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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, DECEMBER

28, 1936.

£1,000,000 SWINDLE ON SPANIARDS. SUIT FASHIONS

Shipload Of Arms Diverted To General Franco

£400,000 PAID FOR A CARGO

OF

SCRAP-IRON

Tricksters Raid Madrid Gold

EUROPEAN tricksters have been reaping a rich harvest from the Spanish Red

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Government.

The London Sunday Dispatch_recently revealed how a £1,000,000 cargo of Government arms was diverted to General Franco, and how another consignment of "arms" turned out to be scrap-iron packed in boxes.

only a

HEN General Franco began his!

campaign there was limited quantity of arms in Spain. Gold had to be shipped to Paris to form credits for the purchase of arms,

The man entrusted with the dis

import ileences, and largesse of every kind for intermediaries, ex- ceeded £1,000,000, which about 100 per cent. above normal value.

WAR

On October 2 the ship left Danzig,

persal of from £10,000,000 to £15-ostensibly for Vera Cruz, in Mexico, 000,000 was Otero, a Spanish doctor, actually for Alicante.. fanatically sociallatle, fanatically hon- But here is the amazing part of the est, but inexperienced in the wiles

story.

of the shadier side of the arms bus-Franco.

With him

Someone had given a hint to

£400,000

werp, which left France..

for

Spain

via

On arrival over the Spanish frontier, the wagons were found miscellaneous to be filled with

in scrap iron carefully packed boxes resembling those the buy- ere had seen when they por. chased the arms.

The value of this consignment ex- Three weeks before, Franco's in-ceeded £100,000-and the sellers, of

course,

Just vanished with the were appointed un- telligence system, mainly composed of money! known, fourth-rate military officers, highly educated and trustworthy men

so the Government's emissaries, hav- ing unlimited money to spend, bought up everything available,

also without technical knowledge, and of the old regime, acting on the hint, Aeroplanes were a vital necessity, a few Party men-middle-class peo- had found out the nature of the cargo ple who had spent in shillings and and its Spanish destination. pounds, and were now to spend in

The ship was promptly seized by hundreds of thousands.

one of Franco's cruisers which lay In wait for her, and taken to Franco's Moroccan port, Ceuta.

DOUBLE.CROSSING

'It was considered advisable to na- semble stocks in the free port of Danzig, whence they could be trans- ferred indirectly to Spain.

In the middle of September it was decided to send a huge shipment of nearly 2,000 tons of small arms and ammunition in n Greek steamer.

The cost of this cargo to the Spanish Government, in payment for the goods, freight, Mexican

Bo the Government had paid the over £1,000,000 to provide patriots with a big carge of arms and munitions.

not

£150 A TRIP Aeroplanes bought in countries not too distant from Spain were flown there, the volunteer pilots being paid a flat rate of £100 to £150, plus their return expenses, for each trip, The embargo, however, did AEROPLANE TRICK Before the imposition of the em- prevent several "bright fads" from bargo the Government had been bad-going merrily on with profitable sales to Spain-with this difference: that, ly stung.

after receiving the price of the machine in hard cash, plus a fee of £150 for flying it to Spain, they took off in the required direction, vanish- ed from sight, and landed at quiet spots in their own countries, know- ing full well that the purchasers had no redress!

It bought 27 railway-wagon loads of material in Hamburg and Ant-

GAOL "HOUDINI” IS

TRIED-IN CHAINS

Pau, Dec. 20.

ARMAND SPILLERS, 35-year-old convict "escape hid wee has broken out of prison five times in ten years, had his feet chained so heavily today that he could hardly walk to the court where he is facing a chargo of murdering a policeman.

He was handcuffed, too.

He said to his anxious guards:

About £150,000 of Spanish Government money sipated in this way.

Was

dis-

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JEALOUS LAWSUIT

PRINCESS OVER

SHOOTS

HUSBAND

Mexico City, Dec. 18.

·

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his, 30-year-old New York-born Italian wife fired five shots at

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As time went by, and the goods were not forthcoming, the excuse was put forward that the owners had be-him from a revolver. come aware of the overwhelming de-

rising market-for higher prices.

"I give you my word that I will War Taught in mand and were holding out on

not escape-until the sentence is

passed.

"

The judge outlined his record:

Escaped from Loes (Belgium) Prison in 1925; sent to 15 years' penal servitado in Gulana in 1020: escaped 1923, but was caught In the forest; broke clear a year later at reached Venezuela.

Spillers took up the story-worked two years in Venezuela; saved money; returned to France and lived under a false name with his wife and daughter.

