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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER ··

1937.

FOR NEW

NEW WORLD

WAR

GERMANY PREPARES

WHAT SECRET RADIO

MESSAGES INDICATE

Feverish Efforts In The Armaments Race

29.8-

20 Q-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.

gel

Every evening after dark there are 20 marks a week. Business is very German workers, shopkeepers, tea slow, his capital is shrinking, and his chers, employers who

their standard of life is going down con- families and friends together and siderably. He feels bitterly betray- turn on the wireless, wave lengthed by Hitter. 20.8, to listen to the "Freedom Radio Station."

Wherever we look, we discover a change for the worse in the situation. of the working class, and one gain after another, won after years of fighting, has been taken, away from the workers. To-day the situation of the workers is very much as it

In spite of Jamming by the Gestapa In spite of a nation-wide search by all die different German police forces, millions of Germans listen every night to this anti-fitler broadcasting pro- was 100 years ago, when high mili- gramme which brings them new tury officials complained about the about Germany and foreign countries, bad health of the new recrulis com-i reports of strikes and demonstrations

ing from Industrial areas. They!

in German industry, talks about eur-atinch the same complaints to-day vent legislation, etc.

and no wonder, considering the Some weeks ago the Rulia had on terrible conditions under which the Its programme series of talks on working class children grow up to present-day economic conditions in day,

Germany. A number of anti- Fascists here in England listen-

ten

ed in and, in spite of jumming by the Gestapo, pieced together speeches. Here are parts of them.

"All of us experience every day the shortage of raw iuteriais. Elec- tric wiring in private houses is el. ting very bad in quality simply be.. cause of a lack of copper.

"New houses are standing empty, as there is no lead for water pipes. Gas pipes and rubber tyres are get-; ting worse and worse because there is not enough rubber.

"We all remember how during the) War Wr collected old-tooth-paste tubes, door-handles and copper "ket-f tles. The same huppens to-day. Clothes conslat mainly of

abre.

it 19 forbidden to Use purel wool. The laundry wears thing out much Booner breatse

the soup Is sa poor and delicient in fats. The effects of the shortage are felt! everywhere.

"But

how strange!

We sean the harbours in Bremen and Hamburg one ship after another arrives,

as

loaded to capacity with raw materials

from oversens.

Bought 141

Wives As 'Hobby' For £2 Each

Darwl.

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

He is Monsignor Francis Gsell, Roman Catholic Administrator

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

Ordered to duly in the war zone In China, here are British troops transferred from Hongkong, unsling- ing their duffle bags in a temporary comp ncar Shanghal. Britishers have forge Investments In China and these Tommies were sent to Shang- hai to guard them.

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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.

Herr Pachmann says he is ready, slaying permanently in the South of

to prove that he is a legitimate son France. At Cannes In February,

Readers

of the murdered Crown Prince 1883, Princesa Marie Antoinette gave SEAFARING men are becom- Rudolf, and grandison of the late birth to a boy, who was taken to ing voracious readers. The Emperor Francis Joseph of Aus Vienna.

Seafarers' Education Service, trla.

Austrian

of the Northern Territory llorese.

By such he claims to be recognised The price he pays at his missions chief of the Halsburg family and

Pretender to the at Balliurat Istand, is usually about thus 22 a "wife." They are all aborigi- Urone, nal women, whom he buys so that they will be under his protection.

I've been buying wives for 23 years," he said with a smile, "and believe I have more than anyone else We go to the

frontler and see in the world. My total up to a few there trains arriving, crammed full weeks ago was 141 wives. But 20 of with raw materials, waggon after them have died. waggon. Is this another illusion... "I was early in 1914 that I began. are more train-loads and ships arriv-acquiring my wives." An old ing than before?

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, but I was powerless to oppose

MORE RUBBER IMPORT

"No, there is no illusion, German statisties bear out to the letter all that we have seen. In 1929 Ger- many imported roughly 50.000 tons of rubber and in 1938-02,000 tons--native law, and the old man took increase of more than 60 per cent.į

of the previous year.

her away.

