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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1926.

CRUSADES' GLORIES.

NEW PIGRIMAGE TO JERUSALEM.

CLUB AS BARRACKS.

COMPLAINT FROM HANKOW.

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A thrilling story of drama and romanco lle behind the announce

One hundred of the Knights and That Marshal Wu Pei-fu's ment that Captain Sidney George Ladios of the Order of the Hospital troops which have been occupy Reilly, M.C; late R.A.F, has been of St. John of Jerusalen will sooning the Chinese Race Culb at Hankow since their arrival from killed by troops of the Political set out from England an 4 Police a Allekul, Russia, states pilgrimage which will rovive some Yochow last your, are doing con- the Evening Standard.

of the glories of the Old Crusados.siderable damage to the Club

including the property Captain Reilly was the British It is intended to visit some of course and causing great incon- secret service agent who won the ancient strongholds at Joru-venience, is the complaint of the renown by his exploits in Russia alen Cyprus, Rhodas and owners and jockeys, of the Chi- during the later years of the Malta, founded by the Order, and nose Race Club who are reported. Great War, when the Bolshevist stills full of associations of the to be planning to send a petition reign of terror was at its height. horoic knights who fought for Bo to the "Allied" Commandor for

His wife is the beautiful and many centuries to rescue the their withdrawal. famous actress, Repite Bobadilla, birthplace of the Christian faith widow of the late Mr. Haddon from the Saracons. Chambers, playwright.

The exact circumstances of Captain Reilly's death aro mystery. The only official on- nouncement is that contained in a brief obituary notice.

"

Captain Rolly, who was the son of an Irishman in the British merchant service and a Russian mother was born in Ireland, but lived for many years in Russia.

As a result of the soldiers con-1 tinned atay, the buildings of the The steamer Asia has been race club have been virtually con- specially chartered for the trip,verted into military headquartors and will leave Venice on March and the course and recreation for its journey across the Med grounds into drill fields, making terranean under the flag of the training gallops and even ordin- Order.

Jary riding almost impossible. Ro- The party is due to reach quests have been repeatedly Corfu on March 6, Jerusalem on mado, we are informed, to the the 17th, Rhodes on the 21st, and officers for better behaviour of their troops, but they prove worse Malta on 25th."

than useless.

Visitors to the Club cannot but feel disgusted with the great filthiness of the entire place and

Arrangements are being made In 1910 he established the first through the Foreign Office to Russian Aorodrome. In 1917, advise the governors of these although considerably over mili-pluces, who will no doubt hold tary ago, he took a commission in official recaptions and afford with the manner in which the the R. A.F.

Subsequently, with his ability to speak Russian and German "like a native," he did valuable and hazardous intelligence work in Germany.

During the Bolshevist reign of torror Captain Reilly, posing as a fanatical adherent to the crood.. actually as “Comrade R.," be- came an official of some import ance in the Soviet organisation When his identity was. 'dis. covered he and an assistant had many hairbreadth escapes from capture..

facilities to the party to visit places of special interest in the history of the Order.

It is probable that investitures will be held at some of the places visited, when local members of the Order will be formally in- vested with the appropriate cere

monial.

troops of Marshal Wu Poi-fu he- have. interfering with the train-. ing gallops of the ruce ponies and spoiling the tracks and the rails, the troops are truly making thom- selves a great naisance to Chinese owners und jockeys whose only desire now is that Marshal Wn will soon return to Loyang and that his troops will be going away too.

For this purpose the members are taking with them the mantles and Insignia of the Order, whilst the standard, the silver procés-and again withstood, a Turkish sional Cross which has been in siege. They policed the Mediter- use for nearly 500 years, and the ranean against pirates, and only Sword of State, are being taken left the island when Napoleon Bonaparte captured it in 1798 and seized their treasures on L'Orient, which sunk at the Battle of the Nile, and still lies in Aboukir Bay.

out.

In December, 1920, Capjain The Standard of tho Order is, Reilly, with others was proclaim- of course, the rectangular White ed outlaw, and condemned to be Cross on a red ground, which ap- shot if found on Bolshevist terri-pears in the national flag of De-

tory.

Now comes the dramatic news that he has been killed by Russian troops near the village of Allekul.

Captain Reilly's marriage was It is an interesting fact that an a's romantic as his career hus been old Admiralty order of 1700 adventurous. Mrs. Haddon directs all ships of the Navy to Chambers, who had only just re-saluto the flag of the Order, and, covered from an operation for as this has never been repealed. appendicitis in May, 1923, left a presumably they will do so during nursing home to journey to the the present cruise.

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inark, Italy and Switzerland, and, The English branch of the with its colours reversed, is the Order, which has its headquarters familiar emblem of the Red Cross in the picturesque old gateway of Society,

St. John at Clerkenwall, London, is, of course, best known for its remarkably fiue ambulance and. hospital work, in connection with which no, fewer than 1,520,000 certificates of proficiency in first- aid have been awarded. rang

It also maintains at Jerusalem jan ophthalmic hospital which is

free to all.

OLDEST ORDER.

Witnesses to the ceremony were Major Steven Ally, M.C.,

The Order of St. John is, of |and Captain 'G. A. Hill, D.S.O.| course, the oldest and indeed the THE NOTORIOUS CHEKA, sole survivor of the many Orders Captain Hill and Major Ally of Knighthood formed in connod- were both in Russia during the tion with the Crusades. war, and Captain Hill shared the many exciting adventures which befoll Captain Reilly when in the British Secret Service. Their work in Russia Wax directed against Germany.

Captain Reilly dared the Bol shevists and did courageous and valuable intelligence work.

It dates from 1048, when cor- tain merchants of Amalfi, near! Naples, established a hospital for pilgrims at Jerusalem. whose first rector was Brother Gerard. This "later became an Order of Military Monks, which erected hospitals and castles for the pro-i tection and succour of pilgrims! journeying to and from the Holy City.

The G.P.U. Gay-Pay-Our troops are the notorious "Choka" or

When driven out of Jerusalem State Political Police, who are exclusively employed in Russia by Saladin in 1187 they went to in dealing with political offenders. Acre whence it obtained the The Gay-Pay-Oo, or Lubianka name of St. Jean d'Acre), and on prison, in the heart of Moscow, is the fall of that city, to Cyprus, where all political prisoners, not Migrating thence to the island of summarily executed are put to Rhodes in 1310, the Order built death. The method of execution there a groat city, established a usually is to load the prisoner fleet, and withstood two long from his cell at some hour of the sieges by the Turks. day or night, when he least ex- pects that his end is at hand.

As he passes down a dark corridor on his way, as he is told,

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for an hour's exercise," he is are still well preserved, and the

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