DOG BETRAYED HIM

Schools

BERLIN EXHIBITION FOR CHILDREN

Games Played With Bombs And Shells

By A Correspondent

Berlin, Dec. 18. Berlin schoolteachers and Bought a smati cale in Paris; pros-children are going in large num- exhibition. pered, then sold out and retired to a

bers to small house.

organised by the National Social- ist Teachers' League, the objects of which is to show how interest in Germany's preparations for He escaped two months later by sawing the Iron bars of his cell win-war, and the military spirit can

be stimulated in the schools,

Last January a man kicked his dog. Spillers drew a revolver. He was arrested; Identified and sent to the Sante Prison.

dow.

Recently police were

called to

a burgled jewel shop at St. Jean de Luz.

As a policeman entered he was shot dead. The burglar escaped. Spillers was arrested a few hours later and charged with the crime.

THE EMPTY CELL

He was taken to Bayonne Prison. One morning the warders found Jits cell empty. He was recaptured a few days later.

To-day Spillers denied shooting at the policeman.

fic remains in chains.

"Giving The Child. A Namo"

A CAUSE OF UNHAPPY MARRIAGES

The exhibition hips been given the name "National community-defen- sive community."

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Painted In large, letters on the wall run the following words of lerr Baldur von Schlrach, the Reich Youth Leader: "No child, schoolboy or schoolgirl, may leave school with-

the death and

mortal enemy Jewish Bolshevism." The objects on view show how the military spirit can be fostered among schoolchildren in work and play.

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Eventually, when the game wos getting too hot for them, the crooks lett for unknown destinations with their bags full of "preliminary ex- penses."

The prince was leaving the home of the Finnish vice-consul. Leo | Granroos, of whose wife, Russian pianist Zenia Prochorova, the prin- cess was jealous.

GAVE ALL HER MONEY The princess, a mall attractive One Spanish agent parted with brunette, was prevented by passers- £12,000 to purchase a mythicalby from shooting herself. She told the police the prince had treated her option."

badly after she gave him all her Another, after a well-conducted-money to form a soap factory. too well-conducted-tour of a gov-| ernment arsenal in a small Baltic country, parted with £25,000 to his comparatively unknown-conductor as ten per cent. payment on the goods he had Inspected.

She is now hysterical and moans for her son and daughter whom, it is alleged, she deserted when she: divorced her first husband, a Mexi-

Mr. Roland Oliver, K.C., said that

Mr. Aron ate oysters, a pork chop and milk pudding at the Aunch. That night he had his evening meal with MIS family. This consisted of chicken, and none of the others suffered any Il-effects.

Mr. Aron, however, woke up in the night violently ill and he did not fully recover until the end of the year.

There was no question about the trouble being caused by oysters.

Dr. F. J. Aldridge, of Watford, who was called in to atend to Mr. Aron, said he made a test and detected the presence of bacillus gaertner, a very virulent bacillus. Pork was one of the most likely foodstuffs to be con- taminated by it.

cani chtained custody of thought to be due to food-poisoning)

mansion

The He is still seeking the whereabouts the children and settled n of the amiable guide and confidence and several thousand dollars on her. trickster!

a whirlwind courtship she After u

former White In spite of all these lessons and married the prince, difficulties, huge sums of money are Russian leader. She was an accom- in the possession of the Spanish pilshed musician and dancer, and a authorities in Paris, besides the two popular hostess. million or sa pounds "subscribed" by Last night they entertained a party Soviet Russia. -

ot prominent people.

SOUTHAMPTON

WILL

Under cross-examination; the doctor said that Mr. Aron suffered from "gastro-enteritis which he

though gastro-enteritis might be produced by other causes.

The hearing was adjourned.

WATER T"

BE CROYDON OF THE SEA

desire to be in life Base For Empire All-Mails-

of

The walls are covered with water colour and pencil sketches of troops, guns, tanks, battleships, and nero- planes in action--the majority. executed by Children of 12. One such Juvenile sketch has the foot- note: "What are we now? Hitler Lads. What do we want to Soldiers."

A

ART OF CAMOUFLAGE

corner of the exhibition

be?

is

By-Air Scheme

London, Dec. 21.

SOUTHAMPTON WATER is to be the Croydon of the sea. This was announced by Imperial Airways, who stated that the new base from which next year 28 flying boats will operate the Empire all mails-by-air scheme will be established temporarily at Hythe, about two miles from Southampton. Negotiatlons for a base at Lang- Then, it is expected, Imperial Air- slone Harbour, Portsmouth, are not ways will gradually change over their yet complete,

Empire land services from Croydon to the flying bents.

