THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1937.
GERMANY PREPARES FOR NEW WORLD
WHAT SECRET RADIO
MESSAGES INDICATE
Feverish Efforts In The Armaments Race
29.8-What is it? Who is ho? A member of the Secret Ser- vico? The head of an underground organisation? Some mysterious stranger in the Economic Intelligence Department of a foreign Power?
29.8 is the wave length of the anti-Fascist "Freedom Radio Station" which each night at ten o'clock starts a series of talks on Germany. The station works in Germany, in the service of the German Popular Front.
Every evening after dark there are, 20 marits a week. Business is very German workers, shopkeepers, ten- slow, his caolai is shrinking, and his chern. employers who get Uwir standard of life is going down con- families and friends together and siderably. He feels bitterly, betray- turn on the wireless, wave length ed by Hitler. 20.0, to listen to the "Freedom Radło Station."
Wherever we look, we discover n change for the worse in the situation after another, won of the working class, and one gain i fighting, has been taken away from after years of the workers To-day the situation
In spite of jamining by the Gestapo In spite of a nation-wide search by all the different German police forces, millions of Germans listen every night of the workers is very much as it to this anti-litter broadcasting pro-was 100 years ago, when high mili gramme which brings them news tury oftiak complaired about the about Germany and foreign countries, bad health of the new recruits reports of strikes and demonstrations
ing from Industrial
areas.
In German industry, talks about cur-hunch the same complaints to-day rent legislation, etc.
and it is no wonder, considering the Some weeks ago the Radlo had on terrible conditions under which the its programme a series of lulks on working claws children, grow up to- "present-day economic conditions in day.
Germany. A number of anti- Fasclats here in England sten ed in and, in spite of Jamming by the Gestapo, pleced together speeches. Here are parts of them.
ten
"ALL of us experience every day the shortage of raw materials, Elec- trle wiring in private houses is gel- ting very bad in quality simply be CHUse of a lack of copper.
"New houres are standing empty, as there is no lead for water pipes. Gas pipes and rubber tytes are get- ting worse and worse because there is not enough rubber.
"We all remember how during the War we collected old-tooth-paste tubes, door-handles and copper kel- ties, The
same happens to-day. Clothes consist mainly of Abre,
forbidden
Use
"
to
pure wool. The laundry weurs things oul much sooner because the soan is so poor and deflelent in fats, The effects of the shortage are felt everywhere.
"But how strange! We scan the harbours in Bremen and Humburs one ship after another arrives, londed to capacity with raw material
as
from overseas.
"We go to the frontier and see there rains arriving, crammed full with raw materials, waggon after waggon. Is this another illusion- are more train-loads and ships arriv- ing than before?
MORE RUBBER IMPORT "No, there is no illusion. German statistics bear out to the letter all that we have seen. In 1920 Cor-
many imported roughly. 50,000...tons uf rubber and in 1930 02,000 tons-p increase of more than 60 per cent. In the first four months of 1930 we Imported 32.000 tons. another in- crease of roughly 50 per cent. is com pared with the corresponding period of the previous year.
"Is this an isolated case? By no
means.
Bought 141 Wives As
NEW CLAIMANT TO THRONE OF THE HABSBURGS
"SECRET SON" OF MURDERED
CROWN PRINCE
Vienna, Oct. 9.
"I DEMAND my recognition as head of the
House of Habsburg.”
This is the surprising claim just made by
WAR
THE ASIA COY'S
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Ordered to duty in the war zone in China, here are British troops transferred from Hongkong, unsling ing their dufte bags in a temporary Shanghal, Britishers camp near have large investments in China and these Tommies were sent to Shang- hai to guard them.
Sailors
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'Hobby' For fifty-four-year-old Robert Pachmann, of Vienna. Voracious
£2 Each
Darwin,
A grey-bearded man who has been buying "wives" for twenty- three years, and now has 121. of. them, has revealed the reason for his strange "hobby."
Ho is insignor Francis Gsell, Roman Catholic Administrator
of the Northern Territory diocese. The
His story is, he says, backed by irrefutable proof, if it were true it would constitute a challenge to the claims of Archduke Otto of Habsburg for the Austrian and Hungarian thrones.
By such he claims to be recognised as chief of the Habsburg family and Pretender tra the Austrian
Princess Stephanle of Belgium. price he pays at his mission
thus
throne.
Herr Pachmann January 1800,
at Bathurst Island is usually about nat women, whom he buys so that £2 "wile."
