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TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JULY
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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
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empty; the Arab shops are closed.
Reinforced police patrols stand at street 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.
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 pulsate, but the atmosphere is oppressed.
Faces reveal sorrow and trou-"nil. the Arabs of Palestine, would ble... troubled still more by gather under his banner and funatic-1 to-day's disturbances at Haifny destroy everything that stood in
their path." when police and troops had to open fire to quell a disturbance caused by the arrest of Moslem women.
Snipers
were busy, a bumb
But ad Emin possesses 110 power to check the stone that he would set rolling.
"He is a modern Aladdin who can indeed set free the spirits," said my
G.B.S. TAKES THE AIR
MR. G. DERNARD SHAW catching the breezes and sun when walking along the front at Eastbourne.
New Cure For Hay Fever
London, June 26.
9, 1936.
ARAB RIOTS
Cannot Stop It
"PASSIONATE JACK"
Strange Letters In Blackmail Case: Mrs. "A" in Court
embellishing me, you are suffering from re-
"Withthing at all, your pression. --I am tingling all over
worships will appreciate that when I think of you.
desperate secrecy," in all your experience you have never heard the like of this case before."
Νούν,
Mrs. "A" roferred to herself in this letter as "your future partner in??? passion."
"PASSIONATE JACK"
The second letter opened, "Darling, darling, passionate Jack."
These were the words used by Mr. Ernest E. Brown, prosecuting in a case at Rushall (Satis) Jast month in which Willian Hugo Jones, aged 30,
Extracts read, "I am just made for a colliery worker, of Lichfeld-road, Little Bloxwich, Walsall, appeared on lots of love and don't get any. Intr't remand, charged with uttering a lett terrible? I am the type who always ter derannting money by menaces, looks 28 and never nges at nil."
Mr. Brown intimated that there
The letter said that she was, in a charges Lwp
of demanding way, of grand birth, but loved simple money by menaces and a third of things. She knew an old empty house seueling u postal packet containing an where they could go and "love and
love." The
letter contained the Indecent and obscene article.
Jones, said Mr. Brown, was a inar-phrase, "My passionate boy friend,"
He In a third letter Mrs. "A" said that ried man with a boy aged ten. was employed at a local colliery as aste trusted "Passionate Jack." and did not believe him to be a blackmailer weigh clerk.
for a bungler.
were
With reference to the first charge, Mr. Brown sald, "The story concerna
Another extrači referred to "Ileaven
a lady of substance as well as of so-together without any risks.
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was thrown at the police sta-informant, "but he is no longer capa- A certain cure for Hay Fever/in standing in one of the Important no risk of divorce or getting mar-
HOME WITHOUT SPEAKING
counties of this country, and I shall ricd." tion, and the demonstrator waste of resisting them.
is announced.
sit for the name and address to be shot dead.
The authorities in the phy-suppressed, as well as that of her husband, because he occupies such a Arabs erected barricades and "He has been compelled to realise stoned a British policeman, but that it is too late to attain his emissiotherapy department at St. position in the county that the publi- Georges Hospital, Hyde Park city would do him serious injury and luckily a lorry patrol of the Loyal political agitation. Regiment (North Lancashire):
Corner, after experimenting for harm." came to his assistance.
They opened fire, checking the aituation until the arrival of rein- forcementa.
Born Rebel
"He knows he can achieve nothing with empty words: therefore he or gonises guerilla warfore,
five years say they have found MRS. "A" AND MRS. "B"
the treatment to cure it.
The Arabs have at their disposal
It involves the application, by huge, quantities of guns and munl-electricity, of a coating of ionized
zine to the inside of the nostrils.
Three or four applications are
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tions."
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The present Arab revolts have cost!
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The tellers written by Jones to Mrs. "." had been destroyed, but in use, said Mr. Brown, he had indicated that his parents were poor, but had carved out for him a career in Parliament. He fell that his correspondence with Mr. Brown said that two women Mrs. "A" would help him in secur- would he called during the hearing ing a proper outlook on life and life's of the case whose names it was desired possibilities. to suppress, and it was agreed that
On March 14, added Mr. Brown,
arrangement, and at the post office
near the Wailing Wall, between so far more than £100,000, and it given, after which the majority of/they should be referred to as Mrs. Mrs. "A" went to Birmingham by
rumoured that the bulk of this | patients are free from attacks of "A" and Mrs, "B."
In a modernly equipped ofleo
and churches, I found is mosques the man behind the Arab revolts money came from Italy.
