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SECRET SOCIETIES

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY,

OVEMBER

OULD YOU BELIEVE IT?

THE BOYS WITH A

They Taught The Gestapo Its Business SLIDE RULE BRAIN

A GERMAN constable returning home

one chilly October morning in 1925 stumbled on the bodies of fivò young army officers sprawled across the sidewalk.

At first he thought they were revellers who had celebrated too well the night before. Good humouredly, he went closer, Intending to rouse them.

Seconds later he was running, panic stricken,

to headquarters. What he had seen in that Gulet street in the Charlottenburg suburb was a pile of horribly mutilated bodies.

All the five 'young offleurs had zemres of murders of been butchered. Tickr eyes had officers. been gouged, their faces criss- crossed with sabre slashes. Their limbs were twisted grotesquely,

100,

*had

young

docu-

From thivo captured ments, the police were able to Jense the short but "brutally eventful history of the Black Reichswehr,

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The sciety was founded by man named Strohschein, an of German been Amerlenn

origin, and his son.

Two days later, the Bodies of another two young officers were found tha wood near Landburg. net fur from Charlottenburg.

These, mutated

For months, police had been bonded by an outbreak of skind lar is all over Germany. Teams of picked detectives hid been working undercover trying to And out what was behind Then

難 was the Charlottenburg the police nassuer That pave the lead! that resulted in the uncovering of one of the most ruthless secret skiej in bl Tory Black Rephaveh

During their questioning of

dead men's friends

the

police dicovered

that

the affleers

bud i refused to

Jalu the Order of the

swehr.

Black

Relch-

Here was

Llav mollyc they

hud been looking

for.

the

they

. Demused as preachers, had returned to Germany in 1923 as envoys of the Ku Klux mision was Klun. Their real

to form European branch of the anti-Negro and anti-Jewish hooded terrorist organisation.

Within two months of their arrival, the twww bogus prenehera had

enrolled more than a thousand young ofleers in their secret ordir.

A German army officer; named Klaproth had taken over com- mand of the solely following a raw with the two Americans,

-By-

Rex Lawrence

Later, three members of the who -organisation charged with kill Relchswehr

Tng another alleged traitor to on

insisted

orders

the cause boastfully revealed States. the Black Helchswehr's fanatient

oath and its aime.

Berlin potice rolded

the

society's

meeting places: over the capital.

all

Dozens of people were rosted.

Documents, member- ship registers, and plans for widespread campaign of racial propoganda werb fsented

а

Black

arl'

the should only

United- from, the

It was Klaproth who turned Tho organisation ihto assassination: gang with Fascist aims.

Germany's nationalist youth movements were taken over by the Black Holchavehr.

"Together with the young, army officers, they formed the nucleus of what was to grow into a country-wide terrorist organisa-

anti- con- tion.

Records. found by the police showed how the society had successfully carried out a series of political murders, tabulated also were details

Carefully

CHESS

by LEONARD BARDEN

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Here is a problem by J. O Thain Oxford Weekly Times, 1910) White to play and mate In two moves:

London Express garotos

SIDE GLANCES

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Secretly, the fanatical ment-

held initiation planned campaigns.

Black

Beichswehn

HU SEALY

them

Kyts,

gold shall ments and thrown to the crows but I will as thelf proper food."

and

Uko putroying

Lake "I swear to

"Their insidious up the bers of the Order met in cellars, sword, and a Bible between two

struggle with all the means`at blind my ceremonies, and lighted candles. their blood-thirsty As the new recruit read the my disposal against the enemates destroy their possessiona

of my Germanic Fatherland, avoid fanatical oath, the other mem- bera chanted in chorus the expecially against the heredity carrion. society's slogan:

"We want toe. the Jews, the French and deeds, not words.”.

their supportèrs, the Blacks, the and.. other yellow

coloured The oath took ah hour to

FACOL. administer. It included

theso cholco passage;

Countless innocent people, whose only crime was that the were not of pure German stock, became the pret.

The Black Reichwohra victims were forced to drink castor oil Their heads детс shaned, their homes burned,

Many were forced to leave the country and peek refuge elsewhere.

The ranks of the Order

Kwelled as political

Blocked to jou,

Sinister

enrolment

monies became common,

rlies an open secret,

CROSSWORD

fanatics

*

senc

their

23

new

The police seemed helpless. The initiation of members took place in a black- draped room

Taroo senior members of the society, wearing white cover- all smocks, their faces blečen under hoods, sat round a table. On the table. which covered with a Germaa were placed, a skull, a broken

By Galbraith

WDE

flag,

"If as a miserable wretch I betray the aims of the Order to anyone, I will take upon my self the most horrible torturco, "Further, I swear to dispose All my bones shall be breiten, of my enemies and hate with my eyes shall be put out, my

body deadly hatrod

cut up, torn into

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

WE DON'T

LIKE PEOPLE

TO REPO

US TO THE

POLI

SIGH

Log-

WE'RE AN EMPLOYMENT AGENCY, YOU SAID MANY PEOPLE ENTER

OUR OFF ONLY. THE OLD

COME OUT

Hitler later explolled the funaticism behind the oath for his own political ends,

From the ranks of the Black

the he selected Reichswehr, ruthics men who formed the nucleus of the Gestapo.