11
They are all aborigi- they will be under his protection.
says That in
years." he said with a smile, "and I married Princess Marie Antoinette the Crown Prince "I've been buying wives for 23 Rudolf of Austria-Hungery secretly: believe I have more than anyone else of Toscana. in the world. My total up to a few weeks ago was 141 wives. But 20 of them have died.
"It was early in 1914 that I began nequiring my wives. An old ab- original came to the mission one day and demanded his wife, who was ten years of age.
Readers
The
Herr Pachmann says he is ready, staying permanently in the South of to prove that he is a legitimate son France. At Canhes In February. of the murdered Crown Prince 1883, Princess Marie Antoinette Kave SEAFARING men are becom- Rudolt, and grandson of the late birth to a boy, who was taken lo ing voracious readers. Emperor Francis Joseph of Aux- Vienna, tria.
Senfarers' Education Service, Crown Prince Rudolf had in the which has a library of 84,000 meantime been obliged to marry books in Russell Square, now supplies seagoing libraries to The baby prince by his first wife the vessels of more than forty was adopted by a wealthy woman shipping companies, says the named - Maria Pachmann, whose
meeting with his father at the palace tales of the sea! Even the youngest nume he tooks.
Sunday Times, London. Herr Pachmann describes a secret men? More or less anything except What do they read, those sailor-
when he was a child. INVALID BRIDE
of them-apprentices and cabin boys, "You are a nice boy," said his for example-have little use for The ceremony took place at the father who kissed him on the fore- Captain Marryat, Clarke Russell, or Votivkirche, Vienna's military head and gave him a box of sweets, even contemporary novelists of sea church, and was performed by a which bore photographs of the life. Conrad is almost the onc Personal friend of the Crown Prince,| Emperor Francis Joseph, the Em- exception. He has a big following Dr. Marschall, chief army chaplahi press Elizabeth und the Crown and alares the honours, of the loc'sle and chaplain to the Imperial Family, Prince. "I recognised the Crown with Budyard Kipling.
Reasons for keeping the marriage Prince as the mon whom I had Some sull like to dip into Dickens secret were! Personal coolness be seen," says Pachmann.
and Charles Lamb, WILkic Collins Stevenson is not forgotten. but is and Harrison Ainsworth, R. ~~~L~ chiefly remembered by seafarers to- day, like the
visiting middles who amused the author so much in
tween the Emperor and his son, and--A^year later, In 1888, the Crown the Emperor's aversion to the Bour-Prince was murdered in mysterious bon family with which the Princess circumstances at Mayerling. wax related.
Herr Pachmann, a small man with
"A womall of the island is al- ways married before she is born. This girl-wife asked my help, but I was powerless to oppose native law, and the old man look her away. spear wound in the thigh, and a few "In four days she was back with a
later the angry old "trived, with his tribe. They de-tuberculosis, which
hours
manded the girl back.
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"The idea came to me-why buy her? I spread out a heap of trade good-knives, flour an bacco-and put my propesillon to the
10-
"The explanation is a very simplerate husband. The deal was made. one. Germany has mire raw
and soon smoke signals sent round materials than ever befure, but she afso uses them up to
word that Applications were plentiful.
1 was a wife-buyer. than ever before.
My 141 wives have cal me
each in goods."
The Princess was suffering from the Bourbon features, has since been Samo
Samon, as the Josser who wrote soon after this twice married, but is now a widowerTreasure Island"," supposed wedding necessitated her with two sons and a daughter.
Charlie Jung and Ah Chuey Go Home With Their Hoes
Galsworthy and H. G. Wells RO Into most of the libraries, Sapper's Drummond" and detective "Bulldog stories generally have a large vogue. Humour, of course, is always asked for, "Don't forget to let us love some more of W. W. Jacobs, Stephen Leacock, P. G. Wodehouse.
or
a larger extent
Nichol's stuff for next "They are being used in the arma-
voyage,” in the sort of message that ment industry. Copper is not there Old men frequently decided to
Two nged Chinese market garden- They had used them in the gardens frequently comes from over the seas. to be used for domestic electrical in-divorce their wives after they have er recently provided an illustration for more than 30 years, and had Many ships' companies are very stallations, when it is needed ever re run away seven times,
of Mariti und the wisdom of the proved hem trusty and reliable im-keen on biography and memoirs, and much more for tanks, aeroplanes and "The wife," Mensignor Gsel ex-adage, "Waste not, waut no!"
plements. When the two old men those of Lloyd George, Winston guns.
plained. "is placed against tree and
derided to return to Canton theyChureldli, and Ludendorff have gone the husband is given 12 spears to "The pest raw
textiles are not throw.
