1938-11-10 — Page 2

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10,

1938.

MARCHIONESS IS SMUGGLERS' DUPE

'£10,000 in Her

Mattress'

ROME.

THE English-born Marchesa Godi di Godio, who was arrested at the frontier recently on her way to France, may be the victim of a gang of currency smugglers.

War scares and the exodus of Jews from Italy have increased this type of smuggling to fantastic proportions.

The system employed has been to place a specially prepared mattress of banknoten under the ordinary mattress of a sleeping berth.

Mattress after mattress of notes is being discovered, and in many cases the occupant of the berth is completely innocent of the smuggled wealth on which he may be peacefully sleeping until roused by police searchers.

In this way, it is suggested, the 45-years-old Marchesa, formerly well known in British hunt- ing circles as Miss Violet Kay, found herself in the police net.

A million lire (obust £10,870) and and fortune In English 1 Email American dollars were found neatly sewn quilt-fashion under her mal- trest on the Rome exress en route for Paris.

The Marchesa protested that she knew nothing about the notes, but it is reported that she has been sent to the women's prison in Rome, pending a smuggling charge.

One of the best-known women in Rome society, she is a personal | Iriend of the Royal Family and of Signor Mussolini's family.

Britain's administration of Palestine affairs provides plenty for British soldiers to do, because

of the near-warfare between Arabs and Jews. Here, British soldiers line up a bustond of Arabs near Jerusalem and search them for weapons.

COLONIES "MAY

BE SACRIFICED

A warning that Mr. Chamberlain might be willing to surrender Tan- ganyika, former German colony, to the Nazis, WRA volved recently by Lord Francis Scolt.

Noted for her horsemanship, she has several times won the Mussolini Amazon Cup at thin lume inter- notional annual jumping competition. Lord Franels, who is leader of the the It is feared that many others in | European elected members in high positions may be involved, or Kenya Legislature, declared in a let

Standard, at least have taken advantage of theter to the East African International tank which is under that Tanganyika was a vital factor in taking the muggling.

the future of the Emphe in Africa. Newspapers emphasize that those caught will be "Unfortunately," he added, "many Elven "exemplary punishment." of our fellow-countrymen in Britain Evidence of the gang's retivities do not realise this fact, and what is ter has never been willing to commit hiwelt definitely.

COURT GUNMAN SENTENCED

DOCTOR CONSIDERS

HIM INSANE

The paper points out that during WOUNDED MAN WHO the past two years a surprising num- "GRINNED AT ME” her of cheerful young German mis- sinaries, all of them remarkably good mechanics, have entered the colony. Sentence of four years' penal ser- Nearly every incoining German vitude was passed at the Old Bailey settler, the paper says, is a Nazi pro-recently on Richard Harrison Henri tege from the time he sets foot in que, 24. the coloured engineering Tanganyika, when bis immigration student, who fired three shots in deposit is paid, directly or indirectly. Clerkenwell police court on Septem- by the German authorities.

ber 5.

"TOO FRIENDLY"

Henriques was found not guilty of guilty of attempted murder. but "There can be no doubt that with-wounding Oladipo Moore with intent German Government a high percen- also found guilty of shouting at two tage of the farmers would be dest- other men with a similar fatent, and hale; experienced planters are agreed) that in one locality not more than of pressing a pistol with intent to one German in ten has a really self- endanger life.

EMPIRE NEWS

LABOUR CONDITIONS IN

UGANDA

Kampala.

The Report of the Committee of Inquiry, appointed nearly a year ago to investigate the Inbour situation in Ugando, has just been published,

man-

Although the potentin! power of the Protectorate provides a considerable excess of unskliled In- bour, it is not easy to obtain sumelent numbers for Government work, plant- Ing, mining and cotton-ginning.

Uganda's huge cotton crop grown almost entirely by native farmers, who need hired fabour ut certain seasons of the year. The local native, however, is able to ob- tain all his simple needs as a pea- ennt producer, and wage-earning is an alien form of life

The report recommends that a wage-earning class should be cauli- ously created. Such a class will tend to become entirely divorced from the land and dependent upon 113 wages.

by

Conditions of employment must | therefore be sufficiently attractive to compete with the income which the

obtain ordinary peasant can growing crops on his homestead.

