PLOT THAT SHOOK THE WORLD
"MAY SET ALL EUROPE · IN FLAMES!"———COUNSEL
Aix-en-Provence, Dec. 8. "I am pleading in a case that may set Europe on fire."
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1935.
CIVILISATION THAT The Man
EXISTED
BEFORE Drilling
GREAT FLOOD
Mr. F. A. Mitchell-Hedges, famous British explorer, has discovered the cradle of civilisation. It is situated in Central America, where Mr. Mitchell-Hedges has found proof of the Biblical story of the Flood, and, what is more important, traces of a civilisation which existed before that great cataclysm came upon the earth. '
His discoveries have been examined by the British Museum.
By F. A. MITCHELL-HEDGES
Maitre Desbons, a leader of the Paris bar, shouted these words at the top of his voice here to-day in a court packed with mobile guard carrying loaded rifles and surrounded with barbed wire and troops, bayonets at the
I have just returned from an ready.
The trial of three Croatarea in which there is to be terrorists for complicity in the found conclusive proof that the murder of King Alexander of Flood actually occurred. Yugo-Slavia and M. Barthou, Foreign Minister of Frünce, had begun.
The assassination, 18 months ago, sent a thrill of fear and horror round the world.
to Alexander, on a Stato visit France, was driving with Barthou through the streets of Maracllice. Peter Kelemin, member fo a secret Yugo Slay society, leaped on the running board of the car and fired a stream of bullots into the bodies of the King and Foreign Minister.
The assassin was trampled to death by the angry mob. Threo countries were searched for his accomplices.
Behind the doors of bar- ricaded Palace of Justice, over and which
soared airplanes around which 1,000 guards were mobilised, the trial opened.
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Though it is 13 months since the assassination in Marseilles of the the King of Jugoslavia and Foreign Minister of. France, to-
But it was not the Flood as the Bible describes it; it was something bigger, more cataclys- mic.
sharks and tarpon, both salt-waler fah, live and breed,
In that distant day of chaos the
sharks had become inland captives and presumably had "adjusted which the lake lost its salt quality. themselves" during the ages in
There came to us one day n dug- out manned by two natives, who told us of n. strange place of cliffs and caves upon the little Island of Heleno,
When our 22-ton boat. Amigo had negotiated a perilous coral barrior Three conclusions, that I have we found a wonderful bay running renched as a result of my dis-deep into this island. coveries are:-
Ancient lava lows, black and sinlater, ended in the sea. Through 1. That at some remote time the translucent water we could see a great land area stretching that they continued beneath the castward from Central Amer-water exactly as on land. ica sank and was engulfed by
the sea.
2. During this gigantic "geo- logical readjustment" a portion of what had been sea bed was heaved upward to become land the uplands-within area wo now know as Central America.
even
3. A great and cultured race of people was destroyed by this unparalleled catastrophe.
The vestiges of this luxurious civilisation which flourished
In
A white-hot lava flow can. not strike water and continue. beneath it retaining the same formation as when it cools upon land,
Eyelashes
Eyelastien are going back to nature. The artificial lashes which were a crazo last year are now out of fashion.
"The latest fashion is to brush the eyelashes regularly with a tiny brush and then comb ther with a. minute comb made for the West End beauty purpose
specialist sald.
Who Cut Hitler's Curl
EXILED BARBER
MAKES HISTORY
Herr Hitler has lost his world- famous unruly forehead' curl through the action of a German hairdresser, exiled in Athens,
Herr Otto Muciler, who runs a fashionable lady's hairdressing establishment in Athena, says that he was always pained to see Herr Hitler's photographs in the papers with a long lock of unruly hair the best way of making the eye-hanging down over his forehead lashes grow longer and thicker."
This eyelash drill night and morning has been shown to be
WIFE SUES LOVE SHE
Inearly to his eye.'
NOTE TO BARBER'
When the cartoonists got to
FOR work on it his pain got worse and
worse. It gave too much oppor LOSTtunity for making the Chief look
TO DEAD WIDOW
New York, Dec. 10.
A drad woman is cited in an action for alienation of affections filed to-day in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Mira, Kose Deutsch, wealthy widow of a Philadelphia diamond merchant, died two years ago, Her estale must now meet A of "atesling" charge
Joseph Vance, house-painter, from his wife Kathryn, former telephone
Vance demands £17,000. She admits that she spled on her husband and Mrs. Denisch from behind ahrubbery near the widow's home.
The sea could not have been there at the time of that LL. GEORGE SAID: eruption.
Upon the island of Bonaca we found the site of what was once a great religious centre, or city.
The reward of cutting through
the Jungle was the uncovering of the oldest specimens of cultured day there was tension throughout pomp and circumstance "before thy man's handicraft yet discovered Aix-en-Provence,,
Flood" are to be found on the Bay Maitre Georges Desbons, Islands, off the coast of Honduras:pon this earth.
