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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1938.
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Japan's "Punitive Expedition Is
Beauty Parlour
Woman In Spy Scare
New York.
RRESTS of a woman and two
ARRE
men charged with trans- mitting United States military -secrets-to-agents of a foreign Power have blown the lid off an alleged spy plot which appears to be developing into a really scri- ous affair.
Those arrested are:
Johanna Hofman, beautiful red- haired German aged 20-who worked in a beauty-parlour in the German liner Europa, and is believed to be a native of Dresden.
Gunther Gustave Rumrich, a deser- ter from the U.S. Army.
Erich Glaser, aged 28, a soldier stationed at Mitchell Field Airport,
That the Government is taking the affair extremely seriously 1s shown by newn.
An emergency meeting of the Army Generál Staff has been call- ed for to discuss' changes in codes) and defence.
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Full charges against them are: "Delivering and transmitting agents of a foreign nation documents, code books, signal books, photographs, notes, instruments and information relative to the defence of the United 'States."
NOT ALL IS TOLD
It is obvious that the authorities are holding back the extent to which military, naval and Air Force secrets have been stolen during 18 months' operations of a spy ring.
The only Important information yet revealed is that spies have obtained and sold the United States air code, plans for the mobilisation of the Panama Canal defences, and detalls of Atlantic coast artillery and fortia- cations.
Further revelations are almost cer- tain to be made.
When the woman was caught in the Europa recently the police found notes from "agents of a European nation" acknowledging receipt of con- fidential documents. She had also a.
For Metals, Say
War
Say Experts
HERE'S A REAL SUMMER-TIME SHORTAGE OF ORES
PHOTO FROM CALIFORNIA
WARM AND BRILLIANT weather is reigning at Long Beach, California, where this photo was taken recently.
BELGIUM FEARS NAZI
DESERTER IS SPY
Brussels.
PERTURBS LEADERS
LONDON, MAR, 1.
JAPAN'S "PUNITIVE EXPEDITION" INTO CHINA IS REALLY A "METALLURGICAL WAR," IN THE OPINION OF METAL EXChange CIRCLES WHO PORE OVER TECHNICAL MEANS OF METAL DEPOSITS AND PROFESS TO FIND THEREIN THE ROUTES OF JAPANESE FORCES IN ADVANCE.
Those forces will not halt-apologies or no apologies -until they have reached China's antimony, tungsten and tîn deposits, according to this professional view, just as they refused to halt in Manchuria until they had seized badly needed coal and iron ore deposits.
In addition, the Metal Exchange is vividly conscious of Japan's rising power in world metal markets, through the special metal-buying organizations which she has now established in the Far East, New York, London and the Continent.
CHINA'S SILVER SAVED
By HENRY WOOD United Press Staff Correspondent
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Taking only the more important metals, Japan's position may briefly summarized as follows:
Aluminium: Has modern works in Japan, Formosa and Manchukua, utilizing bauxite Imported from Hinton in the Dutch East Indies. This is strategically correct, as ores are cheap and can be imported- when distance of carriage is A matter of indifference--from many sources.
duction, but badly needs complete Antimony: Hos amali domestic pro-
control of the large tonnages Imported from China.
Chrome ote: Mainly
from the
Belgium's military authorities are worried about the document offering £200 for the de- young German N.C.O. who sped at 80 miles an hour across talls of new United States aircraft the French border in an armoured car and told the Customs000,000 in Mexican dollars, or about flung are Japan's interests in iron ore.
carriers.
MAN WHO BLUNDERED
officers who arrested him that he was just a deserter.
His plan, they think, was to find out whether the famous Edgar Hoover, G-Man chief, says a spy organisation has been long col- Maginot line, the steel and concrete fortifications which are fecting material and passing it to described in military circles as the "lifebelt of France," could be other members among the crews of penetrated. Transatlantic liners, who delivered it
in various centres in Europe.
Belgian military experts, concern- ed over the defence itifacts as these:
The man who is stated to have leastern frontier, are puzzled by such of their own. blundered worst is Rumrich, who,
1.--How could this German N.C.O, steal an armoured car from
is said, was being paid only £20 a month for his work.
He telephoned to the passport bureau posing as an official of the State Department, and asked for 30 passport forms to be sent him at a New York hotel.
Questioned after his arrest, he broke down, and is declared to have implicated Glaser, of the airfleld whiere a code-book was stolen, Glaser put the police on the track of the woman.
a barracks without the alarm being given at once? -
2.How could he drive for 50
Rector To Wed
A Shop-Girl
miles in Germany without being FELL IN LOVE WITH
HER AT FIRST SIGHT
detected?
3.-How could be pass the Ger- man frontier, which, since Hitler's' purge last month, has been prac- tically closed?