The Committee also recommends the establishment of rural social cen- tre, the development of education on such lines as to inculcate a respect for manual work and a comprehensive system of workmen's compensation.

AL present unskilled labour in the neighbourhood of Kampala is paid at the rate of 14s per manth without

food."

SOUTH AFRICA

INDUSTRIALIST ON TRADE OUTLOOK

Capetown.

Mr. J. F. Fahey, chairman of the of Trade and Industries, rejects the suggestion that South African Board there is an economic depression in South Africa..

"We can congratulate ourselves,"

was described by a British Embassy much more serious, the Prime Minis-j out the monthly subsidy from the to do grievous bodily harm. He was Saya Mr. Fahey, "that we have only

offield who had just arrived from the frontier.

but you may be the victim of some-

"MISSIONARIES"

"With his present pulley of deter-į

"At Modanr," he said, " Was routed out of my bed by officials, į who explained. We are very sorry and we don't suspect you of anything, į mitntion to be friends with Hitler at supporting estate."

all coals there is danger that he might Whatever may be thels real per- romal sympathies 1}" Inclinations, practically without exception, to be subservient to the Nazi Party, and most of them are dependent upon its various kinds of dole,

the

a shadow and not a depression. You have the globular figures of produc- that with this little halt there is any ion and employment. I do not think tround for depression,

Stalus-At Non-European's After the verdict had been given Div. Det-Insp. Hatton said that Mission Conference in Bloemfontein when Henriques was 11 months old of the Federated Dutch

Reformed

accident. Since then he had beention was passed supporting separate subject to uncontrollable fits of tem- dwelling areas and separate schools and colleges for Europeans and non- per. In 1930 he drew a revolver in shoot a man at Kingston, Jurnalca.

Europeans, and opposing mixed mar- riages. Dr. Grierson, Medical Omeer of Brixton Prison, add that he con- sidered Henriques ingine.

body else's criminal work, We have propose to sacrifice vs East Africans German settlers in Tanganyika have he lost the sight of one eye in an Churches in South Africa a resolu- | #ot to examine your bed. They

however incred life it mustion searched all over the compartment.” Jess sufficient and strong opposition |

The Marchesa di Godio's father is voleed in good thing.” was Mr. Frederick H. Koy, formerly Meanwhile, significant details of the of Ely Grange. Frant, near Tunbridge tightening up of Nazi control of Ger- Wells, but the family left that neigh- ; mans in Tanganyika have been pub- bourhood in 1899.

ished in East Africa and Rhodesia,

George Lane Going Crazy 6 Times Over

"Oy! I'm going crazy," said actor!

George Lane recently, and stark, staring crazy he went.

It

Was

purely temporary Insanity, lasting only so long as he Elut

was understudying Bud Flanigan

the London Palladian stage.

of

the wonder of it is that actor Georite

Lane has not

incurably crazy,

gone permanently,

is to understudy the

Gang-afl six of them.

When

the part of Flanagan or Allen, Nervo or Knox, Naughton or Gold, should any of the six be unable to appear. OFF-STAGE TRICKS

Choosing Girl

Terrier Chiefs

Under the leadership of Lady enrol 30,000 women for A.R.P. work.

"Women are answering our call

in hundreds, but we want thou- sands," Mrs. Benn, the W.V.S. Public Relations Officer, said.

i

"The German predecessor, it was sald by other Germans, was sum- mur.ly recalled to Germany for the moral turpitude ht being too friendly."

Ivor

Novello's

was

#1

·

1} warrant-offteer

tho

Anil-Sedition Laws-For-reaching laws for the Protectorates of Basuto- tand, Bechuanaland and Swaziland have been promulgated to deal with sedition.

NEW ZEALAND

FRIENDLY SOCIETIES'

FEARS

Auckland.

the

The Secretary of the Council of Friendly Societies stated recently that the Government's Social Secu- rity Bill strikes at the root of the societies' activities. boar:1

of The benefits

societies. through direct membership and the dependants of members, affected 300,000 men, women and children. with the passage of the bill, sald the Recretary, the societies had now lost a valuable recruiting ground, because of the absence of incentive to young

Tre Social Security Bill provides persons to become members. for universal free health beneẞts, Insurance

and

months ago. and went into lodgings

sexcs at 80.

