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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1937.

"12 DAYS AGO WE'D 120 MEN-NOW 37" Winston Churchill's Nephew Sends Graphic War Message

'WE SHALL WIN -BUT WHAT A VICTORY'

Albacete, Dec. 28.

ESMOND ROMILLY, 18-year-old nephew of Mr. Winston Churchill, and a member of one of Britain's oldest families, is winning laurels for his gallantry under fire while serving in the Inter- national Brigade, which is fighting for the Spanish Government in defence of Madrid.

Here, in his own words, is a vivid description of life in the front line.

Ordeal Under Fire

WE'VE just returned after 12 days on the Madrid front.

Experiences to date:

fire;

Air bombing of our positions:

Crossing open-ploughed fields under machine-gun and rifle

Shelling from our own tanks;

Too much death about everywhere...

Our company started 12 days agu with 120 met

strength 37.

This Conversation Piere sums fought:-

First photo from Shens where elvil war has broken out agala. The plc- ture shows Chinese soldiers in

trench near Sinfu

Present HOW LORD

up the way the

war is being

"Can you ate me a light for my hand prenade

"Sorry, old man, to matches...."

This is the land of matar. Sometimes one goes to the wrong frunt and back again. Madrid, of course, does not look too bright-with-continual air valde and bravy hambardment.

Three of our people have been killed

by dum-dum bullets.

Yesterday in Madrid we saw a British Parliamentary delegation. They seemed amazingly out of place Tories and Liberals Inquiring about the hot coffee.

The section we're in is German. Some of them are desperately brave. Their idea is to walk in: front of the tanks ke pen witle: red flags in front of trains In 1840.

Worst experience so far-digging in behind trees in a ploughed field under machine-gun fire,

No Surrender

'cover

Father Shoots

Faithless Lover

B

Belgrade, Jan, 10. EAUTIFUL Mila Dimi- triyevich, just 21, member of our of the highest families of Belgrade, skot herself beenuse ker lover jilted her,

To-day, while giving evidence at the inquest, her father whipped

Then we had the order to duck out a revolver, fired twice at the back to

Stipped in a shell florer, Zertazar Stopanarich, aged hole, and fell-then a shattering rour which nearly blew my car columns 30, seriously wounding him, the to peers. It was one of our own turned the weapon on himself. tonks liring from five yards behind

me.

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PEEL ESCAPED KIDNAP

IT

WOMAN ACCUSED OF ARMS PLOT

French Foreign Office Arrest

Paris, Jan. 10.

A SENSATION

Was

caused in French diplomatic circles to-day, by the arrest of Mllc. Suzanne Linder, one of the most trusted secretaries at the French Foreign Office, on D charge of forging documents to facilitate the export of arms to the Spanish Reds. Michael Rosenfeld, known to be her friend--a wealthy rest- dent of one of the most fashionable parts of Paris has also been arrested for alleged complicity.

I understand that after the arrest of Rosenfeld an agent of Jerusalem, Jan. 10.

the Spanish Red Government, carrying with him full powers was established to-day for the purchase of war material, that a plot to kidnap was found in his office in the Earl Peel, chairman of the trict, says a Correspondent.

Avenue Carnot, in the Etoile dis- royal commission on the Palestine revolt, lay behind

Jericho road last night. the Lold-up by Arabs on the

Lord Perl escaped by less than half an hour.

Three Arabs, ormd with modern

SHIPLOAD OF ARMS

The format charges against the arrested persons are: Rosenfeld-Usage of false passports and failure to comply with an ex- pulsion order,

Mlle. Linder-Forgery of publie du

cuments and imitation of important signatures.

revolvers, carried out the hold-up among the Judean hiilis just outside | It is alleged that the proposed plot Jerusalem. Jericho.

was to permit the departure from a Lorth Pect

was returning from French port for Mexien of a large The brigands piled up large reeks Spain.

shipload of arms destined later for in the road under the limestone ! containing British residents.

Peggy Garren photographed t Lake Placid, the popular winter- aport resort at New York.

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Details arranged for Edward VIII's visit have had to be dras- tically revised, and it will be

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from Paris. Then suddenly permission arrived

Most of the people here have now All Belgrade is to-night dis- clits, rive cars were held up, all Marseilles was at first unable to leave,

given up the lden that they will ever‡cussing Mila's love drama and; return to Britals, The Bgures in our its sensational sequet. own company tell why.

