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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1924.

SPY.CATCHERS.

BEHIND THE SCENES.

Thus writes "X" in Evening Standard":-

the

THE CHINA

MAIL.

rios German submarines used to He, HONGKONG BOXING ASSOCIATION. FRANCE AND GERMANY.

fed, or at least so it was suspected,

from previously-arranged petrol dumps in the desolate hills round about.

One submarine at least came to

a bad-end there. It had been

SIX BOUTS FIXED FOR TO-NIGHT.

It all began well before 1914, lying in one of the bays for weeks, JIM CARTLIDGE R.N. 2. CAPT. MATTY SMITH.

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when it became clear that Ger-and its crew used to come ashore

At the City Hall to-night the Hongkong Boxing Association many had considerable numbers at night in a collapsible boat, and

so and drink in one of the local have arranged an attractive programme as will be seen from the of spies in this country,

Sometimes they were merely public-houses. They know enough details below. The star turn, of course will be the fight between foolish propis, like the lieutenant English to ask for what they Cartlidge and Smith for the Light Weight Championship of the down at Plymouth who used to be wanted, and the Irish did not so Colony. The programme follows: treated with affectionate hifity by cognise their accent as being any-.. the naval officers on duty in the thing peculiar. One night, how- port, and sometimes, when he ever, pushing off back to their to walk, vessel, they were foolish enough to was too intoxicated taken home in a wheelbarrow, shout out something in German. There was another man whose The local doctor, on the way to antecedents were much more some urgent case, happened to hear difficult to determine, but who was them, and he telephoned to-the certainly German, though his name admiral at Queenstown. The nort was English and his speech passed day, up the estuary came the as Scotch, who used to hang about methodical trawlers sweeping with the neighbourhood of the Forth depth charges, and that was the Bridge and pick up what he could end of that. about the movements of ships in exchange, apparently, for discus- slons on the subject of the works of Robert Burga.

And there was one Englishinan. He was a naval gunner, and, in exchange for a monthly supply of money, which was foolishly paid to him in Bank of England notes, and the promise of a job after his -work was completed as a steward in the Yacht Club at Kiel, was stupid enough to put himself at the disposal of the German Secret Service. By the time that he had begun his operations the law in these matters, had tightened up, and though he did not know it, he was living in a glass house.

BRANCH OF GENERAL STAFF. A little department had been- Set up called the Counter-Espion- age Department, which ultimately grew. and became one of the branches of the General. Staff known as "M. I," and there two officers, working in ordinary busi ness quite apart from the War Office and with extreme discretion, carefully built up the case. :

A great German shipping line took a close interest in all this part of Ireland, and Sir Roger Case- ment, who landed there'to his own destruction, wrote a number of propaganda articles about it before the war, the ostensible object being to encourage people in that part of Ireland to use the line for emigra- tion.

Lody used to conduct tourist parties for this steamship company, and he took them found" hotels which were managed by a German called Köning, who was subsp. quently interned. To what extent he organized the arrangements by which German submarines were jable easily to operate off the coast

cannot certainly be said.

When the war began he was travelling up and down the coun try gleaning what information 'he could and using the name of Inglis, purporting at the same time to be an American citizen. Exactly ten years ago he was in Edinburgh, and had gone to have a look at. what he could see in the naval base at Rosyth. He was unwise enough For weeks before he was arrest to send a telegram to Stockholm. ed his correspondence-bad been which was brought to the notice opened and closed again with the of the Counter-Espionage Depart numbers of his bank notes takep.ment, and after that bis proceed- These were the days when the sys-ings were carefully supervised and tem of accommodation addresses his arrest inevitable. It was desir still existed, and this man used to able before he was taken in charge have his letters addressed to a to find out where he wanted to go. --tobacconist In Chelsea.

