THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
MONDAY
APRIL
Crisis
HER FIFTH HUSBAND
Due To Britain Losing
Hope Of
HE'S HER FIFTH HUSBAND-Ganna Walska, opera singer, on- joying a honeymoon at St. Moritz, Switzerland, with her fifth husband. Henry Grindell-Matthews, British wireless and serial torpedo inventor. Mme. Walaka was divorced in 1931 from Harold Fowler McCormick of Chicago and from Alexander Bmith Cochran of New York in 1922. The singer has a villa near Paris,
Bachelor No. 1 Called Traitor
GIRLS FIND MEN ARE EASY PREY
Ilfracombe.
Cupid has won the "Bachelors versus Spinsters War" which was started in Ilfracombe a year ago by the for. mation of a Bachelors' Club.
During the past 12 months 10 of the members have got married and 12 engaged.
Cries of "Traitor" greeted Mr. Harry Chapman, chairman of the club and Ilfracombe Bachelor No. 1, when he told members of the first and last annual meeting of the club, which lasted all last night, that he could no longer resist the wiles of the spinsters, and that he was seriously contemplating matrimony.
Many Aim For World Peace
By Reynolds Packaril United Press Staff Correspondent
Geneva.
There are 137 more inter- national organizations aimed at making the world a better place to live in, to-day, than there were two years ago,
The League's 1938 Handbook of International Organizations, just Is sued here, reveals that there are now exactly 800 such institutions as com- pared to the total of £2,009 in 1936 when the last previous figures were compiled. The largest increase was shown in international organizations devoted to humanitarian reforms, of which there were 102 in 1936 as against 123 to-day.
The second largest rise was murk- ed in the domain of feminism with an increase of 17 over the nine listed
nimed at in 1036,, Organizations
the establishing peace throughout world ranked, third, jumping from 38 to 48. The only decrease record- ed concerned those international bodies given over to improving com- munications and transit facilities, which dropped from 49 16 45.
The fostering of arts and sciences moved up by three while inter national press associations remained almost unchanged at eleven in the previous census to twelve to-day- United Press,
"In these days of a falling birth- rate," he declared amid cries of dis- sension, "bachelors are failing in their duty to the State. Bachelors are cowards.
"EASY PREY"
Dawn was breaking when it was deelded, amid uproar, to wind up the club.
U.S. Alliance
BORAH BELIEVES BRITAIN TURNING TO MUSSOLINI
By Joe Alox Morris
United Press Stag Correspondent
WASHINGTON.
SENATOR WILLIAM E. BORAH; DEAN-OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE AND ITS LEADING AUTHORITY ON INTER- NATIONAL AFFAIRS, BELIEVES THAT THE EUROPEAN DIPLO- MATIC CRISIS, WHICH CAUSED THE RESIGNATION OF BRI- TISH FOREIGN SECRETARY ANTHONY EDEN, RESULTED FROM ABONDONMENT BY GREAT BRITAIN OF HOPE FOR AN AL- LIANCE WITH THE UNITED STATES.
Borah, who is the ranking Republican member of the Senate's powerful Foreign Relations Committee, said in an interview with the United Press that he was convinced the purpose of Britain's move to seek an agreement with Italy was to weaken Germany and at least delay her ef- forts to regain colonies lost in the World War,
"I believe that the British government has come to the conclusion that an arrangement with the United States is impossible because the American people won't allow it," Borah said in discussing recent developments in European capitals.
"As a result she has under- gards the Pacific. A large amount of taken to make friends where she sentiment in that direction developed can and if she succeeds in mak-in the British press, in magazines
and speeches over there recently. ing an agreement with Italy it will drive a wedge between Italy and Germany."
Discussing the speech of Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler and the resignation of Eden because of the Cabinet's determination to make a deal with Italy, Borah said that:
of Europe's 1. Redistribution colonial resources was the chief hope of ending the present un- settled situation which, he
"But in the last 30 to 60 days, I believe that the British Government, at least, has come to the conclusion that an arrangement with the United States is impossible because the American people won't allow it. I think that the results of this decision are now visible in Downing Street, GERMANY WILL REGAIN COLONIES
"Chamberlain has decided to seck dates back to the poverishment an agreement with Italy, despite the of small powers by the Versailles opposition of Eden. There is, of Chamberlain has Treaty. He said he was "convine- course, much to be, said for Eden's ed" Germany would regain her co-viewpoint, but
wisely decided that it is better to go lonies.
to Italy and arrange a settlement be- fore it, is too late, than to wait in- defnitely for Italy to come to Britain. "The purpose behind this British is to drive a move, undoubtedly, wedge between Germany and Italy.
2. War in Europe is unlikely in the near future because Hitler ex pects to accomplish his objective- Including the return of lost colon- les-without fighting, and probably
3. If Hitler had declared in his Reichstag speech that there would be no more racial or religious per- secution in Germany it would have gone far to end such discrimination throughout Europe and the Ger- man dictator would be the most powerful figure in Europe to-day." Berali said that the present expres- sions of opinion in the United States Including a vigorous drive in the Senate to learn if there was any agreement with Britain-apparently had convinced British Prime Minis- ter Neville Chamberlain that there could be no understanding with this country,
CAN'T DEFEND ON U.S. "It seems to me that Great Bri- tain has finally made up her mind that she cannot depend upon the United States for military or di plomatic assistance and that, as a result, she has undertaken to make friends where she can," he said.
