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December 29, 1939.
1939 “PIMPERNELS" AWAIT ADVENTURE
SMOKING a pipe in his. flat in Eccleston-square, S.W., sits a little bald- headed architect.
An he smokes, he is planning; a war-time courier service. He run one during the last war,
Just as they did last time, his men and women will journey |from capital to capital.
Sometimes they will carry samples of silk to be matched in Paris, some- times they will 'take' school-girls. to destinations in Switzerinnų, come- times shoes and perfume for a Bond- street shop, or even, ocensionally, a note from a French politicien to a British Cabinet Minister.
Doubtless, too, the couriers will be nasailed by as many spies as they were in the Inst war, and may suc- ceed in handing over a few more to the authorities.
The architect, Mr. A. B. Houchin, started his Franco-British courler service because he happened to have an office in Parls in 1914, and architecture did not seem to have much of an immediate future,
He found dozens of old men and women, girls and children stranded in Paris, too frightened to travel home alone.
So he grouped them into porties. and brought them back to London! himself,
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BOSTON-Jules Verne got streamlined at East Boston Airport when two dapper young Chinese students stepped off a plane fust one week out of Hongkong. 9,000 miles away.
Landing almost in the shadow of the place where Donald McKay faunched The Flying Cloud and other great sea clippers-boats that des- pite their fleetness measured late to the Orient in terms of months in stead of weeks-Wong Bhen Moy and Ung Do Hung. hastening back to Bonton classes, thought little more of their Journey than a Wellesley girl svould of returning. by train to 61. Louis.
The two men left Hongkong on a Pan American flying boat. Tho first day they flew to Manila, Philippine Islands, stopping over a day while the plane's engine was checked. The following day they flew to Guam and Wake Islands, losing a day when they crossed the international dateline between Wake and Midway Islands.
From Midway they flew to Ikonolulu and from Hawall it was an 18-hour over-sea hop to San Francisco,
"They left Sarı Francisco at 12:20 p.m., and arrived in Newark at 8:53 next morning, a voyage for which the Flying Cloud set an 89-day miling record!
They breakfasted in Newark, caught the 19:30 Boston plaue, and aT- rived here at 11:30 am, the same morning. Cont: $750 apicer, one way,
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the
FLEET STREET. for all the necessary reconstructive Then he engaged several profes-! sional men and women-lawyers, ex-|
Professor R H. Tawney, work, It was important that it should
He Le properly used. painters and speaking" on « soldiers, Journalists,
thought the post-war sent them off on a regular courier development of China, at aments board which should divert in- Government should create an Invest- service across Europe.
the coast to the
By the end of the war there were luncheon organised by the vestments from 10 of them.
China Campaign Committee, interior. Secondly, the Administra- "We did every sort of job," he said that In spite of the loss of tion, which had seemed to him the weak point in China's system, should said, "from bringing over a tow human life and the economic be improved. The machinery was luxury articles for big firms to carry-loss caused by the present war there, but the wheels did not run. ing letters for Cabinet Ministers, and
was one of the things of n
learn from the West. China's nin
duplicates of Government dispatches.in China, he thought the war This
"The sples were on to us when we had contributed something to technical kind which China could started to carry official documents. the solution. of problems with job would be to organise her econo- Men and women would try to get which the Government had been fate and political systems, at the same into conversation with the couriers
faced.
[time maintaining her own nutive ad- on trains and boats.
mizable virtues. The curlers always reported to me, and I went straight round to Basti Thomson, head of the British Intelligence.
Disguised
rich
resources
It had done more for the practical unification of the coun- try in two years than had been accomplished in the twenty "Very rarely could I tell him any-preceding years. The fact that the Governmeil and other institutions thing he did not already know,
"Our most sensational spy was a
had been moved to the provinces of Szechwan, Yunnan, woman whom one of our couriers, an
and Kwelchow ex-Guardsman, noticed frequently on had made the Chinese awire of the the cross-Channel boats,
of mineral timber, "He was puzzled because she came and agricultural wealth of those dis- aboard In heavy boots, and nined-tricts, of which the mujurlly had We hitherty known little. The war had Lately changed into light shoes.
told Basil Thamson about her. He also elven considerable impetus to made curiously little comment..
