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Behind nine executions carried out at the dreaded Moubit prison, Berlin, lies the story of a beautiful English-woman who, to "Do Her
Success Story
HERE is a story of success to inspire all shop girls.
Bi" und for the thrill of adventure Miss Ethel Frances Newth be threw up romance and a life organ work when she was 10 luxury and safety,
a milliner's apprentice at a few
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Her efreer is an epic of the Secret shillings a week. Then she be- Service, for, despite the efforts of Gestapo, agenta who were un the came n shop assistant with a look-out for hier, she was able to wage of £1 a week and was abtain some the most vital in eventually promoted to be the formation concerning German re- Arnament that has proged
buying manager of a London Instr British hands.
store with a four-figure salary.
Shu was only caught at last through being betrayed by a man she kusted as an associate, and she and eight men, taken with her, bave paid the penalty of their calling.
To-day it is possible to tell the story of this heroine of the Service] that never sleep.
For months she had been a thorn in the side of the Nazis because of her any during raids Into Germany to direct the operation of British Intelligence agents.
She died at the age of 54- two years after retiring-and her will reveals that she made in fortune of £38,170.
There is no extradition in auch cures, but the Nazi rufers of the city found a way of getting over that diffleufly.
She and eight men sald to have been acting for her were seized dur- Ing the night and snuggled into
A brunette, strikingly beautiful Erst Prussia, afterwards being trans- and highly cultured, the was reported to Berlin. ceived in Berlin Soulety, her Ger- Brought before the drender man being so perfect that no one People's Tribunal they were quickly doubled her claim to be a member condemned to death, ́ ́ and the sen- of a distinguished Prussion family. tences were curried out with unusual Some time ago, it is stated, she rapidity, providing the headsman went to Danzig to organise an es-with one of his busiest mornings. plonge service for Britain.
No names have been given In Der- The Gestapo got on her, traillin, but it is asserted that the woman through the perfidy of German was well-known in London Society posing as French. His suspicions before she took up Secret Service were
- her with the suggestion that she¦sented at Court.
Service.
Thursday,
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September 21, 1939.
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Girl Who Has Never Worn A New Dress
TWENTY-YEARS-OLD IVY PARSONS, bound over at Fel-
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Many More Pupils
Director Of Education Makes Reports
aroused, and he approached work, and that she had been pre-thuan, Middlesex, recently on a charge of stealing two dresses should co-operate with him in the Because of her desire to follow the from the house of her employer. Lady Haylett, of Holmbank, adventurous work of a spy in a for-Upper Halliford, Shepperton, said at her home in Halliford that PELL INTO THE TRAP
eign country, she broke off her 1921- She fell into the trap, accepted the gagement some weeks before the she has never worn a new dress.
The report of the Director of offer, and yos left al liberty unut i welding was to have taken pince in her associates in the city were dis-one of the fashionable London
"I have always worn old ones grandmother, who has kept me Education (Mr. C. C. Sollis), for 1938 has just been Issued. Priced at $1.20, * covered.
someone else has cast off. My from birth, is a hawker, and is in the new form of departmental
brings them home to mo.
report and begins with an excellent "Now I have to work hard to re-history of the Colony's education. pay her for her kindness. I never
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have any pleasure like other girls, unued unsettled conditions in China The report states that the con- at dances or pictures, I sit at home caused by the Sino-Japanese conflict and envy other hoppipe, girls."
of both Chinese and Europeans and were again responsible for an infux, there was a sharp rise in the atten- dance figures of educational Institu- tions. The maximum enrolment in ali classes schools reached the re-i eord figure of 104,134, an increase of 17141 over the previous year.
It was stated in court that she took the dresses belonging to Miss Mary Haslett, because she thought they had been thrown away.
WEEK'S TRAFFIC TOLL Three People Killed In
The Government Trade School was oficially opened by Str Geoltry Northcote on April 12. Heads of schools had consultations with the Air Raid Precautions Officer, und during "the latter part of the year were engaged in formulating plans for cases of emergency.
