THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1936.
GREATEST SPY ROUND-UP SINCE THE WAR
Secret Service Drive
'COMB-OUT OF SUSPECTS
"YARD'S" CHECK ON FOREIGN AGENTS BEHIND the increase in the £180,000 Government vote for the
British Secret Service, lies the story of the efforts of scores of foreign spies to probe the secrets of Britain's new armament pro- gramme.
The operations of these foreign agents are being checked by the most elaborate counter-espionage campaign the British -Government has undertaken since the Great War..
Vigilance At Ports
Chief among these moves are:-
The increase of the £180,000 vote for the secret service by an
amount which is yet to be disclosed.
Strengthening of the Special Branch at Scotland Yard, already
augmented by the addition of 30 officers.
increased vigilance
shipyards.
at sen and airports, aeroplane works and
An Intensive "cumb-out" of aliens and persons whose records are
open to suspicion,
CHINA'S GROWING STRENGTH
PROPORTIONATE TO
HER UNITY
BI-METALLISM.
ENVISAGED
Washington, April 13. In an interview by the United Press to-day, Senator William 11. King. Democrat of titah who had been in consultation with Mr. K. P. Chen, the Director of the Bank of Chink New York, expressed the opinion that Chinese nationalism will strengthen ufficiently to successfully resist any possible now Japanese Invads into 1 China,
He said that the chief points of his ennsultation with Mr. Chen had been an Sino-Japanese relations.
"I receive the impression that China's capacity for resisting Japan- ese incursions la rapidly. Improving. be said. "Notwithstanding China's apparently hopeless position in Oc; cidental eyes, unay strong factors aid hey
resistance, particularly the emer- gence of the tationalistic con-rience. Outlying provinces are drawing into the untianal gehlt increasingly. My impression both from Mr. Chen and from my recent visit to China,, that under Chiang Kai-shek, Chim, will become more truly national than
ver."
Senator King said that the only important event in connection with the silver question that he could forace would be a combination of Latin America, China and the United! States as a bi-metallic bloc, promot ing
a greater monetary use for silver. He said that Chinn's recent ac- quisition of gold through selling silver indicated China's rendiness to co-operate in bi-metallam,- -United Pyers.
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LATEST SINGAPORE
PRICES
During the last Few weeks Scotland Yard has been co-operat- inge with local police forces in watching spy suspects all over
the country.
Suspected foreign agents have heen subjected to a clase watch. In several enses the authorl- ties have taken swift action, and the agent's activities have been brought to a sudden end.
The Increase In the £180,000 allocation to the Seeret Service is maly a part of the som which will b spent in protecting Britain's secrets.
Among the serrels which the foreign ngents are mast nnxious to capture are details of:-
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Britain's 11 new warships to be constructed at a cost of £7,500,000,
New fighting and bombing planes of which 12,000 are to he built.
The latest designs of tanks, antbaircraft guns, and mechan- ixed units.
Spies are making
tremendous
efforts to discover what methods Britain intends to adopt for de- i fance and retaliation in the event
of attack from the air.
Empire Defence
The proposed changes in the Empire's defence system which will shortly be submitted to Par- linment, will Also be
to Safeguard Armament Plans
HE-MAN Sport in AUSSIE
Australian and New Zealand counts" provide Rome of the best fishing grounds in the world. Two fishermen are shown above hauling in (280-11, swordfish aboard a launch off Montague Island, N. S. W.
RUSSIA FEARS NO ENEMIES
YOUTH READY TO
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(Special To Telegraph")
RADIO BROADCAST
Studio Recital By Elsa Alves
RECITAL BY DOREEN MA
From Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 855 metres (845 kilocycles):
4-7 pm. Chinese Programme,
7 pm. Crestore's Band. Selection Trovatore (Verdi),
Prologue-Mefistofele (Boito, arr. Creatoro); Selection. Traviata (Verdi): Overtura Semiramide (Rossini).
7.30 p.m. A Recital by Beatrice Harrison ('Cello).
Elegie (Dellus); Caprico (Delius); Melody (Dawes); Orientale (Cul),
7.43 p.m. Jubilee Music Hall
Parade 1910/1935,
8 p.m. Tino Signal, Weather Ro- port, Stock Quotations, and Announce ments.
