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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1938.

Rothschild Must Pay Nazis £600,000 for Freedom

Dramatic Talk With

Secret Police

Vienna.

Baron Louis De Rothschild, locked in the Hotel Metropole, where he has been detairied by the Nazis since the invasion of Austria, has been offered his release-if he can find £600,000.

Jack-booted Storm Troopers on guard outside his room sprang to attention as high officers of the Gestapo (secret police) went to ace him, accompanied by the Baron's lawyer, Dr. Erich Foehrer.

They

him

typed showed memorandum from the head of the

State Court which is Investigating REBUILDING THE AIR. the collapse of the Credit Anstalt, his powerful banking Barn.

Its failure seven years ago was singgering blow to the then Aus- trian Government and a prelude to the world economic crisis of 1931.

The Jew Rothschild was Un- doubtedly

the responsible" rah memorandum, "Fli machinations meant the ruin of thousands of Ger- man Investors."

The Baron, pale and thin, looked at another document which y was clipped to the Court's message. It bore the German-eagle notchending of the Reich Caminissioner for Aus-

tria, Dr. Josel Buerckel.

FINAL WARNING

It was b blunt demand for £300,- as reparation "for the crine

000 against the Germina nation."

Bur

The Gestapo officers fold the baron that if he paid the £300,-

similor 000, with a "compensation for losses aus- tained," he would be allowed a conditional freedom.

alone

with Dr. Foehrer

FORCE

More Factories And Reserves

NEW BALLOON. BARRAGES

From Our Special Correspondent Plans for a new £1,000,000 aircraft Inctory and for the extension of on- other at a cost of over £500,000; the receipt of more than 30,000 applica- tions for the Civil Air Guard and the temporary closing of the club lists; barrage, with training centres in

and a decision to extend the balloon

various parts of the country, were

among the events announced by Sir Kingsley Wood, Secretary of State for Air, al luncheon which was given by Marshall's Flying School on the occasion of the opening of a

at Cambridge new aerodrome cently.

re-

TUDER VILLAGE SEEKS REPRIEVE

Goldhanger (Essex).

Residents of Goldhanger, a village near Maldon, on the River Blackwater, which has a sea wall dating from smuggling days and houses built of ships' timbers so sea- soned with age that they turn the edges of the sharp modern tool, are fighting to save their old-world cottages.

Twenty-three of these picturesque dwellings, all between 300 and 400 years old, are threatened with 'demolition.

Up and down Fish Street-which climbs from the pocket-size harbour to the old church, and has its low-beamed houses set in quaint groups of threes and fives-Maldon rural councillors re- cently made a detailed investigation to submit a report on the pos- sibility of reconditioning by the Council,

STAIRWAY OF LOGS

Mrs. Nellie Weaver lives in a cot-

tage which has a winding stairway of oak logs; some of the ancient bottle glass survives in the windows. The scullery was the village bakehouse 200 years ago, and the great beams and ovens are intact.

Europe, Sir Kingsley Wood sald, The baron was allowed to talk Had just been very near a great dis-

air defences, and the balloon de- for a faster. Many had realized for the

first time, by the preparations made fences played an important part by minutes. Then he was locked 2013 by way of digging trenches, urvange- again, with a final warning that he ments for evacuation, and the distri- forcing enemy aircraft to a height at which they could be more effectively must pay the money within

bution of gas masks, what a modern dealt with by the fighters and guns, month or face possible imprisonment war might mean. Out of the crisis The disposition of these defences had in the dreaded Dachau concentration

that been based on ü the larger hope

consideration of the car understood that

the Nazis nations would work together relative importance and vulnerability

The ceasingly for the elimination of have decided on this because of their case of hostility and for the prumo of points which would become ob- desperate need for money and betion of co-operation and good will, sur

Jectives

for air attack. A special

to sell out to them some of his hold-| desire, and one to which he would the places which required measures this bit of old England is going-and cause they hope to force the baron It was, the Prime Minister's greatest survey had been made to determine of close defence within the general un-nighter and Kun defences

country,

It

ings of Czech industrial shares.

there Was

continue fo devote himself

Baron Louis is the principal share ceasingly. holder in a number of important un-i dertaking in Czechoslovakia.

Man's Alleged

"I Blew Safe"

Gateshead,

of thei

Miss Elzabeth Sarah Wenden is 70.

said.

Her grandfather bought the old mills, and she owns five of the coltages.