In the mighty cliffs of Helene we Excavations in twenty-one new representing all the accused men, caused a shock at the out-sites on five islands prove that here came upon a tunnel-like aperture. set of the trial. He alleged lived the earliest cultured man of Hot, fetid air greeted us. that the interpreters had work-whom there is any record.
ed hand in hand with the police and had hounded one of the accused to suicide.
AN
Ho read a document bearing the Imprint of Surete Generale which, he alleged, incriminated an interpreter who was not present In court.
AS A PROTEST
STONE. AGE CULTURE
I am convinced that here ly the true cradle of civilisation.
This, we found by digging in the The geological evidence la Indis-rubble and earth floor, and been putable. Upon the islands, and long occupied by prehistoric man again upon the mainland, appear of the Stone Age. cliffa riven and split by the incalcul jablo forces of an epic upheaval,
LANDLOCKED SHARKS
And inland, 400 miles distant from the island as the crow flies, The President, the two assis-there is a freshwater lake in which tant Judges and the Public Prosecutor, rose from their seats and left the court as a protest against the accusations. it was some time before they returned.
by
her
ridleulous,
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"And so I wrote a respectful letter,"
he says, " enclosing sitarper note to be handed to his barber.
"The letter explained that the lock hung down becauso all the hair was of the same length, and that it should be thinned out in various lengths with a razor blade,
"I shortly got a letter back from Herr Hitler himself stating that the
1. Had matter
written about was being taken in hand,' and then. thero came the photo- grophe showing that the lock had been curbed.
"Now I am happy about the Ger- man head of Stale."
And so is history made,
"Trotsky Will Never
See Revolution Here" "THERE is only one real statesman in Russia, and that is Trotsky," exclaimed Mr. Lloyd George, then Prime Minister, standing with his back to the fire in his war-time home at Walton Heath.
It was after the Bolsheviks ad seized power, and just; be- fore Trotsky made peace with the Germans at Brest-Litevsk,
Mr.
"I don't know how good a statesman Trotsky is, but I do know very well that he is an enemy of this country." We found many traces of an an-
Mr. Lloyd George's thick eye- Lloyd George declared elent civilisation-not of a crudo,
brows puckered in a frown. Ignorant, savage race. They in his opinion about. Trotsky in a
"Turning to Harold," says Mrs.
"Mr. talk with Harold Williams, the Tyrkova-Williams,
Lloyd ¡dicated a high state of culture.
There were large fragments of man who knew fifty languages George inquired: "Where do you what had once been a beautiful vase, and spoke. twenty-five langu- get that from, that Trotsky is so exquisitely painted; curious stone ages fluently, when Williams hostile to England?"" carvings, unknown to science; per- came back from Russia, where Williams replied: fectly modelled pottery figurines lo he had been a newspaper corres-It will be the happiest day in my "Trotsky's last words to me were: the forms of grotesque animals.
The highest rounded hill of condent for fourteen years. Heleno proved to be the site of a city or town.
the investigations conducted
French nuthorities at the
request.
"The date has been fixed when
Igre we found some most curious the accused will have to answer specimens of pottery. One was in their crime before the justice of the form of in animal about three men." ahe enid. "I can therefore inches long with four holes in the consider as terminated the painful body, at the top another hole.
I blew experimentally through task which I imposed on myself:
Ariadna Tyrkova Williams, life when I see a revolution in Eng-
Harold Williams's widow, Russlan novelist, descendant of a famous Queen Elizabeth, tells the story in Russlan soldier about the time of remarkable blography of her husband.
REAL-STATESMANZ Harold Williams know more
a
The three accused were: Zronimir Pospich otherwise Novak, a chauffeur, aged 81, and A native of Vukovina, Jugoslavia.
Yvan Ritch, otherwise Benes. Having full and complete confid- the top hole and a clear, sweet note about Russia than most people, and farmer, aged 32, of Koledino, Jugo-ence in French justice, I place my sounded. By moving angers over the Inte Sir Robert Donald took alavia, and a former inmate
cause in the hands of its repre- the other holes a tune could be him to have tea with Mr. Lloyd the Croatian Political Refugees' | sentatives."
of
Camp al Janka Puszta, Hungary.
OBJECTION OVERRULED He and Pospichil were arrested at Thonon, on the Franco-Swiss
Yvan Halteh, one of the accused,j frontier, two days after the crline,
Mio Kralj, a mechanic, aged 27, was then interrogated, of Koprivintza, Jugoslavia. He was arrested in the Forest of Fontainebleau after a week's chase in the woods,
At first he declined to answer the President's questions on the ground of the poor Interpretation. fis objection was over-ruled, but the questioning went on very slowly. The President pointed out
Raitch that he joined the
"Oustachi," a Croat terrorist or- ganisation, in 1933, and then took in oath to obey all orders and not
played.