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One day when he went for them he was just unobtrusively arrested, and from there to the Old Bailey, where he was prosecuted by Sir John Simon in his most efficient manner, was a very short step. Every one of the notes paid to him -had-been traced, his movements had been shadowed and his letters copied, and when he had gone to Ostend to meet an agent from Berlin he had been shadowed by Scotland Yard.

Mr. Justice Darling, with re- markable leniency, gave him four years' penal servitude, and when he completed his sentence during the war he was interned for the dura tion of it just as a precaution.

HEADED-BY TWO OFFICERS. That was, I think, the first of the Cases of the Counter-Espionage Department:

From 'Scotland and the Fleet he came back to London, and from there he went back again to the South of Ireland, where, in an hotel managed at that time by the man I have already mentioned in Killarney, he was taken. After that the ordinary proceedings of the law took their course. He was court-martialled at the Middlesex Guild-hall, where all the court- martials took place during the war, and duly shot in the Tower.

AN ADMITTED OFFICER. Like Kupferli,, he was admitted to be an officer and treated as such.

The almost forgotten tradition by which the Tower was recognized as the place where prisoners accused or convicted of crimes against the State were kept and executed, was after nearly 200 years revived. Lody was the first man to be taken there after his sentence and the first to be executed there since Lord Lovat, after the Jacobite Rebellion.

It was started and run by two officers of singularly unmilitary

'Down in the grass grown moat appearance. They remained in control of it until the end of the there is a little building which you war, though the staff was very can see as you are going over the much enlarged, and one of them drawbridge into the main tower, went to France to do similar workIt was and is a miniature rifle there. They worked inconspicu- range used by the detachment of ously from ordinary offices which Guards who do sentry duty there, would not be known to belong to and in it he was shot, maintaining, any Government organization at so they say, a demeanour more all, and they had the most steady than that of the firing party. He was the first spy to be shot ingenious minds.

With Sir Basil Thomson, who in England since the wars was head of the C.LD. at Scotland Napoleon. Yard, they drew the finest, of

possible meshes over the country. | (JVCLAIMED and when the beginning of the war came more than 100 German agents were swiftly arrested with- out any fuss. One of the chief of them was a hairdresser in an East End suburb, who acted as kind

of central exchange for the whole

· organization, others were people in quite menial positions in Ports mouth and other towns.

It is, of course, possible that really good foreign agents defied detection and that we do not know who they were. When Major Trench and Captain Brandon were caught, in Germany investigating what the late Mr. Erskine Childers called "The Riddle of the Sands," they were only one pair out of a number of officers who had under- taken the duty of reporting, upon the defences of Germany on its sea coast. All the others got away safely.

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* MUSICAL OPERA.

DIFFICULTIES ARISE OVER PLANS OF PHILHARMONIC

COMMERCIAL TREATY,

(Reuter's Service.)

The German market would be opened to France by an offer of the most favoured nation treatment. DIFFICULTIES ARISE.

SOCIETY.

THE YEOMEN OF THE GUARD,"

this month.

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RUSSIAN TREATIES.

RATIFICATION IS WITH 'PARLIAMENT.

7.

(Reuter's Serviss.)

LONDON, November 14.

BERLIN, November 14. It'will be remembered that some Herr Stresemann in the course time ago it was announced that ft

Persods well informed discredit had been decided by the Hong-

that the Cabinet of a speech expressed the opinion kong Philharmonic Society to pro-summittee

dealing with the that the Franco-German economic duce "The Yeomen of the Guard" Zinovieff lettar and Russian understanding was vital for the some time in December. The questions will consider the revision decision to recognisa LIGHT-WEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE COLONY.pacification of Europe during the dates of the performance have en

next decade. Negotiations to that pow. been fixed, and will be Russia. It is understood that the December 12th, 19th, 15th, 17th, 19th committee will deal without end will be accorded Germany's and 20th, making six derformances standing questions between Britain in all. Soats are being booked by and Russia but there is no likeli special attention.

