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December 29, 1939.
PIMPERNELS
AWAIT ADVENTURE
SMOKING a pipe in his flat in Eccleston-square, S.W., sils a little bald- headed architect.
As he smokes, he is planning a war-time courier service. He ran one during the last war.
Just as they did last time, his men and women will journey from capital to capital.
Sometimes they will ear: y samples of silk to be tantehel in Paris, seine-: times they will take school-girls to destinations in Switzerland, some- Bond- times shoes and perfume for street shop, or ever, occasionally, a cote from a French politician to a British Cabinet Minister.
Doubtless, too, the couriers will be nssailed by as many spies as they were in the last war, and may nʊe- eerd in handing over a few more lỏ the authorities.
The architect, Mr. A. B. Honchin. started his Franco-British courier servier because he happened to have 1914, and offee in Paris in architecture did not seem to have
much of an immediate future.
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He found dozens of old men and women, girls and children stranded lo Travel iu Paris, too frightened home alone.
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So he grouped them into parties.
1 London! and brom them bayik himmelf.
Besot By Spics
Then he engaged several profes-1 nomad men and women- Lowyus, ex-| Cubiter
::t Latin service zero Kurogan
By the end of the was inere were) 19 of them.
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BOSTON-Jules Verne got streamlined at East Boston Airport when two dapper young Chinese students stepped oft z pisno Just One week eat of Hongkong. 8,000 miles away,
Landing almost in the shadow of the place where Donald McKay launched The Flying Cloud and other great sea ellppers-boats that des- pite their fiertuess measured me to the Orlent in terms of mouths - stead of weeks-Wong Shen Moy and Ung Bò Hung, lastesing back to Boston classes, though little more of their journey than a Wellesley girl would of returning by train to St. Louis,
The two men left Ifongkong on a Pan American flying beat. The first day they flew to Manila, Philippine Islands, stopping over a day while the lane's engine was checkel. The following day they flew to Guim and Wake Islands, lusing a day when they crossed the International dateline between Wake and Midway Islands.
and from Hawalt it was an
From Midway they New to Hunolulu 18-hour over-sca hop to San Francisco,
They left San Francisco at 12:20 p... and arrived in Newark al 8:53 next morning, a voyage for which the Flying Cloud act an 80-day sailing recurd!
They breakfasted in Newark, caught the 10:30 Doslen plane, and ar- rived here at 11:30 a.m. the same morning. Cost: $750 aplree, one way.
China will Face Many
Problems after the War
FLEET STREET. Professor R. II.
the
for all the necessary reconstructive Tawney, work, it was important that it should be properly used. He thought the post-war Government should create an invest-
thu
Jornainte, pinley and speaking on
on a pricular courier development of China,' al ments board which should divert -in-
luncheon organised by the vestments from the coast to
Secondly, the Administra- Committee, interior. China Campaign
weak point in Chian's system, should "We did every awd of job" he said that in spite of the loss of on, which had seemed to him the aid, "fron bringing over a few human life and the economiche Improved. The machinery luxury articles for big is to correioss caused by the present war there, but the wheels did not
This
of the things was one ing letters for Cabinet Minister, and
kind which technical
Ching couli stale ates of Governmeist dispatchin China, he thought the wari
For pues were to swaen we had contributed something earn form the West, China's min staled to mury official documents, the solution of problems with job would br Alew and women would try to get which the Government had been me and political systems, at the same time maintaining her own native ad- info conversation with
faced.
mirable virto Con trains and boats.
the couriers
"The cringe always reported to It had done more for the the, and I went straight sound to! Hasel Thomson, head of the Bichpractical unifiention of the conn-i Intelligence.
Disguised
"Very manly could 1 tell him any thing he did not already know.
"Our most sensational spy was woman whom one of our couriers, ex-Guardsman, noticed frequently m the cross-Channel boats.
a
Wan
FIT. of a
organise her econo-
try in two years than had been LATE NEWS
accomplished in
the twentyį
preceding years. The fact that the Government and other institution
had been moved to the provinces nfi Szechwan, Yumpu. and Kweichowi that mate the Chinese aware of the of minecal. timber,
| rich regureNES
"He was puzzled beratuse she came and agricultural wealth of those dis of which the majority ha aboard in heavy boots, and anet.tricts,
The war had
ately changed in light shoes. We hitherto known little.
1 Basil Thomson about her. He also given eunsiderable impetus to pade curiously little commel.
See time Inter he said to me, one day: You remember that woman in
the bouts on the cross-channel bout? He's death,
the development of heavy industries, altherto the weakest part of China's cconomy, but in spite of the war the main problems. remained.
The Government had done a great
The woman was a man in den! in the past few years to improve
Halse,"
Rescue Job
chin said.
"Some of our men
transport conditions, but that problem Femained. China's permanent prob
EUROPEAN FOUND DEAD
CALLED in by the laylord of the lem was not that if the industrial second floor of No. 34, Austin Rond, The most romantle in on which worker, but of the peasant cultiva Kowloon, police this morning dis Ir. Touchin's ganisation ever en- tur, and it seemed that his lot and, covered the body of Stephen Michael "bariced" was Unt of trying to resevol worse during the past two denen-Tracey-38-year-old-clerk__who_is o Englishman frum the inflinary in German-occupied Cambrai, where het. As long as his present on-belleved to have recently arrived in
dition YERmined, China would the Colony.
The discovery was made by Sergt. had a sick at the outbreak of war continue to crumble from the buttmu.
regular
Tylonshatsui "It was to have been
Poller cultivator suffered from Matches, The peasant Scarlet Pimpernel affair," Mr. Hou Hoods, his methods were prehistorie. Station. Trucey was lying across his
I was staunelessly exploited by the bed. were going to middle man,
Ind money-lender.
The body was removed in the Kow- mus the front lines at night. But lord, and tax collector.
loon Mortuary, where a post mortem the sick man died before we could!
The present systen of land Lenure was performed this morning. start.
The police, whose report states that "Through the agency of a Dutch was intolerable. Industrial devrion-t
getment was very important, but it was suleide is suspected, refuse to reveal however. I did business man, back to this country the abandoned at likely to redire the land prob- the result of the post mortem or any and American em, though it might prevént it brom further details it connection with the baggage of English
death, tourists. which the Germans had becoming worse.
Profesor Tawney did not think it tacked high in Cologne Cathedral."
Mr. Rouchin h. roven desirable that China's Alerady
proveed me metly esrailors, and a few development women for his new courier service, American or German liries. For one Their journeys are being mipped out, the supply of iron ore was n through Burripe. This time many of the journey will or by air.
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For afleient that it should only hel med where essential, China's great! reset was human beings. When ini Chion, he had enticed how badly the Chinese did things they copied from| the West-making, for instance, doors and windows that would not shut- and how admirably they made things For their own use. China must ex- what the T- port enough to buy ILANGOON, Dee. 28 (leuter)quired from abroad. but her right
Governor of Burma is patron line of development was more of theį of the Gerinan OT of the Polish Relief Fund which has Freni than
of predan been opened in Rangoon.
American typ-quality The Mayor of Rangoon Chair- tion in the light industries. man of the Fund with the Hon. Mr. As for pust-war development the Somerset Butler, the Polish Comul, professor stressed two polits. Since at Vice-Chairman.
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