sitting at the green table, but while the delegates are in session. contact with Berlin and Moscow will be maintained through dipio- matic channels.
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New York, Dec. 1. are being made to PLANS
produce in New York's Harlem Police Court practically the whole of the nudist revue raided by the police în a private theatre in fashionable Fifth- Powers resulted in a deadlock, towards
avenue carly on Saturday. the solution of which no progress, has
Five girls were arrested and been made in the intervening year.
improvement been effected in Anglo-United States naval accused of giving indecent per United States In-formances. They were rushed formally abandoned its opposition to Britain's addition of twenty cruisers to the night court in Black
relations, The
to its present fly.
¡Marias.
former The girls are: Inez Kaeger- So remarkably has the
between the British stein, aged twenty-four, a typist; bitt United States navies diminished Coliette Nicks, aged twenty-
that, according to reliable sources,
and
the suggestion, of joint Anglo three, 'a model: Robbie Senton, United States nayal manoeuvres inlaged twenty-two, a dancer; the Atlantic, possibly off the West Sarilla Bell, aged twenty-seven, Indies, has been made privately
and unofficially, but nevertheless by model, and Marian Faist, aged
The show was responsible United States naval seventeen, an art student.
the annual Many a conference has been held
authorities. since the end of the world war withi
But one can look far and long for benefit performance put on by the outcome in doubt or success Im- probable, but none has been convened with experts so unanimous in their signs of naval understanding which the exclusive Society of Illus- prediction of dire fullure. And failure would be welcome to the taxpayer, trators. Most of New York's to limit the number of warships The United States and Japan, respec
cach naval power, to Lively in May and July-August this celebrities were present.
year, unloosed their battle fleeta-for
"NOT INDECENT-ART”...- possessed by restrict the alze of every type of light-
the organisers contend ing craft and fix the maximum calibre Impressive manoeuvrer uncomfortably
worse than those of guns will mean, the experts ex- close to the international date line. plain, intensified rivalry at sen, costly Meanwhile other evidences of pre- building and the nourishment of new parations for war in the Pacifle have revue was no suspicion and animosity in a world been discerned in the increase of the that appear nightly in New York's
year'a United States and night clubs. rent asunder by competing already
Japanese naval
to $550,- nationalisms.
and from approximately 488,- 000,000 yen to 620,183,000 yen.
Both have rapidly been enlarging fleet air arms, The United thel
Britain has convoked Monday's con- ference without hope of success. Washington treaty clause obligated
the
signatory powers to meet before
com $100,000 res
The
They intend to produce the show in court to prove that they were guilty not of indecency, but art.
Mr. Walloce Morgan, president of lustratore, ad-
the end of 1935. Nobody anticipates States has been preparing to erect air the Society of perpetuation of the 1922 Washington Lanes in the Aleutian Islands and is mitted that the show was risque, treaty, which for thirteen years it installing commercial air lines seros but nothing more,
Wake, the Pacific via Hawail, Midway, confined warship building to a limit
a wild race might have Guam and the Philippines. Japan has without which the end of next year. it limited battleships, blg cruisers anil aircraft-carriers of the five naval na- tions to a ratio of five for the United States, fire for Britain, three for Japan and only 1.75 each for France and Italy.
shown
for
wore
"We have been giving this kind of entertainment for twenty-fiva sald to-day. "Nover. ensued. That treaty will expirat dented the fortification of her man-years, he
While lasted
ted dated islands, but the League of
Nations Mandates commission has before has it been suggested that port there is anything indecent in it." uneasy concern developments in those islands.
Five city magistrates and With Japan now politically and
scores of front-page person- economically predominant in Manchu-
alities were present. kuo, China is increasingly faced with
In one sketch the girls Nor is there hope of prolonging the the alternative of acquiescing in London anval. agreement of 1030, Japan's Monroe doctrine for Eastern nothing but hoops.
enforced regulating the relative strength of the Asla or Anding thint doctrine
Chinese opposition. United States, Britain and Japan in despite small cruisure, destroyers and sub- United States and Britain, too pre- occupied nearer nome to do more than marines.
naval
prepara- Following Japan's donunciation of protest, continue their the Washington treaty on December tiens and seek closer communion be became obligatory to ween themselves, have become neute confer before the end of 1936 with the ly aware that their own colonial or treaty lupaing after December 31, economic Intereats in the Far East 1920. The London naval accord ex-
niny soon be safeguarded, if at all, pires automatically, unless renewed, only on Japan's suffrance,
same date. And its renewal the
29, 1934, it
on
The
indecency," "Indecency is commented Police Commis- sioner Valentine to-day, "whe- ther it is on Fifth-avenue or in the slums. The police were justified in making these ar rests."
The organisers suspect that The spite inspired the raid.
In the midst of these developments police, it is stated, were given ad-
is admittedly out of the question. in the East, loaded with the stuff of vance information about the show
Efforts undertalion last year to lay which future wars are made, the
by a mysterious woman, who said recrudescence of German
naval she had attended a rehearsal. the foundation for a new naval under- standing failed dismally. United strength in the West has brought the
Wives and sweethearts were States and British delegates met in volcano of European naval rivalries, London in June and July, 1934, and sputtering slightly or dormant for allowed at that performance. The again-this time with the Japanese years, close to eruption and already actual show was confined to men. from October 23 io December 10. emitting the warning smoke of us. The mystery woman is belleved to
be the wife of one of the artists. And Japan's demand for ten-for-ten picion.
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1 One day in the year for Crusoe's approval (two words, 4 and 6). 6 A crow ean the shortest way, but the rook's can't always be. 9 Can a man like this ever be
really "fed-up?
10 It is bitter when you start with-
out 21 shilling.
12 With evil in it, such crockery is
flendiah.
13 A mixture.
16 Obtained from any source.
17 Do quarrelsome mathematicians?
10 An Instrument that sounds
rather like'n tomahawk.
21 They like to be barely, sven, 24 Seen In the Atlantic frequently. 20 "Can storied--or animated bust nuansion call the Back to ita
(Gray's breath?"
flecting
Elegy).
27 Moreover.
In reed this ment is shown. 28 In 31 Outlet,
32 Ethithet for an apt allusion. 33 Female version of Cupid?
34 Kind dog helped to produce these
clues (hyphen, 4 and 6),
DOWN
1 Carriage suggesting what might
bo opened to admit it.
Z Sounds a sluggish river.
3. Becoming: a tailor often is.
4 Russian and Plymouth for
Scott work.
A
If you are, something has ab- Horbed
your attention
words, 3 and 4),
(two
7 Colour and British statesman may cause you to slip up (two
WELL, YA SWAM TWO MILES OUT HERE FER NUTHIN'CAUSE I'M SAFE AN' SOUND!
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words, and 4). BA creepy science?
11 One of the world's great Islands.. 14 Few In verse (anag., hyphen..
5-5) and that's not surprising)! 15 Fruit.
18 It may fall upon, you without
hurting you.
20 In short, the generalissimo. 22 Part of London.
23 May Involve slicing, but any
how it appears to press abʊut: hall way.
24 The artist should be this, though..
ita rendering concerns the
trader..
26 Shuffling.
20 Custom that upsets the town. 30 Belgian river.
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