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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1933.

FASCIST

MOVEMENT

IN BRITAIN

School And Fortress In London Convent.

TANKER ON FIRE" BLONDE

AT TSUN WAN

Narrow Escape Of Oil Installation.

VENUS." ON

HOLIDAY

SIR OSWALD MOSLEY'S HEADQUARTERS

London.

Sir Oswald Mostry. fresh from his recent appearance in Rome.

of Fascists in London.

CATASTROPHE AVERTED BY

HEROIC OFFICERS

Fight Flames Spread By

Burning Sampan

A terrible catastrophe was

pans ran up the newly-painted sides The flames from the blazing sam

of the tanker and attacked the can.! vas cover of one of the lifebonts.

practically

Marlene Dietrich Wears Trousers Again.

WHERE NO-ONE COMPLAINS

THE CHINA MAIL.

ro-Day's Short Story.

SOAKED IN

SEAWEED.

was in August in 1867 that.

By Stephen Leacock.

The vessel was on the eve of de- Her deck presented that I stepped on board the deck parture.

scene of bustle and alacrity dear to of the Saucy Sally, lying in dock the sailor's heart. Men were busy

Paris. Marlene Dietrich, "Blonde Venus" of the films, has at last nar found a haven where she can wear at Gravesend, to fill the berth of nailing up the masts, hanging the where he was received by Signor rowly averted yesterday when two men's trousers without exciting the second mate.

bowsprit over the side, vanishing; Mussolini, has opened a National ampans tied up to the oil-tanker slightest comment.

the lee-scuppers and pouring hot tar The

i was a tall, handsome young fel-down the companion-way. headquarters for his British Union California burst into flames.

California, with 6.000.000 gallons of Engadine

She is holidaying at Fetan in the

where

and low, squarely and powerfully built, shorts

Captain Bilge, with a megaphone benzine aboard, was lying alongside breeches for climbing are the usual bronzed by the sun and the moon to his lips, kept calling out to the The premises are those of Athe wharf of the Texas Oil Company letothes for everyone, large convent school near Sloane at Taun Wan, where she had been

(and even copper-coloured in spots men in his rough sailor fashion: Square, Chelsea, and the Fascista discharging cargo.

The police allow Marlene to

"Now, then, don't over-exert your- stroll through the forests, or climb from the effect of the stars), and selves, gentlemen. Remember, please, are now busy transforming the building into what will be at once

dress she faneles. the rugged mountain tops in any with a face in which honesty, intel- that we have plenty of time. Keep ligence and exceptional brain power ont of the sun as much as you can. a training school, dormitory and fortress of British Fascism.

But Marlene's holiday is near-were combined with Christianity, Step carefully in the rigging there, ly over. She is expected in

Jones; I fear it's just a little high A Reuter special correspondent

simplicity and modesty. At the cry of 'Fire'

Paris and will attend a special

for you. Tut, tut, Williams, don't, who made a tour of the building

the whole of the crew deserted the!

performance of her new Alm As I stepped on the deck I could get yourself so dirty with that tar, was informed by a Fascist official ship, only eight of the deck officers "Song of Songs", A large and not help a slight feeling of triumph, you won't look fit to be seen." that total strength of the

move and engineers sticking to their posts.

fashionable audience is expected as 1 caught sight of my sailor-like I stood leaning over the gaff of ment in this country could on no

to be present.

features reflected in a tar-barrel the mainsail and H. Schyer, a seaman of the ves

thinking-yes, account be divulged.

Miss Dietrich is expected to re- that stood beside the mast, while thinking, dear reader, of my mother. However, the new national head-sel one of the few survivors of a

io Hollywood almost im little later I could scarcely repress a I hope that you will think none the quarters are an impressive enough previous tauk disaster, was taken to

mediately.

(sense of gratification as I noticed background for a movement still the Government Civil Hospital in

an agitated condition and will re day in Switzerland have come to bilge water.

