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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1937.

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Secrets of £700,000,000 Mystery Fort Three Difference!

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Underground Towns Linked Guns Fired Shops, Cafes, Cinemas and By Walls Of Steel By Radio Lifts For 100,000

Mrs. Sarojini Naidu, one of the worban leaders of the Indian Nationalist party (who after her re- cent success at the elections has de- elured herself willing 10 form Government), making a passionate speech at a political meeting,

£150,000

for Orphans All Over The World

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Karachi, Apr. 15. SIR JEHANGIR KOTHARI,

the greater portion of whose estate of £150,000, it was dis- elosed to-day, has been left for poor and suffering throughout the world, died with every ap pearance of poverty at Trieste on November 1, 1934.

For years he had been travelling about the globe and had been round the world nine times. He returned. only for the briefest periods to Karachi, where lay the bulk of his property.

Sir Jehangir was a soured man. Following the death of his only son, and later that of his wife, he de- veloped a dislike for India and In- dians, adopting Europeun ways.

His eccentricities included the lavish entertainment of friends at famous hotels in London, while ho lived in some mean, back street

boarding-house.

First-charges_on_his_estate_ are. £30,000 to his son's widow, annuities totaling about £300, Aud family allowances.

MRS. MARTIN JOHNSON . FLIES AGAIN

other

St. Louis, Apr. 21. Mrs. Martin Johnson, widow of the - late explorer, to-day embarked on her first air trip since she was seriously injured and her husband killed in an aeroplane crash on the Pacific Coast:

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Defences

Army Can Storm

By LADISLAS FARAGO

SEDAN, France, Apr. 15. -UST TEN Miles from THIS LITTLE FRENCH TOWN I SAW 'TO-DAY THe gigantic Ex- TENSIONS TO THE £300,000,000 MAGINOT DEFENCE LINE- UNDERGROUND FORTIFICA- TIONS THAT ARE TURNING FRANCE INTO A VIRTUAL ISLAND.

For hundreds of miles along the French frontier, subterranean forts-each a hidden town-are linked by great stecl walls no army could storm.

And more than 100,000 French soldiers are to-day living permanently underground, manning the greatest military defence system the world has known.

Above ground there Is comparatively little to see apart from occasional observation lowers,

Below ground there are barracks, cafes, lifts, hero- plane hangars, stores, munition rooms, and railways-all clearly revealed in special "daylight" lighting.

In the event of a siege, the men of the Maginot Line have food enough for a 10 years' slege. They could even fight from below the ground, for the newest apparatus enables guns to be sighted and fired by radio.

Impregnable Line

"Through this line of defence," an offelal of the French General Staff told me, "France has become Is much an island as Great Britalu.

"Ve consider the Maginot Line is impregnable, should it be storm- cd from the North or the East," Night and day shifts of workers are now busy on the newest exten- sion to the fine here.

It is estimated that these extra works will cost £400,000,000.

During my tour of the Maginot Line I was followed by agents of the famous "Deuxieme Bureau"-secret service men who escort every visitor to the defence works.

I found that the line is most for- midable along the stretch which faces Germany's western frontier.

When France discovered that Ger- many -had seven great railway systems and six motor ronds leading to this frontier the Maginot Line was reinforced to black the way.

Nearly 300 forts, extending from ground level to 80ft. beneath the earth, have been bullt,

On the surface is the actual front ilne, with nests of machine-guns. heavy guns, anti-aircraft positions and observation towers, which can control and fire guns by radio.

Huge Yearly Cost

Murder Drama In U.S. College

Charlottesville, Apr. 15.

A CHARGE of first degree murder against Dr. Richard G. Miller for the death of Miss Cleo

Sprouse shattered the serenity of this little college town where the ivy-covered walls of the University of Virginia lend a placidity of unruffled calm.

On the night of March 1, lights. gleamed in dormitory windows as hard-working stu- denta bent over their desks, un- aware that a heinous crime was being committed outside their windows where a low wall sepa- rates their little world from that outside. It was against this wall that the body of Miss Sprouse was found, with a chloro-

AT THE NEW YORK, FAIR-This artist's sketch form can balanced on her face cotton stuffed into her shows the 200-foot theme sphere, on a revolving plat- and form, and the 700-foot triangular obelisk to be erected mouth and her undergarments at the grounds of the New York World's Fair of 1939. on the ground nearby, which The sphere will appear to be supported by jets of the murderer left in order to make it appear that she had taken her own life.

water from a fountain.

I WAS MARRIED

104, He Gets Military Medal

Paris, Apr. 15.

VVES PRIGENT. aced 104.

YVES

the oldest man in France, will have the Military Medal pinned on his breast to-morrow by Admiral Derrlen.

A banquet in his honour is being

at Porisali, near given

Brest,

AL Frigent served for years in the navy. When he left he bo- came a fisherman. He still spins tales of the sea to visitors at Portsall-Reuter.

Lightning Stuns

400 Men

Shefeld, Apr. 15.

TO A FRONT PAGE

HEADING

ANESTHIZED GIRL According to the doctor's confes- alon, he anesthized the girl, who had been one of his many sweet- hearts, preparatory to performing on illegal operation on her in the rear seat of a borrowed automobile. Authorities sought fruitlessly for the real motive which drove the white-haired dentist to chloroform

the

pretty girl.