8.03 p.m. From the Studio.
A Jazz Pianoforte Recital by Doreen Ma.
8.25 p.m. Four Songs by Nel- son Eddy (Baritone).
1. You Are Free (from "Apple Blossom"); 2. When I Grow Too Old to Dream (from "Night is Young"); 3. Love's Old Sweet Saug: 4. Auf Wiedersehen.
8.38 p.m. Light Orchestral Selections.
Molly on the Shore (Grainger); Shepherd's Hey (Grainger),... Royal Opera Orchestra, Covent Garden; Alsha (Lindsay); Phantom Brigade (Mydleton) The London Palladioni Orchestra;
A Fatty Braps (de la Riviere); (White)....Bourne- mouth Municipal Orchestra; Tell me To-night (Spoliansky)
Sandler and His Orchestra. Alberi 9 p.m. A Relay of the Daventry
9.15 p.m.
From the Studio,
New Kowloon News Bulletin (Copyright by Kenter).
Magistracy
OFFICIAL OPENING THIS MORNING
The new Kowloon Magistracy at
A Pianoforte recital by Marina Barretto,
Programme.
8. Fugue in G Minor, J. S. Bach;
b.
Prelude D Flat Major, Chopin:
c.
Prelude G Minor, Chopin; 4. To
a Wild Rose, B. MacDowell; e. In
Gascoigne Road was officially opened i linzi. MacDowell; 'f. Liebestraum,
9.35 p.m.
9.45
by Mr. W. Schofield this morning,
Viennese Waltzes. and, ns is the usual custom, the defen-
Viennese Singing Birds (Transia- dant in
on the the first case a hawker tour); Jollity
Mountains offender was discharged, Sitting (Fetrna); Blue Danube (Strauss). with Mr. Schofield on the Bench for
p.m. From the Studio. the first Session were Mr. Q. A. A, A Recital by Elsa Alves (Soprano) with Fred Alves at the piano, Solveig Macfadyen and Mr. K. Keen.
Before calling the first case. Mr. Song Greis: Three Little People Riego; A Vachella.. .Tosti;
closely of the Central Computer of Lenin Schofield said:"The Police Maglia d'un soffic etes lo from "Fal-
Communist Union of
Moveow, Apr. 13. M. Alexander Rosaries, Secretary watched by foreign powers.
Youth, to-day International agents will try to ste to the congress of this body extract information about secret fanying that alí Soviet youth was Empire defence plans which may freidy to volunteer for service in the he omitted from the published re-jarmy. ports: Despite the increased guard at seaports
"Neither the bravery of the and airports, Samural of Japan nor the strength or many foreign suspects manage to the bandits In the brown shirts, with enter Britain but their ingenuity the swastika, well save from their is generally very quickly defeated fate those who dare attack us," by the British Steret Service men, warned,
MEMORIAL TO CARRIERS
PIGEONS WHO SERVED IN GREAT WAR
A
Messrs. Benjamin and Polis re- of pigeons. crived the following Straits currency
Lille, Apr. 13.
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staff....Verdi.
10 p.m. Big Ben: from Daventry, 10 P.m.
Dance Hits of Not-So-
Fox Trot-To be Worthy of You: Fox Fox Trot-You Try Somebody Else; Trot-Living in Clover; Fox Trot- Goodnight Vienna; Fox Trot-The Fox Trot-You Gotta Ho-de-Hio; Fox Continental; Rumba-La Cucaracha; TrolNo More Love; Fox Trot-leat Wave; Waltz-You Will Remember Vienna.
trate, Kowloon, hus done me the honour of requesting me to give this first Magistrate to sit on the Bench. Magistracy a send-off by being the
to his request and to preside, at what
gives me much pleasure to accede | Long-Age, I may call a Court warming.
"As a former occupant of the Kow. ison Bench, I congratulate my suecis sor upon the fine building in which he will preside, which will greatly con- duce to the convenience and comfort allke of the Magistrato and his staff "In case of attack, our planes und and of
the police
ice and
the pubile our tanks, plus the interference
obliged by their duties or their mis- German and Japanese and Polish deeds to make use of this Court." workers, would give us complete
The first defendant was then victory," he clalined.-Uulted Press.
called.
