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THE HONGKONG

EUROPE IN GRIP

FOUR-HOUR DUEL WITH U-BOAT

EPIC OF MERCHANT NAVY

SHIP SINKS RATHER THAN SURRENDER How an unarmed British merchant steamer defied a German submarine for four hours, refusing to surrender even when she was shattered by shell fire and most of her officers lay dead, is now told for the first time by the com- manding officer of the U-

boat concerned, Capt. G. von

TELEGRAPH

MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 1936.

MANIA

SPY OF

Master Minds Relegate Women To Minor Roles

Forstner, in a German pub- Search For Health- lication. The adds a

BATT. ROYAL ULSTER Int. RIFLES marching through Alexan dria. This was the battallon's last public appearance before embarking for Hongkong.

glorious page to the history BRINGS EMPLOYMENT

of Britain's merchant navy.

TO THE WORKLESS

·

....

AGENTS ARE ALL IN DEADLY EARNEST

Vienna, Dec. 21.

The spy organizations of Europe, especially those under the direct control of the big powers, are working under great pressure trying to unravel the plots and counter-plots which are developing around the Italo-Ethiopian war.

At no time since the World War, when the capitals of both the fighting and neutral nations were overrun with men and wo- men-operators for the intelligence services, hus espionage activity been in such full blast or in such deadly earnest.

The beautiful blondes or brunettes, the post-war imitators of the glamorous Mata Hari, who died at the shooting post at Vin- cennes fortress before a French firing aquad, no longer are the -central figures in the international spy-ring, because the work to be done to-day is for the mastorminds alone who themselves have the political and diplomatic game at their fingertips and know the significance of every move.

The women spies employed by ngonts are now stationed in capitals are throughout Central and Eastern the European governmenta usually seductive "femmes fatales" Europe, which figure so large in the who wore charged with enticing game Italy is playing against Ita young officers into thoir colls to enemies to obtain friendship and extract secrets about defence, about support to defeat the effects of the new war weapons or new milltary financial and economic blockade en- forced by the League of Nations in tactics.

an effort to bring Benito Mussolin!

power

"In March, 1915," writes Capt.. von Forstner, "when cruising off the Scilly Isles in Submarine U 28,

The search for health and happiness is providing Britain with we fell in with an English steamer one of its most thriving industries; and providing employment for tween the chancelleries as

bound for Cardif. apparently There was a strong south-westerly thousands of men and girls in new factories. wind and a heavy sea was running. Instead of obeying our signals to beave-to the steamer. Increased spoed and fired rockets to summon help.

STONE AGE MAN FOUND WRACKED BY RHEUMATISM

London, Dec. 287 Even in the stone age, some 4,000 years ago,

Britons suffered from rheumatism.

"We therefore opened on her with a shell vur gun, and very soon crashed into her near the bridge.

This was shown by the skeleton Sho responded to this by holating British coloura as a algn that she of a stone age man dug up in recent was ready to accept battle, and at excavations at Notgrove long barrow, the name moment swung round in the Cotswold Hills, in the west of an attempt to ram us. We coun-England. This stone age

over.

veteran

felipp wike this as a sign that!

Last year the output of sports requisites, games, and toys from the British factorles was worth

more than £6,000,000.

300,000 BATS

Six hundred and Afty housand tennis rackets were manufactured, more than 300,000 cricket bats, and 550,000 golf clubs.

showed extensive signs of osteoarthri tered this by putting our own heimtis, indicating that when alive he was

with rheumatism.

of these enses was: FLAG KEPT FLYING

inles WAS at

Golf. Balls £600,000; - "The English captain no doubt the climate of these

Tennis rackets, £555,000; cricket nbserved the difficulties under which least as chillsame in winter as it ta our gun's crew had to work. Time to-day. Those present-day Cockneys and again one of them would be who have been apprised of this dis-bats, £120,000; golf clubs, £306;- swept overboard by the sens break-overy were glad to know that they 000; hockey sticks, £43,000.

the only sufferers from

not

ing across the U-boat's deck, but rheumalism, or "the screws," as they they were always hauled back again call it.aited Prean. hy the stout nos which secured them to the gun. Although shell after shell crashed into the steamer the English captain did not aban- don his hope of ramming us.

"One of our shells cut the

POLYGAMY SIN OR

steamer's ensign staff and blew RELIGIOUS

the flag overboard. Instantly she hoisted another Union Jack

at the foremast head. When this also was carried away by a shell the indomitable captain ~hoisted new colours which fluttered proudly from a signal yard "This duel lasted above four hours, the steamer continually try-

ing to ram us, while we pumped

shells into her. In some places her

ISSUE RAISED IN MORMON CASE New York, Dec. 20. TWELVE simple coun-

to terms.

