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TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JULY
He
THE MAN BEHIND THE
He Started a Revolution-Now Rebel Britain Once
Pardoned
FLARE-UP THAT HAS
NOW COST £100,000
By LADISLAS FARAGO
Jerusalem, July 1.
THE Holy City to-day is a dead city. The streets are
empty; the, Arab shops are closed.
Reinforced police patrols stand at strect corners and in the doorways of the Old City; searching the infrequent passers-by for weapons.
The Arab revolt against Jewish immigration has cast a blanket of fear over the city, bringing all normal activity to a standstill.
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Near the pavements stand solitary cars,
Nails strewn upon the roadway make it impossible for
motorists to continue their journeys,
In the uncanny silence one hears from time to time the explosion of bombs.
Occasional shots split the air with a whiplike crack.
Only in the Jewish quarter does life still polsate, but the atmosphere is oppressed.
their path."
Faces revent sorrow and trou-jal the Arabs of Palestine woull; ble troubled still more byther under his banner and fanatic-: to-day's disturbances : Haifa destroy everything that stood in when police and troups had to. open fire to quell a disturbance caused by the arrest of Moslem
women.
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But Had) Emin possesses no power to check the stone that he would set rolling.
"He is a modern Aladdin who can
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1936..
ARAB RIOTS
Cannot Stop It
"PASSIONATE JACK"
Strange Letters In Blackmail Case: Mrs. "A" in Court
Without embellishing me, you are suffering from re- anything at all, your pression. I am tingling wil over worships will appreciate that when I think of you. Now,
desperate secrecy,” in all your experience you Mrs. "A" roferred to herself have never heard the like of in this letter as "your future this case before."
partner in? 7 7, passion."
These were the words usexi by Mr.i Ernest E. Brown, prosecuting in a case at Rushalt (Staff) last month in which William Hugo Jones, aged 36,
"PASSIONATE JACK"
The second letter opened, "Darling. darling, passionate Jack."
a colllery worker, of Lichficki-road, Extracts read, "I ani just made for Little Bloxwich, Walsall, appeared on lots of love and don't get nay, Isn't remand, charged with uttering a let-jit terrible? I am the type who always ter demanding money by menaces, lootes 28 and never ages at all."
Mr. Brown intimated that there
The letter and that she was, in a were two charges of demanding way, of grand birth, but loved simple money by menaces and third of things. She knew an old empty house sending a postal packet containing an where they could in and love and Indecent and obscene article.
love." The letter container?
the
Jones, said Mr. Brown, was a mar-Phrase, "My passionate boy friend." fried min with a boy aged ten. He
In a third letter Mrs. "A" cald that was employed at a focal colliery as a she trusted "Passionate Jack," and did weigh clerk.
not believe him to be a blackmailer
A certain cure for Ilay Fever counties of this country, tant no risk of divorce or getting in-
is announced.
With reference to the first charge, or a bungler. Mr. Brown sald, "The story concerns; Another extract referred to "Heaven Snipers were busy, a bomb
a lady of substance as well as of so-together without any risks. There is was thrown at the police sta-indeed set free the spirits," said my informant, "but he is no longer tapa- tion, and the demonstrator wable of resisting them.
and I shall red." shot dead
ask for the name and address to be Arabs erected barricades and He has been compelled to realisoi The authorities in the phy-suppressed, as well as that of her stoned a British policeman, but that it is too late to attain his enda siotherapy department at St. husband, because he occupies such
position in the county that the publi- luckily a lorry patrol of the Loyal by political agitation.
Georges Hospital, Hyde Park city would do him serious injury and Regiment (North Lancashire) "He knows he can achieve nothing| Corner, after experimenting for horm.” came to his assistance.
with empty words; therefore be or five years say they have found They opened fire, checking the gnises guerrilla warfare.
the treatment to cure it. situation until the arrival of rein-. forcements.
HOME WITHOUT SPEAKING
The letters written by Jones to Mrs. "." had been destroyed, but in these, said Mr. Brown, he had indicated that his parents were poor, but had carved MRS. "A", AND MRS. "" out for him a career in Parliament. I felt that his correspondence with "The Arabs have at their disposal
It involves the application, by Mr. Brown said that two women Mrs. "A." would help him in secur- huge quantities of guns, and mi-electricity, of a coating of ionized would be called during the hearing ing a proper outlook on life and life's tions."
zine to the inside of the nostrils. of the case whose names it was desired ( possibilities. In a modernly equipped office;
The present Arab revolts have cast Three or four applications are to suppress, and it was agreed that On March 14, added Mr. Brown. near the Walling Wall, between so for more than £180,000, and it given, after which the majority of they should be referred to as Mrs. Mra. "A" went to Birminghain by
"A" and Mrs. "B," mosquen and churchos, I found is
rumoured that the bulk of this patients are free from attacks of
arrangement, and at the post office the man behind the Arab revolts money came from Italy.
