1935-12-13 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1935,

GLAD WORLD'S MOST TRAGIC POGROM

RAS

Ran Getalshu, tho Abyssinian governor of the province of Sidamo, in a joyful and good-humoured man who enjoys a good laugh.

PROBING SECRET OF COSMIC RAYS

IS UNDER WAY

Plight Of Germany's Outcast Jews

NO HOPE: NO RELIEF

·BUT DEATH

JERMANY enters on her second month of a persecution. without parallel in history-the "cold pogrom" of

Jewry.

Its aim is to banish utterly | ··

| from all communal life 400,000 of

THE NOTARY

A Jewish notary, who lost an arm her people; to succeed where and won the Iron Cross In the war, more than two years of blood-received the order to surrender his ahed, and massacre have failed. seals within twenty-four hours. 'Ho

killed himself.

The state of the Jews in Germany now is worse than it has ever been before in the history of 'their race. There has never been anything quite like it in the his- |tory of the world.

Wealthy Jews are finding it almost as diflicult to flee the coun- try as the poorer ones,

First they must obtain pernila. sion to take their money out. This The physical excesses of 1933 is seldom given, and a Jew is continue. Jews are still murder-lucky if he escapes out of Germany

with 20 per cent. of his money. ed in the concentration camps; they are still beaten in the streets, and are still paraded through the towns with defama

Many want to re to Palestine. But Palestine demands one thou- sand Palestine pounds for every

NEW APPARATUS tory placards round their necks. Jewish Immigrant. Every British

TOBEEMPLOYED

OBSERVATION BY GAS "BOMB"

Now York, Dec. 1. The most concentrated nt- tempt yet made to wrest" from Nature the secret of cosmic rays has opened on a farflung front.

ure seven curious

The micapH now instruments, whose principal mechariam ini 14-inch steel "bomb," in which, shielded against terrestrial radio activity by a зur- rounding jacket of 2,500 pounds of lead shot, pure argon gas will measure cosmic 10y intensities.

Scattered over the lobe, these instruments will trap the cosmic rays which rain on the earth from a source unknown.

But from this month the screw has tightened.

consu) in Germany has a long list of Jews who are waiting for per mission to pay this.

Germany demands that Palestine in return should buy the same amount of German goods. That is why Palestine buys more from Ger-

A Jew is defined under the new laws as a man or woman who has one or more Jewish grandparents, for one who was married to a Jew

when the laws were passed. *.

These people face a future. They are to be deprived of Germany Is cunningly profiting their wealth, their rights-above from her persecuted race. all the right to work, among the

| rest_of_the. German people.

STARS FLEE FROM FIRE

Georgo O'Brien and his-actress-wife, Marguerite Churchill, two members of the famous Malibu Beach film colony, deserted their home when a raging brush fire got out of control and threatened the colony. Thousands fought an 18-mile blaze which raged for two days before being brought under control.

Men Chained Together

For 100 Days Meet.

After 38

38 Years

hopeless many than from Britain. Nazi TWO English men,

They cannot flee with their pro- perty. They must remain in Ger- many. They cannot earn a living.

CANNOT ESCAPE

They cannot marry Aryan Ger- mans or even hybrid Jews. There is nothing they can do except to run round helplessly In circles until they die.

Any individual report his Jewish enemy.or competitor as having been seen in the com- pany of an Aryan woman.

As a result Germany, is fast becoming paradise for the blackmailer.

NO CHILDREN

ative: "At thirty I had a £1,000-a- year position as underwriter in marine" Insurance. I left with

Frenchman, a German,

and a Moroccan Jew were captured by Moors thirty- But German Jewry will not last eight years ago and made to for ever. Suicide, emigration,

for 100 murder, the decrease in marriages, march in chains and the lowering of the birth-rate days. will eventually bring it to an end."

Thousands of Jews, facing this hopeless future, refuse to marry and bring children into such world.

The first census of 1933; taken after the great "exodus,” showed there were 499,682 Jews of German nationality left in Germany. The present figure is only a little more than 400,000. Of these at least half are more than forty-five years old.

