THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 14, 1941.
Romance in Old California styled by Tyrone Power and Linda Darnell, Greater than his triumphs in "Jesse James" and "In Old Chicago" i Tyrone's portrayal of the famous masked adventurer in "The Mark of Zorro." 20th Century Fox film which is now at the King's Theatre, Linda 16 the beautiful tenorita who gives the bandit her love. With Basil Rathbone the heads a superb supporting cast which also features Gale Sondergaard, Eugene Pallette and many others.
BRITISH "SPY" WANTED DUEL OVER A GIRL
(By (), D. Gallagher)
IF ELEGANT, care-free William Olaf de Wet, twenty-eight-year-old Briton, is a spy, then I am a Japanese. A German People's Court, it was an- nounced in Berlin, sentenced de Wet to death last month for spying for France. The sentence had not yet been carried out, it was added.
I knew de Wet well. He was one of a small group of adventure-seekers whom I came across in one war city after another Addis Ababa, Bar- celona, Shanghai, Madrid.
In Addis Ababa in 1935 be ap-; m Protective cur tody at the Brit- Ented air tus second for a duelash Cure
I happened in this way
Ample og day late, we heard
About fifty whites and noney-that he had been shipped home da desutute British sea. ed Abyssinians were lined up une "DBS
High stools at the bar of Mon Cine, man),
at berum-Rena run by a Greek. ' The next war city that alfacted
he turned up in Prague.
A cap am not the Belgian Mill him was Barcelona and, in 1938, My Mission attached to the Em- peror of Abyssing sat on one of the stools beside a liquid-eyed. honey-coloured, half-caste gul
Ordered Off
When the Belgian let his sto de Wet took it and began talking to the girl.
A
He threw
staggering parties and, it is said, married a White Russian countess.
He was still in Prague when the Nazis took it. Now he awaits the headman's axe.
For spying? No, not
de Wet.
He and spies have only one thing in common-courage. He was too
The Belgian returned and per-fond of personal publicity, in a
aptorily ordered de Wet to buzz not unpleasant way, to be a spy.
I He was an incorrigible roman-
"I beg your pardon," said de ticist.
Wet, looking down hio aristo.
cratic nose and over his bristi- Ing cavalryman's moustaches. "Who are you?"
In anger the Belgian slapped
de Wet's face with his leather plove and shouted: "That is whol 1 am."
De Wet clicked his heels, bowed slightly, and said: "You will hear from me M. le capi-
taine."
GREW OWN
TOBACCO: FINED
Lanarkshire has produced some
He came to me and said: "I really keen allotment-holders. will have a duel with him to. Some cultivated as much as three morrow morning. Will you be rods of ground.
my second?"
"You can't use as a joke. sword, can you? No. Well, is it goirig to be pistols?"
But now the secret has been "All right," I replied, treating it disclosed in court, A Scot, an Lithuanians Irishman, and eight were fined £2 each at Airdrie in the first prosecution of its kind:
They admitted having -grown
land
It was to be pistols, and I had the job of finding a pair. Six a.m. tobacco without a Government was the time fixed, and when Mon licence and without the Cine closed at four am. I met a having been approved by the countryman of mine a: South Customs and Excise.
African who said "You'd never
guess, but the Belgian's appointed
me" his pecond".
...A
Smoked in The Bath
We decided that if the duel took Said the prosecutors: "Some of place >the Belgian would kill do these men have become so effi Wet, So we planned for them to glent in the cultivation and cul- fight with their fists if they ture of the plant that they smokę. still felt like fighting at all at it continually the whole day long. Bit am.
Shipped Home
The Belgian turned up-and
10 d.m. we heard that de Wet was
They even smoke it while in their beths." The quality was not bad
The sheriff reminded the men that each was liable to a fine of
£50.
GERMANS PLAN'SHOW TRIAL'
An elaborate German "show trial," to be held after the war in an effort to reveal a world-wide Jewish-Masonic plot to kill many high Nazi lead- ers, is being organised by Heinrich Himmler, chief of the Gestapo (secret po- lice), it was reported in Vichy.
Chief #gure of the contemplated trial is Herschel Grynszpun. 19. year-old Polish Jew whose assas- sination of a minor German diplo- mnat in Paris ten months before the start of the war touched off Germany's unprecedented anti- Jewish reprisals of November. 1938.
Grynszpan, now in prison in Berlin, broke into the German Embassy in Pals and killed Baron Ernst voni Rath. third secretary, who received a S ato "martyr's" funeral in Germany amd bitter Nazi reprisals including a huge fine against Germany's Jews.
Report Iron Germany men. tioned the name of Mayor Laa Guardia of New York in connec- bon with the contemplated trial, but it was not revealed what con1 – nec on the Mayor-frequent tar- get of German attacks allegedly had with Grynszpan's crime and The purported international plot.
OPIUM MEN FINED
The police are now getting a grip on opium smoking in Liver. pool, it was stated, when five Chinese seamen were fined at Liverpool for opium offences at a boarding-house in Nelson Street. Low Ah-keng. aged 29. one of the men, told the court that had The not smoked opium. he would have been in the grave by now.
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