Jordinary hay fever for a year. "In the early part of this year," saw a man who was wearing a cer- Ind Emin El-Husseini, the
Born Rebel
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For mouths Arab, envoys visited Precautionary applications are Mr. Brown continued, "there wasntain sign that had been agreed. Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and reighbouring Arab states seeking given at the end of twelve months society action in which Mr. Norman "When she saw this man she was of the Supreme Arabianelal support, but they came back and again a year later, and after Birkett was briefed for the defence so shocked and distressed at the dif-
and Mrs. A was the defendant. that there is usually recurrence parties stood in a blood relationship
president Council.
1e is the born Arab rebel. Hadj Emin is only 42, but be-f hind him lies a life full of excite ment and emotionalism.
When only 26 he leil revolts.
That was in 1920. -
with empty hands.
of the trouble.
Then Had Emin Instituted a pubile. collection
American 011 gangster Hues.
Envoys visited the wealthy Arab classes and anke" for "charitable
AL that Ume he was can-gifts" demned to a long term of
imprisonment but esenped into had to be paid.
the interiar,
These giftipulated amounts--|
Tut only £5,000 was collected. Two---years--Inter-ho-was-par-|--Thurber £95,990 har entheen- doned and nominated Grand Mufti įaccounted for. and President of the Supreme Arab Council.
Fanatical Devotion
His influence on the Arab masses is tremendous, but this influence is tragically one-sided.
"If he should openly declare Holy: War," one of his confidants told me,
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There is no real proof that it cama) from Italy, Lat Mussolini's envoys" have been very lay in Palestine.
Mumolni, wants to take the, Pales- nian. mandate from Britain. wants to antagonize the Arab towards Britain.
The Halian radin station at Bori dresses propaganda bisadesta ex- clusively to the Arabs of Palestine,
Italians ave the financial hackers! of Arabic zone:japers,
The Coronation
The
from what she expected him to each other, and the Press-particu-to be that she drove round Birming- larly the Sunday Press-Ruve such and went home without speaking publicity to the case that eventually to him," said Mr. Brown. It found its way into tag home ani Lightnowledge of Junes.
Reads by of His Own Body
Budapest, June 21.
"On February & he wrote a letter to Mrs. A which opened the door to 2 correspondence which indicates either an obsession of a sexual charac- Iter in the mind of the accused or that!
such matters,”
"Here, the story parts ways. The [raan, apparently disappointed that the
him, changed his tune" woman did not stop and spęnk, to
"GOING OUT TO KENYA"
An electric man," who can -roud-by-the-light--of-his-owi|he is sucking-for-a-larger-fold-upon should-Beur-half-of-£10-expenses-he-
holy, has astounded the doctors of Hungary.
He is the 63-year-old Count John Berenyi. According to physiologists and electrical ex- perts who have examined him,' ..his body-especially in the early morning-is charged with statis elvetrility strong chough to make Neon tubes klow when he touches the terminals,
Who Shall The King's
Carry Spurs?
of the Lord Great Chamberlain.)
Mr. Brown read a letter which, he alleged, was written by Jones to Mrs. "A" It stated that he had refrained from writing to her for some time In allow her to recover from effects of the case.
"KINDRED SPIRIT"
The
The letter suggested that the Weijer
He wrote to her suggesting that she
had incurred in sustaining the corres- pondence, and in consequence of cor- respondence from him she sent him Bree sums of 12 105.
Jones had revealed to her for the first time then that he had not dei- troyed her letters, as she had asked, and she would have done almost any- thing to get back her fetters,
After she had sent the £7 10s. she was a "izindred spirit." and other Grayson" said that he was going t received a letter in which "Jack tracts read. "Although I am a total stranger to yourself, I am greatly en-et him have 220 for
to Kenya am asked her if she could amoured to you and stirred to such an extent that whatever it will cost me now been formed, knew that a let in hard cash. I intend to get a little ter for "Jack Grayson" was being sent fun atul adventure out of you."
On May 1 the police, who had by
from Mra. "A." and Detective Lock-
The letter said that the writer wasley kept watch at Pelsali.post-office, 27, was possessed of considerable to's which I was addressed. He saw wealth, though comlag from midiate- Jones, call and ask for a letter in the class parentage and that he liked to mine of "thek Grayson, sul subse- have contact with women of higher quently spoke to him. social standing than himself and patrons.
"How far are you prepared to go? I shall not quibble over a few hun-
Jones said, "I admit it was me who sent the Tellers to Mrs. 'A' at, and I am very sorry."
Later in his desk at the colliery where he worked the letters from Mrs, "A" were found.
MRS. "A" GIVES EVIDENCE
Mrs. "A" was then called.
