THE
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
MONDAY, MAY 23,
1988.
GENEVA MYSTERY
MEN TRIED TO
SILENCE ENGLISHMEN
Startling Exposure Of
"Jobbery"
Within The League
HOV
[OW attempts were made on his life to prevent an exposure of the jobbery that flourishes behind the scenes in League of Nations' circles at Geneva, was described to the Sunday Dispatch by Mr. T. F. Johnson, formerly Assistant High Commissioner of the League.
At first a cat burglar was em-, Geneva are made in his book "In- ployed to steal his private paternational Tramps." Just published. No board of business men would pers and then he was drugged at condone the League's administration a dinner party.
for a day, he says,
His reactions on that ocensiun ve the impression that the drug used was of the same kind as that
ployed by the Soviets in their recent
triale.
"The urge to spit the beans Irresistible," he well-nigh
WALK Bald.
FIRED AT These methods having failed, more desperate mensures were taken.
In Italy the steering rod of his car was deliberately fractured immedi- ately after a thorough overhaul.
A tragedy was only uverted be- cause the car was being driven very slowly at the time.
It was certainly more than a coin- cidence that a suspreted agent drove past Mr. Johnson almost Immediately after the breakdown.
in Montenegro Then
on the famous Lovcen Pass, with its sheer drop
of hundreds of feel by the side of the hairpin track, Mr. John- son's car was fired upon by men In ambush behind rocks. The tyres of the car were punctured. On the return journey Mr. Juha- son found that the car's lighting had been sabotaged.
FINGERPRINTS
BRITONS BANNED
to
He cites the encouragement candidates all over the world to sit for League appointments--appoint- ments already securely for political proteges.
Не
carmarked
tells of the bar against British candidates and the almost open activities of League officials as the agents of their own er other Governments.
Secret inquisitions, he declares, are and made into the private affairs Correspondence of Government dele- gates to the Lengue and of League officials.
SECRET EVIDENCE
There is also rampant at Geneva a system of secret reports on officials, evidence being taken from their per- sonal enemies, rivals, or from per- sons envious of their posts,
Nu opportunity is afforded the vie Lins of refuting the allegations.
Such Intrigues, he adds, result in political proteges being appointed who do not know even one of the
languages English officiat
French.
and
Other officials have to be Fren attached to them to enable them to transact their business!
Political appointments have been
Mr. Johnson had a ready explana-made currying salaries up to £5,000 tion of why he was so curtain that! a year for which no work existed.
these adventures were connected with his proposed book.
very
Woman Who Likes
Giving Has £750,000 To Give
But She Cannot Cure Her Pain
Chelmsford,
Locked securely in a house near Chelms- ford, guarded by a ring of spiked railings, is a woman racked with rheumatoid arth. ritis, who has £750,000 to give away. She gave £10,000 of it to the Bishop of Chelms- the ford recently for a new church near
4 East End.
No uninvited callers ever see her. After you have passed through the front gate you are stopped by the iron fence, and have to ring a bell in a wicket more than thirty yards from the door of the three-storeyed, red-brick house.
ONCE HAD A MILLION
She gels up at 0.20 every day, has breakfast in her bedroom, reada newspapers 11 lunch, then goes for She is in bed soon long drives, usually to Southend.
after supper.
Seven years ago she had £1,000,000: it has dwindled by a quarter because of the gifts she has already made.
That grand old battler, General John J. Pershing, looking quite fit after his recent fight with a critical illness, arrives in New York to attend the wedding of his son Warren to Miss Muriel Bache Richards. The rail- way car in which he rode from Tue son, Ariz.. Waldorf-Astoria hotel and he is shown about to enter the hotel elevator,
was moved under the
NEW B.M.A. PLAN
Family Doctor For 20,000,000 More
It will involve hospital reorganisa- tion and co-ordination of health nd- ministration.
Mr. Johnson's description of the desperate attempts of such officials
Proposals for a general medical to justify their existence when service, extending National Health Baving a shrewd klen of the iden-
discovered like toads under a stone insurance to an extra 18,000,000 to tity of sume of the interested people
by A Commission of Inquiry makes 20,000,000 people, are announced by while he was still in the League, he
funny reading.
the Council of the British Medical invited them to his house-and toolt
Mr. Johnson from their wine
has plenty to say Ausgelation. their Angerprints
about the selection of Geneva as the glasses.
the League. Politically, Later he posted a few letters to nent of
geographically he himself. Although apparently un-economically, and
The scheme, Issued through the opened, the envelopes bore the considers Geneva unsuitable.
Medical Journal. Is the British fingerprints
KEEPS IDEALS
of In spite
his guests.
many disillusions B.M.A. polley of 1920 brought up to In every case where his papers Mr. Johnson still believes firmly in date, and is prepared with a view to
other the teals were ransticited, money and
of the League.
being put into effect "ot no distant" valuables were untouched.
