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THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, APRIL 11, 1938.

Czecho-Slovakia Next Hitler Objective

EMPIRE NEWS

RACE PROBLEMS OF

SOUTH AFRICA

Cape Town.

The Government Commission of Inquiry into the problems of the coloured population of the Cape Issued a voluminous report to-day, after nearly four years' work. races throughout South Africa to-day number 750,000 persons.

Those

The Commission recommends in- ⚫creased employment of the coloured population in the public service, and an extension to other provinces of the franchise privileges now held by them in the Cape Province.

The report, which covers 350 pages, 19 regarded as the most comprehen- sive and sympathetic study of the lives of the coloured people ever Issued.

Fruit!

Frull Exporters' Losses, exporters are faced with heavy Anancial losses on some 10,000 tons of fruit sent to London since the middle of December, owing to the low prices renilsed.

New Chief Justice.—Mr. Justice Stratford, judge of the Appeal Court, has been appointed Chlet Justice of South Africa in the place of Mr. Justice Curlewis, who has retired-Reuter.

CANADA

'BABY RACE' WINNERS' PLANS

Toronto. Three of the Toronto mothers who will have a share in the £100,000 bequeathed by the late Charles Vance Mlilar to the Toronto mother bearing the most children in the 10 years: following his death, discussed to-day. how they would spend their fortunes. They will have between £10,000 and £20,000 each.

ANTHONY EDEN In Breaking Entente

RELAXES

UFS

CAPTAIN ANTHONY EDEN, who recently resigned as British Foreign Secretary after a break with Prime Minister Chamber- lain, relaxes with Mrs. Eden and their little dog at Nawton Tower, Yorkshire, England, us guests of the Earl of Faversham. Later they left Eagland for a vacation in southern France, while moves were made for the Captain's reinstatement.

Orange-Haired Girl Tells Spy Secret In Cell

Mrs. Lucy Timieck said she would like to buy a farm "with a couple Mrs. Kathleen of horses and cow." Nogle was unwilling to decide her exact plans until the cash was in her hand. Mrs. Annie Smith would

New York. like to do a great deal for her children's education and have a "nice

Twenty-six-year-old Johanna Hoffman, the girl with hair"

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dyed orange, who stepped blithely down the gangplank of Express Deralled.—The Canadian

at once charged National Railways Trans-Canada Europa into the arms of detectives, and was Limited was derailed to-day at with espionage, told questioners in her cell yesterday that her Capreol, Onlarlo. Nine carriages only motive was "patriotic service" to her country. came off the line, but nobody was Mr. Edgar Hoover, chief of the G-men, believes that the injured.

Qucher By-Election-Mr. Georges Woman, a hairdresser, was only one of at least thirty in Trans-

of atlantic liners who are in the spying organisation. Д prominent lawyer, Lachute, Quebec, has been nominated Johanna was caught after the Conservative candidate in the Federal by-election on Feb. 28 at

at Argenteuil, round-up of Gunther Rumrich, Quebec. The election is necessitated an ex-United States Army ser- by death,

Sir George geant, and Eric Glasser, a United Jan. 4, of Sir Perley, who

High Commissioner States soldier. was

At least forty in London from 1917 to 1922 and more arrests are likely up and

Minister without Portfolio, 1930-1935.

Veteran Journalist's Death-How down the States. ard Angus Kennedy, author and Meanwhile special guards haveing her to get information about the Journalist, who was one of the few been placed at the air base at Panama surviving men who reported the re- bellions of Louis Riel in 1800 and Mitchell Field, Long Island, offered £200 for information about

where Glasser was detained.

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1873, died to-day, aged 77.

Mr. Newlon Wylle-Mr. Newlon The plot is said to have included Wylle, 40, a leading Ontario publicist the murder of Colonel H. W. T. Eglin, and financial organiser, died in New commander of Fort Tolten, New York to day. He organised prohibi- York. He was to have been lured to tion in Ontario and Alberta in 1915. an hotel by means of a forged army order, and robbed of sceret mobillas- tion plans.

