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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1930.

TRADE CONFLICT SHOT ENDS BRIEF SEGRAVE'S BID FOR LIFE RISKED FOR A

FORECAST.

DOMINION OPINIONS AT THE PRESS BANQUET.

PREFERENCE ISSUE.

London. June 2.

Major John Astor presided at the distinguished Press banquet at the London Guildhall given in honour of the Overseas delegates to the Empire Press Conference. There were 450 people present, representative of every branch of British journaliam, .

ROMANCE.

RECORD.

DEATH TRAGEDY ON ROAD SECRETS OF POWERFUL NEW

AT LOCARNO.

DAYLIGHT AFFAIR.

MOTOR BOAT.

UNORTHODOX CRAFT.

In the lovely Swiss holiday region Sir Henry Segrave is to attempt around Locarno there is much to capture the world's speed record public excitement over the shoot-on water for Great Britain on Ing of a beautiful young wife, on Lake Windemere about the middle

PIGEON.

LOWERED 20 FEET ON A MUD-BANK..

THAMES DRAMA.

This is the story of a life risked for a City pigeon,

As home-bound workers were passing over Blackfriars Bridge

a public road, where she was walk of June, with a new motor-beat it was noticed that a pigeon was ing with her handsome young hus-that revolutionises all accepted floundering hopelessly in the mud band in broad daylight.

She was German, he was Italian, his name being Cecchini.

A message from His Majesty It appears that the pair had been the King, in reply to a loyal tele-examining a villa belonging to the gram sent during the morning, wife's father, Dr. Koppel, a Berlin WOA read. In it His Majesty industrial notable. The villa was stressed the importance of the to be renovated for their use. <Conference for he knew how much

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such Conferences contributed to the promotion of sympathy and understanding. In conclusion, His Majesty wished the Confer-

ence every success.

Responding to Major Aator's eloquent welcome, Mr. Wood, the leader of the Canadian delegation;

theories.

Miss England II, as the new boat is to be called, has been built for Sir Charles Wakefield, and he will launch it at Cowes, Isle of Wight, on June 1.

of the foreshore.

A large crowd assembled and there were sympathetic murmurs the bird struggled the deeper it be- it was noticed that the more came entrapped in the mire:

SECRET SERVICES AT WORK.

SOME STORIES OF THE GREAT WAR.

ZINOVIEFF LETTER.

A study of the intricate espion- age systems of various of the com- batant countries in the war, and more particularly the story of Mata Hari, the Dutch courtesan whose fame was international and who became a German spy, la given ia "Mata Hari" by Majer Thomas Coulson (Hutchinson and Co. 129. 6d. net).

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Mata Hari, who joined the Ger man Secret Service before the war, returned on its outbreak to Paris, where she had previously appeared

They were walking slowly down Daily Chronicle that its construc- through the crowd and volunteer. I cloak of her profession as a courte

a publle road, near the villa, the husband two paces behind the wife. People in the villa garden say they saw Cecchini pull out a re- volver, place it at the back of his wife's head, and fire two shots,

Cecchini, they say, was placing the revolver near his wife's body, committed suicide, but he fled when he saw men running towards him.

Details of the craft have been kept a closely-guarded secret. Sir Then a homeless youth named Henry told a representative of the Eric Stanley pushed his way in vaudeville. Here, under the tion was so unorthodox that it was led to be lowered over the parapet.tained officers, diplomats and high Impossible to say what its speed capabilities are.

Two Rolls-Royce F type Schnel- der Trophy engines will be used.

A passing van was stopped and fibre ropes from a cargo of orange boxes were obtained. These were knotted together and Stanley,

by permission of the Air Minis- clinging to one end of the rope. try, and these will develop over was lowered 20 feet over the para- 4,000 h.p.. and drive a single pro-pet down on to the mud-bank.

minute.

contrasted Lord Roseberry's prons it might have been if she hadpeller at 12.500 revolutions per phetic utterance at the 1909 con- ference, in which he referred to the hush preceding the storm, with the present day hush preceding a

trade conflict.