Commonwealth Attorney W.O. Fife disbelieved the doctor's explanation and no one who knew ́elther the dentist or the dead tirl believed the doctor's

story. In- stead, the authorities were firmly

convinced the

sportsman den tist planned the crime in cold blood, callously having intimate relations with Miss Sprouse a few moments before he pressed

cotton saturated with an anesthetic over her nostrils.

BIZZARRE THEORIES The theories offered to explain the

---Says Mrs. Hagen crime spread over a bizarre range.

New York, Apr. 21.

It was even hinted that the 53-year ol dentist,

of normal love

-on-clandes

affairs, which

"IF a girl marries a nose of his fashions,

fer, she's crazy.”

¡ able choir-singing wife The speaker was Mrs. esoteric practices, and that the crime induced young Clee to join him in

Walter Hagen, legally fined "golf-widow,"

de-was

who

# thrill slaying, or a "passion crime. Police pointed out that this theory would explain the many in-

divorced her golfer husband congruitles in the doctor's murder on that ground yesterday.

pleas, as he left so much evidence- around the body.

The chief stumbling block to the She added: "A woman who mar- authorities was the doctor's 1515- ries a famous golfer marries a bunch tence that he planned an illegal ope- of front-page headlines and nothing ration on a giri five months pregnant else. I wouldn't marry a golfer in so unlikely a place as an automo- again if he had all the money in the bile on a country road. They point out that, with his scientifle training. The never would have attempted so

The next floor down holds the A FREAK flash of lightning world. men's living and sleeping quarters. which spread into several The soldiers will never know the "streams" struck a number of horrors of trench warfare. They points of have rest-rooms with radio laid on:

а steel-built iron

the freshest of air even 80ft. beneathi foundry at the same time, the ground; cafes, where drinks are shocked 400 men, leaving them sold cheaply.

dazed for 15 minutes,

and They have. a cinema where the damaged electrical plant Chapeltown, near Sheffield,

newest "talkies" are shown.

On the third floor down arc day. stores of food and wine-enough to last the garrison for 10 years.

LIVED FOR GOLF

"Look at my lifet I never sawImpossible an operation.

Walter at all in these last years. It was all roll. He was serowy about golf. He lived for it, and so I was left in the cold.

STANDARD FEES. Furthermore, the country where the crime was committed, has more than one practioner who will per- form an abortion operation with n standard fee of $25 for married wo- Miller,

"Golf wrecked my heart-throb,

at She was asked: "Do you play golf?"men and $50 for single asily have

and it's wrecking Tals of others." to-She answered: "Sure I do. That's had he so desired, could

different. Women can take golf in arranged for the services of, one of moderation. A man just can't get small change for the casy-spending these, The Ice would have been The foundry, is part of the fit out of his bloodstream.

dentist. It he did not wish to run On the fourth floor are the railway Thorncliffe Iron Work of Messrs.

"It seems to me, where men are the risk of gossip in the little college stations and underground

concerned golf is a new kind of town, Richmond, Virginia, only a few dromes. The railway runs

agro-Newton Chambers and Co.,

madness. Marry IL golfer under which employs 1,000 men and a ground in

and miles you're half way

away, would have been an to the "Diverce Ideal place for an illegal operation. bomb-proof tunnel, emerging on the surface

Court before you get to the altar," 60 miles number of girls. behind the line.

As he waited for his trial, the Clouds of dust rose from the floor land during the summer.

Mrs. Hagen plans a trip to Eng- doctor remained composed and at She ex-case in the dingy Henrico County Military planes can be transported and fell from the roof as the flash to secret taking-off positions.

prison at Richmond, where he smok- struck the building. All work ceas-pects to stay several months.

Her last comment: "And St. An-ed three-for-a-dime cigars, and ute

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Huge lifts connect each floor and complete silence while

ed instantly, and there was almost

the dnzed drews won't seo'me, sir. No, siree!" liver and onions-United Press. the whole line is mechanically men, who could not look at each worked. The pressure of a button other, tried to gather their senses, can discharge a 15-inch gun bring tons of munition from the depot.

or

Although not a single shot is fired. the line silli costs France £40,000,000 Ja year.

TODDLER'S IN.

POLICE RECORDS

EVER

New York, Apr. 15. AVERY school-child in New Jersey is to have his finger- prints taken-by order of the police.

This drastle measure has been decided on to fight the kidnap- ping wave which is sweeping America.

Fingerprints will enable the police to Identify children quick-.. ly and certainly.

In the offices, telephones leaped out of the hands of the staff, some of whom were thrown across the floor.

Men and women ran from the works and the offices, many beileving that one of the great blast furnaces had burst.

AIRMEN TURN COWBOYS

Jerusalem, Mar. 25.

ROYAL AIR FORCE airplanes 'searched for cows in Palestine yesterday I after armed bandits had made off during the night with a herd of pedigree cows, valued at nearly £10,000, belonging to the Jewish settle- ment near Tiberias..

The airplanes took off at dawn, located the herd in the hills, and signalled its whereabouts to pursuing pollee.

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