Street Mishaps During the week: "ending"Saturday" there were in Hongkong 15 trame accidents, a5 the result of which three people were killed and · 44 During the year a revision of the were injured. Of those killed, Hongkong School Certificate syllabus Chinese, aged 10, was knocked down was undertaken. Great nealstance in and killed by a taxi while running this task was given by the Hongkong across the road.
Teachers' Association. This body A Chinese woman,
scheme for ex- aged 27, and, also inaugurated a another, aged 38, died from injuries hibiting educational Almas in schools. received while alighting from mov.
During the year a commilice was ing buses.
appointed by the Governor to review A Chinese, aged 81, of the Home syllabus in operation at the Hong- and report on the teacher training for Aged, was knocked down and in-Kong University and in the normal jured by a car while walking across classes held in connection with the the road. He was sent Mury Hospital
to Quec evening Institute and to make re- and discharged hut commendations in relation to either, or both systems.
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of those injured, 33 were pedes- telans, who were either walking running across the road and were During the year no changes were struck by vehicles. Two bicycle rid-mude in the Grant Code. new
rs and one tricycle rider were in subsidy scheme for jured as the result of collis.ons be-schools was drawn up and was under vernacular tween vehicles. Two lorry passen consideration at the end of the year, gers were injured on falling Iron and the syllabus of the Hongkong moving Iqrries.
School Certificate examination wus A train passenger and five bus under revision. Changes adopted for pussengers were injured while alight-the 1939 and subsequent examina- ing from a moving tram and mov-tions were an follows: New sylla
buses respectively.
buses in English, Geography, Urdu, Of 95 accidents, 30, were collisions Portuguese, French, Phyales, Che between vehicles; 44 were collisions mistry, Botany, Algebra and Trigono- between vehicles and pedestrians; 21 metry were approved. Accidents were duo to other causes, Latin will no longer be included)
Type of vehicles involved.-Private in motor car 55, motor lorry 20, motor will be made for an examination in the examination. No provision bus 15, public motor car 10, motor at books in the English syllabus. A cycle 3, tramcar 9, irleycle 2, bicycle pans will be awarded on the aggre- 4, ricksha 1..
nte of the remaining sections, Eng- CASTLE PEAK ROAD CRASH
sh, General English and Dictation Swerving his car to avoid running General Physics together with either Candidates in Physics must offer down a European who was on horse-lient, Light and Sound, or Electricity, back near the 17-Mile stone on and Magnetism. The Monday, Ma Sik-hung, driver of the modern languages will not be in- oral test in car, could not check the turn in tine eluded until the 1940 and the vehicle left the
examination, plunged down into a nullah The and History will come into force as road and The modified syllabuses.In Geometry, accident fortunately occurred withous from 1940. injury to anybody. 4. Ma. reporting the incident, said he follows: Provided Schools $1,539,348 The expenditure for 1038 was as was driving towards Castle Penk ngainst $1,461,103 from Tsun wпn when ho met
in 1937. Akled European on horseback. When he Direction and Inspection $208,203 Schools: $307,205 against $350,040. was about to pass them, the horse against $100,005. Students in Train- shted, and Ma swerved, leaving the ing: $24,061 against 530,530. rond as a result..
The total expenditure for 1038 was $2,150,000 against $2,042,044.
TRAFFIC MISHATS REPORTED A. W. Googles, driving along $280,803 against $255,038 in the pre
The revenue from school foen was Hennessy Rood near O'Brien Itond yesterday, knocked down Chu Cheuk, vious year, leaving a net expenditure 41, who suffered injuries to the body of $1,878,844, which is about $100,- and was removed to the Queen Mary 000 more then the figure for the pre- Hospital.
vious year.' Knocked down by a car driven by During the year, a total of 6,180 Sanitory Jaspector E. N. Ponsford in medical examinations were made in the Central district yesterday, a 19 Government schools. One thou 60-year-old woman, Ma NA was hand nine hundred and fly-eight sent to the Queen Mary Hospital entrants were inspected and 1,108 with injuries to her left forearm/ found to have defects.
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