They wer Charlie Jing and Ah offered the hors and watering-cans the rounds of the cargo boats. there to clothe women and children
Chuey, who for decades have been and rather than leave them in for sale, There were no bidders, "It is a case of trial by ordeal at 30 market gardeners in Victurin, Aus-Australia No, it is much more important yards. to produce munitions, explosives and divorced woman."
If she survives she is a tralia. Recently they kn
they decides to carry aeroplanes.
to Canton with them. they had saved enough money to "We may do gardening in Canton," enable them to return to their bed Charlle Jung. Then we have loved China. They booked their
to buy a new tool." passages Stories of war could not aunt the two ok men, and they
"The hunger of the armament in- dustry for raw materials is more pressing than the hunger of the;
The standard of living for people.
the masses does not count, prepara-] tign for war-this alone matters, and for this purpose raw materials are? urgently needest."
WORLD WAR?
WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED EDUCATION?
gangway.
Matthem back
3.
At the present time there is so great a demand for Lawrence's "Seven Pilars of Wisdom" that there is a waiting list of more than fly ships for the avaliable coples of this book.
A disclosure made by all ships' officers who report on the literary left in the Taiping recently to return Escalante Mine Supposedly liking for books on
Isles of their crews Is the marked to Canton, where they were born.
eclentifle aub- jeets-plysles, astronomy, geography, They marched happily up the Hid 2,500,000uza. Of Gold botany, aviation, wireless, and of
followed by twa rexi-
course, engineering and ship build- CIR JOSIAH STAMP gave these probably the strangest elment capped porters, carrying what was
Pittslarg. Ing. is a fact that Germany spends
two definitions
Nation Study, » quilei little mindig as much on armaments as the U.S.A Culford (Bury St. Edmunds) School Melbourne.
Technical works for study by the of education at of passengers' lange that has left her with a bla idea. awaited young men preparing for their England and France put together, and,
$10,000 backing with which-dr|mantes' examinations have been su this reveals more clearly than the speech-day:
hopes--he in goba to nut $80,000,000 continuously naked for that a special longest speech how Germany is get-) "The inculcation of the incompre-were packed in huje wicker baskets
Clothing and curlos and presente in gold dust hear Thienon, Ariz. tevímical section of the service has Eng ready for a new World Wor hensible inte the tgnorant by the sling on a wooden yoke. And bring Melee of Thoenix, believe they can serviceable as possible all the books If we look at the budgel for 1937) incompetent have left when you articles of all—a number of unclent renove a rock fall b, the Arogful have been selected after consultationT Sturday an old associate. C. recently been established. In order that this department shall be as
"What
you
We shall see that more than two- thirds of all the expenditure of the have forgotten all you know."
H
Reich is allocated to armaments.
Germany spent
does,
Ing up the rear came the strangest
W.
Karden hoes, their original handles the But mountain will Sir Jasin sald Utal when Mr. long sluce replaced by twisted and the Esatente:
Central the
Board for th only halt as G. Wells, soon after his recent citings, and
mine, minde famous two huge and battered Harold Bell Wight in the Mine these technical works, the scientific Training of Officers. Apart from .much an armaments as she actually tics of the teaching profession. was watering-cans of on antiquated, pat- Escalente's Iron door, which has been writers most popular with seafaring
she would still be spending being taken round the education centern..
with the fron Door" Behind the more than any other country. With tres of Nottingham, a headmistress half the expenditure it would be was heard to remark: "Mr. Wells
hidden for 300 years by inndsildes, men are Sir James Jeans and Sle possible to double immediately un- in school ni fast.”
Charlle Jung explained the reason Spanish misalonaries supersedly hid
Oliver Lodge. employment and health benefits, and
for these strange pleces of luggage. 2,300,000 ounces of gold.
to increase all wages and saturies by 10 per cent.
Ex-Service men, disabled and the unemployed could receive double the amount they receive to-day and the *wnge tax" and the "elilzen tax" could be abolished straight away.
But there is no money available
for the masses and renrmoment pro-
duction increases all the time. Every
bit of energy is wasted on preparing
for n new World War, n. World War
with the bankrupt Mussolial ns sole
nity.
BETRAYED BY HITLER
According to retail statistics the small trader seldom earns more than
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your Whistle
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Cow's Dislike of Calf
London Oct. 0. Because a cow disliked another cow's three-week-old calf, a former Erie Trevor Ward, of Winifold, Berks, was fined £2 with £4 cosi at Windsor this week for cruelty, The calf, it was stated, was put in field with a cow, but the foster- mother refused to let it have any milk, and kicked it whenever it came near her. The cnit was scen lying about the field, exhausted, and veterinary surgeon said it was half, starved The farmer anfd ha fed the call twice a day,
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