A workable League, however, in date,
Every
member of every family his opinion can only be founded an
Anglo-Saxon nucleus, to which within an income limit of £250 other countries would only be ad-year would be included in National
retain membership in Health Insurance much the same way as in a well-run
Services, not only of the family doctor, but of every type of medient of club,
hls of
sometime
GAVE UP 12,580 JOB Although he held a £2,500 post an with the League, Mr. Johnson re- signed rather than continue to work mitted and in an atmosphere of such intrigue.
revelations Johnson's
Mr.
THE HONGKONG SINGERS
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The Knight, The Squire, The Nun, The Monk, The Clerk of Oxenford, The Merchant, The Franklin, The Shipman, The Doctor of Physic,
and the rest of
"THE CANTERBURY PILGRIMS"
in the
UNIVERSITY GREAT HALL
on
Tuesday, 31st May, 1938, at 9.30 p.m.
Booking
Prices
$3, $2, $1.
at Tsang Fook Piano Co.
They
Gambled £600,000,000
During 1837. Chicago gamblers won and lost £200,000,000 playing Professor horses, estimates Todd, of North Western University, He has worked out that every Americans spend the equiva- day lent of 2,300 years in cinemas.
available for the patient. Full dentai consultant and specialist, would be and eye services would also be in-
cluded,
Similar services would be available for those in receipt of Public Assist-
unce.
Her fortune was left her by her husband, Mr. J. II. Keene, who was a director of the Pearl Assurance Com- pany, They used to call him "the most modest and retiring man who ever made a million."
He often told Mrs. Keene of the money he intended to give away une day. But when he died she found his thirty years will had been made before, when he was comparatively pour.
So she started at once to use her wealth us he had hoped to do. She gave £32,000 for some old people's homes; £40,000 to Chelmsford Hos- pital:
Any one or anything in need can have
the rest, says Mrs. Keone.
But-
"It must be really deserved. never act without careful advice. "get great pleasure from giving my money way,"
I
cannot The one thing her riches give her is a cure for her amletion; for twenty-six years she has suffered from R, and she has been all over the world in search of relief from her pain.
Whalers Lose £10,000 At Card Parties
Durban, Apr, 18.
catches
A "Society" rockel here the whalers who catch the whales. A complete maternity service would
During the past fortnight 200 seu- be based on the provision of a family men, members of the Antarctic whal- doctor and certified midwife in every ing fleet now in Durban, have been case, with "home helps" to relieve feeeed of more than £10,000 by the the mother of household troubles, racketeers.
and with specialist available in care
of complications,
As a result many of them are now
"It is widely accepted," says the penniless and cared for in scamen's Counell, "that the most practicable homes.
and desirable method of providing a The racket is worked thus, in the complete general practitioner medical words of one of the victims: service is by the extension and ampli- "We are invited to expensive par- neation of the services given under ties at fashionable homes and In- the National Health Insurance Acts." | veigled into card games by casy-man- nered men and women on the pretext that they are interested in our novel trade. Then we are astutely engl- neered into paying for the entertain- ment."
Follies Girl To
Wed In London
The
men come to Durban from the Antarctic season cach with about £300 in his pocket. Several are un- animous that this "gold-digging" is Twenty-six-year-old ex-Ziegfeld the work of an organised Society Follies girl, Nina Pierson, told the racket out to catch them on their re- Starday Dispatch recently that ste turn to port. will marry Mr, Terence d'Abo, 24-
The whalers remain in Durban till years-old stockbroker, at Caxton Hall, May 10 and then go to Madagascar Lendon.
In Mayfair it had been thought that Miss Pierson was to marry Mr. Tommy Manville, United States millionaire "playboy," Mr. d'Abo's family is Russian, ond he holds the title of count. Since coming to England, however,
family has not used the title,
the
Miss Pierson was morried to M.
waters.
Won Duel With A Gunman
Cardiff, Apr. 21. Sergeant J. D. Henry, Penarth,
has just retired from
Paul Leviton, the French electric who
Hght bulb millionaire. Her divorce Glamorgan Police after
the
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Thief Dresses Up In Loot]
Vancouver, B. C.
Woman, 90, New Citizen
Oakland, Cal. Mrs. Julia Sullivan Judge, a A thief who broke into a hotel room resident of California for the past 73 here displayed pack-rat tendencies. years, took out citizenship papers here The prowler selected a number of int the age of 00. She came to the garments from a tenant's wardrobe, United States from Ireland 73 years donned them, and left his own cloth-ago and, had presumed she was an ing behind. The exchange, the tenant American citizen by virtue of her complained, was far from a fair one, marriage in 1070 to Frank W. Judge,
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