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From

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MONDAY,

P'er AUGUST. 4.

Shanghal and Europe via Siberia (London,

July 1) 1

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TUESDAY.. AUGUST

Manila

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July 17)

Shanghai and Amoy

Japan

THE

RED SPIES SEEKING BRITAIN'S SECRETS.

Mystery Man & Beautiful Girl.

LONDON ACTIVITIES:

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CHINA

MAIL.

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HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGÈ.

HAD BROKERS IN.

On March 10 I was asked WHEN BARD'S HOME

by etter to go to the Hague and

eet Staal in a rate..

Kan

and

Story of Shakespeare's Son-in-Law.

Opening Daily Official Quotations 2nd August, 1930,

Last dividend and when paid

STOCK

Bey Soll-

Safes Mom year

C.

1 went, Staar and not appear, In sten. I saw a very beautiful young winan speaking to a portor, who pointtai to me. This girl, elegantly dressed, came across to me

ipper platenvelope, into my aand. She could not speak English. and 1icted her in-French and Ger-

Shakespeare's house once had By using all the languages the brokers in.

Banks. I knew I was able to carry on a sort

Hong Kong Bank Documentary evidence of this has Chartered Bank Allegations that Bolshevik spies of conversation with her.

been found by Mr. Frank MarchamMercantile Bk., A&B.;; are still active in London, and that

She told me nothing, and left as the Record Office, in the Culendor she had appeared.of Chancery Cases. he was almost forced into becoming mysteriously as one of them, are contained in the opened the envelope and inside was signature of

The very rare Dank of Asia an unsigned "note. which read daughter, Susan Hall, is append- the poet's ellest strange statement, sworn before a

Ipsurances. Commissioner of Oaths. by M. Savu

"Please meet me at Hotel Parked to the document. Popovitch, in London recently,

Cantun ini. ... Sicht, Amsterdam at 1 o'clock

Only three such signatures Union Ins. M. Popovitch says that Bolshevik to-day." There was a train leav-known.

The other Secret Service agents ordered himing for Amsterdam in about half Stratford-on-Avon.

China Underwriters...$ to get plane of the latest British tions, and tank, British naval training instruc ments for Rusala.

secret Air Force docu-

M. Popovitch, an artist, an art critic, and a member of an old Serbian family. lives in London. His statement appeared recently in The London Daily Mail.

In

old

an hour. I caught it.

Although the note was unsigned, I know that it could only be from Staal, and I was not at all surprised when he cama, up to me in the Hotel Park Sicht at Amsterdam. This time, however, he no longer pretended to be interested in art. He said openly:

"I am un agent of the Russlan July, 1929 : (says," ME. Popovitch's statement), I went to Secret Service and have no use for Paris on holiday. I met,an

We have been trying you out; art. Vogtland

Serbian school friend, who told me

we wanted to find out what sort of Nat Sang

that he had wanted to get into touch man you were, and now that you Tjiliwong

with me to introduce me to a Rus have committed yourself you had President McKinley.esian art expert, who had a pro-

better carry out our instructions, position to make to me. The intro- otherwise you will find yourself duction Was effected, but al called to account for it. though I dined with the Russian I did not catch his name.

He asked me all about my liter- ary work in England, remarking that he thought he could give me very similar work, at £30 a month. for an international art circle, returned to England with nothing definite, arranged.

5.

Straits

Japan

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST

G.

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Aeneas .Bingo Maru .Tjikarang ..Cremer

Melbourne Maru

Borda Tjiadak

THURSDAY AUGUST

7.

AUGUST

Shinyo Maru 8.

.Alderanian

Haruna Matu

.President Garfield

USA. Honolulu. Japan and Shanghai (San

Franelsin, le 12:

FRIDAY,

Shanghai..

Japan and Shanghai

SUNDAY, AUGUST 10.

U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan and Shanghai (San

Francisco. July 11)

For

Swatow

OUTWARD MAILS

MONDAY,

Gamshiu and Wuchow ....

