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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER

GERMANY PREPARES

WHAT SECRET RADIO

MESSAGES INDICATE

Feverish Efforts In The Armaments Race

29.8-What is it? Who is he? A member of the Secret Ser- vico? The head of an underground organisation? Some mysterious stranger in the Economic Intelligence Department of a foreign Power?

29.8 is the wave length of the anti-Fascist "Freedom Radio Station" which each night at ten o'clock starts a series of talks on Germany. The station works in Germany, in the service of the German Popular Front.

Every evening after dark there are 20 marks a week. Business is very German workers, shopkeepers, tea-slow, his capital is shrinking, and his chiers, employers who ret their standard of ifte 13. going down con- families and friends together and siderably. He feels bitterly betray.

turn on the wireless, wave length.ed by Hitler. 29.8, to listen to the "Freedom Radio Wherever we look, we discover a Station."

change for the worse in the situation

of the working class, and one gain

After

nghting, has been taken away from To-day the situation the workers.

very much as 11

another, won after years of

In spite of Jamming by the Gestapo, in spite of a nation-wide search by all the different German police forces. millions of Germans listen every night or the workers is to this anti-Hitler broadcasting pro-was 100 years ago, when high mill- gramme which brings them news tary officials complained about the about Germany and foreign countries, bad health of the new recruits com- reports of strikes and demonstrations ing from industrial In German Industry, falks about cur-launch the same complaints to-day arcus. They rent legislation, etc.

and it is no wonder, considering the: Some weeks ago the Radio had on terrible conditions under which the its programme a series of talks on working class children grow a to- present-day economic conditions in day

Germany. Λ number of unti- Fascista here in England listen-¦ ed in and, in spite of Junning by h the Gestapo, pleced together ten speeches. Here are parts of them.

"AN of us experience every day the shortage of raw materials. Elec- Iric wiring in private houses is gel- j ting very bad in quality simply be- cause of a inek of copper.

"New houses are stauding empty. as there is no lend for water pipes. Gas pipes and rubber tyres are get- ling worse and worse because there is not enough rubber.

"We all remember how during the wor we collected old-tooth-paste tubes, dour-handles and copper kei- tles.

The. same happens to-day. Clothes

consist mainly of fibre. forbidden Is

pare wool. The laundry wears things rut much sooner beenuste the soap is so poor and deflelent in fats. The effects of the shortage are felt everywhere,

it

Use

But how strange! We scan the harbours In Bremen and Hamburg fis one ship after another arrives,

loaded to capacity with raw materials

from oversens.

*We

go to the frontier and see there trains arriving, crammed full with raw materials, waggon after Waggon. Is this another illusion- are more train-loads and ships arriv-| ing than before?

141

Bought

Wives As 'Hobby' For £2 Each

Darwin,

A grey-bearded man who has been buying "wives" for twenty- three years, and now has 121 of them. has revealed the reason for als strange "hobby."

He is Monsignor Francis Gsell, Roman Catholic Administrator

of the Northern Territory diocese.

1987.

FOR NEW FOR NEW WORLD WAR

NEW

CLAIMANT TO THRONE OF THE HABSBURGS

"SECRET SON" OF MURDERED

CROWN PRINCE

Vienna, Oct. 9.

"I DEMAND my recognition as head of the

House of Habsburg."

This is the surprising claim just made by

UFS

Ordered to duty in the war zone in China, here are British troops transferred from Hongkong, unsling- ing their duffle bags in a temporary comp near Shanghai, Britishers have large investments in China and these Tommies were sent to Shang- hal to guard them.

Sailors Becoming

fifty-four-year-old Robert Pachmann, of Vienna. Voracious

His story is, he says, backed by irrefutable proof, if it were true it would constitute a challenge to the claims of Archduke Otto of Habsburg for the Austrian and Hungarian thrones.

tier Pachmann says he is ready, staying permanently in the South of to prove that he is a legitimate son France. At Cannes in February,

By such he claims to be teengnised The price he pays at his missions chict of the Habsburg family and at Bathurst Island is usually about us Pretender

the Austrian

£2 a "wife." They are all aborigi= | throne.

tu

Readers

of the murdered Crown Prince 1888, Frincess Marie Antoinette gave SEAFARING men are becom- Rudolf, and grandson of the late birth to a boy, who was taken to ing voracious renders. The Emperor Francis Joseph of Aus- Vicuna.

Seafarers' tria.

Education Service, Crown Prince Rudolf had in the which has a library of 84,000 meantime been obliged to marry books in Russell Square, now Princess Stephanie of Belgium.

supplies seagoing libraries to The baby prince by his first wife the vessels of more than forty was adopted by a wealthy woman shipping companies, saya the Herr Pachmann suys that in nond Marin Paclimaon, whose January 1880, the Crown

Sunday Times, London.

meeting with his father at the palace tales of the sea! Even the youngest Prince name he took.

