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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY,

SEPTEMBER 11,

1935.

HONEYMOON SHELF REMOVED

IN LONDON HIDEOUT

Have Crushed

He Might

Hitler

LORD TRENCHARD

DR.

OF REPUBLICAN

GERMANY

R. I. BERNHARD WEISS, the Lord Trenchard of Re- publican Germany, and the man who might have stopped Herr Hitler's rise to power, is running a little printing business in Lon don.

As head of the Political Police Department of Republican Ger- many he was responsible for law and order during the civil war of 1932.

Dr. Weiss, war officer, holder of the Iron Cross, First Class (the German V.C.), appointed to the police by the Kaiser, is a Jew.

Dr. Goebbels seized on this to make him the principal object of attack.

"This man is a symbol of the Republic," he cried. "When he falls the Republic is at an end!”

WAR ON RACKETEERS

At Niagara Falls, the Table Rock-the favourite spot for Niagara Honeymooners-was recently blasted. This was necessitated by the sudden appearanca of a 200-foot fiaaurs in the rock. The photo

was taken during one of the explosions:

When Herr Hitler triumphed WAR DECLARED

WAR DECLARED ON

the Nazis deprived their old enemy of his nationality and his property and sent him into exile.

'No Criticism

There was no sympathy for an "old school" civil servant who und tried to do his duty, repressing Communist riuts with the samo impartiality a he imprisoned Storm Troopers in the civil war.

Yot Dr. Weiss

refused

PESTS THAT KILL MILLIONS OF MEN

INSECTS THAT CAUSE ENORMOUS DAMAGE

criticise. This successors, OnlyOVERNMENT scientists from all parts of the Empire trusted friends know his address are to meet in London this month for the Imperial

in England.

"Journalists from all over the world have tried to interviews me," ho said.

"They know that in my brain are locked the secrets of the Nazis' rise to power.

Entomological Conference.

war.

The conference will be a council of Throughout the world mankind is constantly engaged in a life-and-death struggle with thousands of different kinds of insects. Every year these winged enemies inflict heavy casualties among their human anta- gonists, and untold wealth is lost as a result of their ravages among crops and all manner of materials. The experts from the Empire's medical departments, agricul- | 66T The short, dapper tle man tural laboratories, and insect-; with the black, crinkly hair, the control staffs, will discuss fresh

"I am the only man in the position to say which of the republican leaders were respon- sible for the collapse. I NOW the whole struggle. from the

inside."

"Exotic"

dark face, and familiar fentares measures to be taken in the fight Modern

Ho often caricatured by Dr. Goeb

bels in Nazi newspapers smiled a sad smile.

"My Country"

"I refused to see them.

no wish to talk." he said.

-against locusts in particular.

The cost of combating these Music

pests in the Union of South

I had Africa alone is nearly £2,000,000

a year; it is money well and

a few

"I still regard Germany as my necessarily spent, for in country. I am a former civil ser-hours locusts will despoil crops vant. It is not right that I should and plantations worth many attack the representatives of what, | £150,000,000 annually. ~

after all, remains my country.

man Government I should consider myself traitor to, my code of honour.

"I am not afraid of the Nazis here in England. When I was chief of police I feared nothing Why should I be afraid?"

Dread Tsetse Fly

Beet-borne diseases is still great in spite of the extensive efforts made in recent years along the

Merchant Navy War Epic

GERMAN ACCOUNT OF HEROIC DUEL IN AZORES

How

a British merchantman mounting a single 4.7in gun of old pattern, fought and all but destroyed a heavily- armed German raider, is now told for the first time from the German point of view,

the Moewe. The raider was Her then gunnery officer, L.- Cmdr. Hermann Jung, writes in a German naval monthly of his ship'a fierce duel with the steamer Olaki, owned by the New Zealand Shipping Co.

On March 10, 1917, the Moewe, commanded by Count zu Dohna-

New York Scares

Its Gunmen

75 MEN RECRUITED TO STAMP THEM

OUT

New York, Aug. 30, NEW YORK has declared

war on its racketeers. A special department has been formed to rid the city of le gangs of former bootleggers and gunmen who, by terrorism and threats, exact tribute indirectly from nearly every citizen.

There is hardly n trade or occu- pation that is free from racketeer- Ing..

