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TRUTH ABOUT

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1936..

THE DUM-DUM BULLETS

Three Countries Searching For Elusive Colonel Mezler

GREAT SPEED-UP OF

AIR SERVICES

Hongkong In Five Days; Egypt In One

BY this time next year

there will be a twice- weekly service to Hongkong which will enable passengers to fly from this Colony to London in five days.

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This is part of a revolutionary new series of Imperial Airways' services covering 24,000 miles of air routes throughout the world.

The scheme, which has taken years to organise, will be pre- sented to the House of Commons for final sanction on Tuesday during the Air Estimates De- bate.

Under this new scheme all first- class air-mnil will be ment nt ordinary postal rates, wherever possible, by air within the Empire.

TRAVEL IN COMFORT BRITAIN REFUTES ITALY'S

ON NEW EMPIRE

FLYING BOATS

Photograph

Below shows

Passengers will travel from Croydon

WILD CHARGES

THREE Governments are trying to trace Colonel Gustave Mezler, the man who overnight

to London when the new Empire flybocame a sensationally important figure in inter-

national diplomacy.

ing hunts are commissioned..

Existing schedules on the Em- Arctic 'Dictator' Accused Of

pire ale routes will not only he

cut to ribbons, but services will:

be doubled, and trebled in many

CAHER.

"A now fleet of machines, costing two million pounds, which will en- ablo night and day schedules to be maintained. is now being buit.. With this now wonder-feet-the biggest over dreamt ofthe fol lowing services are to be main- tained:-

To the Cape, twier

weekly

4 luyA Australia, twice weekly 7 days India, 5 services weekly 21⁄2 dava Singapore, rice weekly 4 days Hongkong......

5 days and, most remarkable of all.

Egypt, ten times a week 1

diny

This whole scheme is the big mail-transport since the introduc tion of penny postage, and when

gest move in the development of

"Murder, Mass

Starvation

Moscow, June 1.

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AGRIM story of an island "dictatorship," in which mur- der, attempted murder and death by starvation are alleged to have played their parts, was unfolded at the beginning of the trial in Moscow yesterday of I. D. Simen- chuk, Director of the Soviet Polar Station on Wrangel Island.

The case is being heard before the Supreme Court, and Prosecutor A. J. Vyshinski alleges that when Dr. Wulfson, a physician at an outpost, protested against the dictatorial methods of Simenchuk, a fake emergency call it comes into force it means that was sent to him, and then he was murdered on the way by Imperial air liners will fly out of Britain 60 tons of first-class mais one of Simenchuk's assistants. weekly.

HUCE NEW AIR FLEET

Then Simenchuk, it is de-t

clared, attempted to starve the NEGRO

doctor's wife to death and, in

The new air ficct pecessitated the meantime, caused a faminei for this huge task will consist of among the local Eskimo popula- i 28 luxurious four-engined Byingtion by denying them either the boats, each weighing 18 tons, right to hunt for food or to be They will be equipped to carry 24

fed from the station's passengers by day, and sleep 16 by night, while travelling at

houses. n top speed of 200 miles-an-hour.-

INVESTIGATOR SENT-

ware-

AND SISTER SHOT

DEAD IN A

Colonel Mezler. is the mysterious foreigner who obtained the signature of Dr. Martin, Abyssinian Minis- ter in London, to an order for 3,000,000 soft-nosed bullets for use against Italian troope

Soft-nosed bullets are illegal, and Mussolini, into whose hands Colonel Mezler's correspondence mysterious- ly found its way, used this information in an. 80-page indictment of Britain which he presented to the League of Nations.'

Discovery of Colonel Mezler's i part in this Anglo-Italian dis- pute had one immediate result

Mussolini gave orders to the Lengue that his indictment of Britain was to be withdrawn. Three governments are now secking Colonel Mezler, who hast left England.

Britain wants to know how Colonel Mezler's letters to and (from Dr. Martin, the Abyssinian Minister in London, found their way into Mussolini's possession. Abyssinia wants to clear up the whole story of this damaging pieca of propagandn based on Dr. Mar- tin's misunderstanding of the significance of soft-nosed bullets.

