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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26,, 1936.

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"I WAS DUPE OF DRUG SMUGGLERS" "CHARACTER"

Captain R. V. Peel, the new com- mander of the "Queen Mary" is shown standing on the deck of the great liner.

NEW SCHOOLING FOR CHINESE JUDGES

Nanking, Nov. 12. Chinn's venerable judges must dust off their books and go to school again, according to a new ruling of thie Judlejni Yuan, A close In "Special training" has been started by the Judicial Officials Training Committee, students for which will be drafted from all provinces.—

United Press.

Chinese Girl Tells Of

"I

Dope

Ring

New York, Nov. 5.

WAS the dupe of narcotic smugglers," declares Miss Maria Wendt, the Chinese girl who is at Los Angeles awaiting trial on a charge of smuggling £10,000 worth of heroin into the country.

Revelations of the activities of an international narcotics ring, which followed the suicide of N. Loffenholz-Brandstatter, handsome young Pole well known in Shanghai night life, and the death of Al Stey, formerly superintendent of a German hospital in Shanghai, have stirred the girl'into telling her own version of the strange story.

When Brandstatter left Shanghai for the United States, Stey, according to her story, told her to go with him as his nurse, and arranged her passage, but when she got on board she found no patient.

While at sen she received a radiogram from Stey saying Brandstatter would reach the United States before her.

Expressing great surprise at the American Customs agents story of Stey's death, Miss Wendt said, "I had no idea that 64 pounds of heroin found at the bottom of my trunk had been secreted there."

LONGEVITY

VILLAGE DISCOVERED

Shanghai, November, 13.

A longevity village" composed of more. than 100 persons,; practically all of whom have passed their 100-year mark, has been discovered in the Tating district of Kwelchow province. The oldest resident is 180 years of age and still sells firewood for a living.

TROOPS HUNT U.S. KİLLER GANG

AMERICA

man-

New York Nov. 21.

has

gone hunting again. A "baby" Dillinger gang in Indiana, con- sisting of three men who were awaiting trial for the murder of a policeman before they broke jail at Greenfield on Sunday, are believed to be trapped, near Lafayette and a cordon is being relentlessly tightened around them.

Roads over an entire county are blocked, all cars are stopped before being allowed to enter the urea, and

A large transport 'plane loaded with State troopers in cruising overhead, iis crewn alert with fied- glasses and telescopes for a sign of the three fuglilves. Two crimes have

been committed

farmer was beaten up and an attempt stace their escape. The wife of a

made to 11. her, and shots were firest at a motorist, apparently in nu attempt to commandeer his car.

Police plotted the scenes of these

crimes on a map and, relating them to the polat from which the fall erenpe was mude, decided that the men were trying to reach Chicago.

occupants questioned by highway Indians Say "Farewell"

· patrolmen.

WOODS SEARCHED Hundreds of special officers are i berching woods and every nookt and, cranny of farm buildings in the hope of cornering the desperadoes.

-and Are Divorced

Bilings (Montana), Nov, 20, Red Indians need not go to Reno to Dick Powell and Joan Blondell photographed on their return to get a divorce.

They can end their marriages at Hollywood from their honeymoon. any time, quite legally, by simply They have already begun work on

FOREIGN PLOUGH wishing each other "Farewell."

GOES-TO-

BEST COW

Nanking, Nov. 12,

The legality of this anclent custom

Jas

just been upheld by Mr. Harold “Iekés, Secretary of the fit -ive, lie d ruling received by Mr. T, ... Burke,

a lawyer of Billings.

A sult had been brought by a Red Indian in which he claimed the pro-

..

their next Alm.

ADMIRAL MEETS 1,000 RECRUITS

NAVY'S TRADITIONS

THE KING'S APPEAL TO YOUNG MEN

A shiny new foreign plough is to perty of his former wife, who had TELLS THEM OF THE go to the local former who produces) left him for a new home some time the nest cow at the forthcoming | before. her death." The Indian Nonking fair, sponsored by the city claimed that he and his wife had fathers in an attempt to make the been legally divorced in the tradi-

tional Indian way. people livestock-conscious,

Owner of the second-best cow will In his ruling Mr. Ickes said; be rewarded with two piculs of "Certainly the actions of the part of improved rice needs. Third prize is both participants to the marriage Chinese plough, fourth a pair of indleate #valld Indian custom, as spades and fifth a body spray for the the defendant lived with several prize-winning

itself.-United other men and the claimant with at Press.

lent another woman."Reuter,

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Portsmouth, Nov. 15. Admiral Sir William Fisher, Com- mander-in-Chief at Portsmonth, to- day inspected 1,000 recruits to The Royal Navy, and talked with their retatives and friends, who had been invited to visit the Royal Naval Barracks bere.