Recently, the paper adds, the local manager of an important German company operating in this country was superseded by a keen young N- Mr. Justlee Hawke: I must treat sent out from Berlin with no pre-him as same. If what you have sat vous knowledge of East Africa. is true he will be certified in prison "INSULTED AND SLANDERED"

Opening the case for the prosecu- lon. Mr. L. A. Byrne said that Hen- riques went into the witness-box at Clerkenwell to give evidence against three men whom he had suminaned dip- for

magistrate Assault. The "HENRY V."

missed the summons, and impedi- ately Henriques drew an automatic OFF AFTER 21⁄2

pistet from his pocket and Bred at The three men.

One shot passed through WEEKS' RUN

d-by the being used Just no he was writing the word Reports on the response lo the call for his job in life for women volunteers were gathered

production of "dismissed." Another pierced

from door of the solicitors' box the third whole

withdrasen Crazy into the Women's Voluntary Services "Henry_V."

a partition at the back headquarters in Tothill-street, West- Drury Lane Theatre recently after a went through Flanagan returns to "These minster, from all parts of great run of only two and a half weeks, of the solicitors box and then en- Foolish Things", with only his own Britain during the close of last This was Mr. Novello's first appear-tered Moore's leg.

Seized by the police, Henriques part in the general craziness to worry | month,

ance in Shakespeare, and the pro- about. Mr. Lane has to be prepared,

duellon, in which Dorothy Dickson struggled violently and tried to get a moment's notice, to take over Itending, the W.V.S. has set out to and Gwen Ffrangcon Davies also his hand in his raincoat pocket, la which was a truncheon fitted with spectacular on Wita

superannuation. A appeared,

three blades, and 17 cartridges. pension of 30s a week is, with cer- scule.

in a statement made by Henriques in exceptions, to be paid to both It had been hoped to run the pro-

came from Jamaica 21) duction until it was time to prepare he said he for the Christmas pantomime.

which were frequented by West "Neither my partner, Tom Arnold,

Africans.

Moore and the other two this pro пог I regret having put on Volunteers are needed between the duction," Mr. Novello sald. "We men insulted and standered him, and ages of 17 and 65, More than 50 feel we made a good job of a great he decided to summon them.

"When I heard the magistrate dis different kinds of work are open to

drama-but unfortunately a greater them-cooles, typists, clerks, lectur-W

the summons," the alleged drama was going on in the outside miss the

The Hon. Murtogh Guinness, son of statement continued, "I could stand advisers, instructors, and

world."

"Now that it is over we cannot it no longer. I fired at the three and Lord Moyne, arrived here recently in his father's yacht Rosaura. He saila Women who wish to volunteer rely on people wanting to see any was arrested."

to-morrow fe Pensacola, Florida, should write to the Women's Volun-more than they have during the past

where his father will join him, and tury Servicra, Queen Anne's Cham-week- martial play in which the |bers; 41, Tothlll-street, S.W.

thought is mostly of fighting, how-. Henriques, in the witness-box, re-from there to Jamales to meet the other members of the Royal Commis- pented that he had been insulted by The crises week saw a jump in the ever fine that play may be,"

two companions, sion which Is to investigate social and Agures of recruits to the Women's!

This is the second short run at Moore and hla

economic conditions in the West In- Auxillary Territoriul

year. "The Sun Alakija and Coker. Service. In Drury Lane this hunes all over the

Never country

On one occasion, he said, Coker dies. Sets," a musical adaptation of

in the road.

Is chairman of the "But I get my own back some-wamen whose brothers or husbands Edgar Wallace's "Sanders of the molested him sucht language to me as Commission, the other members be-

One night, when I was are in the Regular or Territorial River" Inles was taken off after only

Gold In *London Armies have followed their example one month's run.

would cause a worm to squirm. 1 Ing Sir Reginald Stubbs, Sir Walter appearing as Rhapsody

they would not let me and joined up.

The Lane management stated that would have flogged him, but Mooie Citrine, Mr. Ralph Assheton, Dame OMelals at the War Oflee are bugy/hey have no definite plans as yet for wen, were arrested.

to his assistance. Then Coker Rachel Crowdy, Mr. Morgan Jones. get a word in.