Favourite Resorts

To-day it in the intelligence ser- vlee itself which is at work, trying to pierce through the veil which has been bung around the. diplo

The capitals of the former each Austro-Hungarian Empire, Vienna matic and secret negotiations be-

tries to jockey itself into and Budapest, are favourite centres the most favourable position either for foreign spies, because so much on the side of the Italian bloc or that is vital to the future of Europe the anti-Italian bloc led by Britain may occur in these cities, Mussolini underground, what the governments and half-heartedly supported by wishes to know what is going on along the Danube Valley are think- ing and planning; Hitler, too, keeps Too Crim For Females

his hand on the pulse of the Their task is too grimly German-speaking neighbours of the serious and technical for female Nazi state, while France and Britain obviously do not wish to be agents.

France.

here.

a

There were 100,000 hockey The full force of the capionage kept in the dark about happenings silcks, 3,000 croquet sets, 14-effort is, naturally, centred in] The activities of the political 400,000 golf balls, 15,006,000 tennis balls, and 16,000,000 Italy Mysterious travellers pass

from Rome across the frontiers to spies, although elevated to robber balls of various kinds.

to their more important role during the convey their messages The value of the output in some governments, or send what appears past few months, does not mean to be simple business messages that the normal espionage ser. through the normal telegraphic or vice has ceased functioning. cable channels.

More To Forrot Out In this manner the foreign of- fices of the important powers are Men and women apics continue close to try, apart from the higher. in- Tennis balls accounted for £500.- | assured that their ears are 000; other rubber balls £125,000; to the sources of inner information, telligence officers, to ferret out footballs, leg guards, leather wherefore they will not be taken by military, naval and air secrets of gloves, etc., £600,000.

surprise by. any carefully planned, rival powers. From the Kremilu to Downing Street, from the Quai Fishing tackle was valued at sensational developmod

the Wilhelmstrasac, d'Orsay £250,000, and billiard and bagatelle

these agents pass their information tables at £250,040.

in growing volume.

But Italy is not the only centro of spy activity. The intelligence

OMEN OF A BRITISH MUSEUM MUMMY

SOMETHING queer and mysterious has just happened in con- nection with the age-old mummy of an Egyptian priestess, Amen Ra, which reposes in the British Museum. Its features suddenly became quite bright.

then she said: "There is evil shadow a further period of acti- here."

Does this phenomenon fore=[]

try jurymen to-day retired to decide whe-vity on the part of the priestess? change in the

hull was riddied and numerous ther the early principles as the

nummy's features any link with her power in such things.

fires were raging. These the crew and passengers were striving to of Mormonism were re-the trend of events in Cairo to- -extinguish.

GERMAN'S TRIBUTE "Owing to the violent niovements

ligious or sinful.

[day?

A SCOFFER Mme. Blavatsky prided herself on The lady sold at once this time to a scoffer who had no fears. He Though such a suggestion may sent the sinister object to be photo-j For a week a fifty-year-old far-meet with scepticism, these quesgraphed.

When he saw the prints he was with horror: the faded of the U-boat in the heavy sen we mer. 1. C. Spencer, lender of a tions are being seriously asked.

For scientists to-day are occupy-filled were unable to deal the steamer flock of polykamists practising death-blow by hitting her on the their belief in the fastnesses of the ing themselves with the mystery of features were faded no more: waterline. But the water which Arizona mountains, has been on the power of inanimate objects to living, ghantly face looked out at Since then No. 22,542 has reposed entered through the many shot trial at Kingman for violating the influence the living. holes as she rolled was

in the British Muscume

the causing her to list badly.

To the casual visitor to British Museum the mummy lid of!

already

"By now enemy destroyers were coming up at high speed, so we had to leave the stricken steamer to her fate. So impressed was I by the extraordinary gallantry of this English captain, whose conduct was above all praise, that I wrote the following in my war diary im- mediately after the action:

marriage laws.

}

A PRINCESS

Nó. 22,542 wax, it seems,

him.

come active,

*

ما

They have more to convey than aver before, as all the nations are i now arming and secretly perfect- ing war inventions.

At present it is believed that the famous French "Deuxieme Bureau" --or Second Bureau-which is charged with informing the French, government on foreign military activity, is the best informed on the development of war inventions in Germany.

Germany And France The German agents are mainly concerned, as they have been for yeara, in spying out the definite plana of the French system of forts along the Rhine frontler.

The British intelligence ser- vice, working from both the Foreign Office and Scotland- Yord, is now bringing into play it naval spies because Britain's are in- preoccupations now creasingly

directed toward naval power-United Press

MAY SAIL IN

QUEEN MARY

The defence lawyers have

No. 22,642 they call Amen Ra in admitted that Spencer and his the British Museum, and she is not flock lived for years in plural even a complete mummy.

the Egyptian priestess is merely a THE ' QUEEN Examine this lid of a mummy faded picture of a frail and gentle, wedlock. "It is their opinion," they said, "that heaven may be case and you can discern, through maid.