--Indj Emin El-Husseini, the For months Arab envoys visited Grand Mufti of Jerusalem andi ¦ neighbouring Arab states seeking prosklent of the Supreme Arabnancial support, but they came back
with empty hands.
Council.
He is the hora Arab rebel. Hadi Emin is only 42, but be- hind him lies a life full of excite. ment and emotionalism,
When only 26 he led revolts.
That was in 1920.
Then Han Emin Instituted a public collection 011 American gangster Hnes..
Envoys visited the wealthy Arab classes and "asked" for "diaritable gifts."
At that time he was con- demned to a long term of Those gifts--nipulated amounts-- Imprisonment but escaped into had to be paid. the interior.
Pwo-years-later-ho was par- doned and nominated Grand Mufti and President of the Supreme
Arab. Council.
Fanalleal Devotion
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But only C5,000 was collected. The other 296,000 has pat_been accounted for.
There is no real proof that it came from Italy, but Mussolini's "envoys" have been very busy in Palestine.
Mussolini wants to take the Pales Ilis influence on the Arab massestiaian mandale from Brilahi, wants is tremendous, but this influence is to antagonise the Arabs towards Tragically one-sider.
"If he should openly declare Holy War, one of his confidants told me,
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The Italian radio station at Bari addresses propaganda broadcasts ex- clusively to the Arabs of Palestine. Italiärts are the financial backers
of Arabic newspapers.
The Coronation
Who
are
ordinary hay fever for a year.
Precautionary applications given at the end of twelve months and again a year later, and after that there is usually no recurrence of the trouble.
"In the early part of this year," saw a man who was wearing a cer- Mr. Brown continued, "there was a tain sign that had been agreed.
"When she saw this man she was Birkeli wes briefed for the defence society action in which Mr. Norman
ference from what she expected him and Birs. A was the defendant. The co shocked and distressed at the dif parties stood in a blood relationship to be that she drove round Buning- to each other, and the Press-partichum and went home without speaking larly the Sunday Press-gave such to him," said Mr. Brown, publicity to the case that eventually it found I's way into the home and
Reads by Light knowledge of Jones.
of His Own Body
Budapest, June 21.
An electric man," who can read by the light of his own bedy, 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 static electricity strong enough to make Neon tubes touches the glow when he Lerminals.
Shall Carry The King's Spurs?
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"On February 0 ke wrote a letter to Mrs. A which opened the door to indicates correspondence which either an obression of a sexual charac- Her in the mind of the accused or that he is seeking for a larger field upon such matters,
The
"Here, the story parts ways. man, apparently disappointed that the woman did not stop and speak to him, changed his tune."
"GOING OUT TO KENYA"
Ile wrote to her suggesting that she' should bear half of £19 expenses he had incurred in sustaining the corres-
Me. Brown read a letter which, pondence, and in consequence of cor-
three suins of 2 10s. alleged, was written by Jones to Mrs. Tespondence from lim she sent him "A" It stated that he had refrained from writing her for some time. to allow her to recover from effects of the case.
"KINDRED SPIRIT"
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The letter suggested that the writer was a "indred spirit," and other ex tracts, read, "Although I am a total stranger to yourself, i am greatly en amoured to you and stirred to such on extent that whatever it will cost me in hard cash, I intend to get a ule fun and adventure out of you."
Jonts had revealed to her for the first time then that he had not, des- troyed her letters, as she had asked,. and she would have done almost any- thing to get back her letters.
After she had sent the £7 10s. sho received a letter
in which "Jack Grayson" said that he was going out to Kenya and asked her if she could let him have £20 for expenses.
On May 1 the police, who had by now been informed, knew that a let- ter for "
Jack
Grayson was being sent from Mrs. "A." and Detective Lock- The letter said, that the writer was ley kept watch at Pelsall post-offer, was possessed of considerable to which it was addressed. He saw wealth, though coming from middle. Jones call and ask for a letter la the class parentage and that he liked to name of "Jacks Grayson," and subse- have contact with women of higher quently spoke to him. soclul standing than himself and matrons.
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"How far are you prepared to go? 1 shall not quibble over a few hun- I shall leave that to you," the
letler sald.
was
Jones said, "I admit it was me who sent the letters to Mrs. 'A' at — and I am very sorry."
Later In his desk at the colllery where he worked the letters from Mrs. "A" were found.
MRS. "A" GIves evidence
Mra, "A" was then callei.
