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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 26, 1937

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- MADRID, TO-DAY.

LOYALISTS HAVE

HIS is the fourth chapter of THE

that amazing revelation of what behind an apparently ordin- ary murder in the British Foreign Office

The winter sports in the Bavar- ian Alps were in full swing when Bill Smith, former master of cere- monies in a Paris night club, former aeroplane pilot and former Socialist Premier of Great Britain, arrived at a fashionable hotel with La Carioca, most glamorous spy of the century.

AMONG

CREATED HAVOC THE INSURGENTS, OCCUPAT ING POSITIONS IN THE UNI- VERSITY CITY AND SOUTH OF CARABANCHEL BY EX- PLODING MINES.

HUGE LAND

Bodies of men and horses were flung into the air in all direc tions amid a cascade of stones and soil from destroyed houses. They were met by the proprietor, The buildings of the Institutes Dr. Bughaus (Devil Take Him) of of Hygiene and Cancer in the Uni- Pogranitchnaya, who had wander-versity City were seriously damag- ed far from his native town in ed."

search of his lost romance and had There were three explosions, at arrived in these snowy wastes by the end of which the Government mistake.

troops charged and exptured the "Bughaus shrieked La Carioca, insurgent trenches-Reuter. going into a deep swoon.

Ere,

'ere, what's all this?" asked Bill Smith, Little all this?" asked Bul that La Carioca, the toast of all the bloods of Europe, had met her hus- hand, whom she had last seen in a Tibetan monastery-

All of a sudden the band struck ap. "Let's dance,” said Bill Smith, collecting a peroxide blonde who happened to be passing and sweep- ing her onto the floor.

"He can't get away with this," hissed La Carioca, and fired twice at the ex-Premier. Once was enough, the other bullet mortally wounding a coal heaver who was watching the fun in the luxurious. ballroom. And another two pawns in the life and death game of espionage.

Richmond Bye-Election Result

London, To-day.

The Conservative Party retained Richmond in the retirement of Sir William Bay.

The final figures were: Major Watt (Con) Mr. Rogers (Lab) Majority

20,546 7,709 12,837

The General Election was also a straight fight between Conservative and Labour, Sir William Bay hay ing a majority over his opponent of

19,480. Beater.

"I say, you can't do that sort of thing, you know." Entered Mr. Per- cival FrizAllan, former Foreign Secretary, former valet to Bull Smith and now chief of the British

the table and a terrified silence Secret Service. At a swift signal fell on the group, who were plot- from the immaculately dressed ting the simultaneous blowing up Englishman, La Carioca was rush-

of munition factories in Esthonia ed to a car which stood outside and boarding houses in Bloomsbury with its blinds drawn, just as the police came into sight down the street.

Square, thus precipitating another war in the Far East or the Bal- kaus.

"To Abyssinia," yelled Mr. Per-

A cackle of ghostly laughter cut cival FitzAllan, forgetting his Ox through the room, while six bombs ford, accent in the excitement of burst in rapid succession in the the moment. The powerful car dis-passage outside. "Must be that appeared swiftly in the gathering Carioca person again,””. gnarled La darkness, and its occupants sighed Roxana, at the same time plunging with relief.

¡the room into darkness with a well- Meanwhile Doctor Bughans (De-aimed shot at the light. vil Take Him) of Pogranitchnaya

** clutched desperately at the spare In far-flung Outposts of Empire, wheel on the back of the car and as far-flung as Hong Kong, agitated wondered how long he would have conferences were being held by to remain in this uncomfortable Governors, General Officers · Com- position.

manding and other Government of. ficials

In a cafe in the most disreputable War was in the air and it be part of Montmartre a group of hove them to look to their de- sinister figures were gathered fences. Had not a Finnish expedi- round a table in a private room tionary force landed in the Philip reeking of cigarette smoke and vin pines? Was this not a menace to the ordinaire.

far-flung, too far-flung, Empire?

They were (reading from left to So Governors, scratched their right) La Roxana, the second most heads and wondered, while na- glamorous spy in Europe, Laton after nation on the Continent Rhumba, the third most glamorous mobilised and began to fling ulti- apy in Europe, Hocha, the matums at one another Only Bri- fourth most glamorona spy in tain did nothing Europe, Fernando Gomez de la And La Roxana, Rhumba and Espinosa (known in espionage La Hocha ay circles "Chirap" and Lord martre dive, wh Stamford Bridge, pecunious pinosa and Lord Stamford Peer alternatively collected shink across the Span postage stamps, and carried out low is it all going dangerous feats of spying.

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