Perhaps No. 22,542 does not ap- gained by adding to the num-the faded colours, the faint outline

of a slant-eyed face. ber of earthly mates:"

Egyptologists have unravelled the prove of the Cairo riots. Perhaps, during the next few months, the JUDGE DID NOT CARE

will be invited to sail in the Judgo Faulkner did not care, story of this princess, whose princess, who was also a priestess IT is understood that the Queen Cunard-White Star liner to If, contrary to expectation, He ruled that religion could not be balmed body is lost, but whose of Amen Ra, is again going to be-

If so, she will not be alone. The which she gave her name... his severely damaged ship made the cause for a brazen offence features look out from the lid of her

against the State's marriage aummy case,

Official consideration of the most reaches part, the captain, by statutes.

favourable opportunity for the his plucky conduct, will have "My father lived in polygamy," priestess in the Temple of the all-ghost of Tutankhamon is apparently

Egyptian legend laid a death- Queen's visit to the ship is now earned the reward offered by declared Spencer in evidence, with powerful good Amen-Ra, at Thebes, also on the prowl.

Sixteen hundred years before the his Government.'

the fervour of a prophet. "They this taught

me that the principle is coming of Christ she walked beside curse on all those who helped Mr. taking place. It is expected that final stages of the liner's trials and "We heard, tater that

Professor James H. Breasted, the immediately before the, maiden steamer, the Vosges, had gone down sacred, I fervently believe in poly--the Nile, tended the mysteries of Howard Carter to excavate the tomb the invitation will be made for the

coming of the Pharaohs. soon after we left her, but not bogamy to-day, and I am surely proud her altar. trombled before the of this king at Luxor. fore the survivors had been taken I have been living in plural mar- It was at Thebeas that an English eminent archeologist, assisted at voyage to New York, which begina The Queen has sailed in large off by patrol vessels. All her off-riage." cers except the captain had beer "Have you been living with traveller and collector spotted this the excavation. He laughed the on May 27.

Jancient fragment of a forgotten cure to scorn.

Now, only six months after his passenger liners only twice before: killed, besides several of the sea- Sylvia Allred?" asked the lawyer Egyptian tomb and bought it for a marriage, he has been stricken un-aa Duchess of York to Australia in

"Yes," said Spencer. "I have men and passengers. Some of the

accountably with tropical malaria, the Ophir in 1901 and to India in latter had helped to stoke the lived with her in Mexico and Ari- zona. I have four sons by her, and

Durbar of 1911. furnaces.".

His condition is giving rise to grave the Medina for the Coronation The master of the British ship I have had nine children by what referred to is Capt. John R. Green. you call my legal wife Lydia."

FAME: THE QUINS' DOCTOR

DR.

IS IN "WHO'S WHO":

R. ALLAN ROY DAFOE, of Callander, Ont., has become so world famous because of his five small patients, the Dionne Quintuplets, that he appears in the 1936 edition of "Who's Who," just published.

His blography tells us that he Now

song,

ARM SHATTERED

On his way down to Cairo his arm was shattered by a gun.

In Cairo he decided to sell his!

anxiety.

relic to a friend. He had taken R. A. F. Record

sudden dislike to it.

A week later that friend-received

a cable from which he learned that FLEW 3,839 HOURS, HAD

ho had lost his entire fortune. In

three weeks he was dead,

The sinister relic next passed to another Englishman. Soon after,

ha died in poverty. The next;

a word about the Quins owner was the victim pa shooting

is fifty-two; that his father was a (from Reuter). They are at pre-accident.

Next the curious relle was found

birth May 28, 1934, is an 0.B.E.,

NO ACCIDENTS

Official figures just issued by the Air Ministry show that more than 360 bombers and fighters of the R.A.F. flew a million miles

in 3.839% bours without accident during the summer air exercises, doctor before him; that he has one sent working on the film of their in the collection of a London lady

This is the sixth successive year son; has been in charge of the own lives and getting £10,000 aher Inbest acquisition. From the Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, air. Dionne Quintuplets since their wock for it.

day of its purchase misfortunce officer commanding, was able to re-in which the R.A.F. have gone They have already begun work on crowded its owner.

without mishap.. and that his recreation is study.

One day Mme. Blavatsky, the port "no casualties" after three through the annual manoeuvree Dr. Dafoe was notified yesterday the alm. On the second day they

showed "film star temperament," leader of the Theosophists, visited days and nights of intensive mock machines of every type, from warfare between air squadrons who single seat fighters to heavily armed of the inclusion of his name.

Said he: "I think that's very and held up the film for three No. 22.642's owner.

She gazed at the faded fea- "fought" at heights up to 21,000 multi-engined bombers, have been nice. I suppose it's an honour, quartera of an hour until they hind

bcon pacifiod by-food.

tures of the Egyptian maid and foot. Jan't it? Or la it?!"

used.

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