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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1934.

NAZIS BID

FOR SOUTH

WEST AFRICA

Vigorous Propaganda

Unchecked.

MINISTER'S WARNING TO UNION

Cape Town.

South West Africa may be lost to the Union if the methods of peaceful penetration and the vigorous propaganda of the German people within its bor ders are allowed to continue un- checked, according to Mr. J. P.) Niehaus, a member of the Exe cutive Committee of the South West Administration and leader of the Union Party in South, West.

In an interview with Renter, Mr. Niehaus said. “I do not speak | without deep consideration when] I tell the people of the Union that we in the South West feel; cut off and neglected by our own! nations. The Nazi faith is find- ing converts there with discon- cerling speed and 1

that Kay South West Africa will again bel

German South West Africa in all but name onless we receivej more moral support from the Union."

He considered that either

Completing formal resumption of diplomatic relations between the United States and Soviet Russís, the new Soviet Ambassador, Alexander Trysnovaky, la pictured with Acting Secretary of State William Phillips (right) during his visit to the State Department preparatory to presenting his troddentials to President Roosevelt.

DYING

WISH GRATIFIED

NOT

General Hertzog of the Deputy Man Who Wanted To Die

Prime Minister should visit

South West without delay and

In Bulawayo.

there make a clear declaration of SPECIAL TRAIN CHARTERED the policy of the Luion in res

pect of the territory.

After referring to the Tact that the Gertaan members had

Bulawayo (S. Rhodesia),

To satisfy the wish of a dying

withdrawn from the Exeruative man, who desired to spend his last Council and the Advisory Coun-hours in Bulawayo, knowing he had. cil. Mr. Niehaus continued. "At not long to live, a special train was the present time the German Consul-General (Dr. Wiehl) and chartered at a cost of between Lieutenant-Colonel Bauzsus, who £350 and £400. Despite the fact is stated to be a first lieutenant that this meant a saving of 11 of Hitler, are in Windhoek and}

a reorganisation is proceeding, hours in travelling, the man died

understand, of all the German before Bulawayo was reached. political parties so as to include He was Mr. R. Chitrin, a resident the Nazi elements. In view of the unsatisfactory state of afin Bulaways for the last 32 yeara. He was born at Dwinsk, Russia and fairs, it is likely that many Union Nationalists will leave the came direct to Rhodesia in 1901 territory in disgust."

While in Cape Town he became The German population, went on Mr. Nichaus, was very de-seriously ill and expressed a wish

LIVED IN TOMB FOR 17 YEARS Sad Plight Of Former Wealthy Man,

FRIEND OF CHILDREN

Belgrade.

H

For 17 years Vlada Panitch, once one of the richest young man in Vukovar, Tugo-Slavia, has lived in his family vault in the local churchyard. He furnished it with a bed, cook, ing utensils and books in languages,

THE CHINA MAIL

To-day's Short Story,"

MYSTERIOUS DEATH IN SHA PERCY STREET

By Baroness. Örezy.

TISS POLLY BURTON drift-| scene was truly artistic, worthy of Md back instinctively day its mates the Rubens Studios in after day to the teashop in Nor-Percy-street, Tottenham Court folk-street, Strand, and stayed road.

there sipping coffee for as long "Have you ever noticed them? as the man in the corner chose to They are only.studios, by name, and talk.

are merely a set of rooms in a cor-; On this particular afternoon shener house, with the windows slight- went to the A.B.C. shop with a fix-ly enlarged, and the rents charged ed purpose, that of making him give accordingly in consideration of that her his views of Mrs. Owen's additional five inches of smoky day- mysterious death in Percy-street. light, Altering through dusty win- "Undoubtedly neither accident nor]dows. On the ground floor there is suicide," he said dryly.

the order office of some stained-

Polly was not aware that she had glass works, with a workshop In the вродеп. What an uncanny habit rear, and on the first floor landing that creature had of reading her a small room allotted to the care- thoughts!

"You Incline to the idea, that Mr. Owen was murdered. you know by whom?"

taker, with gas, coal, and fifteen then, shillings a week, for which princely Do income she is deputed to keep the

house tidy.

He laughed, and drew forth the piece of string he always adgeted with when unravelling some my stery.

"You would like to know who murdered that old woman?" he ask- ed at last.

"I would like to hear your views on the subject," Polly replied,

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be "The Lagoon." by Joseph Conrad.

"But if Mrs. Owen's

scanty

earnings.

