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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 15, 1938.

ROUND THE HORN Guns, 'planes To

War Post

ON A HORSE Guard Royal Palaces Travels

· F. Tschiffely, who made the greatest horseback ride on record- 10,000 miles from Buenos Ayres to Washington-is leaving for South America in a few weeks to begin, a journey from Buenos Ayres to Cape

Horn.

about

In Air Raids

1,000 Miles

decon- Letters from one part of Spain ·

to Switzer- to another have to make a journey of over 1,000 miles land and back before they reach their destination.

and be, rescue and clearance Royal palaces in London will adequately protected in the event of tamination work. The raising of air raids. Sand-bags will be erected | first-aid parties was also under con-

at sideration. He described his plans to a "News at the most vulnerable points

PROBLEM OF WINDSOR Chronicle" representative recently, Buckingham Palace and St. James's

The Houses of Parliament would and made a vigorous protest against Palace, as in the Great War,

Powerful anti-aircraft guns will be protected by anti-aircraft bat- the activities of pseudo-travellers

teries from points across the river be mounted near. who write pseudo-books

Sir P. Sassoon, First Commission-and in St. James's Park. pseudo-places and peoples.

er of Works, said in the House of IT WASN'T EXCITING! Do you know that so much non- Commons there would be refuge ac- sense has been written and publish-commodation and first-aid posts and ed about Latin America that it is the storage of a reserve of sandbags

for additional protective work. often quite difficult for a genuine

Fire-fighting arrangement were traveller to find publisher for his

being overhauled and strengthened books.

"So difficult was it to obtain pub-and squads were being raised for lication for a book of fact after a

lossed on the world that I spent 10

flood of lying romance had been FLYING POLICE months in Amerien trying to publish WILL WAGE WAR

the story of my ride. They said it wasn't sensational.

In the new journey I shall not

ON AIR

make the whole journey by horse SMUGGLERS

because I don't want to be away for more than six months.

I shall take

Ace pilots of Britain's police are to be organised into a Flying Police a car wherever possible.

I intend to start in the New Year Force to wage war in fast R.A.F.- from Buenos Ayres, travelling by type 'planes on the car down to the Rio Negro-the legion of criminals

smuggling by air.

Black River-where there is a re-

ever-growing engaged in

Windsor Castle, however, presents a problem. It stands prominently on the bend of the Thames. Valu- able works of art will be removed to the cellars.

A year ago the International Red Cross, at its headquarters in Gen- eva, established a special service for handling the correspondence sent from Spaniards in territory seized by Franco to their relatives in Government Spain, and vice ver- sa.

Roughly, half million of these letters have been collected, sorted and distributed by the Red Cross.

There will be anti-aircraft bat- teries near.

The R.A.E. will operate against Specially printed letter forms are hostile aircraft from several aero-provided for the senders of the let- dromes near Windsor.

ters by the authorities on both

All officials of the royal palaces sides. have been trained in the use of gas The International Red Cross it-

masks, and know how to take air-self censors the letters, and dent

craft raid precautions.

ANNA MAY WONG IS THREE TIMES A STAR

Anna May Wong is not staging a twenty- comeback, American style. She is the beginning a movie career for the

third time.

markable settlement of Welsh people Operating from a base whose ancestors left Wales in 1865 five miles from the coastline, after being persecuted for wanting Flying Police will swoop on smug-

gler planes over the Channel independence for Wales.

force them to land or trail them to their aerodromes.

"They still speak Welsh and fruit farming is their chief occupation."

"Then I intend to ride into Pata- gonia, where there still remain few of the original Patagonian In dians.

B

This journey, as the crow flies, is

about 2,000 miles, and if I have time I shall return in the same way."

R.Q.M.S. COURT- MARTIALLED

Said To Have Drawn Double Pay

and

The coastguard service, at pre- sent unable to cope with the great number of men driven by modern police efficiency to abandon ordin- ary crime for aerial smuggling, is

to be supplemented.

Yes, Anna May and her make-up box are parked on the Paramount lot, where she is playing în “Daugh- ter of Shanghai," the first of a ser- ies in which she is to portray a wo- man detective.

