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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
December 19, 1938.
'Belle Of The Devil' Faces Murder Charge
PARIS.
MOULAY Hassen, once-famous dancing girl, known
Zero Smith Enrolls
TUSCALOOSA, Al.
A University of Alabama student |
as the "Belle of the Devil," and the "Woman Landru who entered college this fail had two of Morocco," faced the court at Fez, Morocco, recently, strikes against him before he started charged with the murder of a woman, a dancer named ing good grades are concerned. His Cherifa, and complicity in the murder of four others..
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Witness after witness in the pack-1 court-rem described fantastle)
orgies which went on in Hossen's secret dance salon in Meknes, scene! of the alleged crime.
Colonel Maire, of the French For- eigo Lotion, In a statement revealed how at Fez in p12 Moulay Hassen saved 20 French "officers from deathị during riotin
LED 30,000 MEN
"At that time." he declared, "kiej van a night club full of beautiful dancing girls which was always, crowded with French officers und was visited by some of the highest) officials of Morocco.
"She was the idol of the wild! group of
of Musulmen known RN Alsouwas, I remember her ridingİ at the head of 30,000, of them an their fete day, when they eat them-- selves with knives to prove their he- let that woumis cannot harm them. "She wore strings of pearl neck- rel priceless Bracelets, fler horse was led by tall Negrors, elad in red and gold.
"By sheer personality she excrcls- ed a power over these natives."
STRUCK WITH CLUB
A man named Smaila, who helped
to run the salon, I confessed-lu the police that he was concerned with her in the murder of Cherifa.
He declared,. "Cherife was one of four girls whom Moulay Hassen de-! cided to get rid of. They were desi person
ill and half-starvert,
on September Moulay picked up it worden clubs and stunned
and,
Cherifa with a terrifle blow on the bend.
Then she called my pointing a revolver at the, handed
ine the club and screamed, 'Kill her or I kill you.' I struck Cherifa
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again with the club and she fell dead.
"Some days later Moulay Hassen cut up the body and disposed of the pieces in sacks."
It is now alleged that four other girls found dead had met a similar fate.
Canada Will
school us for as his chances of mak-
name was Zero Smith, of Birming-
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The Duke of Windsor, wearing service medals, *amilies broadly as he greets Slr Eric Phipps, British Ambassadar to France, at the Armistice Sunday service in Paris, al the British Embassy church.
THE NAVY AND ITS
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Train British GREAT WORK OF EXPANSION
Pilots
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Attendants carry the French parachute Jumper Denois from a Held near Paris, after he made a successful parachute Jump' from 30,000 feet. His sult resembled that of a deep-sea diver, to protect him against changes in atmospheric pressure. Future stratosphere passengers may wear similar suits. Tests were by the Alr Ministry. ̧
LORD NUFFIELD'S GIFT TO STUDENT MOVEMENT £25,000 For New Building
Lord Nufllekt has decided to give Technical oflcers for the F.A.A. £25,000 towards a new building for Student Movement House-the only |will be provided partly from the
international students' club in Lon- engineer branch of the Navy, party dion. This announcement was made by officers of the Air Brunch selected recently by Miss Mary Trevelyan, for technical work after completing warden of the movement, at the cele a period of general duty in the Air
of the twenty-first nonlver- bration Branch. Both classes will be quali sary of the club at its premises in Bled pilets and will also be trained Russell Square, London. Jin aeronautical engineering.
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MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL conducted by the Archbishop of The maintenance personnel will Canterbury-21 years to the day after eventually be provided by skilled his predecessor, Archbishop David- ratings known as air artificers, air son, had first dedicated the premises Atters,
and air riggers, who will enter to the Student Movement. passing the usual naval artificer Miss Trevelyan said that Lord apprentice examination between the Nuffield was very interested in the ages of Bfteen and sixteen. They welfare of students. "The gift is will be seht to the R.A.F. · No.
splendid twenty-first birthday School of Technical Training at present, and will mean that the club Halton for three years, on comple- is saved for future generations of tion of which they go to sea for a students," she said. or air riggers.
original In July, 1937, it
apper) Wag anni 53 midshipmen, all of the year os air Alters
new building. To- ing thousands of young men as air nounced that the Fleet Air Arm Air Branch. This number will Fifty per cent. of them will then be £55,000 for a
rently be increased by many new
chosen to become air artificers after wards this we have already obtained pilots.
was to be transferred to full entries.
