THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1936.
you doing
Spy Ring Round Danzig's Irishman ARE justice in the selection
His Phone Tapped: Telegrams Decoded: Letters Opened
SEAN LESTER
Bulgaria Decides Against Fascism
Vienna, Aug. 10.
After two years reign as King-Dictator, the ruler of Bul garia, King Boris II, has decided that Fascist rule is no good.
He has declared for a swing
Case Of The Air
Mail Letter
Men Who Watch
His
Door
DANZIG, AUG. 1.
IN AN IMPOSING RED-BRICK HOUSE IN THE CENTRE OF THE CITY LIVES THE LONE- LIEST, MOST WORRIED MAN IN DANZIG.
HE IS SEAN LESTER, LEAGUE OF NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER OF THE FREE CITY.
He can call nothing secret. He is à mani surrounded
by spies.
For
a long time the commissioner ·
The local speret service loss of the shall not be detected. has him ringed by a net of suspected thk. Then in his own. shrewd way he decided to prove it. special agents.
He sent a registered letter to catch the Geneva al mall a bare thirty minutes before the air mit left the airport.
Every telephone is tapped, evers telegram decoded before it crasses the border; every letter steamed epen.
Even registered air-mall letters are detained, opened, read, and tirn sent un by fast plane to catch the previous machine so that the
back to democracy and will Denmark
model his reign in future on
that of King Edward Vill of Fears She
England, as far as is possible-in such a turbulent country 119 Bulgarin.
Ife wishes to sweep bayoneta which
y the May Become
away
hase surroundeck
gine the military putsch [
May 1934, when Parliament
bonded up and the voter
was
of the
Germany's
people stifled under martial "Pantry"
As he tells friends, Boris wants tar
get back to the people.
ELECTIONS SOON
First move by the King to end
4h dictatorial regime was carried
inge
WILM
"T
at rist
Copenhagen, Aug. 1.
Reports-not official ones
uneasy.
out beginning of July when a new from Germany suggest that a Cabinet
formet, der the good section of the German pe leadership of the former Prentier,
Georghi ple is getting tired of the govern Inwyer Ethi J'rofessor. inment's theory that it is more im- Kioscrivanosiť, was given by Boria to draw portant to have guns than to have
slation, immediately for the ho
of municipal and Stale ele bulter, and therefore Denmark is These
will take place during | October and it is the earnest hope and plenty of other good pros of the Bulgarian monarch that the dour of Sufia's long silent Part duets which Germany nee{ts-> ment will be thrown open in Novem and therefore she fears that ber La liquidate the "ing bandome day she may be picked regime which caine into force with
as Germany's' the coup d'etat which took the cap-jupon Jo serve
A few minuter before it was dut to leave he rent his secretary to the! State postal department to recall the letter, on the ground that there was something he wanted to revise.
In the normal course of events the Feiter would have been in the small registered
red bag waiting for the airplane.
secretary asked for the letter. A postal official said it would be printeed immediately.
THE MISTAKE
The secretary waited. Outside the rugines of the mail phone roared as [she prepared to take
The off. postal official returned. Would the
little longer?
ALSO IN THE NEWS
FROM HOLLYWOOD-
POLLY MORAN.
Screams of "Don't kill me" of Pelly Bent police to home Mornu, sereen earnedlenne, Daily Express Los Angeles 'correspon. dent says,
They arrested Marlin Malone. nitorney, her husband; charged Alm with threatening her with pistol.
Polire allege that Jamming of cartridre saved Dirs. Malone from death. Polly says: "I lave beer married to him three years, Now I'm through."
Fast Lasts
110 Days: Silence Vows
RADIO BROADCAST
Daventry-Commentary On Third Test Match
DANCE MUSIC
From Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 355 metres (845 kilocycles);
4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme. ན p.m. Concert Items. Pianoforte Solo-Islamey--Oriental Fantasie (Balakirev). Lane Wilson); .Simon Barer;
Songs -Pastorale (arr.
My Lovely Cella (ner. Lane Wison). .Elisabeth Schumann (Soprano): 'Cello Solos-Andante (arr. Silott); Aria (from Suite in D) (Bach). Pablo Casals: Sonco-The Spanish Lady (lughes); Limehouse Reach (Gregg)....Stuart Robertson (Bass- Baritone).