Mr. Wood said he believed the Empire would come out of it as a strong entity able to face the rest of the world on an equal basis.

Mr. Fink, the Australian leader, locked with alarm and disquietude on the possible legal use of the in the of autonomy powers Dominions. He said

The Dominion's grant of preference had now existed for forty years and it could not remain open for He stressed that Britain had to decide whether an ceonoraic

·ever..

theory, however academic and authoritative, was to stand in the way of Empire consolidation.- Reuter.

RECTOR WALKS OUT.

"SHAMELESS GOSSIP" TO

BE FOUGHT.

There was a scene at the Acton Easter Vestry meeting when the vicar, the Rev. Percival Gough, re- fused to take the chair and left the room.

wardens.

Taking a taxi, the husband had disappeared; but he was recognis- ed and arrested in a street of Eu- gano.

Beauty And Beau.

His wife, who was exactly 23, her birthday being her deathday, was a well-known Berlin beauty.

This has astounded the experts, both here and in America, who have always held that such a speed was impossible.

san, in which capacity she enter- French officials on a lavish scale, she conducted her operations as a ties, states Major Coulson (who was spy. Competent French authori in the English Secret Service) do clare that the losses which can be attributed directly to her intrigues amounted to nearly 50,000 men.

Final Proof of Guilt. It is considered that most of this number are to be accounted for by the information which she was able to give the Germans of the impend- ing French attack on the Chemin des Dames.

was

In places the mud is ten feat deep, and before the youth could reach the now exhausted bird, he had sunk nearly up to his thigha in the mire. Had he stumbled for A new type of construction ward he would certainly have been designed by Sir Henry Segrave suffocated, and Mr. Fred Cooper has been Cecchini, who is 23 years old, is employed that will place Miss Eng-to fight his way back, but found He captured the bird, and began the type of an Italian beau-par-land II far ahead in design of any that he

When final proof of her guilt ticularly handsome, and said to be racing craft in the world.

was trapped. He was came through an intercepted and

decoded rapidly sinking in the mud. descended from a noble Florentine

radio message she To Race at Detroit. fantly.

Firemen on the Blackfriars fire tried, found guilty and was shot. After launching: the boat will float, seeing his plight, pushed off Many of the stories in this book be taken to Lake Windermere on a in a boat to rescue him.

do not concern Mata Hari at all. specially-constructed 12-wheeled Youth and pigeon were lifted on One deals with Captain Reilly, the lorry, and the trials will take place board amid the cheers of the on- British Admiralty's "ace" in immediately,

lookers, but unfortunately the espionage, who was responsible for After the attempt on the record, bird was so exhausted by its strug-securing the famous Zinovieff letter, which is at present held by Com-gle that it died a few minutes which was instrumental in wreck- ing the first Socialist Government. modore Gar Wood, of America, at later.

Reilly, after the war, was sent to Russia, and rapidly gained a con- fidental position under Lenin. It was while in the Russian Foreign Office that he saw this letter, and judging that it would be of interest to his employers, went into Ger- many to see to its safe despatch. The O.G.F.U. followed him and picked up 'Reilly's train as he was returning to Russia.

marry

She met Cecchini on a visit to Italy, but her friends had not ex- pected the Berlin belle to him, as she was passionately devot- ed to art, while the husband had purely business instincts. hat manufacturer.

He is a

It was suggested that she had married in order to live in the beautiful places of Italy and Switzerland.

Incompatibility.

They had been married only six months. They frequently quarrel- led, it was said, because the wife would not accept the Italian's views of married women's rights and duties.

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Some Locarne people tell of serious quarrel after a recent visit

+ When cinema. For two years there has been a Cecchini boxed his wife's ears in dispute between the rector and the market-place, it is said, the the parochial church council, wife spoke of a divorce.

