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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 30, 1940.

Brian Aherne and Louis Hayward, or, filmically speaking, father and son In My Son, My Son!" now showing at the King's Theatre..

STRONGEST MAN WANTS TO JOIN THE ARMY

TWENTY-TWO STONE Da Zevs, the all-in wrestler, who described himself as the "strongest 'man in the world," wants to join the British Army. He says his weight ought to make all the difference, and he would like to wrestle with Hitler personally..

When I saw him, writes But so far, he says, no-one has London reporter, he rose to his asked him to join the Army. He full height of six feet three in- thinks it is because strong men| ches and threw out his gorilla- are exempted as a reserved oc- like arms.

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"I want to get at him," he said "and just crush him like. that.” · And he locked his 'great hands together over an imaging, ary throat.

Da Zevs is a Cypriot, and therefore a British citizen.

He is thirty, and says he has never been beaten in an all-in wrestling match.

Not Reserved

He has also lifted weights in various parts of, the world, Just to show me how he could do it,' he lifted his trainer off his feet with one hand.

He has been in England for three years and has appeared at The Ring, Blackfriars, Liverpool,! Brighton and Glasgow.

Icupation.

BRITONS M ARRESTED: BUCHAREST MYSTERY

The mystery of Ru- mania's intentions to- wards five British subjects who were arrested at Eploesti last week has deepened.

Reuter's Bucharest Correspon- pondent says that when the Bri- · tish Military Attache visited the Rumanian military authorities to enquire about an announcement by the police that their dossiers [had been handed over to a Mili- tary Tribunal the Attache was Informed that they had no: know- ledge that any such dossiers had bcen received.

All attempts by British con- sular officials to secure permis- sion to, visit Mrs. Tracey, wife of a Canadian mining engineer, have failed.

One brief visit to the men pri- soners was allowed, but efforts to see them again have been rigidly suppressed-Reuter.

Explanation Demanded

It is announced in London that. the Secretary for Foreign Affairs yesterday summoned the Ruman- ian Charge d'Affaires, M. Radu Florescu, to the Foreign Office

and called for an explanation of facts in connection with the re- Icent arrest of five British sub-

jects in Bucharest.

Lord Halifax protested against the manner in which these Bri- tish subjects have been treated.

-British Wireless.

DEATH-OR PRISON

The latest German decree in

'the.. occupied France announces I asked the Ministry of Lab punishment by imprisonment, our about this, and an official hard labour, or death of all zaid "No, on the contrary we French people who fail to deliver are looking for all the strong up arms and radio sets within men we can get."

24 hours. Similar

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penalties apply to Da Zevs is making a tour of French citizens who try to make the various services. He favours contact with prisoners of war, the infantry, because he thinks distribute leaflets, dismiss ..em- that would suit him better. But' ployees, down tools, spread news unfortunately he speaks only, unfavourable to Germany or broken English, broken French listen in on exempted radio sets

Ito non-German stations. and a lot of Greek..

...

His broken French got him! into trouble before. A gen-LUXURY” SLANDER darme stopped film In. Mar- seilles and asked for his ident-¦

Ity card. Da thought he was

SUITS

being insulted and a fight start- "Actions for slanders which ed. It took 15 French police- don't do any actual harm are men to take him to gaol...

really a matter of luxury in times They let him out because he like these," said Mr. Justice Hil- was less trouble at liberty, bery in the King's Bench Division.

TO COSMIC DRUGS FOR 100 TO

PHENOMENA --ADD R.A.F.

Whenever the

R.A.F.

off

visits Germany, the Ger- |man radio stations go o

the air, and during the past week they have been off the air many, many many times.

t

EVADE

ARMY

SCOTLAND YARD officers, after five months' investigation, have uncovered what is alleged to be a plot involving West End doctors by which nearly 100 young men had hoped to evade Army service,

The attention of the authorities was first drawn

to the scheme by the number of men from certain districts who had been rejected as totally unfit because of epilepsy.

