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TO-DAY.

(September: 1).

29th Day Rabi-ál-Akhirat Meetings-Theosophical Society,

6 p.m...

Aquatics-20th Heavy Battery, Royal Artillery, Sports (V.R.C.).

Oriental Theatre: "No One Man."

Queen's Treatre: "Mata Hari." Star Theatre:. "The Hottentot." King's Theatre: "Aftor To-mar- row."

World Theatre: "Oh Sailor Be- have,"

Central Theatre: "Coranir." Tea Dance at King's Restaurant, Dinner Dances at Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotels, and King's Restaurant.

Orive

Miecellaneous.Whist Folies Recreation Club, Happy Valley, 8.30 p.m.; Tenders for demolition of old Jockey Club Stables due; List of Subscribers to Hong Kong Jockey Club, Subscrip- tion Griffins, close nood.

Tides. High at 9.90 and 22.31 low at 2.43 and 18.04. -

FRIDAY.

(September 2).

1st Day of Jemadi-al-awal. Oriental Theatro: Na Man.”hy

One

EUROPEAN FOREIGN OFFICES STILL AT THEIR INTRIGUES.

ITALIAN CODE STORY

"Camphor ics," said the

In Majewsks, were selling to the the Leningrad barber shop when Russians information that led to the barber asked what he'd have the death of Polish agents *The on bis face after a shave.little black bag which Majewska The customer (let's call him was trying to get into Dannig offer- Customer Number One) spoke ed final proof. perfect Russian, without a trace of accent.

A man in a near-by chair (he'll be Customer. Number Two The was waiting for his turn with the barber, rose quickly, according to William C. White, in the New York Herald Tribune Magarine

Thus another set of spies trap- pod, another revelation of tren- chery where loyalty was taken for granted and another firing squad. on a chilly dawn.

-Sensational Tales.

Embassies are obliged to ex- "Let me see your identification raise particular cars lest their card," he demanded of Customer secrets leak out, either through

Number One.

Attachés aguile or carelessness. The card produced, showed its figure in some sensational tales owner to be a resident of Lehing. For example: rad.

The disappearance of the Italian "How long have you lived in code book from the embassy in Berlin, in 1999,, made a sensation this city "

"Ten years."

al tale

Got your hat and coat and come with me," Customer Number Two commanded,·

A number of countries, particu; larly Jugo-Slavia, France, and Russia were keen to possess this The identification card was code book. An attaché. named found to be forged," Mr. White Garbeccio had charge of the book continues, and four daya léter and kept it under lock and key. Customer Number One was shot as Garbeóció had a secretary, A King's Theatres After. To-mor-spy from one of the Baltic coun middle aged Italian woman-faith- ful, hardworking, but weary of And all, the writer concludes, having to work so hard. She was "because he had asked for camphor approached by two Jugo-Slaylam Anybody's, a common enough facial tonic agents, and after several weeks She in the Baltic States and in Ilussin, agreed to produce the code. too, before the revolution-but one waited for a Saturday, since the which disappeared from Russia code probably would not be needed after 1018"

over the weekend.

raw.

Queen's Theatre: Mata Hari." Central Theatre: Corsair.”..-- Garden

War."

Theatre:

Stár Theatre: Honkey Tonk."." World Theatre: “Oh, Sailor Bakave."

Tea Dance at King's Restaurant;

Dinner Dances at Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotels and King's Restaurant:

tries.

This story is one of several told by Mr, White to illustrate the pre

valence of espionage Aystems throughout Europe to-day. Per haps this prevalence explains the gilance of the Swiss police at the

A Dash for Danzig.

Ticles, High at 10.05 and 235; Loirat 3.28 and 16.30.

Home Mails. Inward from Lon-Lausanne Conference. don by Somali; Outward for Aus- tralia by Tanda 2.30 p.m. for Europe ziz Suez by Yasukini Maru 1.30 p.m.; for America and Europe Siberin by President Jefferson

16 p.m.

SATURDAY.

(September 3).

car

Then she had a bright iden."

Jugo-Slavia, a poor country, was paying her a large sum of money for the code; why wouldn' Franch agent pay a still higher price? So she got in touch with a secretary in the French embassy, and he was delighted.

On a convenient Saturday, she One night last month a closed took the code book from the em dashed through the quiet bassy, and the Frenchman photo- streets of the Polish town of graphed it. She then went to the Tachev. The driver swung into the Jugo Slavs and they, too, made. road that leads to Danzig. Be+

a copy. She alone knew there were side him were another young man

two customers. and a woman," Mr. White tells us

Early Monday morning she went

as he launches into another an-to the embassy to return the code eodote:

book. And there, looking as if a had been working all night, sat Garbeccio, trying to decode a pile of cables before him. The code book had been missed.

She was Majewska, dancer, known and cheered in all the night clubs of Warsaw. Now, on this ridens

she clung to a little bag,

2nd Day of Jemadi-al-awal. Aquatics. V., R. G. Night Fete. Lawn Bowls-Senior Division, Taikoo v. Kowloon Docks, Civil Bervice v. Craigongower: Police Kowloon B.G.C.; Club, de Recreio ervously, worriedly, frequently The secretary was frantic, but

Garbeccio said nothing to the wo,| Kowloon C.C.; Junior Division, loving behind.

Danzig-three miles away-and man that day or at any other time. Hong Kong Electric . Club de, Recroio; Kowloon C.C. v. Taikoo freedom there from the Polish He had reported the theft to the R.C. Kowloon B.G.C. Civil police!

Ambassador, but fearing punish- Service C.C.; Craigengewer OC. The frontier lights showed ahead, ment from Mussolini, they kept v. Yacht Club."

and the car slowed down. Instead the whole matter quiet. Carboccio's Shooting, Hong Kong Rife of sleepy guards, a group of army secretary burned the code book and Club's All Comers Competition chicers sprang from the frontier some time afterward resigned from (Kowloon Tong), 2.30, p.m.

station-and-Majewska and her the embassy,"

row."

rend

King's Theatre: "After To-mor-Friends had taken their last ride From May until the end of

bat one. That last rido cante three September, Oriental

Theatre Nc One days: Intor to a stone vall, and a Jugo-Slavian governmen Man."

pid firing squad.

every Italian Foreign Office cable Stor Theatre: "Honkey Tonk." For several months, the Polis and telegram that fell into their -> Queen's Theatre : "Mata Hari" Secret Service had been receiving hands, and the Foreign Office was

World Theatre Oh, Spilor discouraging news from Soviet none the wiser, But in the su

Bussia. One by one Polish agents tumn, Rome learned for the first Anybody's there, men who had worked" in time that the Berlin book and been

Russia for long years, were being stolen,**** diso orod-and tho The Soviss Developments came

Behave."

Garden Theatre: War"

Central Theatre: Corsair

fast Mus Tos Dance at King's Restaurant counter ospionage system seemed solini, dismissed the entire embassy Dinner Dances at Repulse Bay and to have developed second sight staff in Berlin, from Ambassador Peninsula Hotels and King's or had they been furnished with tmen, and sent some of them Restaurant. A

A -list of the Polish pries in Pato ipari, cheerless island of Tides. High at 30.50 and 23,25; land!

xile

Low at 4.16 and

The latter seemed more likey Home Mails Inward from and investigation showed that found soo America by President Monroe Polish officers, together with

country's

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