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THE HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1935.

IN LONDON HIDEOUT

He Might

Have Crushed

Hitler

LORD TRENCHARD

OF REPUBLICAN GERMANY

DR. 1. 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 ho 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: .Jow.

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!''

HONEYMOON SHELF REMOVED

WAR ON RACKETEERS

At Niagara Falls, the Table Rock-the favourite spot for Niagara Haneymooners-was recently blasted. This was necessitated by the sudden appearance of a 200-foot fissure in the rock. The photo was taken during one of the explosions.

When Herr Hitler triumphed WAR DECLARED ON Merchant

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 knd tried to do his tuty, repressing Communist riots with the same impartiality HS be imprisoned | Storm Troopers In the civil war.

Yel Dr. Weisa refused. to criticise his successors.

trusted friends know his address

in England.

"Journalists from all over the

world have tried to Interview me," he said..

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

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

PESTS THAT KILL MILLIONS OF MEN

INSECTS THAT CAUSE ENORMOUS DAMAGE GOVERNMENT scientists from all parts of the Empire are to meet in London this month for the Imperial Entomological Conference.

The conference will be a council of war. 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-61

The short. dapper little man iural laboratories, and insect- with the black, crinkly hair, the control staffs, will discuss fresh

"Exotic"

Navy War Epic

GERMAN ACCOUNT OF HEROIC DUEL IN AZORES

HOW

New York

Scares

Its Gunmen

75 MEN RECRUITED TO STAMP THEM

OUT

New York, Aug. 30, ATEW YORK has declared

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

There le hardly a trade or occu- pation that is free from racketeer- ing.

If a Now Yorker has a suit pressed part of the money he 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 Acourge. 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 gangsters have, formed themselves into a "Laundry Protective 'Ango ciation."

Every Inundry has to pay tribute a British merchantman, to the association by a percentage mounting a single 4.7in of its takings. The "protection" gun of old pattern, fought andhey receive in exchange is protec

tion from the association itself. all but destroyed a heavily. armed German raider,. is now told for the first time from the German point of view.

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

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

if a laundryman refuses to pay, a bomb is flung into his washroom, or his delivery wagons are overturned; or fer- haps an employee or two are killed.

The cleaning, dyeing and press- ing Industry also has Ita "protec tive association."

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

dark face, and familiar features mensures to be taken in the fight Modern Dance Schlodien, was returning from a shillings to have his suit cleaned

so often caricatured by Dr. Goebagainst locusts in particular. bels in Nazi newspapers smiled a sad smile.

**My Country"

"I refused to see them. I hat no wish to talk," he said.

The cost of combating these Ipests in the Union of South

Africa alone is nearly £2,000,000 a year; it is money well and

"I still regard Germany as my necessarily spent, for in a few

country, I am a former civil ser-hours locusts will despoil crops

Music

PERNICIOUS EFFECT

ON CHILDREN

vant. It is not right that I should and plantations worth many WARNING against "the per-

attack the representatives of what,, £150,000,000 annually. after all, remains my country.

"When I fought the Nazis I did

so in my official capacity.

"If I attacked the present Ger-

#

con-

three-months' raiding cruise, She was # converted mer- chantman and carried four 5.91n, one 4.1in mid two 22pr. guns, be sides torpedo tubes.

When 350 miles east of St. Miguel In the Azores the Moewe sighted

the Otaki, a freighter of some 9- 000 tons, in ballast from London to New York. She was commanded by Lt. Archibald Bisset Smith, RN.R., and had a crew of 71. The only naval rating on board was a Royal Fleet Reservist.

and at least two shillings of that goes into the pockets of the mem- bers of the association.

A few interrupted funerals, the disappearance of bodies in their coffins, and a death or two among undertakers employees have brought undertakers into the power of another group of crooks.