Naturally we take prisoners, but killed herself on the pavement It was six days ago that Mila everyone on our side would shout himself rather than be taken pri-outside her parents' home.

soner.

When we came here I thought we! should be in trenches, but there hre none at all in our sector.

Whatever the position elsewhere, in our place in the last action we had definitely advanced more than kilometre during the whole time.

the

Stoyanovich, rich son of a former assistant Finance Minister, told the pollee: "She was infatuated with; me and she bored me."

fact that, although

Mila's father-infuriated by ment official himself, he had not the high Govern- money to provide his daughter with the dowry necessary for marriage according to Jugoslav custom-in-

The Government aeroplanes seen tended that these words should seal

to be better now, and chase the Stoyanovich's death-warrant.

enemy bombers away.when they appear. Food comes through well.

The militia is officially no more,

and I am now, therefore, a member

of the Spanish Republican Army.

I am sure we shall win, however ...But what a victory It will be.

"Heartbeat Control"

Trance

in

The claim of Indian mystica

to have gained control of their heart-beats by prolonged spiri-

An Australian ex-offleer employed by the Palestine Government was in one car.

HYPNOTIC EYES When

hr swore at a brigand

Milc. who wanted to take his gun away described as

Linder, a blonde, who is the raiders made him take off his hypnotic" eyes, is a niece of the having pale bluc coat, walstcoul. and shirt. and late. M. Phillipe Berthelot, Tormer stant shivering in the mounista air with

revolver pointed at him. Foreign Ministry and the power be-

Secretary-General An English

eye-witness of the hold-up said: "Just

M. Briand during his long Just s We round the end we saw the road tenure of the Foreign Ministry.

came hind blocked with boulders.

"The Arabs asked, 'Are Jews? We said 'No.' Had we been you Jews they would have shot us.

"I believe they knew that Lord Peel was returning this way."

Wife Hears M.P. Quoted In Church, Walks Out

Glasgow, Jan. 10.

MRS. JOHN MCGOVERN, wife of the M.P. for Shettleston, rose in St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church, Parkhead, to-day, with her eight-year-old son, walked to the door while the priest in the pulpit stopped his address and a packed congre- gation sat silent, and before going out turned and said:---

What

tun! exercises has been sub- Mr. McGovern

two

stantiated, according to French doctors, C. Laubry and T. Brosse.

The doctors made a special visit to India to take records of the pulse and breathing of Yogis during their medi tallan, says the British Medical Journal.

An electric record of the heartbeats | during the trance showed that the manner in which the heart acted was completely altered. Then, when the Yogi quietly announced he had won control of the heart, the record sud- denly became normal. At times the pulse of the wrists vanished.

After taking a deep breath the Yogi could remain for live minules without drawing another.

TWICE AS MANY GERMAN U-BOATS

AS IN 1914

Said

Mr. McGovern, who is a member of St. Michael's Church, and one of the four 11.. mem- bers of Parliament, speaking in Glasgow on December 13, said: "Domination by the Church has never been so complete us It has been in Spain.

to

"Even if it means the end of ne politically. I shall still take the same stand. I

say Catholics that I am prepared to accept the clergy when they confine themselves to spiritual and moral teaching. When they step into the arena of politics they have got to take the summe knacks as I take."

the

"You' go to church to hear word of God, and you hear nothing but politicat and Faselst propaganda.

Mrs. McGovern suit, "My son and 1 were kneeling at the front. After rending

the priest laid down his prayer-book,

Gospel,

the He took up a piece of cardboard, which had pasted on it a newspaper cutting. He began to read it.

to the French

A close friend of Mile. Linder to- night told me some details of her

life. early

Joining the staff as a girl, she has осел secretary in vital depart- ments of the French Foreign Office for nearly a quarter of a century.

GOLDEN HAIR.

"Many diplomats of 20 years ago will remember vividly the slim. meticulously dressed girl with the long golden hale," I was told.

"Of striking appearance and always perfectly dressed, Mile. Linder quickly

made influential friends, and within a few years was a sort of power in French diplomacy, and became a well- known figure in diplomatic and Dollieal circles."

Some years ago at an inquiry in connection with certain documents at the Foreign Office she was asked some pointed questions, but cleared.

was

Rosenfeld is a man of 35 who has described himself to his friends as "the modern Sir Basil Zaharo!!." Good looking and always well dressed, he had a suite at a famous hotel in the centre of Paris.