TUESDAY,

Shangka and Japan ... Salgon and Mauritius

Swatow, Amoy and Foochow Straits, Ceylon, India, Mauritius, *E. and *S. Africa, Egypt and Europe via. Marseilles

K.P.O.

Registration....Aug. 5, I p.m

Letters Shanghai

AUGUST

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Aeneas.

1 heard nothing from the Russian or his associates until October last, when I received a letter asking me to go to Berlin. I went to the Saxonhuf Hotel, Motz-strasse, where rooms were reserved for me, and met a man who then gave the name of A. Staal, although on subsequent occasions he used other names.

Stral said he wanted me to attend art sales and introduce anybody he sent to me tu, my friends in Lon- don. In return he said he would

"What we want you to get for us are the, Air Ministry secret reports of the air manoeuvres of 1927 and 1928, a blue-print showing the latest design of a British tank, com Plete information about British research into coal by-products, and the training textbooks used in the British Navy for midshipment and cadets."

Secret Information.

·

He said they knew all about my family connections and my friends in England, and other parts of Europe, and it should be easy for me. He instructed me to use cor- tuin code words in any letters 1

wrote.

For instance, the report of the 1927 air manoeuvres 'was to 'be known as Picture. No. 1, that for 1928 as Picture No. 2, the

blue print of the tank as. the big work, and the other things with regard to the Navy as books;

3 p.m. buy my pictures and pay me £30 a month for other work I might do. I returned to London, and a few days later received a letter saying He also told me that in any letters that someone would call on me at a I received or wrote 'the use of cer- club, in Albemarle Street. Hetain words would mean certain called, and said that his name was things according to their context, Maguire. He was tall and thin, such as, with very prominent wrist bones Suffering from a cold or chill-be and long bony fingers.

careful or I am suspect. Dead-a traitor,

finished.

(Due Marseilles, September 5.) G.P.O.

...i pat

Registration Aug. 5. 1.45 p.m Letters

.2.30 p. Sinklang

3.30 p.m.

I

Manila, Australia & New Zealand

via Brisbane

Amoy

Swatow

"Straits. East Africa via Mumiasi? and South Africa vi Lourenzo Marques and "South American Ports

Swatow

WEDNESDAY..

Manila and Java via Sourabaya. Straits and Calcutta

Swatow

Foochow via Swatow.

Shanghai, Japan, Canada, USA,

C. & S. America and Europe ria Vangouver, B.C.

Wel-Hai-Wel

Foochow

FRIDAY,

via Swatow and

Swatow, Amoy and Foochow

Shanghai.

Straits, Ceylon,' India, Mauritius, E. & S: Africa, Aden. Egypt & Egypt via Marseilles

K.P.O. Registration Aug. 8, 4.30 p.m. Letters

Melbourne, Maru

(Dae Brisbane, Aug. 19.) Registration.Aug. 5. 4.15 p.m. Letters

..5 p.m Nam Sing

5 p.m. Cremer

5 p.m.

Bingo Maru AUGUST 6.

Hop Sung

Tjikarang Kum Sang Paresls

Letters

Szechuen

Chip Shing

5 pr

8.30 a.m. 10.30 a.m.

"

Fishy. Maguire professed to be an artist-

arrested,

or

arc

two are at

said Mr. Marcham to a Homa paper The bard's eldest daughter," representative, "married Dr. John all-who-had-an-extensive ̃medical® practice in Warwick.

£17 Owing. 1010, but Susanna and her husband "William Shakespeare died in lived

on at the house New Place, Stratford-on-Avon, and in 1638 the study, which Was once Shakespeare's invaded

in

W&S

by the. two brokers' men, Anthony Smythe and Edward Rawlins, who, as sheriff's officers. had to execute the judgment given to recover the sum of £77, which debt had been proved by Baldwyn Brookes, a wealthy local mercer.

"The document which I have founit, and which has transferred to the Museum, where now been It was inspected by the Master of the Rolls, is the answer of Susan. Hall, widow, and Thomas Nashe, gent, to the Bill of Complaint. Nashe of course was Susan's son-in- law.. He married Shakespeare's grand-daughter.

