HONGKONG THE
TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1936.
£1,000,000 SWINDLE ON SPANIARDS. SUIT FASHIONS
Shipload Of Arms Diverted To General Franco
£400,000 PAID FOR A CARGO
OF
SCRAP-IRON
Tricksters Raid Madrid Gold
EUROPEAN tricksters have been reaping a rich harvest from the Spanish Red
Government.
The London Sunday Dispatch recently revealed how a £1,000,000 cargo of Government arms was diverted to General Franco, and how another £400,000 consignment of "arms" turned out to be scrap-iron packed in boxes,
WHEN General Franco began his
campaign there was only a limited quantity of arms in Spain. Gold bad to be shipped to Paris to. form credits for the purchase of arms.
The man entrusted with the dis- persal of from £10,000,000 to £15, 000,000 was Otero, a Spanish doctor, fanatically socialistic, fanatically hon- est, but inexperienced in the wiles
Impart lleeners, and largesso of every kind for intermediaries, ex- ceeded £1,000,000, which was about 100 per cent, above normal value.
On October 2 the ship left Danzig, ostensibly for Vera Cruz, in Mexico, actually for Alicante.
But here is the amazing part of the story
Someone had givēti a hint to of the shadier side of the arms bust-Franco. ness,
werp, which left for Spain via France.
On arrival over the Spanish frontier, the wagons were found to be filled with miscellaneous scrap ·fron carefully packed in boxes resembling those the buy- ers had seen when they pur- chased the arms,
The value of this consignment ex- Three weeks before, Franco's in-ceeded £400,000-and the sellers, of Just vanished with the With him were appointed un-telligence system, mainly composed of course, known, fourth-rate military offeers, highly educated and trustworthy men money! also without technical knowledge, and jof the old regime, acting on the hint,
Aeroplanes were a vital necessity,
a few Party men-middle-class peo-had found out the nature of the cargo so the Government's emissaries, hay- ple who had spent in shillings and and its Spanish destination. pounds, and were now to spend in The ship was promptly seized bying unlimited money to spend, bought
jup everything available. hundreds of thousands.
DOUBLE-CROSSING
It was considered advisable to as- semble stocks in the free port of Danzig, whence they could be trans- ferred indirectly to Spain.
In the middle of September it was decided to send a huge shipment of nearly 2,000 tons of small arms and ammunition in a Greek steamer,
The cost of this cargo to the Spanish Government. in payment for the goods, freight, Mexican
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one at Franco's cruisers which lay in wait for her, and taken to Franco's Morocena port, Ceuta,
So the Government had paid over £1,000,000 to provide the patriots with a big cargo of arnı and munitions.
AEROPLANE TRICK
£150 A TRIP Aeroplanes bought in countries not Bown too distant from Spain were there, the volunteer pilots being pald a flat rate of £100 to £150, plus their return expenses, for each trip.
not
The embargo, however, did prevent several "bright inds" from Before the imposition of the em-
with profitable sales bargo the Government had been bad-going merrily
to Spuin-with this difference; that, ly stung.
it ought 27 railway-wagon loads after receiving the price of the
of material in Hamburg and Ant-machine in hard cash, plus a fee of £150 for flying it to Spain, they took off in the required direction, vanish- ed from sight, and landed at quiet spots in their own countries, know- ing full well that the purchasers had no redress!
GAOL "HOUDINI" IS
TRIED-IN CHAINS
Pau, Dec. 20.
ARMAND SPILLERS, 35-year-old convict "escape in the has broken out of prison five times in ten years, had his feet chained so heavily to-day that he could hardly walk to the court where he is facing a charge of murdering a policeman.
He was handcuffed, too,'
He said to his anxious guards:
About £150,000 of Spanish Government money Was sipated in this way.
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JEALOUS LAWSUIT
PRINCESS OVER
SHOOTS
HUSBAND
Mexico City, Dec. 18.
Plausible, well-dressed Individuals PRINCE VLADIMIR NIGER ingratinted themselves with the ATZE, handsome, wealthy
Spanish Government agents by pro- mising to produce all sorts of stocks of war materials,
As time went by, and the goods were not forthcoming, the excuse was put forward that the owners had be come aware of the overwhelming de-
rising market for higher prices,
"I give you my word that I will War Taught in mand and were holding out on
not escape-until the sentence is passed.
The judge outlined his record:
Escaped from Loos (Belgium)
< Prison in 1925; sent to 15 years
penal servitude in Gulana in 1926; escaped 1929, but was caught in the forest; broke clear a year later and reached Venezuela.
Spillers took up the story--worked two years in Venezuela; saved money; returned to Franec and lived under -false-name with his wife and daughter.
DOG BETRAYED HIM
pered, then sold out and retired to a small house.