It's her Third Beginning, "You see, my movie life has real- ly been divided into three distinct parts,” Anna May explained.

ders are warned what they not say

must

Instructions on the form, for in- stance, tell them that they must not say such things as: "Everybody at home is well except Uncle Jose, as- sassinated by the enemy horde" or "died gloriously for the Father- land.""

WHITE GOD' OF NEW JUNGLE KINGDOM

Lost Airman As Mystery Ruler?

The secret of the mysterious

gend of a "white god" ruling over a jungle kingdom in the unexplor-

to win recogni- to be known.“

They will be in constant tele- "The first period was taken up'ed Brazilian jungle is now believed phone communication with the Fly-with my struggle ing Police and will warn them of the tion. After that was accomplished I Investigators are convinced that approach of suspected smugglers.

got into sort of a rut, neither pro- the "white god" is Paul Redfern, the famous U.S. airman who van- Thousands of pounds' worth of gressing nor being retarded. contraband, dope, jewels and tobacco "You know, there are so few roles ished ten years ago while flying are landed yearly by marshlands of that I can play, and at the time from the United States to Brazil. Kent, a high official of the night on they seemed to be always small It is believed that Redfern, crashing in the jungle, was found the south coast-chiefly on the lone ones.

Indians. "The result was that I had to and tended ly Kent County Policé said. !

stretch my salary over ten week Three hand a woman, under Courage Is Needed

the leadership of Mr. Thomas J. when I had no assignments.

"Well, just at this time, along Waldeck, have set out into the in- came an offer to go to Europe and terior to investigate.

accepted promptly.

It was alleged at a Woolwich court-martial that a warrant officer

It is expected that the Flying drew pay from the Royal Military Police Force will make smuggling Academy at Woolwich without dis- by air too hazardous to be profitable, closing that he was also receiving he s said, and the Customs will be pay from his battery.

profitable, he said, and the Customs. The accused, Regtl. Quartermas- will be saved more than the upkeep ter-Sergt. Rayner, Royal Artillery, cost of the force in addition pleaded not guilty to the charge. stopping the drug traffic..

Major W. R. F. Osmond; prose- Already police officers specially re- puting, said that Rayner took over commended for their courage the duties of R.Q.M.S. at the Aca- resource are receiving flying instructo America where my picture pro- these tales the description of the demy on Oct. 1. He arrived there tion at various clubs.

to

and

on attachment on Sept. 14 from the A new County Police Headquarters 29th Field Battery at Bordon, is now being built on high ground where he was battery sergeant-ma- just to the south of Maidstone. It jor.

will have its own landing ground and Before he left the battery it was aerodrome. arranged that pay should be sent

on to him at the rate of £210s a from a height of less than 1,000ft.

over the aerodrome, which will be on high ground, a stretch

week. It was alleged that Rayner had received these weekly sums while receiving pay at the Aca- coastline fifty miles long will

visible, N demy.

of

he

The methods of the aerial smug- Major J. R. Phillips, of the 29th Field Battery, said that when Ray- glers are well known to the authori- ner left to take over the appoint. ties, but the marshland roads are ment at the Academy he owed the so difficult that it has so far been battery fund about £10, which had almost impossible to catch them red-

handed. been lent to him.

He told Rayner that while he was at the Academy he would be standing that he wrote to the bat- paid £2 108 a week after stoppages tery pay clerk asking that, they had been made from his pay.

should be stopped.

Rayner who had 18 years ser- He drew pay at the Academy, not vice, said in a statement that lie expecting any more money did not expect any pay from the the battery.

battery for October. Payments con- The court's decision tinued during that month notwith-Imade known.

be

Miracle Man From The Sky "In Germany they wrote stories Strange rumours have recently filtered into villages on the Vene- for me and I became a star.

"This achievement I consider my zuelan border, telling a wonderful Second Beginning for I went from new kingdom-created under the in there to London and was success spiration of a "miracle-worker who ful in films as well as on the stage. appeared out of the sky

"After finishing there I returned With all the fantasy woven info

gress once again seemed at a stand-central figure always bears a weird still until recently, when my Third resemblance to that of the missing Beginning got under

airman.

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