A large flying-boat, hangar with The importance of conciliation in

stlpways already exists on the site to A series of illustra-

of the new hase and can be brought matrimonial cases to prevent them devoted

tions suggesting how teachers can into use almost immediately. from reaching the Courts was em- phasised by Mr. Claud Mullins, the lead from the concerntration on South-Western (London) Police camouflage in the animal world The Tythe base is expected to be

the contemplation of Court Magistrate, in an address to the to

Camouin use for passenger trafle by the Liverpool Personal Service Society flage in modern wartore. Among the spring.

maps drawn by children and con-

recently.

Quoting seven months' figures from oldered exemplary is one of Europe

At the outset, a twice-weekly pas- senger and mail service will be operated to and from South Africa. Later, a bi-weekly service to and from Australia will be introduced..

The Hythe base will be linked to from London by fast train service Southampton Docks and will serve on the embarkation' and arrival station

his own Court, he said that out of in which German and Polish soldiers James Cagney Leaving for Empire passengers and malis. 220 summonses issued only 89 couples are looking over their frontlers to- were separated. The majority agreed wards Russin. mutually to separate.

"Many women did not consider the question of how they were going to live. "After obtaining a separation,' Mr. Mullins added, “a lot of women think that if they get a Court order it is ns as an order on the Bank

of E00

the

There are several bound volumes of

essays on various military subjects written by children in schools.

a

.

Caledonia, first of the experimental long-range lying boats, will use the Southampton base for experimental long-range and Atlantic lights which are to be made next year.

Melbourne to Plant ...

Coronation Trees Melbourne, Dec. 20.

Hollywood: "Blacklisted"

Hollywood, Dec. 15. A section of the exhibition is

James Cagney, the film actor, an- devoted to games that are likely to rouse the players to inke an interest nounced to-day that he was leaving

on Hollywood to live

form in in military matters. I noticed Mr. Mullins said that at least half puzzles which when pieced together Massachusetts,

may not return," he said. cases in his Court concerned reveal the battlefields of the last war

Since he won an action over a con- marriages prompted by pregnancy, complete with trenches and dugouts,

To commemorate the coronation of There prevailed an awful idea that and also some new kind of game tract with Warner Brothers, he de persons must get married to give the which is played on a chessboard with clarea that all film companies are King George VI next year, the city

is planning a tree planting campaign: risme.

Very often that meant miniature shells and bombs, and is blacklisting him.

"There is a solid front against me for next spring. Men said to claimed by the makers to introduce appalling consequences.

in Hollywood, Cagney says "but him; "I had to get married to give children to military tactics.

fortunately I don't have to wOITY If present plans are carried out, the child a name and he often had

Several persons present, presum- financially and I refuse to be con- 200 of the principal streets of the ably school teachers, were Indus-cerned over other phases of the city will be fined on both sides with | triously taking notes.

situation-Reuter.

trees.-United Press.

child

to ask, "Is the child going to be proud

of your name, seeing how you behave?"

Luck Still

Holds

THIRTY FOUR - YEAR

OLD Armand Spillers, King of the Paris Underworld, who Escaped twice from Devil's Island and three times from French prisons, was, by a stroke of luck, given a new chance to- day.

The second day of his trial for murder at the. Pau Assizes discovered that the foreman of the jury, M. Pierre D'Iriari, was unqualified to net A Juryman.

The Judge declared a mistrial, adjourned the case until the next ASSLICA.

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Spillers sat dazed as he heard the Judge's decision. For two days, under a barrage of ques- tions from the judge, he has remained obstinately silent, loyal to the rigid "code of honour" of the French underworld, even though it might cost him his head.

With tears in his eyes the man who has braved Venezuelan swamps, in his dash for Uberty, refused to betray the members of his gang.

Said he, "I cannot tell you.. have sworn on the heads of wife and Bitte girl not to my do so."

He added, with a break

in his voice, "I did not come back to France to steal, but to embrace my wife and daughter before going away to start life afresh"

Ontalde the court the crowd hooted and whistled when they learned of the decision to post- pone the trial.

While troops and special polien guarded the bullding, Spillers, chained and manacted, was hurried by six armed warders into

`a prison van, taken to Pau Prison.

There,

in a small cell, the man who has given the French police · more worry than any other criminal. In recent years, will be watched day and night,

taking

The authorities are overy precaution that 8pillern's friends, phall not help him to. ́add another: Escape to his : long Hai before the next asalzes open.

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