If a New Yorker has a suit pressed part of the money ho pays is probably paid into the pockets of criminals.

Even when he is buried his family are likely to be helping to feather the nest of a handful of gun-carrying crooks.

Chicago has practically clear- ed Itself of the racketeering scourge. Now the principal racketeers are working in New York City.

Laundries Pay Tribute

One of the most profitable of all is the laundry racket. A body of gangstera have formed themselves Into a "Laundry Protective Asso- clation."

Every Inundry has to pay tribute to the association by a percentage of its takings. The "protection" they receive in exchango is protec-

on from the association itself.

or

If a laundryman refuses to pay, a bomb is flung inte his washroom,

his delivery wagons are overturned; or per. haps an employee or two "are killed.

The cleaning, dyeing and press ing Industry also has its "prolec- tive association."

By bombing, slugging and or ganising strikes among employees, the gangsters have gained such an ascendancy over the Industry that New Yorker has to pay six

Dance Schlodien, was returning from a shillinge to have his auit cleaned three-mouths raiding cruise, and at least two shillings of that goes into the pockets of the mem-- She was 21 converted mer-bers of the association. chantman and carried four 5.9in, A few interrupted funerals, one 4.1in and two 22pr. guns, be the disappearance of bodles In sides torpedo tubes.

their coffins, and a death or two among undertakers' employees have brought undertakers into the power of another group of crooks.

PERNICIOUS EFFECT

WA

ON CHILDREN JARNING against "the per- nicious effect of certain types of exotic modern dance

When 350 miles east of St. Miguel in the Azores the Bloewe sighted the Otaki, a freighter of some D.- 000 tons, in ballast from London to New York. She was commanded by Lt. Archibald Bisset Smith, R.N.R., and had a crew of 71. only naval rating on board was a Royal Ficct Reservist.

The

The Moowe signalled the Otaki to heave to, but Capt. Smith pald no attention. He held on his course

Newsboys Not Exempt Even newsboys have to pay the racketeers, for the privilege of Joccupying their street

pitches.

corner

In the labour unions there is another opportunity.

Gangsters

at his best speel, which was 18 are making fortunes by the same

.

trade int

methods of terrorism.

cortuin "Leaders" of unlons compel employees various industries to belong to their organisation.

"When I fought the Nazis I did Plans for continuing the cam- music on the immature minds of so in my official capacity.

"If I attacked the present Ger-paign against the tsetse-ly-that children," was uttered by Dr. R. dread carrier of diseases fatal to S. Thatcher, director of music man and beast-and the mosquito at Harrow School, at

con- will also be studied. Loss of ference of British and Canadian human life and health dtte to in organists in London recently,

Parents who encouraged it, he said might just as well hang knots. their walls with indelicate pic-

The Fight Begins tures, line their bookshelves with doubtful literature, and The 4.7in gun at the stern was parties were read their children doubtful cleared

If the worker refuses to join, lie stories just before they went mustered, and everything mado to sleep.

ready for a desperate, resistance. can either stop working or risk understand the significance of the fred across her bows, the Mocwe alley,

Admittedly, the child would not As the British ship ignored a shot being hit on the head in a dark If he joins, he is forced to pay stories, er the pictures, or the music, opened on her with two Gin and

gunlayers of the German navy,

EVEN ENGLAND HAS ITS MUI TSAI!

nes of insect-control.

the

In India, especially, death-roll is alarmingly high. One of the worst year was 1921, when about 1,600,000 deaths occurred.

away, fro

The amount of damage done by crop and forest pests in India, and BRITISH BABIES WHO [by insects that attack cattle ts | but it would be difficult to persuade one 4.1in guns, served by picket absurd dues to "union founds."

ARE SOLD ABROAD

make themselves felt.

"Silly Words, Poor Harmony"!

enormous. The losses they enuse oneself that certain subtle, harmful are reckoned to be more than influences, would not eventually London, Aug. 28.

£150,000 annually. Investigations by the London

Insects rob Canada of about police have brought to light a £25,000,000 a year, and the United scandalous traffic in British States of £100,000,000. In 1930 children. It has been discovered that the maize stalk borer Inflicted on "adoption agencies exist in growers a loss of £2,750,000.

It has been estimated that fully England with their agents abroad,

10 per cent. of the world's total for adopting children and selling crops of all kinds in either devour them on the Continent.