7.30 pm. chestra.
Geraldo and his Or-
1. Twenty-Five Years of Musical Comedy: 2. A World of Romance.
7.47 p.m. larry Torran (Yodel).
8
1. Yodeller's Dream Girl: 2, Yodel all Day; 3. Sitting in a Jail House, 4. Dan, Dan the Yodelling Man,
Time, Weather and An- p.m. nouncements,
p.m. A Variety Concert. Plano Solos-Orange (Billy Mayerl); Limehouse Blues Anyerl; (trans:
Mayeri...llly Songs-A Penny in my pocket: A Little Door, A Little Locks, A
Blossom
a
Key
.Val Resing: Orebne Love Again--Selection; Songs-It's a bit of Thrill all over again; I found Paris in the heart of old New York Mlle. Luclenne Boyer (Soprano) 8.25 p.m. A Relay from Daven. try.
England v. All-India. A commen- tary on the third Test Match, from the Oval, London.
8.35 p.m. (contd.).
A Variety Concert
Organ Solos-Six Hit Medley.... Song-Parisian Croudson;
Trail; Carry Vocal-We'll rest at the end of the prairie... The Illl Billies, Pinno Solos-Charlie Kunz Medley No. 12.
me
back to the lane
Charle Kunz, Band-Au Revoir: A Waltz was born in Vienna.
Bombay, Aug. 10. Muni Shri Misrilalji, an ascetic The ads antil, took of. The secre- of Punjab province, has been nt-Pierrot (Coward). Noel Coward: tary waited. And walled. Eventu- ally the postal officiat again returned, tracting wide attention here by a He was very confused. There had fast which has lasted for 110 days jbeen a mistake, he said,
The official who dealt with He has stopped taking water and gistered letters had left Mr. Sean is observing a strict vow of Lester's letter in his desk and had silence. Lying on a cot with a then gone out. IL would have to cloth pad tied over his mouth, he wait until the official returned.
Eventually the letter was given to conveys his ideas to his disciples the secretary.
by signs. He is very emaciated The official who had made the mis-and weak and it is feared that he take was reprimanded, so Mr. Laster will not recover from the ordeal. was told. I was only a small mis-
Muni Shri is a Jain monk. His fast was started as a de- Lone
fake, and nothing
to bring about monstration
Denmark has plenty of butter!
tal by surprise one May morning pantry.
King Baris
two years ago.
table
cannen,
After the big European countries,,
more could be
But Sean Lester knew that the
0 p.m. News and announcements from
London.
9.20.1. "Ellaline Terriss and Seymour Hick" Medley.
3.30 p.m. Tunes from Vienna. Danube Waver (Ivanovici); On the Shore; Entry of the Spring Flowers (Kockerl); You shall be the King of my heart (Stolz).
9.43 p.m.. "Jubilee Music Hall Parade," 1010-1835. . 10 p.m.
10 p.m.
Gill Room.
Big Ben from London.
A Relay of the Dance
felter had gone to Headquar ters to be opened and read. If he unity among the Jain sects. It had not demanded its return has been his ideal for twenty would have bren sent to Koenigs- years and he has a large follow-Orchestra from the Hongkong Hotel herg by a fast plane to catch the ling.
Berlin air mail, which in turn
officials,
of starvation.
.
even
12 midnight. Close Down, TOMORROW'S ~BROADCAST.
Recital by The Choral Group From Studio
TENOR AND 'CELLO RECITAL 10.30-11.30 am. Morning Service from the Union Church.
11.30 a.m.-12.15 p.m. Morning Service from the Hop Yut Church (Chinese).
12.15 p.m. "Carnival Suite," Op.
money 9 ).
hopes of moving into office through: German-owned banks have carried days ago a uniformed polier guard | lenders, are Jains, but their com-
collaboration with the military.