"I lose heart when I think that)

bread and

cheese with It," she

She gets s. 8d. for each cottage, But until flot objective was ob-

He could not be expected to say Her lodger, 10-year-old Mr. Wey- tained we musi proceed without where the new barrages would be mouth James Smith, the oldest in- pause or halt with our defences. We located, but depots would probably habitant and formerlyn

builder, had no longer our old security as an be formed for the recruitment and keeps the five cottages in repair, island nation, and we were bridged training of the Auxillary personnel Miss Clark, who retired from

Bir-teaching at the to the Continent by muchines cop-in certain places, including.

village school la able of destruction and death which mingham, Bristol, Manchester, Liver- January, and Mrs. Stoltes, whose were little fettered by distance and pool, Hull, Newcastle, Plymouth, husband works on the sea wall, have geography,

Southampton, Glasgow, and Cardiff. organised a protest meeting among PROMPT RESPONSE

Over 30,000 applleations had been their neighbours.

"BEAMS LIKE IRON" received for the Civil Air Guard.||

These are some of the things they Much had been done but much re- Dramatic evidence of how police mained to he done in connexion with Following discussions with the Civil Commissioners, il hodi

"Our beams are like iron and; officers, breaking into a lock-up our air defences, and the great sums Air Guard

decided temporarily been

to close

our houses are good for another public-house in a Gateshead street, of money we were spending for that the club list. That would allow the

400 years." found a dying man near a blown-vital purpose represented in reality cut safe was given in court here re-un insurance premium for our safety absorption of those from whom ap-

plications

had already been received and security, In the recent crislis cently.

de thought, In the dock Waiter Richards, aged there had been no sign of the de- at the clubs, and those would, it was all the fuelfilies endence

occupy of the British. 34, of Noble-street, Elswick, sobbed

race. Our

javaliable now or in the near future. to while the death of his brother. Ro- people were just as rendy ss ever

Pending the reopening of the club the call for service, lists, applications for the Civil

Air bert Richards, aged 37, of Richard-respond to

Nothing was more striking than the son-street, Elswick, was described.

une Guard

would be

be recorded at the recent prompt and enger response of office Walter Richards was charged with

of the Civil Air Guard Com- the personnel of the Royal Air Force, missioners in London. A scheme breaking and entering the Prince of Wales

Air Force, and the was being worked out under which In Romulus-the Auxillary public-house street, Cateshead, during Saturday the highest devotion to duty, and our Observer Corps. They all showed

as many as possible of the candidates best course. night and stealing approximately personnel was unsurpassed in cour-

£50 belonging to the Northumber lund Hotels, Ltd. He was remandedge and determination. for u week.

duly to see that they were properly equipped for their responsible and arduous task.

"They converted the vid mill into two comfortable houses; why can't they do the same with ours?" "It is not fair to tear us up by the roots; some of us will never survive it. We have never had an epidemic here, and the families in the 23 houses are healthy." Mr., E. L. Pledger, a farmer, is the only councillor who believes that reconditioning of the houses is the

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SUPERVISE CZECH TRANS- FER This is the international commission working out the de- talls of the evacuation and oc- cupation of the Sudeten territory by the Germans, as agreed upon by the four-power conference at Munich. Above: Sir Nevile Henderson, British Ambassador to Berlin; (Extreme Left) Dr. Voltch Mathny. Czech Minister to Berlin; (Left) Andre Francois- Poncet, French Ambassador; (Centre) Baron Ernst Weizenecker, State Secretary in the German Foreign Office, chair- man of the commission, and (Lower) Dr. Bernardo Attolico, Italian Ambassador. Military questions, conduct of the plebis- cites in areas of Czechoslovakin where possession of the territory will be decided by vote of the people and a host of other details come under the jurisdiction of this

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"WE HAVE A DUTY" Mr. Alfred Barber, chairman of Maldon Rural Council, declared: "I belleve that to put these houses in repair would be an Impracticable Particular men know the importance business proposition.

"We don't want to be hard, but we quest of the Ministry of Health."

The councillors' report will be sub- mitted to the Council shortly.

our on the club ists would receive "We don't know why they are It was our round instruction while wolting the making an assault on our lovely old have a duty to perform at the re-

opportunity for flying training. The village,

he said. "In

nny Essex lists would be reopened as soon as village you will see cottages like it was possible to absorb further this,"

members.

aerodrome,

Insp. Corrigan stated that when he and other officers reached the inn they saw Walter Richards standing Productive capacity was being in-

WORK AT CAMBRIDGE outside.

creased, an extensive system of sub-

Referring to the new Our Ind is badly hurt. I was blow-extensions of buildings

and plant Sir Kingsley Wood said that Cum- ing the safe open when something were being Carried out. The Airbridge had long been closely asso- went wrong with the wires. You Ministry had approved the construc-ciated with flying instruction. The tion of a new factory at Gloucester, foresight and enterprise of the nero-

He shouted: "Get

in, inspector.contracting was being built up, and

will and him in the cellor."

In the cellar they found Robert to be managed by the Gloster Air-drome authorities, In conjunction Richards lying near the steps.

