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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1936.

ON

BRITAIN'S GANG CHIEFS

Scotland Yard's

Yard's Big Drive to Clean Up

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The Royal Welch Fusiliers Surroy has a goat as mascól, present- el, by the late King George. The picture shows tho goat and one of the Fusiliers preparing for 71 Church parade.

COLLAPSE IN

WATERLESS WASTES

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Tennant Creek, North Australia, May. 6. Charles Simmons (89) miner. was picked up unconscious near Kelly Well last night, by J. Nelson, He was brought to Tennant Creek and died a few hours later.

Tighter Net for Aliens

WHITE

THE

SLAVERS AND

DOPERS IN FLIGHT

THE CHIEFS OF BRITAIN'S UNDERWORLD ARE ON THE RUN. ALARMED BY THE INTENSIFIED ACTION BEING TAKEN BY THE POLICE, SCORES OF MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE BEEN ENGAGED IN. DOPE PEDDLING AND WHITE SLAVE TRAFFICKING ARE LEAVING THE COUNTRY NEVER TO RETURN.

Scotland Yard: officers have been working night and. day during the past two weeks in a relentless drive against these undesirables, following their inquiries into the murder of "Red" Max Kassel.

As a result of questions asked which no passport is required, in Parliament regarding the white will be watched carefully. slave traffic; and week-end tickets which enable persons to enter Britain without passports, a big dossier has been prepared by the police of women of foreign birth living in West End flats who have married British subjects.

These matters are likely to be raised in Parliament again at an early date.

:

Watch On Ports Latest inquiries made by the police have involved many people who, hitherto, have not been sus pected of having any connection with the underworld.

A number of these men and women have now closed their expensive flats, withdrawn or transferred their bank accounts, and left or disposed of businesses which were merely a cloak for an illegal traffic in drugs

women,

Simmons had set out without a water bag on a 50 mile trek in Bonney Well, where he was employ-passengers ed by the E. and R. O, Gold Cor- poration. He had covered less than half the journey, when he collapsed in the intense heat.

'War

Finds

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The watch on the ports will in- clude the scrutiny not only of Cross-Chinnnel steamera but-also on fost mutor-i yachts and sca-going speed boats anchored at small harbours along the South Coast.

Passengers travelling to the Continent on week-end tickets, for

Pimpernel' Fame

FAME HAS COME TO THE MAN WHO EARNED THE TITLE

FAME HAS COME TO THE W TO EARNED

He is Captain J. 1. Hardy, whose story, "I Escape," is still remembered as one of the most exciting and enthralling stories of real-life published.

This little man with the irresistible urge to conquer all obstacles is to-day being halled as one of is Thunder," is now being made Britain's finest writers of fiction, into a film in which Constance

His latest book, "Never In Vain," Bennett plays the lead, has created a sensation in the book world and is selling in great num- bera. All the foremost critics hnil the book as a great plece of work.

ESCAPED PRISONER

James Agate writes: "The writ- ing is excellent throughout and the characters are intensely alive."

Captain Hardy won both the D.S.O. and M.C. during the war. Ho escaped from a German prison camp after twelve unsuccessful attempts. To-day he is a chicken farmer in Norfolk.

Despite the handicap of his artificial leg, Capt. Hardy does a great share of the work himself. Ho breeds thousands of poultry

every year.

But his greatest pleasure comes when outside work is done; and he can settle down with his pipe to his writing.

In his quiet Norfolk farmstead he has written two books sinco his story, "I ̈Escape."

The Arat of these, "Everything

Ronald Colman And Miss Benita Hume

Hollywood, Mar: 18.

THE latest "Hollywood

romance" rumour links the names of Ronald Col- man and Benita Hume..

Mr. Colman smiled as he made this commont: T

"Every time I tako out a girl I am asked to confirm or deny an engagement..

This time I will not say any thing."

Bonita Humo and Mr. Colman have been seen together often recently.

But so have Mr. Colman and other prominent film aptresaon.

The results of the new polico probe are already visible in the West End. Scores of small clubs which have been run as a cloak for dealings in drugs and women are practically deserted.

The managements aro now scrupulously careful to keep with- in the licensing laws and the pintrons, fower in number, particularly wary of strangers.

Suspect Marriages

are

Many of the women referred to In the police dossier are suspected of having contracted marriages of convenience, and Investigations are being conducted in all parts of the country with a view to dis- covering the headquarters of the organisation behind this racket.

Many aliens who had been smuggled into Britain have been discovered, but the majority of them

former have left their haunts and it is suspected that they have already left the coun-) try,

Those who have been tracked

down are to be deported at once.

Another matter which has been the object of great police activity is the organisation which has sperialised in the production of faked passports.

THE

the Underworld

S'HAI STREET CHOKED WITH ACRID FUMES

RUN PRACTICAL...AND A FIRM FAVOURITE... NO RUBBER, POROUS,

Streets in the neighbourhood of North Kiangse and Ticndong Roads, Shanghai, were choked with acrid smoke fumes one afternoon last week as a smouldering fire in a rattan shop was fought by fire- men. Our picture shows one of the engines as it pumped water into

the smoking area.