1 was humill- Mr. Hubert D. Henderson, Sir Percy "I thought the audience might be

an attraction between now and and

Graham Mackinnon, and Dr. Mary wondering what I was doing there choosing officers for important ranka. Christmas

ated."

in court, Blacklock. Describing the scene at all, so I suddenly announced: "The highest ranks have already been: filled, and the chosen Chlet Comman–3

Henriques said that as soon as the Moore summons was dismissed "grinned at me in a most taunting The booming trade which Hong-manner, after wrecking my life."

The pistol he had taken round dies. konk has been experiencing because Soho the night before for protection CANADA of the war In China looks like re- and had forgotten to remove it from eciving a serious cherit with the clos- his pocket. He also carried Ing of the river between Hongkong truncheon for protection. and Canton, says the Evening Stan-

"They're

الالمة

their

is

the

Nor is that all there is to it; the

confine Crazy Gang do not

their antics to the stage, and understudy George handiest butt for their practical jokes.

great boys, all six of them," he said, "but some of the things they

da are enough to drive! one crazy."

"When I'm understudying one of them," he said, "the rest of the Gang seem to go crazier thai ever, at my expense. Not I that mind; it makes it all the caster

to enter into the crazy spirit.

limes.

me say a

vassers.

can-

only the understudy; they won't let dant of the City of London is Lady

a word. It fetched a laugh, the Gung played up to it, and it. Trenehard. remained as one of my regular lines, of O.K. for take the place of Four of the Gang came into

"During the

Sound, I had

Nervo.

ما

run

my dressing-room and persuaded me

to let Chern make me up, saying they

BLACK WATCH PILGRIMAGE

Hongkong's Trade

wanted to give Naughton a surprise. The Black Watch Association have dard.

"It

WAR

they

gave

I who got the surprise; arranged a pligrimage to the battle-

Practically all the trade between me a blue beard and a fields of Belgium and France from the two cities passed along the river red nose in indelible dye, which took me two days and two nights to re- August 19 to 28 next year, in memory Only a relatively small amount went

over 8,000 officers and men of the by the Canton-Kowloon Railway, After the performance the

regiment who HAVE Gang went home in their ears, I had Great War, and also to commemorate

inove.

to go on the top of a bus!"

of

their lives in the

the bleentenary of the formation of

the Black Watch from the old in- dependent companies of lighlanders.

Hooked Octopus Fights Among those

Back

Trapped in Flue

those who will accompany Called by a passer-by who had

STREET INCIDENT

TORTURED FOR MONTHS"

**I drew the pistol," he added.

WEST INDIES

ROYAL COMMISSION'S PLANS

Nassau.

It is probable that the Rosaura will be used for some of the journeys, made by members of the Commission, between the lalonds of the West In-

the FOREST FIRE DEATHS

Montreal.

Аге The death roll in the forest which has been raging over an area of and, without thinking, I did what 700 sequare miles in Ontario could not be helped, 1 had been Minnesota, now totals 21. und suffering torture for months and I

lleved that the force, could not control myself."

Mr. Byrne: Why did you buy this,000, which tu fighting the fire, hos

gained control. pistol?-As n protection against

There le promise of rain und the falling below a certain intellectual wind has moderated.

and moral level,

What do you mean?-By ceasing

the Pligrimage are Lieut-Colonel heard cries for help, police recently to live.

C. D. Bruce, CH.D., A.M.C. (T.A.), found n'mon wedged in the chimney Were your shots in court one bul- Santa Cruz, Cal. Perth (os Medient officer), and the of an amusement saloon in High- let for each man?--Yes

Mr. Ashe Lincoln, defending, sald Sammy Pennington, while fishing Rev. William Hamilton. M.M., M.A., street, Kingsland. E. with a headline from a barge, caugh! Aberdeen (as chaplain.)

An official

They summoned the fire brigade. that all the shots were fired low. a 50-pound octopus which at once interpreter will also travel. Arrange- who released him only after breaking They were the shots of a wildly ex- It seized ments have been made for those down part of a wall and sawing cited man who had no intention to cugaged the boat in battle. the gunwales in its tentacles with participating to leave Aberdeen, through on eight-inch joist. He was kill or injure the three men. He such a grip that they had to be cut Perth, Dundee, Glasgow, and Edin- taken to hospital and later to Old submitted that the verdict should bo

burgh.

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