Thy aan, om Shek, was TRAINING AIRMEN
charged with hawking without a Hernco nt Reclamation Street. Moscow, Apr. 14.
Defendant pleaded guilty and Mr. Fox Trot-Let's Fall in Love; Fox Schofield. in discharging the man Trot Bring to You Sweet Music; Over 3,500 resorve pilots were
said, "As this is the first case to be Fox Trot-I Had to Change the truined last year by amateur air clubs all over Soviet Russin, declared ourd in this Court have much Words; Fox Trot-Isle of Capri;. M. Alexamler Kosaries, the General pleasure in discharging you with a Waltz-Grinzing.
caution: no
to the memory of Secretary of the Young Communist this privileg, # defendant will have
of a
memoria! 20,000 carrier pigeons used during League, in a fighting speech to the the Great War was unveiled hero congress of the League to-day.
Among those present were Mesars, to-day. It takes the form
H. A. de B. Botelho, W. C. Walker, peasant woman standing amid a cloud There would be 8,000 of there pilots P. W. D., J. G. Clay, A. N. Macfadyen.
Divisional-Inspector
R. Shannon, trained in the present year, he said. Fifty carrier pigeons were released
Divisional-Inspector E.
J. Ellis. quotations (buyers) from Singapore during the ceremony, which was aeroplanes and tanks, Bided by the Woods, Divisional-Inspector F. T. J. If the Soviet were attacked, their Divisional-Inspector W. R. Chester- to-day for raw rubber;
attended by many military officials. Spot
Carrier pigeons were used exton workers of Japan, Germany and. Portallion. Dectective-Inspector A. JI. Elston, Detective-Sub-Inspretor L. sively in 1016 to convey messages Poland, would crush their enemies, from Isolated sectors on the north. ke declared. Soviet youth was ready Whant, Dectective-Sul-Inspector R. cast front in France Renter's) for war, but the preparations for Cunningham, Sub-Inspector T. Calling Bulletin Service,
hostilities must be greatly accelerated and Revenue-Oficer P. J. O'Neill.
Reuter Special.
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DAY BY DAY. NEWS IN BRIEF
THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY OF SEEING
The P. and O. liner Rajputann is THINGS RIGHTLY, AND THAT IS SEEING due here from Singapore with the THE WHOLE OF THEM-Reskin. English mails at 11 am. on April 10,
The P. and O.' sin. Dhulan is
expected to leave Singapore to-day at an unnumbered hut at Wang Hang A man named Au Tak-man, residing and to arrive in liongkong at noon on village, Shaukiwan, was admitted to April 18. She has been delayed four the Government Civil Hospital yester. day suffering from infuflex caused
M'DONALD
TO HAVE OPERATION
Washington To Intervene?
FILIPINO-JAPANESE DIFFICULTIES
Maulla, Apr. 14. It is now anticipated that Washing-
when a rock fell on him at Saiwanho. NATURE OF TROUBLE ton will be consulted for a solution
days.
The forthcoming wedding in announced of Mr. Pieter Frederik
do Kak, of the Nederlandsch Li Sun, 27, employed, was given Indische Handelsbank, N. V., and six weeks' hard labour by Mr. Balfour residing at 15 Gap Road, top floor, at the Central Magistracy this and Miss Toni Koybrook, who is on morning for stealing 28 bottles of hair her way to the Colony per 8. K. cream, 20 bottles of face cream. 20 Gneisenau,
packets of Powder, 14 tubes of tootli paste, five pairs of rubber shoes and 20 paper unbrellas, the property of Yea Saug, rent collector, Mee. Chan Hotel. Det-Sergi. Guild prosecuted.
A wonian, Wong Kwan, alias Yip
NOT DISCLOSED
(Special To "Telograph")
London, April 13.
of the Davao problem, the dificulties created by the illegal land leases to Japanese hemp rowers and the Philippine Government's desire "to evict them.
10.30 p.m. A Relay from Daventry.
Talk: "Imperial Affairs" by H. V. Todson.
10.45 p.m. Dance Hits of Not- So-Long-Ago.
11 p.m. Close Down.
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Transmission 1
,(0.4.N., 0.8.D.)