And for the furtherance of its twisted racial ideals he plunged the world into war.

YOU'LL SEE HOW WRONG YOU ARE.

ONE of the mysteries of life which baffles even blologists is the infant prodigy. Many humble parents have produced children who have astonished the world by the maturity of their mental powers.

It is true that some prodigies, like Wolfgang Mozart and his sister Marienhe, inherit a particu lar bent from a talented parent. But no one was more astonished than the elder Mozart when ha three-year-old son mastered the harpsichord In a matter of months.

At Ave, Wolfgang composed ways that he never did learn 4.minuet, and at sove, he could arithmetic, yet, at the age of six Play the violin and organas ie took no more than a "second well as the harpsichord. By or two to make the most can- the age of ten, the boy gelus, plicated montal calculation. hod comprised his frat orgiorio Bom in Vermont U.S.A., ID and a year later a comle épers, 1804, he was exhibited in Lon- Although Mozart, continued con when he was eight. The to compose, incessantly, bo matle boy's answers were given at little money in adult fo.

such lightning -- speed that the

More Fortunate adjudicator who had to take

In

f.

them down, pleaded with the lad to go mbré žlowlyt. A modern counterpart, how-

*1941, eight-year-old- ever, Pierino Gambo, has been Alexander Gwin, of Derry, was more fortunate. In 1948, at the among age of I ho conducted the calculation

theo employed

for

on the Ordnance

Liverpool Philharmonic Or Survey of Ireland. His rapidity

chestra. Now he ta nationally famous as

inter

An in-

und

correctness in calculating

strumentalist and conductor, distances were amazing. In less The youngest performer ever aures for the Survey which than a minute ha could provide

To entertain the institute

of

Magicians was Paul Royce, son, took many

adult inathemati-

South-West London con cana nently an hour to work Juror. Paul was 'only

two

years, four months ald at the

time.". At 12, he was an Accom-

plished ventriloquist. and juggler,

Reading At Home

It was also in 1841 that meni- the Academy of 11 Paris were

In the literary world, Thaman Bera of Chatterton, who was born in' Selences

Bristol in 1753, changed from astounded by a report presont- ed to them on the feats of a boy an apparently dull boy into an outstanding scholar and poet, mental calculator, Nito Mangi- his amule. The sts of a pear long fofore ho reached teens. He carried out aa Sicilian shepherd, Nito was aske amazing series of brilliant ed to give the cube.root.of frauds by inventing poems and 3,798,410 and answered-correct- pieces of proso which he atly in one minute.

Lad An English ancient writers, Many well-informed men were Bidder, born in 1800, had no completely hood-winked.

tripated to

George

Was

was later

Little Minou Drouet, whose education at all but first book of poems Was capable of solving in his mind intricate mathema- published in 1956, has show the the most same precocity. At the age of tical problems. Ho nine she wrote an execitent 45 encouraged to study and bo- line poem in lesa than 4u came a distinguished engineer. minutes during a B.B.C. de-

vision programine.

Perhaps the most remarkablo prodigy to emerge so far in the awuclear AKO 19-year-old

the 64,000-dollar questions

Crop Of Prodigies Robert Strom, who answered

The 18th and 19th centuries no American TV. show. produced a crop of mathemati-. His subjects were science, cal prodigles, One of third mathematles -and-astroDOKŁY was Jedediah. Buxton, the son and he successfully gave the of á farm. labourer." He WAS

answers to such questions Ɛps: bom at Elinton, Derbyshire, in "To what did French axtroniow 1707, and as a child would mer Messier assign the mum- listen to a sermon and then tell ber 13 when he catalogued his father how many words the preacher had used.

Taken to 600

act

different atar clusters and

also, gakce. square roote

David Garrick nebulae?" He was King Richard 11 to give the

million. 4,098 young Jedediah was able to

The 4ft 3in. by wonder give the total number of words sposen by the actor during the started reading at thyco and at play. He remained a brilliant school won a college scholar- calculator all his fe.

ship and a trip round the Zeruh Calburn, another ex-

world. After his quiz maccess, he received piers ranging fron traordinary boy calculator, was not so lucky. As he grew elder lecturing to technically advising

mathematical powers on sclerico fiction film produc his

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