George at Walton. The Prime We found 11 of these instru-Minister thanked Williams for his ments.
brilliant messages" from Russia, Here was a veritable orchestra,describing the revolution, and asked since different sizes were made for "abrupt questions." different sets of tones.
Then he said:-
Ignorance could not evolve | instruments with such a range of harmony and tone. The ancient race which left these behind were a musically cultur- ed people.
It was an eerie experience to sit to divulge any of the organisa-aboard the Amigo and experiment with these musical instruments
Three others were tried in their absence. All are prisoners in foreign guals, but their extradito tion France has been refused.
Queen' Marle of Jugoslavia was originally joined in the case with a formal claim for damages, in accordance with French procedure, but she has withdrawn the claim, The actual assassin was Peter Kelemen, a member of a secret political terrorist society known as the "Oustachi," organised by Dr. Pavelitch..
of
and
tion's secrets.
"The Bolsheviks will restore the front: We must come to an agreement with Trotsky. There is only one real statesman in Russla, and that is Trotsky."
land""
"Mr. Lloyd George," it is added, "sprang up na though he had sud. denly gained in stature. He shook) his cat-like head and, anid firmly, his eyes sparkling: 'No, he wil never see that."
[Trotsky, oxiled and suffering -from-tuberculosin, to now-in~Oxto:]
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Lenin at that time. dld not figure as prominently in the news, He was the power in the back- ground.
"HE IS AN ENEMY" Harold Williams did not like The president also recalled, that which had been unplayed for per- Trotsky. He replied to Mr. Lloyd while Raitch was in prison in hapa 25,000 years. France, after a severe mental de- pression, he was examined by doctors, who admitted that he was only partially responsible for his
The greatest excitement pre-actions. vailed in the town to-day and particularly near the Palace Justice. Counsel, witnesses journalists had to pass through ten separate barricades before they could enter the court.
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THOUSAND GUARDS Behind the Palaco were thousand guards ready for action in case of emergency.
Airplanes flew over Aix as a pro- caution against any air outrage.
For the past week
every
foreigner arriving in the town has bean questioned closely.
The trial opened at nine a.m. The three men listened without understanding to the President of
Raitch repudiated the idea of being insane, declaring: "I have never been crazy, and if I was mentally weakened it was simply because the inter- preter told me that I would be tried in Belgrade and that I would be condemned to death by torture,"
THIRD POWER
SHY
George:-
WOMAN
MISSIONARY : "ONE
OF THE SAINTS"
Halifax, Dec. 16.
"EVERY day I have been hoping to ace some news of the smiling Nellie Thomas, who went from Halifax to China to be a missionary. Every day I have prayed for her. Do put in your paper more news of
It is known that, in order to do-good, unselfish folk, and less about idle people and publicity-seeking film fend the accused to the utmost, stars,"
M. Desbons may attempt to bring This letter from Mrs. P. Harris, of Rectory-
in the responsibility of a third lane, London, S.W.17, appeared in a London news-
Power,
It is feared, too, that an attempt'
the court while he paid a high on M. Desbon's life may be sendt paper recently. Shortly afterwards enquiries were tribute to the memory of the dead, by the numerous Jugoslavs who made about Miss Thomas, who sailed in October 1933 for a self-selected missionary post in China,
This tribute was followed by an- are now at Aix.
other from Maitre Desbons, who He is guarded night and day by added that complete light had not plain clothes members of the in which her predecessor had been murdered
three years earlier. Threo British witnesses who
yet been shed on the circumstances Surete Generale.
of the dead, but that it was to be hoped that full light would be shed in the course of the pro- .ceedings.:
This is what the London
news-eventually reached the Rev. E. Parry, of St. Augustino's Church,
1. That such people as Miss Thomas the parish principally responsible
do not make life easy for 10 for Miss Thomas's venture, porters.
were expected to attend the trial, Mr. Ben Riley, M.P., Mr. Rhys Paperman learned Davies, M.P., and Miss Edith The President then read a letter Durham, were not present to-day. Another witness, Dr. Ante Trum- from Queen Mario explaining that) she became a civil party to the bich, leader of the Cront Ponsant Foreign proceedings beenuse "only a civil Party, and Jugoslav
àlso party was in a position to obtain Minister in 1918-20, wan full light on the ramifications of absent.
this international torrorist organi- It is reported that his passport has been confiscated by the Gation,"
She added that today the poal- Jugoslav authorities to prevent tion has been changed, thanks to him attending the trial.
2. Sho hates publicity-but would
Mr. Farry would say this much
not object to your knowing that and no more about her who is Still Alive..
1. That she writes to relatives and frionts in Halifax telling them about hor work but she would be horrified if they passed the
nows on.
"She is a wonderful woman-in- deed, she is one of the saints.
"The publicity which attended her departure two years ago caused her a good deal of pain.
Directed and redirected from one "If you care to wait until I have relative or friend to another, he/written to her in China.
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