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 songoing libraries to The baby prince by his first wife the vessels of more than forty was adopted by a wealthy woman shipping companies, says the

Marla Pachmann,, whose Sunday Times, London.

Herr Pachmann says

that in named January

1008, the Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria-Hungary secretly married Princess Marie Antoinette of Toscana.

INVALID BRIDE

A

one

name he took.

meeting with his father af the palace tales of the scal Even the youngest Herr Pachmann describes a secret men? More or less anything except What do they read, those saller-

when he was a child..

of them-apprentices and cabin boys, for example have little use for Captain Marryat, Clarke Russell, or ever contemporary novelists of sca

almost the exception. He has a big following and shares the honours of the foe's'le with Rudyard Kipling.

Some still like to dip into Dickens and Charles Lamb, Wilkie Collins and farrison Alsworth, R. L. Stevenson is not forgotten, but Is. chielly remembered by seafarers to

like the visiting middles who day, amused the author SO much in Samoa, as

"You are a nice boy," said his The ceremony took place at the father who kissed him on the fore-

Vienna's Votivkirche,

military head and gave him a box of sweets,

of bore photographs the church, and was performed by a which personal friend of the Crown Prince, Emperor Francis Joseph, the Em- Dr. Murschall, chief army chaplain press Elizabeth and the Crown and chaplain to the Imperial Family. Prince, "1 recognised the Crown Reasons for keeping the marriage Prince as the man whom I had secret

Personal coolness be-seen," says Pachmann. were: tween the Emperor and his son, and

A year later, In 1880..the Crown die-Emperor's aversion-to-the-Bour Prince was murdered in mysterious bon family with which the Princesselrcumstances at Mayerling. was related,

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

supposed wedding necessitated her with two sons and a daughter.

In the first four months of 1936 wel "In four duys she was buck with a imported 32,000 tons, another in-spear wound in the thigh, and a few crease of roughly 50 per cent, as com- hours later the angry old map pared with the corresponding period arrived with his tribe. They de-tuberculosis, which soon

manded the gel back,

"The idea came to me--why not "Is this an isolated case? By no buy her? I spread out a heap of

trade goods-knives, flour irate husband. The deal was made, bacco-and put my proposition to the

and soon smoke signals sent round word that Applications were plentiful. My 141]

wife-buyer.

wives have cost me £2 each in goods."

incans.

"The explanation is a very simple one. Germany as more raw materials than ever before, but she also uses them up to a larger extent

than ever before.

"They are being used in the arina- ment industry. Copper is not there

to be used for domestic electrical in- stallations, when it is needed ever so much more for tanks, aeroplanes and Veg guns.

Was

and to-

H

after this twice married, but is now a widowe Treasure or the losser who wrote

Charlie Jung and Ah Chuey Go Home With Their Hoes

Galsworthy and H. G. Wells go into most of the libraries, Supper's "Bulldog Dr

Drummond" and detective stories generally have a large vogue. Humour, of course, is always asked for. "Don't forget to let us have some more of W. W. Jacobs, Stephen P. G Wodehouse, or བ་ ley Nichok's sluft for next voyage," is the sort of message that Old men frequently decided to

Two aged Chinese market garden- They had used them in the gardens frequently comes from over the sens. Many ships companies are very divorce their wives after they have ers recently provided an illustration for more than 30 years, and bad run away several times.

the proved them trusty and reliable im- keen on biography and memoirs, and of thrift and the wisdom of "The wife," Monsignor Gsell ex-adnge, "Waste not, wont not."

plements. When the two old men those of Lloyd George, Winston decided to return to Conton they Churchill, and Ludendorff have gone Plained, "is placed against a tree and the husband is given 12 spears to They were Charlie Jung and Ah offered the hous and watering-cans the rounds of the cargo boats.

no bidders.

