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NEW SEATTLE-MANILA SERVICE CONTEMPLATED.
SATURDAY, JUNE 19TH, 188
IF YOUR LAST DAY."
I have written out the
order," said
MORE RUSSIAN TYRANNY. HARSH TREATMENT OF A NEWS, hie tormentor, “ that you are to receive the greatest punishment that can be given. You know what that, is T
PAPER CORRESPONDENT.
To-night it with be considered by the collegiates of the Political, Police. If they sign it, to-morrow will be your last day."
According to the Manila Bulletin, &| CHARGE OF ESPIONAGE. direct passenger service feam Seattle,
Because, with the sanction of the Yokohama and Manila, outward and inward, is contemplated by the Dollar Rumian. Foreign Office, he acted as a
However, they did not sign it. After interests. This statement arises from temporary correspondent of the London news brought to Manila by Mr. Victor Daily News, Mr. Edward Rimington, a another spell of prison illtreatment he M. Smith, of the United States Shipping young Leicester engineer, has been er he was told that he had been sentenced Board at Manila, who bas returned from pellet from Russia, after, spending tento expulsion under convoy. For a fort- night, despite ble broken health, he was a vacation abroad,
wocks in prison. The Manila Bulletin goes on to say: He was arrested on January 28th, and put at hard labour in the so-called With all of the former Shipping Board a trumped-up charge was preferred Workers' Corridor" of the Butirskaya passenger liners operating on the Pacific against him of entering the country Prison, where over 1,500 men, including fying the Dollar flag within a short without proper papers, with the inter-300 "politicals," were undergoing punish- time, there is a possibility of the Dollar tien of espionage on behalf of the Daily ment. D interests revising the schedule. which Yews.
would call for cortain liners to call only For this, after many weeks of illtreat at Yokohama and Manila, to provide amont, he was sentenced to be shot, but faster passenger and mail service between the heads of the Secret Police did not the United States and the Orient, said confirm the contente. Mr. Smith.
He was accordingly liberated on April
Despite the feeling of many Manilans ath and sent over the frontier in a state and businées men in Portland and Beat-of complete destitution. With the as
Attacked, by vertigo, he badly injured two of his fingers in a circular saw. The woman doctor refused to admit him to struck, was axempted from further work, the prison hospital, but he hunger- and on April 9th was liberated.
tie that the acquisition of the shipping sistance of the British Consul at Riga, he owed much to their liberation.
board boats by the Dollar interests who telegraphed to Mr. Rimington's would tend to lower the standard of father, he reached London. service between Oriental ports and
THE VICTIM'S STORY,
Beattle, Mr. Smith is of the opinion that Of the story which Mr. Rimington: the Dollar interests are laying plans to narrated in the Daily News office not insure a better service for trans-pacifle the least remarkable part concerned his
fellow-prisoners in Russia.
Among those whom he met in prison
travel,
According to advices received, the President Grant, was oficially delivered by the United States Shipping Board to the Admiral Oriental Line at Seattle on June 12. The delivery of the other lineri will follow in 'rotation.
With the exception of a number of freighters being operated on the Pacific, the United States Shipping Board is operating only two lines on the Atlantic,
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MATA HARI.
MORE ABOUT THE JAVANESE PANCER.
A FASCINATING- SPY. General Adolphe Messimy, Minister of War daring the first few weeks of the World War, was the author of the love letters to Mata Hari, Javanese dancing girl executed as a spy, which created sensation when read at the trial of former Minister of the Interior Loul Malvy,
were:-
-M. Douillet, formerly Belgian Consul
ia Rostoff-on-Don.
M. Douillet's son.
Horr Wilhelm Paar, of the German
aeroplane arm of Junker.........
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M. Galleri, a Hungarian, manager
Novorossiak of the Derutra shipping trust.
The President of the Timber Exploita
tion Trust,
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A priest of the Holy Synod, and Several Hungarian bank officials from
Tashkend.
The majority of these had no know- ledge of the reasons for their arrests.
M. Douillet's Consulship ended with
EMBASSY STATEMENT This was the date on which five Com- were released from munist prisoners prison in London, and he was told that Money, valuable instruments and other personal belongings he was forced to leave behind Under escort ho taken, by way of Leningrad, Pakoff and Ostroff, to the Latvian border, and there thrust out, destituta.
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A telegram from Riga, sent by the British Conanl, however, procured him funds from home, and on Monday, he renched Berlin, where, as he explained, he took a day off" to celebrate his 24th birthday. Then he came to London.