It is known that the husband originating with the resignation of two newly appointed church-bought a revolver on the previous

Saying he did not allow his life and the lives of his wife and family to be made miserable, the rector declared that he would not preside it any meeting in the parish until he had received. the official records of the past year. and had approved the financial statement and balance-sheet.

LIVING LINK WITH NELSON.

MAN WHO JOINED NAVY 83 YEARS AGO,

"I will fight to the last farthing in the proper courts," the rector

A man who joined the Royal said, "the shameless gossip engen-Navy no less than 83 years ago as dered by the recent canvass of the

an A.B. and left it 40 years later parish to influence this meeting, as a commissioned officer has just I will safeguard for myself and celebrated his 96th birthday. all future rectors of Acton the unimpeded leadership of those who will co-operate with me.

96.24 m.p.h., Miss England II will Stanley was taken to "Bart's," be shipped to Detroit for the where, after his clothes had been British International Trophy race, dried and he had been given a hot which takes place on August 9. drink, he was allowed to leave.

There will be six competitors Sir Henry Segrave's Miss England II, Miss Betty Carstairs' Estelles, and three American boats.

two

CINEMA NOTES.

APPLAUSE PUTS MONEY IN ACTORS POCKETS.

BOY NAVVIES OF PUBLIC SCHOOL.

EXCAVATING TO MAKE NEW

GAMES GROUND..

school.

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"No sooner was the frontier line passed," Major Coulson writes, "than these agents took Reilly off the train and, without even the apology of a trial, riddled his body

German Spies Rounded Up.

roys of Tettenhall Coller, the It sounds easy enough-to earn public school in Staffs, have unwith bullets." your day's wages by doing nothing leraken the task of miving 450 but sit in a theatre set and applauds of sail on land adjoining the upon command.

That's what several hundred extra players did for some days at necessary for the construction of The digging and levelling 19 the United Artists studies in Holly tennis courts and a cricket pitch, wood during the filming of "Puttin' and all the boys composing the on the Ritz", starring Harry Rich-work-ganga have volunteered for man, which is now on the screen at the job. the Queen's Theatre.

The author also relates how it in England, with one exception, was came about that every German spy rounded up on the first night of the war. the Emperor William was on a visit Some time previously, while

to the King, it was observed by Scotland Yard that one of the high German officials left Buckingham Palace to visit a German barber in stands at court and cry, "What Ho! term, when the work was start that incident, the barber was watch- For a number of weeks last the Caledonian-road. Following His Majesty'" at intervals.

They work during the afternoon But the army of extras assert and evening, during what normal they'd rather storm the Bastille or ly might be games time. -

dance all day in a ballroom set or

It was terrifically hot, for one ed, the boys were regularly seened, and it was discovered that he thing, and for another, the in shirts, pullovers, shorts, Ban-was the German Foreign Office's peculiarities of the theatre set nels, or plus-fours, delving gal- { "letter-box." made it necessary to shower dazz-lantly in the sandy soil with ling floods of light into the eyes of spades, shovels and barrows. the spectators at the theatre.

They will carry on with the work "Puttin' on the Ritz", which this term, but it will not be finish He is Mr. James John Mills, of brings the popular Broadway ed in time to use the ground this Beatrice-avenue, Plymouth, and he singer to the screen, features a summer. The headmaster regards recalls vividly the days when number of original songs written the work as valuable training. After the rector had left the sailors received Ed. a day and were for the picture by Irving Berlin. The boys are to accomplish the meeting Mr. J. Stone was nominat-fed on salt pork and biscuits. Edward Sloman directed the pic- clearing of the ground and the ed as rector's warden. Dr. J. Mr. Mills provides a living liakture, and the large supporting cast laying of the courts and pitch Mackey, who Wis re-elected with Nelson, for his first ship was Includes Joan Bennett, James Glea-entirely without professional aid, people's warden, declared that he the San Joseph, 120 guns, which son. Aileen Pringle, Lilyan Tash- the only supervision being that of had been actuated by loyalty to was captured by Nelson from the man, Purnell Pratt, Richard the "foreman" of the gang the church.