The self-confessed deserter appears, to have known secret passages be-
Land"
to use them i
It is also stated (reports Reuter)tween the net of barbed wire and that Rumelch attempted to imper-vertical steel posts which cover the sonate Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary of "No Man's State.
between the fron- line and the Maginot wall, for tier A large number of extra guards he was compelled were placed at the big air base at break through the line itself. Mitchell Field (Long Island) to pre- Officers of the Belgian General vent any further theft of Air Corps Staff have been discussing the matter and they agree on the theory that Hangars housing latest models of this German N.C.O. is not a deser fighting planes are specially guarded.ter.
secrets.
WON'T LISTEN-IN TO RADIO-INVENTED IT
Paris.
The Rev. Gordon Ince, rretor
of Long Melford, Suffolk, on his way Australia on a six minis health cruise, has become eug- aged to a Colombo shopgirl, Miss Blanca Stebel,
San Francisco. China's entire heard of silver currency and silver metal re- Philippines-a supply which presum- serves, with the exception of ably would be shut off in the event [$50,000,000 which fell into the of a "neutrality proclamation" by the hands of the Japanese, has been United Government. successfully removed from the. Copper: Some home production, country, the Institute of Pacific augmented by heavy imports from numerous sources; has been a heavy Relations reveals.
The $50,000,000 which fell into the buyer on the various metal exchanges. In addition, she is buying copper ore hands of the advancing Japanese In Chile, Canada and the Philippines; army was in the Tientsin-Peiping
It was in Maxican dollars and but so long as she retains undisputed urts are bulky and expensive to carry, its actual value in American currency control of her Pacific Ocean routes, was only $20,000,000.
this - is the entire amount which the
correct The
policy, it is felt, under the circumstances. Chinese government was able to get out of the country in time was $300,-ron ore: Few realise how widely She has holdings in Malaya, British $10,000,000 in U.S. currency.
India, British Columbia, the Dutch and New East Indies, Australia The silver was first concentrated at New Zealand deposits. All these in Caledonia, and is now investigating Shanghai, then later moved to Hong- addition to resources in Manchukuo kong and finally shipped to London and North China. She takes some for safe keeping where it went into ore from Burma. the London silver market, proving
Here she is not in a very for the time being a depressing factor. good
A Japanese-owned Under a six-months' extension last good position.
smelter at Anshan, Manchukuo, in December by the US government of utilizing Jehol ore from North China, its agreement to continue the absorp-bu
but Japan is forced to import large tion of Chinese silver currency, it is quantities
les from overseas. expected that in the end the U.S.
Manganese ore: These she gets treasury will eventually absorb the mainly from China and Indie (she last of China's silver hoard, bath in owns directly part of her Indian
stamped silver bars.
supply) und expects to get further With this Anal disappearance of supplies from the Philippines and
silver metal reserve New Caledonia. China's entire which she had bullt up in more than Nickel: Rushing to completion
CAME TO HONGKONG
currency
end
Lead:
a century, China will be definitely various home refineries, using oret eliminated from the block of silver from British Columbia, In the hope standard countries.
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As a matter of fact since November, curtailing her heavy imports of the
China already has been operat- 1935,
Tin: Japan is a heavy buyer of ing on a managed currency basis of the metal in the Far East, and to He is said to have met his fances a flexible gold exchange in the store and fallen in love with Whenever she re-establishes a new but she
standard. some extent in the world markets, her at first sight.
pushing through a currency basis, it is presumed that it Japanese-owned smelter, in Slam in Parishioners in Long Melford re-will be on the Japanese-Manchukuo the hope Barded the rector as a confirmed ba-yen basis that is prevailing now in
of utilizing Siamese tin ore. chelor. He has lived alone for five the Far East.
Tungsten: Imports heavily from years in a mansion-like rectory ad-
China under the greatest dimculties, joining the church, When he let
hence the strong drive to seize con- on his cruise he said:
This complete disappearance from She also uses tungsten deposits, in irol of the Chinese tungsten deposits. China of her silver currency also:
Когед marks the end of an important Quicksilver: chapter in the history
heavy importer, economic relations with the West,
Vest, though trying hard to develop small Until westeru traders began operat-
deposits, I in China, the only currency which ing
Magnesium: Hos plenty. she had developed was copper which Lut
Reasonably well supplied was issued in great diversity of forms and ore from abroad.
ut still Imports considerable metul and values,
Her
"It Is quite impossible for one man, cvcn in good health. adequately to serve this parish, and the great obstacle to the provision of a colleague is the huge expeuse of this unwanted mansion and grounds in whleh the unhappy incumbent is com- pelled to live.
ECONOMIC RELATIONS
"I should hope to see my way on this incubus or to put it to such use Carolus-the
a Hability.
