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THE

HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER

18, 1937.

PRINCE TOLD HE WOULD

WOULD LOSE

LOSE CROWN

"This dramatic picture shows dead gangsters lying on Central Street, Bangor, Me, afler G-men fald an ambush for them and brought them down with their guns. In foreground of upper panel is body of Al Brady, Wanted in the Killing • two Indiana State policemen. Brady bragged he was "tougher, than Dillinger," Lower panel altows close-up of his pal, Clarence Lee Shaffer, with arrow pointing to Shaffer's body in the street scene above. G-man, Walter Walsh, was shot,

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TOWN WHICHDEPENDED ON TWENTY MINERS

Task So Perilous They Dared

Not Tell Wives

Facts that have been kept secret to avoid alarming the women of Whitehaven, mining town on the bleak writes Gwyn Cumberland coast, have been given me, Lewis in the Sunday Express, telling how twenty men faced death in a bid to tap new coal wealth.

These men worked in gas-filled tunnels in the Haig pit for five weeks. They have opened the way to one of the richest coal seams in Britain, extending five miles under the Irish Sea and four miles in width.

All the world was per- mitted to know was that after eighteen months of idleness, the Whitehaven pits were enabled by Lord Nuffield's £2,000,000 indus- trial trust to reopen this year.

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The new company formed operate the pits knew at the outsel coal hat unless fresh sources of were found, its future beyond ten years

uncertain. WOR scams would then be exhausted,

Existing

Now, as the result of the heroism

of twenty miners, access la possible to

nillions of tons of coul.

TERRIFIC HEAT

Plans were made for overcoming these obstacles. Apparatus in which men could live in the dead- ly atmosphere was devised.

Could nien be found to volunteer for the work?

men could work for only two hours a day in the actual danger area and two hours on relier duty just outside that area," said a colliery oflelal.

"They worked in a temperature of between 90 deg. and 100 deg. Each man had to endure for two hours the discomfort of having his nostris plugged with cotton wool, and each man's nose was for two hours tightly clamped as an additional precaution to prevent his Inhaling Lise poisonous gas.

"Air cylinders was breathed through the mouth.

The oren that we planned

IF HE ATTEMPTED TO DEPOSE MUSSOLINI

ITALIAN COUNT REVEALS

STORY OF INTRIGUE

By Giacomo Costa

How

OW the Italian Royal Family tried to depose Mus- solini, and the Duce's counterplot to retain power, were revealed to the Daily Herald recently by Signor Giacomo Costa.

Signor Costa, prominent Naples barrister, has just escaped from Lampedusa, the prison island in the Mediter-

ranean.

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At last, a free man in a free The Prince's feelings, and perhaps country, I can reveal how Museven his plans, were becoming slow- solini cowed Royal opposition byly known to the people.

a direct threat to bar Crown Prince Umberto was not afraid to Prince Umberto from becoming peak his mind to me or to his other friends, but Mussolini's secret agents King of Italy.

were listening.

DUCE'S THREAT

It is a story of black intriguo against all who dared stand in

They communicated the Prince's the path of the Duce, from Kingstatement to their chief, He was Victor Emmanuel downwards. probably furious, but at that moment [his popularity was on the wane and Widespread hostility to the Fascist he dared not take action. regime was already growing long A3 soon, however, as military before any question of a compaign successes In. Abyssinin heartened in Abyssinia arose. The movement Mussolini he quietly intimated to was general, but it lacked teaders the Crown Prince that he had and a programme.

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SECRET DOCUMENT We had worked out 1 secret Council in Rome in 1924, King Victor Emmanuel summoned him to a pri-Į vato audience only in order to ask memorandum for the Prince, show- ing him in detall what would be the his advice.

consequences, both politically and But the secret of this meeting was economically, of the catastrophic end betrayed to Mussolini. He realised that we still foresaw to the Abys- that the King was his enemy and slalan adventure. then the King missed the opportuni-

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That was the end of the King's plans for ridding Italy of the Duce. When Mussolini dismissed leading generals, including Cappello and Dencivenga, the King could not resist the loss of his most faithful supporters,

But

But

grow

discontent began to again and soon Mussölia! conceived the-ides-of-n-newman Empire to

10 reinforce his pres. He secured

It was all that they needed. at once arrested and deported.

Doctor

Claims

develop lies to the west of the district the King's support by the flattering 'Perfect

where so many of our lads have proposal of winning him an Imperini |

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been killed.

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"Two roadways extending 000 In splic of the collapse of his Its existence was already known, but also known was the fact that yards and leading to It had been father's opposition, Crown Jendly gases and terrifle heat had sealed up following the last disaster, Umberto had never accepted the rule! and heal. These of Mussolini. In the early years he Orst to be penetrated before a single because of gua

Tvised. un of the new coal could be sent 000 roadways had to be won back by the was too young to lead any move. Perfect Food has been de-

introduction of ventilation.

ment against him, but as he grow cet to the surface.

older and when I met him for the

Simple, testy, Suitable for every "The volunteers were divided

every vitamin. Jato four teams of five men. Each first time,'a year or so before the meal, containing leam appointed a captain to make Abyssinian war, he was already pre Manna.