Spaniards.

Tucker, Eddie Kane and others. -an assistant master.

The dispute between the rector and the church council is with regard to the allocation of church funds and matters of church dis- elpline. The rector complains that the choirboys were taken to a music hall without his consent and that the sidesmen held a

upper during Lent.

BANNS SCENE IN TWO CHURCHES.

Thrills fell to the lot of this jolly Jack Tar of the "wooden walls of England" which are never likely to happen to his successors of to-day.

He tells of days when floggings were the punishment for the most minor offences.

unbroken

When he spent four and painful hours in the rigging at, night off Cape Horn trying to furl a main topsail which had split.

When his ship-then the Cale- donia-chased a gang of blood- thirsty pirates (who had murdered an English captain and crew), and saw five of them shot on the beach

PARENTS OBJECT TO MINER at Valparaiso,

SON-IN-LAW.

"I protest!" This dramatic interruption oc- curred during a service at Coal ville (Leicester), Parish Church.

It came from the mother of a girl. Linda Bruce, daughter of a Ravenstone constable, the banns of whose marriage to John Dan- vers, a Coalville miner, were be- ing published.

At the same time. P.-c. Bruce was lodging a similar objection at St. Saviour's Church, Leicester..

The vicar of Coalville asked the mother to see him in the vestry after the service.

He also tells of service in the Crimean War, and a time when he went to Smyrna and there superin- stone from the Temple of Diana of tended the excavation of pieces of Ephesus, and their dispatch to the British Museum.

One of these pieces weighed over 11 tons.

When the Great War broke out, this typical old sea dog of Devon asked the Admiralty for permis- sion to do his bit, but his services were not accepted owing to his age.

While people were helping to save a girl assistant whose cloth- ing was on fire in a Liverpool shop. The daughter like her fiance, is others entered and began to clear 21, reiterated who, in an interview, the till and loot the place. This her intention of marrying Dan- fact was revealed at the Inquest vers.

on Marian Bright; age 16, who She said that her parents had died from burns caused by her gone too far with their objections. clothing becoming ignited at a gas Miss Bruce added that they ob-fire. Thomas Flyn; a dock la- Jected to the wedding because her bourer, was commended for dash- fiance was a miner, but she did ing into the shop and flinging his not think that ought to make any coat round the burning girl. difference.

"Well, it can go, another summer without new rigging just as well as your wife can/!....

Through this discovery, the Brl- tish authorities were able to ascer- tain the spics employed by tho German Foreign Office, and at the proper time to put them under lock and key.

The secret service had its amus- ing side. In England the intelll- gence services of the Army and the Navy are separate departments, and one ocension Sir Reginald Hall, the head of the Admiralty In- telligence Service, came into con- tact with a German spy. He de cided to use him.

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The Menace Met.

Wishing to deceive the enemy about a certain naval concentration that was in contemplation, he al- lowed this spy to have access to the false knowledge that the ships were collecting in order to cover a land- ing of troops somewhere between the Ems and the Weser.

The information was duly passed on, and the Germans immediately dispatched several reserve divisions to meet the menace. In the mean- time, the English secret service was not behindhand in detecting this auspicious movement of German troops,

War and the

Office, receiving their reports, decided that the Germans were about to invads this country. Defence plans were drawn up, and it was hot until the Admiralty were consulted that the origin of the "invasion" was die covered.

Having travelled unaccompanied from their home in Canton, Ohio, three lads, Allin, aged sit, Ray aged four, and Jack. Smith, aged two, were met at Liverpool · off the Cunarder Samaria by their uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. W. Cross, of Co. Durham. Their uncle and aunt had never деел the children before, but recognised them readily, by photographis which had been sent on ahead. There is a sad story behind the children's voyage. Their mother died of pneumonia in February, and their father was unable to | take care of them:

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