Addessing the new ratings, Sir William said that in the Halian and Japanese navies, slogans were dis- played prominently before their sailors. Na legend or motto was so displayed before British szaniea; they were not necessary, and they carried the right qualities in their hearts throughout their service.

"What a place Portsmouth," said Sir William. Here you are in the centre of the Royal Naval Barracks, with your future messmates around you. Over there is the Victory, where your forbears, Nelson's son- men, lived

and

fought. Rodney is also there. Victory, the oldest

ship

in the Navy, and Rodney, the

latest, both there for you to compare the difference."

ure

The tradition of Nelson's day, he added, had been passed on unchanged to Rodney, as to every other ship In the Fleet,

"Whenever the band plays 'God Save the King," continued Bir William,."I want you to think of the King, The King is, of necessity, a lonely figure, who stands by himself, with a load of responsibility on his shoulders, of which nobody can relieve him. There is nobody

in our Empire who han such a knowledge of that Empire and such a sympathy with everyone in it as the King.

"He appeals to all young men, not because he is King, but because of his energy, fearlessness and spirit of ndventure."

Nelson Rockefeller, grandson to

the famous John D. Rockefeller and

Oil Millions,

an

enthusiastic

heir to a big slice of the Standard amateur photographer. In the pic- sure above he is seen, with his telephoto camera on the German

afrsblp "Hindenburg".

P.O. Sleuths Break Up Old Racket

Washington, Nov. 20. Postal sleuths have now an- nounced breakup of a cation- wide "Grimmer racket," through which criminals have swindled the aged and the ailing of more than $1,000,000.

Chlef K.I'. Aldrich, dean of Feder- al law enforcement officials, sald his men had arrested 17 public enemies, who sold thousands of cheap glasses for $100 or more a pair, who per- formed fake eye operations in the living rooms of their vicllrns, and who otherwise preyed heartlessly on the Is of elderly farinera and their wives.

"The swindlers specialize on those who are 70 CH" over,"

the Pontai inspectors suld." "The Case with which they extort large wuma money from their victims is surpassed only by the brutality of their

scheme.

The agents described operation of the racket thus:

"Finger, men" travel about the country selling eye glasses for all the trame will bear. One 8-year old man was induced to pay $100 for glasses, worth $3.75. A few wheks Inter the same impostor sold him another "stronger" pale for $135.

20 PER CENT, COMMISSION

The "Anger men" furnish tlic names of their victims of other mem-

Sovereigns in Cement

ALLEGED CONFIDENCE

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cement "pebbles" were referred to at Ply- mouth Police Court recently during the hearing of an alleged confidence trick charge.

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promoter, of Clure-court, Judd- street, King's Cross, London, N., and Jack Carter, aged 05, Independent, giving an hotel address in High-Jane, Stockport, were charged with being concerned with another person ot in custody in stealing £2,300 by means of a telek from Dr. Albert Stanicy Bradlaw, of Plymouth.

There was a further charge of con- spiracy,

Mr. J. Scott Henderson (prosecut- ing) said that the man unknown would be referred to na "Benny."

"This case is an illustration of a confidence trick which, if it were not successful, most people would believe could never be successful," he said

"On Saturday, September 26, Benny, who was described as having the apprigance of a Russian or Polish Jew spending very little English, went to the surgery of Dr. Bradlaw and complained of a bad cough. Dr. Bradlaw made up a battle of medicine, 'Benny' pro- duced a little cement box, which he broke

It contained a Kruger open. sovereign.

"Dr. "Bradlaw was loath to take this coin, and he arranged to keep It until the following Monday, and

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Mr. Henderson sald that Dr. Brad- Jaw found out that the Kruger s0- vereign was worth about 31s, and he nerepted in payment. "Benny" Stien fold him that a friend of his who had come from abroad with 2,000 of the.coins wanted to change them. An appointment was made for "Benny" ind his friend to visit the doctor. In the meantime Dr. Bradlaw got

into touch with jeweller and antique dealer, Mr. Wigfull. ind On September 20 "Benny" and Corter met Dr. Brad- Jaw and Mr. WIRfull. Another cement pubble was produced and broken open and a Kruger sovereign emerged.

