THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1938.
BRITISH SECRET SERVICE MEN IN SENSATIONAL "MISS X" CASE POPULAR WITH
Case With False Bottom Produced In Official Secrets Case
London, Feb. 19.
Two small, elderly men, unnamed Secret Service agents, last week followed "Miss X," the blonde counter- spy, into the witness-box at the resumed Bow Street hearing of the Official Secrets Act charges against four men last week.
Britain's
Surplus
Women
Britain in 1935 and 1,815,000 sur- plus women.
This was revealed in the official commentary, Issued last week, on the two volumes of vital statisiles for that year, niready published.
They told how they kept watch on
flat, shadowed suspects and fol- lowed them as they kept uppoint- ments.
One said he saw Whamock, one of the accused men, obtain an attache case from Charing Cross Station. It was like one produced in court.
"This one has a false bottom," re- marked Mr. G. B. McClure, prosecu- ling.
The accused men are:--
Percy Eded Glading, aged 15, of South Harrow, Woolwich Arsenal ex-employee; Albert Williams, aged 39. Woolwich, Arsenal examiner; George Whomack, uged 54, of Wel- ling, Kent, assistant foreman; Char-longest
Having ved in China for the
time
among all foreign
les Walter Munday, ated 22, of cavoys in China, Mr. Nelson T. John- The estimate of the population of Plumstead, S.E.. assistant chemist at son, the American Ambassador, Is England and Wales was 40,045,000, the Arsenal.
perhaps the most popular foreign of whom 19,500,000 were males and
representative in Old Cathay, He a 21,140,000 females.
LIVING LONGER
Hankow
CHINESE REFUGEES
Flying Pick-A-Back
Plane Is Like Getting "Kick In The Pants"
It, was alleged by Mr. McClure so friendly to every body. When five that Glading persunded the other delegates, all children, of 1.500 The total is 170,000 or 0.44 per three men to bring him documents Chinese war refugees cent, greater than the estimate for and plans from Woolwich Arsenn called on him to express thanks for the previous year and 083,000 or 1.7 so that they could be photographed widespread American sympathy with per cent, greater than the popula-fat a Bat.
China, they were received so whole- lon at the census of 1931.
This flat was taken by. "Miss Xheartedly by the U.S. envoy In his on Ginding's suggestion while she bly reception room in the temporary Britons, too, are living longer.
was acting under the instructions of embassy building in ilankow. He
The first mid-air launching of one aeroplane from The average ages are 32.7 years the War Office Intelligence Depart- chatted with the visitors for fifteen minutes mostly Ilstening to the for males and. 34.5 for females, ment,
FOLLOWED WOMAN youngters' observations on Japanese another took place over the mouth of the Medway the These are gradually increasing; in
brutalities. The Ambassador also other day. 1931 they were 31.8 and 30.5 res- It was also alleged that" photo-enjoyed listening to patriotic mass pectively, and in 1921, 29.0 and 31.4.graphs were taken of a new 14-inch singing rendered by the children.
Other points from the report are:
haval gun and a 200-page confiden- The number of divorced persons tial text book on explosives, who remarried in 1935 (5,602) was a} "Miss X" said that Glading asked
her
to be at the Ont at 0 p.m. on While the number of divorces January 21, the day he was arrested. (4,069) was lower than in 1934, It He said that he was going to Charing was higher than in any previous Cross at B.15 to get something which
had to be photographed that night and returned,
record.
j'car.
The birth rate was 14.7 per 1,000 of population, Only Austrin, Nor- way and Sweden had lower rates,
Male births exceeded
female
Secret Service' man No. I then en- tered the box and said that he saw a woman leave the fat on October 21. births in the ratio of 1,050 to 1,000. She way currying a folded news-
paper. :SMALLER TUBERCULOSIS TOLL
He followed her to Hyde Park! The remarkable drop in deaths Corner, where she met two men, one} from tuberculosis during the last of them Whomack, to whom she eight decades is the subject of special|banded the puper, .comment..
It was the second agent who sald Since 1851 the mortality of child-he saw Whomack obtain an attache ren under five from this cause had case from Charing Cross cloak-room. fallen' to about one-ninth of the level
Mr. McClure intimated, when the of 1851-60, and of children aged 5-15 ease was adjourned until yesterday to less than one-fifth,
Father
Remarries, Daughter Gassed
The machines concerned were the Maia and Mercury components of the Mayo pick-a-back plane, and the experiment, made at 700 ft. at a speed of 140 m.p.h, was entirely successful.
