1938-12-19 — Page 9

Monday

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 19,

1938..

Devil'

'Belle Of The

Faces Murder Charge

PARIS.

MOULAY Hassen, once-famous dancing girl, known

as the "Belle of the Devil," and the "Woman Landru of Morocco," faced the court at Fez, Morocco, recently, charged with the murder of a woman, a dancer named Cherifa, and complicity in the murder of four others,

Witness after witness in the pack-| edcourt-rcom described fantastie orgigs wileh went on in Hassen's! sceret dance calon in Meknes, seenej of the alleged crime.

Colonel Maire, of the French For- eign Legion, in a statement revealed} how at Fez in 1912 Moulay Hussen saved 20 French officers from death' during rtoling.

LED 30,000 MEN

"At that time," he declared,

an night club full of beautiful! danelng girls, which stad „okways! erowled with French ollicers and was visited by some of the highest) officials of Morocco.

"She was

the idol 1 the wild

Itroup of

of Mussulmen known Aissanuwas, I remember her riding! at the head of 30,000 of them o their fele day, when they cut them- selves with kulves to prove their be-| fict that wounds cannot harm them.

"She wore ings of pearl neck! Inces und priceless intacelets. iler horse was led by la Negroes, clatt! in red and gold.

"By sheer personality she exercis-i ed a power over these natives."

STRUCK WITH CLUB

. A man named Smallh, who helped!

to run the salon, has confessed to the

police that he was cancerned withi

her in the murder of Cherita,

He declared, "Cherifa was one of four girls whom Moulay Hassen de- ; cided to Het rid of. They were des-

il and half-starved. ly on September

21, Moulay up a wooden club and stunned Cherifa with a terrifle blow on the head. Then she called me and, pointing a revolver at me, hunded

picked

or

I

me the club and screamed, Kill her

I

struck kill you."

Cherita again with the club and she fell dend.

"Some days later Moulay Hassen cut up the body and dispored of the pieces in sacks."

It is now alleged that four other giris found dead had met a similar

fate.

Canada Will

Train British Pilots

Canada is to help Britain by train-

Zero Smith Enrolls

TUSCALOOSA, Alņ.

A University of Alabama student who entered college this fall had two.

strikes against him before he started

school as far as his chances of mak-i iname was Zero Smith, of Birming-

ham..

ing good grudes are concerned. Ilis

The Duke of Windsor, wearing service medals, smiles broadly as he greets Sir Erk Phipps, British Ambassatlor to France, at the Armistice Sunday service in Paris, at the British Embassy church.

THE

NAVY AND ITS AIR ARM

GREAT WORK

SURVEY OF

OF EXPANSION

PROGRESS

Attendants carry the French parachute jumper Denois from a feld near Paris, after he made a successful parachute jump from 30,000 feet. His suit resembled that of a deep-sea diver, to protect ham against changes in atmospheric pressure. Future stratosphere SENROTs may wear similar sults. Tests were by the Air Ministry.

LORD NUFFIELD'S GIFT TO STUDENT. MOVEMENT £25,000 For New Building

Lord Nulleld has decided to give £25,000 towards 3 new building for Student Movement House--the only international students' club in Lon- on. This announcement was made warden of the movement, at the cele recently by Miss Mary Trevelyan,

Technical offeers for the F.A.A. will be provided partly from the engineer branch of the Navy, partly by officers of the Air Branch selected for technical work after completing a period of I general duty in the Air Branch. Both classes will be qualibration of the twenty-first anniver

its premises lo fed pilots and will also be trained sary of the club at

Russell Square, London. in aeronautical engineering.

The service of rededication conducted by the Archbishop

Was of

· MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL The maintenance personnel will Canterbury-21 years to the day after eventually be provided by skilled his predecessor, Archbishop David- ratings known as air artificers, air sun, had Arst dedicated the premises Aiters, and air riggers, who will enter to the Student Movement, by passing the usual naval artificer Miss Trevelyan sald that Lord apprentice examination between the Nuffield was very Interested in the

of Afteen

gift is and sixteen.

They welfare of students, "The will be sent to the R.A.F. No. 1 splendid twenty-first birthday School of Technical

Training at present, and will mean that the club Halton for three years, on comple- is saved for future generations of tion of which they go to sen for a students," she said.

Darg

London. In July, 1937, it was an ing thousands of young men as air/nounced that the Fleet Air Arm (Al Branch. This number will pre-chosen to become air artificers after wards this we have already oblained

..

further

ches

for.

to

rear as nie fitters or air riggers, "Our original appeal was for and 53 midshipmen, all of the pee Fifty per cent. of them will then be $55,000 for a

new building. To- sently be increased by many new

further twelve months' training: 13,000, and Lord Nufeld's dona- to full entries. was to be transferred pilota,

They will be taught at civil train-

very Very briefly, naval ratings of the The semi-skilled ir mechanics, tion therefore brings our total.

