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THE CHINA MAÍL, DECEMBER 27, 1938.

Japan's Inroads Into British Shipping Trade

"Decadence Of The Mercantile Marine"

GERMANS' Japanese Control YOUNG JEW'S

BIG HOLD

ON SPAIN

TAILING FRANCO'S PROPA-

India Routes

London, December 13.

SWORN STATEMENTS DE- An attack upon the Government over the “de- GANDA METHODS AND PRO cadence of Britain's mercantile marine,” was deli- VIDING STARTLING EVIDENCE vered in the House of Lords this evening by Lord OF THE EXTENT OF GERMAN Lloyd, former High Commissioner of Egypt and BEEN RECEIVED BY THE PAR- Governor of Bombay.

PENETRATION IN SPAIN HAVE

LIAMENTARY COMMITTEE FOR SPAIN.

They were given in New York recently by Antonio Bahamonde Sanchez de Castro, former propa- ganda agent for General Queipo de Llano, who has escaped from rebel territory.

·

TRIAL MAY BE

NAZI DEBATE

Observing a self-imposed fast of

pan, the 17-year-old Jew, is spend-

one day weekly, Herschel Grynsz- ing his time in a Paris juvenile

prison writing the story of his life

Rath, the German diplomat, in the

The act was to avenge his race

He stressed the strategic importance of the unto the time he killed Ernst vom merchant fleet and pointed out that British ship-Paris Embassy. ping has of late been virtually excluded from Bal- for sufferings wrought on them by tic trade with Russia by Government-owned Soviet vessels.

"We are being driven out of Far Eastern trade, too, by subsidized Japanese competition," he con- tinued.

"Trade on the Calcutta-Japan

De Castro described a visit to the Gibraltar zone "I did not see a single Italian," he declares. "In the Gibraltar zone there are only Germans and the' men who took run in 1913 was wholly British; it care of my documents there were is now 61 per cent. Japanese. Germans.

JAPANESE TAKE OVER

And

as a

"Tarifa is solidly fortified with heavy calibre cannon, and the Sierra Carbonera is mounted with "Shipping on the Bombay-Japan that I route was practically all British cannon in such a manner have many times heard it said in before the Great War. But now it the Second Division (territory is 80 per cent. Japanese. under command of General Queipo

"This is in our own area. de Llano) that the imperial route of England was in the hands of India-Japan shipping trade Spain (the reality is, in the hands whole is now 73 per cent. Japanese. of Germany).

"The same story can be told of "In all that part of the terri-Australia-Japan trade, which is tory the fortifications have been now 79 per cent. Japanese. The made by Germans and in many game process is beginning in places Spaniards have not been African trade.” allowed to get near the work. De Castro asserts that Spanish capitalists are now repentant of the aid they gave to Franco.

to

CONFISCATION

He also emphasised the position of American competition in the Pacific.

"In the case of Japanese com- petition, the whole question was

"Property," he adds, "has ceased referred to the Imperial Shipping two years ago and as as I know, nothing has hap-

be sacred in the Nationalist Committee zone.. Queipo or any other military far

"

or Falangist, chief can at will con-pened," he said. fiscate the wealth of anyone.'

"Surely these cases have created Revolting descriptions are given some reason for having a Shipping of Queipo de Llano's methods of Ministry." faking "Red" atrocities.

"When, I was they gave me

given the post, the capture of Granja de la Torre instructions we Hermosa in the Badajoz province were to invent daily murders bodies were deliberately mutilated with refinements and cruelties and photographed. that not a single time approach-

ed reality."

"These pictures have travelled all over the world as crimes com-

The affidavit describes how after mitted by the Reds."

Stung At Twelve, Still Chases Wasps At Eighty

Since then Mr. Manser has been

A man with a strange pastime is 80-year-old George Manser, of a "wasp killer." His part-time ser- vices have been in demand all over Manor-road, Swanscombe (Kent).

He is a wasp-killer and, as such, Kent. has been employed by the local council for four years.

Latest method of Mr. Manser's is to blow cyanide of potash into the nests from a syringe.

Mr. Manser began his career, as Public Enemy No. 1 in the wasp

Nests are invariably found in the world when he was 12. He tried to stifle some wasps with sulphur, but ground, but he has known them in

roofs. was badly stung

A former farm worker, Mr. Man- Adopting a new technique, he made some "aquibs" of sulphur,ser is so familiar with the ways of saltpetre, and gunpowder. After wasps that he can tell whether they igniting and thrusting it into a nest, are flying on an empty stomach or he blocked the aperture and await- not.

A few hours later he ed results. found the wasps dead,

They fly a little sideways after a meal, he says.

SHIPPING SAID AIDED

Other spokesmen supported

Lord Lloyd's views. Then Viscount Runciman, Lord President of the Council and recently in the lime- light as investigator of the Czech- Sudeten crisis, replied on behalf of the Government.

Nazis.

ས

Grynзzpan, who

trial, replied to the

magistrate's questions

German and Yiddish.

now awaits examining

in broken

During the two years he lived in Paris like a hunted animal he was afraid to meet French people and learn their language, he said.

"Whenever I tried to get work they called me "Jew," he told the Judge.

"I didn't even look, because they wouldn't give me a working per- mit, and there are no jobs without one."

He emphasised their efforts to aid British shipbuilders and ensure Then he bought a revolver and the security of British navigation. committed the crime.

"We have been taking energetic "I acted alone and spontaneous-

The interests in the Mediterranean and measures to deal with our shipping ly," he said.

defence will be based on.. elsewhere

Grynszpan's youth and his suffer- "Very shortly we will have to|ing. It is doubtful if the State face a difficult situation in the Farwill ask for the death penalty. East," he stated.

Should the father of Ernst vom The Government would not re- Rath become a civil party to the main inactive, however, he con-trial and provide a lawyer to aid cluded, but was depending on the the prosecution, the trial may be- co-operation of the shipping indus-come a political debate on the Nazi try itself.

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