The actual separation of the machines was seen only by barge- men at the mouth of the river. Crowds saw the composite craft takej off and then return separately.
Girl Who Cannot Sleep
The Mais, which is the mother craft, returned in a few minutes and same down on the water. Aboul 201
Since the man she was to have inutes later the Mercury alighted. married was killed last August in n When Mr. J. L. Parker and Mr. motor-cycle crash, Miss Josephine; H. L. Piper took the Mayo craft up Lupton, a shopgirl living in Morn- they had no intention of parting the ington-crescent, N.W., has not had. Within forty-eight hours of teav- planes, but they found conditions so Ing her old home in Windermere favourable
a single minute of sleep. that they decided thei ** Avenue, Finchley, N., following her time had come to make the vital A new life has developed slowly father's remarriage, Aarons, 20-year-old daughter of a
Miss Jose test.
for her. Hattan Garden diamond merchant, PILOTS' MID-AIR TALK went back and died there.
On his return to the works of Short Her father, Mr. A. P. Aarons, had Bros., Mr. Parker, pilot of the Maia, All four men pleaded not guilty at after his marriage taken a modern described the test to the Daily Tele- the resumed hearing yesterday, re-Road, a mile away, and the old home
flat at Monarch Court, Lyttelton graph. served their defence, and were com- and furniture were to be sold. mitted for trial.
Glading and Williums were re-i
Jose went back to collect a manded in custody, and Whomack family belongings. Australian airlines are now flying and Munday were allowed ball-
Reuter,
9 MILLION AIR MILES YEARLY
at the rale of 9,313,820 miles a year- more than twice Imperial Airways'
total for last year. This transforma-
that certain evidence would be heard in camera.
tion of a whole continent's transport | AFRICANS TAKE TO DIVORCE system is procceding at a pace prob-;
When she did not return her elder sister Marie went to the house. The doors were locked.
at
"From nine o'clock at night on- wards-is-my-most nerve-racking time," she told n representative.
Sunday Express
"Hour after hour I turn out sketch- take up a book, es. When I can stand that no longer
"I must have finished thousands of
sketches and read scores of novels in the last few months,"
"Conditions were good, and we decided that it was no use walting few any longer," he said. "Piper and
talked it over through our telephones and decided we would do it.
She has lost only four pounds in "We were flying level at about 146;
height of 700 ft. I called weight. Her heart is normal. Out- through to peper, est, wardly she reveals no sign of strain Hol" and off he went. It was just and her energy for work and exer- as though I had dropped a heavy cise is as good as ever. bomb, but otherwise the flying was o'clock in the morning is my only "Because four o'clock and eight normal."
Ile with Mr. Piper said: "The sensation as rest," she said, "I the projected interstute night mail are taking to another white man's Mrs. L. Levy, of Manor Court, the Mercury left the molher-ship closed-but not asleep.
Dozens of recipes for sleep were given me at first. They all failed, now I
to drop off. scarcely try "Every little detail in my bed- room is familiar to me because of the concentration I have put into my efforts to force sleep.
1
ably unparalleled in the world.
Cape Town.
Complete. ground organisation forj The Bantu, Zulu and other tribes!
Police broke in early the next day and found Jose dead in the gas filled kitchen. The windows had been sealed with paper.
Mr. Aprons and his wife, formerly
service will be ready by the end of fashion-divorce. More than 500 Aylmer Road, N., on honeymoon in June, says Austral News, and Le introduced generally.
will divorce cases were heard by the Belgium, started
South African native courts last year. told,
for
home when in
INSIST
ON
was rather like being given a kick the pants. The plane leapt up quite a distance, I had to be fairly quick to get it under control. Till then Parker was in charge. The ship behaved perfectly.”
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"He says that he is living apart from his wife," the Lord Mayor of Leeds (Alderman John Bailey), who has received the applications, told, the Daily Herald. "At the same time he stresses her good qualities and re- commends her for consideration.
"I don't mind trying to get a man a wife, but I don't think it is my job to help people to get a divorce," add- ed the Lord Mayor.
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