£43,000. The new building.is ing schools and also at the aero-Admiralty control. In a

engines, ordnance, and elec-haped, will be erected somewhere dromes of the Royal Canadian Air short time its strength, in "irst cames, signal and telegraphist brun-divided into four branches

with certain qualifications be- frames, Force, write: a Home correspondent. line" aircraft will be greater tween the ages of twenty-one and trical work, are drawn from among near London University and will in- Plans are well advanced on than that of the Royal Air Force twenty-four, may become pilnts in the scamen and stakers of the Navy, clude a big hall, restaurant, and "Since it was started in 1917, in supply to Britain of fast Canadian before the air expansion started the Fleet Air Arm. They undergo and are put through courses lasting library.

between seven and twelve months in beinbers and fighters, and

re in 1936. The Navy Estimates flying training on shore lasting one the H.A.F. establishments at Henlow memory of students who fell in the Ways of employing Canadian

war, the club has had steady to supplement our own for 1938 set aside the surn of year, followed by eight weeks at sch the Festa sources

in a training carrier. The normal gigantic expansion programine .**£5,718,000 for the Fleet Air period of flying service, before pass- The training of the young officers membership of about 1,000, among being investigated.

ent countries. At the moment, for A large foundation order has at-Arm, all but £618,000 of this ing on to a flying reserve, is seven joining the Air Branch is typleal of whom are students from sixty differ- sed instance, we have working together been ready

given

and highly-mechanised bombing amount being earmarked for years, though this may be extended. the inevitable complication of graft-

ing a new

unci R.N.V.R. (AIR BRANCH) machines which can fly the Atlantic.material-principally aircraft.

Service on to an older one. For the Chinese and Japanese, Jews A recent Admiralty, announcement Arst three months of their training ra

Arabs," Orders for the types will probably

The orders relative to the Toron-

In the Fast eleven years Lord follow as the Canadian industry is built up.

in been

D5

for

the Navy

the

21

of

Won of wit is really a new Service i inaugurated an Air Branch of the they are sent to the Hermes for pre-Nußleld's known benefactions have

have appeared! Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve foliminary naval training in naviga- shadow factory Piecemeal during the last eleven'candidates between the ages of seven- tion, gunnery, seamanship, and the 13,000,000. A few days ago a gift

months. li has been impossible for teen and twenty-three, whe will DC "Customs of the Service."

enrolled as midshipmen (A) and sub-lieutenants (A). They will be

neighbourhood The same manufacturing methods within

those in our scheme are to be employed.

"Fron The next ten or twelve weeks they £500,000 to provide at least one

lung" apparatus Within two years the Roynt Air the uninitiated to grasp any idea of Force should have substantial rein- the work that has some on behind used as pilots and observers, and will spend in ab initio dying training at hospital in the British Empire was

lying announced. forcements from Canada both in the scenes, or the really tremendous undergo #4 preliminary full-time an Elementary and Reserve

R.A.F. ef eighteen months with the training school run

machines and pilots.

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ART EXHIBITION

The New York boxnor will be apon- Curious for New York And

sored by the China Aid Council and Paris Bazaars

the American Friends of the Chinese People. In Paris, the sponsors, are Hongkong art lovers were delight-M. Edouard Herriot and M. Ellenne ed yesterday with their first glance Constant. The Relief Bazaar Com- at a wide collection; of Chinese ex-mittee which has collected the arti- hibits for the bazaars. in New Yorkcles is composed of five Chineso relief organizations. In wilting and helpful co-operation of

officers of the Royal Navy and Royal cation procedure; of gunnery, with

and Paris in aid of Chinese wounded women's

Hongkong. Marines seconded for flying service, particular application to spotting the the Air Ministry.

Thereniter pilots will be required and those ratings etesen to qualify fall of shot; of the

suldiers and refugees. The exhibi- of PILOTS AND OBSERVERS

appearance

tion is being held at the Chinese as pilots. The Admiralty already had its to keep themselves in tying practice,

British and foreign ships of all sorts And all officers will co annial or

Y.W.C.A., Bonham Road. corps of navn pilots and observers:

At the end of this period the Air from the air; and of air gunnery and After the first ten blennial training.

bombing but in February last it was an years' service officers may voluniccine R.A.F. Flying Training School at over a tracce Naval aircraft fly

the

Under

strides that have been made in pay and allowances of their auspices, where they are joined by wledge of wireless, and communf

comparatively short time with the Metal

Fleet

Air

Candidates between the ages [

rank.