1.16 p.m.
Tien, Henry Crousson, at The organ of the Paramount Theatre Manchester. 1.40 p.m. Talk: "The Spice of Life.” I p.m.
A Revital of Mosie for Two Plano
fort by Edith Canthorpe and Cecil Baumer.
Greenwich Time Hignal at 3.35 p.m. 3.30 p.m. "Better Hang Wrong Faller .......”. 2.45 p.m. Anana Wien (AextraBan Exter
tainer).
The News.
3.15 p.m. Close down,
Transmission 2
(G.BJ, G.5.0. G.B.D.)
7 p.m. Big Ben A Bionata Recital.
Talk "Agriculture in the Bri
7.00 Pleat, the Elversteck Indus
try." by R. W. Haddon, Gerenwich Time Signet as a p..
·4,10 p.m. Słusical ;Interfade.
6.15pm. The Leleunter Opera House Ür
·chestra.
p.m. A feelin! by Arthur Brough
8pm. The Nawa.
(9.1) pan. Organ Recital,
1.4 p.m. Close down.
Transmission 3
Senor Manuel Quezon, President of the Philippines, is returning from Davao Bay to-morrow and is expected Mr. W. Schofield, at the Central
to
cail an
immediate Cabinet, meeting Magistracy this morning, linpoyol
It is learned that Mr. Ramsey Mac- to consider the situation, sentence of six monthe hard labour on
Donald, who, as Lord President of It is understood the Japanese pro- Tang Kai, unemployed aged 35 years,
the Council, has recently been busy.posals for a solution, of the situation who admitted a charge of possuasion
making arrangements for the corona- are not acceptable to the Government. of a forged $10 banknote of the Ol, was sentenced to four months tion of King Edward VIII in May They included plan to allow the Chartered Bank of India, Australia hard labour when she appeared on next year, will enter a nursing home Japanese to retain the lands acquired and China, and another
to-morrow for a minor operation. under the illegal leases until and tral Police Court this morning on a
expiry Shanghai Banking
at charge of possession of 136. counter speelfled, except that Mr. MacDonald renewal of the lense for another 15 Bay View district
Acting feit Hongkong tan-cent pieces of the saya it is not for his old eye trouble.
or 20 years-Router, Sub-Inspector Madgwick and the New issue in a cubicle at 144 Holly Mr. MacDonald will not be able notes were found wrapped up in a wood Road. Detective Bergeant piece of paper in his Inetile jacket Cashman stated the
DORADO DUE pocket. Defendant had said that A wrapped in two paper packages. That, a result of the operation, he The Imperial Alewaysmall platie friend had given him, the notes, and There were two Chinese men in the will be able to return to his official Dorado le due in Hongkong to-day that he was paid $5 for changing cubicle at the time, but the wombit and Parliamentary duties fully from Ponant with a large mail and 1-12.45mm. Danes: Muate. them.
claimed-all-responsibilitṣe in
restored ta benith Reuter Special one passenger.
banknote of the 1000 $10 { romand before Mr. Balfour at the Cen-Girne nature of the operation is not of the lenses with the option
to return to work for two or three coins wore weeks, but it is confidently anticipated
of
(0.8.0, 0.3.E) (10 p.m.” Bur Dem.... A. Roellal by Jean
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11. V. Hadsen.
10.45 p.m. The Composer at the Plansferia 10 pa. Metcal interludo,~~ 11.15 pm. The Narria Blaster' Sexist." 11:40 pm Tw
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BY FOG
Macao, Apr. 13, Mesara, J. P. Lentesty, A. Guterres, Lionel Roza Pereira, and A. P. Pinan, the prominent aquatic enthusiasts of V.R.C., paid a
a visit to Macho in a All Balling boat. They lef
left Hong- kong at 10.30 am, on Good Friday, but owing to the low hanging mist, missed their way and did not arrive
here before 7.30 that evening. The party left for Hongkong at 22
2.30 p.m. to-day.
In their passage to Macao, they met with the same dense fog that had prevented the 58. Sul Tai from arriv ing here at the customary time of 9,15 after leaving Hongkong at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday. She did not arrive unt 8 o'clock on Good Friday mor ning. Our Own Correspondent.
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