The Court of Claims which To drink the King's wine as a guardi dreds. has been set up in connection against poisoners;
To have the bed which the King
It was suggested in the letter that with the Coronation will con- sleeps on the night before. heit Mrs. A were interested she
Mr. "A" said that when she re- sider pedigrees dating back to crowned; the days of William the Con- To be master of the silver scullery; should insert a message in the person-į
ceived a snapshot of himself from To be given a box in Westminster al column of a daily newspaper.
Jones it seemed a very nice face." queror, which will be put for Abbey for 79 persons, and 40 ells of PERSONAL ADVERTISEMENT
She examined it through a magnify- ward by claimants for services enimson velvet (the traditional right!
ing glass. ut the ceremony,
of the Lord Great Chamberlain.)
Mr. Brown said that after the ordeal
Mrs. "A" said that she had been Three claims which are likely to ba
very foolish, adding, "I must have Men, and women too, who con-allowed are those of the Earl of resulting from the case in which she
been nearly out of my mind at the patient for eight weeks in a nursing
Cine." sider they have the hereditary right Shrewsbury, as Lord High Steward of was concerned, Mrs. "A"
After she had sent the £7 109. Jones to perform certain functions at the Ireland, to carry a whits wand as symhuine. She received the first letter bol of his office; of the Barons of the crowning of the Sovereign will en- Cinque Ports, to hold a canopy over from Jones after she had been out wrole of going to Kenya, and asked
She was for £20 for a few necessaries. wage counsel to defend their claims the King's head at the Abbey; and of of the home for a week.
In another letter ho aald that unless before the court.
the Lord of the Manor of Worksop to considerably disturbed and upset. present to the King a pair of fine. She responded to the invitation and he received a further £2 10s, making £10 in all, to which he said he had a Meny and varied are the claims that gloves claims have been made and
personal advertisement inserted
right, he would postpone suiling for are put forward at every British These
requested. Coronation, and by no means all of allowed at previous crownings, but
montli. If the money were sent, them have been allowed in times past.these, like all other claimants, and
Chief of the "services" to the King even the Duke of Norfolk, who, as like of which have never seen in however, she would get her letters at hla crowning is the ancient ollice Earl Marshal, is in control of the all my 30 years' professional career,"back,
"This starts a series of letters, the
of King's champion--the knight who, whole elaborate ceremonial, must first declared Mr. Brown.
in medieval days, rodo into the prove their claims to the satisfaction) "BLISSFUL HAPPINESS" Coronation banquet hall proclaiming of the Court of Claims. himself King's Champion, ready to Even the right to crown the King,
aucribed to the Archbishop of|
"Delightful LETTERS
defend the King's claim to the throne Canterbury ns Chief Priest of the Mrs."4" to Jones, who had described "I wondered about the mental pu
against all comers.
There is little dispute as to whom Church of England, is, according to
Mr. Brown read letters written by himself ns "Juck Grayson."
Extructs from the first.ran:
this right belongs, though no armoured some authorities, a matter for dis "We can only find blissful hap- knight will challenge traiters next cussion, as there are arguments that May. Fioni ancient days the King's could uphold a claim the piness together if it is terribly secret. Champion has been the holder of the bishop of York, to whom falls the No one must ever see us meeting to Munor of Scrivelaby, though how the duty, according to the generally gether, I have burned your letters, The noter became champion is one of accepted ritual, of crowning the Queen and will you promise faithfully to do The mysteries of history,
PREVIOUS CLAIMS
Other claims which have come fore the Court are:---
Replying to Mr: A. Victor Haden, defending, who asked why she corre sponded with Jones, Mrs. "A" sald: look such a man had-nothing else." She added that she was not desirous of corresponding, but "I thought he was the type of man who might be helped by me, a middle-aged woman. I admit it was foolish, but it was Later "Mrs. A sald: I simply absolutely kindly intended." thought, 'Here is a poor creature who All the "rules" for the crowning of Letters can be divine, but terribly is going mad; perhaps I can help Kings are contained in the "Liber dangerous, and wreek people's lives, him." bo-Regulus," dating from the time of King Richard II. and now in
"This is such an appealing romance, custody of the Dean of Westminster. Officials of the Privy Council have and so Intriguing. We are both so already consulted the historic book a passionate it may be marvellous. ncore of times, and it will be constant-
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To support the King to the altar; 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;-
Conkort.
the
ly in use while the Court of Claims in | in-session.
the same to mine?
"I have come to the conclusion you don't know so much as I do, but, like
She added, "I have nover read such delightful letters as some of them jing and Intelligent letter writer.
were. He was a very very interest-
"I came to my senses when I saw him in Birmingham, and I simply fled-never spoke to him.".
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