One has been installed at the Massachusetts Inrtitute of Techno-

Jewish doctors are being forced logy, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Another is on its way to the brigh to sell, indeed practically to give lunds of Peru, where-it-is-to-be-away, their practices to Aryans.

First-grade milk has been refused erected at the magnetic observa- tory of the Carnegie Institution, ofto Jewish children at Magdeburg. for whom there is no hope in Ger-

Washington, under whose auspices the study is being made.

Other machines will be sent to The the Danish observatory on

An- northern Greenland Icefields. other will go to Now Zealand, and another to the University of Chicago.

All the instruments have been made in Chicago under the direc- tion of Dr. Arthur Compion.

Most elderly Jews shrink from an exile that means starting life over again. The younger generation,- many, have only one wish-to go

At Coburg and Goslar Jews have been refused admission to the abroad.

cinemas,

Since the Third Realm was estab Hshed deaths among German Jews have exceeded births by more than 1,000 a year.

Every day sees the tragedy of a Jewish man who, no longer able to bear Д future of threatening starvation for his family, goes off into the woods and shoots himself. No men-

At this rate, in less than twenty tion of Jewish suicides is allow-years there will be no Jews left in ed in the newspapers.

Jewish emigrants average 12,000 year,

Germany.

1

Last week the two Englishmen met through a London publisher for the first time since their, ad- venture.

SHELTERED BY SHEIK

One of them, Mr. Henry Grey, now in his seventieth year, said to London press representa-

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Born At Bottom Of 40-Foot Well

MOTHER TELLS OF EXPERIENCE

Sanford, N.C., Dec. 10. Mrs. Alton Jourdon, young and husky farm woman who gave birth to a child in the icy water in a 40-foot well, told the story of her experience to day.

£3,000.

"I met a man who said he had a trading concession for Suez, an

unpenetrated and, I then thought, independent, part of Morcero,

"I contributed £1,000 and we net off, nineteen of us.

"We had landed only sixty rifles of the 4,000 we carried, and two of us were on shore when a friend- ly native told as the Moors were coming, and indicated by gestures that they would slit our throats.

"We fled, and were given shelter by a sheik, but two days later he sold us for 200 dollars each to the Moors.

"By now they had also caught

three other of our men, and the five of us were chained together und marched for 100 days across the desert. The chains Unked through"Iron"coltara"round" our necks.

were

At Hatta we were handed over to the Sultan and kept in prison for nine weeks. Then the Sultan handed us to our

consul to be punished.

"There was a trial, and I was sentenced to four months."

men

Pouling their knowledge, the two found that the Frenchman became a beachmaster on the Gold Coast, and is now in charge of a fishing net business; the German, a Prussian Guards offcer, fought Mrs. Jourdon, In the last stages a duel in Egypt and died.

her pregnancy, was drawing

Elizabeth Allen's Name Tried To Hold Up with the with behind her The Moroccan Jew, then acting

Linked In Romance

CLARK GABLE'S DIVORCE

Hollywood, Dec. 1.

CLAR

LARK GABLE and his wife have separated. And one more "Hollywood divorce" is coming. No sooner did reports of the estrangement reach New York than Dame Rumour got busy with rumours.

Clark--who is in New York-át į first said he knew nothing about any separation or divorce. Then he admitted that it was true and said, "I guess it's all my fault."

AS BO many other Hollywood, couples have done at such times, both say, "We shall remain good friends,"

NEW MATE FOR CLARK?

Within twenty-four hours of the Lannouncement of Clark Gable's parting from his wife, New York for him,

A Battleship

New York, Dec. 1. The world's champion op- timist is in chains to-day--- because be tried to hold up a battleship.

George Boyog, aged twen- ty, enlisted as a seaman on board the American warship California. He often worked around the paymaster's office, and the clink of money got on his nerves.

