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CORRESPONDENCE

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 24, 1939.

WORKING ARTISTS GUILD

ALLEGED THREAT TO MISS “H”. Concentration Camp If Money Not Paid

were

Sir, You have always been so kind

An alleged attempt to blackmail in finding space to refer to our various activities that I hope you will allow me young woman of German-Jewish ex- to draw the attention of your readers traction. in which references

made to Nazi spies, and the possibil- to the fact that in these troublous

a concentration camp if she times we have amongst us distinguish-ity of od artists who are thoroughly qualified failed to pay, was described at Maryle- as teachers, and to whom the use of

Also there

bone.

our studio is all that is needed to make Water Leonard Guilford Goode, 38. a begining of one of our objects, a mining engineer, of Canfield-gardens, permanent School of Art. with a res- Hampstead, was charged with stealing ponsible principal.

are at that address a scaled parcel con- many, valuable old pictures drifting taining pieces of newspaper and about and in danger of destruction that quantity of powder, worth 3d, be-. might make a nucleus of another of longing to a Miss "H". our objects,the formation of a public collection.

Mr. John Maude, prosecuting, sug- Unfortunately, though we have.ál-gested that the name of the prosecutrix ways aimed at paying our way, our should not be disclosed. rent has twice been raised, and our

Living at the same house as Goode, slender financés will not allow us to in- cur new obligations if, we have to de- said Mr. Maude, was Miss "H," who pend entirely on the fluctuating sup- was 24, a British subject born in Ger- port of a shifting community of ar-many, her father being British and her mother a German of Jewish origin. She tists.

came to England in 1936.

LETTER ASKING FOR £250

Mrs. L Dunbar, with whom I was recently discussing our problems, with that sympathetic practical imagination which has benefitted so many hundreds of women and girls in the Colony, aug- On May 1, after a talk with her cou- gested the scheme of our opening a sin Paul, & German, she communicated list of "Subscribing Members", who with Scotland Yard. That evening she undertake to pay two dollars a month told Goode and his wife that her for these public objects. All such sub-mother had received a letter asking scriptions will be acknowledged in the her, the mother, to deposit £250 at

I Goode's Press, and may be paid in advance.

address by the following have been much encouraged by receiv-Wednesday or Thursday, and that the ing # letter from Mrs. Dunbar, letter contained allegations and ap inaugurating the scheme in which she peared to be a blackmailing one threat- says: "I am sending you a cheque for ening to denounce the mother to the $24, representing a year's subscription English and German authorities. of $2 a month, to the Hong Kong Work- ing Artists Guild. I am sure that a great many other people will think as I do in wanting to support your Guild, not merely to help the Artists of Hong Kong, but to give the rest of us the benefit of the Artists presence in the in Colony. Wishing you all success obtaining Subscribing Members, I am most sincerely, Elsie Dunbar."

I feel sure that if the public realis- ed what good value in human and ar- tistic

money encouragement their could ensure

there would be many would follow Mrs. Dun- people who bar's example.

Communications cheques should be sent to our Hon. Secretary, Mr. E. O. Cemernic, No. 15, A. Block, Kennedy Road.

IRENE M. A. MACFAYDEN.

President.

BOMB SENTENCES TO STAND

"By No Means Too Severe"

Her mother, she added, had handed the letter to the authoritics and it had

been forwarded to the British Embassy.

Goode replied: "You shouldn't have gone to Scotland Yard at once. You must be careful, because you are not allowed to bring jewellery here. There are probably Nazis behind it. They are spies and they quite probably know all about you."

Miss "H. told him she did not in- tend to pay the money, because the al- legations were not justified.

On May 4 or 5 Miss "H." reported to Det.-Insp. Farr, and after that acted on the instructions of the police.

On May 11 Miss "H." met Det.-Inspr. Farr and Det. Heddon, who gave her a sealed brown paper parcel and certain instructions.

Miss 'H." later showed Mr. Goode the parcel and locked it away in a case, leaving the key downstairs in a small bowl.

Next day two policemen watched everyone who entered or left the house.

.POLICE IN HIDING

Later detectives were hidden in the house where they could hear conversa- tions. Mias "H." arrived, asked Goode who had come for the parcel, and was told “a young man.”

The police then appeared, and told him that a watch had been kept, and no young man had called.

Thereupon Goode flew into a rage, said counsel, struggled violently, and he raised to seized a poker, which strike one of the detectives, saying, "I will kill you, you— H The other officer closed with him.

Applications for leave to appeal by Patrick Deviney, 25, of Park- field-street, Rusholme, Manchester, and Hugh McClusky, 29, against their convictions at Manchester and Birmingham Assizes respectively, offences against the Explosive → Substances Act, 1888, were re-

He went on to say that Miss "H." fused by the Court of Criminal Ap had told him that her parents were to paal, Lord Hewart, Lord Chief Jus-be sent to a concentration camp in tide, and Justices Humphreys and Lewis

Deviney was sentenced to 14 yeara' penal a servitude and Mc- |Cluder to 10 years. They asked to [have those terms reviewed.

After Goode had been charged, coun- sel continued, he said: "I am not guilty of stealing that parcel.".

Germany unless she paid £200, and he advised her not to pay it. She told him that she intended to pay all she had, and had made it up in a parcel.

"I took the parcel," continued the statement, "and had it in the house. I don't know whether there was £150 or £1,000 in it.. I took it because I didn't think she should hand it over. What I intended to do was to wait un til after Monday, the day the demand expired, and then give the parcel back."

Goode was remanded on bail:

Mo Justice Humphreys said that the charges against Deviney. were conspiracy to cause ex- plosion and possessing explosive substances with intent to endanger [life

ge, property, He pleaded

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mute legal aid had he asked for it. He not also would not. present to ad- vande, his grounds in support of, plication and would not ask

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