1938-06-22 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG - ĐÀTELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22,

1938.

Woman Acting as German Spy Made Sketch of Coast Defence

UFS

Manfried Hauptmann, 3, son of Bruno Heuptmann, excuted for the murder of the Lindbergh baby, suffered fractures of the right leg and bruises of the cheeks and left ear, when he was struck by Rt automobile to The Bronx New York City Frank Moser of

Hastings-on-Hudson said be darted from hind another ear is shown with his ather

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PEALS MADE A SOLID

As

TOWER SWAY

RINGERS PLAY 12 HOURS NON-STOP WITHOUT FOOD OR DRINK

S ten elderly men in shirt-sleeves stood half-way up the 300ft.-high tower of the Imperial Institute, South Kensington, ringing 21 peal in honour of the first anniver- sary of the Coronation, the vibration was

so great that the solid bricks and mortar swayed.

I stood in the ringing chamber watching them, writes a reporter-the men on light bells standing on the floor,

the men on heavy metal (a bell ia always called "metal" when its weight is discussed), on boxes, with their feet strapped down.

The red, white and blue "sallies"--the furry grips on each rope-soared and fell, spin- ning like so many barbers' poles. Hand-stroke, back-stroke, went the bells--for the wheels which swing them never perform & There is a complete revolution. stay that stops each bell.

THE SALLIES DAZZLE

Lenn back and try to dentify each bell with the rope pulling it. It entse not be done. The allies dazzle t their spinning rise arid fall. The slightly bending shoulders and backs are bewildering.

sound

Suddenly, struggling against the clangour, comes # human voler, hourse with shouting against the bells: "Bub がするから

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bytim Stuhlonly sequence of the bentlang, swaying harks ebanes They were Plagung "Stedman's Catera" yesterday---80)

alled from the seventeenth-century i man who originateri that method of change-ranging. Crumpanologists cuti- sider Stedman's the

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THE HUNGRY BELLS

Fight away through the eddying sh of the bell-chamber where the sound seems to take visible formu and Look down go up to the next floor. on the wheels. whirling back forth, the hungry mollis of belis.

arch the

Creep out on to the balcony and lean gains it, exhausted by the din. Feel the wall vibrate liite a living Hung with the fury of the bells.

And think then that the ringern, members of the Ancient Spelety of College Youths (most of them

over

500 will ring for it or 12 hours with- but a break, without a bile of food or a sup of drink-

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FOUR YEARS FOR "UNWANTED CHILD" OF TWO COUNTRIES

RE

QEVEALED to have been in communication with foreign agents in Germany and to have drawn a map of coast defences at a place in Scotland which would be of great value,to an enemy bomber, Mrs. Jessie Jordan, 61-year-old Dundee hairdresser, was sentenced to four years' penal servitude in the High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh, recently on charges under the official Secrets Acts.

In pleading for leniency her counsel. Mr. A. P. Duffes, K.C., told the Court an extraordinary story of her life- unwanted child of Scottish parents, she ran away at 16. became the wife of a German, and lived in Germany as a suspect under the Hitler regime.

"She realises," he said. "that in view of what has occurred neither this country nor Germany has any place for her except prison."

While Mra, Jordan,

for a time. a grey-haired, and lived with them

afterwards these young woman dressed in green, waited In Shortly

the dock. her daughter, who was people married and a daughter was married Ext Gretna,

her bori after mother's arrest, to a Glasgow wales- man, arrived in court..

Mr. J. 5. C. Reid, K.C.. M.I.. Solicitor-General for Scotland, and

Mr J

F. Strachan prosecuted, and Mr. A P. Wat defended.

AMENDED CHARGES

Mi Duffes announced ot the

**That apparently was the only comfortable and happy period in my chent's fe.

"Then the war enme, her husband

and fought

on the termne side eventually died of injuries or disease contracted during servico, My client. both during and after the war, feinalned in Germany as a sus-

opening that he had informed coun- peth

Wus

sel for the Crown that he was pre-

varying success she pared to advise us client to plead able to carry an ite business and in the interval contracted another mor- guilty to a modified charge

The modified indictment rend riage which was not a success and

she divorced her second husband.

thank:

Having Between June 1, 1937, and March 2, 1938, been in rom- nication with foreign agenta.

you, for purposes prejudicink to the safely Bedf interests of the

State.