It has another recommendation. decisions in the event of an

ae-paring active opposition,

opposition to

It comes within everybody's purse. In order to mask his the regime he came to live in

And you will find every ingredient I'LL WEAR MY TWEED Would the normal working of the

Naples, my home, as far away as in your own larder.

Mussolini and his

Here is the recipe, opproved by pits be interrupted if the nature of "Now picture two underground possible from The new enterprise became known? hambers, separated by a doorway. father, the King.

These questions would have arous-While one teum was working in one d no anxiety in other pits, but con-uf these chambers, a relief icam sat aristocratle and business circles, but sider the history of the colllery, In the other. An ordinary clothes even among the people, who soon the realised the reason for his presence Whitehaven mourned the death of line passed through a hole in

there. 136 men killed in 1910 by an under-door. That was the life line.

round fire. In 1032 an explosion. "One end of it never left the hand llled 30 men, and in 1927 four men of the captain of the relief team

He was careful to choose his while the other team was working. were killed.

Whitehaven resumed its mourning The other end of the line lay within friends among those who were not 1031, when 27 men were killed. cosy reach of the captain of the active supporters of the Duce or his regime, people who, like myself,

In spite of this fearful record of working team.

In Naples he moved not only inexperte.

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death beneath an veean bed, volun- "It was arranged that the instant could not tolerate his dictatorship.

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The Perfect Food is the discovery Bircher, the Swiss

eers for the work were found. butță man showed signs of exhaustion his

When the Abyssinian war seemed It was decided to say little about captain would tug the life, line to Imminent the Crown Prince felt that of Dr. K. what they were doing. Whitchoven | bring aid.

his opportunity had come. Ils con- scientist. He worked out the formal

some of the invalids, mainly the rest of the miners vomen and

"Each day's work was carefully vietlon was based on the assumption for

who flock to undersood vaguely that the men planned in advance and bit by bit the that Great Britain would not tolerate British nowadays,

Switzerland. were "on repair work."

lost roadways were regained,

Italian intervention in Africa.

Dr. Bircher gave up test tuben and The Haig pli now produces ap- 1 have always lived in Naples, and

to his wife's proximately 1,200 tons of coal a day. before the war I played an active chemicals and went

|kitchen. The perilous nuture of the work That output will be doubted within part in Lett Wing polilles., he had

WEICHT GAINS When I met setuled in Naples and was awaiting

Then he tried the formula on his the full an opportunity

restore

patients. Monarchlat regime on a democratic and constitutional basis.

DANGER AREA

will be seen when I tell you that the a year."

Workmen Exposed To Assault Risk

nt Shoreditch County Court.

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The Abyssinian war seemed to he the best opportunity. He knew, he gave me to understand, that the war was unpopular in all classes even among some influentai Fascists.

Almost from the first day they begon to gain to weight and vigour.

Now hh patients have it twice a day. Nothing else. Nothing in be

tween.

"My discovery means that all the myriad illnesses caused through our clumsy ways of getting nourish- ment are doomed," the doctor says.

Because he was assaulted at work] workshop when he was suddenly

"MAD ADVENTURE” a mun successfully sued lils employers altacked by a man named Graves,

He was convinced that the Fascist who was subsequently convicted of the nasault and sentenced to alx regime would disappear, to be re- Well, now you know it, try it on Leslie Ernest Temple, of Totten months' hard labour.

placed by Bolshevik chaos or by ai ham, who had been attacked with a plane by

fellow a

workman, receiving a fracture of the skull, a man of undisciplined and violent brought proceedings against Sconeld temper and had prior to the attack and Elexton, of Dunloc Streel, threatened both Temple and a work- Bethnal Green.

man named Hart with a mallet.

It was contended that Graves was Monarchist regime, democratic in the family for lunch to-day.

nature and modelled on those of Great Britain and Belgium.

During the first few months of the TYPEWRITERS

Abyssinian campaign things seemed

to be taking the turn that would nood the protection and Judge Lilley made an award In Temple, in ovidence, denied that make his plans possible. favour of Temple, staling that he he had ever interfered with Graves' One day when things were going_lubrication that this was ontladed that he was exposed to tools, or had any dispute with him particularly badly, both from

a risk which arose out of his ployment.

em-

The employers had been suff)- elently advised of the ungovern- ablo lemper of the man who com- mitted the namult, and by retain« Ing his services they exposed

·Temple and other workmen

the risk of amault.

Mr. N. Goldio saki Temple

to

was

the

Another employee, Edward Cook, military and diplomatic point of fine oll gives. uld Graves was unpopular among his view, he said to me: workmates, but only through his own fault. To his knowledge.nobody had altered Graves' work.

Mr. A. Pugh, for the employers submitted that there was no special risk other than that of the reaction of workman who thought his tools

"doing "lls' work in his employers had been tampered" withy

"This is a mad adventure which Britain will end badly. Great will never`allow. auch an open breach of the Cavenant of the Learte to continue: --

"Mussolini will ruin bis country, wreck the Dynssly and leave heap of ruine behind him, *

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