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STOWAWAY IN SHIP FUNNEL

Sydney. Steamship designers who ceived the idea of an extra dummy funnel to make a ship look powerful than it really is overlooked ane possible use. This was covered when upon the arrival of the crack Australian liner Awaten a .stowaway was found comfortably

Installed in the dummy funnel,

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another hotel, then to a post offer, eable office, where a boy Anally to was to take them to a tavern,

There Rumrich appeared and was When Johanna was taken arrested. detectives found on her documents corroborating the story he told. She had letters in code, too, "uppreciat- ing her brilliant services" and urg-

Canal defences. Another

aircraft carriers.

REICH DIPLOMACY SEEKS END OF FRENCH INFLUENCE

By Webb Miller United Preis Staff Correspondent

BERLIN.

THE NEXT OBJECTIVE IN ADOLF HITLER'S CAMPAIGN TO SPREAD GERMAN' INFLUENCE BY ASTUTE DIPLOMACY IS CZECHO-SLOVAKIA, AN ISLAND OF DEMOCRACY IN A SEA OF DICTATORSHIPS WHERE THE NAME OF WOODROW WILSON STILL IS SPOKEN WITH REVERENCE.

A third of the 10,000,000 Germans whom the Fuehrer is striving to bring within the Nazi orbit live in Czecho- slovakia, a nation that is a hodge-podge of races and sprawls across the map of middle Europe like a bridge between the Germanic and Slavic worlds.

In mid-February Hitler was expected to make the first move towards attempting to detach Czecho-Slovakia from its alliance with Soviet Russia. This pact is one of his chief concerns, for he believes that Czecho-Slovakia, nudging as it does against the German border, is in reality a dagger against the heart of the Reich.

If at the same time he can through the same technique he used loosen the bands of the Little in his coup in Austria-a threat of Entente Czecho Slovakia, force and then, possibly, nazification Rumania and Jugoslavia-and of the government.

thereby further weaken French Hitler is aware that France has influence in the Balkans, 80 made vlx solemn reaffirmations on the much the better. The Little necessity of maintaining Austrian in- Entente is the device France dependence. Yet, when the hour of worked out after the World War decision arrived recently, France to circle Germany with steel. stood by while Hitler penetrated The years have broken and Austria. That penetration, it was weakened that circle, and the thought would continue for it is signi- outstanding factor in the present feant that the Fuehrer's Reichstag diplomatic situation is that Ger- speech on Feb. 19 was barren of any many's resurgence has smashed pledge of Austrian Independence, Franco-British influence on the continent.

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North Pole Dog Left In Arctic

Moscow.

After sharing the lives of the four Soviet scientists, huddled for nine months on a chunk of les in the Polar wastes, Papa- nin's dog Happy must stay be- hind in the Arctic,

Ivan

Papanin, leader of the Soviet expedition, believes the sudden change of climate as the rescue ships Taimyr and Mur- man carry the four men home would overlax Happy's constitu- tion. The dog will be left at a Far North outpost.

Happy was often mentioned in radio messages to Moscow from the "North Pole station." He once allempted to fight a polar bear.

AMERICAN RADIO OFFER FOR DUKE OF WINDSOR

New York.

But the gang's methods were crude!

bad, and their information Colonel Eglin was not in possession of the secrets they wanted.

Government agents got wind of AN extraordinary invitation to the Duke of Windsor to become

the plat, and were ready for the captures when Rumelch, posing as Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, rang up an official for fifty G-men took them along.

passport blanks to be sent round. From

international broadcaster on public affairs is made by Upton Sinclair, famous novelist and writer on social problems, in the current issue of the New York Liberty.

He suggests the Duke would render valuable service to every nation by directing and compering a scries of discussion by the hotel they were redirected to experts on subjects of international importance.

