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“GENERALS DIE IN BED."

(Continued from Puge 1)

The battle takes place, and we read-of-a-hidrous account, of-the- deliberate shooting down of hun- dreds of German prisoner at the alleged instigation of superior offi- cers as a 'revenge for the sinking

of

GANGSTERS KILL 'SQUEALERS."

UNDERWORLD FEUD IN NEW YORK.

MURDER RECORD.

Underworld gangsters in Now York last month created a record

ERA OF CONCRETE.

Ideas Borrowed From the Past. Can we really think that the Gothic architect was ashamed of the

BUILDINGS SUITABLE TO A buttresses in his cathedral? Are

NEW AGE.

• MUMMIFIED PAST."

The annual dinner of the Architee ture Club was held at the Savoy Hotel, London, last month, when

Herr Mendelsohn, the famous Ber

SHOULD AN HOTEL TELL?

DIVORCE-GASE QUESTION.

not his buttresses obvious. structur al elements which he desired to keep visible, to make visible? Have we developed scientific systems, have we obtained contrer of earth-tors to supply and sen and sky simply in order to borrow ideas for our houses and our factories from past ages, to

adhere slavishly to forms which

Mr. Justice Bateson, in the Divorco Court last month comment. ed on

the refusal by hotel proprie

information to solici- tors in divorce suits.

The case was a petition by Mr. Bertram Dobbs, of Eherston-ter- race, Hyde Park, Leeds, who al-

the Llandovery Castle. The of murder for any American in architect, was the guest of boa- have become empty formule for us leged misconduct between his wife, battle in which "it is alleged that except Chicago, by killing five men, our. Mr. J. C. Squire, the first We know that constructions in staal Margaret Jean Dobbs, and a mon

the slaughter of defenceless German prisoners occurred proceeds.

The author, wounded, eventually

and reinforced concrete are very difficult to alter. That is why we consider the plan of the building as though it were a living being We carefully avoid anything in the

alleged to be "squealers," and

president of the club, took the seriously wounding another. --chair.

The police have no clues, but

Herr Mendelsohn said to build leaves for England, and on his they believe a desperate under-in concrete we pour in concrete in journey discovers that the Llande world warfare bas brokes out instead of as formerly setting the very Castle is said to have contain. New York among Italian gunmen. single parts, bricks or stones, on top nature of a schematic design be-

as well as ed munitions of war wounded soldiers, and consequently draws conclusions distinctly un- favourable to his superior officers.

In concluding this letter I would again fiko to emphasize the fact that I am not in a position to say to what extent the author's state- ments can be relied upon, but to me it would appear that, whether true or not such books as this should undergo an authoritative censorship before they are affered to the general public, for I cannot but regard this and other books which I have recently read a s slur on the ex-soldier and a grave deterrent to the peace of this and other countries which we all have

in view.

Publisher's Reply..

Mr. Noel Douglas, in the next issue of the Sunday Times, replied to the Colonel's letter as follows:

As the publisher of "Generals Die In Bed," I feel that, the au- thor being 6,000 miles away, I ought at once to reply to the main points of Colonel Harding's letter in your last issue.

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named Jackson, at the Hotel Rua- sell, London.

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Mr. Dobbs gave evidence. When the question of proving the mis- conduct arose Mr. Reginald A. under-manager Turgel,

pœna.

.

of the.

There have been a number of

cause cach plan has its own life, its Hotel Russel," appeared on eub- "squealings to the police lately of each other.

We assemble a building like a

own purpose, its own conditions of

He said that, acting on the in- about New York's gangster-plots, and racketeer leaders are believes machine. Mechanical accuracy re-movement and transport, its own structions of his directors, he and the staff had refused to supply in- to have grown uneasy, and to have ordered their henchmen to enforce

unique form

formation to Mr. Dobbs' solicitors about the visit of Jackson and Mrs.. Dobbs to the hotel.

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Estate Dealer Shot.

