1. THURSDAY, THE HONGKONG" TELEGRAPH.
ON
BRITAIN'S GANG CHIEFS
Scotland Yard's Big Drive to Clean Up
MASCOT OF A REGIMENT
The Royal Welch Fustiers at Surrey has a goat as mascot, present- ed, by the Lato, King Gearge. The picture shows the goat and dau of the Fusiliers preparing for Church parade.
COLLAPSE IN WATERLESS WASTES
Teuvant Creek, North Australia, Mar, 6. Charles Simmons (63) mir, was picked up unconsciona Kelly Well last night, by 4, Netson. He was brought to Trument Creek and died a few hours later.
Simmons had not out without a water bag on a 50 mile trek to Bonney Well, where he was employ- ed by the E. and R. O. Gold Cor He had covered leur poration. than half the journey, when he collapsed in the intrane hent.
Tighter Net for Aliens
WHITE SLAVERS AND DOPERS IN FLIGHT
THE CHIEFS OF BRITAIN'S UNDERWORLD ARE ON THE RUN. ALARMED BY THE INTENSIFIED ACTION BEING TAKEN BY THE POLICE, SCORES OF MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE BEEN ENGAGED IN DOPE PEDDLING AND WHITE SLAVE NEVER TO TRAFFICKING ARE LEAVING THE COUNTRY RETURN.
Scotland Yard officers have been working night and day during the past two weeks in a relentless drive against these undesirables, following their inquiries into tho murder of "Red" Max Kassel.
As a result of questions asked which
no passport is required,
in Parliament regarding the while will be watched carefully. alave traße, and week-end tickets which
The results of the new glice
enable persons to enter probe are already visible in the Britain without passports, a big West End. Scores of small clubs dossier has been prepared by the which have been run na n clonk police of women of foreign birth for dealings in drugs and women living in West End flats who have are practically deserted. married British subjects.
These matters are likely to be raised in Parliament again at an Parly date.
Watch On Ports Latest inquiries made by the palice have involved many people who, hitherto, have not been sus pected of having any connection with the underworld.
A number of these men and women have now closed their expensive finis, withdrawn or transferred their bank accounts, and left or disposed of businesses which were merely a clonk for illegal traße in drugs
ап
on
or
women. The watch on the ports will in- clude the scrutiny not only of Cross-Channel passengers steamers but also on fast motor- yachts and sea-going speed boats anchored at small harbours along the South Coast.
Passengers travelling to the Continent on week-end fickets, for
'War
Finds Fame
Pimpernel'
*AME HAS COME TO THE MAN WHO EARNED THE TITLE
FAME THE COMEET PIMPERNEL OF THE WAED
He is Captain J. L. Hartly, whose story. " Escape," is still remembered as one of the most exciting and enthralling stories of real-life published,
This little man with the irresistible urge to conquer all'obstacles io to-day being hailed as one of Is Thunder," is now being made Britain's finest writers of fiction. into a lm in which
Bennett plays the lead,
His latest hook, "Never in Vain," has created a sensation in the book world and is selling in great num- bers. All the foremost critics hail! the book as a great piece of work. !
ESCAPED PRISONER
James Agate writes: "The writ- ing is excellent throughout and tha characters are intensely alive."
Captain Hardy won both the D.S.O. and M.C. during the war. He escaped from a German prison camp after twelve unsuccessful attempts. To-day he is a chickenj farmer in Norfolk.
Despite the handicap of his artificial leg, Capt. Hardy does a grent share of the work himself. He breeds thousands of poultry overy year.
But his greatest pleasure comes when outside work is done; and he can settle down with his pipe to
his writing.
In his quiet Norfolk farmstend
he has written two books Hinco his story," I Escape."
The first of these, "Everything
Ronald Colman And Miss Benita Hume
Hollywood, Mar. 18. THE latest "Hollywood romance" rumour links the names of Ronald Col- man and Benita Hume.
Mr. Colman amiled as he made this comment:
"Every time I take out a girl I am asked to confirm or deny an engagement.
This time I will not say any thing."
Bonita Hume and Mr. Colman have been scen together often recently.
But no havo Mr. Colman and other prominent film actresses.
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The managements scrupulously careful to keep with, in the licensing laws and fower in number, patrons. particularly wary of strangers,
Suspect Marriages
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are
Many of the women referred to to the police dossier are suspected of having contracted marriages of and investigations convenience.
are being conducted in all pants of the country with a view to dis covering the headquarters of the organisation behind this racket.
Many nitens who had been: smuggled into Britain have been: discovered, but the majority of them have left their former haunts and It is suspected that; they have already, left the coun- try.
Those who have been tracked down are to be deported at once.
Another matter which has been
the object of great police activity. is the organisation which has specialised in the production of faked passports.
APRIL 2. 1936.
THE RUN
the Underworld
S'HAI STREET CHOKED WITH ACRID FUMES
Streets in the neighbourhood of North Kiangse and Tlendong Roads, Shanghai, wero choked with aerid amoke fumes one afternoon last week as a smouldering fire in a rattan shop was fought by firo- Our picture shows one of the engines as it pumped water into
the smoking area
men.