This morning he tried to hold up the paymaster, al- though the ship was miles at sea

150

water from well

husband's farmhouse, 12 miles as interpreter, has become a guide west of here. Jourdon and two in Casablanca, married, and has other men were working in a near-ten children.

by field. Suddenly she felt faint and tumbled down the 40 foot shaft, she said. She could not estimate the depth of the water or remember whether hier feet touched bottom. "When I bent over the well," she said, "everything went black. The next think I remember was being In the cold water, trying to keep afloat. Soon there were two of us and I had to keep up."

DOUBLOONS

IF ANY- "OUTLAWED

Any treasure-seeker wha' un- Mrs. Jourdon began crying out when she struck the water, she earthed a pirates' hoard of doub- said. She did not know how long loons could have paid his hotel it was before her husband and the bill with those coins in the West field workers came and pulled her Indies up to the time of King out together with her seven pound, Edward VII. nine ounce boy baby

A proclamation was then made Jourdon said that so far as ho by which they ceased to be cur

gossip was finding a new partner NEW BID TO FLY could tell, his wife was in the well roncy or legal tender. The King

beth Allan, the twenty-five-year- The name mentioned was Eliza-

old English 'actress, who went to Hollywood nearly three years ago, and is at present, like Gable, in | ^. New York.

Neither of them would discuMA |

Mrs. Gable says the trouble is that Clark le "hard to live with." As you might guess from his films, he profers life in the great-out- doors-hunting, shooting, riding-the matter to-day. to domesticity.

The present Mrs. Gable is Mrs. Clark Gable No. 2. She on the stage before the

was

Mr. W. J. O'Bryon, Miss Allan's English flm agent husband, said

TO AUSTRALIA

PILOT WITH LESS THAN 100 HOURS" EXPERIENCE

to a London press representative three-scater Klemm

"I know nothing about it. My wife owned by his father,

45 minutes. Its depth, he said, now proclaims In the "London wha "several" feet.

Guzatte" that "the several aub- Mrs. Jourdon, in the local hospi- divisions of the doubloon" shall tal, is recovering rapidly. Her conso to be legal tender from baby is normal and healthy, Dr. J. December 31 next.

F. Foster, a country physician sald. Sir Algernon Aspinall, of the Ho took charge of the case afterWest India Committee, said yes- Mrs. Jourdon and the child were terday that the King's proclama transported here in the back sont tion is intended merely to put the a small automobile over 12 miles of affairs of currency in legal order. Another England-Australia flight rough, country road immediately

"Actually," he said, "I have not is to be attempted by a young after her experience. ... Australian pilat.

Dr. Foster said she was suffering acen a doubloon for years and Mr. R. W. Gropter is to fly from cold and shock when admitted years."

But if you ever find an old map monoplane to the hospital. Jourilon had been

afraid to attempt to administer to traced in blood and Indicating a Is In New York waiting for the Last September Mr. Gropler, her or the child beyond wrapping spot 25 yards east of the hibiscus Langham. Age-a few years 0.K. from the studio before Senr., cabled Airwork, Ltd., at Hes-both in blankets and applying hot treo, go ahead and dig with con

fidence. older than Clark, who is thirty-sailing for England. She is com- tom, to buy the machine for him, atones to his wife's feet.

No London bus conductor would four.

ing home for a holiday with me."adding that he would send his son "It's a very interesting case," Dr.

Foster said. "Of course, what accept a doubloon in payment for Asked if there was any truth in to fetch It. Mrs.

Mr. Groplur, Jar, has how. ar-medical acience.has learned from a penny faro, but doubloons, the reports of a divorce between them, which have appeared from rived and intends to set off before it will hardly be of great use, as which are Spanish and Spanish- time to time for the past year, he the now-year He has less this is probably the first and last American coins, équivalent to a said emphatically None what-than 100 hours' experience, of solo Instance of a child birth in a 40 double pistole, are well worth

foot well."-United Press,

their weight in gold

marriage. Maiden name-Rita

WAB

Clark Gable No. 1 Josephine Dillon, dramatic coach, Their marriage ended-in divorce Just about the time that Clark Gabia roso to Bm stardom. -

ever"

flying."

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