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THE

HONGKONG

MAY TELEGRAPH, MONDAY,

28, 1938.

TRIED TO

GENEVA MYSTERY MEN

SILENCE ENGLISHMEN

Startling Exposure Of

"Jobbery"

Within The League

HOW attempts were made on his life to prevent an exposure of the jobbery that flourishes behind the scenes in League of Nations' circles at Geneva, was described to the Sunday Dispatch by Mr. T. F. Johnson, formerly Assistant High Commissioner of the League.

At first a cat burglar was em- ployed to steal his private pa-! pers and then he was drugged at a dinner party,

s reactions on that occasion give the impression that the drug used was of the same kind as that em- ployed by the Soviets in their recent telais.

"The urge 'to spill the beans' well-nigh Irresistible," he WILN said.

FIRED AT

These methods having tailed, more! desperate inçasures were taken.

In Italy the steering rud of kia ciu was deliberately fractured immedi-

a thorough overhaul. ately after a

Geneva are made in his book "In- ternational Trumps," Just published. No board of business men would condone the League's administration for a day, he says.

ter

BRITONS BANNED He cites the encouragement candidates all over the world to sit for League appointinents-appoint- ments already securely Farmarked for political proteges. He tells of

ugainst the bar British candidates and the almost open activities of League officials as the agents of their own or other Governments,

Secret inquisitions, he declares, are and made into the private afairs correspondence of Government dele- gates to the League and of League

A tragedy was only averted be- cause the car was being driven very officials. slowly at

at the time.

It was certainly more than coin- cidence that a suspected agent drove past Mr. Johnson almost immediately after the breakdown.

Then

Then in Montenegro Bra the famous Loveen Pass, with its sheer' drup of hundreds of feet by the side of the hairpin track, Mr. John- son's car was fired upon by men behind rocks. The In are nast

tyres of the car were punctured. On the return journey Mr. John- son found that the cur's lighting hod)

been sabotaged,

FINGERPRINTS

SECRET EVIDENCE

There is also rampant ut Geneva a system of secret reports on officials. evidence being taken from their per- sonat enemies, rivals, or from per- sons envious of their posta,

No opportunity is afforded the vic- tims of refuting the allegations.

Such Intrigues, he adds, result In political proteges being appointed who do not know even one of the and official

languages-English French. Other officials have to be attached to them to enable them to transact their business!

Political appointments have been

Mr. Johnson had a ready expinna-made carrying salarles up to £5,000 tion of why he was so certain that a year for which no work existed.

these adventures

conniveled were

with his proposed book.

to

Mr. Johnson's description of the desperate attempts of such officials existence when Justify their discovered like toada under a stone by

of Inquiry makes a Commission very funny reading.

say Mr. Johnson wine

Having a shrewd idea of the iden- tity of some of the interested people while he was still in the League, he invited them to his house-and took their fingerprints from their gloBsc.

has plenty to

League. Politically,

Woman Who Likes Giving Has £750,000 To Give

But She Cannot Cure Hor Pain

Chelmsford.

Locked securely in a house near Chelms- ford, guarded by a ring of spiked railings, is a woman racked with rheumatoid arth- ritis, who has £750,000 to give away. She gave £10,000 of it to the Bishop of Chelms- the ford recently for a new church near East End.

No uninvited callers ever see her. After you have passed through the front gate you are stopped by the iron fence, and have to ring a bell in a wicket more than thirty yards from the door of the three-storeyed, red-brick house.

ONCE HAD A MILLION

1

She gets up ut 6.20 every day, has breakfast in her bedroom, reads newspapers till lunch, then goes for tong drives, usually Southend. She is in bed soon after supper.

Seven years ago she had £1,000,000: has dwindled by n quarter because of the gifts she has already made. Her fortune was left her by her husband, Mr. J. H. Keene, who was n director of the Pearl Assurance Com- puny.

call him "the They used most modest and retiring man who ever made a million."

That grand old battler, General John J. Pershing, looking quite t after hit recent fight with a critical illness, arrives in New York to attend the wedding of his son Warren lo Miss Muriel Bache Richards. The rail- way car in which he rode from Tueson, Ariz., was moved under the Waldorf-Astoria hutel and he is shown about to enter the hotel zlevator.

NEW B.M.A. PLAN

Family Doctor For 20,000,000 More

Proposals for a general edient service, extending National Health Insurance to an extra 18,000,000 to 20,000,000 people, are announced by the Council of the British Medical Association.

about the selection of Geneva ns the It will involve hospital reorganisa- himself. Although apparently un- economically, and geographically betion and co-ordination of health ad-

Later he posted

opened, the

few letters to sent uf

the

the considers Geneva unsuitable.

IDEALS sometime

envelopes hore

fingerprints of

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guests.

every

KEEPS In spite of his many disillusions Mr. Johnson still belleves Ormly in other the ideals of the League.