The Soviet Embassy in London has informed the Daily News that Mr. Rimington was arrested because, on his arrival in 1924, he falsely represented himself to be a member of the Communiat Party. This allegation Mr. Rimington ridicules
says,
"Supposing it had been true," he
would it have taken the Soviet's A secret police nearly two years to find it' cut?!
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Rostoff in 1931, but he' afterwards be came the local bead of the Nanson Relief Mission and was decorated with the Red Legion of Honour.
His son was arrested merely becauso he wanted to leave Russia. The father, on making enquiries, was himself arrest ed charged with "capionage and coun- ter-revolution," Both, together with Horr Paar, word expelled at the same- time as Mr. Rimington.
Mr. Rimington, who is only 24, Ever since that trial in 1918, when Mr. is an engineer's draughtsman of con- Bisley was found guilty of neglecting to defend France from spies and sentenced siderable ability. He is a good linguist, to five years in exile, it has bean thought speaking Russian fiuently, and he weat by most Frenchmen that he wrote tho letters and was one of the dẹncer's mang lovers...
The name of the man who penned the letters was never given, but since it came known that the name began with M and ended with Y and that ho was a former Cabinet Minister, Mr. Malvy seemed definitely indicated despite his
insistent donials.
to Russia in April, 1924, obtaining an appointment, under the Government's auspices, as a technical expert in a Mos- cow silk factory.
ABSURD CHARGES.
At that time he was quite unknown to the Daily News, which is sufficient proof of the absurdity of the police charges. A Now General Messiny has sent a letter to the Press admitting that he wrote well-informed letter which he sent spon the notes. He was in the Viviani taneously to this paper in May, 1025, Cabinet that took office after the 1914 led to his being invited to contribute olections and was replaced as War Minis others, and last December the Russian ter by Alexander Millerand on August Foreign Office signified its complete ap 20th. He later served at the head of Aproval of a suggestion that he should
act temporarily as correspondent... brigado.
In his letter now the General writes This approval was repeated to the that Mata Hari, whose love affairs with Daily News by the Soviet Embassy in mon of prominence in most countries of London. Europe had captured the French imagi nation, used all hor seductive charm for months in 1914 to bring him to her feet
"I thought her charming," the General writes, but full of mystery. Templing as she was, she rather frightened me. I was imprudent enough to tell hor so, and even write it."
Eleven days after his telegram, an- nouncing the fall of Kamenell he was arrested by the Secret. Political Police, treated to every conceivable indignity, threatened with instant. death, and with 15 other men. thrown into a filthy prison apartment
The fact that he was in ill-health after two severe operations gained him no sympathy whatever.
Messimy says he cannot remember the tarma he used in the letters, but thinks they must have been gentlemanly and careful," because I remember while writ During the next week or so ho, was ing them I reproached myself for over-continually being questioned, threatened prudence and stupidly renowing the and moved from place to place. His story of Mme. Potiphor and her er rooms were also searched. He was close ly interrogated regarding his connection with the Daily News, and was told that his telegram predicting the fall of Zinovieff was a very serious matter.
vant." He conclusles.
Let this adventure be a Icasod to young Deputies who dream of becoming Ministers, and are subjected to the ad vances of pretty women of whom they' are vaguely distrustful
A HOUR TO CONFESS."
Mata Hari, the most picturesque spy For six days ho was confined with 33 the war produced, was shot at Vincent other men in an evil smelling and on October 15th, 1917. Up to the last day verminous cell which, under the Tsarist it was popularly rumoured that her ex régime was registered as intended to tremely influential lovers and frimds would obtain her release and all the hold the maximum number of 25. storice of her conquents were brought ont to prove that she was irresponsibls.
Eventually the definito charge of espionage was lodged against him, with After going to the English town where the additional allegation that he had the first tanka were being developed and been sent to Russia by Scotland Yard." winning the love of a young officer, she For four weeks after this he under saw the tanks arrive in Franco and vent went solitary confinement in a small off to Spain where she was seen with room containing only a plank bed and wook,: inspected Gernian agents. She was or a table Two or three times rested on her return to France and all sometimes Inte in the night, he was taken her lovers could not save her
out and questioned, being told that it Less than a year after her execution, he did not admit to having been sent by Mr. Mairy was brought to trial and on the British Government he would he shot. August oth, 1918, was convicted inco his return to politics in France, the old Ho naturally declined to do so, and charge of his complicity with Mata Hari at length a police agent gave him one has been revived and such bitter attacks our within which to confess. It i were made upon him when he appeared all up with you," he said, "unless you in the Chamber of Deputies as Prenier less us the truth within an hour." Briand's Minister of the Interior that ho resigned after a few weeks.
Mr. Rimington persisted that the chatge was ludicrons:
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