Schools
BERLIN EXHIBITION
FOR CHILDREN Games Played With Bombs And Shells
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Eventually, when the game was getting too hot for them, the crooks left for unknown destinations with their bags full of "preliminary ex- penses,"
One Spanish agent parled with £12,000 10 purchase a mythicul "option."
Another, after a well-conducted too well-conducted-tour of a gov- ernment nrsenal in a small Baltic country, parted with £25,000 to his comparatively unknown conductor-as ten per cent, payment on the goods and he had inspected.
By A Correspondent
Berlin, Dec:-18:
Berlin schoolteachers
bers to see
Georgian, was killed in fash ionable street hore to-day when his 30-year-old New York-born Italian wife fired five shots at him from a revolver.
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PORK CHOP
A pork chop led to a King's Bench Division action recently when Mr. Eugene Aron, of Hun- ton Bridge, King's Langley, Herts, alleged that he was !!! following a lunch in October, 1936, at the Royal Automobile
Club, Pall Mall.
He claimed damages against Auto- mobile Proprietary Ltd., owners of the club.
That
Mr. Roland Oilver, x.c., sakd that M, Aron ate oysters, a pork chop and milk pudding at the lunch. night he had his evening meal with his family. This consisted of chicken. and none of the others suffered any
The prince was leaving the home
Leo-effects. the Finnish vice-consul, Granroos, of whose wife, Russian pianist Zenia Prochorova, the prin- cess was jealous.
GAVE ALL HER MONEY
The princess, a small attractive brunette, was prevented by passers- by from shooting herself. She told the police the prince had treated her badly after she gave him all Fer money to form a soap factory;
She is now hysterical and means for her son and daughter whom. It is alleged, she deserted when she divorced her first husband, a Mexi- can general.
Mr. Aron, however, woke up in the night violently ill and he did not fully recover until the end of the year,
There was no question about the trouble being caused by oysters,
Dr. F. J. Aldridge, of Watford, who was called in to atend to Mr. Aron, said he made a test and detected the presence of bacillus gaertner, a very virulent bacillus. Pork was one of the most likely foodstuffs to be con- laminated by it.
Under
the cross-examination, doctor said that Mr. Aron suffered from gastro-enterilis which
"he' thought to be due to food-poisoning, produced by other causes.
The hearing was adjourned.
produit gastro-enteritis thousand dollars on her.
The general obtained custody of Bought a null cafe in Paris: pros- children are going in large num- of the amiable guide and convidence jandi i
He is still secking the whereabouts the children and settled a mansion exhibition, trickster! an
After a whirlwind courtship she In spite of all these lessons and married the prince, former White dimcules, huge sums of money are Russian leader. She was an accom- Organised by the National Social- ist Teachers' League, the object still in the possession of the Spanish plished musician and dancer, and a of which is to show how interest authorities in Paris, besides the two popular hostess.
million or so pounds "subscribed" by Last night they entertained a party in Germany's preparations for Soviet Russia.
of prominent people.. sawing the iron bars of his cell win-War, and the military spirit can
be stimulated in the schools.
Last January a man kicked his dog. Spillers drew a revolver. -lle was arrested; identified and sent to the Sante Prison.
He escaped two months later by
'dow.
called to a burgled jewel shop at St. Jean de
Recently police were
Luz.
The exhibition has been given the name "National community-defen-
community."
As a policeman entered he wassive shot dead. The burglar escaped, Spillers was arrested a few hours later and charged with the crime.
THE EMPTY CELL
He was taken to Bayonne Prison. One morning the warders found his cell empty. He was recaptured a few days later.
Painted in large letters on the wall run the following words of Herr Baldur von Schirach, the Reich Youth Leader: "No child, schoolboy or schoolgirl, may leave school with- out the desire to be in. llfe a mortal and death
enemy of Jewish Bolshevism." The objects on view show how the military spirit can be fostered among schoolchildren
To-day Spillers denied shooting at in works and play. the policeman.
He remains in chains.
"Giving The Child A Name"
A CAUSE OF UNHAPPY MARRIAGES
The importance of conciliation in matrimonial cases to prevent them from reaching the Courts was em- plinsired by Mr. Claud Mullins, the South-Western'
The walls are covered with water colour and pencil sketches of troops, guns, tanks, battleships, and aero- planes in action-the majority executed by Children of 12. One such juvenile sketch has the foot- note: "What are we now? Lads, What do we want to Soldiers."
ART OF CAMOUFLAGE
Hitler
be?
SOUTHAMPTON
WILL
WATER
BE CROYDON
OF THE SEA
Base For Empire All-Mails- By-Air Scheme
London, Dec. 21.
