1938-07-26 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JULY 26, 1938.

MUSSOLINI CAUSES NEW DISQUIET

Il Duce's "Confidential Talk NO ONE ELSE PRESENT AT SECRET PARLEY

On tenterhooks since first Marshal Benito Mussolini returned from his June visit to Rocca Delle Comminate, his country seat, Rome officials, expecting a big shake-up, are weighing their prospects, nosing out the possible changes.

As every major reshuffle is fraught with important results for the smaller men, they are naturally keen on knowing what's in the wind. Ominous to them was the confab between Il Duce and King Victor Emmanuel on June 8, a talk afterwards reported as "extremely con- fidential."

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Her Life is Haunted By 'Phantom' Brother

THE life of Mrs. Nina Rickford, of the Drive, Northwood, Middlesex, is haunted by a phantom of her brother, Lieut.-Surgeon Hugh James Hopps, reported missing since his ship was torpedoed in 1914.

Strange tales, she told me have come to her of mysterious people searching for her-s Miss Nina Hopps. "My brother doesn't know I am married," she said.

of Versalles, Kidnaper Faces

Death Penalty

share out perialist nine-tenths of its population arc German spenking In the past twenty years they have been sub-

of Itali ject to a ruthless process onisation,

common ac- knowledgment the worst treated minority in Europe, MORE "SUDETENS"

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So confidential was it that both | into the Foreign Sceretaryship. Fascist Party Secretary-General | Partly reward for slick success at St. Achille Storace and Foreign Min-James's during the Ethiopla campaign ister Count Galeazzo Ciano, Mus- (Cavalcade, June 25, 1938) and his Hoping for concessions under the solin's closest aider were relegated assistance in the Anglo-Italian agree- kxis agreement, local Nuzi expect- Berlin's war to the ante-room, where also awaited ment. Grundl's promotions is medeations ran high when the King's cquerry.

but possible by doubts gathered around machine rumbled into Vienna,

were rudely dashed when the Fuhrer, stopping short of the Brenner, re- Son-in-law of the Duce, long ean-ceived and necepted felicitations from sidered beir-presumptive to the Mussolini, Mussolini dynasty, Count Galeazzo Clano, head-strong, but not specially capable, is dermed to have drunk too deeply of Jouchin Ribbentrop's champagne-ish dattery, and debited the bill to Rome's esl of the axiN.

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Behind the scents, however, Nazis Intensifted ther Tyrolean activities, with so much embarrass ment to jackshirt officials that the Fuhrer's bainb-proof trait sped nonstop for the subsequent

Rome. Since the Anschluss, despite Hitler's ofBeinlly holding aloof, South Tyrol nas shown marked signs of becum-

through the terrons in

Past Interviews of the kind almost always having had important sequel. this one set all Rome 4-jitter, and circumstantial chatter 10 Fascist offleca now sees rendjustment pend- ing along three lines.

Named

probable

candidate for the Spanish throne in the event of a Franco victory, the Duke of Aosia

#001 retinquish The

Not Viceroyship of Abyssinia good health, he accks a change from Addis Ababa, whether or not The royal purple awaits him in Madrid.

Ever grateful to the Duke for placing the Army his disposal

Recently Blackshirt administrators during the "march of Home," Mussolini-though he htaisell

m-have changed their tactics, tried to Germans. But complished that memorable marchfluence it is said, with Propaganda appease the Tyrol by train considers Fuses most Minister Josef Goebbels. Dlan AL

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for obvious reproof, and he will res place Storaco Secretary-General of the Party, and President of them another "Sudeten problem," Chamber of Pisces and Corporations

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nothing suitable offered

the aim remains the same, and the CIKOUTAGE

as much the Duke's crenilor in hos he will envoy in Herlin. leaving pose so far does nut own, and would

Rome's hope of completing the con- Ministry of Popular Culture

Gayda, arto Virginiu

vituperative quest by a show of kindness. Leditor of Popolo d'Italia. butively With the Anglo-Italinu Agreement Second line of readjustment was renowned us is master's voice." | brought Into effect-as Mussolini offeet almost the entire Cabinet: Present Ambassador

and chief administrative personnel.: Aftolico, will take the 51

To Addis Ababa as Viceroy in place seat vacated by Count Grundi

of Aosta will go swarthy, rotund fre- cater General Halo Balbo, to ቶኒ” succeeded as Governor of Libya by present party secretary Achille Starnce.

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Bertit, believes-and Dino Grandi exploiting James's hts British contacts, standing up to Hitler from Rome's Foreign Ofee, it is whispered the Tyroleans, if they remain intractable, ore in for a close of the mixture as before.

So the minor changes

Anticipated 23 certain, these changes are expected to take place round about October 28, seventeenth anniversary of Fascism

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relations,

From London, returning te

Rome-Berlla Third aspect of shake-up hinges ngent on after virtual exile, bland, bearded on the Lower Tyrol. Austrian tér-und the heat enggendered in Ambassador Bio Grandi will move‡ratory annexed to Italy In the - Tyrol on which the axis rests.

