1938-11-26 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 26, 1938.

GIRL OF FOUR GAGGED AND TIED IN SACK

JAPAN NOW

REFUSES TO

ADMIT JEWS

refusing visas to Jews, The China Press learns.

Police Arrest Boy GERMANY MUST

of 13

A fair-haired schoolboy, aged thirteen, was arrested and charged with the murder of four- Following the steps of her newly-year-old Beryl Oborne, who earlier in the day was found ideological ally, Japan is now found trussed with string and gagged with strips of cloth - in a sack in a coal-shed in the house next While this decision was put into to her home in Hazellville-road, Holloway, No. 19. effect prior to the agreement be- The boy was arrested after Scotland-yard tween Japan and Germany for the officers had taken him to Hornsey-road police conclusion of a pact for the pro-station by car. motion. of cultural relations, which was only announced last Wednes- day, it is believed that the ban on Jews is not unconnected with this new treaty.

According to the terms of the proposed pact, Japan will recognize the racial principle peculiar to Ger- many, among other things.

on

Beryl was missed tea-time; an all- the uniformed policeman standing on night search followed; the boy was guard at the front gate of the house questioned when he returned from with yellow lace curtains, the school at midday. ́

top floor of which Beryl lived with her mother, grandmother and Aunt Katie.

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CLAIM COLONIES, STATES NAZI

Berlin, Nov. 20.

"As National Socialists we must

claim the colonies of which we were robbed. God has not created all peoples for the sole purpose of en- abling Britain and France. alone leader of the German Colonial Lea- to live," Herr F. Fachler, prominent

gue, asserted in the course of 3 vigorous speech to-day.

man

Herr Faehler delivered this ad- dress in commemoration of Ger- colonial pioneers who died during the World War,

The com memoration service was organized by a regiment of the Storm Troo- pers.

The juvenile court covering the Holloway district is not sitting, so the boy will be brought before the While they jostled for front plare However, The China Press was

Lambet Juvenile Court magistrates.to tell of their skipping rares with

the "little fat girl from the top of sures of the world," Herr Fachler All people must share the trea- informed that the refusal to grant. Beryl was playing in the garden the hill" visas to Jews, which started in in front of her home on Wednes-seek with her in empty rooms and

of games of hide-and- continued, Shanghai - approximately a month dap afternoon. She could not ago, does not include Jews of larger found when her young mother Aoa ing completion opposite--detectives German colonies are now again in be corridors in the block of flats near-plantations and farms in the ex- Asserting that all former German

countries. Only Russian Jews with- Oborne, went to call her for tea. out passports are at present hit by

worked in the leaf-strewn garden at German the back of the house next to Beryl's the this ban.

home.

not

NEIGHBOURS HELP' Foreign observers pointed out that Japan could not possibly refuse the all-night scarch, but there was Neighbours and police joined in visas to foreign Jews, since even the Reich cared to risk interna- who lives in the ground-floor flat of no trace of Beryl until the w.dow. tional complications which were sure the house next door ran screaming, to follow the promulgation of such almost fainting, up the stairs discrimination.

to gasp out the news of her discovery in the coalhouse.

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The child had been stranged String was bound around her legs, taining her body hald been placed arms, and throat. The sack con-

beneath packing cases.

Little credit is given reports that this ban was decided upon after it was discovered that most of the foreigners arrested in Japan for illegal proft-making on the exchange were Jews. It was pointed out that this could not possibly be the rea- son, for there were as many foreign- The news reached Beryl's play- ers of non-Jewish origin as Jews mates at school. At midday they implicated in exchange transactions. raced home, offered their stories to

Victims' Eyes As Weights

In a few years an unknown sol-

SEEN ON MONDAY

under a line of washing to obtain Scotland-yard cameramen dodged favourable viewpoints

away from the shadow of the trees which en- circle the garden.

The news was taken to the shops

hands, he declared that total of the Reich's imports from the former possessions amounts to-day to 350,000 marks.

In conclusion, he exclaimed, "The what we can do with colonies."- world will be surprised when it sees

Havas.

CLERGYMAN

thirty yards away at which Beryl, WANTS TO BE running for her mother's errands, "Fireman's stopped to buy herself a halfpenny A "CONKEROR” quorice.

Ladder" made of li-

It travelled down the hill to Wel- House. the three blocks of council ble House, Goldie House and Ritchie

flats.

One small boy arrived with the angarbox on wheels in which Beryl had often had a ride-"a free ride" he explained: "she was too small to take her turn at pushing.”

Beryl's ten' year-old friend Peggy McIntyre said to me: "I remem-

From boyhood Reza served in the dier has rebuilt an empire which had Shah's Russian Brigade, of whichber we saw Beryl on Monday be- almost ceased to exist, has worked he became commander-in-chief. with such energy that his subjects. now say he has forgotten, how

eat and sleep.

to

conTM

Persia, land of poets and querors, mosques and mountains,

had fallen into decay.

Misruled by corrupt Shahs, the moth-eaten Empire was crumbling.

NEVER BEEN UNJUST

After a disastrous campaign he transformed a beaten rabble into a

disciplined army and marched back

on Teheran.

The march began a series of events which led to an obscure com- mander being appointed Shah of Persia in 1926.

The rule of Reza Shah has been one of iron. But he has never been

One Shah had begun his reign by erecting a huge scale in the market place. One scoop was weighted unjust....... with lead, the other was balanced Science has made possible the with the gouged-out eyes of his re- mushroom growth of irrigation bellious subjects.

dams, schools, hospitals and radio stations,

The army existed almost solely on paper. Only a few ragged ghosts could have slouched to the defence of the land of the Silver Lion.

But in 1878 Reza Shah was born: He was to give back Persia its glory. The story is told by Mahomed Esaad- Bey in his blography, “Reza Shah" (Hutchinson, 158.);

Arid thousands of square miles, once inhabited by a few nomads, are now prosperous and fertile. Railway lines and motor roads link up the restored cities.

New laws, measures which once and for all freed the peasant from his chains, a new financial system, sprang into being.

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Eighty competitors, including take part in Chichester's second an- clergymen and a policeman, will

local British Legion club. Oldest nual conker championship at the.

"conkefor” is seventy, the youngest twenty.

Referee Cowboy Smith will bar such tactics as "hand chipping" and "body swiping," and will examine conker to make sure it is not "load- ed."

Last year one conker was found to be filled with lead.

Present champion is "Pickaxe" cause she brought out her doll in a Pickard, and among his challengers pram.

She did't ever bring out are "Dye-em-good" Tommy Chee- her doll much. She played with tham, "Six-lobster" Tommy Cripps our dolls; she was saving hers." ani "Mighty Swiper" Ratson.

Here's Luck!

EWO

BEEP