SOUTHAMPTON WATER is to be the Croyden of the sea. This was announced by Imperial Airways, who stated that the new base from which next year 28 flying boats will operate the Empire all mails-by-air scheme will be established temporarily at Hythe, about two miles from Southampton. Negotiations for a base at Lang- stone Harbour, Portsmouth, are not yet complete.
A corner of the exhibition is
A large flying-boat hangar with slipways already exists on the site devoted to a series of illustra- tions suggesting how teachers can of the new base and can be brought
into use almost Immediately. end from the concerntration on (London) Police camouflage in the animal world The Tythe base is expected to be Court Magistrate, in an address to the to the contemplation of camou-in use for passenger traffle by the Liverpool Personal Service Society flage in modern warfare. Among the spring.
maps drawn by children and con- recently.
Quoting seven months' figures from sidered exemplary is one of Europe
Then, it is expected, Imperial Air- ways will gradually change over their Empire land, services from Croydon to the dying boats.
At the outset, a twice-weekly pas- senger and mail service will be operated to and from South Africa. Later, a bl-weekly service to and from Australia will be introduced.
The Hythe base will be linked to London by fast train service, from Southampton Docks and will serve as the embarkation and arrival station
his own Court, he said that cut of in which German and Pollon said to James Cagney Leaving for Empire passengers and mails. 220 summonses issued only 89 couples are looking over their frontiers to were separated. The majority agreed wards Russia. mutually to separate.
There are several bound volumes of
Hollywood: "Blacklisted"
Hollywood, Dec. 15. James. Cagney, the film actor, an- It is as good as an order on the Banit rouse the players to take an interest nounced to-day that he was leaving farm in of England."
in milliary matters. I noticed jigsaw Hollywood to live
may not return," he said."
Many women did not consider the essays on various military subjects question of how they were going to willen by children in schools. live. After obtaining a separation."
Mr. Mullins added, "a lot of women A section of the exhibition is think that if they get a Court order devated to games that are likely to
the
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Caledonia, first of the experimental long-range flying boats, will use the Southampton base for experimental long-range and Atlantle flights which Jare to be made next year.
Melbourne to Plant
Coronation Trees 'Melbourne, Dec. 20.
Mr. Mullins said that at least half puzzles which when pleced together Massachusetts,
cases in his Court concerned reveal the battlefields of the last war Since he won an action over a con- marriages prompted by pregnancy, complete with trenches and dugouts, There prevallad an awful idea that and also some new kind of game tract with Warner Brothers, he de- To commemorate the coronation of persons must get married to give the which is played on a chessboard with clares that all film companies ore King George VI next year, the city is planning a tree planting campaign Child a name. Very often that meant miniature aheils and bombs, and is blacklisting him. appalling consequences. Men sald to claimed by the makers to introduce "There is a solid front against me for next spring. hlm, “I had to get married to give children to military tactics,
in Hollywood, Cagney: says "but
I present plans are carried out, fortunately I don't have to worry the child a name," and he often had to ask, "Is the child going to be proud Several persons present, presum- Anancially and I refuse to be con- 200 of the principal streets of the namo, soeing how you ably school teachers, were Indus- corned over other phases of the city will bo ined on both sides with of your
triously taking notes.
situation. Reuter, behave.
phases trees--United Press, 2
might
be
Luck Still Holds
HIRTY - FOUR - YEAR
TO
OLD Armand Spillers, King of the Paris Underworld, who escaped twice from Hovil's Island and three times from French prisons, was, by a struke of luck, riven a new chance to-
LBY..
The second day of lus trial “ for murder at the Pau Assizes discovered that the foreman
of the Jury, M. Pierre D'Itart. was unqualified to act as a Juryman
The judge declared a mistrial, adjourned the case until the next
assizes.
Splifers sat dazed as he heard the Judge's decision. For two days, under a barrage of ques- tions from the Judge, he has remained obstinately silent, loyal to the rigid "code of honour of the French underworld, oven though it might cost him his head.
With tears in his eyes the man who
has braved Venezuelan swamps in his dash for liberty, refused to betray the members of his gang.
Said he, "I cannot tell you. I have sworn on the heads of my wife and Hille girl not to do so," He added, with a break
in his voice, "I did not come back to France to steal, but to embrace, my wife and daughter before going away to start life afresh."
Outside the court the crowd hooted and whistled when they learned of the decision to post- pone the trial.
While troops and special police. guarded the building, Spillers, chained and manacled, was hurried by alx armed warders,
•Infor
a prison van, taken to Pan! Prison.
will
There, in a small cell, the 'man' who has given the French police more worry than any other criminal in recent years be watched day and night.
The authorities are taking Tevery precaution' that " Spillers's. friends shall not help him to jadā: another escape to his : long Im before, the next andzes oPERL
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