Mrs. "A" said that when she re- ceived a snapshot of himself from. Jones "it seemed a very nice face." She examined it through a magnify-
Mrs. "A" sald that she had been
The Court of Claims which To drink the King's wine as n gourd dreds. I shall leave that to you," the has been set up in connection against poisonets;
letter suid. with the Coronation will con- siceps
To have the bed which the King!
at the night before he is It was suggested in the letter that sider pedigrees dating back to crowned;"
if Mrs. "A" were interested shel the days of William the Con- To be master of the silver scullery; should insert a message in the person-į queror, which will be put for Abbey for 73 persons, and 40 ells of
To be given a box in Westminster al column of a dully newspaper. ward by claimants for services crimson velvet (the traditional right PERSONAL ADVERTISEMENT at the ceremony.
Mr. Brown sald that after the ordealing gluss. Three claims which are likely to be resulting from the case in which she Men, and women too, who con- allowed are those of the Earl of concerned, Mt. "A" was very foolish, adding, " must have sider they have the hereditary right Shrewsbury, as Lord High Steward of patient for eight weeks in a nursing teen nearly out of my mind at the to perform certain functions at the bol of his office; of the Barons of the home. She received the first letter erowning of the Sovereign will en Cinque Ports, to hold a canopy ever frem Jones after she had been out wrote of gelag to Kenya, and asked gage counsel to defend their claims the King's head at the Abbey; and of of the home for a week. She was for 20 for a few necessaries, before the court..
the Lord of the Manor of Worksop to considerably disturbed and upset. present to the King a pair of fine
In another letter-ho said that unless Many and varied are the claims that gloves."
She responded to the invitation and the received a further £2 10s, making are put forward, at every British These, claims have been made and inserted a personal advertisement as £10 in all to which he said he had a Coronation, and by no means all of allowed at previous crownings, but requested,
right, he would postpone malling for them have been allowed in times past. these, like all other claimants, and
This storts a series of letters, thefa month. If the money, were sent, Chlef of the "services" to the king even the Duke of Norfolk, who, as like of which I have never seen in however, she would get her letters at his crowning is the ancient office Earl Marshal, is in control of the all my 30 years' professional career,"
Ireland, to carry a white wand as sym-)
of King's champion-the knight who, whole elaborate coremonial, must first declared Mr. Brown.
in medieval days, rode into the prove their claims to the satisfaction Coronation, banquet hall proclaiming of the Court of Claims. Himself. King's Champion, ready to
Even the right to crown the King,
BLISSFUL HAPPINESS"
defend the King's claim to the throne usually ascribed to the Archbishop of Mrs: "A" to Jones, who and described Mr. Brown rend leliers writteii by against all coniers.
There is little dispute ns to whom
as Chief Pricat of the himself as "Jack Grayson.” of England, is, according
Extracts from the first ran:
to
fine."
After she had sent the £7 108, Jones
back.
DELIGHTFUL- LETTERS ·
Replying to Mr. A. Victor Baden, defending, who asked why she corre→ "I wondered about the mental out- sponded with Jones, Mri. "A" said;
the right belongs, though no armoured some authorities, a matter for dis-
look such a man had-nothing else." She added that she was not desirous knight will challenge traitors next cussion, as there are arguments that piness together if it is terribly secret.was the type of man who raight be May. From ancient days the King's could uphold a claim by the Arch-
“We can only and blissful hap-[of corresponding, but "I thought he Champlon has been the holder of a bishop of York, to whom falls the No one must ever see us meeting to- helped by me, a middle-aged woman. Manor of Scrivelsby, though how the duty, according to the generally gether. I have burned your letters, I admit it was foolish, but it was first holder became champion is one of accepted ritual, of crowning the Queen and will you promise faithfully to do absolutely kindly Intended." the mysteries of history,
PREVIOUS CLAIMS
Other claims which have come
fore the Court are
Consort,
the same to mine?
Laler "Mrs. A said: I simply Here is a poor creature who Kings are contained in the "Liber dangerous, and wreck people's lives he added, " have never read such
"Letters can be diving, but terribly la
thomad; perhaps I can help be-Regalus," dating from the
King Richard II. and now in the
To support the King to the altari To carry the great spurs (part of the Coronation regalis);
"To carry the second sword; -To-supply a baton to the King:-
To carry, the.cap of maintenance;
All the "rules" for the crowning of
time of
custody of the Dean of Westminster. Officials of the Privy Council have and so intriguing. We are both so were. He was a very very interest- "This is such an appealing romance, delightful letters as some of them already consulted the historie book apassionate it may be marvellous.
ing and Intelligent letter writer. score of times, and it will be constant-
I came to my senses when I saw
ly in sine while the Court of Claims is "I have come to the conclusion you him in Birmingham, and I simply fin session.
don't know so much as I do, but, like fed-hever spoko' to him."!!
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