TEMPORARY CABINET
the
eated-up ̈with the Geneva -The Jain order-of-velibacy, both Jibre. And nobody would have, for men and women, is one of the been any the wiser-except the most austere in the world. They eat only such food as is guaranteed not every Sean Lester knows that lus uever relished the where the spectre of war is always |
to have involved ny killing.
abstaining role of governing his people from hovering over any political conversa paper in his home is examined and going to the extreme of behind machine-guns and
water because it in- seems a haven of copled. If any important conver-from boiled peace until the name of Germany antian takes place, there is un un- volves the idling of microbes. There and made no secret of his dislike on, Denmark of being vinguted to the wie of n
Their the shadow authorised Iktener somewhere.
have been instances of rich Jains in mentioned. dummy monarch, as seemed inevi falls.
"But what do I care!" he says to who paid inen to permit themselves if the National Sucialist It is not the question of Schleswig his friends. "I have nothing to hide to be bitten by bugs and other in- movement gained control of
that worries most informed Danes it that 1 an ashamed of. Let them sects so that the insects may not die the Bolgarinn country. Although
Since the Geneva episode of a few į Nazis did not gain power when the true that German Infiltration in spy."
India's Most Marwaris, Army, took over command, they Schleswig has been systematic, that
the High Commissioner methodient campaigns to assist follows
passion for live and let live does not Germans to take over the lund, but wherever he goes,
The police watch every one who extend to their business transactions. It is not simply the possibility that
Van Recently in the village of All that is ended, thanks alone to Germany will one day take back the enters the house,
kaner, in Kathiawar, an 18-year-old NOT AFRAID Boris. His new Cabinet is only a part of Bismark's conquest which
The Commissioner is equally aware virgin, daughter of a rich merchant, temporary one, formed to curry Allies returned that preoccuples Den-
the order of Joe nuns when through the elections. In November nark. They fear that if Germony of the two un-uniformed men who took the vows. She lind decided to
enter the composition of the
her initiation new Partia ever moves in their direction, it will also watch his house and his every he was 2. Part of wil decide the political be to take all the country, not part movement, checking up on
visitor, finding out what their businir by hair, of her locks by her
ceremony Including the plucking complexion of the new Government, of It.
¡ness is, which will probably as distinelly
GERMAN FLEET Recent German non-Fascist.
fcet movements) Mr. Lester is not afraid of chance isisler nuns until she was entirely Boris's decision to end the Fas about the northern tip of Denmaric attack from the people of Danzig. cist regime na already made him led to reports here that the ships He knows, and says, that a police rise considerably, in popular esteem.were engaged in considering the guard will not save him or his from Always a popular monarch, possibilities
who
of north Jutland, with an organised attack.
"But un organised attack needa loved to take his way incognito | Its
its long sandy beaches-natural land throughout the kountryside mixing in fields as craergency airplane orders," he says. "I wonder when with his folk, he i madly, cheered | buses for action against England.and if those orders will come."
That one day, and in the near whenever
these reports did not can- even
future, some attack will come Is palace.
Geneva, Aug. 10. sider that this was Germany's prime
the opinion of every one in a posl- A few weeks ago, he revealed Interest in Denmark, particularly as
tion of responsiblllly here.
The gross estimated expenditure hig democratic instincts when he in the teland of Sylt, just off the
"After the Olympic Games-who in the budget of the League of personally intervened to settle Danish const, Germany already has
Nations is put ni 31,281,630 gold taxi-driver's strike which had an ideni airplane base, nearer to the knows?" sald Mr. Lenter, with
francs (about £2,000,142) in 1937, sinile. Engilsh coastline, and reportedly The High Commissioner, thanks to against 31,341,051 gold franes this
ostracised year,
ment
azrents
Justed almost a month in Sofia.
his
But
completely Geneva, N.
every
bald.
p.m. Organ Music. Introduction and Finnic (Reuske) D. Cunning; Andante Edouard Com- (Mendelssohn)... mettel: Traumere! (Reverie) (Schu- mann) Andantino in D flat (Lemare)
Edwin H. Lemare.
1 p.m. Time and Weather. 1.0.3
Sp.m. Marek Weber and his Orchestra.
Countess Maritza (Kalman); Menuett No. 1 (Paderewski); Cocur Brise (Gillet); At the Tachaikovsky Fountain (Urbach); Jolllty on the Mountains (Fetras).
