THE ·HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH.
SATURDAY,
FEBRUARY
*12, 1938.
Of
Duke of Windsor Frees Jailed Diplomat
LETTER TO BRITISH
"H"
ENVOY IN SPAIN
[UNT by Scotland-yard for a wallet lost by Sir Henry Chilton, British Ambassador to Spain, revealed how
the Duke of Windsor had obtained the release of a Spanish diplomat jailed in Madrid.
Empire News
DEVELOPING NORTH
AUSTRALIA
Sydney.
The report of the Federal Govern- ment committee appointed to examine the possibilities of developing the Northern Territory was tabled in the House of Representatives recently.
of
The wallet, which Sir Henry believes he lost at a cinema in the Haymarket, contained letter from the Duke asking for Sir Henry's help in securing the [release of Don Xavier de
Bermejillo.
·
Sir Henry said recently at the London hotel where he is stay- indi-
"Don Bermejlilo was at one time working in the Embassy in London. The Duke and he became friends.
"Recently the Duke heard he had been Imprisoned. Thinking he might be in danger of his life, the Duke wrote asking if I could co-operate with our consul in Madrid in securing his release.
The report shatters the illusion that there are vast spaces to be occupied, offering homes for millions
"I was able to do this. His letter settlers. It is stated thint a large was in my wallet because it was in part of the territory is useless, and his own handwriting, and I valued it.
that the utmost that can be expected in the next 25 years is an increase
of annual production of £4,000,000,
and the population to 40,000.
At present the territory, which has an area of 523,620 square miles, has;
LOST OR — }
"The wallet, made of pigskin, I usually corry in my hip-pocket. I've
had it for years. Fifty pounds in £5 notes was in one of its pockets.
"I can I afford to lose so much
an estimated white population of money. Also in the wallet was a about 5,000, and an aboriginal popu- blank cheque signed by Lady Chilton. lation of 18,000.
She gave it to me about two years
"There is always the danger it may fall into. wrong hands and that the signature may be copied.
According to the report, the sug-ago, and I had carried it ever since. gested increase can only be obtained by building rollways from Wyndham on the one side and from Barkly Tablelands on the other, at a cost of £3,500,000; the substitution of sheep for cattle production and the aboli- tion of all income-tax and dutles in the territory..
"I don't know, of course, whether the wallet slipped from my pocket ori whether it was stolen."
letter Sir Henry added: "The tariff from the Duke was not unusual. We from receive hundreds like that
The report points out that Com-people begging us to use our influence in obtaining the release of friends monwealth expenditure of £10,000,-
imprisoned. 000 in 20 years has increased the population of the Northern Territory by only 2,000.
Alr Inquiry Demand Following State Beaches"
recent trashes of Hawker
Demon
machines, the Opposition has de-
manded that the Aix
Force be
"raked from top to bottom" by a searching public investigation, Mr.
Changes Told
Thorby, Minister of Defence, has re- Scripps Institute Savants
more than a secret expert
inquiry. The Government, he sald,
is satisfied that the Hawker Demons are airworthy.
-Infantile-Paratysis-The-cases--of -Infantile paralysis in Victorin now
number
than 1,100,
the end epidemic started at June.
more
South Africa
GRASSLAND PERIL
The
of
Cape Town.
"Unless vigorous steps are taken to preserve the grasslands of South Africa the country become desert.”
Make Reports Before Geologists' Convention
Washington, Dec. 30.
were
Fifty years of Josef Hofmann's career as an artist In America York, were celebrated at the Metropolitan Opera House, New where, as a boy of 11, he made his debut in 1887. The world- famous pianist is shown after his jubilee concert as he read tele- grams of congratulation. Born in Cracow, Poland (Austria- Hungary), his concert tour of America at 11 was cancelled, after interference by a children's protection society.
WOMAN SPY DRAMA AT
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Paris.
One of the German Secret Service's most beautiful
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women was among four convicted spies exchanged for Betzner). A Little Bit independent four, convicted French spies recently.
