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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 10, 1939

"World's Clumsiest Spy Force" QUEENS & ALHAMBRA

NIPPON ESPIONAGE SYSTEM CONDEMNED BY JOURNALIST

"Hallett Abend, correspondent in China for the New York Times has exposed the Japanese spy sys- tem. He has also denounced the gendarmerie department of the Special Service Section of the Imperial Japanese Army as the most clumsy, ignorant and bungling organization of its kind among the world's armed forces. And, to the everlasting embarrassment of the Japanese military services, Mr. Abend quotes numerous Japanese officials as admitting the accuracy of his accusations."

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This statement is made in editorial in the China Weekly Re- view.

According to Mr. Abend. "the term 'Japanese Spy, which has come to be a national joke in Ameri- ca, is no longer a humorous matter, since most of China coastal pro- vinces and great cities are held by the invaders," says the Review,

"WHISPERING TERROR"

NEW

AMERICAN

EXPLOSIVE

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Baltimore; Md., Apr. 3.

A new type of explosive, consi. dered of major importance from a military point of view, has been discovered by Professor Henry Bass of Purdue University, it was revealed at the annual congress of the American Chemical Society here to-day.

The now explosive is said to be a combination of nitrogen and hydrocarbons, which produces a substance containing enormous re- serves of molecular energy.-la-

vas.

In Mr. Abend's opinion no Among the Chinese and Japanese] one, except a handful highly placed spy menace has developed into a[Japanese, knows any of the details "whispering terror," while among of the organization of the spy ring, foreigners, "the activities of these nor the size or scope of activities of omnipresent and fumbling sleuths the so-called gendarmes.

has become something to After citing numerous experien- worry about, instead of a never-ces with Japanese spies and gen- ending source of quips and darmes in Manchuria, Korea and humorous anecdotes," the news- Japan proper, some humorous and paperman declared,

Trotsky's Grandson Kidnapped

Paris, March 26..

Leon Trotsky's thirteen-years-old

grandson, Ceva, was kidnapped

some not so humorous, Mr. Abend told of the presecutions to which many foreign travellers in Japan subjected.

SPIES SAID RUDE

In final comment, the writer said that the Japanese Consul-General, Mr. Hidaka, admitted that the Japanese gendarmerie and spy forces are made up mostly of ignor- ant and rude men, who have no capacity for judgment," states the Review.

to-day from the villa at Guebwiller, DE VALERA SAYS

Alsace, where he was

being

brought up by a devoted French N. IRELAND IS

French-N.

woman, Mme. Jeanne Martin Desvallieres.

Madame Desvallieres told the police that she believes the boy is being taken by kidnappers to Mexico, where Trotsky now lives.

Early this morning a car drove up to the house at Guebwiller. A fashionably dressed woman and a man wearing police uniform pre- sented a court order stating that the boy should be handed over to them, Little Ceva was handed over to them and has not been seen since.

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The French police believe that the kidnappers - may be a gang which has already threatened Trotsky with this action.

She

Ceva is the natural son of Trotsky's daughter, Zinaida. died in Berlin in 1933,

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Mr. Chamberlain is said to have

immediately, and then considered promised to examine the claims

the development of the International situation and'. Ireland's attitude--in the event of hostilities breaking out.

In this connection, it was point- ed out that the Eire Government has

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