Newsboys Not Exempt Even newsboys have to pay the racketeers for the privilege of occupying their street pitches.

corner

nigious effect of certain Dread Tsetse Fly

types of exotic modern dance Plans for continuing the cum music on the immature minds of against the tsetse--that children," was uttered by Dr. R. tread carrier of diseases fatal to S. Thatcher, director of music man Government I should consider man and bens-and the mosquito at Harrow School, at

to my code of will also myself a traitor

he studied. Loss

The Moowo signalled the Otaki

In the labour unious there is honour.

ference of British and Canadian "I am not afraid of the Nazis life and health due to in-organists in London recently.

to heave to, but Capt. Smith paid another opportunity, Gangsterk seet-borne diseases is still great

no attention. He held on his course are making fortunes by the same here in England. When I was

Parents who encouraged it, at his best speed, which was 15 methods of terrorism. chief of police I feared nothing. in spite of the extensive efforts

he said might just as well hang knuts.

"Leaders" made in recent years along the

of certain trade Why should I be afraid???

their walls with indelicate pic- lines of insect-control.

unions compel employees in tures, line their bookshelves with doubtful literature, and

The 4.7in gun at the stern was various industries to belong to read their children doubtful | cleared

away, fire parties were their organisation..

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

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

Admittedly, the child would not As the British ship ignored a shot being hit on the head in a dark

jalley. stories, or the pictures, or the music, opened on her with two Sin and

If he joins, he is forced to pay

EVEN ENGLAND HAS ITS MUI TSAI!

ARE SOLD ABROAD

children,

that

It has been discovered ""adoption" agencies exist England with their agents abroad, for adopting children and selling

them on the Continent.

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

WAB

The Fight Begins

This power over the workers gives the racketeer another big stick with which to threaten em- ployers. At a moment's notice he can call a strike if on em- ployer refuses. to pay

for "protection."

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"Silly Words, Poor Harmony"

gan to drive home. Two pierced scandalous traffic in British States of £100,000,000. la 1930 he referred to the exotic type of a hit on the Moewe's waterline for- the hull below the gun, but it re- Dr. Thatcher made it clear that mined in action and soon scored the maize stalk borer inflicted on dance music "In which every inward. The shell burst well inside, growers a loss of £2,750,000.

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Dr. S. A. Neave, assistant di- tones appropriate to the music.

when a singer deliberately made his ship and she took a list of 15 de cara, and live like royalty.

grees to port, besides being down It is estimated that they exact stay that way? At the moment the investiga-Entomology, has pointed out that, before heard crooners called singers. and for a time she was in danger the people of New York

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are silly and the harmony poor, into the raider's coal bunkers. A Thomas Dewey, has been formed special proseciltor, MF. Continental families who by the This month's conference Is but no worse than those of 30 years violent explosion followed, and the to wipe them out. laws of their own country are being organised by the Imperial ago." unable to adopt native children. Institute of Entomology.

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Expected To Blow Up

Hitherto victims have been too frightened to report to the police. Now Dewey has built an offied with five entrances, two stair- -ways-and a private lift. It will be impossible for two witnesses to meet each other face to face. It is expected that this will give victims enough courage to toli their stories. Numbers

tho of

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But it is feared that further in-. "This institute forms, as one tame a few Insects-notably the vestigation will prove that these might say, the G.H.Q., of the bocs-and made use of them for unscrupulous dealera will not scientiae forces fighting the Insect various purposes; but if wo relax- hesitate to sell children to people menace," Dr. Ntavo said. of bad character who may want "Every year thousands

either to sink or to blow up. The "At every moment we expected to use them as unpaid drudges. specion of insect enemies are en-

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bulkheads and part of the hull plat- "As it is, we are but holding ing glowed with fierce heat. Our of illegitimate children and identify them and send informa- our own in the fight.

position was desperate. It took us make tempting offers for the in- tion about thom all over the En- "One has always to remember two days to extinguish the fire and racketeers have already vanished. fants.

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