a further twelve months' training. £10,000, and Lord Nuffield's dona- They will be taught at civil train-Admiralty control. In a very
The semi-skilled air mechanics, tion therefore brings our total to Very briefly, naval ratings of the ing schools and also at the
The new building, i dromes of the Royal Canadian Air short time its strength in "first seamen, signal and telegraphist bran-divided into four branches for air £43.000.
ches with certain qualifications be-frames, engines, ordnance, and elec- hoped, will be erected somewhere Force, writes a Home correspondent lino" aircraft will be greater tween the ages of twenty-one and trical work, are drawn from among near London University and will in-
Plans are well advanced for the supply to Britain of fast Canadian than that of the Royal Air Force twenty-four, may become pilots in the seamen and slokers of the Navy, clude, a big hall, restaurant, and bombers and fighters, und further
before the air expansion started the Fleet Air Arm. They undergo and are put through courses lasting since it was started in 1017, in ways of employing Canadian re in 1936. The Navy Estimates flying training on shore Insting on the R.A.F. establishments at Henlow memory of students who fell in the sources to supplement our own for 1938 set aside the sum of in a training carrier. The
year, followed
by eight weeks at sen
war, the club has had a steady gigantic expansion programune are £5,718,000 for the being invesilgated.
Fleet Air period of flying service, before pass-
The training of the young officers membership of about 1,000, among A large foundation order has al-Arm, all but £618,000 of thising on to a flying reserve, is seven joining the Air Branch is typical of whom are students from sixty differ- rendy been given for bombing amount being earmarked for years, though this may be extended. the inevitable complication of graft-ent countries. At the moment, for machines which can fly the Atlantic material-principally aircraft.
R.N.V.R. (AIR BRANCH) ing a new and highly-mechonised instance, we liave working together and Orders for the types will probably
A recent Admiralty announcement Service on to an older one. For the Chinese and Japanese, Jews The orders relative to the formn- follow as the Canadian Industry is
Arabs." months of their training huilt up.
tion of what is really a new Service inaugurated an Air Branch
they are sent to the Hermes for pre-Nuffield's known benefactions have In the last eleven years Lord Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve for The same manufacturing methods within the
Navy have appeared candidates between the ages of seven-tion, gunnery, seamanship, and the £13.6 liminary naval training in navigo- | AMA
been in the
of neighbourhood hs those in our shadow factory piecemeal during the last eleven, scheme are to be employed.
It has been impossible for teen and twenty-three, who will be "Customs of the Service? months.
£13,000,000. A few days ago a gift Within two years the Royal Air the uninitiated to grasp any idea of carolled as midshipmen (A) and
of £500,000 to provide at least one The next ten or twelve weeks they "Iron lung" Force should have substantial rein-the worit that has gone on
sub-lieutenants (A). They will be belind
apparatus for every forcements from Canada both in the scenes, or the really tremendinus used as pilots and observers, and will spend in ab initio fying training at hospital in the British Empire was
undergo machines and pilots.
preliminary
Reserve flying announced. strides that have been made in a training of eighteen months with the training school run
full-time an Elementury and
under RA.F. comparatively short time with theual pay and allowances of their auspices, where they are joined by knowledge of wireless and communi- willing and helpful co-operation of
officers of the Royal Navy and Royal cation procedure of gunnery, with the Air Ministry.
Thereafter pilots will be required Marines Freonded for lying service, particular application to spotting the PILOTS AND OBSERVERS The Admiralty already had its to keep themselves in lying practice, and those ratings chosen to quality fall of shot; of the
and ali oflcers will do annual or
as pilots. corps of navul pilots and observers; biennial training. After the first ten
British and foreign ships of all sorts At the end of this period the Air from the air; and of air gunnery and bul in February last it was an- years' rervice officers may volunteer Branch officers becoming pilots go to bombing. Since Naval aircraft dy nounced that the Fleet Air
Streams of visitors poured into the would be offered partly by officera officers for ground duties.
Arm for further periods us R.N.V.R. (A) the R.A.F. Flying Training School al over a trackless ocean some hundreds
Netheraven for six months, and are of miles from their
hall where more than 2,000 curlos ships. parent they of the Royal Navy and Royal Mar- Tils scheme
and exquisite articles of Chinese make, provides a valuable trained to the same standard as the must be something more than merely Ines specialising
in nir work; partly
reserve, and offers excellent A.F. pilots. Thence they are sent competent navigators, while in re- were on display. A small bronze by officers serving in a "Short Ser-training to young men leaving their to Gosport or Donlbristle for two or porting the manoeuvres of an enemy vice Air Branch," and employed publle schools or
vase about 2,400 years old, labelled entirely on naval air duties.
universities who three months spectallsed training in deet they are expected to give an with a minimum price of $800 fea- wish to take up aero-nauties as a pro- Fleet Air Arm work, culminating in opinion as to what these movements
tured the magnificent stall of the Chi- It is announeed, that women who Candidates between the ages of fession, or to indulge in flying us a period of deck landing training in may portend. join in the official festivities to and 23 would be entered us mid-
nese National Women's Rellef Asso- Jan. aftcraft-carrier, at present H.M.S. hobby.