The exchange, unprece
dented in peace time, took place in closest secrecy at the frontier railway station of Apach.
of
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arrest.
Her three companions were Burke and Thiel, also sentenced in Paris to imprisonment, and Tritz, sentenced
to five years' imprisonment by the Metz Milltary Tribunal for spying on the Maginot Linc
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& Rosen), Thanks a Million (from the Aim..Robert Ashley (Tenor); Comedienno-The South is the Place for Me (Titheradge, Ellis & Braham), Apach, Moselle village of 280 The names of the French spies, all why Has a Cow Got Four Legs Court- people,-faces-the-German-town convicted and sentenced as being
members of the famouR Second (Furber & Ellis) Cicely Beaches that grow and shrink with of Perl. Not far away is one of Bureau of the French Secret Ser-neldg.,
8.0 Time, Weather and Announce- the
forts the changing seasons
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vice, have not been revealed. among
ments. toples that were highlights of to-day's France's Maginot Line.
It is understood that the exchange
8.03 Two Songs by Stuart Robert- sessions of the Geological Society ofj
had been planned us Christmas son (Baritone). America's 50th annual meeting here, No members of the public gesture to nið friendly diplomatic In Summertime on Bredon (Peci),
Sea Fever (Ireland)..accomp. California's beaches are cut away were allowed near the station relations. Negotiations were carried during the winter and built up dur-
when a German special train out by M. Francois Poncet, French ing the summer, according to
Ambassador in Berlin, and observations made during the past arrived with the French spies, in welezeck, German, Ambassador
ocean charge of plain-clothes police. generation. Studies of the floor near these beaches, reported The German spies, guarded in Dra. U. S.
S. Grant and F. P. Shepard, the same way, were waiting in
of the Scripps
doomed to {s
This statement was made recently
many!
at Warmbaths, Transvaal, by Dr. Col., show that the sea floor is
recede.
Parts.
by
Gerald Moore (Finno).
Count
In
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Institution of La Jolis, the tiny railway Customs office. Red-Haired··
Girl Detective Never Faces A Camera
None of the spies was handcuffed. Pole Evans, the Government expert. changed as the beaches advance and They might have been a group of
ordinary travellers, "Exploitation and neglect of the
Near Santa Monica the-sea
The exchange und the signing of floor grasslands," continued Dr.
lture was built up as the beaches were cut papers by the police on either side Evans, "have menaced agriculture, Increased the cost of living and re-deepened for the doll the sea was were completed in a few moments.
at least 1,000 feet from Tall, twenty-seven-year-old sulted in a drift from the country to
Lautemann-only woman the towns." Grass, he added, was shore when the shore was cut away. Irene
fushion- Lokes 40 million years ago In China among the eight-looked a the most important, most precious and yet the most badly treated were much like similarly aged lakes able and expensively dressed Paris- reported Dr. Jenne in her black astrakhan coat natural product in Africa,
in America and Eversity of Cail-and very modish little hat.
Ralph W. Chaney,
Chinese
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It was not only in the Union, how-fornia paleo-bolanist, who, in co- EVIDENCE KEPT SECRET aver, but the world over, wherever operation with Hsen-Hau Hu,
Evidence that led to her sentence man and his flocks had pressed on scholar, recently studdied the
in the sands and to three years' imprisonment by the to the semi-arid grasslands, that forms preserved
Paris Miütury Tribunal, last year has these lands had shrunk in Bize shales of Shantung Province.
Climate during the miocene, when never been revealed. sooner or later and ruin had resulted. It was to
shrinkage of these these fossil plants and animals were semi-arid grasslands that the worldiving, was slightly warmer than at
smart, sophisticated young woman Hongkong Hotel. present in the same region. rise in food prices was largely due.
the
Miners' Cost of Living—The min- ing unions of the Rand have written to the Chamber of Mines requesting that a cost of living allowance be paid to mine employees based on the increase in the cost of living since September, 1930.