Herr Pachmann describes a secret men? More or less anything except What do they read, those sailor-

when he was a child. INVALID BRIDE

of them--apprentices and cabin boys, "You are a nice

bay,"

aid his for example-bave, little use for The ceremony

took place at the father who kissed him on the fore- Captain Marryat, Clarke Russell, or Valivkirche, Vienna's

milltary head and gave him a box of sweets, even contemporary novelists of sca church, and was performed by a which bore photographs

the lite,

life. Conrad almost the оле personal friend of the Crown Prince, Emperor Francis Joseph, the Em- exception. He has a big following Dr. Marschall, chief army chaplain press Elizabeth and the Crown] and shares the honours of the foc's'le and chaplofa to the Imperial Family. Prince, "I recognised the Crown with Rudyard Kipling.

Reason for keeping the marriage Prince as the man whom I hud Some still like 10 dip into Dickens secret were: Personal coolness be seen," says Pachmann, tween the Emperor and his son, andA-year-later, in 1880, the Crown

l women, whom he buys so that they will be under his protection.

I've years," he said with a smile, "and I married Princess Marie Antoinette been buying wives for 23 Rudolf of Austria-Hungary secretly uelieve I have more than anyone else of Toscana. in the world. My total up to n few weeks ago was 141 wives." But 20 of them have died.

"It was curly in 1914 that I began nequiring my wives." An old ab- original came to the mission one day and demanded his wife, who was ten years of age,

“A woman of the island is al- ways married before she is born. This giri-wife asked my help. native law, and the old man took but I was powerless to oppose

her away.

the Emperor's aversion to the Bour-

of

Land"

chiefly

Don Camily with which the Princess Prince was murdered in mysterious was related.

circumstances at Mayerling.

Herr Pachmanu, a small man with The Princess was suffering from the Bourbon features, has since been used man

tuberculosis, which

after this twice married, but is now a widowe supposed wedding necessitated her with two sons and a daughter.

chem

not

of

Soun

MORE RUBBER IMPORT "No, there is no illusion. Germun statistics bear out to the letler all that we have seen. In 1920 Ger- many imported roughly 60,000 tons of rubber and in 1936 82,000 tons-an! Increase of more than 60 per cent. In the first four months of 1036 wei

"In four days she was back with a imported 32,000 tons, another in-ear wound in the thigh, and a few! crease of roughly 50 per cent, as com- hours later the

ungry old tribe. They pared with the corresponding period arrived with his of the previous year.

manded the girl back,

"The idea came to me-why "Is this an isolated case? By not buy her? 1 sprend out a heap

trade goods-knives, flour and to- "The explanation is a very simple rate husband. The deal was made, bacco and put my proposition to the one, Germany has more AW and soon smoke signals sent round! materials than ever before, but she word that was also uses them up to a larger extent Applications were plentiful. My 141 wife-buyer. than ever before.

wives have cast me

12 each "They are being used in the armin- goods." ment industry. Copper is not there Old men frequently decided to Two nged-Chinese market garden- to be used for domestle electrical in-divorce their wives after they have ers recently provided an illustration stallations, when it is needed over so run away several times.

of thrift und the wisdom of the much more for tanks, aeroplanes and The wife, Monsignor Gselt ex-adage. "Waste not, wunt not."

They were Charlie Jung and Ah | Chuey, who for decades have been

means.

guns.

BL

plained. "Is placed against a tree and the husband is given 12 spears to throw.

Charlie Jung and Ah Chuey Go Home With Their Hoes

Charles Lamb, Wilkie Collins Stevenson is not

Harrison. Ainsworth, R.... L. forgotten, but is remembered by seafarers to- day, like the visiting middles who

the author

rich in Samoa, IS the josser who wrote

Treasure Island","

Galsworthy and H. G. Wells, go into most of the "Bulldog Drummond" and detective libraries, Sapper's stories generally have

large vogue. Humour, of course, is always asked for. "Don't forget

to let us have some more of W. W. Jacobs, Stephen. Leacock. P. G.

Wodehouse, Beverley Nichols's stuff for next voyage," is the sort of message that They had used them in the gardens frequently comes from over the seas. for more than 30 years, and had

Many ships companies are very proved them trusty and reliable im-keen on blography and memoirs, and plements, When the two old men those of Lloyd George. Winston decided to return to Cunion hey Churchill, und Ludendorff have gone

they offered the hoes and watering-cans the rounds of the cargo boals. for sale. There were no bidders,

At the present time there is so leave them in

great a demand for Lawrence's they decided to carry

"Soven Pillars of Wisdom" ani to Canton with them.

there is a waiting list of more fian Ally ships for the available copies of this books.