Indeed, the sudden closing- The majority of the rejcclsOn that day the man was given down has happened so often that were of good financial standing a drug which turned him into the Germans have had to make with business connections in the some sort of excuse to their list-City and East End.

eners."

a temporary epileptic.

A number of people, including When the drug was working, They do not, of course, admit doctors who practise in the West the man was rejected by the me◄ that it is R.A.F. activity that makes End, are alleged to have been dícal board in all good, falth, as them shut down, but Zeesen yes-the, brains behind the scheme, t a genuine epileptic. terday said that, the absence of The method which it is alleged p short-wave transmissions from was practised began when a man within a day or two the effects time to time was "due to, cosmic whose class was being called up of the drug passed away and causes!"

was instructed to visit a named the man was able to return to

his "olvil occupation. "This" the station added, "Is doctor, the opinion of Italian, experts. "The doctor, examined him. If Before ever the scheme was Apparently the German astron he was in good physical condition mentioned to him, the man's fin- umers were "off the air too! and certain to be drafted into ancial condition was well probed, of These cosmic causes" have not the forces, an appointment was apparently, and he was told affected short-wave transmissions arranged for the day on which the amount in several cases up from Britain or other parts of the he was due to appear before the to £1,000 that he was to pay world-Reuter

gelmilitary medical board.

to the doctor. 176

THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 30, 1940.

Brutal Piracy Slaying Related

THE STORY OF THE PIRACY of a junk, between May 6 and 7, and the alleged burn- ing of the junk causing the death of several

ST HELENA AND

NEW NAPOLEON

Acknowledging £870 from the inhabitants of the island of St.

Helend towards the purchase of a

Beaverbrook, Minister of Aircraft

members of the crew after the theft of a valu- able cargo of 1,250 tons of kerosene and 150 piculs of salt, was told at the Criminal Ses-warplane for the R.A.F. Lord sions this morning before the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor, when six men were charged in connection with the piracy.

Accused were:-Sin_Shing, Hui! Fuk-sing, Ng Yau, Hui Sik-yan,

Lo Fuk and Sin Yan.

AIF, H. Somerset Fitzroy, in- BOY, 15,

Mr.

structed by Mr. B. C. Hobbs, was

fo

instructed by Mr. C. W. Le PRISONER

d'Almada,!

for the second, Mr. Percy Chen, instructed by D. McCallum, forf

and Mr.. T. F. Lo, instructed by

cused.

OF WAR

Production, says: "Over a century

ago your island, saw the end of a

conqueror who challenged the

free spirit of Britain and now St. Helenia plays Its part in making sure that another foe, more ruth- less, will be brought to utter des- truction." British Wireless.

NINE CASES OF CHOLERA

Nine cases of cholera -four from Kowloon, four from Vic-i

the third, Mr. D. J. N. Anderson, instructed by Mr. F. H. Loscby. for the fourth, Mr. H. C. Macna-

A 15-year-old British toria, and one from Shauk wan mara, instructed by Johnston, Stokes and Master, for the fifth soldier is a prisoner of were registered on Saturday and yesterday by the health authori- Mr. F. Zimmern, for the sixth ac-war in Germany. He is ties, in addition to 47.

cases of Private Gordon Holmes, tuberculosis, three cases of dysen- The jury was composed of

tery, two cases of typhoid, and Go lon Highlanders, Messrs H. S. Dinsdale (fore-

one case of diptheria. man), W. M. Groves, A. H. Kwong, whose parents live in Chan Ah Toon, Wong Man-kingHull. Until the news came Kiang Hin-cheong and H. C. Higgs.

through they had not The case for the Crown was heard conducted by Mr. J..P. Murphy,!

assisted by Sub-inspector Tyler.May.

from him since

FRANCO NOW AIR CHIEF

General Franco becomes Com- mander-in-Chief of the Spanish Air Force under a Decree públish- His father, a grocer, said:fed recently, the Rome radio, an- “Gordon enlisted when he was nounced. Associated Press..

