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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, APRIL 11. 1838.
Czecho-Slovakia Next Hitler Objective
ANTHONY EDEN In Breaking Entente
EMPIRE NEWS
RACE PROBLEMS OF
SOUTH AFRICA
Cape Town.
The Government Commission of Inquiry into the problems of the coloured population of the Cape Issued. voluminous report to-day, after nearly four years' work. These races throughout South Africa to-day number 750,000 persons,
The Commission recommends "In- creased employment of the coloured population in the public service, and an extension to other provinces of the franchise privileges now held by them in the Cape Province.
The report, which covers 350 pages, is regarded as the most comprehen- sive and sympathetic study of the lives of the coloured people ever
• Issued.
Fruit Exporters' Losses. -- Fruit exporters are faced with heavy financial losses on some 10,000 tons of fruit sent to London since the middle of December, owing to the low: pri
prices realised.
New Calet Justice. Mr. Justice Stratford, a judge of the Appeal Court, has been appointed Chief; Justice of South Africa in the place of Mr. Justice Curlewis, who has retired-Reuter,
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Toronto. Three of the Toronto mothers who will have a share in the £100,000 bequeathed by the late Charles Vance Millar to the Toronto mother bearing the most children in the 10 years his death, discussed to-day following how they would spend their fortunes. They will have between £16,000 and:
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Mrs. Lucy Timleck said she would like to buy a form "with a couple of horses and cow." Mrs. Kathleen Nogle was unwilling to decide her exact plans until the cash was in her hand. Mrs. Annie Smith would like to do great deal for her ⚫ children's education and have a "nice
elty home."
RELAXES
fürs
CAPTAIN ANTHONY EDEN, who recently resigned as 'British Foreign Secretary after a break with Prime Minister Chamber- lalu, relaxes with Mrs. Eden and their little dog at Nawion Tower, Yorkshire, England, as guests of the Earl of Faversham, Later they left England for a vacation in southern France, while moves were made for the Captain's reinstatement.
Orange-Haired Girl Tells Spy Secret In Cell
New York.
Twenty-six-year-old Johanna Hoffman, the girl with hair dyed orange, who stepped blithely down the gangplank of the Europa into the arms of detectives, and was at once charged with espionage, told questioners in her cell yesterday that her only motive was "patriotic service" to her country,
Express Derailed-The Canadian National Railways Trans-Canada Limited ад derailed to-day at Capreol, Ontario. Nine carriages came off the line, but nobody was Mr. Edgar Hoover, chief of the G-men, believes that the Injured.
Quebec By-Election-Mr. Georges woman, a hairdresser, was only one of at least thirty in Trans-
prominent lawyer, of atlantic liners who are in the spying organisation. Lachute, Quebec, has been nominated Conservative candidate in the Federal Johanna was caught after the by-election on Feb. 28 at Argenteuil, round-up of Gunther Rumurich,
Hean
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Quebec. The election is an ex-United States Army ser-
by the death, on Jan. 4,
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of
Sir
geant, and Eric Glasser, a United Perley, who was High Commissioner States soldier. At least forty in London from 1917 to 1022 and Minister without Portfolio, 1830-1935. more arrests are likely up and
Veteran Journalist's Death--How-down the States.
Angus
Kennedy, author and
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another hotel, then to a post office, finally to a cable once, where a boy was to take them to a tavern.
aircraft carriers.
REICH DIPLOMACY
SEEKS END OF FRENCH INFLUENCE
By Webb Miller United Press Staff Correspondent
BERLIN.
THE NEXT OBJECTIVE IN ADOLF HITLER'S CAMPAIGN TO SPREAD-GERMAN-INFLUENCE BY ASTUTE - DIPLOMACY IS CZECHO-SLOVAKIA, AN ISLAND OF DEMOCRACY IN A SEA OF DICTATORSHIPS WHERE THE NAME OF WOODROW WILSON STILL IS SPOKEN WITH REVERENCE,
A third of the 10,000,000 Germans whom the Fuehrer
is striving to bring within the Nazi orbit live in Czecho- slovakia, a nation that is a hodge-podge of races and sprawls across the map of middle Europe like a bridge between the Germanic and Slavic worlds.
In mid-February Hitler was expected to make the first move towards attempting to detach Czecho-Slovakia from its alliance with Soviet Russia. This pact is one of his chief concerns, for he believes that Czecho-Slovakia, nudging as it does against the German border, is in reality a dagger against the heart of the Reich.
If at the same time he can through the same technique he used loosen the bands of the Little in his coup in Austria-a threat of Entente Czecho - Slovakia, ] force and then, possibly, nazification Rumania and Jugoslavis—and of the government.
thereby further wenken French Hiller is aware that France has influence in the Balkans, BO made six solemn reaffirmations on the much the botter. The Little necessity of maintaining Austrian in- Entente is the device France dependence. Yet, when the hour of worked out after the World War decision arrived recently, France to circle Germany with steel. stood by while Hitler penetratext The years have broken and Austria That penetration, it was weakened that circle, and the thought would continue for it is signi- outstanding factor in the present ficant that the Fuchrer's Reichstag diplomatic situation is that Ger- speech on Feb. 19 was barren of any many's resurgence has smashed pledge of Austrian independence. Franco-British influence on the continent.
How will he go about his attempt to smash the circle? Probably
North Pole Dog Left In Arctic
Moscow.