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It is proposed that the Duke should be pald a salary by an American radio chain.

RADIO HOUR PLANNED

First suggestion for the Duke and Duchess of Windsor's Radio Hour is a discussion on collective security.

MAY HAVE SUPPORT

His move against Czecho-Slovakia will not lack moral support and it may win active aid from both Poland and Hungary. Both nations have a stake in Czecho-Slovakia. The men at Versailles who erased the boundaries of Middle Europe and drew new ones dictated that Czecho-Slovakia should be a nation of at least six tongues and five races. There are 80,000 Potes in Czecho-Slovakia and 090,000 Hungarians.

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Despite this jig-saw puzzle of races, the Czechs gloried in the establish ment of autonomy and Woodrow Wilson, who helped them attain it, is almost a patron saint to them.

There has been a long and wordy war against Czecho-Slovakin in the Both Polish and Hungarlan press. borders are uneasy. Endless diploma- tic exchanges occur over the allega- tion that Czecho-Slovakia discrimin- ates against those of Polish and Hungarian blood. That is why Hitler went out of his way in the Reichstag speech to make a special gesture of friendship toward Poland and to re- fer to Germany's amicable relations with Hungary, Bulgaria and Jugo- slavia.

20-POINT PROGRAMME

If Hitler's penetration of Czecho- Slovakla sounds fantastic to some readers they have but to recall state- ments that Hitler made in 1920 when he was an obscure head of a political party instead of the dominant ruler of Europe. At that time he listed a 20-point programme which he promised to

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years, but in the five years after, he has fuiflied, in whole or in part, on 17 of those 20 points. The start of his absorption of Austria and his announcement of a protectorate over the Germans living in Czecho- Slovakin is part of that programme. I recall an interview I had with Hitler In Munich a year before he! aut into power. At that time he listed 14 points that he intended to enforce. At that time few believed he ever! would rule Germany much less put into effect

that seemed a programme to me to be unattainable. To-day 12 of those points are in force, and dur- ing the interview none of them seem- ed to me to be more visionary than his ambition to dominate millions of Germans living in other countries.

It would be broadcast from the Duke's own home "near New York or Washington" at 2 o'clock on a Sunday afternoon so that people in Europe could listen in. Speakers to be the Duke and

DEFINITE SCHEDULE Duches, IL G. Wells, and sena-

Observers here believed Hitler had tor Borah.

worked out a definite schedule for the Economic problems, relations of Austrian coup and had been planning capital and labour, marriage, divorce, to execute it in March. But after the and birth control are other subjects the Reich diplomatic corps he decided army "purge" and the shake-up in for discussion, and the suggested to proceed immediately. He prob-| speakers include Henry Ford, John L. nbly thought the coup would be a Lewis and A. P. Herbert.

Checking Tides

With Bottles

useful smoke screen for his "purge" and would distract domèstle and world attention from what he was doing to the high command of the army. His strategy apparently suc-

The part of it which is still obscure is what Premier Mussolini got in ex- change for keeping out of the Austriani affair and for maintaining silence on To assist in checking the cir- Hitler's demands for domination of culation of ocean currents, two German residents on alien soll. bottles were thrown into the The most frequent guess-and it Pacific Ocean by the liner Mon-is nothing more than a guess is that teroy at widely separated points Hitler promised to supply whatever military ald is needed. to assure the in July 1930.

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Francisco Generalissimo Last month, both were found on Franco in Spain, Mussolini is now so that he the New South Wales const within

committed in Spain victory. | deeply few days and within a few miles of car's Reichsing speech might

permit a oach other, a remarkable occurrence Hillor's says Austral News. They were for interpreted as giving weight to that warded, according to instructions theory because the Fuehrer: clearly found in the message Inside, to the indicated he would ropard. Franco hydrographic amce of the Washing- defeat as a Bolshevist Victory Intoler lon Navy Department;itting, I able to Naziz- United Press, t

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