****C best raw textiles are not there to clothe women and children "It is n cade of trial by ordeal at 30 market gardeners in. Victoria, Aus- and rather

No, it is much more important yards. If she survives she to produce munitions, explosives and divorced woman." aeroplanes.

"The hunger of the armament in- dustry for raw materials is more pressing than the hunger of the people. The standard of living for the masses does not count, prepara- tion for war-this alone matters, and for this purpose raw materials are urgently needed."

WORLD WAR?

IN

11

+

Australia tralia, Recently they found that then back they had saved enough money to "We may do gardening in Canton," enable them to return to their be- sald Charlie Jung. Then we have loved China. They booked their passages. Stories of war could not dnunt the two old men, and they

to buy no new tools.”

THING CALLED eft in the Talping recently to return Escalante Mine. Supposedly liking for books on scientif: sub-

WHAT IS THIS

EDUCATION?

CIR

Ito Canton, where they were born.

They marched happily up tha gangway, followed by two red- capped porters, carrying what was

It is a fact that Germany spends JOSIAH STAMP gave these probably the strangest acoriment

the

as much on armaments as the US.A England and France put together, and this reveals more clearly thinn longest speech how Germany is get- ling ready for a new World War.

A disclosure made by all ships" officers who report on the literary tastes of their crews is the marked

jects-physics, astronomy, geography, Hid 2,500,000ozs. Of Gold botany, aviation, wireless, and or course, engineering and ship build- Pittsburgh. ing. Nathan Sturdy, a quiet little mining |

Technical works for study by the Culford (Bury St. Edmunds) School Melbourne.

two definitions of education at of passengers luggage that has left engineer with a big idea. awaited young mich preparing for their $10,000 backing with which he mates' examinations have been so speech-day:

hopes he is going to find $00,000,000 continuously asked for that a special "The inculcation of the incompre- were packed in huge wicker baskets

Clothing and curios and presents in gold dust near Tucson, Ariz. technical section of the service has hensible into the Ignorant by the slung on a wooden yoke. And bring McKee of Phoenix, believe they can serviceable as possible all the books incompetent."

Sturday an old associate, C. w. recently been established. In order

that

this department shall be as ing up the "What

rear came the strangest you have left when you articles of all number of unclent remove a rock fall in the Mogful have been selected after consultation have forgotten all you itnow." garden hoes, their original handles,ault of the Catalina mountains and with the Central Board for the Germany spent only half as G. Wells,, soon after his recent cri-lings, and two huge and battered by Harold Bell Wright in the "Mine those technical works, the sclentine Sir Josiah said that when Mr. H. long since replaced by twisted sap-nd the Esentente mine, made famous Training of Omcers. Apart from much on armuments as she actually ties of the teaching profession, was watering-cans of an antiquated Dat-Escalente's iron door, which has been men are Sir James Jeans and Sir does, she would

the Iron Dour." Behind still be spending being taken round the education cen-tern,

the writers most popular with seaforing more than any other country. With tres of Nottingham, a headmistress half the expenditure it would be was heard to remark: "Mr. Wells

hidden for 300 years by landslides, possible to double immediately un- in school at last."

Charlie Jung explained the reason Spanish missionaries supposedly hid Oliver Lodge. employment and health benefits, and

for these strange pieces of luggage. 2,500,000 ounces of gold.

We

If we look at the budget for 1037 shall see that more than two- thirds of all the expenditure of the Relch is allocated to armaments.

.If

to increase all wages and minries by 10 per cent.

Ex-Service men, disabled and the unemployed could receive double the amount they receive to-day and the *wage tax" and the "cliiten tax" could be abolished straight away.

But there is no, money available for the masses and rearmement pre- duction increases oil the time. Every hlt of onerity is wasted on preparing for a new World War, a World War with the bankrupt Mussolint as sole ully.

BETRAYED BY HITLER

According to retail statistics the small trader seldom carns more than

with

Whet your Whistle

with a WHITBREAD!

Cow's Dislike Of Calf

London, Oct. 5. Because cow disliked anoller cow's three-week-old calf, a former Eric Trevor Ward, of Winkfield, Berks, was fined £2 with £4 cost at Windsor this week for cruelty. The calf, it was stated, was put in nfield with a cow, but the foster- mother refused to let it have any milk, and kicked it whenever it came near her. The enlf was seen lying about the field exhausted, and a veterinary surgeon said it was half starved. The farmer said he fed the calf twice a day.

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