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THE CHINA MAIL SEPTEMBER 6, 1937

SQUADRON FOR BOYS OF NAVY

Specially Formed For Training

Mystery Of Sir Mass Murder Basil Zarahoff's Double

Of Prisoners Alleged

Salamanca, Saturday.

An official communique issued by Nationalist headquarters says that the Nationalist troops on the San- On tander front. have occupied the

Im

1 understand that an important

Basil Zarahoff, mysterious Buro- "I first met Sir Basil in the change is to be made in the method of training the Navy's boy seamen, pean munitions "king died before perial Hotel at Tokyo în 1913. as soon as circhmstances permit, a German firing squad in 1915, and the same day a friend reported see

writes Hector Bywater.

town of Potez

a double carried his name during ing him in Peking.” - At that time

It is alleged that before evacuat- It has been decided to organise a believed him alive.

the 21 subsequent years the world Dr. Kabus was Far Eastern corres-

pondent for a now defunct Buring the town, the Government mil special training squadron out of

îttamen murdered all Nationalist small vessels drawn from the

So said Dr. Fernand Kabus, Pol-pean news agency.

That incident, the journalist said, sympathisers who had been de- Reserve Fleet, possibly comprising ish journalist and international salesman, while in Honolulu on 2 light cruisers and other craft. This

first aroused his suspicion of the tained in local prisons for politi-

cal offences. squadron will be manned for the

suave salesman whose swift travels business trip. -

stories Claiming acquaintance with both contributed to the fabulous most part by boy seamen with

The advance is still continuing.

nucleus of experienced ratings and

"Zarahoffs, Dr. Kabus said he is concerning him. Dr. Kabus opin and the Nationalists have occupied strategically important a special staff of instructors.

writing a book to prove that Sired that Sir Basil, by using a double, further Basil employed a double in his was duplicating his offers to mani-towns munitions deals. This partner-tions sales to the Japanese and Chi- ship, the journalist declared, pro- nese governments. moted many of the legends surroun ding the

armaments super salesman.

It will make periodical cruises in home waters. The course of in- truction will be such that when a boy leaves the squadron to be drafted to a regular unit of the Fleet he will be able almost at once to play his part as a useful member cf the ship's company.

DOUBLE THAT DIED

Booty captured in to-day's fight- ing includes eight 10.5 centimetre guns

BOTH WORE BEARDS The real Zarahoff, he asserted, was about 10 years older than his On the Aragon front the Nation- im- double, but both were bearded and alists have captured several

portant positions in the sector affected the same pock marks.

bour of the double for eight years

Dr. Kabus said he was a neigh-north of the River Ebro..

Only at one point,

Elsewhere all Republican attacks were repulsed-

Sir Basil's death was reported The last training squadron was claimed it was the double who had last November, but Dr. Kabus.

the Penar- disbanded in 1931, when the ships lived so long.

in Paris. Sir Basil would have rofa sector, have the loyalists sne- composing it-four Iron Duke class "When the real Zarahor was been 86 years old if he had lived ceeded in breaking through the battleships were condemned under killed by a firing squad in 1915, until 1936, the journalist claimed. Nationalist lines. the London Treaty

Germany's official announcement The advantages of a special was not believed because training squadron for boys are so double appeared in London and obvious that it would have been reorganised long ago but for the Masquerading as his employer, shortage of naval personnel the double continued in the muni- Thanks to the increase in per-tions business until 1926, when he sonnel during the last few years retired, said Dr. Kabus. this difficulty is now being over-

come.

PRESENT DISADVANTAGES Under the present system boys who pass out from the shore train- ing establishments at Portsmouth, Devonport, Shotley and Rosyth are drafted to the battleships Ramillies

denied it."

the Mr. Wang Ching-

Wet Gives Lead

Nanking, Saturday. Mr. Wang Ching-wei, Chair- man .of the Central Political Council, has converted his 200 mou estate in the Sun Yat-sen

U.S. TAXATION ON Mausoleum Park into $40,000

FOREIGNERS

worth of the new National Salva-" tion Bonds, it was learned here to-day.

He has also pledged

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A war bulletin issued by the Spanish Government in Valencia says that heavy fighting has taken place in the Pozoblanco sector.

The Nationalist positions were attacked by the Government troops and were finally captured after the Nationalists⠀⠀⠀ had⠀⠀ thrice driven back the Republican infantry with successful counter-attacks

On the Teruel front and the inter-northern front the Nationalists

est from the bonds for are still heavily pressing on the war relief work amongs

Heavier taxes OF non-resident and Revenge of the Home Fleet, aliens who have substantial inves where they receive special instruc-tments in the United States will pro--Central News. tion.

bably be one feature of the pro-

This practice, however, has its posed bill to prevent tax evasion. disadvantages. The presence of The Joint Congress Committee 30 inexperienced boys, representing which has been studying this ques- nearly one-third of the ship's com- tion has now submitted its report pany, seriously detracts from the to Congress and it is expected that ship's state of readiness and effi-2 bill embodying its recommenda- ciency for action, while the berth-tions will become law this session. ing problem presents difficulties. These recommendations aim at It is also doubtful whether amaking it more difficult for Ameri-

·large battleship is the most suit-cans to reduce their obligations to able training school for young-the Treasury by such devices as sters to acquire their "sealegs personal holding companies and and become familiar with the sea artificial deductions for losses. in all its moods.

CHINESE COOKS IN GUNBOATS

The committee also suggests that wealthy non-resident aliens should be compelled to pay the same taxes on their incomes from American sources as persons living in

the United States would pay.

It proposes that the present flat- rate of 10 per cent. should be main-

The Board of Admiralty has retained for incomes up to £4,320 vealed that during a review of seryear, but that on larger sums taxes vice conditions a request was made that an English cook rating be accordance

and super-taxes -borne in gunboats as ship's cook to schedules. ensure greater cleanliness.

should be levied in with domestic

Non-resident aliens would also be

The Board's decision was that required to file annual returns. If cleanliness was a matter of internal this proposal is adopted it will pro- organisation and supervision, and bably stem the present influx

that it was not considered that Eng-foreign capital

cooks would prove as satisfar-

Chinese cooks under tryng

atic conditions in a confined with a view to meeting causes

In future construction, pro-complaint.

vision would be made for a separate Another request was that small galley for Chinese ratings greater variety of provisions be car

In reply to a request that condi-ried for issue in standard ration tions under which

ratings ships, including tinned fruit, tmned travel in Army troopships should be vegetables, butter, etc.

especially for junior The Board replied that the de- and that table-ci

sirability of

ed,

of provisions additions were

to time as condi-

Government positions.

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