At the present ilme there is so great a demand for Lawrence's Australia they decided to carry tralla. Recently they found

"Seven Pillars of Wisdom" at that them back to Canton with them.

there is a waiting list of more than they had saved enough money to "We may do gardening in Canton."

fifty ships for the available copies enable them to return to their besald Charlie Jung. "Then we have

of this book. to buy no new tools." loved China. They booked their

A disclosure made by all ships passages. Stories of war could not

officers who report on daunt the two old men, and they

the literary liking for books on scientifle sub- of their crews is the marked jects-physics, astronomy, geography, bolany, aviation, wireless, and of course, engineering and shilp build- Fing.

"The best raw textiles are not throw

for sale. There were Chucy, who for decades have been and rather than leave them in

there to clothe women and children "It is a case of trial by ordeal at 30 market gardeners in Victoria, Aut

.. No, it is much more important yards. If she survives she is

to produce munitions, explosives and divorced woman."

aeroplanes.

"The hunger of the armomect in- dustry for raw materials is more pressing than the hunger of people. The standard of living for

prepara-

the masses does not count, pre THING CALLED left in the Taiping recently to return Escalante Mine Supposedly

the

WHAT IS THIS

EDUCATION?

CIR JOSIAH

two definitions

for this purpose row materials are: urgently needed."

WORLD WAR?

to Canton, where they were born.

They marched happily up Hid 2,500,000ozs. Of Gold

the

Kingway, followed by two red- capped pocters, carrying what

the strangest assortment

WAS

Pittsburgh.

STAMP gave these probably

Nathan Sturdy, a quiet little mining i Technical works for study by the It is a fact that Germany spends as much on armaments as the U.S.A Cultord (Bury St. Edmunds) School Melbourne.

of education at of passengers luggage that has left engineer with a big idea, awaited young men preparing for their

$10,000- England and France put together, and

backing with which he mates' examinations have been BO this reveals

speech-day: more clearly than tho

hopes--he is going to find $00,000,000 continuously asked for that a special Clothing and curios and presents a gold dust near Tucson, Ariz. longest speech how Germany is get- The inculcation of the incompre- were packed lo huge wicker baskets

technical section of the service his ting ready for a new World War. hensible into the ignorant by the slung on a wooden yoke. And bring Mekee of Phoenix, Believe they can serviceable as possible all the books Sturday an old associate, C. w.recently been established. In order If we look at the budget for 1937 incompetent.'

that this department shall be as ing up the rear came the strangest we shall see that more than two. "What you have left when you articles of all-a number of ancient move a rock fall in the Mogel have been selected after consultation thirds of all the expenditure of the bave forgotten all you know." Relch is allocated to ormoments.

the Central Board for Sir Josiah said that when Mr. H. long since replaced by twisted sap-ed the Escalente mine, made famous If Germany spent unly half as G. Wells, soon after his recent crings, and

Apart from two huge and battered Harold Bell Wright in the "Mine these technical works, the scientific much on armaments as she actually ties of the teaching profession, was watering-cans of an antiquated at Esentente's iron door, which has been writers most popular with seafaring

with the Iron. Door." Behind the does, she would still be spending being taken round the education cen- tern." more than any other country. With tres of Nottingham, a beadmistress

hidden for 300 years by landslides, men are Sir James Jeans und Sir half the expenditure it would be was heard to remark: "Mr. Wells Charlie Jung explained the reason Spanish missionaries supposedly hid Oliver Lodge.. possible to double immediately un- in school at Inst."

for these strange pleces of luggage. 2,500,000 ounces of gold. employment and health benefits, and

to increase all wages and salaries 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 "citizen tax" could be abolished straight-awny.

But there is no money available for the masses and rearmament pro- duction increases all the time. Every blt of energy is wasted on preparing for a new World War, a World Wor

with the bankrupt Mussolini as sole ally.

BETRAYED BY HITLER

According to retall statistics the sniall trader seldom' earns more than

Whet

[garden hoes, their original handiek Fault of the Catalina mountains and wing of Omeers.

your Whistle

with a WHITBREAD!

the

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