Aurface. Canada
GAELIC IN SCHOOLS Sydney (Nova Scotia). Cinases in Gaelle, belleved to be
It is known only that, apparently with plenty of money at her disposal, she moved in the most fashionable
Australian Society Suggested
At Singapore Dinner
Suggesting the formation of aj
-
That is why she has never had her leaving high picture taken since school in Lexington, Virginia.
The long-legged girl, untidily gym- tunicked, is unrecognisable in
who has had such success in cleaning up jewel smuggling in New York,
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Sweet 10.15. (a)
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music from ZBW.
She has a caucy little nose and likes to laugh. Anything less like n detective I never hope to meet, writes a Daily Express representa
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tivă.
The Rev. Shorby Adams proposed
Detective Steers is here investigat- smuggling coup recently pulled off by the New York City Palice.
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STUDIO: VICTOR SANDERS
10.10-11.00 a.m. Reiny of Morning Service from the Catholic Cathedral
Fire in Gold Mine-An extensive fre has broken out underground in the Simmer and Jack mine, on the Rand. All men working under-Society of Australians In Malaya, the tonst of Australia.
then the dinner celebrating the 150th "We have endeavoured," he said. ground have been brought to
anniversary of the founding of New "lo turn this part of the hotel into aint some ends of the big jewel- South Wairs, Professor 11. Amon said porttion of Australia." that the number of Australians In He enlied to mind Austrailon trudi- Malaya was second only to those tions and famous men, of the landing from the Mother Country.
of Governor Philp, the first Governor of Australla, and of the personality The dinner was one big family, with which he guided the colony of described by the Rev. Sorby Adams Sydney through the dimcult years. as Including "Australians,
"There is one peculiarity of lans by adoption, and visitors,"
to pure I must suggest
you, There was an excellent Australian
want on Mr. Adams. "I do not think we have
(Chinese). Australian accent-but we have an Australi. an way of talking, and wo very strongly claim that we have an Australian fotom."
the first public instruction in that language ever given in Canada, are being held at Sydney Academy.
Austral-
Gaelic was placed on the Nova menu. Scolla high school curriculum some time ugo, but has never been taught Speeches were short, "coones" were loud and long, and punctunted the until this term-Router.
Royal Visit Rumour-Rumours dinner and the dance,
that the Duke of Kent had arrived The ballroom, which seated more at Halifax, Nova Scotia, caused than 300 people, was typleally Austra flood of telephone inquiries recently tiun in its decoration. in newspaper offices. It was re-
There were gum trees in profusion, ported that the Duke had hoc een disembarking from the Cunard cut outs of aboriginale peeping out of Whita Star liner Carinthio, 20,277 shrubs, and a decorative doorpiece.
The bandsmen were "sundowners" tons. Several hours elapsed before the Inquiry could be convinced that for the night. Ly had eitlier been hoaxed or Informed
Topping all was a very fine replica of Bydney Bridge with 11itle ships sailing, hi the harbour..
an
Australians, Australians by adop tlun, and their visitors, drank the toast of the Commonwealth, to the strains of "Advance Australia."
there is still some inquiring to be done A whole gang has been enught, bui
about the suppliers of the jewels. More than that she would not tell.
Yet about being a detective she in atlll sufilciently enthusiastic to find life "terribly exciting." She twenty-five, has had six years' ex- Iperience already."
Asked whether slis had ever been in a really tight corner, sho"said: "I've only once been in a shooting Job, If that's what you mean. But
well, I shot first" About her job she explained gruve- Following dinner there was dancing ly: "It's much more fun than typing, and an entertainment by Miss Signe I'm always travelling, go to grand Green, Buster and Flo; the Australian places, but I must never have my HobbitsJoyce Audrey and Nest picture taken and there's a young And Balloy, and Jack Hurt-man-at-home-in New York who in
||resi-more about that." and make m
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12.15 Haydn Conceria In D Biajor For Violoncello and Orchestra. (Continued on Page 15)
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