In

case where 'his papers were ransacked, money and valuables were untouched.

A workable League, however, in his opinion can only be founded on Anglo-Saxon nucleus, to which

ministration.

The scheme, issued through the Is the Medicat Journal, British B.M.A. policy of 1929 brought up to date, and is prepared with a view to being put into effect at no distant" date.

Every

member of every Imily GAVE UP £2,500 JOB

within an income limit of £250 Although he held a £2,500 post with the League, Mr. Johnson re- other countries would only be dyeur would be bebuted in National

retain membership in Health Insurance. signed rather than continue to work mitted and

much the same way as it a well-run of clubs.

In an atmosphere of such intrigue.

Mr. Johnson's revelations

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Gambled £600,000,000

During 1837, Chleago gamblers won and lost £200,000,000 playing horses. estimates Professor Todd. of North Western University, Je has worked out that every Americans spend the equiva- lent of 2.300 years in claemas.

day

consultant and speelalist, would be available for the patient. Full dental. and eye services would also be in cluded

Similar servlees would be available for those in receipt of Public Assist-

ance.

He often told Mrs. Keene of the money he intended to give away one day. But when he died she found his

made will had been

thirty years before, when he was comparatively poor.

So she started at once to use her wealth as he had hoped to do. She

Aave £32,000 for some old people's homes: £40,000 to Chelmsford Hos- pital;

Any one or anything in need can have the rest, says Mrs. Keene.

But--

I

"It must be really deserved. never net without cureful advice. "I get great pleasure from giving my money away."

The one thing her riches cannot give her is a cure for her affliction; for twenty-six years she has suffered from it, and she has been all over the world in search of relief from her path.

Whalers Lose £10,000 At Card Parties

Durban, Apr. 16.

A "Society" racket here catches A complete maternity service would the whalers who catch the whales.

During the past fortnight 200 sea- be based on the provision of a family men, members of the Antaretle whai- doctor and certified midwife in everying fleet new in Durban, have been case, with "home helps" to relieve flereed of more than £10,000 by the The mother of household troubles, racketeers.

and with a specialist available in case of complications.

As a result many of them are now

"It is widely accepted," says the penniless and cared for in seamen's Council, "that the most practicable homes.

and desirable method of providing a The racket is worked thus, in the complete general practitioner medical words of one of the victims: service is by the extension and ampli- "We are invited to expensive par- neation of the services given under ties at fashionable homes and in- the National Health Insurance Acts,"

valgled into card games by easy-man- nered men and women on the pretext that they are interested in our novel Then we are astutely engi- cred into paying for the entertain- | The men come to Durban from the Antarctic season cach with about £300 in his pocket. Several are un- unimous that this "gold-digging" is Twenty-six-year-old ex-Ziegfeld the work of an organised Society Follies girl, Nina Pierson, told the racket out to catch them on their re- Sunday Dispatch recently that she turn to port.

Follies Girl To Wed In London

ment."

will marry. Mr. Terence d'Abo, 24- The whalera remain in Durban till years-old stockbroker, at Caxton Hall, May 10 and then go to Madagascar London.

In Mayfair it had been thought that Miia Pierson was to marry Mr. Tommy Manville, United States millonatre "playboy." Mr. d'Abo's family is Russian, and he holds the title of count. Since coming to England, however, the family has not used the title,

Miss Pierson was married to M.

waters.

Won Duel With A Gunman

Cardiff, Apr. 21. Sergeant J. D. Henry, Penarth, has just rotired from the light bulb milionaire. Her divorce Glamorgon Police after 20 years'

Paul Leviton, the French electric who

at Reno has just been confirmed in service, once faced an armed negro and overcame him merely by the [force of personality.

the New York courts..

No. 13 Favours Candidate

Augusta, Me

Thirteen is a lucky number for

In 1910, during the negro rióta at Barry Dock, a huge negro, armed with a revolver, barricaded himself In a cellar.

Sergeant Henry, unarmed, went into the cellar after him. He tore down the barricade and State Sen. Roy L. Fernald. He was faced the man. For several seconds the 13th candidate to file papers for they stared at each other, then the nomination to the office and opened negro's nervo broke and lie dropped his campaign Jan. 13 in a speech be-his gun. fore the 13 Class at Portland. Figures on his automobile registration pinte total 13.

Thief Dresses Up In Loot

B. C.

Vancouver, B.

Woman, 90, New Citizen

Oakland, Cal Mrs. Julio Sullivan Judge,

A thief who broke into a hotel room resident of California for the past 73 here displayed pack-rat tendencies. years, took out citizenship papers here The prowler selected a number of at the age of 00. She came to the garments from a tenant's wardrobe, United: States: from Iralund 73 yours donned them, and left his own cloth-ago and had presumed she was ar ing behted. The exchange, the tenant American citizen by virtue of her complained, was far from a fair ono, marriage in 1870 to Frank W. Judge.

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