1.30 p.m. Reuter Press, Weather,
Britain's Share of time and announcements. League Expenses
1.40
p.m. A Recital by Peter Dawson (Bass-Baritone).
Vocal
1. Room for the Factotum ("Bar- ber of Seville") (Rossini); 2. Sira! your Toast (Toreador Song) ("Car- men") (Bizet).
1.50 p.m. Light Opera Excerpts. Selection-Ruddigore (Sullivan): Duct-The Swing Song "Veronique") (Messager); Trot here and there ("Veronique") (Messager) Winnie Melville and Derek Old- ham: Selection--Leg Cloches de
(Planquette); Song Waltz Song ("Merrie England") (Ger- (Continued on, Page 6)
His intervention was on behalf of already provided with excellent fly- the taxi-men. The King declared ing fields, hangars, and defence arma from Danzig society, which is Nazi. Thanks to an excess of revenue they were right in their, grievances ments,
Hic does not care for himself. But over expenditure in 1935, the United about the high price of gasoline, is the country between Schleswig Prices were immediately reduced. and the strategic northern tip of the he is sorry for the sake of his wife, Kingdom contribution for 1037 will Corneville
bla The King's reward was to see a long country that Denmark considers her three daughters. He is afraid they will total £201,140,
constant companion, and his be reduced by about £14,500, and parade of taxis parade 'before the most tempting bait for Germany, royal palace bearing all manner of rich agricultural region which pro- may become lonely. friendly, homely greetings to the duces such quantities of pork and rity.
monarch.
*
"
dairy products. Dr. Schacht's pro- POPULAR MONARCH
blem of finding the funds to feed and Another instance of the human arm Germany at the same time would side of the King's personality hope much simplified if Denmark were Just come to light iding in bis within Germany's boundaries. automobile along a country road. Nevertheless, Denmark does not
He is now a man without autho
New Zealand's
he came upon a boy trudging to the really expect any German move in Volcanic Island
capital, Boris asked the lad to ster her direction at present. She feels in and no they drove to Solla, the that Germany's first interests lie elec youth, Ivan Ivantcher from thewhere, in the direction of central PRIVATE PURCHASE village of Pantcherevo, explained that his parents were too poor to Europe, for instance. And she he lleves that England can be counte continuo his education. Ho
Auckland, N.Z., Aug. 10, consequently on his way to Sofia to on to prevent her absorption, for
An Auckland sharebroker, Mr. R. ondeavour to gain entrance as a military and naval reasons which a Buttle, has bought White Island, a burnar scholar in one of the schools glance at the map will make obvious.
To-day Ivan Ivanicheff is a papil But the tempiation of her over-flow-constantly active volcanic Island some twenty-seven miles from Tauranga,
WAR
The U.S.SR. and France, next largest contributors, will each pay £102,520.
The new League building,
four times as large as the old, accessitates a considerable increase in office expenses, upkeep and maintenance, and the League Secrelariut staff will be Increased in 1937 from Bid to 678-Router..
TO-DAY'S PRIZE
FISHING STORY
at one of the best schools in Sofia. ing pantry remains, and few Danes the cast const of the North Island. King Borla is, paybig his fees, are unaware of its existence-United Formerly owned by a syndicate A SPANISHI fisherman allowed a
Similar stories and they are all Preis: true-ard told of. the King's niimor ous charitable acts when he comen upon genuine, hard-luck stories In his travels amongst his hard-work ing country people...
Such acts explain why the Dul- "garikas always put fervour in their
the
Ax-Les-Thormes, France,
Aug. 1.
which worked sulphor and largo spare line to dangle In the river
here. voices when they cry, "God Save deposits of low-grade gua
island is pock-marked with reeking A large troub snatched at the Uno, the Kingi"
Now that he has moved to sweep fumaroles. "I do. not intend to which entangled the angler's lunch.com Away Fasciam and military rule, develop the island contmercially," they hall him more enthusiastically said Mr. Buttle, but I like the idea than ever-United Press
of-owning a volcano,!
basket and pulled it into the stream.
He retrieved his basket and found two trout struggling among the food.
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