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Guzmi with Dowed bead at the Indicument charging him with kidnaping and murdering G year-old James B. Cash, J., Franklin Pierce McCall, Prince- ton, Flu, tormhand, is pictured above in Miami Circuit Court. Shuffling forward, he pleaded "Guilty" to the

itidnaping charge.

Florido statutes pro- vide the electrocution penalty for ransom kidnaping.

Capital £200, Debts

£90,000

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One day Mrs. Richford found note pushed under her door. It read, "Hugh'a address is" and then broke off.

Lt-Surgeon Hopps was tull, dark, and would now be 51 years of age, A tall, dark man, said Mrs. Richford, had been Inquiring at her old home in Scotland "for his sister."

Mr. Itoppa-Hugh's father- strengthened her feeling that her brother may be alive by hinting

that he

he was engaged in secret service work.

"But he died before he could tell

me more," she said.

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"I think he mny have been prisoner of war in Siberia for some time.

I have heard of gomicone answering his description in China. MAN AT THE DOOR "Some years ago I received an uns signed postcard from China-I think it came from Hugh,

Two y curs ogo Mrs. Richford dreamt that her brother was alive. The next day a man called af the door.

"He was collecting for something or other," she said, "I thought he resembled Hugh, but I wasn't quite certain.

"Perhaps he is down and Dul.- maybe he is disfigured, but I WATLE htm tu know that makes difference.*

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children from well-to-do homes ure more prone to nervous disorders and behaviour problems than are children from the homes of the very poor is the remarkable con- clusion of a series

of experiments conducted hy Dr. W.

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of psychological As medielne at Guy's Hospital, London.

In an attempt to discover the effect, if any, of poverty and bad social conditions in producing nervous disorders, Dr. Neustatter

selected three groups of fifty families for in- vestigation. The first. sisted of poor working-class familles group con- In south-east London, of whom forty- one had less than 108. per head per week and twenty were badly housed. The second group consisted of pro- fessional, clerical, and artisan workers with an average income per head of 19s, per week, and the third group of well-to-do middle-class familles from a north-west London suburb.

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Full investigation was made of the parents and children in each group. The results reported in the current number of The Lancet are surprising. ANXIOUS PARENTS "He seems to have disregarded

Of the fathers, for that excellent maxim Pay as you the poor group were of an anxious Neustatter found that only three, of for example, Dr. o, and appears to have substituted, disposition, compared with two want, and pay for it-If you can-four in the well-to-do group.

twenty- later s

This was said of Mr. Peter Stanley

though twenty-one of the former William Curtis,

aged 37, estate were unemployed, only six worried developer. lond speculator, and about money, compared with twelve company promoter, of Hertford- of the latter, of whom only two were street, W., who attended his first twelve. of the poorest were anxious

unemployed. Among

the mothers, meeting of creditors of London Bankruptcy Bulidings recently. against thirty-one of the well-to-du. Investigation of the children pra- duced even more striking results. In £1,140 was expected to rank for the poorest group nine per cent. had dividend. He estimated, however, been restless or irritable in their first that his assets would eventually year of life, compared with thirty per realise over £30,000.

cent. in the well-to-do group; only "Let us hope that his expectations four per cent. of the

be realised for the creditors' showed night terrors, against twenty- sake," sold Mr. C. T. Newman, nine per cent of the latter. Assistant Oficial Receiver, who re-

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instability of mood, timidity, aggres After consenting to adjudication siveness and obstinacy than did those in bankruptcy, Mr. Curtis told a from the poor familles, and nearly reporter that some years ago he was three tim

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Juthe fathers (but not mothers), and "In the north." he continued, "I punishment was more common among was surprised to find that high the poor and they were more worried rentals are paid by working-class about examinations. The well-to-do people, and that first gave me the were more afraid of the dark and of idea of building homes at rents animals. more comparable with those in the south. I intend to carry out my played Ideas as soon as I can."

Not one of the poor children dis- "phobias"-abnormal fears without any rational foundation-but nearly one in Ave of the well-to-do children showed these characteristics. Of the poor children twenty per cent, were found to be "nervous, Found at last a spot where the nervous, and fifty-six per cent, were twenty-four per cent. "partially lah leap into the fisherman's boat! free of all nervous symptoms; of the

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Physically, the well-to-do were at an advantage. Only eight per cent. were of poor physique, compared with thirty-four per cent, in the first group.

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Dr. Neustatter does not attempt to analyse the cause of these surprising Police decided that there had been comment which provides a clue.

results. But he makes one significant too many missing children-lost or strayed from their parents--at parades here. So they tried out durs Ing a parade the system of "tagging" all Youngstownsters. It succeeded,

The moral of which seems to bo that the most satisfactory children are those whose parents leave them alone; that "fussing" is more harmful than shortage of food and bad housing.

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