the Anderson Musle Co, Ltd, and hood that relations with Russia booking commences on the 24th of will be broken off. As far as the treaty.is_concerned the ratification All those who have at any time thereof rests with parliament. been connected with or taken part in "a" production of this kind will PARIS, November '14;

appreciate the enormous amount Difficulties have arisen in regard of work which devolvas alike upon to the Franco-German negotiations producers, principals, chorus and It appeals to us as nation "The an commercial treaty. According orchestra. Dificantes arise and because It breathes, In to the newspapers Germany is must be overconte a considerable Yeomen of the Guard" demanding concessionsTM In regard amount of thought and time must for instance, the very spirit of- to the evacuation of the Rühr and be devoted to making all arrange-England in the days of". Harry the political status of Germany, ments for presentation and a Tudor, because it is never preten- also making representations number of possibly less arduous Hous; never taken itself too against the 26 percent, levy of the occupations must be sacrificed in seriously, never calls: проп French member of the committee the interests of "the show." But extraordinary powers of imaging- charged with the organization of enthusiasm usually ends by carry-tion to conjure up out of a bald German deliveries in kind. She ing all before it, and there has been situation a psychological crisis Is also said to be raising difficulties no lack of this necessity in the fitting to music of a superlatively by declaring that if she did not case of "Theorien of the dramatie-order, because it never- get satisfaction before January 10, Guard." There is a special indulges in long passages

of the treaty of commerce would element of sustained interest in recitative; because, In short, in it s nover be submitted to the Reich- Gilbert and Sullivan opera that proper balance is maintained atag. In an interview the German has never failed to keep Gilbert between translation of meaning Ambassador M. Herriot is said to and Sullivan companies to through sys and ear and the more have declared that he could not heartedly interested in theek, subtle translation of music. consider the latest demands which might shortly be followed by fresh claims.

Jim Cartlidge, R.N.

15 ROUNDS.

of Devonport, Ex- Lightweight Cham- pion, British-Im- perial Services,

Captain Matty Smith

v.

Ex-Lightweight Cham pion of Australian Ex- peditionary Forces.

MIDDLE WEIGHT CONTEST,

6 ROUNDS.

-Pte. Eaton

1st East Surrey Regt.

Stoker P.O. Young

H.M.S. "Diomede "

LIGHT-WEIGHT CONTEST.

6 ROUNDS.

L. S. Wrigley

H.M.S. "Hawkins"

Bandaman Wareham......

2. 1st East Surrey Hegt.

FEATHER-WEIGHT CONTEST.

A. B. Castle

HMS. "Hawkins”

6 ROUNDS.

1

Cpl. Major

7. 1st East Surrey Regt.

LIGHT-WEIGHT CONTEST.

Stoker Brown

H.M.S. "Hawking"

6 ROUNDS.

17.

Pte. Ditch

1st East Surrey Regt.

WELTER-WEIGHT CONTEST.

• ROUNDS.

Marine Betts

Pte. Pooley

HMS. "Hawkins"

WEBB CASE.

CHINA PRESS" MOTION

REFUSED.

1st East Surrey Regt.

QUAKES - IN JAVA.

FURTHER DETAILS OF DISASTER.

(Reuter's Service.)

Shanghai, November 11 - A motion for a new trial of the suit! brought by Mr. Herbert Webb

BATAVIA, November 14. against the "China Press," Inc. Severe earthquakes in Java was heard by Judge Purdy in the during the past two days caused U.S. Court yesterday morning. In heavy landslides, and many native The presenting the motion Mr. WS towns in the Kedao district have Fleming stated that in his opinion been destroyed. One village was one of the cases upon which the thrown into the river and com- Judge had based his decision, pletely disappeared. The deaths namely Carpenter Steel Co. v. exceed three hundred and many Norcross was not analogous to there missing. The centre of the Webb case, and he begged to point shocks was the health resort of out the differences upon which he Wonosobo, where all the buildings founded his request for a new trial. collapsed.