BRITAIN'S REPLY Italy feels that Colonel Mezler has caused her neute embarrasa-i ment and would like to hear his

version of the ease.

needed them for leopard shoot- ing,

MINISTER TRICKED

The British reply will also at- tach a statement from Dr. Martin saying-

that Colonel Mezler obtained his signature to an order for 3,000,000 soft-nosed bullets by a trick;

that Dr. Martin did not know that soft-nosed meant "dum dum," and

that as soon as Colonel Mez ler had obtained the order he disappeared without delivering a single bullet.

The Secret Servico ls now try- Ing to find out whether he went straight off to Mussolini with his "evidence."

The British reply will also at- tach a statement from Sir Harry MacGowan, chairman of Imperial Chemicals, Ltd.

Although the indictment has been withdrawn by Italy, Mr.

This will answer an allegation Anthony Eden intends to rule by Italy that dum-dum bullets

the question at the next League made by Flay Brothers (now in- meeting if Italy does not refer to corporated in Imperial Chemicals

IL will state that Colonel Mezler, although he represented himself as agent for Birming:

ham munitions, has never beld this position.

He had obtained some samples of soft-nosed bullets packed in

Ltd.) were found in Abyssinia.

MUSSOLINI HAD HAD THESE 'HOTOGRAPHED AND INCLUD- ED IN HIS EVIDENCE.

But the type of package shown in the photograph was one that has not been used for the printed containers of Birming 22 years and the bullets were ham firms, and these also found

apparently a very small consign- their way into Mussolini's posses-1 ment sent out to Africa for Hon sion and were duly photographed shooting at least 22 years ago.

The British statement will also as evidence for Geneva,

Another point will be that point out that no ammunition can Colonel Mezler obtained soft-be exported to this country with- nosed bullets from Birmingham out a specifle permit from the firms by telling the makers he Cabinet and that no permit for any bullets of the kind alleged has been issued,

New X-Ray Aids Fight

BLAZING CABIN Against T.B.

In addition, 12 still large air- Several Eskimos died and, says HE HAD THREATENED liners for use over land routes are the prosecution, the doctor's wife! A WHITE WOMAN now being built. These will weigh was saved only when Otto more than 20 tons each and will! Schmidt, chief of the Northern Gordonsville (Virginia), June 1. have accommodation for 27 pas: Sen Route Administration, heard For six hours last night 200 sengers in daylight and sleeping of what was happening and sent State troopers, armed citizens, bunks for 20 at night-time. They an investigator to the Wrangel and a sheriff's posse besieged in will also be able to carry about station. three tons of mull.

a cabin here an aged negro and A tribunal of four are judging his sister.

negro. Wales shot him dead.

1011

Air Hostess Describes Job In Clouds

London, May 28.

A new method of taking X-ray pictures of the lungs to show greater detail than ever before is described in the annual report

This week the girl with one of of the medical director of Preston the most envied jobs in the Hall, the British Legion village world completes a quarter of a

million miles of air travel. near Maidstone.

A modern apparatus called the tomograph is employed, and this in-

She is Heidi Oberholzer, 21- To ensure that the services the case-the Vice-President of A white woman had complained strument is believed to be the only year-old petite air hostess. can be continued over the vast the Supreme Court, the noted that the negro, William Wales, who one of its kind in this country. The Every day for the past two years routes by night and day, work is Aretle aviator Babushkin, a trade was Apparently demented, And X-Ray tube is arranged to move she has made the 522-mile jour- through the are of a circle ney between London and Zurich proceeding to equip them with union leader and a steel-worker-threatened her with a revolver.

Reuter.

The sheriff went to arrest the on the opposite sides of the patient in a Swiss air liner.

the exposure, and the plate the most modern devices to eh- ниге regular operation and Note. Wrangel Island is

Then the siege of the shack be- also moves at a corresponding rate. Every day she greets a fresh set safety. Every 200 miles wire situated in the Arctic, off the

The position of the tube and plate are Searchlights were trained on adjusted so that the centre of the of passengers and makes them feel less beacons are being erected north-eater const of Siberin and the place. Machine-guns halled circle, that is the point at which the at home in the 200 m.p.h. flying

north-west of the Bering Stralt. bullets into it. along 20,000 miles of existing Vyshinski prosecuted for

Tays are, BO to aprak, focussed, In hotel. And among the 6,000 routes. In addition, aerodromes-Soviet in the trial of the Metro-ward to pull his body out of the desired to

A brother of the sheriff ran for-nt whatever level in the chest it is "guests" she

has entertained photograph.