"Mrs. Owen, who was the care- taker there, was a quiet, respectable "I have no views," he said dryly, "No one can know who murdered woman, who eked out her

wages by sundry-mostly very the woman, since no one ever saw meagre-tips doled out to her by the person who did it. No one can impecunious artists, give the faintest description of the mysterious man who alone, could have committed that clever deed, were not large they were very re-

guiar, and she had and the police are playing a game tastes. She and her cockatoo lived no fastidious (of blind man's buff."

on her wages; and all the tips added "Bat you must have formed some up, and never spent, year after year, theory of your own," she persisted. wont to swell a very comfortable He pulled up his eyebrows and look little account at interest in the several]ed at her for a minute or two.

Birkbeck Bank. This little account; "Confess that that murder

Was had mounted up to a very tidy sum. Children would visit him in histone of the cleverest bits of work and the thrifty widow-or old mald strange abode, bringing presents of Recomplished outside Russian diplono one ever knew which she was food and aitting for hours listening macy," he said with a nervous laugh.was generally referred to by the "I must say that were I the judge called upon to pronounce sentence young artists of the Rubens Studios

as a lady of means.' But this is] of death on the man who conceived

a digression. self to do it. I would politely re except Mrs. Owen and her cockatoo. that murder, I could not bring my-

"No one slept on the premises quest the gentleman to enter Our

to his wonderful stories.

More than 50 years ago his father left his fortune to the Church on towance of one Austrian crown for condition that Vlada got a daily at

the rest of his life.

When the Austrian currency de- Foreign Office-we have need of The rule was that one by one as the preciated after the war the value of such this allowance fell to less than

a

men. The

whole mise en

tenants left their rooms in the evon- ing they took their respective keys to the caretaker's room. She would

finitely against co-operation with to spend his last hours in Bulawayo farthing. ce fee roved into the GIBRALTAR CUSTOM then, in the early morning, tidy and

his

Now, at the age of 73, he has been persuaded to enter a home for old people in Vukovar.-Reuter.

the Union and were out to get He was placed on the north-bound vault and lived there beside the country returned to Ger

train at Cape Town and, accom-]parent's grave. many. The Union considered that South West Africa, geog-panied by his wife and family and raphically and economically, had a Doctor, left on the long journey no future but as an integral part to Rhodesia. At De Aar it was of the Union of South Africa noticed that he was sinking fast, "but until this question is solved whereupon the relatives chartered a and there is a bitter fight un-special train for Bulawayo in order doubtedly ahead of us-there to satisfy his dying wishes. can be no political peace or economic progress in the terri-very short notice the train was pre-

tory."-Reuter.

CHINESE

ROMANCE

to

At

make travelling as comfortable is possi

pared and five saloons,

ble, were made up.

IN IDAHO away as the train

Miner Wins Bride In

Poker Game.

FAMOUS FIGURE PASSES

Graceville, Idaho.

The death has occurred in a hos-

Francistown.-Reuter.

Was

LIGHT CONCERT ARRANGED.

Sailors' And Soldiers' Home Function.

REVIVED

Closing Of Gates At Fortress.

GREAT INTEREST AROUSED

Gibraltar.

The ceremony of formally closing the gates of Gibraltar Fortress at the hour of Retreat has been revived after a lapse of 1's years,

dust the studios and the office down- stairs, lay the fire and carry up coala.

"The foreman of the glass-works was the first to arrive in the morn- ing, He had a latch-key, and let himself in, after which it was the custom of the house that he should leave the door open for the benefit. of the other tenants and their vial-) tors.

"Usually, when he came at about nine o'clock, he found Mrs. Owen busy about the house doing her work, and he had often a brief chat| with her about; the weather, but on this particular morning of Febru

As the train sped on through Bechuanaland, Mr. Chitrin's condi- A Grand Concert, arranged by

This very old custom was dropped [tion became wenker and he passed Mr. J. C. M. Grenham, is to be given at the outbreak of the war, nearing in the Sailors' and Soldiers' Homo

When the ceremony Was held Ion Wednesday next, commencing at again, large crowds gathered, inary 2. he neither saw nor heard her. 18.30 p.m. The charge for admission cluding many from the neighbour-tiated and the fire laid, he surmised

However, as the shop had in 20 cents only and the following ing Spanish towns, It is under that Mrs. Owen had finished her well-known artistes will appear: atood that the ceremony will be work earlier than usual, and thought

Miss Elsa Alves, Miss Audrey carried out weekly in future..

more about it. One by one the

LOCAL NEWS

BREVITIES

Tang Shiu-sheung, late of No.

