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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1936.
HEART-CRY OF PRINCESS
"I Was Born To Intrigue and
and Disaster
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German Submarine
Base on Portuguese Coast?
Information has reached the French Government that the Portuguese Guvernment has promised to provide Germany with Kumarine base on the enast of Portugual (states the London News Chronicle Parls Correspondent),
This alliance-like agreement is said to have been, signed
mercial treaty,
Hitler Reveals
com-
several months ago when the two countcles concluded a shadow lics behind me and no dawn lies ahead of me. All that is left for me is to hope and be- lieve that Spain and my kinsmen will fulfil their destinies well and nobly."
This is the heart-cry of the world's most tragic Princess Her Royal Highness the Infanta Eulalia-a woman whose history is "that of a woman who would gladly have had none."
Four-Year Plan
A four-year plan to make Germany practically Independent of other countries for supplies of raw materials and foodstuffs was announced by Herr Hiller at the Nail Party Congress in Nuremberg. In a proclamation, the Chancellor repeated Ger- many's demand for colonies,
For 60 years she has kept the secret of a life of tragedy WHY U. S. CAME INTO WAR
Jocked in her heart.
Now, shocked by the events in Spain to-day she has been moved to reveal for the Best time the true story of the unhappy life of its Royal family.
The Princess says she was born under an unlucky star, into an atmosphere of political intrigue, conspiracy and revolt which were but a portent of what was to conie,
Four years after her birth her mother fled from Spal with the file Princess.
Paris gave them sanctuary. There with her mother, she
She vyrd the horrors of the stente. lived as a happy schoolgirl until the news of a "pronunciamento" reached Paris.
BOMB AT CARRIAGE Her brother had been proclaimed | *tandi Alfonso XII, King of Spain that morning, for the first time, T
Youth Burned Alive
in Furnace
Chattanosya (Tennessee),
Sept. 30,
U-Boats Alone Responsible
Into
the
New York, Sept. 30. "literally overwhelmed America, and ENYING that either munitions public opinion never recovered from nakers or bankers forced the It," but he feels that if the submarine War or campaign had ended there the United United States exerted any influence on President St to the President's stand.
States might have remained neutral, Baker, on Wilson, Mr. Newton D. The basis of his own
Mr. Baker declines to binmo Am- experience 19 Serretary for War and subsequent erica for seizing every opportunity studies of official papers, pinces sole to trade with those belligerents who responsibility Germany's an- were accessible and who had menns nounced unrestricted submarine war- of payment.
I hold no brief
for wor pro- fare.
he writes. "On purely economite grounds it is in the long vlew expensive and unreliable, but
оп
further
Writing in the October issue of erity," Foreign Affairs, Mr. Baker questions the effectiveness of I think something can be said for a nation endeavouring to ameliorate as
provent neutrality legislation to nation, its normal trade dislocated by war,
began to feel the weight of a crownl¦ year-old Hubert Wright crawled, it- } stagnation by making what belliger-on it by the war activities of others Seeking rellet from the heat, 18- from saying itself from business/ for us it can economie disaster thrust
in the interior of a large boiler tents want to buy.
foundry here..
President
our
and I venture the observation, that no donger My sister and I were
the lessons of history indicate that in schoolgirls... we were Infantas of
Mr. Baker insists that
any future similar situation it will be Spain.
He fell asleep inside the Iron Wilson's firm determination to keep extremely difficult to induce
the United States neutral cannot be people to keep from seeking such "When he was 29 my brother died, shelter, but his mates did not mi
hut two him, and when the time came to questioned. He quotes extensively relief when they begin to suffer so leaving no son and heir,
annealing the writings of both the British and cruelly as the result of wars in which months Inter his widow gave birth hoist the boller into an
ambassadors, Sir
they have no part" to a son who was proclaimed Alfonso furnace they did not realise he was German
Spring Rice and Count Von X amid the rejoicings of the still asleep inside.
Bernstorff, to substantiate this point. THE LUSITANIA propie."
He says the slaking of the Lusitanta
In 1905, returning from travels to Madrid, she found that Al- fonso, young and handsome, had fallen in love with Princess Ena of Battenburg.
De 108 with Spain received enthusiasm. Yet after their mouri- ge on May 31, 1906, returning amid DGAN crowds shouting with joy.
was thrown at their carriage which
horses, but! wrecked it, killed the miraculously spared Alfonso and his
bride,
VERGE OF DISASTER lier experiences led her to write! a book. It was published. branded a Republienn, expeiled from Spain.
She was
In 1922 the Princess went back to Madrid, saw a country which, having had 40 changes of government, was on the verge of disaster.
It came in 1923 when Primo de Rivern made himself dictator of Spain.
In 1031 came the anal blow-
the Itoyl Alfonso abdicated and family left Spain.
"In the course of my long life in changing Europe," plc.con cludes in her memoirs, "I have seen the fall of 15 thrones and the abdication of as many kings. "In this processions of sceptreless crowns have been royalty, whose relegated to museuns ... experi- ence has taught me (she writes in her memoirs, Just published by that
erown na Hutchinson's) secure, but it has also taught me that there is nothing remediable, fatal or final in human vicissitudes."
Oxford's Young Communists
13
-AS LABOUR SEES THEM "A highbrow contemporary" is quoted by the latest issue of the News Letter for 鏡 highly coloured portrait of the Oxford Communist undergraduate.
"This young gentleman," says the is large, dark, lofty and "Review," shabby, like his room, wearing his hair long and his necktie broad and red. A big, fair sandalled girl sits] on the floor, 'watching him.' They talk endlessly of 'demonstrations. groups, conferences and commit.co with an alphabetical spate, no doubt, of C.P.G.B.'s, and S.D.F's and C.G.T.'.
will have ceased to be "He Communist next year or the year after that," prophesies the News cent, of un- Lelter. "Not 10 per dergraduate Communists are Cam- munists for their three years."
"GOADED"
Lic
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"It is foreign affairs, the threat of European war, that has goaded the young intellectuals into their neuro- of activities. Filly per cent. them are idealists, genuinely anxt- ous for a way out; G0 per cent, are just afraid and subconsciously rn- tionalising a natural desire to keep out of the trenches next tine."
In A bitter gibe, at the under- graduate Communist, the News Letter adds; "Best of all, he was! a pacifist to be relied upon not to fight for his country. In short, B grand chap."
The News Letter, in the organ" of the National Labour Party.
His dead body was only discovered when the boiler was withdrawn.- Reuter.
MOB STORM JAIL,
LYNCH NEGRO
Dalton (Georgia), Sept. 25.
Ceril
BANKERS' ROLE
As to the popular charge that the munition makers and bankers forced an American entry into the War, Mr. Baker points out that America locked any sizeable munitions industry, and with the entry of America into the to de- World War it was necessary pend on British and French man ufacturers for virtually all types of urms.
Those making ammunition for bel- ligerents had everything to lose and nothing to gain, since the entry of America Into the war would bring either the nationalisation of their plants or the drasile limitation their profits..
Mr. Baker
believes that, the bankers confined themselves to their function of financing proper trade with the Allies.
TWO hundred men, many armed, broke into Dalton Jail today, dragged Al McCamy, 21-year-old negro, from his cell, hanged him from a telephone pole.
McCamy was convicted a year ago of an attempted assault
He had just finished a sentence in a legitimate on a 12-year-old white girl. penal chain gang.
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