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"I called for Best-ald dressings," Insp. Corrigan added, "and as the cellar was full of fumes we carried

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The Telephone As Secretary

An-

craft Company, which would cost with Marshall's Flying School, had over £1,000,000. Extensions to the led them to transfer their activities Fairey factory at Stockport, to cost from the old site Fen Ditton to the more than £500,000, had also been present one, which could, he under- approved.

stood,

minor additions be with brought up to the dimensions recom- Since the beginning of the present mended by the Maybury Committee the man Into the bar, but before financial year between 900 and 1,000 for a standard we had time to take him to the am-

London. aerodrome for all men had started their training us bulance he died."

Few people make full use of the pilots in the

purposes. Since February last the Service, and Regular

for the Telephone Message Bureau. By this drome a training_centre found £1 16s, 3d. and a detonator over 300 as observers. Some 2,000 r Ministry had had at the aero-telephone, and especially of the new boys had already been entered ጊዜ [R.A.F. Volunteer Reserve, and the a surgeon, for instance, might ring apprentices and boys; over 11,000 Walter Richards told him. "Hemen had entered the Service as re-an betive part in the Civil Air Guard out for a certain period and leave ,000 Cambridge Aero Club were taking the Bureau saying that he would be hud pinched that money from oneri

erults. The standard of recruits scheme. In times like the present the number where he could be com- attache case near the safe."

been, excellent. It

**** | municated with. All was very those organizations were playing an

messages To When charged, Richards said,

necessary that recruitment should important part in preparing the air cepted

the surgeon's number, were Inter- "That's right. I will help you, ins- centi

fully, an

and there

the Bureau. If the call were in defences of the country. pector."

centar. excellent..

for

was ungent the surgeon was called; openings

Field-Marshal Lord Birdwood, who If it was not urgent a message was young men for training as air ob- servers, and in such trades as wire- presided at the luncheon in the ab- taken and perhaps an appointment less operaters, armourers,

electri-sence of Mr. C. R. W. Adeane, Lord booked for the following day. cians, and instrument repairers. On Lieutenant of the County of Cam- other type of message was known the reserve side good results had bridge, spoke of the initiative, great us a Transmit Message"

of the example of this service was that a been attained. The Royal Air Force Prime Minister which had saved us restaurant keeper might ring up at

courage, and determination Volunteer Reserve had already over The Reverend George Bosworth, 2,000 pilots under training, and over from war. He felt we should not about 10.30 p.m. and ask the Bureau Vicar of St. Mary's The Boltons,

1,200 members of the RAF have been justified in sacrificing the to deliver a message at five a.m. the Kensington, is furnishing his church Omcers Emergency Reserve had ves of millions

of milk. on the defence Of support of ready installed a lending library month ago with the Civil Wireless our own country, and in

In 1930 the University Aero Club there. The "library" consists of Reserve, and already 700 candidates foreign policy of 20 years ago which followed. They had

now moved four shelves in a case hung against had been accepted and some 2,000 had now become obsolete.

farther out and looked for the good ́a wall of the south transport. The applications were. being considered. Mr. N. A. De Bruyne, Mr. Mar will and indulgence of the town.

books are all not merely of de-

Sir Kingsley Wood then declared shall's first pupil, proposed, the toast

· NEW DEVICES votional interest, but of high literary

of "The Cambridge Aerodrome," and open the aerodrome and congratu merit. No other kind will be ne- The Government had decided to Mr. D. G. Marshall, responding, re- lated Mr. Marshall on the "Ane cepted. The books are borrowed by extend the balloon defences of the called that in 1919 he bought the first national work" he was doing and the Parishioners for a fortnight at a country. Many Improvements had hangar from the Disposals Board, and wished him "all possible good luck time, and they can put * few coppers recently been made and new dealso purchased an aeroplane. In and success." in the collection-box it they feel In-vices tried out.in, relation to balloon 1920 the dying school was formed; A flying display was then given, clined. But they are not bound to defences Fighter aircraft, guns, and in 1934 the Cambridge Aero Club which included a demonstration of do ao.

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When she was seven years old, Miss Priestman went completely blind. Specialists despaired of her ever seeing again, but several months Inter her sight was restored as sud- denly as it had gone.

The experience of those terrible months of darkness so impressed itself on her mind that she decided to devote her life to the care of the blind.

With her sister she opened a horno at Brighton, where Mr. McGinnes stayed for a holiday last year.

with a picture gallery. He has al- beer onsolled. A start was made way dependent on a cause in no hext day, ordering so many galiona They. planned to marry and carry

on a little tobacconist's shop in Brighton. For some time Miss Priestman ran

kloak in Upper St. James's- street, hoping to build up the business to support them both. But her efforts falled, and now they will live In Birmingham, where Mr. McGinnes will continue his brushmaking.

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