Meanwhile, reports of her holl-them reflected again in a bucket of j main in hospital for several daps. Paris. With her are Sir Onwald Mosley directs alf

"Welcome on board, Mr. Blow- the activities of the movement perstated to have jumped on to

Another seaman, C. Wheeler, was sister, brother-in-law, nephew, hus-hard." called out Captain Bilge, sonally and works at the head-

the band and daughter.

stepping out of the binnacle and wharf, breaking both unkles. quarters every day on matters con-

He The owners of

the hotel where shaking hands across the taffrail. was not taken to hospital, however, she is staying are, says one journ- nected with propaganda organise and the Texas Company refuses to alist, "marvelling at the film star's man of from thirty to sixty, clean- I saw before me a fine sailor-like Forgan, formerly L...P. M.P. for five any information about him. Kimple life." He adds that she te shaven, except for an enormous pair

• Scottish constituency, Mr. lan Seeing that, for the moment, the late content with the same food as of whiskers, a heavy beard, and Dundas is "chief of star and Capt.lames were confined to the after ordinary falk and was ones

in its infancy.

tion. His right hand man is Dr.

Lewis late of the Foreign Office. Is

in charge of the publications and propaganda saction.

The Women's Section

part of the ship, the gineer, Mr. Ardyns,

second

room

turn

her mother.

MONDAY'S STORY

Monday's story will be "Damp Sheets," by H. Russell Wakefield.

ob- a thick moustache, powerful in build, lass of me for that. Whenever served to drink water out of her and carrying his beam well aft, in things look dark. I lean up against Awiftly hands from the village pampa pair of broad duck trousers across something and think of mother. If

and Reuter.

the back of which there would have they get positively black, I stand on been room to write a history of the one leg and think of father. After British Navy.

that I can face anything.

down into the engine started the ship's pumps. On deck, the Chief Officer, F. P. Parkenson, ' and directed the fire fighters, coolly took charge of the operations.

Half a dozen hoses were quickly of the officers obtained foamute ex- run to the sea of the fire, while two tinguishers from the shore, and used! them to quell the blaze.

There is also a women's action, but this is kept strictly separate from the male organisation. The womens' headquarters are housed In what was formerly a fashionable shop in Regent Street, and the or ganisation !። directed by Lady Members of the crew, as soon a Makgill. with Lady Mosley, Sir they saw that the danger was con-' Oswald's mother. prominent among fined to the after part of the ship,ị the members and an enthusiastic returned and assisted in the opera-

wearer of the black shirt

The male organisation is divided i into a political section and a de- fence section.

"BROWN SHIRTS FOR IRAQ"

London Discredits Berlin Report.

"LEAGUE FOR NATIONAL DEFENCE"

According to the Nazi Within ten minutes of the out-pondence Bureau, a Nazi party, break aboard the California, the pledged to all the essential points of flammes were under control.

Hitler's programme, is to be furm-

tions.

Correa-

Beside him were the first and Did I think, too, of another, third mates, both of them being younger than mother and feirer than quiet men of poor stature, who look-father? Yes. I did. "Bear up, darl- ed at Captain Bilge with what seem-ling." I had whispered as she nestled ed to me an apprehensive expression her head beneath my oilskins and in their eyes.

kicked out backward with one heel

in the agony of her girlish grief, “in five years the voyage will be over, and after three more like it, I shall

ALSATIAN TRACKS come back with money enough to

LOST MAN

buy a second-hand fishing-net and, settle down on shore."

Meantime the ship'a preparations] were complete. The masts were all In position, the sails nailed-up, and men with axes were busily chopping, away the gangway.

"All ready?" called the Captain. "Aye, aye, sir."

"Then hoist the anchor in board and send a man down with the key to open the bar."

Dog's Night, Search The "Active Defence Force" ed that nothing could save either the brown shirts.

At one stage, however, it appear. jed in Iraq., The members will wear

In Bush. unit consists of a picked hody of ship or the whole of the Texns Of! The Bureau says that a number 100 young men, all trained to Company's installation ashore. of deputies approached the Iraq VALUE AS POLICE DOG high pitch of physical efficienry.