10

-CERTAIN REQUESTS"

"Laiterly, as your Lordship may know from your general knowledge, there was an anti-Jewish agitation In Germany and I am told that the

has in Germany (1) Between February 14. 1937, game Jordan and November 17, 1937, at a place Jewish signillenner,

Mainly

In- In her caughter's Fife

the within prohibited mening of the Ometal Secrets terests she decided quite recently to Act, made 11 sketch or plan, ral-come to Scotland and make restal rulates! to be useful to an enemy, inquiries as to her parentage. Having went back to and obtained information regard- mute inquiries she

and then decided quite ing the prohibited place enlculated Germany to be useful to an enemy and diet recently to return to Scotland. record part of the information on

"Either by accident. or it may The sketch;

have been by design, she missed her (2) Between February 14, 1937, bont and certain requests were made and December 7, 1937, at Montrose to her to render the service which and Kirkcaldy and various she ultimately did render in this places on the East Const of Scot-country. land, between Montrose und Kirk- caldy, obtained information rela tive to coastguard stations and coastal defence al the

place

at

"As far as I can fathom her own attitude, 1 doubt if she is very ap prehensive about the penalty which lordsaly may Inflict, because your she seems to realise or to feel that,

nf wint view

has Decurred, Germany

marked on a nap produced calcu- in loted

to be useful to an enemy, and recorded part of the informa-neither this country nor

has any place tion on the map. Addressing the Lord Justice Clerk prison. ja a plea for leniency Mr. Dufles Enid Mrs. Jordan had informed him that she was not asked to obtain the particulors. She was asked to verify Information which had already been obtained.

In

for her except

"UNWANTED CHILD" Mr. Duffes added: "The position would sccm to be that, having started

In her native country Scotland as an unwanted child, she finds herself now a woman of 51, partly through her own fault and partly through fate and misfortune, again in a very real sense an un- wanted child, both as regards ber native country and the country in which she has spent the greater part of her life-Germany."

A case of this type might suggest that the authorities perhaps ought to have greater powers than they had.

ellent "My

comes before

you neither as an unrepentant offender against the law nor as a whining penitent," said Mr. Duffes.

The Solicitor-General suld: "I What she did was not done for think it is right to point out that the reward."

foreign agents referred to in the What

she received did not amount initial part of the indictment are to much; nor did she act from any foreign agents in Germany. hostility or will to this country. With regard to the first charge,

"She is now 51 years of age. She relating to making a sketch of was born in London and was an prohibited place in Fife, I am bound illegitimate child. According to the to

say this: particulars I could obtain she was "The prohibited place there re-

an unwanted child.

anwante Her mother married afterwards, not her father, but another man, and by him she had a very large family, something like 10 children.'

ferred to is a place of first-class no- ilonal importance in connection with the defence services, and the sketch, although it

appear to

be

a somewhat amateurish effort, is. I She had been assisted by a rela-am assured on expert advice, a sketch tive of her mother's in Wales, who which would be of very great value had advanced her a substantial sum to the pilot of an enemy bombing' to enable her to start her hair-aeroplane who was seeking out his dresser's business in Dundee. "I do objective at that prohibited place." not think it would be disputed that The Lord Justice Clerk then it was a genuine business," said Mr.j passed sentence. "You have pleaded Duffes.

guilty to two charges of very seri- RAN AWAY AT 16

ous offences under the Oficial "At the age of 10 she ran away Secrets Acts," lie suid. from home and obtained employment "It is impossible to take a light In domestic fervice. She moved view of offences of that kind. In about for a period in England and considering what sentence to impose, Scotland in domestle service. It the governing consideration must be was in that way that she formed the what is required in the national in- link that eventually brought her terests." into this dock.

As "four years" was spoken Mrs. "She was able in n humble way Jordan seemed for n moment to to render service to a young German suffer a shock, but she recovered her who was at that time, about 1007, composure almost immediately. In this country and who, I think, Then, with the truncheon-bearing had a brother also in this country-constables accompanying her,

was taken from the court. As she

she

a man named Jordan.

"She was

able to help him and went out he gave a quick glance she received an invitation to go to and a smile to the back of the court their home in Germany. Sho went where her daughter was altting.

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