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Slaying of Writer in New Mexico Focusses Attention on "Penitentes,” Dating Back To Days of Conquistadors

Albuquerque, Mar. 20.

Slaying of Carl Taylor, 33, magazine writer, in a lonely cabin in the mountains near here recently, again has focussed attention on the Penitentes, a weird religious cult,

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telling of the terrible rites of the self-torturers, who for centuries People who were prepared to have practised their strange religious ceremonies in the moun- pay £100 for a false passport will tains of New Mexico, Colorado, Utah and Arizona, was found on now And this avenue of escape his desk in the cabin. closed.

Taylor was shot and killed as he sat at his desk. A manuscript Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co., Ltd.

At first, it was thought that who is to be placed on the cross The whole question of the, con-Taylor was killed because he had taken his place at the head of the dillons under which aliens are learned too much about the secrets procession and bears a heavy erosg allowed to live in Britain is to be of the cult and because he ad upon his shoulder, the standard reviewed in the near future, and it taken a flashlight picture of a dragging behind him. All those is likely that the conditions of "morada," or temple. This doing penance are stripped to the entry will be tightened up con- theory was abandoned, however, waist and all carry whips made siderably...

when-Modesto Trujillo, -a-16-year-from-cactus-fibre.- At the beginning of last year old boy who had been working for 112,476 aliens' were registered in Taylor while he wrote his article

Whipping Rite Begins England, and in the preceding year on

As the column moves away to- the Penitentes, 127 aliens were deported and 17 confeased that he had shot the emonies are to be

purportedly ward the spot where the final cer- more who had loft voluntarily author, with robbery as the moflagellants beat themselves with eineled the were barred from readmission.

Any man who accks to learn the and blood marks the trail to the the whips. The skin is broken secrets of the Penitentes takes his place where the cross is placed· life in his hands, according to a belief long held in this area.

upright in the ground.

TOMMIES GET NATTY NEW UNIFORMS

Here are shown two men of the King's Rifle Corps, at Aldershot, one in khaki and the other in the new blue patrol uniform, recently approved by the British army. It is recorded that the army's do- cision to issue the new blue uniform was motivated by a desire to accelerate recruiting, and the efficacy of the lure has been demon- strated even beyond most optimistko hopes, it is roported. Only one sung has been encounted Drab khall overcoats still are regula, tion, even with the blue outfit, and Tommy Atkins la displaying

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The cult, it is said, sprung into Beside each penitent is u com- being shortly after the Spanish panion, also armed with a whip. conquistadores came to the South. When the flagellant becomes weak west. In Spanish it is known as from his self-inflicted punishment "Los Hermanos de Penitentes"-his companion beats him. "the Ponitent Brothers."

As they approach the cross the Crucifixion Is Re-enacted Penitentes reach a high pitch of The Penitentes practico flagel.frenzy. Some will break from the Intion in its most severe form and ranks and, anked to the waist. throughout the years the rites will roll in a clump of cactus, call- have grown 10 Icas brutal. The|ing upon the saints to witness the rites reach their height during devotion to the Saviour. Others and

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Holy Week onch year, when the will wash their foreheads DARK MUNICH BEER

cultists re-enact the crucifixion of shoulders with abarp pieces of | Christ with such realism that it rock. Still others will tie clumps has at times, beon believed to have of thorny cactus, upon their caused the death of a partiel-shoulders.

pant.

When they finally reach the

On Good Friday night the Peni-cross the scene is prepared for the tentes assemble at the "Morada." "crucifixion."

Ropes Substituted For Nails

After dark guards are posted to keep the non-members from the

The chosen man is lashed to the temple. Then the ceremonies be-cross wth ropes the Penitentes Igin.

use

are supposed to have substituted Certain prayers are sald, con ropes for nails used in the cruel- fessions are in order and the axion, but some say that cults in members prostrate themselves be- the mountain fastness atili fore a crude altar in the "Mor- nails. ada." They affirm that. Christ

When the "Cristo" is fastened suffered and was crucified for securely to the cross the other them, that He rose to heaven and Penitentes form a circlo

around that they will emulate His suffer the base of the cross and continue ing in hope that they may do to beat themselves with lashes.

ilikewise.

To the tune of a weird chant the

Then they form a procession, "chief" stops forward and places with one member chosen to enact a cactus crown: upon the head of the part of Christ. The penitent the crucified person..

The self-punishment lasts unt!! FIRST PYLON SUICIDE dawn, when the man is cut down from the cross, sometimes with bis lfo at low ebb.

London, Mar. 16. Only men are admitted to the The first pylon suicide was ro- strange cult, but women often vol- corded this week. Brian Lynn, auntarily follow the processions 19-year-old clerk, was said at the and subject themselves to self-tor- Inquest after his body, "had boon|ture which exeveds that of the discovered burnt and terribly: In- men for cruel punishment. jured at the foot of a pylon to Each cult performs its own have Jumpod from it because "he rites. Each has its own "Morada” was no good at work or play." and its own chief,vt kan

The Coroner recording a suicido. The Holy Work ceremonies aro while of unsound mind sald Lynn known to be held In many places

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