14. He joined up a few months. Accused faced two charges. (1)before the outbreak of war, piracy jure gentium in that they..

"As a child he Was always

Two Charges

U.S. 'Planes Reach Gib

on May 6 and 7, assaulted and playing with toy soldiers. One Columbia International broad- put in fear of their lives the crew day he said to me 'Dad, why casting station, New York, said | of Junk No. T4080H near Lin did you call me Gordon?' and recently that a big number of Tiu Island and stole their tackle told him it was a famous name American aeroplanes have arrived and 1,250 tins of kerosene and in history-General Gordon, the in Gibraltar.

150 piculs of salt and (2) piracy Gordon Highlanders and so on. with violence in that in addition, So fascinated was he 'with the to the piracy, they either before history of the Gordon Highland- during or after, bound the legs ers that I suppose this was why and hands of the crew and one, he joined them.. Leung Pan-kui, with cords, set "He never told us he wat fire to the junk and thus caused the death of. Leung Pun-iu and others.

going to join up, but I under- -stand he gave his age as 18. By the end of September he was In France-Just outside Lille. Gordon stands 5ft 10ina and would pass for consider -ably-older.

Mr. Murphy said that the two counts referred to one act of piracy but the indictment had _bcen_split.in. two. The first was

an offence against the law of na- His father joined the R.A.M.C. tions and the second alleged that during the Great War when he the piracy was carried out with was only 15. Mrs. Holmes said violence which resulted in the the first she knew of her son's death of Leung Pink-kui.

enlistment was when she bought| There was no clear definition of him a raincoat and he said piracy, but, as far back as 1600, her "Do you think they will le it had been defined as a sea termime wear it in the Army, for robbery and could be defined ther?"

as any armed violence at sea, not

an lawful act of war.

The evidence in

case

to

mo-

would show that a brutal piracy TWO TYPHOONS IN

was committed, which resulted

in loss of lives.

Mr. Murphy, opening the case,

said that at about 4.30 p.m. on

THE OFFING

May 6, the junk left Cheung The Royal Observatory reports Chau with the intention of going that the anticyclone covers north to Kwong Hoi.

The crew coll-China'

and extends eastward sisted of 15 members, and there were also 15 passengers on board across Japan to the Pacific: pres- sure is highest to the north-west and a cargo of kerosene,

of Shantung,

Member Of Crew

One of the crew was Sin Shing,

The typhoon is situated about 50 miles south-west of south Cape! Formosa, moving slowly W.N.W.

Another typhoon, is situated the first accused, and evidence Jabout 100 miles E.S.E. of Guam would show said Mr. Murphy, maving W.N.W. that some days previous to May

6, he and the other accused had] .:· planned to. rob the junk. Hc was to reveal the time of the junk's sailing and, when at sen, was to give the signal for the robbery..

“PEACE' SPEAKER

ARRESTED

"peace"

First accused was at the til A man addressing a fër until 7 p.m. that day, when meeting in Hyde Park was charg- he-was rellevad by anothered with an offence under the member of the craw, This Public Order Act. He will ap man, would tell the court that] they were then near Lin Tin Pear at Marlborough Street.

Island and that he saw Sin having returned to their boat. Shing go to the stern and flash a Then some of the junk crow torch, des

and the passengers wore tied and Shortly after, shots were fired orced into the front hold. The and a boat came alongside with hatch was closed and. covered ekix or seven men on board, They with hay or dry grass and Kero- herded the occupants of the sene poured over it and set dunk Into the hold and searched alight."

them. Sin Shing was seen to Some of the crew, escaped go. Into the pirate boat. where through another hold and man- The changet, his clothing. Later aged to put out the fire and ren- he returned to the junk, and as-der assistance to the others. It 'sisted in the transfer of the was found that some had been cargo, which Piook, some time. burned to death; and others ·80–

verely burned. A

Set On Fire

The Junk was eventually brought to Hong Kong and a aaon May 7, the junk/report-made to the Police. was sailed a short distance by Police investigations resulted

ve of the men, the remainder in the arrests.

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