"Some time later he said to me, ane day: 'You remember that woman in the boots on the cross-Channel boat? He's dend.'
"The woman was
in dis- EL man Ekl56.
Rescue. Job
the development of heavy industries, hitherto the weakest part of China's economy, tut in spite of the war the main problems remained.
U.S.S.R. GROWING MORE FOOD Radio Proudly Gives
Latest Figures
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" LONDON, Dec. 20 (Reuter). The Moscow mdio gave prominence Inst night to the statement by M. Pronin, Vice-Comunksar of the Food Indus- 7, in which he claimed that the Soviet Union food production had that a further increase was ensured considerably increased this year and next year.
M. Pronin stated that the Soviet output of bread in 1939 exceeded that of 1033 by 1.728,000 tons; the production of vegetable oils had in- creased by 51,000 tons: macaroni by 72,000 tons and champagne by 2,000,-
The Government had done a great deal in the past few years to improve transport conditions, but that problem remained. China's permanent prob-| lem was not that of the industrial The mast romantic, jub on which worker, but of the peasant cultiva Mr. Houchin's organisation ever en-tor, and it seemed that his lot had barked was that of trying to rescue got worse during the past two genera- an Englishman from the infirmary in tious. As long as his present con- German-occupied Cambral, where le dition remained, Chinu would 000-bottles- had lain sick at the outbreak of war. continue lo crumble from the bottom. Numerous new bread, sugar and "It was to have been a regular The peasant cultivator suffered from tinned food factories will be opened Scarlet Pimpernel affair," Mr. Ilou-Houds, his methods were prehistoric, next year. chin said.
"Some of our men were going to middle man,
he was shamelessly exploited by the The sugar production will be in- money-lender, land-creased by 39 per cent and the out- cross the front lines at night. Brtford, and ax collector
put of tinned food by 17 per cent. the sick man died before we could start.
The present system of land tenure, "Through the agency of a Dutch was Intolerable, Industrial develop- business man,
ment was very important, but it was however, I did get not likely to reduce the land prob- buck to this country the abandoned fen, though it night prevent : from, baggage of English and American becoming worse.
had
Russo-Japanese Conversations
tourists, which the GermaŁA
Professor Tawney did not think it stacked high in Cologne Cathedral."
Already Mr. Houchin has seven desirable that China's Industriall
MOSCOW, Dec. 28 (Reuter).—Tho should men, mostly ex-anilors, and a few development
proceed on Soviet Foreign Cominissar. M. Malo- women for his new courier service. American or German lines. For one toff, and Hir, Togo, the Japanese Am- Their journeys are being mapped out thing, the apply of iron ore was subassador, held a meeting on Wednes- through Europe. This time many of insuficient that it should only be day night, discussing for four hours the journeys will be by air.
used when essential. China's great trade and the Fishery Convention asset was huren beings. When in which expires on Sunday. China he had noticed how badly the
It is not known what progress was Chinesa did things they copied, from
|RANGOON'S FUND the West-making, for instance, doors
FOR POLES
and windows that would not shut- and how admirably they made things) for their own.use. China must ex- hort enough to buy what she re- RANGOON, Dec. 28 (Reuter)quired from abroad, but her right
,
made.
I
British Statesmen Entertained.
The Governor of Eurine is patronline of development was more of the PARIS, Dec. 28 (Reuter)~The of the Polish Relief Fund which has French
than of
the German or French Master of the Interior was been opened in Rangoon.
American type-quality of produc-host at a luncheon yesterday to Sir The Mayor of Rangoon is Chair- tion in the light industries.
Samuel Hoare, the Lord Privy Seat, man of the Fund with the Hon. Mr. As for post-war development the Lord Hankey, Minister Without Port- Samorset Butler, the Polish Consul, professor stressed two points. Since follo, and Sir Ronald Campbell, the as Vice-Chainnan.
China's surplus would be very small British Ambassador.
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