Heidi has already encountered are being fitted with the most Vickers engineers three years ago.line of the fire. He fell wounded. In the ordinary X-Ray picture with modern night-landing equlp-

a stationary source of the rays all many intriguing personalities. ment, wireless direction-finding

A State trooper tried to drive an the composite structures of the chest She threw up her job with a fanious installations

the use of the Maya composite armoured car into the cabin like a contenta cast varying shadows which Swiss criminal lawyer to take up her and up-to-the-

aircraft and one of the Empire tank. He, too, was wounded.

are reproduced in two dimensions Present post. minute meteorological service.

Then a State trooper scaked his X-Ray work is shadow photography offices she asked for a job. As she is

only on the final plato. Sinco all boats specially fitted with extra

Boldly walking into the Swiss air shirt in petrol, crept up to the it follows that the opacity cast by a less than five feet tall and weighs only tanks to give a non-stop rapgo cabin, set the shirt alight and rib, for example, may obliterate the six stone, she was just what the com- over the ocean. Sir Alan Cob llung it through a window, 1. lighter area formed by a cavity in pany wanted. She got the "Job." hum is alse carrying out special Flames leapt up. The negress the lung. experiments in aerial refuelling, was seen against a background of

No fewer than 27 countries are co-operating awith Britain in these Installations and in improving, .existing aerodromes and clearing forests and bush for forced-land- ing grounds.

CROSSING THE ATLANTIC But this is not all. The biggest air transport problem in the world will also be tackled within 12 montha-linking the Dominion of Canada with England by way of the North Atlantic.

at Hatfield.

Ultimately

the

Britain aima nt

gan.

BLAZING SHIRT

and a four-engined scaled-up fire. The troopers shot at her and. version of the D.II. Comet which she fell dead. won the Australia nir race is While the cabin was blazing the being built for the Air Ministry two wounded troupers dragged the

sheriff's brother to safety.

At n second-storey window Wales throwing an all-Red air girdle was seen, gun in hand. A trooper

opened fire on him with

a sub-

her Dominions and Colonies, but fames destroy the cabin, When The people stocd watching the To this end four great experi- also inter-link them with one an- the fire died they dragged Wales's ments are being tried, including other

body from the ruins.-Reuter,

WATSON'S

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"Now I would not have any other wark, she says. "Most of the time we are 10,000 feet in the sky, and it is sunshine all the time."

NO MOVING SHADOWs By use of the moving tubo it follows that the time of exposure for allowed. for the whole the focussed level in the total time Ileidi is proud of the fact that she movement, can now greet her passengers in their while every other opacity at any own language before they speak to other level receives only a fraction her. of the total exposure.

From long practice and observation An analogy may be made with thosho can detect nationalities unerringly amateur's attempts to take a picture

of a dark building. from the appearance, He leaves the camera with the shutter of an interior

This is how she sums them up paient ligently dressed, invariably carry English: Always unconcerned, neg- pedestal for, say, hour. The ob- jeet at which the camera is directednewspapers. receives tho

whole exposure, while the all. Keenly interested in everything French: Most smartly dressed of moving shadows of other visitors to that is going on. Fussy about lug- the building are present in the arengage and other details. The covered by the lens for too short a suave in manner. time to produce any image on the

Pphic plate.

most

and

American: Most attentive palite. Particular about scala. An

the tomograph focussed at obviously travelled air about them. different Tevels in

cheat it

Is Clothes betray thom possible to obtain X-ray pletures in than other nationalities.

more plainly

which the usual shadows cast by the Australians: Seem to know all ribs, for example, do not show,'at all,

the

and on

about air travel and the most friendly other hand detailed out of lines of diseased states of the

all

Germans Quietest of least

at the selected level are well shows, clined to talic. She peopled air of This type of X-ray investigation is stolid detachment. In dress, anima- of the greatest possible value to the ginative.

Burgeon before he undertakes some "And when you come across some of the modern operations on the lungs. one you cannot readily place" says This type of treatment is carried out Heidi, "then you can be certain they' on the latest lines at Preston Hallate Swina1"

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