Officer To Pay His Wife Maintenance

The words were:. Since I was eighteen years of age I have fought against clerical domination. "I recognised them

Melbourne, Jan. 10. 11.4 been uttered by my husband at a having

Mrs. Dewar, wife of Lieutenant meeting last Sunday.. I did not

Dewor, an Australian Army officer, want my son to hear what the

has been awarded a maintenance allowance of 50s, a week against her priest was saying about my hus band, and rose and walked out."

husband.

Lieutenant Dewar was the officer Mr. McGovern enid, "Scores of who travelled to Australl from people have told me that anti- McGovem

India in the same ship. as Mrs. M. M. propaganda has preached Sunday after Sunday in

beenFreer, whose admission to Australia this church.

was banned,

RIGHT OF REPLY

I

"I have no objection to being al- tacked politically so long as it is dono by people to whom I enn reply, resent its being done in the hearing of an audience that I might never have an opportunity of addressing.

I told Monsigneur Daly, vienr general of the archdiocese, that if these pulpit attacks on me continued to the public. I will show them I should be bound to take the Issue how the Catholic workers are being dominated by the Church."

"Just As Much A War Victim And A Hero". EARLY this year Germany will in HMS. Vindictive in 1918, Thomas Wounded in the bend while serving have a submarine fleet twice Pepper, aged 38, died recently from as large as she had at the outa seizure at his home at Tonbridge. break of the war in 1914.

At the inquest it was stated that, The Naval Year Book for 1937 muted fracture of the skull and puty Coroner, sold:

Pepper received П compound com- Natural Causes, Mr. J. H. Sondy, de- just published says the fleet taceration of the brain.

This poor man was just as much Medical evidence showed that death a war victim, and just as much h Boats

was due to a rupture of a cyst hero, as the men who died in those beneath a shrapnel scar.

days, although he lived all these years Returning a verdict of Death from afterwards."

will include twenty-four of 250 tons, ten of 500 tons, and two of 712 tons each.

Mrs. Freer's exclusion caused controversy, but the ban was main- tained and she went to New Zealand.

Chinese Rail Order

have

In the absence of the King and Queen in India a Council of State consisting of Queen Mary, the Duke of Gloucester, and the Duke of Kent will be set up.

BETTER NATIONAL

ANTHEM Coronation Provides Chance To "Purge The Blots"

A Manchester correspondent of the Observer wrlies:-

The Coronation festivities, now sa close at hand, are likely to be on a greater scale than ever in the his tional Anthem will be called for at tory of our Empire, and our Na-| numberless gatherings, not only of people

of our own blood, but of our fellow-citizens of every race, creed, And colour throughout the

King's Dominions, and I write

to

suggest that now, at the crowning of our new King, is the time to make at least some slight improvement in the wording of the Anthem, and to purge it of some of its geat blots.

Consider that verse which, runs;-

Oh! Lord our God arise," Scatter his enemies

And make them fall! Confound their politics, Frustrate thele knavish tricks,

and remember at the same time that this is

supposed to he il solemn prayer to God for the preservation of our King.

dur

Is such language worthy of this great nation and of that high trudi- tion for good taste with which the whole world so recently has honour- ed us? To me it seems

{{ross vulgarity, and should be expelled immediately from

national anthology.

I do not think the nation wants an entirely new Anthem. The pre- Sunt

one, slightly but

fittingly altered, would be accepted gladly, verses would be and a couple of enough.

Will no

one, amongst the thou- sinds so well qualified to do so, take up the task? I am only an ordinary unknown man and have no wish whatever to press my Ideas upon my fellows, but I give here a short amended version, hoping that It may induce some abiler writer to suggest a thoroughly satisfactory National Anthem suitable for people of all races, religions, and classes in

Goes To Germany the Empire.

Berlin, Jan. 10.

order is on a credit basis, Germany Germany has obtained a £2,333,-

will grant China a loan bearing six 000 railway order from China, The

per cent. Interest and repayable be- tween 1942 and 1946.

The German firms sharing in the contract include Krupps, Stahlunion, Otto Wolff and Ferrostahl. They will rebuild the Peking-Hangkow line, and lay a railway between Chuchow (Hunan Province) and Kwelyang (Kwelchow Province).

God save our chosen King! God bless our lawful King!

God save the King! Crown him victorious, Gracious and glorious," Wise to reign over us,

God save the King! Thy richest gifts in store On him be pleased to pour, Oh bless his reignt May he our lows defend, And, to his journey's end, Lord, with Thy grace

attend And bless our King..

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