RELIGIOUS TORTURE CULTS IN AMERICA: MYSTIC SOCIETIES
Slaying of Writer in New Mexico Focusses Attention on "Penitentes,” Dating Back
To Days of Co quistadors
Albuquerque, Mar. 20.
Slaying of Carl Taylor, 33, magazine writer, in a lonely cabin in the mountains near here recently, again has focussed attention on the Penitentes, a weird religious cult.
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Taylor was shot and killed as he sat at his desk. A manuscript Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co., Ltd.
telling of the terrible rites of the self-torturers, who for centuries People who were prepared to have practised their strange religious ceremonies in the moun- pay £100 for a false passport will tains of New Mexico, Colorado, Utah and Arizona, was found on now find this avenue of escape his desk in the enbin. closed.
At first it was thought that | who is to be placed on the cross
The whole question of the con-Taylor was killed because he had takes his place at the bead of the ditions under which allons are learned too much about the secrets procession and bears a heavy cross allowed to live in Britain is to bel of the cult and because he had upon his shoulder, the standard reviewed in the near future, and it taken a Bashlight picture of a dragging behind him. All those is likely that the conditions of "morada,”
temple. This doing penance are stripped to the
Gr
try will be tightened up con- theory was abandoned, however, waist and all carry whips made
siderably.
more
| when Modesto Trujillo, a 16-year- from cactus fibre,
As the column moves away tq-
flagellants, beat themselves with emonics are to be enacted, the
and blood marks the trail to the the whips. The skin is broken place where the cross in placed upright in the ground.
At the beginning of last year old boy who had been working for Whipping Rite Begins 112.475 aliens were registered in Taylor while he wrote his article England, and in the preceding yeur on the Penitentes, purportedly 127 aliens were deported and 17 confessed that he had shot the ward the spot where the final cer-
who had left voluntarily author, with rubbery as the mo- were barred from readmission. [tive.
Any man who seeks to learn the secrets of the Penitentes takes his fe in his hands, according to a bellef long held in this area.
The cult, it is said, sprung into Beside cach penitent is a com- being shortly after the Spanish |panion, also armed with a whip. conquistadores came to the South-When the flageliant becomes weak west. In Spanish It is known as from his self-inflicted punishment "Los Hermanos de Penltenfes"-his companion beats him, "the Penitent Brothers."
TOMMIES GET. NATTY NEW UNIFORMS
Here are shown two men of the King's Rifle Corps, at Aislorshot, ono in khaki and the other in the now Blue patrol uniform, recently approved by the British army. It is recorded that the army's de cision to issue the new blue uniform was, motivated by a desire to accelerate recruiting, and the efficacy of the lure has been demon- strated even beyond most optimistic hopes, it is reported. Only one snag has boon encounted. Drab khaki overcoats still are regula tion, even with the blus outt, and Tommy Atkins is displaying, a disinclination to wear a mixed blue and brown costume.
As they approach the cross the Crucifixion Is Re-enacted Penitentes reach a high pitch of The Penitentes practise flagel-frenzy. Some will break from the lation in its most severe form and ranks and, naked to the waist, throughout the years the rites will roll in a clump of cactus, call- have grown no less brutal. The ing upon the saints to witness the riles reach their height during devotion to the Saviour. Others Holy Week each year, when the will gash their foreheads and cultists re-enact the crucifixion of shoulders with sharp plecom of Christ with such realism that it rock. Still others will tle clumps hns at times, boon believed to have of thorny cactus upon their caused the death of a
partici- shoulders."
pant.
When they finally reach the On Good Friday night the Pent- cross the scene is prepared for the tentes assemble at the "Morada." "crucifixion." After dark guards are posted to keep the non-members from the temple. Then the ceremonies be
gin.
Ropes Substituted For Nails The chosen man is lashed to the
cross wth ropes--the Penitentes are supposed to have' substituted Certain prayers are said, con ropes for nails used in the cruci fessions are in order and the fixion, but some say that cults in members prostrate themselves be the mountain fastness still use fore a crude altar in the "Mor- nails.
ada." They affirm that Christ When the "Cristo" is fastened suffered and was cruciled for securely to the cross the other them, that He rose to heaven and Penitentes form a circle around that they will emulate His suffer the base of the cross and continue Ing in hope that they may do to beat themselves with lashes. To the tune of a weird chant the
I likewise.
Then they form a procession, "chief" stops forward and places with one memoer chosen to enact a cactus crown upon the head of the part of Christ. The penitant the crucified person.
The self-punishment lasts until FIRST PYLON SUICIDE dawn, when the man is cut down from the cross, sometimes with his life at Tow ebb.
London, Mar, 10. Only men are admitted to the The fret pylon.suicide was re-strange cult, but women ofton val- corded this week. Brian Lynn, auntarily follow the processions 19-year-old clerk, was said at the and subject themselves to self-tor- inquest after his body had been ture which execods that of the discovered burnt and terribly In-men for cruel punishment, jured at the foot of a pylon to Each cult performa its have Jumped from it because he rites. Each has its own "Morada". was no good at work or play." and its own chief.
own
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