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tically condoned the action of "But you must remember," Norcross in entertaining and drink-replied the Judge, "that all the ing with prospective customers in witnesses agreed that Mr. Webb

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capacity." cars and that this was customary (Laughter). in such business transactions, while)

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the name could not be said of the The Judge reviewed the local Webb care. The drinking in the case, comparing it with the casa Carpenter Steel Co. case was not cited and said finally that in hia done on the premises of the firmi, opinion nothing would be gained argued Mr. Fleming, while the by a new trial, as nothing in the editor of the "China Proes': instead argument bad led him to of conducting himself with the change his mind. He had con dignity due the responsible positionsidered the facts urged by Mr. he held had made bis office "no-Fleming, but in consideration of thing but a bar room." Even Mr. Webb's long employment by though the directors had consented the China Press and the fact to the continuance of the canteen, that the canteen had been in exist Mr. Fleming salt, they did not ence during that time he doubted know that Wabb and his associates whether drinking bad mtserially Hongkong, 18th November, 1994; -- were shaking dice all the time” affected Mr. Wabb's ability to per At this point Judge Purdy inter form his duties. The fact that the posed to ask, whether Mr. Flaming canteen and Mr. Webb's drinking thought it was quite a fair state. were never considered up to the

did not bear it out

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LYRICS AND DIALOGUE.

It is to be doubted whether · So many people have come averybody to whom "Gilbert and away from a Gilbert and Sullivan, Sullivan have become household öpera feeling that they have words is fully aware of the reasons grasped a pleasure previously underlying the past and present denied them that it is not possible phenomenal success of the operas to believe that they have not resulting from the collaboration of some realisation, not capable of W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sallivan, expression in words perhaps, of Opera writing was long regarded where this pleasure Hes. It is as a musical exercise affording | indeed possible that they have "cleansing of the opportunity for vocal writing of a missed that "Daddy," A First National dramatic intensity hardly com emotions" which lies at the root setting but of pure tragedy on the stage, picture starring Jackle Coogan, patible with any contains an episode that critics the stage, and the libretto writer though in "Gilbert and Sullivan have declared to be most was totally eclipsed by the Com- this is to be found in its proper powerful and gripping they have poser. Wagner, poet and com- place by those who can perceive it; aver beheld on the screen. It poser, is one of the exceptions but three immensely important gives Jackie an opportunity to to the rule, but his music dramas qualities they cannot have failed to register the deepest of grief with have been conceived on a stupen appreciate-supreme wit in lyrica a sincerity and naturalness, that, dous scale which demands an and dialogue, an admirable develop atmosphere seldom attainable as ment of the dramatic interesi, and

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In this particular sequence it was at Bayreuth under the spell music never so insistent as to be appears Cesare Gravini, an Italian of the composer's personality. come tiresome and completely in The genlus in Gilbert keeping with the humour or sent- actor and musician, celebrated on the European stage. He plays and Sullivan" is of another kind. "ment of the moment. the part of Gallo, a broken-down musician, forced to

his Hivelihood by playing on street corners. The forlorn and wander ing Jackie, without home parents, comes under the notice of the old man, whose interest in the lad is increased by the fact that the boy himself is a violin gentus.

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He takes the boy, to his humble home and out of his meagre store provides for his wants, and gives him priceless lessons.

But age... disappointment, and poverty do their work only too well, and the time of parting comes for Jackie and his benefactor. This is the to scene wherein Jackie rises dramatic heights.

"Daddy," which was produced by Sol Lesse and directed by E. Mason Hopper, comes to the Queen's Theatre today for a five days' run...

True Fast of Merit You judge mau not by what be promises to do, but by what he has done. That is the only true tot. Chamber lains Congh Remedy jadged by this standard has no superior. People every- where spak of it in the highest terms of praise. For tale everywhere.

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