Letters of ad-

pital here of Polly Bemis, the 108 Wanchai Road, left local estate Chinese widow of a white man.valued at $9,300.

no

been

Steele, Miss Evelin O'Hagan, Mr. J. The Key Sergeant, Quarter-Mas tenants of the studios turned up, J. Fergusson, Mr. W. Simpson, Mr.ter Sergeant Woolridge, carrying and the day sped on without any- Gus D'Aquino, Mr. G. W. True and the Keys of the fortress, and acc Mr. J. C. M. Grenham.

companied by an escort with fixed noticeably to the fact that the card- bayonets, marched from Govern-taker had not appeared upon the

-

Personal Par.

one's attention being drawn

scene.

A

ment House to Casemates - Parade Ground preceded by the pioneers She had been a romantic figure ministration have been granted to

and drums of the Second Battalion, and the day was even worse;

"It had been a bitterly cold night, here since hordes of gold-hungry Tang Man-yuk,

Mr. J. B. Armstrong, Assistant the Royal Welch -Fusiliers." General Freight Agent for the miners stampeded to this district,

There the gate of the old Land-blowing, there had been great cutting north-easterly gale WAS American Mall Line, died yesterday port tunnel was locked and after deal of snow during the night, which more than half a century ago.

The Sincere 'Co., Ltd., announce Polly, 81 years old, was stricken that on the February 28 all their of double pneumonie, in Seattle, Retreat had been sounded on

the lay quite thick on the ground; and last August near here, where she stares will be closed for stock-Mr. Armstrong was formerly agent Square, the Kays were again played at five o'clock in the afternoon, spent most of the 65 years that taking. Business will be resumed in Yokohama and Manila for the back through the Main Street to when the last glimmer of the pale!

she lived in this country.

Many stories are told of Polly's early life in the roaring camps. Oldtimers do not agree in their yarns, but the one told most often and accepted in these parts is that Polly became the bride of Charles Bemis on the turn of a card,

Ar a beautiful girl of 18, Polly

was smuggled into

The Chiness all but lost his shirt to

on Thursday, March 1

The rims. Empress of Canada, is expected to arrive in Hong Kong from Yokohama on Saturday, March 3, at 7 a.m., and will leave at 8 o'clock the вате Manila,

evening for

American Mail Line.

warda Government House-Reuter winter daylight had disappeared;

De Valera Pleased With

the confraternity of the brush put palette and easel'aside and prepared to go home. The first to leave was Mr.

Economic Progress In Ireland Charles Pitt; he locked up his

Dublin. intensive "buy Irish" campaign. I into the caretaker's room. Satisfaction with the progress am sure there will be a splendid "He had just opened the door made in worlding out his policy of response, it

when an icy blast literally struck Approximately 30 people visited making the Irish Free State..self- States from China. Bemis, & Controyer Wishart, which were yester Eamon de Valera,

the United the Cruiser Berwick and the Des-sufficient is expressed by President mic policy is the results it produces were wide open, and the snow and The only real test of any econo- him in the face; both the windows

rectlout Yankee, and the Chinese day thrown open for public inspec- Everything is working out of these are very striking and, I be room,

* In the case of the Free State, some aleat were beating thickly into the owner of the girl, the story goes, ton by kind permission of the we anticipated," he declared in an lieve, provide a complete Justifica-The room was in semi-obscurity, were playing two-handed poker, Naval authorities.

interview on the anniversary of his tion of the course we have been and at first Mr. Pitt saw nothing Bemis and then suggested that they

return to power. Buruiting, but instinctively should deal a hand for the girl.

"Soul" was the subject of the "I believe that when this govern- He referred partly to efforts to something Bemis won and took Polly to his all Churches of Christ Scientist, terms of office," he said, "the Free encourage cotton production spectacle of that awful

Lesson-Sermon which was read in ment has reached the end of Its develops tobacco industry and to match, and cabin. They were married and lived happily together for nearly 50 yesterday. The Golden Text was: State will have a well-balanced The Ministry of Industry » þai sterious" tragedy, wh

"Rejoice the soul of thy servant; for economy and not an insecure and announced plans for launching pre-sinos puzzled both After. Bemis died in 1922, Folly, unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my lopsided state of things which exist.

soul" (Psalmi 60:4),

atious 1? Industrial: undertaldog On the floo ed when the Flanna, Fall came into are designed to make this by

Independent of foreign sup- of Mr

then # respected citizen of the United States, deeded what little

One case of small-pox, in Hong

perty she had accumulated to two Kong, and four cases of menin friends, Fete Kleinkenheimer and one in Hong Kong, two In Kowlcon, Charles Sh - In return they pro

and one in the New Territorie, 1

to care for bar for the rest shown in the return of cases of

fable diseases for the 48 hours ond Kept their promise, #2 Polly rrounded by plenty Reutered February 25

|

have deliberately refrai

Quality Fells

* A Whisky in a clim by itself"

Overseas Daily Mail WM. BANDRSON & SON, LAL, Danilors, LEITEL.

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