Stored in the all tanks were hun-Minister of the Interior for per- which remains permanently

on dreds of millions of gallons of ben-mission to form the party under

Sydney, N.S.W. duty in 42-hour shifts at headquarįzine, kerosene, and other highly in- the name of the "League for Na-

Evidence of the value of ters, so that "in case may branch flammable spirits.

tional Defence." The Minister is Alsatians for police work WAS headquarters should be attacked

Opening the bar! the last sad rite It WILM afterwards by Communists," as an

discovered reported to have offered no objec-given at Manly, (near Sydney) in official that a Chinese baby, abandoned un

of departure. How often in my the tracking of a missing man. pot it. "these fellows can be board one of the blazing sampons,

voyages have I seen it; the little "Greatly exaggerated; I scarcely A Manly garage manager, who, group of men soon to be exiled from The defence with had been burnt to death. The other think it can be true," was the reply had driven away in his lorry, upon their home, standing about with sad-

|ccupants of the sampans

of an official of the Iraq Legation a rabbit-shooting expedition to dened faces, waiting to see the man themselves by jumping overboard. London, when the report was South Creek, Dee Why, had not re-with the key open the bar-held

rushed to minimum of delay." These men are also employed on special bodyguard duty and to police meetings at which trouble in ex pected.

Raved

Brave Officers. Officers and engineers aboard the California who stuck to their posts Brondly, the Fascists wish to and fought the flames were Capt achieve their programme of the G. L. Lurasen, the Master of the "corporative state" by political ship, Chief Ofeer F. P. Parken- methods, and their defence units son, Second. Officer P. S. Barth, are only to be used in case of what Third Officer E. H. Baldwin, Chief is referred to as a "collapse."

Engineer C. B. Petersen, Ist. Engineer Zarko, 2nd Engineer

Cooking And Fencing

IM

pro-

tions.

shown to him by Reuter-Reuter, turned home at Midnight.

CHINESE BISHOPS

Hie relatives notified Manly [police, who.found an abandoned larry, but no sign of the missing man.

there by some strange fascination.

*

*

*

We had now been three days at Bea. My frat sea-sickness was

ENTERTAINED.

Lunch At Brussels Legation.

Brussels.

Although it was still dark, Con-wearing off, and I thought leas of stable Denholm and the police father.

· Alsation "Tess," were taken to the

On the third morning Captain

spot where the lorry had been Bilge descended to my cabin.

found.

"Teas" was given a ani at a Ardyns and the Third Engineer. A lunch in honour of the new cost belonging to the missing man,

In addition to the damage to the Chiese Bishops, Mgr. Wang and

She promptly set out over the lifeboat and the decking, fames Mgr. Li, was given at the Chinese rough country at a from the blazing sampans licked Legation in Brussels by Mr. Lo tended the agility and endurance of pace that ex-

of the cabins afire. through two portholes and set two Hoai (the Charge d'Affaires) when her constable-guardian, who hold

they visited the city.

[the dog on leath;

and kerosene were

"Mr. Blowhard," he said, "I must ask you to stand double watches."

"What is the matter?” I inquired. "The two other mates have fallen overboard," he said uneasily, and avoiding my eye.

All the work of painting and re- constructing the old converd being done by the Fascists them selves. Two hundred of them sleep in the building to large

very good, sir," but I could not I contented myself with saying,

dormitories. They cook their own food, attend physcal training and

Ten thousand barrels of benzine Among the guests ware; Mgr. At the end of a four-mile run, help thinking it a trifle odd that both fencing classes, listen to

unloaded at Neve, Father Superior of the "Tess" abruptly stopped on the top the mates should have fallen over. paganda lectures, and attend to the Taun Wan yesterday, and with 10.- Abbaye of Saint-Andre; M. de of a 90 foot chiff showing signs of board in the same night,

Surely there was some mystery in transport section, which consists 000 barrels, or 5,000,000 gallons, Lathuy, secretary general of the excitement

for Shanghai, the California was

this. Torches revealed the missing mittee; the Abbe Gossot, Warden man asleep at the foot of the clin. due to sail last night.