Indeed, cribbed, cabingd, and con- welcome the Voortrekker Centenary shipmen (A) or, sub-letterinnts (A)
Air
gunners are provided from the Furious.
Bned in the narrow seat of buck- clation, which won the first honour in ox-wagons in Johannesburg may not for a normal period of seven years, seamen. signal. and telegraphist SKILL OF ODSERVERS
ing aeroplane travelling at perhaps the campaign for its collection of no nake or paint their Anger-nails. of which the first two would be spent branches of the Royal Navy, the men
fewer than 1,000.exhiblia. Other ex- two hundred miles an hour, with in naval and flying training. There having to possess certain qualifica-go to Portsmouth immediately after and the
The observers, on the other hand, parachutes strapped on their backs
hibits which attracted keen attention after, they would serve for eight tions and to be not more than twenty-their period of preliminary training Naval observers roor of
of engines in their ears,
included Chinese paintings, embrol- years on an emergency list, during two years old. They undergo in the Hermes, where they are joined intelligible wireless signals and re-
dery and jade objects. make which they must keep themselves in Special
course lasting about eight
In in interview with the Central fying practice and undergo periodi-months in nir gunnery and the opera- ranks of the Navy. For two and use their bombs or machine guns, to man of the Hongkong Rellet Ration
K by others drawn from the executive
them, but must be prepared to News Madame Sun Yat-sen, Chair- cal training.
tion of wireless, and afterwards serve half months they undergo courses in see everything on the sen beneath or By arrangement with the Air Min-la aircraft-carriers or ships fitted signals, wireless, and gunnery, pre-in the air above it, and to know the The Swiss Government has nistry, a limited
number of R.A.F. with entapults. nounced the introduction of legista- officers serving, or having served, on
to being drafted to the meaning of all they see. In short, mantha After eighteen
paratory months' service School tion forbidding "participation in any short service commissions, were also afloat they may be selected to qualify Ford, Sussex, for a period of air ass lives and those of their pilots in- of Naval Co-operation at 80 much depends upon them, their action against democrncy."
permitted to transfer to the Airing "Observers Mates" after a fur-training lasting six months. It also forbids partielpation in any Branch, Royal Navy.
ther course of about seven months, ngitation against citizens of a differ- The current Navy List shown one Warrani rank as Boatswains (0) The work of these Naval observers fully they must be paragons of nearly ent race or in such agitation as anti-caplain, 31 lleutenants, 38 sub-will eventually be open to these rats even more vital than that of the all the virtues that exist.
lieutenants, 32 acting sub-lieutenants, ings.
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Swiss Won't Have Anti-Semitism
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The bazanra are being held on the suggestion of Mine. Sun Yat-sen.
EXHIBITION
The New York baznar will be span- Curious for New York And
sored by the China Alit Council and Paris Bazaars
the American Friends of the Chinese People. In Paris, the sponsors aro Hongkong art lovers were delight M. Edouard Herriot and M. Ellenno ed yesterday with their first glance Constant: The Relief Bazaar Com- at a wide collection of Chinese ex-mittee which has collected the arti hibits for the bazaars in New York cles is composed of five Chinese relief organizations in and Paris in aid of Chinese wounded women's soldiers and refugees. The exhibi- tion, is being held at the Chinese Y.W.C.A.. Bonham Road,
Committee, expressed gratification with the enthusiastic and arduous Chinese women work done by the here. She said that they not only devoted much of their time to col- lecting exhibits for the bazaars but even contributed many of their own favourable art objects which they would not have given away were it not in support of the national cause,
A glowing tribute was pold by Madame Sun to Mudame C. C. Wu, who collected the largest number of exhibits on behalf of the Chinese National Women's Rellef Association
and played an important role in pre- paring the preliminary exhibition, who personally curios
also to Mrs. Li Slu-k! contributed several
and aneseni painting, * News.
The articles on exhibition will be shipped at the end of this month to New York and Paris where they will be sold at bazaars to raizo relief funda for China. They include many valu- able pieces of jade, Inquer,, bronzes and embroidery,
Hongkong."
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