Branch, officers becoming pilots go to

nounced that

occan some hundreds Arm for further periods as R.N.V.R. (A) Wietheravers for six months, and ure of miles from their parent ships, they would be omecred partly by leers offers for ground duties. of the Royal Navy and Royal Mar- This scheme provides a valuable trained to the same standard as the must be something more than merely ines specialising in air work, partly flying reserve, and offers excellent R.A.F. pilots. Thener they are sent competent navigators, while in re- by officers serving in a "Short Ser-training to Young men leaving their tu Gosport or Dontbristle for two or porting the manoeuvres of an enemy vice Air Branch," and employed publle schools or universities who three months specialised training inflect they are expected to give an entirely on naval air duties.

wish to take up aero-nautics as a prom Fleet Air Arm work, culminating in opinion as to what these movements It is announced that women who 17% and 23 would be entered as midterslon, or to indulge hr flying as a period of deck landing training in may portend

cribbed, cabined, and cott- an, aircraft-carrier, at present H.M.S. Indeed, The balay.

fined in the narrow seat of a buck- Ale gunners dre provided from the Furious. welcome the Voortrekker Centenary shipmen (A) or sub-liebterunts (A)

for a normal period of seven years, seainen." signal,

acroplane travelling at perhaps telegraphist and

SKILL OF OBSERVERS ex-wagons in Johannesburg may not of which the first two would be spent branches of the Royal Navy, the men

hundred miles on (two

hour, with smoke or paint their finger-nails,

The observers, on the other hand, parachuten strapped on their backu in naval and flying training. There-basin

(baving to possess certain qualifica-

go to Portsmouth immediately after and the roar of engines in their cars, for eight tinns and to be not more than twenty their period of preliminary trainifig Naval observers must not only after, they would serve

make Swiss Won't Have they must keep themselves in special course lasting about

year on an emergency list, during two years old. They

in the Hermes, where they are joined intelligible wireless signals and re- eight

| by oth

others drawn from the executive eive them, but must be prepared to ying practice and undergo periodi- months gunnery and the opera-

ranks of the

For two and use their bombs or machine guns, to Navy, cal training. Anti-Semitism -

By arrangement with the Air Man. ton of wireless, and afterwards serve bul mobils they undergo courses in see everything on the sea benentli or

in aircraft-carriers or ships fitted limited number of R.A.F. with catapults.

signals. wireless, and gunnery, pre-in the air above it, and to know the In short, The Swan Government has

the meaning of all they, see, paratory to being drafted nounced the introduction of legisln-officers serving, or having served, on

eighteen months

service School of Naval Co-operation at so much depends upon them, their Low Corbidding, "participation in any short service commissions, were an affont they may be selected to qualify Ford, Sussex, for a period air own Ilves and those of their plots in- action against démocracy."

the Airas "Observers Mutes" after a fur training lasting six months.

cluded, that to do their job success- ther course of about seven months. Boatswains (0)

an-istry,

After

undergo

to

of

permitted to transfer Branch, Itoyut Navy.

The current Navy List shown one|Warrant rank as

The work of these Naval observera fully they must be paragons of nearly Beutenants.

50 sub-will eventually be open to these rat-is even more vital than that of the all the virtues that exist. Heutennots, 32 acting sub-fleutenants, ings.

pilots. They must have a thorough

It also forbids participation in any ngitation against cliizens of a differ- ent race or in auch agitation as anti-captain, 31 Semillam,

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Streams of visitors poured into the hall where more than 2,000 curios and exquisite articles of Chinese make were on display. A small bronze vase about 2,400. years old, labelled with a minimum price of $800 fea- tured the magnificent stall of the Chi- nese National Women's Relief, Asso elation, which won the first honour in the campaign for its collection of no fewer than 1,000 exhibits. Other ex- hibits which attracted keen attention included Chinese paintings, embroi- dery and fade objects.

In an interview with the Central News Madume Sun Yat-sen, Chair- man of the Hongkong Relief Bazaar Committee, expressed gratification πράμους with the enthusiastle and work done by the Chinese women only hore. She said that they not to devoted much of their time col- leeling exhibits for the bazaars but even contributed many of their own

Art objects favourable

which they would not have given away were it

art of the not in support

nutional cause. A glowing tribute was pald by Madame Sun to Madame C. C. Wu. who collected the largest number of exhibits on behalf of the Chinese National Women's Itelief Association and played un

an important role in pre- paring the preliminary exh

ary exhibition, also

to Mra Li Siu-kl who person

contributed several hundred

und ancient paintings. Central Fiews. The articles on exhibition will be shipped at the end of this month to New York and Paris where they will be sold at bazaars to raise relief funds for China. They include many valu-J able pieces of Jade, jaquer, bronzes and embroidery,-

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