The first man murdered was Faal Gallo, a real estate dealer and plumber, of Mulberry Street, in

places the skill of the craftsman

large

of

Mr. Justice Bateson-Do you not appreciate that if people re- alise that they can use your hotel without information being given about them, if necessary, they will frequent it 1

on you

...

With our girders we span the the law of silence by imposing and his individual subtleties. For

our buildings wp require elevators greatest spaces. We light them by death penalties on persons suspect- ed of giving away information.

elastic supports. By means New secret methods of keeping and spoting towers instead of scaf. Seat glass surfaces between the racketeers and gunmen under sur folding. We calculate exactly be- glass we get rid of inert matter veillance have been recently adopt forehand every detail of the con- and make the building light and transparent. We transfer the prin ed by New York police, against struction. We organise on a

ciples of bridge construction to which the underworld is now try- ing to protect itself by terrorising scale instead of being contented building, and by means of can

Mr Turgel said he did not ap-.. "stool pigeons" or decors, and by with empirical attempts and ec-tilevers raise certain parts above the earth and cause them to float in of strict observance Chicago's

preciate that The reason for re- the air.... casional lucky results unterworld code of honour."

This fundamental alteration in any buildings are already fusing to give information was to under which there has been orly

"squealer" la recent the methods of building is one of speaking this language olear and prevent people using the hotel with easily comprehended by those who the idea of evidence being provid one Chicago

the causes of the change in ideas have ears, to hear. The developed afterwards.

Mr. Walter Frampton (for Mr. on architectural form. The success ment from the Crystal Palace in of the new material consequeat. 1856, from the Eiffel Tower and the Dobbs). Has it dawned

the American grain elevators, the course of justice f ly gives the architect entirely Galeries des Machines in Paris to that you are trying to obstruct the

The turbine rooms of the A.E.G, in new creative possibilities.

The Judge-Do you read that second quality of the new materials, Berlin, the Century Hall in Bres steek and concrete, that of beizglan, the hangar at Orly, and the if you refuse to give information able to live a life of their own, new buildings in France, Holland, to solicitors in cases of this kind. to exist as absolutely independent Germany and the whole world is you may have the whole of your materials, gives the lie to those astonishing and logical, and al- hotel staff subpoenaed to give evid- suficiently advanced to fence, and perhaps kept here the architects who see in them only an ready additional meang of realising stimulate and fill us with en- whole day before their evidence is dreams barn of their excursions into thusiasm. We cannot foretell what taken?

Mr. Turgel.-I do. a mummified past. They conceal effects the light metals will have their famework with"hewn stones on the buildings of the future, But Is that what your managing direc- Some hours afterwards Anthony and Greek columns. They decorate we already have a faint idea of tor anticipates and hopes for?

Mr. Targel.-No Elterone and Salvatore Sazalino, their buildings ec- that the facades the lightness of future construe- two rotorious managers of under- saggest refinement and the ecule dex: tions, of the elegance of their ap. world"etap-shooting" and card beauc arts. They destroy the light-pearance, and of their harmony games, were found dead togetherness, the static clarity and simpli- with the life that will surround in Meeker Aycaue, Brooklyn,,, with city of the supporting frame by them. bullets in their bodies.

New York's underworld Bowery district.

He was shot when entering his West Street house early in the

accompanied by morning.

his brother-in-law, Albert Peppi.

A small sedan motor-car swung alongside the pavement while Gallo was putting his key in the door, and a man fired four shots, when Gallo fell mortally wounded."

"Mr. Turgel. No.

Mr. Justice Bateson-Tell your board that. And if the staff do not attend on subnena. the powera of the Court will be used against them and they will he brought here. You can tell the hotel company that there may be serious trouble if this sort of thing goes on...

Mr. Dobbs was granted a decree damages against Jackson.