Door Broken Open. "Special features of this document are the references it con tains to William Shakespeare, gent., her Inte father. Deceased.

"The defendants state that the Sherriff's Officers did

'breake open the Doors and Study of the said house and rashlye seize upon and take divers bookes, boxes, Deakes, moneys... goods of the said John Hall's as of this defendant Thomas Noshe.' "In his will John Hall mentions 'my study of Bookes.'

He also mentions the MSS. in his study, but what treasures of Shakespereana were taken away by the brokers is never likely to be known,"

Mr. Marcham is publishing short- ly all the documents in this suit, and those in, a cross-suit by Susan Hall, as well as, an earlier sult against John Hall,

and writer, and I got a letter from A leper or suffering from smallpox Berlin asking me to introduce him

The re-discovered document is on poraon to be avoided or parchment, in an excelent state of 'contra-espionage agent.

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to my artist friends and if possible to get some of his short stories and Books for reading-money required. plays published. ways coming to my home to get on March 12 last, and Staal told me Riche, the Court of Chancery then china Buses. Tls. 184.

Maguire was al- This interview in Amterdam was

It was, sworn on May 5, at Stat- Sandakan Lights ...,5 (0) ford and delivered to Master Robert | H.K. Tels. fully paid $ letters sent to me. Actually all to go to back, to London and get being at Westminster. that was for me was the outside busy. He said that on March 24 statement Susan admits that Hall's envelope bearing my address, for a woman would call on me to re there was always another envelope ceive

had inside addressed to Maguire.

What was in these envelopes I do not know, but Maguire was always anxious to have the letters im- mediately..

At last I got dissatisfied with the ..Aug. 6, Noon. whole thing, as I did not under atand it, and told Maguire it would .......1 p.m.

12.30 p.m.

"have to stop. Shortly after that he disappeared. "Staal and his friends 5 p..

are very anxious about him.

The whole time I was in touch with Maguire I never knew where he lived, and had only his tele- phone number.

Empress of Japan (Due Vancouver. B.C.. Aug, 22 and Europe via Siberia.) Parcels

..Aug. 6, 5. p.m. Registration Aug. 7, 9.15 am. Letters

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any Information I collected, and that she would intro- duce to me a man then in London with whom I could be perfectly frank and who would give me any money I might require.

That woman did not call, but la--| stend I received an unsigned letter, ordering me_to_go_again_to_Amster dam.

goods and chattels were

worth £1,000, and it was in respect of these that the brokers raided Shake

77 under the judgment. speare's house to distrain for the

-: EXCHANGES

SATURDAY'S QUOTATIONS

4

Bank, wire ......... 1/3

On London→→→

Bank, on demand... 1/3 Bank, 4 months' sight 1/3 % Credits. Documentary, 4

sight

1/8 15/16.

months sight.... 1/4 1/16

On Paris-

months'

Staal pressed me to get the air re parts, and I told him it was very difficult to get them, especially as knew nothing whatever about auch things. He only said, "Go on," and though I had no intention of doing anything. I agreed to do my best. I was again told that a woman would call on me in London to col. "aleet my information.

She never did

so, but instead. I On demanÚ received a letter written in German Credits, 4 'months' It was posted in Berlin, and said

sight (in code) that Staal had to lie low

On New York- because he was suspected.

On demand Credits,

It was in December last that I toid Maguire the thing had to stop. and in January I received a demand that I should go to Berlin on question of honour to clear myself." I refused to go.

Eventually I went; taking with me some letters, posted to me by someonü unknown, to Staal.

Staal is, I think a Russian Jew, aged about 30 or 33. He speaks fluent German, but bad French and English. When I handed him the letters I had brought with me from England, he made no comment, but alfred them in his pocket.

to the "question of honour," all that was said was that I should get my instructions.

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Soon afterwards, when I kept on dieregardig Staal's orders to me to get the Air Force reports, he de- manded an immediate reply,

On Bombay- Wire Now I am getting rather alarmed. On demand I do not know what is going to hap On Calcutta--- pen. They are eryfdásperate pep-Wire ... ple; and will doubtless make some On demand effort to call me to account. That On Singapore

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