China's of
domestic
A
of
There is one man living in Paris who won't listen to my retura either to rid myself of
The western traders, however, as a rank high but the important thing metallurgical techmologisis radio. He is Edouard Branly, ninety-three-years-old that it may become an asset to the Mexican dollar-at a
means of exchange introduced the as London observers see the situa-
predecessor of pioneer who discovered the principle of wireless trans-spiritual life of the parish instead of Mexico was silil a Spanish colony and make strides in the
the tion, is that they have the ear of "the time when powers that be" in Japan and can mission forty-seven years ago which resulted in Marconi's
Mexican "I cannot continue In my presenta
sliver was regarded
expansion 45 Japan's metal industries which other invention of radio.
condition longer than the close of the Spanish currency.
countries and it hard to parallel. The though I hope to manage until the basis of Chinese
Mexican dollar has since been currency, al- Though what western writers have! called China's silver currency was really only a highly developed form of barter,
"Some time ago," he told me in his modest apartment in the old Latin Quarter, "friends insisted on presenting me with a powerful radio set, says a correspondent.
"The family gathered round to hear it, but after a few minutes I left the room. I fled from the monster I had created."
Nobody has ever been able to in) laboratory and enter a little
duce Professor Branly to listen to a radio set again.
All his life he has remained strangely aloof from the practical realisation of his scientific dis- coveries.
NEVER HUNGRY "Material ille is nothing," he says. "I am never hungry, never sleepy. When I sit down at the dinner-table I eat, and as soon as I am in bed fall asleep."
Every day about noon Pari- slang soo the professor leave his
ONIONS ROUT BANDIT
Reno, Nev. tear-gas
An improvised
bomb
routed a robber at the grocery of
pastry-shop, where he purchases
a piece of cake. That is all the lunch he ever has.
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His family are compelled resort all sorts of aubterfuges to induce him to don a new hai or a new sult. Most often the new articles are secretly subati- tuted for the old outworn far- menis, and as he has all traditional professor's absent- mindedness, he never notices the difference,
Jiggs Buried
RECENT COINAGE
Kay Francis To Wed German Air Baron
Hollywood,
Hollywood. Jiggs is dead, and Hollywood has Omeial recognition was granted the. Miss Kay Francis, the film ster, on- buried him, buried him in a coffin silver dollar in China only compara-nounced in Hollywood to-day that lined with purple satin. The handles tively recently, when Yuan Shi-kar she is to marry a young German of the casket were of silver.
lanted coins showing a design of his baron. Erik Barockow, whom sho Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour head, after the monarchy had been met last summer at
Hollywood were among the mourners." Flowers replaced by the semblance of a re-party. The baron is connected with his rule. Finally in 1932 aviation. He will be the fourth hus- ike bler.
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from other" stars were piled round public Definition was added by Dr. band of Miss Kay Francis. She has
The funeral recalled the obsequies clearer
Soong when he made the silver never disclosed the name of Her first
emotion."
loga! tender.
of famous gangsters. the
husband, her second was Mr. Dwight But Jiggs was no gangster, Ho This really coincided with the be- Francia, and ahe obtained a decreo earned a mere £20 a day as "the ginning of the end of China's sliver against the third, Mr. Kenneth Me- only chimpanzee able to express currency. When the world went off Kenna, the film director, in 1995.——— Years ago Marconi visited Branly,
gold, from 1931 to 1933, and even be-B.U.P. Now he lles in the film colony's Zore the American "silver bloc" cash- offering bim
a lucrative honorary "pels' cemetery"-und Hollywood ed in on its participation in the elec position on the French radio com- may not look upon his like again ton victory of 1952, sliver prices had until pany he was organising.
B.U.P.
with the advent of Sino- shown outstanding resistance against Japanese hostilles China found it the general fall in prices.
advisable to get her entire supply of Later when the administration be-the metal out of the country, gan purchases of silver in order to
For the time being, China has build up a currency reserve amount created a new kind of currency for 23 years ago at Fressburg, 40 miles gold stock, purchase agreements were moratorium on all bank deposits ex- A birthday greetings card posted ing to 25 per cent, of the monetary domestic use and declared from here, has just been received in concluded with both Mexico and cept for smeti amcunia. There Vienna by the son of the intended China,
measures have prevented any pante This gradually depleted. China's there as a result of the disappearance freserves at silver currency and metal of silver-United: Press. --
even
REFUSED JOB When the Professor protested that) Henry R. Brewster. Armed with an he was only a laboratory research automatic, a robber ordered Brews worker and that he didn't ter to hand over the contents of the know how to operate a wireless set, cash register. Brewster reached for they explained that all they wanted hia onion counter, grabbed a half from him was his name, dozen, and started throwing them at
"I cannot accept a job which
GREETINGS 23 YEARS LATE
Vienna.
the thief. The robber fired once at could not justify by work," he re-recipient. The original addressco is the floor and fod.
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