The dealers in this notarloused or spoiled by insects..

ly.

sold.

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This power over the workers gives the racketeer another big stick with which to threaten em- Then the enemy's 6in shells be- gan to drive home. Two pierced ployers. At a moment's notice he can call a strike If an em- the hull below the gun, but it re-

to

for ployer refuses

pay Dr. Thatcher made it clear that mained in action and soon scored he referred to the exotic type of a hit on the Moewe's waterline for-

"protection," The heads of these racketeering TIE first time you make up for dance music in which every in-ward. The shell burst, well inside, strument, by vitiation or by per-killing two men and blowing large organisations are wealthy men. version, set out deliberately to utter holes in the hull under water. They live in expensive apartments the evening, your face is clean sounds that it was least intended to This hit nearly scaled the raider's and penthouses in the best part of and sweet. Your skin looks Its make," and which was made worse doem, for the sea poured into the the town; drive luxurious motor loveliest Wouldn't you like it to when a singer deliberately made his ship and she took a list of 16 de-cars, and live like royalty..

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Dr. S. A. Neave, assistant di tones appropriate to the music. grees to port, besides being down It is estimated that they exact

he declared. "But I am

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population of 450,000,000 could be is any worse than the drivel that times before she scored another hit organisation of seventy-fivò special It is generally considered, until supported by the same effort as used to be put on by dance bands on the Meowe's signal deck. She investigators under the command you left the mirror.

20 years ago. To-day the words followed this up by putting a shell of a they can prove to the contrary, la now exerted.

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are silly and the harmony poor, into the raider's coal bunkers. A Thomas Dowey, has been formed This month's Continental families who by the

conference is but no worse than those of 30 years violent explosion followed, and the to wipe them out.

fire in the bunkers could not be Hitherto victims have been too laws of their own country are belag organised by the Imperial ago." unable to adopt native children. Institute of Entomology.

subdued. All that night the raider frightened to report to the police. But it is feared that further in- "This Institute forms, as one tame a few insects-notably the lay helpless. Cmdr. Jung writes:

the bees and made use of them for vestigation will prove that these might say, the G.H.Q., of

Expected To Blow Up unscrupulous dealers will not scientific forces fighting the Insect various purposes; but if we relax- besitate to sell children to people menace," Dr. Neavo said."

Aru

New Dewey has built an office with five cutrances, two stair- ways and a private lift. It will ed the war against our insect="gy every moment we expected"

be impossible for two witnesses "Every year thousands

more enemies they would quickly get other to sink or to blow up. The of bad character who may want

to meet each other face to face. species of insect enemies are en- the upper hand. to use them na unpaid drudges.

It is expected that this will give deck beneath our feet grew hot, and Following the registration of countered, and specimens

"Only Holding Our Own".

bulkheads and part of the hull plat-victims enough courage to tell births, agents visit the mothers caught and sent to us. Here we "As it is, we are but holding ing glowed with fierce heat. Our tholt stories.

of the emaller of illegitimate children and identify them and send informa our own in the fight.

position was desperate. It took us Numbers make tempting offers for the in-tion about them all over the Em-

"One has always to remember two days to extinguish the fire and racketeers have already vanished. fants.

pire, with advice as to the best what amazing powera of repro- stop the leaks. In spite of our 8 to Two of the "big ahots" are ready No hint is given to the mother methods of dealing with them. I ducing themselves insects possess. 1 superiority in armament (actually to leave the country, and settlo as to the fate of her child, she is am sure the publie cannot realise and to realise how astonishingly 6 to 1) the Otaki had come within down in Europe until the inves led to believe that her caller re- what a stupendous number of able they are to adapt themselves a hairbreadth of putting an end to tigations are over. be to varying conditions."

preparing to flee to Florida and presents

adoption different insects have fo genuine society.

fought. Why, Insects represent Dr. Neave declared that if their The Otaki want down with her set up business there.

Dewey in determined to bring There is no law to provent the 60 per cent, of the Ilving creatures natural enemies Birds and cer- colours lying. Capt. Smith, having

tain Insects-censed to exist, the ordered his men into the boats, re-them to justice, if necessary, in the child from being transferred to in the world.

awarded They represent, too, man's green fly and similar pests commnined. He Was

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