Two mornlugs later the Captalni of the Hostel for Chinese Catholic

He was unhurt, and explainted appeared at the breakfast-table with students at Louvain Mr. Kong Li-that, having got lost he had shelter the game shifting and uneasy look of the vessel to-day, and she will Interior, and Mr. Shen, of the

sink, of the Chinese Ministry of the ed, awaiting daylight-Reuter lin' his eye, " probably leave for Shanghai to National Academy of Peking- night,

of a small number of motor lorries and about 10 private cars, which are kept in a courtyard élaborately barricaded and protected from the roadway,

Young Fascists were in the act of dismantling the old

ephvent chapel, which is being turned into

an up-to-date gymnasium, as Reu

movement. There are

It is anticipated that Lloyd's sur- veyors will make an examination

Bind-Belgian Inter-University Com-

Bouter.

News In Brief.

PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION.

University. Amateur Club Show.

OFFICIAL OPENING BY THE HON. DE KOTEWALLE

"Anything wrong, sir?" I asked. "Yes," he answered, trying to appour at east and twisting a fried egy, to and fro between his fingers with auch nervous force as almost to break if in two-"I regret to say that we have lost the bosun.”

"The boaun!" I cried. ⠀

“Yen” said. Captain Bilge more quietly, he is overboard. I blame] myself for it, partly......... It was early}} This morning. I was holding him

A preview of the Second Interna» up in my arms to look at an loo

"Captain Bilge," Flanked. """have

ter's correspondent was shown to several provincial branches at round, and others could be seen the discretion of the local or

The Sincere Co, Ltd, announce painting and doing plumbing, work (ganiser, are not allowed to join the that in celebration of. Confucious' in various parts of the building, London headquarters, the official birthday, all their stores will be whch has its own telephone explanation being. The majority closed for business on Monday. change and may later have i. wire of the attacks which are made upon less station.

Black Shirts in the streets and st

The laying of the foundation Stress was Inid by the officials meetings are by Communists of stone of the new Tung Wah" Hop-| on the "democratic nature" of the Jewish race and we could not ex-pital building at Po Yan Street tional Exhibition of the Amateur berg, and, quiet accidentally I as

no class nect our members to associate with will be performed by His Excel Photographie Club of the fong sure you dropped him over- distinctions, everyone, including members of race which per Jency the Governor, Sir William Kong University, for which "ape- board Sir Oswald, feeds off deal tables in sistently uses force against us."; the mess room, the same food being

Feel. K.C.M.G., K.C.B. at 430cial invitations have been issued,, served to all and no man being al- tion between Jews, and Com-

"Do you then make no distinc-pm. on Tuesday next, October 17. will be given from 10 a.m. to hear you taken any steps to recover

on Monday: next, in the Union Anim lowed priority of place. Members moniate who happen to be Jaw??! who wish to do, so can take a small Reuter inquired.

The Second International Ex-embly Room of the University.

The Exhibition will be formally flat in the building which they

hibition of the Hong Kong Univer "At present, no answered the alty Amateur Photographic Club opened by the President of the may furnish themselves, the "rent" official." being considered as a welcome ad-

open at the Universly Union Club, the Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotowall,

The mystery thickened." Sir Oswald Monley attaches con-en. October 17 and continue until at about 6 p.m. the same day and Thursday two men of the starboard dition to party funds, which are ac sicerable importance to his Union October 28. A lecture will be will not close until midnight watch were reported missing. cumulated from the 1/- per month of Fascist Workers, which aims at given by Dr. K. Mackenzie in minmium which every member setting up Fascist 'calla' among the room, the University, at 4P Exhibition will be open to the day circumstance occurred which.. From Tuesday, October 17, till Friday the carpenter's assistant dis". must pay

vegable trade unioną; and, be claims that on October 21, the subject being

Monday, October 23, Indlusive, the

*kin appeared. "On the night of Batur- The Position Of The Jews. such calls already exist among Lon The Infra Red Plate, now we public fally from 9am till 6iight as it was, gave me some clue Members may be of any nation- don has a team workers and in pon, for the amateur photorram. There will be no charge for as to what was happening. ality, but Jaws, although admitted the. Civil Service-Beuter,

admission.

(Continued on Page'12),

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