First, as to the implications of the title I imagine that Colonel Harding does not question the fact that for obvious and necessary reasons generals, are less likely to fall in the field than common soldi. bodies were found, and the police with lack of clothes, purity, and prosching a period of ercative is with costs, and £100 agreed

ers. I do not, however, think that Mr. Harrison suggests anywhere that generals "did not play the game," if I interpret that phrase As meaning that they, lacked Cour- age. He has explained in the fol lowing words how the title came to his mind:-

A sedan motor-ear answering to the description of the one used in the murder of Gallo was seen at the spot a short time before the

believe that Elterone and Sazaling were taken for a ride, or killed in the motor car.

The bodies were thrown ont, and all identification marks were re- moved, but the police identified them through finger prints, both having police records...

The fourth victim, Jack Valenti, was also taken for a ride," but the police have only a vague de- scription of the motor-car.

Fifth Victim,

Valenti's body was found dump- 'ed at the foot of a wall in the Unionville section of Brooklyn with four bullets in the head.

Christo de Oro, an underworld dealer in lottery tickets, was the fifth victim, being shot dead shortly after, arriving in New York from Norfolk, Virginia.

Originally I planed to call the "book "Soldier of Christ. When Foch died I got, the idea for my present bitle. I read the news- paper account of how he was at tended by nurses, and how his pillow. was patted to make him. comfortable, and how the house was hushed, and how the doctors issued bulletins. I remembered how Broadbent died in a shell hole, how the hundreds of others

Benjamin Schaite, with no ad- had died in 6lth, neglected and dress, whose affairs are not LOWA, lonely. I looked up from the pa-is hovering between life and death per and said to my wife, "Genin Gouverneur Hospital after nearly erals die in bed, but... becoming the sixth victim of New didn't go further. I had the title York's Sunday murder racket." for my book:

He was visiting his wife at her Delancy father's apartment in Street. In the underworld station, and while whistling from the street to attract her attention in an upper window he was mysteriously shot in the neck with three bullets, and fell unconscious.

CUSTOMS FIND IN WASTE PAPER.

The correct implication seems to me to be merely that, the common soldier has to endure the results of the commands of the generals,

When does Mr. Harrison suggest that his descriptions apply to any but his own unit? The book is clearly one of personal recollec- tions from beginning to end. Colonel Harding asks why he has waited for twelve years before pub- Eishing such things. The reply is. that sections of the book have long A sonsational attempt to smuggle a large gumatity of tobacco into since appeared in English, Ameri-

England has been discovered by. can, Austrian, German, and Rus-the-Customs authorities at the sian" journals. Doubtless in weld West India Docks ing these sections together he am- plifies hiz

notes, but the delay was certainly not due to him.

One word more. When I read

SPEAR THRUST BEVEALS HIDDEN TOBACCO.

A consignment of waste paper which had arrived in steamer. from Antwerp had been unloaded and placed on one of the wharves to await Customs examination,

The paper was in pressed bales this book I felt, as Colonel Bard-bound with wire. Waste paper ing fecle, that these were serious does not, as a rule, excite the in things, and I informed the author terest of Customs officials. It is that I could only publish the book not in itself a dutiable product.

Officials, bowever, thrust a long if I had his absolute guarantee of iron spear into one of the bales, withdrawn, and the truth of the looking of Arras The spear was

examination of the grooved" end and the massacre of Amiens in par- revealed signs of tobacco, ticular, and of the whole book in general. His reply was:

Orders were immediately given for the bale to be opened. In the centre was found a quantity of. I wish to go on record as say tobacco. The whole cousignment of ing that I, personally, took part thirty-nine bales was then dealt

in both of those exeath

I am prepared to vouch for the i tobacco was found,

truth or my m

I am sure that thousands of Cana dian ex-soldiers will testify to the truth of my statements after the book is published.

It remains for the public to judge between Colonel Harding and Mr. Harrison

Altogether over & odor de

was discovered, of a dutiable value of nearly £1,000***

Every effort is being made hy the Cintoms authorities to trace the consignees,

Speedy delivery of the bates had been requested, and a lorry was actually waiting to load them.

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