Afler sharing the lives of the four Soviet sclentisis, huddled for nine months on a chunk of Ice in the Polar wasics, Papa- nin's dog Happy must stay be- hind in the
Arctic.
the Ivan Papanin, leader of Soviet expedition, believes the sudden change of climate as the rescue ships. Taimyr and Mur- man carry the four men home would overtax Happy's consiliu
lon. The dog will be left al a Far North outpost.
Happy was aften mentioned in radio messages to Moscow from the "North Pole station."" He once attempted to fight a polar bear.tan ere k
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arrested. When Johanna was taken There Rumrich appeared and was detectives found on her documenta corroborating the story he told. She had letters in code, too, "appreciat- ing her brilliant services" and urg- Meanwhile special guards haveing her to get Information about the journalist, who was one of the few been placed at the air base at Panama Canal defences. Another surviving men who" "reported the re- bellions of Louis Riel in 1860 and Mitchell Field, Long Island, offered £200 for information about 1873, died to-day, aged 77.
where Glasser was detained. Mr. Newton Wyle-Mr.. Newton The plot is said to have included Wylle, 46, a leading Ontario publicist the murder of Colonel H. W. 7. Eglin, and financial organiser, died in New commander of Fort Totten, New York to-day. He organised prohibi-York. He was to have been lured to tion in Ontario and Alberta in 1915. on hotel by means of a forged army order, and robbed of secret mobilisa- tion plans,
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Sydney.
But the gang's methods were crude FOR DUKE OF WINDSOR
New York.
Government agents got wind of AN extraordinary invitation to the Duke of Windsor to become international broadcaster on public affairs is made by Upton the plot, and were ready for the captures when Rumrich, posing us Sinclair, famous novelist and writer on social problems, in the Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary of current issue of the New York Liberty. State, rang up official for fifty passport blanks to be sent round. G-men took them along. From the hotel they were redirected to
He suggests the Duke would render valuable service to every nation by directing and compering a series of discussion by experts on subjects of international importance.
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First suggestion for the Duke and Duchess of Windsor's Radio Hour is a discussion on collective security.
MAY HAVE SUPPORT'
will not lock moral support and it His move against Czecho-Slovakia
may win active aid from both Poland and Hungary, Both nations have stake in Czecho-Slovakia. The men at Versailles who erased the boundaries of Middle Europe and drew new ones dictated that Czecho-Slovakia should be a nation of at least six tongues and five races. There are 80,000 Poles in Czacho-Slovakia and 090,000
Hungarians.
Despite this jig-saw puzzle of races, the Czechs gloried in the establishe ment of autonomy and Woodrow Wilson, who helped them attain it, is almost a patron saint to them.
There has been a long and wordy war against Czecho-Slovakia in the Both Polish and Hungaring press. borders are uneasy. Endless diploma- tic exchanges occur over the allega- tion that Czecho-Slovakia discrimin- and tes against those of Polish Hungarian blood. That is why Hitler went out of his way in the Reichstag speech to make.a.special, gesture. óf friendship toward Poland and to re- fer to Germany's amicable relations with Hungary, Bulgaria and Jugo- slavia.
20-POINT PROGRAMME
K Hitler'a penetration of Czecho Slovakia sounds fantastic to some readers they have but to recall sinte- ments that Hitler made in 1920 when he was an obscure head of a political party instead of the dominant ruler
of Europe. At that time he listed a 20-point programme which he promised to put into effect the moment he won his way to power. He had to walt 13 years, but in the five years after, he has fulfilled, in whole or in part, on If of those 20 points. The start of his absorption of Austria and his announcement of a protectorate over the Germans living in Czecho- Slovakin is part of that programme.
I recall on interview I had with Hitler in Munich a year before he gul into power. At that time he listed 14 points that he intended to enforce. At that time few believed he ever would rule Germany much less put into effect a programme that seemed la me to be unattainable. To-day 12 of those points are in force, dur Ing the interview none of them seem- ed to me to be more visionary than hls ambition to dominate millions of Germans living in other countries.
and
It would be broadcast from the Duke's own home "near New York or Wealiingian” at 2 o'clock on a Sunday afternoon so that people in Europe could listen in. Speaker to be the Duke and
DEFINITE SCHEDULE Duches, H. G. Wells, and sena. for Borah.
Observers here believed Hitler had worked out a definite schedule for the Economic problems. relations of Austrian coup and had been planning capital and labour, marriage, divorce, to execute it in March. But after the and birth control are other subjects army "purge" and the shake-up in the Reich diplomalle corps he decided for discussion, and the suggested to proceed immediately. Ho prob- speakers include Henry Ford, John Lably thought the coup would be Lewis and A. P. Herbert,.
useful smoke screen for his "purge" and would distract domestic and world attention from what he was doing to the high command of the
Checking Tides army. His strategy apparently suc
With Bottles
The part of it which is still obscure la what Premier Mussolini got in ex- change for keeping out of the Austrian affair and for maintaining allence on To assist in checking the cir- Hitler's demands for domination of culation of ocean currents, two German residents on alien soll, bottles were thrown into the
The most frequent guess-and it Pacific Ocean by the liner Mon- is nothing more than a guess is that terey at widely separated points Hitler promised to supply whatever in July 1986.
military ald÷is needed to assure the victory of Generalissimo Francisco Last month, both were found on Franco in Spain, Mussolini is now so the New South Wales const within a deeply committed in Spain that ho few days and within a few miles of cannot permit a each other remarkable occurrence Hitler's Reichstag
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