Allas Dinah Hewitt, the Ultra- the combe brunette who led local girls in their fght for the cause of matrimony, dismissed the bachelors as "casy prey."
former amusing to see
"I am convinced that for a time the of
club the.
wheeling members
she said trium-British pubile was developing the perambulators,"
iden of co-operating closely with the phantly
Mural-if you want to remala a United States, and especinily of some working agreement with us as re- bachelor don't tell the girls.
Spy Impersonated U.S. Secretary Of State
G-Men Chief Exposes Plot To Sell Army Plans
Mr. Edgar G. Hoover, America's stamp- collecting head of the G-Men, who has been fighting a war against gangsters and kidnappers in the United States now claims to have unearthed a gigantic spy plot.
This was revealed in Washington with the arrest of two men und a beautiful red-haired girl.
All three have been arraigned on jspy ring to enter Russia in the guise
on of United States citizens. charges of espionage and held
RECTOR, 72, WEDS GIRL 25,000 dollars (£5,000) bail.
OF TWENTY-FIVE
Freshwater, 1.0.W.
At the Parish Church at Fresh- water, Isle of Wight, the rector, the Rev. Richard Pratt, was morried to Miss Stella Mary Williams, of South- fields, Wimbledon, S.W.
Mr. Pratt in seventy-two and Miss She nursed Williams twenty-five.
They are named as follows:
Hoffman. aged Johannn stated to be a native of Dresden, and a hairdresser on the liner Europa;
Army
Erich
it
26,
Gunther Gustav Humrich, n deserter from the United States Glasser, aged 20, u Mitchell stationed soldier Field Airport. autumn, and also nursed the first They are accused of plotting to sell United States Army and Navy secrets to a European Power.
the rector during serious illnes las!},
Mrs. Pratt, who died last May.
BING CROSBY 'CROONING ENVOY
Son Francisco,
· Bing Crosby, has been appointed "crooning ambassador" at large for the 1939 Golden Gate and Interna Honal Exposition. He is expected to be a sort of masculine
Lorele!
who will draw exposition visitors
KEPT A SECRET --
No Indication is given of the name
of the European Power.
. Kumrich is said to have had the effrontery to impersonate Mr. Cordell Hull, United States Becretary of State, to obtain 50 bogus passports.
He is reported to have confessed
Bway from a New York World's that he wanted the passports in order
to enable European members of the
MURDER PLANNED
NO REAL DISPUTE "The only real dispute between Germany and Great Britain is over the former Germun colonies which Germany is insisting she must have back. That is a primary element in Hitler's programme and I am con- vinced that sooner or later she will because they were get them back orginally hers. They were away from her by sheer force.
"Naturally Britain will try to hold why she is now seeking an on to the colonies as long as she can. That agreement with Ituly, because if she succeeds it will drive Italy and Ger- many apart and Germany will be weakened or at least delayed in her efforts to regain the colonies."
taken
The root of the present crisis goes back to the Versailles Treaty, Borah declared.
"Look at the map of the world before and after the Versailles Treaty," he said. "When that treaty was signed Great Britain and France
took possession of the world.
SMALL POWERS HAD NIL
"They left the small powers with nothing. How could they hope to! maintain that position without huge | armles and nuvies? That was the cause for all of the frantic ments building; the cause for the un- settled situation that has prevalled ever since.
and
prma-
"For that reason Germany Italy and Japan were drawn closer and closer together-the "have-nots' against the haves'. It might be ar gued that Japan was an exception but it applies equally to Japan be- cause she was bound to join in with the dissatisfied nations demanding a redistribution of colonial wealth." United Press.
Clearing The Air In India
New Delhi.
The statement by the Viceroy, the Marquess of Linlithgow, on the re- 15 of the signation on February
the United One of the schemes which the Congress Ministries
und Bihar, appears to plotters had arranged. was to lure Provinces the commanding officer of an import-have completely cleared the alr ex- the ranks of ant military station in New York to cept possibly among
extreme an hotel by means of forged orders.
Left of the Congress purts'. Ile was to be told to bring
A point that has carried great vital milltary documents with
weight in the Viceroy's statement, bim and was then to be robbed
which was issued yesterday, is the that the funt demands revelation and murdered,
Governors. Slr on the two The data in the hands of the spy made
Maurice Hallett und Sir Hurry Haig, ring are alleged to have included;
Artillery plans for constal defence. were in the nature of ultimata. The military lay-out of the Panama Canal Zone.
It is widely-perhops generally.. recognised that the Viceroy was bound to act as he did in refusing Secret mobilisation orders, and Information
of aircraft carriers to accedo to demands for the whole-
sale release of political prisoners. now. being built.
According to Mr. Hoover, Rumrich has confessed to hav
obtained various sums of money from secret agents of a foreign Government in refurn for the Information.
ing
A high official said other arrests were expected shortly.
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