1938-06-06 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 6, 1938.

"SECRET SIX" VANISH WHILE SPYING IN SPAIN FOR BRITAIN

Six brave men have disappear- ed.

But the law of M.1.5, British espionage headquarters, is that a Secret Service man ceases to be a The police have not been inform-private citizen, forfeits rights of ed. No broadcast messages have nationality-and becomes a cipher. been made appealing for help. No description of these men has been circulated. For the six men who have vanished since the beginning of the year are all members of the British Secret Service.

They have disappeared in Spain, where they have gathered valuable military information.

You might think a search should be started.

THE INFECTION OF DICTATORSHIP

"Passing Distemper"

The secret six, before they vanished, sent in priceless informa- tion to the War Office.

Their acute observation of the progress of the Spanish War has saved expenditure on actual experi- ments in England.

One of the discoveries they made was a fool-proof method of stopping the advance of a modern tank.

Through a dozen secret channels they smuggled into Britain plans of new Russian, German and Italian guns, aeroplanes and tanks.

It is estimated that secret service work in Spain and China saves Britain £2,000,000 a year.

That money would otherwise be spent in expensive missions to for- eign munition works, in costly ex- periments.

Lord Allen of Hurtwood, speak- ing at the annual dinner of the Aldersgate Ward Club in London, cost £450,000-a jump of £100,000

declared that dictatorship was fifty years behind the times. It resorted to compulsion in an attempt to catch up with the achievements of free men carried through half a century

ago.

Dictatorship would prove to be a passing distemper. It only ap- peared in countries that were struggling back to self-respect from humiliation in war, or out-of a com- plete breakdown in the social fabric. Democracy was indestructi-

Our Secret Service this year will

above fast year.

But the money is well spent. All too often it is the price of brave men's lives.

What has happened to the miss- ing men?

Prison? The execution squad? Nobody will ever know. Salute the secret six!

It's the only memorial they'll ever get.

SULTAN NOT

ble, and would prove permanently TO MARRY

well founded in the intelligence and spiritual outlook of contemporary- civilisation.

'Britain should remember that, she had been partly to blame for letting this infection' of dictator- ship spread. We ought, therefore, frankly to admit the mistakes we had made, and take active steps to restore broken friendships and to heal the enmities left over from the war. If we would do this, we could lower the tension in Europe and re- lease the longing for peace and humane conduct which the vast majority of ordinary men and wo- men felt in every country.

DANCER

The fabulously wealthy Sultan of Johore, ruler of the tiny indepen- dent Malay state which adjoins Singapore, chose a Manila news- man in preference to Singapore newsmen to issue a denial of rum- ours he would soon marry blond Lydia Cicely Hill, 23-year-old Eng- lish dancer.

Although he continued his silence toward Singapore press correspon- dents, the Sultan cabled Richard C. Lord Allen said that to-day Lon-Wilson, Philippines manager of the don held the keys of finance and economic power in the world, and if they would use that prestige they could rally Europe back to de- mocracy. It was all nonsense to say that democratic institutions were degenerate and unable to meet the complex tasks of modern govern ment.

United Press, asking him to issue & denial of the rumour. Wilson be- came acquainted with the Sultan of Johore during a recent trip to Ma- laya.

"There is no truth in any rumour of my engagement," the handsome 66-year-old ruler of Johore said in his cable to Wilson.

Britain to-day was the envy of Miss Hill has been a guest at the the world, and it was high time sultan's elaborate estate at Johore that she advertised her political Bahru during the past week. She wares with more energy. The eyes is an old friend of the Sultan, hav- of millions of people in every landing met him in London three years were turned to Britain and to its lago.

great city of London. They rejoiced | The tiny state of: Johore, which, in our stability, and respected our provides the Sultan an income of love of mercy and compassionate more than P1,000,000 annually, dealing between man and man. lacks a Sultana at the present time. They hoped we should not betray The Sultan seven weeks

ago our great traditions. Every mer-divorced his white wife, the former chant and financier in the City of Mrs. Helen Wilson, a Scotswoman. London could be an ambassador of by the Mohammedan rite of repeat- peace, but he begged them not to ing the chant "Talak" (divorce keep silent in the presence of racial thee) four times in the presence of persecution or inhuman conduct. a witness.

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