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It was arranged that the 2,000 sovereigns should be bought for 12,300, be said. Dr. Bradlaw oblained £2,000 in £50 notes and £300 in £1

notes. Next day "Henny" and Carter turned up with a very heavy bag which they said contained the sovereigns, and stated that they would have to go out again to fetch the remainder. Dr. Brad- law produced the notes, and "Benny" suggested that they should be wrapp ed in a red handkerchief and placed in the bag with the alleged 80- vereigns, which would be en in use surgery while they went to collect the other sovereigns.

Dr. Braclaw

the notes were greed to this and notes were wrapped up. He was not quite

quite satisfied, and before the

burs-of-the-gang, known tsag was locked ho akud 10 Rev-if "specialists" for a 20 per cent, com- mission on prefits yet to come.

The "specialists usually pose as physicians and frequently bring their women "nurses" with them into the rural communities, where the racket is worked exclusively.

The pseudo-physician examines the eyes of his credulous client, s aghast at the type of glasses sold previously by his confederate, and saya 'an operation is neccssary im- mediately,

HOW IT IS DONE

The Postal inspectors said this is the way the operation" is per- formed:

"The fake doctor has his patient lean back. The head is dropped further backward. An сус Grup is inserted into a green opaque glass bottle, heavily corked, and a very few drops of the previous liquid, re- presented to be rudium but actually some patent eye preparation, re withdrawn.

"After these drops are put into the eye, a blunt pair of medicated cotton- tipped medical tweezers are used to rub the medicine around in the eye as an occasional drop is added."

Then, through some hokus pokus of the vaudeville magician, the "specialist," apparently withdraws from the eye a "malignant growth," which in reality is a piece of rubber brought along for that purpose. He Then he anmediately destroys It. places a good pair of eye-glasses on his victim, whose sight immediately is improved. This sort of operation, the agents said, frequently has cost an unwary citizen $800 or $900.

FEEL YOUNG again Usually

after. .one

of

these

"operations" on a victim who sul has money left in the bank, other Impressive-looking members of the gang, visit him about two weeks which they guarantee will make him taler and "end" him a radium belt,

feel young again.

The belt is so valuable, they say, that they must have a deposit of $1,300 10 insure its safe return. One woman in Massachusetts even pald a $2,000 deposit,. She still has the belt,

Wins Praying Contesthe criminals, have her money, and

Brisbane, Nov. 15.

The Rev. T. A. Haslam, 85, won an endurance praying contest held at Bible House here. He prayed con- tinuously for three days and nights.

she feels the same as ever,

Of the 17 men arrested--several while the rest are being held for trinl. recently--two have been convicted,

Other members of the medical gang are being sought.-United Press.

the notes were in the handkerchief. The handkerchief was unwrapped and the notes

were there.

Tho handkerchief was wrapped up again and placed in the bag, and "Denny" and Carter left.

PIECES OF PAPER

Half an hour later, us. "Benny' and Carter tuned to return,

Bud counsel, the bag was broken open and the handkerchief was found to contum pieces of paper,

On September 25 Kurasch und "Denny" turned up at a house in Union-street, Plymouth, kept by a man named mihi. Auterwards Kurascht went to a boarding house and booked rooms for a couple of hts "boys," 119 he ternied them. There he produced three Kruger sovereigns.

The paper in which Dr. Bradław wrapped the bottle of medieme for "Benny" was afterwards found in the room which "Benny" had occu- pied in Umon-street. In the same roon was 'n stovel which had been used to

to mix cement.

The

prosecution will prove that the cement in which that sovereign. was unewused was the same as the cement found on the shovel," added Mr. Henderson.

Dr. Bradlaw, in evidence, sald that "Benny" could not speak much Eng→ lish, or pretended that he could not, and

they conversed in French. "Benny" sold that a friend hind 2,000 or 3,000 sovereigns which had been smuggled out of Germany, and he wanted to sell then for 1 each.

Deleclive Sergeant Hare, of the Metropolitan Pouce, said, that he found nine Kruger sovereigns in the handbag of a Miss Kingsley, who lived in the fat in Judd-street, Lon- don, which was occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Kurasch.

The hearing was adjourned,

BODIES OF A KING AND TWO QUEENS

TO BE TAKEN TO ATHENS

Florence, Nov. 9.. The remains of King Constantine of Greece, and Queens Solla und Olga, were exhumed from the vaults of the Russian Church here to-day.

They were placed in balt coffins, and are to be taken to Brindisi, whence n Greek warship will take

them to Piraeus.

It is intended to bury them in state on the Royal estate at Tatoi, outside Athens,

King Constantine died in Palermo in 1023, four months afte, "his abdication-United Press.

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